Sbe glitotd 18 PUBLISHER EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY J. R. DIIRBOHKOW AND JOHN W I'Z, o 11! LIANA St., o|>|>oitethe Mengel Huttuc BEDFORD, PENN'A TERMS: 92.00 a year if puid strictly iu auwmce. If nol |wl<t within 4* month* M.M. ir not |hl within the jfr grafessionai & §usiJissi <£atfljS ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Jll. LONGENECKER, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., All banner entrusted to his care will receive prompt attention. JR-IR OFFICE with S. L. KISSED, Etq., nearly opposite the Court House. Oct. 16, '6.-6'n. S. r. METERS I. w. BICIRMO* ML. VERS 4 DICKERSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, FUSS'S., Office same as formerly occupied by HOB. W. P. Schell, two doors east of the Gazette office, will practice m the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and buck pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. May 11,'66— lyr. J OHN T. KEAGY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PERM'S., Offers to give satisfaction to all who may en trust their legal business to him. Will collect moneys on evidences of debt, and speedily pro cure bounties and pensions to soldiers, their wid ow" or heirs. Office two doors west of Telegraph office. aprll:'M-ly. JB. CESSNA. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHN CESSSA, on Julianna street, in the office formerly occupied by King 4 Jordan, and recently by' Filler A Keagy. AU business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, 4c., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9,1865. J- M'D. *• V- UK"" SHARPE 4 KERR, A TTOIiNE PS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. AH businesr entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col. lected from the Government Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed 4 Schell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:f JOHN PALMER. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. Particular attention paid to the collection oFMilitary claims. Office on Julianna St., nearly opposite the Mengel House.) june 23, '65.1y /. J*. IUTBORROW JOHN LUTZ. DUBBOKROW 4 LUTZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEBFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. They arc, also, regnlarly license! Claim Agents anil will give special attention to tlie prosecution of claims against tb Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lamls, Ac. Office on Juliana .creet, one door South of the 'Mengel Mouse" and nearly opposite tho Inquirer office. April 28. 1885:t ESPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFOBD, PA., Will faithfnlly ami promptly attend to all busi ness en'nisted'to his care in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military claim*- Pemymps. h*ej. f,nv Beauty, Ac. speedily collected. Office wua Mann J Spang, on Juliana street 2 of the Men gel House. apll, 1861. . M A ATTORSEY AT LAW, BrnroßH, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J W. I-R- ei " Esq.. on Juliana street, two doors South of the "Menglo House." Dee. 9, 18*4-tf. TNHN MOWKR, T J ° ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA. April 1, 1864. —tf. TTIMMELL AND UNOFNFKLTKR, L\ ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BBPFOHO, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Men gel House, nprl, 18(14—tf. DKNTIKTS. c. *. BICKOK '• ■ mss.ca, jn. DENTISTS, BR.I>RI>NR>. I**- office in Ike Bank Building, Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgn-al or Me chanical Dsntistrv earrfullj mad faithfully per formed and warranted. TERMo CASH. Too th Powderc and Mouth YVat-b, excellent ar tides, always on hand. jan6'6s-lj. I t KNTISTKY. \) I. N. BOWSER, REMOEKT DKSTIST. Woon r.EKRT, Pa., visits Bloody Run three days of each month, eommrncing with the second Tuesday of the month. Prepared to perform ail Dental oper ations with which he may he favored. Term* trithin the rench of all anil ttricllg cash except by trpecial contract. Work to he sent by mnil or oth wise. must be paid for when impressions are taken. augS, '64:tf. PHYSICIANS. DR. GEORGE C. DOUGLAS Respect.tully tenders his professional services to tbe people of Bedford and vicinity. jfPSMlesidence at Maj. Washabaugh's. >e- Office two doors west of Bedford Hotel, up stairs. aul7:tf HTM. W. JAMISON, M. D., W RLOODT Res, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of (hat place and vicinity. [deeß:lyr DR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully lenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in tha building formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius. April 1. 1884— tt. JL. MARBOURG, M, D„ . Baring permanently located respectfully tenders his pofessional services to the citizens of Bedtord and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf. JEWELER, Ac. ABSALOM OARLICK. CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER, BI.OODT RCH. PA. Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Ac., promptly re paired. All work entrusted to his care, warranted to give satisfaction. He also keeps on hand and for sale WATCH US, CLOCKS, and JEWEL BY. .pff Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. my 4 DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO POORS WEST or TH* BD FOBP HOTEL, BESTOBP, PA. WATCHMAKER AMD DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES, AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Qold Watch Chains, Breast Pini, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand, apr. 28, 1865—5. JM. LEHMAN, wrsTic* or THE pzici ANN SCXIVZHB, COAL DALE. Will promptly attend to all collections intrusted to him. He will also execute all instruments of writing with neatness and dispatch. Goal Dale, Sept. 14, 1866 :6m. BeOtoro J u quiver. BI'KBORROW £ M'TZ Editors and Proprietors. THE SMACK IN SCHOOL. The following incident in a district school, is told by Mr. William Pitt Palmer, of New York, President of the Manhattan Insurance Company, in a phetical address before "The Literary Society," in Stockbridge, Massachu setts his native home: A district school not far away, 'Mid Berkshire hills, one winter's day Was humming with its wonted noise Of three-score mingled girls and boys ; Some few upon their task intent, But more on furtive mischief bent ; The while the master's downward look Was fastened on a copy-book : When suddenly, behind his back, Rose sharp and clear a rousing SMACK ! As 'twere a battery of bliss Let off in one tremendous kiss ! 