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ATTO i: NE Y S AT LAW.
"J 011N T. K HAG Y,
ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW.
• 'ifiice opposite l'.eed A SehcU's Lank. :
Counsel given in English ar 1 Herman. [apl26] !
| * IMMELL A ND LTNtIENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BKPPOBD, PA. ;
llave formed a partnership in the practice oI 1
the Law, in new brick building near the .Lutheran j
Church. [April 1, 1364-tf j
. A. POINT.-,,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BP-DPOIID, PA.
Bwpectfully tenders his professional services j
jO the public. Offic with J. W. Lingenfelter, •
Esq., on Public .Square near Lutheran Church.
promptly made. [Dec.9,'64-tf.
| | AYES IRVINE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
ness ictrusted to his care. Office withU. 11. Spang,
E>q. on Juliana street, three doors south of the
Mengel House. May 24:1y (
IN SPY M. ALBIP,
_J ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bruporo, PA.,
Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all busi- j
nes6 entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
ug counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
pay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with j
Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south j
of the Mengol House. apl 1, 1864.—tf.
a. F. MKYKRS J. W. DICKKRSOH j
M4.YERS A DICKEKSOX.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BEDFORD, Penn'A., j
Office nearly opposite the Mengel House, will ;
practice in th e several Courts of Bedford county. J
Pensions, bounties and hack pay obtained and the
pwrchaeeof Real Ksitate attended to. [mayll/66-ly i
L 1 15. STUCK EY,
A 1 TORNKY AND COHNSKLLOR 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
siHiri and Kanaa?. July 12:tf j
-. L. RISSKLI J. H. LO3GKSEUKER ;
Y> ÜBSELL A LONGENECKEK.
I K VrioßtiTS A Counsellor* AT LAW, j
Bedford, Pa.,
M ill attend promptly and faithfully to all busi
ness en trusted to their eare. Special attention j
givm to collections and the prosecution of claims i
for Pack Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, south of the Court
House. Apri!s:lyr.
J* M'P. SHARP* K. r. KERR
Cl HARPE A KERB,
0 A TTORXE YS-A T-LA W.
Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad
joining counties. All business entrusted to their
cr- will receive careful and prompt attention.
Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, dr., speedily col
lected from the Government.
Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking
house of Reed A Schell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf
J. P. DUBBORROW JOH! LUTt.
DUR BORROW A LUTZ,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BEBPORD, PA.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
their care. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
They arc, also, regularly licensed Claim Agents
and will give special attention to the prosecution
of 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 28, 1865:t
iII rs iCi AN s.
rrr M. W. JAMISON, M. I>..
BLOODr Rp, PA.,
Rc*pcctfally tenders his professional services to
(he people of that place snd vicinity. [decSrlyr
Respectfully lenders his professional ser
vices to the ritiiens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office and residence on I'itt street, in the bnilding
formerly occupied hy Dr. J. 11. Hofius. [ApT 1,64.
INK. hi. G. STATLEK, near Schellsburg, and
J Br. .). J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland
county, h.n iug a.- ociutcd themselves ia the prac
ti ■ of Med.ine, respect fully offer their profes
sional -crvices to the citizens of Sehellsburg and
vicinity. |) r . Clarke's office and residence same
as ionnerly icupicd by J. White, Esq., dee'd.
„ . , S. G. STATLER,
&chell,'"" g , ApriU2:ly. J. J. CLARKE.
M 1 8C KLL AN EOUS.
E. SHANNON, BANKER,
' BanroaD, FA.
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
Collection- made for the Last, West. North and
South, and the general business of Exchange
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and
Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought and sold. feb22
DANIEL border.
PII I -i I i I RUN IFINKT VSJT or M I*D
roBD ttoTtt. Ry,rvp. PA.
WATCXIMAKKI: NT) DKAhKR IN JEWEL
RY. rPECTACI.I S. AC.
He keeps on hand a slock ' f line Bold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin.
Ed (Basses, also Scotch PeLlne (Basse*. Gold '
Watch Chains. Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best ;
quality of Gold Pens. lie will supply *tn order 1
any thing in his line not on hand.
Travelling Dealers in
NOTIONS.
In the county once every two months. I
SELL GOODS AT CITT PRICES.
' gents for the Chamhersburg Woolen Mannfac- (
tunng Company. Apl Itly
1 k W. CROLSE
1 '• WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST, ,
On I'iU street two doors weat of B. F. Harry s
Drug Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared
to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All
orders promptly tiled. Persons desiring anything
in his line will do well to give him a oaU.
Bedford Oat 36. '66.,
■—' • -
DU It BORROW & JLUTZ. r+oprtjT
jjnetnj.
A UAi'H LIFE.
A tremuloud shudder invaded the air i
A- the stirs jnler gru at the dawning, j
Whilst .-olemnly waited the far-away hills
For the birth of a new summer morning:
Their falthftil sM 'j, were patiently hep"
For the motherless ray-Night was loavipr
The murmuring ocean its cradle had sot
And the air-mist its garment was weal^'
The sky's starry watchmen trooped iwa y'
Whilst the deed Night was ]>Ainlea§ ,r ® vcr ' j
And the hill* kfrsed the babe asf * u
arm.".
Wrapped about in the mist of tb river.
At the door of the forest white /lowers were hung,
White caps on the waves told tbc story t
As tho' solemn Ocean In festival garb
Would cover his locks dull and hoary:
Fair Flora her chalice all dewy upheld
At the chrism, and gave it her blcs.-ingt
And the birds warbled welcome so merry and
clear,
Their faithful allegiance confessing.
So the Day stronger grew—went wandering wide— ,
Peered in through the forest aisles tender,
Till faiut-hearted blossoms went down out of J
! Unaccustomed to Day's goldeu splendor.
