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The courts have decided that refusing to t.ks newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having tbera uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. JOHN T. KEAGT, ATTORNEY- AT-LAW. sSc- Office opposite Reed A Schell's Bank. Counsel given in English and German. [pl26] riMJIELL AND LIN'GEMFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, asDroitp, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of j the Law, in new brick building near the I.ntaeran : Charch. [April 1, 1864-tf lyr. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BRWORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services t o the public. Offiee with J. W. Lingeufelter, Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. j *rWColleetions promptly made. [Dec.9,'B4-tf. i j_| AYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, H ill faithfully and promptly attend to all busi- j oess intrusted to his care. Office with G. H. Spang, j Esq., on Juliana "treet. three doors south of the j Mengel House. May 24:1y TTSPY M. AUSIP, I d ATTORNEY AT LAW. BanroßD. PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all bnsi- j ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin t counties. Military claims, Pensions, back . pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with ■ •Isjiu A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south j of the Mengel House. Api 1, 1864.—tf. t. r. MKYBRR .... I. W. prCKRRSOM j \ f .-VERS A DICKERSON, 31 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Bedpcrp. Pkvs'a., j Office nearly opposite the Mer.gel House, will practice in the several Courts of Bedford county. | Pensions, bounties and hack pay obtained and the ; purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 1 i ."M-lv I I ft. OUKBORROW. O • ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEEFORP, PA. T Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his oare. 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, B k I'ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands rf;'*e on Juliana street, one door South of the !n-f*ir*r office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengal House" April 23. 1865:t p B. STUCKEY, 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 - iri and Kansas. July 12:tf 8. L. RT9SKLL. .......1 J. H. LONGJESECK E A T>U3SBLL A LOSGENECKER. LA, /VTTOIINRTS A Cor*SRLLOR3 AT LAW, 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, Pensions, Ac. .£&* Office on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Aprils:lyr. J* M'D. SHARPS ~.S. P. KERR SHAKPE A KERR. .4 TTOHNE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All buriness entrusted to their • are will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Often on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed A Scheil. Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf PHYSICIANS. \YM. W. JAMISON, M. D., BLOODY RR,, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [decS.lyr | JK. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professions! ser v to the citizens of Bedford snd vicinity. sce and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius. [ApT I.M. DR. S. G. STATLKR, near Scheilsbarg. and Dr. J. J. CIA RK B. formerly of Cumberland county, having associated 'hem-elves in the prac tice of Medicine, respectfully offer the-rprofes si nal services to the citizens of Schellsborg and vicinity. Dr. Gierke's office and residence same a- formerly occupied by J. White, Esq., dee d. S. G. STATLKR, ■-■-hell-burg, Aprilllily. J. J. CLARKE. MI 8 CELLA NFOrS OM E. SHANNON. BANKER. BEDroan, Pa. . BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, Wert, North and S 11th. and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and 'tem iltances promptly made. REAL ESTATE fc oght and sold. feb2l D ANIEL BORDER. PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST or tas iO ST BD BOTEL, BEIRMD, Pa. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Ucfin - i Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, beat quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his liaenot on hand. [apr.Jfi.'AS. s; P. HARBAUGH A SON, Travailing Dealers in NOTIONS. In the county once every two months. SELL GOODS AT CITY PRICES. Agents for the Chambenburg Woolen Manufac turing Company. Apl l:ly J) w. CROUSE, • DEALER R* CIG YRS, TOBACCO, PIPES. AC., Piti street one door oast of Goo. K. o*ter C/S Store. Bedford, PA., is NOW prepared *■' #11 by wholesale ail kinds of CIGARS. All orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything ia hi* iin-i will do well to give him a call. Oct 1&. _ JOHN LUTZ. JulUor auuntry. Orders by mail promptly filled. All etters should be addressed to JOHN LITSL ; 3 it oca I ant) (General Jletospaper, Deboteti to gjotties, KINK n i > t Most unique among temperance docu ments is one, under the above title, written by James I'arton, and