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Christians especially, who have nut sang, and admired, and loved it, and been made happier and better by it, and yet there arc few, comparatively, who know the author ship, or have ever scam the original poem, from which the hymn, as now in use, is taken. Having a manuscript copy, many years j old, in the hand-writing of one, now gone to "behold the King in His beauty," who of ten perused it, in full sympathy with its " longing desire to depart and lie with : Christ," I transcribe it for the pleasure and benefit of your readers. It was written during the early days of the author, Rev. Wm. A. Muhlenberg, D.D., now of New York City; thin Rector of St. James' Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pa.: *** I '* 1 would not lire alwav," —Job viii, Hi. j I would not live alway; no, n •, holy man, Not a day, not an hour, should lengthen my span; ! The few lurid mornings that dawn on lis here, Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer. Would I not go the path which the Prophets of God, Apostles and Martyrs so joy folly trod? While brethren and friends uro all hastening home, Like a spirit nnhlcst, o'er the earth would lToain? 11. I would not live alway; I ask not to stay, YV here storm after storm riteu dark o'er the way; Where seeking for peace, we bat hover arouud Like the Patriarch's bird—and no resting is found: Where Hope, when she paints her gay bow in the I air, Leaves its brilliance to fade in the night of des pair; And .Joy's fleeting angel ne'er sheds a glad ray, Save the gleam of the plumage that bears hiui away. 111. I would not live alway: thus fettcr'd by sin, Temptation without, and corruption within: In a moment of strength, if I sever the chain, Scarce the victory's miue, ere I'm captive again; E'en the rapture of pardon is mingled with fears, And my cup of thanksgiving with penitent tears: The festival trump calls for jubilunt songs, But my spirit her own miiertre prolongs. IV. I would not live alway; no, welcome the tomb; Immortality's lamp burns there bright mid the gloom. There too is the pillow where Christ bow'J His head. Sweet, sweet be my slumbers on that holy bed: But sweeter the morn which shall follow that night: When the sunrise of glory shall beam on my sight, When the full matin song, as the sleepers arise To hail the blest morning, shall peal through the skies. V. Who, who would live alway, away from his God: Away from yon heaven, that, blissful abode, Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the bright plains, And the noontide of glory eternally reigns; Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, | Their Lord and each other, transported to greet; While the anthems of rapture unceasingly roll, And the smile of Jehovah's the least of the soul, VI. That heavenly music ! What is it I bear? The notes of the harpers ring sweet in the an : And see ! soft unfolding the portals of gold, The King all arrayM in His beauty, behold ! Oh, give me! oh, give me the wings of a dove ! I'll hasten my flight to that palace above; Yea: 'tis now that my soul, on glad pinions would j soar, And in ecstacy bid earth adieu—evermore. SIR ROBERT PEEL, THE STATES MAN. BY JAMES PARTON. Daniel Webster used to say, after his re turn front England, that "Sir Robert Peel ; was head and shoulders above any man he . had ever met." The Duke of Wellington said of him, "Of all the men I ever knew, Sir Robert Peel had the greatest regard ibr truth." These were high eulogiuuis,—one testify ing to the greatness of his iutellect, and the other to the goodness of his principles. He was a man, too, of admirable bodily gifts. He was handsome, robust, of sound constitution, and imposing presence. I well remember ltitu one evening, about the ; year 1843, rising to address the House of Commons. Before he rose, there had been a good deal of noi-e and bustle in the House; members bad been chatting togeth er, and several had been walking across tbo floor; but the Prime Minister was upon his j feet, the noise was hushed, and every one was most attentive to listen. He was a portly man then, though not corpulent, and ; his fine broad chest was clad in a white waistcoat, which was all of his costume which could be discerned from the gallery of the House of Commons. He merely had , some uninportant announcements to make to the House, and did not speak more than three minutes; but every word he uttered revealed the master. The ease, the ele gance, the clearness, the courtesy of the premier, struck with admiration the green youth who was stretching his neck over the gallery railings. To all these eminent gifts of body and mind were added a fortune of twelve hundred thousand pounds sterling, ; and a place of all others in the world