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Were some whispered words too cherished? Was the touch of Hps too sweet? Are two souls once linked together Never, never more to meet ? Never here, earth's poor, vain passion Slowly smouldering out must die, But its ashes shall return yon Something purer "by-and-by." Was the priceless love you lavished Sought for. played with, and then slain ? Were its crushed and quiv'ring remnants Calmly thrown you back again ? Calmly, too, the remnants gather, Bring them home without a sigh, Sweet returns they yet shall bring you In aooming "by-and-by." Is your frail boat tossed and battered With its sails ail torn and wet, Crossing o'er a waste of waters Over which your sun is set? To the shore all calm and sunlit, To the smooth sand warm and dry, Faith shall bear your shattered vessel Safely, surely, "by-and-by." Are the eyelids very weary, Does the tired head long for rest, Are the temples hot and throbbing, And the hands together pressed ? Hope shall lay you on her bosom, Cool the poor lips parched and dry, And shall whisper, "Rest is coming, Rest forever, 'by-and-by." And when calmed and cheered and freshened By her soul-inspiring voice, Then look up, the heavens are bright'ning. Cease your wailing and rejoice ; Cry not out for days departed, None will hear you, none reply ; But look on where light is breaking O'er a brighter "by-and by." pi.sniUncous. EFFECT OF LABOR-SAVING MA CHINERY UPON WAGES. In a former article, we discussed the effect upon the relation existing between capital and labor, produced by the increasing use of labor saving machinery. Our present purpose is to show that the substitution of machinery for manual labor has greatly in creased the rewards, or wages of labor. In our former article we endeavored to show, that in their effect upon the aggregate amount of labor required to supply the gen eral demand, improvements calculated to decrease the particular amount of labor nec essary to produce a single article of neces sity or luxury, were rather, on account of the demand for greater quantities of such articles caused by the reduced cost of their nrndtietinn to ho cMcsl.labor creating ma-' The history of all improvements shows that the introduction of machine- • ted to facilitate and cneapen production, has increased the demand for labor. This increased demand could, notwithstanding the increase of population, never have been met, if some of the improvements referred to had not been so great as to almost entire ly remove the necessity for manual labor in certain occupations, and thus transfer the laborers from those fields to others where their services were needed. Another way in which the increased demand for labor has been met, has been by the creation of en tire new classes of laborers. The employ ment of children and females to operate the machines which have created certain branch es of labor, has been the only way in which such machinery could have been profitably introduced and worked. Should these and other classes of laborers, that labor saving machinery has created, be withdrawn from the general stock, the effect upon industrial interests of the world would be crushing. The increased demand for labor has rais ed its price in the market. The law of sup ply and. demand applies to this as to every ! thing else; but if the effect of mechanical improvement is to increase demand, wages must increase also with every advance in the arts. We believe that in the future the march of improvement will be no lesss rap id than in the past, and consequently, from this cause alone we argue contined increase of wages. But there is another law of increase that is just as potent as the law demand and sup ply, and which should not be overlooked in forming correct opinions upon this subject. Wages, or rewards for labor, should not he I estimated by current value in dollars and cents. Operatives never fail to see this point clearly when prices of provisions, clothing, and rents rule high, that is, they never fail to perceive it in its particular ap plication to their own circumstances. When one dollar buys only two pounds of butter where it formerly purchased four, and when other articles have advanced in proportion, | they at once realize that two dollars per day | is no better than one was when prices were only half as high. But they fail, generally, to see the more general advance of wages estimated by the amount of the comforts of life that can be obtained for a given sum, that has been going on steadily in accord ance with the constantly decreasing cost of manufacture. We have shown that with each new invention which enables a given | amount of labor to increase its rate of pro duction, a corresponding decrease of price ! takes place. This decrease of price has lieen so great within the last fifty years, that ' ordinary mechanics arc now enabled to live in style that formerly was possible only to the moderately wealthy. Fifty years since, a mechanic wore the coarsest fabric, and ate the plainest