ihe j|aqaim IS PUBLISHED F-VERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY J. R. 01RBORROW AM> JOHN LCTZ, OK II'LjiANA St., oppn.-iitrthe .Ivngel House BEI>FOKJD* PENN'A. TERMS: SS.OO a year if paid strictly in advance. !f not paid within six months $2.30. If not paid within the year 53.00. grofoggigaai & gust UM €ar.fls. A TTOMEYS AT LAW. B. F. MEYERS J. W. DiCKKRSON. MEYERS JT DICKERSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PESS'A., Office same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P. Schell, t ro doers east of the Gazette office, will practice in the Feveral Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. May 11, '66 —lyr. J OHN T. KEAGY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PF.SN'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 ami pensions to soldiers, their wid ows or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph office. aprll:'66-ly. JB. CESSNA, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with Jony CESSNA, on Julianna street, in the office formerly occupied by King A Jordan, and recently by filler A Kcagy. All business entrusted to hia care will receive faithful and prompt attcn'jou. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily e jUeetcd. Bcdfo-fl, J uno 0,1865. J' AL'V. K. F. KERR SHARPB A KERR, ' A TTOIINE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their • care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed A Schell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf | OH X PAI.MER. Attorney at Law, Bedford, Pa,. Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Office on Julianna st.. nearly o]posite the Mengei House.) junc23, '65-ly J. R. DI"RBORROW JOHN LUTZ. DUR BORROW A LUTZ. v? TTOKJYE Y'S .1T JMTW, BF.BFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. They arc, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the •Mengf.l House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer ( ,flu-c. April 28, 1865:t TTTSPY M.ALSII', JIJ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street. 2 doors south of the Mengei House. apl l, 1864.—tf. M A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq.. on Juliana street, two doors South of the "Mcngle House," Dec. 9, 1864-tf. KIMMELI. AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mengei House. •\prl, 1864—tf. TORN MOWER, O ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. April 1,1864.—tf. DEXTISTS. C. !. niCKOK J. G. MINSICIT, JR. DENTISTS, BEDFORD, PA. Office in the Bank Building, Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or Me chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per formed and warranted., TERMS CASH. jan6'6s-ly. DENTISTRY. I. N. BOWSER, RESIDENT DF,NTIST, WOOD BKRRY, Pa., visits Bloody Run three days of each month, commencing with the second Tuesday of the month. Prepared to perform all Dental oper ations with which he may be favored. Terms Irithin the rea.rh of all and strictly cash except by special contract. Work to be sent by mail oroth wise, must be paid for when impressions are taken. itngS, "64:tf. PIIISICIMS. \\TM. W. JAMISON, M. D., YY BLOODY RPS, PA., Respectfully tenders bis professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [dccß:lyr UK. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders bis 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—tf. JL. MARBOURG, M. T>., . Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofessional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864,—tf. BAITKfm G. w. urrr o. HHANNOS F. BENEDICT RLPP, SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, I ; BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. COLLECTIONS made for the East, West, North and S< uth, and the general business of Exchange, transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. apr.15,'64-tf. .lEM KLKR, Ac. ABSALOM GARLICK, Clot k At Watchmaker and Jeweller, ! BLOODY RCR, PA. Cl-cks, Watches, Jewe'ry, Ac., promptly re paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted to give satisfaction. lie also keeps on hand and for sale WATCH ES, CLOCKS, and JE WELR Y. pi;- Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. mj4 JOHN REIMUND, rJ CLOCK ANI) WATCH MAKEIt, in the United States Tclepraph Office, BEDFORD, PA. Clocks, watches, and all kinds of jewelry promptly repaired. All work entrusted to his care warranted to give eittiro satisfaction. [nov3-lyr DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED FORD HOTEL, BEDFORD, PA. TCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES, AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Batches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand, apr. 28, 1865—zz. BEDFORD HOUSE, AT HOPEWELL, BEDFORD CorjivY, PA., BY HARRY DROLLINGER. Every attention given to make guests comfortable, who stop at this llousc. Hopewell, July 29, 1864. DCBBORROW & LVTZ Editors and Proprietors. Ifoftni. GETTYSBURG JULY 1803. 