the most gratifying to English ambition, that of ruler of the British Empire. This fortunate and richly endowed man was a son of that Sir Robert Peel, the cot ton-spinner, who won his baronetcy by his thorough-going Toryism, and his ardent de votion to King George the Third. The first Sir Robert, though he sat in Parliament for thirty years, was not a man of education. In his youth he had eaten his dinner from pewter plates, and had worked hard, assist ing his father in printing calico; but now that he had become rich, he was resolved that his children, especially his eldest son Robert, should have every advantage of ed ucation which the world afforded. That son, born in 1788, early gave prom ise of further eminence. In hint seemed happily combined his father's strength and his mother's tenderness and nobility of mind. His mother, it seems, was quite as remarkable for a woman as his father was for a man. Born and bred in a farm-house, she was a beautiful woman, of a noble pres ence and graceful demeanor; and, though no better educated than her husband, she was quicker to ie&ru than he, and ibr many BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, NOV. 13- ISO*. years served him as secretary, and wrote most of his business letters. By and by, when she was called to preside over a great London house as the wife of a wealthy member of Parliament, no one saw iD her manner or appearance anything of the coun try lass who had steeped her fair arms, many a time, in her husband's dye pots. .She did not live to see the greatness of her son. The stupid custom of the English in eating their dinner at seven or eight o'clock, and turning night into day, did not agree wiih her country constitution, and she died before her son Robert hud completed his education. Harrow, the most aristocratic of the pub lic schools ol England, was the one selected by the great cotton-spinner for his favorite son. Among the lad's fellow-pupils wa- Lord Byron, who says of him, in one of his letters: "There were always great hopes of Peel among us all, masters and scholars, and he has not disappointed them." Others of his schoolfellows tell us that he was a steady, industrious boy, the best scholar in the school, and was always ready to as-i-t the dull ones in writing their ver ses and learning their lessons. They say, too, that his school-follows forgave his mani fest and striking superiority, and that he was not unpopular among them, I regret to add that he was somewhat too fond of ~trollir.il off by himself into the country, and •'id Dot much relish the joyous and health giving games of the playground. Front Harrow he went, at the age of six-! teen, to Oxford University, whore he enter-; ed the most aristocratic college, and on the ! aristocratic footing of a gentleman common-; cr. He was a most diligent student, and 1 won, at the end of his University career, the most splendid triumph ever before ac corded to a student of an English Universi ty. At the end of the course there are two! separate examinations of great severity aud iong continuance—one in Latin and Creek and the other in Mathematics. Robert Feel I was the first student who ever won the first ; prize at both of these examinations. The j unprecedented event excited universal inter est in England, and when the young student I presented himself upon the platform to pro- ' nounce the usual oration the audience, and I especially his fellow students gave him a re- , ecption which would have overwhelmed a ' person of ordinary temperament and char-' acter. Thi- student, however, acknowledg- ; ed the vociferous cheers of his friends with ! equal serenity and modesty, and seemed afterwards to attach no great importance to what had occurred. lie was no nervous, dyspetic student. While working hard at his books he took care to strengthen and ex ercise his tall and vigorous frame by walk ing, riding, rowing and shooting. iih all his great abilities aud great ac quirements, his was not a critical or ques tion asking mind. His father was an ex treme and enthusiastic Tory, who bad edu cated this admirable youth in the fond ex pectation of seeing him one day the leader of ihe Tory party in England. The son im bibed his father's opinions, and warmly ac quiesced iu his father's plans. In 1909, which was the twenty-second year of his age, his falher brougt him into Furliament for one of those small boroughs of the olden time which rich men bought, sold and gave away at their pleasure. Lord Falmerston entered Parliament at the same time. Pitt, Fox and Burke were dead, and Sheridan was about to pass from the scene; hut Can ning, Willberforce, Wyndham, Grattan, Perceval, Castlercagh, Mackintosh, Romil ly, Horner and Brougham were members, and Canning was in the fresh luster of his