SIFBSOBIPIION TERMS, ,*. The Ivvi!i.B U } iblif bejel cry F&u-ai morn. in; at the fo!!ouriB<(( rates : Out Yk.ai>, (in .vlvu-,).. ..-.'.it-. .tlO " (if Dot p-<( within si* m0r.1... " (if not j-eid wHhinthe year J,.. AO i-apera outside of the county UlmjHntlnucil nithout notice, at the expiration of the time for which the jubecription h.,~ been paid Single copiea of the jmj• famishc.l, in wrappers, at five cents each. Communication* on subject* of local or general interest are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention, favor* of tail-Xinii to cat invariably be accompanied by the iflßi- of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaiuing to business f the office should be addreiued to , IrU IUJORKOW .1 LCTZ, Bsnrotm, VA. # gmsiorSs garte. ATTORMEYMAT LAW. 7 ORN X. KEAGT, .1 ATTORNEY-ATLAW. At;. Office opposite Reed A Schell's Bank. Counsel given in English and German. [pl!8] IA IMMEI.b AND IJTN'GEXFEI.TKK, jV ATTORNEYS AT LAW, bshford, pa. ■l ive formed a partnership in the practice at 'he Law Office on Jotiena Btreet; two doora South if the Monger llou.e. [April 1,1864-tf \ I . A. POINTS, i\ I ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingonfelter, Esq., on -Juliana street. if-CoUecttons promptly male. [Dee.3,'S4-tf. HAYES IBVXNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, " J faithfully and promptly atti#u l t > a't busi i;rusted to his care. Office withG. 11. Spang, i;. ~ on Juliana street, three doors south of the \leii-cl House. May 24:1y i,IM'Y M. ATRIP, I j " TTORNKY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all busi euirustod'to his care in Bedford audadjoin ing counties. Military claim-, Pensions, hack „jv, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 -l oirs south •fthe Mongol House. apl 1, 1861.—tL E . F. MBYRRB ......J. w. DICKERSCS \ I LYERS A DICKERSON. j>l ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, I'ESR'A., Office nearly opposite the Mengel House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county, fsn-ions, I unties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 11 ,'tJ6- ly I li. CESSNA. •J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with John CESSNA, on the square near ;he Presbyterian Church. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and pr-tnpt attention. Military Claims, Pension-, Ac., speedily collected. [June 9, 1865. P "BTSTUCKEY, AI L'ORNEi* AM) COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and RSAI. ESTATE AGENT, • office on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Will practice in the adjoining Counties of Mis souri and Kansas. July 12:tf L. KI'SSELI*• n ' WKGBSJCWB 1 > 1 SSKLL A LONGENECKER, I ATTORNEYS A CoI'SSELLORS AT L.tW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi entrustel to their fare. Special attention en to collections and the prosecution of claims - Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. 'irOffice on Juliana street, south of the Court H* u.-e. Aprils:lyr. )' w'n. *• *• KERB Cf lIARPE A KERR, O A TTORS'E YS-A T-IA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad ;■ ining counties. All business entrusted to their are will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking L use of Reed A Schelt, Bedford. Pa. mar2:tf it. job* utte. r1 I" RBOREOW A I.CTZ, 1J ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEBFORP, PA-, Will attend promptly to all business mtru-tc 1 to •heir rare. Collections made on the shortest no- They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and wii! give special attention to the prosecution claim* against the Government for Pensions, Back i'ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the MetJU'el House" and nearly opposite the Inquirer . ... „ April 28, 1865;t, PHYSICIANS. ITTM."YV'- JAMISON, M. D., \ \ Bloody Br*. PA., R(. J cctfully tenders his professional service* to the people of that place and vicinity. [decStlyr OK. IS. S. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens "f Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. IL Ilofius. [An 1 1,64. I L. MAKBOURG, M. P., O . Having permanently located respectfully tenders bis pofessional services to the citizens •,.f Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, onnosite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April I, 1864—tf. | \R- S- G. STATLER, near f-chcilsburg, and J J Or. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland urfty, having associated themfeives in the prac tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes sional set vices to the citizens of Schelishurg and vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same as formerly occupied by J. White, Esq., dee'd. S. G. -TATLKK, ctLeliiborg, Aprill2:ly. J. J. CLARKE HOTELST ASH INGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having been re-taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. 