POIt I), PEN N* A. TERMS: $2.00 si year it paid strictly in advance. If not paid uilfaiu six mouths $3,30. If not paid within the year $3.00. jyofoftgiflsa* & gusiness ATTORNEYS AT LAW. B. P. MEYERS J. W. Bit KERBOX. M..YERS .v DICKEKgON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PKNN'A., Office suite sis formerly occupied by lion. W. P. Fcliell, two doors cast of the Gnsttte office, will .practice its the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained nnd the purchase of Real Estate attended to. May ii, "(ig—lvr. I OllN T. KKAGYy - ') ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PKNN'A., Offers to give satisfaction to sill who rnsiy en trust their legal business to hisu. Wiil collect inonevk 0.1 CYUICUOOS of debt, and speedily PRO- Cure tootntie# Bid pensions to soldiers .b is wid ows or heir-. Office two doors west ol' Telegraph office. aprll:'66-ly. I LB <'KSSNA, • I . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHN CESSNA, on Juliasma street, in the office formerly occupied by King & Jordan, stts.l recently by Filler i Keugy. AH business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9, 1865. J' M'ti. Stt tltl'E E. P. KERR OUAKI'jB A lUBBK, kJ A TTOMA'B YS~A T- LA M r . W ill pr Aft ice in the Courts of Bedford and ttd joir.ie contnii #. All business entrusted to tbeir sviil rev ive careful and pTonipt attention. FcnsiWi >, Bounty, Ba k Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. OtV-cc • 11 Jitiianit street, o;-p--.-itc the i-.raking house of Heed A Schcil, Bedford, Fa. =ar2:tf |UII.rAIMi:tt, " Attorney at Law, Bedford, Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his carc. •Xi... Particular atfen'ion paid to the collection of Military claims. Office • n Julianna st., nearly Vppositc the Mengel House.) junoSH, 's.ly 1. it. ivmnottßOW JOHN I.WTE. I \1 KBOHROW A LI T/,. 1 / .irrott.vEVS .IT wii'. BEDFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all busino-s intrusted to their care. Collection# wade on the shortest no tice. Thcv ar, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims"against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Land-, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the 'Aletlgol House" and near v opposite the inquirer , . April 28. ISOS:t USPYM. ALSIP, Ili ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA.. Wiil faithfßlly and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his cure in Bedford andadjoin iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A fspang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south ofthe Mengel House. apl 1, 1564. —tt. MWMM, A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Offi- with J. W. Lingcnfelter, Esq., n Juliana street, two doors Booth of the "Meagte Honse." Bee. 9r 1864-tf. KIMMKLL AND LIN'tiKN FKLTER, ATTOLNEV.S Al LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mengel House, aprl, 1854—tf. I Oil N MOWER, { ATTORNEY AT LAW. BF.DFOKD, PA. April 1,1864. —tf. IMEMTIBTS. N. ntc KOK C. RIKSICB, JU. DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Office in the Haul Building, Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or M#- hanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully pcr formed and warranted. TERMS CASH. jan6'6s-ly. I \ENITSTItY. I J 1. N. BOWSER, RESIDENT DENTIST, WOOD IS, BRY. Pa., visits Bloody Run three day# of each month, commencing with the second Tuesday of the uiouth. Prepared to perform all Dental oper ations with which be may be favored. Term* f. i'hin the reaek of all aril Strictly cath ejrrcpt by -pedal contract. Work to be sent by mail or oth wis-, must l,e paid for when impressions are taken. augs, J o4;tf. riIYSI(IA\S. \\UM. W. JAMISON, M. D., \\ Bi-oowv RUN, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional #ervices to the people J that place and vicinity. [deeffilyr I ill. B. F. HARRY, *Respectfully tenders his professional ser rices to the :itizcns of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building ormcrly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofiis. April I, IS6-I—tf. . —— - -■ ■ - I L. MARBOURG, M. P., J . Having permanently located respectfully lenders his pofessionat services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Ilall A Pal mer'# office. Apr:! 1, 1864—tf. R A \KIRS. 8. W. IM UP O. r.. SHANNON V. BESBDICT NRIT, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, IV BEDFOTID, PA. BANK OP DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. OOLLKCTIONS made for the East, West, North and S> utb, and the general business of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittance# promptly made. BEAT, ESTATE bought and sold. apr.ls/64-tf. JFEH£LER, Ac. \ BSALOM GARLICK, A l-'loi k At. Watchmaker and Jeweller, BLOODY RT S, PA. Clock#, Watches, Jewelry, Ac., promptly re paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted to give HHtisfaetion. lie also keeps on hand and for sale H.f TCtl- HS, V.I. ft OSS. an d JK WKLtI I'. jßfr- Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. 