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There can be no legal discontm- CuTnmtffb* payment it made, .md P. subscriber orders bis paper to be (',,, ,/tel— A certain time, and the publisher con Dire dP?4 the subscriber is bound to pay for Itfthl, an * Po*t OJic*. The law I>e£b*ii*k! > o& the ground that a inan must pay C. Sh&tfts* uses. —l>r. pwarts have decided that refusing to tk Jud>ra and periodicals from the Post office. Mid S. ir S an d having them nncalted for, is evidence of intentional fraud. # Ai.r*i®aal & <£ards. tow a m M. Coy* Kee.l /[• u li s EYS . A TLA W . u. He C-'% f MELT. AND LnfGEXFELTER. Ij'": ATTORNEYS AT LAW, lEUroan, ex. A 10* v formed a partnership in the practice of Ept ' in new brick La tiding near the Lutheran [April 1, 1869-tf It, ' A. POINTS, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, BE-IFORI;, PA. 1 b fr epectfully tenders his professional services '.,e pul:ie Office with J. W. Lingenfe'ter, it on Public Square near Lutheran Church. promptly made. [April,l'6^-tf. tfISPY M. AI-SIP, . J ATTORNEY AT LAW, B*rOW>, Pa., WiU faithfully and promptly attend to ail busi s- entrustedto his care in Bedford and adjoin ■* counties. Military claims, Pensions, back j> a Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Jin A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south " r e Men gel Howe. apl 1, IS 6l.—tf. r R. DUKBORROW, , ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa., j] ittend promptly to all business intrusted to care. Collections made on the shortest no " -e. He .mm . a regularly licensed Claim Agent niwil give special attention to the prosecution *iii s agiinrt the Government for Pensions, Back I ay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the /•. 'rer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel House" April 1, 18dV:ti s U P.r SStl-L. J. H. LSH6S.VCCXKR 1} USBELL A LONGENECKER, I V ATTOR.vrvs A C'HSHEIXORK AT LAW, Bedford. Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi :■-= entrusted to their care. Special attention z en to collections and the prosecution of claim* i c. Apri 1:69:1yr. j- I'd. sHARrr r.. r. kskh RPE A KERB. C A TTGI'XE YS-A T-IA W. i practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad ;-ing counties. All business entrusted to their will receive careful and prompt attention, i'en -ns, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col • i from the Government. 05";-e n Juliana street, opposite the banking h Qr* of Beed A Scheil. Bedford, Pa. Apr IJVJ:tf \\~ C. SCHAEFFER ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bsbf 'RD, PA., " e wiih J. W. Dickerson Emi.. Z.Tuprly PIIYSIC I A N S . j y.i. B. F. IIARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Offi c an i residence on Pitt Street, in the building : rnicrly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius. [Ap'i 1,69. M ISC AN EOUS. YY K. SHANNON, BANKER. * ' • BEDFORD, X'a. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and Sooth, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly mfcde. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. April 1:63 j \ANTEL BORDER, I 7 PITT STREET, TWO POORS Wf.?l Or THE BFD- V Kl> HOTEL. Bf.B K )Rt\ Pi. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. Re keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Wat-rhec. Spectaf lea of Brilliant Double Refin ?• 1 Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best ualitT of Gold Pens. He will supply t rt to st.-a'i gy. I wanted to know- precisely the feelin* entertained iri these States rcgardin the Aliikeo. 1 wanted to see with my own eyes the skornful foot wich was formerly slung at Afrie's nose; I wanted to hear again from Demikratic lips that ch -erin ex pro—ion, "I)—n the nigger, anyhow!" To accomplish thi*. I determined to personate a nigger, and in that guise to go boldly into Injeany, announce myself cz an Afriken nigger determined to assert bis rites, and note the result. I (xpectid. uv course, to be hooted and reviled. I expected to be stoned and shot at, bat I wood thereby kill two bird* with one stone, \iz. I no 1 dis gust the Injcanian* with nigger ekaiity, ez they wood see wat it wuz leadin. and I could exhibit my sears to Kentucky cz proof uv the *tedfu*rii* uv their Northern Trends. IVat I determine upon I do. In iuy younger day*, the feat involvin the pos-es shen uv a horse, which resultid in tny bein tried for grand larceny, and convicted by twelve prejoodist ioorymcn, and my incar cera*hen from which I wuz only roleered bee -z my vote wuz neodid to carry Pennsyl vany for Bookannon, this masterpiece wuz coneeeved and execootid in less than four hours. Unforchnitcly, the courts wuz near !y ez cxpedi*bus, for four days thereafter I found myself in a Basted. I entered Injeanny ez a white man; I rej c.