fbt |Jftlfort! IS EVERY PR I DAV Moti \I xa J. It, in rtiifta&OH \YL iv.-\ ,Tz JI LI YNAM.. opposite the Ylensel lloii^e B&L >FC >H I >, PEN X \\. TERMS: fvi.OO u rear it' paid strictly in atlvauee. II nnl paid within six months *-.50. I,' n>i (tHld wtlJiin the year $3.00. i.siarul & %ITi l EYS ,4 T I,A W. it T: t ■ mi *; v.J. -. Mfkf rjcrii. Mt.'v 1 US * DK'KKRBOM. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Behforo, PHKR'A., fi ocrij oKopleJ by lion. V*'. I*. i;! . - ■ or- oust of the ffaztttf* office, will : cvcrul < ourts of Bedford county, •u-s.-iir-* :>:d-bak pay obtained itbd lite ~ vu-chaAc <>f Real Estate wttouded to. May 11, ATS—lyt\ j OWN 1. KV *ilV. •J ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bkopous, PESS'A., tug tyo ii,;.ii,on to all who may cn ' "j'l! if .! In. ;;n to hi!: . Will collect t ■ ■ h c. donees of debt, ami speedily pro cure -.lit .: ..ii.j j.oßfuots to soldier-, their wid- , !Oiii. - t'rt.a Joors ovi its .cruph ril:" tv. I t'EJASN'A, t) . ATTOU YBY AT LAW, 013 • v.-nh .) -ks (V . • on Julianna treet, in tin: fib e formerly occupied by King A Jordan, ■c: ly by A Kenny. All business ci usted to bis <:. v ;i receiv. faithful and prompt atbuti jh. .Milravv tiaiuw, Pensions, Ac., -:0 v eelteeftfc Bedford, ,1 uno 1>0.5. .)• M'i>. sHaSfk k. r. KEHH rfHA RPR A 11rr7 ~ 0 A TTORNE IsS'-A T LA If. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad g counties. All business entrusted to their • wi : i re Ave car ftil and prompt attention. I'm-ions. Bounty, Baca Pay, An., speedily col lected from the Gov cmv.'cn t. Office on Julian;! -.feet, opposite the banking ; ; o; Reel A Schtli. Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf TOIIft PAtHGB, Vfiorney nt haw. H*:(l(rd. P,. A 'al promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. u Particular attention paid to the collection ■f Military claim*. Office on Jul Luna St., nearly ppi i.-ite rhe Men gel HoUsy.) june 23, '6i.ly >. n. Dim BORROW imhs uite. DETmOREOYV A IX'tZ, irron.vK\-fi .it /-.Ju^ Bebfohii, PA., W il a: ml ; !uuiptly to all business intrusted to ;heir • t 'olleetions made on the shortest no tice. Th' v are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents ami tv ill give special attention .to the prosecution i..tiiis : gainst tht Oovprnmout for Pwtsh.os, Back Pay, Bounty, K unty Lands, Ac. Office c Jul in no efrutt. or.e dw i*'.wih-of the •Yengcl House** and nearly "ppnsite the Inquirer , ffite. April 98, ISdfct T ASi'V ~M. ALSIP, 111 ATTORNEY* AT LAW, Rbpforp, PA., WO) ftuthfnlly and promptly attend to all busi >j ■ entrusted to his'care in Rcdgr.rd uadadjein c or, a tics. Military claims, Pensions, back > v. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with "Jam £ Spang, on Juliana strict, 2 doors south ofthe Mnngel House. a pi 1. lSdt.—tf. Mmm. A. POINJFS. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Behporb, PA. Respectfully tenders bis professional services ;■< the pub'.i;. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq., or Juliana freer, two doors South of the Mcrtglc Hone.-" itoc. <t. 18t5+-tf. i r I MXTKLL AND LINHKNFKLTER, <V ATTORNEYS AT LAW, bkiipord, PA. Have lormed • partot rsUlp in the practice of ■ c Law ;f on Jalituia Street, two doors South f the Men * • House, prl, 1864—tf. 5 ' if'X" AfOWBR, • J A TTOItNE Y A T LA W. Behforp, Pa. April I. 186t.-lt^. HKXTINTO. k'ik r. v. mtmtrti. t*. I■. 1 X'J I S'f s, iteruko, Pa. . <h Bufnk />' Jeli<(•! Street. • <:xt:.b. as ■ • Surgical of Mo • •i, i ! nJiftrv .r. and faithfully per . ,v. . TERM ; CASH. I \ - n.STKY. 'l. : i\VcKR, Rkm ..St lit: stmt, Woon . •.. - lVio'.'.ij Don tiirc • of each i. ,uf Ui. '.b second Tueauny of k perform nil Dental per - .A . kii he :;A - , he fwTored. Term* , „f ti xd ntri.ttj i.uuh cj-r-:p( Ay ■i -a ■ Work -j !.e sent by moil <>r.oth • pi.-if" wlie:i. naprc- i-iSAT. taken. ■ i;^>-gC*.4XS, \ M W. A A MI.St)N, M. D-, Bloody Hit, Pa., . dy tender.- .-is profewioiutl service* to i ; •■{ \att la and vicinity. jdceeityr < |U 15 F. HARRY. ' R poet -illv aenders his professional ser >f Bedford and vicinity. ;u. • residence on Pitt Street, in the building ~pviy o '-upicd bv Dr. 11. Hollas. April'!, 1864—ti. i i.. yfA EBoi HI;, M. D., "J. Having {wtrmaiiuiitly located rcspC''tf\illy ' ■ 'icu his rot'-isionat services t< the citizen.; ("Bedford and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street. 1 jiosifp * I Hank, one dor north of Hall A Pal er'? . ■•ice. April I, 1881—if. USA A' Si KKS. ■ ■ ■y. na-r........0. r. bav\ r. BKSitBiOT PL PP, SUA.\N'X A CO., HANKERS, SAj I/i.cvt' I'A. BANE OF DISCOLNT ANI IKPOSIT. >l.l. ; 10J>8 mode for the Fast, West, North ■1 P. nth, and the genera! iHisihdss of Exchange, ■ • H-d. Notes and Account- Collected .tnd .a,., }>r -p.pt I y made. REAL ESTATE V android. aj r.15,'8f-ti'. .r;HL .kk, <kv. I BSALOSt GARLICK, A Ooik A Watchmaker and Jeweller, Bloody lit s, Pa. ' k . Wat- he., Jewelry, Ac., promptly re ,v -k entrusted to his care, Warranted ' sue satisfaction. He to keeps on Land and for sale WA TCI! ! \ ' LOCKS, and JEWELRY. j£t?" Of'.t c tvith Dr. J. A. Mann. niyl |"HN krimund, $J < LO< It AND WATCH-MAKER, i Hi" T'nited States Teleprapb Office, ' Pa. 1 ' watches, nnd all kinds of jewtdry paired. All work entrusted to his rare i ;i ' : < give entire "atUfaetim. £K>v3-tyr j J tAXi: BORDER, ' ■'■ t• • :et, two iiooks west op tki: bed : OT. 1., Bebi .nn, Pa. Tt i'.MAKKB AND DEALER IN JEWEL- j RY, BPF.OTACI.IS. AC. t; b--'i.l a st> -k of fine Gold arid 811- i spectc! f Brifiiact Double Rcfin- I ,• > " .eotch Pebble Glasses. Gold j I'D ■ l itis, Finger Rings, best 1 .| ! ' r.J. He tlfill supply ■to order i ! ' m !il.- line not on hand. • • • • do—it. - " ' j) •- -• f w HuLESA I.E TOLA I CON LST, II 'v ' ,r ?