SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, <fte. Tb IHIJCIRER i* published ?ery FRIDAY morn, ing at the following rater : ORB YEAH, (in advance, 1 $2.00 " (if not paid within eik roo. 1... $2.50 " (if not paid within the jear,)... $:;.00 All paper? outride of the county direoniinued without notice, at the expiration of the time for which the subscription ha. been paid. single copcof the paper fuiniched, in wrapper?, at five cent? each. Communication? on subject? of local or general interest are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention, favor? of this kind most invariably be accompanied by the natne of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaining to basiness of the office fhouid be addressed to OURHORROW A LUTZ, Benronn, PA. Yroffssioaat & tfarfl*. 4TTORXE¥S AT LAW. TORN T. KEAGY, a I ATTORNKY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Heed A Schell's Bank. Counsel given in English and German. [apl26] KIMMKLL AND LINDEN FELTRR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEOFOBO, r*. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office on Juliana Street, two doors Sooth „f the Men gel House. [AprU 1, ISM-tf If. A. POINTS, iVI ATTORNEY AT LAW, BnnroitD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services M the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq-. -M Juliana street. ;MR- Collections prompdy made. [Dec.9,'64-tf. HAYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to ail busi ness intrusted to bis care. Office with G. 11. Spang, I ... ON Juliana street, three doors south of the Meugei House. Mnv 21:ly ItSPY M. AI.SIP, li ATTORNEY AT LAW, Baoroiin, P*., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi- NEFS entrusted to hi? care in Bedford and adjoin jug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street. 2 doors south of the Mengcl House. apll, 1864.— tf. . ?. J■ W- DICHERROS M LYERS A DICKKRSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BBoroBD, PESH'A., Office nearly opposite the Mengei House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the PC REHIRE of Real Estate attended to. [may 11 ,'66-ly T B. CESSNA, ,J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, office with Jolt? CESSBA, on the square near the Presbyterian Church. All business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and .Tompt attention. Military Claims. Pensions, Ac., -jieedily collected. [June 9,1865. U B. STUCKEY, TTTORNKY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and REAL 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. • ,U, 7 12:T F L. 11l SKILL. H. LOStiZSECEEE I>ISSELL A LONOEXECKEK, 1 \ .VRTOTTSKYS A COCSSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa-. Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi n. entrusted to their care. Special attention ,n to collections and the prosecution of claims TO" Back Pay; Bounty, Pensions, Ac. r.-ir Office" on Juliana street, south of the Court JLuse. AprilStlyr. J' M'D. *• *■ SBHB AHARPE A KERB, pN A TTORXS YS-A T-LA W r . Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking bouse of Reed A Schcll, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf J. R. LTJTZ. DUKBORROW A I.UTZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BKBFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections mado on the shortest no- Thev are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents ar, I will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the • Mecgel House" and nearly opposite the Inqnirer , April 28, 1865:t. PHYSICIANS. \ I TM. W. JAMISON, M. D., \\ BLOODY RUS, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [decSilyr OK. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders hi; professional ser vices to the citixens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius. [Ap 1 1,64. F 17. MARBOURO, M. D., •J . Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofessional services to the citixens of Bedford and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal mer's office. April 1, 1864 tf. DR. S. G. STATLER, Dear Sehellsburg. and Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cutnbeflend county, having associated themselves in the prac tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes sional services to the citixens of Schcllsburg and vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same as formerly occupied by J. W hite, Est:., dec d. S. G. .STATLER, Schellsburg, Aprill2:ly. J. J. CLARKE. HOTELS. WASHINGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having been re-taken by the subscriber, is now open for 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 market van afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors. TN short, it is my purpose T, keep a FIRBT-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit a renewal of their patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs. mayl7,'6":ly WM. DIBKRT, Prop'r. MORRISON HOUSE, HUNTINGDON. PA. I have purchased anil entirely renovated the large stone and brick building opposite the Penn svlvania 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 ing tbat I can offer accommodations not excelled in Central Pennsylvania. I refer to my patrons who bate formerly known me while in charge of the Broad Top City Hotel and Jackson House. way2s:tf JOSEPH MORRISON. WIWELLIXFOIN. IYIPP A SHANNON, BANKERS. I V BBDKOBD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and S uth, and the general business of Exchange 'RAN. acted. Notes and Accounts Collected and !'