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n / at. the following rates ;
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with "itmttioe, at th<- cap''ration of the tiiue for
which the MlWcrfptJoß has besii paid.
Single copies of the pa* et fui i.Uheu, ;u wrappers,
at tire cents each.
t' ; iiuunications on subjects of local or general
i r<K ire refpectfolly solicited, fo ensure at
teoi-n. rav >r* uf tht? kind must invariably be
h< . ..:av.i by the am© of the author, not f>r
publication, but as a guaranty agaisftt imposition.
AH letters pertaining to business of the office
I (-h'juMhc addressed to
I>L*RBORROW K LUTZ, BEDFORD, PA.
i'rofvssisnal & guisiatiss (Sards.
ATTOMKYS AT LAW.
1 OHNT. KEAGY,
L '.TTDRNUVATLAW.
... ' ffi.-i! ipp-.site Reed A SchcH'f Rank.
. its in Knglii-k r.ii German. [*pt2B]
* ; ;I.'. •.V ruLis III.XI'"KLTI:R,
j \ A i IOKNEYS AT LAW. neiironn, ex.
■ 'jinied ; ; -nrrchip in the pneetiee of
.an uSeeen Juliana Street, two dws South
■e V.cDgei U<.- e. [April 1, ISfrt-tf
\I. A. I'OEN .
i .V ."I'OHALV AT LAW, fiEiirotn, Fx,
- ■ tfully l.n;i a his professional .-luuflu
(■ . •. X'l". v ni.h J. W. LingeuWter,
n Juliana stree:.
t: -us p ■ iy male. [Dec.S/fl-l-tL
T I A\ i. ■ IRVINE,
J 1 ATIOKN'RT AT LAW,
i tl.lulkf an l promptly attend ' a'i luisi
; ■ 1 ■ 1- ; arc. tliw eilis H. .-pans,
, street, three * ors • nth oi th<-
. Mouse. May 24;1y
5 r-sPY M. V l-S 1 !*,
ill ATTOKNEV AT LAW, Rfiitrcun, PA.,
.11 f*-' . Ally and promptly attend to all busi
* ■ entrusted to his care ill Bedford andadjoin
■r.iitie?. Military c'niir r, Fensi-nr, back
i, V unf Ac. Ef- e 'ily collected. Office with
i '■■ ir:j. • ti Juliana street, 2 doors south
: Me.tgel House. a;4l. 18S-4.—tf.
, .• , , J. W. lIICKEII9OS
\ I i.YERS A DICKEKSON.
Ji ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BBDP 811. I'KSS'A.,
ne; :! J.r te the Mengel House, will
pra lice in the reverul Courts of Bedtord county".
, V . unties and 1 . k pay obtaiued and trie
purchase of Real Estate attended to. [mayll,'6-ly
I li. CESSNA,
J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
e nith JOHN CKSSNA, D the square near
>he I'retbylerian Church. All business
entrusted to bis care will receive faithful arid
• •A - n. Military Claims. Pensions, Ac.,
ecdiiy collected. " [June 9, 188 d.
P B. STUCK FY,
\ I'TO!. XEY ANl> COEN-KLLOU AT LAW,
.••REAL E.BTATK AGENT,
•B-i :■ Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth,
dpi dp the Court llou.-e.
" KAN.-A- CX'l'Y. MISSOURI.
W ractii e '.n the adioioir.g Counties of Mis
-1 Kansas. July 12:tf
1 . " : „..J. H. LOSGESECKER
j > ..-ELI. A LONGENECKEK,
VTTORNEVS A COOSSELLONA AT LAW,
Bedford, Pa..
V. ..trend promptly and faithfully to all bu.-i
--etitrusted t. their care. Special attention
to collections and the prosecution of claim,
r Back l'av. Bounty, Pensions, Ac.
. -- Office on Juliana street, south of the Court
jj. .. Aprits:lyr.
-HARPE K. Y. KERB
Ci UVKPE k KEKR.
0 ,1 Trousts YS-A T-LA
Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad
joining counties. All business entrusted to their
euro will receive . .ireful and prompt attention.
Pensions, 1- unty, But Pay, Ac., speedily col-
Seirff.i from ' .■ G. veruuient.
(■ffice 'i Juliana street, opj .-ite the banking
house of Reed A ik-hcll, Bedford, Pa. mmr2:tf
j. . . JOBS LUTE, j
r \URIiOKII)W A IA'TZ,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
llEiipoßn, PA.,
attend t romptl, to all business intrusted to
a,e. i' ile.'.ions made on the shortest no
acy arc, it'.- regularly licensed Claim Agents
! :ive .. :ur ', 1 iittcntioo to the prosecution
>'-r The G ■eminent ft>r Tensions,
:'ay, Bounty, : tunty I yndg, kc.
PC Ju i. T >treel, one do-f £outb of the
el liou-t " and nearly -ppofiite the Inquirer
April 28. lSos:f.
PluVSli'i A>"S.
11TM \V. j VMISOJf, X. I>..
\Y BLOODY RT X. PA..
• i.rv ten<lcrt* bif profe -ionul services to
• fthat j laee ur<i vicinity. [decß:iyr
Oil. R. F. HARRY,
Re--t-i tiuily tender- his profc*si.nal <r
. iues to the iti?.eTs of Bedford and vicinity,
id e and residence on Pitt Street, in the building
rmerly occupied by i>r. J. H. Hofius. [Aj.'i 1,04.
f L. MABBOUItfi, M. D.,
'J • li;r rig permnneiitiy kited rc->jv; ■tfully
uders hi- pt fe.-. u nal services to tae citizens
Bedif-itl .Tr.d vi inity. Office on Juliana street,
- tf the l> ::nh, one door north ol Hall i£ Pal-
April 1. IS' ♦ —tf.
1 \P.. S. ti. TATI.ER. near Scbellshurg. and
J[ / 1: 3. J. CLARK K. forn:erly of Cunir.er].fn i
county, having associated in the prac
3e i nc, respectfully "iler thv ; r profes
• : to the '.r .'.en- : Schcdlsburg and
i. v. I>r. Clarke's office and residence
i<-'i by J. White, Eaq.. dee'd.
