o hr ikdtovtl lluqaim IS PUBLISHED I.VIKY FBIDAV MOHNIXtI BY L ft. I1 RBORROU \M> JoKN LI TZ, II MANY St.. opposite the tiengc', 11 • BEDFORI >. PENN A Ti: 1t.21 IS: *2.00 it year if paid strictly in advance. II not Laid v. i!!tit> six months $3.30. It not paid nitliin I lie J car KS.OO. refusions! A gfasi# m Carte ATI'OICVEYS AT I.AW. MAN KS IRVINE, ALTOKNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all hu.-i -lie.-r intrusted I" his care. Offnc with (!. 11. Spang, E.-ij., on Juliana street, three doors south of the Mcugcl llousc. May 2l:!y i T. KEAGY, .1 . YTTOR NEV-AT-I.A W. .-v. Office opposite llced A Seheli - llauk. t'ounsel given in English and Herman. [aplL'n] V. L. 11l - - K '• "• t.OX KM.I KM |>t SHELL Si LONUENECKER, I V .VrTonsr.Ys k CorxsF.M.or.- \t LAW. Bedford, I'a.. (AYill attend promptly and faithfully to all hu.-i -iin - cntr ted to their eare. Special attention given to collection- and ihc prosecution of claim for Back l'ay, Bounty. Pensions, Ac. •'>— Office on Juliana street, south of the Court Blouse Aprils:lyr. E J- w. I2ICKKHSOS A I EVI-'.R- A DICKERSON, A I ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEHFonn, PENS A., Office nuc Us formerly occupied v H" n - " ?'• -ell. 11. two doors ea-t of the O-itlie office, will praeti' ■ in the several Courts of Bedford count. Pen-h-:,-. to'unties and back pay obtained an.l the purchase of Real Estate attended to. May 11, '66—lyr. I It. CESSNA. .) . ATTORNEY AT LAW, title e with JonN CESSNA, oil Julianna street, in the office formerly occupied by King k Jordan, and r. ently hv Filler .V Kcogy. All business , utiiistcd to his care will receive iaithful and prompt attention. Military Claims. Pensions, S •*., -pei'lily collected. Bedford, June 9,1866. ,r M l). *'• KBRR CHIARPK A* KERR, n A TTOHSE YS-A T-LA U\ Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and nd nduing c< untie,. All business entrusted to their are will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay. Ac., speedily col lcctcd from the Government. office on Juliana sircct, opposite the hanking h. ii • • r Reed A Schell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf J. I . BORROW JOHN I.I'TZ. 1 \t . ; BORROW k LUTZ, f ' ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bi-nronn, PA., V end promptly to all business intrusted to s r. t'ollcctions uiade on tlio shortest no \ ate, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents .'1 give special attention to the prosecution dttis against the Government for Penniaal, Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. on Juliana street, one door South of the eel House" end XI trlv . 1 . .site the /../itirrr April 88. 18<1 tut. 5 2SPY M. A.LSIP, S'j ATTORNEY AT LAW. DKI>I'OKI>, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all bust entrusted to his eare in Le.liord andauj in ioo counties. Military claims. Pensions, back pav. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected, nffice with Mat n & Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south • the Mcngel House. apll, 186-4. tF. \i A. POINTS. iVI ATTORNEY AT LAW, P.Enroßn, PA. Respectfully tenders hi- professional services to the public. Office with W. l.ingcnfclter, 1-; Juliana street, two do. r- South of the • Mengle House." Pw- ® 1 s>4-tf. KIMMELL, AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BEi-roitn, I'A. Have formed a partnership in the practice -f the Law Office on Juliana Street, two - S-uth • f the Mengel House. aprl, 1854—tf. \ i j \|. AY. JAMISON, M. I>., \\ BLOOIIV lit n, PA.. p. , . ifully tenders his professional .-crrtees to the people ol that place and vicinity. [dc<-S:lyr hK. H. F. 11 ARKY, Respectfully tender-- his prob ional -er vicc.s to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building t rnicrly occupied by lir. J. 11. Holius. April 1. 1881 —tt. I Ij. MARBOI'RiI, M. I>.. •J, Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofcs-ional service- to the . itizens ol Bedford and vicinity. Office or. Julian i street, ppositcthe Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1881—tf. nR. S. G. STATLER, near Schcll.iburg, and fir. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland cunty, having associated themselves in the prac tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes si.-nal services torfhc citizens of Scliellsburg and o-initv. I'r. Clarke'- offi- e and residence same t ruierly '■-•■-upicd by J. While, Es.p, dc- 1 S. G. STATIjKU, -.-I,• ■l-bttrg, April 12:ly. J. J. CLARKE. DLYTIVIS. hi S TISTKY. I. N. BOW.-ER, RBSIOFNT DENTINT, W.m ei II;;I . Pa., visit- Bloody Run three day.- of ca> h no nth, commencing with the second Tuesday of the im uth. Prepared t ) perform all D( ntc.l oper ations with which he may be favored. 7"..,..* If thin till ca-h ■</ ..II c.fb.rcrj.t p.[io/ f.itlr'i. i. AA ■rk ti ' e ■nt l-v mail oroth wi.-e, inu-t be paid for when imj.re- '.on- are taken, aug i, 'Bt:lf. J y- NT IS TRY" ' DENTISTRY A Ucaiititnl Set of Tet lli lor T33N" XJOIxIJAIIS ! I)IC- 11. \ ILU.'HS IMHtTKK. (I ATK or Nl-W Vol-K CIT V, ii > tv r r i s r r, Wijuld rcfjiectfully inform his numerous friend* and the I'uhlie generally, that he It;i- located j-rr tly in BLOODY R! N. where lie may be found m nil tilths firrparcl t> i: - rf fi '-m nuc t. H.th M • : ! -• OI i. is UK A1 Tin \> AKTIFf t'l VL IKK''l'll on new and iin]roved atni<sjiher • prineij-'.c-. The mil Ml'll "/ VECHAMf \L I'lS/'HY HVBBEH ? r the I - is ! artificial teeth. fhi dibcvery wbi<*h has met with such uni vcr-iil aj ]rova! 'Ugh nit thi.- and other c- un tri". , has seemingly placed A t'TH'K'f .1 L 7 111. Til at the di oo;U ot all wh require them. hh. rmtTEH is now inserting the in • I fill A I - '/ill /. and hi HAUL II a! prices ranging from Ten to ll iy LlT t'*u llollurM jcr t.r. Temporary sets in-crted if <le>ire<l. AH • \ iratin warranted. 