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The law p.. .reeds upon the ground that a man must pay for what lie uses. l'lie oourtc hare decided that refusing to take ewspapers and periodicals from the Post olf.ee, r rem ling ami having them uncalled for, la I irima facia evidence of intentional fraud. OroffSjSionnX & lustows tfardjs. ATTORNEYS AT 1, A \Y. I OHN T. KEAGY, >1 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Reed A Schell's Bank, ouusel given in English and Gcrni&u. [apl26] KIMMELL AND LING F.N KELTER. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. llave formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1864-tf M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services t.. the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfclter, Esq., OB Public Square near Lutheran Church. promptly made. [Dec.9,'64-tf. IRVIHK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all ousi ness intrusted to his care. Office with G. 11. Spang, i r ;., on Juliana street, three doors south of the Mengel House. May 24:1y TASPY M. ALSIP, 1 i ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., V. ill faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ne - entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin iug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay. B unty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. apl 1, IS64.—tf. e. F. J. w. DICKKRSON Ml. VERS A DICKERSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pesn'A., Office nearly opposite the Mengel House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. [mayll,°66-Iy | R. CESSNA, tl . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office with John CESSNA, on the square near the Presbyterian Church. AH business entrusted to his care will receive faithful and prompt attention. Military Claims. Pensions, Ac., speedily collected. (June 9, 1865. jg B. STUCKEY, ATTORNEY ANI) COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and REAL ESTATE AGENT, Office on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Will practice in the adjoining Counties of Mis souri and Kansas. July 12:tf S. L. LONQKNKI'KBR UUSSELL A LONGENECKER, ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will atlend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. KSf-Office on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Aprils:lyr. J- M'n. B* r - BB R R CtIIARPE A KERIt, S .4 rtorse ys-A T-LA IF. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their carwwill receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Heed A Schell. Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf J. R. DtTRBORROW JOHN I.UTI. DTK BORROW A LUTZ, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEBFORD, PA., Will attend promptly.to all business intrusted to their care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. They are, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents and will give special attention to the prosecution ef claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel House" April 23, 18h5:t j ~ PHYSICIANS. UTM. W. JAMISON, M. V., YV JU loo oY RON, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to j the people of that place and vicinity. [decSblyr j OR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied ly Dr. J.II. Hofius. [Ap'l 1,64. I 1.. MARKOI RG. M. I>.. fJ • Having permanently located respectfully tenders his pofcssional services to 'he citizens ofßedlord and vicinity. Office on Juliana street, opposite the Bank, one door north ot llall A Pal mer's office. Aprii 1, 1864—tf. 1 \R. S. G. BTATLER, near Schellsburg. and 1) Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland j county, having associated themselves in the prae- ( tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes- j -i-.i,ai services to the citizens of Fchellshurg and ; vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same | s formerly occupied by J. White, Esq.. dee'd. S. G. STATLER, 'hells!,urg, Aprill2:ly. J. J. CLARKE. M ISCELLANEOUIT. / \ E. cHANNON, BANKER, V/. BEDFORD, PA. j BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. j Collection* u.ade for the East, West. North and j •** th, and the general business of Exchange ""an-acted. Notes and Accoants Collected end !'in ittanecs promptly made. HEAL ESTATE I • .<r. i ?<>!d. feb22 j \ INIEL BORDER, J ' PITT STREET, TWO POORS WEST OP THE *ep h,Ki) HOTEL, BEBFORD, PA. watchmaker AND DEALER IN JEWEL- j v, HY. SPECTACLES. AC. W Re keeps ~n band a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver U atehes, Spectacle* of Brilliant Double Refin e| '''asses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold j v ' h Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best ; qnuJitjof Gold Pens. He will supply to order j any thing in his line not on hand. [•pr.28,'65. ' J \ W. CHOUSE 1 '• WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, \ (, n Pitt street two doors west of B. F. Harry'* j Urug Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared j to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All j ! r dor* promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford Oct 20. '65., A RINDS OF BLAKS for sale at the /a --1 V quxrer office. A full supply of Deed-, Lea- Articles of Agreement Ac. DPKBOKKOW A- LI'TZ Editors and Proprietors. fttqrarer. THE NEWS. In the Court of Impeachment on Monday of last week, Mr. Butler opeued the case for the prosecution in a lengthy and ex haustive review of the law on the articles of impeachment and Preident Johnson's maJ-adtninistration of the Government. He considered each of the articles of impeach ment proposed by the House at great length, showing what proof is to be brought to sus tain the statements cf fact, and fortifying with authorities those points which turn upon questions of law or of the Constitution. He defended Mr Wade's right to sit ou the trial, stating at the same time that if chal lenges werepresorted to, that Mr. Keverdy Johnson might be objected to, on account of a letter he had very recently written to a Democratic meeting in Baltimore, pledging his support to the President. 