p-uUi-hed in the August number of the Atlantic Monthly. Leaving the moral and religious aspects of the temperance question to the considera tioo of others. Mr. Barton discusses it on purely physical grounds. A--timing as true no doobtful or disputed positions, pnsum ing to settlo no point on which doctors —ot Divinity or Medicine—dbagree, resting his argument entirely upon phenomena patent to all who-e habits of observation and study are such as to entitle them to the possession of opinions on the subject, be makes out a case, again-t even the moderate use of spir ituou- and intoxicating liquors, which we believe to be unanswerable, and which can not be without beneficial influence upon very many young men who are hopefully looking forward to a life of successful activity. Mr. Barton's Utopian age is that in which man shall thoroughly understand the laws of his physical being; and bia "coating man" is he who, with an intelligent knowledge of these laws, shall strive, in obedience *o them, tc attain the highest type of physical and intellectual manhood. He believe*that reasoning nten, when asked to relinquish a pleasure, or what they believe to be a pleasure, need only to be convinced that it is best they should. "By and by. be says, "we shall ail comprehend that when a per son means to r> f - m his lite, the very first thing for him todo—the .Ling preliminary and most iodispeusable—will be to cease violating physical laws." When this time comes, people will not submit to be poisoned with vitiated air in'public assembly-rooms, "they will tear up the benches, if necessary; they will throw things on the stage; they wiil knock a bole in the wall; they will have the means of breathing, or perish in the struggle;" they will not allow their children to Ire killed off by thousands by the "dis eases of childhood" (so-called) which arise from lung poison; and they will not indulge in wine or strong drink. We all know that excess is hurtful, but each man expects to be moderate. We all know that adulterated liquors are injarious, but each flatters himself that he obtains the pure article. "Is the thing itself pernicious? —pure wine taken in moderation? good beer? genuine old Bourbon?" This: question Mr. Barton undertakes to answer. We cannot fol'ow hint through Lis very able and lucid argument and illustration; but will briefly state a few of his conclusions : "Alcoholic liquor- cannot be nourLhmtut, in the ordinary acceptation of that word, because the quantity of nutritive matter in them so email. . . If, therefore, t the.-* beverages do us good, it is not by | supplying the body with nourishment. "Nor can they aid digestion by assisting to decompose food Several ex periments have been made with a view to ascertain whether mixing alcohol with the gastric-juice increases err lessens its power to decompose food, ani the results of all of theta point to the conclusion that the alco hoi retards the process of decomposition. ' A little aJcobol retards it a little, and much alcohol retards it much. It has been proved by repeated experiment, that any portion of alcohol, however small, diminishes the pow er of the gastric juice to decompose. "Xor is it a heat producing fluid. On the contrary, it appears, in ail eases, to diminish the efficiency of the heat-prodocing process. Most of us, who live here in the North, and who are occasionally subjected to extreme cold for hours at a time, know this by personal experience; and all the i Arctic voyagers attest it. BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDiV. NOV. 27- I*6B. "Stiil Less is alcohol a strength giver. Every man that ever trained for a supreme exertion of strength knows that Tom Sayers spoke the truth when he said: 'l'm no teetotaler; but when I've any bu-iness todo, there's nothing iike water and the dumb j bells.' RichatdCobJen, whose powers were subjected to a far severer trial than a pugi list ever dreamed of, whose labors by night . and day, during the corn-law struggle, were excessive and continuous beyond those of any other member of the House of* Com mons. bears similar testimony : 'The more work I have had to do, the more I have re sorted to ihe pump and the teapot.' On this branch of the subject, al' the testimony is against alcoholic drinks. Whenever the point has been tested—and it has often been tested—the truth lias been confirmed, that he who w< u!d do his very best and most, whether in rowing, lifting, running, watch ing, mowing, climbing, fighting, speaking, or writing, must not admit into bis system ; one diop of alcohol. "\\ eall know that when we drink alcohol tc liquor, it affects the brain immediately. Most of us are aware, too, that it affects the , brain injuriously, lessening at once its pow er to discern and discriminate Take two glasses of wine, and then imme dlately apply yourself to the hardest task j your mind ever has to perform, and you w ill find you cannot do it. Let any