food, because he was obliged to do so. His house was destituto of carpets; its furniture was such as he now would be ashamed to exhibit to his friends. A piano would have been beyond the most extrava gant hopes of his ambitious daughters. Books were few and costly; newspapers were so rare that when one was obtained the whole neighborhood congregated to hear it read. Facilities for travel were few and ex pensive Family portraits entirely out of the question. Tho most limited education was all that he could hope to give his child ren; and the long hours of his daily toil were uncheered bv the ameliorations whieh arc now considered essential in every well ordered workshop. All these things are now within the reach of the mass of me chanics, and it is not too much to gay, that if the things which were formerly consider luxuries, but which ate now from long habit BEDFORD, PA.i FRIDAY, JUDY 21, 1868. considered necessary, were and mechanics should limit their expenditures to the supply of such articles as would have contented a mechanic's family hall a centu ry ago, their savings would be more than treble what artizans could have made at that period. In view of these facts, wc believe 1 rades Unions, as permanent organizations, are, to say the least, unnecessary, and we believe them to be hurtful to the best, interests of operatives, in all branches of mauufucture. We believe it must soon appear that the tendencies of such organizations are inju rious to the best interests of the working classes. — Scientific A meriea n. THE STRANGE BLOTCH ON CAL HOUN'S HAND. Notwithstanding the long period (some thirty years) which has elapsed since the following narrative was given to the world, it has still a fresh interest, and all the more striking in view of events which have come upon the American nation iu these later years. The "unobserved spectator,' whose pen made record of the sceue here describ ed, was a veritable eye-witness of the same: The other morning, at the breakfast table when I, an unobserved spectator, happened to be present, Calhoun was observed to gaze frequently at his right hand, and brush it with his left in a hurried and nervous man ner. He did this so often that it excited at tention. At length one of the persons com prising the breakfast party —his name, I think, is Toombs, and he is a member of Congress from Georgia, took upon himself to ask the cause of Mr. Calhoun's disqui etude. "Does your hand pain you? 'Io this Mr. Calhoun replied, in rather a hur ried manner. "Pshaw lit is nothing hut a dream I had last night, which makes me see perpetually a large black spot, like an ink blotch, upon the back of my right hand; an optical illusion, I suppose." Uf course, these words excited the curiosity of the company, but no one ventured to beg the details of this singular dream, until Toombs asked quietly, What was your dream like? lam not very superstitious about dreams, but sometimes they have a great deal of truth in them." "But this was such a peculiarly absurd dream," said Mr. Cal houn, again brushing the back of hi? hand; "however it it does not intrude too much on the time of our friends I will relate it to you." Uf course, the company were pro fuse in their expressionsof anxiety to know all about the dream, and Mr. C'alhouu rela ted it. "At a late hour last night, as I was sitting in my room, engaged in writing, I was astonshed by the entrance of a visitor, who without a word, took a scat opposite me, at my table. This surprised me, as I had given particular orders to the seivant that I should, on no account, be disturbed. The manner in which the intruder entered, : so perfectly self-possessed, taking his seat opposite me without a word, as though my room and all within it belonged to him, ex cited in me as much surprise as indignation. * T raised my head to look into his fea tures, over the top of my shaded lamp F w?fißU\sfylv,tFw.ixauoiiy concealed his face from my view; and as I raised my eyes he spoke: "What are you writing, Senator from South Carolina?" I did not thit.k of his impertinence at first, but answered liim voluntarily, "I am writing a plan for the dissolution of the Amorican Union." (You know, gentlemen, that lam expected to produce a plan of dissolution in the event of certain contingencies.) To this the intru der replied, in the coolest manner possible, "Senator from South Curolina, will you al low me to look at your hand, your right hand?" He rose, the cloak fell, aDd I be held his face. Gentlemen, the sight of that face struck me like a thunder clap. It was the face of a dead man, whom extraordinary events had called back to life. The features were those of General George Washington. He was dressed in the Revolutionary cos tume, such as you see in the Patent Uffioe." Here Mr. Calhoun paused, apparently agi tated. His agitation, I need not tell you, was shared by the company. Toombs at length broke the embarrassing pause. "Well, what was the issue of this scene?" Mr. Calhoun resumed: "The intruder, as I have said, rose