-tered tuy name at a hotel ez a white man, but I left it a nigger, wich transformation was rccompHshed by means uv burnt cork, in ray room; wich transformation wuz uv double us", ez it enabled me to leave my hotel without Hkidatin my account, wich otherwise wood hev bin impossible. The county in wich I landed wuz a close one, the two parties bein nearly tied, neither hevin fifty votes to spare, and there bein over a hundred niggers in the county, the Afrikin will, cf he votes this Fall, hold the balance uv power. With my face and hands blackt to the col or uv nite, and assumin the character uv a preacher in the 31. E. Afrikin church, wieh character I cool assoom, cz the burnt cork hid the b;- iuir d color uv my nose, I sallied forth boldiy. Procuorin the kteashen uv the leadin Di mi krat uv the county, with wuz al-o the candidate for sheriff, I sought him out and demanded a subeeripshen for a Afrikin church, wich I asserted I was desi rous uv crcetxn in the east part of the coun ty, and uv wieh I wuz to be pastor in charge, holdin myself at the same time in sich a po sisheu that a kick cood do but little if any damage. "I wuz not kiekt!" On the contiary, quite the reverse ! The gush in candidate kindly, blandly and win ningly be/aged me to be seated: he askt me, with tears uv intrest gush in from his eyes, ez to the prosper uv our Zion; ez to how many we numbered, male and female, adult and youthful, and whether or not we cood ent indulge a reasonable hope lbat many more uv our color mightn't be induct to leave the South and settle in the couuty. Hopin to frightin him with nigger emi grashett, wiclt I bed heard him denounce uot BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 4 IBG9. a yenr before in onmitigatcd terms, I an -wered promptly that I wuz even then ar rangin for the removal uv three thousand into the county. '"Thank the Lord!" says he. "The al mirashen I feel for the Afiikin-—the res peek I hev for their many qualities uv head and heart make me .-ay, in the language uv ihe insp : d writer, 'The more the merrier.' Here is tuy humble conirilxxitioi) to yoor church," sed be, handin me fit), "take it, and may the Lord bless its use. And next fall, after the Amendment hez bin ratified, and voor people git the rites wieh wuz alluz thcirn. I tru.-t yoo will remcmlier at the polls them wich hev stood yoor freed*, uv whom I am wich." Dutiibfbumlid I stagger :d over to another wli i was candidal _• for Treasurer, and to my surprbc and horor be not only give mc $lO, but took mc by the arm in a most cffeck ihnit manner, and in-i-iid on 'akin mc round and asidstiu rite in raisin the amount 1 need ed. Feeliti that so far cz lutin the nigger wuz concerned, all wuz lost. 1 recklessly went with him, and rcely did raise sltk) ca-b off uv the candidates for the county (illie r>, and r>oe wieh desire* to okkepy a seet in for wis. Only wunct wuz this wretch - "iplußsed. Turning a corner sharp we came upon sutliin like fificn gentlemen who wuz a work in on the streets with a ball and chain attached to em. The niioic his eye- *r.ruck em he loosed his holt on me and shot abed, keepin in advance till he bed turned the r. ccrrer. "'Why this maneouver?" askt I, that he bed even that much uv original Dinmkratic feeiiu in him. "My deer s'r!" replied he, "Vou will ex cise me. but the fact is, I'm in a precarious sitooashen. I'm a candidate; and its close. Them gentlemen with the ball and chain ; hev rote*, and tbey hev a most erooil pre jijodi* agin those uv yoor color. We must honor their idi *vti rasies. till we kin correct them. The time is coniin. and lam labor in for it ui'e and day, when it will all be re moved. My deer sir. at tbe polls tbis fall wiil you and your flock remember the sacri fices 1 hev made and am makin?" But I did come to greef. One uv these candidate.