He flung iu his glory wherever he trod,
Set his seal over window and portal,
j And bid his attendants, the Hours, by the way.
Leave gifts with each earthly immortal.
! There were radiant crowns, shining jewels as well,
But each crown bad a thoru somewhere fretting,
i And the daintiest jewel the Day could bestow
j Had a flaw or a fault in tho setting
| There was crosses hung over poor pilgrims awhile,
I Underneath looming dark to their vision,
j While the heavenward side, whieh pilgrims saw
i not, •
! Burned brightly with glory Klysian.
; Far over the meadow and mountain and sea
t At noon went the wide proclamation,
; That sickle and hammer should rest them an hour
! For the honor of Day's coronation.
| Again she went shining, his face to the West,
• Again would he fain leave no sorrow,
No heart that should bid him in haste begone
And give place to the hopeful to-morrow.
But tears were still tears, tho' they glittered so
bright.
On clouds still the ralri was painted,
And the turt was uprooted to cover the forms
Of the earth-loved, and early translated.
Tired Day lower drooped as he lenged for his rest,
Till he crept to the hills western lying,
And crimson-tipped shadows in liVery stood
j Obsequious, while he was dying.
Pale Twilight drew nigh, held his head on her
j breast,
1 Till he fainted and vanished forever,
And the shroud laid about him, unstirred by a
breath
I Or a sound, saare the sigh of the river.
THE BEAUTIFUL.
m JOHN G. RAX E.
: All things of beauty are not their*a alone
Who hold the fee; but unto him no lees
j Who e.an enjoy, than unto them who own,
Are sweetest usee given to possess.
ii'or Heaven is bountiful; and sutler's none
To make monopoly of aught that's fair
The breath of violets is not for one,
Nor loveliness of women: all may share
j Who can discern: and He who gave the law,
"Thou shalt not covet!" gave the subtle power
By whieh, unsinniug, I may freely draw
Beauty and fragrance from each perfect flower
IThat still in maiden pride adorns the lea.
Or in my neighbor's garden blooms for me!
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
Hints to Business Men on Mental
A ullurc.
BY M. B. ANDERSON, hU D., PRESIDENT OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.
It is clear that the number of young men
who enter a business life, afler having re
ceived a liberal education, is constantly in
creasing. It is clear also that our best and
ablest merchants desire on the part of their
employees a higher rangeof intelligence and
a greater degree of mental discipline, than
was thought requisite in former years. The
evidence for both of the above statements is
abundant. But my design is not to make
an argument in favor of giving candidates
for mercantile or mechanical life a college
education (though I believe it to be de
sirable), but to point out some practical
methods by which those who have already
passed the period of elementary training
and are already engaged in business can se
cure growth, power and breadth of intellect.
There is a common and somewhat vague
distinction drawn between a trade and a
liberal profession on the ground that the one
requires little beyond manual skill for suc
cess, while the other requires a disciplined
and well-furnished intellect. Now it is evi
dent that this distinction fails in its applica
tion to individuals. For there are great
numbers of mechanics, farmers and mer
chants who bring to their pursuits abroad
and comprehensive mind, and so refer all
their thinking to great universal laws that
they bcoamo representatives of the philo
sophical tendency and habit. Such men in
vent new processes in the mechanical arts,
contrive and improve labor saving machines,
strike out new channels of trade, foresee* and
evade financial crisis, anticipate the result
of increased Bafety, cheapness and rapidity
in the transmission of goods and intelligence,
make successful experiments in stock- breed
ing, fruit-raising, drainage and manures.
On the other hand, every careful observer
knows that the learned professions furnish
manifold examples of men who preach,
teach, practise medicine and law on princi
ples as mechanical as those of the organ
grinder. It is evident that the relative
dignity of different pursuits among men is
not to be sought in the pursuits themselves,
but rather in the amount of intelligence
which is brought to bear upon them. All
growth, progress, improvement in every de
partment of human activity is due to those
who bring to ordinary processes of labor the
action of a clear and thoughtful mind—to
those who think while they work. Here
we have an illustration of what gives dig
nity to labor. The commonest handicraft
may by the intelligence and culture of him
who exercises it be elevated to the rank of
a kurn.-d profession. Every learned pro
feseimi. if practiced with a blind deference
to ready furnished rules, precedents, and
decisions, without any apprehension of their
ultimate ground in the nature of tLings, bo
comes a n.cre mechanical trade. From these
general considerations, we see the value of
education founded in general principles for
every calling in life. A man becomes a
better merchant, a better mechanic, abetter
farmer in the pr.<oortion that he is educated
up to a comprehension of those general
1 principles which underlie his department of
' .J. The value of that education which
: yTonmos consent is called liberal to all
passes in society must be admitted by all
thoughtful persons. But the proportion of
young men who can spare the time and
money to obtain such a course of education
before entering upon business iscomparati\ c
ly small. What course, then shall a young
man pursue whom circumstances have forced
into practical life with a limited course of
elementary training? Is be to assume that
the time for mental impiovement has
passed? Or is it possible for bim without
neglecting bis daily duties to make con
tinuous acquisitions in literature and science?
We believe it is. Education for our present
purposes may be considered as designed to
secure discipline, knowledge , and power of I
expression. Any man occupying a position j
of trust or control in the nianagemcut of a
business of whatever kind must of necessity
give to it thought. Lie must acquire
knowledge of a vast number of details con
nected with his occupation. These must be
analyzed, classified, reduced to order.
Kales of action must be evolved from them.
