sk* St Atari 'iimjuiw* rs PUBLISHED I.VI-K1 FKIDAV MOKXING. ii\ j. ft, IK ftftfttiftftH' Alklk JsiUS LITZ, ry *t II Lt iSA !fl, 9|^iiiite tfcje JHeugei House BKI>FORI>, PENN'A. TflUB: a j ear if paid strictly in advance. If awrt |M wMita dx | If —< |aad lUd HwfoyWuw. £rotf9sioal kJ§ntims £ardg. ITTeitIEYS AT LAW. . ( ICICM S. V. HK'KKBSO*. MEYER 8 A DICKKRPON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 881/FoK!,, PKII'A, | •hce nunc as formerly <>C< apted by HOB. W. P. ; i.i, t* dvotv eart at thus OateHe office, will j is. the several Uouiti •! Bedford county. 1 cn-nowi-, 1-vuniMt- and bock pay obtained end tbe i , ur< hoee of Bit! Estate attended to. May 11. M—lyr. JU KMf* T CBMIV, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bai<KoiU>, PtXi'A., 'S&etz to give ratudorHon to all who may en truti sfosi r legal battues? to him Will collect j: !i)f u *B evidences of debt, and speedily pro run >• -untie, asnt pseSscf to wMtsn, their wid ows or heirs, Office two stoore west ef Telegraph ffi,. qirib'tt-ly. IR. t'BBBNA, ' TTUK-VEY AT LAW, Oft-*- w .lb dons CEtrXa, on Juliapna .-tract, in the office formerly occupied by King A Jordan, cd recently by Filter A Keagy. All business • i. trusted to his care will receive faithful and .--■mpl ottcauwu Military Cteuns, Pen-ions, Ac., ,-cdily evllaotod. Uedfurd- J get 1, Itii. j w'n. **a* r*. r. kerb rsfiARPE A KERR. i> A TTOKNE YB--A T-LA H'. • itl futdme m tke Courts of Bedford mad ad : s&m>£ eowßtß*. AH Hvumks entrusted to their •ee will receive careful and prompt attention. l'eas -'sr. liuuaty. Lock Pay, Ae., epoodiiy col ■-cud (rum the tJ-i i-rasoeat. i tu Juliana street, opposite the banking f Reed A hell, Bedford, Pa. martitf :<HMB PH.*EH. .tiieraey at Law. Bedford. PH.. \ pr -luptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. V-f. Particular attention paid to the collection HiLtary clairne. Oflb-e on Julioons t.. nearly ti tto- Men eel House.) jnne2S, '®s.ly i ■ mi.ufiiK, roan LTTti I KWt'KKoW A LUT7., I / .1 f/f>lt.VE P .11 Ed H*. Bearoan, PA., Vl a'seod promptly te oil business intrusted to ir i-tre. Cnltortiwas made on the shortest no- Th y are. also, regularly licensed Haim Agents 1 •i ' wiil give special attention to tbe prosecution j st i .nmr against tbe (iorernmcnt for Pensions, Km k Par. Bounty. Bounty I-snrfs, Ac. t fui m Juliana street, one door Sooth of the H'-ose" and nearly opposite the ■ April 58, 185:t LY>PY M. A LHIP, Pi ATTORNEY AT LAW, BanroMD, PA., Will fmilhfolly and promptly a.tendtoall bust- | • f entrusted to his care to lled'ord and Skdjoin- { -,ig counties. Military elaims, Pension*, back i av. Bounty, A*, sjieedily collected. Office with ' •r. A c pam;, on Ja'.iana street. 1 doors south ••f tbe Wen gel House. afd I, 1 Ml.—tf. A. POINTS. ATTORVIY AT LAW, Lr.nroan, PA. I! jirvifully tenders his professional services i tiic pohiii. Office with J. W. T.ingcnfelter, I lat Jdlimia street, two doors South of the 1 Meagte House." I>ec. 9, 1564-tf. kI.M MELL AND LINO UN FELTEK, ATT' >KNEYS AT LAW, bkhsord, PA. Have lao-med partnership in tbe practice ol the Law Ulhoe on Juliana street, two doors South of the Meagel House, aprl, 16W —tf. JOHN MOWER, J ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bedpokk, PA. April 1. BfIIfTUTN. *. Hiccos J. O. MINICICn, JA. I IvENTISTS, Bcsronn, PA. } Op'-" f*c Bank Building. Juliana Street. \ All njierations pertaining to Surgical or Me- j hookal Dentistry carefully and faithfully per- I termed and warranted. TERMS CASH. Toofh I'owder# and Mouth Wash, excellent ar ticles. always on band, jaab'di-iy. I | aENTISTKT. j IJ I. s. BOWSER. RvsofW. Dextist, Woon iiitr, Pa-, i wits Bloody Kan three days of each .V I .lag wttb flu moikJ the in - • nth. Prepared to perform all Dental oper ..if : - with whw-h be may be favored. Termn . tkt lit ek of all and etrirtly etuk esreyt ly tl vmtraet. Work to be sent by mail oroth must be paid for when impressions are taker-, augi, fcdrtf. PHYSKIAm lUM. W. JAMISON, M. D., II BLOOIJT Res, PA., , [ R i-ectfvißy tenders his professional services b> ■J b of that place and vicinity. [decS:lyT | iK. H F. MAKKY, * / Ke. pcctfully tenders his professional rer i - to tbe citiiens of Bedford and vicinity. "(See and residence on Pitt Street, io the building ■rioerly occupied by Dr. J. It. Hofl'ts. * April 1, ItSdt—t- I L. MARSourl, M. D., •I . Having permanently located respectfully traders his pofose'onal services to the eitixens •t Bedford mad vicinity. Office on Juliana dreet, the Bank, one door north of Hail k Pnl "lePs •<*. April 1, IWI tf. BA\ KLltfi. . w. si rr o. *. sfassos ~f. nsmcr IhtPP. SHANNON A CO., BANKERS, L\ Bauroup, PA. KAAJa Ui DJLSCOLNI AND i>EPOgy. fdiLSTTIOMti maoe for lie East, Wert, North and Ss mi, Mad tie get.erai basinesr of Exchange. '.ruMWi Note* iind AeeonnM Collet-ted And promptly made. KKAL ESTATE "osyhi and fold. apr.lVW-tf. JEWELEE. Ae, \HHAION OABLI' K. t Uxh A Matchmaker and Jeweller, Bloody Km, PA. •"'.wit, Watrkfti. Jewelry, Ac., promptly re paired. til e-i-rk entrusted to his care, warranted iv riw tanTxina. He blm< keeps c>n hand and for sale H. 4 Ttjfi- KS, Cl<H AN,and Jii WELR Y, o&oc ai'h Dr. J. A. Mann. my 4 r ax XLEUU'XD. 'J CLOCK ASD M ATCH MAKER, m the Called Suae* Telepratih Office, BEDFORD, PA. Ck, Ae. war baa, and ail kinds of jewelry ! Wj tit repaired. All work entrusted to his care ■uniKrt to (ir* entire satisfnetim. [.no.'.Vlyr Daniel bobder. Prn tttaarr, TWO Wtieiia w*m *■ ran nun r ■ *ot(l, -r, Pi. iCHMAKER ASK DEALER IN JRWEL RT. SPECTACLES, AC, He ao p on hand a fc>k of line Gold and Sil k'i hatches. h|Mrtndca of Brilliant Double lUfin- Oismea, also Scotch Pwahia Glasses. Gold * 4-fc Caaian, Breast Pins, Finger Kings, beat taming *{ Gold Pane. H* will supply to order "J thmg in Bwline not on hand. . ,j ** *4, tim—m. , i ; ,• , I V W. ' KOCSK V' w HOLES ALB TOBACCOS IST, Jn Perns strsrt a few door* west of the Court , '"'S dis, Bedford, Pa., la now prepared S"U by wbrtesale all kind* of CIARff. All ""•at* promptly 6Ued Persons desiring aartMng * mai d " wcil * OtdXord, Oct 2. - nj. fflcdfort) 3hiqnircr. 