'I be room? are large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. The table will always be supplied with the best then arketcan afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors, in short, it is wy purpose to keep a FIRhT-CLAfib HOTEL. Thanking the pubiie for past favors, I respectfully solicit a renewal of tbeir patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs. may!7,'67:ly WJi. DIBERT, I'rop'r. MORRISON HOUSE, 31 HUNTINGDON, PA. I have purchased and entirely renovated the large stone and brick building opposite the Penn sylvania Railroad Depot, and have now 'opened it for the accommodation of the travelling public. The Carpets. Furniture, Beds and Bedding are all entirely new and first class, and I am safe in say in „• that I can off< r aeeommodationa not excelled ia Centra! Pennsylvania. I refer to my patrons who have formerly known me while in charge of the Broad Top City Hotel at J Jackson House. ins;.2s:tf JOSEPH MORRISON. MMCELLAHEOPB; I > I PP A SHANNON, BANKERS, It BEDFORD, I'A. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collection? made for the F.ast. West, North and " th, and the general business of Exchange trau-.icted. Notes and Account; Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. feb22 [ |A N IKB BORDER, \ J PITT STBEZT, TWO noons WEST or THE BED rn*D HOTEL, Bebf >RD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He i.eeps on hand a Stock of fine Gold and .Sil ver M atc hes, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Hefin i Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gsfd Watch Ohrins, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order my thing in hie lipe not on hand. [*pr.2B/65. UY Eti! (J YES!— The undersigned has taken out auction license, and tenders his services win, nave sales or auctions to cry. Give "all. Post Office address, Spring Meadows, Bedford county, Penu'a. April ,u " HENRY B. MOCK. UIKBUKKOH A LITZ Editors and Proprietors. THE SIIORTtST HAV HOME. 'The shortest way by half a mile— I come so often by it— Is up the road, across the stile, And through the meadows. Shall we try it I ?'' The days were not without a charm, When, talking soft and looking silly. My love and I walked arm in arm. And lanes were lone and fields were stilly. Wc found so many things to say, That always in the shiny weather We took the—well, the shortest way, To be a longer time together: IVe spoke about —(but gooduess knows Our topics of coß&buhkUOßh — About the weather, I suppose, The crops, the harvest, and the nation. At a_H events, although the talk Was neither wise nor very witty, We ended each successive walk With "Home already—what a pity!'* We might have lost a little ground, Through coming by the road selected, But both agreed that we had found The journey shorter than expected. Can iiife's experiment support The paradox that Love proposes'.' Does any path seem very short, Unless it be a path of roses? We seldom find the nearer way: And if we hit upon and take it, By creeping on from day to day, It seems as long as length can make it. The road to Fame is never brief, The way to Wealth is dull and dreary; All earthly routes, in my belief, Are very long and very weary. Nay—oae lhat leads through care and strife, In short, when mortals once begin it: We take the "near cut'* out of life, Although we tabe the longest in it. —> From (he TofeJo Wade. NASBY. .Mr. Xiuiliy to Xew Orleans to Ac quaint ihe President'* Friends with lite 4 onteinplated Change* POST OFFIS, CONFEDKIT X ROADS, (Which is in the iStait uv Kentucky), Aug ust 20, l'-CT. —I wuz a settin all so pleasant in the Post Offis last nite, a uiusin onto the the mutability of human affairs, when I re ceived the follerin despatch, per boy on a mule, from the stashen: WASHINGTON. August 2u, l&o? —T 1\ I" \rj!>by, if c.: Ilev determined to be Pres ident or nothin. Shel remove Btanton. and immcjitly thereafter Sheridan, and ultimate ly the balance uv em. Go on to N'oo Or leans and make this known to our friends. Draw on the general fund for expenses. Wat a thrill run thro me ez I red this! I never felt so good but wun.-t before in my life. I wuz in an interior town in Massa chusetts tour days, where the most stimula tin beverage wuz root beer. The occasion when I felt better than I did on the receet of that dispatch, wuz the iden tikle minit I struck Noo York and stood afore a bar. Oh wat a pleasin, soptbin, mag netic thrill run thro my veins ez the golden likquid gurgled down my esoffagus! Just so I thrilled at recdin that despatch. My thot-contracted hrow smoothed agin, the wrinkles of care left my face, and I wuz a boy agin! I left immcjitly, and after a pleasant jour ney reached Noo Orleans. 