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BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice ot the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mcngel House. [April 1,1854-tf VI A. POINTS, IVI ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa. Respectfully tenders his professional services to tho public. Office with J. W. Lingcnfclter, Esq., on .Juliana street. JcCUCullections promptly made. [Dce.9,'64-tf. H'AYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness intrusted to his care. Office with G. H. Spang, Esq., on Juliana street, three doors south of the Mcngel House. May 24:Jy INSPY M. ALBIP, li ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfttlly and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his carc in Bedford and adjoin ing counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with ManuASpang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south oflhc Mcngel House. apl 1, 1861.—tf. B. F. MEVF.BS 1. W. DIGKERSOTF MEYERS A DICKERSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pksn'A., Office nearly opposite the Mengel House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 11,*66-ly I B. CESSNA, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with JOHX CESSSA, on the square near the Presbyterian Chureh. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and • prompt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., rpecdily collected. [June 9,1865. B. STUCKEY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and REAL ESTATE AGENT, Ofii ti Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, v ill practice in the adjoining Counties of Mis ri and Kansas. July 12:tf NRBSELI J. 11. LONGKNECKER L > L SSELL A LONGENECKER, I V ATTORNEYS A COFSSEI-DORS AT LAW, Bedford, PH., v. : ,i| attend promptly and faithfully to all busi cntrusted to their care. Special attention riven to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. jPS-Offiee" on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Aprils:lyr. J 'M'D. E - P- KERP. SHARPS A KERR. A TTORSE YS-A T-LA U". Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining 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, opposite tho banking house of Rccd A Scheil, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tt J. R. DCKBORROW LCTI. DURBORROW A LUTZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEBFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to thoir care. Collections made on the shortest no- Thcv arc, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the •Menircl House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer office. April 28, 1865:t. PHYSICIANS. \IL\I. YV. JAMISON, M. D., YY BLOODV Res, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to flic people of that place and vicinity. [deoB:lyr Did. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his profc- ional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius. [Ap'l 1,61. I 1,. MARBOURG, M. D., rj . 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. I \lt. S. G. STATLER, near Schcllsburg, and I ' I)r. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland county, having associated themselves in the prac tice c! Medicine, respectfully offer their profes iona! crviccs to the citizens of Schcllsburg and vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same as formerlv occupied by J. White, Esq., dee'd. S. 0. STATLER, Schcllsburg, Aprill2:ly. J. J. CLARKE. HOTELS. I HI ALYBEATK HOUSE. NOTICE. —Persons visiting the Watering Pla ces, will find a very desirable resort at the CHA LYBEATE HOUSE, near the Chalybeate Spring, Bedford, l'a., where the undersigned is prepared to accommodate from eighty to one hundred per sons. The honse is new and airy, ant* neatly fur nished. Terms moderate. Hacks running to Mineral Springs, and Miner al Water always on hand. May 31.3 m WM. CHBNOWETII. WASHINGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious bouse, having been rc taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms arc large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. The table will always be supplied with the best the it.arket can afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors. In short, it. is tny purpose to keep a FIRST CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit a renewal of their patronage. X. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs. tnayl7,'67:ly WM. DIBERT, Prop'r. n IMI KLLAWFOUN. Ik UI'P A SHANNON, BANKERS, I U BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and South, and the gcnoral business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptlymade. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. feb22 DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED FOFD HOTEL, BEEFORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES, AC. lie keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver 11 atchea, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold R atch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens, lie will supply to order: any thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2B/65. 01 KS! 0 YES.'