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uK
JI'LIANA St., >j porfitethc Mengel House
BEDFORD, PENN'A
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
I H. LONGENECKER,
r) . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Ml liufiness entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention.
Office with S. L. Rcssel, Esq., nearly
opposite the Court House.
Oct. 16, '6C.-6m.
e. F. METERS J. W. DICKERSON.
Meyers a dickerson,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
* BEDFORD, PES.N'A.,
Office same as formerly occupied by Hon. W. P.
' chcll, two doors ca.-t of the Gazette office, will
practice in the several Courts of Bedford county.
Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the
pureba.-e of Real E.-tnte attended to.
May 11, '66—lyr.
I 011N T. KEAGY,
J ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PEN.N'A.,
OFFI IS to give satisfaction to all who may en
trust their legal business to him. Will collect
moneys on evidences of debt, and speedily pro
cure bounties and pensions to soldiers, their wid
ows or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph
offiec. aprll:'66-ly.
I B. CESSNA,
•J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office with JOHN CESSNA, on Julianna street, in
the office formerly occupied by King A Jordan,
and recently by Filler A Keagy. All business
entrusted to his care will receive faithful and
prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac.,
speedily collected.
Bedford, June 9,1805.
j- m'd. e. r. KF.r.
SHARPE A KERR,
A TTOIiXE 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 Tav, Ac., speedily col
lected from the Government.
Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking
house of Reed A Solicit, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf
j <IIN IMMIER.
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
opposite the Mongol House.) junc23, '65.1y
1. R. DUBBOREOW JOHS LITZ.
D Lit BORROW A T>l T TZ,
.ITTOH.VE l'S .IT I. A H*
Bebford, Pa.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their care. Collections made on the shortest no-
tioe.
They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents
and will give special attention to the prosecution
>f claims again ' the Government for Pensions,
Back Par, Bounty, Bounty tan Is, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
'Mengel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer
office. April 28, lS65:t
T7l SPY M. ALSIP,
IJ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
"hess entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
pay, nouutf. Jt . .. ...:.v
Maua A on Juliana -treet. 2 doors south
ofthe Mcngcl House. apl 1, 1864.—tf.
M . A POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT I-AW, BEDFORD, PA.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
to the public. Office with J. W. Lingcnfelter,
Esq., on Juliana street, two doors South of the
"Mengle House." Dec. 9, lSfi4-tf.
KIMMELL AND LTNDRM EETER,
ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
Have formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South
f the Mengel House.
aprl, 1864—tf.
I < iHN MOWER,
rl ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BEDFORD, PA.
April 1, 1864.—tf.
DENTISTS.
C. X. RICZOK J. O. MiXNICH, JR.
Dentists, Bedford, pa.
(ijfice in tht [lank Buildintj, Juliana Street.
All operations pertaining to .Surgical „r Me
chanical Dentistry carefully and faithfully per
formed and warranted. TERMS CASH.
Tooth Powders and Mouth Wash, excellent ar
ticles, always on hand.
jan6'6s-ly.
DENTISTRY.
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BLRRY, Pa., visits Bloody Run thre< days of each
month, commencing with tin ?t •• i;d Tuesday of
the month. Prepared to perforin ail Dental oper
alions with which he may be favored. Tee,: *
i ithfn the reach of all and strictly cash te'-<i>t by
; • ■ iril contract. Work to be sent by mail or otb
wisc, must be paid for when impressions are taken.
augs, '64:tf.
PHYSICUm
I \R. GEO. C. DOUGLAS
I *l'especttully tenders his professional service
to the people of Bedford and vicinity.
Residence at Maj. Washabatigh's.
:p.B~ Office two doors west of Bedford Hotel, up
.-lairs. V aulTitf
lITM. W. JAMISON, M. I).,
VV BLOODY Rr.v, PA.,
Respectfully tenders his professional service- to
the people of that place and vicinity. [decfblyr
OH. B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizen- of Pedf. . 1 and vicinity.
Office and residence on Pitt Street., in the building
"■rmerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofittp.
April* 1, lSf,|—tf.
I L. MAIIBOURG, M. D.,
fJ . Having permanently locate ! respectfully
tenders his pofessional services to the citizens
of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street,
opposite the Bank, one Joor north of Hall A Pal
mer's office. April 1, ISfif —tf.
JKWELKK, di.
A BSALOM GARLICK,
_/\.Clo.k At Watchmaker and Jeweller,
BLOODY RI N, 1A.
Clock 8, Watches, Jewelry, Ac., promptly re
paired. All work entrusted to hi? care, warranted
to give satisfaction.
He also keeps on hand and for sale WA TCH
ES, CLOCKS, and JE WE 111 V.
Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. iny4
JOHN REIMUXD.
J CLOCK AND ATCH-.UAKER,
in the United States Telepraph Office,
BEDFORD, PA.
Clrn.-kn, watches, and all kinds of jewelry
promptly repaired. All work entrusted to his care
warranted to sire entire satisfaction. [nv3-Iyr
I \ ANIET, BORDER,
\J PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WBST OF THE BED
FORD HOTEL, BEI FORD, PA.
WATCIIMAKEPv AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY, SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of BriUiant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Kings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in his line not on hand,
apr. 28, 1885—%i.
Anti-dust parlor stoves, (Spear's
Patent) at B. Mc. BLYMYER A C'O.'S
fBeWoYd inquirer.