31 r. Butler commended the course of Secretary Stanton, and said that it being conceded that the ap pointment of Thomas was in direct violation of the Tenure-of Office act, what was to prevent Andrew Johnson from being de clared guilty of high crimes and misdemenn ors? The Managers claim that any question of the constitutionality of the Tenure-of- Office law is totally irrelevant during the course of this trial. Johnson's right tojudge of the constitutionality of any law ceases the moment his objections to it are sent to Congress, considered, and the bill passed over his veto. Then he is as rigidly bound by it as any one. It may be said that ho can resist it at his peril. 80 he can, and the peril is impeachmet. In reference to any decision of the Supreme Court, that Court has never but on three occasions given decisions in iegard to acts of Congress affecting the geuerai welfare, impugning their constitutionality. He asked Senators would they allow any question of the con stitutionality of this law to enter into the trial of an Executive officer who wilfully violated it in advance of any decision by any court? It may be contended that he sus pended 31r. Stanton to test the constitu tionality of this law, but the 3lanagers would show that this is a subterfuge. For one year he made no attempt to test that law. lie boldly announced to the General of the Army his purpose to violate it, and he at tempted to seduce the commander of the Department of Washington from his allegi ance to the laws. The attempts of the President to bribe Generals Sherman and Thomas, for the purpose of getting Grant out ot the way, were adverted to, and the acts ot Sherman and Thomas approved. Concluding his address, Mr. Butler said: "The responsibility is now with you (the Senate). The House of Bepresentatives has brought the criminal to your bar. If Andrew Johnson goes free, never again can the representatives of a people attempt to stay the usurpations of a ruler." On the conclusion of Mr. Butler s argument, 3lr. \\ ilson filed a mess of documentary evidence substantiating the charges against the President, wtilch was read io trie ."Senate. The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens has written a letter in which he heartily endorses Gener al Grant for the Presidency. Hischoice for Vice President is Senator Wade. Grant, he says, is "honest, firm and well indoctrina ted in principle, without ostentation and without pride. Ido not see how a better selection can be made His judgment of men is so sound that I have full faith that he will call around him the ablest and pur est men of the nation." Mr. Stevens uses language equally as strong in to Senator Wade. ▼ On Tuesday the trial was resumed.—A mass of documentary evidence was tiled by the Managers, when several witnesses were examined "by Mr. Butler, on the part of the prosecution, and cross-examined by Mr. Staubery, ot the President's counsel. All went on harmoniously until lion. Walter A. Burleigh, delegate from Dacotah; was plac ed upon the stand, and, in answer to an in quiry, General Butler was proceeding to state what the prosecution expected to prove by the witness, when Mr. Stanbery raised an objection The presiding officer was proceeding to decide upon the objection when Senator Drake (in order to test the matter) raised the question that such deci sions should be made by the Senate, and not by the presiding officer. Chief Justice Chase stated his position to be that it was the duty of the Chief Justice todecide ques tions of evidence in the first instance, and that an appeal should be derided by the Benate. Messrs. Bingham, Butler and Boutwell for the 3lanagers on the part of the House, all dissented from the position assumed by the presiding officer, claiming 1 that under the Constitution he was in the present case but a ministerial officer—to preside, preserve order, etc. On the con clusion of the discussion Senator Wilson moved that the Senators retire for consider ation of the question, and the vote being taken resulted in a tie—2s to 25 —and the Chief Justice giving his casting vote in the affirmative, the motion was carried. This is the first instance during the trial where the presiding officer has voted. After an absence of three hours, the Senate returned, and the Chief Justice reported that it had been agreed to allow him to "rule all ques tions of evidence and incidental questions, which ruling shall stand as the judgment of the Senate, unless some member of the Sen ate shall ask that a formal vote be taken thereon, in which case it shall be submitted to the Senate for a decision, or he may at his option in the first instance submit any such question to a vote of the members of the Senate." The Senate by this action reserves to itself the right at all times to overrule, the presiding officer's decisions. On the announcement of the result of the deliberations of the Senute, the .Managers for the House stated that they desired time : for consultation, and the Senate adjourned 1 until noon on Wednesday. In the House of Representatives on Tues | day, the report of the conference committee j upon the bill to exempt certain manufac tures from internal tax was agreed to, the bill pased and was sent to the President. A resolution reciting that great expense was involved in the collection of the taxes for internal revenue purposes, and directing the Comniiitee on Ways and Means to inquire : into the expediency of reducing the tax | gathering force and so adjusting the inler i nal revenue laws as to require the smallest I possible force for the conduct of tbe busi ness, was adopted. A resolution was also | adopted directing the Committee on Ways and .Mean.