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Apl l:ly nt. CR.OCSE WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, I "r. Pitt street two doors west of B. F. Harry's j I " g Store. Bedford, Pa., is now prepared ! t' eli by wholessle all kinds of CIGARS. All j promptly filed. Person? desiring anything | >" his lire will do well to give him a call. Bedford Oct 20. *65., \ LI, KINDS OF BLAKS for sale at the /- - t rr office. A full supply of Deeds, Lca =cs, Articles of Agreement Ac. i DlKliOttROW £ LI'TZ Editors and Proprietors. ißcbfort) inquirer. THE NEWS. The Impeachment news were given in last week's issue, up till Saturday, at which time the trial rested at another important stage in its progress. The Managers concluded the presentation of their testimony in chief, with the exception of some points noted, and the defence were given three days, to prepare their case. In making application for this further delsy, Mr. Curtis, on behalf of the President's counsel, stated that they would have but little oral testimony to offer, but. : thai they intended to present a large mass of documentary evidence which had not yet been arranged. The manner in which the applica tion was made conveyed an implied promise that there was no intention to delay the pro gress of the trial, and that tbe time occupied by the President's defence would be briefer than has been anticipated. The evidence in troduced by the House Managers was confined chiefly to examination of reporters in relation to the extraordinary and indecent speech de livered at St. Louis by the President. Some further documentary evidence was also filed, and General Butler exhibited one of Mr. Johnson's tergiversations by placing on file a letter from him to Mr. McCullocb, announc ing that Mr. Stanton was suspended in virtue of the provisions of civil Tenure Act, whilst in his answer to the Articles of Impeachment he asserts that the suspension was in exercise of his constitutional powers as President and without reference to that act. The term for which Governor Pierpoint was elected Governor of Virginia having ex pired, General Schofield has appointed Gen eral Henry Wells, of Alexandria, as Gov ernor. Gen. Wells was originally from Michigan, but has been residing in Virginia for several years. He served in the Union army during the rebellion and was brevetted Brigadier General. Tbe Legislature of Arkansas organized on Saturday and by this time has probably passed the Constitutional Amendment. The next work in the reconstruction of the State will be tbe election of United States Senators and an application to Congress for re-admission into tbe Union. Connecticut cn Monday, again elected a Democratic Governor. We are not disap pointed at the result, although we would have been gratified had it beeu otherwise. The Democracy, since their defeat in New Hamp shire and Rhode Island, have put forth the : most extraordinary exertions to carry the ''Nutmeg State," and have been aided, if re port be correct, by men and money in abun dance from New York. In addition. Grey W1 a very popular gentleman, a War Democrat, James B. English, as their standard bearer, a man who as a member of Congress support ed the war policy of tbe Government on all occasions, who cannot be classed with tbe Copperhead wing ol the Democracy, and who, in addition to his personal popularity, had the Federal and State patronage athisgommand. The success is but a barren victory, however, as the Republicans lose nothing since last year, holding their ground since that time. The Legislature is Republican, which secures the election of a Republican United States Senator for six years as the successor of Senator Dixon, whose time expires on the fourth of March, 1869. We are confide.it that in November Connecticut will cast her vote for Grant for I'resideut, the election at that time occuring in all the States on the; same day. having the effect of preventing the Demo crats of the former from "colonizing" in the j latter, as has been the case when elections ! occurred in the two States on different days. English's majority last year was 987, and the latest returns from New Haven show a de crease in the majority this year, and an in crease in the Republican vote. In Michigan upon the vote ratifying the Constitution re cently framed, the article allowing colored citizens to vote was rejected. An article in j favor of a prohibitory liquor law was probably j adopted. * After some discussion among the House ' Maaegers of the Impieachment, the remaining twospeeches forthe proscution in theimpeach ment case have been conceded to Messrs. Boutwell and Bingham, both of whom are already at work on their arguments. Mr. Stevens was at first inclined to make an argument in support of his urticle, but the ; state of his health compelled him to abandon 1 tbe idea. The "Kuk-Klux Klan," and similar or- j garnzations of murderers, is to receive