and asked to look at my right hand; as though I had not power to refuse, I extended it. The truth is, 1 felt a strange thrill prevade me at his touch; he j grasped it, and held it near the light, thus ; affording full time to examineevery feature. !It teas the face of Washington! After hol -1 ding my hand for a moment, he looked at ' me steadily, and said in a quiet way, "And i with this right hand, Senator from South Carolina, you would sign your name to a paper declaring the Union dissolved?" * I answered in the affirmative. "Yes," I said; "If a certain contingency arises I will sign my name to the Declaration of Dissolution." But at that moment a black blotch appear ed on the back of my hand, which I seem to see now. "What is thai?" said I, alarm ed, I know not why, at the blotch on my hand. "That," said he. dropping my hand "is the mark by which Benedict Arnold is known in the other world." lie said no more,' gentlemen but drew from beneath his cloak an object, which he laid on the t able— laid upon the very paper on which I was writing. This object, gentlemen, was a skeleton.—"There," said he; "there are the bones of Isaac Hayne before you; he was a South Carolinian, and so are you; but there was no blotch on his right hand." With these words the intruder left the room. I started back fropi tho contact with the dead man's bones —and awoke. Overcome by labor, I had fallen asleep, and had been dreaming. Was it not a singular dream? All the company answered iu the affirma tive, and Toombs muttered, "Singular; vory singular," and at the same time looked curiously at the back of his right hand, while Mr. Calhoun placed his head between | his hands and seemed buried in thought. THE Phiiidelphia "Bulletin" whiclf is printed upon paper made of wood. States that in the boat race upon the Schuylkill, some of the skiffs used were built of paper. Fifty years ago the man who would have ventured to foretell the use of paper row boats and newspapers made of wood would have been deemed a fit subject for an insane asylum. IT is not until the flower has fallen of! that the fruit begins to ripen. So in life it is when the romance is past that the practi cal usefulness begins. BEAITY nipped iu the waist is like a rose nipped in the bud. It is the shortest lived and falls off the quickest. A TOUCHING SCENE. I was conversing not long since with arc- j turned volunteer. "1 was in a hospital as cursd for a long time," said he, had assisted in taking off limbs and dressing all sorts of wounds, but the hardest thing I every did was to take toy thumb off a man's leg." ''Ah!" said I, "howwas that ?" ' Then he told me : It was a young man who had a severe wound in the thigh. The hall had passed completely through, and amputation was necessary. The limb was cut off close up to the body, the arteries taken up and he seem t of humanity and my country —be- lieving there is a necessity which rises far above conventional platforms and party de mands, r> quiring every patriotic citizen to do his duty—l shall cast.my vote, Democrat though I have always been for the in corruptible patriot, the best judge of char acter, and tho best thinker I know in the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and go thou and do likewise, counting it a great privilege. "I would rathc-r have Grant, if he's silent and still. Then an empty dcclaimcr of words ; I would rather have Grant with his good hon est will, Than one from noisy political herds. "His deeds are all written in the face of the world, And he who desires can read them afar; He stands forth to-day with his banner un furled In the light of his acts—Our National Siax." PARENTAL FAULT-FINDING, BY J. 3. C. ABBOTT. Do not be continually finding fault. —It is at times necessary to censure and to r.noirX 0 .-g'U.nur.a nutu vucj tIU rfcll. -De ever more careful to express your approba tion of good conduct than disapprobation of bad. Nothing can more discourage a child than a spirit of incessant fault-findino on the part of its parents. Acd hardly any thing can exert a more injurious influence upon the disposition both of the parent and the child. There one two great motives influencing human action, hope and fear. B at who would not prefer to have heV child influenced to good conduct by the desire of pleasing, rather than by the fear of offend ing? If a mother never express her grati fieation when her children do well, and is always censuring when she sees any thing amiss, they are discouraged and unhappy. They feel there is no use in trying to please. The disposition becomes hardened and soured by this ceaseless fretting. At last, trading that, whether they do well or ill, they are equally found fault with they relinquish all effort to please, and become heedless of reproaches. But let a mother approve of a child's con duct whenever she can. Let her show that his behavior makes her sincerely happy. Let her reward him for his efforts to please, by smiles and affection. In this way she will ehcri.