®ht f§jMd is ih bushed KVKI4Y Fit I MAY MOUNINO in I. ft. DI RWIKRO", AM* 4b.. . M '.Z. i<:l.liNilM.) tM Menget House BEI >FOlil >. PEN N' A TEBHS: $2.00 a year il paid strictly in advance. II not witttin six montli? ®a.so. II uoi paid within lheyt.irSJ.llo. jHrofaSiSUnal & £drite ATTORNEYS AT IiAW. T T. KKAGV, ) . ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Reed S ScfcetPa Bank. Counsel given in English anil German. [apl2j . L. RL SSXTU J- B. LOXCZXECKEK. r> US3ELL A LONGBNBOKER, tv Attorneys A Co! ssellors at Law, Bedford, I'a., A'ill attend promptly and faithfully to all busi iosb eal mated tu their cate. Special attention ;ivcn to ' olloctions ami the prusojittiou ol claims or Back Bay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. Office on Juliana street, south of the Court louse. April.,: lvr. I. F. MKV.RS *' """"" M.\ ERS A DICKER BON. ATTORNEYS AT LAM, Bei>fori<, Pens a., tfticc sauie as formerly occupied by Hon. M I*. - hell, two doors east of tha w,l! r.vticc in the several Courts of Bedford county. Vnsions, bounties and back pay obtained and the jure base of Heal Estate attended to. May tl,'6— Jyr. I R. CESSNA. j. attorney at law, •Eke with Jobs Cessna, on Julianna street, in be Sil-e formerly occupied by King A Jordan, recently by Filler A Keagy. All business iitrusted to his care will receive faithful and ,i ompt atteutiou. Military Claims. Pensions, Ac., pccdily collected. Bedford, June 9,1865. ' M il. SHARPS t- F - SEUR J HARPE A KERR. >l A T TORSE YS--A T-hA R. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad oiniDg counties. All business entrusted to their are wilt receive careful and prompt attention, 'ensi'-ns, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col eeted from the Government, Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking loose of Reed A Schell, Bedford, Pa. merS:U . it. m r.BORROw Joint lute. I xURBORROW a LI'TZ. LJ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bußronn, Pa., fill .ittend promptly to all business intrusted to heir care. Collections made on the shortest no icc. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents , I will give special attention to the prosecution f claims against the Government for Pensions. lack Pav, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the Menzel House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer fficc. April 8. 1865:t HI SPY M- ALSIP, [j ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faitbfnlly and promptly attend to all busi es entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin lg counties. Military claims, Pensions, back ay, Bounty, Ac. speedily colioctcd. Office with lanu A Bpang, on Juliana street. 2 doors south f the Mcngel House. apll, 1864. tf. U. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDF UD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services > the public. Office with J. M. Lingcnfelter. on Juliana street, two doors South of the Mengle House." Dec, 9, 1 864-tf. 7IMMFIA AXU Il\"t:l.X'b'bU.TlLlt V ATTORNEYS AT L AW. iisnroßD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of he Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South f the Mcngel House. aj.rl, 1864—i tf. DESTISTS. Dentistry. ... n I. N. BOWSER, Resident Dgstist, M oop ierkv. l'a., visits Bloody Run three days .J each ii ntb. commencing with the sec nd l ie;-lav o he month. Prepared to perform all Dentai-opcr itions with which he may be favored. clthin the reach of nil and strictly eaehe.cejtt lv , In! contract. Work to be sent by man or oth er--, must be paid for when impressions are taken. au'gs, I'lllSHlAm IvK. S. G. STATLER, near Behellsburg, and ) Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland -runty, having associated themselves in the prac ice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes .i'-nal services to the citizens of ScheiJsburg and vi■ inity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same >s formerly occupied by J. White, Esq., dee d- S. G. STATLISR, S hcllsburg, Aprill2:ly. J. J- CLARKE. \\ " M YV. JAMISON, M. D., y\ Ploodv Res, Pa., ID < cvtfully tenders his professional scrvicef to he people of that place and vicinity. [decStlyr DP.. P.. P". HARRY", Respectfaliy tenders his professional ccr rices to the citiiena of Bedford and vicinity. Jffice and residence or. Pitt Street, in the building • rmcrly occupied by Dr. J. 11. HoSus. April 1 IS64—tf. I L. MARHOI RG, M. D., •J . Having permanently located respectfully enders his pofessional services to the citizens t Bedford and vicinity. Office or, Juliana street, pposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pul iscr ! office. April I, 1804—tf. lEM ELEB, &c. \BSALOM GARLICK, CLOCK AM) WATCH-MAKER, Bloody Rrx, Pa. Clocks, Watche.', Jewelry, Ac., promptly re fiaircd. All work entrusted to bis care, warranted to give satisfaction. He also keeps on hand and i r sale WATCH ES, BLOCKS, and ./JSR ELH )". A53" '.iffice with Dr. J. A. Mann. mv 4 Daniel border, Pitt strket, two doors witar of the bf.d ri'RD HOTEL, BEEFORD, PA. M ATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES, AC. lie keeps on hand a stock of line Gold and Sil ver Watch,.?, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scutch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins. Finger Kings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order iny thing in bisiine not on hand. apr.2B, (865—xz. nW. CROTJSK WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, On Penn street a few doors west of the Court House, North side. Bedford. Ta., is now prepared t > sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. Ail orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in hi" line will do well to give him a call. Bedford, Oct 20. '65., TYLPP A SHAN HON, 1' INKERS, l Y Bedford, Pa. