'ithr Htdfflrt! gjmjnimj 15 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY i. K. MRBOKllinv \>\> jh\ litjs, ON JULIANA St., opposite the .Mengcl House BEDFOKD, PENN A TERMS: i'i.OO a year if paid strictly in advance. If not |>(I within si* month* BC.OO. II not jiairt within the year IZ.OO. JH'OFFISSIFMAL & GWSINUSS CARDS ATTORNEYS AT LAW. S. R. MEYERS I. *• PICKERSO* MLYERS A DICKERBON. attorneys at law, PB*K'A., Office came as formerly oceupie 1 by Hon. W. P. SvheH, two doors cast of the Caxettr office, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pension", bounties nndback pay obtained and the MI REHUSE of Real Estate attended to. May 11. '66— lyr. I OHN T. KKAISY. J .ATTORNEY AT LAW. !SEI>FOEI>, Pen N A., offers to give satisfaction to all who may CU triot Ihcir legal business TO him. V ill collect moneys on evidences of deb', and speedily pro cure bounties and PENSIONS TO soldiers ows or heirs. Office two doors west OF TEHGRAPH offiee. apzH: M-ty. | B. CESSNA, .) . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with Jon* 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, Ae., speedily collected. ' Bedford, June 9,1865. "■ SII viiPK <fc KEHH, ATTOHNBYS-AT-LAW. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining'-unties. All business entrusted to their .re will receive careful end prompt attention, pensions. Bounty, Back Pay. Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. office on Juliana "treet, opposite tho banking HOUSE of Reed A ScLell, Bedford, Pa. marlrtf roiix PALMER. ,J ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care. VS. Particular attention paid to the collection of Military claims. Office on Julianna si., nearly opposite the Mcngcl Honse.) juncM, '*MY 77. LP "' DI KUOBROW A LtTTZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bkiiforh, Pa., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to t ieir unrc. Collections made on the shortest no ' rhev are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Tensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana etrcct, • ne door South of the 'MEN,-el LB-use" and nearly opposite THO 8.71.1CRR office. April 28. 18650 j LASPY M. ALSIP, TJ ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEPFOKP, Pa., Will faithfully and promptly attend t" all Wi ne - entrusted to his care in Bedford WID adjoin .... .untk- Military claims, Pensions, hack ~fv. 1; cmiv. Ac. S, CC lily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street 2 doors south ~! the Mengcl House. apU, 1564. tf. M. A. POINTS. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedfobo, Pa. Resocctfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingcnlelter, Esq.. n Juliana street, two doors South of the "Sengle House." DEC. 9, 1864-tf. ITILLN MOWER, I on-> attorney at law. Bedforp, Pa. April 1,1861.—tf. Kimmkll and lingenfelter, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEHFORD, PA. Have 6, rmed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliara Street, two doors South f the Mengel House, aprl, 1864— tf. DKMIHTN. I \lt. 11. VIRGIL POP.TF.R. I / (late of New York City,) DENTIST, Would respectfully inform his numerous friends and the public generally that he has located per -1 aanently in BLOODY RUN. Dp.. Pouter is constantly availing himself of every late discovery, that modern science proves plastically useful, and, together with his many years constant prac tice and profound studv, feels confident i.T a.-.-crting •hat he has a. quir. 1 the most sure safe, andl sat isfactory method ! inserting his BEAL All I L LRTJFICIAL TEETH on new and improved at mospheric principles, that has yet been discov ered. . Teeth filled in a -operior manner without pain and all operations warranted. / IS- Teeth extracted positively without pain. fB:15, tf. c. n. J * °* "'""'en, **• Dentists, bkdfork, pa. Office 111 the /tout Building, Juliana Street. All operations pertaining to Surgical or ME RIT a; al Dentistry careful B AND faithfully per lorit-'- I and warranted. TERMS CASH. J <• th Powders AR (I Mouth IVa. LI, excellent ar tides, always on baud. jauS'6s-ly. J xENTISTRY. I / 1. N. BOWSER, Rem BE ST Dentist, \\ OIID- T nttY, I'a., visits Bloody Run three days of each month, commencing with the second Tuesday of the month. Prepared to perform all Dental oper •.tion- with which he may be favored. Term •ithin lit' mark of and etrittly ra'hi.reept hi ,j.,. „,/ contract. Work to be sent by mail or oth w I s. must bo paid for when impressions are taken. augs, '6 L:TF. PHIWIIiXS. I\K GEORGE C. DOUGLAS I .* Respecttully tenders his professional service to the people of Bedford and vicinity, JAR* Residence at Maj. Washabaugh's. i*E* Office two doors west of Bedford Hold, UI stairs. anlTrtl \I7M. \Y. JAMISON, M. D., W B looby RT-X, PA., Respectfully tender* Ms professional services tt the J.e-pb of that place and vicinity. [<iecß:tyi I kit. U. F. HARRY. I " Respectfully tenders his professional scr vices to the eiti.-ens f Bedford and vicinity Gffict and residence on Pitt Street, in the bu'ldin; ■ ormerlv occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius. April* I,lß6l— tt. 1 L. MARUOURG, M. lb. EJ . Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofesaional services to tho citizen: ■ I Bedford and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street pi- site the Bank, one DOOR north of Hall A Pal iucUs office. April 1, 1861— tf. JEWELER, At . V R-ALOM GARLICK, 1Y CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER, Bt-oonv Rrs. PA. ' ks, Watches, Jewelry, <SE., promptly re paired. All work entrusted to bis care, warrantee to give satisfaction. He also keeps on hand and for sale WA TCII ES, CLOCKS, and .IK WE Lit T-i3~ Office with Dr. J. A. Mann. my 4 Daniel border. Pitt street, two nooas west of the bei> Foitb hotel, BESF'jnn, Pa. