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Tn Courts hare decided that refusing to take 3 .5-papers and periodicals from the Post office. leuioriug aud baring thetn ouenlled for, is , nP— jacxa evidence ot mieutoinal fraud. ?ROIR3SIIJAAL & GUSIARSS CARDS. ATF AT LAW TOHN T. KEAGY, ( J ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. •ar Office opposite Reed A BE hell's Bank. ■ ,ASSET given in English and German. [apl3d] J FMMMELL AND LINGENFELTER, K ATTORN SYS AT LAW. isoruSß, RI. Ave formed a partnership in the practice of ■Y* La" Office on Juliana Street, two doors South • the MENG® 1 House. [April 1,1864-tf MA. I'ULNTA, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bedford, PA. Kesteetfully tenders bis professional services J • ;he public. Office with J. W. Lingenlelter, : £< i., on Julian* 3trert. " Elections promptly male. [Dec.#,'64-tt ! H| IAYES IRVINE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, v. I •sitbfolly nd promptly attend to all buei- | NE-s intrusted to his care. Office with U. 11. Spang, j HSA on Juliana street, three doors south of the , Mengei House. May 24:1y PSPY M. AUSIP, LA ATTORNEY AT LAW, BeproßD, Pa., WIII faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ae-! entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoia counties. Military claims, Pensions, back Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A cpang, on Juliana street. 2 doors south oftke Mengei House. apl 1, 1864.— tf. r. siters i. W dickers"* M-.YERS A DICKEKSON, ATTORNF.VS AT LAW, Bedford, Pes*' a., CSce nearly opposite tbe Mengei House, will practice in the several Cuurt. of Bedford county, I Pen-ions, bounties aud back pay obtained and the ; purchase of Real EsUte attended to. [may 11/66- !y ' R B. CESSNA. 1 .J. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ! ilfict With JOB* CklsiA, on the square near 1 -he Presbyterian Church. AH bosioeaj* : esirusted to his care will receive faithful and j p apt attention. Military Claims. Pensions, j ?! collected. [June V, iSb!>. P B. STUCKEY, . | - J RORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. an 1 REAL ESTATE AGENT, sce on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite tbe Court House, KAN.-A 5 CITY. MISSOURI, j Will practice in the adjoining Counties of Ml— uri imlKausas. July I2:tt L. *tSELt_ '■ H. J-OrtCENBCKRR RUSSELL A LONGKNECKER, iVttorvkvs A CorvSELLORS at Law, Bedford. Pa., | Will attend promptly and falthflilly to all bqsi- I ■ entrusted to their care. Special attention [ R .EN to eolleetions and the prosecution of claims | :" U r Hack Pay. Bounty. Pensions, Ac. WDFIICE on Juliana street, south of the Court Hoaie. Aprilj:lyr. I M'H. SB ARTE r - KERB CHIARPE A KERR. > A TTORSE YS-A T-IA W. R ill practice in the Courts of Bedford and ID | IING counties. All business entrusted to their •re will receive careful and prompt attention, pensions, B-unty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily eol scted from the Government. I Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking I VIUSE of Reed A Sohell, Bedford, Pa. mar.:tf i J. . DCRIORBOW JOBR DOTE. DUKBORROW A LUTZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BuaroßO, Pa., [ WILL attend promptly to all business intrusted to I .heir care. Collections made en the shortest no •iee. I They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents MD will give special attention to the prosecution I IF claims against the Government for Pensions, I SU A Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. I Office on Juliana street, one door South of the I .ASUIRE' office, and nearly opposite the ' Mengei 11 use" April IS. I8B5:t I> HVSICI ANS U T M W. JAMISON, M. D., Mloodt Res, Pa., ' R-spectfully tenders his professional services to T IHE people of that place and vicinity. [decSrlyr UK. B. F. HARRY. Respectfully venders his professional ser vices to the citiiens of Bedford and vicinity I Office aud residence on Pitt Street, in tbe bull dine [ ' rmerly occupied by I>r. J. 11. Ho fin a. [Ap'L 1,64. I I„ MARBOURti, M. P., U . Having permanently located respectfully '•■nders his pofesaional services to the cttwens ' Bedlord and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, apposite tba Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal- STFI office. April 1, 1864— tf. I VLL. S. G. STATLKR, near SchelksbuTg. and I U Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cunilierlend J county, having associated themselves in tbe prae- I CF Medicine, respectfully offer tbe'.r profes I • n.TL services to the citizens of Hchellsburg AD'.I VICIN.ty. Dr. Clsrke'S offi.-e and residence same > formerly occupied by J. White, E-Q., dee D S. H. RFTATLER, Scbell-burg, Aprill2:lv. AJ. CLARKE. MTS CKL LA N EOUS."" DL'PP A SHANNON, BANKERS. JL BEDFORD, Pa. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. <■ ' "CTI'INS made for tbe East. West, North and O'H, au I the general business of Exchange trsu-a-'P • Notes and Accounts Collected and - aiittan ES proropllvmade. REAL ESTATE ' -,'bt and sold. " f*H!2 j \AXIEL BORDER, AJ I'ITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED '" d eotel. Rest >RD, PA. MAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. H keeps on h*B'i m atick of lin Gold aod Sil 'er ' *ukca, of BriiiiaDi Double KeSn als- I-C(u-H L'ebiilo tiiaases. Gold AT B Chains, Breast Pins. Finger Kings, BEST ■ 'V,.f Pens, lie will supply to order R, .V 'long in bis line not on band. [spr.2B.'6s. | \ *. CROUSE 1 '• WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, I P;tt street two doors west o 11. F. Harry's I DRSS STORE, Bedford. Pa., is now prepared by Wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All ' mptly filled. Persons desiring anything tu hi- H BE will *d well to give him a call. BEDFORD. ( let 2n. 