—The undersigned hqa taken out auction license, and tenders his services to all who have sales or auctions to cry. Give him a calL Post Office address, Spring Meadows, Bedford county, Penn'a. Aprili:Sm HENRY B. MOCK. IU'KROKKOW July 12,1867. j In castin my eye carelessly over the po'iit ikle field, which Seward and me do every sixty days, I think I kin spy into the hori zon a bud which is swellin into a most hope ful flower. It is spreadin itself into a hur- < ricane, which threatens to sweep away the fabric of Ablishnism and purify the politikle atmosphere. The Radikle party hev bin at last forced to adopt the legitimit endin uv their soeeidle principles, nigger suffrage, and from that the Dimocrisy, cf they are wise, will snatch a triumph literally from the jaws uv death. We hev em now. In Ohio that question is 'to bo voted onto this fall—in Xoo York and Michigan its raisin a breeze in thcr Convenshuns: and in Pcnn sylvany, lllinoy and Indiana it can't be long put off. Ez I remarked, we've got em. Wat the Dimokrisy want now is to handle this delikit subjick ez to make the most uv it. The great trouble with the party is that there is no uniform style uv mcetin this question. On the main question we are all agreed. We all oppose Nigger Suffrage. Its a part and parcel uv a Dimokrat's na cher to oppose nigger suffrage. The leaders uv the party opposed it at the beginuin, for secin how the ballot was abused by ther fol lowers they trembled for the Republic ef it wuz entrusted to the hands uv any more uv ckal capacity, and the masses uv the organ ization opposed given it to the nigger, bc coz that one privilege, and color, wuz all that distinguished em. Its a pecoolyarity | uv unregenerated human naclier that it must alluz bear down on somebody. The poet sez: "Even the lice hev -mailer ones to bite em, And they still other ones, ad infinitum." Fortunately, the Dimokraey hev the nig ger for their smaller lice. The sturdy yeo manry felt it to be a sootliin thing to find, wunst each year, that in wun thing at least he wuz sooperior to sutnboddy, and so it will be so long ez there is a Dimokraey. The troo Dimokrat promotes hissclf, not by liftin bisself above the level onto which he finds hisself, but by shuvin some wun down to a lower level, and ez ther wuznt anybody else on this continent which they cood git hold uv, the nigger wuz, long ago, selected for that purpose. The great trouble is we oppose nigger suf frage now from too many standpints. Some oppose it on the skore uv the inferiority uv the Afrikin, but that never wuz a poplar idea with our people. They may hev assen tid to it outwardly, but in their own minds they objected it "Ef," seda reliable Dim okrat so hisself, "ef that's the rool, WAT IN THUNDER IS TO BECOME UV MB?" Likewise the idea uv onfitness, wich oth ers uv our opposers advance, "They can't read nor rite! " shreeks a injoodishus cuss, speekin to an audience two-thirds uv wich go to him regcrly to reed their ballots to cm, and who, when they sign prommissory notes put an y, atween their first and last names. Anuthcr speeker quotes Noah to em. and A LOOAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MOR ALS boldly asserts that the nigger is the descend ant uv Ham, and that ho is the identikle indivijile wich wuz cuat by Noah; but he runs agin tho fact that the rest uv em, wich is in AfTika yet, hev managed to dodge the cuss, ez they aint servin ther white breth rcn, and thein wich wuz brot here to be be chrischinized hev busted their bonds and arc just about as free, so far ez servitood goes, ez enybody. There is, ez I hev showed, all these eon ncctin ideas that-work agin us. Therefore, I want a Nashnell Convenshun. I want a convocashen uv the lights uv the party to set forth authoritatively why wo oppose nigger suffrage—to giv a reesin for it, that all our people may act together, ez do other well regulated machines. Let us cum to gether and ishoo our manifestoo, that we may know precisely the pertiklcr line uv argument to pursoo. I she! be at that convenshun, and I hov made up my mind wot platform to lay down. I shel go back on Ham, llager and Onesimus—l shel turn from the inferiority idea and take tho broad ground that the nigger is a Least—that he ain't a man at all, and consekently he hez no more rites than any other animal. I put my foot onto him by authority uv the decree that unto man was given dominion over the beests —that we are men and they are beests. Ef thev admit the first proposishen, they will the last. I shel assert boldly and brodly his onfit nis to mingle with us bccoz his fizzikle structure, his muscles, nerves, fibres, beiu different, go to show that he wnz uv a dif ferent origin and uv a lower origin. I shel plant myself on the stoopenjus yet simple proposishen that the Almity made him, probably, but at a different time and for a different purpus, wich I shel show by citin the color of his skin, the length of his foot, the shape of his head, and sieh other mat ters as 1 kin git together in time for the convenshen. Uv course this doctrine will meet with ob jectors. We hev a few. thin skinned per fessers uv religion, whose piety service in iour ranks hezn't quite obliterated, who will say that these dogmas undermine the Chris tian religion, ez it destroys the doctrine uv the unity uv the races onto wich orthodoxy is built. To this I shel answer, that sposin it does, wot then? Uv wat comparison is any religion to a Orthodox Dimokrat, to a triumph uv the party? YVot hez Dimocra cy to do with religion any how? It hez nev er permitted it to mix in its pollytix. Dim ocriay bloeves in kecpin Chureh and State ez far apart ez possible. Shood the Abhshnists pint to mggeys wich reed and write, I shood say to wunst that there is different degrees uv instink — that ez one dorg bcz more instink than another, that so one nigger hez more than another, and then