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL R\\ 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. Uol Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, besi quality of Gobi Pens. He will supply to ordei any thing in bis line not on hand, AI r. 28, 1885— zs. BlKßOKliinv & LI'TZ Editors and Proprietors §mixg. For the Imjuircr. LINKS : Inscribed to Miss 11. E. M. of Allegheny Summit. BY OMi. IS THK I.OWi,ASI. Lady ou the mountain's height, Thine 1 * aa elevated home, And the landscape far below thee, Thou dost occularly roam ; But look not down upon us With haughty—proud disdain ; Us here upon the lowlands ; Us here upon the plain. We know that we're beneath thee ; Beings of inferior birth, But angels in their love look down Upon the sons of earth : Then like thy bright companions, Thy smiles upon us rain ; Us here upon the lowlands ; Us here upon the plain. We humbly bow before thee, And worship at thy shrine— Oh ! to our fond petitions Wilt thou graciously incline? For, with thy benign approval Shall joy with us obtain ; Us here upon the lowlands ; Us here upon the plain. We love thee, we adore thee For thy many graces sweet, And fain we'd gather pearls And lay them at thy feet : Thou art lovely ! thou art beautiful ; We regard thee without stain. Us here upon the lowlands; Us here Upon tbo plat". Thou art peerless! Thou art perfect I As we gaze upon the now, And a coronet of diamonds We'd weave around thy brow : For thee all India's treasure, We'd bring across the main, Us here upon the lowlands ; Us here upon the plain. Thine eyes are scintilations From brightest orbs above, And tby gentle heart so winsome, Is full of tenderest love : But speak the word, fair lady. And we'll follow in thy train, Us here upon the lowlands ; Us here upon the plain. From Heaven hast thou wandered, Far from tby place of birth— Forsook thy home celestial To cheer the sons of earth : One smile from thee, sweet seraph, Is to us a world of gain, Us here upon the lowlands ; Us here upon the plain. Dwell forever on the nionntain. Fair lady—most divine, And with overteeming hearts of love Our homage shall be thine, And thy name and virtues ever Shall be our proud refrain, Us here upon the lowlands ; Us here upon the plain. AFTER. After the shower, the tramjuil sun ; After the snow, the emerald leaves; Silver stars when the day is done ; After the harvest, golden sheaves. After the clouds, the violet sky ; After the tempest, the 101 l of waves; Quiet woods when the winds go by; After the battle, peaceful graves. After the knell, the wedding bells: After the bud, the radiant rose : Joyful greetings from sad farewells ; After our weeping, sweet repose. After the burden, the blissful meed ; After the flight, the downy nest; After the furrow, the waking seed ; After the shadowy river—rest! piSfcUnneous. TIIE INDIAN FAMINE. [From Beadle's Monthly.] Famine ! ilow few persons in our well fed community, comprehend the import of the word ! Happily, as a country, we know nothing of the appalling affliction. The cry for bread, not from one poor snlferer, but from a whole city full—not from hove], but from every valley and hillside—who can pic ture it! The soul shrinks back aghast from the spectacle and we who live in comforta ble homes fain would believe that the visita tion must pass away with the day and become a thing of the past. Perhaps, now, the keen famine in India is past —that the effort* of the English gov ernment to relieve the starving multitudes have been adequate to the need ; but the memory of the fifteen months just past will long remain, finding its parallel, in agony and death in the Florence plague. That great pe-tilence which stands ont in the his tory of the fourteenth century as one of Time's alarms to frighten the human nice, ran over she face of the country, according to the Italian poet ILcaccio's statement "like fire when it comes in contact with large masses of combu-tibles," till its vic tims were daily numbered by thousands. In vain the hope of escaping from it, vari ous plans were adopted. W hilesome walk ed everywhere "with odors and nosegays to smell to," "for the atmosphere seemed to them tainted with the stench of dead bod ies," others lived temperately, shut their ears to all news of the plague, and "divert ed themselves with mu-ic. Some fled from the plague stricken city ; brother from brother, wife from husband, and even pa rent from child, for the terror inspired by the calamity was so great that it dried up the natural affections. Another class re mained in the city incessantly -evelling in taverns and deserted private houses, indul ging in every brutal passion, and defying every law, human and divine ; for those whose duty it was to enfore the laws wore themselves either sick or dead. But, there was no haven of safety. The plague seized on the temperate man divert ing himself wit.h his music, or the man in haling his uosegay, on the coward in his A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS flight, on the reveler in the midst of his bru tal revelry. They were buried, if noble and wealthy, with some show of ceremony, but if of the middle and lower rank, with scaree anj*. These either breathed their last in the streets or in their own houses, ''where the stench that came from them first made discovery of their deaths to the neighbor hood." When the graveyards were filled, deep trenches were dug, and into them the corpses were thrown, piled up in rows "as goods are stowed in a ship,' "for things had come to that pass, that men's lives were no more regarded than the lives of so many beasts." For five months was this the state of the city. In the adjacent country, '"the poor distressed laborers, with their families, with out either the aid of physicians or the help of servants," might be seen "languishing on the highways, in the fields, in their own houses, and dying rather like cattle than human creatures.' The ripe corn was left ungathered ; the cattle were allowed to roam about at large, and every man livod as if each day would be his last ; that is he he came as dissolute in manners, as were the citizens Mow many perished in tho coun try, is not related, but in the city, upwards of one hundred thousand were swept away, and thus were the survivors, for the first time, made aware that their town had been sc populous. A more awful mode of taking the census can scarcely be imagined. Take away from this picture ail that lends it a horrible picturesqueness—the music, the revelry, the long train of corpses borne to the place of wholesale burial, preceded by the piiests with their crucifix, the sudden deaths in the inid.