S. G.
urg, . ril 12:Iy. J.J.CLARKE.
HOT :£,*.
ASII IN GTO N HOT EL.
hi: L.ri-e .'nd commodious house, hariug been
! ,;;kcn by L B subacriber, i. now open ! r there
■ j tion of visitors and ' arJers. The room- ire
_ . wiventi'eted. and ci>iijf.rtably furnished,
t.i w:li alitu be supplied with the
; uarketcan afford. The Bar is stocked with
vh " * li*; • In sb ■'*. i: is my purpose
keep a I'll T-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking
pub! for , t i.i\ 'B. I respectfully scdicit a
renewal •! their pat '-noge.
N. B. 11;;. ws will run eou tantly between the
llotel aad the Spring.
;; 17. Ely WM. LIBERT, Prop'r.
Y I ORRISON HOTJSR,
31 HUNTINGDON. PA.
I have pur chased and entirely renovated the
large s?' re and building opposite the Penn
sylvania Railroad Depot, and have nw opened it
:■+ ihc act .liimwlatwn of the trav, Hir.g public.
The Car ; ' ts. uroPuro, Beds and Bedding are all
e rely or . .. .d hist cla s, and I am safe in say
in/ thai I < *n olI r accommodations not excelled
in i"en ?, al Pennsylvania.
I refer to my patrons who have formerly kn-xwn
m while in charge of the Broad Top City Hotel
ad Ju' k- vn House.
: 2mrf JOSEPH MORRISON.
HnCtaULAIEOCHL
I > ITPP A SHANNON, BANKUII-,
I 1 ISEIFORP, PA.
V. A OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
•• • n- ..a le f r the East. We t, North and
. and the general burrinesi of Earhangc
i. N !es and Accounts Collect®! and
pittance? jrorrjitlyma*le. ItEAL ESTATE
■ ■ . t and sold. feb22
j .ANIKI. BORDER,
I ' PITT STUF.KT, TWO LOOKS WEST or THE Kl>
roiso HOTEL, BEBRANN, I'A.
W .TCI! MAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES?. AC.
•: Hand a sb ■!. of fine Gold and Sil
ver V- ateht -peetaelos of Brilliant Double Ilefin
-1 ai><. tch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Wat h Chain., Breast I'ins. Finger Kings, best
, 'ily of U'ld Pecs. He will supply to order
ibing in his line not on hand. {-i'r.2S,'Bs.
J \ W.CHOUSE
1 '. v UOLK-- \Lk; TOBACCONIST,
On 1' r: -rrtet two doors west of B. F. Harry's
: M Bedford, Pa., is now prepared
•! by wholesale all kinds of CIOAKA All
promptly filled. Persons desiring anything
in his line will do well to give him a call.
1 .edford, Oct 20. '85.,
OI'KBOKKOW A LUTE Editors and Proprietor*.
Jottni.
FAR AW AY.
"The land that is very far eft."—lsa. xxxii 17
Upon the shore
Of Evermore
We sport 'ike children at their pisy:
And gather shells
Where sinks and swells
The mighty sou from faraway.
Upon that beach
Nor T .ice nor speech
Doth things intelligibly say;
But through our souls
A whisper rolls
I hat comes to us from faraway.
In to our ears
The voice of years
Conies deeper, deeper, day by day:
We sloop to hear
As it draws near,
Its aw fulness from far away.
At what it tells,
We drop the shells
We were so full of yesterday,
And pick no more
Upon that shore. •
But dreatn ol brighter far away.
And o'er that tide,
Far out and wide.
The yearnings of our souls do stray:
We long to go
We do not know
Where it may be, but far away.
The mighty deep
Doth slowly creep
Upon the shore where we did play:
The very sand
Where we did stand
A moment since, swept faraway.
Our playmates a!!,
Beyond our call,
Are passing hence, as we, too, may,
Up to that shore
Of Evermore,
Beyond the boundless far away.
We'll trust the wave,
And Him to save
Beueath whose feet at marble lay
The rolling deep,
For he can keep
Our souls in that dim far away.
Mi^tclLmcou.s.
THE HOUSE OF KOTHST IIIJ.DS.
THE BED SHIELD.
Come with in<> to the en em part of the
I city—the old town —where you will discover
scarcely a sign of modern architecture, iI e
street* are narrow ; the hou-c* !- au toward
each other from npp:.-it" sides of wv.
a* if they were friend* about to fall iittova h
other's arm*. It is the Jew's quarter. The
door-way- are crowded with women and
ehildr n—all bearing the unmistakable Fu
tures which, the world over, characterizes
this heroic people—rejected of God, despised
f of men, persecuted a* no other nation has
; over been, scattered everywheie. yet retain
ing their nationality, t ndoWvl with a vita i
ty which has no parallel in the human race.
We turn down the Judeti-'a-se, the Jew -
alley, from the chief thoroughfare of the
: modern town. In this sire- one hundred
and twen^'- four years ago. lived .i dealer iu
| old clotliS who had a red shield t -r a sign,
which in German read-. Roth Child. It
I was iu 1743 that a child wa* lairo to this
; Israelite The name given to the boy wa*
j Anseitu Myer; who al-o became a clothes
i dealer aud a pawn broker, -ucceeding to
j the business oi his father. By degrees he
i extended hi* bu.-imlending money at
high ram- of interest during the war* of the
| last century, managing his affairs with such
' skill that Prince Wiliiani the Landgrave
made him hi* banker. W ben Napoleon
came across the Rhino, in 1 M)f>, the clothes
dealer was directed to take care of the treas
ure of the Prince, amounting to twelve mil
lion* of dollars, which he invested so judici
ously that it brought large im-rea-es to the
owner, and espteially to the manager.