'lVctli extracted without pain hv the use of Miiinrs OX!hll or /. W h)l/X<; (,'A <. i i- i- ii" huiuhug, but a ] ■ itivc fact. (Jas iD.inistercd frcrli every day. As thi (Ki- ad r. \ h\ br. 1 .rter i- prepared in aceor'l tl tie purifying method of lr. S'.r-ii*r ? of • ' H. . ij. <*t.,and l'rof. SiJiman t !at- [\ ic. svr • 'listry in Yuic College i he h ■ no hisit.i -' ' rtirg that t atteiidfl with n dan- Z' : " IN : • de-iring the serv ices ola mg up. i'r. P . r t . a he i-- determined to-pare tc r, ; ! ", ' : • ' : ; at all times be of the mildest clura a. . ~K , lu jmn. lion . t the -lightest unnt-. -ary and carefully adapted to the age, com-tituti.e . j, ~ Co a.,,,1 nervous eon dition of the patient. 5v- Special attention i invited to Dr. Porter's rcientif method of pre erving decayed and a li ing tec'h. Teeth blackened and di ea. -J, . cd to appear beautiful and white. If. VJKGII, PORTER, Dentist. Bloody Bun, Penn'a.. March 28. lS'-T.-Iy. IHKKOKROW X- I,I'TZ Editors and Prop Wors •^tulnu to <w Till; IiI'ULE SONG. i he splendor falls on eastle walls And snowy summits old in story; l'heloug light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying. Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying dying. O hark, (J hear! how thin and clear. And thinner, clearer, farther going: < > sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elflnnd faintly blowing Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying Blow, bugle: answer, echoes, dying, dying dying. t > love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint, on hilt or field or river: Our echoes roil from soul to soul. And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. V FARKWEI.L. Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea. Thy tribute wave deliver : No more by thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever. Flow, softly flow, by lawn and leu: A rivulet then a river: Nowhere by thee my steps shall be. Forever and forever But here will sigh thine alder-tree. And here thine aspen shiver : And here by thee will hum the bee Forever and forever. A thousand suns will stream 011 thee. A thousand moons will quiver; But not l>y thee my steps shall be, Forever and forever. pwd totems CVKIOCS FACTS. bishops >■! ink E.NiiMsii cm urn iiiiun VF.AHS AUO. —ENOBMOI'S INCOMES AMI LIOIIT I Allans. Tlu: Loudon /{uirir is printing a history of the Church of Kugland during t!ie last century, from which we take the following: i "An Anglican prelate ot the present day : is, with the rarest exception a man of ir reproachable life. The majority of our bishops jtre eminent lor their piety and learning. In the last generation, the chief claim to church preferment consisted in be ing allied cither to some noble family or to a politician possos<ing influence in the gov ernment. Another sure road to preferment was to bo the tutor of the son of some Min ister or more distinguish* 1 poison. l L;-. Dr. Markham was tutor to <Jeorge f\\. and a a reward for his -access in teaching that most religious and gracious prince the way ; he should go, he was appointed the Arch j bishop of York, i'retynian wa- tutor to j William Pitt, who wa- able, at the age of : twenty-eight, to obtain bis nomination; first i to the see of Lincoln, and afterwards to the ; more lucrative bishopric of \\ iuchester. ! The principal literary mi-moiial left by that | prelate to posterity is a life of his pupil, | which Macaulay declare- i- only reuiaikable I in being the worst biography of its size in | the Kngli.-h language. 1 >r. S partes. lii-h -op of Kly, was tutor i ■ the Ibtke of Rut land. Kv* n the pr at Rishop of Win chester owed hi- eh ration to his good for tune in havine been tutor to the sons of the late Marchioness of' 'onyngham. "All th • bishoi s were expected to -uj port the govcrmii ut in every measure thev : brought forward, no matter how tyranuieal j or unjust. It was their holy function to ! sanctify by their vote the Tory policy of the day. without the .-lightest regard to its mer i its. and they certainly fulfilled the condition with wonderful fidelity. As long as the government opposed the abolition of the i -lave trade, the 1 Limps voted with them so unflinchingly that Lord Kldon, then Lord i ('hanccllor, remarked that the consistent ; behavior of the right reverend prelates gave him great satisfaction, as he was now con 1 vineed there was nothing in tiro institution of slavery contrary to the principles oft 'hii>- tianity. They oppo.-ed all the attempts of Sir Samuel Jtoiuilly to mitigate the severity of our Ciinrinal code, then the most sangui nary in Kurope. Relsham. in his history, mention.- them, with ore- exception (Shin I ley), as being, with < Jeorge the il I. himself, the most inveterate upholders of the Amcr ' ii-an war. Tluy -upport-d Pitt in hi-war I against France, the policy of which is now doubted by some of the tories themselves. And. lastly, they were .be strenuous oppo iiut- of the Heform bill. ENOKMOt - IN' OMI.S. i'be selfish greed, tie* iu.-olcnt ncpoti.-m and the unscrupulous jobbing of many of i these holy men now almost surpass belief. , Not only were their incomes enormous, but their patr> nagc. which wa- immense, was dispensed with the grossest favoritism, without tie* light, -t regard either to learn j inc. pi'-ry or earnest tie in the cause of Christianity. They -ot decency and public opinion at defiance when livings and plural ities could bo heaped upon their children and relatives, 'flic acknowledged income of Spaikes. Li-hop of Kly. was £27,00", enough, i: might be assumed, to have aft'or led a provision for i;i ■ family, yet he gave his son, the Rev. li. Spark. -. three valua ble livings and a prtbendal stall in Kly i Cathedral, lie also made l.im steward of 1 tie* Dioce-an Manorial Courts, as well as ' Chancellor of the die ■ .-e. Ili- income from i the.-e differeiit source- exceed' I 2 (~"<0 a year! To the Rev. C Kaidcll the bishop's son-iii law. he gave two living- and a pre , hernial -tall in Kij Cathedral, the net in eijmc of the whole being CI.Too. To his ..