10v4 TOilN ItEIMI'ND, ') CLOCK AND WATCH MAKER, in the United States Telepraph 'fffice, BEDFORD, PA. Cb k#, watches, and all kinds of jewelry promptly repaired. AH work entrusted to his care warranted to give entire satisfaction. [nov.'i-Jyr DANIEL BORDER, PITT STBRST, TWO DOORS WEST OF THK DD FOSIJ HOTEL, BKB FORD, PA. TCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY, SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold an I Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, .best quality of Gold Pens. He wiil supply to order any thing in hi# line not on hand, apr. 28, lh6s— zz. BEDFORD HOVSK, AT HOPEWELL, BEDFORD COUNTY, PA., BY HARRY DROLLINGER. Every attention given to make guests comfortable, who stop at this Hopewell, July "9. Igfif, UUKBORROW k IIFTZ Editors and Proprietors. IVtni, DEATH'S MYSTERY. BY FRANCIS LAMABTIXE. 'Tis but a little thing to die. And leave earth's faded flowers To whisper requiems o'er our tomb In autumn's dreary hours, Ah ! who would not be glad to die, And close the weary eyes, To waken in a brighter world, Beyond the starry skies? H ow can we even wish to stay In this dark world of care, When one brief pang, one struggle here, Would make us happy there ? Ah! surely we would never grieve To leave Time's fading shore, And sore away to fadeless realms, Where dying comes no more. Then who would call the loved ones hack From out the Shepherd's fold, To tread again Life's thorny track, 'Neath skies so dark and cold ? It surely is not sad to die And leave earth's transient joy, . To drink of heaven's undying bliss, And love without alloy. (Hi! 'tis a hafpy thing to die ! . To lay this form away, And change earth's home for one on high, Karth's night for heaven's day. "J'is grand and beautiful to die ! Our great Redeemer died To wash away each trace of sin. And make us purified. Then tremble uot when death shall come— 'Tis but the Saviour's call : Tis but His love that wafts us home Where no dark shadows fall. 'Tis changing weariness for rest. Time for eternity : And this bright change to happiness Is Death's dark mystery. So while we stand on Times dark shore, Let every tear be dried, For we shall find our loved and lost Beyond Death's moaning tide. NEUTRALITY. Proclamation from ihe President warn ing citizens of 'he United States against aiding the Fenians. B>i the President of the ( ailed Ailates of >, America : A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, It has become known to me that certain evil disposed persons have, within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, begun anil set ou foot, and have provided and prepared, and are still engagad in providing and preparing means for a military expedition and enterprise, which expedition and enterprise is to be carried on from the territory and jurisdiction of the United States against the colonies, districts and people of British North Amer ica, within the dominions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with which said colonies, districts and people and kingdom the people of the United States are at peace ; and Whereas, The proceedings aforesaid con stitute a high uiisdcmranor, forbidden by the laws of the United States as well as by tfic law of nation : Now, therefore, for the purpose of pre venting the carrying ou of the unlawful ex pedition- and enter) rise aforesaid from the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, and to maintain the public peace as well as the national honor, and enforce obe dience and respect to the laws ofthe United States, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United State.- , do admonish and warn all good citizens of the United States against taking part or in any way urging, aiding, countenancing or abetting said unlawful pro ceeding# : and I do < short ali judges, mag istrates. marshal# and officers in the service of the United States, to employ all their lawful authority and power to prevent and defeat the aforesaid unlawful proceedings, and to arrest and bring to justice ail persons who may lie engaged therein; and pursuant to the act of Congress, in such case made and provided, I do futhermore authorize and employ Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, coniinauder of the military division of the Atlantic, to employ the land and naval for ces of the United States and the militia thereof, to arrest and prevent the setting on foot and carrying on tlic expedition and en terprise aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the se.al of the 1 nited States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington thin ith day of June, in the year of our Lord. 186fi, and of the independence of the United States the ninetieth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President. Wm. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. PARENTS, TAKE HEED ! There ate few better investments than that which places before one's family a stock of good books, either of a miseellane ou- character or tho.-e referring t-> his own business. Five. ten. twenty-five or fifty dollars' worth of book# put into a boy's hands, will fill hi# head with idea#,—sot him to thinking, and do more towards his future success in life, than a thousand dollars laid up on interest for him. The latter may give him more capital to stars on, but with a good stock of" ideas and u developed mind, he will do far better in life with a much smaller money capital to begin with. "It in the mind that makes the man, and the store of thoughts, and the exercise of the thinkirig and reasoning powers, are what make the mind. What, for instance, would be the effect upon the great fanning and gardening and fruit-growing interes's of this couutry, to say nothing of its effect in other directions, if every cultivator had one acre less, and it# value laid out on a library of books about his business. Would it not fre quently keep his boys out of bad company and tend to their refinement? Would it not dignify his caiiing in the eyas of his family and of himself, furnish lood for thought while engaged in his daily toil, und by the hints and suggestions derived, promote the profit of his labor ? The sublet is worthy of careful consideration. —AlAfcMW)* cult mist. A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. NASBY. Mr. N'asby and the Reconstructed meet to congratulate tlic Country upon the result of the Memphis outbreak—lie diseourscth upon the Nigger, and runs against a snag. CONFEDRIT X ROADS, ) (wieh is in the Stait uv Kentucky J- May 12, ISGC. ) The news from Memphis filled the soles uv the Dimocrisy uv Kentucky with undi looted joy. There at last the Ethiopian wua taught that to liiui at least the spelliu book ! is a seeled volume, and that the gospel is j not for him save ez he gits it filtered j through a sound, eonstooshnel, Diiuekratic preecher. Wo met at the Corners last nite , to jollify over the brave acts uv our Mem- , phis fronds, and I wni the speeker. I tul- ! dressed them on the subject of the nigger— his wants, need-, capacities, a subject, per mit me to state, I flatter myself I under stand. Probably no man in the States hez given the nigger more study, or devoted more time to a pashent investigashen uv this species uv tlic brute creashen, than the un dersigned. I have contemplated him sittin and standing, sleepin and wakin, and in idle ness, in even' shape in fact, eeptin as a free man, wich situashen is too disgustin for a proud (Jaueasheu to contemplate him, and when he ariz before my mind's eye in that shape, I alluz turned shudrin away. I hed proceeded in my discourse wi th a flow in sale. Its easy deuionstratin aavthing yoor awjeuce wants to beleeve, ana wich their intcre.-t lies in. I hed gone. on and pro veil concloosively from a comparison uv the fizzikle structer uv the Afrikin and the Caucashen that the nigger wuz a beast, and not a human bcin, and that konsekently we bed a perfeck rite to catch hiin and tame him, andyoozchim ez we do other wild ani mals. Finishin this lied uv ray discourse, I glode easily into a history uv the flood— explained how Noer got titc, and cust Ham, condemnin him and his posterity to serve his brethren forever, wich I insisted gives us an indubitable warranty deed to all uv em I for ali tirn#. I warmed up c.ll this elokentlv. "Behold my brethren the beginning uv Diinocrasv," 1 sed. "Fust the wine (wich wuz the ante type uv our whisky) wuz necessary to the foundation uv the party, and it wuz forth eoutin. But the thing was not complete. It did it- work on Noer, but yet there wuz a achin void. There wuz 110 Viggtr in the world, and without nigger there could be Dimocrisy. Ham. my friends, wuz born a brother uv Japhetn, and wuz like unto him, and uv course could not be a slave. Whisky wuz the instrument to bring him down and it fetched him. Ham looked upon his fa ther and wuz cust, and the void wuz filled. Tic re icm nigger and ichisky and upon them the foundashuns uv the party wuz laid broad and deep. Methinks, my brethren, when Ham went out from the presence uv his father, black in the face as the ace of spades, ef I may he allowed to yoose the ex pression, bowin his hack to the burdens Shctu and Japhfth pilod onto him with alacrity, that Democracy, then