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The law proceeds upon the ground that a man must pay for what.be uses. 5. the courts have decided that refusing to taka newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is prima jaria evidence of intentional fraud. grofrssitwal & pStujiausis €ardjs. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. JOHN T- KEAGY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Reed A Schell's Bank. Couatel given in English and German. [apl26] G-IMMELL AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BRDVOBD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the praetice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 18M-tf Tyj. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services jo the public* Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. jaF-Collections promptly made. [Pec.9,'64-tf. J r AYES IRVINE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness intrusted to his care. Office with (1. H. 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Collections made on the shortest no tice. lie i, also, regularly licensed Claim Agent and ml gie special attention to the prosecution '>ii s against the Government for Pensions, •Back I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the ' Mengel House" April 28, lS65:t BT 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 souri and Kansas. July 12:tf B. L. RUSSELL J. X. LORSEBECKER RUSSELL A LONGENECKER, ASTTOBNETS A CODBSELLORS 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. on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Aprils:lyr. 1- M'D. SHARP! K. F. KKBR SHARPE A KERR, A TTORNE YS-A T-LA W. 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JOB PRINTING: ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH, AND IN THE LATEST & MOST APPROVED STYLE, BDCHAB POSTERS OF ANY SIZK, CIRCULARS, BUSINESS CARDS, WEDDING AMD VISITING CARDS, | BALL TICKETS, PROGRAMMES, CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, SEGAR LABELS, RECEIPTS, LEGAL BLANKS, PHOTOGRAPHER'B CARDS, BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, PAMPHLETS, PAPER BOOKS, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. Omr facilities for doing ail kinds of Job Printing are equalled by very few establishments in the oountry. Orders by mail promptly filled. All ' 1 letters should be addressed to I i 1 i JOHN LOTS. i JtJfcocal ant) Smetal ilrtospaprr, Orbotrb to politics, education, literature - anti iSorals Bebforb Inquirer. DEPARTMENT REPORTS. ■Post Office Department Report, DEAD LETTER OFFICE. The whole number of dead letters of all classes received during the year which ended 30th June last, by actual count, was 4,162,- 144, showing a decrease ot 144,304 letters from the number estimated to have been re ceived during the previous year. Of these letters, 3,995,060 were domestic letters; 167, 078 were foreign, and were returned uno pened to countries where they originated. The domestic letters received may be stated as fallows: Ordinary dead letters, 3,029,461; drop and hotel letters, 522, 677; unmailable, •>63, S9B; fictitious addresses, 9,190; regis tered letters, 3,282; returned from foreign countries, 66,558. In the examination of domestic dead letters for disposition, 1,736,- 801 were found to be either not susceptible of being returned or of no importance, cir culars, &c., and were destroyed, about 333,- 000 more were destroyed after an effort to return them —mating about 51 per cent, destroyed. The remainder were classified and returned to the owners as far as prac ticable, The whole number sent from the office was 2,258,195, of which about 84 per ceut were delivered to owners, and 10 per cent, were returned to the Department; 18,- ] 340 letters contained $95,169 52, in sums of $1 and upward, of which 10,061 letters, containing $86,638 00. were delivered to owners, and 2,124 containing $7,862 36 were filed or held for disposition; 14,082 contained $3,430 68 in sums of less than sl, of which | 12,513, containing $3,120 70 were delivered j I 10 owners; 17,750 contained drafts, deeds I and other papers of value, representing the : ; value of $3,609,271 80, of these 10,809 were : restored to the owners, and.B2l were return- ' I ed and filed; 13,964 contained books, jewelry | and other articles of property, of the estima | ted value of $8,500, of these 11, 489 were ! forwarded for delivory, and 9,911 were de-> livered to their owners; 125,221 contained \ photographs, postage stamps, and articles I of small value, of which 114,666 were de-: livered to owners; 2,068,842 without inclo- ' sures. Thus, of the ordinary dead letters : forwarded from this office, about 84 per 1 cent, were delivered, and of the valuable dead letters, (classed as money and minor) about 89 per ceut. were delivered. The de crease of money letters received (about 3,- 000) is probably owiug to the growing use of money orders for the transmission of small sums. Prominent among the of the non-delivery of letters is the unmaila