talents. The new member's own father sat conspicuous upon the Tory benches, behind Castlercagh and Canning. Introduced into this scene so captivating lo tho imagination, so stimulating to the talents of young Englishmen, Robert Peel, whose splendid university triumphs made him a marked person aud excited the high est expectations, sat for a whole session without making a -peeeh. Two or three times he uttered a remark or two upon some unimportant matter, as il to get used to the sound of his own voice, but attempt ed nothing like a speech. At the begin ning of the second session, however, he was appointed by tho Toty ministry to second the address in reply to the King's speech— a duty usually assigned to some promising young member of the party in power, lie acquitted himself well, and from that time forward he was an active and leading mem ber of the House, never eeasing as long as he lived to grow in knowledge, power and influence. Ho had one great advantage. During the last fifty years, men of his mental cali bre, in all countries, have generally inclined to what is called the "liberal" side of poli tics, so that when we say of a man that he ; is a Tory, we usually mean that he is a fool. This young giant, inheriting Tory principles ; from his father, easily took the lead (alter Canning's death) in a parly which young men of ability instinctively avoided. His •tdvanee was both rapid and steady. When . he urns twenty-fonr ycre of ago he va in : office, and from that time to the close of his life he held a place in the administration whenever the Tories were in power. | Such a man. however, cannot be a mere Tory, or a blind follower ol any party what- ! over. The work which he did in his life i was this: 110 liberalized the Tory party;! lie taught them the necessity of yielding to i the best demands of the people, and the 1 | wisdom of doing so before they were com pelled. Thus he repealed the Corn Laws [ aud emancipated the Irish Catholics, in op- j position to all that was blind and bigoted in I England, lie originated the Police system ! of Great Britiun, which we have copied in; America. On the 2<Jth of June, 1850, while riding I in one of the London Parks, he was thrown from his horse, and was injured so severe ly that he died four days after, in his sixty i third year. Few men have been more sin- : : cerely, more universally, or more justly! ; mourned than he. Happily married in his thirty-second year, ! and surrounded by a family of five sons and two daughters, he was in private life as es timable as he was great in public. Tory as : he was, it would be hard to name a "Lib i eral" statesman who has ever conferred upon a country a greater number of meas ures practically wise, or who gave his coun- I try a stronger impulse toward rational free- I do in—AT. 17 Ledger. ! JENNIE JUNE thinks so far as women's clothing is concerned, the art of not making i anything they want, in the way that they j wankiti has been bro't to perfection. BEING IN LOVE. There are a great many mistakes about : love. .Many people think it one thing, and some another. • '"A temple to Friendship,' said Laura, en chanted, 'lll build in this garden; the thought is di vine.' Her temple was built, and she only now wanted An image of Friendship to place on tha shrine. Bhe flew to a sculptor, who set down before ber j Al* riendship the fairest his art could in ; vent; i Hut so cold, and so dull, that the youthful j adorer . .~u\v plainly this was not the iiiol she meant." This is one mistake. But did Moore's Laura want something in addition tofriend ship, or did she want something totally i different? "L amitie est I'amour sans ailes." . Is that true, so that, if we add wings to ; Friendship, we get Love for the product? In the days when Godwin, declining, as became a republican, the prefix of Mister. ! Mas a sage much sought, a lady visitor, of , the sniffy, love-in-the-ahstract type, asked hia for an oracle upon the great subject of i subjects. "William Godwin," said she, sud i denly, "what is your opinion of love?" God- I wir. was too absorbed in meditation to an swer the question, and continued solemnly puffing his pipe. "William Godwin," said . thi determined woman once more, "what is yuur opinion of love?" And still Godwin smoked, and kept silence. Not liking to see a woman snubbed, Oven in appearance, Shelly, then a young fellow, also in attend ance on the oracle, hazarded a jest. "I thkk " said he, "love acts upon the heart like a nutmeg-grater; it wears it away." Again the undaunted woman put her ques tion. Sniffling at poor Shelly, who was then nobody, she, with raised voice, said: "William Godwin, what is your opinion of love?" Roused at last, the oraele responded: "My.opinion agrees with that of Mr. Shelly," and relapsed