'R5_, \ BL KINDS OF BLANKS for sale at the F - K ? ware? office. A full supply of Deeds, JLea | *, An ides of Agreemeut Ac, H nriIBOKROW i- LIFT* Kdltnrs and Proprietors. BETTER THAN GOLD. Better than grandure, be'ter than Gold, Tbsn rank and tiles a thousand fold, Is a healthful hodjr, a mind at ease, And simple pleasure that always please; A heart thaLenn feel fur another's woe ' And share Ms j"VR with a genial gin*, ; With sympathies large enough to enfold j AH men as brothers, is better than go d. i B -tter than gold is a conscience clear, I Though toiling fir hrend in an humble Sphere j n.'iildv blest with conteut and health. : Untried by the |n*t ol Cares or wealth ; [wlv living and lofty thought Adorn and etmoble a poor man's cot. For a mind and morals in nature"? r ,<s: ' Are the genuine test of u gentleman. Rette.r than gold is the sweet renose j Of the sons of toil when their labors close ; j Better than gold is the poor man's sleep And the balm that drops r n his slumbers deep, I Bring sleepy draughts to the downy bed j Where luxury pillows, his aching head, I His simple opiate labor deems A short road to the land of dreanig. Better than gold is a thinking mind, Than in the realms of books can find A treasure surpassing the Austrian ore, And live with the great and good of yore, The sage's lord and the poet's lay. The g'ories of empire passed away, I The world's great drama will thus enfold j And yield a pleasure better than gold. | Better than gold is ft peaceful home, j Where all the fireside charities come. ; The shrine of love, the heaven of life, j Hallowed by mother, sister, or wife, However humble the home may be. Or tried with sorrow by heaven's decree, The blessings that were never bought or sold And centre there, are better than gold. >Hi.£icrtlam\oii3, HOLIV VK. BY JAM KM PAHTON The reader, perhaps, has sometimes ask led himself why the fertile countries ol i South America advance so slowly in wealth i and population. In all that continent. which la considerably larger than North 1 America, there are but seventeen millions | of inhabitant*, while North America con j tains almost exactly twice that number. ! Brazil, for example, which is about as large ' as the United States, ami was settled soon i er, contains but seven millions of people, | and nowhere exhibits anything like the j prmsfwrity which has marked every period i ofoiir own hi'tory. The principle reasons of this difference are three in number. In the first place, nature h< -r-eif in South America interposes mighty obstacles to the purposes of man. Vast plains exist, which, in the rainy -ea -011. are covered with luxuriant verdure, and in the dry sea-en assume the appear ance of a desert. The forests, owing to the fertility of the soil under a tropical sun, are so dense and tangled as almost to baffle the | efforts of the pioneer to remove them. Ihe ■ principal rivers, which are the largest in the ! world, are more like flowing -egs than navi gable streams Tlic I'iata. for example, is j one hundred and thirty miles wide at its , mouth, and is full of strong, irregular cur- : rents. The Amazon, too, which is four thousand miles in length, and navigable for one halt that distance, is. in ntanv plai-ea. so wide that the navigator has to sail by the i compass. The mountains, also, are precip itous and difficilt of access, and contain : thirty active volcano* All nature, in fact, is on a prodigious -cuie, and the very rich ; ness of the soil is frequently and injury rath ! er than a help to man. In the next place, the Spanish and For -1 tuguesc, who settled this continent, drawn thither by the lust of gold, were little ealcu , luted to wrestle with the obstacles which j nature placed in their paths. Lastly the : Spanish and Eoitoguese governments, nar i row, bigoted, ignorant and tyrannical, tor i three centuries cramped the energies of the | people and oppressed them by merciless ex | actions. "'Three hundred years ago, sud Henry j Clay, in his great speech upon the enianci j potion of South America, "upon the ruins j of the thrones of Montezuma and the Ineas ■ of Peru, Spain erected the nci-t stupendous ! system of colonial despotism that the world j has ever seen —the mo.-t vigorous, the most ; exclusive. The great principle and object of this system has been to render one of the largest portiirtis of the w irld exclusively subservient, in all its faculties, to tlm inter ests of an inconsiderable sfsit in Europe. To effectuate this aim of h"r policy, -he locked up Spatii.-h Auierie i from ail the rc-t of the world, and pror ihi ted, under the severest penalties, any foreigner from enter ing any part of it. To keep the natives them-clves ignorant of enchant her, and of the strength and resources of the several : parts of her American possessions, she next i prohibited the inhabitants of one vice-roy j alty or government fioni visiting those of ! another: so that the inhabitants of Mexico. ' for example, wer*. not allowed to enter the j viae royalty of New Granada. The agricul ture of those vast regions was so regulated and restrained as to prevent all collision with the agriculture of the peninsula. \\ here : nature, by the character and composition of the soil, had commanded, the abominable system of Spain has forbidden, the growth of Certain articles. Thus the olive and the vine, to which Spanish America is so well adapted, arc prohibited, wherever their eul ture can interfere with the olive and the vine of the peninsula. The commerce of the country, in the direction and objects of the export- and imports, is also subjected to tlie narrow aud s* ifi-h views of Spain, and fettered by the odious spirit of monopoly. She ha- sought, by -cutter tug discord among the several castes of her American popula tion, and hy a debasing course? of adueation. to perpetuate her Oppt •-sion. Whatevet concerns public law or the science of gov eminent, all writings upon political econo my, or that tend to give vigor, and freedom, and expan-ion. to the intellect, are prohib ited. A main feature in her policy is that which constantly elevates the European ami depresses tlm American character. Out o o! -even hundred ami fifty viceroys and cap tiins general whom .