SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, ,v-o. Theism i use i* published ci cry FBUMV uiwn. in,- at the following rale* : Ons VBAB, (in advance,) $3.00 " (il not paid within six 1D05.)... $2..>0 " (if not paid within the year,)... SB.OO All papers outside of the rouuty discontinued without notice, at the rtp'ration f the time for which the subscription has been paid. Single oupics of the paper fuiui bed, in wrappers, at fire cents each. t'ouiuiunicatiuus on subjects of local or general interest arc respectfully solicited. To ensure at ton 'on, favors of thij kind must invariably bo accompanied by the nauic of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All Utters pertaining to business of the office •houblbc addressed to DURBORROW A LUTZ, UEDFOKIV PA. attokxkys AT MW. TOHN T. KEAGY, ,| ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. >... Office opposite Reed A Sebelt'.- Bank, el given in English and German. [apl2j KIMMKI.B AND LlN'; I: Nl' KLTK K, ATTORNEYS AT I.AW, BKOKoHn, PA. IIITC formed a partnership in the practice oi r Liitv Officb on Juliliia Street, two doors South ~f the Mcngcl llou.->. [April 1, ISftl-tf M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BUD roan, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public- Office with J. W. Lingcnfcltcr, ;; |., on Juliana street j -if Collection a promptly male. [Dce.lt, ti l-tf. I 1 AYES IRVINE, | J ATTORNEY AT LAW, \V I faUhfulty and promptly attend to all busi iotru.-red to his care. Officewitht!. 11. spang, i , on Juliana street, three doors south of the Mc ny-I House. :ly I ispY M. AUS IP, Ei ATTORNEY AT LAW, BKDFor.It, I A., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi nc - entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ... - counties. Military claims Pensions, hack p,,unty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Minn A Spang, on Juliana stree-. 2 doors south . f ihe Mcngel llouse. rtpl ~ 1884. tf. I V MEYERS J- w - BfCKfctSOa MLYKLLS A DICKKRSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, I'BSN'A., Office nearly OPPOSITE the Mongol HOUHC, will ..HM-tice TN the several Courts of Bedford county. PCNSIUOF, bounties and back PAY obtained and the purchaseofße*l Estate attended to. [mayH,'6B-iy i B. CESSNA, ,J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, nfliee with Jons Cassia, on the square near the Presbyterian Church. All business entrusted to his care will receive laitbf u l and prompt attention. Military Claims. Pensions,, i ..lily collected. ,Junc.,l '5. TJ B. STUCKEY, iU'OKNKY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and REAL ESTATE AGENT, Office u Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth. Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. WiM pt-ic*iee in the adjoining Countiesol Mis MOD Kansas. July I2:tf s. 1.. in J- H. LOXOKNK. K EH I ! s-ELL A LONG EN ECK ER, I V IVNOBXEVS A Corsspi.toits VT LAW, Bedford, Pa., W ill attend promptly and faithfully to all bu.-i --eutrusted to their care. Special attention given to collection - and the prosecution of claims Or Back Pay, Boun y, Pensions, Ac. Office on Juliana street, south ot the Court ID-use. Aprils:lyr. i' sf'D. SH \RFE R ' V. KKIIH Ct UARI'E A KERR, A TTOHSE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts "f liedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their ■ ,re will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Oovornmont. . , , • office on Juliana street, opposite the hanking house „f Recti A Scliell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf I. A. JNU.T HITR. 1 \UIIHUKROW A 1.1 TZ, I) ATTORN EYS ar LAW , BKBFORD, I'A., W ill attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections taadeon the shortest no- Thcv arc, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution iaims against the Government lor Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Land-, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the •McngelHouse" and nearly opposite the Inquirer „ April 2S. 18fii:t. I'HISKIiNS. \l'M W. JAMISON, M.D., W Bloody HON, Pa., K -pectfully tenders bis professional service- to the people of that place anil vicinity. [ilccSilyr I xit. 15. K. II AIIRY, I / Respectfully tenders his professional ser vice- to the citiiens of Bedford and vicinity. Office anil resilience on Pitt Street, in the buililinz I..rmerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. " \; I 1 I -1 1,. MARBOUKU, M. l>., ej. Having permanently located rc.-pectfully tenders his pofessional services to the citizens of Beiltord and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street, oiinosite the Bank, one door north of llall A Pal mer's office. April I, ISfit-tr. I vR. S. G. STATLER, near ?i hcllshurg. and I ' Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland untv, hiving associated themselves in the prac tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes -ional-crv ices to the citizens of Schellsburg and i trinity." Dr. Clarke's office and residence same ;ts formerly occupied by J. White, Esq., dee d. S. G. STATI.KR, Schellsburg, Aprill2:ly. J.J.CLARKE. HOTELS. ( HIAUYRKATK HOUSE. NOTlCE.