'What's that?" the startled master cried ; "That, thir," a little imp replies, "Wath William Willith, if you pleathe— I tliaw him kith Thuthannah Pcathel" With frown to make a statue thrill, The master thundered "Hither, Will !' Like wretch o'ertaken in his track, With stolen chattels on his back, Will hung his head with fear and shame, And to the awful presence came— A great, green, bashful simpleton, The butt of all good-natured fun— With smiles suppressed, and birch upraised The threatener faltered —"I'm amazed That you, my biggest pupil, should Be guilty of an act so rude ! Before the whole sc-t school to boot— What evil genius put you to't ?" "Twas she, herself, sir," sobbed the lad, "I didn't mean to be so bad— But when Susannah shook her curls, And whispered I was 'fraid of girls, And dursn't kiss a baby's doll, I couldn't stand it, sir, at all, But up and kissed her on the spot ! I know—boo boo—l ought to not, But, somehow, from her looks —boo hoo I thought she kind o' wished me to 1" TO-MORROW. We can't recall the vanished past, Nor on the future reckon ; The light-winged hours, flying fast Cs to embrace them beckon. No more let Folly shruutl thine eyes ; Live while 'tis called to-day ; What if yon setting sun should rise To warm thy lifeless clay 1 Life is r.ot given ; 'tis but lent ; And tksuiimmls vet would borrow. For past, for present, time misspent, A day of grace to-morrow. Oh, day of hope ! oh, day of fear ! Foreboding joy or sorrow ; That comest not, though ever near, To-morrow ! still to-morrow 1 pwUmuw. BIS.*ARK, FRANCIS JOSKI'H AND GARIBALDI. [By George Alfred Townsend. \ BISMARCK. Three times within three months I sat in the presence of Count Bistuark. A reac tionist —in other words an enemy of every idea on whieh an American republicanism is based —by sheer boldness he precipitated the great war of 1866, and made himself a name in spite of his arrogance and unscru pulousncss. Almost a giant, both in height and industry, measuring six feet two, huge and homely, in feature, of a terrible eye, full of baneful fire, with a creased skin and an ear big enough for a railroad depot, a mouth so wide and so cruel that it could bite a State in two, and a neck into which you might turn a river—of anything but water ; his powers of mind are profound, his speech resolute ; but with you and me, common people, who demand achance and an influ ence, Count Bismark has no more sympathy than with so many horses. I did not love him more than he was bluff and affable ; no tyrants are more aimable than his great ene mies of the house of llapsburg, the Imperi al family of Austria. FRANCIS JOSEPH. Francis Joseph, the Emperor of Austria is thirty-seven years old, a mild faced, grace ful man, come prematdrely to the discretion of one who feels that a sceptre, seven hun dred years potential, is barren in his gripe. The weak inheritor of a barbarous fame, and an Emphe built upon plunder and treaty, the only lessons taught him by re verses were to pinch his subjects the tuore, and kneel the meaner at the foot ol the Pope. Twenty-one dissimilar nations are bound to his dynasty, the mastic of his em pire being force or despotism. .In this re public wc number thrice as many varieties of people ; but freedom makes them peace ful and true ; they are so diffused upon our soil that they mutually neutralize and i strengthen each other. What quiet should we have think you, if Ohio were exclusive ly made up of Dutchmen, Pennsylvania of Africans, Virginia entirely a Fenian Repub lic, and Indiana of docile Camanehc or hi oux ludians. and directing them all at Washington, a soft spoken German gentle man, whose claim to their gratitude lay al together in the fact that ho had subdued their ancestors? When I saw the Emperor review an army corps at Prague— deli eatc hands and limbs almost a woman s his soft grey breeches and sky blue jacket too neat for battle, and in the perpetual repose of his handsome face, and the quiet mild ness of his brown eye, a school teacher rath er than a King, I felt like a rising storm cloud, the scowl ol the people's faces; _ the bright line of troops burned a score of dif ferent dislikes, fusing their nationalities for one moment in one moody obedience. They shifted arms, hut their souls made no con sent ;it was a spectacle of the European word loyalty, perhaps, but not of patriot ism. 1 found it hard to see the despot in the half sad face of this young Emperor ; yet every hour of his crowned existence is by necessity and legacy a crime. With the same repose he countersigns the mortal findings of courts-martial, which hang a score of volunteers, who will not serve against their brethren and freedom. VY ith the same sweet youthfulness his sisters go to the infamy ol marriage without love, andto the arms of tyrants, like Maria Loui sa in her girlhood to the breast of Napoleon, bis true wife's tears yet wet ou the kiss A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO PQLITIOS, EDUOATION, LITEKATURE