-be has appointed si net ihe conquest of America, abou' eighleet only have been froui the body of the Ameri con population. " If any reader supposes that the oratoi exaggerated, I point him to the Island o Cuba, which Spain still oppresses, and when almost every feature of the odious tyranny A LOCAL AND OENKRAL NEWSJ'APKR. DEVOTED TO HOU'iK S. KDMCATIoN, LlTEllA'amii AND MORALS. so vigorously portrayed by Mr. Clay still exists. 1 bat Spain does not still bear sway in the finest provinces of Sooth America, is chiefly due to the heroism and virtue of one man, Simon Bolivar, the founder and first presi dent of the States, one of which bears his name, fie was born at Caraecas, in Ven ezuela. in 17,53, of a family rieh enough to j aflord him the most costly advantagesof ed : ucation. When a young man. he traveled i extensively in the 1 nited States and in Europe, and learned to -peak with ease, and write with ability, live languages—Spanish, j French, Italian, German ami Kngli-h. lle , turning home, he ie the first proof of an enlightened mind by freeing the negro slaves ! j employed upon his estate. The example of the United States in | throwing off the yoke of the mother country ' produced the most powerful impression up i rn the oppressed Creoles in South America. During the bnvhood ■-•> ° r _wi , iiir, nt.s reitow citizens rose four times in revolt against the Spaniards, and four times their efforts were frustiated, and the rising flame of freedom quenched in patriot blood. In stead of mitigating the oppression of the people, the Spanish government bore more heavily upon them, until, in 1811. the peo ple of Venezuela attempted for the tilth time to throw off the yoke. Bolivar was then twenty eighl years ot age. Entering the patriot army with the rank of colonel, be shared the misfortunes of General Miran da, and again saw his country drenched in blood. The Spanish general waged a war of extermination. The very malefactors in the prisons were organized into guerrilla bands and let loose upon a defenceless peo ple, and their places in the dungeon were tilled with the most respectable and virtuou of the land. The cry of despair reached Bolivar in his exile at Carthagena. He re appeared in his native land, raised again the standard of revolt, called his fellow citizens around him, and was soon in a imsition to wage effective war again-t the public enemy. The Spanish commander, exasperated by this new tevolt, resolved upon the most des perate measures, which he delaid not to exe cute. The campa-gn of 18!3 wasone of the mo-t terrible that ever desolated a Christian Country. Cities were given up to pillage | and conflagration. The wives and daughters ; of the patriot soldiers were abandoned to the brurali'yol the Spanish troops. Prisoners ' of wur were mercilessly put to death, and; hundreds of citizens were executed for the j crime of wishing well to their country, i Bolivar, then commander in chief of the pa triot forces, was compelled to issue an order declaring that uo quarter should he given to } any Spanish captive. Such brilliant suc cesses, however, were won by him over the Spanish troops, that, iu January, 1814, be could report to the congress of Venezuela that no Spanish army polluted its soil. He ! resigned his commission, following the ex ample of Washington, but the congress in sisteJ upon his retaining it until the confed erated republics had eXfielled the foe. The Spaniard was not yet defeated. The campaign of 1814 was disastrous to the cau-e of liberty in the adjacent countries, and B ilivar alone, among the distinguished men maintained a firm countenance and urged his countrymen to persevere Spain now made prodigious effort.-. In the spring _<o' 1815 a fleet of fifty ships arrived, which attacked and captured the principal seaports while the new Spanish army ravaged the in terior. During these two terrible years more than sis hundred patriot officers and citizens were banished or put to death, and Bolivar him-elf was compelled to fly, and take refuge under the British flag in the island of Jamaica. But his great soul was still unconqu'-red. The next year, at the head of three hundred I men, "equal," as he said, "'in courage and in patriotism, as they were in number, to j the soldiers of D mioas,' he appeared once i 1 more iu his native land. Again the Repub ■ licaus flocked to his standard. The cam | paigns of 1817 and 1818 were triumphant! ' for the patriots, especially ihat of the l itter j year. The career ol Bolivar, henceforth, ; wasone of almost unbroken victory, and af- ; ! ter four years of terrible warfare, the Span i i-h government was compelled to treat for i peace, and to concede the independence of the United Republics. Again Bolivar re ; signed his commission as general and dicta i tor. In his address to Congress, he said: '"I am the child of camps. Battles have i borne nie to the chief magistracy, and the I fortune of war has sustained me in it; hut a i power like that which has lieen confided to i me is dangerous in a republican government.. I prefer the title of Soldier to that of Lib l er.itor; and, in descending from the Presi I dential chair. I aspire only to merit the title I of good citizen. i Spain renewed the war, and Bolivar was called again to the Supreme command. Three more bloody campaigns were ncces j -arv before the Spaniards were wholly and ! finallv expelled from the soil of Columbia, ! by which name the confederated republic* ! were called. In 1825, Bolivar once more | aldicated the dictatorship. An equestriau ! statue having been decreed him by the cor ' iteration of hi- native city, he declined the honor saying: Wait till after my death, that you may j judge me without prejudice, and iccord to , me then such honors a.