He fSedfefl §nq#im IS PUBLISHED I.VBKY FRIDAY MORNING BV J. R. 1)1 RBORIFOR AM) .JOHN LI TZ, ON JULIANA St., opposite the Mengcl House BEDFORD, PENN'A TERMS: LOO a year if paid strictly in advance. If not paid within Il>oiiis 82.50. It not paid Hllbin the year BS.OO. j*f rotational & fSlttsiiiwt Cards ATTORNEYS AT LAW. I I AYES IRVINE, ALTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully anil promptly attend to all busi ness intrusted to his care. Office withG. H. Spang, Esq., on Juliana street, three doors south of the .Wicr.gcl House. May 2l:ly I T. KEAGY, • J . ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Reed A Sohell's Bank. "Counsel given in English and German. [apl26] 8. L. RUSSELL J. H. LOXGENECKER RUSSELL A LONGENECKEK, JVTTORSEVS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly ami faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Aprilfclyr. B. F. MEYERS W - IMCKERSON MEYERS A DICKERSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PENS'A., Office same as formerly occurred by Hon. B . I'. Schell, two doors -oast of fhc Gazette office, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Tensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the qiurohasc of Real Estate attended to. ' May 11, *66—lyr. I B. CESSNA. •J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHN CESSNA, on Julianna street, in the office formerly occupied by King A Jordan, and recently by Filler A Keagy. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and ;-irouipt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. Bedford, June 9, 1865. J- M'D. E. F. KERR SHARPE A KERR. A T TO RUE YS-A T-LA B r . Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their carc will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed A Schell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf J. R. DVKBORROW JOHN LUTE. I \l' K BORROW A LUTZ, J ) ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEBFORD, PA., Wl' .Mend promptly to all business intrusted to t! ■ir care. Collections made on the shortest no lo y arc, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents .ii. ; will give special attention to the prosecution ->• latins against the Government for Pensions, '•■k Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. office on Jnliana street, one door South of the Mongcl House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer .fficc. April 28, 1865:t. IJSI'Y M. ALSIP, Hi ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his carc in Bedford and adjoin iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mcngcl House. apl 1, 1864.—tf. M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Ufficc with J. W. Lingenfclter, Esq., on Juliana street, two doors South of the • Mcngle House." Dec. , 1864-tf. KIMMEI.L AND LINGEXFELTER, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, BEPFORD, PA. Have focused a partnership in the practice of .he Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mcngcl House, aprl, 1864—tf. B. STUCKEY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and REAL ESTATE AGENT, "fficc on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Will practice in the adjoining Counties of Mis souri and Kansas. July 12:tf PHTSICIAIB. WM. W. JAMISON, M. D., BLOOPY RUN, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [deeS:lyr DR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building f'■ rmcr'y occupied by Dr. J. H. Ifofius. April 1, 1864—tf. I L. MARBOI'RG, M. I)., ej . Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofessional services to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864—tf. IN It. S. G. STATLER, near Schellsburg, and J Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland county, having associated themselves in the prac tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes sional services to the citizens of Schellsburg and vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same as formerly occupied by J. White, Esq., dee'd. S. G. STATLER, Schellsburg, Aprill2:ly. J. J. CLARKE. HOTELS. HOUSE. NOTlCE.—Persons visiting the Watering Pla ces, will And a very desirable resort at the CHA LYBEATE HOUSE, near the Chalybeate Spring, Bedford, Pa., where the undersigned is prepared to a"commodate from eighty to one hundred per sons. The hou. Cis new and airy, and neatly fur nished. Terms moderate. Hacks running to Mineral Springs, and Miner al Water always on hand. May 31.3 m ' WM. CIIENOWETH. WASHINGTON HOTEL. W BEDFORD. I'A. This large and commodious house, having been re taken by the subscriber, is now op.cn for the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms are 'urge, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. The table will always be supplied with the best the itarkct can afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors. In short, it is my purpose to keep a FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit a renewal of their patronage. N. If. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs, may 17,'67:1y WM. DIBERT, Prop'r. MISCELLANEOUS;. I > I 'PI' A SHANNON, BANKERS, IV BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and South, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptlv.„ a dc. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. feb22 DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST or THE BED FORD HOTEL, BEBFORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES, AC. 11c keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double liefin el Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of G jld Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. apr.2B, 1866— zz. ftkbtorfc Ifiumirer. DURBORKOW !