- to inquire into the expediency of so amending the revenue laws as to per ; mit the transfer or assignment of special li ■ cense receipts, so that successors to a busi • ness may have authority to continue the same on the old license. It had been determined by the Supreme Court to hear arguments on Tuesday on the motion of Judge Black to proceed with the consideration of the 31cArdIe case. The subject came up in the Court again yester day, when Mr. Carpenter, of the couosel for General Grant and Secretary Stanton, said A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED To I'OI.ITIOS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. he could not, be prepared so seen to argue ; the case on behalf of his clients. Judge Nelson therefore announced that the case would be postponed until the first day of next term. This action of the Court post pones the case until December next, when the new term of the Court commences. General Hancock has issued an order as . sutuing command of the Military Division of the Atlantic, with his headquarters in p Washington. His command embraces the : States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, the New England States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Dis trict of Columbia, Maryland and Delaware. Hancock had another lengthy interview with the President probably consulting him as to the appointment of his subordinate commanders. Canada is excited over another Fenian scare. The garrison at Montreal are under arms, and the volunteers all over the coun try have received orders to be ready. A quantity of Greek fire or phosphorous has been discovered in the Irish part of Montreal and the Government claims to have news of Fenian preparations at Buffalo and St. Albans. The whole move, however, is said to be for the purpose of pressing a conscrip tion bill through Parliament. In Kentucky there is much resistance manifesting itself to the enforcement of the revenue laws, and troops have been asked for by the Government officers to enforce the laws. Despatches by the Atlantic cable give a continuation of the interesting debate now in progress in the British Parliament upon the resolutions for the abolition of the Irish Church establishment. "JUST THIS ONCE." "Just this once," the tempter said, With smiling lip; Thus enticed, the victim took The fatal slip; And years rolled on; his doom is wed— Death glooms above the drunkard's bed. "Just this once," the tempter said, With luring voice; Trembling the victim threw The rattling dice; And years rolled on; the river's wave Rolls darkly o'er a gambler's grave. Just this once," the tempter said, "No one shall know;" The victim, thoughtless, gave his soul To ceaseless woe; And years rolled on; oh, fearful scene ! The death bed of the libertine. "Just this once," the tempter said, "My faith I pledge;" The victim dreamed not that her deed Was ruin's edge; The years roll on; ah, 'tis the same! A suicidal death of shame. MEMORY. HY FIT/-GREENE HAI.I.ECK. Strong as that power, whose strange control Impels the torrent's force; Directs the needle to the pole, And bids the waveß of ocean roll In their appointed course; So powerful are the tics that bind The scenes of childhood to the mind; So firmly to the heart adheres The memory of departed years. Whence is this passion in the breast? That when the past we view, And think on pleasures once possessed, In Fancy's fairest colors dressed, Those pleasures we renew ? And why do Memory's pains impart A pleating sadness to the heart ? What potent charm to all endears The days of our departed years? True many a rosebud, blooming gay, Life's opening path adorns; But all who tread that path will say, That 'mid the flowers which stre.v its way, Are care's corroding thcrns. But still the bosom will retain Affection even for hours of pain: And we can smile though bathed in tears, ' At memory of depai ted years. 'Tis distance, our bewildered gaze On former scenes beguiles, And Memory's charm the eye betrays; For while enjoyments it displays And robes the past in smiles, Its flattering mirror proves untrue, Conceals the sorrow from our view, And hides fhe griefs, the doubts and fears, 1 That darkened our depaited years ! Time, when our own, we oft despise— When gone, its loss deplore; Nor till the fleeting moment flies T)o mortals learn its worth to prize, When it returns no more. For this an anxious look we cast, 1 With fond regret, on hours long past— For this the feeling heart reveres The memory of departed years. NASBY. The New Hampshire Election—The IWp oi fions for a l*roccssion which did not take, place. From the Toledo Blade. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15, I*6B. Probably the happiest party wieh ever as sembled in this wale uv teers, wuz in the White House on the night uv the cleck- I < shun in Noo Hampsheer. It wuz a gay and festive soeen. Hilarity rained? ThePres -1 idpnt, with a unwonted smile unto his face, his noseshioin with a prcternateral brilliau cy, his eyes spaiklin with a lite that cood only cum from a sole surcharged with joy ! and a skin tolerably full uv whisky, walked up and down the room, rubbin his hands with glea that cood not he repressed. "I t all prepared?" asked Rand#!! uv a humble lookin cuss that, does a share uv bis mauagin, (be wuz originally paid by Mrs. Cobb, but sruce ber ontiuiely failyoor in biznis he is allowed the earn ins uv one day in each month uv a whisky inspector in iv T oo York.) "is everything arranged?" "It is. yoor Egeslency." (To these fel lers all the high officers are "Eggriencies.") | "Is the powder prokured for one hundred guns?" ' 'lt is yoor Eggslency.'' "Is the rockets drawed fioni the Navy Department to be fired from the different • BEDFORD, Pa.. FRIDAY. AT'KJI, in. !H<;K. parts uv the city to show rpontancous en thoosiasm?'' "They is, yoor eggalency." "Hev the department clerks bin notified that it wood be well for 'en to gladly fall into prosession when his Eggsfeucy, the President, is to be serenade!, ef they desire to keep their places?" "They hev." "llcv the transparencies bin painted with the proper inscriptions? )id yoo sec one inscribed 'Sinclair's majority 3,900? Noo llampsheer'a protest agin inipeechuient?" "They hev, and I did." "Then," said Randall, 'all is readiness. The brass bands I know arj in waitin, Stan bery writ the President s >peech this morn in, and he lias it tolerablt well by heart, and the jolificashen must go orf smooth and pleasant." At this moment the President approach ed. r "Ha !" scd he. "in one ripre short hour Washington will be alive witijoy, and the country will breathe free. 500 Ilainpshcer hez spoken. In an hour wi slicl hev the elad intelligence that she hez been troo to the constooshen ez 1 expound it —that she hez rebuked .Sumner, and Stevens, and Wade, and sieh, and sed in thipder tones to the impious wretches, who i>od, iu me, pull down the pillars uv the iovcrnment, 'stay yer fratrictdle hands.' lie thot over powers me. Let's take suthin'' A halt a hour wuz spent in bnocent hi larity._ The President show# the thor oughnis uv his reconversion to Himockracy by takin hizzin strate, with hthin in it, while Seward betrayed his orijn, and his consckent onreliability, by djukin some kiud uv a lite wine with no nioi body into it than wood be in watered cidet "Confusion to Wade !" erilaimed the l'resident, holdin up his glaaslnd watchin the beads rise to the surface will a pleased eye. "Noo Hampsheer!" sed .Sctard, "may Connecticut carry forard the wprk she hez so gloriously began." "Our Oifises," sed Randall, "long may we hold em." "Kentucky. " sed I, "alius troo; tho all other States may desert Riaocracy, Ken tucky will be faithful anion; the faitblis found, ller distilleries attgst her stead fast nes to her party obligasheks." And in such toasts the 30 uinutes wore away. A private sekretary entered "A dispatch from Noo Hanpsheer !" "Ha!" said Randall, seizin it "now tremble Ablishnism; quake Stevens, for yoor time iz cum ! Exalt yoo 1 horn, I)im ocracy, for the reackshun is tore!" The gentle and trustful sckntary opened it, read a moment, turned pae, and fell a faintin on the floor. Seward (lanced at it, and gaspin, "this is the end tv my life.' (wienhe intended for his last words.) fell likewise prostrate. The President snatched it from Seward s ban j> and fainted across the rest uv 'em, and Wells, sec in the Pres ident faint, did it bocoi the President did, without readin it. Wels takes physic every time the President docs, I snatched the despatch and read it my aeff, M follows • "To the. /Tenant c : "It's all up. I'm a d*l duck. Ilarri mau is elected by about 3,>00. The rcaek shen got stuck in a notdi uv tho White Mountins. Pray for us. SINCLAMt." Ptterin a stingin cuss atDeai and Rurr, and them fellers who bed deceived us unto a bclcef that Noo llampsheer wuz safe, I sot about bringtn uv 'em to. The Presi dent wuz the longest coniin oufuv the faint. Sadly they sriz one after anotbr, their de jckshun contrastin powerfully f ith the hi larity uv the moment afore. llingin a bell, Randall sed t the clerk who ansered it, cz follers : "Yoo may inform tho bands aat it wont be necessary for 'em to longerw~ait. The men attending the artillery n<y retire to the bosums uv their families and those waitin to be formed into sponjneous pro fessions may be dismissed. Te President i hez desided not to be serenadJ to-nite." Just then a band wuz bead approachin —"Thunder!" sed Randal "dare they play without orders ?" Rut we discovered that'. wuz not the official band. A percession 'uz soon a pas sin afore the White Horn headed by a transparency, unto wich wz a ded duck, with a face wonderfully liked)i~ eggsleney's j and the band behind wuz pj'in ded march es and sich, with muffled drums. Four times these hart less cusses lassed up and ; down afore the White Hour. "Is it not hidyus?" sed tc President. "Served yoo rite," sed. "You wood take matters in yoor own hods—yoo wood attempt the work uv a Statsman with the I qualificashens uv a nolic court lawyer. | Wretched ntaD," sed I, trisfixin him with 'my piercinist gaze. "WH wood yoo at tempt to eat fire, whose mith is only capa ble uv Limburg cheese? With Giant at the head of tl.e armies, wl) did yoo attempt reyolooshen ? When yd | drive Stanton out, hedrftyoo sense euuff to know that it made a dirft ishoo atween yoo and the Ablishinists frim which they j cood not escape, and tot yoor death or I therein wuz inevitable? fjo made it nec essary for 'cm to slay ycand. in trooth, : they've made a lively cottmnsemcnt, Noo ; Ilarnpchcpr is a fatal -&>, inmeeehtrienl will foller in sixty day and then a long farewell to all our elory Good nite, yoor Eggslency. pleasant dams. I'll to my chamber." And I left the poor itan weepin great teers, and bitter ones. sent the folierin despatch home to the (iss Roads by tele graph. Twuz ruther