■> U. ittances proroptlymadc. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. feb22 DMAXIKL BORDER, I'LTT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BHD ?'JR:> HOTEL. BisroßD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. lie keeps on hsnd a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin -1 Glasses, also Scutch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Kings, best LI lalityof Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2B/65. [ A W. CKOIiSE 1 F. WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, On Pitt -treet two doors west of B. F. Harry's ■ 'rug Store. Bedford, Pa., is uow prepared -*■, lby wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All ter? promptly filled. Persons desiring anything .n hi- !ir.R wilt do well to give him call. BT if OR J. Oct 2. '65., DUBBOKKGW & LI7TH Editor? and Proprietor!. foctni. (Original.) THEY HAVE LEFT US. He hasleft us — they have left us: Father, mother, sisters, brother: Left the world with all its sorrows ; Cast the cumbrous flesh away. Gone, we trust, to dwell in Heaven Where doth reign "Eternal day"— Murmur not! 'twas God bereft us. But oh ! our grief how hard to smother. "No night there," but all is sunshine, Father, mother, sisters, brother: Bathed are you in airs Etherial, Praising God with harp and tongue, Chiming in the blissful anthems Tbat for ever there are sung, That surely we should not repine, But oh ! our grief how hard to smother. To that home of dazzling brightness, Father, mother, sisters, brother; Where the souls redeemed assemble — Where the sainted ones do gather; 'Twas the Savior who hath called you — " Come! ye blessed of my Father"— Oh ! this should give us hearts of lightness, But oh ! our grief how bard to smother. Light lie the clods on each dear breast, Father, mother, sisters, brother; 'Round the place where you are slumb'ring, May the early morning bird Come and carol, and the gTasses Be by gentle breezes stirred : There no trouble mars your rest— But oh ! our grief bow hard to smother. Aud we will plant the cypress there, Father, mother, sisters, brother: And the myrtle green confiding, Twine above each lowly bead, And the jessamine and sweet briar, There shall sweetest incense shed— Ah ! yes, sweet sleepers, free from care, But oh t our grief how hard to smother. And to you we'll strive to come, Father, mother, sisters, brother: Earthly hours fast are flitting, Days are swiftly gliding by, , In a few brief years, at '.furthest, We, the living, too must die — Join you in that happy home Where no grief we've need to smother. • W. J. M. ittteccUattmis. [From the Toledo Blade.] NASBY. Mr. XiiMby Oftails hU AdvrutureM iu n HitroiiK democratic County in Koulhcrn Ohio 'lhe KnfTrßffc <tti<*"tlon in that part of the l>eiiiocralie llerilaj?e. POST OFFIS, CONFEDRIT X ROADS, (Wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky,) Sept. 20, 1867. —Last week I was invited to go into Ohio to assist my brethren uv that State. The Massedonian cry reached tne, "Come and help us!" and ez the cry was coupled with the asshooraoce that I shood be provided for, I heeded it. Couple Mas gedonian cries with whisky, and I can't te sist em. I never try. I knowed there wasn't much difference atween the Dimoc racy of Ohio and Kentucky, but wuz on" prepared for the strikin resemblance I found. Twins is not more similar. My Ist appointment wuz in a purely Dimekratic County. It wuz a settlement after my own heart, and the minit my practist eye restid onto it, my soul leaped for joy. It wuz a town wich hed bin some day the se •*. uv biznis, but a ralerode ninnin some nine miles to one side uv it had cut off its trade, and the inhabitance havin nothin to do, the better part uv em went with the trade. Nacher abhors a vacuum, and there rushed in sich as found it difficult to live elsewhere. The whole population hevin much leisure fell to pitchin coppers, wich, to make the game exitin, they pitched for drinks. Pitching for drinks soon rendered era inca pable uv more violeot exercise, and in a year from the time the trade left em it wuz the strongest and most intense Democratic town in the State. Ez they must eat som thin, aod ez the gioceries coodent run per petooally without money, they hed occasion al spasms of labor. Then would their feel ins be laseratid. Then wood they look over to the Kentucky shore, and see thousands uv jest sich men ez themselves a spendin their lives in one unendin round uv eopper pitchin, hoss-raein and poker-playin, the nigger mean while a sweatin to furnish the means, and they wood break out into rnur murin at the crooel fate wich cast their