-.h in her child's heart, some of the noblest and most disirable feelings of our nature. She will cultivate in him an amiable disposition under a cheerful spirit. Your child has boon during the day very pleasant and obedient. Just before putting him asleep for the night, you take his hand and say, "My son, you have been a very good boy to-day. It makes me very haypy to -ee you so kind and obedient. God loves little children who are dutiful to their par ents, and he promises to make them hap py." This approbation from his mother is to him a great reward. And when with more than ordinary affectionate tone, you say, "Good night, mv dear son," he leaves the room with his heart full of feeling. And when he closes his eyes for sloop, he is hap py, and resolves that ho will always try to do his duty.— Mother's Assistant. WHAT BREAKS DOWN YOUNG MEN.— It is a commonly-received notion that hard study is the unhealthy element of college life. But from tables of the mortality Harvard University, collected by Professor Pierce from the last triennial catalogue, it is clearly demonstrated that the excess of deaths for the first ten years after gradua tion is found in that portion of each class inferior in scholarship. Every one who has been through the curriculum knows that where iEsehylus and political economy in jures one, late hours and rum punches use up a dozen; and that two little fingers of Morpheus are heavier than the loins of Eu clid. Dissipation is a swift and sure des troyer, and eveiy young man who follows it is as the early flower, exposed to untimely frost. Those who have been inveigled in the path of vice arc named 'Legion," for they are many—enough to convince every novitiate that he has no security that he shall escape a similar fate. A few hours of deep each night, high living, and plenty of "smashers," make war upon every function of the human body. The brains, the heart, the lungs, the liver, the spine, the limbs, the bones, the flesh —every part and faculty —are over-tasked, worn and weakened by the terrific energy of passion and appetite loosed from rcstraiut, until, a dilapidated mansion, the '"earthly houae of the taberna ele'' falls into a ruinous decay. Fast young man, right about! — Kr change. I DON'T CARE is a voracious bloodsucker on the happiness of thousands. VOIs. II: NO. 21. STF-KLING ADVICE. A lady makes some sensible suggestions in a London journal on the subject of Mar riage or Celibacy, a few of which we annex and say that there is a great deal of truth in them: "When a girl marries, she ought, to a certain extent, to give up her acquaintances, and oonsidcr the company of her husband the best company she can have. The young wife must learn cooking carefully, if she docs not already have a good knowledge of it. There are many excellent cookery books, but she must not follow them implicitly. "My own plan of some time after I was married, was to take some dish and prepare it once according to the receipt given, and note carefully what ingredients could be dispensed with. The second time I gener ally managed it at half the expense. A useful plan is to keep a blank book iu the kitchen table drawer, and whenever a devia tion from the orthodox cookery book is made to jot it down. Do not wait till you have washed your hands; let the book be finger marked rather than lose an idea. "You will thus learn more of household economy than if you trust to memory alone, and when you daughters grow up, what a fund of practical information it will be ior them. To a great extent the celibacy of our young men is owing to the way in which girls are brought up. Through mistaken kindness mothers often do them selves what they ought to make their daughters do. Let them teach them house keeping, on a fine methodical plan, and they will then learn their history, French, and mnsic all the better. "It is natural and right that a mother should wish to see her daughters well ed ucated, and even highly accomplished, and it is a mistake that good and careful educa tion would unfit a girl for the homely duties of cooking, dusting &c. On the contrary, those duties would be better performed, and if mothers would, at the same time that they -oek talented instructors for their daughters, impart to them some of their own culinary talent, there would be more good wives and more marriages. "Little girls should be taught, as early possible, to perform simple household duties neatly, and as they grow older let them be come gradually acquainted with the theory of housekeeping in such a manner that when they are married they will be able to adapt themselves to their circumstances, and be useful as well as pleasing companions to their husbunds." lIOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS. The wide-awake, hard-working men are the most successful business men of our large cities. Neither wealth nor honorable positions can be picked up in the streets like lost money. They must be obtained by steady, uncompromising labor. The New i York correspondent of the Boston Journal shows how a young man of that