SUBSCRIPTION TEHMB, &C Th# IngrißKß it pnMisbwl every PmpiT Bern. ing *>• following rater ; O.R 'TEAR, (in advance,) IS.tMt •• " (R not pant within six m 0*.;... SX.so " " (if not paid within the year,)... $3.0(1 AH paper* outsida of the conaty discontinued without notice, at the exp ration of the time for which the subscription has been paid. Single copies of the paper foi nished, in wrappers, at five cents each. Communications on subjects of local or general ntcrest, are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention favors of this kind mast invariably be accompanied by the name of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaining to business of the office should bo addressed to JOHN LUTZ, BRORORD. PA. NKWHtMPKK L*wa. —We would cull the §|>cchU attention i*" Post Msuiter* and *ub§oriWrs to the [SQUIRE ft to the following synopsis of ihe News paper law? : 1. A Pofrnaeter it required to give notice by *ver % ( returning a paper does not auewer the law) when * subscriber not take ht paper oat of the "thee, and state ti::e r©**us f€-r its not being taken and a negleet \o do so makes the Font mat* ter reptoKtibU to the lor the payment. 2. Any person b < takes a paper from the Post office* whether directed to his name or another, or wtasher he tu'o-cnbcd or not is responsible t-r he p'-/. 3. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he CQuit pay all or ttie publisher may c riiiooe to *e&4 it until payment is made, and ullcrt the whole anion nt, whether it be taken from A* Gee or not. There can be no legal discontin uence until the payment is made. 4. If the subscriber orders his paper to be *t< pped at a certain time, and the publisher con tinue* to send, the subscriber is bound to pay for it, i /he taken it out of the Poet Ojffice. The law pr■'feeds upon the ground that a man must pay for what, he uses. 5. The courts hare decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, < r removing and having them uncalled for, is i rim a facia evidence of intentional fraud. A business £ardiS. ATTORNEYS AT law. JOHN T. KEAGY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Office opposite Reed A Schcli'i Bank, tucte) given in English and German. [npl2B] ] J MMMELL AND LINGENFELTEK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BIPVOBD, PA. llave formed a partnership in the practice of (be Law, in new brick building near tbe Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1864-tf j A. PorNTs, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Banpoan, PA. Respectfully tenders bis professional services 0 the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfelter, j S?q. T on Public Square near Lutheran Church. Collections promptly made. [Dec.9,'64~tf. T7SPY M. ALSIP, Hi ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa., Will faithfully and promptly attend to ail busi- j r es entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin- ! 13 counties. Military claims, Pensions, back ,-y. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with j Main A Spang, on Juliana street. 2 doors south j of the Mengel House. apll, lSft4.—tf. ! f R. DUTIBORROW, J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BfcRFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to lis care. Collections made on the sh rtest no tice. H •. Aiao. a regularly licensed Claim Agent snivtt) give special attention to tbe prosecution ii the Government for Pensions, tf j k I AT. Bounty, Bounty Lands. Ac. 'ifioe on Juliana -treet, one dwr South of the h riirer office, and nearly opposite tbe Mengel IT use" April 2S, 1865:t S.L. RUSSELL. J. H. LOX(i K>" ECK. E R PI SSELL A LON6KVBCRBR, I L ATTTORNBY* A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa.. Will aTtrod promptly and faithfully to all bub oes* entrusted to their care. Special attention 2 ; vcn to collectum* and the proaecation of claims for Pack Pav, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. iff.ce on Juliana street, south of the Court 11-use. Aprilhtlyr. J' M'N. SHARP* *.E. R. KERR CUUKPE 4 KERR. !0 A TTORSE T-LA H". Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pen.-o-ns. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col leered from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the hanking hi use of Reed A Schell. Bedford, Pa. mar2:tf PHYSICIANS. W. JAMISON, M. D., BLOODY ROE, PA., Respectfully tenders his professional services to the people of that place and vicinity. [decS:lyr JjK. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citir.cns of Bedford and vicinity. Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hoflus. [Ao'l 1,64. MISCELLANEOUS. OE. SHANNON, BANKER. , BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North aDd Si uth, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE I-, ugbt and sold. feb22 I \ANIEL BORDER, 1 J PITT STREET, TWO POORS WEST OF THE BED r RD HOTEL, BEITORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on band a stuck of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses. also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finder Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not od hand. [ tpr.2B/46. < P. HARBAUGH & SO N, Travelling Dealers in NOTIONS. In the county once every two months. ?Ell GOODS AT CITY PRICES. Agents for the Cbambersburg Woolen Manufac turing Company. Apl l:ly n w. CROUSE, * - • DEALER I!f CIGARS, TOBACCO. PIPES, AC., On Put street >ne door east o* Geo. k. Oeter ik Co. * Store. Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in bis line will d< well to give him a call. Bedford Oct 10. 'fifi., WASHINGTON HOTEL. This b.rge and commodious house, having been re taken by the subscriber, i> now open for the re ception of visitors and oarder<*. Tbe rooat are rge. well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. Tbe table will always be supplied with the k *est the a arket can afford. Tbe Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors In short, it is my purpose to keep a FIRnT CLASS HOTEL Thanking the public for past favors, I respeetfully solicit a renewal of their patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs, may 17. 67:1y WM. DJBERT, Prop'r. OLOODY ROT I > MARBLE WORKS. R H. SIPES having established a manufactory of Monuments, Tomb-stones, Table-Tops, Coun ter slabs, Ac., at Bloody Ran, Bedford co., Pa. and having on band a well selected stock of for eign and American Marble, is prepared to fill all orders promptly and do work iD a neat and work - an like style, and on tbe most reasonable terms A 1 work warranted, and jobe delivered to all parte ' this and adjoining counties without extra apllfclj. OFF AT COST! BEADY-MADE CLOTHING, CABSIMERES, HATS A CAPS, AT COST. <e coins are produced by the simplest manual labor, unaided bp a single piece of machinery." BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, FEU. 26 iB6O. THE NEW All T Of SOI.IU COLOR ING. j About thirty months ago an inventor in New York while seeking some means of making barrel staves impervious to petro leum, accidcntly used a piece of marble to j wedge the barrel he was experimenting upon into its place in the rat containing the solution with which he wa, trying to fill j the pores of the wood. On taking out tbe marble he noticed that it was beautifully | stained but threw it aside without further ] thought. About a mouth later (in Septem ber, li>Cß,) he picked it up, examined it, tried to wash it clean, failed, broke it with a hammer stroke, and lo! the color had pene trated the whole mass! Perceiving the almost irifiuite value of tbe discovery he had so happily stumbled upon, he began DC w investigations, and assoeiated others with him in the enterprise. A suitable laboratory was obtained, communications were quietly opened with leading marble men, a scries of about twenty five thousand experiments were instituted, and now, after more than two years of patient toil, this happy discovc-ry is set forth to the world. Yesterday a number of gentlemen were invited to call at the laboratory of the Inter national Marble Coloring Company, No. 79 Third avenue, northeast corner of Twelfth street, second story. Here they found an Italian sunset imprisoned in en during stone. Here were snow white mar bles from Vermont, turned by wizard touch of chemic art into scarlet splendor, not found in nature save in tbe gem, tne flower and the cloud. On one hand the purple of the Cesars gleamed in solid stone, and on the other a mantel's yellow luster rivaled the rarest marble from Sienna s quarries. Here a plain white chimney piece had been tinted with dove colored hues softer than those of the choicest Lisbon stone, and there the wondrous touch of this new art had created a massive black-veined emerald, eclipsing in beauty the finest verd-antique that nature ever stained. In a word, more than six hundred hues and tints and shades, ai! the work of man's adorning finger, shimmered and blazed on every side with a confusion and a glory of color that it hath not before entered into the heart of a man to conceive as possible in the domain ol architecture. This invention consists simply in the discovery of a certain mordant, with which the proper dyes are mixed, forming a solution. In a shallow bath of this the mar ble is placed, moleculat aetion immediately ensues, and in a few hours or days the whole mass is saturated with color. Tbe severest tests from acids and exposure to the elements show that these colors are more durable than those of nature. Th interstices of the mat ble being thoroughlj filled, grease cannot penetrate it. and se verest weather can scarcely wear it, and it becomes susceptible of the highest poli-h. Iu fact this single, easy, and inexpensive process secures at once the three great end of beauty, durability and economy. A plas ter cast has