into his thoughts and his pipe. This was a case in which the oracle mobbed the votarist, because the votar i-t was unworthy. Godwin would no more tell a sniffy woman what he thought about love than the lady in "Comus" would ex pound to Circe "the sublime notion and high mystery that must be uttered to unfold the sage and serious doctrine of virginity." It is pretty certain that Godwin himself knew nothing about it; or he would never have (for example) published, after her death, his wife's old letters to the heartless father of "our little barrier-girl." Bu', per haps, the majority of liviog men and women think that love is like a nutmeg-grater; that most of us must, in the natural course of things, get our hearts grated; but that, when we find the process agreeable, nature has got us in a trap, and the sooner we arc out of it the better. At the same time, there is al ways what Mr. Bain, with sueh innocent surprise, calls a "heated atmosphere" around the subject, and there is a luminous haze of superstition about love overhanging all the literature of imagination. It is true you now and then come across an essay in which the subject of falling in love is discussed - if it came as much within the calculable province of life as buying a hat, and you are told tc be sure and do it wisely, because —be- cause of reasons which might find a place in Poor Richard's Almanac." "Last night" said a half-man poet ar.d painter, "I came unexpectedly upon a fairy's funeral"—and he proceeded to describe the ceremony as ouly a poet and a painter could. What wonderfully good advice might be given in an essay on Seeing Fairies' Funerals! Be sure you never see a fairy's funeral, unless, &c. ,&c. There is no thoroughly sincere person, with a grain of spiritual sensibility, who does not, in his heart, rebel when Poor Richard takes upon himself to preach about love matters. What the troubadours called amour-pouramour, love for love's own sake is what every human creature with a soul above buttons goes in for. And we feel a sub'le pang of disapprobation when anything "in the round heaven or in the living air" | is put before love, or turned into a cause or | a ju-tification of it. There is a legend of a . distinguished preacher's courtship, which . Mates how he went down into tho kitchen, ( acd, addressing his maid-servant, said. , 'Butty, do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?' , ' Yes, sir," said Butty. "And, Betty," re sumed the good man, "do you love me?" Similar in spirit is that letter of Governor , \f iuthrop's wife to her husband, in which , sle tells him she loves him for two reasons , -♦" First, because thus loves God; and , secondly, because thou lovest me." The dullest feels that there is a play upon words; ' ajd there is. Far better was Rowland , Bill's courtship. "Iu the first place," he wrote to the lady, "I think I can say before ■ (itd that I iove your person. Without this , stLh a union could never he happy." The , ql station is from memory, but it is substan tillly correct, and we feel in a moment that R ivland Hill was straightforward aud true, wlUe the Puritan lady, pressed upon by the et jiuette of the current talk of her set, and nt able to disentangle horuoH from a falUoy wis uutrue to nature and to herself, This wis nothing remarkable; most people are uttrue to nature and to themselves. The most plausible and the most common of'tlie fallacies about love is that which sup poses it is the friendship that Laura sought with something added to it, instead of be ing, as it is, a thing sui generis. Coleridge txposed this fallacy in a curious piece called "The Improvisatory," which is included among bis poems: "Coleridge—Love, as distinguished from friendship on the one hand, and from the passion that too often usurps its name on the other— "Lucius (Eliza's brother, who had just joined the trio, in a whisper to Coleridge). —But is not love the union of both?" "Coleridge (aside to Lucius)—He never 'oved who thinks so. And then follows Coleridge's own account ol love, of which it can only be said that, if he had written it when he was younger, it would probally have been as perfect in form and expression as it is inclusive in what we might call the categories of love: "Coleridge—But, above all, it supposes a j soul which, even in tho pride and sumnier tido of life, even in the lustihood of health and strength, had felt oftenest and prized highest that which age cannot take away, j and which, in all our lovings is the love, i "Eliza—There is something here (poin ting to her heart) that seems to understand i you, but it wants the word that would make il understand itself. I "Katharine—l, too, seem to feel what you mean. Interpret the feeling for us. "Coleridge—l mean that willing sense of | the unsuffiiingness of the self for itself which • predisposes a generous nature to see, in the ; total being of another, the supplement and j completion of its own—tbatquiet, perpetual seeking which the presence of the beloved object modulates, not suspends, where the heart momently finds, and, finding, again seeks on; lastly, when 'life's changeful orb has passed the full,' a confirmed faith in that nobleness of humanity, thus brought home and pressed, as it were, to the very bosom of hourly experience." W hen you have read this you feel that it is correct, and even affecting. But yet— "What wants that knave That a king should have!" Something is wanted, and in that something everything.