lot where every man wuz forst to sweat for hisself, ani the cuss of labor coodn't he filled by proxy. Their proximity to Ken tucky tantalized em. They wood hev ail goße there cood they hev raised enuff to buy a nigger apeece, but they coodent. There wuz a most delightful look uv serene repose about the place wich charmed me. Nothin stood uprite. The signi>ost uv the tavern hed bin leaned agin so much that it had contracted the same habit; the bosses, from a too rigid economy in the matter o' oats, wuz leanin agin the side of the hams; the shutters on the groceries hung cornerin across the winders in konsequence uv the lower hinges bein broke; the clap-boards on the houses all haogin by a single nail at one end, presented any but a regular appear ance, and ;he men were all either sittin o J store boxes, or leanin agin watever posses sed suffishent strength to keep em up. I wuz enthoosiastically reseeved. The town wuz excited on two questions. 1, Taxation; 2, Nigger Equality. The cheer man uv the deputation wuzthe most cheer io style uv Diniokrat I hed seen for years. His independent hair hed pu-hetl its way thro the top uv his hat arid 1 ri?tled in ali | directions, biddiu defiance to the world ■ hi? toes protoodin from his shoes and his i trowers hangin lop-sided by one suspcodcr A I.OOAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. indicated a sovereign contempt for appear ances. He begged me, with tears streemin down bis eyes, to rouse the people agio the dangers wich threaten em. "Think," sed he, "uc the hundreds uv thousand uv mil lions, which we, the people, are forced to pay in taxes to the General Government, and rouse em to the tieoeesity uv ackshenl" "I will," sed I. "I will. State to mo the amount uv taxes paid the tyraniklc gov ernment in this Arcajen spot, that t may hev the data from which to speek.'' j "Taxes!" returned this patriot, with an amazed look onto his countenance, "taxes! We don't pay any taxes here. The Asses sor eatne here two years ago, and findin noihin to assess, hezn't considered it worth while to come since. But our hearts bleed for these uufortinit victims uv Ablishcn policy, which bev suthin, and is forced to pay onto it! The people is being ground into dust by uiasbeo." And the old man j wept bitter tears at the miseries uv the sitooashen uv the people. What teechin benevolence! On the question of nigger ekality, I found em at a most deliteful heat. They bed seen the terrors uv it, and know'd whereof they spoke. Niggers hed come from Kentucky across the river to em, and instid uv acceptin their normal speer, and yieldin quietly to the irresistable decrees uv Heaven, wich made em inferiors of the white, they hed, the moment the accumulated suthin to live on, assoomed the airs uv ekality. They refoosed to keep their places. The C'heer man reraarkt, ez showin the stubborn cus sidness uv the race, that one uv cm lived some months next to him. He (the Cheer uian) horrored pork on several occasions uv him, twict a bakin uv flour, and on one oc casion, nine dollars uv the miserable rags wich we are forst, by a tyrauikle Govern ment, to accept cz money. That nigger hed the soopreme impudence to iusisi on bein pade! and even talked uv sooin for it. But on consultin a lawyer, he didn't owin to the uncertanty cx to who wood have to pay the costs. Another instance. A nig ger wich was nerely white, settled in the vicinity. He hed not only a daughter, hut a farm. My son sores. Labor he despises as a occupashen only fit for serfs. He pro posed to woo this nigger's daughter. It was a struggle with me. My son maryin a female wich hed the accursed blood of Ham in her vanes! But Jimuel, my son, sir, threw dirt in my eyes. About sixty akers of dirt. I thot uv the pleasant time I cood hev a livin on that farm —uv the days devoid uv labor and the evenins filled with ease, and after a severe ethonologikle struggle with my feeiings, I consented. I wanted to take keer uv that nigger. Pityin him as an iuferior bein—loaded in his ab normal condition with responsibilities wich he could not be expected to discharge, I would have taken charge of bis affairs. I wood—my son Jimuel and I —hev man aged his farm and his stock and sich. Alas! Jimuel mentioned the matter to the Etheo pian, sir, and with what result? He wuz ig nominiously kiekt out uv his house, sir. He wuz—sir, for a drunken broot, by a nig ger wich threatened ef he ever showed his pimpled—pimpled wuz the word—face about there agin, he'd break every bone in his body. Sir, this is bccomin unsupporta ble. They must be degraded down to our level. My proud Caucashen blood revolts. There must be a inferior race and its us or the uigger. The Injen is out uv the ques tion ez there ain't any uv them here to be inferior. I wouldn t mind the Injen, but there ain't none. Its nigger or nothin. Give him the ballot sir. end what'li distin guish us? Speek with a angel's tongue onto this theme, 1 beg. The mectin wuz a glorious one, and my speech one uv my most movin efforts. My perorashen moved mc to tears. 