I shood wind this answer up by asking him, "Sir, wood yoo force yoor dawter to marry a nigger, even ef he cood reed and write?" This hez alluz done good service, pertikelcrly ef yoo walk her ridly away before there is time for an an swer. Ther is one pint wich is a stumper, and only one. One man to whom I unfolded my theory, asked me snceringly wat I wuz goin to do with a molatter who wuz halt white aud half black —half man and half beast—half instink, wich lie- with him, and half sole, wich wuz to be seized and fitted for the skies, or lost. When a molatter dies wot then? Docs the half sole uv the half man drag the instink uv the beast be hind it in a limpin. lop-sided fashion into heaven, or does the instink drag the sole into limbo for animals? "Ef this latter idea be correct," sed he, "in that limbo how much Southern sole is floatin about, held in solooshen in animal instink!" An old friend uv mine in Kentucky be come indignant when I propounded the beast theory to bim, and threatened me with corporeal punishment ef I didn't quit his presence, which I did tu wunst. Alas for the imprudence of zealous men! Before speakin to him on the subjcck I didn't no tis the skores of bright yellcr children all about the place, ranging from the infant uv six months to the boy uv sixteen, and all uv em with his nose! But, uotwithstandin these drawbacks, it's the most healthy doctrine we've got, and the only ground upon wich wc kin stand sekoor. It kivcrs the ground, and besides it don't interfere with anybody else's idea. The orators wich implore the people ef they rnent to marry niggers, kin make the appeal with more force after assertin that the nig ger is a beast, and the anshent virgins, who will this fall bear the banners onto wich will be proudly inscribed, "We want no nig gers for husbands," will bear cm still more defiantly, lor, if they reely bleevo the doc trine, they will be in earnest in it. At all events, let the Convention bo call ed that this question may be settled. Let us all stand on one platform, that wc may make the most of this god-send. Let us inscribe onto our banner the inskripshen, "Ameriky for white tnen! " "Eternal hostility to Animle Suffrage! " and go in to win. El the Amcrikin people don't sby at Nigger suffrage now, they never will. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M. (Wich is Postmaster.) SAID a very good old man; " Some folks are always complaining about the weather, but I am very thankful when I wake up in the morning to find any weather at all." We may smile at the simplicity of the old man, but still his language indicates a spirit that contributes much to a calm and peace ful lile. It is better and wiser to cultivate that spirit than to be continually complain ing of things as they are. Be thankful for such mercies as you have, and if God sees it will be for your good and Ilis glory, He will give you many more. At least, do not make yourselves and others unhappy by your ingratitude and complaints. BEDFORD. Pa,. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 , 1867 THE GREAT EXPOSITION COM PLETE. Doctor Prime, under tho Homme de phme of "Ireaaeus," has written to the New York Observer some of the best letters from Paris, descriptive of the Exposition, that have been published. Wo make the following extracts from his last letter: "At last it may be fairly and truthfully said the Exposition is complete. Every department is open and full. The sound of the hammer has ceased in the Palace of In dustry and Art. No more doth the work man in his blouse, with his ladders and brushes, his ear and his bars, jostle among the silks and the laces of the gay and tho fair who throDg the walks and niches of the grand bazaar. It is done. The world is bore to see it. The kings of the earth, with their queens: the great men of the East with their wives and their concubines: princes and princesses, generals and cap tains, and ambassadors and commissioners, and men of high and low and no degree; deputations of the laboring classes from various eouu tries; schools of young men and young women on excursions of pleasure; regiments of soldiers on a holiday, in pic turesque uniform, from the mountains of the Tyrol; students from the German uni versities, a wild rolicking set of fellows who play as hard wheD they are abroad as some of them study when they ate at home; Chi nese and Japanese, and Turks and Greeks, and Russians, in great numbers, and Fins and Poles, and Swedes and Danes, and coal black Africans and keen, sharp-set Yankees and Brazilians, and gay Italians and solemn Spaniards and Portuguese, and how many more I do not at this moment remember; but assuredly all the civilized the semi-civ ilized and some of the uncivilized peoples of of tho earth have their representatives at this moment in the capital, the metropolis of art, the most beautiful, attractive, seduc tive, dangerous, destructive, delightful city in the world. Around the central garden stands the great Exposition building itself, and over its several doors are the names of the streets that tlivide it into sections, and of the coun tries to which they lead. Standing in the garden we read the names of all the nations and select the one we wish first to explore. Now that I have taken you with me through the most of them separately, it is well enough to go through the walks, making successive voyages or travels around the world, passing constantly out of one land into another and making comparisons grand impression of the