• LI'TZ Editors and Proprietors. IN MEMOHIAM. On the bosom of the river Where the sun unloosed bis quiver, On the starlit stream forever, Sailed a vessel light and free. Morning dew-drops hung like manna On the bright folds of her banner, While the zephyrs rose to fan Softly to the radiant sea. At her prow a pilot beaming In the flush of youth stood dreaming, And he was in glorions seeming Like an angel from above; Through his hair the breeics sported, And as on the wave he flatted Oft the pilot angel-throated, Warbled lays of hope and love. Through those locks so brightly flowing. Buds of laurel bloom were blowing, And his hands anon were throwing Music from a lyre of gold. Swiftly down the stream he glided, Soft the purple wave divided, And a rainbow arch abided. On his canvas' snowy fold. Anxious hearts with fond devotion, Watched him sailing to the oeean, Prayed that no wild commotion 'Midst the elements might rise. And he seemed some young Apollo, Charming summer winds to follow, While the water-crags' corolla Trembled to his music sighs. But those purple waves enchanted, Rolled beside a city haunted By an awful spell, that daunted Every comer to her shore. Night shades rank the air encumbered, And pale marble statues numbered Where the lotus-eaters slumbered, Awake to life no more. Then there rushed with lit'ning quickness O'er his face a mortal sickness, And the dews in fearful thickness Gathered o'er his temples fair, And there swept a dying murmur Through the lovely Southern summer, As the beauteous pilot comer Perished by that city there. Still rolls on that radiant river, And the sun unbinds his quiver O'er the starlit streams forever On its bosom as before. But that vessel's rainbow banner Greets no more the gay savanna And that pilot's lute drops manna On the purple waves no more. gUiu'cUaiuW. NASUY. Mr. Nasby Dreams a 'beam, caused, proba bly, by the New England Atmosphere which he was breathing, prefaced by some few incidents<f the visit if his grand seign our to Boston. TRF.MONT HOUSE, BOSTON, ) (AVich is in the Stait uv Massachoosetts,) e June 29, 1867. j 1 hev alluz bed an incorrect idea uv Bos ton. 1 spozed Bosten to be strate-laced, moral to a degree not to be understood by a Dimocrat, and Puritaniele. Iwuzmistaken. There is cz heavy a per cent, uv men in whom Ilis Kggslency and 1 ken taik delite ez there is in any city in the country, ez the following incidents, which came under my notice will show: Ez we wuz going through Franklin street a man stepped up to the carriage rather hes itatinly— "Mr. President," sed he. "Well," said His Eggslcncy, turnin full upon him. The site uv the nose uv the Step Father uv his Country reashured him. "Mr. 1 'resident, wood yoo like some punch ?" "Punch! Certainly. But hevn't yoo suthin stronger, to lav the foundashen with ?" "Certainly! and he pulled a bottle uv brandy front his right hind pocket, and the great man took an observation uv the sky thro the bottom uv it, which iastid a minit. I never agin will doubt that the material to make Pimocrisy uv exists in acountry wher they come at yoo with punch, and hev bran dy bottles in ther coat pockets. Bokays were showered upon us. One old gentleman, who sot two hours in a chair waiting to present us with his, finally histed it at us. The fact that there was a note in it asking for a posishen fur the genrous givir, don't detract any thin from the valyoo uv the gift. When we got totheend of our trip there was a dray load uv bokays in our carriage and in all but three uv cm wuz tied up recommendashens for the givers for places. It's better to hev sich missive envel oped in roses, though the most thorns wc git ain't got roses roumd 'cm. The most teching incident wuz the num ber uv babies wc bed to kiss. The mothers pressed to our carriage steps to present their offsprings. Mistakin me for the Pres ident, I kisst half uv 'em. The rapcbcrous expreshun on the upturned faces uv the anxshus mothers affected the President to teers showin, ez it did, the confidence re posed in him. "Whist! Teddy!" scdoneuv em. "and howld yer mug up fer the man to kiss who doesn't kiss the dirthy nagcrs!" "Musha, Phelim, be still. The President, bless his sowl, wont bite ye!" "Lind me yer aprun, Peggy, to wipe Ter ry's face wid. The Prisidint musht kiss the darlin. Taint ivery Prisidint would do the loike." And the President kissed, and I kissed, till our lips wuz sore. Sich is posishun! That nite I received a letter from Deck in Pograni in wieh he desired tne to ascer tain whether or no there wuz enny bottom to the Northern Dimoerisy. Capt. McPel tersed the Northern Dimoerisy wuz strong enuff to carry us uv Kentucky throo, while Pollock, the Illinoyer, swore the Northern Dimoerisy hed a considerable more to do to carry themselves than they bed bin able to accomplish for some time—that in a pullin match a corps wuz'nt uv much akkount ef it wuz a big one. With this letter in my hand T fell asleep, and while asleep, dreemed. Meth&wt I wuz in Noo Orleans at agath rin uv tde Faithful, who wuz called togeth er for the purpose of considerin wat to do. Sum few—Longstreet, Gov. Brown, and Jeff. Thompson—wuz in favor uv submis A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS sion: and hcd got the majority ov the South ern people to agree with him that there was no yoose uv further resistance, and they wuz jist about to so declare, when Yallan dighani, Ben. Wood, Toucey, Morrisscy, Voorhees, and a score or two more uv that kind, rushed in and begged uv 'cm to ho' 1 out. "Why submit?' sed Vallandighatu, "We'll sustain yoo. The Northern Dimo crisy is a giant which kin yet pertect you. He's in in his prime and strong enuff yit to carry yoo throo twice the troubles wieh threatens yoo. Depend onto us—we'll car ry yoo.'' And the Southerners whopped