i hie character of mauy of them, ascertained | during the past year to be 363,898 letters, , showing a decrease of 79,888 the pre- < vious year. Of these 290,448 were detained for non-payment of postage, 58,387 returned for misdirection or want of proper address, j 13.4• 0 were addressed to places for which no mail service had been established, and ■ 1,593 had no address whatever. There \ , were also returned 23,425 letters addressed j to persons stopping temporarily at hotels, , departures or non arrivals preventing do- ( livery, and 9,190 letters found to be addres- , sed to fictitious names. These are mostly | • cases where the causes of the non delivery i j appear from the letters themselves, and no . effort was made to deliver them. The num- i bcr of dead letters returned during the year , to foreign countries was 184,183, and the j number received from foreign countries was < 66,558. It further appears that out of 4,- j J 606.073 letters mailed to the United States i , through British French and German mails, I ( 120,866 —or 2 93-100 per cent. —were re- j t turned to Europe as dead letters, and out of , 5,401,986 letters forwarded from this eoun- , try through those mails, 30,970—0r 57 per , cent.—were returned as dead letters, show ing an extraordinary discrepancy between the proportion of dead letters received from j Europe and the proportion returned from the United States to European countries. This difference is doubtless largely owing to * causes existing in this country which do not L operate in the same proportion in Europe. ' The geographical extent of the Unitod 5 States and Territories, as yet largely unset- j ' tied, the constant arrival of emigrants in ; ] search of new homes in remote regions, and the continual changing of places of abode 1 ' in a sparsely settled country, all operate to increase the difficulty in the delivery of for- ; ' eign letters. There, were received at this office during the fiscal year, 5,459 applica tions for letters, of which 1,151 were ans- ; ( wcred satisfactorily, the letters applied for being found. About one-third of tbese ap- j plications were for ordinary letters without ' inclosures, no record of them being kept, and search for them being useless. The , ' amount ofmoney taken from all dead letters J undelivered since last report, and deposited * in the United States Treasury, was $27,907 ' ! 71. The amount realized from sales of j ' waste paper and deposited was $1,280 42. i ( Statement of letters received and disposed of din ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868: Domestic letters received, 3,0:29,461; domestic drop letters received, 499,252; un mailable letters received, 363,898; hotel let ters received, 23,425; fictitious letters re ceived, 9,190; registered letters received, 3,- 282; domestic letters returned from foreign countries 66,558. Total domestic letters received, 3,995,006; foreign letters received, 167,078. Whole number of letters received, 4,162,144. Domestic letters for disposition 3,995,066. Letters sent out by return let ter division, 2,210,620; letters sent out by money letter division 18,340; letters sent out by minor letter division 17,750; letters sent out by property letter division 11.489. Number of original letters destroyed 1,736,- 867; number of return letters destroyed, 333.2S6 —the whole number destroyed, 2,- 070,153. Of Domestic letters for disposi tion 51 per cent, destroyed. Whole number of letters sent out 2,258,199. Return let ters received and destroyed. 333,286; articles of small value, photographs, Ac., filed, 12,- 400 money letters filed 2,124, minor letters filed, 821; property letters filed, 2,578. Total delivered to owners, 1,906,990. Of doaiestio letters for disposition 56 per cent, were sent out. Of letters sent out S4 per cent, are delivered; of letters sent out 16 per cent, are returned. Request Letters. —Number returned to wri ters by postmasters, as reported by 410 offi ces, 60,690; number returned from dead let ter office, 12,803, Total, 73,493. Return Letter L his ion. —Letters returned to writers. 2,210,620; "return" letters re ceived and destroyed, 333,286. Total de livered to writers, 1,877,334. Money let ters containing sums less than $1,14,082, inclosing $3,436 68; number delivered to BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, DEC. 25 18687 writers, 12,51.1; inclosing $3,120 70; number returned and filed, 1,569, inclosing $315 98; letters containing articles of small value, photographs, fco., sent out, 125,221; num ber returned and filed, 10,555, number de livered to writers, 114,666. Monty Letter Division. —Reoeived for dis position, 17,589 letters, containing $86,263 02; registered for disposition, 751 letters, containing $8,033 50; total received, 18,340 letters, containing $86,638 66; filed and held for disposition, 2,124 letters, containing $7,562 36; 10.