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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.
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to the public- Office with J. W. Lingcnfcltcr,
;; |., on Juliana street j
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| J ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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iotru.-red to his care. Officewitht!. 11. spang,
i , on Juliana street, three doors south of the
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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.
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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.,
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--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.
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joining counties. All business entrusted to their
■ ,re will receive careful and prompt attention.
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lected from the Oovornmont. . , , •
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1 \UIIHUKROW A 1.1 TZ,
I) ATTORN EYS ar LAW ,
BKBFORD, I'A.,
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Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
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\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,
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I..rmerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. " \; I 1 I
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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.
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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
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S. G. STATI.KR,
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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,<ioo,ooo, and
' they mature probably iu nearly equal pro
-1 portion in each of the next five years.
This will not supercede the necessity for
high taxes, for close economy, for continu
ous indu-try. They are inevitable. With
them, and whatever other plans wisdom
may suggest, the burden will pre— heavily
on you and your children. 1 have shown
that the redemption of the bonds will soon
l>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
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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.
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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<> <v\rvut>
ilie enamel. ap<l thna. imvdnally irvjnre them,
ir tne cavities between ajid in decaying
teeth be thoroughly brushed out with water
at night, and when rising, it will add years
to their effective use and fieedom from pain.
Most of the tooth powders sold coniain an
injurious acid, which, though it gives the
teeth a clean, white surface, docs it at the
expense of some of the natural surface. A
little hard soap, pleasantly perfumed, is the
best possible application. We would not
recommend the finest charcoal or prepared
chalk or clay, for though inert, they wear
upon the enamel.
[ THE GROWTH OF PHILADELPHIA.— The
population of Philadelphia is now greater
than that of any European city, except
London. Paris, aud probably Constantinople.
The other prominent and populous Euro
pean cities rank as follows: Berlin (in 1S61),
547,571; St Petersburg (in 1858),220,131;
Vienna (in 1857), 476,222; Liverpool (in
1866), 484.337; Naples (in 1862), 447,065;
Glasgow (in 1866), 432,265. Philadelphia
contained, in 1860,565,520, and this has
since, no doubt been increased to upwards
of 700,000, and may now reach 750,000.
The population of London, according to the
census taken last year was 3,037,901, and of
Paris, according to the French census of
1566, 1,825,274. The Pt ens says the growth
of Philadelehia has been so steady and uni
form, its prosperity rests on such a solid
basis and there are so few obstacles to its in
definite extension, that it is destined at no
distant period to become one of the most
Eopulous cities in the world, to rival Paris or
ondon, as it has already outstripped Vien
na. Berlin, Naples, and St. Petersburg.
TRUE. —Dr. Franklin remarked that a man
as often gets two dollars for the one he spends
informing his mind, as he does for a dollar
laid outTn any other way. A man eats a
pound of sugar and it is gone, and the pleas
ure he has enjoyed is ended, but the infor
mation he gets from a newspaper is treasur
ed up to be enjoyed anew, and to be used
whenever occasion or inclination call for it
A newspaper is not the wisdom of one man
or two men; it is the wisdom of the age, and
of past ages too. A family without a news
paper is always a year behind the times in
general information; besides they can never
think much nor find much to talk about.
And then there are the little ones growing
up without any taste for reading. Who,
then, would be without a newspaper,—and
who would read one regularly without pay
ing for it?
THOSE who owe money on bond and mort
gage, or have payment to make of any kind
should be careful not to vote for Sharswood
for Judge of the Supreme Court. He has
already decided, officially, that all such pay
ments must be made in gold or silver, which
at present rates of premium is a serious mat
ter to those concerned.
CHEER UP! —Keep a brave heart. It
matters little whether the sun shines on yon
or not, if you only have sunshine within. —
Don't pout and complain of "nasty weath
er. '' but sec the sunny side of the subject,
and laugh tho storm or the misfortune in
the face. Look trouble out of countenance.
GOOD ADVICE. —
If you your lips
Would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak,
To whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
To be angry about trifles is mean and
childish, to rage and be furious is brutish,
and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to
the practice and temper of devils: but to
prevent or suppress rising resentment is
wise and glorious, is manly and divine. —
Watts.
A SAFE PLACE.— AS the lamb is safest,
i that is closest to the shepherd, so the child
I is safest that is closest to the loving Saviour.