0(1: BORROW A- LRFZ Editor* and Proprietors. §<rrtry. WATTE IIS MATRIMONIAL. "A mate—a mate," a maiden cried. One pleasant summer's day, When, with her lover by her side, They joined in rival play— In rival play in glorious chess. The noblest of all games, Whose ivory images possess Such very loyal names. '"A mate —a mate!" she wildly said, As with impetuous haste Her Queen across the board she sped, And by his monarch placed. So confident she seemed to be, Such boldness in her mien, He did not for a moment see His King could mate her Queen. "A mate —a mate!" at last he cried, "Yes, 'tis a mate I see, But only such, my darling pride, As I would have from thee!" lie said, and round her lovely form His manly arm he pressed, Till she unto his passion warm An answering love coniessed. "A mate—a mate!" young enpid sang, As through the room he flew, "This may be chess, but yet I guess j „ 'Tis nothing veiy new! The oiden game, whate'er its name, lb still the same, I see, When woman sweet and man compete There's sure a mate to be." IN ABSENCE. BY FHtEKE CARET. Watch her kindly, stars— From the sweet protecting skies Follow her with tender eyes; Look so lovingly that she Cannot choose but think of me: ' Watch her kindly, stars! Soothe her sweetly, night— On her eyes, o'erwearied, press The tired lids with light caress: that shadowy hand of thine Ever in her dreams seem mine; Soothe her sweetly, night! Wake her gently, morn— Let the notes of early birds Seem like love's melodious words: Every pleasant sound my dear, When she stirs from sleep, should hear; Wake her gently, morn ! Kiss her softly, winds! Softly, that she may not miss Any sweet, accustomed bliss? On her lips, her eyes, her face, Till I come to take your place. Kiss her softly, winds! g^iwUaiuoui*. THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION The most earnest advocates of the pro , posed Philadelphia Convention announce that it is to form a new party. They assert that the Republican party was purely a sec tional, and the Union merely a war party, i It is now necessary, therefore, in their judg ment, to assemble delegates from every State and Territory, and lay down a common national platform, This is all well. This ! seems very simple. But declarations of in , tendons have always a most artless tone. The late rebel leaders, Davis, Toombs, and their allies, always insisted upon being called "IVaiIUTIUI Ullton Dctnocrafco," and while their mouths rang with patriotic vociferation they were plotting disunion. It is r ecessa ry, therefore, to look at the facts. Is this Convention likely to represent the tr;e and j saving union sentiment of the country ? WQI it be composed of those who have been | proved by experience to he the most faithful, intelligent, and consistent friends of the : Union ? If so, every honest man will rejoice. But it is not enough to say that it will be so if such men choose to stud delegates. The question is, whether the terms and circum stances of the call, and the manner in which it has been received by the country, show that it is intended and likely to include such representatives. The first significant fact then, is, that the call is issued by the three Senators who have separated themselves from the Union ma jority in Congress, by the Assistant-Posfc master-Gencral and two or three gentlemen who appnoye that separation, and by two Senators who have uniformly oppo.-ed the action of the Union party, and who suppor ted the Chicago policy of surrender to the effort to destroy the Union. The second fact is, that it is urged upon the country by the whole body of what are known, for good reasons, as the Copperhead members of Congress, excepting Senators Sauisbury and Ilidale of Delaware, and Representative Harris of Maryland, and the members from New York city. The third fact is, that it is not approved by the Union members of Con gress in either House, nor by the conspicu ous and representative Union journals of the country. The Convention, therefore, will be com posed of three classes: first, those whom, not lor offense but for distinction, we may call Mr. Tburlow Weed's party; tecotui, the Democratic party of the North; aud third, the Democratic ex-rebels of the South. It win not represent such Union men as Senator Fesscnden and ex-Governor An drew in New England; Ward Hunt and Charles J. Folger in New York ; Senator Sherman and Chief Justice Chase in Ohio; General Logan and Senator Kirkwood in the Northwest j Governor Fletcher and Senator Brown id Missouri ; Horace May uard in Tennessee . Judge Bond in Mary land ; Ambrose Spencer and the original Unionists in Georgia; Andrew J. Hamilton and the voters against Throckmorton in Texas. The question is therefore plain. Is a Convention which, by the nature of its call, excludes such men and those who sym pathize with tlieni. a representative Nation al Union Convention ? Do the the classes that we have first named, the party of Mr. Weed and the old Democratic party, corn pone a more truly l Union party than that which til now known as such ? We say that they arc excluded by the call Ukl by its general interpretation. The call is issued iu intentional disregard of the equal rights of the loyal Union colored population of the Southern States, whom it proposes to abandon to those who were lately in rebellion. It does thia under profession of regard for State rights, and in defiance of the truth, now iorriMv ficjimnstrated, tiiat absolute equality of iirli' iriual rights bfifoffi the l* w ' A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWBPAPEB, DEVOTED TO POI.ITICB, EDUCATION, LITBBATPBB ap'A.,." is vitally