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The house is besieged both by rich and by poor, Who knock ail day long at grandmamma's door; They turn up their eyes, and they turn up their toes, But what is all that if they do not propose? You say that you love me. but love all alone To unmarried girls is a thing quite unknown; You sigh and look down, and present me a ruse But that is ail stuff?—do you meau to pro pose ? I ain not so hard-hearted as I may appear; Why slop and look sheepish?—there's noth ing to fear. You men are such geese! only Beelzebub knows The trouble you give us before you propose ! 'Tis almost two seasons since 1 have been out; You simper and smile and you whirl me about; But this is not business, the horrid tiraagoes Another will have meifyou don't propose! You lake all the aits of a matt I've preferred; You keep off the rest and you don't say a word, This is not fair play—sure a fellow who shows Such uncommon devotion should speak and propose !• I want to be married—do you understand? You'd give me a world! —only give me your baud! One can't go on always with ccns and with pros— Never come here again—or be frank and pro pose.— London Old. PHI DK BT JOUN G. SANK. 'Tis a curious fact as ever was known But often in human nature shown, Alike in castle and cottage — That pride, line pigs of a certain brood, Will manage to live and thrive on food As poor as a pauper's pottage. Of HI! the notable things on earth, The queerest thing is the pride of birth Among our "fierce democracy !"' A bridge across a hundred years, Without a prop to save it from sneers— Not even a couple of rotten piers— A thing for laughter, fling, and jeers, Is American aristocracy I Depend upon it my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend Without good reason to aprehend You may find it waxed at the other end By some plebeian vocation ; Or. worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine, That plagued some worthy relation. Because you flourish in worldly affairs, Don't be haughty and put on airs, With insolent pride of station ; Don't be proud and tarn up your nose At ( oorer people in plainer clothes : But learn for the sake of your mind * repose That ail jruud fli sh, wherever it goes, Is subject to irritation. Sftiscellanrous. From the Toledo Blade. StSflV. The Last Outrage upon Kentucky— I'ltssuge of the t ou-tilutionnl Amend ment by the House. Post OFFIS, CONFEDRIT X ROADS, 1 (Wich i in the State uv K> mucky ) - February 7, 1809. J The die is mostly cast —gloom he settled like a dark spell onto Kentucky. The last vestige uv Con<titooshnel liberty is swept away, leavin Us nothin but the name there of. wich is holler mockc-ry. Hfthe Senit goes on and concurs with the II 'Use —wich it wilt do—and the rt-ki-it number of States ratify the ackshcn of them two accussid bodies—wich they will do—why then all is ever. Nieeers will vote in Kentucky the same ez white men, and the star uv liberty is sot forever! They may go so far ez they will he in a majority, ez to disfranchise the brave men who served in the CoDfedrit army. Ez might hev been expectid, the intelli genco zffectid the Corners profoundly. We wuz all a scttin in Ba-com's ez happy cz we oood be. A new barrel lied 1-een tapjied. Deekiu Pograni iied njoncv, and I wuz not altogether unprovided, ez a letter bed been dropped into the Post Offis that mornin wich contained a reiui'tanco uv six dollars to a lottery concern in NH) York. Es I be leeve lotteries to be swindles and deniorali zin in their nacher, I opened this missive ami oonfi-eatid the contents. I will never be the means uv leading young men to rooio thro the agency oflotteries—never. It wuz a plea-ant scene. The fire wus a burnin brightly; wich reflectin on our res pective noses, gave the room a more than usual brirenis; Bascom wuz behind the bar. his elbows leanin onto it, waitin for the or ders wich he knew wood lie made. Captain McPelter wuz a smokin his pipe, peaccflv, a watcbin the clouds that ariz, forniin a sort uv halo about his head; while Deekin IV gram and myself wus jist in tie act uv takin suthin hot wich had bin fixed for us. At this morn nt P. nnihacker's boy rod- up on Ba.