0 pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of onr holy cause Fell Dagon down— Dagon foredoomed, who, armed and targed, Never his impious heart enlarged Beyond that hour; God walled h ; s power, And there the last invader charged. He charged, and in that charge condensed His all of hate and all of fire : He sought to blast ns in bis scorn, And wither us in bis ire. Before him went the shriek of shells— Aerial screaming, taunts, and yells ; Then the three waves in flashed advance Surged, but were met, and back they set: Pride was repelled by sterner pride, And Right is a strong-hold yet. Before our lines it seemed a beach Which wild September gales have strown With havoc on wreck, and dashed therewith Pale crews unknown — Men, arms, and steeds. The evening sun Died on the face of each lifeless one, And died along the winding marge of fight And searching-parties lone. Sloped on the hill the mounds were green, Our centre held that place of graves, And some still hold it in their swoon, And over these a glory waves. The warrior-monument, crashed in fight, Shall soar transfigured in loftier light, A meaning ampler bear ; Soldier and priest with hymn and prayer Have laid the stone, and every bone Shall rest in honor there. THE STORY OF A DAY. A soldier slept, as the morning unrolled O'er the white tents pitch'd on the pleas ant plains ; The bayonets gleam was the gleam of gold, Where sunlight poured on the height and the world, And the fields of yellow grain. Then the soldier arose, when his rest was done And he merrily sang in his joyous glee : He sharpened his sword and he brightened his gun, And he smiled as he thought of the laurels won, That yet on his brow would be, The couriers rode when the noontide came, Aud told of giim lines advancing fast ; So the camp was filled with a wild acclaim, And the soldier's heart was kindled with flame, And the hurrying squadron passed. But the glen full soon was the place of blood, With the nissing of shot and the clang of steel; And men lay dabbled and stained in the wood Tho ! the soldier's comrades in valor stood, Till they made the foemen reel. When the night came down the horses were strewn And the soft dews fell on the face of the dead ; But the soldier's song had changed to a moan As faint and pale, where the sad moon shone, He lay with his bleeding head. 'Tis morning again on the tents and the spears But the soldier's voice is forever still ; Thero's a form that's missed from the cava lierß, There's a sweet face blurred with bitter tears — There's a nameless grave on the hill. gfoUtol no READ I READ!! READ!!! A Copperhead Surrender ! The following acknowledgement of the triumphant vindication of the Union Party on the Reconstruction question, by the pas sage of the late amendment, and the Httcr hopelessness of the cause of the Copperhead- Johnson hybrid, is from the New \ ork Her ald of June 12th : THE RECOKBTKCCTIOS ADJUSTMENT —OUR FOR EIGN POLICY THE CARD FOR PRESIDENT JOHNSON. The proposed amendment of the federal constitution, providing for the reconstruction and restoration ot the lately rebellious States, will doubtless pass the House of Representa tives in the form adopted by the Senate. In this form, therefore, it will be submitted to the States for their ratifications. It hether it will succeed or fail in securing the required endorsements of three-fourths of all the States or even of the States represented in Congress, is a question which will remain for the legis latures of the several States to determine. With the transfer of the whole subject to the States, however, Congress and the adminis .{ration, at least for the remainder of this year will be releived of their reconstruction labors. This Congressional proposition for the amendment of the constitution, meantime, as modified by the Senate, is an ingeniously contrived party platform for the coming fall elections. It proposes to marfte it part of the supreme law of the land that whiles and blacks born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the Union and of the State in which they may reside, and shall have equality under the law; that represen tation in Congress shall be regulated by the restrictions of the several States in the mat ter of voting; that a large schedule of men, who, as former officials under the govern ment of the United States, have_ been guilty of violating their oaths by joining in rebellion, shall hereafter be excluded from all federal offices, unless absolved by a vote of each house of Congress; that the national debt and the bounties and pensions ot Union soldiers shall be held sacred and that all reb el debts and all claims for losses of slaves by the late war shall be utterly repudiated. It is further proposed in a supplemental bill that the now excluded States respectively, on accepting aud ratifying the condition laid down, shall not only be readmitted into Con gress, but shall have a credit of ten years in reference to their quota of the national debt. This is, we say, a strong platform upon which to go before the people of the Nor thern States. There is nothing here obnox ious to public opinion in the way of suffrage, while the alternative suggested will be satisfactory to the vindictive penalties here against rebels and traitors, but conditional exclusions, which cannot be resisted successfully before the people who put down the rebellion. lue A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. same may be said of the propositions touch ing the national debt, the debts of the rebel lion and the four millions of liberated South ern Slaves. Upon this platform the republi can party adhering to this Congress can car ry our approaching Northern State elections as they did last year, if there be no other sharply defined issue brought in season be fore the people. The republican supporters of president Johnson, as against Congress, can make no fight against this platform, for it is the President's own policy. It is a com promise platform, against which Johnson re publicans cannot even quarrel with the radi cals before the people, akhough the hatred of the radicals against Johnson may contin ue as intense as on the eve of the late Con necticut election. The President's reconstruction policy thus being appropriated by the radicals as their own thunder, what is he to do ? How is he to escape the inglorious fizzling out of Tyler and Fillmore, those accidental men who stand in history as instructive monuments of the folly of ambition without sagacity or pluck ? After