These rules of action or general principles
must be verified aud tested, and their in
..•ulcouacies Doted. These processes ofanaly
wero ir a iHuicu Jftalo a 1, MMMMV'J <>t
sis, generalization, and verification, if gone
through with in the light of common sense
and practical judgment, will furnish a body
of truths relative to the business pursued
which may justly be called scientific. In !
these processes of thought, which become
to the business man a matter of daily duty
and necessity, he acquires intellectual dis
cipline of a character not inferior in thor- ;
ougbness to that obtained by tbe study of :
those scientific treatises which are made the
basis of education in schools for liberal cul- j
ture. The power to think clearly and :
sharply on one class of subjects assists us in
thinking upon all others. Thus the very
processes of thought necessary to carry on a
business at all complicated will secure a good
degree of mental discipline. Thus a few
years of experience may place the energetic
business man on a level in this respect with
the regularly trained scholar. But our
practical man is liable to be defective in that
large knowledge of the experience and
thinking of the past which is comprised in !
history and literature. This universal ex
perience analyzed and condensed in the
various forms of literary art is requisite in
order to make mental discipline largely
available. Without it the mind is narrow
in its range of vision and comparatively
barren in its products. Hence the business
man needs to form habits of reading. This
is difficult. A few hints on this subject
may not be inappropriate. He should learn
the art of labor saving. This may be done
by the accumulation and use of books of
reference, such as dictionaries, cyclopedias,
and thorough systematic treatises on science j
and art. He should also gradually form a
collection of the masters in elegant litera
ture and history. The little time which
such a man can command for the purposes
of study forbids the idea of any very ex- j
tended courses of reading. Let him use his 1
books of reference in searching out such
historical facts and allusions, and such
questions in science and literature as from
time to time arrest his attention. He will
thus fall into the habit of investigating
subjects rather than reading many books con
tinuously. So doing, he will assist his
memory, and avoid that loose and desultory
reading which burdens the mind of the '
partially educated man with disconnected
and insignificant facts and ideas. In so
doing, he should learn to make good use of
the headings of chapters and the indexes of
books. While searching for a specific factor
discussion in a large treatise, he will often
fix more truth in his mind than by reading
a whole book without a specific and definite
object. He will learn to set aside the reg
ular idea that the books in his library arc
useless unless they can all be read through
and digested. Books are now so numerous
, that the most diligent scholar must consult
the mass of books on specific topics while
|he reads through comparatively few. It is
( fashionable to ridicule index and title-page
I knowledge; but it must be remembered that
I he who knows where knowledge is, and how
i to obtain it, is in a position nearly equal to !
| the man who has it already. Let a business
| man, then collect his books slowly; look <
; carefully over their tables of contents and
• ; prefaces; aDd read occasional paragraphs
until be ascertains the topics which are
treated of. By so doing he will know where i
to look for discussion or information upon
, any subject that excites his attention. He
, may thus follow one subject and its collat
-1 eral illustrations through several books —
j compare views and settle his o>vn opinions '
j with the expenditure of comparatively little
| time. A few hours of leisure thus occupied j
j during each week will enable a man, in a
j series of years, to acquire a large amount of
i exact and well-digested knowledge.
I
The remaining element in education to
which I will call attention is power of expres
sion. Every business man must write many
letters which, from the nature of the case,
must have the binding force of contracts.
Pecuniary consideration require that these
, be simple, exact, and unambiguous. If he
, writes and rewrites these with care, and is
patient of the requisite labor, he will not only
save himself from many lawsuitis, but will
acquire ease, elegance, and force of expres
s-ion.
These elements which go to make up a
good business letter judged from the mer
cantile point of view alone, arc fundament
al in the formation of a correct and vigor
ous literary style. Clearness is the begin
ning, and almost the end, of literary excel
lence. It is by seeking after this excel
lence alone that so many comparatively un
educated business men furnish in their cor
respondence models of clear, compact and
vigorous writing. Let the young clerk re
member that in business correspondence
words stand for money. That looseness
and incoherency of expression, or careless
selection of words, may eDtail the gravest
mercantile disaster. It is as necessary for
a merchant to write well as it is for an edi
tor or a clergyman. This remark applies in
an almost equal degree to the mechanic and
the farmer. In the process of buying and:
selling business m< n acquire great facility in
I vocal utterance. If he is as careful in his'
conversation with his customers as he should |
be in writing to them, he may readily ae
| quire the power of expressing himself with !
the tongue as correctly as with the pen. i
When the power of addressing one man [
with clearness and vigiw has been acquired, :
he may use that power upon a dozen or a
thousand. There is no reason, in the na-
I' ture of things, why a merchant should not
cultivate expression in complicated and ob-
=^DFOB^^t it,DAYI 19, 1868.
stinato negotiations as successfully as the
lawyer in his intercourse with comts and
juries. Thegreat trouble with men in learn
ing to write or speak well is in the attempt
to compass something better than p 410
good sense expressed in plain and
words. Welington was oace persuading an
able member of Parliament to enter a cabi
net which he was forming. The gentleman
excused himself on the ground that he
could not speak in the House of Commons.
"Pshaw 1" said the Iron Duke, "do as I do;
say what you think and don t quote Latin.
We believe that with well directed dih
gence in the use of means within his reach,
a merchant, a mechanic, or a farmer, nia>
acquire knowledge, discipline and power 1
expression sufficient for all the best purposes
of public life. The great want of our poli
tics is the presence of able and honest busi
ness-men in our legislative bodies, who can
give to our laws the impress of that sound,
practical good sense, which is the natural
outgrowth of experience in affairs.
We need men of this sort to aid the peo
ple in adjusting to tlieir shoulders the enor
mous burden of taxation left to Us by the
Rebellion. Other things being equal, the
business man is likely to make a better legis
r inn" it .*. • ;.^,treniU-nJL
. 100 ....c,.., ncre also duil and lower;
lator than a lawyer, i aKfcgs ...
knowledge and facility of expression, 'Lev
have abstained from public life, or when
elected to office have had little influence be
yond the committee-room. If what has
been here written shall assist one young busi
ness-man in personal improvement, by giv
ing him confidence and guidance, its object
will have been accomplished.— Nino York
Ledger.
