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Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mcngcl House. [April 1, 1564-tf M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. lie. pcctfully tenders his professional services t" the public. Office with J. IV. Lingcnfcltcr, Iv-.p, on Juliana street. : £t* Collections promptly made. [Dcc.!,'fil-tf. H AVES IKVJNK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness intrusted to his care. Office withG. H. Spang, 1 j., on Juliana street, three doors south ol the Mongol House. May 21:1 y [ASPY M. A LSI I', l j ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, I'A., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi n entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military claims, Pensions, hack pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mcngel House. apl 1, IS64.—tf. E. F. MEYERS ' J. W. DICKKKSON MEYERS A BICKERSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PEKN'A., Office nearly opposite the Mcngcl House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pen ions, bounties and Lack pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 11 ,'66- ly I 1!. CESSNA, J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with Jons CESSNA, on the -ijuarc near the Presbyterian Church. All business entrusted to his care will receive faitiiful and prompt attention. Military Claims. Pension.-', Ac., speedily collected. [June 'J, 1865. N n. STUCK] ;Y, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ind REAL ESTATE AGENT, office a Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY, -MISSOURI. V ij , u-ticc in the adjoining Counties of Mis n .oid Kansas. July 12:tf I ■ S.-ELL J. 11. LOSGENEI KEP. j, i SELL A EONGENECKER, I '. ATTORNEYS A C'oi NSKLLOR* AT LAW, Bedford. I'a., ! attend promptly and faithfully to all busi cntrustcl to their care. Special attention ivt-ii to collections and the prosecution of claims •r Rack Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. M'r Office on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Aprils:lyr. r M'n. SHVUPE E. P. KEItU CJIIARI'E A KERR, U> A TTORSE YS-A TLA IP. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad l ining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, pinoiUv the. banking In use Of lieed A Schclf, Bedford, Pa. niar27tf ■ J. P. LFTZ. i vUKBOKKOW A I,I'TZ, I) ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, I'A., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. They are, ale , regularly licensed Claim Agents ind will give special attention to the prosecution of claim, again-' the Government for Pensions, Ba< k Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. office on Juliana street, one door South of the • .McngclHouse" and nearly opposite the IVrcc. April 28, lS65:t. PHYSICIANS. \\R.M. \Y. JAMISON, M. D., \\ BLOODY Rt n, PA-, lii -pectfully tenders his professional services to the ]• pie of that place and vicinity. [dccB:lyr I v 11. It. 1\ 1! \IUIY, I / Respectfully tenders his professional ser vice. to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Mf'cc and residence on Pitt Street, in the building Inrmerlv neeuDtedbv Or. J. 11. Hofius. fAp 1 1.61. | L. MAKBOUKG. M. 1)., tj. Having permanently located respectfully It t.dcr his pole -ion.il service- t*> the citizens • I Bedford and vicinity. Office "tr Juliana sire.!, I P ite the Bank, one door north of Hall A l'al , • tlice. April 1, 1861—tf. nil. s. <•. STATLEIt, near Schcll.-bi rg, and Or. J. J. CLARKE, lormcrly of Cumberland c nnl v. having associated them elvesin the prac t; . i Medicine, respectfully offer their profc. ional -ervices to the citizens of Schcllsburg and \ amity. Or. Clarke's office and residence same i lormi ilv oe. tipicd by J. White, Esq., dee'd. S. G. STAT LEIS, bill.-burg, April 12: ly. J.J.CLARKE. HOT ElaS. / HI YLYBKATK HOUSE. NOTICE. — Per n.- visiting the Watering 1'la • . will find a very dc irahle resort at the C'llA -I,\ 111 M L HOUSE, mar the Chalybeate Spring, lb dfonl, Pa., where tlic undersigned i - prepared t a "inmodatc Ir on eighty to one hundred per . on. . Jtic Lou e i.- icw and dry, am' neatly lur in I'.cvl. Term- modi rate. llaclo running to Mineral Spain and Miner al Water alw iv on hand. Mnr ai.ain " WM. t'IIENOWETiI. yyA.su i -\<;T( >N ill Thi large and • minodiou house, having been i t ken by the sub.-tliber, is m w o)icn for the rc ■ lion •f v isitor.-and boarders. The room are . well vcntilate-l, anvl comfortably furnished, i, table will alv. be .applied with the best 1., ■ ,n uli-ril. Tlic Oar i.- .-! " kill with tl. ' "' -I liquors. In -liort.it i niv purpo-c l.i-l ~ 11RST CLAS HOTEL. Thanking . cm w.il ' f their patronage. . lj. Hack w ill run constantly between the II 'el and the Spring . y 17,'67.1y WM. OTBEIiT, l'r j.'r. nis< i r i vvi oi s. | > I IP A sil ANN ON, BANKERS, I A BEDFORD, PA. i' \NK UF DISCOUNT AND OEPOSIT. ' l< si"ii made for the East, IVest, North and th, and the general bu-inc-.- of Exchange •i acted. N' tc.- and A' count- Collected and ittai. 'S promptlymade. REAL U-TATE b' ught and -old. fcb22 hAMLL IIOKDEI!, I'lll STIICF.T, TWO I OOUS WEST OF THE BED f 'I) II - 1.1., BliLi I::D, l'.v. WATCHMAKER ANO BEAKER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. Hi keeps oil hand a lock of line Gold and Sil cr Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Ooublcßclin - i Gla- es, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold fl itch Chain-, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best litvof Gold Pens, lie will supply to order ay th ug in his line not on hand. [sj>r.2B-'CS. Oil 0 YES! —'Ihe undersigned has taken out auction license, and tenders his services ill who have sales or auctions to cry. Live iw a call. Post Office address, Spring Meadows, Lciford county, Penn'a. April; m- HENRY B. MOCK. fOcMmt) 3/ucuuver. DIKISOKKOW A LI'TZ Editors and Proprietors. #ODR\U no'iiiicii's cat .WE. ISY UEOBCE 1). PRKKTICK. The trembling dew drops lull Upon the shutting flowers, like souls at rest The stars shine gloriously, and all Save tnc are blessed. Mother! J love thy grave ! The violet, with its blossoms blue and mild Waves o'er thy head. When will it wave Above thy child's ? 