-on, the Rev. Kdward Sparkes. he gave three living- and a prebendal stall. He also , appoint' *1 him his examining chaplain, and made him registrar of the di of Kly. Hi- income somewhat exceeded CLOIMI. j The total yearly amount clutched out of the ; church revenues by the Sparke- family ex ! net-led t '.'.'.'.112. "Let no one imagine, fouii the ex> —ive remuneration paid to the Rish(*y of Kly and liis family for their services, that this small 1 diocese became a model of tli-eipiine and . cpi.-eopul government. Nothing could -or | pass the negligence evinced in regard to the welfare of th • Church during the time that ; the Rev. I)r. S partes enjoyed the episco ! pate. A lit >Ksj 01' PATRON APE. ' It might be thought impossible to find a i parallel to the avarice and selfishness of i I>r. Spark oB, vet Sparkes was not worthy A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS to bold a candle to !>r. Pretyman. It is necessary rb premise that this right rever end prelate changed bis name to Tomlino before he was nominated to the sea, in con sequence of a large private fortune having been left him. The revenues of the diocese of Winchester were pcrhans larger than those of any other see in England, having been estimated, at the time of his appoint - ment, at £50,000 a year; yet Bishop Tom line contrived, notwithstanding, to place almost every one of the wealthier livings in his gift in the hands of his sons, relatives, and personal friends. He abused his pat ronage in a manner .-o monstrous and so wicked, that Englishmen of the present day cannot help feeling astonished, that public opinion in the bishop's time, weak as he knew it was, did not make itself heard in condemnation of such enormities. "Let us now sec how Bishop Tomlinc, himself in receipt of a paltry pittance of £50,(100 a year, administered his patronage, of course, with a single, eye to the good of the chnrch and the saving of souls. Take first the provision lie made for his three elder sons. His eldest son, the ltcv. G T. I'retynian, he made chancellor and canon residentiary of Lincoln; prebendary of Win chester; rector of Ht. Giles, Chalfont; rector of Whcathampstead: and rector of Harpcn den. His son, the Bev. Richard I'rety nian. was precentor and canon residentiary of Lincoln; rector of' Middleton Stony; rec tor of Walgrave; vicar of llannington; and rector of Wroughton. His third son, the Rev. John Pretytnan, he made prebendary of Lincoln; rector of Sherrington; and rec tor of Win wick. All the younger Prety mans were also provided for out of church or charity funds, especially out of' the Mere and Spital charities, the wardenship of which the bishop had contrived to obtain in some incomprehensible manner. All these and ten thousand other episcopal jobs and abuses have been justified and defended on the strength of the test. 'He that provideth not for his own house is worse than an infi del." Satan seems to have angled for epis copal souls with great success with this text for his bait. TIIE SEE OF CANTERBt it V. The Bev. Dr. Sutton. Archbishop of Canterbury, was another dignitary who did not fail to provide handsomely tor his chil dren and dependants out of the revenues of the church. To his seven >os he gave sis teen valuable livings. Hugh Percy, son of the Karl of Beverly, married his daughter. The archbishop, in con.-eouence, gave him eight valuable livings ana preferments, to the value of £lg,ood a year. Four of these lie received the year after his marriage. When made Bishop of Carlisle he refu-> <l to relinquish his stall in St. Paul's, worth some two thousand pounds annually, as well as the chancellorship ofsarum. Anoth er daughter of the Archbishop of Canter bury married the Rev. James Crott. and brought her husband fur down five livings of preferments. Several other members of the family were equally well provided f r. Dr. Sutton had little to recommend him, either in his public or private capacity. In ; ditics lie was a sycophant of the minister of'the day. and willing to support the gov - ernment in everything. In one of hi charges he regretted tbe ,t.that had com2 over the laity in his generation. ■There was no longer,' he said, 'that pros tration of the understanding which ought to be found amonga pious people.' Grac ing bishops and grecdv pluralists found a 'prostrate under-landing' a great help t" tiicm in their enjoyment of the good things of the church. In his private life Arch bishop Sutton*.- pecuniary transactions are said very f'requenely to have bordered on dishonestly, if they did not even pass tin line. "Archbishop Markhani did not adminis ter hi - ecclesiastical patronage so unscrupu lously as some of the bishops of his time; yet he did not omit to provide for his fami ly out of church revenues. It is currently stated of him, and we bcli> vo on good an thority, that some few year-' ' •!■-.H he presented each of his fifty-two grate liil dren with a new year's gift of £l,<H>O each. Tb ■ habit of providing fur sons and rela tives by giving them church appointment in hardly extinct in the present day, at !i at judging from the frequency of the name of' Shimmer (the family name of the pre-ent Bishop of Winchester, and late Archbishop of Canterbury) in the clergy lists, in connection with lucrative prefer ment-. \VIX( liE-lEU. We stated that the revenues of the Bish op of Winchester at the time of Dr. Tom line's appointment were c-timated at £.><>.