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and Doutb, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes ami Account: Collected and Rem ittanees promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. f e H22 rjMIOMAS MFRWINE. manufacturer of CABINET WAKE, &C-, BEDFORD, PA The undersigned having pure has ad the Shop To. Is. ,te., of the into M'm, Stahl, dec'd, is now prepare ) to do all kinds of CABINET WORK in good style and at the shortest notice, at the OLD -STAND in West Pitt street. f&r Having a HEARSE, he is also prepared to furnish COFFINS an I ATTEND FUNERALS. THOMAS MEN WINE. Marvhia: im. ffieMoird 3fncittircv. DFKBOKKOW k LI'TZ Editors and Proprietors, JjMtnj. THE COI'KTIN'. BY DR. HOLMES. God makes sech nights, all white au" still Fur ez you can look or listen. Moonshine au' snow on field an hill, All silence an' all glisten. Zekle crop' up quite unbeknown Au' peeked in thru' the winder, An' ".here sot Huldy all alone, 'lth no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side TTIIII nair a M.. There wa'nt no stoves (liH comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin". The wa'nut logs shots parkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An ieetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimble crook-necks hung. Au' in amongst 'em rusted The ole Quceu's arm that Grau'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceiiiu', An' she looked lull ez rosy agin As the apples she was peelin'. 'Twas kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretUr, A dogrese blushing to a brook Ain't modester nor sweeter. lie was six foot o" man. A 1, Clean grit an' hu man natur' ; None couldn't quicker pitch a ton Nor dror a furrer straighter. He'd sparked it with full twenty gals, He'd squired 'em, danced 'em. druv em, Fust this one, an" then that, by spells— All is, he eould'nt love "em. But long o' her his veins 'ould run All crinkly like curled maple, The side she brushed felt full o' sun, Ez a south slope in Ap'il. She thought no v'ice hed sech a swiug Ez his'n in the choir : My ! when he made Old Hundred, ring, She knowed the Lord was nigher. An' she blushed scarlet, right in prayer, When her new meetin'-bunnet Felt somehow thru' its crown a pair O' blue eyes sot upon it. That night, I tell ye, she looked some! For she felt sartin-sure he'd come, Down to her very shoe-sole. She heered a foot, and kuowed it tu, A-raspin on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks on burnt-op paper. He kin' o' I'itered on the mat Some doubtflo o' the sekle, His heart kep' goip' pitty-pat. But her'n went pity Zekle. An' yet she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parib' away like murder. "You want to see my Pa, I s'pose?" •Wal no 1 come dasignin' " "To see my Ma? She is spriuklin' clo's Agin to-morrow's ir'nin'." To say why gals acted so and so, Or don't, 'ould be presumin': Mebby to mean ye.t an' say no Comes nateral to women. j He stood a spell on one foot fust, i Then stood a spell on t'other, 1 An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha told ye nuthcr. Says he, "I'd better call agin Says she. "Think likely. Mister;" The last words picked him like a pin. An' Wal. he np an' kist her. When Ma bimeby upon 'em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smiley roun' the lips An' teary roun' the lashes. For she wastes' the quiet kiud Who-e naturs never vary. Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary. The blood clost roun' her heart felt glued Too tight for all expressing Tell mother see how matters stood, An' gin 'em both her blessin'. Then her red come back like the tide, Down to the Bay o' Fundy, An' all I know is tbey was cried In meetin' come next Sunday. piscdlww. A REAL "DEVIL-FISH." \ ictor ling"" 1 - Narrative .Matched. Readers of M. Victor Hugo's "Toilers of ; the Sea" will remember the terrible narra tive of the fisherman Gihiatt's encounter ' witli the octopus or sea-devil, who winds his ; horrible suckers round his victim, and gradually draws away his life's blood. The poet novelist has been accused of exaggera tion in this incident, but according to Mr. Lord, an Knglish traveller, who has just published in London a book about British Columbia and the Pacific coast, the sea devils of the North Pacific even outdo the terrors of the Channel Island species. Mr. Lord says: " "The octopus as seen on our coasts, al though even here called a "uiansuckcr' by the fisherman, is a mere Tom Thumb, a tiny dwarf a- compared to the Brobdignagion proportions he attains in-the snug bays and long inland canals along the east side of Vancouver Island, as well as on the main land. These places afford lurking-dens, strong-holds and natural sea-nurseries, where the octopus grows to an enormous sire, fattens and wages war with insatiable voracity on all and everything it can catch. Safe from heavy breakers, it lives as in an A LOCAL AND QENERAI. NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS aquarium of smooth, lake like water, that, save in the ebbing and flowing of the tide, knows no change of disturbance. "The ordinary resting-place of thi3 hide ous "sea-beast is under a large stone or in the wide cleft of a rock, where an octopus can creep and squeeze itself with the flatne-- of a sand-dap or the slipperiuess of an eel. Its modes of locomotion arc curious and varied ; using the eight arms as paddles and working them alternately, tho central disk representing a boat, oetopi row themselves, along with au ease and celerity comparable to the many-oared