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The courts have decided that refusing to taka newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is priaa facia evidence of intentional fraud. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. J OHM T. KEAGY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. ISFC, Office opposite Reed A -Schell'S Bank. Couaeel given in English and German. [apl26] AND LIXUEXFELTKR, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1864-tf yj A. POINTS, ATTORNEY' AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional service* ] to the publie. Office with J. W. Lingeafelter, Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. £#- Collections promptly made. [Dee.9,'64-tf. ! J £ AYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all bust- • ness intrusted to hi* eare. Office w : .thG. 11. Spang, Esq., on Juliana street, three doors south of the Mengel House. May 24;1y ESPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his rare in Bedford and adjuin- A counties. Military claims, Pensions, back , ay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1864.—tf. . F. MEYERS 1. W. DICXERSOS MBYERS A DICKERSON, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, BEDFORD, PTIOR'A-, Office nearly opposite the Mengel House, will practioe in the several Courts of Bedford county. Pension*, bounties and back pay obtained and the purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 11,'56-ly J JR. DURBORROW, el . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. He is, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and will give special attention to the prosecution of claims against the Government for Pensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Offici on Juliana street, one door South of the inquirer office, and nearly opposite the Mengel House" April 25, 1865:t p B. STITKEY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, and REAL ESTATE AGENT, Office on Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth, . Opposite the Court House, KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI. Will practice in the adjoining Counties of Mis souri and Kansas. July 12:tf S. t. EVSSELL. ~..J. a. tOSSSSCCEIS RUSSELL A LONOENECKF.R, ATTORNEYS A CorssELLoas AT LAW, i Bedford, Pa, Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty. Pension*. Ac. JEST" Office on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Aprils:lyr. J• M'D. SBARPI R. R. EERR SHARPE A KERB, .4 TTORSE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Psy, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, OPPOSITE the banking house of Reed A Schell, Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf PHYSICIANS. YITM. W. JAMISON, M. D., BLOODY RT s, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. (deB:lyr B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citisens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. HoEus. [ApT 1.64. DR. S. G. STATLER, near Schellsburg, and Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland county, having associated themselves in the prac tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their profes sional services to the citiiens of Schellsburg and vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residence same as formerly occupied by J. White. Esq., dee'd. S. G. STATLER, PebeUiburg, Apri)l2:ly. J. J. CLARKE. MISCELLANEOUS. OE. SHANNON, BANKER. • BEDFORD, PA. BANK OP DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. 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Order* by mail promptly filled. AU letters should be eddressed to JOHN LI TE. 3 itoral anti (flrnrral jlrtospaprr, Drbotrb to politics, (OtJuration, iiitrraturc anti jit orals ffiftrg. A CAMPAIGN SONG. ADA ITU I> TROW SCOTT. Arouse ! arouse; the standard flies, The bugle sounds the call; The loyal flag floats in the breere, The name of Grant swells through the trees, Swells from the lips of all. From high Katahdin's peaks we come, A band of brothers true; From Colorado's hill* and vale*. From California's golden dales, The gallant boys in blue. Though Seymour's minion* cry for war, We know their ways of old, They slept when Southern rebels fought, They held the sword, but used it not. Their birthright's would have sold. Oh ! had they marked the warning call ! Their father's spirit* gave, '■ Foal treason ne'er their ranks had mown Nor honest patriots, desperate grown, Dug their dishonored grave. Shall we, too, bow the stubborn head, In Freedom's temple born, Tremble with knee and shoulder bent, Before a dastard President, i Or brooke a Seymour's seourn ? No! once again throughout the land We'll shout the watchword out; Our rotes shall prove again to-day That Freedom and Honor still held away, Still can foul Treason rout. ' Arouse! arouse! for General Grant And Colfax let us shoot! We'll save our nation's honor^yet, i Repudiate no cent of debt And fling our baa ner out. goHtiffll. FIGURES FOR EVERY CITIZEN. tost of the Rebellion—Entire Receipts and Expenditures for Seven Years— The Public Debt—F'ederal Taxation. We have applied to official sources for exact information on