NASIIY.
Tlio Democratic Candidate for the Presi
dency--W r. \as Ivy Hoists the .Name ota
Democrat ot llls Ar<iiiaintniiee In South
ern Illinois.
Post Offis Confedrit X Roads, )
(Wich is in the State uv Kentucky, >
June 1, 1868. J
The matter uv a Presidcnshal candidate
hez opprest me, and hez also exercised the
gigantic iutellex who congregate at the Cor
ners. We hev desided that Cheef Justis
Chase won't do. We kin support him
cheerfully, for his method uv conduktin the
; impeachment trial hez satisfied us uv his
hankerin for a standin in our party. Be
sides this bavin made a start, we consider
him safe anyhow. The man wich kin take
a nominasheD at our hands, or identify his
self with us, may alluz be counted onto.
The Ablishnist never forgive sicb, and there
ain't no other place to go. When Johnson
and Doolittle and that crowd left the Ab
lishnists, I knew wher they would land bet
ter than they did. Fucilis deensus averni,
wich beiD translated into the vulgartongue,
means, the road to hell is macadamized.
Hancock won't do, becoz our Southern
brethren hev a prejoodis agin the flag he
drawd his swprd under. Pendleton wood
anser the West, but the East is opposed to
. him; Seymour wood do the East, but the
| West is opposed to him. I therefore, after
givinthe matter matoor consideraslien, hev
decided to propose fur the posisben, the
name uv Selhro L. Kippins, uv Alexander
1 county, Illinoy
I hev the follerin reasons for insistin m
his nomina.-.hen.
1. He's geographically level. By loolin
on the map, it will be seen that that count'
in Illinoy is the extreme sulheasterly pal
uv the State. It is a Northern county witi
Southern ideas. Across the river is Ke
tucky, west is southeastern Missoury, ail
east is lower Injeany. They grow tobaco
there, and yearn after slave labor ez intenc
ly ez we do across the river.
2. Nobody knows him. The name of
Jethro L. Kippins hez never filled he
soundin trump uv lame. With him on ur
tikkit several pints would be gained, 'tn
i all the questions on wich there is a doubtin
; the minds uv the Democracy, .Jethro
Kippins is uncommitted. He is unembr
rassed with views, and on trouhlesoie
questions hez nary an opinyun. Thetroui
le Pendleton hez with the grcenbax wod
not effect him, neither would any uv thai
other questions wich are rutlier embarrastn
than otherwise. He hez but one politkl
principle, which he holds is enuff for ny
one man, and that is Democracy, ez it iez
| bin, ez it is, ez it may be. He bclcoes
firmly in the cuss uv Canan, he holds eke
to Onesimus and Hagtr. and hez swor a
solemn oath that no nigger shall ever mr
ry a daughter of hizzen. This noble seti
ment, wich alluz strikes a responsive cortin
every* Democratic buzzum, wood be enda
zoned on the Kippins banner,
j 3. Jethro L. Kippins' f> posishen on ic
war question is happy. He opposed allqe
steps wich led to it, and when it findy
broke out, he proposed the only troo l)ei
okratic way uv stoppin it. It wuz his opi
yun that we hed no right to coerce le
i South—that there wuz no warrant in te
I Constitooshen for any sich proceedin. "jf
Boregard firesonto Major Anderson," ad
he, "let Major Anderson go afore the ner
est Justis uv tbd I'eece and hov him boud
over to keep the peece. If he won't key,
the peece. the Justis can't go beyond the
Constitooshen." After hostilities actually
begun his posishen wuz eminently satisfac
tory to both sides. He wuz in favor uv the
war, but oppossed to its prosekooshen, He
remarkt that the Sontli had committed a
indiscreashen, but were he in Congris, he
shoodent vote for nary man nor dollar for
carryin on a war agin em. Ilis two sons
| served in the war—one in the Confedrit ser
vis and one in the Federal—both ez sutlers.
The war bore heavy on him—he made great
sacrifices. Three other sons he supported
in Canada dooring the continyooance uvthe
unnachral strife.
4. Jethro L. Kippins hez all the element!
uv popularity. He wuz born in a log cabif
—he studied Daboll's arithmetic by the iitt
uv a pine knot, held for the purpose hy hit
mother —he drove boss on the canal, was t
salt boiler in Southern Ohio, a wagon boj
on the Nashnel Road, wuz left an orphai
when six weeks old, swept a store in hi
early vooth, went down the Mississippi oi
a flat boat, was in the Mexikin war, am
j hez a consoomin pashen for horses, jl
: hez, in this, the advantage uv Grant, ez lit
pashen was so consoomin that it got lni
! into a temporary difficulty, which required
twelve men, ajudge and two lawyers to set
tle. one uv the lawyers bein the State's „tt
torney uv the county. These facts in .is
biography i got from his own lips. tfT
there's any discrepancies, uv course m
committee on byogmpby w;l! reconcile ca.
It may be that he may hev done too much
wich is to say, ef all he says is troo, Its
would be two or three hundred years oil.
Ef so, it will have to bo pared down, He
KZ bin justis uv the peece for ten years in
lis native township, wieh gives him a splen
iid knowledge uv constitoosheoel law.
5. He's trooly nashnel in h'l9 views. lie
cnows no north, no south, no east, no west,
10 nothing. That last qualification mite
irejudis some agin him, but to me its his
■hint holt. For with sieh a man in the I'resi
lenshel chair I wood be safe We bev an
ibundancc uv sieh meD as A\ ood, Seymour,
t'allandygum, et Fcttry, who can- manage a
I'resident, but are too odorous to be electid
tery much to that posishen themselves.