caique that glides over the tranquil waters ot the Bospliorus; they can ramble at will over the sandy roadways intersecting their submarine parks, and, converting arms into legs, march, on like a huge spider. Gymnasts of the highest or iW. fhsv climb the sIic.DCIT ledges, as flies walk up a window pane? warnres me countless suckers that arm the terrible limbs to the face of the rocks, or to the wraeh and seaweed, they go about, back down-ward, like marine sloths, or. clinging with one arm to the waving alga:, perform series of tra pczo movements that Leotard might view with envy. "I have often, when on the rocks, in Es quimault harbor, watched my friend's pro eeodings; the water being clear and still, it is just like peering into an aquarium of huge proportions, crowded with endless varieties of curious sea-mousters ; although grotesque and ugly to look at. yet all alike displaying the wondrous works of Creative wisdom.— In all the cosy little nooks and corners pf the harbor the great seawrack (Maerocystis) grows wildly, having a straight round stem that coiues up from the bottom, often with a stalk three hundred feet long; reaching the surface, it spreads out two long taper ing leaves that float upon the water ; this sea forest is the favorite huntiug-ground of octopi. "1 do not think in its native element an octopus often catches prey on the ground or on the rocks, but waits for them just as a spider does, only the octopus converts itself into a web, and a fearful web to. Fasten ing one arm to a stout stalk, stiffening out the other seven, one would hardly know it from the wrack amongst which it is con cealed. Patiently he hides his time, until presently a shoal of fish come gaily on, threading their way through the sea-trees, joyously happy, and little dreaming that this lurking monster, so artfully concealed, is close at hand. Two or three of them rub against the arms ; fatal touch ! xYs though a powerful electric shock had passed through the fish and suddenly knocked it senseless, so does the arm of the oetogus paralyze its victim : then winding a great sucker-clad round the palsied fi-h— as an elepbaDt winds its truuk round anything to bo conveyed to the mouth —draws the dainty morsel to the center of the disk, where the beaked mouth seizes, and soon sucks in it." By a sort of poetical justice, these tyrants of the sea caverns are themselves hunted by an enemy of untiring pertinacity. The In dian regards the octopus us a great delicacy, especially when its huge gluntinous body is to get'its long thong-Tike**lecrcf-"'f7ver""f fie side of the caiioe, and at the same time re tain a hold upon the seawraek, it could as easily haul it over as a child could a basket. This the crafty Indian well knows. How he captures hint Mr. Lord thus describes: "Paddling the canoe close to the rocks, and quietly pushing aside the wrack, the savage peers through the crystal water, un til his practiced eye detects an octopus, with its great ropelike arms stiffened out, waiting patiently for food. His spear is twelve feet long, armed at the end with four pieces of hard wood, made harder by being baked and charred in the fire ; these project about four teen inches beyond the spear-haft, each piece having a barb on one side, and are ar ranged in a circle round the spear-end, and lashed firmly on with cedar bark. Having spied out the octopus, the hunter passes the spear carefully through the wi>cr until with in an inch or so of the centre dink, and then sends it in as deep as he can plunge it.— Writhing with pain and passion, the octo pus coils its terrible arms round the haft; redskin making the side of the canoc a fulorum for his sprar, keeps the struggling monster well off. and raises it to the surface of the water. Ho is dangerous now : if he could get a holdfast on either savage or canoe, nothing short of chopping off the arms piecemeal would be of any avail. "But the wily redskin knows all this, and ha.- taken care to have r<ady another spear unbarred, long, straight, smooth and very sharp, and with this he stabs the octopus where the arm join the central disk. I sup pose the spear must break down the nervons ganglious supplying motive power, as the stabbed arms lose at once strength and tenacity ; the suckers that a moment before held on with a force ten men could not have overcome, relax, and the entire ray hangs like a dead snake, a litnp, lifeless mass.— And thus the Indian stabs and stabs, until the octopus, deprived of all power to do harm, is dragged into the canoe, a great, inert, quivertng lump of brawn-looking jel ly-" . POWKKFIL MICROSCOPE. A Foreign journal says : —lt is not many i months since one of the most eminent of ; living microscopists expressed his convic , tion that in the produc'ion of object-glasses j with a one-twenty-fifth of an inch focus, the microscope had reached its utmost at | taiuable limit of perfection. He added that j "it appears impossible to separate or define lines more numerous than ninety thousand in an iuch. on account either of the decom position of light, or some other cause. It therefore seems beyond our power ever to discover more of the ultimate composition : of bodies by means of the microscope. ' 1 It is always foolish to use such "thus far and ! no father" language in reference to any de partment of scientific research ; but it is not often that its fallaciousness has been demon stration within so short a ]>eriod as in the present ease. The above extract is taken from a journal dated December 10,_ 1864; and yet already the one thing which mi croscopists are now talking about is an ob ; jeet-glass with one-fiftieth of an iuch focus, recently made by Messrs. Powell aud Lea -1 land, which was described to the Royal Society by Dr. Lionel Healo the other day, aud was exhibited at the annual couverta of that Society a short time sinoe.