- iii Hl a year There were, however, in reali ty, no correct means of arriving at the amount of the incomes of the bishops with any certainty. Public ruuior was as: much in the habit of overrating them as the bisli ops themselves systematically understated tie ir revenues. The Bishopric of Winches ter was considered a far more lucrative pref erment than the Archbishopric of Canter bury; and Dr. Lnshington reluctantly ad mitted the revenues of that see to be £O2, IJIH) a year. Mr. A. Baring gave as his op pinion. that when the lea-o- on the estate of the Bishop of London fell in, the rev; nues of the dioccasc would not be worth k--- than £KM MX MI a year. This the bishop de nied, and stated that hi- own income did xrced a seventh of the money; but as this palace, and fines for renewal at his own val uation his income left nothing to he justly complained of. A DEFENCE. "Great as these abuses seem to u- in the present day. there were not wanting Clergy men who were ready to defend the manner in which the bishops conducted their dio cese-- Among others, the Rev. Augustus Campbell, M. A., rector of Wallesley, in the county of Chester, published a pamph let in defence of the rights of the established church, in which he says. "The power, the influence, and the wealth of some of the bishops may !/<■ great, hut from my heart 1 believe that these are dearly bought, not only by the anxiifij, hut by the actual labors, both of body, and mind, which arise from their official duties.' A writer in the Ed in burtjh Itt'itir (vol. 58, page 115, February, is:;:; . when couuucuting on the pamphlet, quaintly remarks: '.Wo EpiacoiMi i is a phra-e easily to h accounted for by this appalling picture; i ut wc suspect from a few notorious facts that Mr. Campbell's imagination ha - exag crated the horrors of a bishopric, and that a bi hop even in England i- not so broken down with hard work as the rector of Wa! h-ley supposes. The Bishop of ,St. Da x i<l" . for instance, in addition to the actual ichors of body and mind attached to his bishopric, is able to undertake the arduou dutics of a prebendary of Durham. The pre-ent Bishop of Llandaff adds to hiscpis copal duties those of Dean o! St. Paul's. The late Bishop of Lincoln (Touiline) did the same, and Lincoln i- the largest diocese :i England. The late Bishop of Bristol Mansell), besides holding a living or two. was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he usually resided. In fact, what- BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. JUNE L I. 1867. ever offices can be held with bishopies are held with them; and as it would neither be polite, nor we believe just, to suppose these right reverned pluralists neglect the duties of any of their offices, we must conclude that a bishopric alone must b' a very supporta ble burden.' UISIIOI'S Of THE LAST (I EX EH ATI ON. •"A singular instance of the insatiability of the bishops of the last generation is related. In former days the great tithes of the vil lage of Hillingden were given to the Bish op of Worcester to defray his travelling ex penses to London and back._ The smaller tithes were reserved for the vicar of the par ish, who was to be appointed by the Bishop of London. Of late the tithes has increased enormously in value, and it was the custom to let those appertaining to the Bishop of Worcester by public auction to the highest bidder. They generally realized about £B,- 000. The last speculator in this spiritual security was Lord Boston. These tithes were generally let upon three lives, and when one fell, in the bishop considering that the sum he had already received was not sufficient, demanded £B,ool* before con senting to put in another life. This sum Lord Boston refused to pay, ant, the bishop made over the tithes to his daughter, who used to give the receipts in her awn name. All the service the bishop rendered for the amount he received was to preach one ser mon a year! In the year 1811 an act of Parliament was passed abolishing the tithes, and setting apart instead seven kindred and fifty acres of land in compensation for the great and smaller tithes. The whole trans action contrasts singularly with the Rev. Br. t'owe's theory ol the original formation of tithes—that their institution was 'an un recorded revelation made by Bod to Adam when in Paradise.' " THE TWO PARTINGS. Tim following instructive history is front the Philadelphia National Baptist. It should serve as an awful warniig to those who place the intoxicating ettp to the lips of others, or to their own: One winter even in--. many years ago, a fair young girl stood before the glass in her own phasaut little room, giving the last touches to her toilet. That n'mlit was the fil.-t party of the season, and perhaps Emma might be exou-ed if she lingered a little longer than usutl, smooth ing once again her dark brown hair, and ad just inthe soft folds of her beautiful dress. "(Vane Emma." called her mother, at length. "I am afraid that you forget that Mr. B —is waiting for you. No, Emma ha J not forgotten, as the rosv fiu-li that stole across her cheek testified. Her last thought, a.- she stood smiling at her reflection in the glass bad been. "This is the color which be likes: lam sure he will be pleased, (juiekly she hurried down stairs, and after playfully excusing her delay, while the flush d-a-pened at Mr. B. - evident admiration, turned to her mother, saying "I believe 1 am ready at last." " lake good eare of yourself, darling," said the mother, as she wrapped a warm shawl around the slender form, "and don t stay very late." '1 heir destination wa-soon reached, and a?, the young man moved through the bril liantly liehted room, many a glance of ad miistion wa< cast at his companion, and ll. en than one of his friends whispered, "James is a lucky fellow: I'll give a good ileal to be able to monopolize Miss Emma a- he does." The evening sped joyously on and at length, toward its dose, refreshments were handed around. Mr. B— was standing a little apart from Emma, who was the centre of a laughing group of young girls, when tin- lady of the house, with a smile, offered him a glass of wine. "No. thank you; I do not drink it," was 1, reply. "Pshaw! what non-a-n-e." she returned. No i no has ref used it this evering, and I don't intend to allow you to bi the first. Com . ju-t one glass, it can t hurt any one." I i-'iinot do it. lie answerid gravely, Tor I have determined never to taste a drop. "Coiui- lu-re, Emma, called the lady; "I want-on to coax this obstinate young man to take a little wine. 1 knoir he will not refuse oou. Emma took the glas- in her little white hand, and with a smile which few could have rc i.