exensive on the Gov ! ernment, but Seward tolme that the tele graffin wuz a legitimate zpenditure, and to ! yoose the wires ez muchz 1 chose. ; To I'or/ram, Deeli'ti, h meant, Mcl'eltei mal (Javitt, Jr., Trunin: THESE GttEETiN: Duly beloved, 1 sa loot yoo. Not joyfully ad with liteness uv heart, but on the contrary quite the reverse. ! We've bustid. Vent, 17/, I7ci7 wich the way we translate it, meat. "We cum, we saw, and got squeezed." It is my painful ' dootv to inform yoo thatSoo llampsheer, uv wich we expectid bettr things, hez gone lunatic agin, and hez elecid a hater uv us uns and ourn. ez its Chee magistrate. In this erisis I direct tht next tnorniu, atween the hoursiv 9 and 11 a. ui., j be observed as a day uv fetin and boomili -1 ation. I wood hev yoo hid servises at the church, but I found that bed brot away in my valise the only Bible t the.Corners, and it iz therefore impossible. Ez no labor iz ever done at the Corners, taint nessary to direct yoo to abstain therefrom, but yoo will j give over yoor yoosual octupashens cz fol -1 lers: 1. No Seven-up or poker playin, doorin that period. 2. No boss racin, copper pitehio, fightin, I or other amooscment, will be admissible. 3. And that the flesh may be mortified to an extent eonimcnsurate with the calamity that hez befallen us, no ikker will be allow ed between those hours, ccptin to invalids : and persons uv extreme age. There will be weepin and wailin at the ( orners when this is rcceeved. PKTttoLti M V NASBV, I'. M. (Wich is Postmaster.) ! HOW CUKOMOS ABE MADE. Chromo Lithography is the art of printing Pictures from stone, in colors. The most difficult branch of it—which is nowgeneraily implied when chronics are spoken of- —isthe ; art °f producing oil paintings. When a chromo is made by a competent band, it presents an exact counterpart of the original painting, with the delicate gradations of tints and shades, and with much of the spirit and tone ola production of the brush and pallet. 'lo understand how chromes are made the art of lithography must first be briefly explained. Tiie stonemcd in lithographing is a species of limestone found in Bavariu, and is wrought into thick slabs with finely pol ished surface. The drawing is made upon the slab with a sort of colored soap, which adheres to the stone, and enters into a chemical combination with it after the ap plication of certain acids and gums. When the drawing is complete, the slab is put on the press, and carefully dampened with a sponge. The oil color (or ink jis then ap plied with a common printer's roller. Of course, the parts of the slab which contain no drawing, being wet, resist the ink; while the drawing, being oily, repels the water, but retains the color applied. It is thus that, without a raised surface or in ch-ion—as in common printing, wood cuts, and steel engravings—lithography produces printed drawings from a perfectly smooth stone. lu a chromo, the first proof is a light ground-tint, covering pearly all the surface. It has only a faint, shadowy, resemblance to the completed picture. It is in fact rather a shadow than an outline. The next proof, from the second stone, contains all the shades of another color. This process is repeated again and again and again, oc casionally as often as thirty times. We saw one proof, in a visit to Mr. l'rang's estab iishuient, —a group of cattle, —that had passed through the process twelve times, and it still bore a greater resemblance to a spoiled colored photograph thau to the charming picture which it subsequently became. The number of impressions, however, does not necessarily ind'este the number of colors in a painting, because the colors and tints are greatly multiplied by combinations created in the process of printing one another. In twenty five impressions, it is sometimes necessary and possible to produce a hundred distinct shades. The last impression is made by an en graved stone which produces that resem blancato canvass noticeable in all ol Mr. Prang s finer specimens. English and Ger man chromos, as a rule do not attempt to give this delicate final touch, although it would seem to be essential in order to make a perfect imitation of a painting. The paper used is white, heavy "plate paper," of the best quality, which has to pass through a heavy press, sheet by sheet, before its surface is fit to receive an im pression. tri— briefly cxpluinod, we need hardly add, requires equally great skill and judgment at every stage. A single error is instantly detected by the practised eye in the finished specimen. The produc tion of a chromo, if it is at all complicated, requires several months—sometimes several years-—of careful preparation. The mere drawing of the different and entirely-de tached parts on so many different stones is of itself a work that requires an amount o! labor and a degree of skill, wh ieh, to a person unfamiliar with the process would appear incredible. Still more difficult, and need ing still greater skill, is' the process ol coloring. This demandsa knowledge which artists have hitherto almost exclusively monopolized, and, in addition to it, the practical familiarity of a printer with me chanical details. "I*rving" and "register ing,' are as important branches of the art of making chromos as drawing and coloring. On producing a picture at every stage of its progress depends. "Registering" is that part of a pressman's work which consists in so arranging the paper in the press, that it shall receive the impression on exactly the same spot of every sheet. In book work, each page must be exactly opposite the page printed on the other side of the sheet, in order that the impression, if on thin