This banker died in 1812, leaving an es
tate estimated at |"),000,000 — not a very
latge sum these days—hut he left an injune
tion upon his son*, which was made Undine
by an oath given by Ids son* around hi
dealh bed, which has had and still has a
powerful influence upon the woiid. The
son* bound theiusclve • by an oath, holding
his property in partnership, extending the
bu-ines*, that the world might know i f hut
on-- house of the t d skidd! (Rothehild. J
The sons were true to their oath. Nathan
went to Manchester, England, a* early a*
!7'J7. but afterwards moved to London. —
An-elm remained at Frankfort, James went
to l'aris, Snhmon to Vienna, nr. i Charles to
Naple*. the five brothers thus occupying
great financial -entn s. Nathan in London
auia-- d money with gn at raj iditv, and the
same may be ,-ai lof all tl other.-, the wars
of Napi ie- :i being favorable to the bu -ine*-
!of the hue. Nrstbau went to the Conti
nent to witness the operation- of Wellington
in hi* last campaign against Na; • h uti, pre
pared to act with th-- uuuo-1 energy, let the
result be w hat it might. He witnessed the
i-attlc of Waterloo, and, when assured of
Napoleon s defeat, rode all night, with K
| lays of horse-, to Oxford; went aero.-- th
i channel in a fi-hing smack—for it wasbefore
the day- of steaui —reached L mdoti in ad
vance of all other messengers, and spread
j the rumor that. Wellington aid lJlueher
; r -re defeated. The 20ih of Ju:r in that
| n.euiorabie year was a dismal day in L .udoii.
The battle wa* fought on ti: l*'th.
: Myer, ol the house of Red Shield, by hard
riding, reached Ixoudon at midnight on the
19th. On the morning of the 20th th: new
; was over town that the ean-e of il .-a'di--
wa- lost, and that N.ipoleou had swept rd
before him. England had liceu the leading
spirit iu the *trugg! .main.-t Na; <• -on. The
treasury of Great Britain had supplied fund*
to nearly all of the allied powrs. If their
; e-iu-e was lost, what hope w th: to for the
i future '.' Bank' - flew from t'o,,r door iu
ejger ha*te to ell their stockt* Fund* ,il
every <ie -ription went down. An- Itn My
er wag i.f-eige-i h. men won had-fund* for
*.!••. Winn would they give? But mean
j while he had '■(■.•■ res of ag nts purchasing.
Twenty four h.m - : rrr Welbngton'* to -
seoger a.fi-.. lin London; *}- truth was
known. The nation gave v-ot to its joy;
upwcuttlie funds, pouring, it i* .-aid, five
millions of dollatg into the e-ifers of tin* one
: branch of the house of the Red Shit-id 1
\ LOCAL AND GENERA D NEVVSI'AI'EU, DKVOTKI) TO ] OMTICB, EDUCATION, LITERATI JRE AND MORALS.
Though Frankfort is a comparatively
stnal! city, though it has no imperial court,
it is still a great money centre, solely because
that h re is the c-ntral house of the Ruths
child* and other bankers.
The house of the Red Shield is the great
est banking house of the world—the might
ieet of all ttme. Its power is felt the world
over —in the Tuileriea of l'ari*, in the iro
j.etiai palace at St. Petersburg, in the Vati
can at Rome, in the Bank of England, in
Wall street; State street and by every New
England fire.-ide. The hints.- t! the Red
Shield, by the exercise cf'itsfinancial power
can make a difference in the yearly account
of every man wl. reads these word* of
mine! TSuuch Am elm 3dyor has been
li i'ifae- tilury dead; though several of his
uis have gone down to the grave, the
house i> the saute. The grandchildren have
the spirit of the ftiildren. The children of
tiie brothers have intermarried, and it is
one family, animated by a common pur
pose, that the world shall know only one
red shield
AMERICAN BONDS.
The house, at an early stage of the Amer
ican war, took hold of the United States
bonds Germany had confidence in Ameri
ea. England strove for our ruin, but the
I eopl-j of the Rhino believed in the star of
American liberty. Fifty years of peace had
been long enough to bring wealth to
tl is land, and so with every steamer orders
were sent across the Atlantic for investment
in American securities. It is supposed that
Germany holds, at the present time, about
three hundred and fifty millions of the Unit
id States bonds, an i it is said that there
have been no less than fifty million dollars
profit to the bankers of Frankfort on Amer
ican scout ities since 1.803!
The gn at banking houses here make little
show. The transaction* of the Rothebiid*
amount to millions a day, and yet the opera
li'itis are conducted asquietly'as the business
of a small counting bouse. You can pur
ebai-e any stock here. Passing along the
streets I noticed bonds of the Suto of Cali
fornia —of several American States—of the
Uniied States—bond* in Dutch, Ru-rian,
Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian. French—
b,.;ib.; of all laud:—of States, cities, towns
and companies. The report* of the Frank
fort exchange are looked at by the European
bankers with as much interest as that of
London or Paris.
Erianeer, the banker who negotiated the
rebel ootton loan, and who fleeced English
sympathisers with the South out of fifteen
million dollars, ha.- house' here. He has
ju.-t now taken hold of the new Tunisian
loan, but hi management of the rebel loan
has brought discredit upon hi* house.
The power of the Red Shield was felt by
Prussia last summer. The Prussian Gov
ernment demanded an indemnity of great
amount, twenty five million of dollars, I be
lieve, from the city of Frankfort. The head
of til--* house cl iln- Red Shield informed
Count Bismarck that if the attempt was
made to entbice that levy lie would break
every I ank in Berlin ; th .c he had the pow
er to do it, and that he should exercise the
power. Pru-sia tiad won a victory at Koen
igi aiz; she could sweep away all opposition :
but here, in the person of one man, she had
met an adversary who had the power to
huiuLlo lier. xiul Ji.i il*,-,iii,..l 11 .
A much lower sum was agreed upon, wliicu
was paid by the city.
TIIE BOTITIs. im.lis AND THE I'OI'E.