the at- I Uulian nf tire military ontlirtriria? in the j South. General Meade returned to Atlanta: on Sunday from an official tour in Southern j Georgia, and at once promulgated an irapor- | tant order referring to the late Ashburn assassination at Columbus. Other acts of 1 atrocity simultaneous with the piublication of incendiary articles, and the sending of threat- j ! ening letters, indicate concert of action to affect tbe result of the election by intimida- ; | tion and violence, and emanating from a se i cret organization. All are warned against , participation in the acts of this organization, and the law abiding are assured of protection, i The General forbids the publication of any thing counseling intimidation or tending to bloodshed. Newspapers containing such . articles are warned that the Genera! will stop : their publication and try the offenders by military commission. Public writers and speakers are admonished to refrain from in : flammatory appeals. Military commanders ; ! are authorized, when in their judgment it may seem necessary, to organize forces from among tbe law-abiding citizens to preserve j order; the expenses attending pay and main : tenance of such forces to be borne by tbe i counties or municipalities where required, i The Commanding General enjoins all good citizens to aid in the arrest and punishment of violators of this o-der and of law, and ad | monishes them that unless acts of intimida tion aad violence are checked and punished, bloody retaliation may be provoked, society endangered, and innocent bloodshed. The Impeachment Trial will be resumed on Thursday at noon. The opening speech 1 A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITIQB, EI >1 'CAT'I ON, LITERATURE! AND MORALS- for the defence will be made by Mr. Curtis, I who expects to occupy the whole of the ses- | sion in its delivery. It is reported that the j President's counsel will begiu with a motion to quash the Articles of Impeachment on the ground of insufficient evidence. This, how- ' ever, must be considered doubtful, as a rejec- ! tion of the motion by a two-third majority would be in effect a verdict of conviction. Judge Curtis, one of the President's counsel, is reported to have expressed the opinion that the trial would not last longer than two weeks. Tbe impeachment Managers have in reserve a butch of testimony to substantiate a second alleged charge of violation of the Tenure of-Office bill by the President, which, in case of necessity, may form the basis of an ■ additional charge against him. An intense excitement has beqjn occasioned in Canada by the assassination of D'Arcy McGee, a somewhat noted politician and member of tho Canadian Parliament. lie was shot dead upon his own door step, in Ottawa city, at two o'clock in the morning, having but a short time previous left the Par liament House. The assassin came up be hind him, and placed the pistol close to his head, inflicting a wound that caused instant death. Tbe assassination has produced a great public ferment in the Canadian cities. McGee, though himself an Irishman, was a bitter opponent of Fenianism, and bis mur der is attributed to that organization, accom plished through a party specially sant to do the work. Ottawa had been placed in some thing like a state of siege in order to secure the arrest of the murderer, and threats of re taliation against prominent Fenians were openly made. The news from Georgia of the operations of the secret organized gang of Rebel despe radoes known as tbe Ku klux Klan is of a startling character. The reports of the cold blooded murder of Dr. Ashburn, one of the original, steadfast and most prominent of the Southern loyalists are fully confirmed by tbe official advices received at General Grant's headquarters, with the addition that two oth er prominent Union men, members of the late Convention, are missing, and are suppos ed to have shared a like fate. The Union people in Muscogee county, where this trage dy occurred, are in a state of horrible sus pense, as they feel they are all marked by I these villians, and they are appealing to the military authorities (or aid. The gang who murdered Dr. Ashburn were about thirty in number, and were disguised as ghosts. They affected all manner of spectral devices, with the idea of striking terror into the minds ol the freedmen, who are naturally snperstitions in such matters. Many of the Rebel papers of Georgia and Alabama have not hesitated to openly encourage these or ganizations. Witness the following from the Calnmbuo Sim tt.. J-? n- ACHK.ren was murdered: Startling developments are occurring daily. The Ku-Klnxes have astonished the natives. The whole tenor of the Radical speeches is denunciatory of the brigade of wandering braves who are gathering from their graves to wreak vengeance on traitors. Respectable people, white or black, have nothing to fear. A colored man, Friday, went home, found his door locked and his wife and children fled to a neighbor's for fear of the Ku-Klux. We re peat, sue!