1 hed no trouble in finding them to whom I wuz accredited. If there's a divinity which doth hedge a king, there must be suthin also in the face of a true Demikrat which betrays him. I was follered to my hotel by ! a crowd uv the first men of the city, and when they saw my name onto the register, the scene was terrific. They knowd me! they knowd my cumin wuzti't for nothing, and afore I had time to say nay, I wuz hur ried to the "Lost Coz" Club rooms and made an onorary member for life, includin tbe freedom uV the bar, wich privilege I prized. •'Wat nooze from Washington?" shout'd they all with one akkord. "Calm yourselves!" sed I impressively, "and restrauo your emoshens. Four days ago X: received this," and i read em the despatch. Never shel I witnis another sich a seen. Old men danced like youth, while young men w;pt like wimmen. "Kxooose us, sir!" sed one, "thisweepin is unmanly, but ah, did you know what I bev suffered! Since last .Toon a year I hevn't killed a nigger nor a preacher, and hev only knocked two uv 'em down, and for them two I imprisoned three months each. But thank God. I'm lree agin— Fin free!" and he fell onto my neck and ' askt uic to take a drink with hitu, wich, tearing theeffex uv irrita-hen on him, in his present eg-,i table state of mind, 1 did. i wuz askt ef I hed ever bin in Noo Or leans before, and on saying that 1 hedn't, my friend accompanied me to the many ob jecks of interest in the city. "Liere," sed he, "is the huildin in which Beast Butler received the surrender uvthe city, and there he signed the order for the hangin uv Mumford. Subsequently in this same room, the tother beast, Sheridan, took his orders from Mayor Monroe and Abell. Ha! ha ! 'twas retribushen," and lie smiled grimly several minits. "Here is the hall where Dostie and his Ablishen hordes gather ed over a year ago, and from which Dostie was carried a corpse. At that angle in the building, 1, with this good rite hand, slew three niggers and a Burow preacher. Bight here where we arc standing, a cart contain ing the killed came along. T was eggsited and infuriated at their obstinacy in holding the Convention. In my revolver there wuz one load—in the cart under the corpses was a nigger groanin. I mounted the cart, and A IAH AL AND GBNI4BAI. MtWSI'AI'EH, I>KV( fil l > TO POLITICS, KimCATION, LITERATURE \\l) MORALS turning over the corpses —the wounded nig ger had on a bloo cote —iufkmed with rage at the site I pulled the trigger and he groan ed no more." "Glorious sperit!" sed I, in eggstacy, wringing his hand. "Ju#t in fVout uv where we stand thirty (>ld niggers was killed, and one or two uv them Iturow teachers. It don't become me to say how inauy I killed, but I wan t idle. In three weeks thereafter I received my par don from the President, and am now. thank God, a citizen." By this time we reached the Club agin, and for hours I listened to tales of opprcs shtin on the part of the military satraps which made my blood run oold. A citizen had shot a nigger—and forthwith he was torn from the buzzum uv his family and in karoerated in a common prisen. Another's wife had throwd a buck it uv bilin water over a wench in the street, uv which the perverse creature died, and she, too, was arrested. Policemen hed bin discharged for refooein to arrest men whose spirits coodent brook nigger equality, and who had banged 'em about somewhat, and others had been dis miss! for hurrain for Jeff. Davis and pullin down Federal flags. There Lad been no lib erty uv speech or aekshen. This Club room hed bin invaded and pistols and shot guns hed leej taken out by those despots which was grindin the citizen into the dust. But the most oppressive case wuz that uv one uv our first citizens, who hed a girl in his fam ily who wood persist inattendin skools, after he had positively forbid her Join so. lie tied her up, and in the most patriarchal manner gave her one hundred and fourteen lashes. She was obstinit and died. He gave her a chrischcn burial, but nevertheless he wuz pullod up, and fined ard imprizened! Fined and imprisoned for wailopina nigger! Then biznis commenced. Lists were bein made out the purport of which 1 compre hended. "Knter up," sed one, oilin a re volver, "the nest uf niggers on the alley jist around the corner from my house. They Lev ther a chapel, in which they Lev preechin Sundays, and skools doorin ithe week. Aside from the annoyance it is to my family, it's really dangerous. Two hundred nigger children attend it, beside the adult nigeer classes. "Knter up," sed another, cleanin out a shot-gun, "the grocer on the same street. He is from lowa, and teethes a Sunday skool class in the same chapel. Sich incen diaries we km never tolerate." "There's a nigger church two squares from me which must be abated, sod anoth er, "and, by the way, a agent uv the nigger missionary society, and two teechers from Connecticut, boards next door. Put 'em down." "In my part uv the city," sed another, "there's four nigger draymen jvho hcv been impudent enuff to scrape together chuff to buy ground and build cut houses. Don't forgit to put cm down —don't. They are niggers aud they Lev houses. I, he added, bitterly, "I ani a white man and I Itave uone. Put cm down. When Sher idan goes! ha! ha!" And so on. The Sekretary entered the names ez fast ez they wus furnisht him, on tilthe name uv every mau suspected uv Yankee proclivities wus registered. The