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vo fV
LIFE.
The stream is calmest when it nears the tide,
And flowers the sweetest at the eventido,
And birds most musical at close of day,
And saints divinest when they pass away.
Morning is lovely, hut a holier charm
Lies folded close in evening's robes of balm:
And weary man must ever love her best,
For Morning calls to toil, but Night to rest.
She comes from Heaven, and on her wirgs doth
bear
A holy fragrance, like tho breath of prayer;
Footsteps of angels follow in her trace,
To shut the weary eye of Day in peace.
All inmgs are nusnea Ooro.o be- .-ho throw..
O'or earth and sky her man Jo of repose;
There is a calm, a beauty and a power
That Morningknowsnot,inthe Evening hour.
Until the Evening, we must weep and toil.
Plow life's stern furrow, dig the weedy soil,
Tread with sad feet our rough and thorny way
And bear the heat and burden of the Day.
Oh ! when our sun is setting, may we glide,
Lise Summer Evening down the golden tide :
And leave behind us as we pass away
Sweet, starry twilight 'round our sleeping clay.
LONELY.
Sitting lonely, ever lonely,
Waiting, waiting for one only,
Thus I count the weary moments passing by ;
And the heavy evening gloom
Gathers slowly in the room,
And tho chill November darkness dims tbo iky.
Now the countless busy feet
Cross each other in the street,
And I watch the faces flitting past my door :
But tho step that lingered nightly,
And the hand that tapped so lightly,
And the face that beamed so brightly,
Comes no more.
l!y the firelight's fitful gleaming
1 am dreaming ever dreaming,
And the rain is slowly falling all around:
And the voic< that arc nearest,
Of friends the best and deaiest,
Appear to have a strange and distant sound.
Now the weary wind is sighing,
And the murky day is dying,
And the withered leaves lie scattcr'd round my door:
But that voice whose gentle greeting
Sot this heart so wildly heating
At each fond and frequent meeting.
Coincs no more.
MR. NASBY DREAMS A DREAM— A
JOHNSON KING.
CONFEDF.RIT X RoADK )
(which is in the State uv Kentucky),
October 24, 1800. j
Dreams is only vouchsafed to persons uv a
imaginative and speritool nacher, uv whom
lam which. Ther aint anytliing gross or
about me that I know uv. T'roo I
whikcy, wich
make tno entirely too e the rial for this'grov
elin world. I eat pork to re-train my exu
berant imaginashun and enable me to come
down to the dry detail uv ofiLh'l life—to fit
me for the proper discharge uv duties ez
postmaster. Whiskey lift me above the
BOMshna—pork brings me back agin._ Its
fat and greasy like the pay and perquisites
uv the postmaster—it comes from the nasty
senseless and unclean of animal like our
cuinmishuns—in short I recommend all uv
Johnson's Postmasters to eat pork. Its
their natural diet.
Last nito I partook uv a pound or so too
much, and as a c insekence, didn't sleep well.
While 1 wu7. eatin [moistenin my lips with
L >uisville consolation, the while], I wuz
mu-in onto Seward's question whether they
would have Johnson President or King, and
while musin I fell in 2 the arms of Morfus.
My mind bu-t 100-e-fiom the body and sored.
Ez T sank to .lumber the narrow room wich
is at wunst my offi.s and doniitory, widened
and enlarged, the humble chairs became
suddenly upholstered in gorgis style, the
tall r dip became multiplied in to thoosands
uv gorgue chandilcer-. the portraits uv his
Highness the President, and the otherDem
ocrit- on the wall became alive. I compre
h< tided the situation to wunst. Androo
Johnson had cut the Gorgan knot with
-omebody's sword, and bed carried out his
Policy to its natural conclusion. Ife wuz
King and wuz reignin under the title uv
Androo the li and T wuz (in my dream uv
course,) in his kinglv halls.
ft wuz, luethawt. a reception nite. Ilis
Mightiness wuz a sittin onto a elevated
throne covered with red velvet aud studded
with diamonds, and pearls, and onyxs and
other preciou- stone- —onto his head wuz a
crown, and he wuz enveloped into a robe uv
black velvet, his nose and the balance of his
face glean in out like a flash nv litenin from
a thunder cloud. Lyin prostrate at the
foot of the throne, doin the offisof a foot
ct.'ol, wuz Charles Sumner, wunst Senator,
which wuz typikle uv the complete triumph
we hed won over our enemies, while doin
other menial offices about the walls, wuz
Wade, Wilson, Fessendcn, Sherman and
others who hod oppo ed the change from a
Republic to a Kingdom. They wuz clothed
'man npproprit eostoom, knee breeches, and
sich, and presented a pekoolyerly impo-in
appearance.
Carriages containing the nobility began
to arrive, and ez they entered the Grand
High Lord Chamberlin uv the Palis, the
Markis von-llandrll annonnct em. ' Book
de Davis" wuz ejaekelatod and Jefferson
entered. "Earl von Toombs," "Sir Joseph
E.Johnson," Markis de Rouregard" and
so forth.