} as are faithful to their country need fear nothing. A spirit passes by an honest soul. Let those, however, be they great or small, who plot their country's ruin, beware. A heavy doom awaits them, Be ware! They make brave speeches, but tbey tremble. Spirits are floating in the air that feared not shot and shell, and will not now. As the scalawags read from the Sun and Times yesterday, we hope they'll continue to do so. The Impeachment trial was resumed again on Thursday Judge Curtis opening the case !on the part of President Johnson. Some three hundred clerks have been engaged in the Treasury Department for days past in looking np evidence to controvert that of the prosecution. Whilst the President's counsel and other friends profess great confidence in his acquittal, the manifest great uneasiness in the pains taken to make his case. A special despatch from Washington says that i Republicans there express entire confidence ; in the sufficiency of the evidence presented ] by tbe Honse of Representative on Wednes day a Democratic member, taking advantage of the slim attendance on the part of the Republicans, offered a resolution withdraw ing the articles of impeachment and repudia ting tbe action of tbe Managers, but the House adjour.ied without a vote being taken upon I his proDOsition. General Grant has a very quiet and most effective way of transacting business, and of j getting rid of obnoxious individuals. The private soldiers at Carlisle Barracks, passed ' a series of resolutions expressive of their : .a ooiHrers, cr.neeraing meiui r^K i ment trial, endorsing Mr. Johnson's course, ; and pledging him their support as the consti [ tutional commander in-chief, etc., all of which, as soldiers, they bad no business in doing, and which their superior officers should not have permitted—the act being alike an insult to the President. Congress, and to General Grant, who has not expressed any opinions upon the subject. Yesterday Genera! Grant, in bis usual quiet way, issued an order assigning the commander of the post, General Grier, to duty with bis regi ment of cavalry in Missouri, and ordering ; General Hatch to his place for two years. A subsequent order notifies tbe new commander to prepaid detachments of recruits, from time to time, and forward them to Fort Leaven worth, Kansas, where they will be assigned ito duty. The Indians, instead of Impeach ment, will therefore occupy the attention of | the recruits at Carlisle. General Grant has also ordered the commanders of military dis tricts to take immediate and summary rata i sures for breaking up and preventing the or ganization and spread of the secret Rebel order known to outsiders as tbe Ku-Klux Klan. It is again announced from Washington that the trial of Jefferson Davis will be begun at the next term of the United States Circuit Court in Virginia, which commences in May. i Chief Justice Chase will proceed to Richmond for that purpose as soon as the impeachment trial of the President is finished. Several arrests have been made at Ottawa, Canada, of parties supposed to be implicated ! in the murder of D' Arcy McGee. j BEDFORD. Pa.. FRIDAY. APRIL 17. 1808. fodnt? A LEAP YEAR LAMENT. Bother! 'tis leap year, boys, Awful to think of it; Ruin is yawning, boys. We're on tbe brink of it; Yictims to woman's schemes, Each of as, c-ll of ns, Sure as we are living boys, They'll be '.he fall of us. Fall of us, all of us, Bachelors, young and old ; Maidens are planning, boys, Nothing '.heir tongues can hold, Planning all sorts of things— Awful to think of it! Ruin approaches, beys, We're ou the brink of it. Confound the girls, Ifay, Tyrants the whole >1 them. — . Binding us wretches, ioys, To the control of thsin: Shy of the witches, bya, For we are weak, ym know, Worst of it they knowit— Shame I must speaf it so! Popping the question, boys, That's what they'll lo to us, If we but give the plagues Half a side view of is; Red lips and sparsling eyes, Well let me think of it; Heigh! sweet ruin boys, I like to think of it A CONVERTED MOSQUE: The Cathedral of Cordova. The wonder ofCorduva is also one of the wonders of the worlf. Its Cathedral has been a Mosque of the Moors. Too sec it once is an adequate reward for all one has endured in travelling thus far through the most comfortless country in Europe. Tosee it often, and study it m the minute details of its extraordinary plan and finish, is to lay up a store of imagery for dreams of memory through the rest of a life time. At least so it seems to me now, when but a few weeks have passed since entering its magnificent Gate of Pardon, and suddenly standing in the midst of a thousand varinusly colored columns—marble, jesper, porphyry, granite —all surmounted by Corinthian capitals, a forest in a temple, a petrified grove of trunks of majestic