* insisted upon takin me, nigger ez he sposed me to be, home to his house to diunrr. Injoodishus ez I wuz I went, and there met my fate. He led me to a cham ber, and without thinkin uv the burnt cork on my hands 1 undertook to wash em, wich 1 made a pint uv d"in reg'.crly twice a week. The fitst splash in the water showed me my blunder. Off came the color and I stood before him a wbi'e man in disguise. He gave one look at my bands, and then the kiekin ! Ignoniinyusly he led me totfic front door, aud one kick landed me on the side walk. Thank Heaven, he c>odent kick the ? 1 G(.l out uv my breeches pocket ! It is need lis to pur-oo this disgustin *ub jiek further. F,z a nigger I wuz welcomed; when it wuz kn.ivrn that I WA* a white man I wuz igno miniously kiekt! I* this the beginio uv a new order of things? Is the nigger to rc- , c.ivea'lihi smile* hereafter of the Demi krat* who want office? I fear me. No soon er i- ther a probability uv this race gittin a vote tb ,n th Democratic leaders, for git ten their proud cawca-hcn blood, forgitten the difference in the anatomical structure uv the two race*, and forgitten that the minit th yci rc the uicger the vol' 1 , ther daugh ter- must all marry cizgers; they forgit all this and cuddle with era the same ez they alluz hev with other inferior classes. 1 returned home weary and sad. and si lent, 1 hed nothing tossy to Basconi, no cheerin wo'd* to sling at Dec kin I'ogram. j They did not know what I went for, nor how I went, n-r she! thw ever know. I am, however, satisfied that I mu*t irnnie jitly make a shift into sutbin. My time here i* rapidly drawin to a c!o-e —the .-Lad der* is ch.'sin round me, and the nite is at hand. FETKOI.ECM V. NASBY, P. M., (Wich means Postmaster.) HO It ACE GREELEY IN THE RIOT. Only a hundred muskets had been brought into the building during the night: but; these, by a happy run,, had been mag nified in the estimation of the mob into at least five hundred. They kept the ra-cals al bay for the night, but w- rc totally in.-uf ficieut for the regular defence of th ■ build- : ing. \\ ith even a hundred brave men be j hind tbeui the.v could no more have with- i stood that infuriated crew of five thousand, j than a feather can withstand a whirlwind.: This was fully appreciated by the defenders, ; and it was determined that if the building j should stand over night, to load it up to | the muzzle in the morning. Accordingly, I by the following nooti it was a perfect arse- : nal. The first floor was barricaded with ■ bales of printing paper, and provided with ■ a steam ho*e-. that would have badly "scotched" any intruder; and the second story bad at one of the windows a small cannon, loaded with crape and canistir, and at the others, piles of hand grenades, ready to be hurled upm tie rioters. The third (ory wa.* cqn illy well armed, and in the larger editorial room were a dozen forty pound shells, with fuses shortened so they would explode on striking the pavement. Thc*->, with a brace or more of muskets at every window, and a hundred and fifty de termin- d men, all under command of an ex perienced army officer, completed the arma ment of the building. j This arsenal Mr. Greeley entered about noon on the second day of tie riot, and ma king his way to the editorial room-, he look ed curiously about at the warlike prepara tion-. "What are these?" he ioqu'red. in speding the .-hells, which were range 1 in an irregular semi-circle near one of the front windows. "Balls of fire and brimstone for tho Disraeli w* tjltaiwclier of tin Exchequer, hi.* wife accompanied him to the I'arliauient House. It was "Budget" sight -tb tiM-t momentous of all sessions to the Chancellor of tb: Exchequer, for he had to unfold his financial plans fox the en suing . ear to a critical and not too <-:L.-iiy -ati.-ii 1 House. Di-ratli. a- he took his place m the carriage, wa- wholly wrapt up in his subject and hi* figures; it wa- a crisis in hi* career; if lie failed this night, he might well take Wolsey's advice to Crom well, "Fiing away ambition !" His wife entered the carriage a!