* t " dears west at the Court ~, u : . ,' Ji'de, Bali'i 1. Pa., is now prepared tit Is iC < rc.ARg. *AII in *Hy tilled. P rsons -Ivsiring Kay thing i ! -v l: wilt do well to give bitn a ealj. at Uwrd, 0 i. , Dl'K BORROW & LIITZ Editors and Proprietors. TIIK WILLOW. Oh, wiliow. why t'orcvei weep. Aft one who mourns an endless wrong? What hidden woe can he so deep? What utter grief can last so long? i he •spring makes hasle with step elale Your life and Icautv to renew; She even bids the roses wait, And gives her first sweet care to you. The welcome red-breast folds his wing To poor for you his freshest, strain,- To you the earliest blue birds sing. i littti your ligtft s thrili aE- : n. 'i'he sparrow trills his wedding song. And thusts his tender brood to you; l air flowing vines, the summer loug, With clasp and kiss your beauty woo. I'he sunshine drapes your limbs with light, 1 he rain braids diamonds in your hair; The breeze makes love to you all night- Yet still you droop and still despair. Beneath your boughs, at fall of dew. By lovers lips is softly told The tale that all the ages through Ma 3 kept the world from growing old. But still, though April's buds Unfold, And Summer sets the earth aleaf, Or Autumn pranks your robes with gold, Yon sway and sigh in graceful grief. iru oa forever, uuconsoled, And keep your secret, faithful tree! No heart in all the world can hold A sweeter grace than constancy. LOVE'S BEGINNING. BY THOMAS C V'kKl.T.. - llow delicious is the winning Of a kiss at love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying. Yet, remember, midst your wooing. Love has bliss, but love has ruing; Other smiles tnay make you fkkle ; bears for other charms may trickle. I.ove he comes and Love he tarries. Just as Fate or Fancy carries; Longest stays when sorest chidden, Laughs and flies when pressed and bidden. Bind the sea to slumber stilly, Bind its odor to the lily: Bind the aspen n'er to quiver, Then bind love to last forever. TWO W tIOSAL DREAMS. The abiding jealousy felt in England to war.. the ' nited States has many causes, souio of them just, more ] erhaj s nnju t. I n ! one of tltem very strong and very little no j ticed i hi> is the difference in the forecast ' which Englishmen and Americans make as to their own destiny. Some cause, which is very difiieuit to trace, but which is possibly • 1 •:> • Hi' hereditary anxiety in Ameri ca, has upon this point absolutely separated ■ tw > people of the same blood and in most ; aspects si rungely similar. The Englishman, when he tbints at all upon the subject, is very apt to forecast au unpleasant future for 'ln country. to believe the day will come when t will he shut up in the ocean, or starved for want of corn, or ruined bv the exhaustion oi its coal, or" deprived of its puM pincnce in manufactures, or in oine way or.-netr thrown back to a secondary rank. The notion that hi- country has riM :<t its zenith, and must from soiu cause unknown, recede, has for a century been con siautiy pi -cut to the Englishman's mind, fiie American, on the contrary, believes in a boundless future almost visibly before him, is tii happier for it and the stronger, ac cepts children with greater readiness, meets the trouble-, and especially the pecuniary trouble, of life with greater case and more perfect # uiy-Ji"iiL Eutuebody, he thinks, j wid always be wanting something; if he cuiiiiot grow corn lie van itiakelucifer match es, ami in a short time "we shall be two hundred millions, sir, and the scream of the Atneneau eagle will drown the Te Damn s of the Old \\ orid; and two hundred mil lion-, sir, will offer a market for lucifer matches wide as the universe, profitable as dealings in petroleum oil." It is all so amazingly true, too. There is no vaster dream dreamed on earth than that of these Americans, and yet it is all within the iimiis of the possible, so tar within them that its realization is more probable than its failure. Judging, as hu man bciugs are alone entitled to judge, on the evidence, it is much more likely than not that in 1966 the American people will be one hundred and fifty millions, speaking one language, and that English, and po.-.-e.-- sed of ad the knowledge that language con tains, with a country of all climates and all sconces, resources scarcely explored, and an almost total freedom from physical distress. Every nice, cultivation and capacity will be represented in its borders, and nearly every civilization compatible with llej abjicanism and a very elastic Christianity. The num ber of the States will be at lea.-t fifty, and in each a marked and peculiar society, will hare been formed under the gradual opera tion of laws as different as the marriage laws of \Y isconsiu and V eruiont now are, and of social systems as separate as those of Maryland and Massachusetts. Experi ments of the most gigantic character' will have been tried to the full, experiments as wild as the Western one of a nearly unlimi ted right of divorce, or a? those social schemes tried so often in Western New York, or as the idea, so precious to every Demo cratic mind, of dispensing with every con trol save that of the parish constable" A hundred and fifty millions of men of all races and all ipstincts will be living together I on one soil under all climates and possessed i of every resource, coal, and iron, and corn, j and wine, coal fields so endless that even I American lavlshoess cannot waste thejn, i iron fkid,- r,o vast that they will eoii-uuic j forest- covering a continent, corn-fields j which will ford the world, and vineyards t which even now send their produce to the j owners of Hermitage aud Jbhanuisberg. : There i - no whence such a race may not pros ecmb in peace for ages, no form