in the womb of the future, kicked lively and clapped its hand-. There wuz a nigger to enslave, nnd whisky to bring men down to the pint uv enslavcn him. There wuz whisky to make men incapable uv labor —whisky to accom pany horse racin, and poker playin, andsich rational amooscments, and a nigger cust es pecially that he mite sweat to furnish the means. Observe the fitness of things! Bless the Lord, my brethren, for whiskv and the nigger, for without em there could he no Dimocrasy and yoor beloved speaker mite hev owned a farm in Noo Jersey and bin a votin the whig ticket to-day." At this pint a venerable oldfreedman who wuz sittin quietly in the meetin ariz, and asked if he mite ask a question. Thinkin what a splendid opportoonity uv demonstra tiu the superiority uv tlic Caucashen over the Afrikin race, I answered "v<" gladly. _ "Wall! Mas'r," sed the old imbecile, "is I a beast?" "My venerable friend, there ain't nary doubt uv it." "Is my old woman a old beastess too?" "Indubitably," replied I. "And my children, is they little beasts and beastesses ?'' "Unquestionably. "Den a yaller feller tjin't but half a beast, is he?" "My friend, sed I, "that ques tion is"— ' 'Hold on," sed he, "wat 1 wanted to get atisdis: dcre's a heap uv yaller fellers in dissection, whose ladders must have bin white men, and ez dar mudders wuz all beastesses. I want to know wedder der am't no law in Kentucky airin"— "Put him out!" "Kill the black w etch!" shouted a large majority uv them who hed bin the heaviest slave owners under the good old patriarkle system, and they went for the oM reprobate. At this pint a officer uv the Freedmcn's Burow, who we hedn't observ ed, riz, and bustin with laughter, remarked that his venerable friend shood hev a chance to be lieerd. We respeck that Burow, par tikelerly ez the officers generally have a hun dred or two bayonets within reech, andcho ken our wrath, permitted ourselves to be further insulted by the cussed nigger, who, grinnin from car to car, riz and perceded: "My white friends." sed he, "dar pears to be an objection to my reference to de sub jeck uv dis mixin with beasts, so I wont press de matter. But I ;usk yoo, did Noer have have three sons?" "lie did," said I. "Berry good, wuz (ley all brudders?" "Uv course!" "Ham came from de same ladder and mudder as de odder two?" "C-e-r-t a-i-n --1-y." "Well den it seems to me, not fully under standin the skriptcrs, dat if we is beasts arid beastesses, dat yoo is beasts and beastesses, also, and dat all we is brudders." And the disgustin old wretch threw his arms around my neck and kissed me, callin me his "long lost bradder.' The officer uv the Freednien's Bureau laft vociferously and so did a dozen or two sol diers in the crowd likewise, and the awjencc slunk out without adjournin the meetin, one uv em rernat kin audibly that he noticed one thing, that Dimocrisy was extremely weak whenever it undertook to defend itself with fax or revelashnn. For his part, he'd done with argynient. He wanted niggers, because lie cood wallop em, and make em do bis work without pa.vin em, wich fie coodent do with white men. I left the meetin house convinst that the South, who worked the nigger, leaven us Northern Dimokrats to defend the system, hed the be.-t end uv the bargain. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, Lait Paster of the Church of the Noo Dis pensashun. — Toledo Blade. THE officials at the Internal Revenue Bu reau recently enjoyed a hearty laugh over a letter from a New York commission mer chant. who wrote to ;,.k an explanation of a notification that some whisky consigned to Lim, had been seized in transitu , on suspi cion that the tax had not been paid "I will thank you," said rite latter, "to write me where 'Transitu' is, a# I want to send a check there, ant' can't fin 1 oqt an what rail road it is on!" BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1866. FLIRTATION. The free and unrestrained intercourse of the sexes, which is such n marked feature of social life in this country, lias excited much comment among foreign writers, and a great deal has been said and written both in favor of and agajnst it, The opinion that prevails here isofcourse strongly in its favor, it being reasonably urged that there is less danger from open intercourse, than from the secret commun ion of kindred souls which surely, follows any attempt at separation. The open and shameless immorality which seems the nat ural consequence of the French system of restricting unmarried females, only to give them entire freedom after marriage, is urged in favor of our more natural, and certainly more agreeable custom. - But there is o•> phase of this question that has received too little consideration. There is an evil incident