-t, 31 letters, containing $143 50; outstanding, 124 letters, containing $552. Of money letters 87 per cent were delivered to owners. Minor Letter Division. —Received and sent out 17,750 letters, nominal value $3,- 009,271 80; delivered to owners 16,809 let ters; filed and for disposition 821 letters; outstanding 120 letters. Of minor letters 1 90 percent were delivered to owners. Property Division. —Received 13,964 let ters and packages, probable value $8,500; letters and packages sent out, 11,489; letters and packages delivered, 9,911; letters an I packages unclaimed, 1,578; letters and packages filed and destroyed, 2,475; num ber of packages ef jewelry, 1,130; miscella neous articles, books, &c., 4.539; number of unmailable letters received and disposed of 387,323; held for postage, 290,448; misdirec ted, 58,387; no mail service, 13,437; blank, 1,590; hotel, 23,425. Abstract of the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary congratulates the country that the national finances are in a good con dition, aud that the nation has not suffered from an expensive credit system, based on a too redundant currency. Economy in pub. lie and private business interests has divert ed industry into healthy channels, and he believes that with proper financial legisla tion, in tho revision of the tariff and the modification of certain portions of the In ternal Revenue laws, the path to specie payments may be reached, though he is op posed to naming by legislation any time for resuming, and declares that nothing can be gained by a forced resumption. The funding of the publie debt he regards as one step toward resumption. The report shows that up to date, of the seven thirty bonds $827,629,350 have been funded into five-twenty six per cent, bonds; of the first series, $299,565,700 ; second series, $330,- 488,200 ; third series, $197,875,450. This leaves, on the Ist of December, of the out standing 7-30 notes but $2,363,150. The floating indebtedness in the shape of Com pound Interest notes which became due be tween the 10th of June, 1867, and the 16th of October, IsGS, have not all been redeem ed; but many have been received in ex change for the three per cent, certificates, leaving a few millions outstanding. This policy of funding—so carefully and steadily pursued by converting the temporary loans, interest-bearing notes, etc., into a 6 percent gold bond—is regarded as having a most important bearing on the question of re sumption. The report next discusses the contraction of the paper circulation by the redemption of United States notes. 3lr. McCulloch's well known views remain unchanged. The Secretary estimates the expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870, to be $250,(MX),000 in round numbers, though the \Y ar Department, in the event of an Indian war, will add many millions to this estimate. Last year the War Department asked for $25,000,000 for bounties, but its estimate this year is less than that amount, as no more appropriations for bounties are requir ed. The report further shows that the annual interest on the public debt is, in round numbers, $140,000,000, and the esti mate for the next fiscal year is but little in excess of that amount. The estimates of the Navy Department are some $15,000,000 less than last year, and the Secretary calls again upon Congress to continue its work of reducing the expendi ture in all branches of the service. The re ceipts show that the Internal Revenue for the present fiscal year will amount to about $120,000,000 which, deducting the amount of revenue cut otl by the act of March last, will prove the Secretary's .estimates made last November to be correct. The estimated revenue for the next fiscal year from cus toms. internal revenue, lands and miscella neous sources, is many millions in excess of the expenditures. This year the estimated excess was but $9,000,000. Of course these estimates do not include the contingency of an Indian war. The Secretary's report shows that the public debt has been reduced during the year from November 1, 1807, to November 1, 186S—the dates at which the comparison is made—535,624,102 82. If the month of November be added to the year, the dept from November 1, 1867, to December ], 1869, has been reduced but about 27,000,- 000. These figures show the amount of debt less the cash iu the treasury. The re port wii! show an expenditure on account of the public debt of about $880,500,000, which includes redemptions, conversions, interest on the public debt, &e. The Sec retary also renews the recommendation con tained in bis last annual report of a reorgan ization of the Bureaux of the Department, and most respectfully aud earnestly solicits for it the favorable action of Congress. He also alludes to the taxation of Government bonds by the States, and adheres to his views on that subject. The War Report. The report of Secretary Scbofield of the War Department is the most compact and concise of the official documents presented. The country has reason to be grateful that our war reports lack the terrible importance they possessed a few years ago. The Army will be reduced to 43,000 by the Ist of Janu ary. The actual current expenses of the War Department during the year have been $68,743,094 71 besides $9,961,406 43 old war debts paid during the year, making the total expenditures of the Department $78,- 704,501 14. The appropriations for the present fiscal year are $35,400,557 47, which will be exceeded by the expenditure, leaving a deficiency of $13,975,000. The discipline of the Army is stated to be better than ever before since the close of the war. Authority is asked to mate a large number of smooth-bore and rifled guns of heavy cali bre for fortifications as soon as the experi ments have determined the most suitable kinds.