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A few evenings ago, at a convivial gather | ing in Philadelphia, a young friend—a gen j erou*, noble fellow, but more a victim to the i inebriating cop, than he was aware of, invited j the company to drink wine with bim. One 1 of the guest* declined, saying, that he was : past his majority by a few months, and had never yet tasted of any intoxicating beverage, and never intended to begin. Our friend re peated the invitation, saying. "Come! only a drop! That can't harm you." The train of thought awakened by that expression, "Only a drop J" has resulted in the following lines : "Only a drop !'" Sure naught, can befall Of harm, from a thing so weak and small. "Only a drop 1" Yet beware ! beware ! The germ of a myriad ills is there. "Only a drop !"' In that drop I see Ten thousand gaunt phantoms of misery : In its bright, sparkling, ruby light, so clear, Oh! Gcd ! what visions of woe appear. "Only a drop !" Yet its burning wave, Hath borne to the yawing, remorseless grave. The hopes of the aged : the gladness ot youth: Fair woman's fond trust, and proud man hood's truth. "On ly a drop !" Hark! the anguished prayer, Wrung from the widow's lone heart, is there: And the wife.® sad wail; and the orphan's cry. That ceaseless ascend to the Throne on High. "Oniy a drop!" See 1 the yon ig ar.d the old; The poor in bis rags, and the rich in his gold: The brave in bis might, and the high in his pride, Are all swept away by its pitiless tide. •'Only a drop !" Not a hideous name, Of hatred and crime, of rais'ry and shame : Not a horrid spectre, nor hellish thing : But from that little drop may spring. "Only a drop!" Yet linger not, where The fiend of the wine-cup hath spread her snare ; The song of the siren is her's. and her breath Blasts hope, life, all, with the blight of death. "Only a drop 1" Oh ! heed not her spell 1 Her paths go down to the gates of bell, Of her votaries, God's word is given ; "They shall not inherit the bliss of Heaven." Bedford, Pa., May 1,186! L TO A POLITICAL OPPONENT. BY GEORGE D. PREXTICE. I send thee, Greeiey. words of cheer, Thou bravest, truest, best cf men : For I Lave marked thy strong career, As traced by thy own sturdy pen ; I've seen thy stiuggles with the fi va That dared thee to the desperate fight, And loved to watch thy goodly blows Dealt for the cause thou deem'st the right. Thou'st dared to stand against the wrong When many faltered by thy side ; j [ln thy own strength cast dared be strong. Nor on another's arm relied, Tby own bold thoughts tbou'st dared to think. Ttiy own great purposes avowed ; And none have ever seen thee shrink From the fierce surges of the crowd. Thou, all unaided and alone, Didst take thy way in life.s young years, With no kind hand clasped in thy own, Xo gentle voice to soothe thy tears. But thy high heart no power could tame, And thou hast never ceased to feel Within thy veins a sacred flame That turned tby iron nerves to steel. I know that thou art not exempt From all the weaknesses of earth. For passion comes to rouse and tempt The truest souls of mortal birth, Hut thou bast well fulfilled thy trust, In spite of hope and love and fear, And e'en the tempest's thnndergust But clears thy spirit's atmosphere. Thou still art in thy manhood's prime, Still foremost 'mid thy fellow men, Though in each year of all tby time Thou liast compressed threescore and ten. Oh. may each blessed sympathy, Breathed on thee with a tear and sigh, A sweet flower in thy pathway be. A bright star in thy clear biue sky. gttgfrHanemiiS. INDUSTRY THE ONLY TRIE EALTH. BY HORACE GREELEY. The monopoly of the soil is the great fun damental error of our political and social policy. Had the truth hut been understood an ! acted on, in the settlement of this con tinent, that no man can rightfully have an exclusive property in any more soil than be and his family can cultivate—had a moder ate and reasonable maximum for land-owning been established at the outset, and no man permitted to hold more, save on sufferance, to be resumed by the State so soon as the inerea>e of its population shall have created a demand for it—then the spectacle of gen eral thrift, industry, plenty and content ment. presented by our country, would suf fice to banish aristocracy and despotism from Europe without a struggle, and ensure a general imitation of our bcneficieut, inspir ing example. But we began under royal auspices and with royal grants of land in ex orbitant quantities to favorites: and we have vc-ry naturally progressed to poor-houses, orphan a-ylums and soup societies, until al ready our great cities differ a little in their social aspects from the capitals of Europe, with their sumptuous thousands and squal id hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. Land monopoly, wherever it may be tolera ted, compels the many to toil and suffer that the few may riot aad squander. It must be abolished before republican principles can have full course and achieve their noblest results. A Republic wherein one man may truly say of those who hold the balance of power in a State, "If they do not rote as I say, I will deprive them of their means of subsist enee," is but a disguised