-tcd. said. "Come, James, you will take jti-t lid.- one gla.-s? No, Emma, he answered with a painful effort, I have made up my mind, and you must not a.-.k me to change it.' ' Then you shall not accompany me home to night, Mr. B—," -aid Emma, with an angry fla-li of her dark eye; "now take your choice. "I must bid you good-bye, Emuia, if it comes to that. he said sorrowfully: "I wmild gladly do anything else for you, but that 1 cannot do. So saying, he bowed and turned away. "Never mind, Emma. 11l see you home," said a young man standing near, whose flushed face betokened be had taken more than one glass. "Let him go, the ill man ic id fellow; who cares?" So -a.ving. he offered his arm, which Etu m i a i pted, and they moved off together. More than ten years had passed tnvay. Mr. B—was married and established in a prosperous bu-iness. and by degrees the in cident- of his parting with Emma were al most forgotten. ()oe day a man, with \vh> m he was slightly acquainted, came into hi-store and asked for employment. I am afraid I can't give it to you, Nor ri-." was the answer. "I make it a rule new to have any one in my employment who is intemperate. "But I mean to stop all that, Mr. 8.~ said the tnan earnestly. "I have made up my mind to quit drinking entirely. It's rather hard not to give a man a chance when he wants to reform, Well." said Mr. B—, partially relenting, 1 will try vou. Come into the back part ol the store, and 1 will give you some work." V bundle Avas soon made up, with which N m-ris departed. Several days elapsed, and the work not being returned, Mr. B - sent to hi- residence to ask the reason. Ah-! it was the same old tale of sorrow. The husband atid father had gone on a drinking frolic, leaving a sick wife and three starving children. Ylr. B—'s generous heart prompted him togo to their relief at once, lleentered the iiii-i tabic dwelling, and found the sick wo man lying in a room Pare of furniture, while the children, sitting by the bedside, were crying for bread. A few kind words and a promi-e ol some thing to eat, soon dried their tears; and has tening to the grocery lie returned with an ample supply, which he broke among the famishing children. While lie stood smiling at their delight, the mother hurst into tears, and exclaimed, "O. Mr. B —, can't you forgive me?" "Don't you remember Emma F —? Don t you remember my offering you the wine at the party, and your refusing it? God knows 1 wish I could forget it, but it seems as if it were branded on my heart in letters of fire." It was some moments before M. ii—could realize that the miserable creature before him was indeed the bright, fascinating girl from whom ho bad parted >o many years he fore. "Poor Emma, how you must have suffer cd," he said, compassionately. "Dut do you forgive me?" she asked anx iously. "Certainly; say no more about it. You must not stay in this wretched place. Is your mother living?" "Yes, sir, in tlie country." "Would you not like to go back to her Avith the children?" "Yes sir," she answered sadly, "hut I have no means." "Do not trouble yourself," said Mr. B—; "as soon as you are sufficiently recovered, I will take careofthat part of the undertaking. Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you. No thanks," he added hastily, as the iioor woman commenced a grateful acknowledgment, "good bye." This was the second parting. Young ladies, you who are accustomed to press your gentlemen friends to partake of wine, pause no\v and ask yourselves the question, whether you are prepared for the miserable fate of a drunkard's wife. NOTE.—The above sketch is no imaginary picture, but one drawn front real life. Any one wishing to verify the factsot the case can obtain the name and residence of the gentle man referred to by calling at the office of the National Baptint, No. 0-10 Arch street. THE STAGE AND THE IMJLI'IT. Fancy, says the Glasgow(Seotland)//emM, the thrilling effect of the Scriptures if' read as Kcan reads Shakspcare, orrccites Macau lay. And why should we not have it so? Is It right and proper that, every book for public reading should have ju-tice done to it except the Bible? And that, while every other subject is allowed the advantage of a natural and impressive delivery, religion which is the most important of all, should be denied by all? The monstrous fallacy with which well meaning but obtuse people have been beguiled or have beguiled them selves, is that such reading and reciting would be "theatrical, and tliat theatrical exhibitions are not becoming in the house of God. To thi.- hollow and ridiculous fallacy maybe traced in- -t of the execrable pulpit reading and delivery that rob the Scriptures of half their power, and have often made the dullness of a sermon proverbial. Set Kean to read the song of Miriam or the fight of David with Goliah, or the story of the prodigal .-on, or Christ's denunciations of the Scribes and Pharisees, or to recite one of Chambers' sermons, and you will see peo ple who had begun to adju.-t themselves in the corner of their -eats for their accustomed snooze sit up and li-ten to hint very close, with eager eye.- and bated breath. And all this simply because Kean would do the piece justice, that is, read it naturally, and as it ought to be read. <ln what possible ground cither of common sense or good taste, can objection he taken to the natural delivery of at least the sermon? It'Garrick could set even the grim soldier, who was on duty at the comer "F ti;<- -trot blubbering like a child, and if Mrs. Siddnns could so over power the eminent tragedian, Young, that he could not retrain from sobbing aloud though he wa- himself on the stage acting the villain of the pi> e and till this while merely utteiing the word- of a fictitious charactei wh. t overwhelming affects in I the wa.A of awaki ning -timers and pressing home tie- me—ac> of the Gospel might not be introduced by iin n who ur giving utter ance in their own character, to the most sublime and soul stirring truths? GROW IN GRACE. You mu-t IcM intercomsc with God or your .