AND MORALS! with which he killed her. And I wonder ed as 1 looked, if the smile were not as sad and soft on the face of Maximilian, this Emperor's brother, who held with the true Hapsburg tenacity to his Mexican bauble, though the shrieks of his wife, gone mad, troubled the world. As between Austria and Prussia the right fulness of this recent war was so infinitesi mal that you might put both causes into a druggist's scale and overweigh them with a lawyer's wafer. Prussia is a young, ambi tious nation,_ in which the barbarism of war and the cultivation of the intellect are al most equal passions. A land of poets, phi losophers, musicians; the streets of Berlin show the statues of soldiers only; the reign ing family is made up of thick headed des posts; the military system of the country is irresistible in its powers and infamous in its conception; Prussia, in a word, is intelligent feudalism; yet her victory over Austria was desirable in the light of the century in which we live. The campaign she treacherously precipitated grew glorious by its brilliancy and energy. A King who had broken his oath to the Constitution, seized money without law and stabbed his brother and ally went with his hated Minister to love and heroism in a week, and every British moralist that held him up to execration when he seemed likely to be beaten cried loudly now that he was a noble Sovereign and the national ally of England. UARIBALDL There I looked into the face and sat at the feet of Garibaldi the first character of our generation; a patriot and countryman of all oppressed people, into whose kindly and forgiving nature fell the speed and mettle of the wild South American horses on which, like a fiery centaur, he rode down the ty rants of the West. The freedom of Italy is his work. Kings inherit it; lie inspirited it; Caesar and Cincinnatus meet in him. His face is both womanly and fatherly, the light I house to a good conscience burning the bct j tor as it grows the grayer, crumbling in tho ! tower but undecaying in the flame. His dutiful boys, who go to battle at his side and in returning peace till his half barren island are born of an American wife to whose mem ory though long dead, he has been faithful She was an Amazon women, and on the | Argentine plains rode with lance and lasso; when freedom came to her native country, she accompanied Garibaldi to his own land then the piece meal prey of tyrants. Together they entered Rome, in mutual love and triumph, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of them who sold doves—in the beautiful city of Brutus and Kietizi. Driven thence by com bined Kings and Princes they hid in the mountains, like the heroic Maccaheans, till I flying along the coast of the Adriatic an Au- | stiiati vessel shot down the wife at the hus ] band's side. That Adriatic coast is free to I day and Garibaldi with Anna's hoys to be | hor monuments, eternal in purpose as the ; Eternal City to which he turn- for the crowning struggle of his life, shall pass its gates again and standing in the Pantheon, among his kindred god-, found the new tl4tf,"liO€ yfiTtws: — " ' * * EDUCATION WITHOUT MEANS. A young man of Croton, lowa, writes that lie has fbOO, that he is married, that he wants to take a College course ami yet save his capital. He asks advice. There arc many who would like an answer to this question. Thousauds of young men have no money at all. To get a classical education with the use , of SS(K), requires more skill than any young _ man is likely to possess, unless he earned _ the money. If he is a mechanic, he may j buy a house and lot near a college and work during spare hours. Or, with a few acres, he can raise small fruits and vegetables, it he knows how ; if he docs not he will be likely to fail, rive hundred dollars is a very small sum to a young man who does not know how to work, to one who does it is a large one. ..... , What shall our young man with his hand some wife do ? Let him get a small farm ten, twenty or forty acres —near libraries and good society. Or. with a choice selec tion of books, he may live remote. Three things he should do at once : study mathe maties, learn to write a good hand, and plant an orchard. It he must spend some of his hours at billiards and in saloons, he had bet ter take a rope about eight feet long and go out to the barn. One aim should be to make home elegant and comfortable. Let him not fear this will distract his attention. If there was ever a time when an education which was of use could be united with poverty, it has passed forever. Days spent in strugglingforbread are lost; if not the bitterness they bring is equal to their loss. Nor need there be a fear that sad experience will not come when fortune smiles. Education is limited if it do not include a knowledge of the immensity and the un told riches of the affections. If a man can not find happiness with his wife and_ chil dren, and in a home of his own, in vain will he seek it over the face of the whole earth. There cannot be much love of home where home is unlovely—where poverty, dirt and inconvenience are in every room. Young men are apt to fear they will not live long, and they are in haste. In no situation is the foundation of a long life so securely es tablished as on a farm. This course will take time. He should understand that the education of this age demands time. So broad is the field of knowledge, so sharp is competition, that to succeed, many years are required. We do not propose failure. It is a modern discov ery. and well settled, that from three to four hours' study of books every day are more profitable to the majority of men than any longer periods. Every one cultivating land can have this time. A ljfc which