student, ju-t before be sits down to his mathematics, ; drink a pint of the purest beer, and he will be painfully conscious of loss of power. Or, i ' let any salesman, before beginning wirh n difficult but important customer, perform the idiotic action of'taking a drink, and he will soon discover that his ascendency over ' his customer is impaired. In some way this alcohol, of which we are so fond, gets ito the brain and injures it. We are eon- ■ scious of this, and we can observe it. It is among the wine-drinking classes of our fel low-beings, absurd, incomplete, and reac tionary ideas prevail. The receptive, the ; curious, the candid, the trustworthy brains . —those that do not take th'mgs for granted, j and yet are ever open to conviction -such heads are to be found on the shoulders ol , men who drink little or none of these seduc tive fluids AH that has yet been ascertained of the effects of alcohol by the dissection of the body favors the extreme position of the extreme teetotalers. A brain j ; alcoholized the ntiereecopa proves to be a brain diseased. Blood which has absorbed . alcohol is unhealthy blood—the microscope | shows it. The liver, the heait, and other \ organ", which have been accustomed to ah- j sorb alcohol, all give testimony under the microscope wbieb produces discomfort in the mind of one who likes a glass of wine : an J hopes to be able to continue the enjoy ment of it." As a mtdicine, in ease of certain disease#, Mi Part OB thinks that alcohol may be used with benefit. All disease is the result ola violation (personalor ancestral) of nature's laws, to ward off, for a time, the conse quences of which, poison may be used. In eon-utnption. alcohol prevents ihe waste of muscular tissue, and may prolong life, and "in a few instances of intermittent disease, a small quantity of wine may sometimes enable a patient who is at the low tide of vitality to anticipate the turn of the tide, and borrow of four o'clock enough of five o'clock's strength to enable him to reach five o'clock. With regard to this daily drinking of wine and whiskey, by ladies and others, for mere debility, it is a delu sion. In such eases wine is, in the most liserul sense of the word, a wock> !*. It seems to nourish, bnt does not; it seems to warm, but does not, it seems to strengthen, but does not: it Is an arrant cheat and per petuates the evils it Ls supposed to alleyi- In our social life wine plays an important part, beeau o cur social life is a constant warfare again.-t our physical nature. The kinds and. quantities 0) food which society; eats, and the times at which it eats it; the ! hours it keeps and the air it breathes, ren der stimulants seemingly necessary to sus tain its energies. S.i indeed with the mer chant who overworks bis brain, or the me chanic who demands of his muscles a grea ter labor than they can sustain. A'coh, i enables us, if we use it with caution, to draw a mortgage on our future powers (but at a t< rrible rate of interest) to meet a presnt emergency, or, for a time, to ward off do served punishment. This seems to ' itidi- : cute the real office of alcohol in our tn> i rn life: it enables ns to violate the laws of na ture without immcdiatesuffermganJ speed destruction. This appears to be its ehief office, in conjuction with its ally, tobacco." But the "coming man" will not violate! the Saws of his body. He "will not drink wine when he is well. It will be also an j article of his religion not to commit any of those sioa against his body, the con-queu- j ces of which can be postponed by drinking wine. He will hold his body in veneration. He will feel all the turpitude and shame of violating it. He will not acquire the grea test intellectual good hy the smallest bodily 10-s. He will know that mental acquisitions j gained at the expenses of physical power or 1 prowr-s are not culture, but effeminacy. He will honor a rosy and stalwart ignoramus, who is also an honest man, faithfully stand i ing at his post; but he will start back with affright aiui indignation at the spectacle of a pal i i philosopher. The Coming Man, I am firmly persuaded, will not drink wine, nor any other stimulating fluid. If by chance he should be sick, he will place him self in the bands of the Coming Doctor, and i take whatever is prescribed. The impres sion is strong upon my mind, after reading almost all there is in print on the subject, and conversing with many physftians, that the Coming Doctor will give his patients alcoholic mixtures about as often as he will give them laudanum, and in doses of about the same magnitude, reckoned by drop.