over to their .side and yelled fiercely, "No submis sion!" and immcjitly the entire billin uv 'em startsd North wi h these men to ascer tain the strength and caryin' capacity uv the Northern Dimocrisy. Mcthawt the party traveled and traveled, until finally they come to a vast plain in Kentucky, on to wicn wuz extendid prostrate the form uv a Giant. It wus a Giant immense in statoo, but emaciated to the last degree. His linibs hed bin strong, his teeth terrible, and his trunk massive, but it wuz plane to sec that he wuz pegged out and a look at its face showed why it wuz so. Dissipation hed redoost him to helplessnis. His face wuz bloatid and bloo, his eyes wuz sot and ghastly, his chest wuz holler and sunken, his legs like pipe stems, and ulcers, boils, sores, broosesandcontooshenskivered him from head to foot, and he drawed his breath with a effort. lie lay a groanin and a groanin. Kandall wuz a tenderly feedin him out uv a huge bottle labeled "Appintments," wich appear ed to give it temporary strenght, but the effect uv that wuz lost, by President John son's dosin him with an offensiv smellin mixture labelled "Policy," every swalleruv wieh wood throw him spasm. Gov. English was rubbin one arm with a liniment Kandall gave him, and he succeeded in git tin UD a little circulation in it. "What is this?" askt the Southerners. _ "Northern Dimocrisy!" sed English rub bin away vigorously. "Is this the Giaut wich is to carry us?" said the Southern gentlemen viewin the dis gustin objick doubtfully. "Certainly!" said Johnson. "Now can't you git up?" said he, to the prostrate bein, f iveu it a very large swaller out uv his bottle. 'he giant made an effort, but flopped down agin like a dish-rag. "Gentlemen!" sed Vallandigham, "wo shel hev to call upon yoo to assist in settin him onto his feet, and then it'll be all rite with him. He's bin this way afore." Accordingly, the Southerners gathered around him to lift him up. His arms, I no tist, wuz marked respectively Connecticut and Delaware, aud his legs Maryland and Kentucky, and in them ther wuz strength, for cz soon ez the innocent Southerners got near enuff he wrapped them limbs around 'em. and sed "Lift!" "We can't," sed they. "Yoo must," sed lie "I got into this condishen fightin yoor battles anu doing yoor work. I was strong and vigorous un til I got to runnin after yoor harlots, and for yoor sake I wuz druv out of my native state into this accussid region. Yoo must carry Ilie wal tiino I Lev yet co live. Hist me ! Ilist me!" Those caught coodent get away and the others generously com to ther aid, and mak in a terrible effort they raised the half dead bein onto their shoulders, holdin ther no-cs meanwhile, and prepared to start. Ez the percession was about to move, Vallandigham remarked, "Stop a minit, gentlemen!" and loaded as he was with his war record he clambered up their shoulders and took a scat on the carkiss- Voorhes, jist as badly en cumbered did likewise, ann so did the Woods, both uv cm, and poor old Jimmy Bookannan, Seymour, Toucy and a hundred or so more, the unfortinit bearers sweatin under this addishnal load. "Is all ready?" said they. "One moment!" sed Johnson, and him and Randall and Seward clim >■-up. This wuz the last feather. The bearers mite hev staggered off under the carkiss and them wich climbed into it first, but this last addishen to ther burden wuz friteful. It finished em. Groaning under the weight they swayed liked a leaf in the wind, like a majestic tree just about to tall. They strug gled a minit to maintain themselves—but all in vain. A breef struggle—a desprit grasp —they give up, and their knees doublin up the whole come to the earth with a squash in sound which letters can't express, and the half decomposed mass sorter fell apart. Raymond and Thurlow Weed wich had been hangiu round, got out from under jist in time to save thcinselues. The Southerners got out from under the putrid mass, the almost smothered by the stench. Vallandigham and that class made little uv it, ez they lied been arount it. It staggered Johnson some, but he had bin ac customed to suthin approximatin very closely to it in the olden times and it didn't seriously affect him, but poor Randall Seward and Wells were smothered and died. I wuz trying to pull Randall's corpse out wen the effort I was making awoke mc. I aint altogether certain, but that dream means suthin. When I think of it, it is rather prcposterus lor us to hope the North ern Dimocraey will carry us, when they can't carry a single State uv their own; jist about ez preposterus ez is it for them to look to us for help, when all uv us ez would jine em hevn't got a vote. Pollock's remark — "in a pullin match a eorpse aint uv much akkount, even cf it is a big one" —weighs onto my mind. Suthin can't come out of nuthin, tho ez in the case of Seward, notli in may come out uv suthin. Ef we cood git—but pshaw! we can't. Thank the Lord, we kin hold the Postoffises two years yit. PoTROLEIM V. NASBY, P. M. (Wich is Postmaster), and Professor in the J lain and Japhct Free Academy for the development uv the intellek uv all races irrespective uv color. STRIKE THE KNOT. —"Strike the knot!" said a gentleman one day to his son, who, tired and weary, was leaning on his axe over a log which he had in vain been trying to cleave. Then, looking at the log, the gen tleman saw how the boy had hacked and chipped all around the knot without hitting it. Taking the axe. he struck a few sharp blows on the knot and split the log without difficulty. Smiling, he returned the axe to his son, saying: "'Always strike the knot! " That was good advice. It is good Cor you, my children, as it was for the boy to whom it was first given. It is a capital maxim to follow when you are in trouble. Have you a hard sum to do at school? Have you got to face a difficulty? Are you leaving home to live for the first time among strangers? Strike the knot! Look your trouble in the eye, as the bold lion-hunter looks in the face of a lion. Never shrink from a painful duty, but step right up to it and doit. Yes, strike the knot! Strike the knot, boys and girl, and you will always conquer vour dif ficulties. Sk nday-School Advooatc. BEDFORD. Pn.. FRIDAY. JULY 10. 