the above frank acknowledgment it proceeds to lay down the following pro gramme for involving the country in a For eign war for the purpose of redeeming the character of the President and resuscitating the defunct carcass of copperheadism. President Johnson may tully retrieve him self in a bold stroke in his foreign policy for a new and popular issue. Let him advise Mr. Seward, as President Lincoln advised Mont ?omery Blair, that his time has come ; and et the other members of the present Cabinet be given a gentle hint to the same purpose ; ana then give us a new Cabinet adopted to the new dispensation. Senator Fessenden, in reducing the crude and impracticable re construction scheme of Thaddeus Stevens to a practical shape, and, in his masterly report on the subject, has shown that he is a prac tical statesman and near enough in principle to the administration to be advanced to the State Department. Let him, then, be so ap pointed. In the next place, in consideration of his public services, let Mr. Seward be sent to take the place of Mr. Adams as our Min ister to England, and with the alternative to that government of the payment of the indemnities due for the spoliations ofAn glo-rebel cruisers upon our commerce or his immediate return home. This will bring the money or make a popular issue. Assuming that England will refuse payment, all that the President will have to do to raise for his administration a powerful party, will be tu submit the facts to Congress, with a recom mendation for the seizure of the Canadas in the way of reprisals. By this course ofaction President Johns on instead of fizzling out like Tyler and Fill more, may rise in the support of the people to the towering altitude of Old Hickory. Great men rise from the seizure of great op portunities, and here is oue for President Johnson, upon which, if boldly seized, in the midst of all the stirring events aud excite ments of the day, he may ride the popular whirlwind and direct the storm. A settle ment with England of this character would not only rally the three hundred thousand American Fenians in support of the Presi dent, but the great body of our native born citizens of all parties. What is President Johnson's policy in regard to th%se Anglo rebel spoliations ? The country would like to know. DESERTER'S DISFRANCHISED. Together with the 21st section of an act passed by Congress wc publish a bill dis franchising deserters in the State of Penn sylvania. This law was passed by the last Legislature and a short time since signed by Gov. Curtin, and is now a law. SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the other lawful penalties of the crime of desertion from the military or naval service, all persons who have deserted the military or naval service of the United States, who shall not return to said service, or report themselves to a provost marshal within sixty days after the proclamation hereinafter mentioned, shall he deemed and taken to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited their rights to become citizens; and such deserters snail be forever incapable of holdiug any office of trust or profit under the United States, or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof; and all persons who shall hereafter deuert the military or naval ser vice, and all persons who, being duly enroll ed, shall depart the jurisdiction of the dis trict in which he is enrolled, or go beyond the limits of the United States, with intent to avoid any draft into the military or naval service, duly ordered, shall be liable to the penalties of this section. And the President is hereby authorized and required forthwith on the passage of this act, to issue his proc lamation setting forth the provisions of this section, in which proclamation the President is requested to notify all deserters returning within sixty days as aforesaid that they shall be j ardoned on condition of returning to their regiments and companies or to such other organizations as they may be assigned to, until they shall have served for a period of time equal to their original term of en listment. The act signed by the Governor reads as follows : SECTION 1, Be it enacted, etc.. That in all elections hereafter to be held in this Com monwealth, it shall be unlawful for the judge or inspectors of any such election to receive any ballot or ballots, from any person or persons embraced in the provisions and sub ject to the disability imposed by said act of Congress, approved March third, one thou sand eight hundred and sixty-five, and it shall be unlawful for any such person to offer to vote any ballot or ballots. SEC. 2. That if any such judge and in spectors of election, or any oDe of them, snail receive, or censent to receive, any such unlawful ballot or ballots from any such dis qualified person, he or they so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, he shall, for each offense, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment in the jail of the proper county for not less than sixty days. SEC. 3. That if any person deprived of citizenship, and disqualified as aforesaid, shall, fit any election hereafter to be held in this Commonwealth, vote or tender to the officers thereof, and effer to vote, a ballot or ballots, any person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on con viction thereof, in any court of quarter ses sions of this Commonwealth, shall, for each offense, be punished in like manner as is provided in the proceeding section of this act in the case of officers ofeicction receiving such unlawful ballot or ballots. SEC. 4. That if any person shall hereafter persuade or advise any person or persons, deprived of citizenship and disqualified as aforesaid, to offer any ballot or ballots to tli i officers of any election hereafter to be held in this Commonwealth, or shall persuade or advise any such officer to receive any ballot or ballots from any person deprived of oiti zenship, such person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic tion thereof in any court of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, shall be punished in like manner as is provided in the section of ibis act, in the ease of officers of BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY, JUNE 37, .1866. such election receiving such unlawful ballot or ballots. SEC.