For f.!teen centuries the .Jew* have been
cursed by tlie Pop l ', and persecuted by the
Roman Churclt. There is no more revolt
ing eh i fit. rof horrors in hi-- ry than that
of the treatment of the Jew- at the hands
of the I'ontiiK In all lands where the Ro
man re !i a ion is dominant the children of Is
rael have been treated with barbaricrigor—
niiow d few privileges, denied all rights,
looked upon u- a j "ph: accursed of God,
and St t apart by divine ordination f o be
trampled upon by the church. In Rome,
at the present day, the Jews arc confined to
the Ghetto ; they are not a lowed to set up
-a shop in any other part „ft ty ; tl y
cannot . leave the city without a pern it ;
they can engage only in certain trades ; they
j are c impelled to pay enormous taxes into
the I'apal treasury; they are subject to a
i stringent com of law- esial is-hed by the
I Pope lor their special government; they are
! imprisoned and fined for the most trivial of
\ fences.
i They catinoi own any real estate in the
j city; cannot buiiJ or rear down or remodel
! any dwelling, or change their place of bu-i
--iic. without Papal permission, They are
in abject slavery, with no rights whatever,
1 and entitled to no privilege.- and receive
none, except upon the gracious condescen
sion of the Pone. In fo.-mcr times they
were unmercifully whipped and compelled to
1i - ten once a wv. k t > the Cln i.:tiau doctrine
of the priests. But time is bringing cluing; a
The P..pe i- in want of money, and the
house of the Red Sni> Id lias money to lend
on good security. The house is always
ready to accommodate g ivcrtiments. Italy
wants money, so In sells her fine system
|of railroads to the Rothschilds. '1 he Pope
i wants money, and he send- his Nuncio to
| w althv hous-es of the despi-ed race, oilers
j (htm security on the property of the church,
! (he Camp.igna, i.n 1 receives ten million dol
| iars to inaii.tain his army and Imperial State.
: i hat was in I^os, A year passes and the
Puntificial expenditures an; five millions
i more thai) the income, and the deficit is
iiiiidc up by th Rothschilds, who lake a
j second secm-iiv at a higher rate of inter -t.
Another v .r !,:: p:i-xd in 1 ih'iv is a third
! great annual v : uutu in tie Papal treasury of
i us million-, which quite, lik !y will be tilled
It the sam ■ h.-u.c. Th firm can do it with
jas much -tftc as your readers can pay their
yearly sub-cri; 'ions to the weekly Journal.
|\\ inn will tl.u l'et redeem his loan at the
rate h• is i.oing? Never. Manib. stly the
. >i y is not distant when she-e representatives
of the per.secotod race will have all the avail
able property of the church in their posses
sion. Surely time wi rks wonders.
■ -*■ s~
J CBII.EE LIT' TTLR RKFUHMATIPN.-— On the
•j I■t of October, 1 17, Martin Luther nailed
upon the door of the church of-Witteriborg,
! oil, ty five these against the doctrine ofin
• dul.'once- D'Aubigne says of this simple
ict of a single man "Scarcely had they
been naiad to the church door, than the
('• eble sounds of the hammer wer-; followed
, rhtuiighout all Germany by u mighty blow
thru rcaeoc i even tin foundations of haugh
ty Rome, threatening with sudden itiiu the
w.dls. the c;:'i . rul pillars of popery,
-miming and terrifying her champions, and
it the snuiii time awakening tb.on-ands from
| the sleepci error. The Jcifherans of this
in'; ■ c bdira'ed th; three hundred
and fiftieth • turn of thi- day, one of
ihi m.n; t \ i n- fu! in the hist.oty of the world,
iind wiii devote the thank-offerings of the
y ar to the endowment of some of their in -
, stim! ions of lea . nine.
Wr moot all of us be beautif ii, but the
j j :,';r i.ti.i -s of a gOOd liUUiored look is de
i::-;d to n u'. We ad of us, increase and
a 1 o "rengt ben tbe family affections and the
delights of home.
BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1867.
CLOSE UP MEN!
Many a soldier knows ti ; meaning of
these words. They mean /'The enemy is
at hand, prepare to meet him. Ail trivial
aud alb serious matters, must gtveway to
this evil. Amusements and business must
alike bo immediately dropped arid every sol
dier-oiubt snatch his arms and run to his
po* , and fight hi* be.-t for God and his
country. AH coldnesses, allocations, and
petty quarrels must be forgotten, and sol
diers must regard each other as brethren in
the presence of the common enemy. Your
comrade's politics, or family, or trade, his
personal appearance or demeanor, cease to
be considered; the only question row is, Is
he a true man and a brave soldier ? If so
he will show it by obeying the word of
command "'Close up, men." The traitors
and coward; will be stragglers.
The enemy i* bearing down now apon the
Church ofChrist. The brigades of aiaterial
isin and atheism, and all forms of infidelity,
are massing themselves for the grqaul final
assault upon all that is called God 2nd that
is worshipped. In the Working Men's
Congress at Geneva, in the Trade Union* of
England, in the socialist conmtinities and
atheistic papers of France, in the workshops
and newspapers and political platforms of
America, the avowal is openly made of h->s
tility to any and every recognition of God.
"Josus impede* progress am must be re
moved," is the war cry of these men. The
Sabbath is tiic first outwork of the Church
attacked. Marriage, it is avowed openly,
will be the next. Then property, whether
in capital or land. Finally self government
is demanded, viz., the abolition ol ail laws
and governments. The numbers of this
vu.-t army of Satan are already formidable
and daily increasing. Three fourths of the
people of Protestant Europe worship no
God. The people of Payial Europe are even
more avowedly infidel. In the cities of
America, Germany, France an! Britain they
have their outposts entrenched already and
have defeated the Church in St. Louis. In
spite of a brave defeuee, the Church in New
York i-retreating slowly up town, overborne
by the advancing foe, who captures the tem
pies of God, and turns their batteries upon
Christians from the very places where
Chri-i's Gospel was Mean
while ho plants a dense mass of ungodly
residents ail around these monuments of
the Church's defeat.
