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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
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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. Spang,
Esq., on Juliana street, three doors south of the
Mengel House. May 24:1y
IjISPY M. ALSIP,
J ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDPOBD, PA.,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
tt counties. Military claims, Pensions, hack
pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south
of the Mengel House. Api 1, 1864.—tf.
B. R. MITERS J. W. DICKKRSON
MEYERS A DICKERSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BinroßD, PIRR'A.,
Office nearly opposite the Mengel House, will
practice in the several Courts of Bedford county.
Pensions, bounties and back pay obtained and the
purchase of Real Estate attended to. [may 11,'66-ly
JR. DURBORROW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BEBSORD, PAT
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
his care. 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.,
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given to collections and the prosecution of claims
for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions. Ac.
on Juliana street, south of the Court
House. Aprils:lyr.
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SHARPE A KERR,
A TTORNE YS-A T-LA W.
Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad
joining counties. AH bnsiness entrusted to their
care will receive careful and prompt attention.
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Offioe on Juliana street, opposite the banking
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PHYSICIANS.
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BLOODT RCB, PA.,
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the people of that place and vicinity. [decß:lyr
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vices to the eitiiens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building
formerly occupied by Dr. J. H, Hofius. [Ap'l 1,64.
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Dr. J. J. CLARKE, formerly of Cumberland
county, having associated themselves in the prac
tice of Medioine, respectfully offer their profes
sional services to the citizens of Schellshurg and
vicinity. Dr. Clarke's office and residenoe same
as formerly occupied by J. White, Esq.. dee'd.
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Collections made for the Eaat, West, North and
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Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
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DANIEL BORDER,
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FORD HOTEL, BEirORD, PA.
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RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed 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 line not un hand. [apr^S^Sfi.
g P. HARBAUGH & SON,
Travelling Dealers in
NOTIONS.
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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.
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J WHAT Alt.S yp UjßXlti TO READ.
i ur ntt<RT ward beeciieb.
Ihe long winter nights are coming.
| Ti>*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>Kea<Rßgi or Brady? ' Are e#-
ucalingyourselves? Do you regard books
as necessities of lite, or as luxuries?
A young man ought to arrange as syste
natA'-jilly for reading as be does for"eating.
Every year there ought to be the account of
books finished and mastered.
Newspapers and magazines have their
own place, ar:d iridispen.-ahlc uses—but they
are not substitutes for books. And books
thtmsfelvek arc not to be classified and wisely
chosen. Novels and light literature, taken
sparingly, furnish wholesome recreation,
ai.d sound knowledge. But history, trav
els, biography, works on science, criticism,
art, mechanics, should be the staple of your
■selection.
It ought to offend the self-respect of a
youjng man to spend a whole year without
having mastered a single new book. He
maybe improving in business tact, and in
that knowledge which comes from miugling
with men; be may be growing in wealth and
skill to manage riches, but these things do
not reach in far enough. They do not touch
the place where manhood resides.
Now is the time to consider, resolve and
| arrange. It will require a firm purpose and
steady hand to carry you every week through
an agreed amount of reading. But, if the
plan is oi.ee arranged, begun, and carried
forward a [in.nth, the execution of it will
become easier every week, and the interest
will increase at every step. Nothing in
creases self-respeet in a young man mora
worthily than the habit of sound reading.
B,K>ks 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,"