Noticin that the titles I bed heard wuz
mostly lacked to Southern men, I asked
Giddy Wells, who wuz slandin by, why it
wuz thus, and he paid that Northerners
wuzn't reely fit for it. We wuz. he said, a
low grovlin race and coodent adapt ourselves
to the habrts uv nobility. The South wuz
shivelrus and cood do it. They wuz given
to tournaments and nich —they hed got ac
customed to circus clothes and could wear a
sword without gettin it awkwardly between
the legs. Northern men, sich ez were faith
ful, wuz allowed to barsk in the smiles of
royalty, hut it wuz in such positions ez soot
ed their capacity. He, for instance, hed
charge of the royal poultry yard, a position
which he believed he filled to the entire sat
isfaction uv his beloved and royal master.
He hed now four hens a sittin, each on four
eggs, and he hoped in the course of two
years, cf there wuz no adverse circumstan
ces, to hev fresh eggs for the royal table. It
wuz a position uv great responsibility and
one which weighed upon him, Seward was
privy coun-ler, Doolittle wuz steward uv
the household, and Thurlow Weed wuz
Keeper of the King's revenue, and wuz
doin very well indeed.
By this time the Company assembled.
His Highness wuz in a merry mood and
unbended himself. Ther wuz a knot uv
the nobility gathered in a corner, and after
a earnest interview uv n minnjt. Count Van
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Cowan advanced to the foot uv the throne,
and on bended k nee demanded a boon.
"What, ray faithful servitor, docs thou
most desire? ' said His Highness.
"We wood. Your Majesty, have the pris
oners of state brot iuto the presence, that
we make merry over 'em.''
"It shel be done," sed His Majesty, and
forthwith Baron von Steedman. who hed
command uv the King's Household Body
Guard, was sent for them. In a moment
they wuz brot in. They wuz a miserable
lookin set. Forney and Wendell Phillips
wuz chained together, Fred Douglass and
Anna Dickenson. Dick Yates and Governor
Morton, Ben, Butler and Carle Shurtz, Kel
ley and Covode, while chase wuz tied to
Horace Grecly, onto whose back wuz a pla
card inscribed, "The last day uv the Trib
unes," at which Raymond, who left the
ltaJLLoli and declared for the Empire pre
cisely the rite time, and wuz now editor uv
the Court Journal, laffed immodritiy.
Some one exclaimed "Bring in Thad. Ste
vens," at which His Majesty turned pale
and his knees >mote together, "Don't,
don't," sez he, "he's strength cnuff left to
wag his tongue. Keep him away ! keep
him away !" and he showed ez much lear
ez men do in delcrium tremeus when they
sec snakes.
Metbawt I made inquiries and found that
things wuz workin satisfactory. Gen. Grant
wuz in exile, and Gen. Sheridan hed been
decapitated for rcfoosin to acquiesce in the
new arrangement. The country hed been
divided iuto dookdoms and earldoms, and
sich, over which the nobility rooled with
undispootcd authority. The principal men
uv the North hed been capchered and sub
dued, and wuz a filiin menial positions in
the palaces uv the nobility. No Lord or
I)ook or Earl considered himself well served
onless he hed a half dozen Northern Con
gressmen in his house, while the higher
grade of nobility wuzen't content with any
thing less than Guvemcrs. The indeted
ness uv the South to the North hed been
adjusted. A decree bed bin ishood to the
effect that Northern merchants who shood
press a claim agin a Southerner should be
beheaded and his goods confiscated. The
question uv slavery lied bin settled forever,
for the Deniokratie ijee uv wun class torool
and wun class to serve wuz fully establish
There wuz now three classes uv society,
the hereditary nobility, the untitled officials
and the people ; the latter, black and white,
wuz all serf-, and all attached to the soil.
Bizitns.wuz all done by foreigners, the poli
cy of the government bein to make the na
tive born people purely agricultural peas
antry. The nobility desirin to make it easy
for em gave em one-sixth uv the produx uv
tho soil, reservin the balance for their own
uses.
My dream didn't continue long enuff for
tue to ascertain whether I wuz a nobleman
or not, but I am uv the opinion that 1 wuz.
for a servant handin me a pin to stick into
Gen. Butler to make him roar fur the
amoozement uv the company, addressed
me ez "'Yoor Grace," from which I inferred
that I wuz one of the Lord's spirtooal.
Unfortunately at this pint I awoke and a
sad awakenin in it wuz. The gorgus halls
iitn* * • * \
the role- uv stait and jewels and sieh wuz
gone and I wnz inmy offisnop'ToorGraco,"
but merely a Postmaster in a Kentucky vil
liage. Well, that is suthin. Wat better is
a nobleman? He don't work, neither do I.
He drinks wine, it is troo, but I hev wat
soots me better, whisky fresh from the still.
Yet my dream may b ■ realized, and if it is. I
will endevoor to fill the position with credit.
Who knows?
PETRoI.EL M V. NASBY, P. M.,
(which is Postmaster.)
A STARTLING DISCOVERY.
The New York Tribune professes to give
its readers an account of a - moling discovery
made by Signor Nessun '' ' - : . -■>. ity
at Bologna,—Nessuno, our Jtab a critic
tells us, means nobody,— who found among
the papyri of Pompeii, which he ha * Leen
many years engaged in investigating, a com
plete report of a tour taken by Herod the
Great immediately after the massacre of the
Innocents. Herod, it appears, was aceom
pained by his old, wary minister, Servius
Vardius, the general who commanded his
armies, the captain of his fleet, and a crowd
of parasites. The cause of the journey does
not appear, but something is said about a
monument, —possibly that of Julius Caesar,
whtJhippointed Herod governor, although
after the assa--iuation of Caesar, Herod im
mediately went over to Brutus and Cas.-ius.