Christ ha- viewed this state of tilings- and
now commands the trumpet to round the
rallying cry to his scattered soldiers, "Close
up in ti." If any are asleep and dreaming
of a i i*ant ecclesiastical home, and of ef
ficient dtiiominational boards, and philo
sophical theologies, and such like luxuries,
they must awake, and hurry to the front,
and they will find other things to think of.
Sectarian stragglers will speedily be cut off
in the advance of the mighty host. They
are only a weakness to the army. And sol
dier- who wiil not obey orders will be treat
ed as trait.- r.-. No squabbling on the battle
field. The question now is, Christ or Belial?
I lie cry on both -ides is "Close up men.'
—R. P. 01 A< l ork Obs'rc r.
A STKAXUK DELUSION.
.Yt Ko ,<•.' -—. .sintrin u lo ,*• <l.
hi- own interests, anil Inc realliy ot tilings,
as s sinner? Transport yourself to such
s in -as Hogarth painted. Here i a man
in a damp, dark cell, seated on a heap ol
s'.raw, and chained like a wild beast to the
wall. D ie* lie weep? I* he haunted bv
the re' rlleetion* of a happy home? Does
h . if you lock through the bars, entreß
you to take pity on him, to 100.- his fetters,
and let him go fr;e? No. He smiles,
ing--, i "Jgh*—and tho straw i* a throne; his
bar ee ■ a palaue; these rough keepers, ob
si quit.use urti r;; and he himself, a oiim
arch, the iiappicst of mortals, an object of
envy t > erowji d kings. Siranje and sad
dt-lu*; in 1 Yet, is that man m tmore be
-i le himself who, with a sou! formed for the
pure-t enjoy DI nts. delight* in the lowest
plea- ire-: who, ( intent with this poor
world, rejects the heaven in his offer; who,
■urcr' -ii;n "f insanity, hates in a heavenly
1 .tin r -rod a F ivicuir, those who love him;
who, in love with -in hug- his chains; lying
under the wrath of" God, is merry,
sings, aud dances on the thin crust that,
ever and air-n breaking bonettithe feet of
others, i* all that separate* him from an
abvs* of fire? The spectacle recall* tiie
words of Solomon: "I said of laughter. It
is madnes*; of mirth, What doeth it?"
Happy such a-, through the Spirit of God,
working by whatever means, have come to
tin mselves, like tlie prodigal; and arc seat
ed, like the maniac who dwrit among the
tombs, and at the feet of Jesus, clothed and
in their ricltt mind!— Dr. Guthrie.
ONI.Y ONE IIF.N I\ VENICE. —A Student
in one of the Briti*h military academies had
copied a drawing of a scene iu \ enice, and
in copying the title, had spelt the name of
the city Ueniii". The drawing master put
his pen through the superfluous letter, ob
serving: _ "Don t you know, -ir, there is but
one ht'ii in \ enice ? On which the youth
burst out laughing. B ing a-ked what he
was laughing about, lie replied he was
thinking kmc uncommonly scarce ct/ys must
beth-i t. Ihe master, in hi* wrath, repor
ted him to the colonel in command, a
Scotchman. He on hearing the disrespect
ful reply, without tire least perceiving the
i point of the joke, observed: "Ana varra
| nutui *1 tiliacj vati'./ti tix T —AlforvC* OJ'A4.X'
| English,
I'OLLOW THE RIGHT.— No matter who
you are, what your lot or where you live;
you cannot afford to do that which is wrong.
The only way to obtain happiness for your
self, i- lo tin (Jn right tinny, you may not
always hit the mark; but you should never
theloss, always aim for it, and with every
trial your skill will increase Whether you
are to be prxi- 1 or blamed for it bv others;
whether it will seemingly make you richer
or poorer, or whether no other person than
yourself knows of your action; still always,
and in all cases, tin the right thing. Your
first lessons in this will sometimes seem hard
ones, will grow easier and easier, until
finally, doing tho right thing will become a
habit, and to do wrong will seem an impossi
bility.
THE HOPE OF MAN.—Final success—the
' joy of life's ripe harvest, i* the goal of our
; hopes. No wi-e or thoughtful man will live
1 merely for to day. The pilgrim who seeks
a homei- not content to linger aud loiter for
; the mere flower.* beside his way. The sower
i looks onward to fields white aud ready for
the sickle. Wisdom ha* regard to the erand
j i**ue. The triumph or pl-asure of today
!is tran-itoty. We want a hope that docs
j not sink with the setting sun. The true
: *u. - - of"life is that which does not fail the
evening of out d o. - and leavetlieui to blight
or ' .uretiness. We want the shout of "liar
. ' ' home," that will not die into silence
with the failing breath, hut make* the pa.--
aat to the grave a whispering gallery where
' heaven an i earth talk together.
CIIAKLES DICKENS
In Kent, embowered in sloping hop fields,
stands Stapiehurst, a 'borough English vil
lage. On a sleep embankment hard by the
quiet hamlet long noisy trains rusb daily
from Condon to the sea, aud from the sea
coa-t towns to London again, bearing mails
and continental passengers. One briglit
summer morning some three year* ago there
was much disorder in Stapiehurst by reason
ot a sad accident on the high embankment.
A long train with a largeJourLst freight
had tumbled over into the meadow* lrelow.
A panting crowd rushed eagerly from the
village to the scene of wreck and disaster,
'be first sight that meets their eyes is a
kiut*y figure, tall and somewhat stooping,
crowned with an anxious face, hare-headed,
with grizzled hair and heard fluttering in
the breeze. Hi* dark, thoughtful eyes are
very pitiful and sympathetic, and hi* slen
der hand* beat welcome water to parched
and in some cases dying lipv* in a most un
usual goblet.
Perhaps some who had drank with de
light tbe draught administered by Charles
Dickens' brain are among those who quench
their thirst from the dripping hat wdierein
he brings them eool water from a neighbor
ing brook. In his pocket is a white parcel,
wrapped in paper, and bearing traces of re
cent Crushing: a parcel which is no less than
our as yet unborn "Mutual Friend," nearly
stifled in his birth. In truth, bothourcom
trion friends, the creator and created, were
terribly near utter obliteration.