11 wuz on nigger sufferage. Depietin its untold hor rors I begged em to organize—to ralley wunst more agin this common enemy. "Thereis," sed I, "seven thousand nigger males in the State uv Ohio. Shel we peril the liberties uv the State by permitin them to approich the ark uv our safety—the bal lot box? Shel we rai?e em to the point uv bein our ekals? Shel we marry em and give em in marragc? Shel we contaminate the pure stream of Anglo Saxon blood, by muddlin it with the turbid stream us ." At that point I stopt. My eye balls wuz scared. Joe Bigler, which I sposed wuz a hundied miles away in Kentucky, wuz up iu the auience. "Agreein" sed he, "with wat the speak er is saying. I beg to ask a question for cn litement. lam a Kentuckian." "Ror for Kentucky!" Bowin, Bigler perccdcd. There wuz a lurkin devil iu his eye wich afflicted me. "Ef I understand the speaker, he holds that the uigger ef permitted to vote be comes so much our soshel ekal that we must take him to our buzzums —that wc must marry the females, and our gushen daugh ters forthwith tie themselves to the males uv that accussid nice. Is it so?" "It is!' retorted I. "My blood biles when I think uv it. Ef I recollect arite, the laws uv Ohio permits all niggers to vote who are only half black. Ez there are a good many mulattoes in this region, the produx uv the loose ekality uv the races over the river, there must have bin, ever sence that law passed, much uv that kiud uv marryin here. May Ibe per mitted to ask this oppressed people who hev suffered so from this unnatural state of affairs, how they like it? Is yoor wife a nigger, sir? ' sed he, ad iressin the Sekre tary, "and ef so, don't yoo feel the humili ! atin posishen vour in, compelled, ez yoo wuz, by the force uv Dimokratic circum i stances, to marry her, to take her to yoor | buzzum, the minit her father got a vote? It's enuff to drive a man into AblishinLm |to escape it. My brethren," sed this Big j ler, "I advise yoo all to adjoor Dituocrisy. BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1807. Up North,the minit, the nigger gits a vote yoo are foeed to legal messegenashen — down South,the affinity Dimociisy hez for niggers, hez bleached out the race to the color uv mopsses. There's no hope for yoo, save in Ai!ishenism ; wich hez the hap py fakulty uvloin justice to em without nmrrj inem!" And he stalkt out, It didn't maktno difference. Tbeydidn U know what he ww talkin about. The word ! "messegenashen' struck em with amaze ment, from wich hey didn't recover till we left. In speakin to sich aqjenoios, men must be keerful uxthe words they yoose. I finisht my sflcch. The meetin then resolved they wuz htter than niggers', that they never wood coacnt to be taxed for the sake uv purse prom aristocrats; that the bonds shood be takn up with greentax ; that there shood be a-eturn to specie pay ment to wunst; and tht were willin to give millions, ef need "bs, to resist usurpa shen, but not one cent in Yxes in a uncon stitooshel manner. This resolooshn wuz pasted, when a col lection was taken up to payfor the candles. But alas! There wasn't nary a cent in the house, and I hed to pay fir em myself. Another little insident diddt please me. The State Central Committee hed furnißht me, ez it does all its speakers,with a twen ty dollar gold piece and a fifty <oilar bond, wich I wnz to exhibit, to showthe differ ence atween Ablishn and Democntic money. I shoved em at the people, andit excited them to madnis. I laid em on ; he table afore me. When the meetin wuz adjsurn ed, they wuz gone! Who took em I know not, but this ' do know, that the Cheerman uv the mee:in bed, next morniig, a new pair a shoes ani a hat, and wuz talc ing doubtfully of th propriety of taxri bonds. Igo from hen to Pennsylvania, tc fill .some appointments in the State. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M., (Wish is Postmaster.) ACTIVITY INDISPENSABLE TO NORMAL DEVELOPMENT. BY REV. HENRY WJ.RD BEECHER. The necessity of activty, the indispensa ble necessity of occupation, engagedness in it, continuous activity, work in all its multi plied forms—this is tht law of the human condition. It has been supposed by some that when it was declared to fallen man that with the sweat of his brw should he eat of his daily bread, labor vas introduced as a punishment, and that man was cursed with the necessity of working as the ground was cursed wit It weeds. But it will bear no such construction. It is organic. It anteceded any change iu man's moeql condition. It is evidently a principle inherent in man's primal state, that he shall be a being healthy by activity. And to siy that a man has had this super imposed is substantially affirming that he was made owr again. For this is a fundamental law pervading the whole economy of man —thatle shall be ac tive, that he shall work. It B the law of health; and health is the fountain of the lower forms of happiness, and it is the con dition, also, to a very large eitent, of the higher forms of happiness. Although it is uot immediately their cause, il is their con comitant and their condition. And there can be no such thing as