-conT- mule and hove a paper at tue wich contained the fatal intelligence. I read it aloud. There wuz no more innocent mirth that nite. Deekiu Pogram's hand relaxed its holt onto the glass and it fell on the floor, the precious flooid wastin itself thro the cracks, and the ole Saint fell from hi chair in a swoon. I bed more presence uv uiiud —I drank mine with one convul-ive gulp, and then dropped the empty glass. The ef fect, so far ez matiifestin greet wuz concern ed. wuz the same ez tbo I hi d dropped it, likker and all, and it wuz hatter for me. The glass wuz Bascom's—the sen-a hun io my bowels perdooct by the likker was mine. That even coustoo-hnel amendments can't takeaway from me. It didn't take long to figger how thisout rage, efit is oon-animatid will affect thecor- Ders. Titer is in this peeceful town-hip sixty three loyal white voters, uv wich num ber tbirtv-nine vindicated their manhood in the Confederit scrvis, the others beiu too old, ceptin Pollock, wich is from Liinoy, and uv Ahlisben proclivities. Gsrrettstown BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 5. 1869. is itt this township, and onuntin them in ther is two hundred and forty four adult male niggers, aud ther wood he? bin a hun , dred more, bed niggers all bin born bcllet and ropo proof. So long ez these niggers wuz in their normal condishun uv servi ! lomi ihey wuz indispensible—settee they wuz crooelly wrested from u, we hcv made em almost ez yooseful to us by hevin the !i* into our own hand*. They hev ez a rool accumulated suthin, for their labor. We uv coarse held the offices. Issaker Gavitt is Assossor, and Dekin Pogrxm Treasurer, and the niggers hev bin made to pay all the taxes that hcv bin paid. They coodeot help theirselvea. for the law bez ter rors when weeldid by strong and wiiiin hands, and the hands uv our offishels are both strong and willin. But for these niggers the township gov eminent wood be a mere nothin. Issaker didn't dare to aksess Bascout for fear he'd stop supplies onto him, nor wood Bascom hcv any uv the wbite citizens taxed, lor wat ever they shood pay in taxes that went eith er into the county or State Treasury wuz so uiu h 10-t to him. He wuz anxious to hev the Diggers sweat, for uv the money collect id uv them he got a large per cent., either through the Collector or Treasurer, wich wuz clear gain, ez they don't patronize him anyhow. In various other ways wo hedein. Pen nihacker ia Justis uv the l'eece and hez bin for yecrs, and he held the scales firmly. The niggers wood occasionally labor in plan tin time or in harvest for the white citizens who owned land, and, filled with the idea that they wuz free citizens, they wood in the most insolent manner demand pay for their services. Uv coarse they wood be re footed, whereupon they wood bring soot before Pennibacker. The result uv their vencher it is ottDCcessary for me to state. "Wat bizaiei hez a nigger in this yer court ?" wood the indignant embodiment uv the majesty uv the law thunder forth with a face cz black ez a cloud. And di>mi-sin the soot he wood promptly ishoo au excooshen agin em for costs. Ten or twenty niggers who sood wiiite men wuz sold out bob aud sinki rby the court for costs in sich soots, and when the costs didn't take all they bed, the Ju-tis Wood fine em for coutempt uv court for cumin before bitn at all. The nig gers after a few experiments declined to seek justis at that fountain head uv the ar ticle. Then agin in cases uv a-sau!t and battery and in inquests on the ded bodies uv nigters it wa> ne-sary to hev Pennibacker Justi- Niggers wich wuz found ded hangin to trees, and with bullet holes into em wuz reclerly found guilty uv dyin by visitation uv Providence. Ez they hedu't Votes uv coarse none uv the offi-hols wuf afraid uv em. I heard one uv em, wunst, who hea bin fined twenty dollars for striking Issaker Gavitt, wich hed in a playful mood chased his daughter thro the Corugrs, groaninly exclaim that he wi-ht he'd bin born in Ire 'and instid uv Atneriky. But now how will it be with its? They will vote and ihi-y hev a majority. Pollock will be made Justis uv the l'eece. Joe Big ler Asvssor, and a nigger cons'able. Wat sckoority hev wc? Niggers will aoo us and get judgments, and the nigger constable will serve execoosben onto us. Why, Deekin Pugram owes etiuft" to niggers to swamp every aker he holds, and Bascont wood be sweat severely. And when wc punch one uv their In ads for insolence to us, then to he arrestid by a nigger, and taken afore a Justis electid by niggers, and be fined or perchance imprisoned! It's too much. When this happens will the Corners, I ask. be a place for gentlemen uv prid and cul cher ? Nay. And to this it must come. I see one weak spot in the amendment, ■ viz; It provides that no State shel disfran- I chise anybody beeox of race or color, but ' don't say that people can't be disfranchised f.