certain points of con siderable interest to the tax paving people and the results of our enquiries are cm liodied in the statements annexed. Every fact cited and figure repeated in this article are taken from the Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, submitted to , Congress for the fiscal years ending respec tively ami seriatim from June 30, 1860 to June 30, 1867, with the data for the year ending in Jane last (to be reported by the Secretary to Congress in December next) | which are from the recent official statement I of Commissioner WELLS, the authenticity of which no man can question, and for the current year, ending June 30,1869, from the ' estimates of the various departments, as re v iscd, cut down and appropriated for at the : last session. These appropriations, be it remembered, limit all drafts upon the Treasury, and not a dollar can be lawfully expended beyond the authority thus given by the representatives of the people, and the amounts thus authorized are therefore assumed, under the uniform practice of the | Government from its earliest days, as mak ing the extent of probable expenditures. We propose to show I The money cost of the late rebellion, in cluding therein the expenses of the War and Navy Departments, interest paid on the public debt, the cost of Reconstruction and : of the Freedmen's Bureau, up to the period when ali these expenses, except for interest on the debt, shall have ceased, j LI. The aggregate receipts and expendi tures of the Government for the eight years ending June 30, '6l to June 30, '6B, inclu sive. 111. Where the money came from, which we have thus expended. IV. How this money has been expended. V. A statement of the Public Debt at va rious periods from July 1, '6O, to August ! 1, '6B. VI The present condition of our system of Federal taxation. We invite to these statements the fullest consideration of every reader who is a tax payer, and challenge the most critical exam ination of the figures submitted, in reference to the official reports of sworn officers of the Federal Government. The wildest and most absurd misrepresentations of the rea' state of facts have been indulged in by Dem ocratic presses and public speakers, the greater part of whom err through simple ignorance, their incompetency to under stand the details of financial questions, or their willful and reckless disregard of the truth. The country is already vocal with these persons, many of them candidates for office, for Congress and the State Legisla tures, who either knowingly and purposely state what they know to be nntrue, or who exhibit a degree of ignorance aod incapacity not only disqualifying them for the positions they have the assurance and vanity to ask for, but establishing their entire unfitness to be trusted as political teachers, or to be respected as men of ordinary veracity and common sense. 1. THE COST OF THE REBELLION. Expenses of ike War Department, Years Ending June 30th. 1862.....$ .>94,368,407 36 1666 $ 281,449,701 82 1863. 699,298,600 83 1867 95,224,415 63 1864...- 690,791,842 97 1868 123,246.648 62 : 1865 1.031,323,360 79 Total, $3,218,702,928 02 Expenses for the year ending June 30th, 1861. were estimated at #20,000,000; for the year ending JuneSOth, 1869, there were es j tiniatcd and appropriated for, #33,081,118. A sma'l part of this latter sum is estimated for war claims remaining unpaid, but we will accept il as represenling the proper ex penses of that Department when peace shall be fully restored, all the war debt liquidated ; into another form, and the military service of the Bepnblic brought back to its normal condition, commensurate with the material growth of the people. The Depaitment cost, for the year ending June 30th, 1860, #16,409,767 10. It is fair to assume that its proper expenses, bad no rebellion or civil disturbance required their expansion, wonld have averaged, for the seven years from July Ist, 1861 to July Ist, 1868, not over #3U,000,000 per annum. Dednct therefore : $210,000,0DD from the above aggregate and it leaves the proper expenses of the Rebel lion in that Department at $3,008,702,- 1 j 928 02. Ex) tenses of the Nary Department —tame yeart. IS6I-'6J $ 42,674,569 9 1862-'63 63,211,105 27 j 1863-"64 85,733,292 77 1864-'65 122,567,776 12 I 1865- 66 43,324,118 52 i l-'67 31,034,011 04 i 1867 '6B 25,775,502 73 T0ta1.... $411,320.376 IS 1 The Navy cost $11,513,150 19 in the year BEDFORD, PAm FRIDAY. AUGUST 28, 1868. ! ending June 30th, 1860, and was estimated at $12,000,000 for the year coding June JOlb, 1861. but probably cost more, as that included three months of the rebellion. The estimates aud appropriations lor the current year ending next June are #17,3*10,- ! UJO. We take therefore an average of #ls - 000,000 for the proper expenses independ ent of the war, and, deducting for tho flev en years, $105,000,<300, have a balance of $308,340,376 13 to carry up against the reb el Demoeracj. Merest Paid oh the Public Debt. ISO I-'2 $ 13,190,326 45 162-'3 24.729,846 61 1863-*4 53,695,421 6* 1-64/5 77,397,712 0# 1565-'6 153.067,741 • 1866-7 144,7.81,591 01 1867-'8 141,635,551 00 Total : ...