trees, enclosed in walls. Perhaps the memory of it will fade, so that a year or tw> hence the impressions of won der, of sublimity, of vastness, will not be so strong as they arc now. But at the moment when the interior first broke upon my sight, it was as strange to me that the art of men CiiuLl instruct KUcV an a-.qjoe, as that tire great Architect should bun mc wails uer which the Niagara Cataractrushcs forever. But you are waiting to htar what there is about it so wonderful afte? all. Stepping out of the street through cigate in a solid wall, we are in the midst <f a court-yard some 400 feet long; an orat|c grove, vener able trees that have been baring fruit, as now, a centurv or more, anJ three fountains send up jets of waters tha fall back into large marble basins filled with gold fish which groups of children at feeding. Near the gate, on benches, eldefy men are sit ting, smoking, of course, utid enj'oying the genial sunshine. The eldet sat in the gate in the Scripture limes, anddonow in East ern towns, and here also, where Oriental manners still obtain. In fotner years this court became a great resort for the people who made a mart, or as in all ages men have been tempted topiake the hou>e of prayer a market place, aid so it often be comes a den of thieves. Jow, this Court of.Oranges, as it is called, B the resort of 'old men and children, wh(enjoy the warmth and shade and waters of me holy precincts. Passing through this court we come to the sacred edifice itself. lis history is as event ful as that of Spain. It was built by the Moors as a Mosque, andwhen the Christians conquered Cordova, tloy converted the Mosque into a church, though they could not convert the Moors iito Christians. And this now called Cathedml is the one that Abdurhaman began to luild A. D. TsO, and bis son completed in 7fc, pushing on the work with such tremendous energy that in ten years he constructed one of the most remarkable edifices in the world. His father's idea was to surpass every temple on earth in extent and strength and splendor. It was to he the Mecca in Europe ; and when the Western world was subdued to Islam, as he and all the believers believed it would be, tbe holy plice to which pil grimages from all these lands would be made was Cordova. It is, therefore, the finest example that Spaii possesses of that peculiar style of architecture and ornamen tation which the Moots introduced, and which have been gradually disappearing with the lapse of centuries. It doubtless ha? aavnrhohsni behind its material form? and the student of anna religious thought will read in the plan auda thousand details, a meaning that does not meet the unanoint ed eye ofthe simple traveller. But we will see it as it is, and leave the unseen to those who can see throngb. a stone wall and read what to us is invisible. The Gate of Pardon is so called because, under the Roman Cathdic dispensation, in dulgences were granted to those who entered by it into the temple. There is one gate of the same name in each of the cathedrals that I have visited in this ctuntry. The bronze ornaments upon the doers are very curious, the royal aruis aredisplayed, and while the Christian inscription, in Gothic letters, of the word DETS, proclaims the true God, the Arabic letters also testify that the Mahom etans worshipped him, for they write, "The Empire belongs to God." Within the temple there is at first a sense of gloom, almost of oppresssion, arising from the vastness of the area and the want of height. The roof cannot be more than 40 or 50 feet high, while the floor stretches away 640 feet in length and 460 feet in breadth. A thousand columns in long lines, like trees planted in tbe garden of the Lord, are each of one singlt SIODC —the spoils of templesin the East and the West, andsome of them Imperial gifq. and hence a variety of colors and size, slowing all sorts of mar bles, the green and rf jasper, black, white and rose, emerald and porphyry. Crossing each other, at right angles, these rows of pillars from nineteen naves one way and twenty nine the other; long-drawn aisles, over which the horse shoe-shaped arches, standing one upon the other and supporting the roof, produce a marvellous effect. The Hoiy of Holies jn the Mosque was the Mihrab, and it has been preserved in the converted temple, with religious carc, as at once a curiosity and a memorial that tbe Mahometan has ceased to defilo these courts. It is a recess in the wall of the temple, in which the Koran was kept, and where the h.a!it came to say his prayers, looking out of a littjc window toward Mecca. It is a small six-sided room, abont twelve feet acro-s, the floor one piece of marble, and tne roof in the shape of a shell is also, we were_ assured, of a single block, and up the six sides rise marble pilasters, the whole adorned with strange Arabic art and myste rious inscriptions. When liakeui was Ca liph of Cordova, he sent messengers