We copy a portion of tlie Tribune's article
on this great discovery:—
Herod had his speech prepared before
hand, and if Professor Nessuno has transla
ted it literally, it must have been really
comic in its effect. He is reckoned to have
stopped in all at some sixty or a hundred
places before he got back to Jerusalem, and
at every one of these places he delivered the
same speech, the only exception being the
one we arc about to mention. It happened
that llcrod came a certain large town,
whose name i - not as clear in the manuscript
as it might he, and after dinner a large
crowd came about the caravansary where he
was stopping and called for a speech, and he
had just begun to peg away at the old cut
and-dried affair that had served his turn so
far, when be was interrupted by an ill-man
nefed fellow who cried out, "How about
them babies?" lleroJ immediately grew
red in the face, made a grab at his c rown,
and was about to hurl it at the saucy fellow,
when his wary old adviser, Servius Vardiux,
adroitly caught it, and, to put it out of
harm's way, clapped it on his own head,
llerod was in such a state of rage that for a
few minutes he was quite incoherent, but at
length he managed to speak. Here we
quote Prof. Nessuno's delightfully free and
naive rendering as literally as we can into
corresponding English ideas. It must lie
remembered that Herod was not a Roman
by birth, but was a barbarian, and had no
advantages of education or of society.until
his accidental elevation to the tetrarchy,
which will account for a certain rowdy air
hisspeecheshave: "You'd better a-k about
them babies! If yer knew more about
babies in particular, you'd never ask such
questions, I reckon. Who,-I Should like to
know, has suffered more from babies than 1
hev? Who has put up with more from cm
than I hev? J didn't kiil those yer babies;
they killed theirselves; aud it' I did kill 'cm,
T had to do it, else they nns would have kil
led we tins. As for me I hev sounded all
the depths of honor and my ambition is grati
fied to repletion. I have been everything
by turns and nothing long. I began life in
a small low way, but honors and dignities
climbed onto my brow, and 1 filled first one
office, and then another until I had sat in
the gubernatorial cheer, and at length be
came tetrareli. which fill the cup of ray
ambitkm and leaves me satiated with glory.
It makes me mad to hear a demoralized aud
subsidized mob a hollerin out wherever 1 go:
"How about them babie.-! How about them
babies!' Let me tell you that them inno
cents, as you call'em. wa.-a poor, feeble,
insignificant, contemptible hand of fanatics
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER Q3. 1866.
who was engaged in a gigantic scheme to
rend my tetrarcny in pieces and blot out the
stars from the imperial banner. They was
a utterlly powerless band of infuriated "mad
men, and the fact that they was ouly two
years old and under, made their crime more
heinous and abominable. It was well
known that I had forbid playing in the mar
ket place, and yet these innocents came into
the market place with penny whistles and
flags a flying, and with su h defyin airs,
that it could not be stood, and their mothers
actually had the brass to laugh at 'em and
cheer 'em on. Who, my friends, has suff
ered more from these babes than I have?
sounded all the depths of honor, I have set
in the gub—
At this moment, continues the manuscript
a scene of terrible confusion occurred. The
people refused to hear the tetrarch any more i
and began to curse him up and down with
out ceremony, to jeer him insntvhim in
every way. The air was darkened with a
shower of sticks and stones, eggs of every
degree of stalepess added their perfume to
the violet of his imperial robes, while the
dead bodies of the smaller animals aud ver
min of the district were hurled without ces
sation. and with the most unerring aim at
his venerable head. One young Jew burled
a dead duck at him, another made a missile
of a coney, a creature which, though it is
expressly stated in the Bible to belong to a
feeble folk, proved on this occasion unpleas
antly strong. It is not recorded that a
tetrarch was ever so abused before. Herod
seems to have been utterly unable to defend
himself against the storm, and at last gave
it up, retreating from the platform amid a
whirlwind of jeers, threats, derisive eries and
voices that repeated uneessingly "How
about the babies!' until the wretched
tetrarch was nearly mad with rage and
terror. Not long after his return to Jerusa
lem—and his friends hustled him back to
the capitol without ceremony—he was so
weighed upon with remorse and mortifica
tion that he is actually said to have held his
tongue for a month, whereas he had always
been remarkable for the profusencss of his
speech, and had never been known to go
more than twenty-four hours without talk
ing about himself. But the sequel was,
that the Innocents were well avenged.
MTEKAKY NOTES.
A London correspondent of the independ
ent gives the following gossip about well
known English lady writers :
GEORGE F.1.10T.
Having an intense desire to see the author
of "Adam Bede." 1 drove to the Priory
one Sunday hoping that a peep might be
vouchsafed me. To my great disappoint
ment, however, Mis. Lewes was too feeble
to see a stranger. As wo drove home I as
serted my Yankee privilege of asking ques
tions ; and. as the facts I then learned are
no secret. I repeat them here. Mr. Lewes,
having forgiven and taken back an unfaithful
wife, cannot according to Mnglish law. obtain
a divorce, although the wife had twice de
serted him. Miss Evans is considered his
wife, and called Msr. Lewes l>y their friends,
in spire ofeosstn *r<* Owing to
her peculiar position, litres seldom
gi es into general society or sees strangers,
though every one i anxious to meet her,
and many ot her warmest friends are among
the wise and good. A! whom I saw loved,
respected and defended her ; ome upon the
plea that, if genius, like charity, covers a
multitude of sins in men, why not in wo
men ?