$587,488,18# 35 \ This item is as properly chargeable in the account, as if it had been money direct- j ly spent for powder and ball. The e-timhto of interest to be paid daring the current' year is much reduced, being only sl26,oui'.- : 000. Mark that' The Freedman's Bureau. The accounts in the Treasury Departmtnt show that the total expense of this Bureiu, since its organization, have teen but $!,- j 617,000, no small part of which has bem j expended to provide food for starving Southern Democrats. Expenses of Reconttrvethjii. The Treasury accounts show that the x- j penditures contingent upon tbeßecon.-trac tion acts of Congress have been $2,341,-1 700,56, total to June 30th, last. This does j not include the proper military expenses for ! the armed forces, retained in the South ern States to regulate and restrain the rebel allies of our Copperhead Democracy from cutting the throats of their Union neigh bors, and renewing the fight for the "Lost Cause." These expenses are already inclu ded in those given for the War Department proper. And, as all the expenditures for Reconstruction and tbe Freedmen are so in- ' eluded, we do not now charge them up! again in the total account. We sum up as follows: Total Expenses of the R- hellion. War Department $3,008,702,928 02 Navy Department 308,340,376 13 ] Interest paid on debt 587,438.199 35 Total $3,904,531,493 50 ; —and tbe $126,000,000 of interest to be paid this year on the debt will more than swell, at the end of the current fiscal year, the money cost of the great Democratic re bellion to the terrible total of four thousand millions of dollars! now soon can we af ford to have another, snch as they threat- 1 en us with? 11. AGGREGATE RECEIPTS AND EXPESDI- j TURKS FOR TI4F, EIGHT YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 1868. The Receipts for each year, from ail ■ sources, were as follows : 1860 *6l $ 86.835,000 27 j 1861-'62 583,885,247 06 1862-'63 111,399,766 4S ! 1863- 64 265,961,761 65 1864-'65 1,898.552.533 04 1865-'66 1966 "67 490,634,010 ST 1567-'6B 406,3(10,000 00 Total receipts for eight year#, $5,1 17. jQ9, J"". 07 The Expenditures for the same period have been: IS6O-'6l f 84,57.8.8.34 47 1861-'62 570.-41.700 25 l-02-'63.„ 714.709.095 59 1863-'eu 865.2.34,0-7 86 1-61/65 1,397,674.224 60 1865 '66 1,141,072.666 09 1866-'6 346,729,129 33 1867-'6 406,300,000 (10 Total expenditures for 8 years, $6,027,140,000 00 This apparent discrepancy of about #y,- <300,000, between receipts and espen.-cs, may be briefly explained. The figures for each year above include the balance.- which are carried over, and which ought to be de ducted from the actual summary of the year's transactions. For example, in all the years named, except '64. these balances varied from $2,000,0<<0 to $144.- 4)00,000, making in all about $325,000,000, while in the two excepted years the deficit on the other side was about $ 1,203,000,000. The balance represents substantially tbe dis crepancy above shown. It is evident, of course, that this balance or apparent deficit is fully accounted for in the public debt, in ;to which it has been carried. It is also to • be observed that large amounts on each side : of the account, and tor each year since 18C1, represent merely changes in the form of the | debt, the shifting of certificates into seven thirties, legal-tender notes, or bonds of the varipus authorized issues, and to that ex tent are independent of the actual receipts and expenses of the year, although includ |cd in the annual financial statement. Mak ing these deductions, the aggregate of mon ies actually received and spent would ap pear considerably less than above stated. 111. THE SOURCES WHICH YIELDED THE FUNDS. During the eight years ending June 3th, !868, the receipts from all sources, except | loans, amounted to #2,340.848,605,35. For ] ooeyear, 1863, this includes receipts from all sounds whatever. These receipts were de rived from customs, direct taxes, interna! i revenue, lands, captured and abandoned i property and miscellaneous items generally, j The customs, taxes and internal revenue were the channels through which the money j of the people was received by the tax gatb ; ercr. Deduct the amount thus realized from the total of receipts, and the balance, | ~ 76,660,830,62, was every dollar of it raised by loans of various descriptions bas ed upon tbe National credit, and making up our present National debt. IV. IIOW THE MONEY HAS REEN EXPENDED. We have above Bhown what it has cost the country to put down tbe Rebellion. Let us look at the other expenses incurred dur ing this period. The following table shows the ordinary expenses, excluding those for the War and Navy Departments and on ac count of the Debt. It comprehends all other expenses of the country, incident to its necessities in war or peace. These are grouped by the Secretary under tbe heads of the Civil .Service, Pensions and tbe Indi ans. The figures are: ; 1960 'l_ * 32,000,000 00 • 1862-'2 24,511 476 66 I 1562-'3 27.470,442 97 : 1863-'4 - ~.. 35,05.3,530 43 : 1864-'5 59,024,133 50 ! 1965-'? 