-." ONE after the other the States of the Union arc adopting universal suffrage, until at the present time we find that colored men vote absolutely in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Ma achusetts, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska. Ten nessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mis souri. Arkansas and West Virginia, nineteen States. Iu New York and New Jersey col orcd men are now allowed to vote under cer tain property qualifications. In Texas, Mis flssippi and Virginia when admitted, they must vote by the terms of the reconstruction acts. A WOMAN of miscellaneous affection says she would rather have six husbands than one child. NASBY. The residential Election—The News Beanes Kentucky—The X Bonds in Moaning. Porr>ms, Conpetirlt X Roabji (Wich is in tlnStnte) uv Kentucky, Nov. 5, 1868. -Bad rws travels fast. We hev beerd from er.-ff of the States to know that the butchvrSrant—he which wunst afore stood in the lay of the Confederacy—ht z been elected President, and that Seymore and Blare. :*e glorious standard bearers, hev defeatw ignominiously. This uds it! This finishes it! There is no longr hope for Dimocrisy. Our starts sot in gloom. Never .-hei I forgit the ghastly appearance of Dccktn Pogram's face, < z ihe fatal nooze was told him. A single tar roiled from his left eye, down his turrowd cheek—it glittered for a brief mo ment ot the tip uv hi- Lt illy ant nose, and plunge* off iuto space! How like our hopes! Never a word sed he, but sadly bet'kond m L> fol!er_ Sadly he walked to cli sequently degraded by earniti hi® own livin —hi® hands will pass out to Peek in Pogram the paper wich the Corners takes? Tin- Dtekin, tz he thought uv this, Lust into tcers aein. "I shel scop that paper," sez he, "and the Corners -!ie! g 0 back into the darknis uv ignorance. I shel never agin go for a letter —nor will I ever hev one written ; fot me t > anybody. When a Ablishn (aee is at the general delivery, I shclstop patern j izin the Post OS®!" Will the new Administration deprive a whole community uv a paper merely to give ne uv it< supporters a posishun ? We shel i see. Hut I ■Mod end. or tho 1 -s of my posishen | —for principle I kin look uiartcrdom square | ly in the face —but 1 -ee other and more ter -1 rible results fvllowin the catastrophe. Wat uv the uig.zers? Wat uv a- f We -hel hev r.t our poles, all uv the black cusses tho live htwr < ti here and (Jarrettsiown, a voiimz reglertz though they wuz white mi n. We she! hev em dctilin the sacred i ballet-box cz tho they wuz not uv a eussid race. Ise • dark lines afore our poor State. They will hereafter hold the land wich they hev bought, and they will increase and rnul tiply. Pollock will buy their prodoose and they will work and get money. This money they will lend to us—for we must hev it to sustain life—and they will take mortgages onto our land. (When [-ay our, I mean IIV kin IVgraui and sieh.) Ez we never Work ourselves, and will not hev, under the pri sent arrangement, the means uv eompel i lio the lab r nece sarv to our support, we kin never pay; and tho result will be. this ! beautiful land uv ouro, wich we so deerly j : love, will pas® out uv the hands uv the stronger and L. iter race into the control uv a weaker and less powerful people. The l> -'kin was remarkin suthin to thi® effect, when Joe B'gler remarkt in reply, that the Deekin bed better throw himself i onto the .-sympathy of his sons. "Why, they can't work any more than I j kin," aed the Deekin. "I don't mean yoor poor white son- !"' ■ sed this terrible Higler. " Tiny ain't nv no | akkonnr. But in the nigger settlement at Garret tstown, ou hev more than twenty who wood—" The poor Deekin rushed out uv the room while liiglor lal't his most feendish laff. The people will be deprived uv their inno eeut arnooscnient®. Thi® Grant will send on armed hirelins, clothed iu ojusbloo, with muskets and sieh, who will prevent our ■hootin niggers, and who will perfect on ther farms and in ther shops the ojus Nor therners who have settled in our midst. We shel e the gellorious Southern system de cline .-tidily and shoorly. The whippin i posts will rot, and the stox will decay—the yelp uv dorgs will no more be heerd. and the cheerful crack nv the pistol and the -hreek uv the man what has got his gruel, will uo more be heerd in all the land. Bas eom, after he hez the few farms still un mortgaged in th vicinity, will close and go to Looisville, and embark into a wholesale grosery trade and jine the church, and give ■ tibrallv to Sundy skools; his grosery will fall into decay and the sine will hang by one hinge. We shel see churches and skool houses, facrrys and vikges every where. The Pogram place uv 2,000 akers will be divided up into twenty farms, and on them farms trill be thebusilin Noo Yorker, the cool, caleulatin Yankee, the stiddy, hard workin German —who will display his grovelin naeher bv workin himself, instidof forein niggers to do it ior him. Wc shel be run over with skoolmarms, deluged with acade mies, plastered over with noosepapers, stunned with machinery, drove crazy by the whirr, crash and ek.