-you may deem auita j hie: but never rear monuments to a man as long as he i- alive. He ean ehange, he can | betray. You will never have this reproach | to make to me: but wait a little longer." Unfortunately, the Creoles of South America, after they bad expelled the op pressor, were not able to form a stable and 1 satisfactory government. The ambition of i some men and the weakness of others made the young republics the scene of confusion and, sometimes, of civil war; and Bolivar j was compelled again to accept the supreme 1 authority. It was the gieat design of his 1 policy to nnite all the republics, both of 1 South and North America, into a kind of league, offensive and defensive, with a Su pretue Court which should decide such ques tions as are usually decided by war. Like General Washington. Bolivar was less popular as a civil ruler than he had been as a commander of armies. Disgusted at length by the calumnies wirh which lie was ass-ib-d. he not only resigned the pre idency 'but determined to leave his country. He ! addressed to his fellow citizens a farewell let | ter: i '"The presence of a fortunate soldier." said fe, "however di-interestcd he may be, is always dangerous in a -'ate ju-t set free. I am tired of hearing it incessantly repeated that I wi-h to make myself emperor, and to raise again the throne of the Incas. Every where my actions arc misrepresented. It is enough. I have paid inv debt to toy coun try and to humanity. I have given my blond, my health, my fortune, to the cause of liberty, and a- long as it was in peri! I was devoted to its defence; but now that America is no longer torn by war. nor pollu ted with the presence Of an armed foe, I withdraw, that my presence may not be an obstacle to the happiness of my fellow citi zens. The welfare of my country would alone reconcile me to the hard necessity of a perpetual exile far from the land which gave me birth. Receive, then, my adieus as a BEDFORD. Pi.. FRIDAY. JANUARY !<>■ !■*. ! new proof of my anient patri"i-M and the | particular love which I cherish for the pea pie of Colombia.' lie sold his c-tate and wu* preparing to embark fur Jamaica, whence ittf tnf 'to fail for Europe, when he receive t a letter from the government. giving him the tit'e of • First Citizen •( Colombia ami settling upon httit a pension of thirty thousand dol lars a year Before it c-wiM be kuo-.vn whether he would accept f>■ - offer-? I. was seizeiF Willi a fever, of wi> : 'h hi di 1, in December, 1830. in the fi.rtv eighth yi-.ii nt his age. His friends did not doubt (.hut his life was shortened by the (ungues of war ; and the mortifications of later years. | Everything we know of this brave and tuous man tends to iu-tity the title confer rod upon hitn hy his cotintryniPo. of the Washington of South America, it lie was less successful in |ieaee. than in war it was because his fellow citizens, d used by three Centuries of oppression did not a* ■ the i KtlowreJgo —t <luue rc(ir>~-- ir the foiiu I ding of a free, just and stable government, i Washington, too, would have failed if lie had not been seconded by able and disinteres ted men, and supported by a people ixng accustomed to revere and obey the law they themselves had made. "QUIET" IS THE WEST INDIES, j Mark Twain thus writes to the TfHrunf , from Washington : Could you give me anv : information respecting such islands, if any. ; as the government is going to purchase? D ) is an uncle of mine that wants to know. He is an industrious man. and well dispo-ed. and wants to in. ke a living in an honest, humble way, but more especially be want to be quiet. He wishes to settle down and ! be quiet and unostentatious. He hits been to the new island—St Thomas —but he so - he thinks things are unsettled that*. H< ; went there early.-with on attache i.t tin State Department, who was sent down with uione. to pay tor the island, and so when they went ashore, getting a receipt, the sai tors broke open the box and took all _ rh money, not making any distinct ion between government money, which was I. gitimafi money to be stolen, und my uncle - which wis his own private property and should bivebecn respected. But he esnie I tin and got some more, and went l*ek. And then he took the fever. There are -even kinds of fever down there, you know, and I .is his blood was out of order by res -on of ; loss of -leep and general wear-and t ir o' mind, he failed to cure the first fever, and then some how he got the other six. He i ' not a kind of man that enjoy* fevers, though | he is well meaning and always does what In rhinks is right, and so he w >- a good o< a! ; annoyed when it appeared that he wa-guin. ] to die. But he worried through r.nd it wci'. ! started a farm. He A need it in. and tin ' next day that great storm cane' and v.- .-It ! I the most of it over to Gihndter, ..r amt. i there some whet e. He only said, in hi- ; tient way, that it WHS gone, and he wouldn't bother about trying t-> find out w here i w or ■ to. though it was his opinion it went to'rib : I raltcr. i Then he invented in a mountain, god started a fain up there. .- > 1 - tne way wticn the -.-a camea-hon. 101. I was a good mountain and a good bnui, but, I it wasn't any use: an earthquake '-ante tire I next night and -hook it all down. It was ail fragments, you know, and 1 mixed up will) another man's prO|-rty that he could not tell which were his fragments wilhi u' going to law. and.he would not do that, be cause his main object in going to St. Tbutua w.ts to he quiet. All that he wanted was to . settle down and be quiet. He thought it all over, and finally he c in cluded to try the low ground again, esjiec al ly as In-wanted to -tart a brickyard tie lime. He bought a flat and put out 10 b> ' orick- to dry, preparatory of baking tlu-m. But luck appeared to be against him. A 1 volcano shoved itself through there thai \ night, an i elevated his brick yard about - - ; 'XC.I feet in the air. It irritated hitn a good deal. He has been up there, and he says he bricks ate all baked right enough, but he can't get them dawn. At first he ; thought may be government would get the i bricks down for him,.because it government , bought the island it ought to protect the , property where a man has invested in good faith; but all lie wants is quiet, anil -o he is not going to apply for the sub-i-Jy he was thinking about. He went back there last week, in a couple of ship® of war, to prosptet around the con-1 for a safe place for a farm, where he eould j be ouiet; but another earthquake came ami j hoisted both of the ships out into one of the interior counties, ana htcauie near losing I his life. So lie has given up prospecting in , a ship, and is discouraged. Well, tiow he don't know what to d He hs tried VValrussia; but the bear- k ■; t : alter him so much, and kept hiin so on the jump, as it were, that h had to leave the country. He could not be qui.