'Tis a sweet flower; yet must Its bright leaves to the morning tempest bow Dear Mother, 'tis thine emblem —dust Is on tliy brow. And I could love to die— To leave untasted life'-a dark, bitter streams' By thee, as lirst in childhood, lie, And share thy dreams. And I must linger here To stain the plumage of my sinless years, And mourn the hopes of childhood dear With bitter tears. Aye, I must linger here, -A lonely branch upon a withered tree, Whose last frail leaf, untimely sere, Went down with thee. Oft from life's withered bower, Instill communion with the past I turn, And muse on thee, the only llower In memory's urn. And when the evening, pale Bows like a mourner, on thedim, blue wave, I stray to hear the night winds wail Around thy grave. Where is thy spirit flown I gaze above—thy look is imaged there— r listen, and thy gentle tone Is on the air. 0, come, while here I press My brow upon thy grave, and in those mild And thrilling tones of tenderness, Bless, bless thy child ! IftAt Til l J, SENTIMENT. There's many a goni nnpoli lied And many a star unknown- Many a bright bud perished. Neglected and alone — When had a word been spoken, In a kindly, gentle tone, The bud bad bloomed unbroken. The gem had graced a throne. Then O ! scorn not the lowly, !Nor (to tbam nn* wrnirir. Lest thou crush an impulse holy, Or blight a soul of song. £Msfcll*mcouis. GEORGE W. CURTIS. Mr. Curtis is a younger man than most people think, and think in spite of his good looks, lie is not forty-tlirce, and nine out of ten people throughout the country have an idea that he is over fifty. This impres sion is partly due to a certain unanimity of opinion among the critics concerning Mr. Curtis and his writings. No one speaks ill. or even lightly, of Mr. Curtis' work, because it is almost invariably well done, lie is as linn 011 his pedestal of good repute as Bryant, Longfellow or Holmes are on their " It is seldom that a writer under fifty achieves a reputation so unquestioned ore capes anycarpingchargesof self-conceit. Mr. Curtis is a bold and aggressive enuneia ! tor of ultra opinions, hut nobody ever thought of him as belonging to that class of writers who go against the current for the purpose of centering attention upon them -clve : Ouo reason of this is that lie is so palpably honest about it; another is that be is thorough a gentleman. lie can say a -evere thing ol' you to your face without wagging his head or running out his tongue at you. lie is aggressive without being pert and saucy. lie is the Grant of ultra ideni.-ts, not the Hhcrinan. His enemies respect him and even admire him. You never catch any sane man shrugging his -boulder- or laughing in his sleeve at Ceo. W.Curtis. How very few writers escape thi sort of thing, at least alter they have passed their fiftieth or sixtieth year few people stop to reflect. Bayard Taylor docs not escape it -Theodore Tilton does not —in short there arc a very few who do. Curtis was born to a respectable compe tence, but, like many another boy who has no present need, he began to take care of himself when he wa-but fifteen years old. Ili- parents removed to thi- city from Prov idence. Bhode Island, when George was at that age, and be entered the service of a dry goods importer here. After a year of this lie went to farming, in Massachusetts, and it was while working on a farm nearConeord, that lie mingled in the society where he met Emerson and Hawthorne. Curtis is a graduate of Brown i niversi ty, and lie spent a few 111 nth- at the Uni versity of Berlin. Hi - rare culture was not acquired in theordinary routine. 1 lis liter ary taste- were naturally refined, and he improved hi - mind greatly by foreign trav el. He wa- only twenty-six when he re turned from hi- travel-in Egypt any Syria, and published his ' N'iie Notes ot a Howad ji.' This book gave him the sobriquet of "Howadji Curtis, which has clung to him ever since. l>ut it w;t:- his "Potiphar Papers" which gave liiai his most distinctive literary repu tation. we think. These were a collection of papers on metropolitan "fashionable" life, very caustic and humorous, strongly sug gesting Thackeray. Thackeray by the way, is one of Mr, Curtis' profoundest admira tions, ami lie has helped much to popularize that writer in this country. "Potiphax" appeared originally in J'ulmnii's Mont My, of which Curtis was the principal editor. 11c was also part proprietor of the Monthly, and its unhappy end resulted in stripping Mr. Curtis of "all he possessed, as the phrase is; for people talk as if a man could not "possess" anything but hard dollars. A - if brains, education and energy were not property. Mr. Curtis lias clearly proved that tliev are. Lotus Matin-:. one of Curtis' pleasantest books, was made up of watering-place let- i ters tbat he wrote to the Tribune in IXSI. j I'rue and I, lii.s poorest volume, was in i like manner made up from the pages of Putnam. Mr. Curtis has now been connected with | the Harpers' publications for ten or a dozen A LOCAL AND QENEHAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITKKATUIIE AND MORALS years. In the Monthly, as every body knows, he writes the-"Easy Chair," the best part of' the whole magazine. In the B'(he writes the editorials, and proves his capacity for strong political writing to be as great as that for delicate and fanciful literary gossip. His original position on the Wcceky was as the writer of a column or so of