into tbe East to a>k for skillful artificers in painting glass and giving this strange effect to tracery in metals and stone ; for there is in mosaic work, when well done, something superior to the softest painting, and-quite incompre hensible. The workers in mosaic came, and their skill now shines in this miracle of oriental art, which has been here since 905, and is as fresh and beautiful as when it shone at the feast of theKhamadhan. in the light oi a thousand lamps. In the marble floor ! worn a deep groove, by the knees of devout Mussulmans who have thus gone around it while at their devotions. On the sides of the Cathedral are many chapels, each with its altar, its pictures, its relics and its history. By one of them, onee a Moorish sanctuary paved with silver, is a rude painting ola crucifixion, and an in scription in Spanish which tells us that— "AY liile the Mahometans celebrated their orgies in this temple, a Christian captive uttered the name of Christ, whom be held in his heart, and he engraved this image with his nails on the hard stone of this pil lar, for which his death has purchased this aureole." I cite it from memory, and have not the exact words. But on the stone column is sketched a crucifixion which .tradition says the prisoner scratched in with his finger nails. The stone is very hard, and the story harder. Come again and again, and this strange pile, with its thousand columns and its thou sand years of history, grows on you with every visit. We come from a land where all is fresh and new, and these old temples fill us with awe. But if we are impressed with a ruin as in Rome, where Paganism built its temples to become the sites of Christian churches, which themselves have been buried and again dug up to be the won der of the present age. how much more im pressive is a building still fresh and unbroken by the inarch of centuries, where the pomp and ceremony of a religion, corrupt indeed, yet recognizing God the Father as the only true God, are perpetuated year after year -still their number becomes a thousand years. — IRENJEUS in J\ T ew York Observer. TIIE TRUE WOMAN. YY'ho shall limn for us the picture of a true good woman —the pride and the paragon of her own sex, and the admiration of the oth er; of the woman young, beautiful, health ful —well informed, but not pedantic; who can talk well, listen well, sing well, play well, and dress well; who is neither flirt nor pride; who knows neither too little; whose lips are innocent of slang, and whose heart I- —j l "—T'oli. lied In manners, and affectionate in disposing, beloved of the old. the darling of the voung: shy, modest, retiring; and commanding all the world's homage, without demanding the homage, of anybody ? It must not be considered that the youth fulness of such a woman is absolutely nec essary to her loveliness. Youth is a great blessing and a great charm? but, age is also a blessing—do we not all wish to grow old ? and a great adornment if it be combined with goodness. The beauty of the mind grows with tbe revolving years, and makes a woman of seventy, with mind and man ners and innate gentleness, more beautiful than sweet seventeen can be, if the mind and the manners are wantiDg, and the ten derness that should be in every womanly heart is displaced by a masculine tone of thought, behavior, or conversation. Though all the women are not such as every man, at the poetical period of life, has pictured in bis imagination, there are thou sands in every country who resemble the ideal, if not in accomplishment? and edu cation —for these arc not within the reach of every one —yet by outward grace of person, and inward purity of soul. All the flowers that bloom in the lair garden of humanity are not of equal delicacy and brilliancy; for nature, that has room for the magnolia, the lilv, has room also for the violet, the blue bell, and the daisy, and loves her humblest children as well as her pioudest. Nothing in the would—at least to the male eye —equal in pleasantness the face and form of a bashful and virtuous woman, look ing up to a man for support and guidance, and giving him her true affection in return. Nothing, on the other hand, is more disa greeable than tbe bold virago, womanly in form, but not in spirit, who would storm the citidel of your politeness to extort your homage tT ft arm is, and glance of her eyes, even if she do not utter a syllable, betrays that she puffed up with conceit and selfish ness, and is too ignorant to distinguish be tween a churl and a gentleman, or to accept the place that properly belongs to her in the social system. JuX says that if a man feels much like getting married, yei liuas? i.„ to the bc.