of literature i ;t may not developc, no discovery possible j to man it may not hope to make, it will, without an effort, raise 301),OOO.bOU/. of rev alue by ;t taxation lower than that of Kng rittd now is. aiid ' oi ploy the whole or newly fie whole u! k, in works of p—icv Distress A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS or tuinuh, or resistance to authority, or dread of freedom in its most unrestrained forms, will, says the American, be as tin known that land as ignorance or violent crime. Every man will be secure in his home, every man equal, every man free to do whatsoever of good his hand can find, or his brain invent, or his heart conceive. So great will be the love of the people for these institutions, that the idea ofattack will fade away, for what nation could dream of at tacking a country in wbich thirty millions of aimed males, capable of becoming soldiers in six. weeks, will perish rather than suffer menace, and will own ships greater in num ber than those of the rest of the earth? Yet so great will be content of this people that .Europe will pass on its way unharmed, unimpeded, and uncontrolled, save indeed , it rny be, ty n;i :xrort"d agreement tl. it America shall always be left open, a secure harbor of refuge, the 'shadow of a great rock to the poor, and the miserable, and the oppressed. To South and North alike the land will be open, and while the Dane eaten out of his home may find in Maine a climate as rough and manners as kindly as his own, the Italian unable to prosper may grow Lacrima Christi on the slopes of Vir ginia, or renew the myrtilcs of Sicily bv the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico. There is room for ail and to spare, and when the tale is complete, and Americans outnumber ever., .white race, there will stretch before thctn other territories to possess, lands more vast, mountains more various, plains more rich, rivers still broader, cultivation aud pos sibilities of social life yet more multiform and great, tor they may cross the Isthmus, fix a capital greater than Home, at a spot where the President can look from the White House upon two oceans, and stretch away, pressing on in innumerable hordes, over ihe glorious wilderness of Brazil and the rich" alluvium of the Amizon. mine the Andes, and fill those wonderful plateaus where, as in Bogota, the apple and the pineapple grow side by side, and so spread slowly down away to the Antarctic zone. The half of earth will then be Americans, and the curse of divided language done away; and the hu man race, rid at last of physical misery, of war, of inequality, and of the paralysis of powers produced by fears of each other, may commence a career as new as that which began when man first instituted marriage and discovered fire. It is a pleasant dream, one which makes New England farmers better, and softer, and nobler amidst their sordid cares ; and it is all possible, or at least conceivable. No Eng lishman with an imagination denies that in his heart, or even doubts it. and it raises in him. among other things, that fierce jealousy which broke out so strangely during the re cent civil war. lie feels as if this structure thus visibly rising to the stars cast a shadow ; over England, as if his own land were lost j in the haze around that coining Empire, as j if he were dwarfed by the presence of his j mightier deccndant. lie feels as a Jew j might in the year 30, when, conscious that he .alone of mankind recognized the grand intellectual and moral truths, he yet saw his country nominally independent, really hut a province of all-absoibing and luxurious Rome. The bitterness is the greater because the Englishman, almost alone among mankind, has neither past nor future, neither dwells { on the glory of his forefathers nor looks for- ] ward with hope to the descendants. The ; Scotch peasant remembers Bannockburn as j if it were yesterday, the Russian moujikbe- { lieves in the day when Holy Russia, mis-i tress of Constantinople, - hall give the law to ! mankind. The average Englishman knows ■ nothing which happened before his father, j looks forward to nothing in which his eoun- j try will play a conspicuous part. He has j few national traditions and no national ' hop"- . ! Ihe educated German believes always in ; some coming I topia, when all men shall ! have leisure to enjoy, and Germany, safe in ; her unity, shall plunge i'e ' ---'y into j thought; and the educated Fr uciimaii n v- j er wearies of the past of France ; hut the educated Englishman only wonders how j men endured lives >o had as those of his fore- ! fathers, looks forward only to the time when the greatness of England shall have passed away. Vet if he dreamed, as Amer icans dream, pleasant things, and yet pos sible, the dream would not he an ignorant one. Lie might dream of a little kingdom in a rough hut healthy climate, cultivated like a garden, in which a society of forty millions had been organized till it was as completely an entity as a human being, in which the slightest injury to the meanest was felt as the plucking of a hair in a strong man'u beard. In that laud, so small and so cold, might exist a society coherent as the dia mond, but with colors as infinitely varied, a table as bright, facets as definite and as dis similar—a societv in whil li men rii-b ti< tbn old kings ot the East realized a luxury inure than Assyrian, by the aid ofarta more suit e than those of Greece, yet shared every lux ury and every art with the meanest of those around them: anu m which workers, never ] poor to pinehing, cordially aided in produ- j cing the magnificence they freely enjoyed ; ! in which thought, for the first time really j free, for the first time spread among millions, j would strike