vigor, robustness, or buoyancy of spirits, which is the token of it, without suitable exercise. There is no one law of labor, or work, or activity, which measures all men alike. What is active, and what is the measure of activity, is relative to each man's organiza tion, to his nervous system, to his bone and blood and muscle. The law is general that activity is the condition of health; and noth ing will more surely impair health than not to use one's self. Any part of a man's physical system—and, for that matter, any part of his moral or intellectual organization —which is long disused, becomes weakened if it does not become diseased. We know, in point of fact, that if a man be separated from his fellows, if he be confined closely in a cell where he can not use hand or foot, the effect is in the first instance terrible pain, and consequent upon that positive cn feeblement. Then come degeneration, dis ease, and premature death. A man can he killed as surelv by preventing activity, as by the administration of the steel or lead. Ac tivity is as indispensable to health as motion to the purify of water, or to the cleansing of the air. Mental exercise and bodily ex ercise are essential conditions of universal health among men. And as it is indispen sable to health, so it is indispensable to happiness. For we are creators, within a certain range. In one sense we are gods in creation. For although we originate noth- j ing, although that by which we work and upon which we work is prepared for us by the greater creative force, yet in our lower 1 sphere, and in our small measure, we make new combinations, and create even as God j in the greater sphere creates. And our j happiness is organic, and depends upon con- j ditions of activity—not a mere aimless mov ing, but cohering, organized, intelligent ! activity, not such activity as leads the in- j tolerable fly in these days of summer to buzz \ with amazing, appearance of doing, and yet doing nothing, nor that kind of incessant; pottering activity which springs from no motive, and accomplishes nothing; but that , activity which is an application of lawful ; means to proper ends. Beginning at the lower ranges of happiness, a man will be hap py iu the proportion in which he achieves, or hopes to achieve. The seeking to ac-1 coniplish, the compassing the ends sought, , and victory at every step —these furnish the whole measure of what may be called secu lar happiness. The same is true of the affections. It is their activity in accomplishing results, euar ding them, and guiding them, that consti tutes their happiness. Thsir motion is their rest. And it is equally true of the in- tellectual faculties and the moral sentiments that their application to the great ends or minor ends of life, and their constant activity go to constitute human happiness. There is no instinct more active and uni versal than that of seeking happiness. Philosophers have sometimes said that it was the fundamental instinct of human na ture. It certainly is a universal impulse. But in regard to no other instinct have more mistakes been made. Men have sought happiness in every conceivable way. They have sought it by the exercise of single faculties, and by the exercise of a great variety of faculties. They have sought it by avoiding activity, and by being too in tensely active. Moderation and excess have both been practiced for the sake of happiness. Now, a right end of life, that develops aod moderately taxes every part of the whole organization, an aim which keeps alive, and whets and renders active every part of the[human economy, will reap as much of the lower measures of happiness as it is possible for a man to reap in this world. Ido not believe there is any such as happiness for a man that is not active, —and active, too, with an aim and and intent. Intelligent and worthy activity, in all parts of a man's nature, continued through life, is the secret of happiness. Mechanics know very well tbat a machine is injured more by lying still without using than by moderate and normal usings. An engine will wear out sooner if it be put up in the shop than if it be run upon the road. And if a man has no daily tasks that he is obliged to per form, and spends his time in idleness and in activity, he will not live out half his days; while if he spends his time in regular indus try, he will be apt to be long lived. Land lords know that the worst tenants in the world for their d welliogs are nobodys. They | know that houses that are given over to impure air, and mould, and dust, will fall to pieces faster than hou. es tbat are used, And so it is with the human mind. There is no way in which it can be dilapidated tas ter, or brought into morbid conditions sooner, than by indolence. The only law of usefulness is continuous, organized, and well-directed activity. It is true that the same amount of activity will produce very different measures o{ useful ness in different persons. One soil, if it be exceedingly sandy, will produce but twenty fold. Another soil, of clay, will produce fifty fold. Another soil, of