-t of smiling corn fields ; the flocks of sheep, goats, and beards of oxen turned loose ; but leave all of its hu man suffering ; add to the swift deaths by pestilence death by the lingering, agonizing process of starvation , the bodies, when found near the towns, thrown into plague pits, but more often left to rot by the road side or in the jungle, where the flesh is de voured by jackals, dogs and vultures ; and tmncioo to you retell", II VUU v.au llrv fate of the people, not of a single city and the country immediately surrounding it. but of territories as large as European king doms, enduring this accumulation of hor rors. and you will have a faint notion of the significance of the words, "famine in India." The famine commenced in the mouth cf April last in Oriass and Ganjom coast dis tricts extending along the northeastern side of the Bay of Bengal. From thence it spread upwards into other districts of the Bengal Presidency, and downwards into Bellary, Salem, Ooimbatore, and North and South Arcot—districts in the MurdrasPres idency. In these districts the distress was only less terrible than in Bengal. But even in them the lower classes were described as Laving "hardly a rag to cover their naked ness, and hardly any flesh to cover their bones thousands of cattle died for want of water, and pastuic, while those that sur vived resembled the miserable human be ings in being mere moving skeletons. In Orissa, Gadjum and Midnapore, tbedistress wrought by the famine was felt in all its in tensity. fn those districts it is supposed that the death rate was a thousand a day for many months ; but the number of those who thus miserably perished by hunger and disease will never be accurately ascertained. Vast numbers fled from the districts, some to fall by the roadside where their unburied bones lie bleaching in the scorching sun mute witnesses to the 'blessings of British rule others to arrive in Calcutta, so ema ciated that they appeared like skeleton frames covered with thin transparent India rubber. In the "City of Palaces," and other towns where they sought refuge, it is calculated that seventy-five thousand were daily fed by public charity, and at least double that number, or one hundred and fif ty thousand, by private charity! To see one of those immense crowds, when the dai ly distribution of rice took place, was a most heart rending spectacle. r>n: quarter were thousands of Hindoos. 111 another thousands of Mussulman, and at a little distance, sheltered by the ghaut, were the women, girls and children. Scanning the face of those assembled thousands, you saw in every one of them the same expression—the pinched, despair ing. yet resigned of mortal weakness, or of mortal sickness, which the sight oi food suddenly changed into a hungry, long ing. devouring look—the kind of look which inspires feelings of pity for even a starving wild animal; but which, when worn by the human countenance, is indescribably painful to behold. Over all was the silence of death; no loud and noisy laughter, as would be the case at other times ; hardly a sound, save at intervals, when some famished wretch threw up his arm ? and uttered a cry of wild des pair, wrung from hit* by the gnawing, un appeasable pangs of hunger. At other pla ces. fearful struggles to get possession of the food took place, and many lives were lost in the sickening scramble. The picture would not be complete did we not add that many of the men who received this relief fled from their wives and families, leaving them to i fate which they themselves escaped. Thus, i the misery wrought by the famine stamped | out the love of offspring and of home —con- ! spicnous features in the character of the ; people of India, and more especially of the ! Hindoos. . Of the women thus deserted by their nat ural protectors, many touching stories were told by eye-witnesses. For example: A planter was informed that a woman had died by the road side, and that a living child was at her breast. He sent out his servants, who fund the corpse, and the child so tight ly clasped in the mother's arms; that in bending it hack, stiff and cold, it broke. The poor little infant, exhausted by exposure and want, died as it was being released. An other case : A woman, with her three young children, crawled up to a planter's house just as tiffin was being cleared away ; the remains of the curry and rice were carried out into the veranda and placed before her. Without a<tempting to eat. she seated the three children round the disn, who speedily devoured its contents; and, although the mother was wasted to a skeleton, mumbling her thanks, she turned away, grateful that her offspring had been fed, even while she herself hungered. Here is yet another in stance, still more wonderfully touching in its | forgetfulness of herself: A little girl ami [ her mother were seen lying under a mango 1 tree. Both were faint troin hunger; they i had been trying to keep life together by I feeding on snails, berries and lizards; but weaker day by day, they at last sunk down under this tree to await a lingering death. ! Some boiled rice was placed before them. The mother was too weak to raise herself, so, although "the child's big eyes Slashed with a hungry gleam," her little bands, well fill | ed, first sought the mother's mouth, and not until half the rice was thus consumed ! did she herself eat. These famines are of frequent occurrence in India: in fact, they may be regarded as one of the "institutions" of the country. , Omitting all mention of those which took place before IK;tl, it is recorded that in that and two following years the population of BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. MARCH 8. 