50,909,-37- 45 1866-7 76,689.110 75 ; 1867 -*8 63,741,966 05 Total of ordinary expense* $378,400,039 61 * Estimated. The estimates and appropriations for the current year show a still further reduction to $40,000,0tX), which is very nearly down to the mark of our expenditure in tbe last year of Mr. Buchanan's administration. Large amounts have been applied to the re duction of tbe public debt. The last Trea *ory -report states "the actual reduction ! from September I, '65 to October 31, *67," at $2G6.15,12],43. From (Jetobcr 31, '65, \ to August 1, '6B, it is officially reported as | reduced in the sum of $285,014,956,88. i vrilbout throwing out tho $32,210,000 of* Railway bonds.. Let us add to these items | the cost of the war, as above gmu, togeth er with the suras which we deducted from the expenditures in the War and Navy De partments, as allowance for their average ; annual cost under the ordinary conditions of peace : Sinenses of rebrili ,■ proper.... $4,165, 07 I Oraustrj siptD6si War Jjej art meat see en years e.-Hmate ...„ *16,600.660 66 Ordinary expense* Navy De partment seven years estimate 165, "00,(KM) 60 Ordinary expenses eiril service, Ac. seven years 378.400,039 II Reduction of Public Debt J u 5,014,656 80 1 ~, - „ $5,084,051,379 06 ! Add for all expenditures, 1860-61 84,575,*34 47 Total of expenditures $5,488,630,213 53 This ,>h*ws a alight excess over the total j .-of receipts as stated above, but, as we have j remarked, the exclusion of all transactions concerning the debt from both sides of the account, and the omission of the respective balances and deficits would reconcile the difference. ■STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. July 1, IS6O $ 64,769,703 03 July 1, If6l $0,637.62$ 68 July 1, 1862 514.211.371 92 July 1, 1863_ 1,698,793,181 37 July 1, 1-64 . 1,746,690,45$ 49 July 1. 1865 2,681,734,717 38 Oct. 31, IMSS 2.808,549,437 55 June 30, 1866 2,650,538,338 10 j Get 31. 1-66 2,551,424,121 20 i June 30, 1*67 2,514,800,013 ;;: Aug. 1, 1868 2.523,534,480 67 j Deducting from the last report, the sum of for bonds issued to the Pa cific Railway Companies which are to be provided for. principal and interest, by the companies, but, being guaranteed by gov ernment, are noted in the Report as part of our debt, we have the amount of debt actu ally due on the Ist of August 186S to be $2, 491,324,480,67, an actual reduction of the gross debt from its highest point in October W>s, of $317,224.'.56.88. or more than one hundred million? per annum. The interest account also begins to run down, in propor tion as the principal is paid off/ The coun try saves fi'teeD millions of dollars in that wav this year. The total expenditures for the current year, including the extraordinary payments for interest, pensions, bounties, Ac., cannot exceed #198,500,000, and that amount is ap propriated accordingly. The receipts on the other hand, are estimated by the .Secre tary at of which the customs and internal revenue furnish $350,000,000. Said the Secretary, in December last: "Thrje estimate* ire made on the general aver age of the receipts and expenditure* fur the past nine months. The Secretary is hopeful, however, that Congre** will taks measures to largely re duce expenditure* in all branches of the .-ereice, ... tMat a tten'iy retinction of the debt be crjtv tinucd." Congress did take snch measures, cutting down the expenatures from his estimate ol #372,000.000 to $198,500,000 appropriated for. If the receipts hold up to his estimate x- they are likely to do, a surplus of #182,- 5 ',OOO will be applicable to the reduction |of the debt. And in this way the debt is | finally to be paid off. In ld!6, at the close of our second war with Great Britain, the Republic, with a ; jiopuiation not exceeding eight millions, ■ owed a publie debt of $127. ■ ■54,933.74. and paid it all off in twenty years. Large as is | our present debt, our forty millions of peo ple, wielding the resources of a continent, will not find it so great a burthen as their i fathers felt the war debt of 1816 to be, fifty ; years ago. The reader will perceive, in examining the above statement, than when Mr. Bu ; cbanan and the Democracy retired, in March 61, from their ma! administration of the government, they left an already existing ■ debt of nearly ninety millions of dollars, for : which in a partisan point of view, only they ; und not the Republicans, are responsible. \ I THE PRESENT STATE OF TAXATION. When tbe late war closed, taxation was universal: it covered about everything ex : cept land, agricultvral produce, unmanuf'ae i tured lumber, breadstuff? and a few other | forms ot property or product. At least ten I thousand distinct articles were then subject jto tax. Now. after three years, there is nothing taxed for Federal purposescxeept i spirits, liquors tobbaeco manufactures, gas, 1 matches, and playing cards: a stamp tax upon perfumery, medicines, and a few other things, and upon written instruments, and a ' reduced tax upon incomes, a license tax and ihe tax upon watches, plate, and carriages. The amount of taxes abated or repealed -inec the close ol the war has been officially estimated by the Commissioner of Pieveuuc ' as follows: Bv sot of July 13. 