essential to the harmony of the national Union. Indeed, Mr. Seward, who : favors the Convention, in his letter to Tam many Hall, speaks with perilous and reck rhetoric of "sovereign States." Thus the Convention proposes to prefer the rights of States to the rights of citizens of the I nited States ; or to leave the protection of the latter solely to the States, when our ex perience has proved that that course is na tionally disastrous. Nor can the Conven tion point us to the Civil Rights bill, for the (Allers ot the Convention all opposed it and supported the veto. Composed of such representatives and holding sueh views, who are likely to control the Convention? Will it be Mr. Thurlow \\ eed and his friends, or the allied Demo crate from the North and South ? The ques tion may excite a smile, hut it can not sug gest a doubt. But if the Democrats control it, can the Convention have any other result than a reorganization of the Democratic party ? And if by reason of that reorgani zation and the cooperation of Mr. Weed and his friends that party should return to power, is there aßy reason to suppose that its policy of subservience to its Southern wing would be changed ? Clearly not, be cause since the beginning of the war the only hope of that party has been the return of its Southern members, and to cement the alliance it must yield to the demands of those members* In the North the Demo cratic party is virtually dead as a controlling force. It has, indeed, a large vote. It dis putes three or four States ; but it is gener ally defeated in them, and always in the others. The reason is, that the Democratic party is merely w permanent reaction and protest against progress and reform, and as the public opinion of the Northern States is educated and intelligent, it instinctively dis trusts and rejects it. Hence, also, the steady and uniform opposition of the Democratic party to the elevation and education of the colored population at the South, Every school-house is an outpost against the "De mocracy. ' To educate the whole population of South Carolina and Georgia and Missis sippi is to emancipate those States from the "Democracy" which held its lust Conven tious in Chicago, and which speaks now by the lips of V allandigham, Pendleton, "Jack Rogers,' Horatio Seymour, Garrett Davis, the Tammany orators, and the members of Congress who approve the Philadelphia call. That Democracy, Tammauy Hall itself, whenever it succeeds, succeeds by the igno rant vote. It was the slums of the city of New York that elected Horatio Seymour Governor in 1862, and which gave M'Clel lan a local majority in 1864. Abolish the slums in the whole country, and you abolish the Democratic party. It is a very useless folly to suppose that the spirit which has been so long dominaut in our politics is destroyed. It has been muted by argument and the ballot in one part of the country. In the other it took up arms, and having been defeated, will now betake itself there also to argument and the ballot ; and it remains for the intelligence and public virtue and political faith of the country to accept the battle in this form also, and complete the victory. The Dem ocratic party could not save slavery nor the rebellion, but it can still strike a few blows for jguorauce and unequal rights. It will not change its name, and it can not change its nature. In deference to Mr. Weed and his friends at Philadelphia it may call itself Union Democratic, or Democratic National; but it will stib be the Democratic party. The "Last Rose of Summer" is nothing but The Groves of Blarney - ' played slowly. The jiarty may not make Mr. Ben Wood or his virtuous brother President of the Phila delphia Convention, and may nominate Mayor Hoffman or Senator Murphy for Governor of New York. But it is still the organized reaction against the development of the American doctrine of equal liberty. It will still flatter and fawn upot the igno rance of white foreigners, and still despise and curb if it can, the aspirin,, intelligence of native Americans of every race. Its pres ent opportunity is the Philadelphia Conven tion. It will elect the delegates and control its policy; and, like the dextrous execution er who cut off the victim's head so exquis itely that be did not know it until he moved, so it will absorb with greedy politeness those who have sought and failed to control the Union party as they likewise sought and failed to control Abraham Lincoln's admin istration.—Harpert Weekly. GLADSTONE'S FOIBLE. Mr. Gladstone, says an English paper, is not one whit worse tempered than the ma jority of sueccessful British statesmen —than Lord Derby, for instance, or Lord Stanley. He does not give way to the impulse of in tellectual hauteur oftener than lord Palmer ston who showed, in addition, every now and then, the Irish form of the pride of birth. But when Mr. Gladstone rates, it is always some man like Lord Robert Montague—a man with whom half the House have a fellow-feeling of caste —who fells under the lash. The whip cuts deep in delicate flesh, and tho irritation produced by a stern rebuke to a lordEog or county member is twice as great as that which fol lows an insolent one to a man whom nobody knows. Then it is one thing to pardon a man we like for a mere buret of temper, and quite another to overlook jit in one whom we interpret by the light til a latent prejudice. It is of no use to deny that there exist among a section of the House, old Whigs, young aristocrats, and country gen tlemen, a feeling towards Mr. Gladstone ap proaching to an instinctive dislike, a feeling compounded of the repulsion of a cavalier for a puritan, and of the fear with which a diplomatist regards au adversary sure to gain the intellectual mastery. They are an noyed with his "conscience'' fretful with an idea that he is not sound about ' land' aud yet aware that, sound