—Persons visiting the Watering Pla ces. will find a very dc-irable resort at the t'HA IA BKATK HOUSE, near the Chalybeate Spring, Bedford, Pa., where the undersigned is prepared to accommodate from eighty to one hundred per sons. The house is new and airy, ant' neatly fur nished. Terms moderate. Hacks running to Mineral Springs, and Miner al Water alwavs on hand. May 31.3 m WM. CM KNO WET 11. ftfASHUfGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having been re-taken by the subscriber, is now open tor the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms are large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. The table will always be supplied with the best the iiarket can afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors. In short, it i- my purpose p keep a FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public Tor past favors, I respectfully solicit a rent wal of their |atrnagc. N. 11. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs, may 17/67.1 y WM. DIBEItT, Prop'r. MISCELLANEOUS. I >UI'P A SHANNON, BANKERS, I i. Bldpord, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and South, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Ilcmittances promptly made. REAL I*lßl ATE bought and sold. fcb22 I \ VNIRI, BORDER, IJ Pitt strekt, two doors wk-t op the bed roRD HOTEL, BeBPORD, Pa. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. lie keeps on hand a stock of fine GoliL and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glas-es. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens, lie will supply to order any thing in his lino not on hand. [apr.2B,'HS. OYES! G YES!—'t he undersigned has taken out auction license, and lenders his services lo all who have sales or auctions to cry. liive him a call. Post Office address, Spring Meadows, Bedford county, l'euu'a. ApriJMiu" HENRY B. MOCK. fficMoYd 3liunuver. IHlt BORROW A LUTZ Editors and Proprietors, iVilnj. lIPERFEUT. Broken sunlight ! shadows in its train! Golden bow that Cometh with the rain! Beams of brightness, parted into tlukes ! 'i\ here the cloud upon the beauty breaks! Broken songs we never may complete ! Tender strains no voice can e'er repeat! Tuneful harmonies our lip 3 begin, Silenced where a sudden "hush" breaks iu ! Broken hopes, built up so fair, so high, Suddenly, in ruins, round us lie! Dreams of beauty ever unfulfilled! Longings never met, yet never stilled ! Broken love! oh, sweetness incomplete! Sou!., that touch, but never wholly meet! Precious treasure scattered round about, — Hungry hearts that never find it out! Broken paths, where hands may clasp no more; Footsteps lost upon the rivtr's shore ! Half-told stories, with an end so sweel, Said nor heard.—forever incomplete ! Broken smiles, on which the tear drops tall! Laughter, with au anguish through it all! Faces lighted up, all glad and bright, Just to meet the bitterness and blight! Brokeu prayers ! oh, Father, dost thou hear? Stammering words that utter nothing clear! Lips that breathe out "God" with stammer ing sound, While the thoughts of earth break in around! Broken life! poor, vain, imperfect thing! Echoes from the infinite that ring! Fragments washed up by tlie waves that roll From the great Beyond,—the perfect whole! Weary heart, be patient and be strong ! "Ha "a little while," —not long! uotlong! We shall drop these broken toys to take Treasures that can never, never break ! MY JEWELS. A ringlet tiny, bright and fair, A aim pie spray of golden hair; A half-worn shoe with the form imprest Of the little "oot that is now pt rest; A tiny mitten of white and red With here and there a broken thread: A broken toy, a withered flower. That pa-sed like her in a single hour; The darkened room and silent hall, The hush unbroken by baby's call; The mound beneath the yew tree shade, Low and narrow and newly made; Such are the jewels left to me Of a little life that was swift to flee. . ptettllimcw. KEPI DIATORS—WHO ARE THEY. The Now York Tim- < sees fit to rebuke the Republicans of the second and third State- of our Union as fellows: "We think the Republicans in Pennsyl vania. Ohio, and other States where polit ical campaigns are in progress, are making a mistake in attempting to fa.-ten upon their opponents the purposes of repudiating. In the first place, it does not, thus far, seem to be precisely true; in the second place, it is strongly denied by the opposition them selves; in the third place, it. is a bad thing to circulate the impression throughout this country and Europe that a party so strong numerically as the Democrats in Penn sylvania, Ohio, and other States, are in fa vor of repudiation. If thev arc constantly charged with it they will very likely come to believe, in course of time, that the charge must really be true, and they will uncon eiou-ly assume the very ground upon which they have been pushed by their opponents. It should he political death and dishonor for any man or party to suggest repudiation, anil there should he no attempt to familiar ize the public mind with so disgraceful an idea. ' —We fully admit that any charge which is untrue should not be made, aud, if made, should lie retracted; hut what are the facts in the ease? Will the Times reproduce the relevant language of Mr. Vallatidigham, re cently cited in our columns, and maintain that what he propones is not repudiation? And was not that language employed at a Democratic meeting expressly to win votes for the Democratic ticket? Are not the Republicans who hear such harrangues as competent to interpret thcin as an editor who fails even to quote theiu ? Will it be urged that Mr. Yallandigharo is an extremist? Then let us consider the more cautious and moderate inculcations oi the Hon. George 11. Pendleton, last Demo cratic candidate for Vice-President, and widely known as an amiable and scholarly gentleman, of ?