— From the London Review. TABLE TALK AND OPINIONS OF NAPOLEON THE FIRST. Speaking of his early attachment to Ma demoiselle du Colunibier, Napoleon said, "We were the most innocent creatures imag inable. We contrived short interviews to gether. I well remember one which took place on a midsummer's morning, just as the light began to dawn. It will hardly be I believed that all our happiness consisted in j eating cherries together." During the siege of Toulon, one of the agents of the convention ventured to criti- . cise the position of a gun which Napoleon j was superintending. "Do you," he tartly replied, "attend to your duty as national ! commissioner, and 1 will be answerable for ; miue with my head." An officer, entering Napoleon's room, i found, much to his astonishment, Napoleon dressed and studying. "What!" exclaimed his friend, "are you not in bed yet?" "In bed?" replied Napoleon, "I have finished my sleep and already risen. "What, so early?" the other said. "Yes," continued Napoleon; "so early. Two or three hours, sleep are enough for any man." Napoleon had a great contempt for the effeminate young men ot his time. He ex claimed one day, "Can it be that upon such creatures fortune is willing to lavish her favors? How contemptible is human na ture!" When Barras introduced Napoleon to tli convention as a fit man to be entrusted witl the command, the president asked: "Are you willing to undertake the defenci of the convention?" "Yes," was the reply. After a time the president continued: "Are you aware of the magnitude of thi undertaking?" "Perfectly," replied Napaleon fixing bii eyes upon bis questioner; "and I am in thi habit of accomplishing that which I under take." "Good God!" Xapolean said in Italy, whilst residing at Montebello, "how rari men are. There are eighteen millions it Italy, and I have with difficulty found two Dandola and Melzte." Just before his marriage, Napoleon re cetved the appointment of commander ii chief of the army of Italy; he wasthen twen ty six. "You are rather young," said ont of the directors, "to assume responsibility so weighty, and to take the command ovet veteran generals." "In one year," Napolion replied, "I shall be old or dead." "We can place you in command of men only." said Carnot, "for the troops require everything, and we can furnish you with DO money to procure supplies." "Give me only men enough," Napoleon answered, "and I ask for nothing more; I will be answerable for the result." "My extreme youth when 1 took command of the army of Italy," Napoleon remarked afterwards, "made it necessary for me to evince great reserve of manners and the ut most severity of morals. This was indis pcnsible to enable mc to sustain authority over the men so greatly superior in age and experience. I pursued a line of conduct in the highest degree irreproachable and exem plary. In spotless molality I was a Cato, and must have appeared such to all. I was a philosopher and a sage. My supremacy could not be retained only by proving my self a better man than any other man in the army. Had I yielded to human weaknesses I should have lost my power." At the first interview between Napoleon and the veteran generals who he was to command, Ramdon undertook to give the young commander some advice. Napoleon, who was impatient of advice, exclaimed, "Gentlemen, the art of war is in its infancy. The time lias passed in which enemies are mutually to appoint the place of combat, ad vance hat in hand, and say, 'Gentlemen, will you have the goodness to fire?' We must cut the enemy in pieces, precipitate our selves like a torrent upon their battalions, and grir.d them to powder. Experienced generals conduct the troops opposed to us! So much the better! so much the better! Their experience will not avail them against us. Mark my words, thev will soon burn their book of tactics, and know not what to do. Y'es, gentlemen, the first onset of the Italian army will give birth to a new epoch in military affairs. As for us, we must hurl our.