deep vegetable loam, will produce a hundred fold. And so men are rich, richer, and richest in their endowments, and the same amount of exer cise will produce different degrees of pro duct in different men. But, notwithstand ing, the universal law of usefulness is that men are to hs useful in proportion as they are active. I make this remark with the more em phasis because of the impression which pre vails, particularly among the young, that men are endowed with a kindoffruitfulness ofnatuie which only requires opportunity to develop itself. It is what is usually call ed ffentux. There is an impression that if a man is a man of genius, he comes to knowledge without study; that if a man is smart, and is a utan of taste; if he is in com merce, in politics, iD scholastic pursuits: if he is a public man of any sort, he does things abundantly and easily without labor. But the reverse is true. In proportion as a man is useful, he is constantly industrious. The products of a man's mind, the products of a man's nature, are useful, and eminently so, in proportion to the ceaseless activity that is imparted to the one or the other. There is no man born so great that he can afford to be indolent There is no man, though his head be as massive as M eb ster's, but needs to study and to ponder. There is no man, though he be endowed like Michael Angelo, but needs to be what he was —the roost laborious man of his age. Though like Titian, one ha; all artistic taste, and live to the age of a hundred years, it is not simply his genius, but the power with which he applies himself, and his continu ous industry, that mark and register his usefulness. A man in life with one talent will be greatly useful if he knows how to keep that talent wisely employed;hut a man with ever so many talents will be of little use if he does not know how to employ them wisely. It is a mistake, therefore, to suppose that because a man is largely en dowed he does not need to be industrious and active. Every one should make up his mind in the beginning that whatever facul ties God has given him, the condition of his holding them is ceasless activity therein. In the light of these facts, let us consider the almost universal repinings of men at the condition in which they find themselves, if not in words, yet in thought, where taxation is perpetually laid upon them, and they are necessitated to work. 1 think if you were to go from man to man in all the ordinary channels of life, you would find very few men, if you took them at that hour when they made their secret complaints, who did not labor under the impression that though they should lie resigned to their condition, it was a condition of misfortune that they were obliged to exert themselves. The young man, beginning in life, says to him self: "I am obliged to rise early, and sit up late, and lal>or incessantly; hut I hope for a better time." Ah, yes, that better time is the fool's paradise of laziness! He is obli ged to work now; but he looks forward to th e time wheuhe will not be under the necessity ol working. He points to the favored tons, as he calls them, of rich men, who were not boru to work, and who are useless and worse than useless in society, and laments ; that, instead of having what seems to tiro to be their good fortune, he is doomed to a life of severe toil. But I tell you, what yen think to be their good fortune has been their ruin, and this necessity of laboring VOLUME 10; NO. 44. has been your salvation. It has been that which has made you what you have been, and what you are still. It has been a token of God's mercy to you. And instead of be moaning your condition, thank God for it. And let every man. if ho is wise, and knows what is for his benefit, when lie feelg the pressure of necessity goading him on, not attempt to escape from its requirements. Simplify them if you will by your imagina tian, clothe them as you may, make them soem agreeable if you can; but, after all, the exercise of brain and bone and sinew is your blessing. The economy in which you live* that obliges you to task these to make them ver satile and continuous in their action, to ap ply them everywhere— to hew with them, as though they were an sx; to pierce with them, as though they were a spear; to con test with them, as though they were a sword—this is God s gift to you. The man that has to work, and does work, is the blessed fellow; and he that is not obliged to work, and does not work, is the cursed fel low. And yet men accept this condition of freshness, of vigor, and health, and happi ness, and self-respect, as if it were a sign and token of bondage, as if it were a dis graceful harness. THE ENNOBLEMENT OF LABOR. Two hundred years ago nobody thought of conceding anything like dignity to physi cal labor, and the toilers of the world had but few acknowledged rights. In England, as late as 1813, the wages, the hours of la bor, and even the meal-times of journeymen mechanics were regulated by law, and em ployers who paid their workmen more than the legal stipend were liable to be fined. But the laboring millions