*xeellcnt birth and breeding, and the inheritor of a liberal fortune. See his remarks on this subject, as published in full on Monday, but especially this portion of them: "The five twenty bond- are all payable, at the option of the Government, alter five years. Their very nam shows it. They arc payable, by the law under which they were issued , ami according to their face, in greenbacks. They arc not payable in gold. The intcre-t is, according to the provision of the law and the language of the coupon, to he paid in gold. Not so with the priei pal. The ten forty bonds authorized by the act <>f the March 3, 1803, arc, by the terms of the law, made payable in gold. This is the only elas*s of bonds of that character; and as I read the last official statement of Secretary MeCulloch, very few, if any of them, have been issued. The Government may then, according to the terms of the law . and of its contracts, pay the five twenties in | greenbacks at any time after five years from ' their issue, and there i- no repudiation in j doing so. Of this class there were outstand i iug on the Ist of August sl,e gradual, the increase of the currency -o j slow that values will adju-t themselves and | busines interest become regulated without j that shock which usually attends great ' changes of financial policy. Rut, if it were A LOCAL AND GKNKR.YL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS not so, still the bonds should be converted into greenbacks. They were sold for green backs; it is fitting they should be redeemed in the same currency. This policy would save the interest, pay the debt, and bring upon the duplicate for taxation that im mense amount of capital which is now ex empt. And these advantages would amply compensate for the evils which are predict ed. The debt amounts to one fifth of the property, real and personal, of the whole country. One-fifth of all the capitalof the country is exempt from taxation. Interest eats up the substance of the people. Ex emption frotu taxation aggravates the evil. This state of things cannot last. It op presses labor; it excites deep discontent. It ought to be relieved by a fair and voluntary adju tment. It will be relieved at all events. The bondholder should be prompt and wise. The people already believe this curse is the blight of death; and we know by experience what they will do to 'save the life of the nation.' " _ —We do not care to dwell on the gross misstatements of facts here made—as, for instance: — 1. That the Five-twenties arc payable not in gold, but in greenbacks. 2. That the national debt "amounts to one-fifth of the property, real and personal, of the whole country." The property of our people is worth more tliau thirty thousand millions of dollars, though it was officially returned in I SOU at sixteen thousand millions. The debt is not eight per cent, of the value of that prop ortv. Mr. Pendleton proposes an issue of two thousand millions of additional greenbacks— for our interest-bearing debt exceeds that sum. What would they be worth if our currency were thus swelled by two billions of fresh paper, redeemable in nothing and ncv i er? What would these greenbacks buy? ! What would all the mortgages and all the outstanding debts in the country be worth after such an issue? The public debt would, of course, be sponged out, and its holders beggared; but what other class of creditors would fare better? What Mr. Pendleton proposes is, in our view, "precisely" repudiation—"only that, and nothing more" —repudiat ion of the na tional debt first, and of all debts as insep arable therefrom. Can we be mistaken in this? Our read ers have the whole case before them, and can form just conclusions. Jlow is it with those of the Times .' If the Republicans of Pennsylvania aud Ohio are to be arraigned as false accusers, should not the facts where upon their judgment is based be given to the jury? Tit ere are few Democrats of higher per sonal character, or of more signal personal probity, than George 11. Pendleton. When lie talks like a villain, you may be sure that his heart is full of bitterness, and bis un derstanding clouded by partisan venom. And that is "precisely" the I'act. Mr. Pendleton sympathized with the Rebellion throughout, and he hates those who lent their money to put it down. Ila deems repudiation the best card of pro-slavery Democracy. Woe to the public creditors wlion t-ueb us ley shall liava become their paymasters!— Nine 1 "uric Tribune. GOSSII' ABOUT WRITERS. A Brace oi' Tribune Men. JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG has been more written about, says the New York Evening Gazctti , since his adventures in New l'ork than any young journalist of our acquain tancc; his years and responsible position oit the Tribune furnishing themes for para graph- without number. lie was educated in a high school, returned to Pennsylvania in 1855, and learned to set type, though not in any printing office in Philadelphia. Af ter devoting a year to printing he studied law, and was in time admitted to the bar, but never practised, some natural defects which he did not care to overcome after the manner of Demosthenes, an exceedingly shrinking and sensitive disposition, and a strong bias iu favor of writing, carrying