-t remedy he knows is to help one of his hcighbors to move a house full of furniture —borrow about nine of his children and hear them cry. If that, fails, build up a fire of damp wood and when the smoke in the room is thickest, hire a woman to scold him about four hours. If he can. stand all these, ho had better get married tbe next day—give his wife the pants and be tbe "si lent partner" in the great firm of matri mony. The remedy is severe, but as every man is liable to these things after he yokes himself, it would do no harm to try it before. THE REASON. —At a certain college, the senior class was under examination for de grees. The professor of natural philosophy was badgering in optics. The point under illustration was that, strictly and scientifi cally speaking, we see no objects bat their images depicted on the retina. —The worthy professor, in order to make the matter plainer, said to the wag of the class. 31 r. Jackson, did you ever actually see your father?" Bill replied promptly, "No, sir." "Please explain to the committee why yon never saw your father." "Because," re plied Mr. Jackson, very gravely, "he died before I was born, sir.'.' SOME people suppose that every learned mania an educated man. No such thing. The man is educated who knows himself, and takes accurate common sense views of men and things around him. Some very learned men are the greatest fools in the world; the reason is that they are not edu cated men. Learning is only the means, not the end. Its value consists in giving the means of acquiring the useofthat which properly managed, enlightens the mind. YOLI MK tl: 50. 16. WANTED; YOUNG HEN. It is -aid that the market is overstocked with men seeking 'employment, and yet there is aiways a demand for intelligent, re liable, and energetic men to fill places of trust and position. But they must be members not only of the genus "Aomo," but of the species for such there are al ways open places waiting to be filled, lien ry Ward Beecher thus describes the sort which are wanted: Who are the men that are needed in this world? Young men that shall bear bur dens. We have enough mullen stalks, we want oak trees ! We have enough mush rooms, wo want timber! We hive enough men that are willing to do anything for the sake of getting along, but what are they worth ? They arc bridges for men to walk over. • They are tools. Men use them like sand-paper, to scour with, and then throw them down and trample them under foot. A young man that does not know how to say "No:" a young man that has not power to resist tfcc cup when it is presented to him —what is he but a poor miserable wash cloth, but T rag. dishonored, and put to th'j vilest uses? Who cares for him, or mourns over him. but some Christian mother or Christian minister ? But a young man that knows how to say "No:" that knows how to resist evil; that knows how to give buffet for temptation—is not he hardening him self? Is not he making his bones tough— particularly his backbones? He is becom ing columnar. And it is such as he that are sought after in business. A man says, "Here is a difficult department in my es tablishment, and I would pay almost any price if I could find a man that I could trust." Says the man whom he addresses. "I know an impracticable sort of a fellow I think might suit you. He will stick towhat he thinks is right at ail hazards. You can not turn him from it by any power on earth." Says the other man, "I want a iignumvitaeman: send him tome." Let it once be known that a mar. cannot be cajol ed; that he will not lie even for himself; that he will not steal, and has a prejudice against stealing; let it be known that he has been tried and that there is inward principle in him, and let us put him up at auction, and I will get a million bid on him! Men are the thincs that are most needed in New York. Why, there is no timber in the market that is gathered up so greedily as tbev are. There is nothing so much needed in business, in all departments of it, as moral principle. And yet merchants will teach young men to lie: and, for the sake of monetary profit cajole customers. And when, by-and-by, these young men grow up, they become on their own account, filcber3, stealers, and liars. You think that the young men of this generation are corrupt and worthless. They arc; but the blame rests on your shoulders. You were their schoolmasters. You taught them to lie and cheat in your interest; and now they do it in their own. Now your own chickens come home to roost. Merchants North and South have been raising by the wholesale, damnable young men without principle. And a young mau if he would save himself from destruction, must cling to that "an chor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, which entereth into that within the veil." corning else can insure nun safety. JOHN G. WHITTIER. An erect, spare, venerable looking man, not far from sixty, with striking features, and thin, iron-gray hair, seat ed at the long table that runs through the room, and intently occupied in the examination of some of the many recent books and newspapers with which the table is loaded. His modest nectie, aod