JEAN INOELOW.
Coming at la.-.t to a quiet street, where all
the houses were gray with window-boxes
full of flowers, we reached Mr.;. Ingelow's.
In the drawing room we found the mother
of tho poetess, a truly beautiful old lady,
in widow's cap and guwn with the sweetest
sercnest face I ever saw. Two daughters
sat with her, both older than I fancied them
to he, but both very attractive woman.
Eliza looked as if she wrote the # poetry,
Jean the prose—for the former wore curls,
had a delicate face, fine eyes, and that indc
scril.able something which suggests genius;
the latter was plain, rather stout, hair
touched with gray, shy, yet cordial manners
and a clear, straitforward glance, which I
liked so much that I forgave her on the
spot for writing those dull stories.
Gerald Massey was with them, a dapper
little man, with a large, fine head, and very
un-English manners. Being oppressed with
"themountainous me," he rather bored the
company with "my poem-, my plans, and
my publishers," till Miss Eliza politely de
voted her.-elf to him, leaving my friend to
chat with the lovely old lady, aud myself
with Jean. Both being bashful, and both
laboring under the delusion that it was
proper to allude to each other's works, we
tried to exchange a few compliments, blush
ed, hesitated, laughed, and wisely took ref
uge in a safer subject. Jean had been
abroad; o we pleasantly compared notes,
and I enjoyed the souud of her perculiarly
musical voice, in which I seemed to hear the
breezy rhythm of some of her charming
songs. The ice which surrounds every Eng
li.-h man and woman was beginning to melt,
when Massey disturbed me to ask what was
thought of his books in America. As I
really had not the remotest idea, I said so ;
whereat he looked blank and fell upon
Longfellow, who seems to be the only one ol
our poets whom the English kuow or eare
much about. The conversation became
general, and soon after it was necessary to
leave, lest the safety of tlie nation should
be endangered by overstepping the fixed
limits of a morning call.
Later. I learned that Miss Ingelow wa
; extremely conservative, and was very indig
nant when a petition for women's rights to
; vote was offered for her signature. A ram
pant radical told tne this, and shook her
handsome head pathetically over Jean's
narrowness but when I heard that once a
week several poor souls dined comfortably
in the pleasant homo of the poetess, 1 for
gave her conservatism, and regretted that an
unconquerable aversion to dinner parties
made me decline her invitation.
WHO IS OU>. —A wise man will never rust
out. As long as he can move and breathe,
he will do something for himself, for his pos
terity. Almost the last hour of his life Wel
lington was at work. So were Newton.
Bacon, Milton and Franklin. The vigor of
their lives never decayed. No rust marred
their spirits. It is a foolish idea that \ve
must lie down because we are old. Who is
old? Not the man of energy: not the day la
borer in science, art or benevolence; but he
only who suffers his energies to run to waste,
and the spring of life to become motionless,
on whose hands the hours drag heavily.
SEVEUK. — 'Madame, your boy can't pas
for half fare, he is too large," said the conn
ductor of a slow railway train. "He may be
too large now," replied the matron, "but he
was small enough when we started."
FEMALE clerks and folders are employed is
the Dead Letter Office at Washington. What
a paradise of enjoyment for curious women!
BAGGAGE.
"That seat is.occupied," said a bright
eyed girl to a man who was about to take it,
"Occupied!" he growled; "where's his
baggage?" With a saucy upward look at
him, "I'm his baggage," she said. And
this brings me to say that if you are going
a long journey in the region where it is "first
come, first served," the most desirable piece
of baggage you can take with you is not a
hat box or a blanket, but a woman. If you
have none, then marry one. for you are not
thoroughly equipped lor the road till you
do. When dinner is ready you follow in
her blessed wake, and are snugly seated be
side her, and exactly opposite the platter of
chickens, before the hirsute crowd, woman
less as Adam was till he fell into a deep sleep,
are let in at all.
There you are, and there they are. You
twam-onc, With ihv tiro brat okftira .u tka
house, stiffed aM smiled on. Look down
tho table at the unhappy fellows, some of
them actually bottoming the chairs they
occupy, and arms and hands reaching across
the talie in every direction like the tenta
culm of a gigantic polypus. When night
comes, and with it a border tavern, it is not
you that shift uneasily from side to side on
the bar room floor. If there is any best bed
she gets it and you share it. You follow her
into the best car; she first in tho stage coach
aud you are too. More than that, a woman
keeps you "upon your honor;" you are
pretty sure to behave yourself all the
way.
The conclusion is as 6trong as a lariat, that
travelling bachelors have forgotten some of
their baggage, and that if a woman hears a
man sneer about her troublesome sex and
their inevitable, in eparable bandbox, and
then in some weak moment he says to her,
"Will you?" and she be wise, she will he
cautious. Men are not a tithe of the help
to women on a journey that the latter in
their modesty and their ignorance—we beg
pardon, which?—are always conceding.