1?66... $60,000,000 • March 2f this cost, very nearly ODe-half, i that is to say three-eighths, have been already paid and forever discharged. Of this whole forty-one hundred millions, only twenty-five hundred millions remain unpaid, in the shape of the existing public debt. 3d. The Republican party, administering the National affairs for seven years, have, in ; that period, encountered and crushed the most formidable rebellion ever known to a civilized people, meeting and discharging ; all the ordinary expenses of the Government aod very nearly one-half tf the cost of the re : MHun itself. 4th. With the restoration of peace, and the completed reconstruction of nearly all the rebellious States, the cost of the public service, in all departments, has been brought back to the anti-war standard. Excluding the extra expenses ill the current year, en ding next June, such as interest ou debt, pensions, bounties, kc., Commissioner Weils estimates the regular expenses of the nation ffir the year, at $90,381,01300, which amount and no more, has been appropriated therefor by Congress. The last two years of Buchanan's administration showed a regular expenditure of $81,000,000 andsß6,ooo,ooo respectively. The alig t increase for 1 868 9 i* .'airly due to the groK h of tho nation in Jiat period. With these allowances, the Republican policy cott* no more titan that of its predtcestort. sth. More than one half of the money spent in the last eight years was borrowed, und more than one-tenth of this borrowed money is already paid. The rest of the money was obtained either from the regular anti-war sources, or from taxes, the greater part of which are now abated. 6th. The existing Federal taies do not bear upon the masses of the people directly. 1 he receipts into the Treasury come mainly from customs, i. e. duties upon goods im ported from foreign countries, and from the internal revenue, the principal sources there of being tobacco, distilled spirits and fer mented liquors. If these are honestly col lected this year by Mr. Johnson's agents, the yield will meet all the .requirements of the Treasury without constituting an oner ous butben upon the people. No other Federal taxes are levied, except upon gas, matches, -playing cards, perfumery, cosmet ics, patent medicines, and a few other man ufactured articles, incomes, licenses, watch es, carriages and plate. Such a ' burthen'' as these constitute, people who understand the matter, will not consider very distres sing. 7tb. Tbe Federal taxes, abated or repeat-! Ed, in the last two years, are estimated at #167,000,000 annually. These taxes were taken off because, with the reduction of ex penditures, the payment of the pub lie debt within a reasonable period, could be effected without them. To that extent, therelore, ; the public burthens were diminished. >th. Every dollar of the money received in seven years stands faithfully and honestly ' accounted for. If there has been any "Bad-! ieal extravagance," it has consisted entirely ; in the necessary payments for the expense j of that rebellion which Democracy brought upon us. No doubt, it is "extravagant" in a Democratic point of view, to buy powder and bail, payjsoldiers, build ships, raise ar mies. equip fleets, take care of the wound ed, fcury the killed, pension the crippled veterans, the widows and tbe orphans—all to uphold the intigrityof the Union, Doubt less, it is equally "extravagant" to under take to pay either the interest or the prin cipal of the money borrowed upon the Na tion's credit. It is against, Democratic principles to pay that interest, and against their interest to pay that principal But an honest people will honestly meet all its obligations. 9th. In three years, since the war closed, nearly eleven per cent, of the debt has been paid off. Republican economy faithfully responds to tho popular expectations, and to the hope expressed by Secretary McCul locb, by continuing the curtailment of ex penses, and his estimates show that a large further reduction of the debt may be made this year. If tbe Democracy do not plunge us inCo another civil war, the ptresent scale of receipts and expenditures will enable us to pay off tbe entire debt within the present generation.— Pittsburgh Gazette. GENERAL GRANT AND THE JEH ISII PEOPLE. The Chicago Tribune of August 12. pub lished the fallowing correspondence: REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO, 111, August 6, 186S. —Hon. Henry Greene baum —Dear Sir: A number of Republican voters of your religious persuasion have in timated to our Committee of Arrangements a desire to give the public an opportunity to hear your views on the relations of tbe i Israelites to General Grant and the Re publican party. In compliance with the re quest of the committee, I have the honor to invite you to speak upon the subject, at a Republican meeting, on Wednesday evening August 12, in Court House Square, in this city. Soliciting your kind compliance with this request, I am yours truly. J. C. DORE, President of Grant Club. CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 186^. —Hon. JohnC. Dore, President