have made a mighty stride since then. Here and in Great Britain skilled industry in every branch of useful art frequently takes issue with capital on the question of wages, and as ofteu as not wins the day. The working classes of the United States understand and apply the fable of the "Bundle of Sticks." The political system under which they live teaches them the value of union, and their protective organizations are formidable bod ies, to whose "moral suasion" "Associated Capital" finds it expedient to listen respect fully. When any one of these organizations "strikes" for a higher rate of remuneration. Capital either yields gracefully in the be ginning, or makes a compromise, or fights it out to the bitter end. In the latter case, the combined long purses almost always get the best of the combined short ones, and the malcontents eventually fall back into their old places at the old rates. There ought not, however, to be any quarrels be tween capital and labor. Their interests are identical, and in this country not only one, but indivixiUe. On the other side of the Atlantic capital begets capital, but here labor begets it too. Mechanics may become millionarcs and porters merchant prinees; and such are the advantages offered to labor in this market that the intelligent, prudent and energetic toiler is bound to rise, and as he rises to be honored. In Europe the diff erent classes of society simply repeat them selves. When a member of a subordinate class makes his way into the charmed circle of the aristocracy, it is regarded as an inno vation. Families with "coat armor" look with sublime contempt on beings who have conquered fortune in their shirt sleeves. In the lands infested with "privileged orders" the fabric of society is always pretty much the same. Each portion of the structure is renewed from generation to generation with one kind of material. With us it is other wise. Our social fabric is a piece of mosaic and the process of tesselation is continually going on. Side by side with a bit of porce lain we place a chunk of serviceable delf, and the other day we variegated the edifice, rather extenstvely, with ebony. Ancestors count for nothing with us. We judge of men by what they do, and rate them accor dingly. If any man is "noble" in this coun try, it is the self elevated worker. SIGNIFICANT IX-IIEBEL ITTEBANCES.— The famous rebel Genera! Barringer, of North Carolina, has written a lengthy let ter to the Charlotte (N. C.) Keicx, in which he accepts colored suffrage as a logical re sult of the war. While North as a prison er of war, he says he made it a special ob ject to study the tone and temper of the Northern people, particularly the character of Yankee society and the workings of Yankee institutions, and that he arrived at the following conclusions : I. That the masses of all classes in that section were disposed to treat the South kindlv, and even liberally, if ovr peopfe— especially the leaders—only came out fairly and squarely to the great results of the war. 11. But, that negro suffrage teas destined to come in some form, no sane man could doubt. ill. That the Republican party was the power with which the South had to deal. This great party embraced the live men of the North. _ IV. The very existence of the South re quired her to ae/ptiesci in, if she could not sanction, the policy of this victorious party, as the best representative of the conquering power. But for myself I came to the con clusion, after full reflection, that the highest interests of the South would be promoted by her people embracing, so far as the;/ could conscientiously do so, the progressive ideas of that party. THERE is said to be fun in numbers, but most people think it included principally in No. I. At all events the faith of the world is pinned rather closely on that brief, but rather positive figure. Men keep an eye on it when seeking fortune and fame; women after a husband and position; and people . unitersally when there is anything up worth I having. This is all natural enough. The I fun in life is in pocketing all you can get and at the same time keeping other people s I pockets as dry as possible. No discount on 1 these facts. THE New York Time* speaks as follows concerning the '* forthcoming !" trial of J EFT. DAVIS: "An exchange paper states that Jeff Davis is to be tried next month. Unless we are mistaken we have seen something of that sort before. His offence was commit ted, we believe, several years since, and con sisted in taking up arms against the United Slates, —in 'adhering to their enemies and giving them aid and comfort.' It is gener ally supposed that his counsel have managed to put off the trial from year to year, so that all those who could be witnesses against him inay die or become superannuated; but those who remember the lacU of the case, (and they are growing fewer in number every year.) say that this is not the ease, —that Davis has been anxious for a trial from the beginning, but the Government has never been'ready.' The rumor that be is to be tried now, or ever, meets no credit The