L'berefore its necessary that precisely sieh a
nan ez I hev described be electid; and the
'act that Chase knows too much is the b
--ection 1 hev to him. Polkwas managea. j
jlc. Pierce eminently so, and poor old
Bookannon was wonderfully pliable.
tfich is the candidate wieh I present.
There are many pints in his favor. Hur
u ople would to wunst exclaim, "\V ho n
:'nunder is Kippins?" and before they cood
find out the day uv election wood bo on em,
md they'd vote him. His hevin no record
is also in his favor. Wat wood Pendleton,
Yallandygum, Seymour and Wood give d
they bed no record ? A record is like atm
kittle to a dog's tail—it's a noisy append
age wieh makes the dog conspicuous, ant
" ' rr ■* •- r ell (•; \ i'
CARPETS, "'i- CLOTg., WfVnnw
.invites every body to shy a brick at him. ~
I hevent menshened in this, nor shel I
who wood be a proper man for the secom
place on the ticket. I hev my opinion
Kentucky is deservin uv reeognisben
tbat s all I shel say. The modesty wieh i
characteristic uv me prevents me from se
gestin the partiekeier citizen uv Kentuck;
who ought to he thus honored. We she
see whether or not republics is ongrateful.
PF.ntoi.Kl M V. NASBT, P. M.,
(wieh is Postmaster.)
P. !?. The fact that Jethro L. Kippin
holds my note for §lB 63, with interest fo
two years, hez no iuflooence in my segestinj
his name. lam infloocnccd by no merccn
ary con.-idorashuns.
PENCIL-LEAI) MINES AND LEAD
PENCILS.
Every one knows what a black lead pen
cil is, but it is not generally known tha
there is not a particle of lead in the pencil
The material variously known as biaek lead
graphite or plumbago, is almost wholl;
composed of carbon. It probably owes it
niisnc.raer to the fact that previous to tin
employment of graphite for making pencils
common lead was used, and this within tin
present, century. For a long time the bes
graphite was obtained, not in very largi
quantities, at l'orrowdale. in the Engiisl
county of Combcrland, where it was dis
covered in 1564. early in the reign of Queet
Elizabeth, and pencils much like those stil
in general use, were produced in the yea
following. As the supply of the grapbiti
(known in Cumberland, while in the mine
by the title of wad), was not large, tin
British government, from the first, tool
great pains to prevent to exportation of th<
article, and even to limit its home sale to i
supply lust sufficeut to meet the trade, and
• even in the North America, but of verj
inferior quality. The Cumberland mines
were worked only a few weeks in each year,
yet the yield of wad was estimated at £40,-
000 a year. While the graphite lasted.
England had a monopoly in supplying the
best pencils to the world. Year after year,
for a century' past the graphite deposit in
Cumberland became "fine by degrees and
gradually less." The result was that gra
phite powder had to be compressed into a
solid cake from which pencils could be sup.
plied. A French variation, said to be an
improvement, was to mix the powdered and
purified graphite with clay, which is largely
done still
Nearly one hundred and fifty years ago,
the pencil manufaeturccommenced in EeDg
land, and improved in France, was trans
planted to the village of Steinncar Nurem
berg, in Bavaria, and, little more than a
century since, Casper Faber there began to
make the pencils which oontinue to be made
by his descendants, and bear the family
name though the world. The present John
Lothair Faber, great grandson of Casper,
has been head of the firm since 1839, and is
not only very wealthy, but has recently
been ennobled by the king of Bavaria. One
of his brothers is associated with birn at
Stein, in the processes of manufacture; the
youngest of the three, Eberhard Faber,
represents, the firm, for the Western
World, at New York. Steiu is literally a
town of pencil factories, of which Baron
Faber is the ruler, taking care of the health,
government, . education, industry, thrift,
amusements of the inhabitants, and always
living in their midst. It may be asked —
how do the Fabers make lead pencils with
out the famous graphite from Cumberland?
It appears that twenty years ago John
I'eter Alibert, a Frenchman, resident in
Asiatic Siberia, having heard of the gold
discoveries in California, began to examine
the sandy beds of various rivers flowing into
the Arctic Ocean. He found samples ol
pure graphite, evidently brought a consid
erable distance by force of the stream, in
oue of the mountain gorees near Irkurtsk,
and pursuing his di>eovery, tracked back to
a branch of the Salan Mountain range, on
the very summit of Mount Bafougol, 275
miles west of the town of Irkutsk, near the
Chinese frontier, iu the midst of the rocky
desert, and found pure graphite. Afler
years of costly labor .Alibert found an ex
baustless deposit of graphite equal to the
best ever taken front Cumberland. Beside
decorating and rewarding him, the Russian
government changed the name of Mount
Batougol to that of Mount Alibert. Nearly
every crowned head iu Europe has honored
him. With the consent of the Russian
government, Alibert now supplies Faber's
house exclusively with graphite from the
mine in Asiatic Siberia. Pencils of this
materia! were first made by Baron Faber in
1861, and were not introduced into the
American market until 1865, from which
time artists and others perceived and ac
knowledged their superiority. If the world
were to endure a thousand years more, there
is sufficient graphite in Mount Alibert to
supply its population with good black-lead
pencils.— tific America*.
IRISH WIT. —Sir Walter Scott, on one occa
sion, having no small coin, flung a shilling u
the lad who was holding his horse. "There
Pat, that's too much; you'll owe me sixpence
out of ii!" "May your honor live till I paj
you!" iti.-iaully exclaimed the delightec
recipient—Chaa. Mathews, father of the
preseut distinguished comedian, used to tel
a story of his landing in Ireland, and bcitq
immediately accosted by a porter. "Sure it 1
glad we are to see you among us, Mr. Math
ewe. It's myself I'll be proud to carry yont
tenor's luggage. "Why, what can you know
about me?" "Och, havn't we all heard of
your honor, and an honor yonr coming is to
ould Ireland, Mr. Mathews." Immensely
gratified to find that hia reputation wa3 so
widely spread, Mathews gave the porter
double his tee. "And now, my friend," said
he, on arriving at the hotel, "tell me truly
where you happened to hear of me before?"