— This object-glass possesses double the pow er of the one which we were so lately told, and by so great an authority, was the most powerful we must ever except to possess, anu defines with wonderful distinctness par ticles which the latter cannot render visible at all. It magnifies three thousand diauie rers, with the iow eye-piece, or with a num ber five eye-piece, fifteen thousand diame ters—that is to say, in popular parlance, one thousand five hundred and seventy-five millions of times! It must immensely in crease our knowledge of the !< over organisms, and may even aid our researches into the ul timate constitution of matter. And who shall say that even its powers may not be cx ( oeeded in time ? BEDFORD. FRIDAY. MAY 3, 1867. FIFTY REMARKABLE YEARS. BY S. B. M'RORLKK. If the generations of mOLj'roiu the time of Adam down to the preset were taken and examined in detail, thcrj would not be found any one period of fill? years so re markable in invention, progtss and scien tific achievements as have weu the last fifty years from 1817 to 18(17. - b human being, from the creation to the prjsent time, ever witnessed within the space if fifty years so many important events, ami it is probable that no man ever will. Thj deluge was a wonderful event, but it sfcxd alone. The discovery of this continent was a remarka ble affair, but it was accompanied by no other remarkable occurrence*. Tho cam tary achievements, but there are no concom itant events worthy of notice. Take the progress of this nation in regard to settlements and improvements, in open ing up the country, felling tiubcr, breaking up prairies and clearing out firms, in build ing up immense cities, and adornipg the earth with beautiful and coitly buildings, and it may safely he said tha* no single fifty years ever saw the like. Rome was five hundred years in being built. Chicago only about thirty. View the last half centuiy in regard to improvements in machinery, and liow re markable ! It bas given as the threshing machine, the reaping uiackine, the rotary printing press, and a thousand similar in ventions. Iron clad ships and irresistible projectiles, hurled from immense military ordnance, are the creations of the last fifty years. Steam, as a motive power, was almost un known fifty years ago. Of al! the rivers of the known world, none had ever heard the shrill whistle of a steam engine, and the hills and valleys of this little mundane sphere were strangers to the scream of the locomo tive. The steamships and steamboats and locomotives and engines are now counted by thousands and tens of thousands. There is not a navigable river in the known world that is not traversed by steamboats, and scarcely a plain, nay. even a mountain, that is not crossed by railroad engines, drawing immense trains of cars over serpentine roads, endless in extent. The lightning has been drawn down from the clouds, chained, trained and harnessed, and made to carry news in countless direc tion-. The very ocean has been made sub servient in its power and process, and im mense cables of copper and iron stretch for thousands of miles through the watery deep, to gather in the world's news in a moment of time. Light has been trained to catch the images of men and animals. The daguerreotype, auibrotype, melainotvpe, and photograph are all creatures of the last half century. Beautiful things are caught Irom pencils of light and placed on plates, from wnich they are transferred to stone and then to_ paper. Moral and political intelligence is spread broadcast by a schools have been established in different government-. Missionary societies and oth er instrumentalities for humanizing society are actively at work. Scientific discovery and invention are developed in every depart ment, and the moral and political world moves along on a-rial wheels. Gold, lead, copper, coal and oil have been discovered and applied in innumerable ways to the advancement and progress of civil, so cial and religious development. Within the last few years the greatest civ il war that the world ever saw, or perhaps ever will see, has transpired within our own vision. And, to crown all, four inillion of slaves have been emancipated. When be fore in the world's history did such an event transpire? When will the world ever again witness such an event ? Sum up ail this. Count the number of engines propelled by steam. Count the number of iron nils made since the year ISI7. Count the farm- improved and the dwelling hou-os that dot what a few years ago was a wilderness a the grains of sand dot the sea. Count the number of letters patent that have been issued for important inventions. Count the number of feet of telegraph wire; the number of gallons of oil; the number of ounces of gold; the pounds of lead, or the tons of copper that have lately been used. Count the number of newspapers, pamphlets, magazines and books that have been turned out by steam since the invention of the steam power press. Count the number and variety of the imple ments of war, and count the dead upon our battle fields. Count the number of eman cipated slaves, and say whether or not the last fitly years have not been prolific of im portant events. . Could not an interesting book be written on the subject ? THE NEWSPAPER A POWER. The Press is the motive power that moves the world. Its influence is beyond dispute, and its agency is accepted by all. The fol lowing very able article on this subject we eopv entire from one of our exchanges : • 'The press is an educational force of won derful potency. The huaible and unpre tending newspaper that comes every week into a dwelling, contributes imperceptibly but certainly to the intellectual growth of all the people therein. Indeed, it is not difficult, in the obscurer walks of life to de tect what kind of newspapers % man regu larly reads by the opinions he draws, and the method by which he states and defends them. Some men who pass for more than ordinarily intelligent and thoughtful know very little except what they have learned from the newspapers. Nay, lot any one sit down and deliberately pass in review bis stock of knowledge, accurately discriminate what he is indebted to the newspapers for, and what be has acquired through other sources, and he will be surprised to find bow large are his obligations to the public jour nals. An uncommonly shrewd observer of men, and one personally acquainted with most of the eminent meu of his day, re marked that souio of the most .conspicuous among them, radiant with genius and all other qualities requisite to constitute great leaders, were mainly newspaper men: that is, they relied throughout long and brilliant careers chiefly upon newspapers for facts suggestive of ideas, and largely for the dis- J cusstons whereby the real and apparent were ; separated from each other. "'lt may be said, moreover, that uewspa ! pers manufacture more great men than are ' made by any other process. It i- a matter I of notoriety that very fewpublic men, upon deliberate hearing and actual review, bear any fair proportion to the reputation tbey 1 enjoy. Many men for whom nature has i done better, and art less, have a colossal fame, which will not bear to be examined ; too closely. In these cases the difference be tween the real and the imaginary is the pro duct of newspaper iaudation. The public may not feel under obligations to the press ; in this matter, but the fortunate individuals who reach high positions through this ex ! penditure if in it have abundant reason to ■ prove that tJu mu&jxijper in a TOILETTES AT A WASHINGTON RECEPTION. I write this letter as an act.of justice to neglected man. The Washington corres pondents, as a have given themselves over to the dominion of woman. Witness their one sided accounts ot the fashionable farties given by Senators and secretaries. he women are all described as a lover might describe his beloved, while the men, though they may lie husbands and fathers, Senators and ministers, are not considered worthy to lie mentioned at idi. For the sake of vindicating the dignity of my sex— and for an example to the regular correspon dents, I give you a proper account of the brillibnt_ reception given at the house of the distinguished secretary, lt-n <l-11. The host was dressed in a neat, close fit tec blue *< .fen a real substantial gray. Pants same mate rial. lined with srav muslin. White shirt, cut biased with a beautiful frill all around the bottom. New patent steel collar, mar ked "A. J." It is here proper to remark that his tables groaned under luxurious ni'es of bread and butler, furnished by the Treasury department, and the side tables staggara with the choicest wines, confiscated by the New York custom house. Senator D-l-tt 1-e was dressed in his best clothes inf.de loose, so as to be changed in a moment, and wom cither side out. They were of a light changeable blue on one side, and a reliable gray on the other. His shirt was cot goring, and was made of material confiscated at the New York custom house. The bosom was immaculately white, typical of the breast within. He wore a steel collar which was also typical of the character of the man. He seemed hungry, and spent most of the evening in the refreshment room eating bread and butter, and slipping the odds and ends into his pockets. Chief Justice C-h s-e was dressed in a full suit of blue, with the exception of his vest, which had a green back. The tops of his boots were also green, and he had in his pocket several little pictures of Christopher Columbus and others set in green. He seemed to be rather choice of these, keeping his bands in his pockets all the time, espe cially when the host or Senator D-l-tt l-e were about. He wore suspenders. General G-r n-t was also dressed in blue and a cigar case. Hu had on suspenders and blue ribbed socks with white toes. He was heard to inquire of the Chief Justice why he was like oue of.Shakespeare's charac ters? When the Chief Justice gave it up. he said it was because his offense was raok. The Secretary of War brevetted him on the spot. President J-n s n came in leaning heavily on the arm of Vice President 8-t-v-n-s for support. On first entering he seemed to be insensibly affected by something, but soon dried his eves w tb bis new pocket handker chief— a splendid pattern of bunting repre senting the United States flag on one side and the confederate flag on the other. His outer garments were a curious mixture of Waft KWH bitiun.fer lie wore no suspenders, claiming it is under stood that such fixtures are clearly a viola tion o( the Constitution ajjd an insult to the South. It is unconstitutional to suspend anything except women. Senators S 1-s-b-r y and Mel)-g-l came to gether and looked and acted like brothers. They were dressed alike: each having on a SDuff colored butternut coat, with twobot tles of whisky in the coat tails —bottles par tially eiapty. These two chivalric gentle men added much to the festivities of the oc casion by acting an interesting tableau, re presenting the coat of arms of Kentucky— "United we stand." They wore white kids. Seated in a corner were Secretary W-l-l-s and Senator D v sof Kentucky, engaged in a warm discussion for several lours, the Secretary being asleep all the time. The gallant Senator s attention being called to the fact that his adversary was asleep and snoring, he replied that hu was glad of it— he was used to such things; it gave him more time to establish his side of the question— and he went on "like an April shower. Washington C 'orrcsjxjndait Cincinnati Commercial. SPREAD Ol THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Lite Jackson (Mis-i.