out new literatures and novel I sciences, and add every day not only to HIIIU'S ! dominion over nature —it was a savage who first tortured earth into multiplying seed corn —hut to man's capacity for living noble lives; in which so indefinite would be the ; variety of position, and circumstance, and I wc-rk, that every capacity and every disposi tion should be able to put out and profit bv the full measure of its powers; in which tlie i latent use of all forms of weakness should j become visible, in which the virtues should be able to act as motors, the passions be ! pruned down into energies. He might dream of an England in which every man was educated and could form an opinion for himself, every man provided with means sufficient to give his faculties scope, and every man able to rely on the aggregate force of all for aid against nature, or time, or circumstance, as lie now relies on it against violent evil-doers; an England in which Parliament should be the brain of a vast being, ofa municipality with aconscious j lite, guiding all men, faciliating all measures, , making enterprises easy which now seem impossible or absurd. He might imagine England thus organized, thus throbbing with uiany-colored life, ruling quietly over South- I era Asia, breaking up sun-baked civiliza tions, sowing the seeds of new life over half: j mankind, watering every germ as it grew to maturity, and learning, as all great gavden j ers learn, to recognize the beauty, and the | meaning, and the use of things which seem j j to be ignorant poisonous weeds. He might dream of an England which had ] reconciled the great difficulties or mankind, absolute freedom with perfect organization, liberty with Union, self-will with self-sacri fice, a State which could act like a man, yet of which every citizen felt himself a free and component part. He might finally imagine England not in deed as powerful ,m the Union, but sodevo fed to imfi-peiideii-- ><> scientifically organi zed, n- iii 1 no-! inmgty welded into a. BEDFORD. Pa,. FRIDAY. JUNE 15, 1860. weapon, with Anglo Baxoa for weight, Celt for edge, and Scotch for temper, that to at* | tack it would be simply to strike at a rapier with a crowbar, which might destroy, but i not in time to prevent a mortal wound. Nothing in all that is impossible, once a ; generation is fully educated, and we shall j educate the next. Rapid intercommunication is already bind ing the nation into one great family, till a | hind cannot be horsewhipped on a remote 1 moorland without a national roar of anger, j and the House of Commons becomes for all purposes the councildefamlllc. Let but the spirit of localism, or. as wc call it, self-gov- I crnmeut. decay a little more, as it always i does under education, v and England will be welded as we have described, will present | such an aspect of variegated, but not un happy life. This dream seems to us as brrht as the other, though not as vast, as the lawn may be as beautiful as a prairie, Windermere as Erie, a garden as a wilderness of wild flow ers. The element of vastness is only want ing, and wo can find that in our purposes and our tropical possessions. Ealissy's life was noble, though the end of that toil and en deavor was only a pretty enamel; and the work of Athens was vast, though she never covered the space of the Duke of Suther land's estate. All that man knows of the ideas which should regulate human organization was worked out by a nation of less than 30,000 freemen, so worked out that Europe has no words for policy save those the Athenians used, and in eighteen hundred years has iu vented but one new political idea, the pos sibility of rule by representation. Vastness is nothing, organization everything, the smallest entity with life and potentalities greater and more than the biggest, if it pos sesses neither. Grand as the mountain is, as Kingaley puts it, and oppressive to the spirit, men who could scarcely be seen on its •ides, tunnel through it at their leisure. Rut then we waut the fixed idea that Eng land. which cannot be the mountain, is to be the man.— London Spectator. WHAT IIMVIt.K t'LTXER ItECLABEB A N'O ou> AVIUM; HE ott I vifat A SEAT IX THE STATE SENATE. lie insisted that secession was not trea son. He declared that coercion of armed re bellion was unconstitutional. He styled Union soldiers "hounds," "bull-dogs," "hirelings," "minions," "incendiaries" and "plunderers." fie predicted and encouraged a fire iu the rear of Union soldiers. He proclaimed, by implication, that Jeff. Davis was a purer patriot than Abraham Lincoln. He discouraged the raising of armies by volunteering. He denounced the filling up of our armies by conscription. He opposed and execrated every measure by which the Union was saved. He characterized Abraham Lincoln as a | "tyrant," "usurper," "buffoon and assas I sin. ' He ridiculed Audrew Johnson as a "recreaut," "pelf hunter." "inebriate" and "adventurer." He opposed the extension of the elective liauchise 10 the men hi the field perilling their lives iu defense of the Union, and when they did vote, he charged "that such use of the ballot was illegal and a fraud. He opposed the disfranchisement of the deserters and .struggled with ali his legal force to prevent the punishment of bounty jumpers. lie could see nothing heinous iu the mur der of a draft officer or the pilfering of an enrollment office. He declared the war a failure and insisted that it ought to cease, while he advocated the election to the Presidency of a played out military bombast. He rejoiced over rebel and mourned at Union victories. He opposed the establishment of a Na j tional currency. He im-isted on Pennsylvania paying her : English creditors in gold, when by all the j rules of financial