light talk on literary and social .top ics, printed in small type, and denominated "The Lounger." It was like a younger brother of the "Easy Chair." By-and by Curtis let his "Lounger" talk Radical poli tics a little, and the Harpers—who, before the war, were the reverse of Radical—re quested him to "stop that," or discontinue the "Lounger," and of course Curtis stop ped the "Lounger," altogether. Subse quently events, however, changed the Har per's views somewhat, and Curtis was rein stated as a writer for the editorial page, lie gradually took the whole thing in his own hands, and to-day the Weekly talks broader Radicalism in its leaders than oven the "Lounger" did in the by-gone time. Fifteen or twenty years ago, Curtis was considered the adonis of New York litera ti'ret. lie is still veiy tine looking—tall, well dressed, with good hair and fine eyes, an ultra gentlemanly manner and scholarly aspect, lie resides on the south shore of Statcn Island, in a very pleasant place of his own. Curtis is an always-popular lecturer. 11 is ultra opinions arc presented with a grace and vigor that leaves 110 hearer feeling as if lie had wasted his evening, however widely his views may differ from those of the speaker. INSECTS. All insects have six legs, unless they have met with accidents. They do not breathe through their mouths, but by means of a groat number of little pipes which run through them lengthwise, having openings here and there on the sides of the body where the fresh air is drawn in. These lit tle openings arc very curiously contrived in some cases protected by tiny trap-doors opening on hinges, in others having a strong grating over them of very coarse hairs. Hence, an insect when eut in two, as he does not use his mouth for breathing, and as his brain is not confined to his head but runs all through his body, will live for many hours in this mutilated state. In fact some insects never cat a mouthful after they are full grown. Insects have from two to five eyes. Two largo eyes called compound eyes, because they are made up of many little eyes united, like a bundle of six sided spy-glasses tied to gether, large at one end and very small at the other, and looking under the microscope, like the meshes of a very fine net. Then there are sometimes three little eyes in ad dition to the large ones, placed generally on tlie top of the head, although they occa sionally vary their position. All insect- arc provided with an/ant", which are those little, many-jointed projeo lion- extending from the head near the eyes somewhat like raindecr's horns. These are probably u-ed for feeling, smelling, and !j'een' ueiuii leiy V'e filet/.' ' Vlicy' Yafy ViuctnYiJ appearance; sometimes resembling Indian clubs, sometimes fringed like a fir tree, notched like a -aw, plumed like a feather, or armed with teeth like a comb. A few insects have 110 wings, others have two, others four, but none have more than that number. Insects pass through several stages of ex istcnce before tbev become fully developed. Most of them are hatched from eggs; then they pass into the larva state, in which there are catei pillar, maggot, or grub, according as they arc to become butterfly or beetle. In course of time they go into pupa, or mummy state, from which they emerge ready for action as perfect insect.-. In some classes these distinctions are not so strongly marked. On examining a fly with a microscope, you will find six legs, anut 1 !i with two sharj) little toes; two big compound eyes covering nearly the whole of the head, and the three little eyes arranged in a triangle, two transparent wings strengthened by a net work of veins, and covered with line hairs to protect them from wear and tear; a pair of tiny winglcts, and on each side of the body a little knob which serves for unknown purposes. <ln closer examination of hi mouth you will find a proboscis or trunk, like an elephant's; this is nothing but the lower ! lip lengthened and armed with three lancets. | with which it punctures its food, or exit.- j 1 crates bald-headed old gentlemen. The j end of the lip is flattened and grooved like j the bottom of a meat di-h for gravy. He is \ provided with a fluid which running down j little canals in bis trunk, dissolves soluble J ,-u bstances, so that they are easily sucked up through the same little eannals. On examining the foot closely under the micro-cope you will see that it is armed with two little claws, protected by fleshy pads, covered with liairs. Each liair is enlarged at the end, making a little disk, which is j kept moist by a fluid continually exuding, j The little claws catch 011 the iougli point of j any surface, and the moment this is done, j the little disks take hold by their edges, | while their centers are retracted, leaving a j vacuum, -and thus creating an atmospheric 1 pressure which sustains the insect against j the force ot gravitation. While one foot is raised, the others retain their hold, and the rapid movement of the six logs along a ceil ing, shows how swift is the instinctive action of this complex apparatus. According to Kir by and pence, the com- j iuon bou-e flv, when undisturbed makes six 1 liuudred strokes with its wing in a second, j and when necessary can increase its velocity j sixfold. There is one fact in tie natural history of Hies that is generally very little understood, and what is true of flies, is equally true with regard to all insects. It is that Hie- hatched into the winged state never grow any more, either smaller or larger. If he is hatched a small fly. small he remains all the days of his life. 11 is growing and most of his eating has been done in the larva or maggot state. Then ho leads the life of a glutton, eating with apparent relish till rno.