does not establish a habit of meditation will be fruitless. We have known lawyers take this, and become judges in high courts ; doctors so skilfull as to give little medicine ; and preachers so learned as to convince both the understanding and the heart. In literature, we confess the examples are few. Hut, long ago, there was a young po et who set his heart on having a farm, and what most is known of him, is the trouble he had in getting it. \\ ith little knowledge of foreign languages, and none of a dead language, he diligently studied his own. He became familiar with previous knowl edge, and he noted everything relating to rural sights and sounds. He was in no haste to be eminent. He was only eager to excel. He wrote and re-wrote ;he review ed, he meditated and lingered ; and he ac quired the rare art of licing able to wait. The result is a work on the life of farmers, and on arms and heroes, which will last till I the end of time.— N. Y. Tribune. A eounscl being qucetioned by a judge to know 'Tor whom lie was concerned," replied "I am concerned, my lord, for the plaintiff, but I am employed by the defendant." "I have not loved lightly." as the man .taid when he married a widow weighing three huudred pounds. BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 25. 18G7. IIENItY WARD BEECHER. It is announced, says tho Fort Madison, (Iowa) Plain Dealer, that Henry Ward Beecher is engaged in writing a story for Bonner's Ijedger, having withdrawn all his lecturing appointments for the winter. Of course Bonner pays him more than S2OO a night, and Bonner will be the gainer, should the outlay be over through the vastly increased circulation of his paper. Mr. Beecher is one of the most remarkable nnd liberally endowed men of the age. Twentv-five years ago, in addition to his pa rochial labors, he edited an agricultural jour nal with marked ability. It was the best paper of the kind that Indiana ever had, before or since. When the Independent was started Mr. Beecher became the star con tributor, and though there were four respon sible editors, men of marked ability, the public persisted in thinking that he was the editor, because his spirit vi talized the paper. And when, because of a little misunder standing between the editors and publisher, Mr. Beecher became the responsible editor, the leading editorials of that journal became a character and a power in the land, without a parallel in the history of journalism since the publication of Junius' letters in JfWf- JalC * Advertiser. This was in the early his tory of the war, and what he did in prepar ing the public mind for the conquest of the rebellion no tongue can tell, no pen can de scribe. His health failing he made a tour to Eu rope, and on his way home, traveled the British Isles, delivering those most wonder ful speeches which aroused the sympathy of the popular heart and arrested the aggress ive measures of the ruling aristocracy. The government had sent over special envoys, Bishop Mcllvaine, Bishop Hughes, Thur low Weed, and others, but it is saying little to affirm that he did more than tbey all, and he a private gentleman, on his own respon sibility, and at his own charges. The country, in its integrity and restored prosperity, owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Beecher, more than to any other man, save, always, Mr. Lincoln and General Grant. Mr. Beecher now appears in a new role, as a novel writer, in competition with Dick- j ens, \ ictor Hugo, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others, and it is said that he will fail. We shall see ; and we mean to take Bonner's Ijedger until the story is completed. Mr. Beecher does not know how to fail. His conceptions take on forms of beauty, as cool ing bodies assume crystaiization—spontane ously, and though, among innumerable gems there are some flaws, it should be remem bered that there arc; flaws also in the agate and in the diamond. Mr. Bcechcr's utterances arc now nearly all reported by the stenographer, and many of them published. Few men havo ever lived who had brain power enough to bear such a draft, and some of these days he must fail, but the time is not yet. He is only fifty-three years old. And his audi ence—a sertnon in the Independent , a ser mon in the Examiner , a sermon in the Meth odist, and a serial story in the Ledger —is innumerable the Tounar Amaru** -U * -i K„„ mouth pulpit, aria nts audience chamber is the broad expanse of continent. Thirteen years ago wc were told in the city of New Turk, by prominent men, that .Mr. Beecher had then passed the culmina ting point, and that his reputation was al ready in the decadence, and it seems that the prophets of evil are not all dead yet. Mr. Beecher has generally been esteemed to be a radical, and it is true that his mental habitudes and the elements of his intellect ual convictions and emotional sympathies are of the radical type, but he is of late, strange as it may seein to those who do not know him, a conservative, as compared with multitudes of his admirers and former coad jutors, and especially as compared with his protege and successor in the editorial chair of the Jiidi-jtentleiit. His later and present position is not a defection—is hardly an in consistency. It results from the natural ac tion and interaction of his mental and emo tional nature —his earnest conbativeness and his generous magnanimity. He would not be Henry Ward Beecher were it otherwise. For rebels in arms he knew only prompt, speedy subjugation—for the fallen foe he is in favor of the most liberal terms compati ble with the public welfarj. He may be in error, but that he is honest, earnest and in tensely patriotic, the results of his labors and of his life afford the fullest