*S. That it shall be the duty of the Adjutant General of this Commonwealth to procure, from the proper officers of the Uni ted States, certified copies of all rolls anu records, containing official evidence of the act of the desertion of a'l persons who were citizens of this Commonwealth, and who were deprived of citizenship, and disouali fied by the said act of Congress of March third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, and to cause to be recorded and pre served, in books to be provided and kept for that purpose, in his office, fuil and complete exemplifications of such rolls and records, and to cause true copies to be made thereof, and furnished to the clerks of the several courts of quarter sessions of this Common wealth, accurate duplicates or exemplifica tions of such roii records, embracing the names of all such disqualified persons as had their residence within the limits of said counties respectively, at the time of their being marked or designated as deserters ; and it shall be the duty of the clerks of the several courts of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth to presepve in books to be kept for the purpose, all such copies and ex emplifications of such rolls aud records so furnished, and to allow access thereto, and furnish certified copies thercfeem. on request in like manner as in the case of other records of such courts. SEC. G. That a certified copy or extract of any such record, from the clerk of a coutt of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, shall be prima facie evidence, before any election board, of the fact of desertion and consequent disability and disqualification as an elector: Prodded, That if any person shall wilfully use or present any false, fraud ulent or forged paper, purporting to be a certified copy or extract as aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and. on conviction thereof, shall be punished in like manner as is now provided in the second set tion of this act: And provided, however, That if, by the production of a certificate of his honorable discharge, it shall appear that such person, so offering to vote, was in the military service of the Uni ted States before and at the time of his be ing drafted into such service, and thereupon failing to report, or in case of the fact of desertion appearing, by certified copy ol his company roll, if it shall appear that he was afterwards acquitted thereof and honorably discharged, such proof shall be received as evidence to disprove his said disqualifica tion ; And provided further, That if an;-* person liable to be objected to as disqualified as aforesaid shall produce, before any board of election officers, any false or fraudulent paper purporting or pretended to be his honorable discharge from the United States service, he shall be deemed guilty of a forge ry, and on conviction thereof, shalLbe pun ished as persons are now by law punishable for forgery. SEC. 7. That it shall bo the duty of the judges and inspectors of elections hereafter to be held in this Commonwealth, whenever the name of any person offering to them a ballot or ballots -.hall be found upon a certi fied copy, or extiact, furnished from said rolls, or records, by a clerk of a court of quarter sessions marked as a deserter, or whenever any person shall be objected to as disqualified, as aforesaid, at any election, by any qualified voter, at the request or sugges tion of such person, so offering a ballot, to examine such person, on oath or affirmation as to the fact appearing from such certificate or alleged against him by the elector so ob jecting, and if he deny it, as to his reasons therefor: Provided, however, That if any of his answers under such examination are false, such person shall be deemed guilty of the crime of perjury, and upon conviction thereof he shall be punished, as persons are now punishable by law. for perjury. SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of the sheriffs in the several counties of this Com monwealth. to insert in their proclamations of elections hereafter to be held, the first four setions of this act, with the preamble thereof; and upon conviction of any viola tion of the requirement of this section, any sheriff shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor in offiee, and shall be punished in like manner as the offenses prohibited by the second, third and fourth sections of this act are punishable. SEC. ( J. That in the trial of all cases aris ing under this act, it shall lie the duty of the courts trying the same to inquire into and determine any question of fact, as to alleged desertion involved therein, upon proofs fur nished by exemplifications or extracts from such rolls and records, duly certified by the proper clerk of a court of quarter sessions, which are hereby made evidence thereof, and also from such proofs by parol as may be given in evidence by either party : Provi ded, That the provisions of this act, so far as applicable, shall apply to persons who voluntarily or without any kind of duress or constraint enlisted in the rebel service. PfewUajwauis. EASTERN ORIGIN OF MODERN UTILITITIES. The following extract from Draper's last work, "Uivil Policy in America," shows the Eastern origin of much that is useful and admirable.