him in 1850, into journalism. He began his career as proof reader on the Philadelphia I'restj at $1 a week (men of family often grow rich and wretched in that city, at the present day, at sls a week while is considered a princely compensa tion on the banks of the Schuylkill,) and in ] s.VJ became a reporter. When the war broke out he entered the field as a military correspondent: witnessed the first battle of Manassas, and remained with the Army of the Potomac until the spring of 'o'-'. lie then went back to Philadelphia, and was made chief editor of the Prcs*, intermedi ately and spasmodically editing the Wash ington Chronicle, lie worked very hard for nearly three years, and wrote many articles that were exceedingly clever, and would have given him a reputation anywhere but in Philadelphia. During 1805 he had a difficulty with Forney respecting the dismis sal of one of the employes of the office, when Young took a decided and manly stand, and sooner than he guilty of any iujustice, very chivalrously resigned his position; the entire staff of the paper going with him. Ho then thought of going West, hut meeting Sydney Howard Gay, then mana ging editor of the Tribune, he made an en gagement to write some editorials for that paper. They were noticeably good, and a departure from the dryness and heaviness that too often characterize the fourth page of that able journal. They attracted the attention and elicited the commendation of Horace G reeley, whose chief manias do not include piaise of his associates, and Young was regularly employed as an editorial writer. When Mr. (lay resigned YoUDg was offer ed the managing editorship, and accepted , it. He i.- very ambitious and a brilliant writer, and has during his twelve months of management contributed largely to the in terest and varie y of the Tribune. The articles that were deemed his best were a review of James Ruehanan's book and Greeley's American Conflict , over both of which Horace Greeley grew tumultuously laudatory. The 7 ribum gave Young the priviledge of expending $50,000 extra the first year of his managemenet, and the paper certainly ■ improved. Young is not yet twenty-seven, ! quite boyish looking, with his smooth face 1 and diffident air, red haired, blue eyed, ' slight and above the medium size; very cour- I teousand conciliatory in manner —too good ' natured perhaps for his position, but a clear headed, conscientious and capable journalist, and a writer who has few equals in grace j and power and brilliancy in the United ; State-. 1 Kank O DO.nnf.l. —Duncan Kane O Don ncl has many of tlie mental qualities that bc ' long to the eloquent and ecceutrie race from which he sprang. He is a graduate of ; tfirard College. Soon after concluding his student life he attached himsclfto the Daily Press in the | capacity of reporter, and afterwards beeatue a general writer for that journal, paying par tieular attention to literary and art matters. Twer years ago, being desirous of reputation, I he quitted Philadelphia, and came to New BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 30. 1867 York to reside. Here ho went on the Tri 1/ttne, first as reporter, then as editorial wri ter and assistant managing editor, and was at last made musical ciitio in the place of 11. C. Watson. Asa critic, Mr. O'Donnel is very kind, preferring charitable silence to any display of bitterness. lie is well acquainted with the history and spirit of music, and more inclined to analyzing the suggestions and style of the great composers than to inform his readers how the different parts aro ren dered. He is very well read, a hard stu dent, a warm hearted, generous gentleman, rather given to abstracted moods and dreamy reveries—the result of his poetic temperament no doubt —who eotnpreliends the dignity and importance of journalism, and would be the last ican in the word to abuse the nower it gives him. He is quite young, not more than MVO and WRONTJ., perhaps not so much; small in stature, pale and nervous looking, an expression of amia bility struggling with a seeming sense of spiritual responsibility, and an appearance of overwork. A UNIFORM SYSTEM OK COINAGE AND THE PKOI'EU RATIO OF VALUES. The idea of a universal language has been for centuries a dream, or rather a prophetic inspiration of some of the foremost think ers of the race; tor there is nothing impos sible in the idea nor implorable in its fulfill ment. Hut human progress is by steps— gradations—one thing at a time —and before we can welcome the beginning of an ap proach to a common language expressive of ideas which compass all the subjects upon which the human mind exerts itself, we must be content if we can see an agreement in a common method of interpretation on one single subject, that of money. If the love of money is the root of all evil, its proper use is the life of all progress, and whatever may facilitate that use is worthy of attention. A system of international currency has been proposed, and a convention agreed upon by the leading nations of continental Europe has recommended such a change in the value of the different national coins all shall make them, their divisions, and multi plier, interchangeable without loss. It is not proposed to change the name or charac ter of the present coins in use by the people of different nations, but only to equalize their values, The proposition of the con vention is to adopt the French Napoleon