attestation; and if his supposed conservatism shall af ford him a broader theatre of activity and a more numorous auditory, the eountry and the world will be none the losers. The pendulum in its vibrntioosmay touch either extreme, but it will ind the centre of gravity. CAUSES OP SUDDEN DIATU —Very few of the sudden deaths sail to arise from heart disease really arise fr>m that cause. To ascertain the origin of sudden deaths, an experiment was tried in Europe, and report ed to a scientific congress. Sixty-six cases of sudden death were made the subject of a thorough post mortem examination. In these eases only two were found who had died from heart disease, Nine of the sixty six died from apoplexy, forty-six cases of congestion of the lungs—that is, the lungs were so full of blood they could not work, for want of sufficient air to support life. The causes that produce congestion of the lungs are cold feet, tigit clothing, costive bowels, sitting still until chilled after being warmed by labor or a ripid walk, going too rapidly from a close heated room into the cold air, especially after speaking, and sud den depressing news operating upon the blood. These causes of sudden death being known, an avoidance of them may serve to lengthen many valuable lives, which would otherwise be lost under the verdict, of heart disease. That complaint is supposed to be inevitable and incurable, hence many may not take the pains they they would to avoid | death, did they know it lay in their jrower. WICKED AND UGl.l'. —Throughout the middle ages it was a prevalent belief that the ugliness of the wicked—and the wicked were ever ugly—was in precise proportion to their wickedness, and so the Spirit of Evil himself was ever pictured as abomina bly hideous, and revoltingly frightful—very unlike the "not less than archangel ruined,"' as his outward presentment is portrayed by Milton. "As ugly as siu," "diabolically hideous," arc phrases to be found in other languages besides our own. In the same way virtue and goodness, the attributes of the saint, the characteristics of the angel, are habitually linked, both in idea and ex pression, with either majestic charms or en chan ing loveliness. "As beautiful as an angel," "seraphic beauty," are modes of expression familiar to our lips ; and farther more, it is usually enough, when the desire is to convey approbation of a certain line of conduct, to Simply say that such conduct was "decidedly handsome." Hereby we discover the connection which unconsciously perha[>s subsists in ourmidst between things which are true, honest and just, and things which are lovely. THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY. A glance at the map if the United Stales discloses the fact that Pennsylvania has a seaport, a harbor on the lakes, and a city at the head of the Ohio river, which drains the eastern slope of the Mississippi valley. Upon the three navigable water systems which drain all the States between the Rocky mountain crest and the Atlantic coast, Pennsylvania has three ports, one in each hydrograpbic basin. These three ports enable Pennsylvania to participate in the foreign commerce of the world, in the steamboat navigation of the Mississippi and its affluents, and to employ propcllors and sailing vessels on the northwest lakes. Between these three ports there ia unbro ken communication from west to east and cast to west, over iron track of uniform guage, operated by one corporation, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. As a ground plan it is difficult to conceive a tran sit or portage, on a large scale, more com prehensive or complete than the connected roads operated by the Pennsylvania Rail- 1 road Company, lengthwise over the State, reaching from its seaports to its capital, and thence, over diverging lines, to Pittsburgh and Erie City. Traversing a Commonwealth abounding in native staples that are eagerly sought as well in markets beyond as within the State, there are resources at and between the fork ing termini of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's iron routes, capable of almost unlimited development. And in addition to these home and wayside sources of traffic, the Pennsylvania Railroad, between Phila delphia and Pittsburgh, unites the portals of the East and _West, and opens away for intercourse and inter-trade between the sea board and inland States. The Pennsylva nia Railroad is, therefore, at the same time a State route, a United States route and a Continental highway. And considering the great railroad corpo rations in England as they are, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as it is, the continued expansion of the Pennsylva nia Railroad Company is inevitable ; because independent of the through traffic to be cultivated and cared for, the growth of local business is so real and so rapid that it is al ways un to, and sometimes in advance of its allotted accommodation. It must be borne in mind, moreover, that Pennsylvania is this day deficientin railroad mileage, especially portions of the State west of the Susquehanna river. Ana as there are three railroad corporations in England (which in area is only equal to the area of Pennsylvania with one-half of New Jersey added), each of which has an invest ed capital exceeding tiro hundred millions of dollors , it must not be expected that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, will or can stop at forty millions, nor fifty millions. Occupying so large a part of the State, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company cannot cease to accommodate additional tiaffic from year to year, so long as there is devel opment and progress at and between the t w hu.il 4FM 1.1.i'/ul llKMllitAV tn tercst of Pennsylvania, as a State, is a big theme ; and the policy of tie largest rail road corporation in the State is a fruitful ttlpic. —U. S. It. & M. Register. NEW WAY or FAYING SI'IISCKIP TIONS. The following is an amusing account of the way a farmer was taught how cheaply he could take the paper. The lesson is worth pondering by a good many men "we wot of.' 1 "You have hens at home, of course.