-h uv inowin machines j and reapers. And there will be cheese made at the Corners, Bennibacker's distil lery wi;l be turned into a cheese factry. and weak whey will run wher now the genrous high wines flash along the troughs. Ther will be no rectify in at the Corners—the hog pens will be abolished, and in ther sted will be skool houses. And methings I see in my mind's eye, Horasho, the sperit, the ghost uv the departed Pogram (for be wont sur vive it long), a boverin over the scene, ex Ham lick's father did. The blessed shade wiil look in vain for his house—en the spot wher it stood will he an academy. He will turn to Bascom's, but ther he will find a deestrict skule. "To Pennibacker's I" he will gasp in a sperit whisper, and with a speritooal smack uv his spiritooal lips he will hover over it, but the smell uv eheese in the place uv the streugtbin odors iu wich he ddites, will send a spiritooal shudder thro him. A gost uv a tear will ruu down his spiritooal nose, linger for a ujinnit at the tip like a dew drop on the rose, and fall! Then will the dissatisfied gost demand to be tukt tt baek to purgatory, a place less tryin to bis nerves. Deekin Pograut hez only britoned up wunst. A thot flashed over l>t3 tuind wich gave him comfort for a minuit. "Isn't ther a Booth for Grant ez ther wuz for Linkin?" askt he. "Ah !" sed lin alarm, "wood you kill Grant to hev Colfax in his place? We mite kill Colfax, say you, Alai ! sposn they'd elect Sumner cz President uv the Senit. Kill Sumner ? GoudLord, no ! They'd tb n elect Butler Speeker uv the house, ani he cant't be killed. No ! No! We hed better bear the ills we hev than to fly to them we know not uv. Its gone. All is up with me and us. I shel stay in Ken tucky for the present, tho wat may become uv me the Lord only knows. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. M., (Wich is Postmaster.) AKT AT THE CAPITAL. NATIONAL PICTURES AND STATUTES. Mr. G. A. Townsend, in bis last letter to the Cleveland Leader , gives the following art gossip; L'.utze is the author of the most ambitious picture in the country, the ' Westward Ho!" It was not overpaid for at $20,1100, and expresses tolerably well a representative episode of emigration toward the Pueifie. Wagons in train are laboring up the mountains, with pioneers tugging ahead, and from the crest of a pass they see the ocean, when the sunset gilds the air and the peaks, and dogs, and babies and sick women sitting upon their baggages, thrill with the strong and exquisite beauty of na ture and the nearness of a home. Itis much easier to discourage the art we have than to make a better one. We have not passed much beyond mathematics and chemistry in historical art; but this piece by Leutze for general national effect is well cal culated and good enough, it Is better than any of the panels in Westminster Palace and not much worse than a good deal of the mil itary truck at Versailles. It is too Teuton ic. But the cheerful patriot, coming to see it, exclaims that this is indeed a great coun try, and wants to entertain the artist for a week at his borne. lirumidi. who has painted a large picture in the eye of the dome, ot unequal power but still effective, received $40,000 for it. He was at, work only eleven months, but there is nobody in America who ean do this - >rt of giffintic painting under a horizontal surface. He worked with great white wash brushes and with great rapidity. The pie ture is about as effective as any dome de "igns are, not much worse than that within the dome at Florence, brilliant enough for our domestic patriotism, and naked enough for an Italian's understanding of art. Bru mi li has property here and does very well for a grandiose Bohemian, but Leutze work ed irregularly, and was. I think, poor. As to the men. the last was a soldier, friend, and fellow citizen. Brumidi is a natural ized comet, striking pots pell mell. Clark, the architect, wants the latter to paint a frit-ze halt' way up the walls of the d one. The Signor wants $70,000 for it! It had better be well done, once for all. The new bronze doors for the Senate side of the Capitol are undergoing casting, I have heard, at Ames' factory in Massachu -. tts; those of the House side, so much ad mit ed, were cast in Munich; they weigh twenty thousand pounds apiece and cost to gether SOO,oOO. In the House door, Rog ers, the artist, himself as Bartholomew t'o lutubus and his wife as Beatriz de Bobadiila. This is a pleasing private freak of the artist, quite in place fcceause he was unable to find portraits of the originals, and altogether praiseworthy, as compared with a foreign artist here, who is said to have painted his mi-tress, his wife and Washington into the same composition, after the manner of the socialists who set a cyprian behind the altar of a church as the Gixldess of Reason. The great sitting figure of Washington, in the park, by Grenough, was brought across the water in a speeial government ship, mer chant vessels being unwilling to take it It cost $25,000. This and the huge group called "Civilization," are the chief