-t loathsome things, reveling in all sorts of impurities, waxing very I'at and aldcrmanic, as do most large eaters in the human tribe. An old w;iter well observes, "How few of us arc aware that all these creatures now buzzing above our heads oneo crawled beneath our feet!"— Riverside May .in-. THE <! HEAT CHANUK.- There was a uian wlm started from Jerusalem to Damascus, on a mission of persecution and murder, proud cruel, and vindictive; lie camcTroni Damascus with a heari yearning towards all mankind, with the humility of a child, and with affection as tender as a woman's love, ile went towards Damascus- with an intellect narrowed down to a rapier's point, and harder than its steel; he came from Da in a-cus with an intellect broadened and fused with divine lire, and with a logic so iuviucible, and with its iiuks so warm with the Holy Ghost, that it moulded the thought of the world for eighteen centuries. BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 9, 1867. I'IKE <>\ TBE lILIHTII A homestead without a par of old folks —"Time's doting chroniclers? —seated con tentedly in the chimney cormr, would hard ly be a homestead at all. Ifthey arc iu the picture it is complete. There you may find them, (ay in and day outj in all sorts of wcathc; steadfast to their places and to one another. When the caves drip, in the middle of tic winter fore noons, the old man with thehead of silver abandons his post and the Ist Saturday's newspaper, to make the aeeusjpmcd tour of the kitchen offices, the sheds-or the barn, lingering by the way to throw (own a hand ful of grain for the pinched pod try. With what minuteness lie is cautionej by Grand mother not to go out insuffieieitly clad; and with what a single heartcd.p/ she welcom ed him when he comes ba<|; to her again, lie would hardly get a warAei reception if lie was just come home from a polar expe dition. And as soon as he ha: nestled down snugly in his cushioned chap: once more, and dealt out on the glowing Srestiek a few vigorous raps with the tongs,no will launch forth into such valuable deta|s of the keen air out of doors, —suggesting (Arctic remin iscences which no listener caild very well call in question,—as will lid the white haired coupie topic of earn'ft talk till din ner is brought on the table. The children invariably edae home from school, in the wintry afternoons to find the placid pair seated iu the sa ie accustomed spot:—the strip of sunshine pale and sleepily across the floor, the ray cat curled before the fire in the nest ,f her craless dreams, and the little sprite hat are _"pcg ged knotty entrails" of'the ok logs singing the drowsy hours away. Willi c would have made the picture immortal Down along the snowy roads the wind.-; are wrestling with travellers, pulling and tjaring at hats, and cloaks, and meagre ribes;—but no winds are to be felt in this corn's tranquil haven; here all days are halcyon days, and no atmosphere is breathed hut that of peace and heaven. In the old nun's cheeks the rich mettle is as fresh, to appearance, as it cvvr was; the features betray no look of be ing pinched with the cold; 110 snows can get in to benumb his attenuated lingers. They two constitute a sort of family tri bunal: and a highly useful arrangement it is, in a crowded domestic congress. They arc always to he found on the judicial bench, ready to give audience. 31any arc the tough little brobl cms that are brought to them for i their wise solution. They pass upon cases in which die intetcsts of the turbulent younglings arc involved, with a promptness which challenges the di-putanls' wonder; and if Grandma only son/ thus and so, there is no use in hunting for higher authority,— lie is conceded to be the "era of tlic law." Or Grandpa promises to mend the broken sled; and never was sled of hoy repaired with greater dexterousncss and ingenuity, j From early morning until nightfall he ram bb-s about the house on short excursions, filled full and thoroughly warmed with the dear home feeling. And when one pair of dimmed eyes became yet dimmer, and at last fades entirely from the earth,—and one f-fied corner to he sccn'the're "no more 'tor over. what vacancy in the heart of the household then! Looking up from her forenoon occupation, Grandmother throws lscr eyes from sheer force of habit, into the opposite corner, hut the chair stands empty over there, and a great tear trembles on lier cheek as she adjusts her needle in the knit ting sheath die wears. The fire is not so hot that it can warm her chilled heart any longer. She listens to the wintry winds that are blowing without, and thinks of that single grave, freshly rounded under the j pines.— Homespun. YOUNG AIMN. Most young men regard the want of a rich father as a great mi-fortune, and as a sufficient excuse for a latlure to succeed in life. Money and the advantages it brings —education, influence and a ' start" in life are regarded a- ahiKPt cr-cntial to s.ue cc--. They overlook (lit feeling of depen dence it cherishes and the enervating effect it produces. They forget that the proudest and most hardy oak is ever self-sustaining an 1 is nourished into strength and power by resisting itself the force of winds and storms, and not by being protected by others. They neglect, too, the pages of biography which abound in examples ol men who, from pov erty, have attained eminence in every sphere of life, whether it bein accumulating wealth or acquiring knowledge 01 in invention, dis covery or in any of the professions; while comparatively few so distinguished were nourished in the lap of ease and wealth. Their own observation, too, might correct their erroneous impressions and stimulate them to energy for self-elevation. All around them they may sec young men pos -m-sing every apparent advantage, unambi tious indolent, prodigal of time and money, waiting for the portion of goods that is to fall tj> them, that they may spend it. On the other hand they may sec multitudes of poor, but industrious, earnest and rising young men, who. if spared, are certainly destined to make a mark in the world. In stead, therefore, of allowing this absence of the ease and luxuries of wealth to discour age them, it should give tlicm heart and stimulate ambition. Barton, who has writ ten the interesting biographies of Commo dore Vandcrbilt. .J. Gordon Rennet, John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, in one of these articles -ays: "Let us never again commend any one for 'rising' from obscurity to emi nence, but tescrve our special homage for those who have become respectable human beings in spite of having had every advan tage procured for them by rich fathers."