as the unit of standard for gold, probably from the fact that it already circulates without difficulty all over the continent and is large ly current in Asia and Africa. The stand ard of fineness established by the I nited Slates government- is common also to at least eight gold coins in foreign countries. The difference in value at present is very trifling between five American dollars, one English sovereign, twenty-five French francs, live German rixthalers, one hundred Spanish reals, five Brazilian milreis, and five dollars of the Central and South American States; so the difficulty of equalizing coins of the different nations is reduced to very small limits. The English sovereign, if reduced iu value only lour eeuu. "ou!d be of the same worth as twenty-five franca, and the American dollar would have to be reduced a little over three cents to conform to the five francs of Fran-e. The equalization of values thus assured, the numerical relation of the different coins one to another would seem to present no great difficulty. Notwithstanding the ap parant advantages of some other systems, it would seem that none possess so many good points with so few objectionable features as the decimal. Lord Overstone advocates twelve as a standard of division and multi plication, and Mr. Nystrom sixteen on ac count of its susceptibility of binary division; but it is evident that in either case other representative chracters must be added to our present system of notation, which would for a long time prevent the adoption of such a system. Moreover, the manifest ad vantages of the French decimal system of weights and measures and its very general and increasing use, as well as the partial in troduction of the decimal system of coinage in other countries beside the United States, would seem to designate this as the proper bias for divisions and multiplies of value. We presume it cannot be successfully dispu ted that our system of money is superior in convenience to that of anj other nation. It follows the system of notation in use throughout the world, and gives less troub le to the foreigners than that of any other country. If a common system of coinage ho generally adopted for fiicilating monetary exchanges wo sincerely hope that the deci mal basts will also he employed to determine the relations of the coins.— Scientific Amer ican. BADEN-BADEN. An invalid Englishman, travelling, twenty years ago, as he expressed it, to find "a pleasant retreat in which to die," spoke of this famous watering-place as follows; It was with a rare audacity that the devil pitched his tent in Baden! Perhaps, on the whole Continent, another spot could not be found so fully combining, in a small cir cuit, as many charms of picturesque scene ry; and it was a bold conception to set down Vice, in all its variotifts, in the very midst of —in open contrast, as it were, —to a scene of peaceful loveliness and beauty. One-half this criticism- that which re fers to the organized and protected local wickedness —is beyond denial; but I have not been captivated by the supernal natural features of Baden-Baden. It is a charming combination of fine mountain scenery, and the town itself is interesting in its oentury old houses, its modernized streets and build ings, and its quaint rural avenues, in which curious wares in wood and crystal are sold to strangers; hut there arc some grander and lovlier places in the United States, and ma. Ny certainly in Switzerland. The chief featuro of Baden-Baden is its legalized gambling temple. This palatial edifice is called, by a strange misnomer, "the Con versation House.'' As the chief element and condition of all serious gaming is si lence, the visitor is puzzled to know who suggested the inappropriate appellation. The Conversation House is a model of ar chitecture, sculpture, and painting. The great assembly room, where the chief rou lette table is to be found from eleven in the morning until twelve at night (Sundays not excepted), is nearly the size of Musical Puna Hall, in Philadalphia, and its polish ed waxed floor, gorgeous drapery, elegant pier-glasses, and luxurious sofas are in the best styles of European art. Here the halls ami parties of the elite are also given; upon which ooeasiuus the roulette table is remov ed to the adjoining rooms, equally splendid and ornate. In these arc always to be found, between the hours named, roulette tables and the great game of cards called in French. 'Trade et Quarante," and in English "Thirty-and-Forty "—an invention something like the American faro. The other large saloons are called the French and Italian rooms. These are connected with still others equally gorgeous. The whole is set off by the most costly paintings, statutes, fountains, orange, lemon, and flower trees, arranged in exquisite order. '1 he splendid portico is adorned by eight Corinthian pillars. On the south side is a restaurant capable of accommodating two hundred persons at a time. On the North is a reading-room and bookstore for French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish visi tors; and every evening an orchestra com posed of experienced musicians, paid by the gamblers, discourses delicious music from a pagoda directly in front of the Con versation House, which attracts thousands, who occupy scats in the grounds and over flow into the brilliant saloons, where the gamblers ply their never-ceasing and never losing