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The law .roceeds upon the ground that a man must pay fr. r what he uses. fbe courts have decided that refusing to take (j. w'pspers and periodicals from the Post office. tr reuiovlng snd baring them uncalled for, it va facia evidence of intentional fraud. yrofrssumal & Itusinfss Cards. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. TOHNT. KKA'IT, ,| ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. SjL- offie opposite Reetl A Scbeli'* Bank. ( .;SEI given in Englifh AND German. [apl26] K I MMELL AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, SKDTORP, PA. Hare formed a partnership in the practice of • e Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran 'TORCH. [April 1, 1864-tf MM A. POINTS. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bsoroar, PA. R.-peetfoliy tenders his professional serrieea he public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, on Public Square near Lutheran Church. promptly made. [Dec.9,'64-tf. HAYES IRVIXE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, faithfully and promptly attend to all buxi rtis intrusted to his care. Office witbG. D. Spang, !. on Juliana street, three doors s -uth of the Mecgei House. May 24:1y T7SPT M. ALSIP, FI ATTORNEY AT LAW. BRUPORD, PA„ iviil faithfully and promptly attend to all busi entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin- I counties. Military claims, Pensions, back IST. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Minn A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. Api 1, 1884.—1£ ~ ARMS „ J. W. DICIEBSOS MEYERS A DICKERSON. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BMRORP. PIRR'A^ Of E nearly opposite the Mengel House, will j-1 tiee in the several Courts of Bedford county. I'enriuna, bounties and back pay obtained snd the purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 11,"66- ly T B. CESSNA. J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFLICA with JOHN CISSRA, on the square near the Presbyterian Church. All business CR-tiisted to bis care will receive faithful and pr aspt attention. Military Claims, Pensions, Ac., SI "edily collected. [June 9, 1865. V B. BTUCKEY, ATTORNEY ANLJ COUNSELLOR AT LAW, snd REAL ESTATE AGENT, SEE on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House. KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI. WiH practice in the adjoining Counties of M:*- F URL and Kansas." July 12:tf -. L. ~ J. n. XOMBBBCBEB TKUSSELL A LONGENECKER, J\ ARNOSSETS A CorsSELLOBS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will Attend promptly and faithfully to ail busi ness entrusted to their earo. Special attention C ■en to collections and the prosecution of claims : r Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. ES-Office on Juliana street, sooth of the Court House. Aprils:l jr. 1- M'n. A. T. " OHARPE A KERR. O A TTORSE TS-A T-LAW. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad dining counties. AH business entrusted to their -E WILL receive careful AND prompt attention. Pensions. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col ieeted from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed A Schell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf J. ft. PVRBOBROW JOBS LCTX. DURBORROW A LUTZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Breroßß, PA., Wili attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made en the shortest no tice. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents SND will give special attention to the prosecution •f claims against the Government f>r Pensions, BARK Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door couth of the owirsr office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel House" April 28, 1865:t P H Y SICIA N S. A\~M. W. JAMISON, M. D, > BLOODY Res, PA., KR spectfully tenders his professional SERVICES to tk people "of that place and vicinity. [dtcS:lyr INK. B. F. HARRY, \J Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citixens of Bedford and vicinity. ■ ffice and residence on Pitt Street, in tbe building • 1" rmerly occupied by I)r. J. H. ffofins. [Ap'L 1,64. I L. MARBOIRG. M. P., •J . Having permanently located respectfully rndert his pofessionai services to the citixens f Bedford and vicinity. Office or. Juliana street, ■-] poite the Bank, one door north of Hall A Pal ss*r' office. April 1, 1864— tf. hK. S. G. STATLER, near ScbelHburg. and Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland onty. having associated themselves in the prae- j Medicine, respectfully offier tbeir profes- { ni services to the citixens of Scbellsburg and I nity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same A; F rmerly occupied bv J. White, Esq., dee d. <?. G. -TATLER, - hellsburg, April!2:!y. J. J. CLARKE. M I S C K L L A N E O U ST C'K I -LI ANN ON. BANKER. " BEPTOBD, PA. j BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. J iwthts made for the East, West, North and ! and the general business of Exchange J •farted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittance* promptlymade. REAL ESTATE 1 OSTT and sold. feb22 J K-ANIEL BORDER, A-' PITT STEEET, TWD noons WEST or THE *t>- '■■■ N TEL, BEXronn. PA. '■'A lea MAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL- | RY, SPECTACLES. AC. T'E K-eps on hand a stock of fins Gold and Sil- j "V.rhex, Spectacle* of Brilliant Doublußefin. • " > aeses. also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold } Chains. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best | •of Gold l'ens. He will supply to order i J " thing in his line not on hand. [pr.28.'65. f I) W. CROCSE , "WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, ] " I'itt street two doors west of B. F. Harry's J RIG Store, Bedford, Pa-, is now prepared • )"?