-rippi) Clarion for April 11, has the following interesting re marks upon the spread of the Republican party in different southern states : "The fact is too manifest to be denied, and too important to be disregarded, that the Republican party is rapidly extending ite ramifications throughout the southern states. In all of these states initial move ments, more or less formidable, are on foot for forming a compact party to co-operate with that organization. It is a part of the matured scheme of the leaders ol that party to maintain its ascendency,quid they have seized the opportunity afforded by the intro duction of the new clause into the elective franchise. "In Virginia we find no prominent person connected with the movement except Botts. who belongs to the past age of politics and has outlived his time; but primary meetings are being held with a view to s state conven tion which will bring the organization into full aud active existence. In North Caroli na the movement is under more formidable and more imposing leadership. It is headed by Holden, of the Slattdard, late provision al governor by appointment of President John-on : Pool, formerly a whig candidate i for governor, and others of scarcely less i note. They haTe held a convention in Ra leigh. in which nearly all of the counties in the state were represented by an equal num ber of white and black delegates. The or j ganization took the name of Republican, ' and placed itself in line with the northern radicals. ... • "In South Carolina no decisive action of i this kind has been had, beyond the assem bling of a meetiug in Charleston, at the in stance of radical emissaries. But General Sickles, the commander of the district, has recently delivered an address to the frecd men, abounding wiilt wholesome advice and patriotic views, which we trust will have a potent influence in shaping their eour-e. This speech, together with toe timely ad dresses of General Hampton and other pru dent and discreet, statesmen, will undoubted ly stay, if it does not wholly prevent the | progress of the movement. k A meeting, represented to large and I enthusiastic, apparently tending in the same direction, has been held at buvannah, beor gia. In this meeting Kx (Provisional) Go vernor Johnson bore a leading part, i "In Alabama the movement is more ior ; midable. It is engineered by such unscru j pulous and designing men as Ntck Davis, Humphries and Joe Bradley. Meetings : have been held iu Hunt-wile, Selma. Mont goutery. and other important poiuts. In these assemblies we have been surprised to learn that ex-Confederate officers who bore themselves creditably throughout the war i were active participants. I "If appearances are not delusive, the new VOLUME 40: >O. 18. party has entered the lists in Arkansas with prospects of success. We have before us the proceedings of a large convention held within the past few days at Little Rock, in which most of the counties of the State were represented. The movement derives additional strength from a large Union ele- which existed in the state during the war. in full sympathy with the North. "la Louisiana, the germs ola similar or ganixation exist which will be developed at an early day through the agency of Govern or Wells, Mike Hahn, Rurant, and a rad ical newspaper organ soon to be established in New Orleans. The principles and policy of the leaders of this organization are in harmony with those of the radical leaders of the North. They esteem the Military bill to be proper in itself—not to be submitted to as a necessity, but to be accepted-• a of Justice, andtbev warmly advo cate its prescriptive and disfranchising fea ture. They have not yet openly espoused the agrarian schemes of Thad. Stevens, but they contemplate the control of the State organizations," with a view to the establish ment of the grinding despotism which pre vails in Tennessee and Missouri. '"From the mass of newly enfranchised persons, upon whose ignorance, credulity, and prejudices, they will endeavor to play, the}' hope to make large accessions to tbeir numbers. It is clear that they can be thwarted only by the exercise of justice and kindness to these new voters, on the part of those who have hitherto controlled the des tinies of the country, and by their display of the utmost prudence, vigilance and self denying patriotism." NATURAL GAS SUPPLY FOR TOWNS. The ancient mariners of Lake Erie grate fully remember the Portland light at Barce lona harbor, for it was the largest and brightest light on the lakes and was never known to tail. The light cost less than any other lieacon light in the world for it came from the burning of gas which rose up spon taneously out ot the ground. The gas was of the best quality and the supply was ap parently inexhaustible. There was many times more than was needed or used and for aught we know it was burned during all the day. But the Portland light is now no more, at least tor the sailors; the gas now sheds its cheerful beams only on the land lubbers of the village of Wcstfield. When the state HDC railroad was comple ted. the harbor of Barcelona, which at Wcstfield, N. Y.. was distant from itonlva tnilc. was abandoned and