or unsound they are quite sure in debate to seem to be in the wrong. They rtyoice, therefore, at every blunder, misinterpret every slip and rage at every in stance of firmness as if it were a concealed impertinence. Nothing bu! the most suave serenity of temper could eradicate the latent rcsentfulness thus produced, and Mr. Glad stone, though as full of genuine kindliness as the calmest of his opponents, and fuller of sympathetic feeling, fails to cxhibit&his peculiar manner. His smile is apt to be a quiver and he has the most unfortunate in tolerance alike for imbecility aud small finesse. A "dodge," like Lord Stanley's when be tried to put the cart before the horse on Monday week, gives him moral annoyance, the feeling with which great na tures regard a baseness, and he expresses this feeling with t'-.e force with which he expresses every other. lie cannot speak badly. Like the tragedian who could not ask for beer without awing the pot boy, Mr. Gladstone cannot rebuke without that terri ble force which makes, what he thinks an ordinary sound, seem to bis audience like thunder. AH these things tend to dispel the pleasant regard from men, opponents as well as friend- which has protected so many statesmen like a mora! coat of mail which, for instance, M> protected Lord Mclbt'uipe that even bullets glanced aside. BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY. AUGUST 3. 1800. NASBY PRESIDES AT A CHURCH TRIAL. CoNifEDRiT X RoAJjt, (wieh is tbe 1 Stait uv Kentucky,) Rune 9, 1866. J They had a ruction iu the church at the Corners yesterdaf, wich bid fair to result in a reudin uv the wails uu our Zion, and the tearin down uv the temple we hev reared with so much care and hev guarded with so much solissitood. When I- gay "we," I mean the members thereof, ez the church wuz reorganized senee the war by returned coafedrit soljers aud rich Dimokrats ez re maned to home nootrd, but inasmuch ez I am the only ordained Kmokratic paster in these parts, I generally conduct tbe services, and bentz hev insensiUy fell into a habit uv a peek in uv the ohprch ez "my" church, and I feel all the solissitood for its spiritoo&l and temporal welfare that I cood ef I wuz reglarly ordained as its pastor, which I ex pect to be ef I fail in gettin that post offiis at the Corners wich is now held by a Ab lishnist uv the darkeit dye, wich President Johnson with a stubbornness I can't account for, persistently refooses to remove. The case wuz sutjhin like this: Deekin Pogram was charged by Elder Skther with hevin, in broad day-lite, with no attempt at concealment, drunk with u nigger, and a free nigger at that, in Bascom's grocery, and to prove the charge Deekin Slather called Dee kin Pennibacker. The Deekin wuz put onto the stand, and testified ez follows: "Wuz in Bascom's grocery a playip seven up for the drinks with Deekin Slather. Had jist beet the Deekin one game and bad four on the second, and held high, low and jack, and wuz modritly certain uv goin out, par tikerly ez the Deekin didn't beg. Wuz hevin a little discussion with him—the Dee kin in-dsten that it wuz the best three in five, instead uv the best iwo in three, jest as though a man cood afford to play five games between drinks! The yee is preposterous and unheard of, and tbtr aint no precedent for any sicb course. We wuz settlin the dispoot in regular orthodox style—he hed his fingers twisted in my neck handkercher and I held a stick uv stove wood suspended over his head. While ia this position we wuz transfixed with horror at seeing Deekin Peg ram enter arm in arm with a nigger ana— The Court—Arm in arm did you say, Bro. Pennibacker. Witness—Certainly. The Court—The scribe will make a miunit uv this. Go on. Witness—They cum in together, ez I sed, arm in arm, walked up to the bar and drank together. By the Court—Did they drink together ? \V itness—They undeniably did. By myself—The Court desires to know what partickelar flood they absorbed. Witness—Can't say—spose'twas Bascom's new whisky—that's all he's got ez the Court very well knows. By myself—The sexton will go at once to Bascom s and proooor the identicle bottle from which thia wretched iu„. who stands charged with Uius iowerinc hisseir, drunk, and bring it hither. The _ Court desires to know for herself whether it was really whis ky. The pint is an important one for tbe Court to know. A wicked boy remarked that the pint wood be better onderstood by the Court if it wu z a quart. The bottle wuz, however brought, and the Court, which is me, wuz satuficd that it wuz really and trooiy whisky. Ez the refreshin flooid irrigated my parchid throat, I wished that trials based upon the bottle cood be perpetooal. I considered the case proved, and asked Bro. Pogram what palliation he had to offer. I set before him the enormity uv the crime, and showed him that he iruz by this course sappin the very foundashan uv the Church and the Democratic party Wat's the use, 1 askt, uv my proechin agin nigger equality, so long as my Deekins practice it. I told him that Ham wuz cust ly Noer, and wuz condemned to be a servastunto his brethren —that he was an inferior race, that the De mocracy was built upon ;hat idea, and that associatin' with hioi in aay shape that indi cated equality, wuz cither puttin them up to our standard or lowrin ourselves to theirn ; in either case the result *?uz fata!. I im plored Bro. Pogram to mike a clean breast of it; confess his sin and humbly receive sich punishment cz shood be awarded him, and go and sin no more. "Speak up, Bro. Pogram," sez I paternally ana yet severely. Bro. Pogram to my unspeekable relief, for he is the wealthiest member of the congre gashun, and one we daren't expel, replied : "That he did drink with the nigger, and what wuz more, he wuz justified in doin it, for the nigger paid for the whisky . r * "But shoorfy," I remarked, it wasn't nes