business the State could I only be asked to pay in currency. The pay ! incut in gold co-t the Common wealth many ; .housauds of dollars, which went at the time j so fill the pockets of Englishmen who were i then engaged in affording aid and comfort to tue rebels, fighting for the destruction of ! the Government. Those arc a few of the distinguished acts performed by Heister Ciymer while he was a State Senator. He is now a candidate for Governor, nominated by his party because of his record above given. W ill the peo ple of Pennsylvania eudorse a candidate coming before them with a record like this '' The result of the election in October will be the answer. WHY WOMEN DRESS. A clever and sprightly female writer refers to certain fctiictures in liouad Tabic on female extravagance: and denies that the sex dres- for one another. "'Wo men do not dress for one another ; we dress for you, gentleman—for you alone." Fur thermore "llagar" declares that a woman can cheat a man out of his eyes with the deceits of dress. "You do not know the difference between natural and artificial beauty. You do not know whether the pretty flush on the face is natural or 'put or..' You do not know whether the soft uc-s or fairness of a pretty face is nature's work or'liquid pearl'—the fashionable name for whitewash. Indeed, you do not. To use your own words, gentlemen, you only know when a woman looks well.* Yon may think you know a-painted face, but you do not. I could not detect it myself if I had uot seen the paint nnt on, and were not familiar with this branch pf high art. And as long as you think the pretty which we made up a genuine one, what is the differ ence whether it is or not ?" Heigh" ! well, Jenkins, of the Lender rejoices with ex ceeding great joy that he got safely mar ried before the age of cosmetic.-, laughing gas and "the German" dauce. Weil, ' Ha gar is right after all. On the ladder of civilization women are always just one rung below men. As they a.-cend or descend so do their mothers, wives and dau 7liters. ' i t is for you we spend our last dollar for dress," exclaims II agar. "and go half starved and comfortless in consequence. It is for you ; we are just what you make us." Moral by Jenkins—The women will run after the men. LKAEN TIN? SANCTITY OF Dt N . —lt IS to lie feared that thousands even of intelligent tmrsons, and persons who are supposed to >e religious beings, have no conception of tin? greatness of 'he idea of duty, or moral accountability, of the meaning of the word "ought," Hut it, is certain that nothing is done well until it is done from the souse of a controlling priuc-i pie ofin heron t and esaen tial lightness. Duty is the child* of Love, and therefore there is power in all its teach ings and commands . rue SOUL'S LONGINGS. j i* if teen years ago to night, a young girl j knelt ! .-ncath the starry sky to pray; aud the burden of her prayer was, that, she might he endowed with the powers of geni us ; that power might he given her to write; to give voice to the tumultuous feelings sur ging through her soul. This was all the boon she craved. She asked not for love, for wealth, or high estate : neither did she ask for fame ; as yet ambition had no place in her heart. She asked but for power to weave together the loose matter that was clogging up her heart ; to write out its un written music; its glowing dreams and prophesies ; and it was granted. Will it bring her happiness ? Years passed away. Again she knelt to pray. Her dark eyes radiant w ith the fight of genius, were fixed upou the distant heav ens ; her lips were half unclosed, and her long dark ringlets fell over her uncovered shoulders—she looked like one inspired. Suddenly, the fair head was bent low. and her hand raised, with a kind of depreca ting gesture, as if some sorrow had crept iu upon her joy. Then, folding her arms over her heart, sue bowed her face in the dust of humiliation, and. in broken words exclaim ed: "Father, to he local!"' Ha! she is not happy ! she craves the boon of love. It was not enough that mighty power was given over her own mind and the minds of others. .She had made her a world apart from the world she lived in. She had won fame, and bevies of'friends; and yet her woman's heart craved for love. It was sad to sec the fair young head bow ed so humbly ; to see that proud heart humiliated with the thought that the bosom she had craved so passionately asking that, and only that, had failed to satisfy her heart. Again her prayer was granted. The love of a noble heart was given her; a princely home, anu the homage of the multitude. • Will the love she has cov eted fill her heart ? Will love do more for the w mian's heart than fame did for the girl's? She had a happy home ; sheltered in from the world's clamor and change—that far-off world she thought so beautiful. Would that she could part the thick curtain that hung between it and her. She did so, and found that the curtain was of coarse gray serge ; that tlie beautiful colors it had worn at a distance had been wrought by her own brain. She wished then tbat she had not peered beyond the curtain that had been so wisely hung between her and the world that seemed so fair—for she had gained more light and knowledge than was wise for her. She found out the fallacy of her early dreams ; that love and truth were not the things they seemed ; that happiness was a myth ; and the "trail of the serpent was over them all. ' Alas! her heart yet unli'led, her soul yet unsatisfied. And now from white, quivering, lips, new prayer arises. But, this time she does not knee', but bears it about in her heart: and, at last, when the want grows unbearable, the trembling lips, utter, pas sionately. "Give tne children, O Father !" A little life fluttered into existence —a sweet pale blossom of wondrous loveliness. The blue of the violets were in its eyes, and the rose flush upon its cheeks. There was u new delicious feeling in her "heart, and her soul thrilled to the fouch~of those tiny fin -gers. Was the want in her soul tilled ? had the babe - coming -tilled its longings? Ah! no; something was wanting —what could it be ? There came a night when the breath float ed out from the babe's lips, and it went to dwell beyon i the pearly clouds. Then there came hours of darkness and sorrow —after- ward there was light ! As the stricken mother gazed on the wee, waxen Imbo .