and decorated oli garchy. A Republic in which a large proportion of the voters are ignorant, enslaved to appe tite, and in desperate want of the necessa ries of life, is a very insecure guardian of Liberty, Property and Prosperity. Every elector should have a direct and palpable interest in the welfare of the community whose policy may l>e radically changed by bis ballot: and it is the pressing dictate of public safety that such interest be extended acd secured to him. A constitutional pro- BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 28- 1869. vision that no more than a reasonable num ber of acres—say three hundred and twenty —of a: able soil shall henceforth be acquired by any one within the limits of the State, h-arsg each unmolested in his present pos sessions, but prescribing that wb'-ever shall h'-reafter inherit or acquire arable land be yond the legal maximum, shall within a , yeardis; eof the excess, or have it sold in his behaif'by the proper officer of State, no bid being received front any but a landless I man, or one whose entire possessions, in cluding that he bids for. will not exceed the k-gal maximum, would do more to secure t ; the prevalence of equality, industry, intelii ,- gence and prosperity, than any act ever yet framed. It would give a new impulse to agricultural iropiovemt nt, by iui|>elling ac tive, energetic, and thrifty men to improve i the farms they have, instead of applying tbe:r faculties and means to the buying out of tht ir neighbors. Few as yet realize that he who owns a hundred fair acres in a thick ly settled community may double his estate, more naturally, cheaply and fcereficicntly, by doubling the depth of the soil, than by adding on another hundred aeres. The former method involves no double fencing, nor double taxes—both which are implied by th • 'alter. In fact, 'he soil not only might be but would be rendered far more productive than it now is, and give far more employment to labor, if it were not for this I fatal facility of territorial expansion, which now engrosses the encrgcries and means of sac" >ful cultivators. Public worl s of genera! utility would be far more rapidly and extcn-ively con.-tiucted. if it were not j for the pride of neighborhood acquisition— the coveted distinction of owning most land of any man in the country. As a general ; rule, no farm will pay three per cent, on its market value t > any other than a resident i cultivator; yet many a sharp dealer will add J farm to farm rath' r than lend his money on ; j a six per cent, mortgage, to help his young , and struggling neighbor keep the on-? farm j from wh'ch he derives his subsistence, to which his hopes are anchored. No man thinks of investing in a railroad, ' unless merely to help it, without a fair pros pect of realizing at least six per cent.; yet the pas-ion of territorial aggrandizement hah •at no such limit. The laws which en courage and protect this pa--ioa have much to answer for—the dearth of employment, the depression of wages, the dependence of later, and the con-trained idleness of hund red- of thousands. No thousand acres own ed by one man do or will, in the nature of things, employ and reward nearly so much ' labor as those same acres would if owned I ; and cultivated by ten, twenty or thirty tnen. i ; If one man were landlord of the earth, half . ; it population would inevitably be pauper.-: j if ev ty man owned so much of the soil as h cultivates or would cultivate, there would j soon be no paupers at all. Antaeus, in cla -ic fable, beaten to the earth, is reviv. 1 by her touch, and renew- the contest with | all it- pristine vigor. Thus it would and j should be with every one who fails in trade, in manufacture, or in any of the profession*. Our popular education should have taught 1 him in boyhood the principles and the methods of rural industry, our laws should secure him at ail times easy access to a mod icum of the soil. Then "failure" in some commercial or industrial enterprise would cease to be synonymous with "ruin:" tin n no man, defeated in a single effort, would act unt himself, or be regarded by others, a? parabzed and prostrate f>r life. It shall yet be realized that, in the infinite bounty of Providence, there is hope for all who have sacrificed that integrity and thorough ly regained it. That he who is once bank rupt should thenceforth be u-eless and bur densome, is one of the most wasteful of our social blunders, and demands prompt cor recrioo. No man, with two strong arms and an honest head on his shoulders, should be accounted a minus quantity because he has proved unfortunate in seme single vo cation. There are stiil hundreds of possi bilities remaining: and if ihere were none but ibis, grain would grow and fruit ripen under his earc as well as another's. Friends may vani-li and fortune frown, but oar kind mother Nature smiles benignantly on all her children to the last. I discern in our wholesale alms giving, our misnamed charitv, the luo.-.t striking confession of the vices and defects of our social economy. Charity was once a syno nym of love; but who imagines that there is any love in our current alms-given to stranger.