Blessed be nothing. A lone woman can
make the transit of the American continent,
like Venus crossing the sun, without either
danger or in-ult. She can emulate the Irish
Xorah, who, in some fabulous time, decked
with jewels and beauty, made tlie tour of
Ireland alone, and not a soul harmed her as
she went:
"Rich and rare were the jewels she wore,
And a bright gold ring ou her wand she bore,
But, ah, her beauty was far beyond
Her sparkling gems and her show white wand.
On she went, and her maiden
In safety lighted her round 'the green Isle.''
—B. F. TAYLOR.
IDLE SONS OF WEALTHY PARENTS.
Vb e cut from our exchanges a short para
graph stating that the wealthy parents of
two young men of Now York, who were
tired out by seeing their boys do nothing,
started them in business with a capital of
$20,00 1 ; and this paragraph further states
that in two weeks they had squandered all
their capital and a few hundredsover. There
is a good deal in this story, so briefly and so
jauntily told, that is worthy of earnest re
flection on the part of the aforesaid parents
V'f O. IT .. O 1 T. 3 C
inn nll I*J-. iLoro vi niICIA OWO
It is, unfortunately, getting to be too much
the custom among men in this country, who
have made or inherited fortunes, to cherish
and en ura the natural desire ou the part
of their sons t.sp-. nd in a sort of luxurious
idleues the days tha : . should be devoted to
learn some useful business, trade or profes
sion, nut ouly for the purpose of earning
means to defray the expenses of life, but
through which they could be enabled to con
tribute their share to the production, work
and v a Ith of the country. Such occurren
<• -t at notedab- ve are to some extent
public a.- well as private matters, because
wh r er voting men are brought up to lives
of idleness there i-- so much abstracted from
the common stock of wealth by the loss of
that which they would have otherwise crea
ted. and because such idle lives are nearly al
ways sure to lead to vice and demoralization
of various kinds. Even overlooking the
evil influences of such matters upon society
at large, and regarding them solely in a
money point of view, how much cheaper
would it have been to the lathers of these
young men to have spent a few thousand
dollars of the twenty thousand squandered in
two weeks in having them so taught and
trained that money would have been sate in
their hands, -o as : > make both it and them
selves useful to their fellow men. In these
days, when - > many men are becoming sud
denly rich, and when there are counter indi
cations that so mauyjof their posterity may
become suddenly poor, there is greater cause
than ever for impressing upon the minds of
parents the dangers of allowing their sons to
grow up with habits of idleness, and without
knowledge of any useful callings by which
they may be able to earn livings for them
selves. l'h ila. Ledger.
J.VSIDF, A PRINTING OFFICE.
It is not alone compositors wlao will enjoy
the following. It is a capital and very forci
ble illustration of a printing office dialogue:
Foreman of the office—"Jones what are
you at now ?"
Compositor—"l'm setting "A house on
fire" —almost done!"
Foreman —"What fs Smith about?"
Oompoaitor- "II.s oogigMM a "horrid
murder.'" ~
Foreman —"Finish it as quick as possible
and help Morse through with his telegraph.
11 Boh what are you trying to get up ?"
Bob—"A panic in the money market."
Foreman —"Thomas what are you dis
tributing ?"
Thomas —"Prizes in the gift lottery."
Foreman —' 'Stop that and take hold of ''A
run a way horse.' ' S taenia, what in creation
have you been about this last half hour?"
Slocum —"Justifying the "Compromise
Measure" my sub set up."
Foreman —"You chap on the stool there,
what are youon now V'
Chap on the stool—"On the 'table' that
you gave me.''
Foreman —"Lay it on the table for the
present; no room for it.''
Compositor—"How aboutthe.se "Munici
pal Candidates?"
Foreman—"Run em in. What do you
say, Slocum?"
Slocum —"Shall I lead these "Men of
Boston?"
Foreman —"No: they arc solid, of course.'
Compositor—"Do you want a full faced
head to "Jenny Lind'sFamily ?"
Foreman—"No ; put'em in small caps.
Joseph, haven't you got up that "Capital
joker"
Joseph—"No, sir; I'm out of sorts."
Foreman —"Well, throw in this "Million
of California Gold," and when you get
through with it, I'll give you some more."
Editor —"What do you want now?"
Deviljoe —"More copy, sir."
Editor —"Have you completed that "Elo
quent Thanksgiving Discourse ?"
Deviljoe—"Yes, sir; and I have just set
up "A warm winter."
VOI I'ME 39; NO 50.
SCENE AT TIIE DEATH BED OF
UK. .LINCOLN.
At Carlisle, Pa., recently, the Presbyte
rian feynods of the Old and New Schools
being in session at the same place, the two
bodies met in communion with great har
mony. Key. Dr. Guriey, pastor of the
church in Washington, which President
Lincoln usually attended, in a speech at the
table, gave the folWPdbg narrative which has
never before been made public :
"When summoned on that sad night to
the death bed of President Lincoln, I en
tered the room fifteen or twenty minutes be
fore his departure. All present were gath
ered anxiously around him, waiting to catch
his last breath. The physician, with one
hand upon the pulse of the dying man, and
the other laid upon his heart, was intently
watching for the moment when life should
He lingered longer than we iiaG expected.
At last the physician said: "He is gone:
he is dead.
Then I solemnly believe that for four or
five minutes there was not the slightest noise
or movement in that awful presence. We
all stood transfixed in our positions, speech
less, breathless, around the dead body of that
great and good man.