-he had loved so well, she could scarcely believe and quiet herself" bCf>re him who had bereaved her. But, even in the midst of her anguish, a new revelation dawned upon her She saw that she had been blin-lly following her own will, regard- It -s of his who created her, Every prayer of her life had been answered, Genius had been given her. and fame and love ; and nn re precious than all, the sweet child love which is surely a fortaste of Heaven. Once more beneath the stars she knelt to pray ; not the young girl of fifteen years ago but i woman weary and worn. The prayer tbi time, i- not for intellectual endowment; nor for human love, nor fame, nor the (tat tering of children's feet: hut. faintly trotu white lips, come the words : "Wash me and I will he whiter than snow ! Let Thy love fill my heart, O Fath er ! Thy love alone can sati.-fy the sou! ! Take away all vain dreams ; all strivings for earthly happiness, all yearning for human love ! Let the prayer of my heart ever be. Not my will. Father, but thine be done ! Thy will let it be done on earth, as it is in Heaven, now and forevennore ! "Lord make me what Thou wilt, so Thou wilt take What Thou dost make And not disdain To house me, though among Thy coarsest grain. < ItILIHtEN'S QUESTIONS. Show us the philosopher that a child cannot puzzle. We have never seen no such a phe nomenon. Roll all the wisacres of the world into one, and a schoolboy's whys and where fores shall confound the combination. If when the Admirable Crinchton travelled though Europe, affixing his challenges to the gates of colleges, the professors had pit ted their >ix yer olds against the prodigy, we warrant they would have propounded problems beyond his skill to solve. The truth is, that it is much easier to answer a learned man than a child. Your philoso phers understand well enough that there are matters concerning which all men are equal ly ignorant itd with commendable tact and prudence they steer clear of tbeui. But children aie bold arid persistent querists.— They are not satisfied with eva-ive replies. They cross examine with merciless persever ance, and sometimes drive themoif profound to the refuge of "I don't, know." But even that confession —so humiliating to grown up wisdom —does not always silence the youth ful searcher after knowledge. He is apt to think you oUfjiit to know, and to ask why you don't know. We really like to seta smart child or; a pedant. It i- astonishing how the little interlocutor will worry and badger the man of Ixiok.-. Butit does him god. It teaches him how much be doc* ,iOt hmr It is very foolish for any man to give himself airs on the score of acquirements which do not suffice to save him from being cornered and convicted of ignorance by a mere babr it-ay After quotiog from John Locke, that a blind man took his idea of -carlet from : the sound of a trumpet, a witty fellow says , that a hoopskivt h 01 ring out of a shop door ■ remin d - him 01' the peel of a bell. VOUME 39; NO SI. THE CHOLERA. It is generally conceded at present, by al most all of our leading physicians that we win IXJ visited by Asiatic cholera during the coming season. At least, every indication points in that direction. In view of the fact we-submit the following series of rules, the obse; vanee of wliieh cannot but prove emi nently beneficial at anytime; 1. Avoid all causes of excessive nervous exhaustion: avoid intemperance in eating and drinking: live upon a nourishing diet, and keep the digestive functions in a healthy condition. 2. Avoid and discourage panic and needless anxiety when the epidemic is announced, remembering that, in Its premonitory stage, cholera is generally curable, ani that all the exciting causes ot the malady can be avoided .Promptly second the efforts of the public authorities in all enlightened plans for pro tecting the public health, especially in all that relates to civic cleanliness, the abate ment of nuisances 2nd the proper care and feeding of the poor. 4. If in business, or charged with any public or philanthropise duty, do not forsake your post of personal or official labor, except when suffering from premonitory symptoms of cholera or other sickness. J. Aid and encourage the removal and prevention of the localizing and exciting causes of cholera throughout the district in which you reside. 6. Give particular attention to the drain age, dryness and cleanliness of your premi ses and the neighborhood, and see to it that the water supply is both puie and sufficient. 7. Inculcate habits of personal neatness. 8. Avoid the employment of purgative drugs, except when prescribed by your physician. 9. Avoid and prevent effluvia from excre mentitious matter, sewers, privies and cham ber vessels. Frequently and thoroughly dis enfect these sources of fever poison. 10. Insist upon the utmost cleanliness and purity of every portion of your apartments furniture and domicils. 11. thoroughly and frequently ventilate every apartment in the dwelling, even to the cellar.-, closets and vaults. This should be aided by fires in open fire places, wherever available. 