to this absolute freedom of the young people of both sexes, that needs looking after, and calls loudly for correction, and that is, the contemptible, and criminal thing called flirtation. The disposition of both young men and women to trifle with the best and holiest emotion of which each is capable. It would be difficult to decide which sex deserves the most blame in this matter. Probably both are equally guilty, although it is perhaps more common, but not more reasonable and proper, to sympathize with the gentler portion of humanity, when they have suffered from it. Whether male or female, however, a "flirt" is a despicable character, and if recognized as such, gener ally receives the well merited contempt of every honest man and woman. A man who by constant attention, and the thousand nameless little marks of prefer crence, by which"alone sentiments of affec tion are made known before a positive dec laration, leads a woman to suppose that lie loves her, and thereby induces a growth of attachment on her part, is certainly a yen guilty man, and a heartless vagabond, if he refuses to accept the responsibility of bis conduct and make licr his wife. No sensi ble woman, however warm her regard may be, would mistake the cold formality of a mere acquaintance, 01 even friendship, for the advances of a lover, who has designs on lier heart, and if a man succeedes in win ning her love by his attentions when he does not entertain the slightest particle of affection for her, be may inflict an injury on her, from which she may never recover. Broken hearts are not very common, we admit, although careless trifling with the noblest impulses of the soul is too much so, but there is such a thing as a broken heart in the sense that a woman's love may be thrown coldly hack to her, chilling her heart and searing it, so that it becomes wholly callous to any other emotion, or else if the victim be sensitive, utterly ruining her hap piness. and casting a black shadow over her whole life. Depend upon it such occurren ces are not rare, they arc shamefully fre quent and this alone it is that renders it a dangerous thing to expose a fair, innocent girl to the approaches of unprincipled and heartless men. • _ But the eternal law of Justice is satisfied in this, as in everything else. The men are not alone guilty. It is a sad reflection that there are women who are so insensible to the finer instincts of their sex, as to treat unwa ry and susceptible men in the same unfeel ing manner. e think it can bo laid down as a general proposition, that no womas ever had i right to refuse a man, unless that man is a fool That is to say, that no sen sible man ever offered his hand to a woman unless he" judged from her conduct towards him that his affection for her was reciproca ted. To be sure there arc men who, laying to heart the oldand foolish adage that "faint heart never won fair lady,'' rush in where they feel sure they are not wanted, and where wiser men would fear to tread, but these are comparatively rare exceptions: the larger number of men who endure the pang of a refusal, can comfort themselves with the reflection, if it be any comfort, that they have wasted their love 011 an unworthy woman. Most men would be very careful to assure themselves of their exact position in the woman's estimation before they offered themselves. If there be any reason to sup pose, from the young lady's conduct, that she is not favorably disposed, there are very few who would risk the mortification a negative reply to their proposal. But fe males who are guilty of such heartlessness, are either too much wanting in the delicate sensibilities of true women to perceive the drift of a man's conduct, towards them, or so blinded by their vanity, which is pam pered by assidious attention, that they are willing to place him in a false position before a gossiping and scandal-loving world, in order to gratify it. The fact is, making love is aserious thing, aud the emotions of the heart which a mem ber of on# sex excites towards the other are the best and noblest of which the soul is capable. The person, therefore, whether male or female, who trespasses with a rude tread upon such holy ground, who tears open the portals which conceal the most sacred feelings from the gaze of the world only to close them again, hopelessly inflicts a deep and irreparable-injury, an injury for which, were it possible, he or she should be held directly liable, and made personally responsible. Soouer or later retribution will come, aud when it does, it will come with terrible force, either in the same man ner, or in the cold contempt of honest peo ple, or else in that utter callousness and hardness of heart which is the sure result of continued trifling.