just Wen completed of a bap tismal font, sculptured with a cross and wreathed with a vine, which is to L repro duced in blood red marble, the sacrificial hue. For a white marble altar in a new cathedral at Albany $65,000 in gold have been appropriated. This company have offered to put up one of purple for SIO,OOO in greenbacks. Not ODly can marble, granite, and all sim ilar materials be solidly colored in this way, but so can wood, tbe result being a cheap, durabie and exquisitely beautilu! material, which requires neither paintiog nor varnish ing. The vista of architectural magnifi cence opened to the view by this discovery must be left to the readers imagination, the Arabian Nights being the only suitable treatise on the subject that now suggests itself. Apropos of this, it may be noted that certain common cryttals were lately subjected to this process, and afterward -übmitted to a leading jeweler of this city, who declared himself unable to distinguish them from genuine emeralds ! WHITEFI ELD'S POWER. A striking feature of Whitefield's preach ing was singular potcer of desai'ption. The Arabians have a proverb which says, "He is the best orator who can turn a man's ear intoeyes." Whitefield seems to have had a peculiar faculty of doing this. He used to draw such vivid pictures of the things he was handling that his hearers could believe th-'y actually saw and beard them. "On one occa-ion," says one of his biographer-, "Lord Chesterfield was among his hearers. The great preacher, in describing the mis erable condition of an unconverted sinner, illustrated the subject by de-cribing a blind beggar. The night was dark and the road dangerous. Tbe poor mendicant was deser ted by his dog near the edge of a precipice, and had nothing to aid him in groping his way but his staff. Whitefield so warmed wi'h his subject, and enforced it with such trraphic power, that the whole auditory was kept in breathless silence, as if it -aw the movements of the poor old man; and a' length, when the beggar was about to take the fatal ,-tep which would have hurled him down the precipice to ceitain destruction, Lotd Chesterfield actually made a rush for ward to save him, exclaiming, aloud, 'He is gone !he is gone !' The noble lord had been so entirely carried away by the preach er that he forgot the wnole was a picture. A ROMANCE OF THE CUBAN REBELLION. —An American citizen who was in the Theatre of Villaneuva on the evening ot the 22:1 ult., and witnessed tbe riot, and mas sacre in the streets of Havana that eveninc says that tbe origin of the outburst wa- the shootiug of a young woman. He says : A very tieauufui girl, the daughter ot Aldama, one of the-wealthiest and most noble of all Cubans, wore upon her left breast the American flag, with the inscription, "Long live the Republic of Cuba,' upon it When that stirring song was being sung, the whole audience rose and cheered this young woman, and as she rose to acknowledge the solute —all eyes were now bent upon her—a low, mean, cowardly Spaniard shot her with a revolver, killing her instantly. Two Ameri can gentlemen occupied the box adjoining SeDorita Aldama, whose names I do not know, but one of whom, seeing the pistol pointed at the young lady's breas', drew his revolver; and a second after the Span iard had fired, blew the top off the head of the cowardly assassin. Instantly the whole theatre was the scene of the greatest con fusion, and the Spanish troops rushed in and begun firing upon the masse* of the huddled, unarmed, innocent men and women." A GREAT EVIL. Our race groans under evils, and carries burdeos heavy to be borne; some of these may he traced back to the fir-t tin and are beyond our control, but most of them are of our two producing, and may lie arrested by a resolute act of the will, or by aid- which come ftont other source*. Two evils now fall the land and world which are of human invent inn. and are sus tained by human authority. One of these is alcoholic drinks and the other is the use lof lobaeeo—of the latter we wish to ray a few words. ri" has grown and overspread the na- I tions ot the earth till now it challenges ob servation, reflection, and tbe exercise of en lightened conscience while looking the na ked facts iu the face. £?uch is its present extent, that five and a half millions of acres are occupied in its growth, producing two millions of tons annually and costing the hu man race ten thousand million* of dollars, by far more than enough to pav the whole debt, m tnie year of the United States and i Gnat Britian, startling as the fact may seem. In our own country alone, one bun dred xtd fifty millions arc expended annu ally ip its consumption, by far more than is j appnpriated to support the gospel of Christ and be cause of education. How appal ling such a state of things, while want and ! suffering are all around us! Multitudes are ' without the Bible, millions