1807 the province of Guntoor, a district in the Madras Presidency, was reduced from half to a quarter of a million by famine and pes tilence. During the following thirty years there were many minor famines—minor, that is, comparatively speaking—and then there was the great drought which swept over the North-West Provinces in 1860-61. In these disastrous years the famine was on a gigantic scale ; but. as large numbers of the people concealed their distress, endur ing it even unto death, rather than break the rules of caste, or run counter to the feelings of their tribes, the number of those who are known to have perished—from eighty thousind to ninety thousand—does not represent the total mortality. The ac tual sufferers number one million and a half, and the loss of property amounted in value to three millions and three quarters sterl ing. Being of suoh frequent oceurrentje, the reader unacquainted with the system of In dian misrule would never for a momfent im agine that the remedy for such deep and wide spread distress is plain—to irrigate the country, from reservoirs of water stored up during the wet season. But, that such is the easy remedy is confessed by all observ ant authorities. Store up the waters by dams and basins in the lower levels, and by making reservoirs of valleys up among the hills, and the great annual drouth is strip ped of its terrors. Of course such work would require large sums of money, but the mere material returns would amply compen sate the outlay, to say nothing of the suffer ing it would avert. The "Government" of India, however, does not seem to have been established for any purpose of mercy. Take from the country all it can yield, and have no care for its people save as a source of profit, is the key note of English policy. Talk of the Yankee being a money worship per ! The heartless cruelty practiced by the English in India—the "grinding" process in use to force large revenues from its soil and people—are facts which stamp the Brit ish conqueror as one of the fiercest and most know. Place Yankees In possession of the vast country watered by the Indus and Gan ges, and the first thing we should have would be a just and humane government; the next thing, a just and humane system of labor ; the next thing, a correct and economical sys tem of land culture, which would defy fam ine, and make the soil produce two-fold re turns. All this might> possibly, proceed from a spirit of selfishness, rather than from a spirit of humanity; but, the schools, churches, just laws, happiness and prosper ity, which the Yankee race would be also sure to instate, would possibly stand as liv ing witnesses that, with all their enterprise and thirst for a prosperous per onal condi tion, the sons of New England were saga cious with the wisdom of humane men. India never will know happiness or pros perity under British domination. What in Ireland is petty tyranny, in India is the iron heel. Sepoy rebellion is ever impending, for the races of Hindostan bear nothing but a feeling of malice and revenge toward their conquerors, flic native races never will he reconciled to their rule, and so long as the British power lti the East is supreme, we shall notecase to hear of India famines, In dia rebellions, India misrule. ASPIRATIONS TO HE HICH. A youth writes us as follows—and his case is like that of so many other that we treat it thus publicly, suppressing his name: "Dear Sin lam a poor boy. I would like to get rich. Now what shall I do? I would like to uuit this section. I don't want to remain oa my father's farm. Please give me the best advice you can, and oblige. Yours, o. o. s." Answer. —The aspiration to be rich— though by no means the highest that can impel a career—is, in our view, wholesome and laudable. The youth who says, "Let me be rich any hour, "and before all other considerations," is very likely to bring up in some State Prison: but he who con sistently says, "Let me first be just, hon est, moral, diligent, useful; then rich," is on the right road. Every hoy ought to aspire, to he rich, provided he can be without un faithfulness to social obligation or to moral principle. . lint bo-. ohn Lo set about getting rich? We would concisely say: I. Firmly resold' nmcr to oure a debt. —lt is the fundamental mistake of most boys to suppose that they can get rich faster on ] money earned by others than on that earned lespectively by themselves. If every youth of IS to 25 years were to day offered SIO,OOO for ten years at seven percent, interest, two thirds of them would eagerly accept it; when the probable consequence is that three fourths of them would die bankrupts and paupers. Boys do not need money half so much as they need to know how to earn and save it. The boy who at the close of his first year of independence, has earned and saved $ 100. and invested or loaned it wheie it will pay him six or seven per cent., will almost surely become rich if he lives; while he who closes his first year of responsibility in debt, will probably live aud die in debt. There is no greater mistake made by our American youth than that of choosing to pay interest rather than receive it. Interest