— / 'itt. tm ftfh He. lv\'!>l;UlN<i INFLUENCE. -Time, change, alienee, distance, break off no genuine reia * ion-. The love which the interposition of a continent or an ocean can diui, which the separation of years can alter, never was love. 1 had a friend once, a woman, who was the friend of my better nature —who taught me inspiration, taught nie the valu of thought made nie believe the worth of life, showed me the joy of worth and progress—one whose soul was so large, so deep, so gener ous. that she reigned like a <juecn among the highest intellects and hearts. She left the earth one stormy night sixteen years ago; but is as near me to day as she was then. The life I live, the thoughts I think, the acts 1 perform, are colored by influences which came from her mind to mine. If six teen years cannot separate sou! -, why should sixteen hundred years separate them? When our friends leave us for another world they are les,s with us outwardly, but more with us inwardly. We carry them with us in our heart. TRVTH. —'There is nothing as pleasant as the hearing and speaking the truth. For this reason there is no conversation so agree able as that of the uian ot integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speak;; without any intention to deceive. THE BEAUTIES Ol HI HUE LAN GUAGE. If we need higher illustrations not only ot the power of natural objects to adorn language and gratify taste, but proof that here vve lind the highest conceivable beauty, we would appeal at once to the Bible. Those most opposed to its teachings have acknowl edged the beauty of its language, and this is due mainly to the exquisitd use of natur al objects for illustration. It does indeed draw from every field. Hut when the emo tional nature was to be appealed to, the ref erence was at once to natural objects, and throughout all its books, the stars, and flowers, and gems, arc prominent as illustra tions of the beauties of religion and the glories of the church. "The wilderness arid the solitary placo shall be glad lor them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." "The mountains and the hills -hall break forth before you in singing, and all the trees of the field shall c.ap their hand.-. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead ot the briar shall come up the myr tle tree." The power and beauty of the same objects appear in the Havior's teaching.-. The lig and the olive, the sparrow and the lily of the field, give peculiar force and beauty to the great truths they were used to illus trate. The Bible throughout i remarkable in this respect. It is a collection of books written by authors far removed from each other in time, and place, and mental culture, but throughout the whole nature is exalted as a revelatian of God. Its beauty and sub lunity are appealed to arouse the emotions to reach the moral and religious nature. This clement of unity runs through all the hooks where reference to nature can be made. One of the adaptations of the Bible to the nature of man is found in the sublime and perfect representation of the natural world, by which nature is ever made to proclaim the character and perfection of God. No language can be written that so perfectly sets forth the grand and terrible in nature and its forces, .1 we hear when God answers Job out of the whirlwind. No high appre ciation of the beautiful, and of God a* the author of beauty, wa- ever expressed than when our Savior said of tlm lillics of the field: "I say unto you that even Solomon, in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these and tb.cn add-: "If God so clothe the grass of tin field"—ascribing the ele ment of beauty in event leaf aud opening bud to the Creator's skill and power.—/'•/'. (hadbourne. THE 1,1 LY OU THE FOREST LAKES. In the northern lakes, the woodman urges his light skifl sometimes through acres of lily-pods, which, itt their season, bear up the most beautiful and fragrant blossoms. 'lhc air is redolent. The water-surface i- mot tled with the pearliest gems. For a moment after his canoe has passed, a tiny wake can be traced, as the broad, flat leaves have bow ed before the keel and oar. But soon every mark of his track i.- obliterated ; i'or leaf ters, have -prang again, thtough (hipping from their bath, to their wonted place. When the spring freshet.- come, or the swell of the sudden .summer rain has raised the lakes above their common level, still these beauties of vegetation r:-e with the rising tide. When tlie storm comes thundering down from the mountains, and the billows toss, and white-caps sparkle, still these broad, fbield iikc leave.-, float and warp and undulate, but cannot be submerged. Why ? There is along, fine filament which stretches downward through the dept.- and moors them to the bottom, where the interlocking roots hold them with a grasp which will suf fer the stem to break before they will unclasp. The life of the lily is above. The secret of its life is unseen of men. Emblem of the Christian. Thus rides he upon the rolling billow.