have never heard tbe name of Christ, and the most I itupor.ant enterprises for promoting the j welfare of mankind, falter and fail for the ; want of support. Yet this enormous expenditure is entirely useless. No one claims that he is the better for the use of tobacco in any form. It is a mere habit, innocently formed, aud while at first a pleasure has grown to be a master and tyrant. N<>t only this, but it is an uffensive, filthy habit, finding no place in the Church, in the parlor, the ladies' salooD, or elsewhere, as a high order of society meets and indulges in exercises which the highc-r nature craves. Multitudes, using it, are ashamed of the fruits of it, and would be glad to be rid of it. if they knew how to break away from the enchantment. But this is t>ot all, or even the wrrst of it, It is injurious to the health; when taken to excess operates as of a poi onous Dature, weakening the system, aod leading to premature death. Such evils, together with its enormous expenditure, ought to makesober, reflecting conscientious men consider whether it can be right to continue such a habit a.- this— ought it not to be overcome at all hazard-, and thus promote health and deanlim and save the funds thus uselessly spent to provide for personal and family wants and build up the cau-eof truth and riehtecu-- ne-s in the world? PAY YOUR PASTOR. I'av your pastor what you have prom ised. If it be sufficient for his temporal support, hi- mind will be free from world ly care*, and he may give himself up t>. iho WOrlt Of his ILIIIL try tvstlx tx diver fill. contented, and happy heart. He will re spect and love you for your liberality, and labour the more earnestly for your spiritual good. He will not be easily drawn away to another field—at bat he will not be ever seeking a change. Able to educate his children, to supply his libiary with the best books of the day, happy in the midst ol home comforts, and able to lay up a little for the time when he must be laid a-ide. he has nothing to do but to study and labour for your good and the Master's glory. If the salary be inadequate, it is all you promised, and perhaps all you are able to give. He knew it when he accepted your call. If lie be a man of earnest devotion to the work, willing to make sacrifices of per sonal comfort for the sake of preaching Christ, be may reduce his expenses to hi income, and still be happy and useful. You ought to appreciate his labour of love, antj pay him by all means, to the day and the dollar. You may be too poor to give him more, but vou cannot afford to be di-honest, especially toward one who is sacrificing so much for your spiritual good. But what is the pastor to do whose salary is paiJ only in part, or in uncertain installments, coming in long after the quar ter has become due? What is he to d< ? llow is he to sustain his character for com moo honesty? Your promises will not pay his bills at the butcher's, the grocer's, or the bookseller's. How can be love you a> dear children in Christ, or pray for you, or labour in the study, the pulpit, or from house to house, as he should? Is it a matter of surprise that he should preach dull ser mons, and seldom call to spend a pleasant hour at your homes? Is it to be wondered at, if he should become dissati-ficd with you, and you with him, his miriistratioii unprofitable to you, his temper soured, ana his character and influence as a minister ot the gosple ruined? No congregatiun can afford to let their pastor's salary remain un paid. They can better afford to borrow the money at fitty per cent., than fail to meet thi-ir ju-t obligations to him. and bear the consequences which iuevitably follow to both pastor and people. Pay your pa-tor what you have promised.— The Presbyterian. A SCIENTIFIC writer says that watei which has stood in ah occupied bedroom over night is utterly fibhv, a deleterious poi-ou'aud unfit fer drinking. The watei is a powerful abscr'tent of gases, taking in during the nigh all the poison that i thiown off by its, iratii n. The colder ih< weather the more impute ihc water wiil I* come. At ordinary t mptiature a pdi "1 water will contain a pint ot carbonic aei > and sever.il pints of ammonia. The capai-i ty is nearly doubled for reducing the temper ature of water to ice. (If course the matter becomes doubly serious when a small or close room is occupied. These facts di-c!ose another of considerable importance in do mestic economy during cold weather, viz: that water inny be used as an abso: bent ot frost. Place a tub of water in a cold cellar over night, and in the morning the vegeta bles will lie found untouched by fiost, even though the water should be frozen solid. Water is excellent as a purifier, but people who regard their health should be certain tbat it is itself pure before applying it to tbe person either externally or internally. "My sox," said an anxious father once, "what makes