whole. Ifat any time in the slow and imperfect development of the display, we have been tempted to re gard it as a failure, now that all its propor tions are revealed and the completed idea made a fixed and tangible fact, no one can call it a failure unless he had made such ex aggerated previous conceptions that a city of pearls and gold would fail to satisfy his expectations. The outer circle is alive with the movements of useful art—the machin ery by which the work, the hard work of the world is done. The inmost circle is the re pository of the fine art—the paintings and statuary—of the several nations. Between these are many concentric circles, divided and sub-divided, iDto convenient compart ments, in which all the results of human ingenuity and labor, whatever the wants, real or imaginary, of mankind demand, are assembled. It is not too much to say that so great a collection was probably never made before. Forty thousand persons are enrolled as exhibitors! Each of these has sent something, and many of them many things, which the judges deemed of suffi cient interest to be placed in competition with the rest. All together, the number of objects exeeed one million! , Whatever, therefore, is admirable for its power to ben efit or gratify the human race, whatever tends to exalt, improve, please and bless, distinguishing tlic human from the merely animal races, is therefore here, in its most elaborately finished form. We know some what of the games and fairs that brought kings and peoples into contact and competi tion in Greece and Italy, and Asia Minor in the days of old; we know that Damascus and Babylon, Bagdad and Cairo have had I their streets and squares and bazaars tbrong j ed with millions of people to see and buy and sell; but never until railroads and steaui | ers could be used to transport the produc tions of the earth from "its most distant l>oints to a common center, has it been pos sible to gather in one enclosure such a mil lion of various fabrics as are now visible in one day, within this Park in Paris. The one chamber of diamonds exceeds descrip tion: a room full of precious stones, in eve- ; ry form of art, to adorn the women whose! highest type of beauty is to need no other jewel. Yet it is not so much the brilliancy and excellence of one or other of these de partments of art that gives the character to the Exhibition. True, you will not find in any shop or street such specimens of silks in piece and in dresses, such patterns of gold and silver ware, such porcelain in all the shapes that luxury and taste can devise or want require, such glass and crystal in every range of ornament and use, such wealth of wool and cotton wrought by hand and machinery into all the purposes of life, such instruments of mnsic peculiar to cer tain lands and others common to all, but vicing with each other in splendor of finish and perfection of tone; such manifold pro ductions of the earth, vegetable and miner al: such enginery to move the works that produced these various articles for man's use. and make man the master of the land, the air and the sea, the elements themselves being made subservient to his will, But you must take them all in at once in com bining the results and effeets of this Exhi bition, and reflect that a sample of the best of everything is here under one roof, and may be seen for twenty cents! Such an Exposition was never made before, and it is quito doubtful whether anuthcr will be attempted during tho present generation. And outside of the building, in the Park itself, is a more picturesque and exciting show than that within. There by the erec tion and decoration of buildings represent ing forms of life at home, various nations have sought to show themselves, or some type of themselves, in Paris. If they are not more correct and true to facts than the ridiculous American farm house and school house, they are simply an imposition on the public. But we will hope that these Swe dish aud Russian and Swiss dwellings are somewhat like those in the countries they represent, while this United States farm house is such a building as I never saw, and I have seen several. China has its pagoda and temple and theatre and tea room. Egypt its palace, and Turkey its mosque and Tunis its Itoyal residence. Almost every nationality has a restaurant. The American offers buckwheat cakes, with sirup. We call for them—six leathery, burnt, heavy, sour, loathsome looking plais ters are laid before us, aud some sugar dis solved in water, to imitate sirup. I called the manager, and, in terms of deep concern, addressed him: "Sir, do you expect Amer ican, Christian gentlemen to eat those vile things, and think them buckwheat cakes? For the honor of your country, I beseech you as a patriot, to give them some other name, or suspend the business." lie made many apologies, and promised to make bet ter cakes. I have no confidence that he will succeed. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. James Russell lAIWCII is an example of a man of the finest abilities putting his talents under a bushel. If he had worked as in dustriously as Longfellow he would have made a great mark on the times; this he cannot be said to have done. He is one of tbose men however, who care very little for for literary renown. As be is -moderately wealthy, the chief incentives to activity in literature are wanting to him. Mr. Lowell is a man of medium height and rather stout figure—would weigh pro bably a hundred and sixty pounds. He has dark, curling, auburn hair, which parts naturally in the middle, like a woman's, a a heavy red beard, a florid face, and blue eyes. He usually wears a "bob" eoat, very short, of some fancy cassimere, trowscrs of the same, and a colored neck tie, carries a "° u ' I ~r headed cane, and altoeetwor presents quite a "swellish" appearance. Lowell, while he is by no means a meth odical man, is strongly wedded to habit. He never writes but in a certain room, to wit, the room at the back of the house, on the first floor, in the rear of the reception room. The table in this room is generally covered with a disorderly ariayof pamphlets and papers. There are some fine engravings on the walls, and the room contains perhaps five hundred books. Lowell s library is mostly made up of old and rare volumes in herited in ■ some eases in others collected at great expense. Every one knows the house in which Low el! lives is at Cambridge, Mass, near Mount Auburn. The avenue (Ehuwood) on which it stands is owned on both sides by Lowell. At its bead, on Mount Auburn avenue, is the house where the late Forsythe Wilson lived —now the property of the Episcopal College. Edmund Kirke's house is next door to this,aud facing Lowell's. Longfellow's place is about a quarter of a mile away. Lowell's house is upwards of a century old. It was used as a hospital by the American army at the siege of Boston. The three houses. Lowell's, Kirke's and Wil ! son's, are on that battle field. From time to time pieces of old cannon and balls are turned up by the plow. The spot is on the edge of the town, and virtually in the coun try. Lowell's ground- embrace thirty or forty acres, and the next place to Kirk's is a farm of fifty acres. Lowell may be seen every pleasant afternoon, from three to four o'clock, walking iu a grove of old pine tiees at the rear of his umbrageous ground. His place is mostly "in grass." as the farmers say—that is, he cultivates little else than hay. The house is a square old fashioned three story frame, with a flat roof, aud pain ted yellow, Y'ou enter by a broad hall with a low celling, from which ascends a wide stairway with short steps. The parlor is on the right hand side as yon go in; on the other side is the reception room, nnd back of that the poet's study. If a gentleman friend. Lowell will greet you with there mark of "I can give you a pipe or a cigar, which do you prefer. For himself, Lowell generally prefers a pipe. He is a great smo ker, and his meerschaum "colors beauti fully." This place wbieh is probably worth $50,- 000, was Lowell's birth place, and where he has all his life resided though he has trav eled considerable iu foreign lands. lie graduated from Harvard College at the age of nineteen, and then studied law, and was admitted to the bar the following year. He lias never practised bis profession much, however, preferring the flowery walks of literature—flowery to such as ho, whose daily bread does not depend upon his daily toil. 110 has never realized much from his books, which have not had large sales. From his Professorship of Belles Letters and Modern Languages in Harvard he receives f 3,000 a year. In view of the extent of his reputation, it is quite a surprise to find how little he has really written. "Why don t you write more?" a friend asked him on one occasion. "lafii too lazy," said Lowell, "I don't care much for fame —I wish I cared more." Lowell started a magazine some twentyfive years ago in Boston, called The Pioneer, which embraced among its contributors such VOLUME 40: SO. 31 men as Hawthorne, Doe, Neil etc.; but it went dead" with the third number. It was too good for the market. Putmau's Monthly, while alive, bad fre-1 c to conduct himself very much as though he had not these obstacles to over come. j. He should remember that young men. if they live, gTow old, and that the habits of youth are oftener than otherwise perpetua ted in the mature man. Knowing this fact, he should "govern himself accordingly.' 6. Lie should never be discouraged by small beginnings, but remember that nearly all great results have been wrought out from apparently slight causes. 7. He should never, under any circum stances, be idle. If he cannot find the em ployment be prefers, let him come as near his desires as possible—he will thus reach the object of his ambition. 8. Ali young men have ' inalienable rights," among which none is greater or more sacred than the privilege tube "some body. '' How TRUE! —Beechcr has said; "I al ways honor a man who ennobles his calling, whatever it may be. Franklin made it no bler and easier for men to be printers in all time to come because he remained a printer. " RATES OF ADVERTISING All advertisements fur lon than 3 months 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notices onehalt additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or individual intercts and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five lines, 10 cte. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required bylaw to be pab. lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 15 cents per line. Ail Advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 month*, 8 months. 1 year One square $ 4.JD $ 8.00 $lO.OO Two squares 8.00 9.06 16.00 Three equres 8.60 12.90 26.