devours us while we sleep; it absorbs our profits and aggravates our losses. Let a j young man at t wenty five have SI,OOO loan ;cd on bond and mortgage or invested in j public securities, and he will rarely want money thereafter: in fact, that SI,OOO, in | vested at seven per cent., will of itself make | him rich before he is sixty. There is no I rule more important or wholesome for our boys than that which teaches them to go through life receiving interest rather than j paying it. Of the torments which afflict ; this mortal sphere, the first rank is held bv : Crime; the second by Debt, j 11. Acquire promptly mid thoroughly some useful colling. —Some pursuits are more ; lucrative, some more respectable, some more 1 agreeable, than others; but a chimney sweep's is far better than none at all. No matter how rich Iris parents may be, a boy J should learn a trade: no matter how poor he ; may he, a boy may learn som trade if he will. This city is full today of young (and old) men who have been clerks, bookkeep ers, porters, &c., &C-, yet can find nothing to do, and are starving because their foolish j parents did not give them trades. A trade is an estate, and almost always a productive one. A good efficient farm laborer can geri j orally find paying work if he does not insist in looking for it in a city where it cannot well be; while many a college graduate fam ishes because nobody wants the only work he knows how to do. Let nothing prevent | your acquiring skill in some branch of pro ductive industry. 111. Resolve not to he a rover. —-"A roll ing stone gathers no moss," but is con stantly thumped and knocked, aud often shivered to pieces. It you are honest and industrious, you must be constantly making reputation, which, if you remain in one nlaee j helps you along the road to fortune. Even a hod carrier or strcctsweeper who has pro i ved that his promise to appear on a given 1 day and hour and go to work may be trusted, has a property in the confidence thus croa ted. If you cannot find your work where you now are, migrate; but do it onee for all \Y lien you have stuck your stake, stand by it! 1\ . CuMjOi' hrtul tlltil Ilure it trnf/t til HO eterjjwlurejor him trho out ihj it. —An Italian named Biauconi settled in Ireland some sixty years ago, and got very rich there by gradu ally establishing lines of passenger convey ances all over that island. Almost any man would have said that he who went to Ireland to make his fortune must be mad. He who knows how, and will work, can get rich growing potatoes in New England, though he hasn t a five cent stamp to begin with. There is work that will pay for a million more people on the soilofComiecticutalone. There are millions of unproductive acres within a day's ride of this City that might be bought and rendered largely fruitful at a clear profit of SIOO or more per acre. A man in Niles, Mich., declined to go gold hunting in the Rocky Mountains because there was more gold in Niles than he could get hold of. Tne reason was a good one, and it applies almost everywhere. If you can find nothing to do where you are, it Is generally because you can do nothing. \ . Realize that he ti:hu earns sir pence per day wire than hi spends must yet rich, while he who spends six pence more than he earns must become poor. —This is a very hackneyed truth; but wc shall never be done needing its repetition. Hundreds of thousands ate not only poor but wretched to day, simply because fail to comprehend or will not heed it. Y\ o Americans are not only an ex travagant but an ostentatious people. We habitually spend too much on our own stom aches ana our neighbors' eyes. \Ve are con tinually in hotwater, not because we cannot live in comfort on our means, but because , we persist in spending more than we need or can afford. Our youth squander in extra food and drinks, in frolic and dissipation, which does them harm instead of good, the mean* which should be the nest egg of their future competence. When cares and chil dren cluster about them, they grumble at ted die years'and the means which might aDd should have saved them from present and future poverty. —All these are very trite, homely truths. AH our boys have heard them again and agaiD; but how many have laid them to heart? We assure G. G. S., und every other youth, that each may become rich if he will—that "to be or not to be" rests entirely with himself; and that his very first lesson is to distrust and shun by paths and short cuts, and keep straight along the broad, obvious, beaten highway.— New York Tribune. LAY REPRESENTATION. The following are some of the thoughts that are revolving deeply and seriously in the minds of thousands of the membership of the M. E. Church at this time : Ist. Is the end and object of al! Church Government to benefit the Clergy as an or der. or the great body of the membership ! of Christ's Church ? 2d. If the ultimate end and objeet of all ; Church Government is the protection, edi- | fieation, and increase of the body of the membership, then is there any reason in the nature Jot tne case why the membership should not share with the ministry in the responsibilities, councils, and labors neces sary to such government ? id. Is it not a fact that the largest part of the business transacted in the Annual and General Conference*, whether of a legisla tive, executive, or advisory character, nec essarily has. and i- intended to have, a di rect arid ultimate h-aring on the member ship as a body ? 4th. If so, does it not appear reasonable that the membership should have a voice in such legislative, executive, or advisory measures ? sth. Is it not of the first itqportanee to the welfare of the Church to Unite the min istry and the laity together by the strongest possible bonds of affection, sympathy and confidence, and is not the proposed measure of lay representation adapted to and neces sary fur this end ? fith. Is there any reason why any class of men should assume the right to disfranchise anotLoT <rf •"<:. 