sary to your purpose to come in with the nigger arm in arm, a attitood which implies familiarity ef not effeckshun." The Prisoner—"The nigger and I had bin pitchin coppers for drinks, and I, posscssin the most akootnis, won. I tnk the nigger by the arm, fearin that ef I let go uv him he'd dodge me and not pay. They are slip pery. Overjoyed, I clasped him around the neck, and to w unst dismist the charge as unfound ed and frivolous. "My brethren," sez l, "the action of Bro. Pogram is not only justifiable, but is com mendable and worthy of imitashun. Ham wuz cost by Noer aud condemned by him to serve his brethren. The nigger is the de scendant of Ham and we are the descend ants uv the brethren, and ef Noer hed a clear rite to cuss one uv his sons and sell him out to the balance uv the boys for all time, we hev ded wood on the nigger, for it is clear that he wuz made to labor and min ister to onr want-. So it wuz, my brethren, until an ape who hed power interfered and delivered Jnim out uv our hand. Wat shel we do ? Wat we cannot do by force we must do by financeerin'. We can't compel the nigger to furnish us the means, and there fore in order to fulfill scripter, we arc justi fied in accomplishing by our sooperior skill what we used to do with whips and dorga. Tber wuz no confession uv equality —no degredashun, but contrariwise the spectacle uv Bro. Pogram's morchin into Bascom's with that nigger, wuz a sublime spectacle and one well calculated to cheer the heart uv the Dimekrat. He had vanquished him in an encounter where skill wuz required, thus demonstratin the sooperiority uv the Anglo-Baxon mind— he led him a captive end made uv him a spoil. "Wood, o wood that we all had a nigger to play with for drinks. The case is dis missed, the costs to bo paid by tlic com plainant.' The wall uv our Zion is stronger than ever. This trial, ez if resulted, is a new and strong abutment—a tall ad strong tower. PETROLEUM: V. NASUV, Lait Paster uv the Church cv the Noo Pis pensashun. g "I say, Jim," says one friend to an other on meeting, "I hear our friend A. has been in the oil speculation J has he made anything?" "Yes," says Jim. he has made an assignment," VERONA. flic scene of tbe present Italian struggle is classic ground. Long before Rome was founded, the country in which two armies are now marching and fighting was iohabi ? People considerably advanced in civilization, and large cities were built, which still exist. Around these towns con tending armies have been marshalled and every implement of warfare has been tried, from the rude sling to the needle gun, from tbe battering ram to the steel cannon. The form of civilization has changed from time to time, as the barbarian or the cultivated races have conquered. After the Roman legions were victorious, many of the best families of Rome removed to Verona, and here some of the renowned Latin authors were horn. In the Puxxza, del Signtn-i are placed the statutes of the men whom Ver ona claims as natives —a long list going back two thousand years. Catullus—at first the enemy, afterwards the friend ofCaesar —celebrates in his verses the families of Verona, the original F. F. V's—" flot Veronendum fuvenum." Be sides, Catullus, the historian Cornelius Nenos, the poet Macer the friend of Ovid, and the celebrated architect, Vitrnvhis, were natives of Veraona. This favored land between the Alps and the Po, the old Padus, gave to the Roman race its two greatest poets—the Veronian Catullus and the Mantuan Virgil The grapes and wine of Verona were greatly prized by Virgil i "the Rhetian wine" or tne Veronian pan acea. ' Near to the battle-fields of Solferi po and Custozza Virgil had a farm, which in the Vicissitudes of war was taken from him. Fortunately, he had a friend at conrt and if was restored to him, He sings of this in his pastoral: Tito re, tu patulae recuLanssuh tcgmiiw fagi Sibattrim tenui uiusam meditaris averh. Beneath the shade which beechen boughs diffuse You, Tityrus, entertain your Bylvau muse ; ; Hound the wide world in banishment we roam Forc'd from our pleasing fields and native home ; While stretched at ease you sing your happy loves ; And Amarillis fills the shady groves. When Virgil, favored by Augustus, had secured his patrimony and endeavored to take possession he was in danger of being skin by the centurion to whom it had been given, and this trouble gave rise tohis ninth pastoral. Lycidas sings: 'Rest here thy weary limbs, the kids laydown; We've day before ua yet to reach the town'" Morris, Virgil's bailiff, replies : Cease to request me, let us mind onr way ; Another song requires another day." Catullus, pining in distant Asia for his home at Sirmio, gives utterapce to his feel ings in an ode, Ad Sirmwnem penuundam. "Salve, 0 venusta Sirmio, atqne hero gaude." And what are called the lesser poets all sang the glories of this iand —until the Lat in tongue was changed to Italian ■, and then wc have Dante living here and adding to the funic of tbe country. The Florentine poet Berni, wrote ; Recdsa grazima alma Verona Terra antica, gentd,madre e nutricc, Di sprriti, di virtu, di disciplina. Some claim for Livy a birthplace on these plains, and Pliny is known to have been born at Como. Pliny always had an affec tion for Lake Como. At the time when the noble Romans went to pass tbe hot weeks of the summer on its batiks he was often com pelled by official duties to stay in town. There is a letter from him, written eighteen hundred years ago, which reads with all the freshness of a letter of this day. It was addressed to his friend Rufus Canniup, whose family had a house in Pompeii, and is worth publishing as a model for modern letter-wri ters. The date is not given, but we may call it July 8, 100, seventeen hundred and sixty-six years ago. u CFluuus Canuiio Rijbsuo, s. Htudes? an piscaris ? an veraris f an simufomnia? Possunt enim omnia Simid fieri ad hari nm nostrum, 1 ' kc. "My Dear Rufus : What art thou doing at Como ? Dost thou study, hunt, or fish, or all three together ? For on our beloved lake one can do all at once. Her waters afford fish, her wooded heights game, ana the deep solitude of her ne.