*'' B F wholesale all kind* of CIGARS. All j Wa promptly filled. Persona desiring anything IN TIS IMC will do well to give him a call. Bedford Oct 5. '6i„ A ''L KINDS OK BLAKS for sale at the fa . A follfupplT of Deed?, Lea •* Articles of Asreernt tt. DFBBftRROW * LITE Sdltort and Proprietors. TIIE ANMVEH. BT ..'OBX 0. WHjmiCR. S Spare me, dread ange! of reproof, And let the. sunshine weave to-day Its gold-threads in the warp and woof Of life so poor and grey. | Spare me awhile: the flesh is weak. J These lingering feet, that fain woold stay Among the flowers, shaH some day seek The straight and narrow way. I Take off thy ever-watchful eye, j The awe of thy rebuking frown ; The dullest slave at times must sigh To fling his burdens down ; To drop bis galley's straining oar, And press, in summer warmth and calmi The lap of some enchanted shore Of blossom and of balm. Grudge not my life its hour of bloom, My heart its taste of long desire : This day be mine: be those to come As duty shall require. The deep voice answered to my own, Smiting my selfish prayers away : "To-morrow is with God alone, And man hath bat to-day. "Say not thy fond, vain heart within, The Father s arms shall still be wide V> ben from these pleasant ways of sin Thou tnrn'stat eventide." "Cast thyself down," the tempter sailb, "And angels shall thy feet upbear." He bids tbee make a lie of faith, A blasphemy of prayer. Though God be good and free be Heaven, No force divine can love compel; And, though the song of sins forgiven May sound through lowest hell, The sweet persuasion of His Toice Respects thy sanctity of will. He giveth day : thou hast thy choice To walk in darkness elill; As one who, turning from the light, Watches his own grey shadow tall, Doubting, upon his path of night. If there be day at all! No word of doom may shut thee out, No wind of wrath may downward whirl, No swords of fire keep watch about The open gates of pearl. A tenderer light than mooD or sun. Than song of earth a sweeter hymn, May shine and sound forever on, And then be deaf and dim. Forever round the Mercy-set Thu guiding lights of love shall burn; But what if, habit-bound, thy feet Shall lack the will to turn 1 What if thine eye refuse to see, Thine ear of Heaven's free welcome fail, And thou a willing captive be, Thyself thy own dark jail? O doom beyond the saddest guess, As the long years of God unroll To make thy dreary selfishess The prison of a soul! To doubt the love that fain would break The fetters from thy self-bound limb; And dream that God can thee forsake As thou forsakest him! IMPEACHMENT. . The question whether the power to re move civil officers of the United States, ap pointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is devolved by the Constitu tion on the President singly, or on him in conjunction with the Senate, hi? never re ceived a judicial interpretation. Hamilton, in the 77th No. of the Federalist declared that "the consent of that body would be nec essary to <Usplaee as well as to appoint." But the First Congress, in 1789 after very able delate, in effect decided—Vice Presi dent Adams giving the casting vote —that such consent was unnecessary. The words of the Act creating the War Department, "that whenever the Secretary shall be re moved from office by the President," con templated that such officer was thus remov able. This is considered a legislative con struction of the Constitution. TbeTeoure of-Office Act, however, passed March 2, 1867, gave it a new aDd different construc tion, by providing "that erery person hold ing any civil office, to which he has been apjiointcd by and with the advice and con sent of the Senate shall be entitled to hold such office until a successor shall have been in like maner appointed and duly qual ified, except as herein otherwise provided. Provided that the Secretaries of War, and shall hold their offices respectively for and during the term of the Prerident by whom they have been appointed, and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and consent of the Sen- • ate." This Act was intended-to assert the doctrine of Hamilton, so far as concerns removal, though it provided for su-pension, and in terms repeals all laws which are in consistent with it. It. consequently repeals so much oT the Act of 17>9 as amounts to a legislative recognition of such power of re moval as residing in the President alone. The President supposes that the language of the above proviso takes the case of the Secretary of War out of reach of what ! proceeds it; hut it will appear that this is j mere subterfuge. The term referred to in < it is the term of four years from March 4, ' 1865, which has not yet expired. This was his construction of the Act when he sus- I pended Mr. Stanton under its provisions. Has the Congress power to piss this Act, j or, in other words, is it the true interprets- i tion of the Constitution? The question is i of the highest importance, not alone as one j upon which the trial will turn, but in its effect upon the welfate of the country. To the unbridled u>e of the power of removal, | indulged in without the restraint of the Senate, is due much of the universal desire ' for office that prevails, and the instability and profligacy which atteud its gratification. A power to mttpetttl from office during a recess of the Senate until the mttpeaskw 1s acted upon by the Senate, the circumstances j to be reported, supplies every necessity and can never be thus abused. The friends of; the Administration must have sincere | pleasure in placing the President's defense j upon the Constitution itself as they have 1 charged in every variety of form that this 1 A ANj OENERAI, NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS. EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. MARCH 90. 