city worked and persevered until bo became easbier of the bank where he was first employed as an j.iitf iXisuier ui uue 01 our leading oanxs resigned some time since, and the paying teller was immediately elected to fill his place. He was quite a young man, and was promoted over the heads of those who Lad been in the bank many years in subordinate positions. The secret of the promotion is well worth knowing: He entered the bank when quite young. He resolved to make himself useful. Liv. ing farthest away—some miles out of the city—he was the first at his post in the morning. Having the farthest to go, he was the last to leave. He never was afraid to work, and never hesitated to lend a hand when his own duties were done. Others would go out to restaurants and hotels for their lunch. He brought his with him and ate it in a little closet. For his own pleasure he never left the bank during business hours. If any of the clerks wanted to go away he was always ready to take their place. He could always be found and was prompt at any call. His spare time was devoted to an intelligent study of his business. As paying teller he was very popular. He was never snap pish or ungentlemanly. Growling, grum bling, unreasonable customers could not irritate him. He overstayed his time to ac commodate men who were belated with their checks. As cashier, he is the same genial, agreea ble, prompt officer that he was in subordi nate life. Men disappointed in their dis counts take a refasal from the cashier with abetter spirit than they do an accommoda tion 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 life, or are desiring success, had bet ter look at this incident and copy the exam ple. COOL. —As General Scott's army was marching triumphantly into the City of Mexico, a procession of monks emerged from the gate of a convent situated on the emi nence at the right, and advanced with slow and measured tread until they met the army at right angles. The guide or leader of the procession was a* venerable priest, whose hair was whitened with the frost of many winters. He held in both hands a con tribution box, upon which there was a lighted candle ; and when within a few feet of the procession halted. As the army pro ceeded, many a true believer dropped some small coin or other into the good priest's box. Uultimately there came along a tall, gaunt, limber-sided, gander-legged \ ankce, who, on seeing the poor priest, thrust his hands into his breeches pockets, as if in search for a dime or something of the kind. The priest observed this movement, ad vanced as usual, while Jonathan, holding forth a greasy roll of paper, commenced very deliberately to unfold it. The holy man anticipated a liberal donation, and put on an air of the most exquisite satisfaction. Jonathan continued to unroll piece after piece of twisted smoking tobacco. He next thrust his hand into another pocket, and drew forth a clay pipe, which, with the utmost deliberation, he proceeded to fill by pinching off small partioles of the tobacco. When this was done, having replaced his tobacco in his breeches pocket, he stooped forward and lighted his pipe by the ex pectant priest's candle, and making an awful inclination of the head (intended, perhaps, for a bow), he said, "Much obleeged to ye, squire," and tramped on. TRUTH is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it. RATES OF ADVERTISING. All idvertispoient# for lew than 3 months 10 cents j>tr line for each insertion. Special notices one-half additional. Ali resolution*; ofAseocia tion, communications of a limited or individal interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex ceeding five linen, 10 eta. per line. All legal noti ces ol 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 1 ine. All Advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 monts. 6 months, 1 year One Square $ <• $ 6.09 SIO.OO Twe squares 6.00 V.OO 16.00 Three squares - - 8-00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column - 14-00 20.00 35.00 Half column 18.00 25.00 45.00 One column.... 30.00 45.00 80.00 A BEAITIFUI. EXTRACT. It was night. Jerusalem slept as quietly amid her hills as a child upon the breast of its mother. The noiseless sentiuel stood like a statue at his post, awl the pliiloso pher's lamp burned dimly in the recesses of his chamber. Rut a moral darkness invol ved the nations in its enlightened shadows. Reason shed a faint glimmering over the minds of men; like the cold and insufficient shining of a distant star. The immortality of man's spiritual nature was unknown, his relations unto heaven undiscovered, and his future obscured in a cloud of mystery. It was at this period that two forms of ethereal mold hovered about the land of God's cho sen people. They came like sister angels, sent to earth on some embassy of love. The one of majestic statute and well formed limb, l which her snowy drajxjrv hardly concealed 1 in her erect hearing and steady eye, exhibi j !ed the highest degree of strength and coufi ; deuce. Her right arm was