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DU R BORROW A lAJTZ, BEDFORD, PA.
& gttjsiutjSjs (Sards,
ATTORSFEYS AT LAW.
I OIIN I. KEAQY,
L ATTORNEY-AX-LAW.
'Srli- Office opposite Reed A Schell's Bank.
Counsel given in English and German. [apl2S]
KIMMELL AND LINGENFELTEK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 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
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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 <k LUTZ Editors and Proprietors.
fMirg.
THE UNSEEN SHORE.
The mists of death hang low upon life's sea;
The unseen shore
Beyond the darkness rises silently
For evermore;
The golden city flashes from the strand
But mortal eye sees not the distant land.
Unnumbered prows are turned toward that
far shore;
But never yet
Returning voyager with struggling oar,
Or canvass set,
Hath brought us tidings from the land afar,
Whose gorgeous light is not ol sun or star.
But there are voices in that unseen land.
Which we have heard,
Of loved ones standing with us hand in hand
With smile and word
That kindled here our hearts with friendship's
glow,
And breathed on us their music sweet and
low.
And there are footsteps on the golden street,
That long ago
Made sacred rhythm, gliding soft aud sweet
Or sad and slow,
Along the paths we trod by hearth and home,
But strangely ceased, and left us lone to roam.
And there are souls that thrill with love etern,
Who look on Him
For whom the stars in endless lustre burn;
Where seraphim
Delighted bask around the throne of light,
In ceaseless wonder at the infinite.
\\ e anew them here, and with them wept
and smiled;
Our life was one;
We met and parted, still of each beguiled;
Their work is done;
And they are resting in the morning land,
And we are toiling yet with heart and hand.
We group them oft in visions of the soul,
A joyous band:
As on the peaceful hills of light they stroll
In that fair land;
Or wonder on the shore with loving gaze.
To watch the comers from the dark sea haze.
Speed on, my bark, life's stormy sea across,
The mists will rise;
And every pain and tear and earthly loss
In strange surprise
Shall vanish, when the unseen shore shall
greet
Thine eye, and thou shalt touch the goiden
street.
NASBY,
Jlr. STaHby Insist* tlmt tho Deraocrae}
hold a .National Convention at once to
Define the Position of the Party upon
an Important Question.
POST OFFIS, CONFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which ia in the State of Kentucky,) >
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
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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
<iue!it contributions from liowcll. He now
coo lines himself to the pages of the Atlantic
uud the North American Review. Ostensi
bly ho is an editor of the Review, but really
lie is not; he writes articles for it, but not
editorials. He is one of the slowest of our
literary workers. It usually takes him
three months to get an article off the stocks.
He is wonderfully set in his opinions on
almost every topic, and if the rest of the
world chooses to disagree with him tbc rest
of the world is wrong. Not that he is illib
eral; bis mind i large and comprehensive,
but his inherited prejudices arc very strong.
He thinks, among other things, that Abra
ham Lincoln was the great man of the pres
ent century. He has been known to say of
eome of Lincoln's writings—his messages, to
wit—for terse and powerful logic never,
never were surpassed.
Lowell takes life very easily, and has the
most exuberant health. He is now about
forty six years old, but looks youDger. He
is not over fond of the good things of the
table, but always has a good appetite and
and a good digestion. He has been twice
married; his first wife was a lady of rare ac
complishments and great beauty, who died
some twelve years ago. The second wife is
still living. Mr. Lowell has a daughter six
teen or seventeen years of age.
Of his humorous writings Lowell always
speaks lightly. He took up the Bigelow
papers as a trenchant weapon of satire for
political purposes, without any idea that it
would he, in the minds of the people, the
thing that would fasten in their minds the
name of James Russell Lowell. He says
the reason he has decided to write no more
Bigelow is simply because he is tired ofhim.
GOOD BUSINESS JIEN.
To me, one of the most admirable things
in the world is business punctilio. I think
it is rare to find very bad men among thor
ough business men. Tdo not say that a
good business man is necessarily religious,
or even necessarily without vices, I mean
that it is simply difficult to be strictly honest
in business, and sensitive in all matters per
taining to business engagements and thor
oughly punctual in the fulfillment of all
business obligations, and at the same time
to be loose in morals and dissipated in per
sonal habits. I have great respect for those
rigid laws of the counting room which regu
laie ilic QeaKngn Lotwoon man and mau,
and which make the counting room as exact
in all matters of time and exchange as a
banking house-—wliieh ignore friendship,
affection, and all persona! considerations
whatsoever—which place neighbors and
brothers on the same platform with enemies
and aliens, and which make an autocrat of
an accountant, who is, at the same time,
strictly an obedient subject of his own laws.
I say it is hard for a man to enter as a
perfectly harmonious element into this grand
system ofbnsiness, and submit himself to its
rigid rules, and to maintain his position
with perfect integrity, and, at the same time
be a very bad man. To a certain extent, he
hows to and obeys a high standard of life.
He may not always recognize fully the moral
clement which it embodies. He may take a
selfish view of the whole matter, but he can
not be entirely insensible to the principle of
personal honor which it involves, or fail to
be influenced by the personal habits which
it enforces.
Some of the beet business men I hare
ever known have been the most charitable
men F have ever known. Men who have
acquired wealth by rigid adherence to busi
ness integrity, who have sometimes been
deemed harsh, and hard by those with whom
they have had business relations, have
shown a liberality and generosity towards
objects of charity which have placed them
among the world's benefactors. Men who
have exacted the last fraction of a cent with
one hand, in the way of business, have dis
bursed thousands of dollars with the other
in the way of charity.— Dr. Holland.
WHAT EVEKV VOL.NO MAN SHOULD DO.
—l. Every young man should make the
most of himself, intellectually, morally, so
cially and physically.
He should depend upou his own efforts
to accomplish these results.
3. He should be willing to take advice
from those competent to give it, and to fol
low such advice, until his own judgment or
convictions, properly founded, should other,
wise direct.
4. If he is unfortunate enough to have a
rich and indulgent father, he must do the
best he can under the circumstances, which
will l>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. "
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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.