Grant Club: Dear Sir: I am happy of the opportunity afforded me to place my co-religionists properly before the people, but 1 prefer to do so in a letter, be i-au-e I have not made any political speeches for some time, and have neither time nor inclination to enter into the 3rena. Oar Jewish fellow citizens are brought j conspicuously forward in this I*residential campaign, owing to a military order issued j at one time by General Grant, known as or- j d*r No. 11. This order was issued agaiflst "Jews as a class," aud in this way repeated a wrong frequently committed against my race by the non-Jewish world. The true Israelite has no prejudice against any race. lib faith in Uoe God, having j been strengthened by a history of forty cepturies, leads him to regard all men as brothers, and his highest happiness is to be engaged in the interests of God and j humanity. The issues of the war are fully j appreciated by them, and it will be useless j to expect assistance from them in impeding j the progress of history. The whole tendency ol strictly Jewish : efforts is to progress and liberalism, and we cannot ler.d our aid to inflict on others wrongs which we have suffered ourselves, and hence know them to be wrongs. Had the nomination of a Presidential candidate been left to Republican Jews, General Grant would certainly not have been their choice. But now that General Grant is the nominee of the party, it is pay- . ing a poor compliment to Jewish intellect j and Jewish patriotism to suppose that we I can sink all beneath the weight of personal ; 1 vindictive revenge, or even of holy indig nation. General Grant knows by this time that Jews must not be judged "as a class," not any more so than Christians; that among Jews there are good men and bad | men, as there are good men and bad men among Christians. Furthermore, I believe that the order re ferred to was issued in the midst of com- j I plicated military responsibilities, its sweep ing effect not having been fully considered, and that General Grant regrets that tbe ' order was ever issued. Indeed, I know that a letter from General Grant, expressing these sentiments, has for j some time been in the hands of a prominent co- religionist at Washington city, and that ! General Grant objects to the publication thereof at this time, only on the ground that it might be construed as a bid for votes i on his part. '! Very respectfully, HENRY GREENEBAUM. VOL. 41: NO. 32 SUCCESSFUL TEMPERANCE LOLIC. A small temperance society Lad been started in a community very much noder the control of a rich distiller, commonly called "Billy Myres.' This man had several sons who had become drunkards on the facilities afforded by their education at home. The whole family was arrayed against the movement, and threatened to break up any meeting called to promote the object- < Learning this, the Rev. T. P. Hunt went to a neighboring district for volunteers for that particular occasion. He then gave out word for a meeting, and at the time found bis friends and enemies about equal in numbers. This fact prevented any outbreak but could not prevent noise. Mr. Hunt mounted the platform, and by a few sharp anecdotes and witty sayings soon silenced all noise except 'Billy Myres,' the Dutchman, who occasionally cried out, "Mishter Hunt, money makes the mare go.' —To every shot, which seemed ready to demolish him, the old fellow presented the one shield, '3lishter Hunt, money makes the mare go.' At last Mr. Hunt stopped and addressed the imperturable German: 'Look here, Billy Myres, you say money makes the mare go, do you?' 'Yes, dat ish just what I say, Mishter Hunt.' 'Well, Billy Myres, you own and work a distillery, don't you?'inquired Mr. Hunt. 'Dat ish noneofyoure business, Mishter Hunt. But den I ish not ashamed of it. I have got a still.and work it too.' 'And you say, 'money makes the mare go;' do you mean that I have come here to get money of these people ?' 'Yes, Mishter Hunt, dat ish just what I mean.' 'Very well, you work the distillery to make money, and I leeture on temperance to make money; and as you say: 'Money makes the mare go,' Billy Myres, bring out your mare, and I'li bring out mine, and we'll show them together.' By this time the whole assembly was in a titter of delight; and Myres' followers could not suppress their merriment at the evident embarrassment of their oracle. In the meantime we must premise that Mr. Hunt knew a large number of drunkards present, and among them the sons of Myres himself. "Billy Myres, who is that holding himself up by that tree?' inquired Mr. Hunt, poin ting to a young man so drunk that he could not stand alone. The old man started *3 if stung by an ad der, but was obliged to reply, 'Dat ish my son; but what of dat Mishter Hunt?' 'A good deal of that Billy Myres; for I guess that son has been riding your mare and got thrown too.' Here was a perfect roar from all rarts of Ithe assembly, and as soon as order was re stored, Mr. Hunt proceeded, as he pointed to another son: 'Hilly Myres, who is that staggering about as if his legs were as weak as potato vines after a frost?' 