1867. PROGRESS NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH. We give the above as an improvement on Shakspearc. He applies the fact solely to true love. We doubt bis right to stop at this point, or to limit the never smooth run ning to love alone. The full truth is much wider in'its range. It involves progress in all its true forms. It never did run smooth. We hope our readers will not fail to give us due credit for our improvement upon Shak spearc, especially after it shall appear that we have satisfactorily made out the case. To begin then with becoming gravity, we say that progress is a plant of slow growth. A good many years have passed away since men first began to think. In the ancient times already, as we learn from some of the dusty books of histoiy, they used to know a good dea'. Egyptian monuments, and oth er things that tell of the -urly ago, certainly indicate a high state of knowledge. It was in the laud of the Nile, it would seeni, that Moses got his education, Layard, in his book on Nineveh and its Remains, clearly shows similar facts in regard to the people of that country. Greece and Rome were still more distinguished. Now if progress were a smooth-running affair, we ought, it would seem, to be much further ahead of these ancient countries than we actually are. The fact, however, is that in many respects their learning did not come down to us at all. So roughly did the car of progress jolt along, that much of their wisdom became entirely lost by the way. Generally, it must be ad mitted, that wc are in advance of them; but in many things, it must also be owned, that we are far behind them. Now if progress had run smooth, it would doubtless be true, not only that we are ahead of them, but very far ahead, and not only very far ahead in sonic things, and behind in others, but very far ahead in all things. Since, there fore, viewing the whole field, it appears that, after all, we of the 19th century have but little to boast of over the early ages of the world, we conclude, with some degree of humble boldness, that progress never did run smooth. Moreover it is evident that the prominent personages living in those far-off ages, ex perienced the truth of the above improved sentence. Long before Shakspearc lived, Diogenes, in his tub-home, felt the truth of the new ark in its properly enlarged applica tion. Socrates, also, was driven to the knowledge of the fact that the common mind preoccupied with previous and partial forms of truth, was loath to open itself to any new and fuller developments of it. The after and fuller disclosures of the same general fact have always had to establish their divine right to appear and reign, by breaking over the embankments of human prejudices and subduing the power of partial and narrow views. History proves that every new dis covery, whether in the department of mind or matter, had literally to fight its way to the throne of acknowledged truth. This was certainly the ease in Galileo's time, and in relation to the discovery which he made. Many were so fully occupied with the false theory, that they even refused to look through his telescope when challenged, lest they might be compelled toyield that which is false and acknowledge what is true. Kverv ftcft }i! pvcNvoil tiiot the true buuc Atc* tors of the world arc, of all others, during the period of their active labor, the most keenly despised, and most generally resisted. It is only after their work has succeeded and its blessings are experienced, that they are acknowledged and honored. "Seven Grecian cities strive fur Homer dead, When living Homer begged his daily bread." Even the Savionr of the world, with all the untold blessings for man, which He bore in His person, was opposed, maltreated, de spised, and finally rejected by llis own peo ple, and ignominiously put to death upon the cross. He came to improve the world, but the world was satisfied as it was. It is a curious fact, but nevertheless a fact, that every great movement in the history of the world which has piven impetus to the tide of civilization and placed humanity in a more elevated condition, has been at first contradicted and opposed. The improve ments in which men subsequently boast, come to them for the most part against their will in the first instance. The Reformation of t he 16th century had to struggle long and valiantly before it wus allowed to take its position as a fixed fact in the bosom of his tory and impart to the Church and world the blessings of a purer Christianity and a higher civilization. J >oes the past history of the world exhibit any grand improvement which, had it been submitted to a popular vote, at its first inception would have been approved and adopted? Would the railroads and telegraph lines which now penetrate tho country in all directions, have been estab lished on this principle? Would the woolen, cotton, and iron factories, whose industrial music is how heard in all quarters, have been erected? Would the thrashing machine, which has superceded the flail and the tread of the horse, the cradle which has taken the place of the hand scythe, the drill by which the seed is planted, the rake, by which the fragments arc gathered that nothing be wasted —would any of