—Subsistence supplies have been fur nished to a daily average of 16,000 persons by the Freedmen's Bureau, which is now running 1,831 schools, with 104,327 pupils. The Burean has expended on these sehoola during the year $942,523 66, which doe not include the expenditures, of benevolent societies, estimated at $700,000, and by Freedmen, estimated at $360,000. The secretary recommends that when Indians violate their treaties they should no longer be regarded as a nation to be punished by war, but as a dependent uncivilized peo- Pe, to be cared for, fed whgn neeeessary, and governed. He approves and urges Gen. iMtorman s recommendation that (lie exclu sive care of Indian affairs be transferred to the War Department Interior Report. The Secretary of the Interior in his re port, recommends an iucrca>e of fifty per cent to the salaries of the President, Vice President, heads of Departm nts, and Jus tices of the Supreme Court Unless most of them perform their duties more satisfactori ly than they have under the present Ad ministration, their present salaries will he considered quite high enough. The usual law of economy would require that the sal ares should be as low as is consistent with the titiifbrtu end invariable acceptance of the office by the highest and best talent the country affords. There has been no reluc tance during the past history of the Repub lic to accept these offices for one or as many mce terms as the people might desire, at : their present salaries. We doubt whether any anxiety need be felt on that score in the future. Most of our Presidents have re tired so much richer they entered upon the offiot- as to give them a handsome compe tency on resuming their previous habits of living. Ail these reports demand money The Railroads, the OrduaDce Departments, : the clerks, the officials, everywhere demand [ higher pay. If our Government work had been characterized by more genius, energy, and ability, the people might feel disposed to vote higher pay. But before doing so they would like to see the Government col- j leet its revenues. •Mr. Rollins' Report. Commissioner Rollins, in his report on the Internal Revenue Bureau, states that the aggregate Internal Revenue receipts, excluding taxes upon lands and the cir culation and deposit of banks, for the year ending June 30, 1868, were $191,- 180,504, 28. In 1866, the similar receipts were $310,906,984 17, and in 1867, $265,920,414 65. In 1866, there were collected on incomes, $60,894,135 85; in 1867, $57,040,640 67, and in 1868, $32,- 027,610 78. The receipts from fermented liquors were in 1868, $5,685,663 "iO against $5,819,345 49 in 1857, and $5,115,140 49 in 1566. From distilled spirits and brandy there were received in 1868 $14,290,730 98, against $19,164,409 34 in 1867 and $29,- 482,077 99 in 1866. The decrease the past year is attributable to Frauds, and the Com missioner says that "the remedy lies in the improved character of the revenue and judicial officers rather than in the increased stringency of the law or the improved regu lations and requirements of the office." The expenses for collecting the revenue in 1868 were $9,327,301 71, in 1867 SB, 982,- 686 03, and in 1866 $7,689,70047. The increase is attributed to the raised pay of the Assistant Assessors from $1 to $5 per day. Mr. Rollins gives a table of the receipts during the months of July, Augu.-t, and September, 1868, compared with that for the same period of 1867, During the former period there were collected $38,620,- 898 75, while during the same months in 1867 the total was $53,397,963 01. This decrease is beeause of the tax on manu factures. During the same months of 1867 there were collected from distilled spirits $5,293,920 98 and 1868, $8,465,443 09. The Commissioner makes several sug gestions about the law, and recommends that the Internal Revenue Department should be made a department of its own, and not a mere appendage to the Treasury. gtotnj, WHY TRUTH GOES NAKED. BY SAXE. List to a tnle well worth the ear Of all who wit and sense admire; Invented—it is very clear— Some ages prior to Mathew Prior. Falsehood and Truth, "upon a time," One day in June's delicious weather, ('Twas in a distant age and clime,) Like sisters, took a walk together. On, on their merry way they took, Through fragrant wood and verdant meadow, To where a beech beside a brook, Invited rest beneath its shadow. There, sitting in the pleasant shade, Upon the margin's grassy matting, (A velvet cushion ready-made,) The young companions fell to chatting. Now, while in voluble discourse On this and that their tongues were running, As habit bids each speak—perforce, The one is frank, the other cunning. Falsehood, at length impatient grown, With scandals of her own creation, Said, "Since we two are quite alone, And nicely screened from observation, Suppose in this delightful rill, While all around is so propitious, We take a bath ?"