-r other causes, and I eagerly seczed hold uv that tz a ship wreckt marinerdoes to a i plank. "Wat good will that do us?" groaned the j Deekin. "Why we kin disfranchise em on the I akore uv ignorance!" remarkt I "ihe nig-, ger- can t all read?" "No moro kin 1" replied Isaker Gavitt j mournfully "I'd be cut out with em." And upon giviu the matter matoor re j flection I saw that thcr was no bottom to that hope. By makin readin a lest, the sooperior class at the Corners wood be more 1 hurt than the inferior class. Thank Heaven ten States kin block this j game and save us this torment. Oh that j they may do it. O, that this last bitter draft may be spared us. May the Dimoeri- '■ sy uv the North put forth their strength ! and -ave us this last degradation. PF.TUOI.EI M A*. NASBY, P. M. (Wich means Postmaster.) RUE FREE TRADERS' DILEMMA. The Free Traders arc remarkable for the i harmony and consistency of their arguments relative to the pending Tariff bill. 1. If they denounce it as "class Icgi.-la , lion" in favor of manufacturers, they admit j that it will stimulate manufacturers into ad ditional activity, and, by leading more to go : int - manufacturing, will cheapen our supply of manufactured goods; but. 2. As this is what the whole country wants, they deny that it will stimulate manufactures, and therein deny that it is j class legislation. 3. They insist that the reason why it will i not stimulate manufactures is because so ' many will rush into manufactures that em peritioti will break d--wn the bu-iness; but 4 T ey thereby admit that, so far from manufactures receiving no stimulus, the ; stimulus will be excessive. 5. If they admit that it will aid mauufac- I turcs, they uiu-.t admit that manufacturers, in order to avail themselves of its aid, will compete for more men. and that wages will i rise; but. 6. As this would cause all working-men ] to go for the tariff, they deny that it will raise the price of wages, but assert that it will rai-e the cost, of living. 7. In asserting that the working-man's cost of living will rise, it would follow, as he j livea on food raised by the farmer, that the farmer must get more for his prodnce. S. But, as this would cause farmers to go | for the tariff, it becomes necessary to deny that the farmer receives the increased price which the working cla-ses aud townspeople I pay for their food. | 0. If they allege that a high tariff will ' check importations, it follows that it will leaen the annua! balance of trade against yus and ike flow of gold and bonds abroad to pay for the excess of out consumption over our production; but 10. Ah all our real statesmen and sensible business men regard our enormous ouifl.iW of bonds as the greatest evil of our situation and whatever willcbeek it a-national saving and eoßnomy, the Free Traders are driven to allege ihat our imports of goods under a high tariff will be as great as under a low one. U. Admitting that our importations will not be lessened, it follows arithmetically 'list on the same importations a high tariff will increase our revenne; but, 1-' Ah this is just what our Treasury needs and the people want, thav, while still insisting that a higher tariff will not lessen importations, deny that it will increase our revenue: thus in effect maintaining that 35 per cent, and 50 per cent, of the same quantity amount to the same sum. In this dilemma, they denounce all pro tective tariffs as class legislation for the ex clusive benefit of manufacturers, which however, would speedily ruin them; as a prohibitory tariff, which, however, docs cot diminish imports; as a measure which at once increases our importations, and yet de stroys our revenue by the excess of tax it collects from every imported article; as a measure which will raise all prices to buyers and lower all prices to sellers; and, finally, as a gigantic robbery of the people by a few, the proceeds of which, after the commission of the crime, are in nobody's possession, but are diffused so evenly over the whole people that nobody has made a cent tiy it, while evervbody has lost ! Query: Can all these things be 'l—New York Tribune. FOLK GREAT EXPLORERS. There are three great travelers Vrbom the Editor of the Magazine knows well, and whom at various times he has specially in troduced to its readers. The scenes of their explorations lie far apart, all of them being in regioni heretofore almost unknown No three men can be found differing tnor widely in personal appearance. Mr. Charles F. Hall, to whom it has been reserved bj bis own individual labor to clear up the mystery of tbe fate of Sir John Franklin at.d his associates—a task which has been vainly attempted by expeditions fitted ou by the Government of Great Britain and th-- United States—born, we think, certain! reared, in the Great West —is a man ol large