-elves on the foe like a thunderbolt,.and smite like it. Disconcerted by our tacties, and not daring to put them into execution, they will fly before us as the shades of night before the uprising sun." Napoleon sent the celebrated picture of St. Jerome, from the Duke of Parma's gallery, to the museum at Paris- The duke, to save his work of art, offered Napoleon two hundred thousand dollars, which the con queror refused to take, saying: "The sum which he offers will soon be spent; but the possession of such a masterpiece at Paris will adorn that capital for ages, and give birth to similar exertions of genius. ' "Different matters are arranged in my head," said Napoleon, "as in drawers: I open one drawer and close another as I wish. I have never been kept awake by an involun tary pre-occunation of the mind. It I de sire repose, I shut up all the drawers, and sleep. I have always slept when I wanted rest, and almost at will. THE codfish has been elevated to the dig nity of oysters and strawberries, and is now canned for use. It is prepared by clearing it of skin and bone by desiccation. Ou< Philadelphia concern puts up three tun; • daily. > No wonder railway conductors are fast They're obliged to have a good time ant t always to be on a train. VOL. 41: BTO. i '-i RULES OF TABLE ETIQUETTE. Among the rules of social etiquette, many of which are und lubtediy trifling, a good number will be found to be based on a sound common sense. Consider, for example, that rule of the dinner table, do not ask twice for soup. This appears at fir-c sight both silly and arbitrary. It i*, however, a very sensible ordinance, and it is to be jus tified by the laws of health and the general comfort and convenience. The soup, being a fluid substance, can easily be absorbed iu small quantities, and thus taken, is a good preparative for the solidities of the dinner. If, however, the stomach is deluged with it. the appetite and digestion becom'-s weak ened, and there is neither the inclination to eat nor the power to digest the more sub stantial food essential to the due nutrition of the body. As for the convenience or comfort of the single plate rule, no one can deny it who has looked upon an array of hungry guests whose eager appetite for the coming roast is compelled to an impatient delay by some social monster capable of asking for soup twice. The cook in the meantime is, of course, thrown out in his emulations, and the dish, when it does come at last, is either spoiled by overcooking, or cold from being withdrawn so long from the fire. The guests thus are not only tired in temper by a protracted expectation, but baulked of their anticipated enjoyment. The advantage of net putting the knife in the mouth will be obvious, we suppose, to all who are con scious that one can cut and the other is capable of being cut. There is an excellent chemical reason for that other table rule which foibids the use of a knife of steel with the fi>h, the ordinary sauces of which com bine with that metal, and produce a com position neither wholesome nor appetizing. Harper's Bazar. THE BARNACLES FAMILY. The exposed ledges of the seaside are often found swarming with yellow barnacles that turn white at low tide, by exposure to the sun. These little sentient animals, though displaying to the eye at first no sign of life, closely cocked in these houses of shell, know well enough how to make their living, and where to "paddle their own canoe." In the adjoining pools of clear water we behold them with their mouths thrown open, and their feelers out to catch the particles of nourishment that float by them continu ally. This tiny little insect of the seas does not belong to the order of shellfish, as is com monly supposed; the young barnicle has no shell, but a jointed or articulated body, and swims freely in all directions. But a time arrives in the life of every barnacle when it secures a hold upon something or other, be comes cemented, head downward, to that object, loses forever the power of locomotion and of sight, secretes a hard shell around it, and becomes, for the rest of its inglorious life, dependent upon the drifting sustenance brought to it by the flow of the tide. From this little articulata to the lord of ncaiiuu A urn ttie barnacle up to man, what a stride! Yet the life of this insig nificant and useless little animal is sym bolical, and many a human barnacle (per haps of the Tito species, or the office-hold ing variety, as in Dickens' immortal novel) can be found, without a microscope, by look ing among the fossil political formations of most governments. WISDOM IN SMALL LOTS. Ef you air onla a quarter of a second tu late you won't git thare in time. We've got lots of men with toweren in tellex and brillyent genyes and all that, but then you see we need just a few men with good common sense like. There may be sum