niggers waz not put down ccptin tnemuv sieh prominence ez they desired to make ,-hooi' uv; it is considered entirely safe to kill a nigger anywhere. Some of them de sired to make excepshens in favor uv cer tain niggers who cood be depended upon ez troo. One uv 'em kep a keno, and t'other a fary bank. But they wuz rooled out. The niggers, it was decided, wuzu t to be trusted. Their impudence, in presu min to keep faro banks, was friteful. The next day, brite and early, I was at the Club, when I received another des patch. The members flockt around inc. "Is it done ?" shroekt they, "Is Stanton out?" "II is," stid T, slowly, "he is, but—" "But wat? Oh, relcevo our suspcnce." "But Grant is in," returned I, droppin the message, and sinkin on a sofa in a brown study. But they was dclitcd. "It's better than we hoped," sed they. "Grant hez come over at last. Bless the liord! His name will give the Adminis tration strength.' 1 They cheered like 100 natics. Finally, one mornin I got a despatch thai Sheridan would be relceved that day, and the enthusiasm biled up agin—this time ] shared in it, for I felt that that wuz throolj soothin. It wuz impossible to rcstrane tin gentle lamlw uv the club any longer. Kz a sort of a lunch, proceeding the feast that was to come, they sallied out and made ii lively for sieh nigeers ez they cood git sof'elj near to. At noon, the next despatch canit to nie. The entire membership uv the clnt wuz gathered around impashent to hear me sound the glad tidins over Egypt's dark sea I broke the seal. "Sheridan is removed this day !—"' "Ror! lior! Ror!" cheered the club. "And Thomas is apjiointed in his place!' So read this despatch. There wuz nary a cheer follercd it. The most death-like si leoce pervaded the room. One by one the members skulked out to settle with the nig gers whouru is gin out. Raiiihrd; That we ask him for bread and he give us a stone; we asked him for ai egg and he give us a scorpion Ranihcd That a committee uv two hi i appointed to toss up for the difference be ; tween Sheridan aud Thomas, and anothe; BEDFORD, Fa.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 95. 1867. to figgcr up whergin we are better off under Grant than we wuz under Stanton. Resolved, That the President, in awaken in hopes only to dash em to the ground, is guilty uv a croocl disregard uv our feelins. llrs'Aied, That if he is erer goin to do anything for us why don't he do it, and—" At this pint another dispatch came. I wuz too much affected to read it, and 1 passt it to the President. "Hell!" sed he, "Gentle sirs, hunt yer holes. Thomas is sick and won't come, aud Sheridan is goin to stay after all.'' C'ondudin that mr ofibhul duties pre vented me from makin a longer stay iu Noo Orleans, hastened North agin with all speed. Jest ez I wuz ieaviu the city, I got another despatch statin that Hancock was appointed to Sheridan's plaoe. 1 didn't consider the nooze suffishiently eheerin to indooso me to go back agin. I feel that men uv my opin ions is safer in Kentucky than anywhere else. Kentucky didu't secede, and there fore, within her borders seceshinists are safe. Thank the Lord for Kentucky! They don't do Johnson just down there, tho. He wood help 'cm if he cood, but he can't. Congris tied his hand- Ho kin ap pint this man or that man, but both this man and that man arc bound to execoot the law. Wat kiu the President do? PETROLEUM V. NASBY, (Wich ia Postmaster.) TUB STUDY Ol' PROFESSIONS AND LEARNING OF TRADES. There has been for many years a percepti ble increase in the number of young men who are seeking to make a living by enter ing the professions, and a visible diminution of those who are choosing, by honest toil, to acquire a competency by learning a trade. We do not see where this current will lead to, if it continues at the same rate it has been flowing for the past twenty years, but suppose that the natural equilibrium will be restored some time by the uttei failure of the professions as a means of living, and a compulsory return to the work of the mus cle instead of the brain. It seems, however, about time that the reaction :.hould set ia. A glance at our Philadelphia bar will show how poor an inducement is held out by the I profession of law; yet how many who could earn a sufficient competency by their mus cles are living from hand to mouth, because of a false pride or preference which induces them to attempt a task which they arc in capable of fulfilling! Of the numerous law yers at the bar of our city, how many of them arc making an income in proportion to what they could had they adopted a trade? NVKUo tho arc numbered by hun drcds, the successful lawyers counted on your fingers. Yet with this evidence of the almost certain result of such an attempt, the crowd still continues to flock up for admission, nd seek to fill a po sition which, if there were no competitors, they would still be unfitted by nature to adequately maintain. As it is, with power ful rivals, and men who are by nature fit