1868. sacred instrument has been lost sight of by those who have thought it equal to all the emergencies which have been relied upon for its overthrow. The Presidential authority over vacancies is thus stated in the Constitution: "The President shall have power to fill up all the ! r-acanoes that may happen during the recess of the Senate, bv granting commissions ] which shall expire at the end of the next session." It is a well known rule of eon struction that the specification of a particu lar authority excludes a general authority. If. as the President's friends contend, he is armed, as a necessary ingredient of the gen era! executive power, with authority to make vacancies and fill thcrn during the sit ting of the Seuate, or otherwise, at his Eleasure, this clause expressing when and ow he tuay fill particular vacancies is idle. Leaving out of view the Act of 1867, above quoted, it may be affirmed that there was no "vacancy ' in the office of Secretary of \S ar; and if there were, it did not occur during the "recess of the Senate," Mr. h tan ton was in possession of his office dur ing the sitting of the Senate, and his re moval was attempted at this time. The case, therefore, has no connection with the sixth section of the Tenure-of-Office Act. It is contended that the proviso in the Act of March 18(57, supposes that the Sec retary is thus removable. To this we have two answers—first, that the very opposite was intended, as the President well knew j and so decided: and secondly, (bat is not in ! the power of Congress to confer on him alone this authority. The Constitution in the section immediately preceding the one already quoted, $2, art. 2, provides that "the Congress may by law vest the appoint ment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone , in the Courts oflawj op iathe Heads of Departments." The War Department, being a known and recognized department in all important Governments, could not have bcn referred to under the head of "inferior offieers;" and hence the appointment of Secretary of War—an office not mentioned in the Con stitution—is not embraced in this provision, but belongs to that intended in the next preceding clause, as follows: "he (the Pres ident) shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall ap point embassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Couit, and all other offieers of the United States, ichose appointments are not herein otherwise provibd for and which shall tjs established by lair. NIL * The clauses "the executive power rhall be vested in a President/' and that "he shall take care that the laws be faithfully execu ted." can not be deemed to override the effect direct and implied ol these special and definite provisions. They limit the power of the President acting singly to make ap pointments, i?r rather "to grant commis sions (for such is the language) to cases of "vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate," and they also limit the power of Congress to "inferiorofficers,'' as those, the appointment of which may be vested in the ''resident, etc. It is clear therefore, to us that Hamilton was correct in saying that by the Constitu tion the consent of the Senate is "necessary to displace as well as appoint" If such is the case this consent can not be dispensed with by act of Congress. It is unnecessary to consider whether or not the President had power to natpatd the Secretary of War under the sixth section of the Tenure-of- Offtce Act, as this was no: the character of tie late proceeding. Was the President guilty of an impeachable offense in attempt ing, during the sitting of the Senate, to remove Mr. Stanton, and put Major Gener al Thomas as Secretary ad inkum in pos session of the War Department? A Scire tary interim, except in the contingencies of a suspension of the chief officer, is un known to our laws. The act creating the Department provided that, in case of va cancy. the chief clerk shall act till the vacancy is filled. It was an attempt, therefore, to place a wholly irresponsible person in a position of high trust, which of itself is an impeachable offense, even if the otbei is not. The removal also was in open and clear violation of what Congress intend ed by the Tenure of-Office Act. To fix the tenure of office is a legislative power and duty, and as the Secretary of War is an of ficer created wholly in Congress, it is com petent for Congress to prevent bis removal, except in the manner tmnfietf jn his ap pointment—that is to say, by aud urith the adriv and content of the Senate. Such is the act. It was passed in precise conform ity with the Constitution, and declares that its violation shall be deemed a high misde meanor. The President is brought, there foie, within its provisions, and, when the attending cirenin stances are considered, the violation should be treated as willful. At the time of General Grant's appointment as Secretary of War ad interim, Mr, Stan ton had teen suxpended under the sixth sec tion of the Tenure of-Office Act, which pro vided for such suspension in case of miscon ! duct "in office, or lor crime, or for incara i bility, or for legal disqualification. The , suspension of any of these supposed causes 1 iras, as the country well knows, a fraud upon the Act, and he was restored by a vote of the Senate. On the 21st February the President, instead of proceeeding to repeat the offense, notified Mr. Stanton that he was removed, and he so informed the Senate, and also that he had appointed Major Gen cral Thomas Secretary ad interim, an ap pointment under the circumstances wholly without precedent or authority. The cor respondence at the time of several newspa f pers in the interests of the President proved, after Major General Thomas's failure was ; known, that the latter had proceeded un- ; skillfully and inefficiently, or he might, they suppose, have obtained possession and se cured complete command of the Depart ment. Tbc frequency and uniformity of this criticism on the conduct of Major Gen. Thomas suggest the reference that a coup iTctat was meditated, and that its failure caused universal disappointment. If the movement Lad succeeded to place this ir responsible pffioer in possession and control of all the material