-t quiet for study. But whatever thou dost, I envy thee, from my heart. I cannot restrain toe confession that it makes my heart heavy to be depri ved of that for which 1 pine, as a sick man for a draught, for a bath or a cooling spring. Shall I ever be able to rend assunder these closely-confining bonds? Ah, I fear never ! For to old occupations new ones are added, before I can clear away the old ; and thus link after strengthens the chain of endless labors, that hold me here enthralled Fare well" GEARY AT LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. J T. Headley's History of the Great Re bellion has recently been published at Hart ford, Connecticut. From its pages the fol lowing graphic passages refer to Geary's participation in the celebrated battle "above the clouds." [Vol. 2, page 26.] All this time, heavy and incessant volleys of musketry arose from the spot where Geaiy was struggling against overwhelming utunbere. The light ing here was desperate, and several times he was nearly overborne, but with that tenacity which has always distinguished. lum, he clnng to has position, and at length hurl ed back the enemy, compelling him to take refuge on Lookout mountain. The valley was now ours. Geary gained new honors in this hard fouxtht battle, but they' were dearly wen, for his son, a captain voas tiff- Page 264. The fog suddenly lifted from Missionary Ridge. Gen. Geary's ooh-mn flushed with victory, grappled with the foe upon the rocky ledges and drove him back with slaughter from his works. While the result was uncertain, the attention was breathless and painful : but whea victory perched upon our standards, shout upon shout rent the air. The whole army with one accord broke outintojoyousacclamations. Men were frantic with ioy, and even.Gen eral Thomas himself, who seldom exhibited his emotions, said involuntarily, "I did think it possible for men to accomplish so much, A LIITLB boy in Wisconsin was being put to bed the other night about dark when he objected to going so early. Hi? mother told him the chickens went to bed early and he must do so too. The little fellow said he would if his mother would do as the old hens did—go to bed first, tben coax the chickens to come. '^ WHAT is the difference between a wealthy toper and a skillful miner? Hne tarns his gold into quarts and the other turns his quarts into gold. THE man everybody likes is generally a fool. The roan nobody likes is generally knave. The man who bps friends who would die for him and fun* who would love him broiled alive, is usually a man of SOW? worth and force, - : VOLI'XE 39: 90 30. TROUT FISHING IN FLORIDA. A correspondent of the Louisville Jour ■ nal writing from Quincv, Fla., under date of June 17th, gives the following description of a novel method of trout fishing in vocge there : On my way hither in the course of my agricultural researches, I assisted, as the French say, at a quite novel and amusing fishing party, the like of which I never saw or read of before, The scene was a lake covering about 200 acres, varying in depth from fifteen to fifty feet, and filled with the most beautiful speeded trout When the party reached the shore, a burly freedman appeared with a huge bucket of gourds on his shoulder, to the neck of each which was attached a ss"?rt line, at the end nf which wu * Wife, baited with a minnow. The freedmcn pushed off in a little canoe, and flung these gourds broadcast on the face of the lake, aim then the guests, who were to participate in the sport, were invited to em bark, each in a canoe propelled by one pad dle. The day was just such a one as would have gladdened the heart of Izaak Walton, and the trout bit greedily. Soon the gourds were bobbing about in every direction, cha sed by the eager and excited fishermen in the canoes, amid the shouts ot those who watched the fun from shore. Down goes a gourd with a four pound trout at the end of it, and away it flies in tbe water with a coup le of canoes in hot pursuit. The fishermen paddle with all their might, and when one or both come alongside, throw down their pad dles and stretch out their hands to grasp their prize. Away goes tbe gourd in anoth er direction, and away go the boats in con tinued pursuit. Soon other trout hook themselves to other gourds, and become as puzzled where to go as the fishermen which to chase. Now under the bows, now to leeward, now to starboard, the gourds and trout are dancing about as if on purpose to J to confuse their pursuers, who occasionally, ; if inexperienced in the management of the peculiar crafl in which they are afloat, miss their distance, and gourd and trout and fish ermen are all in the water together, the canoe and paddle going it on their own hook. The more ki owiag and more Self-possessed land their fish with con siderable dexterity, but the novices have only the excitement of the chase without any of the fish. One of the party, fully six feet high and weighing over two hundred pounds, insisted on taking an active part in the sport, and in trying to check the way of his boat with the paddle by sticking in a mud bank found his craft shoot from under him, leaving him to swim out as best be could to the uproarious amuse-, ment of the spectators. Fortunately there were several skilled performers, who caught a number of trout and perch and after some hours spent in the fish chase, an excellent fry was served on shore, which every one enjoyed hugely, and none more so than the portly individual who was capsized. The fentleman who gave this frolic, has a very ne plantation within a few miles of