— Well. J will send you uiv paper for one year, for the products of it single hen for one sea son; and the proceeds. It seems trifling, preposterous, to imagine the products of a single hen will pay a subscription; perhaps it won't but I make the offer. "Done," exclaimed farmer B. "I agree to it," and appealed to me as a witness of the affair. The farmer went off apparently much elateJ with his conquest; the editor went on his way rejoicing. Time rolled around, the world revolved on Its axis, ami the sun in Us orbit as it ror uierly did: the fanner received his paper regularly, and regaled himself with the in formation from it, and said he was surpris ed at the progress of himself and family in general information. Some time in the month of September, I happend to be up again in the office, when who should enter but our friend fanner B. "How do you do, Mr. B.? ' said the ed itor, extending his hand, his countenance lit up with a bland smile; take a chair and be seated, fine weather we have." "Yes, sir, quite fine indeed, he answered, and then a short silence ensued, daring which our friend B. hitched his chair back ward and forward, twirled his thumbs ab stractedly, and spit profusely. Starting up quickly, he said, addressing the editor, "I have "brought you the proceeds of that hen." It was amusing to seethe peculiar expres sion of the editor, as he followed the farmer down to the wagon. I could hardly keep my risibles down. When at the wagon the farmer commen ced handing over to the editor the products amounting to eighteen pullets, worth twelve and a half cents each, and a nmber of doz ens of eggs, making in the aggregate at the least calculation, one dollar and fifty cents more than the price of the paper. "No need," said he, "of men not. taking a family newspaper, and paying for it too. I don't miss this from my roost, yet I have paid for a year's subscription and over. All tolly, sir; there's no man hut what can take a newspaper; it s charity, you know, com menced at home." "But," said the editor, "I will pay you for what is over the subscription, 1 did not intend this as a means of profit trot rather to convince you. I will pay — "Not a bit of it, sir: a bargain is a bar gain, and lam already paid, sir—doubly paid, sir. And whenever a neighbor makes the complaint I did, 1 will relate to him the hen story. flood day, gentlemen. — Ag Rev. OVERWORK AND UNDERWORK.— "WhiIe overwork," says a medical writer, is a great evil from which one class of society suffers, another class suffers still inore from underwork or idleness. Better wear out than rust out, if it is done in a good aiuse, for then some good will be accomplished, and humanity will be better for it. But the true course is to avoid both extremities and pursue the evil tenor of a happy medium. By so doing, n far greater amount of labor can be accomplished, at less expense of health, strength and vitality." STI;ART, the celebrated portrait painter, once inct a lady in (he street, in Boston, who saluted him with, "Ah, Mr. Stuart, I have just seen your miniature, and kissed it because it was so much like you. "And did |it kiss you in return?" "Why no. ' "Then," said Stuart, "it was not like uie. VOLUME 40 ; XO *. PEOPLING OF OTHER WORLDS. A little wriggling mite, looking off from the rim of a daisy wpon a field dotted with millions or those meadow flowers, if it had a mind equal to its physical being, might say and believe that, of all these white-belt ed globes, his own yellow orb alone was in habited ; that mites like itself could not live on these surrounding planets; and they were all empty houses, and its own little world was the only one of the myriads whi tening the boundless space, which the Crea tor had selected and honored AS the abode of intelligent beings. Thousands of good men, with minds or large grasp and reach, may look front off the earth into the world studied expanse above; they may count the stars in the nearest heaven, and measure and weigh them with the reeds and scales of ncienoc, and yet say and believe, with the nute-mlmled animalcule peering over the daisy's rim, that all the millions of those constellated orbs are empty houses, built for no intelligent peopling—for no purpose ex cept to besprinkle the tapestry of this small j planet of ours with drops of light, to please our eyes for a few hours by night. So great are man s "here and now so tall the stat ure of his being to himself; so wide a space be and his dwelling fill in creation, that as to the mite on the daisy, all outside is to him j the mere garniture or setling of his abode, thus, doubtless, ninety-nine out of a hun i r( j J ' ntu^'Bent and Christian men do hold this one planet of our occupancy, not only as regards ali the other members of our own sun's family circle of orbs, but all the myriads of worlds which revolve around the other suns that dot the common heavens of the material universe. But one in a hun dred surely may believe, on the clearest an alogies reason can construct or educe, that as nature abhors a vacuum, so Nat ure's God permits no waste in the realm of His crea tions ; that the millions of lesser lights above are not the chips scattered about in building the earth for man, nor the scaffold ing from which it was erecteJ; that they are not empty houses, nor built for beasts and birds alone, nor for bodiless spirits, but for spirits wearing flesh and blooa like our selves, with a human nature as finely adapt ed to the faculties and sensibilities of the intellectual soul AS Adam S physical being was to his mind in the holiest days of his innocence. To those thinking differently from this, one might fancy that it would be like inbreathing the death damp of a uni verse of desolation to admit the thought that the Almighty Greater had no sentient worshippers in all the millions of these out lying worlds; that of them all, this one on which we dwell is the solitary island of hu man existent*—of beings with a living, thinking mind; and that here alone are heard the voice of prayer and praise, and all the other voices of faith, hope, and love. —Elihit Burri't. TOO MUCH READING. 