of war, the whole power' of the administration would doubtless have 1 been employed to hold the place in defiance cf Congress and of the loyal sentiment of the country. To what lengths the President < would have gone, acting through an officer unknown to tbelaws, it is impossibleto say. • His aim is the succession to; power. His I means a violation of the Constitution, It is j right, therefore, to suppose that if he could have wielded the War Department in all its infinite ramifications, he would have accom plished his objects, if necessary, by force. In lieu of this it is more probable he wit: . find that if justice is slow in'her steps she ; is at least firut tn'her grasp and certain to ! inflict punishment for such a grave trans gression. Even if the President had the power of rcmaral he had not th' power to appoint Major-General Thomas as Secretary j ad interim, as he could do that only in the contingency of the suspension of Mr. Stan ton. His right to appoint another in the place of Mr. Stanton he conld exercise only by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and it would take effect only after such cowscnt. Much sympathy for the Prasident has been claimed, on the ground that the Secretary of War is a member of his Cabinet and should be in unison with ; him. The President's power over the Heads of Departments is thus defined in i 2 ' of art. 2: "He may require the opinion in wntini} of the principal offioers in each of ' the Executive Departments anon any sub ! ject relating to the duties of their respective offices," showing that the construction of a | cabinet, one member to give opinions as to the duties of the others, was not content plated. The creation of a cabinet is the offspring of custom, and in no manner ; changes the Constitution. The clause subjecting civil officers to im- j peachment for high crimes and misdemean I I ors has a signification in its relation to the ' Presidential office, varying from that which applies to inferior civil offices. The eleva ted character of the gives to the President's violations of law, and to his as saults upon Congress, an influence too im- Eortaut to be overlooked. An attempt to ring that Department into disgrace, or to weaken its authority by representing it as hanging on the verge of the Government, and as not constituted according to the Con stitution—uttered on the stump aDd to large assemblages—amounts to a prostitution of the Presidential office, and constitutes, along with the act in question, a clear ira ! peachable offeDse under the Constitution. It is by this instrument that the Presj i Jent will be condemned by the judgement of every loyal citizen, and by she more im partial judgment of History. The question whether the Court shall be constituted with or without the Chief Jus tice depends on the fact whet her or not Mr. Johnson is President: for it is on the trial of the President alone that he is to preside. The Fifth subdivision of ? 1 of art. 2 pro vides that in case of the death of the Presi dent "the powers and duties of said office shall devolve on the Vice President," but it does not state that the office shall devolve upon him. He, however, was sworn in as President. This question has some bearing on the meaning of the proviso referred to, but no mere technicality Bhould be allowed to interfere with the manifest intention of Congress. THE DIFT* OF A PIIESIOENT. Robert J. Walker, of whose Democia cy there can be no possible doubt, in his great argument in the .Mississippi case, held the following language in regard to the Presi dent's duty to execute all the laws of Con gress, without reference to their constitu ! tionality.- "And here let roe say a word in vindica tion of the President, who has been greatly censured, especially by a large portion of the Secession press of the South, for carry ing into execution an act which he had vetoed apon the ground that it was uncon stitutional. When a bill is presented to the President, he is bound to inquire into its eonstitutionalitybefore hegives his'approval. He is then co operatiod with the legislative department of the government. It he de clines to sign it and it is passed by a two-thirds majority m Congress, it is as much an act of Congress as i! it had received the sanction of the President; and it necesarily follows that, under the obligation imposed upon him by the Constitution to see that tbc laws are faithfully executed, he is as much bound to execute that act as one which met his ful lest approval. Why? Because the President possesses no judicial power; nor does Con gress. If Congress were to convert itself into a judicial body, and the two Houses should go into Committee of the Whole to inquire into the constitutionality of a particular act, their resolution on that subject would be a mere nullity, because they possess legislative power. So the President had no right to judge of the canstitntioDality of an act of Congress after it had become a law, that being a judicial question. If this were not so it would be the right, and therefore the duty, of every successive President, so soon as he was inaugurated, to take npthc hand reds of volumes containing all the acts of Congress, and inquire judicially which of them were constitutional and which not, and carry into execution those which he believed to be constitutional and refuse to execute these which he believed to be unconstitu tional. I say the President would be usur ping the judicial function and overthrowing the distinction created by the Constitution between the co ordinate departments of the Government if he were to attempt to ex ercise snch a power as that. He has no dis cretion except to execute the act; and that important fact goes to the very gist of the matter. When an application is made for a man damus to compel the performance of an act, or an injunction to restrain the execution of an illegal act, it depends upon whether the executive officers have a discretion