frame, with light hair, blue eyes, am flowing beard, a very Viking in aspect; rather slow of speech—a man whom upoi fir-t introduction one would be apt to set down as the most diffident person he evei met. Mr. John Ross Browne, now American Minister to China, born in Irelui d but from Itoyhood an American, is rathe above middle height, spare of figure, wit I scanty dark hair, broad forehead, and tin reneral air of a scholar rather than of an ex ■lorer. Mr. Da Chaillu—our "Frieno : Paul" —is, though born in America, ot French descent, and educated in France: uid while he writes our language with per fect facility, and speaks it with fluency, it i with a marked Parisian intonation. He i hardly five feet four in stature, and slighr in form; we doubt if he weighs a huttdre pounds. His clo.-ely cropped hair is a i b!„tk as a raven's wing; and were it not lot the flashing of a most brilliant black eye, h> is about the last man whom one wou! dreaut of being the tno-t daring traveler ol ; our day. To those three we add the name |of another whom we only know from hi | books, but who yet always seems to us !ik< ' a personal friend; David Livingstone. | Scotch by birth, hut African by lon. residence and wide travel. A spare, wiry man of middle suture—we judge from hi portrait—wi:h strongly inatked and rathei rugged features, by no means a notabh j looking personage. But these three men whom we know possess one characteristiciu common. Th-) are lovable men. Children —those in stinctive judges of human nature —take t<- them at once. Let cither of them be seated at your fireside, and in half an hour —you can not teil how—all your young people will be clambering around them. So, too. with uncivilized men, who are hut big children, and quite often very bad ones. They take to these men. Livingstone al- j clearly belongs to this class. There is hardly in all story any thing more touching that the perfect faith with which the wild Mako kilo follow- d Livingstone across the whol breadth of Africa, and for weary yea g awaited his return f.-om England to lean them back from the sea to their inland homes. If a man lacks this p. rsonal mag netism, no niattei what else he may have, he will not be one of those great traveler whose books men, women, and children love to read. There is nothing more notable in the narratives of these travelers than th< perfect devotion which these wild attend ants bear to their civilized companions. It is the story, over which so many tears have been shed, of Robinson Crusoe and his man Frid iv. —.4. II Guernsey, in Harper's ! Magazine. TIE views which folks entertain respect ing economy arc often extremely curious. A giil who is pretty, good-tempered, sen-i --ble, an<l altogether charming, is considered a bad match ; while some wholly undesira tile young woman, who happens to have a few thousand pounds, is reckoned to be a good one, notwithstanding that the former may under-tand h)w to keep house an-1 manage affairs, whijh is a lortuDe in itself. T knew a case, says a writer in C ham her s Journal , in which a mo t eligible damsel was pronounced by his 1-1 nd- as unfit to marry a certain voung divine, because, lorsooth, ahe was "without a penny. He was weak-minded enough, alter haviug pro posed to her in form, to give way to their remonstrances, and she was strong minded enough to bring an action against hiui for "breach of promise". The damages w. re laid at five thousand pounds, and she gained them (I am happy to say) in full. The inipres-ional defendant, who had reaped nothing but ridicule from his former adriners throughout this trying ordeal-which included a protracted cross examination by Sergeant Valentine (always retained in these delicate cases)—was now brought to reason. He addressed the young lady in a strain even more fervent than before: "I have behaved infamouslyr" he owned, "but if you will only forgive and forget, we may be happy yet, [with other verses.] The only objection which my friends bad to you is now removed. They can no longer sav that you are without a penny, since you have five thousand pounds of your very own.' And the hippy pair were married ac:ord - iDfcly. TUB climate of Arizona in winter is finer than that of Italy. It would scarcely be possinie to suggest an improvement. I never Bxperienced such exquisite Christ mas weather as we enjoyed during our sojourn. Perhaps fastidious people might object to tha temperature in summer, when the rays of the sun attain their maximum force, and the hot winds sweep in from the desert. It is said that a wicked soldier died here, and was consigned to the fiery regions below for his