trade. Without this guilty attrac tion, Baden-Baden would be a resort by no brilliant ah Saratoga. Newport, Long Branch, Bedford, or Oape May, in the United States. Indeed, there is hardly one of these places that does not surpass it fn natural advantages, and, apart from the objects of vertu accumulated i'or centuries, in artificial accommodations. At Baden, as elsewhere in Europe, the. people are never seen, save in the surrounding villages and farm-houses, where you find them in all the contrast of poverty, toil, and, too frequent ly, filth and rags. I was reminded of this truth yesterday afternoon in a short ride in the suburbs of Baden; and I gladly recalled how different a sight would meet the stran ger's eye as he roves through the splendid country near Newport Rhode Island, or the giorious region around Saratoga, New York, or the happy environs of such lovely coun try resorts as Bedford, Media, Ephrata Bethlehem, West Chester, Chambcrsburg, Cresson, in inv own State, where all are 38 comfortable as they arc free, where every farm-house is a little paradise of itself, and nearly every man the owner of his own house. — Forney's Letter. PLAIN FACTS FOR TAXPAYERS It should be homo in inind by every tax payer of the nation that the enormous bur den of debt under which the country is staggering, was fixed upon it by a rebellion inaugurated, fostered and strengthened by the Democratic party. It should be borne in mind that this debt was enormously increased by the aid and comfort given to the rebellion while in pro gress, by the Democratic party, whereby the rebels were encouraged to prolong the strug gle against the Union armies, after all other reasonable hope of success had been extin guished. It should be borne iu mind that the debt ot the nation was still further increased by the efforts of the Democratic party to crip ple and destroy the public credit, in the midst of the struggle for national existence, and that the national bonds were thereby forced to heavy discount in contracting loans with which to carry on the war, and the national currency was thus largely redu ced below its true value in gold, thereby ad ding enormously to the cost of all material purchased for the use of the Government. It should be borne in mind by p.vorv tax payer of the nation, that tV>° Democratic pnrty to secure compensation to the shareholding rebels for every slave set free bv the Emancipation Proclamation and Constitutional Amendment, thus adding an immense and unjust burden to the already onerous taxation under which the country groans. It should be borne in tuind that all the Democratic members in the House of the Fortieth Congress have placed themselves upon the record, by their votes, in favor of the monstrous proposition that the National Government is liable, under thelleconstruc tion laws, for every dollar of the State debts of all the States in rebellion. It should be borne in mind by every tax payer that the Democratic party, through its orators and writers for the press, is com mitted to the unheard of proposition that the Confederate war debt, contracted in the iniquitous struggle to overthrow the Na tinnal Government, is justly chargeable against the Government, and that this party only waits the suecess of its insidious at tempt, to regain power, to fasten this debt upon the people of the United States. It should be borne in mind by every tax payer, that the Democratic party has made persistent and strenuous efforts to injure both public and private credit, and bring on a financial crisis, such as will make it im possible for the nation to meet its obligations promptly, thus carrying wide-spread ruin throughout the country, and reducing to beggary thousands of widows and orphans and other worthy persons whose little all is invested in government bonds, for the re demption of which the faith of the Govern ment is pledged.— Miners, Journal. WITH ALL the hard practicability of Ameri can life, there is in it a strong undercurrent of speculative thought, a liking to dwell on the immaterial and mysterious part of na ture. Left to itself, the .tendency degener ates into spiritualism, table wrapping, mes merism, and all kindred follies, in their foolishest phases. Trained and instructed, it can find a boundless and worthy field in grappliDg with those subtle questions which in all ages have claimed the attention of master minds. Bad goods require dark rooms; and as many articles ol merchandise seem valuable till taken into the light, so there arc many things which appear lair till they are set in the light of God's countenance. Before Him the friendships we often profess are nothing but instances of selfishness; and the prayers and praise we engage in are only the forms of godliness. We may come to His house as His people come, sit and hear His words, and commend the preacher, and with our mouths show much love, while He sees our hearts going after our covetousness. And how dreadful to think that Ho will horeafter develop all, and divulge all respec ting us; and that what we lutvc always been before Him, we shall be made to appear before an assembled world! Pitiful! that a man should so care for riches as if they were his own; yet so use them as if they were another's; that when he might be happy in spending them, he will be miserable in keeping them; and had rather dying, leave wealth with his enemies, than, being alive, relieve his