'l claim to be their legislators, administrators, aud judges of all the laws and everv possible application of them ? In withholding from our laity a right of voice in their government, it deprives them of tho strongest motives for activity and liberality. Our lattv have no representa tion in the legislative a-setublics of the M. E. Church ; delegates to the General Con ference are the clergy—they represent the clergy ofthe Annual Conferences. A Christ ian Church should be strictly a government of principle in relation to the governed. The right to be represented where law is made to govern, is not only essential to civil free dom, but is cqualiv the basis of religious liberty. Justice to Christianity and th# interests of society demands for the laity a right of voice in every department of the govern ment of the Church. If admitted in its councils, would it not give to our organiza tion security and efficiency ? It is not true that, all of the legislative, executive, and fi nancial talent in our Church is confided to the clergy. It must be admitted that God demands the exercise of those talents that he has given us, and are intended as a blessing to the Church, both legislative and devotional, and we can not disobey this divine injunc tion with impunity. Not a civil govern ment has existed whose perfection or adap tation has supplied the wants of any people for one generation ; wc are constantly ma king laws adapted for our present wants — ' the future is not ours. History will record this a revolutionary area Our civil law-giv | ers are almost in favor of universal suffrage, i I will avoid contrasting our Church Poli j ty with that of our liberal Civil Government j as it might be construed a* being unkind to wards the law-inakers of our church — M' th j odist. Tin: Two VOICES.— When Guttenberg, 1 the first, printer, was working in his cell in the monastery of St. Aborsgot, he tells us that he heard two voices address him. The ! one badehiui desist; told him the power his invention would put in the hands of bad men to propagate their wickedness; told him how men would profane the art he had created and how posterity would have cause to curse the man who gave it to the world. So impressed was Guttenberg with what he heard, that he took a hammer, and broke to pieces the types he had so laboriously put together. His Work of destruction was only stayed by another voice, sweet and musical, that fell on his ear, telling him to go on, and to rejoice in his work; that all good might bo made the cause of evil, but that God would bless the right in the end. So to all of us still come those voices that came to Gutten berg; the one calling us to work while it is called today—to try to leave this world bet ter than we found it; and the other tempting us to give over and take our ease —to leave the plough in mid furrow, and to rest on our oars when wc should be pulling against the stream. YOLCME 40 J >0 10 ROTHSCHILD AND WATERLOO. Rothschild's greatest achievement inover reaching distance and his fellow speculators was in 1815. He was near the Chateau de Huugoumont on the 18th of June, watch ing, as eagerly as the leaders, Bonaparte and Wellington themselves, the progress of the battle of Waterloo. All day long he follow ed the fighting with strained eyes, knowing that on its issue depended his welfare as well as Europe's. At sunset he saw that the victory was with Wellington and the Allies. Then, without a moment's delay, he moun ted a horse that had been kept in readiness for him, and hurried homewards. Every where on his road fresh horses or carriages were in waiting to help him over the ground. Riding or driving all night he reached Ostend at daybreak, to find the sea so stor my that the boatmen refused to trust them selves to it. At last ho prevailed upon a fisherman to make the venture for a reward of .£BO. In that way he managed to reach Dover. At Dover, and at the intermediate stages on the road to London, other horses were in waiting, and he was in London be fore midnight. Next morning, the morning of the 20th of June, he was one of the first to enter the stock exchange. In gloomy whisper he told those who, as usual, crowd ed round him for news, that Blucher and his Prussians had been routed by Napoleon he fore Wellington had been able to reach the field; that by himself he could not possibly succeed, and, therefore, the cause of Eng land and her allies was lost. The funds fell, as they were meant to fall. Every one was anxious to sell, and Roths child and his accredited agents scoffed at all who brought them scrip for purchase. But scores of unknown agents were at work all that day and all the next. Before the stock exchange closed in the afternoon of the sec ond day, when Nathan Rothschild's strong boxes were full of paper, he announced, an hour or so before the news came through other channels, the real issue of the contest, had been during many previous weeks ; and Rothschild found that he had made some thing like a million pounds by his quick trav eling and clever misrepresentation. Other millions ware collected, rather more slowly, by other transactions of a like nature. — Nathan Myer Sothschibl, by U. It. Fox Bourne, THE INDIAN'S BLANKET. The delight of an Indian is a blanket. Male and female, old and young, are sup plied with this indispensable. They carry it with them wherever they go, using it for a garment by day and for a bed by night. They do not, however, spread their blank et when they lie down, but first wrap it ; carefully around them, and then lie down to ! rest. Among the less cultivated the blank- j et is the only garment worn, with the ex- j ceptions of leggins