12. Carefully protect the body atrainst sud den alterations of temperature. Wear flan uel, and when exposed to changeable temper atures, or suffering any disorder of the bow els, wear a broad flannel band extending from the tops of the hips to the middle if the body. 13. Be prudent in the use of food and 1 lev erage.-, being particularly attentive to quali ty and digestibility. 14. Bear in mind the fact that a painless diarrhoea is the almost invariable precursor of the cholera, and that if not immediately and properly treated it will more probably terminate fatally than favorably.— Exchange. A RECEIPT PGR HAPPINESS. —It is sim ple. when you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow creature. It is eerily done —a left off garment to the man who needs it : a kind word to the soirowful ; an encouraging ex pression to the striving —trifles in them selves, light as air, —will do it. at least for twenty four hours; and if you are young depend upon it. it will tell when you are old ; and if you are old. test assured it will -end you gently and happily uown the stream of tiuie to eternity. Look at the result ; You send one person —only one happily through the day ; that is three hun dred and sixty five in the course of the year —and supposing you live forty years only after you commence this course, you have made fourteen thousand six hundred human beings happy.at all events for a time. Now worthy reader, is this not simple ? and is it not worth accomplishing ? \V edo not often indulge in a moral dose —but this is so small a pill, that one needs no red currant jelly to disguise its flavor, and it requires to be ta ken but once a day, that we feel warranted in prescribing it. It is most excellent for digestion, and a producer of pleasant slum ber.—London Aths. THE IVJIE HEART. —The springs of ever lasting life are within. They are clear streams gushing up from the depths of the soul and flow out to enliven the sphere of outward existence. But like the waters of Siloah. they'"go swift." You must listen to catch the silvery tones of the little rill as it glides from its mountain home: you may not witness its silent march through the green vale, but its course will be seen in the fresh verdure and the opening flowers: its presence will l>e unknown by the forms of life and beauty that gather around it It is ever thus with the pure. You may not hear the' still small voice," or heed the silent aspiration, but there is a moral influence and a holy power which you will feel. The wil derness is made to smile flowers of new life and beauty spring up and flourish while an invisible presence breathes immortal frag rance through the atmosphere. AGIUCC LTURAL EXPORTS. —The Commis sioner of Agriculture states that the follow ing is a statement of the exports from New York of the leadiug agricultural products from January 1, 1866, to May 1: Flour (wheat), 344.490 barrels ; rye flour, 1,074 barrels ; corn meal, 43,523 barrels ; wheat, 100.467 bushels ; rye, 171,823 bushels ; oats, 676,520 bushels ; peas, 26.604 bush els: corn, 2,077,157 bushels ; cotton, 255,- 552 bales : hay, 17,646 bales ; hops, 382 bales ; leaf tobacco, 13,020 hogsheads; manufactured tobacco, 062,543 pounds; petroleum, 0,035.296 gallons; pork, 39,536 barrels; beef. 12,015 barrels; beef, 21,379 tietc; cut meats, 21,636.355 pounds; butter. 743,055 pounds : cheese, 1,989,191 pounds; lard. 12,087,482 pounds ; tallow. 8,105,115 pounds. HIBERNIAN TOASTS. --Two gallant "sons of Erin," beiug just discharged from ser vice, were rejoiceing over the event, when one who felt all the glory of his own noble race, suddenly ; used his pot above his head and said, "Arrah, Mike, here's to the gal lant old 69th—the last in the field and the lir.-t to leave it." ' Tut, tut. man," Said mike ; "ye don't mane that. "Don't inane it, is it? Then what do I mane?" 'You mane, said Mike, and he raised hi- class high, and looked lovingly at it, "Here's to the gallant 69th, equal to none!" And so they drank. THE people of' West \ irgiilia have, by a great majority, voted to disfranchise all reb els, their sympathisers atid aiders and abet tors. No limitation has been fixed, so that it is probable that the curse that was laid upon the tories of the Revolution will le fastened upon the traitors through all time. TEXAS COTTON CHOP.— Of the cotton crop, we hear from nearly every part of the county, the most flattering prospects. The IVeedmen are doing better than v. a.- to be expected, while our returned-okiiers have gone to w ork with a vim, and :U1 seem to bo doing their "level best" to make n large crop. - Texas Countryman. RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisement* for less than 3 months 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notices one half additional. AH resolaltd;i of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and of marriages mid deaths, ex ceeding fare line*, 10 ft?, per line. All legal re>ti "esi of every kind, and all Orphans' Couitwd other Judicial sale.--, a: e requited bylaw to l>e pafc tished in both prpers. Editorial Notices 13 rent, per line. All Adve.. sing due alter first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 6 months. I year One square $ *..V,i $ fl.Ofl SIO.OB Two squares 6.0u 9.00 16.00 Three squres 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth ddumn 14.i0 20.00 33.00 Half column- 18.00 23.00 43.00 One column 80.00 43.00 80.08 THERE is a paper at Columbus, Ga., which has for some time b< n urging, as the true policy of the South that co cotton be planted for several years, until the Yankees driven by necessity, shall, oil their knee.