ted for legal prominence, they sink into in significance, and bare)y manage to live by doing other work than that pertaining to their profession. Th same remarks apply in a lesser degree to both medicine and di vinity. In them are men who were never designed by nature fot any thing but a trade aud who, having wifully mistaken their calling, are paying dearly for their supposed respectability by stnightcned means and wretched remorse. L is not as if this was an exceptional thing, uL it is an everyday occurrence. Honest abor is being held derogatory, and one ol tht professions seems the only thing highly respectable. The consequences arc, of course disastrous. We have a deteriorated bar, a shallow ministry, and incapable physicians, while the trades languish for want of those who are capable ol filling them with still and energy. The idea seems to have possessed the mind of youthful America that it is beneath the dig nity of our people to *o:k with their hands, that it is a discredit to be a machinist, or a bricklayer, or a carpenter, or a dozen other i trades all equally hontrablc and remunera tive. Uuder the influence of this idea, the apprenticeship systen is being gradually ■ abandoned, and our statute which relates to apprentices is reckoned among the obsolete laws of the days of ourcolonial government. ! That we doprecate this unfounded notion it is hardly necessary for is to say. We mourn over this false standa-d of respectability, a standard as ridiculous is it is ruinous to ttie ■ prospects of many of our young men. The professions are overflsoded. So full are they, that if not a rccmit was added for ten years, the want of them would never be felt. While they arc crowded to repletion, the trades are opening a chance for a coiupe i tency, which needs bat energy to secure II The broad field of skilled labor calls fo j young men to enter and posscsstlicuiselvcs iof its wealth. It holds forth a prospect of j 1 almost immediate support and ol certain in dependence in the future. There is but one ueed, and that is the will to undertake the necessary preparation. The superior intell i igcncc of our young men forms an effectual protection against any fears of foreign s competition. That the want is felt is proved by the action of many of our manufacturers, ' and especially those of machinery, who arc importing, at a heavy expense, skilled hands J from Belgium, because their want cannot be i supplied by native material. This fact is a ■ i demonstration of a want, and it behooves I our young men and boys to see to it that i ! they secure the lucrative places now offered 1 i to foreigners. -1 Parents are doing a grevious wrong to 1 their children in not impressing on them I the honor and dignity bf labor. It is with i them that the responsibility must rest, and when we see them putting their sons into ; stores at ridiculously low wages, or eagerly - seeking to gain them plaees as office boys r with lawyers, and congratulating themselves tlmt they are doing their sons a great favor ' rather than having tho boys apprenticed to | some trade, we regret to think of the wrong they are really committing on their children. Until a boy is of age, ho certainly cannot do more than make his living: if he docs that he does well—far better than most boys. His living can be earned cither by the pur poseless life in a store or an office, or else by a course of training which will fit him for a future clearly marked out, and which will be remunerative as well as honorable—for a position which is entirely indejiendent of the will of a superior, and which in any quarter of the globe, could gain for him his daily bread. Ihe choice is made, The boy is put at a place of "respectability," and he fritters away the preoious years which should bava been devoted to preparation, ia idling among bales, running errands, or summing up small accounts, He is of age at last, with no money saved, with little knowledge ac quired, with habits expensive, and probably with wrong ideas in regard to real labor. Ho certainly will have false notions on the subject of respectability, and doubtless passes through life a clerk, or possibly a salesman, with an insufficient income and heavy expenses, rather than as a skilled mechanic, universally respected, and yearly saving money. Such is too true a picture of what is daily occurring. We most ear nestly call upon fathers with boys not yet entered in a business, to hesitate before they close the avenues of an honest trade, and put their sons into a field which is no more respectable, and which is filled already by many whose money and family connections give them too great a preference to be over come. A trade is the great opening to day for every American boy. —Evening Telegraph COUNSEL TO BOYS. BY HORACE GREELEY. RELIGION. It is not my province to tell you which creed or church is superior to all others, nor yet to argue that all of them are equally good, nor that belief and unbelief are of no practical account. On