these grand labor-sav ing inventions, or any of a thousand others which cannot be mentioned, have been ap proved and adopted had it been submitted to a popular vote at its first discovery? We are safe in saying that not one of them, if it had been nocessary to pass this ordeal, would be seen now in this country. No. progress does not run smooth. It al waysinvolves the declaration of war. Christ brought a sword. Before any improvement can become fairly inaugurated, something else must get out of the way. When the light comes, darkness must go. The lower make waj* for the higher. This brings with it often great commotion and bitter conten tion. It often arrays neighbor against neighbor. Chief friends are thus frequently separated. The Church becomes greatly agitated, whilst the throne in the State is made to tremble and sometimes to crumble to the earth. All this is incident to prog ress, and enters into the proof that it never did run smooth. This is the smoke of the battle, which, however, soon clears awav, and enables the mind afterwards, more dis tinctly for the contrast, to contemplate the victory won—the improvement which has, in spite of human prejudices, been firmly established. German Reformed Messenger. CAUTIONARY QUOTATION "Marriage is like a flaming candle light Placed in the window on a summer night. Inviting nil the insects of the air To come and singe their pretty winglets there. Those that are out butt heads against the pane: Those that are in butt to get out again!" Now that "tilting hoops'' arc going out of the fashion, let one thing be said in their favor —the wearers, of them were never liable to arrest for "for having no visible means of support." PEACE is the flowing of the brook, but joy is the dashing of the cataract when the brook is filled, bursts its banks, and rushes down the rocks. HISTORY OF A NECKLACE. The National Quarterly gives us the fol lowing stirring history of phonographic short-hand: "The proceedings of the American Con gress were very imperfectly reported before the time of Air. Joseph Hales, senior, the father of the late Mr. Hales of the National Intelligencer. He was the first who made a report of Congressional debates which ap peared in the paper the next day. This was considered a most astonishing feat at the time. His son, Joseph Hales, was also a reporter, and one of the best, in his day, that the country could boast. The first be came connected with the National Intelli gencer as reporter in October, 1807; he was then just twenty-one years old. He and the present Mr. Seaton afterward were the pro prietors of the paper. They were both the reporters and editors of the Intelligencer— one of them devoted himself to the Senate, and the other to the House of Representa tives. As a general thing, they published only running reports —-on special occasions, however, the speeches and proceedings were given entire. The peculiar talents of these gentlemen were duly appreciated, and they had seats of honor assigned them beside the presiding officers. To these enterprising and accomplished reporters we are indebted for many of those splendid specimens of elo quence which adorn the political literature of our country. The speeches made by Webster and llayne, during their celebrated intellectual combat in the United States Senate; were preserved from oblivion by Mr. Hales, whose notes, handsomely bound, and enriched with Mr. Webster's annota tions, are kept as a precious memento in the family library. The following anecdote may, perhaps, be read with some interest in this connection. "The day Mr. Webster made his reply to the attack of Mr. Hayne, of South Carolina, Joseph Hales met him as he was going to the Capitol, and inquired how long he in tended to speak. "About half an hour," was the reply. The editor's duties at that time were pressing, hut he ventured to take so much time from them. Mr. Webster, however, directly after, was joined by Judge Story, who said that he thought the time had come for Mr. Webster to give the coun try his views on the Constitution. To this proposition the Senator assented. Mr. Gales took up his pencil unaware of tl is new ar rangement, and alike unconscious of the lapse of time nnder the enchantment of the orator, he continued to write until the close of the speech. But when he came to look at the notes, the magnitude of the task that it would be to write them out appeared so formidable, that he shrunk from it as an impossibility. Soon after, Mr. Webster called on Mr. Hales, and requested a report of his speech. "I have the notes," said the reporter, "but I .-hall never have time to write them out." This led to some remon strance and persuasion, but the overworked editor stood firm. At this juncture Mrs. Gales came forward, and offered to under take the task, saying that she could deci pher her husband's short hand, as she had occasionally done so. She had heard the apeceli, onJ tLo rpwiwfloui; cmoop of if arfl u nient. and the gorireous magnificence of its imagery were yet vivid in her mind, fn the course of a week, Mr. Gales submitted to Mr. Webs er the report of his speech in the handwriting of his wife. Scarcely a word needed to be changed: and soon a set of diamonds, costing a thousand dollars, accom panied the rich thanks of the eloquent statesman. Thu.