in either case to the judge of the law, and a right to execute it or not at their pleasure. I! they have no discretion, and the law positively commands the execution of a particular act, the remedy is by mandamus to act affirma tively ; if the law forbids peremptorily the execution of an act, then, where it can be made a judicial question, the appeal is to the judicial tribunals, and especially where the question is a constitutional one. In this case the President has no discretion ex cept to execute the law; the subordinate officers who are obeying his commands have no discretion, except to carry his orders in to effect; and there is no discretion in such a case between an executive and a ministe rial duty." FASHIONS. —Fashions always run gradu ally to extremes, aDd then return by degrees to reason and moderation. If ladies' bonnets became much smaller, they would have to be put. on with the aid of a microscope and a pair of tweezers. But the reaction, happily, has set in, and it is whispered in fashionable circles that the loves of spring bonnets will be a few sizes larger than those now worn. They will go on increasing, until after a while we shall get back to the old style of coal scuttle, which used to render it imperative upon a man to go down a silk and bombazine lane to kiss a woman, and which made it im possible for one woman to kiss another with out ungearing. After that we shall probably have the old gig-tops, which had to be thrown back on springs before a female could look around. I yet them come; ' lovely woman" is equally lovely in a soup dish with strings, or an old fashioned "poke." A NEW SECT.—A new sect, knowing as the Nazarcnes, has appeared in Hungary. It attracts the entire peasant population, as the Methodicts did in Wales. It is onlv among the lower daises that it spreads with, rapidity. The people have no priest and no religious rites. They refuse to have their children baptized, and will swear no oath. They have closely connected . societies,in which all matters of common interest and the private affairs of individuals are arrang ed. They are quiet, orderly, sober, and in dustrious above their neighbors. No one scents to know where the religion came from, nor bow it was introduced. But it is sweep ing over the land like a tornado. MABBY. POST Orris, CosrspßtrX ROADS (wiuh is ia the btait uv Kentucky,) February 17, 1868.—There is located at the Corners j about 12 or 19 sous uv the Green Isle uv Enn, wich is called the green tale, I spose, becoi uv the ease with wich the great ma j°r"f uv e ® are managed by the Democracy, lo fasten these voters and hold em to us, it wuz considered advisable that some akshen be taken by the Dimocricy uv the Corners, ia the matter uv Irish liberty and English oppreahun. The ijee originated with Dee kin I ogram, and Bascom, Captain McPel ter and I consent id. We met at the church and I made, ia ex the custom, the leedin speech. It wux a subjick that is easy to speek upon, and 1 flatter myself I did it j ustis. It's easy to talk uv liberty, for ther s suthin inspirin in the word. That's the reason why the Abilishinista hev alius bed the advantage UT us in the matter uv speekers, they nev all the advantage uv sentiment, but, halleloogy ! uv wat avail is semini ent when yoo hurl it at a laxy man? uv wat good is it to talk uv liberty to a man who don't like to work; who hex a taste for draw poker and mint gooleps, and who kin force fifty or a hundred niggers to work for him? \ou mite ez well fire paper wads at a iron clad. That's wher the De mocrisy hev em in Kentucky. Everybody here hez a dislike for work, and a likin for mint gooleps, but nobody haint got no senti ment. Still, we hev no objeckshun to talkin uv liberty, at long range. We hev no objeck shun to it in Ireland. In fact, we are willin to admit that in Ireland it is a pretty good thing. I spoke elokently on the subjick. I held up sich uv the wrongs eodoored by the Irish ez I cood conveniently remember; spoke feelingly uv wat they had suffered, wuz a sufferin. and probably bed yet to suffer, and demandid that the Corners unite in a expres sion uv sympathy with em, ez those most certinly entitled to it. I wuz applaudid to the eko, Bascom riz. He hed a series uv resolushens, wich he begged to submit, ez follows: WAREAS, We hev red in the noosepapers or hev bed red to us, wich is the same thing, sole-movin accounts uv the horrors now afllictin Ireland on account uv the oppreshun and tyranny procticed upon cm by the bloa ted aristocrats and pampered sons uv luxury uv England, and W AREAS, The Corners feels for the wic tims uv oppreshun, and weeps at their woes therofore be it Peso/t ed, That the holdin uv the Irish in bondage in Ireland by the English, is a re proach onto the civilizashen of the 19th century. Hesolted, That the taxin uv the Irish without givin uv em a voice in the Govern ment, the forsin uv them to support a Gov ernment, in the ruDnin uv wich they hev no voice, and the other outrages too teius to menshun, wich is bein oontinyooally inflicted onto em, stirs oar blood with indignashen, and we herebv extend our sympathy to cm. Resolved, That we demand uv the Gov ernment of the Yoonited States that steps be immejitly takeo to release the Ameriken sitixens uv Irish descent, now languishin in English prizeus. and that, if needs be, to assert the dignity uv the Republic, we go to war in the COB. The resolooshens wuz about bein yoonani mously adopted when that miserable cuss, Joe Bigler, aiz. Hesed he hed a remark to make. He approved uv them resoloo shens. He believed ia em. Taxasben without representashen wuz ojus—it wuz tyranny—it cood never be endoored, and he cared not whear it wuzjpractist, it wux ab horrent to every lover uv liberty. He shood cheerfully vote for them resolooehens, but he desired to make a little addishen to em. I remarkt that amendments wuz in order. "Very good," sed Josef. "I move to add these: "Resolved, Also, that