sweet sadness in chu ing the bitter end of adversity, but the must uv' cm in this section would rather hav ter backcr you know. Ef wise men never made mistakes this would be a bard world for fools—nf whnm a great many are which. That man who's alius talking about his fambly is got no mainbly; and tis cbarite to let him tork. Some men gets proud mighty quick. The nearer a dominiker is to a dunghill the wus he krows. It required all kinds of men to maik up the world and so you see there had to be sum egotistikle durn fools for dry goods clerks. It don't take as much sense to pick a lock or forge a cheek as it does not to do it. When it rains puddin, you hold up your dish, but don't spend your time waiten for a shower. You can't do bizness without sense any more then you ken start a cooper shop on a bung bole. A man that dont kno enny thing will tell it tbe fust time he gets a chance.— Josh Billing*. Healthfulness os Apples.—-There is scarcely an article of vegetable food more universally liked than the apple. Why where the trees will grow at all, is one of the mysteries. Let every housekeeper lay in a good supply of apples, and it will be the most economical investment in the whole range of cuiinaries. A raw, mellow apple is digested in an hour and a half, while boiled cabbages require five hours. The most healthful dessert that can be placed on the table is a baked apple. If fre quently at breakfast, with course bread and butter, without flesh of any kind, it has an admirable effect on the general system, of ! ten removing constipation, correcting acidi ties, and cooling off febribe conditions mere effectually than the most approved medi cines. If families could be iuduced to sub stitute apples—sound and ripe—for pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with which their children are too frequently stuffed, there would be a diminution in the sum total of doctors' bills, iu a single year, sufficient to lay in a stock of this deliciuus fiuit for the season's use. — Christian Advocate. A llicu nobleman, on showing a friend bis large collection of precious stones and gems, that had been gathered by great labor and expense, remarked: "And yet they yield me no income." His friend replied ! that he had two stones which cost him but i ten florins, yet they yielded him an income lof two hundred florins, a year. The noble | man was very anxious to sec such profitable I stones, when his friend took him to his flour mill, and pointed out the two homely J millstones which yielded a larger income j than his jewels. | BATKS OF •. OVKftTliSIHrt. All ajvcrti-iemenli fur left than 3 tr hi 10 cent* jwr line fur ca-b inerti' a -"{>' : * one-half arTJidonil. All rv- uti'-'t* f A .a lions, eoasmunicaiimx <.f a K. r tctl or inlereet and n :tit . f inatriagM i>'l ilea - , ex ceeding fin- n, i per lice All legal noti ces of - v<f'V kind, and all Ory'iaoi' Co- r: -id other Joli' ial sales, s:. requited bv law to pis' lifted in both papers. K'di'oria! N*ot'eet J.' nt la pei-line. All Advertising d afterfirat fcf mop, A liberal di<o an' "n.f< to y <r!y advert!- ii in of* • months. ;"if One rquare t. i $ 1.0!' - 0.1 0 Two square- fi.Oil 9.80 i.' : o Three ~,-isr -- .<! IJ.OO SO"" I!no-fourth eolatun.'. .... 14.00 20.00 .. eft Half IS. SS.# Oaecolom> "0 >5 00 < • I:\CIIKI.OR .uiMsrtßs BP.MAKE. We yesterday heard rather a got i ,f >ry of one of our cily ministers. Pur: !<-' winter a revival was in progress in n' of the country churches near the city. Among the attendants of the meeting was a leiati ful and estimable, but rather unsop 1 : Sea ted, young lady, whose friends wt • - very anxious to have her unite with the < reh. She seemed, hi wove r. reluctant toil ■■. and the minister in qu -lion was requec-.jd to "talk to her." This he d-d several tint# - on one occasion saying in a jocular manner, "Miss Myou'll join the chci h I'll mary you." waning I o wo-a'd perfi )i tl c ceremony. The fitl soeBed pleased with the proposition, and a few eveniii-ts after came up to the alter and united with the church. Several v. ks alter this the in ot - ter preached at the church, end alter >, rvi ces met the v-.ung lad," "Crothn she said, "you know you promised to ttrir.v me if I d join the church. Are you -mv to do to 7 I don't: waof fo waitanv lot The minister saw ls dilemma, and attempt ed to exp'ain. " I meant 1 would pe ' .ui the ceremony," he said, "that's all. I can't marry you myself, for I am already married, and love my wife too to cell to swap tor off for another. " 11 young lady becam in dignant, declared that she'd leave r!;■: church, an 1 that site "n;vcr bad much filth in these town preachers.'' Our minis! rial friend declares tlx at he wit: never again use any other than Scriptural arguments to in duce a young lady to join the church. SI'KAK KIMtbY TO Hl;*, A farmer once raved a very poor boy front drowning. After his resortaticn he said to him: "What con I do for you. my boy ? 