- was saved to literature the most memorable oration of the Ameri can Senate." li-E-R- E ME COME. There was a wedding in a church in a vil lage near Chicago, recently, which was at tended by a crowd of people, the bride a fa mous belle in this section, and the bride groom a late army officer. There is a story about him that was revived with great effect at the wedding. He was in the Western Frontier service, and one day (so the story goes) he went out to hunt a bear. He had been away from camp a few hours, when his voice was heard faintly in the distance ex claiming: "11-e r-r wc come!' In a little time, the same cry was heard again, but nearer; then it was repeated at intervals, nearer and louder; when finally the bold captain emerged from a bit of woods near the camp, running at the the top of his speed, without a coat, hat or gun. In he came to camp shouting, "Here we come!" "Here who come?' inquired a brother officer. "Why, me and the game." gasped the officer, pointing to a big bear who showed himself at the edge of the woods, took a look at the camp, and then, with a growl at miss ing his expected meal off the captain, disap peared in the woods again. "But why didn't you shoot the bear, and then bring him in? inquired one. "What's the use in shootingyour game," said the captain, testily, "when you can bring it in alive, as I did?' The story got home before the captain did, and was in everybody,s mouth. The other night, as the hold captain led his in tended bride into the church with the pride and grace so readily inspired by the occa sion. some wicked wag sans out from the gallery: "Il c-r-e we come! Which was followed bv such a shout of laughter as that old church never heard be fore. IIUM' Ol lt ANCESTORS LIVED. Th" improvement in social comfort and refinement over past ages is strictly shown in the following paragraph: Erasmus, who visited England in the early part of the sixteenth century, gives a curious description of an English interior of the better class. The furniture was rough, the walls unplastered, but sometimes wain seotted or hung with tapestry, and the floor covered with rushes, which were not chang ed for months. The dogs and cats had free access to the eatine rooms, and the frag ments of meat and bones were thrown to them, which they devoured an cng the rush es, leaving what they could not eat to rot there, with the draining of beer-vessels and all manner of unmentionable abominations. There was nothing like refinement or ele gance in the luxury of the higher ranks; the indulgences which their wealth permitted, consisted in rough and wasteful profusion. Salt beef and strong ale constituted the I principal part of Queen Elizabeth's break-J last, and similar refreshments were served to her in bed lor supper. At a scries of en- : tertainments given by the nobility in 1669, I where each exhausted his invention to out do the others, it was universally admitted j that Lord Goring won the jialm for the mag- j nificenee of his fancy. The description of this supper will give us an idea of what was I then thought magnificent. It consisted of j one huge, brawny pig, piping hot, bitted . and harnessed, with ropes of sausages, to a j huge pudding bag, which served for a j chariot. VOLUME 10; >O. 28 TUB SOIL'S CONVICTION OF 131- MOHTALITY. I never saw a man that did not believe in the immortality of love when following the body of a loved one to the grave. I have .-een men under other circumstances that did not believe in it; but I never saw a man that, when he stood looking upon the form of one that he really loved stretched out for burial, did not revolt from saying, 'lt has all come to that; the hours of sweet com panionship; the wondrous interfacings of tropical souls; the joys; the hopes; the trusts: the unutterable yearnings,—there they all lie.' No man can stand and look in a coffin upon the body of a fellow-creature, and re member the flaming intelligence, the blos soming love, the whole range of Divine faculties, which so lately animated that cold clay, and say, 'These have all collapsed and gone.' No person can witness the last sad ceremonials which are performed over the remains of a human being—the sealing down of the unopened lid; the following of the rumbling procession to the place of burial; the letting down of the dust into dust; the falling of the earth upon the hollow coffin, with those sounds that are worse than thun der; and the placing of the green sod over the grave,—no person, unless he be a beast can witness these things, and then turn away and say, "I have buried my wife; I have buried my child, I have buried my sister, my brother, mv love." God forbid that we should burv anything. There is no earth that can touch my com panion. There is no earth that can touch my child. I would fight my little breath and strength away before I would permit any clod to touch him. The jewel is not in the ground. The jewel has dropped out of the casket, and 1 have buried the casket, — not the jewel. And you may reason, you may sav what you please, you may carry the ease before the supreme court of niv under standing, hut there is something higher than reason, and something back of the under standing . All that is in me revolts at the decision, and spurns it, and says: You must try heart cases before the heart. We will not believe but that there is life somewhere else; we will not believe that life is buried here; and the soul goes out and cries, like a child lost in the woods, to find itself in this strange world, saving, 'Where am I? and who shall guide me, that long and yearn and reach upward.'— Beech'rs Royal Truths. THE WINTER OF THE HEART. A beautiful writer counsels wisely when he says: "Live so that good angles uiav protect you from this terrible evil —the win ter of the heart. Let no chilling influence freeze up the fountains of sympathy and happiness in its depths; no cold burden set tle over withered hopes, like the snow on faded flower.