the Portland light was not needed. The gas was wasted on the desert air. Last summer Addison Crosby and P. H.Taylor, under the name of the Wcstfield Has Co., having secured a title to the gas brought it to the village of West field. a distance of one and a quarter miles. At the gas spring a pit was dug in the rock five feet in depth and sixteen feet in diameter to accommodate a gasometer of the same dimensions. Prom the top of this a waiaraaJaA aesn&g From the first to the second gas holder there is a gradual ascent of 180 feet and as the gas is fighter than air it travels up with out any assistance from pumps. The pres sure at the upper holder is nine-tenths and at the spring one and a half tenths of an inch water pressure. The supply of gas is abundant that early in the day the upper holder is filled and is never exhausted at night. The Company have at command three times as much gas as theyuse and they propose shortly to offer it for fuel as well as light. The gas is in nse all over the village, and in all there are 2,000 burners. The vil lagers pay #4 per I,<XM) cubic feet, a good remuneration for the enterprise of the gas proprietors. The stock of the company must be above par. The good people of Westfield ought to be happy and proud. They have one of the most prized luxuries of the cities without any nuisance or daDger of gas works. I redonia, a neighboring village, has had the prestige for about half a century of get ting its light from natural pas, but it must now yield the palm to Westfield. In fact I'rcdonia never deserved its great renown, for until within a few years the natural gas supplied less than a score of burners, ana it was of poor quality. At the present time it depends mainly on its new CO3I gas works, where a little natural gas is mixed with a large percentage of coal gas. The charge of the company for the mixed gases is $6 per one thousand cubic feet. The Westfield natural gas is said to be richer than the gas of cities in abont the ratio of three to two. —Scientific American. THE HOT SPRINGS OF CALIFOR* NLA. The geysers are boiling springs, situated n a desolate gash made in the lower part of one of these mountain valleys. They cov er only a few acres, and are in themselves rather curious than attractive. At a hun dred points you find hot steam, hissing or sizzling out of little holes of water, the lar gest half a dozen feet over, the smallest not bigger than a child's teapot. A few ofthem make a noise like the panting of a steamboat or locomotive. But the sight and sound of the geysers are very much below the usual description. On the other hand, the medi cinal value of the springs seem to be far be yond the ordinary estimate. Here are found at all temperatures, from two hundred and twelve to one hundred degrees, springs con taining iron,sulphur, magnesia, soda, alum, epsom salts in astonishing abundance and tbc.-o in all possible combinations, and in all possible independence of each other. It would seem as if nature had her great apothecary shop in the very bank, out of which the geysers flow, in monstrous reser ved stores of soda,sulphur, alum, iron, mag nesia, etc., all in different beds. Over these beds trickle pure streams of cold water, (the subdivision of a considerable stream enter ing the gorge 4t its upper end,)and as they pass over some, and skip others of these beds, they > >nie out saturated with different acids and alkalies, in different combinations and at different temperatures, the heat be ing, I supposed, the result of cheinieal ac tion. They issue here, black as ink; there, milky white, and of all shades between; while the little basins from which the gas issues and the water bubbles are incrusted with crystals of verdigris, epsom salts, alum and sulphur. Tie soil is very hot to the feet. A LETTER dated on board the Colorado on her return passage from China says: "The Orient and Occident have shaken hands, the trial trip has been accomplished, the uniting link has been joined, the traveling public can now steam round the world, and it is not difficult, from the success which has attended this round voyage, to predict the success which is certain to ensue, in a financial point of'view, to the great company which has so energetically entered the lists in the grand competitive struggle for the carrying trade of tho East." BENBIBLJE ADVICE. Some ono who "knows the world." or else expects perfection, gives the following ad vice regarding a husband: "When you se.- a young man of modest, respectful, retiring erß 'k not -# lve ? t0 f,ride ' t0 vanity, or you see a young man of frugal and indus trious habits, no fortune hunter, but who would tike a wife for the benefit of herself, and not for wealth, that man will make a good husband for his affection will not d# crease, neither will be bring himself nor his parents to poverty or want. When you see a man whose manners are of a boisterous kind, "brass" enough to carry bim anywhere and vanity enough to make him think every one inferior to himself, don't marry him, girls: be won't make a good husband. W hen you see a young man using his best to raise himself from obscurity to credit, marry him, ho will make a good husband and one worth having;. When you see a young man depending solely for his reputation and stan ding in society upon the Health of his rich lather or relatives, don't marry him for goodness sake: he will make a poor husband. W hen you see a young man always employ ed adoring his person, and who leaves his debts unpaid, although frequently demanded, never do you marry him, lor he will in every respect, make a bad husband. When you see a young man who is below you in wealth offer to