-t there, with i those hears prancing after lotu all the time. That is how he came togotoihe newi-land we have bought—St Thomas But In-i - getting to think St. Thorna- i- let quiet enough for a man of hi- turn i I mind, and that is why In* wishes me to find out it Gov eminent is likely to buy some tuore i-lands ,-hortlv. He has heard ihat Government i thinking altout buying Porto K If that ; i- (rue, hu wi-k<w to try Port., It o. >1 it i. a quiet plaee. How is Porto Rioi tor hi* stvle of a man? Do you think tie* G ivern rnent will buy it? MAKK TWAIN. A IIAPPT MOMENT. —Aper-nnwi- nee asked what had Viet-n the happ t ncim-nt she had ever known. Bh< was one wh hao more than a common share of the good things of this world. She I id a bright home and many joyous fiend*. She b.id achieved success in a brilliant -nei t., ami. had won literary tame, and had drank d p of intellectual pleasures in the en®-- if a life which was far spent. Vet sh • -aid tin- , happiest moment .-he had ever known w.-is that in a withered oh] in to-e e ! into the room, holding our her shaking hands towards her, and weeping lor my a- -he x claimed, "I said I'd come and thank i"U for saving my boy, though I dropped on the road." Her boy was a poacher, who, in a tic 1- night affray, had inadvertently, a- hu i-aid —wilfully i- others declared —; ; t a ga keepet. He was tried for hi- life, and ,il most to the last in (Alien t he 1 id no counsel, as neither he nor his miserable old Biotlcr had the means of securing one. the !.< ;y. ku iwing nothing of him, 1 ard aceide< !y that if he reuiained undefended it won d j .■> hard with him, and -he engaged u first ra • eutnselon his behalf The re-ult was, th e' although his sentence wa' death, itwa- ae compaiiied by a recommendation to mercy; a petition, which was afterward drawn up by his defender procured a commutation to the extreme penalty; and so it was that the joys of happy love, and fame, and pleasure, paled before the grateful light in the poor old mother's eyes as she spoke her homely thanks, and then dropped back to her oh neurit v and was no more seen,— Good Wordr. W II vr IS t;o |> THIIKAI). Gold in the iinnine-i particles is u-.-d fin | ornamental pur|Hise>yut the form of plating, j leal, wash, etc., but on.' ! it-, moot delicate ' application- is that of a fine tbrand, either | woven i" : " a fabric of-tifc, uaed for em Ino id \ orien, twirled infn tiing,-. or netted into laoe. In mum id the-o firms, however, i- ! toe thread a filament, or wire,of soled gold ; the tfiread i- gilded, and con-ists of two: metal- and a euro of -ilk. Wire for cold tbr< ad is ;( t -ilvvi with a coaling id' gold o infinite- uuaily thin a> to lie beyond our j ewii>|iri Li A rod ofsHvyris coated | with po'.d to a thickness of about '•nt:-bun ci red I n : ait - f the -fiver, ana then I hi* silver ! gut wire ir drawn down to u wire much finer j I than the fine t I IJUISII h.iir, and yet it wi!t tiieii l e • ted with the gold, still j araifi-iiniJie i: -> relative thickness of one j ; hpudredih part, one tenth the thickues ol i j fine (told leaf. i , wire js then pa-sed between l , , and flatten <?. preparatory to fating spun I uppn ihe-i'k thread. In tit: form of film I like ribbon it i- so light that a handful of it t to.-scd in tie: air will float "i the atmosphere j of a room like gossamer. The flutened wife j —if its diminurivt ness deserves the name — ! i is spun mound a litre id of ,-hk, covering it i in a spiral coil, so closely la: 1 that ft t|t- I j pears like a solid gold thread, while in fact \ j rbe gold as nothing compared to the oth I or material. This thread is so delicate, al ; j though of triple composite n, that it can In- I easily threaded in a fine needle and used for ' I embroidery pu. 10-cs. It can be woven int.- ! .-ilk or into goi i lace, or spun and twisted into cord, bullion, arid fringe. The lace that I decorate- the ntitfuMU- of -oldiers, and the • trtil'ion frtuge of the epaulette-, which ha- j -nch a mas-ive rich app- ranee, is but this line hail- like thread of silk, silver and gold ; Hut the la ger p : : ~ of our gold lace and other bißament.il gilt, not -rials i- base, bar | ing not a particle of-gold in its coin posit ion. Tiiat which iepr. -et.ts goM is merely one ol ! ihe coiopo-it! ru- having copper tor a ba-e, ! duel lie and tenacious, and worked ill tip same in,tinner as true gold thread. Thi wire, however. 1. is ; silver Core, nor is p usually spun upon -ilk, but on orange color ed cotton. This is largely manufactured in j in tins country. and whin just from thi workman's baud i- very rich in appearance, but s* i ui taf.i -l s, at. 1 if exposed to umi- Hue turns v-ri't n from oxidarion. wbteb | quickly rots the cot. -n cure. Gold thread ! and its tuaubii-ture arc costly, not so tnncl for the mat. rial eup! tyed a- or the skill aim cue toeessaij for . - production. It i wiiinleifully strung v.3t> ti pruiauly made | and if protected f.mil moisture the lac: ami etnhroi -'.-ry will retail, their iu.ster lor year-. I — -S*~ , f'nc rut: \itt;lT \ OF TUI; iin iti:. A.