you use tha| nasty tobacco? Now the son was a very literal sort of a per son, and, decliuiug to consider the question in the spirit in which it was asked, replied: "To get the juice, old codger. ' A ni'RCI'LAR MAN OF OLDEN TIME. Dr. Alfred Booth, in his reminiscences of Springfield, Ma-s., gives the following ac count ot a rare man of muscle in the last century Deacon John Hi'chcock, grand father ot the living Mr. Levi Hitchc .ck, of Springfie'd: "Bora m 1722, in the North Main street | region, he moved, while a young man, into I the eastern part of the town, now kuown as ! South Wilbrahum; married in 1743, and was the first deacon of the church there, ; continuing in office many years. He is well remembered by Hon. Oliver B. Morris, as occupying the deacon's scat at meetings, his whitened locks giving him quite a ven erable appearance. During a long life he was of wonderful strength, agility and en durance, and, had he lived in the palmy days ol' Greece, he would have been a wor- ; thy competitor in the games of those days. I It is related of him that, on one occasion, a i man riding by the field where he was at work, and boasting of the speed of his horse, j was challenged by the deacon, who said he could run to Springfield quicker on foot than the hori-e with his rider could. The te-t resulted in the triumph of tbe deacon; dis I tanee ten miles; time not stated. lie would lift a cart-load of hay, by getting his sboul- i tiers under the axle, in a stooping posture. : and throw an empty cart over with one hand, by taking hold of the end of the axle tree. \N ht-n loading grain in a cart, he would take a bag by tbe teeth, and, with a swing and the aid of a push from the knee, throw it into the cart. He had double teeth in front, and would hold a tenpenny nail by them and break it off with his fin gers. He used to say he did not know a man he eruld not whip or run away (rom! The day he was seventy years old, he rciaat k ed to his wife, that when they*were first married, he was wont to amuse her by tak ing down bis hat with his toes, and added, 'I wonder if 1 could do it now'? 1 Thereupon he jumped from the floor, took off the hat with his toes, comedown on his feet like a cat, hung up the hat on the nail, turned to the table, asked a blessing, and ate of the repast then ready." EVERT ONE TO HIS PROFESSION.— The Eltnira Advertiser says that Carl Shurz, the new Republican Senator from Missouri, was formerly the Washington correspondent of 'he New York Tribune. So was William E. Robinson, now Democratic member ot Congress from Brooklin, who made himself faut us under the non-J/- plume of "Riche b'en." And that was his forte. Since he abandoned it he has sunk into obscurity. A- "Hiehelien" in the Tiilune, he wa known and honored; a- member of Congres.- he is scarcely heard of. Me n are sometime born to avocation, and tn it becomes great and distinguished, while out of it they fail entirely. Of this e!a- is Horace Greely. wl o, except Thurlow Weed has ben the most wonderful editor iu America; in legi-lative ha! s. without any exception whatever, be has been the completes! fail ure. Geneial Graut. educated as a soldier, was able, in the line of his profession, to conquer Lee; but out of it he made but a poor attempt at gaining a comfortable liv ng. Daniel Webster was a great states man and could move the world iu the Sen ate; but he couldn't write a new-paper par agraph to save his life. We never knew a lawyer who was competent to edit a news paper. We know just one who lias the knack of writing a "leader;" but that is a.- far as be can go. in the local column he would "go up the spout" under the weight of the first "mention." Yet there are hosts of lawyers who are constantly itching for newsparer fame; and editors arc just as constantly tempted out of their sphere bv tbe shioiDg glories of the forum. We are all prone to consider our neighbor's fortune the best. We are a restless, unsati-fied people. Thousands upon thousands are daily jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. The number of people who don't know when they are well off is amazing. We have all kinds of organizations to ae complish all kinds of reforms. But the one which is more needed than any other is an organization to educate young nten in the faith and conviction that their lives should be devoted to a fixed and certain purpose. A brilliant meteor or a fiery comet ma\ some times make a hit by shooting madly front their sphere; but the rule is the re verse. Aud the greater the talent which "tie posseses for the sphere in which he i educated, the more certain and signal wil' IK; his failure in any other. Stick to your bu-iness; and. most of all, if you arc an edi tor, don't exchange a seat in the sanctum lor a seat in Congress. How DEXTER IS KEPT.