At length the Secretary of War, who was
standing at my left, broke the silence and
said, "Doctor, will you sav anything?" I
replied, "I will speak to God." Said he,
"Do it just now.
And there by the side of our fallen chief,
God put it into my heart to utter this peti
tion, that from that hour we and the whole
nation might become more than ever united
in our devotion to the cause of our beloved,
imperilled country.
\\ hen I ceased there arose from the lips
of the entire company a fervid and sponta
neous "Amen."
And has not the whole heart of the loyal
nation responded "Amen?"
as not that prayer, there offered, re
sponded to in a most remarkable manner ?
When in our history have the people of this
land been found more closely bound togeth
er in purpose and heart than when the tel
egraphic wires bore all over the country the
sad tidings that President Lincoln was
dead?"
'*l DON'T CARE."
Yes you do, and there's no use in trying
to deceive yourself with the sophistry of these
words.
The best and noblest, the truest and most
generous part of your nature does care for the
unkind, cutting words you have uttered to
one you loved, in moments of pique.
You may carry yourself ever so proud and
defiantly, you may never drop by word or
look the dew of sweet healing on the wound
you have made in a nature as proud, as sen
sitive, and exacting as your own; but to
your honor be it said, you are better than
your words, and away down in your heart
lurk shame, and repentance, and sorrow for
them.
You may carefully hide them both, and
in a little while they will be gone, for oh !
it is very easy to make one's self bitter, and
proud, and cold—very hard to keep one's
selfAiWJo Attf'lkK,, ere
fore you can do a mean ungenerous thing to
one who loves you, and have your heart en
dorse your "I don't care !"
And how often these words are uttered,
when conscience sternly refutes them; and
how often they harden the heart and keep
the feet in the way of evil.
Be careful, reader, when you say, "I don't
care."
AGREEABLE RECOMMENDATION.
A writer—a physician—in the Agricultu
rist, says apples are the most healthy fruit
produced in this country. He cites a good
many instances to prove the truth of this
system. And we suspect that he is very
nearly—if not quite—right. He says, in
substance, that there are but few articles of
vegetable food more widely useful and more
universally liked than the apple. Why
every farmer in the country has not an apple
orchard, where the trees will grow at all, is
one of the mysteries. Let every house
keeper lay in a good supply of apples, and it
will be one of the most economical invest
ments in the whole range of eulinaries. A
1 aw, mellow apple is digested in an hour and
a half, while boiled cabbage requires five
hours. The most healthy dessert that can
be placed on the table is a baked apple. If
eaten frequently at breakfast, with coarse
bread and butter, without meat or flesh of
any kind, it has an admirable effect on the
general system, often removing constipation,
correcting acidities, and cooling off febrile
conditions more effectually than the most
approved medicines. If families could be
induced to substitute apples, sound and ripe
for pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with which
their children are too frequently stuffed,
there would be a diminution in the sum
total of Doctors' bills, in a single year, suffi
cient to lay in a stock of this delicious fruit
for the whole season's use.
WEAVING FRUIT BLOSSOMS.
A little girl had a young cherry tree which
bore beautiful blossoms one spring. She
wanted flowers for a garland one day, and
thinking the cherry tree blossoms very beau
tiful. she plucked and wove them into a gar
land. But nlicu tlio timo of cherries came
the tree bore none. How could it? Cher
ries come from blossoms, and she had pluck
ed the blossoms and made them into gar
lands. She could not use both blossoms
and cherries.
It is just so with tho hours of young lives.
Hours are blossoms from which come the
fruit of success and happiness in after years.
Spend them in study, and they will grow
into the fruit of scholarship by and by.
Spend them in useful industry, and they
will grow into the fruit of prosperity when
you arc older. Spend them in prayer and
reading G id's word, and they will grow iottT
the fruit of ripe and manly piety. But if
you weave them into garlands for idle sport
they will bring forth no fruit. Your life
will be a barren tree. Do you understand?
ADVICE TO A young lady,
the other day, in the course of a lecture,
(after the manner of Miss A; ma E. Dickin
son) said: _
"Get married, young man, and be quick
aboutit too. Don't wait for the millemum,
hoping that the girls may turn to angels be
fore you trust yourseli with one of them. A
pretty thing you'd be alongside an angel,
wouldn't you—you brute? Dont wait an
other day, but right now—this very night
ask some nice, industrious girl to go into
partnership with you, to clear your pathway
of thorns, and plant it with flowers.
WHEN a gentleman stares at a lady, and she
stares at him, they are apt to mount to the
region of love by a pair of stares.
A new style of bonnet has made its appear
ance in Paris. It is a twine string with a
diamond set in the top.
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"A RADICAI sends to the Harrisbur-
Teltgraph the following impeachment od
Warren Hastings by Edmund Burke, and
asks "What would Burke have said if he hag
been called upon to impeach Andrew John
son?"
I impeach Warren Hastings, Esquire, of
high crimes and misdemeanors.
I impeach him in the name of the Com
mons of Great Britain, in Parliament assem
bled, whose parliamentary trust he has be
trayed.
1 impeach him in the name of all the Com
mons ofGreatßritain, whose national charac
ter he has dishonored.
impeaeh him in the name of the people of
India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has
subverted; whose properties he has destroyed;
whose country he has laid waste and desolate
I impeach him in the name aud by the vir
tue of those eternal laws of justice which he
has violated.