and moccasins; which \ are indispensable in travelling in the forests. The mother makes an additional use of the blanket; she carries her child upon her ahaulders, but makes it answer at the same time to protect herself from the cold and storm. She doubles her blanket and lays it at the root of a tree, with the double edge turned up about a foot on the trunk of the tree ; then sitting the little pappooso up right in it, she stoops with her back to the child and gathers the blanket around her. On rising the babe's head only is exposed, back of the mother's neck its little arms I resting upon her shoulders. By drawing the blanket tightly around her below the child an easy case is formed, where it rests for hours, sometimes for half a day, as the mother travels either on foot or on a pony. An Indian woman strides a horse like a man and manages the wildest animal with great I ■ dexterity, holding the bridle with one hand and her blanket, containing her pappoose with the other, her long black hair dangling over her shoulders. When an Indian ur chin arrives at the age to receive a blanket he is as much delighted as a little boy with his first pair of trowsers, strutting about with undisguised fooliug of manliness, Trhile the older ones look on the juvenile as sumptions and audacity with manifest pleas ure, grinning and uttering complacent words and grunts. NOBLE SENTIMENT. "This is an agreeable world after all. If we would only bring ourselves to look at tne objects that surround us in their true light, we should see beauty where before we be hold deformity, and listen to harmony, where before we could hear nothing but dis cord. To be sure there is a great deal of anxiety and vexation to meet; but we can not expect to sail on a summer sea forever ; yet if we preserve a calm eye and a steady hand, we can so trim our sails and manage our helm as to avoid the quicksands, and weather the storm that threaten the ship wreck. "We are members of one great family ; we are traveling the same road, and shall arrive at the same goal. We breathe the free air, we are subject to the same bounty. We shall lie down on the bosom of our com mon mother. It is not becoming then that brother should hate brother ; it is not prop er then that friend should deceive friend ; it is not right that neighbor should injure neighbor. We pity the man who can liar- j bor enmity against his fellow ; he loses half ! the enjoyment of life ; he embitters his own existence. Let us tear from our eyes the coral medium that invests every object with the green hue of jealousy and suspicion ; turn a deaf ear to the tale of scandal; ' breathe the spirit of charity from our lips ; i and from our hearts let the rich gushings of | human kindness swell up as from a fountain so the "golden age" will become no fiction, and the "island of the blessed" bloom in j more than Hesperian beauty. A BAR TO COUNTERFEITERS. —Mr. L. W. : Crane, who has a paper mill near Ballston i Spa, has recently perfected an invention ; that will interpose a bar to counterfeiting. ■ He has invented machinery whereby minute 1 threads of gutta percha can be run into sheets of bank note paper, in the course of < i its manufacture, that will be indellible, and : 1 that can not be counterfeited. liis plan ! contemplates making each denomination | differently. Thus one dollar bills have one thread through each, two dollar bills two threads, five dollars three threads, four j threads for tens, five for twenties, six for [ fifties, seven for one hundreds, and nine for thousands. PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.—A bill pas sed the Senate on Saturday regulating the i Presidential succession. It provides that iu case of the death or removal of the Presi | dent aud Vice President of the United States, the office shall be filled Ist by the President of the Senate; 2d, by the Speaker jof the House; 3d, by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and after him by the other Justices of the same Court in the order of the date of their commissions. The bill provides for the election of a new President, (after sixty 1 day's notice) at the November el , Li ~ i u ■ suing. I RATES OF ADVERTISING All advertisements for leu then 3 months 10 cents per line for each ineertion. Special notices onehalf additional. All refutation* of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual lntercts and notices of marriages and deaths, ex cceding fire lines, 10 etc. per lino. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lirhed in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cents per line. AU Advertising trst insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months. 6 months. 1 year One square $ 4.50 $ 8.00 SIO.OO Two squares fi.oo 9.00 18.00 Three squres S.OO 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 CERTAIN LECTURE. Been out all night again. I'd like to know where you keep yourself till this time in the morning; it's not ten minutes since I heard the clock strike four. You didn't hear it ? Soot course you didn't. You wouldn't hear the last trump—the noise would have to travel through an acre or two of beer be fore it would get to your hearing. Had to <J" among your friends f Had to go ! I'd like to know how you had to go. Some folks are very willing to "had" to go. Yes, I know it's coming on election times ; that's a good excuse to get away from your family aud home. I wish there was no election in the whole country—it would be much better off if we hadn't any. Who did you elect ? Who did you see? Theatre and dance. Now turn over here. Oh, Lord! am lin a hog-yard or a distillery, or where am 1 ? What have you got outside of you ? Didn't drink much? You must have got into a beer barrel, then, for it's coming out all 1 over you, and how it smells! You dianced, eh ? You must have cut