ez taxasben with out representashen as unjust in Ireland, it is in Kentucky, and that while this Conven shun hez her pocket hankercher out a wee pin over the woes uv the Irish, it slinks a teer or two over the unforchnit black citi zens uv this State, who are being taxed liko thunder, but who aint permitted to vote at all. "Resolved, likewise, That while mois tenin up ever the Amerikin citizens uv Irish descent, DOW in prizen in England, we give down a trifle over thefour Amerikin citizens uv Afrikin descent now in jail in this county who wuz imprizined for no coz watevcr, ceptin knockin down impndent white men who aboozed their wives. "Resolved, moreover. That while we con demn England for imprizenin Amerikin citi zens uv Dish descent without coz, and for tyranizin over em generally, we she! take sich steps ez shel prevent the same thing bein done to an alarmin extent to Ameiikin citizens uv Afrikin descent at home. "These resoloosbens," sed Josef, "I move ez a amendment. Uv coorse no one will object, for the principle is the same here ez there." I replied breefly. There wuz a distink shen. I feered Mr. Bigler did not under stand the matter. There wuz a distinkshen and it wnz not oltogether on akkount nv the Afrikin's bein a black man either. Ef there wuz a stroog emigrasben from Afrika to Amerika, and the Afrikin emigrant cood git a vote after he had been here five yeers, the Democrisy weod hev no diffikilty in git tin up sympathy for em. "But it aint so, and hence I see no practical good in the amendment. I mildly, but firmly, objeck to addin these resolooshcns to the regler _ ones reported by Mr. Bascom. The nigger is— Bigler sed he expectid that it wood be ob jected to. But he wuz so weli satisfied that it ought to pass, that he felt he must take extraordinary' measures. Ho wantid every one to vote on the amendment ez he pleesed —he wantid every mad to exercise his judg ment; but be shood take the liberty uv put tin the moshen, and sLood feel called upon to bust the head uv every man who votes against it Uv coorse that settled it We all hev a regard for Josef, for he does alius ex he say# Every man in the room voted for it, and the Corners stands committedto nigger suffrage. Good Heavens! Can't this cuss be got rid uv ? PETROLEUM V. NASBT, P. M., (Wich is Postmaster.) A HAPPY HOME.— "Six things," says Hamilton, "are requisite to create a happy home. Integrity must be the architect, and tidiness the upholster. It must be warmed by affection, and lighted with cheerfulness, and industry must be the ventilator, re newing the atmosphere, and bringing in fresh salubrity day by day; while over all, as a protecting day: while over all, as a pro tecting glory and canopy, nothing will suffice except the blessing of God." DESPISE not little sins; they have ruined many a soul. Despise not little duties; they have been to many haughty spirits an ex cellent discipline of humility. Despise not little temptations; rightly met they have of ten nerved the character for some fiery 1 trial. VOLIBE 41 ; KQ 11. THE STAR sum s. Whosoever ventures abroad these clear winter evenings cannot fail to be struck with the impressive magnificence of the starry heavens. The eye of the observer is daz zled with the sparkling radiance of thou sands of stars of various colors and magni tudes, which stud the vault of heaven on ah sides. Among the celestial host may be seen the celebrated stars and groups men tioned long before the time of Homer. ''Canst thou hind the sweet influence of the Pleidacs, or loose the bands of Orion ? Canst thou bring forth Mausroth in his set sons ?or canst thou guide Arcturus with bis sons?" Among these brilliant jewels of heaven, now visible for a while in wintry skies, is one of surpassing lustre, and of great his toric interest. The eye will readily select the Mszxaroth of Job, theSothia of the old Egyptians, the Siriua of our own times. This peerless star lies eastward of Orion on the celestial sphere; and arrives at the me ridian, at this season, about ten o'clock in the evening. One cannot gaie long at this splendid star, —glorious in its solitary gran deur—without having feelings of awe and admiration awakened in him. Its pure, sil very radiance seems to come from the depths inhabited by the Hone, a ray strayed from the Eternal Light of the Universe. Three thousand years before the Christian era. Sirus rose beliacally at the time of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. The coincidence was noted by the Egyp tians, and they also noted the contempora neous rise of the sacred Nile. These cir cumstances rendered Siriua an object of the highest interest among the Egyptians. They believed it to be the celestial abode of the soul of Isis, and it was an object of reverence and worship. The time of its heliacal rising was chosen by them to mark the beginning of the aivil year in their cal endar. The most brilliant and conspicuous star in the heavens thus became the most important, in the Egyptian social, political, and religious systems. Perhaps the most astonishing factin its history is its change of color. At the time it bore so conspicuous a part in the inatitu- j tions of Egypt, it was a fiery red star, and j so it was in the days of Ptolemy, a century , after the birth of our Saviour. It is now, and has been for ages, a pure white star, unsurpassed in this respect. When this change of color took place is unknown. It , implies some mighty change in its physical ! constitution—a change for which no astrono mer has yet ventured to assign a probable , cause. The ingenuity and skill of astronomers have been exercised to discover the magni tude and the distance of Siri'us. Its dis tance from onr globe is so remote that it is pearly outside the limit bevood which it is impossible to fathom the celestial spaces, and hence it is only approximately deter mined. Assuming its parallax to be fifteen bundreths of a second, the amount assigned it by