-, beg the South to accept all t.teir rights ami save the Union from bankruptcy. Few if any planters will be inclined to adopt such a jx)licy. It was tried early in the war, when to their great surprise the Southern Eeople learned that cotton was no longer ing. THE NEW WOOL CLIP.—The Sandusky Reguter oi the 26th says : 1 The wool sea son was inaugurated yesterday by the sale of two thousand pounds at fifty cents. The wool was in very fine condirion. Prices arc ruling from forty to fifty cents. At the con vention yesterday, buyers manifested little disposition to settle upon juices for the new clip cn account of the unsettled condition of the market." IN MILFORD. Mass., the children of Ro man Catholic patents were instructed not to conform to certain regulations which have been instituted in all the schools, which reg ulations consist in singing moral and patri otic songs and bowing the head during pray er. The consequence is that a large num ber of Irish children are out of school, and have appeared in procession in the streets. AT the time of the explosion of the nitro glycerine in the yard of Wells. Fargo k Co in iSan Francisco, a lad was sitting at his desk writing, while plastering and timber fell around, without so much as hurtiug a hair on his head. The same boy was sitting on the paddle box of the steamer Yosemite when she was blown up, on a trip to Sac ramento, and was blown entirely across the river, • when he coolly swam back to the wreck to offer assistance to the less fortunate passengers. A soldier who, in going from Baltimore to Rock Island, had met with four accidents was on the fifth occasion in a car that com pletely turned over. Making his way through a window, and gaining an upright position, he looked around hinr and coolly inquired: "What station is this?" Fie thought this was away they had ofstuppinsr. Sir .James Mackintosh invited Dr. Parr to take a drive in his gig. The horse be came restive. "Gently, Jimmy, " said the doctor, "don't irritate hinr always sdPthc your horse. Jimmy, you'lldo better with out me. Let me down, Jimmy." Once on terraflrma the doctor's view of the case was changed. "Now. Jiiumy. touch him up Never let a horse get the better of you. Touch him up, conquer .him, don't span.*; him—l'll walk back. Not long since there was a dancing party at. the house of Mr. Scott, near A vena. Law rence county, Ala. The weather was very warm in the early party of the evening, but it had become exceedingly eohl when the party broke up heated and t'atigu <l. The company went home; two of them died the next morning, and seven have since died. Others are seriously ill, and none of' the participants in the affair are well. HOPE—Hope is the sweetest friend that ever kept a distressed friend company ; it beguiles the todiousness of the way, all the miseries of our pilgrimage. It tells the soul such sweet stories of the succeeding joys ; what comfort there is in heaven, what peace, what joy, w hat triumphs, what mar riage songs and hallelujahs there arc in that country whither she is travelling, that she goes merrily away with her present burden. SEEKING F OH TRUTH.—'The labors to try man's soul and ex dt it. are the search lor truth beneath the mysteries which surround creation, to gather amaranths, shining with the hues of heaven, from plains upon which hang, dark an i heavy, the mists of earth. B©J3ir Walter Scott, in lending a book one day to a friend, cautioned him to be punctual in returning it. "This is really necessary," said the poet in apology ; "for though many of my friends are bud arith meticians, I observe almost all of litem are good book-keepers. Surgeon, who was bald, was on a visit to a friend's house, whose servant wore a wig. After bantering hint a considerable time, the doctor said : "You see how bald I am, and yet 1 don't wear a wig." "True, sir," replied the servant : "but an empty barn requires no thatch. IMMENSE IMMIGRATION,—A gentleman just from Sioux City states that between that place and lowa Falls he met over five hundred teams with immigrants, all bound for the West, some to Daootah. some to the Sioux City region, and others for the fertile valleys of the Des Moines and other streams this side of the Big Muddy. The rush west - ward this spring has never been exceeded even in the nushest of the flush times. An odd bit of dialogue occurs in a novel now publishing in a French paper. "Where is your husband.'" asks a gentle man. "lie went our to bay a cigar, replies the lady. "Has he been gone long? ' Eighteen yeai "He is quite right, remark thl gentle man, philosophically: "he wants to choose a good one." The late lamented Lei up tic re teJl- in- that Io was changed, iuto a heifer: hut we hassi lately gleaned feoiu the doctor's prescription the following piece ofinfbt umliou respecting the end of that young person: "io./feV of JVI tassium." The National eircus advertise.- rhut they have engaged the services of tie- i.-e.-t ''ecu noil ball player in the world, On the play bills the name is Conkuu. It is evidently a misprint. Grant hasn't retired from the business. John 0. Breekein idge has gone into the pork business in Gimada. Judging from the past, it is just the thing for h at. When he left Jeff Davis in the itwh. he shewed that he knew how to "save hi- bacon." When a youg lady priauisfs her hand to her lover, on a bright night, she may ! e nil! to have made "a star engagement. The veterans wh -rcc. uGm hs h'&dajr presents artitk-wi arms or i-g.-. may be said to have been truly re mcmbered. , It HI. - th- "powkfesi ot Fenian- aho I to:-I ht- - wet ?♦ heari that "it mm him -elf thai collide i slap - tm d ran icing of her." Maximilian i -aid to be a do.-ceudanv, of , the Cac.-ars. He is certainly the se&oi of I Mexico. j The Americau cattle pli>,gr. The info : mous high price of hew? 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