* one looks forward to the America ol j flit) y. jl - I).-nee. til'- main soutCe of anxiety i appear.* til be. in a pro liable excess of pros ; polity an I in til - want of a good grievance J \V up neatly at the end of ttinse gn-at ; public wrong* wlitcli require a special moral t earth piak- to end them. Except to -ecure j the i!iot fot women —a eontc-t which i- I ..... .... . _ . s .u— ! seem, nothing let which need b>- absolutely ! fought I or, no great influence to keep up j from a cottonon place and perhaps debasing siireesß. There wi I. no doubt, be -t 11 neeil , of the Statesman to adjust the details ot j covert, it nt, and', the clergyman to keep; no eve on private moral-, inciodiog hi- own. ! Ti..-re utl. al-o te- social and religious chad acs perhaps great ones, but tin-re are u. uieaiis of any vcrv fieiC.- upheaval. And -•..-ring tlw educational value to this genera- i • ion of the relorms for winch it has y intern : ded, an I {-(specially of tin- anti-sla\caj- i-nti r pti-t, one HI list I 1:1 an impulse of piety for ' ~-n vri • - m hki vto have no convictions that they can hom-stly be (nob bed tor. j •' ;u we spare these great tonics ? It is ; | the cxpcrii no- ol history that all reltgotis luxlierl arc purg- d by persecution ami ma teria ze I by P ■ Cc. No amount ol accuiiiuta- i ted virtue has thus fir saved the merely de- . vout eiiiiiiuutiities bom deteriorating, when let alone, into com tort and good dinners, i This is must noticeablein detach-d orgatttxa j I ti,,„—Moravians. Bhak- r*, It iiuati Oatlii) j ' ;ic they ail go the same way at ia-t; when j i persecution ami missionary toil are over they , enter on a tlff-souie miiJemuui d un-at and • pudding. To guar.i ijuirist lliis spiritual obesity,'this Carnal IMeo. w h it has the next ; age in reserve lor u- feupposic forty mil lions p<-if'-etly healthy and virtuous Ameri cans, what is to keep them from being as j so many Chinese ' ... 1 know of nothing hut that aim which is j the climax and flower of civilizatil.ii. without which purity itself grows dull and dcvoruin j tediou -tie pui-uit of science and art. I Give to ail thi. nation peais-. freedom, pros | perity. and even viitue, still there mn*t lie I *oiUc absorbing interest some career. 1 hat ; ; catm r can only be suaght in two iJirictioii* j —more and y< more mab-rial pf -pcrity on i the one side, science and art on tin- ether, j • Every mittr s aim most cither btf nehc-. or j ! something Ix-ticr than ri:hes. Now the i wealth i- fin he respected-and desired, nor ' m-eii unything he -"td again-t it. And c r taitiiy nothing need t.c said in irs hcbal . there is such a va-t chorus - ' voices-tcailily ' iKVUpi--d in pom filtitng It. TI.C ttiginCts ill , lie, A 1000 l will t.h- ' **-' , lui! to advih-s'r tie alternative Career, the ; striving of tlm wh b nattm after thing ut I-:!-, apart f out ti - woild's.wealth—it is for ihis end that a stray voice is needed. Li will not take long; tie- clamor of the market will r • ab-orb us to morrow. —. Mn.xfhhj fw !)'<-. Nf-VHK whine over wliafymt may suppose to lie the 10-s of <ip,i.irtunities._ A great manv luive go,, 1 early op port unit his without I, aniing itiin-h ; rVery man tatty educate htm-. If that wi-h - it i* the will that tn -k - the Will Many a set cant that Want etl k • iwledge In- lt*li m d while his master's cfiili.ii-n were - ing their letters ; and put ting them together, to hum easy word*, has thus Caught the liist elements of s|M-llilig. Il'any one fias a strong thirst for knowledge, we do nut c-ire where lie is put. lie will be come an educated man. Ibe first step to wards scll-imtuoVcnn nt is to leave off whi ning ovi rthe past, and Is nd every energy to the improvement of the present. Lt)i;N BACOK beautifully said. " If a man be gracious to strangers, it -hows that he is a nf ih-- wothl. and that his heart is no island cut off from 'he other lauds, but a continent that joins tlseui. AN xchange piper begin* A forcible aj>- ~ t p its d- iinuents with this t v u^fl '"l t - -ntenee : "We mu-t dun or •*" UlU>l dune." Joaa BtbUNO" if , :1 IU " is T Koi . ntr ,'2 k,-ii hw-tness ot serving the Lord, lie T- _ ~, . . hint do it when he measures euliuis. as well u> when lie holUishalleluyar. WutN is an actor a good friend toanutLer BCtoi° When he takes his part. Vflll'HK il: *O. 2. ■ ' ■ - &l- - - ——■ i HK Cleveland lender. in * recent article, answers be quest,.*,, •' What kind of a man is a tti acii vu to a woman?" i„ ,f,; s sensible - i'"j i"' SWer "* > ** in a few W. -ds: Cr-cl ha-I go made ,he Hexes thar woman, like children Htng to men ; lean upon thorn for protection, care and love look upi. t hem an though rhey Were supe rior in mitpl ami hody. They make then: the Mini of their system, and they and their children revolve around them. .Men a.v ands. vltln-y hut knew ir. ami women hum m> tncerise at their shrines, Women, there lore, who h,iv_c good minds and pure hearts want men to lean upon. Think of their reve.T-fltmg a drunkard, s liar, a fiiol, or a lihertino. ft a Wan would have a wotuando | him a homage ho uiu-t he manly in every -ctx; : a true gentleman, not after the < 11 est<;i field school, hut because his heart i 'till of kindness to all; one who treats her wiih re-ficr. even deference, because she i • woajan : who never condeseuds to say si! |■&do"S: who lias 1,0 rime to lie frivolous with hrr; | always digrtfied in speech and act; who never spends too much upon her; never | yields to temptation, even if she puts it in hi- way ; w lio i- ambitious to make his mark in the Woild, whether she encourages him or not; who is never familiar with her to the extent of being an adorned hrother or | cousin ; who is not over careful ahoutdress; ilways pleasant and con-iderate, but always keeping hi- place as the man at the head, ! a"d never loosing it. Such deportment, with noble print* pics, a good tuitid. energy and industry, will win any woman in the land , who is worth win nine. Wiir are young ladies like arrows ?