V et, forgetful of bis dangers and his
bruises, Charles Dickens stands there filling
bis battered hat at the brook, a living re
proach to those who accused him of lacking
the softer attributes of humanity. Utterly
groundless and immeasurably base are the
generally believed tales that charge him
with domestic unhappines-. At hi* pleas
ant Kentish home, Gad's Hill, a most cheer
ful family party is gathered around hitn
every night. In the morning he work*
hard at his desk; in tbe afternoon he walks
abroad; in the evening he is always with his
family, opening their various amusement*
and happy chiefly in their happiness.
His son Charles i* a clever, popular
young man, English to the backbone, given
to athletic pursuits, and president of a
principal Ixindon hoat club. His eldest
daughter i* generally understood to have
written "Aunt Margaret's Troubles," and
is also credited with the novel at prtsent
appearing in All the Year Round aud Har
peris Weekly, entitled "Mabel's Progress."
Charles Dickens, the older, is uu-juestioixa
bly the ablest amateur actor iu England, and
a favored few describe with genuine admira
tion his wonderful representation, at his
own house, of some characters created by
bis friend, Wilkie Collins. Dickens has
once personally given the lie to wilful asser
tion. of his domestic infelicity, and we have,
from personal knowledge, no hesitation in
branding similar statements as counterfeit
and untrue.
In soci-.-ty, Dieksns is resorted and
thoughtful even to melancholy. His voice
is sweet and very clear, and its greatest
• harm is that it rings with his individuality.
He enter* into everything he says. So that
in bis readings hi- own apparent enjoyment
If, m\Ye fcn 1 !}!
(which is a most unfrequent. concession) his
earnest, sympathetic manner of narration
enlists everybody's interest.
His knowledge of human nature i- won
derful, excelling even that of Thackeray in
universality ! scope. His kindness is
boundlcsr. Sitting in the editorial cbair of
AH tbe Year Round, he has written to
poverty stricken contributors in term* of ad
v ice and sympathy, pointing out their short
coming* with tender touch, and giving
their merits a condescension unhappily too
rare.
GOOD BUSINESS MEN.
To njo one of the most admirable tilings
in the world is business punctilio. I think
it is rare to find very bad IHCD alucmg thor
ough business men. Ido Dot say that a
good bu-iness man is necessarily religious,
or even necessarily without vices, I mean
that it is simply difficult to be strictly hon
e-tin business, and sensitive in all matter
pertaining to business engagements and
j thoroughly" punctual in the fulfillment of all
| business obligations, and at the same time
! time to be loose in morals and dis.-ipated in
per.-onal habits. I have great respect for
' those rigid laws of the counting room which
regulate dealings Letwecu man and man,
and which make the counting room as exact
! iu all matters of time and exchanges as a
; banking house —which ignore friendship,
! affection, and all personal considerations
whatsoever —which place neighbors and
brothers on the same platform with cne
: uiies and aliens, and which make an auto
! crat of an accountant, who is, at the same
tin t, strictly and obediently subject of his
own laws.
I say it is hard for a man to enter as a
perfectly harmonious element into hisgrand
system of business, and submit himself to
its rigid rules, as to maintain his position
| with perfect integrity, and, at the same
time, be a very bad man. To a certain ex
tent, he hows to and obeys a high standard
of life. He may not always reeognize fully
the moral element which it embodies. He
may take a selfish view of the whole matter,
but he cannot be entirely insensible to the
principle of poraoual honor which it in
j volvi s, or fail to he influenced by the per
-1 s mal habits which it enforces.
! Some of the best business men I have
ever known have becu the most charitable
men I have ever known. Men who have
acquired wealth by rigid adherence to bu-i
--j uess integrity, who have sometimes been
; deemed harsh, and hard by those with whom
they have had business relations, have
sh ovn a liberality and generosity towards
i objects of charity which have placed them
among the world's benefactors. Men who
have exacted the last fraction of acent with
one band, in the way of business, have dis
burscd thousands of dollars with the other
in the way of charity.— Dr. Holland.
FAMILY COURTESY. —Family iutimaeies
should never make brothers and sisters for
get to be polite and sympathising to each
other. Those who contract thoughtless and
rude habit- towards the members of their
own family, \vill be rude and thoughtless to
the whole world. But let the family inter
course be true, tender, and affectionate, and
the manners of all uniformly gentle and con
siderate. and the memborsof the family thus
trained will carry into the world and society
the habits of their eh Id hood. They will
require in their a-.-oeiates -iuiilar qualities;
they will not be satisfied without mutual es
teem, and the cultivation of the best affec
tions. and they will be su>tained by that
faith in goodness which belong to a mind
exercised in pure and high thoughts.
IT is said.there is a man in New York who
can paint a piece of wood so much like mar
ble, that, on being placed in water, it will
: immediately sink.
YOLIMK 40: SO. 4
.E\LIMK AFFECTION.
JSr.-'rt " *<= make of our
fwntlydife. If our friendship, jf ovcry Mer#t
thought of love blossomed into a deed* W'e
are now speaking* merely of personal caret-,,.
es ofaneetion. Many are endowed with a
delicacy, or fastidiousness ofphy-ieal organi
zation, which shrinks away from too laueh
of these, rebelled. Cut there ate words and
looks, and little 01-crvanc.es, thougblfiil
n :-s"8 watchful little attentions which steak
of love, which make it marifesi. and there
is scarcely a family that might tint be richer
in heart wealth for more of them;
It is a mistake to suppo.-c that relations
must of course love each other bevau-e they
are relations. Love must be cultivated, and
can he increased by judicious culture, as
wild fruits may double their bearing under
the hand of a gaideuer; and love can dwin
dle and die, out of neglect, as choice flower
seeds planted in poor soil dwindle and grow
single. Jwo cases in our Anglo-Saxon na
ture prevent this easy faculty and flow of
expression which strike so pleasantly in the
Italian and French fife— the dread offlattery
aud a constitutional shyness. "I perfectly
longed to tell so and so how I admired her
the other day," said Mrs. X. 'Then
why in the world didn't you tell her?"