Faith, your honor," said the man, pocketing
his well-earned gratuity with a grin, "I'll not
desave you. I read your honor's name on
your portmanteau."
about women and home.
We heartily commend the sentiments of
the following article from the New York
Mail. Every husband and every wife
should read it. It will prove beneficial:
How dull and devoid of conversation is many
a fireside ! If all the women in the family
had duties which developed their powers i
and strengthened their judgments, there
would be enough to talk of at the close of
the day. Had women such healthy inter
ests, were they capable of a vigorous uuder
; standing of real affairs, expensive entertain
ments, extravagant recreations which now
empty many a purse, would cease to offer
any fascinations. If life were intense,
' — u mnnM tn sectn so, except so far 1
CHEAP .-TOOK OF UOOD6, JfU6T AX
..
as the best would respond to and develop
life. If taste were disciplined by labor, the
fancy gewgaws which now load down the
persons of women would look as hideous as
they are now known to be unfit. Luxury
might then take refuge in that exquisite
cleanliness and pure color which are still
the rarest things in America. The curtains
and dusty drapery which now repress God's
providence and shut out the sun He at
least thinks fit for shining, would be relin
quished in half of the fine pictures and good
bronzes. In those better days hard-work
ing men would not open social entertain
ments at ten in the evening, and dance all
night, because others do, who have liberty
of fortune (or misfortune) to lie in bed all
day. In those days mothers of young chil
dren will not condemn them to bare limbs,
uncomfortable fancy clothing and unhealthy
six o'clock dinners, because, everybody else
does it who lives on the same street!
But before such days can come, women
must be what they are not now; and men
must help them to become so.
In France, all avocations are open to wo
men. N\ e have heard the story of Kosa
Bonheur, and could match its independence
in a thousand lower as well as many higher
positions.
Our women wear French ribbons and
Alexander's gloves; but what would tbey
think, if asked to imitate the wife and
daughter of Alexander, who pecuniarily in
dependent, still sew and sell those gloves?
In a private letter to a friend, Sir James
Macintosh wrote ofhis wife:
She was a women who, by tender man
agement of my ncaknesses, gradually correc
ted the most pernicious cf them. She be
came prudent from affection. Though of
the most generous nature, she was taught
economy by her love of me. During the
most critical period of my lite, she relieved
me from the care of my affairs, and preser
ved order in them. She gently reclaimed
me from dissipation, she propped my weak
and irresolute nature, she urged my indo
lence to useful and creditable exertion, and
was perpetually at hand to admonish my
heedlessness and improvidence. To her I
owe whatever I am, to her whatever I shall
be. In her solicitude for my interest, she
never for a moment forgot my character.
Her feelings were warm and impetuous, but
she was placable, tender, and constant.
Such was she whom 1 lost, when a knowl
edge of her worth had refined an ardent
love to a sincere friendship."
NVill not American women find inspiration
in such a picture? Here it is plainly shown
that if women worked more, men might
work less, and time for culture could be
afforded to all. To effect it. men must
cease to admire white hands, draggling
skirts, and a general airofuselessness. They
must give point to such opinions as they
have, by seeking something better in mar
riage than money or fashion.
Do these speeches encourage a woman to
labor? And who is it that complains again,
when no one sees after the servants; when
the child's dress costs too much; when the
cooking does not taste like his moth
er's?
In one one of her lectures, Lucy Stone
once mentioned a family of girls, who, after
their father's death, continued his business
—the manufacture of some portion of a lo
comotive. "How much do you make?"
asked Lucy. "In the worst of times, fifty
dollars a week," they answered. "In the
best, five hundred dollars." These women
are full of shrewdness and good sense; but
in a New York parlor, how many men would
dare to show their respect for labor by
unusual courtesy to them?
• A Boston merchant has an ingenious
daughter who'wishes to take out patents.
Is he proud of her? No. On condition
that she will never Kork before anybody,
he has fitted up a costly workshop for her.
How many men feel the force of his tempta
tion! Is is not clear why we should all
plead for the elevation of woman? Her
present position is the practical desecration
of our homes. A handsome house is not a
home. In the days of our early history,
when men and women worked together for
the same end, a barn might become one; now
it seems the impossible thing.
NVhen a woman marries, she ought to
look up to her husband. When a man mar
ries, he ought to look up to his wife. As
she is his joy, he should be her strength.
Both are defrauded when this is not so.
If men are never then thoughts to employ,
Take care to provide them a life fuli of joy;
But if to some profit and use thou wouldst
bend them,
Take care to shear them, and then defend
them.
These lines, written by Goethe, might
serve as the epitaph of the past relations of
the sexes. He has written four others, fit
to inaugurate the new era, towards which
our hopes are tending:
As from the smoke is freed the blaze,
So let man's faith burn bright;
And if we crush his oldtn rcays,
Say, who can crush God's light.
SOMEBODY has given utterance to the
following scrap of philosophy, which, if not
good, is at least cool: "The poor man's
purse may be empty, but he has as much
gold in the sunshine and silver in the moon
I as anybody."
i • A STt'VID correspondent wants to know ;
how this can be the land of the free with i
' it ioo-hnond coi't' ate! uount.Uu chain.-,
VOL. 41: XO. 23.
UP IN THE MOUNTAINS.