astronomers, its distance from us would not be less than thirteen hundred thousand times the earth s distance from the sun. It would require light more than twenty-two years to fly over this distance. It follows from this that if Sirius had been destroyed in 1847, it would still be visible in the heavens. At this assumed distance, Herschel esti mates its intrinsic splendor at two hundred and twentyfive times that of the sun. Ima gine oar sun increased in this great ratio! Within a few years this justly celebrated star has been an object of renewed scientific interest. Long ago, Haley discovered that it was slowly wandering in the celestial spa ces; that since the time of Hipparchas it had traversed a space in the celestial sphere equal to ODe apparent diameter of the moon. Bessel, a celebrated German astronomer, after, a long series of observations on Sirius, declared that its movement was not uniform but irregular, and that its irregularities could only rationally be accounted for on the theory of its being a double star. As its Juplicitv could not be seen with any tele scope, he concluded that the companion might be Don-luminous. Several astrono mers were attracted to the consideration of this mystery, and the labors of each only re sulted in the confirmation of the suspicions of Bessel, without discovering the real cause. Finalh, early in 1552, Mr. Safford of Cambridge, now Director of the Chicago Observatory, undertook a mathematical discussion of these iriegularties of Sirius, in declination; and he arrived at the conclu sion that the motion of Sirius in declination was not eniform, and that the want of uni formity was due to the presence of some in visible mass in the system of Sirius. Hardly had this annovneement been pub lielymade, when Mr. Clark lifted his colos sal achromatictelescope—still unfinished—to the skies, and pointing it to Sirius, detected at oDce the hitherto invisible disturber of its movements. Thus was the conjecture of Bessel and the prediction of Safford verified by actual observation. It was a triumph in magnitude and importance hardly inferior to the discovery of the planet Neptune.— Boston Courier. trofblkTfko.'b within. The passionate, ill natnred man lives al ways in stormy .weather, even though it be the quite of dew-fall around him: always wronged, always hurt, always complaining of some enemy. He has no conception that bis enemy is in his own bosom, in the sourness, the ungoverned irritability, the habitual iilnature of his own bad spirit and character. —I speak not here of some single burst of passion, into which a man of amia ble temper may, for once, be betrayed, butl speak more especially of the angry charac ters, always brewing in some tempest of violated feeling. They have a great many enemies, are unaccountably ill-treated, and cannot understand why it is. They have no suspicion that they see and suffer bad things because they are bad, that beiDg illnatured is about the same thing as receiving ill treatment, and that all the enemies they suffer are snugly closeted in their own evU temper. The same is true of fretful persons—men and woman that wear away fast and die, because they have worried life completely out. Nothing goes right; husband, or wife, or child, or customer, or sermon. They are pricked or stung at every motion they make, and wonder why it is that others are permit ted to float aloDg so peacefully, and they never suffered to have a moment of peace in their life is a field of nettle? to them, be cause their fretful, worrying tempers are al ways pricking out through the tender skin of their uneasiness. Why. if they were in paradise, carrying their bid mind with them, they would fret at the good angels, and the climate, and the colors even of roses. SELF-HELP is the best help in the world; when once a man applies to it be will not readily apply to any other help. A work man, if he devote himself to the special du ty of making his home happy, and of im proving his condition, will soon raise him self above with demagogues call the op pressed classes. A WW VSlttl. OF lUI, Mr. John Elder, of the celebrated ship builders' firm, Randolph, Elder & Co., 10 Glasgow, has recently patented a moat original form of iron-clad ram for coast de fences and attacks on sea fortifications Mr. Elder's vessel is formed below tba water line as a segment of an enormous sphere, say 25 feet deep and 200 feet in diameter, of the circular water-line. Tbia corresponds to a small piece of a sphere, of which the versine over a chord of 200 feet is 25 feet long. Over the wateT line the armor-clad aides are a short truncated cone, and in the center of this circular deck a high castle or tower, carrying three or iour tiers of guns, is arranged This vessel, being perfectly circular in plan, has neither bow nor stern, nor any of the other steering at tributes of ships now in existence; it bears, in fact, the same relation of outline and form to the ordinary ships as the form of a crab bears to that of a fish. The power of locomotion is riven to this craft by the re action propeller. The reaction wheel probably Mr. Randolph's improved water jet propeller—is placed in the center of the vessel, at the lowest point of the spherical segment, and the ejection of water can be effected through four openings placed at fonr equi distant points in the circumfer ence, so as to command the direction of propulsion without any steering arrange ment, by forcing the water through one or two of the passages which command any one of the four quadrants inclosed by them. There are, however, steering or deflection boards fitted to the end of the passages through which the water is ejected; and, by using these boards, a rotary motion can be given to the "crab." By ejecting the water from two opposite passages simultaneously, and placing the steering boards into a cor responding position, the total engine power of the vessel can be made available for setting the ship