-oiil will die: >on tint-t grow in grace or you will lose it. This inculcates the iiece—ity of the Chris tian having free intercourse witli God, by a closeness in him, through the ministry of suffering, bereavement or the daily refine ment of our nature; through trials, care, bufferings, casting all behind him. and look ing unto Jesus, the author and fini.-her of our faith, trusting in hint entirely; and tak ing his Bible he sits down to examing some passage in the light of the Holy Spirit, and to hold communion with God, examine his presentcondition, talk- with him about his want-, his troubles, hi- hopes and fears, and he replies by sending the comforting portion of the Holy Sprit to fill his heart and be his guide and monitor. The evi dence of this communion i- seen in the life of the believer, by his attention to minor and great duties, his eare in the use of lan guage in converse with -inners or saints, reading the Bible carefully, ever seeking to learn its truths with much prayer; seeking to Avin souls to Jesus, not from the further ance of any sect, but to help on the glorious unity of all in Christ Jesus, who believe in him, and his connection with his fellow men, he shows by his honest dealing that his ac : tion- proceed from the depths of a heart J full of the lore of God. The last clause of i this sentence is one worthy the attention of | all those who have made a profession of i religion once, but who tire now living in the world, one of hi- boldest advocates of all kind- of pleasure, but who know nothing of i the calm, quiet growth of spirituality, in I the soul of the liei believer; nor will they ever know it unless tlmy abandon the world, deny themselves, take up their crosses and ! follow Jesus. It is the recorded testimony i of all spiritual per.-on.-. that all who live for ; pleasure neither grow in grace nor ivin souls to Je.-us. "Blest are the souls that thirst for grace, Hunger and thir.-t for righteousness! They shall be well supplied and fed, — With living streams ami living bread." THE BEST INHERITANCE. —The following paragraph we clip from one of Henry Ward Beeeher's recently publi.-hed sermons: "Not money, not honor, not even a good ' name is the best inheritance of a child. Far j above all secular gilts is a parent's good | name: but there are some good things that : are better than that, namely, titose trans ! missable moral qualities which put the soul, from the first, under the dominion of the higher instinct. From my mother I had a legacy which I would not be able to thank God enough for in this world, if I was to i live for long aces. Have, you not reason to | thank God that you sprang from such pa | rents as yours were? And do you not know that the nature which they handed down to you was one that represented. a> it were, in ; our journal, the point at which they left the conflict having gained victory upon victory, I that your warfare might be less and your j victories easier? And that which you have inherited of tendencies toward things noble and true, and away from things selfish and i false, you may transmit with argumenting ' power. Here is a great lesson of life. GIUEF knits two hearts in closer bonds : than joy ever can, and common sufferings 1 arc far stronge, than oommon joys. VOLUME 40: XO. 24 A IJAX.KROUS INSECT. I>u Chaillu, the celebrated traveler in a lectue on Africa, gives the following de ■cnptioti of the black Bashikonai' ant. 1 hese black Bashikonay may be well call ed the lords of the forest. It is the most voracious creature I ever met. It is the dread of all living animals, from the leopard to the smallest insect. It is their habits to march through the forest in a long regular line, a line about two inches broad and often several miles in length; all along this line are larger ants, who act as officers—stand outside the ranks and keep this singular ar my in order. If they come to a place where there are no trees to shelter them from the sun whose heat they cannot bear, they im mediately build an underground tunnel, through which the whole army nass in col umns to the forest beyond. W hen they grow hungry, as by a sudden command, the ion/j file spreads itsell through the forest, advancing forward, attacking and devouring all living things with a fury quite irresistable. The elephant and the gorilla fly before theui, the black men run away; every animal that lives in their line of march is chased. In an incredibly short space of time those that are caught are overwhelmed, killed, eaten, and only the bare skeleton re mains. They seem to travel day and night. Many a time have I been awakened out of a sleep and obliged to rush into the water to save myself from them. When they enter a house they clear it of every living thing. Cockroaches are devoured in an instant; rats and mice spring around the room in vain. They will not touch vegetable mat ter thus they are very useful, clearing the country of many insects. When on their march the insect world flies before them, and 1 have often had the approach of a Bashikonar.v arm heralded to me by this means. Wherever they go they make a clean Mveep even ascending to the top of the trees in pursuit of their prey. Their manner of attack is an impetuous leap, instantly the strong pincers are fastened and they only let go when the piece gives way. At such a time this little insect seems animated bj- a kind of fury which causes it to disregard entirely its own safety. The negroes relate that criminal-, by which they generally mean wizzard.