5 'Well, I suppose dat bk my son, too,' re plied the old man with a crest-fallen look. 'Hehas been riding your mare too, and got a tumble.' At this point the old man put up both hands in a most imploring manner, and ex claimed: 'Now, Mishter Hunt, if you won't say any more, I will be stilL* This announcement was received with a roar of applause and laughter, and from that moment Mr. Hunt, had all the ground to himself. SIDEWALK ETIQUETTE. Some one of our Chesterfieldian exchanges has the following on sidewalk etiquette, which we commend the attention of our readers: "Only villagers, or persons with rural ideas, any longer contend that ladies should always be given the inside of the pavement in passing. The rule adopted in all cities is to turn to the right, whether the right leads to the wall or to the gutter; and an obser vance of this common sense rule would obviate much unpleasant 'scrougirig by over-galiant gentlemen who persistently crowd for the outside of the walk. Another oommon custom, not required by fashionable etiquette, and one which is as nearly as inexplaiDably absurd, is the practice of men filling out of - church pew, making them selves as ridicuu ->s as an awkward squad' practicing a catch step, in order to give a woman the wrong end of the pew. Anoth er is that of a man, when at promenade or walk with a lady, to keep himself on the ! outside of the pavement. A little exercise ! of judgment will convince any person of the ' perfect uselessness of this bobbing biek and forth at every corner. The common rule is this: If men and women are walking to gether, she should always be at his right arm, whether it be toward the inside or out i side of the walk; then the woman will not be shoved against the passers. Those who ■ giggle at persons who follow this rule are 1 themselves the 'greenies,' and should read the book of manners before they indulge in the laugh of fashionable fools. CONCEIT. We cuil the following gem from Dr. C'ha pin s lecture on the "Nobility of Labor. Hardly any thing is more contemptible '' than the conceit which rests merely upon j social position—the conceit of those who im agine that they thus are divorced from the I c lay of common men. of those who shrink ! with horror from the idea of work, as some thing which degrades by its very contact, and yet who. very likely, owe their present Position to some very remote ancestor, who recognizing his call to work, lived more hon estly in the world than they do, and was not ashamed of soiled thumbs. It is one of the meanest things for people to be ashamed of ; the work from which they draw their in | come, and which glorified their ancestors I more with their soiled aprons ana black I gowns, than themselves with their fine rib bons and flashing jewelry- I* might be a I fine thing to be like the lilies, more glorious ly clothed than Solomon, and doing nothing, ] as if it were only lilies. Advantageous po sition is only a more emphatic call lor work, and while those who hold the advantage may not be compelled to manual drudgery, they should recognize the fact tnat manual drudgery may be performed in tho same ' spirit as that which characterizes their own rrork, and therefore that it is equally honor- 1 ! able. RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisement* for for* than 3 month* 1# cent* per line for *ncb insertion. Special notices one-half additional. All resolution* of A*>ocia i ioni, communication* of a limited or indiridel interest and notice* of marriage* and death*, ex ceeding lire line*, 1® cte. per line. All legal noti ce* of every kind, and ail Orphans' Court and other Judicial sale*, art required by law to be pub lished in both paper*. Editorial Notice* IS cent* per line. All Advertising dne after flrt insertion. A liberal di*eonnt made to yearly advert iter*. 3 mont*. 6 month*. 1 year One square $ 4.50 $ 6.09 SIO.OB Tire aquares 0.00 9.00 16.00 Three square* 8.00 11.00 10.00 One-fourth c01umn...... 14.00 10,00 35.00 Half column 18.00 t3.0 45.00 One column SO.OO 45.00 80.60 TKI'E HOSPITALITY. Let a man, then, say: My house is here in the eouutry, for the culture of the coun try; an eating-house and sleeping-house for travelers it shall be, but it shall be much more. I pray you, O excellent wife! not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or tbis woman who has alight ed at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at two great a cost. These things, if they are curious in, tbey can get for a dol lar at any village. But let this stranger see, if he wiD. in your looks, in your accent and behavior, your heart and earnestness, your thought and will, iL.-d which he cannot buy at any price at any village or city, and which he may well travel fifty miles and dine -purely and sleep hard in order to behold. Certainly, let. the bed be dressed for the traveler; but let not the emphasis of hospi tality lie in these thirgs. Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so t uat there the intellect is awake and see the laws of the universe. Hie soul worships truth and love; honor and courtesy flow into the deeds. — Etnermv. THREE TUINGB TO AVOIO. 