— Saturday Night. FIIRITTTOF *YOUTH. Over the beauty of the plum and apricot there grows a bloom and beauty more ex - nuisite than the fruit itself—the soft delicate flush that overspreads its blushing cheek. Now if you strike your hand over that, and it is once gone, it is gone forever, for it never grows but once. The flower that hangs in the morning, inijtearled with dew —arrayed as no queenly woman ever was arrayed with jewels—once shake ij, so that the beads roll off, and you may sprinkle water as you please yet it can never be made again what it was when the dew fell silently upon it. from heav en! On a frosty morning you may see the panes of glass, covered with landscapes— mountains, lakes and trees blended in a beautiful, fantastic picture. Now, lay your hand upon the glass, and by the scratch of your finger or by the warmth <>f the palm, all the delicate tracery is obliterated. So there is in youth a beanty and purity of character, which, when once touched and defiled can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frostwork, ana which, when torn and broken, will never here-embroider ed. A man who has spotted and soiled his garments in youni, though he may seek to make them white again, can never wholly do it, even were he to wash them with his i tears. When a young man leaves his father's j house with the blessing of his mother's tear.- still wet upon his forehead, if he once loses that early purity of character, it is a sign that he can never make whole again. Such is the consequence of crime. Its effects ; cannot be eradicated; it can only be forgiven, TIIE THREE WISHES. - There was once a wise emperor who made a law that to every stranger who came to his court a friedfish should be served. The ser vants were directed to take notice if, when the stranger had eaten the tish to the bone on one side, if he turned it over and began on the other side. If he did, he was to be immediately seized, and on the third day thereafter he was to be put to death. But by a great stretch of imperial clemency, the culprit was permitted to utter one wish each day, which the emperor pledged himself to grant, provided it was not to spare his life. Many had already perished in consequence of this edict, when, one day, a count and his young son presented themselves at court. Tho fish was served as usual, and when the count had removed all the flesh from one side, he turned it over, and was about to commence on the other, when he was sud denly seized and thrown into prison and Was told of his approaching dooui. Sorrow stri ken, the count's young son besought the em peror to allow him to die in tho room of his lather: a favor which the monarch was pleas ed to accord him. The count was accor dingly released from prison and his son was thrown into his cell in his stead. As soon as this had been done, the young man said to his gaolers—"You know [ have the right to make three demands before I die; go and tell the emperor to send me his daughter and a priest to many us."' The first de mand was not much to the emperor's taste; nevertheless ho felt bound to keep his word, and he therefore complied with the request to which the princess had no kind of objec tion. This occurred in times when kings kept their treasures in a cave, or in a tower sot apart for the purpose, and on the second day of his imprisonment the young man de manded the kind's treasurers. If his first demand was a bold one, the second was not less so, still an emperor's word is sacred, and having made the promise he was forced to keep it; and the treasures of gold and silver arid jewels were placed at the prisoner's dis posal. On getting possession of them he distributed them profusely among thecour tiei s. and soon he made a host of friends by his liberality. The emperor began now to feel exceedingly uncomfortable. Unable to sleep, he rose early on the.third morning, and went, with fear in his heart, to the prison to hear what the third wish was to be. "Now," said he to the prisoner, "tell me what your third demand is, that it may be granted at once, and you may be hung out of hand,- for I am tired of your demands." "Sire," answered his prisoner, "I have but one more favor to request of your ma jesty, which when you have granted. I shall die' content. It is merely that you will cause the eyes of those who saw my father turn the fish over to he put out." "Very good," replied the emperor, "your ! demand is but natural and springs from a | good heart. Let the ehambcrlin be seized." ! he continued, turning to his guards. "I, sire?" cried the chamberlain: I did not see anything—it was the steward. "Let the steward be seized, then," said 'he king. Out tho Uowawl prnfAftt/ttl wifh tftara in his eyes that he had not witnessed anything of what had been reported, and said it was the butler. The butler declared that he had seen nothing of the matter, and that it must have been one of the valets. But they protested that they were utterly ignorant of what had been charged again.