pieces of the unfortunate artist, who was sensitive enough to have had genius. He was ex tremely anxious and conscientious, but one may have both of these without power. Al together this Washington is a fine study, outraged by the nation which has set it na ked in ail its Roman inappoaiteness out in the rain, whereas it was meant to stand un- 1 dci the dome where it ought to be now. The most admired objects in the Capitol are among the oldest. Among these is Franzoni s cloak, where History in a chari ot, looking d*wn on Congress, writes, and the chariot wheel is an actual clock. There [ is a picture of Winfk-ld Scott hgre, on one of j the stairways, that is not Government prop erty, and another of Washington, by Rem- j braudt Peale, both of which have been here j long enough to have lost their title. Pow- j era received twenty thousand dollars for res-1 pective statues of Jefferson and Franklin ; here, and Stone fourteen thousand for bi9 Hancock and Hamilton. Walker was paid ( six thousand for a painting of the stoiming ■ of Chapultepee. The statuary here, aluy j gether, cost not muob above S:KX),OOQ. A W ESTERS editor, in response to a sub scriber who grumbles that his morning paper was intolerably damp, says, "that it is because there is so much due on it." A WESTERN editor, when in durance for libelling a justice of the peace, wa requested by the jailor to give the prison a favorable notice, vol.. 41: JTO. 45 THE SODA DIKTKICT OF MEXICO. This singular region contains 720 square miles of territory, the soda or 'tequisquite,' as it is generally called in that country, be ing chiefly deposited cn the lowlands by the lake of Tezcueo, about six miles from the city of Mexico, and which sometimes over flows up to its gates. It appears that the mud of this lake contains four per cent, of soda, and the vater itself gives the following results at one degree Beaume, with a density of 1,0060: Water, 98,800; chloride of soda, 0,970, carbonate of soda, 0,486, and sulphate of soda, 0,0.>4. The efflores cent soda deposited upon the lands referred to is to be found in much more considerable quantities during the winter or dry season in Mexico than during the summer, when the diurnal rains wash much of it away, nor can it be collected during the latter season as the water soaks in the soil, but upon the return of the dry weather, the rays of the sun evaporating the moisture upon the sur ! face, that left below gradually rises; and by | this natural process the salts are consoiida ! ted, forming a rru.-t, generally about one I centimetre thick. Foraetimes, also, the t efflorescence may be produced by ploughing j up and afterwards watering the soil. The ! efflorescence begins to be observable at the ! end of autumn, its white and crumbling, flakes concentrating themselves by the action j of the winter frosts into the crust above re- j ferred to, and which is composed of two de_ j scriptions of soda, called by the natives of ! the districts around "cMearillo" and "po! viilo," and which are scraped up and de posited in cellars for immediate sale or for putrifaetion on the spot. The soda which is obtained from the wa ters of the lake themselves is generally not perceivable uutil a considerable evaporation of them has taken place, when it appears upon the surface of them in the form of a frothy substance, for the obtaining of which the waters of the lake are dammed up into pools, as soon as they begin to retire, by ! heaping up mounds of earth around them. The simple mode of proceeding hitherto: pursued by the natives of the country for I the separation of the soda and the common j 1 salt from the other substances, and which is still pursued in the most remote silitrous lands of the country, has been replaced in other places by other means for attaining the same ends suggested by chemical sciences I and modern discoveries. The old system consists in diluting and filtering the silitrous earth reserved to, and which is placed in large pans formed of the earth from which ' the "tequisquit" has beenalreadyextracted, which branches of trees are placed crossways and entwined with rushes or "petate," a kind of grass used for matting, so as to stop the earthy particles and sul phate of soda from going through, the pan being pierced at the bottom so as to admit of the passing through of the water, which being conducted by means of a hollow reed or of a maguey into tanks, evaporation is effected by the action of the air and sun, or by means of artificial heat when the water is conducted into boilers. The salineros who conduct the salt works convey the water to the height of twelve i inches into troughs of masonry, the time i consumed in the process of crystallization naturaily depends upon the temperature of | the atmosphere or other meteorological ' causes; but it is calculated that, the solu ' tion being at 18 degrees to 20 degrees Beaume, and the water being from two and a half to three