Every summer vacation, I ask myself. wkj
people who have no relish for country lift
doom themselves to yawn through six or
eight wee'ia of it? People who never move
from a certain chair on the piazza save to
migrate to their beds, or to the dining-table;
who have neither eyes to see earths glory, or
heart to be greatful for it, or ears npen to its
myriad musical voices—living discords amid
all its harmony. If invalids, I can under
stand and pity their misfortune; but your fat,
well-to-do, buxom men and women, who
have no earthly impediment to their locomo
tion, and yet who live weeks iu the vicinity
of grand natural objects, and are just as dead
to them as the ox in the meadow—why do
they travel thousands or dusty miles to get
to them ? People who look pityingly at you,
as you return exhilarated from your delicious
rambles, as if to Bay, "Poor lunatics!" One
turns from them to the children, to whom
every daisy and blade of grass is a bright
heaven, and counts sadly over their lost
years. Also I would like to ask, is there
anything in the climate of Vermont which
turns out such huge trees, mountains, and
men, that dwarfs nearly all its woman-kind? !
Again: Do preserves and pills, flap-jacks
1 and ipecac, plum cake and castor-oil, jelly
: and jalap have a natural affinity, that they
1 are so often found in each other's company?
irfcCTm* ratue or (he Hurler , ,J,T, /
■" <W.J3SSS JSTAI
In other words: Why do the <&tart,/i<ms J,i
of New England waste their time in concoct
ing the indigestible richness which everybody
is better without, and which renders these
drugs necessary ? Half the time thus spent,
if devoted to the manufacture of that rare
commodity—sweet, wholesome bread—or to
the best way of cooking neat so as to pre
serve its juices, would shut up the drug
shops, prolong their own lives and good
looks, and make them a credit to the glorious
country in which they are born. Give us
good bread, my dear country-woman. What
else soever you pass over, don't slight the
bread. It is the crying sin of the country,
that if there are cakes and pies in plenty, the
bread may be sour, filled with saleratns, or
so stale that a dog would not swallow it, or so
''slack baked" that one might as well eat
dougb. Now the digestion of an ostrich
would fail on such fare as this. A healthy
stomach revolts at it, and refuses to be put
off with the sweets and preserves. It is a
crime to set such bread before little children,
even if adult digestion were equal to it,
which it is not. A great refoim is needed
here, and if I can help it on, I care not who
boxes my ears for the atfempt. To see hu
man beings making and swallowing such
messes, and then sending physic after it, like
a detective, to clear it from the system, is a
proceeding which should give them all a free
pass to the Lunatic Asylum. There—now I
feel better! While I am catechising, do you
suppose there was ever an invalid who didn't
button-hole everybody, to recapitulate his, or
her, symptoms, exhibit their tongues, and
discuss patent medicines? It gets monoto
mous after a while, particularly when you
know that they are bound personally to ex
periment on every pill, powder and piaster
that any heartless quack may invent to make
a living. If half of them were to stop taking
physic entirely, live on wholesome food, take
plenty of fresh air and sleep, they would nev
er know pain or ache. Don't the doctors
know this and laugh in their sleeve 3 at it?
And does a doctor ever give drugs to his oicn
family ? I think I have asked questions
enough for the present, so we will consider
the meeting adjourned. FANNY FERN.
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WOMEN.
The contrast between the manners of
American and English women in the street
is very noticeable; and abroad our manners
are looked upon with no little distrust if not
reprehension. In the first place American
women average as tall as the English, hut
the former are more elastic and slender in
their proportions; their small feet and lim
ber ankles give them an elegance and spring
iness at once graceful and captivating. Their
heads sit more elegantly upon their should
ers, and their girdle is more trim and the
bust less redundant. The full, well-devel
oped American woman is a much handsomer
object at forty than an English woman, but
we have fewer of them; while the majority
of English women are fat and fair at forty.
We have more beautiful women at sixty than
the English, because the latter bloom out
into luxuriant cabbages or sumptuous peo
nies at that age, while their transatlantic
sisters will often retain a lovely complexion,
an elastic step, and be quite sjnritueUe and
attractive at sixty. If grand old women, of
the Hecuba stamp, grave, calm, Sybilline,
such as might do the heart of a Michael An
gelo good, are ever to be found anywhere,
we must look at home for them.
One day, I lemember, I was walking in
the streets of London when 1 saw two young
girls ahead of me—light, airy, pretty girls,
who tossed their heads and minced their feet
wonderously, and quite to the displeasure of
the sober English women, whose staid move
ments would never subject them to observa
tion. Suddenly the girls rushed forward and
threw their arms around the neck of a third,
half smothering her with hugs and kisses.
People stood and looked on indignant;
"Americans!" passed fiuui uiuutti tuuiuutli,
and stout English matrons reddened with
outraged decorum; the police hurried up in
consternation; but the girls had created
their little sensation, and passed on demure
as kittens. Now these were the little
women. Do you suppose that a full-sized
woman would have been guilty of such a
demonstration ? By no means; and to be
sure the size, or whatever it may be that de
mands an external dignity, as a reflex from
within. There is more of comfort, more of
soul full content always in the presence of a
large woman than in that of a little one.—
New York Sun.
THERE can be no greater wickedness than
an indulgence in a talk of a war of races,
and no greater sham than the balderdash
about negro rule. The whites will alwaye
rule in this country, as they have in all
other countries, and a war of races can only
dishonor that race which is so superior in
strength, in its resources, that any such war
must result from its own criminality and
folly.
REV. O. B. FROTHINOUAM says: "If
intemperance is ever removed from society,
it will be by means of the moral force which
affect people in society, not by policemen,
but by principles; not by batons, but by
ideas; not by statutes, but by influence; not
by prohibitory laws, hut by restraining,
regulating sentiments.'
DR. FRANKLIN used to say that rich wid
ows are on'v 'ho pre; "f eoeotrd b*u i goods
that rt-i- J' i <iuie !
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HOW TO SUCCEED.