manifold sins; but, unable to stand the rigors of his climate he sent back for his blankets. I have even heard complaint that the thermometer failed to show the true heat because the mer cury dried up. Everything dries—wagons dry, men dry, chickens dry; there is no juice left in anything, living or dead, by th> close of summer. Officers and soldiers are supposed to walk about creaking ; mules it is said, can only bray at midnight ; and 1 have heard it hinted that the carcasses of cattle rattle inside their hides, arid thai snakes find a difficulty in bending their bod ies, and horned frogs die of apoplexy. Chickens hatched at this season, as old Fort Yurners say, come of the shell ready cooked; bacon is eaten with a spoon ; and buttei must stand an hour in the sun before the flies become dry enough for use. The In dians sit in the river with fresh mud on their heads, and by dint of constant dipping and spriokling manage to keep lrom roast ing, though they u-uilly come out pa' boiled. Strangers coming suddenly upon a group squatted in water up to their necks, with their uiud-covered heads glistening in the sun, frequently mistake them for seals. Their usual mode of traveling down the riv er is astride of a log, their heads only bein* visible. It is enough to make a man stare with amazement to see a group of mud balls floating on the current of a hot day, laughing and talking to each other as if it were the finest fun in the world. I have never tried this mode of locomotion, but have an idea it must be dedghtfu! in such a glowing sum uier climate. — \J.. Ross Browne. TUE FISCAL FAILURES OF NEW YOKK RAILROADS. The fiscal failures of New York railroad companies, as com pat ed with the succes uid economical mruagemeut of (he tatto rind of road in Pennsylvania, is one of th wonders which now attract the attention •f financiers in all parts of th country. As an example, tbe New York and Era ailroad has been a fiscal failure from its in ception. through its construction and dur ing its operation. The originators of tin •nterprise wete imbued, as after results iroved, with the purpose of making it a -windl-, so that from leading officers down to insignificant subordinates, wlio had th. haudling of funds belonging to tbe com oany, a system of thieving has been prae tised such as is not recorded in any ol rhe criminal annals of the world. Th> master spirits at the bead of this villainy were and are those who assumed that all th financial ability aod liberal enterprise ol the country are centred in New York. In heir opinion there is no business judgment o fie found elsewhere than in New lotk: out for the last six moDths, as competition has slowly rai.-ed the curtain behind which i his "business judgment" conducted it iperations, the country is forced to behold a development of thieving and false pre tence which have no parallel anywhere but a New York. In contrast with these aet if bold viilainy how gratifying it is to be hold, in the fair statements of the repotts of Boards of Directors of Pennsylvania rail roads, the honesty and just dealing with *hieh all these enterprises are conducted. There is not a road in thi? State that fails ti psy its stockholders a just and even profi table dividend. There is no scandal at t ached to our great, roads such as disgrac he managers of the roads of New 1 ork These are simple facts without any det3ib 10 set them off to advantage, which reflect the very highest credit on the energy and honesty of the railroad men of Pennsylvania. —State Guard. ANECDOTE OL GENERAL WASH INGTON. Washington had accepted an invitation (Vom Arnold to breakfast with him al West Point on the very day the plot was discover J, but was prevented from keeping his en gagement by what men call chance —by the earnest request, namely, of an old officer, near whose station they passed, to spend the night there and inspect, some works ir> the neighborhood. Next day, while Wash ington, with his staff, including La Fayette, were seated at a tabic at this officer s quarters a despatch was brought to the Americat general, which he immediately opened and nad, then laid it down without comment. No alteration was visible in his countenance but he remained perfectly silent. Conver sation dropped among his suite; and, after some minutes, the general, beckoning La Fayette to follow him, passed to an inner apartment, turned to his young friend with out uttering a syllable, placed the fatal des patch in his hands, and then, giving way to an ungovernable burst of feeling, fell on his „e;k and sobbed aloud. The effect produ ced on the young French marquis, accus lomed to regard his general (cold and dig nified in his usual manner) as devoid of the usual weaknesses of humanity, may be imagined. "I believe," said La Fayette in relating this anecdote, "that this was the onlv occasion, throughout that long and sometimes hopeless straggle, that Washing ton ever gave way, even for a moment, un .