paper, may not "show through." In newspaper work this is of less importance, and often is not attended to with any special care. Rut in cjiromo-lithographv the difference of a hair's breadth would spoil a picture; for it would hopelessly mix up the colors. After the chromo has passed through the press, it is imbossed and varnished, and then put up for the market. These final pro cesses are for the purpose of breaking the glossy light, and of softening the hard outlines which the picture receives from the stone, which imparts to it the resemblance of a painting on canvass. Mr. i'rang began his business in the i humblest way, but has rapidly increased his establishment, until he now employs fifty I workmen, —nearly all of them artists and 1 artisans of the most skilful class, —and is ! preparing to move into u larger building at lioxbury. lie u-es eighteen presses; and his sales are enormous. His catalogue now beautiful series of illuminated -Reautitudes and "Scriptural Mottoes;" an endless list of kjreat men, and oi men not so great after all, of juveniles, notably, a profusely illustrated edition of "Old Mother Hubbard; and of half chromos and chromos proper. 1 ait s "Chickens,', "Ducklings, and Quails, were the first chrouios that had instant anu wide recognition. Nineteen thousand cop ies of the "Chickens" alone were sold, lin ker's "Early Autumn on Ecopus Creek is one of the best chromos ever made on a small scale.—The "Bulfinch and the Lin net" (after Cruikshank) are admirable. There are other chromos which arc less suc ccs-ful undone or twothatarc not suceessfulat all: hut they are nearly all excellent copies of the originals, with which thedefects must be charged. The chromos of B richer's paintings are really wonderfully accurate. Mr l'rang's masterpiece, however is not vet published, although it is nearly ready for the market. It entirely surpasses all his previous efforts. It is Corrcgm A "MAG ! dai.una." and can hardly fail, we think, to command a quick sale and heart} recogni- U Like every modern discovery, ehromo-li thography has its partisans and detractors, -— those who claim for it perhaps impossible capabilities, and those who regard it as a mere handicraft, which no skill can ever elevate into the dignity of an art. >ve do not care to enter into these disputes. Whether an art or a handicraft, chromo-li thography certainly re produces charming 1 little pictures vastly superior to any colored plates that we have had before; and it is, at least, clearly entitled to bo regarded as a : means of educating the popular taste, and thereby raising, the national ideal of art. VOLUME 41: NO. 15. CiAjpK AND ri.SU IN MONTANA. A correspondent of the St Remtbli'■ l can writes: The disciple of Izaak Walton j necu not look for a more delightful paradise than he can find in Montana. The huge cat-fish and these who swim with him the turbulent waters of the larger streams abound in the large rivers of the eastern part of tlie Territory, while every mountain brook and stream swarms with the beauti <ul, sprightly and delicious speckled trout. These streams contain numerous other va rieties of fish, hut all are passed without notice, where the best mountain trout can be caught with so much ease. Only imag ine yourself on the bank of one of those sparkling streams, rushing clear and cool from the everlasting snows above, with one of "Himick's best tackles." Your fly swings cautiously towards some promising eudy; but before it strikes the water a speck led beauty snaps it up and darts beneath the shady bank. Can you imagine better sport than bagging some fifty or a hundred of such game fellows in a single hour. But while enjoying such "glorious sport," would you think of "grizzly," or "bruin," whodelightsin the wiilow thickets along those streams? It not, he might suddenly make you forget your tuteler saint, Sir Izaak, and all his speckled fry, and invoke the protec tion of grim old Nimrod, and vow eternal fealty and a neverfailing attachment to a trusty "Ilenry," with its sixteen leaden pledges of safety. The huntsman, whether Caucasian or In dian, need never dream of a more "beauti ful hunting ground" in which to make trial ot his skill in the chase of the antelope and the deer, or of his more sturdy qualities in the hazardous encounter with the grizzly monarch of the American forest. There is a great variety of game in these mountains and valleys and plains—three species of bear, the grizzly, the cinnamon and the black. The grizzly bear is too well known to need any description. It is suffi cient to say that he is as large, as ferocious, as ready for an encouotcr and quite as dan gerous as he is further south and west in California, lie is_ the undisputed monarch of these mountain regions. Larger and stronger than the lion of Asia or Africa, he is much braver and far more dangerous. The cinnamon bear is smaller, than the grizzly, and is usually deemed less danger ous, but is quite as willing to encounter a foe. The black bear is the same as we have in the, States. He is deemed rather small game as compared with the two preceding species. Lewis and Clarke's parties saw and killed several white bears at and near the falls oi the Missouri, but I could find no mountain man or Indian who had seen one in Mon tana. It is singular that they should have been seen by none of the present popula tion. There are set oral species of the feline race: The panther, the lynx, the wild cat and perhaps others. But these are not common. (If the canine races, there are the common and prairie wolf, the pray and red foxes. Tlip nt-oirif. wnlf i Ihr the most abundant and troublesome of this class. They are the genuine