Oh, it would seem like flatsery, you know!"
■Now what is flattery? Flattery is insincere
praise, given from interested motives, but
not the sincere utterance of a friend of hat
we deem good and lovely. And so for fear
of flattering, these dreadfully sincere peo
pie go on, side by side, with those they love
and admire, giving tb> IU all the time the
impression of utter indifference.
Parents are so afraid of exciting pride
and vanity in their children by the express
ion of theii love and approbation, that a
child sometimes goes sad and discouraged
by their side, and learns with surprise, in
some chance way. that they are proud and
fond of him. There are times when an
open expression of a father's lure would be
worth more than a church or sermon would
be worth to a boy and his father cannot ut
ter it—will not show it.
Ihe other thing that represses the utter
ances of love is the characteristic shyness of
the Anglo-Saxon blood. Oddly enough, a
race born of two demonstrative outspoken
persons—the German and the French—has
an habitual resolve that is like neither.
There is a powerkssness of utterance iu our
blood that we should fight against, and
struggle for outward expression.
\\ e can educate ourselves to it, if we know
and feel the necessity; we can make it a
Christian duty, not to love, but be loving;
not only to be true friends, but to show our
selves friendly. We can make ourselves
say the kind thiDgs that rise in our hearts
and tremble back on our lips: da the gentle
and hopeful deeds which we long to do and
shrink back from; and little by lotle it will
grow ca-ier—the love spoken will bring Lack
the answer of love; the kind deed will bring
back a kind deed in return —tiil the hearts
of the family elide, instead of b ing so many
frozen, icy islands, shall be full of warm airs
and echoing bitd voices, answering back and
orth with a c-m-tant melodv of love.—
Mrs. 1.1. IS. £s(oic<.
A .'WE.* 4IX. liliCl ISAM UIUIVS
The London lu cord says: Fo far as the
Pupa! iStates are concerned, and especially
the great city of Home, they still lie buried
in almost nndisturl cd corruption. There is
a host of priest and ft tars, as well as ci'car
dinals, bishops, and other sacerdotal digni
taries. Almost cv. ry office in the State,
from the Pope's Thief Minister of State
down to his trav. 1 ing courier, is occupied
bya priest invested with a Divine commis
sion to pardon or remit sins, and so enabled
to traffic in "the -amis of men." In such a
vn.-r body of men living under a vow of
eelibey, wallowing in the pollutions of the
confe. i -:onal, and hardened by familiarity
with debasing hypocrisy and odious super
stirion. is it not wonderful that there should
be many who ar. themselves not only super
stitious but hypocritical. Without making
too .sweeping or exaggerated a charge
against the liouiish hierarchy, it is not
too much to say that the hatred and con
tempt in which they are held by the laity
originate in the inconsistency of the practi
ces of the priesthood with their lofty pre
tensions as thi sole appointed stewards of
God's mysteries. Certain it is that Rome
may be styled, in the words of the Apo
calypse, "a cage of unclean birds," and that
it abounds in every form of vice and violence
most disgusting to into and most repugnant
to the laws of God. To suppose that Rome
presents a just picture of a city where
Christ's Yiear presides, and where Christ's
Go-pel has for i,BOO years borne sway,
would be a libel on Christianity. It is,
however, according to the proverb, "like j
priest like people;" and yet the predouii-j
nant (eeling is that of antipathy to the
whole of the sacerdotal hierarchy, and a de
sire to hurl from their elevation those spiri
tual rulers who havecorrupted and betrayed
their sacred calling, and made it an instru
ment for avarice as well as of grinding and
unrighteous tyranny.
We believe that no reasonable doubt can
be entertained that Garibaldi would have
found a cordial welcome from the people of
the Roman States. The Pope could place
no reliance on his merceuary defenders, and
even the contradicted rumors in regard to
the officers of the Antibes Legion indicates
th.i prevailing svUse nt weakness. The ear
ri.-r.n at Viterbo might have made a show of
resi tanee, but Garibaldi overcame far more
formidable obstacles in Sicily; and we believe
that his march from Viterbo to the top of
the Curinal might have resembled his en
trance into Naples, and proved the crown
ing achievement of his wonderful career.
A Son's Advice. —An unfortunate man.
who had never drank water enough to war
rant disease, was reduced to such a state of
dropsy that a consultation of physicians was
held upon his case. They agreed tapping
was necessary, and the poor patient was in
vited to submit to the operation, which he
seemed inclined to do in spite of the entreat
ies of his son, a boy seven years old. "Oh,
father, father! do not let tlem tap you,"
said the young hopeful; "do anything, but
do not let them tap you !" "Why, my dear,
it will do mc good, and I shall live long in
health to make you happy." "No, father,
no; you will not. There never was any
thing tapped in our house that lasted longer
than a week."
" Beauthti. Ill yEli. —Sabbath day is
the beautiful river in the week of Time.
The other days aie troubled streams, whose
angry waters are disturbed by the countless
crafts that float upon them ; hut the pure
river, Sabbath flows on to Eternal Rest,
chanting the sublime music of the silent,
throbbing spheres and timed by the pupa
tions of the Everlasting Life. Beautilui
liver Sabbath, glide on ' Bear forth on thy
boon the poor, tired spirit to the rest which
it seeks, and the weary, watching soul to
udless rest.
A JlOllSlSit WITH POWKRh.