'Speak a kind word to iuc sometimes, re plied the boy as the tear -gushed from hi* eyes. "I aint got a motbrr like some -of them.' A kind word \ Think of it. That far mer had it in his power to give that boy money, clothes, playthings, but the poor fellow craved uo'hing so much as a kind woid now and then. If the farmer had ever, so little In art the hoy must certainly have had his wish gratifi i. .1 hind nurd! You have many such spoken to you daily, aD'.i you don't think much of their value but that poor boy in your village, at whom every boy laughs, would think he had found a treasure if some one would speak cue kind word to him. Suppose you speak it ? fhe next time you meet him, in-tead of laughing at him, speak kindly to him. Then watch him, and see how he looks. See "if his eyes does not brighten, and his lips smile. Try it. Kind words ! They are blessed things. Speak them, children, every day. Scatter them like sunbeam- everywhere. They will bless others, and then return to bless your own hearts. Kind word- forever ! NEEI> OF BEST. —A writer in Lippm- I cott's Magazine says : Head worker.- need i IUUIC itsi iliuu tiaii t worEcis. I'Oe olu saw precisely inverted the proprieties of the case, so far as involved them, di daring "seven hours' sleep to suffice tbe student, eight the laboring man, and nine tb" fuji." The hours of hard brain work deauvys, as before observed, more nervous tissue, and cause a greater subtraction of the phos phates from the system tha.i an onlidary day's work at mere mechanical labor the proportion of grains (in weight) b.iug as 86:77. Above everything else, brain work era need sleep, early sleep and late sleep, and enough in the middle to feel "re,ii >tu pit! 'at the end of it. Stnpidity is precise ly the condition into which this class • f toil ers should manage and devise and strive to get themselves for a time, longer or shorter, each tweotv-four hours. Nothing rests tbe brain, and the whole working system like it. Narcotic stupidity, the product of ale, tobac co or wino, is not the thing referred to though in emergencies this may, perhaps, bo bad rooourco to ao a roctlioinc, tut tUo quiet, reposoful readjustment of the uar vous conditions and the recharging with vi tal force of the nerve batteries, the contact* not yet closed, the galvauic currents there fore not yet set in motion, but only filling up the system with a blind diffused feeling of healthy sensations and reserved efficienoy. THE DITCH JUDGE'S DECISION.—Here is a decision by a learned Dutch Judge: "Misder voreman and t'oder juryman- - DerPrisoner, Hans Vlecktcr, is vir/ heel his game mit der sheriff, and has peat him, but I shall dake gare he don't peat me. Hans has peen dried foe murder pcforc yon, and you must pring in der vrdick, but it must pe 'eordin' to der law. Be man he kilTt wasn't kilt at all, as it was proved he is in der jail at Morrisdown for sheep sdealing. Put dat ish no madder. Der law says ven dere ish a tout you give 'em to der brisoner. put here dere ish no tout —so you see der brisoner i.-h guilty. Pe.- ides, he is a great loafer. I have know'd him vifty year, and dimes, and dere is no one debending upon for der liven', and lie ish no use to no poty. [ dink it would be good blaus to hang him for de examble. I dink, Mr. vorcmans, dat lie petter pe hung next fourt' of July, as der militia is going to drain in anodher coun ty, and der would pe 110 vun goin' on here." THE Sicilian Railway Company not long since bought, in Catania, for the purposes of its business, a house two stories high, for merly belonging to the Jesuits. The work men, in demolishing the walls of the build ing, found a cavity, within which wore three human skeletons, still having the decayed fragments of priests' cassocks clinging to them. WE have seldom seen more sense com pressed into less space, than is contained in the following sentence, by Josh Billings: "I am loudly in favor of new things, but I am opposed to enny man, even wun ov our col ored associates, thinkin' he has diskovercd a new truth jest fcekause he haz, for the fust time in his life, stumbled into an old one." . ■ OI.E BCLL was once seeking the sights at Donnybrook Fair, when ho was attracted by ' the sound of a large violin in a tent. He 1 entered and said to the player"- "My good 1 friend, do you play by note? "The divil a - note, sire.'' "Do you play by car, then?' e "Never an ear, yer honor. "How do you s p j ayj then?" "By main strength be jabea! e IT is not strange that when a man is very fond of his glass he becomes a tumbler.
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