-? We relieve their wants, not be cause we love but because we loathe j theui, and would fain be speedily rid of the'r hateful presence. In awisely ordered social state, there would be no giving, save from relative to relative, or from friend to friend. The destitute, crip pled, diseased or idiotic, would be support -1 ed at the public expen-e, as a matter not of | faTor but of simple justice ; but, no roaming, whining beggar would be tolerated, any more than a professed thief. Every day's I -übsistcnce by begging floats the receiver ; farther and father from the rational hope j of ever again being a useful and respected member of society—every day drives him farther towards desperation, outlaw and crime. The beggar encounters contempt, ' reviling and scorn ; and these foster in his ! heart bittern s", execration and revenge. ! His children grow up thieves as well as va grants; they loathe the idea of working for a livelihood, and dread a factory worse than j a prison. And, worst of all, the proffers of alms-giving are pou r ed into a bottomless abyss. If ten times as much were giveD in charity to vagrants as now is, there would i be less distress, but ten times as many beg gars. It should be the first care of a wise State to make all needful public provision i for the relief and sustenance of the luckless , and destitute, and then inexorably repress ill vagrant beggary—all appeals to tbeeyin-' j patbies of strangers. If we cannot at once j ; abolish all idleness, all horse leech appliea j tions to the jugular of industry, sve can at i j least make a beginning here. Every stroll- ! ing beggar should at once be taken in charge by the proper authorities and set to work : •very child of such vagrant should be made wek-otne to a good home and taught an hon- 1 - ft trade. If onr great cities bad but the nerve to take hoid of the giant evil in this spirit. ; and spend less in ten years to eradicate beg- : gary than they now lavi-k in pampering and increasing it, they would do themselves and the world a service of which they have now no adequate conception. I am not disposed to judge harshly the large class of young men who are said to "fail" because, commencing life without definite ideas of the necessity to the joung of uric' economy, both of time and meant,, 1 tbey are tempted into undue expenditure?, and fall thence into pecuniary emlarass menu. I can imagine ca*es in which this is but the overflow of a generous nature, anxious to make borne pleasant to the dear brightencr of its fire-ide, and to proffer a fitting hospitality to relatives and friends. Certainly, to contract debts without a mor ally sure prospect of paying tlicm is tauhJy, and, if intentional, is; dishonest and crimi nal. Flie fraudulent bankrupt is a thief, and ought to be provided for accordingly, liut tha young man who, through simple want of experience, and imperfect koowl edge of the value of money, supposing hitii j well established in a good business, and ! in the receipt of an adequate and steadily increasing income, supplies and adorns Lis Lome with elegancies which he cannot real I ly afford, and indulges taste.- in equipage and entertainment which are beyond his ac tual means, ig oftcu only weak and uncir eumspeet. where a harsh and hasty judg ment pronounces him dishonest. When the delusion vanishes at the lowering of trouble—when protested notes, foreclosing m rtgagc-, and posibly a snow shower of writs and executions, pour upon him. then cones the true trial of his character. Do not condemn bim until thc-n. If he take the lesson kindly, as it was intended—if, without one weak murnier, one theatrical grimace, he discard all bis finery and par ade, and come promptly down to the level where fortune cr his own folly has placed bim—if he welcome his friends as cordially to his naked two rooms np-stairs as he did to the front parlor of his spacious and ele gantly furni-hed house, and take hold of any work which now solicits bim—p rhaps of a journeyman in his old shop, a clerk in the -tore for merely his —a- heartily and joy ously as he presided OYer it—that man has not failed. He has rather risen than fallen; as a few years will make plain to the dullest apprehension. He will soon be in his old place again, assuming that he ever belonged thi-re. and, profiting by hi- past errors, will pay his old debts and win a competence. Do not distrust but have laith in him, and all will come out right. Stid. the fondness for display, the craving for elegance and Inxary, is a weakness whii-h only tooth and love and thoughtlessness can execse. All great, all good men. have eith er despised from the outset or speedily out grown it. A volura: of portraits of the world's hundred greater men. with outside and in-ide views of the dwellings ' wherein their lives were tnaiiily passed, would prove mo-t instructive and salutary. The si;n plicity of nature evinced in their counte nance- would seem but a reflex of that ex prc--ed by their home?. The mini absorbed by grand or benignant purposes must regard the trappings of luxury as impediments, a di-Ura.-tions, entirely out of keeping with the chief ends of its being. As a general rule, no man can be pod for much whose dinner consumes two hours of his day in the providing and consuming of it. Our great men in the way of traffic—William Gray. G:rar(S A-t r. McDonough—were all tremely simple in thcr habits, quite a.