-; no blast of discontent moan and shriek through its desolate chambers. Your life-path may lead through trials, which fi>r a time seem utterly to impede your pro gress, and shut out the very light of heaven from your anxious gaze. Penury may take the place of ease and plenty; your luxurious room may be changed for an humble one, the nofr couch for a ftraw ptallot, tVIC I*l cVI viands for the coarse food of the pour. Summer friends may forsake you, and the cold unpitying world pass you with scarcely a look or word of compassion. You may be forced to toil wearily, steadily on to earn a livelihood; you may encounter fraud and the base avarice that would extort the last far thing, till you well nigh turn in disgust from your fellow beings. Death may sever the dear ties that bind you to earth, and leave vou in tearful darkness, That noble, manly boy, the sole hope of your declining years, may be taken from you while your spirit clings to him with a wild tenacity, which even the shadow of the tomb cannot wholly subdue. Amid all these ' sorrows do not i come to the conclusion that nobody was ever so deeply afflicted as you are, and abandon every anticipation of better days in the un known future. I>o not lose your faith in human excellence, because confidence has sometimes been betrayed, nor believe that friendship was only a delusion, and love a bright phantom which glides away from our grasp. Do not think that you are fated to be miserable, because you are disappointed in your expectations, and baffled in your pursuits. Do not declare that God has for saken you when your way is hedged about with thorns, or repine sinfully when he calls ▼our dear ones to the land beyond the grave. Keep a holy trust in heaven through every trial; bear adversity with fortitude, and look upwards in hours of temptation and suffer ing. When your locks are white voureyes dim, and your limbs weary; when your steps falter on the verge of death's gloomy vale, still retain the freshness and buoyancy of spirit which will shield you from the winter of the heart." A PITHY SERMON TO YOI'NG MEN. You are the architects of your own for tunes. Rely upon your own strength of body and soul. Take for your motto, Self Reliance. Honesty, and Industry. For your star, Faith, Perseverance, and Pluck and inscribe on your banner, "Re just and fear not." Don't take too much advice; keep at the helm, and steer your own ship. Think well of yourself. Strike out. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Assume your position. Do not practice excessive humili ty: you can't get above your level. Water don't run up hill: put potatoes in a cart over a rough road, and small potatoes will go to the] bottom. Energy, Invincible Deter mination, with a right motive, are the levers that move the world. The great art of commanding i- to take a fair share of the work. Civility costs nothing and buys every thing. Don't drink. Don't smoke. Don't chew. Don't swear. Don't gamble. Don't lie. Don't steal. Don't deceive. Don't tattle. Be polite. Begenerous. Be kind. Study hard. 15c in earnest. Be self-reli ant, Read good books. Love your fellow men. as well as God. Love your country, and obey the laws. Love truth. Love vir tue. Always do what your conscience tells you to be a duty, and leave the consequence with God.— 'l. G. Eastman. PcrriiiAiUTV OK SCOTTISH IDIOM. — There is a well known ease of mystification, causcl to English ears by the use of Scott ish terms, which took place in the House of I Vet - during the examination of the magis trates of Edinburg, touching the particulars of the Porteous Mob in I Tot}. The Puke of Newcastle having asked the Provost with what kind of shot the town guard, comman ded by Porteous, bad loaded their muskets, received the unexpected reply, "Ou, juist sic as ane shutes dukes and sic-like fools vvi ." The answered was considered as a contempt of the House of Lords, and the poor Provost would have suffered from mis conception of his patois, had not the Puke of Argyle (who must have been exceedingly amused, explained that the worthy chief magistrate's expression, when rendered into English, meant to describe the shot used for (.luck* and water-foicl The circumstance referred to is by Sir Walter Scott, in the notes to the Heart of Mid-Lothian. RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisements for less than 3 months 10 cents per line for earh insertion. Special notices onehalf additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individua intcrcts and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 cts. per line. All legal notil ees of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required bylaw to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices la cents per line. All Advertising due after 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.... 6,00 9.00 16.00 Three sq arcs S.OO 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 H'ALTEK SCOTT. Scoot has done more for Edinburgh than all her great men put together. Burns has hardly left a trace of himself in the northern capital. During his residence there, his spirit was soured, and he was taught to drink whisky punch—obligations which he repaid by "Kdina, Scotia's dar ling seat,' in a copy of his tamest verses. Scott discovered that the city was beautiful —he sang its praises over the world—and he has put more coin into the pockets of its inhabitants than if he had established a branch of manufacture of which they had a monopoly. Scott's novels were to Edin burgh what the tobacco trade was to Glas gow about the close of the last century. Although several laborers were before hirn in the field of the Border Ballads, he made fashionable these wonderful stories of humor and pathos. As soon as "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" appeared, everybody was raving about Melroee and Moonlight. lie wrote "The Lady of the Lake, ' and the next year a thousand tourists