{OR a reverse of fortune; and perhaps I WA. he only human being who ever witnessed in him an exhibition of feeling so foreign to Li tem perament. As it was, he recovered himself before I had perused the communi cation that had given rise to bis emotion; and when we returned to his staff not a trace remained on his countenance either of grief or despondency."—Feb. No. of Lip pincott's Magazine. EARLY RISING Anti early-risers will do well to note that one hour lost in morn ing naps will put back all the business of the day; that one hour gained by car y rising will make filteen days in a year, or three full years in a long lifetime. IT is the little troubles that wear the heart out. It is easier to throw a bomb-shell a mile than a feather —even with the artil lery. Forty little debts of one dollar each will cause you more trouble and dunning than one big one of a thousand. "I would bestow my daughter," said Themistocles, ''upon a man without tnouey, t rather than upon money without a man. VOIs. 42: NO. 9. A TRUE MARKIACE. I believe there are few thoughtful men who have not come to regard as one of the least explicable amocg the great riddles of the earthly eeonoroy the rarity of well assor ted marriages. It might be so different, one cannot help thinking. The adaptations for harmony so wonderful ! The elements it happiness so manifold and so rich ! Vet how often—how miserably sometimes—it all miscarries ! The waters of Puradise turntd to fountains of bitterness—the gifts of iiearen perverted to cutses upon earth ! I do not mean that there are few unions yielding reasonable comfort, friendly rela rions, a life free from open quarrel or secret heart-burniug; but I speak of very marriage without flaw or jar—a mating alike of the material, with its intangible affinities and it-wondrous magnetisms, and of the imma terial principle within' that survives the death-change. I speak of a heart home pervaded by harmony not only unbroken immutable as that of the spheres; felt to be so by those whom it blesses, cairn-, satisfies; a social state to which, when man and wo man attain, there remains nothing in the way of earthly need or acquisition, save daily bread, to be coveted or prayed for. Some think that, in this trial-phase of our existence, no such state of harmony and happiness is to be found. Aiming the few whodchndit none of these skeptics will have place. No entrance into that temple except for those who believe ! Without 'aith in the tiood and the Beautiful—the Good that is felt, not seen—the Beautiful (hat must be conceived before it is realize d —a man is shut out from the highe-t enjoy ment. And such a man can do little to meliorate the world or elevate his race.— ' Beyond the Breakers," in Feb. No. ol Lippincolt's Magazine. MR. BEECHER ON WORTHLESS MEN.—I think the most piteous thing in this world is never written. 1 have read many a poem, and novel, and tale, that made me cry—and whether they were true or not, it was all the -arne; but of all affecting poems and novel and tales, I think life itself is the most af fecting—common life, just as it turns out ol the world. And when Igo out to measure men, 1 >ay to myself, as one after anothe: they pass before me. "Suppose that man should drop out of life, what would be come of him?" It pains me to see how worthless men are—to see how men stand in life, and what they are I have souietime to perform the burial service over men of whom I could not say a word, and of whom if I expressed what I felt, I should have <aid, "I bless God that he is gone. The world is better off for his having been taken out cf it." Look ac human life, break through all the sentimental ways of Society, weigh men as you weigh gold, unmixed with dirt or quartz or any other sub-tanee take men up and see how much there is ol hem that reall answer the end ot the life to come, and how many there are that, dying, would not be missed. liow few 'here are that, dying, would make the com i oiunity feel poor. How tew there are that. ! iieing dead, would yet speak. LARGE BUILDING FOR STORING GRAIN. —The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are now having constructed on the east side of Thirtieth street, north of Market street. Philadelphia, a large building for receiving nd storing grain. The house will be 555 feet wide. The lower or ground floor wi. lie on the level of Thirtieth street. On the upper floor, which will be about 19 feet higher, there will be six railroad tracks ex tending the whole length of the building tod connecting with the main tracks of th Pennsylvania Railroad. Y\ ithin the hou-i --there will be standing space for ninety six cars, and GOO bins of sufficient capacity tr contain each one car load, or about 400 bushels of corn or wheat. The grain will be transferred from the cars through trap-door.