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tention, favor* of tail-Xinii to cat invariably be
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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 who<c heds they hed bustid in thi
1 mornin, and to ashoor em it was all a joko
The lists wuz destroyed and the revolver!
and shot-guns was all packed away. At t
meeting held immcjitly, the following reso :
looshens wuz passed:
lirsohytl, That it is possible for mei
whose faith is bigger nor a grain uv mustart
seed to Lev confidence iu President John
son, but i>uru 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.