descended on the Trosache, watching the sun setting on Loch Katrine, and began to take lessons on the bag-pipe. He improved the Highlands as much as Gen. Wade did when he struck through them his military roads. Where his muse was one year, a mail coach and hotel were the next. His poems are graded down into guide books. Never was an author so popular as Scott, and never was popularity worn so lightly and gracefully. In his own heart he did not value it highly, and he cared more for his plantation in Abbotsford than for his poem and ndVels. lie would rather have been praised by Tom I'urdle than by any critic, lie was a great, simple, sincere, warm-hearted man. lie never turned aside from his fellows in gloomy scorn; his lip never curled with disdain. He never ground his teeth save when in the agonies of tooth ache. He liked society, his dogs, his do mestics, his trees, his historical nick-nacks. At Abbotsford he would write a chapter of a novel before his guests were out of bed, spend the day with them, and then, at din ner, his store of shrewd, Scottish anecdotes brightened the table more than did the champagne. When in Edinburgh, any one plight see him in the streets or in the Par liament House. He was loved by every body. No one so popular among the sou ters of Selkirk as the Shirra. George IV., on his visit to the northern kingdom, de clared that Scott was the man ho most wished to see. lie was the deepest, sim plest man of his time. lie sinks like Ben. Cruachan, shoulder after shoulder. slowly, till its base is twenty miles in girth. Scot land is Scott-land. He has proclaimed over all the world Scottish virtue; and he has put money into pockets of Scottish hotel keepers, Scottish tailors, Scottish boatmen, and the drivers of the Highland mails. IMITATIVE I'OW EKS OK IHE CHINESE. It is generally supposed that the Chinese will not learn anything; but no people are more ready to learn if it is likely to be at tended with advantage. They have lately been taught to make glass, and turn out bronze argand lamps and globes, emblazon ed with the London maker's name, all com plete. and actually export these lamps to Batavia. They like putting an English name on their commodities, and are as free with the word "patent" as any manufactu rer in Germany. They excel in the manu facture of locks, particularly padlocks. One of my lricnds gave an order to a tradesman to varnish a box. furnished with a Chubb's lock, of which he had two keys, and one of which he sent with the box. retaining the other himself. When the box came back, he found that his key would not turn the lock, though the one he had given the tradesman acted very well. Thinking some trick had been played, he accused the man of having changed the lock; and, after some evasion, he acknowledged the fact, stating that on examination he had found it such an excellent one that he took it off and kept it, making another exactly like it, with ma ker's name, and everything complete, ex cept that the original key would not open it. Their mechanical contrivances generally have some defect of this kind. They have never made a watch that would keep time, though they greatly prize watches, and usu ally carry two at a time.— A Skttchcr's Tour Round the World. TIIE RICHEST MAX IN THE WOULD.—A London Journal, the Cosmopolitan, says: "The young Lord Belgrave, grandson of the Marquis of Westminister, if he lives to inherit his patrimony, will he the richest man in the world. When what is now the fashionable section of London, known as Belgravia, was but a sheep farm, the first Marquis was leasing lots at ninety-nine years. By the time the heir to the West minister estates attains his majority, all these leases will lapse, thereby adding an al most incomputable amount of ground rent to the estate. The present income of the property is said to be £1,006 a day; ten years hence it will be ten or twenty tiuics this amount. The present Marquis of Westminister is about seventy-two years of age. Ilis eldest am, the Earl of Grosvenor is about forty-seven, and his eldest son, the young Lord Belgrave, is about thirteen. By intermarriage this collossal fortune has not only Wn kopt in the 1 mily hut multi plied in arithmetical ratio. The Marquis of Westminister married the Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson Gower, second daughter of the first Duke of Sutherland. Earl Grosve nor married Lady Constance Leveson Gow er, daughter of the second Duke of Suther land. Rich as these people are, we do not suppose that cither the Grosvenor sons or daughters will be likely to "marry for love," unless there is plenty of wealth to back it. A MEM HER of the Society of Friends, (they will bo naughty, like the world s peo ple, once in a while,) feeling in need of re laxation, thought he would he excusable in transgressing, '"just once," the rules of the Society; so he went to one of the theatres where the spectacular drama was on view— one where the lady performers dressed as '"low down and high up" as is customary in the Ay/ular drama now a-days. The' 'Friend was delighted with the pedal exhibition. It reappeared to him in his sleep. He thought about it next morning on the way to meeting; became drowsy—fell asleep. Something occurred to waken him suddenly. Starting up and rubbing his eyes, he ex claimed: "Ilats off! down in front! The brethren being accustomed when in meeting to sit with hats on, heeded not the unorthodox invitation. Friend Hicks did not feel moved to explain. FLOWERS are the alphabet of angels, wherewith they write, on hill and plain, mysterious truths. HOPE paves the golden way to bliss, and cheerfulness is the lamp that lights the 1 juitcous walk.
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