this bead 1 will on ly say, generally, that the good sou of vir tuous, intelligent parents, will be very apt to abide in tbeir faith and communion until he is quite sure that his understanding is mature, aud his knowledge as to facts and principles at least equal to theirs. What I would wish to urge, is this—that one essen tial, fundamental, base of a noble career, in my view is a firm, clear, living conviction that the universe is no accident—no casual product of fate or chance or the fortuitous concussions of atoms —but the Creation of an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent win. No man is old enough or wise enough to solve all the problems presented to finite minds by what we see and know. If the universe has a Creator, must there not have been a time when it did not exist? If God made all things but Himself, must He not have previously existed alone? And must not Infinity have been enlarged by the sub sequent calling of the material universe into being? Thus question after question may be asked to which no satisfactory aDswer can be given, and with reference to which we can only say with Tennyson: "I sink upon the sltsr stair?, That slope through darkness up to God." But. when we quit the dreary domain of speculation, all is simple, cheerful, certain. We are not the waifs of Chance, the slaves of Necessity. "Though now we see through a glass darkly," we can yet see enough to render it certain that we are children of an infinitely powerfnl, wise and good Parent— too wise and too loving to permit us to defy His laws with impunity. He must punish every aberration from the straight and nar row path of Righteousness—that is, Recti tude—He would not be absolutely good if He did not. To permit us to do wrong with impunity—to break His laws and secure thereby seeming personal advantage or grat ification, at the expense of general injury would be to resign His benignant scepter, and allow the world to drift helplessly to ward Chaos and the unfathomable abyss. „ The vital truth is tersely summed up by the Psalmist, in the statement, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." That is the one great, fatal mistake which covers our globe with misery and woe. But for this, there could be no libertine, no thief, no drunkard, uo lieluuus transgressor. Tbe conceit that God's justice may be somehow evaded, circumvented —that the pleasures of sin may bo enjoyed, and His penalties es caped—is a form of qualified Atheism im mense iy more prevalent and more baleful than any other. It is the omnipresent prompter of greed and lust and indolenec and knavery less palpably absurd than the notion that nothing originated everything, I it is more widely cherished, more vastly in jurious. Let no one harbor a doubt of the univer sality, the inexorable, unavoidable certainty of Retribution. In spite of all deceiving appearances, wo reap as we have sown and receive as we have deserved. The succes sion of effect to cau.se is not always instant nor obvious —appearances may often-seem to ignore or defy as plainly as tho sun seems to revolve around the earth; but the truth is obscured—never subverted. God rpigns; that is the great first truth. lie does not merely contemplate and oversee; Ho de signs, directs, and decrees, and is never dis concerted nor disappointed. What to us are aberrations, defeats, disasters, are to Him, "who forcseeth the end from the be ginning," but steps toward tho fulfilment of j His transcendent, beneficent purposes of j Universal Good. Young friends, I do not intend to preach to you, and you will probably hear no more from mc in this precise vein. But every I plan of life and duty must find anchorage in VOLUME 10; *0 4*. some fundamental idea; and the one truth whieh seems to be mostessential is that which the fool s heart denied when he -There is no God." 4 AUTUMN DAYS. "When the autumn days come," says Beecher, "Nature, like a retired merchant, changes its manner from thrift and bustling industry to languid leisure and to ostenta tious luxury. Ihe sun rises later and sets earlier than when it had all the summer's crops on hand, and was playing universal husbandman. There is no nest building now, and no bird-singing—-which is a purely domestic arrangement, designed, on the birds' part, to keep peace in the family while the children are being raised, and laid aside as soon as tho yonng birds are off their bands. Mornings come fleeced in mists, which hang over streams and low, moist places. The sun plays with them, but they perish in his arms. A few belated flowers yet keep watch, but chiefly the asters, which fringe the fields, star the edges of forests, and, like a late comer at a feast, seem bent upon making for lost time. At night, crick ets and katy-dids scrape their shrill viols, and fill the air with etridulous music. Over all the shrinking fields, the trees lift up their gorgeous foliage, and, like those who wait for the marriage bell and the bridegroom, they shine out in glorious ap