plain brown coat, with its stiff, upright collar, proclaim him a Quaker, and a glaDce at his thoughtful face, and expansive forehead, shows that he is no other than the most dis tinguished of living Quakers, John G. Whittier. Mr. Whittier has been before the public as an author for fully forty years, but, though he is one of the most correct and graceful of prose writers, it is principally by his poetry that he has won distinction. Every one is familiar with his verses, but scarcely any but well-read persons are acquainted with his prose, or areeven aware that he has written some of the most char ming sketches and stories that have emna ted from the prosewriters of the past half century. With a volume of these sketches entitled Legends oj New England, he made at the age of twenty-three, bis first appear ance as an author, and it was this volume that first won him celebrity. It was founded on the Indian superstitions of Massachusetts and it displays that intimate knowledge of early New England history which is so observable in Mr. Wbittier's poetry. Whittier's chief works are so well known to our readers that we need not mention their titles here. Next to LoDgfellow his works have a larger circulation than any of our poets. He is emphatically a self-made writer. His early life was passed on a farm in severe manual labor, and until he was eighteen he had no educational advantages, save such as could be derived from a few winters' attendance on the public schools of his native district. At the age of twenty, however, he had managed to secure two years, tuition at a town academy, but then he left school to work his way in the world, uu Ot t.ljv*. 1- - 1 1 1 1 * q- *>- ed from contact with actual life, or by soli tary study in his own library. To this lack of classical culture may doubtless be attribu ted the charming simplicity of his style, and the peculiar American characters of all his writings. Mr. Whittier was, we believe, never mar ried, but till within a year, he has been blessed with the most devoted of sisters, who has been his constant companion, min istering to his domestic needs, and sharing his studies. She was a woman of fine literary taste, and herself wrote some poems that were quite equal to any of her brother s productions. She died about a year ago, greatly lamented by Mr. bittier, who bas since lived a secluded life in bis quiet home in Amcsfcury. . ■ m FRESH SHAD.—Shad are being caught in tolerable abundance by the gill net fisher men. About five thousand were brought to Washington during the few warm days of last week. They were sold to first hands at from $25 to S3O per hundred. Our mar kets have been well supplied with these superb fish from rivers farther south. In a few days, if the warm weather prevails, we may welcome our own Delaware shad, which, as every housekeeper knows, are vastly su perior to those from the South. The season for a large supply will be much delayed, this spring, in consequence of the coldness of the water caused by the immense quantity of snow still to be found in the mountains near the head waters of the Delaware. A few were caught last week and soldat from $1.50 to $ 1.75 each. — Philadelphia Evening Star' TRUE goodness is like the glow-worm; it shines most when no eyes, except those of heaven, are upon it. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ail adrertueoientl for less than 3 month* If cent* per Hoe for each insertion. Special notices one-half additional. Ail resolutions of Associa tion, communications of a limited or indiridal interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding fire lines, 10 cts. per line. Ail legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers, Editorial Notices IS cents per line. All Advertising due afterfirst insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 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Such, for example, is an Egyptian harp found in Thebes, with its strings yet perfect enough to vibrate again, after a silence of three thousand years. The more recent investigations prove that the parent of all musical science was Assy ria. From the Assyrians, the Hebrews and the Egyptians, and, indeed, all Eastern na tkraß, derived their knowledge- uf music. Ihe unveiled monuments show that in the time of Senacherip music was a highly cul tured art, and must have existed through generations. This polished nation used a harp of twenty-one strings, the frame of which was four feet high, which accom fanied minstrelssongsor was borne in dance. he lyre of tortoise-shell, the double pipe, the trumpet, drum, and bell were common. Even of the bag-pipe representations have beeen discovered, though none of the string ed instruments, like the violin, played with the bow. In all delineations of social or worshipping assemblies, musical instruments very like our modern ones have a prominent place The Hebrew music, at the time of the Ex odus, was purely Egyptian; but it was much modified subsequently by association with Asiatic nations. In the temple of Jerusa lem, according to the Talmud, stood a pow erful organ, consisting of a wood-chest with ten holes, containing ten pipes, and each Cipe capable of emitting ten different sounds y means of finger-holes, so that a hundred sounds could hie produced by it. It was provided with two pairs of bellows and ten keys, so that it could be played with the fingers. According to the rabbis, it could be heard a great distance from the temple. War WE SHAKE HANDS AND KISS.