- much from taste as from economy. I: was related of Gray, while be lived, and never contradicted, that, when he was worth a million dollars.# young lawyer, seeing a hum We plainly dressed roan in the market of Boston, hired him to carry home the meat he had just purchased, which job was ac cepted and perform-.d with alacrity. Ar rived at his own door, the lawyer tendered a shiliinc. which the meat carrier accepted with thank*. "And whenever you have any little job to give," added the me k re ceiver of the *hi!!iog. "just inquire of Billy Gray. Everybody about the market knows ro." The lawyer blushed, shot into the house, and never again wanted a man to carry home his dinner to the day of h : s death. So A-ror. when solicited fop credit by a fur-buyer he did not know, took his refer ences, and said he would promptly make in quiry and give an answer. Meanwhile, the customer bought a small package for cash, and took it on his shoulder to carry away with him. "Won't you have a porter?" "No, I thank you," said the buyer, "lean carry this myself." 'That's enough," -aid the shiewd Jacob. I don't want to con sult your reference. You can have credit here for all you will buy.' So it is with wise men the world over. They do jndge by appearances, but very differently from the judgement of the "moths who "are ever caught by glare." McDonough dies, and his entire wardrobe is appraised at forty dollars, while his be quests for philanthropic purposes amouDt t:> millions. Girard, too, lived a reputed miser: but his will nobly refutes th<> calum ny. It makes evident the fact that he lived and saved to a benignant, unselfish end ; and to such a life the reproach of avarice is wholly nnapplicablc. The vice of extravagance, or inordinate ex penditure, is one to which our countrymen are especially addicted. We are a sanguine people, and our past history and rapid prog ress give plausibility to the most magnifi cent expectations for the future. Looking back through a ecntnry, oureountry'scareer in arts, industry, population, wealth, would secui one uninterrupted and sweeping ad vance; but if regarded more do-- !v, \ ■ f.ud that th!.- advance has been fitful and .nter mittent, like that of a ri-ing tdt-markon the sandy beach; and somcti-nes years of depression and disaster have interrupted the progress 0 f improvement. He who calcu lates that the country will be richer and vaster, its trade more extensive, its indus try more efficient, fifty years hence than they now are, has every probability on his side; but he who cherishes the assurance that uexi year's trade will neces-arily be more active and prosperous than this, and incurs expenses and obligations on the strength of that expectation, i-very likely to be disappointed and crippled. Excessive confidence in ourselves and our predestined good fortune is the National defect; let us be careful that it is not permitted to work our personal or National downfall. Work wins success, and indolence leads to failure—such is the genera! if cot universal law. Of two children, it were very unsafe to predict that the brighter, quicker, wit tier, will the better succeed in life; for very often his seeming duller playmate will out strip him. and bear to the tomb renown and blessings, while be falls by the wayside and is forgotten. But ascertain that one of two children evinces rare assiduity and devotion to whatever befits his years and station — that he does not dread and shun labor, but bears his part in it cheerfully and heartily, Without making s theatric display of hit n ergy and diligence, and that, while others devote all their leisure hours to frolic and recreation he sits down by himself to read and study, and finds satisfactory employ ment in storing his mind with knowledge, agreeable society in the thoughts of earth's best and wisest instructors, and you may very confidently assume that tin it youth, should life and health remain to him, wi'l not. in aftet life, disgrace the name be bears nor send a dagger to a mother's doating heart. lie may not attain dietinction, but he will very certainly secure esteem; and the tears of unshaiued affection will water his grave however lowly. RELIGIOUS QUESTION \ SPAIN. The Mardrid cot respondent of the Lon don Daily Neict writes, under date of April 17, that the discussion in the Spanish Cortes on the religious question have given a fore taste of the interest it will excite when arti cles 20, 21 and 22 of the constitution are reached. The clerical party have spoken out. Senor Manterola. the Canon of Victo ria, and Senor Monescillo. the Bishop of Jaen, in the general debate on the constitu tion, both made powerful speeches, especial ly upon the violation of Catholic unity by the clauses permitting the exercise of other religions. The Netcs correspondent says : "The Canon's speech was very long, aod very anti-Protestant: lut it was not well re ceived by the House, and it drew forth from the great republican orator, Castelar, a re ply which, I do not hesitate to say, has given a blow to the power of the priests in Spain they will never get over. It electri fied the House to such an extent, that when he resumed his seat almost the whole of the deputies on both sides crowded around hift embracing him, patting hint, shaking his hands, and even ki.