—At six every morning Dexter has all the water he wants and two quarts of oats. After eating he is "walked" for half an hour or more, then cleaned off, and at nine has two quarts more of oats. If no drive is on the card for the afternoon, be is given a half to three quar ters of au hour of gentle exercise. At one o'clock, he has oats again, as before, limited two quarts. From three to four he i dtiven twelve to fifteen miles, after which he i-1 leaned off and rubbed thoroughly dry. He has a bare swallow of water on return from drive, but is allow d free a cess to hi ,nly feed of hay, of which he con-ume- I'rom five to six pounds. If tbe drive had been a particular sharp one, he is treated a- soon as he gets in, to a a quart or two of oatmeal gruel; and when thoroughly cooled, half a pail of water and three quarts of oats, with *wo quarts of bran, rani-red with hot water. B-fore any specially hard lay's work or trial of speed, his water allow anoe is -tiil more reduced. PUNCTUALITY. —It is strange how many people there are who neglect punctuality. Thousands have failed in life from this cause alone. It is not only a serious vice in itself, but it is the fruitful parent of numerous other vices, so that he who becomes the victim of it gets involved in toils from which it is almost impossible to escape. It makes the merchant wasteful of time; it saps the business reputation of tha lawyer, and tt in jures the prospect of the mechanic, who might otherwise rise to fortune, in a word, there is not a profession, nor a station in life, which is not liable to the canker of the destructive habit. MaDV and many a time has the failure of one man to meet his ob ligations brought OD the ruin of others. Thousands remain poor all their lives, who, | if they were more laithtu! in their word, would secure a large run of custom, and so make their fortunes. Be punctual, if you i would succeed. VOL. 42: AO. 8- BR. HILKIMOS VELOCIPEDES. Br JOHN QEILL. "Bat Wilkins, I—" "I tell you,' Mrs. Wilkins, I'm not going to have it; you may as well make up jour mind to that at ouce. No woman shall ever | prancing around this cotDtnuuity on a ; velocipede while she's a wife of mine if I 1 can help it; so you can just take that old pair of wheels you brought home and glad den the heart of some kindling wood man with them, for ride on thorn you don't; if | J'OU d > 1 m a Dutchman; there " "Mr. Wilkins you know I—" "No I don't know anything of the kind. Do you think I'm going to let such a look ing woman as you dress up in Bloomers and mount a high hat and go around trying to show off that figure—" "Mr. Wilkins!" "Go straggling around the thoroughfares of this town, looking like an old beer-ca.-k propped up on two legs, showing those aukles which arc so thick that you couldn't ' get one of them through the equator?" "Wilkins, I'll scratch ." "\\ ell, I should think not. And, besides, 1 don t knew whereabouts on this terrestrial globe you expect to find any wheels strong enough to bear you. You'd smash a pair of cast iron carwheels into smithereens the minute you sat down on them, you would. The Lest thing >-ou can do is to walk, and on the ground, and that too, where the crust of the earth isn't thin; or else sit in front of a fire and melt down your avoirdupois." "Mr. Wilkins jou're perfectly scandal ous." "But, I'm not going to put up with it. I don't intend to have you flopping around town on a velocipede, and very likely failing off and breaking your bones, and then have a lot of doctors coming to my house an J making post mortem examinations, and -awing you up, and discovering things with hard Latin names in your lungs and your liver, and your physique generally. Well, I should think not! It's bad enough to have to submit to you now, without having your gore spilt over the carpet, and a parcel of sawbones blaspheming at your anatomy. I—" "Wilkins, ain't you ashamed to talk so ?— ■" "I.want you to understand that if you ride shaj velocipede I'll >ue for a divorce. I don't believe in a woman exercising her muscle on any such contrivance. You'd a good deal better get a scrubbing brush, and go down and tackle the frontdoor steps with -orne sand and a chunk of soap. That's the kind of exerci-e you waDt, in my opinion." "Mr. Wilkins, if you'd ouly listen —" ''Or else practice carrying a coal scuttle up and down stairs every five minutes al' lay. But as for the mother of a family and i fl ibhy old girl of your years undertaking to ride a velocipede, why its simply ridicu lous.' "Mr. Wiikins, I—" "The next thing I know, I suppose you will be parading yourself in the papers a "Madame Wiikins, the Champion Female Velocipedist," and running mile heats on the Nicholson pavement for hundred dollar purses, best two out of three. A beautiful -peetaele won't it be? And then I suppose you'll want me to bet on you and back you up; but not one cent of my cash do >ou get. Not a single, solitary red. Bo you suppoe I'm going to throw away my hard earned money on such a fanatic