1 never knew but one or two fast readers, or readers of many books, whose knowledge was worth anything. Miss Martinean says -somvciaics tt page iu an fiour ; true : hen wbat she reads she makes her own. Ho itn preas this on E- . Girls read too much and think too little. I will answer for it that there are few girls of eighteen who have not read more books than 1 have ; and as to religious books, I can count on my fin gers in two minutes all I have read, but then they are mine. Sir Erskine Pcrp said the other day, that a fortnight ago, in conversation with G'ouite, one of the pro foundest thinkers in Europe ; Comte told him that he had read an incredibly small number of books these last twenty years; I forgot how many and scarcely a review. But then what Comte reads lies there fruc tifying, and comes out a living tree with leaves and fruit. Multifarious reading weakens the mind more than doing nothing; for it becomes a necessity at last, like smoking, and is an ex cuse for the mind to lie dormant, whilst thought is poured in, and runs through a clear stream, over unproductive gravel, on which not even mosses grow. It is the idlest of all idleness, and leaves more of im potency than any other. Ido not give my- SCH AS * va-tfeivw are shattered by stump oratory, its excite ment and reactions ; but I know what read ing is—for I could once, and did. I read hard or not at all, never skimming, never turning aside to more inviting books ; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides. Sterne, Jonathan, Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood, into my mental con stitution. — F. B*. Robertson. TRIE N us II ll*. How often we speak of friends as though they might be found on every hand; and yet how little real friendship we find in this busy world! A true friend is one who will cling to you in adversity, sympathize with you in sorrow, and rejoice with you in pros perity. He is a being who feels, who thinks who acts from the purest motives. Friend ship is one of the noblest feelings—one of the grandest privileges ol humanity; it can only be found in connection with noble souls of merit and virtue united. In fact, to pos sess true friends, you need the most com plete and nicest power of discrimination in selecting them, a natural gift to cherish . them, with the most unselfishness. I Young ladies, young men, and all, be generous; be kind to those around you, es pecially to those who are the least attractive and who arc often the least noticed. Try to merit, the real name of friend; it will fill you with a deeper joy than you have ever experienced: It wiil cause you to be beloved and esteemed by all around you. Practice self denial, and you will feel its ennobling influence; it brings the happy consciousness of having given pleasure to others which is of itself ample remuneration for all the in convenience you could have suffered by so doing. I)R. HAVES' ADVENTURE WITH A WITITE BEAR.—The following amusing story is told by Dr. Haves, in his work on "The open Polar Sea," and gives us a somewhat differ ent idea of Polar bears from that which we have been accustomed to hear from travel ers : Strolling one day along the shore, I was observing with much interest the effect of the recent spring tides upon the ice foot, when, rounding a point of land, I suddenly found myself confronted in the faint moon light by an enormous bear. He had just sprung down from the land ice, and was meeting me at a lull trot. Wc caught sight lof each other at the same instant. Being without a rifle or other means of defense. I | wheeled t uddenly toward the ship, with I fancy much the same reflections about dis cretion and valor as those which crossed the mind of old Jack Falstaff when the Douglas set upon him ; but finding after a few lengthy strides, I was not gobbled up, I looked back over my shoulder, when as much tc my sur prise as gratification- the bear tearing away toward the open water with a celerity which left no doubt as to the state of his mind. I suppose it would be diffi n't termine which was the worst irigbluuvl— the bear or myself. RATRS OF ADVERTISING All adrertiwmeDtn for Ie than 3 months 10 SETA* i? ,ortion ' sp * ci>i Botioe< onenalf additional. All resolutions of Ataoei*. "^ll" n " n j n nt * Hwitei* or Indiridual yyy of marriages and deaths, ex ceading fire hoes, 10 eta. per line. All legal noti kind, and all Orphans' Court and H,he ),f **'* re "I 0 * 1 *' 1 by law to be pub o*lL in P AT * d orial Notice. 15 cents per line. AU Adrertmuigdue after first insertion. A liberal discount made to, rear!* adrArH..r. 3 months. 6 months. I year One square. $ 4.60 $ #.OO |IO.OO Two squares #,OO 9.00 I#oo Three squres 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column.. 30.00 45.00 80.00 Bio BEAR STORY — OI.D "JPTTT" OUT DONE.