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Ilalf column 18.00 26.00 45.60 One column 80.00 45.00 80.00 OLD KNAPSACKS. The following beautilul extract is from a letter of "a woman in Washington," to the New York Independent: "I saw a pile of knapsacks the other evening at the cottage on Fourth street; knapsacks and haversacks left behind for safe keeping by the boys who went to the front and never came back. The eloquence of these worm eaten and moulded bags can not be written. Here was a piece of stony bread uneaten, the little paper of coffee, the smoked tin cup in which it had been boiled so often over the hasty fire on the eve ol bat tle. There was the letter, sealed, directed and never sent; for the soldier could not al ways get a stamp. Here a letter, half writ ten, commencing, "Dear Wife:—How I want to see you," "Dear mother:—My time is nearly out.', The rusty pen, just as it was lain down on the half filled sheet by the gallant and loving hand which hoped so soon to finish it. Here tinted with red white and blue were photographs of the favorite Generals, and photographs of the dear ones at home. Here were letters of heart breaking love, and loyalty to duty, and holy faith and cheer, written at home; and here was the Testament given him by the woman he loved best, soiled and worn. For the American soldier, if he rarely reads it, still would carry his Testament as a dear talisman to save him from harm. Here were these mementoes of the brave, living, life gone out. They never came back! The mourners at home do not all know where they fell, or whether they were buried. To one unfamiliar with the soldier's life, these relics might mean little. To mc they mean all love, all suffering, all heroism. I look on them and again seem to see the long lines of matching men file past, dust covered and warm, on their way to battle. I see the roads of Virginia, shimmering in the white heat, lined with exhausted men lying down to sleep and to die, after the last deleat; hear the cry of the wounded, the moan of the dying, see the half filled grave, the unburied dead. All the awful realities of war comes back. So, too, do knightly days and dauntless men- Peace walks amid the May time flowers, and already our sol diers seem almost forgotton. Days of war and deeds of valor seem like dreams gone by." )iM> DEAD LETTER OFFICE. A correspondent of a Boston paper says: — 1 The dead letter office is one of the curi osities of Washington to the stranger; but to those engaged in it, it is a terrible drudg ery. The opening, examining and sorting of fourteen thousand and five hundred let ters every six hours, is a hard task; but it must he done for there arc four and a half million of dead letters come to the office every year. All that are signed are return ed to the writers; but so many are written by "Your affectionate Annie," or "Your loving Susy," that each clerk has a two bushel basket beside him into which all let ters, unsigned by the lull name are dropped. From that receptacle they pass to the chop ping mill, where they are cut into small pieces, so that they may never be read and from thechoping knife they go to the paper mill. The great majority of these letters are lost through the carelessness of the writers; and it surprises my power of imagination to know how people can be so careless, espe cially when they send large sums of money. Nearly fifty eight thousand letters came to this office last year, enclosing bills of cheek, or bonds. And how much do you suppose these letters contained? Over three million and a half of dollars! One letter contained two one thousand dollar bills; it was return ed to the writer. Another had two hundred and fifty dollars in it, but nothing to show the name of the writer. Fortunately the postmark though partly obliterated, could still be read. The letter came from Chicago was remailed there and advertised, and the owner came forward, sayiug that when he sent the money he was in so much of a hurry he forgot to add his name! The most valuable letter or rather package that turn ed up "dead" contained bonds worth over $20,000. "All sorts of curious articles come here. I was standing by the other day when the first letter contained twentyfive dollars; soon after two packages of medicine came along. Sometimes duns, daguerreotypes, postage stamps, bead bags, even snakes, bottles, <£ c., came through this general repository. It is an omnium gatherum of small things." RELIGION —is a generous and noble thing in regard to its progress: it is perpetually carrying on that mind, in which it is once seated, towards perfection. Though the first appearance of it upon the souls of good uien may be but as the wings of the morn ing, spreading themselves upon the moun tains, yet is still rising higher and higher upon them, chasing away all the filthy mists and vapors of sin and wickedness before it, till it arrives to its meridian altitude. There is the strength and force of the Di vinity in it; and though, when it first enters into the minds of men, it may seem to be "sown in weakness," yet it will raise itself "in power." As CHRIST was in His bodily appearance, He was still increasing in wis dom and stature, and favor with GOD and man, until He was perfected inglory; so is He also in His spiritual appearance in the souls of men; and accordingly the New Testament does more than once distinguish, of CHRIST, in His several ages and degrees of growth in the souls of all true christians. SIXCEBITT is to speak as we think, believe as we pretend, act as we profess, perform as we promise, and really be what we would seem and appear to be. WE may safely affirm the great mass of human misery to have been caused by ignor mice of the means of happiness.