witnesses arc dead or scattered, —the pa- I>ers are lost, and it is not at all certain that either the Judge or the jury would know Davis if they were to see him." \ ot'xo LADY. —"Going to make a flower bed here, Smithers? Why, it'll quite spoil our croquet ground!" Gardener—"Well, that's your pa's orders, Miss. He'!! hev it laid out for 'orticulture, not for 'usbandry." WHAT do you mean by a cat-and-dog life?" said a husband to bis angry wife. "Look at Carlo and Kitty asleep on the rug together; I wish men lived half as peacea bly with their wives." "Stop," said the lady: "tie them together and see how they will agree f" A NEGRO returning from church was in ecstacies over the sermon, declaring it was the best he had ever heard. Some one ask ed him to repeat a part of it, when lie scratched his woolly head and replied "nebber mocksde preacher." SENATOR WILSON, at a political meeting held on Monday evening list, at Marlboro,' Mass., after reciting the predictions he had made at different times, and their more than fulfilment, then stated that General Grant would be elected President by the votes of not less than thirty States, and would be supported by a two-thirds majority of both Houses of Congress. The ever loyal white men, the repentant rebels, and the six hun dred thousand enfranchised colored men arc to reconstruct the Southern States, and send a majority of Republican Senators and Rep esentatives to Washington. AN editor down South says he wouid as soon try to go to sea upon a shingle, make a ladder ol fog, chase a streak of ligutning thiough a crab apple orchard, swim up the rapids of the Niagara river, raise the dead, stop the tongue of an old maid, or set Lake Erie on fire with a wet match, as to stop lovers from getting married when they take it into their heads to do so. THE following laconic correspondence re cently passed between two neighbors : "Mr. B . I see no good reason why your piggs should run at large in my garden. D . Mr. M . I sec no good reason for your spelling pig- with two g's. B . A LADY residing on "Hemlock Side, went out shopping, promising her little son she would get him a cocoa-nut. She pro cured one with the husk on, in which state he had never seen one. On arriving at home, she gave it to the boy, who look at it curiously, smiled, and laid it down. Present ly he said, "Mother, where's mv cocoa nut?" "I just gave it to you," she re plied. Taking it up again, he viewed it contemptuously for a moment, and exclaim ed —"That thing a cocoa-nut! 1 thought i it was a t caterfall A very natural mis take. OH! the bonnets of mv girlhood—the kind I wore to sehool. I really thought them pretty —I must have been a fool. And yet I used to think myself on hats a jaunty miss : perhaps I was, as fashion went —but what was that to this? Oh ! the lovely lit tle buckwheat cake—the charming little mat! it makes my head so level and so very, very flat. Oh ! a sister's love is charming, as every body knows, and a handsome cou sin's love is nice (that is, I should suppose); and the love of a true lover is a love that cannot pall—but the love of a new bonnet is the dearest love of ali. AN industrious blacksmith and an idle dan dy courted a pretty girl, who hesitated which of them to take. Finally she said she would marry whichever of them could show the whit est hands. With a sneer at the blacksmith the dandy held out his palms white from idle ness. The poor blacksmith hid his brawny hands in his pockets, then drawing them out filled with bright silver coins he spread them over his dusky fingers. The girl decided that his fingers were the whitest. DEPENDENCY. —The race of mankind, would perish, did they cease to aid each other. From the t?tae the mother binds the child's head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death damp from the brow of the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid, have a right to ask it of their fellow mortals. No one who has the power of granting it can refuse it without guilt SOCRATES, at an extreme age, learned to play on musical instruments. Dryden in his sixty-eighth year commenced the translation of the Iliad : and his most pleasing produc tions were written in his old age. Franklin did not fully commence bis philosophical pursuits till he had reached his fifteeth year. It is never too old to learn. LIVE so as to be prepared for a short liie, an you may ornament many years happily. "ISN'T it pleasant to be surrounded by so many ladies?" said a pretty woman to a popular lecturer. "Yes," said he, "but it would be pleasanter to be surrouuded by one. A RUIXTKR never leaves any money at borne for fear of fire, and never carries auy with bira for fear of robbers, nor deposits in any bank for fear of speculative bank officers. WHAT is that must be taken from you be j fore you can give it away? Your photograph. HEIOHT of absurdity—a vegetarian at a cat , tie-show. THE poorest man in the world is one who has nothing but money. WHY is fire paradoxical ? Because the more it's coaled the hotter it gets.
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