—The other day a party of four hun ters went out sporting from Crescent, a sta tlo? - >l ' ort h cr n Central, between here and \\ llliamsport. After reaching the ' toontain they decided to separate in search of game, the discharge of a gun being the rallying signal, should one need the assist ance ol the rest. One of the four, Wm. Godcharles, in his peregrinations, came across the opening of what seemed a den, amid some rocks. He boldly entered and about the same time was rather rudely thrust back and out by an enormous black bear, which resented intrusion by at once showing fight. Having his gun loaded and pointed in front he at once discharged its contents, which took effect in the head of the bear and killed it instantly, fortunately for his future comfort and safety, about w rpu began to have serious doubts. the noise of the firing brought his com panions quickly to the spot. They at once went to work and skinned and dressed the aniniai. and started home with what meat they could carry. When weil on their way they bethought themselves that likely the den might be a wintering place for bears, and posibly there were more to be found. ! ho they trudged back and put their guns in order, and entered, and succeeded in stam peding three more bears, which showed good pluck, out at length were compelled to yield to the superior prowes of the hunters. They secured the trophies of their day's sport and proceeded home without further hindrances, and showed the evidences of the hot work they had encountered with the four black bears. — Elmira Advertiser. AMERICA NO PLACE FOB FOOLS,— In a lecture lately delivered before the London Farmer's Club, Mr. James Howard, the well-known manufacturer of implements of Bedford, England, made the following pointed remarks concerning his experiences in a recent visit to the United States : He said he had been profoundly impressed wtih the happiness, prosperity, energy, intelli gence, and self-government of the Ameri can people. He wondered that so many people are willing to remain in the Old World, without a chance to rise, with hard ly a chance to exist. If the United States were crowded as England is, the population would be nearly a thousand millions. In reply, however, to the question whether he thought large and opulent English farmers would do well to send out their sons to America, he remarked that one of the first memoranda which he made in his diary, after seeing the United States, was, that it was no use to send a fool to America. Mr. Howard hit the nail on the head. HOPE ON ! —A bankrupt merchant, re turning home one night said to his noble wife : —"My dear, I am ruined ; everything we have is in the hands of the sheriff." After a few moments of silence the wife looked kindly into his face and said : • WiU the sheriff sell you ? Oh !no 1 Will the sheriff sell me ? Oh Ino 1 Will sell . the children ? Oh 1 no I All that is most rirutnns to 'lis— manhood, womanhood, childhood. We have lost but the result of our skill and in dustry. We can make another fortune if our hearts and hands are left us." \\ HAT is MONEY? —Money is independ ence. Money is freedom. Money is leisure. Money is the gratification of taste, t>enevo lence and public spirit. The man is a fool or an angel who does not try to make money. A clear conscience, good health and plenty of money, are among the essentials of a full, joyful existence. Still unfortunately, it too often happens that people who have an abundance of money are destitute of charac ter. While it is desirable that men should have both notwithstanding all the advanta ges of money, it is better to have character. THE following duly signed, was lately con tained in a Western paper: "Whereas, at particular times, I may importune my friends and others to let me have liquor, which is hurtful to me and detrimental to society— "trm Mpse count; for if they do, I will positively prose cute them notwithstanding any promise I may make to the contrary at the time they may let me have it." MAKK TWAIN, a California humorist about to visit the Atlantic States, in the printed programme of a lecture he was late ly to give in San Jose, proposed to illustrate the cannibal propensities of the ancient ise lai.ders, by devouring a child in the pres ence of the audience, if some lady would furnish him one for the occasion. That part of the programme, however, was necessarily omitted, no maternal relative coming for ward with a spare infant to enable him to carry out the illustration. Cultivate acquaintances if desirable: if not cut them. Never sow the Seeds of Dissension. Weed your Library. Get as much Heart's ease as you can. Attend to Wall-ilowersand trim Coxcombs. Emulate the Cucumber —be cool. Don't Peach. Avoid Flowers of Speech. ' 'Bedding out'' is good for Plants, but not for friends. Take the advice of the Sage, or you may Rue the consequences. FORTUNE tellers and tilting hoops operate differently. The former reveal what the lady will be in the future; the latter reveal what she is at present. "BEFORE love comes in at the door, ' it would bo well for him to peep through the keyhole. He might see something that would prevent him from entering. "Now papa, what is a humbugr?" said a little four year old Johny. "It is. replied papa, "when mamma pretends to be very fond of me and puts no buttons on my under i garments." A HOLY life, spent in the service of God, and in communion with Him, is without, doubt the most pleasant and comfortable life that any man can live in this world. THE virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. CHILDREN have wide ears and long tongues. MIRTH should be the embroidery of con versation ; not the web. CONSCIENCE has three offices, —to instruct command and judge. NOT the rich, but the wise avoid misery and !•< happy. I'ooitaud true t better tiiau rich ud i false.
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