-sing hint. Ministers; majority, and even the President Rivero, were quite enthusiastic in these expressions of approval as the Republicans. The ex eiteruent has spread all over the country. Four or five columns of the Discussions attd the Jgaviblad are filled daily with copies of congratulations and felicitations sent to Senor Castelar by telegraph from ail parts of the kingdom. The monarchical papers, which hitherto have alr< adv underrated his speeches and been most opposed to his principles, have every one articles laudatory of tin* great effort. Even the Impartial and the Iberot —government organs—speak of him as being a 'national glory.' The former says that parts of the speech surpass aoything ever delivered by any orator of anci at or modern times. "This is. perhaps, siring too much; but certainly; in my own experience of parlia mentary eloquence, I have never listened to anything more brilliant One by one Caste lar demolished evety argument and every assertion of the Canon, until he left htm thoroughly and unmistakably beaten. He charged the Catholic church and its intoler ance a.- having been the caure of the back ward position of Spain in progress of every j-. .- rlprion. Especially w-< ; - P • very power ful in his denunciations of :hc- - lict which, at the instigation of the clergy, 11 to the bani-hment of the Jews, which had not nly deprived the c untry of much material wealth, but also of the honor of being the birthplace of many eminent and illustrious men. The assertion that the Catholic church never dealt in persecution, never killed the heretics, but that the civil power did, he characterised a? childish., and equiv alent to the assa-sin saying he did not kilt his victim, but the dagger did. The In quisition had been the dagger of the Church. "Castelar combated the boast tbc Canon had made about the founding of universi ties by the Catholic Church. IJe said she was one the centre of light in the midst of feudalism and barbarism, and she would hardly fail th n to be in the van of progress. But compare any of their great universities —Salamanca for instance —with the foreign universities which sprung out of the ideas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centurits. I! x wa> it that the Spanish universities had degenerated? It certainly wa- not be cau-e the Spaniards were inferior in intelli gence and talent to the Ene!i-h or the Ger mans. but because those two great people had acquired before them the great treasure of liberty of thought ; because they had not. like Spain, remained so long without light in the conscience, buried in the obscure depths of the Inquisition! "As I said at the beginning, this speech has created an extraordinary sensation, and awoke an echo from all quarters. A sub scription is on foot for a national ovation to Castelar, who has made tremendous strides in popular estimation, and proved hiin-elf the first orst r of his country." EXERCISE.— Through all nature, want of motion indicates weakness, corruption, in animation and death. Trenek, in his damp prison, leaped about like a lion, in fetters of seventy pounds weight, in order to preserve his health: and an illustrious physician ob serves: 'I know not which is the most necessa ry to the support of the human frame— food or motion. Were the exercises of the body attended to in a corresponding degree with that of the mind, men of great learning would he more healthy and vigorous—of more general talents—of more ample practical knowledge; more happy in their domestic lives; more enterprising and attached to their duties as men. In fine, it may with propriety be said, that the highest refinement of the mind, without improve ment of the body can never present anything more than half a human being PEARLS. —Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. How can we expect another to keep our secret it we cannot keep it ourselves? The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. '' There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. The best government is t hat which teaches us to govern ourselves. The memory of good actions is the star light of the souL There is not a wakeful moment without some duty. There is beggary in the love that can be reckoned. No*man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what be is, and not ac cording to what he has. VOI.. 42: NO. 21 THE TRADES OF ASI.HALS. The following observations which we copy varixilim from an "Old Curiosity Shop, have reference to animals, and ex hibit. at least, their apparent knowledge of the sciences; also their professions, oc cupations, and enjoyments: Bees are ge ometrician..; their cells are so constructed as. wiih the least quantity of material, to have the largest-sized spaces and tbe least possible loss of interstice. So, also, is the ant lion: his tunnel-shaped trap is exactly correct in its conformation, as if it had been made by tbe most skillful artists of our species, with the aid of the best instru ment e. The mole is a meteorologist. The bird called