- in the floor into the bins, which will be pro viJed at the bottom with spouts. There will be a clear height of eight feet from the 'ower floor to the bottom of the bins, ana this floor will be appropriated to the passage ways for wagons across the building, with intermediate spaces for measuring and bagging the grain as it is drawu from the bins above. FORGOT TO TOOK I I*. I have somewhere seen the atory of a man who went one evening to steal corn from bis neighbor s field. He took his iittle son with him to sit on the fence and xeep a lookout and give warning in case my one should come along. The man jumped over the fence with a large hag on his arm, and before commencing to take the corn he looked all around and not seeiat my one, he was just about to fill his bag. Then the little fellow, his son,—a good little fellow he was too, —cried out, "Father, there is one way you havn i looked yet !" The father was startled, and supposed -ome one was coming. Ho asked his son which way he meant. ••Why," said the little hoy, "you forgo to look up!" The father was conscience-stricken; he came back over the fence, took his little boy by the hand, and homed quietly home without the corn he had designed to take. THE Revue ties Deux Months has some curious revelations in regard to the art of living in Paris. In the large lyceums and schools of Paris hoys are generally very wasteful; they will throw away half the bread they get for lunch, tread upon it, kick it into the gutter, ink it. &c. None of th fragments are lost, the servant- sell them to certain dealers, who are called boulangers en vieux, and turn their acquisitions to account. They first pick out all the tolerable pieces, which they heat in an oven and then rasp clean; thus prepared, these bits reappear in the market in the shape of toast for soup Most of the croutons cut into lounges and served on the tables of the rich wi'h spinach have no other origin. As for the dirty crumbs and refuse left after the picking, they are pounded in a mortar and sold to butcher* as chajKlure, with which they cov er their cutlets and knuckles of ham. ONE can no more judge of tho true value of a man bv the impression be makes on the public, than wc can tell whether the seal was gold or brass by which the stamp was made. A woman 100 years and 5 months old, named Mrs. Tobie, lives in New Gloucester. Me., and retains her mental powers almost unimpaired. She lived 72 years wiih her husband, who died a few years a&o. 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WRECKS.— Statistics have been published showing that during the past eleven years four thou-and eight hundred and eighty three American vessels have been wrecked, involviug a 10.-9 of one hundred and ninety eight million dollars, CALMING EFFECT OF FLOWERS.— It ia reported from the Michigan State Lunatic Asylum that some of the severest cases of insanity in men brought to the institution in irons, and manifesting the most violent symptoms, have been suddenly calmed down to a condition bordering on sanity by the presentation of a boquet gathered from the greenhouse. THE D'Aacy M GEE MURDER.— It is stated on the authority of the Toronto TeUgrapk that Whalen, sometime previous to his execution, said there were two others engaged with him in kiding M Gee, .and that he did not fire the fatal shot. On the strength of evidence aiucc obtained, this statement of Whalen • is believed, and it is thought that one of the suspected parties may yet be arrested. TURKEY AND GREECE. — Although it seems to be generally admitted that the quarrel between these two countries has b en settled without e tiling to blows, yet it appears that Turkey was making prepara tion for a conflict of some magnitude, since it is announced that a number of vessels have been chartered in the port of Tritstc by the Turki-h Government, for the pur pose of conveying military stores and mu nitions of war to all the ports of the Otto man empire. FRENCH TRIALS. — A singular report is furnished by the foreign papers of the trial of a girl, in France, and her conviction on her own confession. Circumstances subse quently developed, showed that the girl was innocent, and the Court of Appeal set aside the verdicts, holding that the confession wa3 obtained by intimidation. The mother of the accused girl had told her that if she persisted in denying the charge ahe would be sentenced to fifteen or twenty years' im prisonment with hard labor. THE BAROMETER IN MINES.