- of life. Storms of sorrow and affliction cannot submerge him, for ho is saved by his ever buoyant hope. The tide of passion may .-well around him, but he will ever surmount it. for the cord which binds liim to the hidden rock has the elasticity of "love," which "suftereth all things, and is kind. " orldly eyes cannot discover that golden band which moors him to eternal truth and oodue-s; but its hold is firm, its strength invincible. His way of life is above. Drive through it the sharp share of bcrcavments, and though for a brief season the sear may be traced, yet soon again the lovely flower.- of resignation thank fulnc.-s, and peace, uplift their heads, and breathe their fragrance upon the air. Is not such a life attainable? God be praised, hchas wrought out this wonder in many an humble soul ol whom the world was not worthy.— Rev. ,/. <trench, in the Am. Mmgi if/-1. PHYSICAL EXERCISE. The IV' stininittti liu\< !tr declaims against too much physical exercise, and expresses the opinion that, physical development is very liable to be carried too far. It says: "Of course it is a very grand thing to be able to maintain one's rights against half a dozen coal heavers, or to figure as the cham pion of injured respectability against inso lent black-guardism, as Sir Robert Clifton did a little time back in the public streets. But these are exceptional cases, and few men can be pointed out who are distinguish ed both as pugili.-ts and scholars. But the greatest and most dangerom abu-e, and one that ought most sedulously to be discouraged , among young men, is that technically known as 'training.' Who cannot appreciate the indignant periods ol the ancients when they descry the insane dhc jdine ofeveren thusias tic athletic? Then a- now tlicy studied to bring their bodies to a premature perfection, at the expense of both mind and body lor i the remainder of their lives. Those who have gone through th severest training be come in the end dull, listless and stupid, subject to numerou- diseases, and in many instances the ultimate victims of gluttony and drunkenness. Their unnatural vigor seldom lasts more than five years. It was especially remarked bv the Greeks that no one who in boyhood won the prize at the Olympic games ever distinguished himself afterward. The three years immediately proceeding seventeen are years of great men tal development, and nature cannot at the ,-auie time endure any severe taxing of the physical eonstituti"!), l'rudence therefore, especially at this critical period of life, must ever go hand in hand with vigor, for the evils of excess outweigh by far the evils of deficiency. But as long as due bounds are preserved, athletic sports may ever he hail ed as the best friends of mind and body. The Duke of Wellington is reported to have said, when he was looking on at a cricket match, that as long as these were tlie sports of Englishmen, they need never fear inva sion. To this we think we may add a more powerful encouragement, for we sincerely believe that as long as athletic sports hold their proper place in our educational estab lishments, we need never fear the invasion of degeneracy nor the tyranny of ignorance." YOU ME 40; NO. :>0 A .S<M TIII01L:> .A;\KKAI, IIAMtjLEM A soi 1111.10 IH;M(KVT. General M. Jeff Thompson, a distinguish cd officer of the Confederate army in Mis souri, and previously to the rebellion a prominent lawyer in that State, lately an nounced his adhesion to the Longstreet !>arty, and-advised an acceptance of the re construction act. The Southern Democrats, like their Northern allies, immediately com menced to argue against this movement by showering personal abuse on Mr. Thompson. Jo one ot them he replies, and his indignant response gives us a little insight into South ern history during the rebellion. Democracy there, as here, consisted in avoiding con scription. and fighting with words when . other men were u.-;rig bayonets: NEW YORK, July JO, 1867. Ldilor ot the Banner, I'azoo, Alist: SIR: I see in the New York Ilerald oi in) day an extract from your paper of the sth irtsi., in which you have, in your oppo sition to certain letters written by gentlemen of the South, thought proper to use very disrespectful language about your superiors, from the style in which you speak 1 judge you to have been one ot those miserable, dirty dog- who publi-hed an cight-by-tcn sheet during the war fur no earthly purpose but to avoiu conscription, and who to cover up their own cows: dice tried to, and in some instances did. break down some of the purest and noblest men in the Confederacy. Prob ably some of Albeit Sidney Johnson's blood is on your bauds, an i you may be one of the hounds that barked at Joseph K. Johnson, and it may be, if your paper had strength enough and was published to the end of the Confederacy, that many of our mournful mishaps can be partially attributed to your meanness. You should have started earlier, remained longer, endured more hardship, braved more dangers, and surrendered with more regret than either of the gentlemen y"U name before you should have presumed to have written such an article. J cannot for an instant imagine you to have been a soldier, and suppose you must be a "broken down politician, an ".old dog'' or a "little pup: and, therefore, 1 will let you pass until I return South, when 1 will inquire into your antecedents, and if you arc worthy of notice I will teach you better manners. M. JKFI THOMPSON, cf New Orleans. \ IKDO.U FKO.II lIEKFH Kit's STOKV. From the la-t installment oi' Mr. Beech er "Norwood," in the Ledger, we clip the following sententious bits of wisdom : The important organic changes in our zone take place at the second full seven of yeai produce important results even in the coldest temperament.