The fishier of oneTTiur leading banks re
signed some time since and
RX^"5,R.^R IS
tank eahofdioftte
Tb secret of
knowing. Thenewcas . when
outofthecitT. ee " dt make himself
quite young. He resol first
Having the ta,
thest to go he and never^iesitated
RTI™ £?-"• -
done. Others would go oat to
and hotels for their lunch; he broug:
with him and ate it m during
own pleasure he never le
business hours. It any .
to go away he was always ready to take.their
dace. He could at way, he
prompt at any call. His spare time was de
. votes to an intelligent comprehension^ of
business. As paving teller he WMrttj
popular. Ee was never snappish or uugen
tlemanly. Growling, grumbling, unreasona
ble customers could not irritate him. He
overstayed his time to accommodate men
-PA wet? belated .with their check .
TjSiu A C 1 US--
A School Ilouro imihtS..,.'#, •' Ot„ 999 9;
J and Churches within a few
jis a very desirable location. W '"of •,-
cashier, he is tie B I a me 1 '" gK li. h
prompt officer that he was in subordinate life.
Men disappointed in their discounts take a
refusal from the cashier with a better spirit
than they do an accommodation from some
men. He still keeps up his habits of close
attention to business, and takes his frugal
lunch in his closet as he did when struggling
for a position. Those who fail in New York
or are desiring success, had better look at
this incident and copy the example.
DYES AT THEIR SOURCE.
Dyes, like perfumes, are oflen derived
from the most repulsive sources; gas
targives the magenta and mauve so fash
ionable of late; pioric acid from the
same source produces orange and yellow
tones. The beautiful color nltremarine was
formerly made of Lapis Lazuli, and was far
too precious an article to be used by the cali
co printers, but the modern chements, having
discovered the elements of which it is made,
now builds it up artificially. This is one of
the most striking results of csientific knowl
edge, and was probably the first triumph of
synthetical chemistry. The costly pigment,
i that we treasured up, is now made artificially
at Is. per pound! The method of applying
it to cloth i 3 very ingenions. As it is insolu
ble, how was it to be made to adhere to the
material? Chemists answered the question
by mixing it with albumen, which, coagula
ting by beat, fixed it firmly on the fabric to
which it was applied. The waste heaps of
spent madder were formerly a great nuisance,
and were often thrown away, of course into
those great carriers—streams and rivers—
hence the water in the neighborhood of dve
worka was always polluted; it is now found
that at least one-third of this hitherto waste
product! cau be saved by being treated with
a hot acid. Prussian blue is made from
pieces of horsehoof, or refuse woolen ma
terials. by fusion with iron and alkali. A
few yeafs ago the scientific world was
startled by the announcment that means had
been arrived at of extracting the grem coloring
matter (chlorophyll) from grass, leaves etc.
To utilize the bloom of Spring was indeed a
daring idea, and by no means impossible of
accompliseroent; but that excellent intention
has been baffled by the extreme alterability
of the color in question.— Quartely Review
WHAT RAILROADS Do FOR FARMERS.—
The Anwictm Agriculturalist says: To
haul forty bushels of corn fifty miles on a
wagon would cost at least sl2 for team,
driver, and expenses. A railroad would
transport it for $4 at most. Allowing an
average of forty bushels per acre, the crop
would bo worth $8 more per acre, or eight
per cent, on SIOO. As the relative advan
tage is about the same for other crops, it is
clear that a railroad passing through a town
would add sllO per acre to the valuo of the
farms. A town ten miles square contains
64,000 acres. An increase of SIOO per acre
is equal to $6,400,000, or enough to build
two hundred miles of railroad, even if it cost
$22,000 per mile. But two hundred miles
of road would extend through twenty towns
ten miles square, and cost but $lO per acre
if taxed upon the land. These figures are
given merely as an illustration. If the
farmers had taxed themselves to build all
the railroads in this country, and given
them away to any companies that would
stock and run them, the present increased
value of their lands would have well repaid
all the outlay.
MII.ES O'REILLY leads on the loyal branch
of the Democratic party, against the usual
custom of slander and foul-mouthed abuse,
courageously, and we hope to chronicle his
adoption into the Republican Family, with
the loyal Irish wing that fought so gallantly
for the flag that protects them, and will in
due time protect Ireland too. Says he;
"It is worse than foolishness to belittle
the successes of Grant. A nation never
Willingly depreciates itself. Moreover, the
most ignorant mind can see that our forces
had terrible odds beside numbers to con
tend against; and the Northern people have
sufficient self-confidcnce to believe that ten
thousand of their men behind proper works
could not be defeated by one hundred thou
sand of the best men that Lee ever brought
into the field."
IfonssTT.—Modesty adorns virtne. as
basbfulness ornaments beauty; it harmonizes
with a just sense of character, as moderation
harmonizes- with justice. It heightens
dignity of character, as simplicity enhances
greatness.* It adds to merit the same charms
which candor adds to the greatness of heart-.
What is modesty? Is it not sense of excel
lence so deep and true that the observance
of duty appears a natural thing'.' Is it not so
sincere a desire for what is excellent, that
what is wanting is mnch more perceptible*
than what is already obtained? Is it not so
pure a love for what is good, that 'ii forgets
the reward reserved for merit in the approba
tion of others?
EITHER AXD NEITHER.—Rich aid Orant
i Whrite, in his "Words and Uses,"
I the question cf the proper pronncrAe,'.'
Either and Neither . which it yet in dispute
among good authorities. He says; the best
' usage requires the eommon pronunciation
' tether and neither. For the pronunciation
f i-tker and ni ther, with the t long, which is
; sometimes heard, there is not the authority
either of analogy or the beat speakew. It
is an affectation, and, in this country, a copy
. f wpnnd rwte Rri' : h pff-ctatMr,
i i ,f the bestC -y>
{ position in England