Bain bridge, admirably cultivated by well behaved free amen who havo contrac-ted to work, and , perform their promise with cheerful fidelity. I THE WEAKER SEX. Physically less muscular, and, generally speaking, less powerfully built than men, we are accustomed to speak of women as belonging to the weaker sex. It is very easy so to speak of them, though not quite so easy to see how, except in the physical view of the question they generally deserve the distinction. Pass in review before you a batch ofyour married friends, and ask your self candidly : are the wives in the majority of the cases to be looked upon as weaker characters than their husbands ? If you want a weak thing done, an unprofitable but pleasant thing, to which would you go for assistance in the carrying out of your scheme ;to the husband or wife ? Which of the two would be the more capable of saying "no ?" a monosyllable often requi ring tor it utterance at the proper moment the veiy greatest amount of moral force. That expression, "the weaker sex," seems to me, jast now, to be more than ever inap propriate wlien applied tu ilm jtmug ladies in our ball rooms, promenading at our flow er shows, endangering our lives when we would cross Rotten-row, or bidding us "Stand and deliver" in tire bazaar-room or tents in which they hold theirfancy fairs. Of whatever else we may aocttie those fair and exemplary creatures, we must by no means charge them with undue timidity or irration al shyness and reserve.— Au the Tear Round. HABIT IN WELL DOING. Every thing is a labor just in proportion as we nave to do it by a separate effort. If a person were obliged to do up all his breathing once a week, to eat his food only at rare intervals or to put on his clothing simply for a few days in the year, he would find them a wearisome task. It is only frequency of these acts only breathing every moment, earing every day and wearing our clothes literally as a habit, that keeps them from being irksome. Drive your wagon over a road where the planks are two feet apart and the motion is excruciating: let tne planks be shoved up together and it is one delicious roll. So in the Christian life. We must make our duties come so near to each other that they will touch, if we would have them a pleasure. It ia easier to give fifty times a year tnan it is ten; easier to go to church every Sunday than every month: easier to pray each night and morning than only now and then; easier to be a Christian every -Jay and in every place than only in the church, and once a week. Habit is the great helper that takes away the burden from all labor and makes even the roughest place smooth. And in our well doing, the best way. never to be weary is never to stop and rest — Rd Mag. How A NOBL* DOG SAVED HIMSELF BY SAVING A HL WAN LIFE.— The New York Post says: The number of dogs received at the wound in East Twenty-fifth street up to the Ist irat. and drowned was I,jSO. , On Monday an interesting incident oc curred at the pound. A boy fell from the dock outside the inelosure into the East river, and a man who had brought a large dog, but had not entered the pound, hap pened to be standing near. He dropped the rope by which he held the dog for a moment in order to take his coat off, so that he might rescue the boy. The dog. releas ed, plunged into the river before the man had fairly began to remove hisclothing, and seizing the boy by the arm, dragged him to the dock, from which he was easily taken from the water. The prints of the animal's teeth could warcely be teen in the boy's tlebh. The dog made no effort to escape, but was led into the pound. When the daily drowning was performed this dog was not killed; ana be was kept for three days in consideration of hu service*. His owner not then appearing he was awarded to one of the friends he had made by the fortunate leap by which he rescued the child and saved his own life. RATES OF ADVERTISING. All wirertisemeat* for few tkaa 3 tooatfc# 1# eaai* per line for Mch iawrtion. SpecijU notice* one balf additional. All resolatloni of Afaia tion, communications of a limited or individual interest sad notice? of marriages end ceeding re line#, 10 -te. per line. All legal Rott "*• °f every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required bylaw to be pub lished ■ lujl fc.l! • per line. All Advertising dan after fcrst insertion A liberal discount made t> yearly adrertlzefs. 3 months. 6 months, lyear. One square- SAM $ B.oo' $19.88 Two squares - ,00 C.M 18.09 Three squres 8.00 12.00 20.08 One-fourth c01umn...,,. 14.00 20.00 $6.00 Half column 18.80 SB.OO 46.00 One column 30.00 46.00 8000 PLEASANT HOMES. The homes of America will not become 1 what they should be until a time idea of life ■ shall become more widely implanted. The worship of the dollar does more to degrade American homes than all else. The chief end of life is to gather gold, and that gold is counted lost which bangs a picture upon the wall, which purchases Sowers for the yard, j which buys a book for the eager hand of childhood. Is this the whole ol human life? Then it is a mean, meagre, and most unde sirable thing. A child will go forth trom a stall, glad to find free air ana wider pasture. The influence of such a home upon him in after life, will be nothing good. Thousands are rushing from homes like these every year. ' They crowd into cities, they crowd into vil i lagcs. They swarm into ail places where life ie dotted with a higher mgni&ounom, and the old shell or home is deserted by overy bird • as soon as it can fly. Ancestral homesteads and patrimonial acres have no sacredness; and when the father and mother die, the stranger's money and the stranger's presence obliterate associations that 3hould be among the most sacred of all things. I would have you build up for yourselves aud for your childan, s home that will never be lightly parted vnM—a