a pretty figure guess it was a large reel. Do you think I'll stand this going off to dance all night? Who did you dance with? I'll bet she was as homely as a pumpkin with two holes in it. Look here! you needn't pretend to sleep; I want to have a little domestic conversation with you. lam your better half, and your better half proposes to discusss matters a lit tle. Late? How do you know it's late ? It's early enough to give you a piece of a woman's tongue. Tongwy f Yes I am tonguey—that's part of woman's preroga tive, and lam going to use some of it on you. Let you alon> ? Did you say that to the girl you danced with? Oh, no! nothing of tne sort; it was Miss, shall I have tin pleasure of your beautiful person for the next cotillion? I wish I could see her—l'd take the beautiful out of her at ajerk. Can get no peace, f Yes you can get plenty of it —go to the theatre, go electioneering; dance with the girls till morning, and come heme ""fff!:"""' np" by the long meaaure b i, k ' e J "°, u a P lece m >" mind. Come back here, where are you going ? Get into eiact > ; ttjs bed has grown any smaller lately. You danced you? I'd like to see you dance with me. I'm too old, I suppose. I ain't too old to give you fits, you can bet your life on that, fellow, if you don't conduct yourself proper ly hereafter. AN ENGLISHMAN'S OPINION OF AMERI CAN WOMEN. —In Hepworth Dixon's new book about America, writes a correspondent of the Boston Advertiser , he devotes a chap ter to ladies, generally complimentary. In the sweet New England girls he thinks there must be lack of vital power. "At present you can hardly speak to them without fear ing lest they should vanish from before your face." Among the higher classes in America "the traditions of English beauty have not declined; the oval face, the deli cate lip. the transparent nostril, the pearl like. flesh, the tiny hand, which mark in May Fair the lady of high descent, may be seen in all the best houses of Virginia'ard Massachusetts. The proudest London belle, the fairest Lancashire witch, would find in Boston and in Richmond rivals in graces and beauty whom she could not feign to des pise." Again: "New York beauty has more dash and color, Boston beauty more sparkle and delicacy." Some men prefer tne more open and audacious loveliness of New York, with the Rubens-like rosiness and fullness of the flesh but an English eye will find more charm in the soft ana shy expression of the elder type." Among the lower grades of women "there is no such j wide and plentiful crop of rustic loveliness as an artist finds in England; the bright eyes, the curly locks, the rosy complexions, everywhere laughing you into pleasant thoughts among our Devonshire lanes and Lancashire streets. But then comes the balance of accounts. With her gifts of na ture, our English rustic must close her hook in presence of her kn ami natty American sister." SQUEEZING. While we are growing very sensible, in deed, in the matter of dress, so far as boots, balmoral skirts, warm stockings and high necks, we are degenerating in some other matters quite as important. The corset is not a necessary part of a woman's ward robe ; and, alas, when a woman does begin to wear corsets she will wear them too small, and will tug at the laces until her breath be comes short, and feels it necessary to refrain from anything like a comfortable meal. We say nothing about a well-shaped corset, worn loosely, but there lies the difficulty. A loose corset injures the appearance instead of im proving it, and people wear corsets that they may have small waists. All we can say is, don't squeeze, whatever 3-ou do. You may have small waists, but you are exposing yourselves to a dozen misfortunes which are "as bad as a large waist. First, you'll surely have dyspepsia, and grow yellow and cross and unhappy; secondly, your hands will grow red; thirdly, your nose; fourthly, you will be unab! Ito walk a mile at once; fifth ly, dinner will be a misery; sixthly, your shoulder blades will increase in size and alti tude ; seventhly, your eyes will grow weak ; eightly, you will break down at thirty or thereabout, and be a sickly old woman from thai time forth. If these truths do not frighten women from tight corsets, perhaps the information that gentlemen do not ad mire what dressmakers call a "pretty fig ure," so much as a natural ome, may have some influence. A HAPPY REJOINDER.—At Oxford, some twenty years ago, a tutor of one of the col leges limped inhis walk. Stopping one day last summer at a railway station, he was ac costed by a well known politician, who rec ognized him, and asked if he was not the chaplain of the college at such a time, na ming the year. The doctor replied that he was. 'T was there," said his interrogator, "and I knew you by your limp. '' "VVell,' said the doctor, "it seems my limping made a deeper impression on you than my preach ing." "Ah doctor," was the reply, with ready wit, "It is the highest compliment we can pay a minister to say that he is known by his walk rather than by his conversa tion." AFTER THE BATTLE.—An official report ol the battle of Gettysburg states that twentyseven thousand five hundred and thirty four guns were picked up on the field after'the engagement, twenty four thousand of which were loaded. Of this number one half had two loads each remaining unfircd, one quarter three loads, the remaining six thousand had from two to ten loads a piece. Many were found having from two to six bullets over one charge; in others the pow der was placed above the ball. One gun had six cartridges with paper untorn. In one Springfield rifle, thenty three separate and distinct charges were found, while one smooth bore musket contained twenty two ballets and sixty buckshot rammed in pro miscuously. — Star.
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