as you? Well, I should tbiuk not. I wouldn't put UD a dollar on you if I was worth untold billions. I'm not proud of you; I want you distinctly to understand that." "Mr. Wiikins, that's all nonsense." "And a pretty example you are setting to your children. Here only yesterday Holo femes Montgomery made a velocipede out of two flour barrel lids, and when he and Bucephalus Alexander tried to uiouDt it, it broke down and hit Mary Jane on the leg and lamed her for life, while Iloluferne.s Montgomery fell over on the cat, which yowled and spitted and scratched Hoiofcrnes Montgomery orcr ho f. umlsptece, so thr his beanty is destroyed, and he looks more like you than ever. I say it is perfectly outrageous, and I'm not going to stand it." "Mr. Wiikins? oif you listen 111 tell you something." "Oh ! I don't want to hear it. Y\ e lldis continue the conversation. I'm tired of hearing you cackle." "Well that velocipede that came home— "Never mind now. I want to goto sleep. Just give your tongue a chance to rest, will you. "What for you. I heard you say you wanted one, and so I bought it out of the market money I saved. But you treat me like such a brute, 'that I —I—I—' "For me did you say, Sarah? Well, 'then never mind now. Don't cry Sarah, I say? Never mind; I won't do it again, Sarah! Don't cry Sa—rah? Oh well, cry then; who cares? You're the most aggra vating woman that ever lived. I'll get on ■ hat velocipede to morrow morning and abandon you as sure as my name's W ilkics. If I don't, hang me!" CHARLES LAMB tells his sal experience, a- warning to young tnen, in the following language: '"The waters have gone over me. But out of the black depths, coutd 1 lie heard, I would cry out to all those who have set a foot in the perilous flood Could the youths to whom the flavor of the Grst wine is as delicious as the opening scenes of lite or the entering upon some newly discov ered paradise. look into mj desolation, and he nnde to uudcistand how drear it i-. wheq he shall feel hitus If going down a precipice, with open c.\e and a passive will to h;s de struction, and have 110 human power to stop it, and yet feel it all the way emanating from himself, to see all godiness emptied out of him, and yet not able to forget a time when it was otherwise; to bear the piteous spectacle of his own ruin; could he see my fevered eye, fevered with last night's drink ing, and feverishly looking for to-night s re peating of the folly; could he but feel the body of death out of which 1 cry hourly with feebler outcry to be delivered, it were enough to make him dash the sparkliug beverage to the earth, in all the pride of its mantling temptation." THE most common error of men and wo i men is looking for happiness* somewhere out -1 B ide of useful work. It has never yet been found, and never will be while the world stands. Of all the miserable human beings it has been our lot to know, they were the I most wretched who had retired from usefu. i employments, in order to enjoy themselves. BATES OF ADVERTISING. AJI advertisements for led* than 3 onth 10 cents per line for each insertion. Special notice* one-half additional. All resolutions of Aaeocifc tions, communication* of a limited or indirid*! interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ex reeding fire lines, 10 cts. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editorial Notice* 15 cent* per line. All advertising due afterfirst insertion. A liberal discount made to yearly advertiser*. 3 inont*. 6 months. 1 year One square $ 4.59 $ 6.08 SIO.OO Xwe squares 6.80 9.00 16.00 Three square* 8.00 12.00 20.06 One-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.00 Half column ....._ 18.00 25.00 45 00 One column 30.00 45.00 80.00 ITEMS. ON the "Leather Cockade" question, a gentleman writes to the New York Post: "I use them to distinguish my coachman's hat from my own. We are both good-look ing men ; we both wear ten-dollar hats, and win n we go out for a drive in the Park I think it due to myself that the public should know who owns the carraige and who drives it." A SYSTEM of metalic ceilings, which con sists in the application to the joisting of very thin stamped metal in ornamental em bossed panels, has lately been invented. Those stamped panels are fitted for every kind of decoration in color, and if inserted an plain surfaces, may be used as the ground for every descriptioo of cartoon painting, combining with lightness and durability ar tistic and ornamental effect, at a compara tively small cost. Gebeeal Sheridan has transmitted fo Gen. Sherman eighteen or twenty pages, fool-cap, of talk which two big Indian chief tains, had on the first of January. The burden of the discourse of each the chiefs was: "Me touchy good bearte—me belly touchy empty !" General Sheridan preached to them, in effect, as follows; "Let us have peace. The Government will treat you (airly, and if you don't behave yourselves you will get cleaned out. Go!" Tiie following conversation is reported between two irreverent little boys in tho streets of Portland, Me.; "Johnny, do you see that game-looking old cock going along there?"