A writer in JJourt at Home describes a
morning spent with Hiram Towers. We
make a few extracts:
We found ourselves standing in the im
mediate presence of bis finished works,
basts, models, and st3tues; and at once our
conference took form from them. He con
ducted us with hint through the several
rooms, in which a large number of helpers
were busily engaged in forwarding the pro
cesses through which the details of sculpture
arc carried on. The rude laboriousncsg by
which in tbeir earliest reductions the blotk3
from the quarry aro shaped into forms for
the galleries, all falls into the hands of arti
sans trained merely to stone cutting. My
impulse was amusingly mythologie to keep
! rehearsing particulars of Prometheus; for
"the first man ' seemed starting out from
the clay in a score of uncouth forms.
i The models were placed in the midst of
the upright stones, in view of all the work
men. At first, it was a most energetic mal
let which struck away huge chips of marble
, from the saapehssg mass, with a rollicking
sense of haste to deliver some beautiful be
mg imagined to he imprisoned within it.
l>ut before long, the tank was committed to
more skilful enrc, and the fresh journeyman
treated it with gentler measures of violence,
and more temperate enthusiasm. Then
came the third in the line; and he dealt with
dainty compasses, and delicate files, making
I mysterious black spots at exact depths, and
I precise widths, and measured distances.
1 heso men, 31r. Powers assured us, were
bis life-long companions. He had chosen
then), and trained thcrn, and trusted them
for many yearn, until lie could not do with
out them. They were no ordinary hands,
but belonged to his artistic and profession
ally related family.
With them, "he remarked, rested his
main difficulty in returning to America;
which indeed, he declared nio.-t plaintively,
he very much desired to do. Put he could
not take them with him, Thc-y had fami
lies, they -poke no English, and they were
peculiarly attached to their own land. And
he could not leave them, for they were es
sential to his execution of orders for such
pieces as his own hand, unaided, could nev
er by any possibility meet; and moreover,
he was really intere-ted in them; he spoke
feelingly, with an affectionate glance around
upon the faithful company, as he added, he
could not bear to have them scattered, they
had followed his fortunes so long. Still, he
believed most resolutely that he should
some tiuie behold hi.- own home again.
He is truly American, and it is well that
some of his countrymen have generously
remmembered it.
The domestic character of this interest
ing man came out most attractively in one
more incident of oar visit. An unfinished
image of his wife was standiag among the
other busts; he had been at work upon it
lately. I remarked upon the attractiveness
of her truly fine face, and he told mo who
it was. And then he led me to a bust he
had made of each of his two daughters,
and called my attention to the different dis
position-'as expressed in his wonderful mar
l ies. 1 could not withhold my admiration
to finu that even in busy years he had con
v crated time, as well as the ministries of his
great art. He had told me that it took
about five months to complete one such fig
ure as these.
He appeared pleased with my congratu
lations for having so exquisite a remem
brance of those thu- dear to him. "Yes,
you know wr have to stop these young peo
ple along here somewhere," he remarked
with a kind of pensive affection in his tones;
"they grow so, they getaway from you!"
Then he went to a private desk, and took
out a small l and of an infant, cut inwhite=t
marble, chubby, dimpled, lying among
flowers on a leaf. I never saw anything
more exquisitely done. "There," he said,
"I stopped that one"—pointing over his
shoulder at the bust of the youngest daugh
ter—"when she had only that to take hold
| oft"
My heart went out for that affectionate
father, as he softly handled this memento
of his child, now a woman grewn, then on
lv an uneasy babe of two months' existence.
What a study in after years! what a remi
niscence i f infantile beauty! Take any man
or woman—this rough, veiued, wrinkled,
busy hand of yours and mine; how much of
good and ill it has done since it was inno
cent as that little one in white !
What more can I now say of this mcrn
ii.y with Hiram Towers, to convince my
reader • that it was one of the mo-f delight
ful and most instructive ef a!! my life? He,
who is now reeognized in Florence as the
chief among living sculptors, isjust this un
affected, unspoiled man I have sketched.
The p ore sentiment, the genial converse,
the thoughtful intelligence, and the sincere
heartiness of that inteiview cannot be'for
gotteu. If this honored sculptor ever does
return to his old home on this side of the
ocean, he will assuredly find friends lie
dreams not of among all those who prize
true worth and admire real genius.
A VISIT TO THE MUMMIES,
An American, now traveling in Egypt,
had the curiosity to enter a cave used as a
sepulchre for mummies. ' 'lmagine," says
he, "a vaulted chamber twenty-five feet
high, cut in theheart of a huge granite rock.
In this apartment, dimly lighted by our two
flickering tapers filled almost to the roof,
was a countless piled mass of unconfined
mummies. There they lay in all shapes
and postures. Time bad burst the twining
ligaments of some, and their bony arms ana
fleshless fingers seemed struggling up from
the mass, as if to lay hold of the disturbers
of their slumbers. Some were placed up
right against the walls, and in the weird
shadows thrown by the candle's light, their
features twitched and moved, and their long
sealed lips seemed opening to denounce u=.
Our Arab guide drew a long knife from the
sheath in his arm. and commenced cutting
and tearing off the wrappings in search of
valuables; and, as his naked limbs sank
among the dry bones, and as his swarthy
arms tossed about the bodies, he looked like
rrmt. hideous vampire at his nightly meal.
The air was very bad, and I was about to
beat a retreat, when suddenly a thought
1 flashed across my mind that almost froze my
blood with horror. lam not a coward, but
for a moment my heart stood still. The
cave was filled with a thousand mummies,
drier than the dryest tinder, and soaked in
bitumen, each one wrapped in many folds of
mummy cloth, as inflammable as eun cotton.
A single spark front one of the candles
would have spread like wildfire, and no
power upon earth could have saved us from
a fearful death. We would have been roast
ed alive in five minutes. I remarked this
; to Harry: he saw it Instantly, and yelled to
the guide to be careful of the light- while I
started for the opening. On I went,
through the narrow passage, tearing knees
and garments against sharp stones, shudder
ingly expecting each moment to lay my hand
upon the slimy coils of serpents in the dark,
and every now and then sticking fast and
feeling (in imagination) the scorching breath
of the fire-fiend on my back. At last 1
reached the hole and was drawn up, very
glad to breathe the pure air and feel the
warm -un again.
As editor never leaves any money a*
home for fear of fire, and never any
with him for fear of robbers, nor deposits it
in bank tor fear of speculating officials. His
money is generally in the bands of his sub
scribers.
The newspaper is a sermon for the
thoughtful, a library for the poor, and a
blessing to everybody. Lord Brougham
called it the "best public instructor."