guerrillas of all the prairie coun try —the hyena of America on a diminutive scale. The badger, woodchuck, porcupine, and polecat are common animals, and there are several species related to the prairie-dog and gopher, one small striped squirrel, one weasel, one rat, and several species of mice. The beaver, otter, musk-rat and mink in habit the streams. The beaver is most abundant Ho often interferes with the water rights of the miners by his dams and dykes. In one instance the miners were compelled to set a watch to prevent one in dustrious family of these animals from turn ing the water out of their ditches and inter rupting their mining operations. Buflalo, elk, three species of deer, and antelope, range in large numbers over the prairie portions of the Territory. Another variety of buffalo, smallerand darker, moose deer, elk, big-horn and mountain sheep, abound in the mountain regions. Birds are not so abundant as in the West ern States. There are however, several species of eagles, hawks, crows, jays and magpies. The smaller birds are more rare. Several species of duck are exceedingly abundant. The "prairie-chicken," the "sage-hen." (he "fool hen" and pheasant, or grouse, aud the common pigeon are often sect). The "fool hens" are quite heedless of danger and will permit one to approach near enough to kill them with sticks and clubs. Snipes, curlews, and sea-birds, cranes and king-fishers are very numerous. From this list of game animals and birds, the huntsman need not fear a lack of sport among the smaller animals and liirds; nor will he hunt long before he will have need of a steady hand and trusty rifle to stop the stately moose, the huge buffalo, or elk, and disable the ferocious bear or the skulking panther. C. G. SWALLOW. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN RECONSTRUC TION. —Thaddeus Stevens has sent the fol lowing letter to Col. Forney:— , "HEAR SIR: —I have long, and wiih'such ability as I could command, reflected on the subject of the Declaration of Independence, and finally have come to the sincere con inalt'enam<r.r6"iriV' 01 suffrage was one ofthe in that instrument by our fathers at the time of the Heclaration, and that they were prevented from inserting it in the Constitu tion by slavery alone. They had no in tention to abandon it as one of the finally enumerated rights, nut simply to postpone it. The Committee on Reconstruction have inserted that provision with great unanimity in the hill admitting the State of Alabama in the Union. They have finally resolved that no State shall be admitted into the 1 "nion unless under that condition. I have deemed this notice necessary, that the States now in process of construction or recon struction may be advised thereof. \ ours, THADDEUS STEVENS. FARRAGOT AN OUT-AND-OCT REPUBLI CAN. —The Columbus (Ohi o) Journal says: "The telegraphic report coming from Ala bama that Admiral Farragut is talking of as a Democratic candidate for the Presidency, wiil be road, by those who know the gallant Admiral, with irrepressible laughter. A more uncompromising Republican and out spoken Radical is not now living. While in Columbus Farragut frankly and freely made known to many of our leading citizens his political views, and declared, in unmistaka ble language, his detestation of the policy and principles of what he termed the Cop perhead party.'' SEVENTEEN YEAR LOCUSTS. —The Cen treville (Md.) Cflttrver says that this is the year for the reappearance of the seventoen year locusts. These insects made their first chronicled appearance here in Maryland in 1799, and returned every seventeen years after that time. They last appeared in j ISSI, of which many of our readers doubt less have a distinct recollection. RATES OF ADVERTISING All advertisements for less than 3 months 18 cents per line for eaeh inrmtlon, Special notices one-half additional. All resolutions of Associa tion, communication* of a limited or indiridal intcrost and notices of marriages and dsaths, ex ceeding five lines, 16 cti. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphan*' Court and other Judicial tales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices 16 cents per line. All Advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 monts. 0 months, 1 year One square $ 4.50 $ 0.00 SIO.OO Twe squares 0.00 0.00 10.00 Three squares 8.00 12.00 20.00 One fourth column.l4.oo 20.00 35.00 llalf column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column 30.00 45.60 80.00 HILL TO PHO VIDE FOK THE BVH VIVORS OF THE WAR OF 1818 HARRISBCRGH, March 27.—The follow ing bill has been signed by the Governor: AN ACT to Provide for tlie Payment of Gratuities and Annuities to the Soldiers of the War of 1812 and their Widows. section IBe it enacted. &c., That the act entitled an act to provide ior the pay ment of gratuities and annuities to the sol diers oi the War of 1812 and their widows, approved the 13th day of March, A. D. 1860, bo, and the same is hereby revived: with the following proviso and amendment, Provided. That the affidavit required in the side act shall be made before the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which the applicant shall reside at the same time of making his or her application, which affi davit shall be attested by the Prothonotary or Clerk of the Court, with the seal attached, or in the event of the applicant being too sick or infirm to make application to such court, the affidavit aforesaid may be made before an alderman or justice, which affidavit shall be supported by two respecta ble citizens under oath or affirmation, stat ing such sickness or infirmity. And Pro vitled, That the term "necessitous circum