-. have sometimes been ex posed to Bashikony ants, tied to a tree so they may not escape, and then been devour ed to the hones. They are larger than any ants we have in America. The number of one of their armies is so great that one docs not like to enter into calculations, but I have seen a continuous line passing at a good speed a particular place for twelve hours. So you may imagine how many millions there have been. 11l ssi.W AMERICA. The lion Joseph Ilowe. the eminent Nova Seotian. has been making a speech, in which, after paying his respects to the re cent act of confederation, he thus speaks of the cession of Russian America: Hardly was the measure passed when Enghtnd got a diplomatic slap in the face by the purchase of Russian America without notice or the slightest warning, and even an effort to adjust the Alabama claims appears to be hut coldly entertained. What next we may get nobody can tell, but this is certain, that by that purchase, the hold of Great Britain upon this continent is made more precarious, wbi'e tbe difficulties of the con federacy are proportionally increased. By that purchase the United States, have ac quired a country as large as Canada; they have increased their land frontier from which they can annoy us by nine hundred miles and their coast line upon the Pacific by fifteen hundred, lu fact, they sandwich British Columbia between California on the one -ide and this new purchase on the other, in which there are seventy thousand Indians, so that the defense of our territory beyond the Rocky Mountains is almost impossible. The English newspapers try to comfort themselves with the idea that this country is all ice and snow. That is not the case — the worst of it abounds with fur-bearing animals, and the value of the mines and of the rich valleys in the interior is but little known. The coast, for a thousand miles, enjoys a moist hut not very severe climate. It abounds with lumber, fish, and water power. Into this region the young men front Maine and Massachusetts will rush, attd in five years the whole coast will be en livened with saw mills, fishing craft, and ac tive deep sea navigation. Even the ice will be turned to account, and will soon employ a large amount of tonnage, conveying it to the East Indies. China and Japan. Colum bia. thus environed, is to come into the Confederation, and we are to defend it. By what means we have yet to learn. But the worst feature of this transaction is the inter nal evidence it hears ofthe intimate relations between Russia and the United States, out. of which may grow political enterprises that n<> man ean foresee. SAXDS OF t;oi,i>. There's a secret drawer in every heart as in every desk, if we only knew how to touch the spring of it. Dispose of the time past for observation and reflection: time present to duty; and time to come, to Providence. Pitiful] that a man should so care for riches, as if they were his own; yet so use them, as if they were another s; that when he might be happy in spending them, he will he miserable in keeping them; and had rather, dying, leave wealth with his enemies, than, being alive, relieve hi- friends. It is no wonder if he who reads, oonverses an I meditate-, improves in knowledge. By the first, a man converses with the dead, by the second, with the living, and by the third, with himself. So that he appropriates to himself all the knowledge which can be got from those who have lived and those now alive. When the world crowds Christ out of the heart, duty becomes simply cold, irk some. hard duty, and the worship of God a bore. A busiu<--s that does not challenge the scrutiny of << >d. and the approval of a good conscience, cannot be consistent and proper. Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide bv them in action. Tear Drops! Resting like pearls upon the red cheek of childhood in its first grief; swelling into young eyes in bursts of merry laughter; falling like summer showers up on the new-made graves ot loved ones; wrung from the heart, scalding hot, upon the bier of youth's blighted flowers and cofiined hopes; pouring tempest like, from the eyes of a strong man in his agony, or slowiv trickling over the furrowed cheek of age. Ever arc ye sacred, Tear Drops, for Jesus irrpt! lIKAKT RELIGION. —Religion is in an eminent degree, the science of the heart, and he who does not receive it into his heait studies it to very little purpose. Every Christian ought, therefore, to study with the heart as well as with the head; letting light and heat increase with an equal pro gression, and mutually assist each oliu r. KATFS OF ADVERTISING. All advertisement# for leas than 3 months 1" cents per line for each insertion. Special notice onehalf additional. All resolutions of Asaocia. tion, communication# of a limited or individua intercts and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, l't eta. per line. All legal notil ees of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by lair to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 ccnt.- pcr line. All Advertising due alter first insertion . A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 months, 6 months. 1 year One square $ 4.50 $ 6.00 $lO.OO Two squares 6,0" 9.00 16.00 Three squres , a . 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 THE DCNBEKBERO. —It appears to be the very general, although erroneous, impres sion that the Dunderberg is one of the most, if not the most, powerful war vessel now afloat, and that, therefore, our Government was very unwise to allow her to be sold to a foreign Government. The facts do not sus tain this view of the case. The Dunderberg is by ordinary mensuration inferior in size to the Warrior, Blaek Prince, Northumber land, Agincourt, Minotaur, and other well known English shins. The hull of the Dunderberg, below the angle of the case mates. is covered with iron but three and a half inches thick, and the plating surround ing her battery varies from four to four and a half inches in thickness. In point of ar mor, therefore, the Dunderberg is interim to nearly every iron-clad in the British Navy. The class of monitors now being built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, though smaller than the Dundergerg, carry fourteen inches of iron all around the hull, to the three and a half inches of the Dunderberg, while they protect their batteries with fifteen inches ol solid iron instead of four and a half inches, as is the case in the former vessel. Recent experiments in England have proved that the nine-inch gun, with chilled projectiles would go through both sides of the casemate of the Dunderberg with case, while a tnoni tor of the Kalamazoo class would send her to the bottom in a very short time. By the use of Ericssson's new gun-carriage the Dunderberg can mount a five-inch in broad side, and her battery, therefore, is more for midable than its protection is secure.