marry you, don't deem it a disgrace, iuifc look into his character, and if you find it corresponds with these directions, take him and you will get a good husband. When you sec a young man who is attentive to his sisters or aged mother, who is not ashamed to be seen in the street with the woman who gave him birth and pursed him, supporting her weak and tottering frame upon his arm. who will attend to all her little wants with love, affection and tenderness, take him girls, who can get him, no matter what may be his circumstances in life; he is truly worth winning and having, and will certainly make a good husband. GARIBALDI ON I'OPISH PRIESTS. IN e, says the London Advertiser , have been favoured with a copy of a letter which Garibaldi has addressed to the Ladies Asso ciation at Genoa, relative to the power and disposition for evil of the Popish priesthood. The following is a translation of this impor tant though brief communication: Ladies. —To liberate woman from super stition; and to release her from the clutches of the priest, b now the quession of life or ol death to Italy, and in this manner only cart be forked out the true deliverance of country. Priest! Bat do you not see him imbedded in the heart of this miserable earth and in the r-ame manner as the gnaw ing cncer in the human form, feeding upon its miseries, and every thing which is most injurious and disgusting, and calculated to ruin hb brother maD? Many will tell you that there are good priests. But a priest, to become good, must change the adverse livery that he wears. That livery, bit not the livery of the promoters of brigandage in more than the half of Italy? Has it not marched as a vanguard before every stran ger that invaded our country? Those who endeavor to retard our progress make a dis tinction between the temporal jwjwer, which should be eombatted, ana the spiritual pow er, which they tell us should be respected. The spiritual power! And from whom does that come? Irom Antonelli, Schiavooe, or C'rocco? Spiritual, indeed! And are these the leaders by whom you would wish to be conducted into the presence of the Eternal? Will you consent to present yourselves be fore God UDder protectors such as these? Indies, may the Divine inspiration of your wav"bTtruffi" "unioininns in th* Yours, &c, G. GARIBALDI. FLOWERS. NY ho would wish to live without flowers? Where would the poet fly for his images of beauty if they were to perish forever ? Are they not the emblems of loveliness and in nocence—the living types of all that is pleas ing and graceful ? We compare youn L lips to the rose, and the white brow to the radi ant lilly ; the winning eye gathers its glovr from the violet, and a sweet voice is like a breeze kissing its way through flowers.— We hang delicate blossoms on the silken ringlets of the young bride, and strew her path with the fragrant belh when she leaves the church. We place them around the marble face of the dead in the narrow coffin, and they become symbols of our affections pleasures remembered and hopes faded, wishes flown, scenes cherished, the more that they can never return. Still we look to the fai-off spring in other valleys— to the eternal summer beyond the grave, when the flowers which faded shall again bloom in starry fields where wo rude winter can in trude. They come upon us in spring like the recollections of a dream, which hovered above us in sleep, peopled with shadowy beauties and purple delights, fancy broid ered. Sweet flowers! that bring before our eyes scenes of childhood—faces remembered in youth, when Love was a stranger to it self! Tne mossy bank by the wayside, where we so often sat for hours drinking in the beauties of the primroses with our eyes —the sheltered glen, darkly green. fiUed with the perfume of violets that shone in their intense blue like another sky spread upon the earth —the laughter of merry voices—the sweet song of the maiden—the downcast eye, the spreading blush, the kiss, ashamed of its own sound—are all brought back to memory by a flower. ADVICE TO AN APPRENTICE, 1. Seize every opportunity of improving your mind. 2. Be carefnl as to who are your compan ions. 3. To whatever occupation you may be called as a means of obtaining a livelihood, determine to understand it well and work heartily at it 4. Accustom yourself to act kindly and courteously to every one. 5. Carefully avoid all extravagant hab its. 6. Determine to possess a character for honesty. 7. Cultivate a strict regard for truth. 8. If your parents are living, do your utmost to promote their happiness and com fort . 9. Recollect your progress in life must de pend upon your exertions. 10. Be a rcsoecior of religion, and do unto others as you would they should do un to you. 11. Be strickly temperate in all things. 12. Avoid all obscene conversation. 13. Be especially regardful of the Sabbath, and on no account desecrate it. 14. Make yourself useful. WONDERS. When a young man is a clerk in a store and dresses like a prince, smokes foreign cigars,'driuks 'nice brand v. attends thea tres. dances and the like, I wonder if he doc* all on the avails of bis clerkship? When a young lady sits in the pallor du ring the day, with her lily white fingers covered with rings, 1 wonder if her mother doesn't wash the dishes and do the work in the kitchen? When the deacon of the church sells strong butter recommending it as a good article, I wonder what he relies upon for salvation. When a lady laecs her waist a third lesa than nature made it, I wonder if her pretty figure will not shorten life a dozen years or more, besides making her miserable while she does live?
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