inches in depth, crystalliza tion takes place in four da>s in summer and eight in winter. The earthly particles con tained in the water are cleared out of the trough as soon as they appear; the chloride of sodium then crystallizes and forms a "crust" of about a centiameter thick, and adheres to the bottom of the trough; the sa line particles then forming themselves into small heaps as tie water dries up, being finally spread out to dry and harden in the sun. THE POWER OFEELICIOS. There is no duty, no study, no pleasure, no society, no attachment, from which the principles and sentiments of true religion should be ektiuded. Our ordinary labors, public, or private, official, professional, or handicraft; our studying in every departmet; all innocent, genial, and gladsome pur suit, tempered by reason, ai! our attach ments and affections to family, friends and country will be the better, the purer, and the happier for the presence and the influence of true and happy piety. They do not know aright the mind or the heart of the man who would trust to either, apart from the influences of religion. They know not what the Christian religion is, who imagine that she comes into mind or heart to {quench any noble aspiration, any generous feeling, any patriotic devotion, any sweet and tender family or friendly affection. She comes to quicken, to deepen, to elevate them all -to give new life to everything within us that is worthy of living. As, therefore, there is no real and sound religion which is not illus trated by brotherly love and Christian fel lowship, so let us also remember that there is no pure, or safe, or happy fellowship which does not rest or move on Christian principle. That there may be true fellow ship with one another, there must be fel lowsbip with God and with bis iSon, Jesus Christ. The work of his grace is not to discharge or extract, but renew and sanctify the humanity that iswiihin us, and to re store us to that imago of God in which, as men, we were created. While we are in this worid we mst work, and feel, and live as men. But the Christian knows and feels that, of religion—or rather of Him whom religion teaches us to love and trust—it is the peculiar office to hallow aad purify all the best of what is human by the presence and power ol what is divine. If we thus pass on through the course of our pilgrimage, trusting, working, loving, in such fellowship ! ' as this, we may be enabled to say— So shail no part of day or night, From •acredness be free. And all my work, at every step, Be fellowship with thee. —Lord. Ardmillan, of Scotland. "KATE!" cried a girl, looking down from 1 the upjier story of a grocery, addressing ; another girl who was trying to enter at the 1 front door, "we've all been to camp tteetin' and been converted, so when yon want anything on Sunday, you'll have to come round to the kitchen door." "MA&Y, ia your master at home?" "No, sir, he's out." "I don't believe it." "Well, then, he'll come down and tell yon hisaelf. Perhaps you will believe him " RATES OF AJD VEIiTIFI All i|frt rd other Judicial eale*, ere retired by lew U, be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notices Id cent* per line. All Advertising doe efterflrat in-erlion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertiser*. 3 moots. A month*. I year One square..., S4M t 6.0' #IO.OO Tee squares 15.00 -ol> 10.06 Three square. 8.00 13.06 30 S One-fourth column..—.- 11.90 20.00 '3.60 Half column 10.00 .0o * " One etaiumo SO.OO 45.4K- 00 PLEASANT HOMES. Parent*, strive to make your hone* p •*- sant and attractive ! If you wouiu have your children grow up pure, healthy ami beautiful, attempt not to destroy tbeir love for beautiful things, and for healthy recrea tion. Do not labor with such cold rigid, self denying economy to hoard up tt ney to bestow upon tbem at your death, fatter de vote a portion of your surplus income to embellishing and beautifying your dwellings and to furnish your girls and boya w-th the means of home enjoy ment. Introdin ■* into your family circle innocent amusements, aud above all, yourselves join and assist the young in their recreations and plans lor so cial diversion. Teach tbein that most beautiful aDd soul inspiring accomplishment music; allow them to mingle in the graceful and health-giving dance, to romp, laugh and be merry. Many parent* will crush with a fr< wn every attempt, at hilarity on the pa:? o* Übeir children, tbey will banish all ia.ii"- I tuout and gayety from the family circle, and ! cause a shade of gloom to settle over their homes. What is the course of the children of such parents ? To escape from tho op pressive atmosphere of home becomes tho governing motive of ail their action". When away from the immediate care of their parents tbey will secretly go to place* wluch they have been forbidden to visit, and mingle with children with whom they bavo been told not to associate; then they will im mediately