- and in the slenderest nature*. There is frequently the appear ance of new forces in the mind, the displace ment of old o!uif, and an entire change of proportion and balance in the moral and in tellectual faeultic-. Aspirations begin to quieki n the soul. Ambitious grow nobler. scorn of all authority which does not con form to rea.-on or to generous views of duty is frequently seen, and just as frequently mis understood. The transition from girlhood to wonianhoy<l ps parked by tlie developuient of In estimating the causes of character men ascribe much to circumstances, much to train ing, andmuch to the fullness and force of one's original endowments. But there arc other elements more subtle, but of profound val tt in the structure of that most wonderful of all architectures —the character; built up of invisible materials, without sound or force, permanent in its nature, yet in form flexible, and prolific inchangc. Chief among these i- to be reckoned sympathy of facnF ti-s and unity of action. All natures come to their manhood through some experience of fermentation ! \\ itlr some it is ferment of pa—i m ; with some of the afiections; and with richly endowed natures it is the fer ment of thought and of the moral nature. •Some natures squander life-force in intermit tent efforts. Their endowments arc ample, but they are frittered away uselessly. But where the happy temperament unites in an original and spontaneous harmony of all the part-of one'.- nature, the augmentation force i- but a small part of the good fortune. There i- a breadth, a depth, a fertility of experience which yield- to -ingle lives more of joy than is posses-cd by scores of ordinary men. THE HOME I'ItKSS. We clip the following from the Chicago li< publican, and commend it to the consid eration of our readers: "What tell- .-o readily the .-t indard of a town or city a.? the appearance of its paper; and its. youth or age can as well be defined by the ob-crving. by a glance at its news paper as though a personal observation had been made. The enterprise of its citizens is depicted by it- advertisements —their liberality by the looks of the paper. Some papers show a good, solid, healthy founda tion. plethoric purses and a well-to-do ap pearance generally, other- show a striving to contend with the grasping thousands around them, trying to wrench out an existence from the close listed community around thcui. An occasional motoric display in its column- of telegraph, of local or of edito rial, shows what it would do if it had the mean-.Jiut cannot coutinuc in the expensive work until the support comes which ought to be readily granted. A newspaper is like a Church; it wants fostering at the com mencement and for a few years, then as a general thing it can walk alone, and reflect credit upon it- location. Take your home paper; it give- you more news of immed iate interest titan the New York or other distant city papers; it talk.- for you when no other.-will speak in your favor; when other localiih - belie you it stands up for your rights ; you always have a champion in your home paper; and tho.-e who stand up lor you should certainly be well sustained. Your interests are kindred and equal, you rise or fall together. Therefore, it is your interest- to support your home p per, not grudgingly, but in a liberal spirit, as a plea sure. not a- a disagreeable duty, as an in vestment tint will amply repay the expen diture. KAXIM; WJIILE FATUIEEH, —There tire very few habit* more-injurious to health Uian eating when the body is fatigued. If the brain or any part or organ of the body become* unduly fatigued, the whole system require* rest, until the nervous iufluenoe and the circulation of the blood arc equalized throughout the body, beforeanother demand is made upon the vital energies. If the stomach is filled without this rest, the food remains undigested, ferment* and becomes sour, and irritates the stomach, producing disease of the digestive organs, and through them, of the whole system. THERE is a saying of Goethe .— ''latent forms itself in solitude: character in the storm* oflifc." THERE is a school in Germany to teach how to make lager. How to drink it re quires no study. ITATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisement.* for less than # months 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notices onebalf additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individua intcrets and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 cts. per line. AH legal notil oca of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, arc required bylaw to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cents per line. All Advertising dub after first insertion . A liberal discount made to yearly advertizcrs. 3 months, (i months. 1 year One square $ 4.50 $ 6.00 $lO.OO Two squares 6,00 9.00 16.09- Th rce squres 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column 11.00 20.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 -15.00 80.00 THE STILL KEAUTY r NATI KK. If there could he some .splendid confusion produced amid the serenity of the present universal order; if some broad constellation should begin to-night to play off from all its lamps, volleys of Bengal lights, that should fab in -bowers of many colored sparks and fieiy serpents, down the spaces of the heavens; or il some blazing and piratical comet should butt and jostle the whole out | work-of a system, and ru-b like a celestial fire ship, destroying order, and kindling the culm fleets that sail upon the infinite azure into a flame, how many thousands there are that would look up to the skies for the first time, wish, wonder and awe, and exclaim in wardly: "Surely there isthejfingcr ofGod.'' They do not see anything surprising or sub duing in the punctual rise and steady setting of the sun, and its imperial and boundless bounty; and yet there is enough fire in the sun to spirt any quantity offlaming an<l fan tastic jets; it could fill the whole space be tween Mercury and Neptune with brilliant pyrotechnics and jubilee displays, such as children gaze at and clap their hands. But the great old sun is not selfish, and has no French ambition for such tawdry glories. It reserves its fires - , keeps them stored in its breast, spills over no sheets of flame from its higli caldron, but shoots still and steadily its clean, white beams into the other; these evoke flowers from the bosom of every globe, and paint the far off satellites of Uranus with silver beauty.