—Be cause they never go off without aliow (beau) oid they are always in a quiver till they get ' oue. WoNDgu AND FACT.—"[ wonder where the clouds are going," sighed Flora pen -ivelya- she pointed with her delicate fin vet- to the heavy masses that floated in the -ky. "I think they are going to thunder," a„id her brother. CfT-TIVATE impudence—it is a good sub -rirute for bravery—only to .1 little keertul 10 ,„,-k your cu-turners when you try it on.— MB. IIAIX say-: "Tolieagreat orator, a|> :iles • beauty, or the star of the social ciieles, wheiher in in or woman, i-the next door to being 10-t." PAPA phase buy me a muff when you uo to lhe-tou said little three year old Bu'li. Her sister Minute, hearing said: "You are too little to have a muff." "Am I too little to be coW !" rejoined the indignant little lluth. THAT'S THE POINT I— -We often hear the expression, '*A quotation wiihin a quota tint*. ®" For our own wart we are rather cu • rious t" know how there could possibly be a quotation ic'llnnil a quotation. | , ,v.. ' Y tukee's reply to the Europe-iti traveller j when lie asked hiui.il'he had just crossed (he Alps, replied. "Wal, how you call my attention to the tact, I guess 1 did pass a llt j lie risin ground." FROM "THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. ' — Com Is ri-ittg. Bread is dearer, hven the , is t cr classes appear to be failingiuto dreau Jul destitution, for it is no uucumiuuo sight uow to uieet their wives, and daughters wearing nothing but sacks. Men talk idly about empire, nation, fam ily. The foundation of thu empire is in the nation, of the nation in the family, of the family in the individual; in fine, government is founded on the people, the people on the Utility, the family on its chief. Another vexed question has arisen in Europe.—when wa- Lord Brougham born? : • Sept. I'.lth was his birth-day; but neither i he j venerable lord nor arty one of hi- family I knows what age he attained that day. The Peerages say he was burn on the 19(h of September, 177;*; the Biographical Diction ! anes on the same day* in 1779; >o that he I is either eighty-eight or eigthy-nine. To confound wealth with happiness is to mi-take the means for the end. You might I as well fancy that a knife and a fork would give ynuuu appetite. The smallest compli ment we receive from another confers more, pleasure than the biggest compliment we cay to our selves. Most fashions are ridic ulous; but we are obliged to fall into the rid j iculo to avoidap{ieariug still more ridiculous. THE road to eminence and jiowcr from ob i scure eoiiditi' ii ought not to be made toeasy, ; nor a tiling too much of course. If rare merit lie the rarest of all raie tilings, it ought to pass through souse soitof proba tioiu The Temple of honor ought to be j seat-si on an eminence. If it be often t through virtue, let it lie re mi inhered, too, i (hat virtue is never tried but by some diffi culty und souie struggle. Eihnund Burke. A wiu. KMivt.s parish mfnt-rer to the WY-t Highland-. distinguished for bis vein of Imuior and sarcastic oL-enation. meeting the other day a z-alou- minister of the Free Church, said, ' lam told thai you are think ing of coming back to the E-tablishmeiit again. ' ''lleaven forbid!" exclaimed the ! other; upon which the minister rejoined, "Well, H is seldom you and I agree on such matters, bur those are just the very words I used v hen I heard the re|>ort. CnRRAS was once engaged in a legal ar j gtttueiif. Behind bllii stood Ilia colleague. j a gentle utuu whose person was remarkably j tail ami (dernier, and who had originally in i tended to take orders. The .judge observed i that the ease under discussion involved a <|ucstio. it' ecclesiastical law. "Then.' said Curran, I can refer your lordship to a high authority behind tne. who was once m tended for the Church, tle-ugh, in '-■> "l" Q ion, he wa- titter It* '"e steeple Tub following story is illustrative OF the language ol Scotland, H e j " n pie of the proiultletice said ■— J 1 ® 1 towels in Scorch The dialogue ,s between a rhon" 8 "" * customer, and the co.it it the^* 0 !' d'str: —' lutomer (mqutrtmc the IM ,,erial): Oo?" iwool') Shopman . •'Av, oo" (yes, wool). Customer: "A oo? ' (alt wool?) Shopman: "Ay. a'oo' j (yiS all W'K>l). Cromer: "A ae oo.' i (alt sauie wool?) Shoptnan : "Ay, a ae oo" (yes. all the satue wool). i Oi'R homes are like instruments ol music. The si rings that give melody or discord are ihe members. If each is rightly attuned they will all vibrat- in harmony; but a single j discordant string jars through the lustru* ' tuent and destroy s its sweetness. RATES OF ADVKRTIr*a. All a<ierti"emente f..r leu than 3 month* 10 cnt fmr line for each >D-rtion. Special naHea* one-halfaddit ool. AH re*nla'in* of AwecU tion, eoniinußica'ion* of a liiuiiei or iadirldal internet and notice- of marriage* and death*. ex ceeding fivelioes. 10 eta. per iiua. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphan*' Court and other Judicial tale-, are required bt law to be pub lished in both paper*. Eiitorial Notieo* 15 cent* per line. All Adrertiaiog dneafiertrat iarertion. A liberal discount made to yearly adveriiaer*. 3 uionis. 