extended in an impressive gesture upward where night ap peared to have placed her darkest pavillion, while on her left reclined her delicate com- panion, in form and countenance the con trast of the other. She was drooping like a flower moistened by refreshing dews, and her bright but troubled eyes scanned them with ardent hut varying glances. Suddenly a light like the sun flashed out from the heav ens and Faith and Hope hailed with exci ting songs the ascending star of Bethlehem. Years rolled away, and the Stranger was seen at Jerusalem. He was a meek, unas suming man, whose happiness seemed to consist in acts of benevolence to the human race. There were deep traces of sorrow on his countenance, though no one knew why He grieved for he lived in the practice of every virtue, and was loved by all the good and wise. By and by it was rumored that the Stran ger worked miracles, that the blind saw, that the dumb spake, the dead arose, the ocean moderated its ehafing tide; the very thunder artieulatcd. He is the Son of God. Envy assailed him to death. Thickly guarded they slowly ascended the Hill of Calvary. A heavy cross bent Him to the earth, i But Faith leaned on his arm, and Hope dipping her pinions in His blood, mounted to the skies. SOCIAL INTKRCOCR.SE. — Without friends what is man? A solitary oak upon a sterile rock, symmetrical indeed in its form, beau tiful and exquisitely finished, out-rivaling the most lauded pel faction of art in grace fulness and grandeur, but over which decay Las shaken her black wing, and left its leaves blighted; its limbs contract as they die; its roots, rottenness, and its bloom death; a scathed, lifeless monument of its pristine beauty. When the rebuffs of ad versity are rushing us earthward, when the clouds are black above, and the muttering thunder growis along the sky, when our frame is palsied by the skeleton hand of dis ease, or our senses whirled in tie are torn by the separation of some beloved object, while our tears are yet flowing upon the fresh turf of departed innocence—in that time it is the office of friendship to shield us from the portentous storm, to quick en the fainting pulses of our sickly frame, to bring back the wandering star of mind within the attraction of sympathetic kind ness, pourthe '"oil and balm" of peace into the yet festering wound, and deliver the achiagheart from the object of its bleeding affection. FORCIVESESS OF INJUKIES. It is well known that the Koran of Ma homet contains maDy passages copied from the sacred writings. Among others, the Arabian prophet has give a place to those precepts of our adorable Redeemer, which recommend forgiveness of injuries, and over coming evil with good. One day the Ca liph Hassan, son of Hali, being at dinner, a slave unfortunateiy let tall a dish of meat reeking hot, which scalded him severely. The slave fell on his knees, exclaiming, in the language of the Koran, "Paradise is for those who restrain their anger." "I am not angry with thee," replied the Caliph. "And for those who forgive offences against them," continued the slave. "Iforgive thcc thine," responded the Caliph. "But above all for those who return good for evil," add ed the slave. "I set theo at libeity," re joined the Caliph, "and I give thee ten dinars. V\ ill not this Mahometan rise up in judgment, and condemn many who call themselves the followers of the merciful Jesus, but live under the power of a merci less and unforgiving temper? WOMAN'S WORD BOOK. Eden —A garden where bonnets were un known and scandal uninventcd. Woman soon gave notice to quiet. Engaged—Occupied for a time in making a fool of a man, Enough—obsolete. Eve—The only woman who never threat ened to go and live with her mother. Face—A -ketch given us by Nature to be filled up in colors. ban —An article without which no lady's dress is complete or decent. Facination —the art of nailing an admirer to his seat. Fart of the old Serpent's legacy. Fashion —The modern Juggernaut, al ways asking for new victims. Feather—The only thing she wants to be, the lightest of creatures. Female — AB much an insult to a woman as 'black man' is. to a nigger Fiction —Tales of constancy. Flattery—A refreshment she can never have too much of. Future—Past thinking about for the present. A HOME THRUST FROJI FLAVEL.—"TWO things a master commits to his servant's care,' saith one "the child and the child's clothes." It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say at his master's return, "Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost!" Much so with the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies, at the great day. "Lord, here is my body, lam very grateful for it. I neglected nothing that belonged to its content and welfare; but for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it." 1 Jx a uiatTbogioT*to save ten cents a day when he is twenty-one years oU aod wrntin ues to do so until he is seventy, he will then be worth $10,956,37. How oou, realize a handsome competency for old afi j by a little frugality.