— It has lately been noted that fi.-e-damp explosions in mines bave always been preceded by a treat fall in the barometer, showing such a change of atmospheric pressure as to permit the excessive escape of the foul gas. This instrument has therefore been recommended as an important adjunct in mining opera tions, and a wiiter recently recommends one filled with wat' r instead of mercury; a kind •f apparatus well known to physicians as staving highly magnified indications of changes of pressure. MARRAIGE IN AUSTRIA.— The bill re e. ntly introduced into the Austrian Legisla ture for rendering marriage before the civil luthori ies compulsory in every case, it is stat-d, does not meet with the approbation •f the Cabinet. Two of the Ministers, it is repotted, have just declared that the Gov ernment does not consider such a measure necessary, and will therefore oppose it. They think any attempt to deprive mar iage ot its religious character would be re pugnant to public opinion, and that the lib erty now accorded of contracting a civil marriage, when the e'ergy refuse to per form the ceremony, is quite sufficient as a measure of proteciion to the p ople. STORMS IN GREAT BRlTAlN.—Thetorm3 in Great Britain, at the beginning of Feb. ruary, have exceeded any similar events for a long time past. The loss of life was very creat. Some of the principal st-eetsof the city of Cork were from three to four feet deep in water. The traffic on the lines of railway on both sides of the river Lee, on which Ork is built, was stopped, the rails having been submerged, and several breaches were made in the Queenstown direct line. At Youchgal the -ea broke over the railway, destroying a portion of the sta tion. overturning wagons and making serious breaches in tjie permanent way. Part, of Queenstown was also under water. MEXICO. —A dispatch from Havana rives some MexicaD news of considerable importance. General Negrete captured the city of Purbla on the 3d and it-sued some incendiary proc'aniations, but. evacuated the city oo the 6th, on learning that Govern ment troops were marching against him. A forced loan of $20,000 had been levied on the merchauts of San Martin by the rev olurioni-ts at that point. There was an in •ipient revolution in Yuca'an, but not deemed worthy of particular note. Trouble xisted betw. en the civil and military au thorities at Gaudalaxara, and revolution was threatened. The Governor had re igned, and thecourts had declared their in ability to enforce the laws. There was a revolution in Tlaseala another at Neuvo lieon, where Qumnga. at the head of 1,200 well-armed men, had pronounced in favor of Santa Anna. It was thought that Gen. Corona would be appointed Minister to VV ashington. A FEARFUL RIDE.—On Thursday of last week the locomotive Leonard W. Jerome was "booked" to follow the mid day train out of New York to stopping nowhere except for wood and water. Just as she was starting, and unknown to the en gineer, two lads, respectively eight and ten \ears old. mounted the cow-catcher, intend ing to have a short ride. They were stated .ID alow elevation, the cross beam of the ow catcher, and were hid from tho en .ineer by the smoke stack, haster and taster whirled the iroo horse over the rails, by cross streets, over rattling switches and then with almost lightning speed the city was left behind as the locomotive reached the river bed of tho road. The roaring srt-am, the sharp, rapid crack of the heavy wheels as they cleared the joints of the rails," the swaying to and fro of the tons of iron, the shrieking of the steam whistle as the snorting eogine dashed past station after -ration, sent thrills of terror into the hearts .if the youngsters as they hung with death like grips upon projecting bars or bolts, yelling and crying with fright in vain, for the deafening roar of the machinery and the .lash of iron drowned their cries for heip almost before they lelt their lips. And so they rode tiil the locomotive came to a stand still for water at Peefcskill, forty mile#, when one, completely overcome with fright and exhaustion, tumbled senseless to the ground, while the other, too weak to walk, was conveyed into the station, and after | good care, the two were sent back to New \ York.
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