stances' ' in the said section shall be construed to men not to be possessed of real or person al estate of value of five hundred dollars. And provided further. That the gratuity mentioned in the said act shall not be paid to any person who shall have received a gratuity under the said act. And provided. Also the said gratuity and annuity shall cease so soon as provision shall be made by Congress for said soldiers and their widows, and thereafter no pensions shall bo paid under this act. And providedfurther , That every application for either a gratuity or annuity under the provisions of this act shall be attested annually by an affidavit as aforesaid. And provided further. That the application of any person under the pro vision of this act shall be indorsed as meri torious by one of the judges of the court before which the affidavit required by this act shall be made. And provided further, That no pensions^or gratuities shall be paid on any application heretofore made under the act of March 30, 1866, and persons claiming the benefit of this act shall make their application anew. Provided further, That any person who is in receipt ox a pen sion or gratuity in pursuance of any special act of Assembly shall not be entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this act, and that no fee shall be recovered for the collection of any annuity after the first payment made by the State Treasurer as aforesaid, SEC. 3. That any attorney, agent, or other person prosecuting and claim under this act, who shall demand or receive any greater sum than five dollars as a fee for prosecuting any claim under this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county where he may reside, shall pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or may be imprisoned not exceeding one month. SEC. 2. That any soldier of the said war who may not have served the full term of iku months, but who was in actual engage ment with the enemy, or the widow of such soldier, shall be entitled to the benefit of this act. SEC.4. That this act shall take effect from the first day of January. 1868. SEC. 5. That ail laws or parts of laws in consistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. THE HEALTH AND HABITS OF "THE GREAT COMMONER." George Alfred Townsend writes as follows to the Cleveland Leader concerning Thad deus Stevens/ "They have said that Thaddeus Stevens is almost dead. But bis body, feeding upon the grand will that grows upon victory, was tougher yesterday than ever. He spoke with a strength, a clearness, and an eloquence admonitory ct a mind unimpaired. "Grand" is the name of this maD. He lives here aloof from the intrigues of mere Presi dent-makers, regardful only of who holds office in the light of his influence upon the affairs of freedom. All that he ever ask- ed was the Senatorship of Pennsylvania, and had he been a citizen of any other State he would have been gladly given a parallel honor. His moral influence in the Senate at this juncture would have been decisive upon the question of impeachment, whereas, in the House his irregular health makes him despair of effecting anything in the vast space of the hall amidst the turbulence of a large body of legislators. Stevens lives in a nainted red brick house, close tothe Capitol, lie is so little of a politician that he never conceals his full sentiments at any time, though when you talk to him he never ar gues after the fashion of Mr. Johnson, who is simply a private speechmaker. There are many individual opinions ot Mr. Stevens at variance with the great mass ofhis party. He calls the hanging of Mrs. Surratt mur der. He dislikes, as men without moral convictions, nearly all the liepubliean party leaders of Pennsylvania. He is regardle-s of public opinion upon the episodical fea tures of his life, and regards himself as a political instrumentality, only of consequence is he promotes public justice—nothing more. Phis complete absorption in large and per nanent results removes him from the sphere if scramblers merely; for nearly every lcg lavanccmeui, ng "friends" to himself, it is by standing ,o one's "friends or, in better truth, me's " pals," that ringleaders like Tfcurlow iVeed keep power and dispense patronage. The loyal people of Louisiana are very nuch gratified by the change which has Been made in the command of that military iistrict. Major General Reynolds, although oot Radical in the ordinary acceptation of :he term, is still a fairmindea gentleman, and Bne who will enforce the laws and maintain the honor of the Government which he rep resents. His assuming command of that dis trict will result in great good to all classes of people, the loyal and the disloyal, ex-Rebel ind Republicans, for it will insure the en forcement of law and order throughout the State. The Republican party of Louisiana desires only fairness and justice and protec tion from the military authorities, and this we can confidently expect under the admin istration of Major General Reynolds. EVEN the La Crosse Democrat abandons Johnson. In that paper ofthe 17th instant is the following: . The mongrels may work their will upon him for augbt we care. He is one of them; has played the usurper and tyrant himself, and let him bear some of his own "curses come home to roost." Ruuipites drive on your cart!" "This is not our funeral. THREE men, in disguise, supposed to be members of the Ku-Klux KiaD, went on Tuesday night to the house of a negro, near Nashville, and demanded admission, lhc negro fired and killed one of theni, w ho, upon examination, proved to be Henry C. Blair, of McWhirtevillc, in the neighbor hood.
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