—Said Truth "I Will— A bath I'm sure will be delicious 1" At this her robe she cast aside, And in the stream that ran before her She plunged like Ocean's happy bride— As naked as her mother bore her! Falsehood at leisure now undressed. Put off the robes her limbs that hamper, And having donned Truth's snowy vest, iian off as fast as she could scamper. Since then the subtle maid, in sooth, Expert in lies and shrewd evasions, lias borne the houest name of Truth, And wears her clothes on all occasions. While Truth, disdaining to appear In Falsehood's petticoat and boddice, Still braves all eyes from year to year, As naked as a marble goddess. THE reporter of an English provincial pa per has just treated us to lengthened sweet ness long drawn out. Describing a picnic, he wrote: "The beautiful costume of the ladies of North Willis, contrasting, as it did, with the verdant aspect of the beautiful meadows around, and extending to the dis tance of several miles over a rich pasture valley to Broad Hinton hills, conveyed to us an indescribable and pleasing effect." We were aware that the fashion was recently to wear long dresses, but this is the first in stance reported of a dress of so great an ex tent. To be free from desire is money ; to be free from the rage of perpetually buying something new is a certain revenue; to be content with what we possess constitutes i the greatest and most certain of riches. NASBY. ' n L' N ?* b>r ha " * dream Which Docs Not Comfort his Righteous Soul, hut which, on the Other Hand. Gives him Great Lneusiness. CONFEDRIT X. ROADS, ) November 23, 1868. J Lastevcnin I happened to pickup the Northern noospaper uv the Dimikratic per suasion wich comes to this office to Dcekin Pogram, into wieh was a artiele onto ' The Fucher uv Democrasy." The able and dig nified writer took the posishen that the only hope uv the Democris-y was in Icttin i the dead past bury its dead—in sinkin all i the ishoosuv the past ten years—in ae-i knowledgin the sitooashen, and acceptin the I results uv the war; in sinkin out uv site the old leaders, and put tin such men ez Chase, Seward, John Quincy Adams, Jr., Kvarts, Rosecruntz, etc., to the front, and thus hevin ; it.Lf -■ J ofiw ,ifq anj new blood into the or ganization, it mite go on conkerin and to conker. The article wuz a column and a half in length, and its a weakness uv mine that I ; can t read more than a column without goin to sleep. Therefore at the end of the col umn the paper dropt from my hand, and I dropt off into a gentle slumber in my chair, and dreamed a dream. In my dream before me lay the body uv a man uv gigantic frame which was a breath in his last. lie hed bin a powerful yooth in his day, auj hedn't the appearance uv bein very old in years, tho his hair was gray, his cheeks sunken and his form frite fully emaciated. His age wuz evidently the effect uv dissipashen more than uv years— wikkidnis bed did its perfeck work on him, and it was plane that he wuz a goner. Around him stood all sorts uv people. There wuz Yallatidigham, the Blairs, Huff man, the 3\ oodses, Vorliees, Hampton, Morrisscy, 3lrs. Cobb, Mrs. Perry (between these two A. Johnson), and many more uv that stripe, who appeared to be indeavorin to resussitate the nearly defunct individual. "W ho is this ruther bustid patriark?" asked I uv one who appeared to be a chief mourner. i "Ihats Democrisy,*' answered he: "he has fought his larst battle, no gong kin awake him to glory agin. He's a gone sucker." At this pint the operators on the unfor tunate suffrer gave up in despare. '1 kin do nothin," sed Seymour, "that last exershun was his last. I shall hie me to my farm." "I koowd it wuz uselis," sed Vallandig hatn. "I vliel leave Ohio aud go to Noo \ ork, for any body kiu git to Congress from that city." "I kin do more," sed Yorhees, "label quit politics and go to operatin in Erie stocks!" "Erie stocks," rcmarkt 3lrs. Perry, with horror in her classic countenance, " thank the Lord, I am not so low ez that." At this pint a lot uv hungry looking cuss es, not so prominent ez these others, de manded that the pasbent be put into new hands for treatment, and to wunst they call ed out for Chase, Sewart, Evarts, Rose cranse and John Quiney Adams, Jr., who he viri no other place to stay wuz a hangio on the out-kirLs uv the crowd. Promptly they examined the dyin cuss and proceeded to apply the remedies. "This is one thing that's killin him," sed Chase, cauternin a hidjus