friends. IIEFKRBINU to the efforts of an association for promoting inventions lor flying through the air, the Boston Post remarks: Their success will not be one whit more astonish ing than that achieved by the railroad, the teicgraph and the printing press in other departments of industry. One hundred years ago, the man who professed to trans mute the base uietals into gold was believed but had any one foretold that the sales on the market in Kuropc would be announced in Boston and JNew York and used in specu lation within two hours after they took place, he would have been sent to the mad house. It is well to know what to believe and what to disbelieve; but looking back a century, and then forward to what may be in ISGS, we are inclined to be very orcd ulous. VOLUME 10; NO. 34 A NEW ENGLAND LOVEK. I he best portion of the opening chapters of Henry \\ ard Bceeher's new novel, is a New England love passage, the proposal of liiali Cat heart to Rachel Liscomb: They were walking silently and gravely home one Sunday afternoon, nnder the tall elms that line the street for half a mile. Neither had spoken. There had been some little parish quarrel, and on that afternoon the text was. "A new commandment I write unto you, that ye love one another." Rut, after the sermon was done, the text was the best part of it. Some one said that Parson Marsh's sermons were like the meeting house—-the steeple was the only thing that folks could sec after they got home. They walked slowly, without a word. Once or twice 'Biab essayed to speak, but was still silent. _ He plucked a flower from between the pickets of the fence, and un consciously pulled it to pieces, as, with troubled face, he glanced at Rachel, as fear ing she would catch his eye, he looked at the trees, at the clouds, at the grass, at ev ery thiDg, f and saw nothing—nothing but Rachel. The most solemn hour of human experience is not that of Heath, but of Life, when the heart is born again, and from a natural heart becomes a heart of love! W hat wonder that it was a silent hour and perplexed? Is the soul confused? Why not, when the divine spirit, rolling clear, across the aerial ocean, breaks upon the heart's shore with all the mystery of heaven? Is it strange that uncertain lights dim the eye, if above the head of him that truly loves hover clouds of saintly spirits? Why should not the tongue stammer and refuse the accus tomed offices, when all the world—skies, trees, plains, hills, atmosphere, and the solid earth—spring forth in new colors, with strange weanings, and seem to chant for the soul the glory of that mystic Law with which God has bound to himself his infinite realm—the law of Love ! Then, for the first time, when one so loves that love is sacrifice, death to self, ressnrreetion and glory, is man brought into harmony with the whole universe; and, like him who beheld the seventh heaven, hears things unlawful to be uttered. The great elm trees sighed as the fitful breeze swept their tops. The soft shadows flitted Lack and forth beneath the walker's feet, fell upon them in light and dark, ran over the ground, quivered and shook, until sober Cathcart thought that his heart was throwing its shifting network of hope and fear along the ground before him! How strangely hi.s_ voice sounded to him as, at length, all his emotions could only say "Rachel—how did you like the ser mon?" Quietly she answered — '1 like the text." "A new commandment I write unto you, that ye love one another. Rachel, will you help me keep it?" At first she looked down and lost a little color; then raising her face, she turned upon him her large eyes, with a look both clear and tender. It was as if some painful restraint nati given way, una iter eyes blos somed into full beauty. Not another word was spoken. They walked home hand in hand. He neither smiled nor exulted. He saw neither the trees, nor the long level rays of sunlight that were slanting across the fields. His soul was overshadowed with a cloud as if God were drawing near. He had never felt so solemn. This woman's life had been en trusted to him! liOng years—the whole length of life —the eternal years beyond, seemed in an indis tinct way to rise up in his imagination. All that he could say as lie left her at the door, was: "Rachel, this is forever—forever." She again said nothing, but turned to him with a clear and open faee, in which joy and trust wrought beauty. It seemed to him as if a light fell upon him from her eyes. There was a look that descended and covered him as with an atmosphere; and all the way home he was as one walking in a luminous cloud. He had never felt such personal dignity as now. He that wins such love is crowned, and may call himself king. He did not feel the earth under his feet. As he drew near his lodgings, the sun went down. The children began to pour forth, no longer restrained. Abiah turned_ to his evening chores. No animal that night but had reason to bless him. The children found him unusually good and tender. And Aunt Keziah said to her sis ter: ' "Abiuh's been going to meetin very reg ular lor some weeks, and 1 shouldn't won der, by the way he looks, if he had got a hone. 1 trust he ain't deceiving himself." lie had a hope, and he was not deceived; for in a few mouths, at the close of the ser vice one Sunday morning, the minister read from the pulpit: "Marriage is intended be tween Abiah Cathcart and Rachel I.iscomb, both of this town, and this is the first pub lishing of the banns." HOW TO AVOID A BAD HUSBAND. 