* —In the times of which history lias failed to preserve any account, that con tinent (Asia) must have been the scene of prodigious activity. In it were first devel oped those fundamental inventions and dis coveries which really lie at the basis of the progress of the human race—the subjuga tion of domestic animals, the management ol fire, the expression of thought by wri ting. We are apt to overlook bow much man must have done; how much he must have added to his power in pre historic times. Wc forget how many contribution i to our comforts arc of Oriental origin. Their commonness hides them from our view. If the European wishes to know how' much he owes to the Asiatic, he has only to cast a glance at one hour of his daily life. T':e clock which summons him from bod in the morning, was the invention of the East, as were also clepsy-dias and sun dial-. The prayer for his daily bread, that he has said from infancy, first rose from thq side of the Syrian mountain. The linens and cottons with which he clothes himself, though they may lie very fine, are inferior to those that have been made, from time immemorial, in the looms of India. The silk was stolen by some missionaries, for his benefit, from China. He could buy better steel than that with which he shaves himself, in the city of Damascus, where it was first invented. Th. coffee he expects for breakfast was first grown by the Arabians, and the natives of upper India prepared the sugar with which lie sweetens it. A schoolboy can tell the meaning of the Sanscrit words, "sacchara eanada. ' If his tastes are light and he prefers tea, the virtues of that ex cellent leaf were first pointed out by the industrious Chinese. They also taught him liow to make and use the cup and saucer in which to serve it. His breakfast tray was lacquered in Japan. There is a tradition that leavened bread was first made of the waters of the Ganges. The egg he is breaking was laid by a fowl whose ancestors were first, domesticated by I the Malaccans, unless she may have been— I though that wi'l not alter the ease—a mod- j em Sharghai. If there are preserves and j fruits in his board, let him remember with j thankfulness that Persia gave him the eher-1 ry, the peach and the plum. If in any of I these pleasant preparations he detects the j flavor of alcohol, let it remind him that that substance was first distilled by the Ara- j bians, who have set him the praiseworthy : example, which it will be bis benefit to fol i low, of abstaining from its use, When he talks about coffee and alcohol, he is using Arabic words. A thousand years-before it liad occurred to him to enact laws of restric tion in the use of intoxicating drinks, the Prophet of Mecca did the same thing, and, what is more to the purpose. ha> com pelled to this day all Asia and Africa to obey them. SOMETHING ABOUT WOMAN'S WORK. The popular notion of what woman's work consists in, has been variously deter mined in different ages, nations, and cli mates. The women of Virgil's tiuiq were expected to be expert with the distaff. The wife of the English tradesmen of to-day must be competent to make a good rabbit pie and plum-pudding. The dark-skinned, meek-eyed maid who attracts the attention ot a Congo Ccclebs wi'l augment the size of her worthy sire's corral by half a dozen cat tle and as many swine—the price of her own dusky self—if she have a good strong backbone and can handle a bush knife nim bly. And this Hottentot estimate of Afri can female character has been zealously adopted by many of our own countrymen, who, in the practical development of their theories, have reflected great credit on their instructors. The enlightened nations have universally taken an artistic, rather than a philosophic al view of women's work. Their social sys •tcms demand that she should possess beau ty and wit, should be at ease and entertain ing, and society's aesthetic requirements are met. The domestic circle claims far mote, and woman feels that its authority is the most imperative and genuine—that it calls her to the exercise of positive feminine sci ence and philosophy. Always, when she had liberty, the true woman has found and filled her vocation. Agitation and ventila tion are undoubtedly goocWprinciples in pol ities as well as physics. Increase of health and progress are their results;, even the agitation of the doctrine of "Woman's Rights" does not seem an exception to the rule. Rut its advocates have met with lit tle real sympathy from the cultivated and refined, or indeed from any intelligent com munities. They have justly been regarded fanatics. Tlieir aim is to place woman on a political and social, and henee, equality with man. They would drag her, Cassandra like from the home altar, from her divinely appointed work, and under the plea of giv ing her certain invaluable rights would bring her into ridicule and disgrace. Look at the victims of this poor delusion, they are called strong-minded—a most palpable misnomer. Their weakness is only too visible in their attempts to copy the habifiaments of the sterner sex. Female swaggering is like profanity from the mouth of a suckling. The lamb cannot with propriety be called a stately beast, nor the duck a bird of majes tic and imperial bearing, nor can this mim icry of man —this second-hand assurance — bear evidence to any thing but unwomanly feebleness of spirit and silly wildness of brain. If woman's "'rights" consists in her being placed on a mental and political level with men, where from the very necessities of her flature she cannot stand