ulcer marked "Slavery." "This must come off," sed Evarts, whip pin out a knife and takin off a foul smelliu tumor labelled "States Rites." "And I'll never consent to be seen with him ef this is allowed to remain," sed Rose crance, slashin out a cancer marked "Se cession." - "And this must come off ef I hev any thing to do with him," sed John Quincy Adams, Joonyer, jerkin off a most fearful tumor, marked ,'ltepooderashen." And so they went on, one after another, one (..uiiiu uir.i.:.. ihtng, ana another that; this one burnin out this sore, and another ihat, till they hed peeled it to the bones. YVi en they hed got the diseased parts off ther wuz nothin left but the skeleton. It wuz a very genteel skeleton, ez clean uv fle-li ez though it hed bin dissected by an enthsosiastic class uv medikle students. They then commenced buiitlin uv it up. Chase put on Ekal Kites muscle; Everts stuffed Nsshnel credit in the hole Repoodi ashen hed made; Rosecrans stiffened its back with loyalty—they fumigated it, breath ed into its nostrils, and wrappin it in the Star Spangled Banner, histed it to his feet. It wuz rather shaky on its pins, but it breathed free, and was altogether a more promisin aud presentable bein than it bed bin for years. Wo were all rejoist, and yet wc wuzn't so well pleased, after all. He was gittin stronger, but his appearance wuz a changin so that we didn't know him. There wuz a color cum to his cheeks, be lost his brootal look, he stept free, and be gave evidences uv life and strength that wuz wonderful. "Thank the Lord," sed the Blairs, "he's strong enough to be ridden agin!" "Please Heaven!" scd Vallandigham, "my troubles is o'er, for there's strength in Dimocrisy." "Let's mount," sed they in torus, and forthwith Montgomery Blair crept up onto his thighs, with the whole family on his shoulders, each one uv wich twisted his legs about him with a death grip, The new re joovenated giant staggered under this, but did not fall. Mavor Monroe and his Lou isiana crowd vaulted onto his shoulders, the Woodses, and Hoffman 3nd Yallandighant and Vorheesand Brite, and a thousand more uv the same style, and each loaded with his record. "For God's sate," cried Chase, Seward and Kusecrance, "for God's sate git off. He ain't strong entiff to stand all that. He can't carry the loads that nigh tilled him— the diseases that yoosed him up —any better now than he could before. Git off—git off. "Git off?" sed a planter who hed got a gckoor halt, "uv wat use is Dimocrisy to me onless I tin carry these?" pintin to the nig gers under his arm. "Git off?" sed the Blairs, "ef Dimocrisy can't carry us into posishen, wat do we want uv it?" and they gripped it so close ez al most to strangle it. "Git off?" sed the Woodses, "onless we tin ride it uv wat use is Dimocrisy to us?" And they all declined git tin off emphat ically. "Very well," sed Chase and his friends — —t--- VOL. 41: SO. 50- in despair, '"very wc-D, we're done; but look out. " Skarcely wuz the words out uv their mouths when the poor giant gasped, Lb : knees knocked together, his pins give out, and he top;,ted over with a fearful craeh, j pilin the load is one heterogenous mass. I i At this pint I awoke. 1 bed no trouble to interpret the dreem. j I It s troo that Dimocrigy can't carry the load ihat hes bin peat onto it fijr ybers and yeers, ! j and it's also troo that wo, the load, don't care a tink r s cuss about Dimoerisy oule-s it kin cairy us. To make it strong euuff to j stand alone, we hev to take off uv it ail uv i | its Distinctive feecher* and replace em with | ablbhinistn, and then uv wat yoom is it to ius W hen Chase bed metamorphosed it so that it cood stand, it wux cz m-ar Ablisb inism ez anything cood be, and when all that wuz taken off, it wuz precisely ez weak ez ever. Uv wat yoose is an Ablishinixed Dimoerisy to an tx slave holder, who wans bis niggers agin? Uv wat 'avail' i* a pur Dunoon yL* iha gerrtk-meu who Icslies of. fisis in which sieeling is unlimited? Sieh a | Dimoerisy is Aldishinism—and we mite ez I well go over to it bodily, es to remodel our ! j party on that idea. Ef we sink the old it boos and the old ideas uv our party, we ] sink also us who advocated them ideas, and made thtm i.-hoos; and cf'ire keep fishtin it out on that line, wat is before us but defeat? Oh that I cood see a glimmer uv life! Oil that enuff uv our prominent leaders wood die to let us, the smaller ones, out from un der their shudder! The fucher to me is dark and gloomy. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. 31. (Wich is Postmaster.) PRUDENCE IN THE YOUNG. The elders in the community, who are of j course addicted to retrospection, as young , men are to drawing on the future, look al- , most with envy on those who are just eu- , terning life; for men of experience can see . what they might have done, had they pes i sessed in youth the knowledge which they , have obtained by years of battling with the world. I lie old are usually ready enough with counsel; but good odviee is one of the commodities which arc more freely offered than taken. ludeed. good advice is 6eldom aoeepted by those to whom it.is.offered. We i suppose, therefore, that our homily will be j itik wasted and paper spoiled. Hut not withstanding, here goes! We art at last interested. \ oung men do not see the need of econo my, and place a higher value on credit than on capital. 