the nine-killer is an arithmeti cian : so, also, is the crow, the wild turkey, an i some other birds. The torpedo, the ray, and the electric eel are electricians. The nautilus is a navigator; he raises and lowers his sail, casts and weighs his anchor, and performs other nautical evolutions. Whole tribes of birds are musicians. The beaver is an architect, builder and wood cutter; he cuts down trees and erects houses and dam-. Tbe marmot is a civil engineer: he not only builds houses, but constructs aqueducts and drains to keep tLem dry. The white ants maintain a regular army of soldiers. Tbe East India ants are horticul turists; they make mushrooms, upon which they feed their young. Wasps are paper manufacturers. Caterpillars are silk-spin ners. The bird ploeeits tartar is a weaver; he weaves a web to make bis nest. The prircia is a tailor: he sews the leaves to gether to make his nesf. The squirrel is a ferry-man: with a chip or piece of bark for a boat, and his tail for a sail, he crosses a stream. Dcgs, wolves, jackals, and many others, are hunters. The black bear and heron are fishermen. Tbe ants are regular day-laborers. The monkey is a rope-dancer. The association of beavers presents us with a model of repub'icanism. The bees live under a monarchy. The Indian antelopes furnish an example of patriarchal govern ment. Elephants exhibit aristocracy of elders. Wild horses are said to select their leader. Sheep, in a wild state, are under the control of a miiitarv chief ram. Once a Wee!:. EDITING.— An exchange has the follow ing, which will strike all who read it as be ing true: Kdi'ine a paper is a pleasant business. If it contain? too much reading matter people won't take it. If the type is too large, it don't contain enough reading matter. If the type is too small people won't read it. If we publish telegraph reports, people say they are all lies. If we omit them, they say we arc fossils. If we publish original matter, they con demn us for not giving selections. If we publish selections, they say we are lazy for not writing more, and give them what they have not read in some other pa- f-orf. If we give a man a complimentary notice, then we are censured as beiDg partial. If we remain in the office and attend to bu.-incss, folks say we arc too prottd to min gle with other fellows. If we do not, they say we never attend to business. If we publish poetry, we effect sentiment al ism. If we do not, we have no literary polish or taste. If we do not pay bills promptly, folks say we are not to be trusted. If we pay promptly, they we stole the money. Goon MAXIMS.—Ac action cannot Is 1 perfectly good, unless it is pure in its mo tives; that is. unless the motives are vir tuous and free from any mixture of vice. If we commit small laults without regret to day wc shall commit greater ones to morrow. Pride is the most ridiculous and the most foolish of all vices. In everything we do, however trifling, wc ought to reflect and reason, otherwise we shall never do anything well. Idleness renders us unfit for everything. Fiattery is more prejudicial than rude ness or anger. We owe the greatest gratitude to I bose who tell us the truth. Calumny is the voice of those who have neither a good heart nor a good under standing. We ought never to believe ill of any one till we are certain of it. We ought not to say anything that is rude and displeasing in joke, and even then we ought not to carry the joke too far. The longer the saw of contention is drawn, the hotter it grows. In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. Lying is a vice so very infamous, that the greatest liar cannot bear it in other men. LARIATING A LOCOMOTIVE.—The Sacra mento Reporter says: It is currently re ported that a new tribe of Indians have been discovered near Independence, on the line of the Central Pacific, who would seem to be as well posted in regard to railroad mat ters as their red-skin brelhern of the plains. The other day a locomotive having passed by to their bewilderment, tbey resolved to lie in wait or pursue and lariate the mon ster. Accordingly they made a very strong lariate,and perceiving the mystery approach ing, stretched it across the track, either end being held firmly by 20 or 30 of the would be captors. The engine came thundering along, the lariat was struck just below the head light, and it is said that the Indians exhibited greater feats of ground and lofty tumbling than was ever seen in a tirat-class circus. IN a recent sermon Mr. Beecher pitied the devil after the following fashion: "I am informed that, before the commutation system was abandoned by the ferry compa ny, men of property and good standing in society would boldly declare that tbey had a commutation ticket in their pocket when they had none, for the sake of going through without pa>ing! Thev did this when the ferryage was one cent! I pity the devil! It is awful to be chief magistrate for a par cel of men like them ! I cannot understand how these exiguous, thricc-squeczed men can be managed 1 " IT is unwise to worry about what cannot be helped, aod foolish to worry about what can be helped. Therefore worry not at all. [SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, 4C The J*