and retain her feminine character, then forever be she wronged! If her "wrongs" consists inher social ina bility to harangue multitudes, to deposit ballots, to acquire by masculine associations habits of thought and masculine modes of action, then for the sake of the most pre cious interests ofhutnanity, may her wrongs never be righted. Every woman who makes the attempt discovers by womanly intuition what her work is. Misdons are for those who can write poetry, can use great sounding words, and can teach nations and congregations ; but woman's work is for those simpler but purer souls, who have moral and spiritual ability to spend themselves for the objects of their love. The spirit of devotion is the one with which all true woman sing the sweet unwritten anthem of a life melodious with good, earnest, loving deeds. — Horns at Home. THE LITERARY "SETTS" OF BOSTON. "There are grades in literary society, as in fashionable, some two or three in num ber. The highest is obtained only by a few —those who have won world wide reputa tion as writers, and there are at least a half dozen of those among us. Such men as George Ticknor, Robert G. Wiuthrop, whose literary labors have not been equal, however, to his abilities or his culture and two or three others, make up this upper cir cle. Then comes the ' Atlantic clique,' and it is called, of which James T. Fields, the publisher is the central figure. It embraces Dr. Holmes, Emerson (it the latter maybe j .-aid to be linked with any clique or faction, -o independent aud self poised is he), Long fellow —to a certain extent, for he more properly belongs to the upper circle ; D. A. Was.-on, Theodore Parker's successor; Gail Hamilton, J. T. Trowbridge, and a few others. These people constitute the staff of „the 7 he Atlantic, hardly a number of that periodical appearing that docs not contain an article from one or more of them. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, between whom and the Fields party there is a deadly feud, arising from the fact that Mrs. Field's Ode to the Great Organ was accepted instead of Mrs. Howe's leids another but small, faction. James Russell Lowell stands alone, and is not claimed by any party as a member. He is a mau of eccentric habits, and writes but little now a days. Nominally one of ; the editors of The North American Review, \ lie writes very little for it —the bulk of the labor being done by his associate, Charles i Kiiot Norton. Fields, the publisher, is a remarkable man. He entered the book store of W. D. Ticknor k Co. nearly thirty years, a poor boy, and got his education from his surroundings in the business. Now he is esteemed oue of the best read men in English literature in the world. His fine taste and aood judgment have given the house of Ticknor & Field their present high reputation as publishers of books of high character. His wife is a daughter of] the Rev. Dr. Nehemiah Adams, pastor of the Essex street (Orthodox) church—who went South some years ago, and coming back wrote a book called the 'South Side View of slavery'—a rose colored picture of South- I ern society. Another of his daughters is a VOLUME 39: NO 26. painter, uow at Route, whence she has just sent home several pictures of the most exageratea pre-Rapheiitc style. Below the 'Atlantic clique' are several others which it would take too much space to speak of par ticularly—embracing men and women who have just failed of getting a hearing in The Atlantic, and who occasionally vent their spite upon that magazine and its writers in Ike Commonwealth and other papers. An inside view of Boston literary society would present some very interesting features." HOW NAPOLEON BECAME PRESI DENT. There is no character iu modern or ancient history more curious than that of the pres ent Emperor of the French. Just now when lris_ relations with Mexico bring him so prominently to our notice, it may be of inters st to gl. nee at some of the earlier events of his career. Prince Louis Napoleon, as he used to be called—the son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and Hortense, the daughter of the Empress Josephine —bad always been a schemer. He had ihdulged from his boy hood in dreams of empire. Being according to statute, the heir of his uncle the first great Napoleon he was driven by the very exi gencies of his inheritance into contrivances to obtain the supreme power over France, which he without doubt persuaded himself was his right. Through loug, silent years he studied, until he became learned in juris prudeuce. He knew well how to veil his de signs by high sounding talk about freedom and honorand loyalty to the will ofthe many. Still for a long time be was not appreciated orconsidered a personage of much importance It was indeed, rather the fashion to laugh at him, and to regard him as harmless because of sheer want of capacity to do great things. His attempts to rouse the enthusiasm of the French people, in 1836, covered him still more with ridicule. He presented himself before the army wearing the clothes of the first Napoleen, and conscious that in point of hat, coat and boots he resembled perfectly the hero of AusterlitZ, he imagined himself secure of welcome from the troops. He was utterly quenched, however by a certain reso lute Colonel Talandier, and was shipped off to America by a good natured King of the French, Louis Phillippe. In 1840 he made another attempt, this time carrying with him a tainc eagle, which he had taught to perform some exploit that he had trusted the people would resolve as an omen. The eagle failed lamentably .in its programme: and again a firm, resolute officer forced his way to the theatre of action —a barrack yard—and disposed of thePrinee, his