become more hardened, and plunge deeper and deeper into the sea of forbidden pleasures, and resort to falsehood to shield themselves from detection; and after they have taken this step their down ward course is straight and rapid. They frequent drinking shops, smoke and swear, associate with fast young men, soon become "fast,'' themselves, and at last cause the hoary heads of their parents to boar is ior row. Are not such parents in a measure, t" sponsible for the sins of their children The young will have enjoyment, and if they cannot find it at Lome they will seek k el-c wht re in doubtful places and in doubtful company. They are full of vital ity and gayety; they have an ungovernable desire for amusement and social intercourse, and that desire must be gratified, legiti mately it may be, or illegitimately. Attempt to suppress it and you will ruin your chil dren; direct it in the proper channel, and you will cause them to grow up boppy aud contented into the best and noblest of tnen and women. One half of the depraved aud abandoned men and women of this country have been made what they are by their parents. Through ignorance and superstition they have been driven from their homes, which to them should lie the most attractive places on earth, to seek the street "by the forbid den paths," for that recreation which is es sential to their very existence. You who have children to train up. think of this 1 Devote a Portion of your time and money to gratifying their love for social amusement. If you do not get rich quite as fast, if you, perchance, do not die a mil lionaire, what matters it ? You iii be compensated a hundred fold for the pecu niary loss by the joy and pleasure you will experience by seeing your children gin* up noble and virtuous, honored and respected by those around them.—DI'SNELL. Livix; BY RULE. Living by rule, as a Medo-Persian law, inflexible, is very unwise, especially if a person is in reasonable health. We have given a great multitude of counsels on the subject of health and disease, and in con nection with the statement that we have not lost an hour front our office on account of sickness ia a quarter of a oentuty and more, many have inquired, with ag< >1 deal of interest, "Do you live up to the ruU-syou give others? ' Certainly not; man is not a machine, that must be turned in a certain direction, or it will bo destroyed ; nor like a locomotive, which must tun on one fixed track, or not run at all. The Architect, of all worlds made us for acting under a great variety of circumstances, and in infinite wisdom and benevolence has given to man a mechanism of wonderful adaptability, by which be can live healthfully on land or *: in the valley or on the mountain top; in the tropics or at the poles; on the barren locks or in the rich savannas. Our modes of life tnust.be adapted to our age, our occupation and the peculiarities of our constitution. There are certain genera! principles which arc applicable to all. Every man should ba regular in his habits of eating; should have all the sound sleep which nature will -ate; should be in the open air an hour or two every day, when practicable, aßd should have a pleasurable and an encouragingly re munerative Occupation, which keeps him a little pushed, and they are happiest who are in this last category; at the same time, if a man accustoms himself to go to bed at nine o'clock, he need not break his neck or get into a stew if circumstances occur to keep him up an hour or two later now and then; and so with eating, exereise and many other things. No one oagh: to make himself a galley slave to any observance; occasional de viations from all habits are actually bene ficial; they impart a pliability to the con stitution, give it a greater range of health ful action. Don't go into a fit if dinner is not ready at the instant. Deliver us from a machine man, a routinist, "for which wo ever pray. ' — Haltt Journal of Health. DEAD AS HOIK A DAY. —There was a lad who, at fourteen, was apprenticed to a soap dealer. One of his resolutions was to read an hour a day, or at least at that tale, and he had an old silver watch, left him by his uncle, which he timed his reading by. He stayed seven years with his master, and said when he was twenty-one he km . as much as the young squire did. Now i.-t a* see how much time he had to read in, in seven years, at the rate of one hour each day. It would be 2,555 hours, which at the I rate of eight reading hours per day, would ! be equal to three hundred and ten days; ; equal to forty-five weeks; nearlly a year's ! reading. That time spent in treasurii gup | useful knowledge would pile up a very large ; store. I am sure it is worth trying for ; Try what you can do. Begin now. J>> af i ter years you will look back upon the task ' as the most pleasant and profitable you ever performed. "CAUGHT in her own net," as the man said when he saw one of the fair sex hitcheu in her crinoline.