, T jmneach him in the name of !""• nature
itseii. which he has cruelly outraged, injured
and oppressed, in both sexes, iu every age,
rank, situation and condition oflife.
Says the correspondent of the Telegraph-.
Warren Hastings never attempted to sub
vert the government of his native land; he
never publicly travelled round the country he
ruled over in the character of a drunken buf
foon; he never chose for his friends prize
fighters and the keepers of faro-banks: he
never encouraged rebel ruffians to murder the
friends of the Governmeat: he never egged on
villains and cut throats to burn down school
houses for the poor.
PASSING AWAY.—One of our cotem
poraries goes off as follows over the depart
ure of the musquitoes :
"The musquitoes are gone. Only one
visited our pillow last night. His hum (he
didn't seem to feel at hum ) was a mournful
sound. It spoke of other days—we mean
nights—when, surrounded by his gaily
puncturing companions, he struck his light
guitar. We felt for him—hut didn't find
him. We turned on the gas and there sat
the little devil on the head board, wiping his
eyes with a corner of the musquito bar.
The eloquence of his silent grief made us
sad also. We picked up a copy of "Young's
Night Thoughts" with melancholy abstrac
tion. Slowly and silently we approached
him so that we should not disturb his medi
tation or intrude upon his grief. He was
weeping for those who had gone before. Al
most reverently did we elevate "Young's
Night Thoughts," we poised it a moment in
the air to hear again that plaintive wail —
and then we waled him :
He is gone; he the last of the musque
gans.
Lightly they'll speak of the "skeeter" that's
gone,
And o'er his cold carcass upbraid him :
But little he'll bite if they let him sleep on—
On the head board where 'Woung's Night
Thoughts" laid him.
EDITORIAL SLAVERY.—Every editor of a
newspaper will appreciate the truth of the
following passage from some of the writings
of Capt.M arryatt;
It is not the writing of the leading article
itself, but the obligation to write that article
everyday, (or week,) whether inclined or
not, in sickness or in health; in affliction,
after year; tied'dow'n to the "task; remaining
in one spot. It is something like the walk
ing of a thousand hours. I Lave a fellow
feeling, for I know how a periodical will
wear down one's existence, in itself it ap
pears nothing; but the labor is notmanifest:
nor is it the labor, but it is the continued
attention which it requires. Your life be
comes, as it were, the publication. One
day's, (or week's) paper is no sooner correc
ted and printed, than on comes another. It
is the stone of Eysephus; an endless repe
tition of toil, constant weight upon the in
tellect and spirits, demanding all the exer
tion of your faculties, at the same time that
you are compelled to do the severest kind of
drudgery. To write for a newspaper is very
well, but to edit one is to condemn yourself
to slavery. All of which is as true as
preJching.
RECOVERY OF MR. PRENTICE. —Mr. George
D. Prentice, senior editor of the Louisville
Journal, acknowledges the sympathy of the
press during his recent illness, in the follow
ing felicitious manner:
"Our heartfelt thanks are due to very ma
ny of our brethren of the press for their kind
notices of us during our fate illness. Their
sympathy soothed aud cheered and strength
ened us. It seemed to throws calm and love
ly light upon the world, and make us wish to
linger still among our fellow men. There ia
much that is beautiful and holy and hallowing
in sickness. Its influences are purer and
better than those of health. Indeed the fee
bleness of the body is often the health of the
soul. We see and hear what we may not in
the season of physical strength. Myriad spir
its of the air flutter Over the dividing line
between two worlds, uttering to mortal be
ings the tones they have learned in heaven.
As we move downward upon the sombre and
mysterious pathway that leads to the door of
the tomb, we behold, as from the depths of
a shadowy well and cavern, the pale sereni
ties of floating stars, all invisible in the glare
and sunshine of the upper air, and their sa
cred and blessed light need never fade from
the spirit.
DELAYS IN THE ROAD TO WEALTH.—
Those who envy the merchantsof New York
little think how slow a progress they make
from tho olork'3 de.k to the stately parlor of
tue concern. The new house of Grinnell,
Minturn & Co. lias just been remodeled, and
two ofits former clerks are made partners.
Both of these were fifty years of age and up
wards, and one of them had been in the
house for more than a quarter of a century.
Both had been elevated over the heads of
other clerks, out of whom, numbering more
than one hundred (employed at differen'
times.) only two have reached the pinuacle
of success. Such is the dubious prospect
held out to youthful ambition. A life of
drudgery, perhaps, to bring success when
age and habit have rendered it of little value.
And yet so great is the rush to obtain situa
tions in such houses that clerks receive no
pay the first year, and but little even after
that.. Hence many become wearied and
drop off, and only the tenacious hang on,
and of these not one in ten reaches the
prize.
fi®*Sorghuui jokes are so rare that when
one transpires, even if if it is not so funny,
we fell like preserving it. A cane grower
down in Hoosierdom, writing about the hal
ting and sluggish growth of sorghum in its
early stages, says : "Cane don't grow one bit
till its a foot high.
BgfuA man in New Hampshire had the
misfortune to lose hiswife. Over the grave
he caused a stono to he raised, on which, in
the depth of his grief, he ordered to be in
scribed: "Tears cannot restore her, there
fore I weep."
SINFUL habits are the channels of sinful
thoughts. If we would have the thoughts to
cease to fiow, we must close up the channels.