-tthe count; in short it turned out that nobody could be found who had seen the count couipiit the offence, upon which the princess said: "I appeal to you my father, as to another Solo mon. If nobody saw the offence committed the count cannot be guilty, and my husband is innocent. The emperor frowned, and forthwith the courtiers began to murmur, and then he smiled, and immediately their visages be came radiant. "Let it be so," said hismajesty. "Let him live, though I have put many to death for a lighter offense than his. But it he is not hung, he is married. Justice has been done. _ THE CALIFORNIA. EARTHQUAKE. llev. Horatio Stebbins, of San Francisco, writes thus to the Springfield Republican regarding the late great earthquake :_ It was twelve o'clock end forty minutes. In the Unitarian church the congregation were rtanding in the singing of the last hymn. It was that sublime line of victory and power, "Rise, imperial Salem, rise." The choristers had come to the last verse : "The seas shall waste, the skies to smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, aDd mountains melt away." The organ caught up the mighty theme j and swept through the heavens with exul tant power. At the very instant the build ing trembled and a flash of consternation went through the audience ; the choral song seemed buffeted by the sea and lost for a moment in the multitudinous waters; but it rose again and caught the victorious strain, when another vibration racked the edifice I from its foundation stone to its topmost : timbers ; the voice of the choir sank as ■ some spent swimmer in a midnight sea. • The building was falling ! The roof crack |cd ! Bricks and mortar grated and ground! i The prophecy of the stones in that other temple was about to be literally fulfilled in this; and upon whomsoever this stone should fall, should be ground to powder!—■ The great pipe of the organ fell from its place ! The plaster finish cleaved from the ceiling 1 The building twisted and sprung as a long gaunt steamer bends under the stroke ol' her eugines ! It was a moment ! of uuspeakalle agony, but it was all over ! Men who had gone with their hymn-books came, back after their hats, and the audience lingered awhile to give mutual expressions ofemotion fear and gratitude. In the even ing we came back again, and sung through the unfinished hymn (a never to be forgot ; ten song,} offered prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God, ana went to our homes. OCCUPATION. —Occupation! what a glori ous thing it is for a human heart. Those who work hard seldom yield themselves en- I tirely up to fancied or real sorrow. When j grief sits down, folds its hands, and lnouvn- I fully feeds upon its own tears, weaving the j dim shadows that a little exertion might sweep away iut o a funeral pall, the strong spirit is shorn of its might, and sorrow be comes our master. When troubles flow upon you, dark and heavy, toil not with the waves —wrestle not with tho torrent —rather sock by occupation to divert the dark waters that threaten to overwhelm you into a thou sand channels which the duties of life always present. Before you dream of it, those wa ters will fertilize the present, and give birth ! to fresh flowers that they may brighten the j future —flowers that will become pure and holy, in the sunshine which penetrates to the path of duty. Grief, after all, is but a selfish feeling uu i luo.st elfish is he who yields himself to the indulgence of any pas sion thai: brings no joy to his fellow men. MiSE&y lov s company, and sc does a U>rriagablo ygarig lady. VOLUME 39: SO 2>. TIIE SCHOOL TAX. The slaveholder's rebellion would never have been inaugurated, had the people of the South for the past thirty years, believed in the payment of a liberal school tax; and it would never have been crushed, had the people of the North and West during the same period, refused the payment of said tax for the education of the masses. Had a good common school system been adopted throughout the southern States thirty years ago, the nation would not to-day stagger under her heavy debt of three billions. No intelligent citizen can longer deny that the school tax is the best tax, the most re munerative as well as the most important, that he is called upon to pay. Far better than an investment in five-twenties, excel lent as that may be, is the payment of a generous school tax. For many years our leading educators and other close and intel ligent observers have in some degree appre ciated the great