1. Avoid bad thoughts. We cannot help bad thoughts coming into our hearts some times; but we can help keeping them there. As somebody has said, "We cannot prevent the crows from flying over our heads, but we can prevent them building nests in our hair." Fight bad thoughte; for just as sure as you let them live and grow in your hearts, they will breed mischief and misery. 2. Avoid bad words. Bad thoughts are parents to bad words, and the children arc even more mischievous than their parents. For bad thoughts, so long as they are con fined to your own hearts, only hurt you, but bad words hurt others. They lead to an ger, strife, and all kinds of black sin. 3. Yon must avoid bad deeds. Do not allow yourself to do an evil action. If you know an act to be wrong, never consent to it. Keep yourself pure. Dare to do right, though it be sometimes hard. Remember, "'Thou, God. seest me.'' A BOSTON PAPER tells the following story: "A few days since a well dressed young man entered a broker's office in this city, and said he desired to buy some bonds. He gave the kind and amount, and said he would cail again the next day. He did so, and requested the broker to send him $6,000 worth to his place of business, naming a store in a good business locality. The broker was suspicious, and instructed the messenger, his clerk, not to let the bonds !go out of his sight until he had received the money therefor. At the store the young gentleman appeared, took the bonds, and, opening a desk, placed them in a pigeon hole, and then locked them up. He called the clerk's attention to the operation, and told him to sit down and wait while he stepped out and cashed a check. The clerk waited until it was apparent that the young trader had disappeared, and he then in vestigated tho matter, and found that there was a 'back entrance' to the desk, through which fhc bonds had been taken and car ried of. The name of the business man is not kr.own, his whereabouts are also in volved in mystery, and a Boston broker is $6,000 out." THE POPE of Rome is described as always dressed in white, when he appears in pub lic. lie has, of late, taken a great deal more out-door exercise than formerly. About one hundred persons daily solicit auciences from him. At these audiences, to which often persons half crazy with religious excitement gain access, it Ls very seldom that the Pope, even under the greatest provoca tion, loses his temper. Sometimes when a visitor proves too troublesome, Pius IX rings the bell, and say 3 to the camerier who enters the room, "Take this man into the fresh air. He is unwell! The Pope speaks no German, excellent Latin and Spanish French with a strong Italian ac cent, which is by no means unpleasant in bis rich, sonorous voice, aDd very pure Ital ian, while souse of his Cardinals even speak their mother tongue with a strong local ac cent Cardinal Hohenlohe is one of tho men whom His Holiness likes best. Strange to say, all the sisters and other relatives of that Cardinal are Protests fits. LITTLE TmsGS.—Springs are little things, but they are sources of large streams; a helm is a little thing, but it governs the course of a ship; a bridle-bit is a little thiDg, but see its use and power; nails and pegs are little things, but they hold the parts of a large building together; a word, a look, a smile, a frown, are all little things, bat powerful for good or evil. Think of this, and mind the little tLings. Pay that little debt; if it is a promise, redeem it; if it is a shilling, hand it over. You know not what import ant events hang upon it. Keep your word sacred—keep it to children; they will mark it sooner than any one else, and the effect will probably be as lasting as life. Mind the little things. NEUTRALITY. —In regard to the gospel there is no neutrality, for Ist. It demands a positive acceptance, and the condemnation is upon them that do not aceept it. 2d. When a man refuses to obey the gospel the influence of his example leads others to do the same, and he therefore stands as a stumbling-block in the way of sinners 3d. The Lord, in his classifications of society never mentions but two classes, and includes all within these. "He that is not for us is against us." "He that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." DIED AX THE CARD TABLE. —Officer D. S. S. Morris, of this city, went to New HaTen on business on Saturday night, and on his way down stopped at a tavern in Bethany to get warm. While here he ob served four men sitting at a table playing cards. This was between 7 and 5 o'clock. On hi- retnrn about half-past 11, he was in formed that one of the number, a man about fifty years of age, had just been earned home a corpse. While in the act of playing he was noticed to straighten out his body, gradually slipped out out of his chair on the I floor, and was taken up dead, having expired without speaking a word or receiving a mo ment's warning. It was truly a fearfudy sudden summons. - Waterbtirj/ American. SKALD SOUL. -Said a crwy woman of a penurious- stingy man; "Do r* **- Lan? You could Wow his soul through a humming bird's quill into a mosqmtoseye, and the tiJoatuitO wouldn t wink.