parel. The hills, forest-clad, are become the Lord's younger sons, and, like Joseph, they arc dressed in a coat of many colors. October days, short between horizons, reach higher into the vault than any days of the year: and through them the season seems to look with softened sadness, as one who, in the calm of age, meditates on all the mis takes of his past life, and solemnly thinks upon the advancing future. Along the fence rows, where seeds and late bearies may be found, birds hop silently, as if ashamed to be seen. Soon they will change their solitary ways and collect in flocks. To day, the fields will swarm with them; to morrow, there will not be one left, and they will be picking their food many degrees of latitude south. CONCEIT. Hardly anything is more contemptible than that conceit whieh rests merely upon social position, the conceit of those who imagine that thus they are divorced from the clay of common men, of those who shrink with horror from the idea of work as something which degrades by its very contact, and yet " Uo lik-elv. owe their present position to eome not remote ancestor who, recogni zing his call to work, lived more honestly in the world than they do, and was not ashamed of soiled thumbs. It is one of the meanest things for people to be ashamed of the work from whieh they derive their in come, and which glorified their ancestors more with their soiled aprons and black gowns than themselves with their fine rib bons and flashing jewelry. It might be a fine thing to be like the lillies, more glori ously clothed than Solomon, and doing nothing, if we were only lillies. Advantage ous position is only a more emphatic call to work and while those who hold the advan tage may not be compelled to manual drudg ery these should recognize the fact that man ual drudgery may be performed in the same spirit as that which characterizes their own work, and therefore that it is equally hon orable. — Rev. Dr. Chopin. How NAPOLEON TRAVELS. —The special train in which the Emperor Napoluau wont with his suit from Paris to Saltzburg is de scribed as exceeding in comfort and eleganc e anything of the kind that has hitherto been known. The train consisted of nine car riages communicating with each other by tastefully decorated bridges. In the middle was a handsome sitting-room, furnished with chairs, ottomans, sofas, mirrors, pictures, clocks and chandeliers. On one side of this room was the dining-room, ajtd on the other the Emperor's study. In the middle of the dining-room there was a table, capable of being extended or contracted at pleasure, with easy chairs placed parallel to the sides of the carriage. The Emperor's study con tained an elegant writing table, a clock in the style of the renaissance, a thermometer, aerometer, and a telegraphic apparatus, by means of which telegraphic communica tion was established with the apartments of tliU varluus Cuurt afficiab iiOToling with His Majesty. Next to the study was the bed-room of the Emperor and empress, with two beds placed transversely against the sides of the carriage. The dressing-rooms were attached to the bed-room. The re maining carriages consisted of a kitchen, a wine cellar, and the apartments of the Em peror's suite. There was also a conservatory filled with the choicest flowers. BEAUTIES OF SHADOWS.— The shadow, all day long play at silent games of beauty. Eeverythiug is double, if it stands in light. The trees sees an unrevealed and mafflcd self lying darkly along the ground. The slender stems of flowers, golden rods, way side asters, meadow daisies, and rare lillies (rare and yet abundant in every nice, level meadow,) cast forth a dim and tremulous line of shadow, that lies long all the morn ing, shortening till noon, and creeping out again from the root all the afternoon, until the sun shoots it as far-eastward in the even ing as the sun shot it westward in the morn ing. A million shadowy arrows such as these spring from Apollo's golden bow of light at every step. Flying in every direc tion, they cross, interlacing each other iu a soft net-work of dim lines. Meanwhile, the clouds drop shadow-like anchors, that reach the ground, but will not hold; every brows ing creature, every flitting bird, every mov ing team, every unconscious traveller writes itself along the ground in dim shadow. \\ ITH all the hard practicability of Aniw ican Bfo, there is in it a strong undercur rent of speculative thought, a liking to dwell on the immaterial and mysterious part of nature. Left to itsolf, the tendency do generates into spiritualism, table-wrapping, mesmerism, and all kindred follies, in their foolisbest phases. Trained and instructed, it can find a boundless and worthy field in grappling with those subtle questions which in all ages have claimed the attention of master minds. Bad goods require dark rooms, and as many articles of merchandise seem valuable till taken into the light, so there arc many things whieh appear fair till they are set in the light of