1. Never marry for wealth. A woman's life consisteth not in the things she posscss eth. 2. Never marry a fop who struts about daudy-likc in his gloves and ruffles, with a silver headed cane and rings on his fingers. Beware! There is a trap. 3. Never marry a niggard, close fisted, ! mean, sordid wretch, who saves every pen ny, or spends grudgingly. Take care lest he stint you to death. 4. Never marry a stranger, whose char acter is not known or tested. Some females jump into the fire with their eyes wide open. 5. Never marry a mope or drone, one who drawls or draggles through life, one foot after another, and lets things take their own course. 6. Never marry a man who treats his mother and sister unkindly or indifferently. Such treatment is a sure indication of a mean and wicked man. 7. Never, on any account marry a gam gler, a profane person, one who in the least speaks lightly of God or religion. Such a man can never make a cood husband. 8. Never marry a sloven, a man who is negligent of his person or his dress, and is filthy ir. his habits. The external appear ance is an index to the heart. - Shun the rake as a snake, viper, de mon. 10. Finally, never marry a man who is addicted to the use of ardent spirits. De pend upon it, you are better off alone, than you would be tied to a man whose breath is polluted, and whose vitals are being gnawed out by alcohol. A CIOOD conscience is the best looking glass of heaven; in which the soul may see God's thoughts and purposes concerning it, reflected as so many shining stars. Don't touch the lute when drums are re sounding. A wise roa remains silent when fools are speaking. KATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertiMmenta for left than 3 month* IS cents per line for each insertion, {special notice* onehalf additional. All rcsolationt of Anoeia 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. ccs of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices IS cents per line. All Advertising duo after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertixers. 3 months. 6 months. 1 year One square $ 4.50 $ 8.00 SIO.OO Two squares 6,00 9.00 16.00 Three squres 8.00 IJ.OO 20.00 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.06 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 BEETHOVEN. The personality and life of Beethoven were profoundly lonesome. Ilis immense native power of mind and sensibility, early set askew with the world of men, made him peculiarly sensitive to exactions, alights and irritations. The death or fickleness of the maiden he loved in his youth, apparently made a dark and sinister stamp on his char acter,|and lclt a permanent bitterness in his blood. Ilis averseness to common inter course was aggravated by his poverty, his devouring absorption in the science of art and of music, and a singular combination in him of awkwardness and scorn, tender dffi dence and titanic pride. The lack of popu lar favor, the incompetent condemnation his wondetful compositions lon* suffered, must aleo tvo bceen a tnai tending to eour him. furthermore, as in case of every man of pri mal genius, his transcendent originality doomed him to a determined struggle with the past, an nncomnromising insurrection against conventional authority and usage, lie defied the prescriptions of his predeces sors, broke pedantic fetters, refuted his teachers, made new rules for himself, up heaved a world dead in professional routine and tradition, that he might inspire it with fresh freedom and fresh triumphs; and thus, perforce, he stood a/one, battling with ob scurity, contempt and hate, until he slowly conquered the recognition he deserved. Finally, in addition to these previous causes, the sternness of his isolation was made com plete by the dreadful calamity of a dense and incurable deafness. Dark, indeed, was his melancholy, bitter the revulsion of his capacious soul upon it self. He says: "I was nigh taking mv life with ray own hands. But Art held me back. I could not leave the world until I had re vealed what lay within me." Resolved at any cost to be himself, and express himself, and leave the record to posterity, he left be hind opponents and patrons alike, and con secrated all to his genius and its ideal objects. Occupying for a long time a room in a re mote house on a Hill, he was called the Soli tary of the Mountain. "His life was Jhat of a martyr of the old legends or an iron bound hero of the antique." Poor, deaf, solitary, restless proud and sad sometimes almost cursing his existence, sometimes in effably glad and grateful; softened now to the softest yearnings of melancholy and sympathy, now to tempestuous outbreaks of wrath and woe, shut up in himself, he lived alone, rambled alone, created alone, sorrow ed and inspired and enjoyed alone. WASN THE TEETH AT NIGIIT.—A few who inherit good teeth, and who care noth ing for looks, neglect brushing their teeth; but none who wish to preserve their teeth, good or bad, as long as possible, should neglect to brush them once or twice a day, with a brush so stiff as to clean them well, but not so hard as to wound or irritate the gums. They should be brushed both night and morning, but if only once, let it be done the last thiog before retiring. Portions of food, sweets, Ac., are left on or between the teeth at night, decay or acidify. an<> ilie enamel. ap