fifty armed followers, his flag, his eagle, and his counterfeit staff, with as much case as though he had been dealing with a band of strolling players. This time the would be Emperor was tried for treason, and sen tenced to oerpetual imprisonment in the for tress of Ham. from which he escaped, six years afterwards, in the garb of a workman, and wont to England. He took advantage of the revolution of IS4B, in which King Louis Philippe was de posed to return to France. "The third time wins," says the old proverb, and this third time he found more favor in the eyes of his countrymen. lie was chosen a deputy to the National Assembly. Lamartine, always opposed to the Bonaparte dynasty, endeavor ed to effect his banishment but was unsuc cessful: and after a .stormy debate, the Prince, at this time forty years old, was found to be the most popular candidate. — The election was conducted with perfect fair ness; the Prince became President, and per haps, as he had already made two attempts on the throne of France, he had some right to infer that the millions of citizens who elected him to the Presidency were willing to make use of him and his well known ambi tion as a means of restoring to France an imperial form of government. At any rate, he acted upon this inference and no more held himself bound to the support of the constitution by his oath of office than did Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee consider themselves bound to the United States by theirs. THE TRUE STANDARD OF DRESS. We are always excessive when we sacrifice the higher beauty to attain the lower one. A woman who will sacrifice domestic affec tion, conscience, self respect, honor, to love of dress, we all agree, loves dress too much. She losses the true and higher beauty of womanhood for the lower beauty of gems and flowers and colors. A girl who sacri fices to dress all her time, all her strength, all her money, to the neglect of the cultiva tion of her mind and heart and to the neg lect of the claims of others on her helpful ness, is sacrificing the higher to the lower beauty. Her fault is not the love of beauty but loving the wrong and inferior kind. In fine, girls, you may try yourselves by this standard. You love dress too much when you care more for your outward adorn ings than for your inward dispositions, when it afflicts you more to have torn your dress than to have lost your temper—when you are more troubled by an ill fitting gown than by a neglected duty—when you are less concerned at having made an unjust com ment. or spread a scandalous report, than at having worn a passet bonnet—when you are less troubled at the thought of being found at the last stc at feast without the wedding garment, than at being found at the party to-night in the fashion of last year. No Christian woman, as I view it ought to give such attention to her dress as to allow it to take up all of three very important things, viz.: ail her time, a. I } her strength. all her money. Whoever does this lives uot the Christian but the Pagan life—wor ships not at the Christian's altar of our liord Jesus, but at the shrine of the lower Venus ofCorinth and Rome. —[Mrs. Stowe. "EIGHT MORE AS TWELVE." A Dutchman in Pennsylvania leased his lands to an oil company in Pennsylvania last spriug, on condition of receiving one eighth of the oil procured. The well pro ved to be a pretty good one, and the Dutch farmer began to think that the oil men should give him a better chance, and ven tured to tell them so. They asked him what ho wanted. He said they ought to give him one twelfth. The agreement was finally made, with the understanding that the Dutchman was uot to tell any one. AH went smooth until the next division day came, when our friend was early on hand to see how much better he would be off under the new bargain. Eleven barrels were rolled to one side for the oil men, and one for hiiu. This did not suit him. "How's dish?" says he, "I tink I was to get more as before ; by jinks you make mistake." The mat ter was explained to him, that he formerly got one barrel out of every eight, but it was his own proposition to only take one of every twelve. This revelation took him aback. He scratched his head, looked cross, and reliev ed his feelings of self reproach by indig nantly remarking : "Vel dat is great, dish isb the first time as ever I knowed eight cash more as twelve. RATES OF ADVERTISING. AIJ advert.nemcnt? for less than 3 month* 10 cent? per line for each insertion. Special notices •, j one half additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding live lines, 10 cts. per line. AH legal noti "OS of everj- kind, and all Orphans" Court and other Judicial sale?, are required bylaw to be pub lisher! in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cent, per line. Ail Advertising due after first insertion A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 mouths. 6 months, lyear. One square $ 4.50 $ 6.00 fSTO.OO Two squares.... 6,tM) 9.00 16.00 Three squres 8.60 12.00 ; . 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 8000 THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS.—A <ig Bavarian Isrelite writing to the "Israelite Indeed." has a statement upon the process 'j of the restoration of the Jews to Palesline, which is worthv of note. He says: "The re-gathering of the Jews is now beginning to take place. Not only many single fami- £ lies emigrate to Palestine, but there have been formed a number of societies in almost every land on this continent, to prepare an emigration on a large scale, provided with all possible means, money, implements nd tools of all kind, to commence the cultiva tion of the long desolated land at cnee and with the utmost vigor. There are men of considerable wealth among them and not one without some means, enough at least to defray the expenses of the journey and to purchase a plot of ground. I ant happy to state that I ant 000 of the leading members of a society forming here in Bavaria, which numbers already over nine hundred heads of families, besides a number of young people who would not form an alliance with the other sex until settled in the Holy Land, unon the soil of their right ful heritage." He also adds: "The Hen tiles hereabouts, that is, the petty German Protestant kingdom and principalities, are , even more astir about Palestine than the i Jews." THE GREAT RULE OF CONDUCT.—The rule of conduct followed by Lord Erskine — a man of a sterling independence of princi ple and scupulous adherence to truth —arc worthy of being engraven on every young man's heart. ''lt was a first command and counsel of my earliest youth," he said "al ways to do what my conscience told me to do. my duty, and to leave the consequenc to God. I shall carry with me the memory, and I trust, the practice, of this parental lesson, to the grave. I have hitherto fol lowed it, and I have no reason to complain that my obedience to it has been a tempo ral sacrifice. I have found it on the con trary. the road to prosperity and wealth, and I shall point out the same path to my children for their pursuit. And there can be no doubt after all, that the only safe rule of conduct is to follow implicitly the guidance of an enlightened conscience. ANECDOTE OF THE WAR.—TWO boys be longing to Moorman's Lynchburg battery, having marked a good place near a farm house on the Peninsula stole out after dark to "flank a shoat" They lmd seen a large number go under a large out building, and while one was to creep in and drive out the "critters," the other was to stand at an opening on the opposite side with a club, to strike the first hog that came out. The long and short of the story is, that the far mer, not liking the near proximity of the i soldiers, had moved his pigs nearer to the house, and the crawler, not finding them i emerged on the other side, and was knock ed into a cocked hat by his comrade. He did not leave his bed for a month. HARD ON THE EPISCOPALIANS AND MR. SEWARD. The Independent tells the follow ing story: "By the way." said Mr. Lin coln to a gentleman in Washington, "to what religious denomination do yon belong?' "Well,' replied the gentleman, "if lam anything in particular, I am a Presbyteri an!" "O,' responded Mr. Lincoln, "I thought you were an Episcopalian." "Why;" asked the interested party ? "Be cause," said the President, "Mr. Seward is an Episcopalian, and I have heard you swear as superbly as he does!" A HASTY STEP. —An old sea captain, who was in the habit of spending his time while in port among a set ofhard drinking fellows returned to his hotel one evening in a par tially intoxicated condition. In going up to his room, he walked out of the window, in the second story, and landed upon the pave ment. Fortunately he was not injured by the descent, and, upon going back into the house, met the landlord. "Look here, Mr. ," said he, ,'if you don't shorten the steps in your stairs, I won't stop with you any more." "SIR," said a little blustering man to a religious opponent, "to what sect do you suppose I belong?" 'Well, I don't exactly know,' replied his opponent; "but, to judge from your size, ap pearance, and constant buzzing, I should think you belong to the elas3 generally called insect." SAMBO was hacking away at a tough oak, when lightning struck a tree near by him, aud shiveredit.—"Lhn," said he, "I jes like to see um try dis once; I reckon dey find dere match!" TURNING THE TABLES.—Servants in Eng land seem to have turned the tables on mas ters and mistresses. In the Time* supple ment lately a housemaid, advertising for a place, announces that "Irish and Scotch families are objected to." What a change says the Pall Mall Gazette, since the time (not very long ago) when in the advertise ments for servants, it used frequently to be stated that "no Irish need apply!" AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE.—A youth who much desired to wear the matrimonial yoke had not sufficient courage to "pop the question." On informing his father of the difficulty he labored under, the old gentle man replied passionately—"Why, you great booby, now do TOM suppose I managed when I got married ?" "Oh," said the bashful lover' "you married mother, but I've got to marry a strange gal." AN industrious tradesman having taken a new apprentice, awoke him at a very early hour on the first morning, by calliugout that the family sitting down to table. "Thank you, ' said the boy, as he turned over in bed, to adjust h;mself for a new nap, "thank you; hut I never eat anything during the night." A LADY" who v as in the habit of spending a large portion of her time in the society of her neighbors, happened one day to be taken suddenly ill, and sent her husband in great haste for a physician. The husband ran a few rods, but soon returned, exclaiming, "Mv dear, where shall T find you when I get back?" "WHY are so few convicts in the Michi gan penitentiary this year?' asked Sam's friend, a day or two since. "Why," said Sam, "they send them by the Pontiac railroad, and their time expires before they get there." "Why do you drive such a pitiful looking carcass as that ? Why don't you put a heav ier coat of flesh onbim, Pat?" "A heavier coat of flesh ! By the powers, ♦he poor creature can hardly carry whatlittie j there is on him now." "Sow and you shall reap. That s so. | We sewed our old ooat the other day and i reaped a lot of ~ . -§* Ijppf
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