—A learned Theban gives us the solution of this frequently conjectured problem. In the first place it is a very old-fashioned way of indicat ing friendship. Jehu said to Jehonadad: "Is thine heart right as my heart is with thine heart? if it be, give me thine band. : ' It is not merely ao old-fashioned custom; it is a strictly natural one. and as usual in such cases, we may find a physiological rea son if we only take pains to search for it. The animals cultivate friendship by the sense of touch as well as by the sense of hearing and sight; and for this purpose they employ the most sensitive parts of their bodies. They rub their noses together or liek one another with their tongues. Now, the hand is a part of the human bodv in which the sense of touch is highly developed; and after the manner of animals, we not only like to see and hear our friend, we also like to touch him, and promote the kindly feelings loy nonfinf sensitive hands. Observe, too, how this principle is illustrated by another of our modes of greeting. When we wish to de termine whether a substance be perfectly smooth, and are not quite satisfied with the information conveyed by the fingers, we ap ply it to the mouth. NEWSPAPER LAWS. —Postmasters are required to give notice by letter, when a subscriber does not take his paper from the office and give the reasons for its not being taken. Neglecting to do so makes the post master responsible to the publisher for the payment Anv person who takes a paper regularly from the post office, whether he has sub scribed or not, is responsible for the sub scription. A person ordering bis paper to be discon tinued must pay all arrearages, or the pub lisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and collect the whole amount whether it is taken out of the office or not. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the post office, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of in tentional fraud. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON was much attach ed to a young man—an intelligent Italian. As the Doctor lay upon the couch froia which he uever rose up, he called his young friend to him and tenderly and solemnly said; "There is no one who has shown mo more attention than you have done; and_ it is now right you should claim attention from me. You are a young man, and are to struggle through life; you are in a profes sion that I dare say you will exercise with freat fidelity and innocence; but let me ex ortvou always to think of my situation which must one day be yours—always re member that life is short, and that cteraity never ends." ORR EXAMPLE. —One thing impressed my own mind most peculiarly, when the Lord was first opening my eyes—l never was not one act in all Christ's life, done to serve or to please himself. An unbroken stream of blessed, perfect, unfailing love flowed from him, no matter what the con tradiction of sinners, one amazing and un wavering testimony of love, and sympathy, and help; but it was ever others, and not himself, that were comforted, and nothing could weaiy it, nothing turn it aside. Now the world's whole principle is self—doing well for itself.— Witness. AN EDITOR TIGHT. —We believe it is rare that editors indulge in a drop, but when they do, their readers are sure to find them out. A cotemporary was called upon to re cord a "melancholy event" at a time when his head was rather heavy, and did it up after tbe following manner: "Yesterday morning, at 4 o'clock, P. M., a man with a heel on the hole of his stock ing, committed arsenic by swallowing adoso of suicide. The inquest of the verdict, re turned a jury that the deceased came to the facts in accordance with his death. He leaves a child and six small wives to lament the end of his untimely loss. In death we are in the midst of life." SOMEBODY says editors are poor, where upon an exchange remarks: "Humbug. Here are we, editor of a country paper, fairly rolling in wealth. We bare a good office, a double barreled rifle, seven suits of clothes, three kittens, a Newfoundland pup, two gold watches, thirteen day and two night shirts, carpets on our floors, a pretty wife, own one corner lot, have ninety three cent 3 in cash, are out of debt and have no rich relatives. If we arc not wealthy it is a pity,"
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