into a revolving movement round its own vertical axis. The velocity which the ship is capable of attaining under these conditions, measured at the outer circumference, is very great, since there is no other resistance to this motion except the skin-friction. Mr. Elder proposes to make use of the great momentum which this high velocity of movement will afford for ramming purposes. The whole circular edge of his vessel which is of a sharp angle in section, represents, so to say, the edge of a circular saw or revolving disk wheel, and the accumulated momentum of the rotary movement can be used for producing a destructjve effect upon the sides of any vessel with which this revolving turret ship would come into contact The circular form allows of a very large stowage room as com pared with the ordinary form of ships, and it produces a base of such stability as to allow the erection of a tower of great hight in the center, so as to obtain better facilities for attacking objects on shore. Mr. Elder has carried out some experiments as to the resistance to propulsion in a straight line offered by his form of vessel compared with the ordinary forms. He made two models representing equal tunnage, one of the Black Prince shape and the other of his spherical form, and the resistance of these two models was measured by au apparatus which afforded a simple mode of comparing the relative proportions of these resistances. The result was only about 10 per cent in favor of the Js lade Prince mode!, and this seems to indicate that the new vessel would be capable of attaining a fair speed under steam. The advantages offered by this form are of different kinds, the most prominent being a maximum of internal accommodation or stowage room, with a minimum of ex posed surface, a circular or turret-shaped armored side, and an extraordinary facility of manoeuvring in an action; last, but not least, the total absence of any exposed points of weakness, or "Achilles' heels," such as most iron-clads at present possess. —Engineering. A PARTING WORIK BY BEV. NEWMAN" WAI T_ Now! A short word; a shorter thing. Soon uttered; sooner gone. Now? A grain of sandon a boundless plain. A tiny ripple on a measureless ocean! Over that ocean we are sailing, but the only part of it we possess is that on which our vessel at this moment floats. From the stem we look backward- and watch the ship's wake in the waters: but how short a distance it reaches, and how soon every trace disap pears! We see also some landmarks farther off, and then the horizon closes the view; but beyond, that ocean still rolls far, far away. Memory contemplates the few years of our individual life; history shows us a dim outline of mountains; science tells us that still farther back, out of sight, stretches that vast sea; reason assures us that, like spase, it hath no boundary; but all that we possess of it is represented by this small word— Now! The past, for action, is ours no longer. The future may never become present, and is not ours until it does. The only part of time we can use is this very moment — Novc! But multitudes waste what they actually possess in vain regrets for what they once had, or vain intentions respecting what is not yet theirs. "Alas!" says one, "I have thrown away the choicest opportunities, and the best part of my life is lost! 0, if those years might return, how differently would I now act!'' Those years cannot retnrn. But you have the present moment! Why add what you can improve to the heap of lost opportunities which are now far beyond your reach? A passenger comes bustling into the rail way depot He is just too late, for the en gine has sounded its whistle, and the ears are gliding rapidly out of sight He looks after them in despair. He had important business to transact. Buinous may he the consequences of delay. He sits down on his trunk, leaning his head upon his hand, and. absorbed in vain regrets, gazes vacantly for ward. But see! another train is at the Slatform, just about to start for the same estination. Other passengers have arrived, and are eagerly crowding in. The bell rings. Again the whistle sounds; again the engine bears away its living freight; and starting up, our friend again bewails an op portunity lost! O, sit not down again des pondingly! There is yet another chance. Throw not this away, too, but at once take your seat in the third train which note: is preparing to follow the other two. But should we never look regretfully after the past? Certainly; but for this purpose, that we may be stirred up to improve the present. Let us think of past sins that we may repent now. Let us meditate en form er failures that we may watch and pray against similar d&Dgers now. But let us not be so foolish as to lose what yet remains, while poring over what is gone forever. Rouse thee, self-reproaching, desponding sinner ! Thy guilt has been great, but thou canst not lessen it by merely regretting it Bring it note to Christ, that be may pardon it! You cannot atone for the past hut you may improve the present. Often in by gone years you might have sought God in an "accepted time." and have rejoiced in a "day of salvation.' Great is your guilt and great your folly in having lost such oppor tunities. Fes, think of this, and be asham ed. Think of this and mourn. Butsothin. of it as not to add to that guilt and folly So think of it as to act at once on the Di vine word, "Behold, Now is the accepted time; behold, Xow day of salvation.," AN irrepressible bov of five years, who was always compelled to Veep quiet on Suuday, having grown inexpressibly,weary toward the close of a Sabbath day, frankly and hon estly approached his excellent, but rather over-strict father, and gravely said; "Pa let's have a little spiritual run." This was too much, not only for the gravity, but also for the strictness of the father, and for once he i "let nater caper" till bedtime.
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