—" You bet —who is he?" "That's Pitt Fessenden." "Who is Ae?" "He's the man that kept 'etnfrom hanging the President, Ben Butler and his fellows were going to str'mg Andy Johnson right up in the Capitol when Fessenden pulled out a big butcher knife and swore they shouldn't do it unless they walked through him. So they quit?" The Rev. Dr. McCesh, the new President of Princeton College, is exceedingly suc cessful in gaining the attention and con fidence of the young men under his charge, lie is not only one of the profouDdest scholars and ablest theologians of the Presbyterian Church, but he also retains the hearty, social usages of the Scottish clergy, among which he grew up. He plays a capital game of whist, and does not think a good glass of wine on proper occasions is any more a violation of the sacred law of temperance than eating a good beefsteak. The Portage Democrat says: Two turkeys went to roost on tho lower rail of a fence in the town of Aurelius, Cayuga couuty, N. Y., on the evening of December Btb. Duriog the night they were covered wi:h about six feet of snow, and pre sumed, of course, to be lost. Singular to ; elate, however, the late thaw unsnowed them, and they came out on the Bth of Jan uary alive and hungry, having been buried i ju-t one month. Tbey managed to save | themselves through the hollidays, and if j they live, ought to perpetrate the same joke j i year from now. A MAN liviug near Xrw Canine, Darke eountv, butchered a couple of bogs a few days since, with the aid of a colored man in the neighborhood, and left them out over night, as had been bis custom to cooL In the morning one of tbem was missing. Suspecting his sable help, he procured a constable and started for his abode. In passing through the' woods they came to a feuce, when a strange sight met their gaze. On one side of the fence hung the hog, on the other the negro, his head being caught in the gambrel fastened to the hind end of the hog. his neck broken, and of course dead. It was a quick and strange retribu tion for his crime. Foit the first time in the history of Spain a Protestant religious service was publicly held at Madrid on Sunday, Jan. 24. Among the audience were many ladies of different classes of society. The proceedings took place with perfect order and proper solem nity. The estamtstiment of religious free dom is one of the substantial benefits of tho revolution. Hitherto only one form of re ligion. the Roman Catholic, has been allow ed publicly to celebrate its rites in Spain. Now all persons will be free openly to wor ship God in accordance with the dictates of their own consciences. It is a great gain. THE Paris correspondent of a London journal has lately given his mind to' the inner life of the inner chambers of the French Empress. He has discovered that when she wants to dress herself she rings a bell, and her petticoats are put down through a hole in the ceiling, the robes beiog so dis posed that it would seem if one movement -ufficed for the entire crremony of the toilet. Arsene Houseaye's new work on female beauty will be appreciated by American ladies, whom it pronounces the most beau tiful in the world. A peculiar feature of the book is the sketches in which the author portrays tho appearance of the American • ladies whom he has met in the course of his life. Next to the American women, M. Arsetie Houssaye overflows with admiration of the fair subjects of the Russian Emperor, who, he says, make the best matches, and are the queens of the circles in which they move. THE proprietor of the Planters' House, in St.Louis, has been ordered by the courts to pay $2389, the value of the contents of a trunk left there in 1865, and so d at auction with other unclaimed baggage. At tbe recent deluge in New Orleans sev eral gentlemen on their wa> to a dinner party were caught by the d, and, to -ave their polish, took off their boot 6 and waded to the doors of the hospitable man sion. A LADY in New Hampshire recently de termined to exchange for currency a silver dol'ar which she had carefully kept for thir ty five years. The money-changer astoun ded her by the information that it was coun terfeit. Two "gentlemen"' were recently scu te need io London to five years'.imprison ment. with hard labor, for having willfully damaged a railway carraige on the Dover and Chatham Railroad. All pecuniary offers were refused point blank by the mag -1 tstratc. A YOENO couple in Rock port, Maine, while courting walked out together arm-in arm, and fell through a hole in the sidewalk, each breaking a leg. Their fall proved a "lift" to them, and set them up in the world —a jury awarding them a verdict of 12,000 against the town.