-— Thomas King. It EI) TAI'E ILLLSTKATEI). A Prus-ian officer, inspecting a military post found a -entry leisurely walking his beat before a dilapidated and empty store house. No one could give him any infor mation as to why the sentinel was there, ex cept that it was a "custom of the post. " His curiosity being aroused, he examined the records of the war office, and in an old report, dated a hundred and thirty years before, found that once the door' of that storehouse had been painted, and a guard had been placed there to warn persons of the wet paint. The officer in charge was ordered away, and the storehouse guard be came a traditionaly and punctually perform cd duty of tho post. This anecdote is matched by one that is told of the English -orvice. Many years ago a detachment of troops was ordered to some out of the way place in India, and a requisition was made for clothing and medicines for the use of the soldiers. In a short time the post was broken up. but as the orders for supplies had not been countermanded, they were sent regularly every year for a good portion of a century, in perfect oblivion of the fact that there were no troop- there to wear uniforms or take medicines. .MAXIMS OF BISHOP MIDDLEKON. —Perse vere against discouragements, Keep your temper. Employ leisure in study and al ways have some work in hand. Ie punctual and methodical in business, and never pro crastinate. Never be in a hurry. Preserve self possession, and do not be talked out of conviction. Ttise early, and be an economist • JW,.„ •>---- pearanee ot pride; manner is something with everybody, and everything with some. Be guarded in discourse, attentive and slow to speak. Never acquiesce in immoral or pernicious opinions. Be not forward to as sign reasons to those who have no right to ask. Think nothing in conduct unimport ant or indifferent, llather set than follow examples. Practice strict temperance, and in your transactions, remember the final ac count. WOMAN'S LOVE. —Women generally love less for youth, beauty, or fortune, than for fame; especially the high minded portion of the sex; and this proves the purity of their affections; for what, after all, can he the ob ject of true love, but mind—the high and noble mind—whieh attests itsclt by the loud voice of fame, and the reluctant evidences of envious mankind.' A noble spirited woman in the prime of youth and morning of beauty —whom she will choose? on whom bestow her affections? Xot on a gay youth of her own age. priding himself on his smooth face and flexible form. She will turn away from ' he fair brow without a wreath of laurel, and delicate hands that have rerped no harvest rom the field of honor, and place her heart n the custody of him whose vigor, and en ergy of thought have gained a place among the great of the world. G KNKKAI.S 11 IN JiMA N AND CIIALMERS, men who did good fighting for the Gonfed erate cause in the army of the Southwest from Shiloh to the disastrous onset at Nash ville, have enrolled themselves in the Sou thern wing of the Republican party, led by Longstrect. Jeff Thompson, Gov. Brown, Barksdale, Gen. S. B, Buekner, and others. An aggressive and practical party attracts all the aggressive and practical men of the country. No man thoroughly alive to the interests and future of this land can afford to sleep with the Democracy at such a time as this. — Philadelphia Press. MENTAL labor is not in itself likely to in terfere with digestion. In fact, lie who has the largest and most active brain ought to have the easiest anil best digestion, other things being equal. It is not brain work, but brain worry that interferes with the ac tivity of the stomach. The action of the pnciuno-gastric nerve, by which the nerve force is carried from the brain to the stom ach, is not influenced to a morbid degree by intellectual activity ; but it is materially and injuriously influenced by emotional agita tion —fretting. As you would lie lovely in the sight of Hod, strive to bo Christian-like. Certainly it is the Spirit of Christ within you, and the beauty of Christ upon you, which only can make you lovely; the more you resemble him in holiness, the more will you manifest of true excellence; and the more lrequcnt and spiritual your communion with Christ, the more of the loveliness of Christ will he stamped upon your spirits, changing you into the same image, front glory to glory.— Flavel. 1E your afflietious are sanctified, it is tin reasonable to murmur against God because you smart under His rod, as it would be to accuse your dearest friend of cruelty, be cause he strained your arm to snatch you from the fall of a house, or wall, which he sawjwas ready to crush and overwhelm you in its ruins. NEVER make use of a woman's name in an improper time, or in mixed company.— Never make assertion* about her that you think arc untrue, allusions that you feci she herself would blush to hear. When you meet with men who do not scruple to make u*c of a woman's name in a reckless man ner, shun them, for they arc lost to every sense of honor. A FRENCH agency for matrimonial alljan ees concludes an advertisement with: 11 ippiuc - guaranteed for one year."
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