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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.