3Ye do not advise meanness or penurious habits, but do think that such a course as would give a young man on reach ing his twenty filth or thirtieth year some | actual property, however small in amount, would be very much wiser than living up to the total income. Many clerks and sales men command good salaries. Mutiyjournev men also draw very fair wages, and that, too, while they are unincumbered with any charges beyond their own maintenance. Any young man is delighted with an ad vance in his income, Now why can ho not secure an advance to himself? If, for in stance, he is tempted to an out lay of a hun dred or two hundred dollars, or less, for some superfluity, why not invest that money in .-ome mode that it would yield him an income? which is, in effect, an "increase of salary. It would be such an addition to his means as would not depend upon any body's favor or caprice; and the habit onee begun would soon place him in a position above the danger of want or the fear of idle ness. If anybody asks what has turned our edito rial pen in this direction, we will state a case. It is a fact, by the way, aud we judge one of many like instances. Passing through the public room of a hotel the other day, we saw a young fellow sitting there with tho air of a habitue of the place, and in a cos tume which indicated the "shabby geDteel." We knew his story. A year or two ago he was a clerk, upon a salary which euabled him to live, and he livej up to everv dollar of it. By the decease of relatives he came in possession ot a few thousand dollars; say twelve, more or less, If he had put this in Government bonds, or any other securitv, it would have added eight hundren dollars to his anual income. He might have re mained in his clerkship and have been steadily accumulating money, uot, to be sure, at a rapid rate, hut without any risk, and with a feeling of comfortable indepen dence which many a merchaut might envy. But to day he is not worth a dollar, aud the shabby suit he wears is not paid fur, and never will be. Legacies ruin many a one, hut habit* of improvidence ruin more. If the rising youth of our land, ia whatever business they may be, would, while they have a living secured, look to the future in a judicious manner, saving their surpluss, however small, the busimesa of the country would be yet on a better basis than at present. There would be more actual capital employed, and less reliance put on credit. Business talents are of high value, even witout capital, hut, backed by ready money, aptness for business is invaluable Most clerks do, and all should, count on undertaking business for themselves. If they could enter upon it with habits of economy they would be sure of success. Apropos to this subject is the p!ao of mak j ing employees partners, which has l>een in J trodueed in England with a great flourish, | as if it were a now thing. It has been the j quiet custom iu thrifty New England fur a : great many years, especially in the uiantae turing towns. The plan of conducting husi ! nessby corporate companies largely prevails j iu the New England-States, And facilities are always found for the investment of the savings of the operatives in the stock of the companies. Many a large holder of manu facturing stock commenced hie as an em ployee, perhaps at the very lowest rate o( j compensation. The same thing is done cvciywhere in the promotion of clerks to partnerships in their employers' busiue>s. Now, if a clerk whose only capital is his unsefulness, has a few hundred or two OT tkrou tltoacnoJ collavu to old !u bcdf'tiQ lils I ersonal expenses, the sum, too .small to be i offered as an investment in the firm, will | enable him to leave a part of his proportion | of the profits in the business, and thus od | vance him from a nominal to an actual inter ; est. But the subject is eudie.-s, and we ; pause here, hoping that some of our young | er readers may follow out the lineofthought i in the arrangements soon to be entered into ' for another year,—. Vurth American. London is to have a daily in which the anonymous system is to bo abandoned. pgshgg~.— 11A TBS OF ADVERTISING. AH ffr lot tiq* f aorsth^JO tt b '■ "!)• -hair additional. Ai) resolution* ,f Associa tion*, communication* of a limited or iadividal interest end notice' of marriage* and deaths, ex ceeding five Sacs, IB etr. j*r line. Ail legal noti ce - of every kintj, and a!) Orphans' Court and other Judicial la.'ae, arc required by iairto be pub lished iu fcotfopatpSfe SdkdfM fagmru mil P*T line. AU Advertising due after first insertion. A-liberal discount. mad* yearly advertiser*. o moots. 