0 months, 1 fear One rquare $4 50 $A Ou $lO 00 fwe squares rt.tiO .0t) 56.00 fiiree -quarr. _ 8.00 12.M 20 00 One-fourth column 14.00 Ifl.Ofl 35 00 Half column 18 00 25.00 45 06 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 A PLEA FOR MEAN MEN. The Missouri RepuUican has a correepoo •lent who undertakes the 'hankies* task of defending mean men. He endeavors to prove in an elaborate essav, the superiority •it the 'giMd fellow" of our period. And in pood sooth, he comes nearer to success in his tack than it is polite to acknowledge. I/no thing ihn l : a mean man is remarkable lor. H his reliability. You always know where to find hitu. Ask hitn to contribute to ati antnomal to Fodjers. or to subscribe ibr the relief of Smuggs. He says no. But be also acts no. He don't give cent. But ' put the same appeal to "good fellow," and besays "CVtfainly, my dear boy. Put me I down aV . And you do pot him down | for a V, subsequently enjoying the privilege of making a subscription good out of your • •wo pocket. For a "good fellow " always says yes, but never act yes. { &b fijTour* opT£ rf iSSRfK4 < | dent -peak himself: Who makes the better husband ? At the risk nt bringing down a torrent or maledic tions on my unprotected head, I shall still adhere to the man who is supposed to have no heart or genuine human sentiment. The good fellow for a lover the mean man for a husband. The latter will rob all creation to -apply his household; the former will rob hi- family to accommodate his friends. Form all the married women in St. Loiis, in a solid column up and down Fourth street and if I don't get ninety-nine votes out of one hundred in favor of my proposition, I will treat the drinking community to a bar rel of gin and water on the occasion of the first election fo • a female President. Good fellow, all love; mean man, all business. One takes his wife to the opera in a four hurse carriage; the other rides triumphantly lin a street omnibus. The good fellow never | i-an be cross to am body but his wife, for fear of making himself unpopular; the mean man | is so -our with all the rest of rite world that | lie has not one panicle of ill temper to spare at home. ; "Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, For love is heaven, and heaven is love." i but it won't buy lieef. Mean man seldom ! cets "salubrious;"he is to mean. His wife is never j-alons. Sheknows all women hate | him, because he is mean, and she rather j likes jr. She laugh- and grows fat. Good l leiiow drink.-: too kind-hearted to refuse; I and he loves everybody, Good fellow's wife r pale and emaciated, decrepit with care and : full of sorrow; mean cuss's wife hale and hearty, _ fat. red-faced, and weighs a ton. Am I right ? C'LPID ON A HAIL). It is real singular what a man killer and : woman killer the god Cupid is; for one of : iiis belt. He is pictured on paper about the j -ize of a four year old fat boy baby, wiih a 1 ! air of wintr- about as large a> a boss butter j fly's, and is armed with a bow and arrows, i hat might possibly answer to kill bumble bees at four paces. This little fellow has bagged more game with his wooden shureing irons than all the shot that has ever been hnill can brag of. He has in his quiver innumerable arrows, sum few of them dipped in genuine love, and feathered with good sense; but most of them would seem too trifliDg tew be at all dangerous if I hadn't, with my own eyes, noticed him at wotk with them, both at male and female game, both sitting and fly ing. and seen the uianyded shots he has made. I have been at sum pains for the last tew scions tew watch his inonoovers whare I have happened tew be, and the following ri'kord is a faithful history of this little j chap's bloody b?ZZ. Ben Slocum, aged nineteen rears, weight about 190 pound-, and a good eater, at wotk by the month fi>r farmer Brown, hoeing : corn, reteiving his death wound from a gar ter lielonging to Rachel Tucker, Bnown's j hired girl, as she, said Tucker was learning tew jump the rope down the garden. Kate Freelove, youngest daughter of I. S. Fret-love, F-q . who could play big on the i pianny, and had studied Latin one quaiter, was shot thru and thru by a paper of Stu art's mixed candies that Frank Fevor sent her. John Davis got his mutton cooked by a spit curl that was dangling on Angeline's forehead. Bill Wetherby. a dry goods clerk, died suddenly by getting in range of one of Roxy Matthew's sweetest smiles darted aerosa the counter. Sally Mnnson diseased withouta struggle. Cause—Dick Feotnn'a No. 7 patent leather Lo<>ts and California solitaire. Sam Benson, butcher, wounded with a hoop skirt, got better; then was struck plump dead bv a false calf in the Bowery, Lawrence Peters, aged sixty, and for thir ty years a consistent batchelor, lived only an hour, in great agony, after eating warm ap ple pies at \\ idow Stebbin s. Frank Hunter, maimed for life, by a black Miuoral with an orang stripe in it. — Jotfe Billing*. MR. GOCOH'S RECOVERY.— The follow ing incident is worthy of beitur often repeat ed, as an encourageuienr to laf<er for moral or religious relet m. A warm heart and I R I. O , UJUY THI IU'*ST for midable obstacles. Rev. T. L. L'uyler tells the-torj; "On a certain Sabbath evening, some twenty years ago, a receless, iil dressed voung man was idely lounging under the • -IHi-trees in the public, square of Worcester. He had become a wretched waif on the cur rent of sin. His days were spent in the waking remorse of the drunkard; hi- nights were passed in the buffootieries of the ale house. "Ashe -auntered along, ont of humor with hito-el! and with all mankind, a kind voice saluted hitn. A stranger laid h** hand on his shoulder, and said, re -'taiai •r* the town-hall to panning in its ,t>—— tton yontb eon-ented to go- He he iteard the appeals there made. With tremulous hand he signed the pledge of total abstinence. By God's help, he kept it, and keeps it yet. The poor boot crimper who tapped him on the shoulder— good Joel Stratum —has lately gone to heav en. But the youth he saved is to day tne ! foremost of reformers on the face of tne ! glolie. Mcthinks. when I listen to the thunder of applause that greet John B. , Gough on the platform of Lxeter Hall or the Academy of MUMC. 1 ANT hearing the echoes of that tap on the shoulder, and of ; that kind invitation under the ancient elms of Worcester! 'He that winneth souls is j wise.'" A poultice of onions, applied morning, noon and night, will cure a felon. No mat i ter how bad the case, lancing the finger will he unneccessary if this poultice be used. The remedy is a sure, sife, and specdy < Due. •, So says one who has mcd it. No cure no i hurt.
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