blessings which this partic ular tax was conferring upon us as a nation. But not even these men could know the full value of the investment which we of the North had been making from year to year, until the hour of sore trial came, and our nation was plunged into a protracted civil war. Other and heavier taxes we have paid to meet current demands upon the public treasury, but this tax has proven the seed corn which has multiplied itself ten thou sand fold, for it was the abiding influence of the Common School that saved the nation. And in preserving our nationality, who will pretend to estimate the blessings it has con ferred, not only upon ourselves as a people, but upon the human race the wide world over! When, therefore, we have found this in vestment to pay so handsome a dividend, what better policy can we adopt than to in crease our annual installments? It is the part of wisdom to raap the full benefits which this tax is abie to confer. Towards this rational view of the matter, popular sentiment is steadily "marching on." Pa rents see more clearly than ever before that it is better, far better, to expend a part of their means upon the education of thcir chil dren than to give them a few additional acres or bequeath them a few hundred dol lars more in their wills. They have learned that property may be lost, that wealth may take to itself wings, oftentimes leaving the bankiupt wretchedly poor and utterly hope less, but that a good education, backed by a reasonably good degree of energy, in a cash capital which can neither be lost nor stolen. And since the public schools are open to all, this large class of patrons is desirous that they shall be rendered as efficient as any other schools made prominent by private enterprise. The tiiue was—nor is the period very re mote —when the "blind public' grumbled at the payment of a tax much lower than is now paid willingly—in many eases gladly. I The beggarly pittance paid the teacher but a few vears ago, has been increasing until in some localities it fairly deserves the name of salary. Salaries double and treble those formerly paid, are now advertised in many directions, and the profession of teaching is taking a more digmneu niuK. nuw themselves are better qualified, and the pub lic is growing into a better appreciation of the true character of their labors. But the school tax in most parts of the country, is still far below what the import ance of this interest demands, and whatever other taxes may go lower, because of a de crease in the national debt or a. reduction of the national expenditure, this must continue to go higher, in order that we may build better school houses, furnish them with bet ter appliances of teaching, secure the servi ces of a more devoted ana qualified class of instructors, and carry our common school system, of noble capacity and richest prom ise, to a far higher degree of efficiency.— Lane-aster Ev. Exvress. LUTHER'S FAITH. It is faith which gave Luther this clear ness of vision : "I have lately seen two miracles," he says : "the first, as I was looking out of my window and saw the stars in heaven an d all that beautiful vaulted roof of God. and yet saw no pillars on which the Master Builder had fixed this vault; yet the heav ens fell not, but all that grand arch stood firm. Now there are some who search for such pillars and want to touch and grasp them, and since they cannot, wonder and tremble as if the heaven must certainly fall, for no other reason but because they cannot touch and grasp the pillars. If they could lay hold on those, think they, then the heavens would stand firm ! "The second miracle was' this : 1 saw great clouds rolling over us, with such a ponderous weight that they might be com pared to a great ocean, and yet I saw no ibnndation on which they rested or were based,.nor any shore which kept them back; yet they fell not on us, but frowned on us with a stern countenance and fled. But when they passed bv, then shone forth both the foundation and" our roof which had kept them back—the rainbow ! Yet that was indeed a weak, thin, slight foundation and roof, which soon melted away into the clouds and was more like a shadowy prism, sucli as we see through colored glass than a strong and firm foundation : so that we might well distrust that feeble dyke which kept kack that terrible weight of wa ters, and that it guards us safely. But there are some who look rather at the thick ness and massy weight of water, and clouds than at this thin narrow bow of promise. They would like to feel the strength of that thin shadowy, evanescent arch, and because they eannotao this they are ever fearing that the cloud will bring back the deluge.— Sclionbury Gotta Family. ITS A PITY TO THROW AWAY THAT SHIL LLY