home which will be to all whose lives have been associated with it the most interesting, precious spot on ■ I earth. I would have that home the abode of dignity, beauty, grace love, genial fellowship, I and happy associations. Out from such a 1 home 1 would havegood influences flow into ! neighborhoods. In sach a some I would see ambition taking root, and receiving generous culture. And then I would see you young husbands and you young wives live happy. Do not deprive yourselves of such influences as will come through an institution like this. No money can pay you for such a lepriva tion. No circumstances but those of utter poverty can justify you in denying these influences to your children. — Trmotyy Tit comb. A PARABLE. A certain tyrant sent for one of his sub jjeets and sud to him, ''What is your employment?" He said, " ! I am a black smith." "Go home," said he, "and make me a chain of such a length." He vent home; it occupied him several months, and he hadno wages all the time he was making it. Then he brought it to the rnona: eh and he said, "Go ana make it twice as long." He gave him nothing to do it with but sent hhn away. Again he worked on and made it twice as long. He brought it ur> again, and the monarch said, "Go and make it longer still.'' Each time he brought it, there was nothing but the command to j make it longer still. And when he brought ]itup at last, the monarch said, "Take it, f bind him hand and foot with n, and cast him into a furnace of fire.'' These were his wages for making the chain. Here is a meditation for you to night, ye servants of the devil! Tour master, the devil, is telling you to make a chain. Some of yon have been fifty years welding the links of the chain; and he says, "Go and make it longer still.' Next Sabbath morning you will open that, shop of yours and put another link on; next Sabbath you will be drunk, and put another link on; next Monday you will do a hishonest action and so you will keep on making fresh links to this chain; aud when you have lived twenty more years the devil will say, "More links on still!" And then at last, it will be, "Take him and bind him haod and foot, and cast him into & furnace of fire.'' "For the wages of sin is death.'' There is a subject for your medita tion. Ido not think it will be sweet; but if God makes it profitable, it will do you good. You must have strong medicine sometimes, when the disease is bad. God apply it to your hearts.— Spurgmn. SATISFIED WITH HIS RECORD. Hiester Clymer said in his speech in Reading, on Wednesday, that "his history as a politician was the history of the State for the last six years, and he would not to day alter a line or blot out a particle of it." (We quote from the Age.) We are glad to notice that he is so frank. Let us ses what he did for the soldiers and sailors or more occasions while he was in the State Dnrinir fb e session of 1?<65 Sena tor Graham, of Allegheny, offered a resolu tion that the Senate of Pennsylvania urge upon Congress the propriety of mcn-.tsing the pay of officers of the army and navy twenty-five per cent., and of privates one hundred per cent. On a motion to proceed to a second reading, the Democrats with their leader, Mr. Clymer, voted in the neg ative, thus causing a tie vote, and the mo tion was lost At the same session a joint resolution was adopted, requesting our Re presentatives in Congress to vote for and use their influence for the passage of a law increasing the pay of nou commissioned offi cer* and private soldiers, but upon its final passage Hiester Clymer voted nay. Subse quently, whsn the bill regulating soldiers, elections was passed, Clymer again proved his consiMency by voting against it And yet, with this record, of which he now has the boldness to say he would not blot out a particle, he asks the soldiers and sailors to give him their votes. The effrontiy is only equalled by that which promoted his organs to complain that he did not occupy a posi tion in the heroic line which marched to Independence Square on the 4th of this montn, there to deliver up their blood stained and shell riddled colors.—Philadel phia Press. BED ROOMS-SINGULAR STATE MENTS IN RELATION TO CHOLERA. Dr. T. S. Bell, an old and eminent physi cian of Louisville, a man of vast acquire ments and wide observation rnd experience, said the other dayat a meeting of tire Lou isville College of Physicians and Surgeons: "The cause of cholera has never risen to any great height perpendieularlyj except when it was forced up. Naturally it cannot seriously affect the second story of any good residence. Heights have always been when l properly guarded, secure refuge from chole ra. Elevated buildings or high walls have been perfectly exempt, while contermini oas places were ravaged. Moscow has been repeatedly invaded in the quarters along the low oanks of the Moskwa, J>ut there has never been a ease of the disease in the elevated Kremlin. The monasteries with high walls in Italy, France and Spain have, with great uniformity, escaped the disease, "The cause of cholera arte -done at night, and upon sleeping persons. No amoawt of exposure in the worst locality im perils the wakeful, moving individual. I have aeen hundreds of instances of this fact, without one aberration frcm the statements of the proposition I have myeelf spent many a night in these localities during the ravages of the epidemic, and never felt that 1 was in any peril while I kept awake, and the lest security fbr that is to keep in morion. So this distinguished practitioner inti mates that attention to oar sleeping |Mterv meat* is quite as important as tha other urecautionary steps whieh are more fre quently urged in the newspapers Look where you Seep, for t seems that the epi demic is most dangerous where it steals no one, likea* v, - r: - * v *"
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