— Nev: York Times. HUMANITY. —We clip the following from one of our exchanges. It will well repay persusal: "All striving, pushing, grasping after wealth, honor ana power. The poor claiming wealth only that they may be above want; the rich seeking to add thousands to their millions, So we move. Not one ap pears to tLink how soon he must sink into oblivion—that we are one generation of millions. Yet such is the fact. Time and Progress have through countless ages cotuc marching hand in hand—the one destroying the other building up. They seem to create little or no motion, and the work of destruc tion is as easily and silently accomplished a a child will pull to pieces a rose. Yet such is the fate! A hundred years hence, and much of that we now see around us. will too pas.s away. It is but the simple repetition of life's story; we are born—wo live —wc die— and hence we will not grieve over those venerable piles finding the com mon level of their prototypes in nature —an ultimate death. We all within our graves shall sleep, A hundred years to come. No living soul for us will weep A hundred years to come: llut other men our lands will till, And others then our streets will fili. And other birds will sing as gay. And bright the sun shine as to-day. A hundred vears to come. ONE OP THE GENEROUS PUBLIC LAWS. Among the genera! laws of last session is one which may justly he called a generous act, as well as a most just concession to dis abled soldiers. It provides that every hon orably discharged soldier who is a resident of Pennsylvania, and who, from wounds, or on account of disease contracted while in the military or naval service of the United States, and on account of such disability is unable to procure a livelihood by manual labor shr.ll have the right to hawk, peddle and vend any wares, by procuring a license for that purpose to be issued without cost. All that is required, to insure a soldier the benefit of this act, is a certificate from a surgeon of the United States army that he is unfit to make his living by manual labor. The soldier must also procure a certificate from a prothonotary of any county in thu- State, that he is the bona fide owner of tbc goods he sells. No doubt the liberal provi sions of this law will induce many disabled soldiers to adopt peddling as a means of making a living.— Harridairg Telegraph. Ax AMERICAN TRIUMPH AT TIIR PARI* KXPOSITIOX. —It will be a matter of con gratulation to every American to learn that the United States has carried off the first and second prizes for pianos at the Pari Exposition, the first having been awarded to Steinway A Co.. of New York, the second to Checkering A Co., of Boston, and the third or ia.-t prize to Broadwood, of London. The award is especially satisfacto ry when it is remembered that the jury was composed of some of the most eminent mu sical connoisieurs of England, France and Germany, among them M. Fetis, probably the greatest of living musical authorities, and that the United States is in its mu sical infancy, and regarded in Europe as a novice in everything pertaining to music. INFLUENCE ov WOMEN.— If" we wish t<> know the political and moral condition of a State, we must ask what rank women hold in it. Their influence embraces the whole of life. A wife, a mother two magical words comprising the sweetest sources of man's felicity. Theirs isthe reign of beauty, oflovc. of reason. A man takes counsel with his wife, lie obeys his mother, even long after she has ceased to live, and the idea which he has received from her become principles, stronger even than his passion. THE world is fullof trials and annoyauccs, and will be to tbe end. Rut a better world is coming, where there will be no more trials, no more sin tor ever. It we would obtain an inheritance in that world, we must learn to bear meekly and patiently the trials, of this. That inheritance is promised only to the overeomcr. Let us. then, try to pray, and keep trying and praying that God will help us to overcome. NEVER make use of a woman's nauie in an improper place, or at an improper time, or in a mixed company. Never make asser tions about her that you think are untrue, allusions tliar you feel she herself would blush to hear. When you meet with men who do not scruple to make use ola wo man's name in a reeklcss manner, shun them, for they are lost to every sense of lion or. 11E is the most thoroughly educated man who derives his knowledge not from books alone, nor from men alone, but from the careful and discriminating study of both. A truly learned man i- libera! toward.- oppo nents, tolerant of error, charitable toward frailty and compassionate toward failure. Only the ignorant and half educated arc dogmatical, illiberal and intolerant. BEAUTY is never so lovely as when adorn cd with a smile, and conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a synphony of laugh tei which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation. A PART oi" goodlier consists, perhaps, in esteeming and lo'. rng people more than they deserve; but theu a part of prudence is to b. lir\ that people are uot always worth vh si \c iate them at.
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