God's countenance. Bofors Him the friendships wo often profess are nothing but instances of selfishness; and the prayers and praises we often engage in aro forms of godliness. Wo may come to His house as Ilis people came, sit and hear his words, and commend the preacher, and with our mouths show much love, while He sees our hearts going after eovctousncse. And how dreadful to think that He will hereaf ter develope all, and divulge all respecting us; and that we have 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 lUam oa if thy wore another's; that when he might be happy in spending them, he will be miserable in keeping tbem, and had rather dying leave wealth with his enemies, than being alive, relieve his friends. EXERCISE IN NERVOUS DISEASES.— An English writer and surgeon, Mr. Skey, ex presses his strong conviction, in which wo heartily join him, that there are many dis eases, at least many forms of indisposition which, with a strong will, may be walked away, provided the exercise be taken syste matically and rendered a prominent feature in the daily treatment TODC is imparted by this means to both mind and body, cheerfulness replaces gloom, and sympathy for others a morbid dwelling on self. The exercise sheuld be active, and not consist of either strolling or sauntering out of doors, or even amateur gardening. A good brisk walk should be taken at a pace of at least three miles an hour, but always stopping short of fatigue. People will be often heard to say that they take plenty of exercise about tho house, and that they are on their legs many hours of the day. What is wanted for the health is exercise without fatigue, for fatigue is ex haustion, and the desired object is only to be gained on the terms just stated. The distance walked could be increased daily and it will be iound that increasing strength will give the readiness and wish for increasing exercise. There is an accumula tion of incapability in those who arc afflicted with what are vaguely called nervous disor ders. which render such persons restless, fidgety, irritable and full of strange fancies, and which is best brought down to a healthy standard by exercise in the open air, and its concomitant change of scene and new trains of thought. Il.jno, of South Carolina, urged on by his South ern frionds, had made his speech which cal led forth that immortal reply of the great "Northern Lion," many of Webster's friends, struck with Hayne's real ability began to say to each other, " Can Webster answer thaC Mrs. Webster was present at the Capitol, and was greatly agitated at the fire and force of the hero of South Carolina. She rode home with a friend in advance of her husband. At iast the "Lion" came tramping up to the door and marched in, in an easy, unconcerned way. His wife has tened into the hall just as she was, and with tears in her eyes, Baid to him, " Can you— can you answer Mr. Hayne?" With a sort of grunt or quiet roar her lord turned upon her. "Answer him? Til g r i n d- him finer than that muff in your box!" In due time the Websterian thunder rol led through the arches of the Capitol, and Hayno wn £rrmiTiil_finr "What do you think now," says the General's friend to his southern acquaintance, "of our northern lion?" The reply came quick, but rather angrily, "He's a long-jawed, strong-jawed, tough hided devil!" ERRORS. —The little that I have seen of the world and known of the history of man kind, teaches me to look upon their errors in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it passed through; the tears of regret; the brief pulsations of joy; the feebleness of purpose; the scorn of the world that has little charity; the desola tion of the soul's sanctuary and threatening voices within; health gone, happiness gone, I would fain leave the soul of myfellowman with him from whose Lands it came. A CAUTIOUS JUDGE.— An Irish judge tried two most notorious fellows for high way robbery. To the astonishment of the court, as well as of the prisoners themselves, they were found not guilty. As they were being removed from the bar, the judge, ad dressing the jailor, said: ' 'Mr. Murphy, you would greatly ease my mind if you would keep those two respectable gentlemen until seven or half-past seven o'clock, for I mean to set out for Dublin at five, and I should like to have at least two hours start of them." TRUST IS GOD. —He that taketh his own cares upon himself, loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast my cares on God; he hath bidden me. They cannot burden Him. PURE love is the sunshiuc which steals slowly and silently up the bleak hill of earth's journey, and warms us with its ge nial presence through a life's weary way. A srmrrt'AL student, who has just hoard of the Russian treaty, says Uncle Sam is like the prodigal son, because he is wastmg his substanoe in a fur country. THE violet grows low, and covers itself with its own leaves; and yet of all flowerets, yields the most delicious and fragrant per fume. Such is humility.