6 months, 1 rear One square 4 1.50 $ AO# SIO.OO Two square*.,, ~.._0-fi,fo 9.00 10.00 Three squares 8.00 12.00 20.00 One-fourth column Tt.oo 50.00 35.00 Hil( onluinn.. ...... )&> 2J.0 45.00 Oncpuiujan 30.03 45.00 80, CO J WHAT Alt.S yp UjßXlti TO READ. i ur ntt*jn and citiosnre full of young men w!mm> education bits been very limited— j yotjps. men ol good manners, of fair business capital: r. who r; inking their fortune, I on! who hare not 'named that intelligence and integrity are the indispensable ecmdi 'troiiH ot itifiuOnce, of happiness, and of buc e >s! What [dans have yon, my friends, for this "inter! Bimnfcfe will be attended to of Ciurs. Berhaji-. in uwjitioii, tho prospect of .-ever*! foriks, a bail or two, the skating r.tid; give cheerful prospective. Or, yon 111 ... be of t sol>e.r turn, and you have a win ter laid i-ut in whieh your leisure time is to filled with meetings anil benevolent la i H • la cither case, what do you propose in ri-yurd t>Keaks are shields to the young. Tempta tions are blunted on them which otherwise would pierce to the quick. A man who draws sufficient pleasure from books is inde pendent of the world for 'his pleasure, li icnds may die; books never are sick and they do not grow old. Kiebes melt away; books are in danger of no bankruptcy. Our companions have their own errands to exe cute and their own burdens to bear, and can not, therefore, be always at hand when we j need company; but book 3 uever go out from J us. 'I hey are not sensitive to our neglect; they aio never busy, they do not scold us, and .hey do welcome us with uniform and g'-tiiai delight. Y\ hat are you going to read this winter? ' PROTESTANTISM A SUCCESS. Piotc-tantisui was born the day Luther nulled lii;- Theges to the door oi' the castle ' hatch. For a time itsgrowth was wouder fu!, and it promised to pervade all Europe. Tho universal corruption of the Romish church, and the disgust of the public mind at its impostures and immoralities, pre pared the way for the new religion, while the zeal of the Reformers, and tire fruits of piety springing from the new faith, inclined multitudes to its reception. The power of the Roman Catholic church, rooted by an undisputed sway ola thousaud years, seem ed completely broken, and one might have predicted the universal triumph of a better and more rational faith. Rut, as Lord Maoaulay has so forcibly sta ted in his review of Ranke's History of the Ropes, the aggressive power of Protestant ism enuiHi witn the me ot lmtlier. "fifty years after the Lutheran separation. Cathol icism could .• careely maintain itself on the shores ot ;le Meditbrranean. A hundred years alter the separation, Protestantism could scarcely maintain itself on the shores oi the liaitic. Nor has Protestantism, in die course of two hundred years, been able to reeoiujner any iwrtion of what it then lost. 'J no decline of Protestant fervor, and tho infusion of new life into Romanism by the birth of the Jesuits, turned the tide of sucoc.-s, and no great changes have occur red in the relations of the two powers till the middle of the nineteenth century. Never nee the great Catholic reaction under Loyola, Have its prospects of growth in LUiOpe been more cheering. Romanism is Weak, an I Islosiug itsJiuld ou all the great nations of the continent, Tho Italian people feel that the pope and cardinals are antag onistic to all the national si.-tpirntions for unity aud growth, and they are alienated from a church whose sympathies arc with the jhtst rather that the future. The Aus t'iai. ; -i ehagnned at their loss of pres tige in the ;at£ war, ascribe their defeat to priestly control over education and social progress, and are earnestly demanding free dom f.xmi ehurehiy dictation. Discontent is rife in Spain because the development of national rcsoureeb is hindered by the despot ism ol the church, aud a revolution is iiu pennu!- lr. France a'onc among European nations, is the Catholic church holding a warm place iu the a flections and confidence of the people, and tho power of Prance is D 'W ovr-hadowed by Prussia, which is ab sorbing into itself the whole of Germany, and must become the greatest military pow er and most flourishing nation of the conti nent. Protestantism, therefore, may ryoice in i Its moral ascendency. The social forces of i the age are enlisted in the support of its great principles, and its progress for the nest fifty years promises to be far more rapid than for three centuries. Great Britian, Prussia and the Uaited States, the three frtfPTTlAtt nn * a of n-oadd m Lmm't and enterprise, lead the Protestant move ment, and their power,ill moulding the pub lic sept uncut of the age eaunot well be meas ured. The seventh jubilee of the Reforma tion ean he celebrated with thanksgivingand praise.— Watchman and Hfactor. "HoJUiia," said a Igttin fellow tho other day, "is tlitire any harm in breaking egg shells?" "Certs : nty sot n.y dear; but why do you ask?" '"Cause I dropped the basket ju-t now and. see what a mesa I m in with .tboyolfc,"