*o, softly, so as not to disturb the thinker. In getting in, how ever, hirfing r was caught by the doer, which, -huttine upon it, jammed it terribly and held it so hist that s"he could not with draw it. She uttered no cry, made no move meat; her paio and agony must have been intense. There wa* the finger crushed be tween the panels ; to iq>eak or to endeavor to withdraw it would disturb her lord— would drive the figures and argument* from his h ad. No there stayed the finger, every moment more painful, until they reached the House ; nor did Disraeli hear a word of it till long alter the famous debate of that night had become history. All tbat evening the faithful wife sat in the gallery, that her husband's quick glancing eye might not mi— her from it; she bore the pain like a martyr and like a woman who loves. No wonder that by her husband's act she ha* become Viscountess Beaconsfield : still le.-* wood r that, a* Lady Beaconsfield, she is honored in England's proudest castles, and has taker, her place in the hereditary * iciety as naturally and easily as if she too had been "to the manner born." — From <>I"R MONTHLY GOSSIP, in Lippincott'* Mittptsine for June. overwork. —There was William Pitt, dead at forty nine, carrying the British Em pire on his shoulders for a quarter of a cen tury, and attempting to carry a pint of port wine daily and a pinch of opium in his stomach, and foundering in mid-ocean from this over-cargo. What a wreck was that when Brinsley Sheridan went to pieces on the breakers of intemperance and overwork! There, too, wa* Mtrabeau, that prodigy of strength and health, of versatility and splen did talent, killed by the overwhelming labors and excitements of the tribu ie and the orgie* of Cyprian bell*. Sergeant S. Prentiss attempted the double ta-k; and if ever a man might with impunity, he could, with leonine health and marvelous mental gift*. Said a distinguished Mississippi law yer to mc. "'Prentiss would sit up all night gambling and drinking, and then go into court next day and make a better pica in al! respects than I could, or anybody else at the bar of our State, even though we stud ied our CMC half the night and sleep the rest." He tried it, and in the trying burned to tbe socket in :oity-one years the lamp of life that had been trimmed to last fourscore. A draft upon the constitution in behalf of appetite is ju*t as much a draft as in behalf o! work : aud if both are habitually preferr ed together, bankruptcy and ruin are sure and swift.— From USING STRENGTH WITH ECONOMY, in Lippincott's Mar/azme for Jan". BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS.— The same God who moulded out SUD and kindled the stars watches the flight of the insects. He who balances the clouds, and hung the earth upon nothing, notices the fall of the .-par row. He who gave t-aturn his two rings, and placed the moon, like a ball of silver, in the broad arch of heaven, gives the rose leaf its dellicate tint. And the same Being notices equally the praise of the cherubim and the j rayers of the little child. IH TO BE HANDSOME. st people like to be handsome. No body denies the greater power any person may have who ha* a good face, and who attracts you by good looks, even before a word has been spoken. And we see all sort* of devices in men and women to im prove their looks —paints and washes, and all kinds of cosiuatics, including a plentiful annointiug with dirty hair oil. Now not every one can have good fea ture*. They are as God made them: but almost any one can look well espec ially with good health. It is hard to give rules in a very short space, but in brief these will do. Keep clean—wa.-h freely and univer sally with oold water. Ail the skin wants is leave to act freely and it will take eate of itself. Its thousand* of air holes luu.-t oot be plugged up. Eat regularly and .-imply. The stom ach cau no more work all the lime, night anA -by, tltun s llnr-,-; it. must have regu lar work and regular rest. Good teeth are a help to good looks. Brush them with a soft brt:*h, especially at night. Go to bed with teeth clean. Of course to have white teeth, it is need ful to let tobacco alone. Every woman knows that. And any powder or wash for the teeth, should be very simple. Acids may whiten the teeth, but they take off enamel or injure it Sleep m a cool room, in pure air. No one c-an have a clean skin who breathes bad air. But more than all, in order to look well—wake up the mind and soul. When the mind is awake, the dull, sleepy look pa.-ses away from the eyes. I do not know that the brain expands, but it seems to. Think, read —not trashy novels, but books that have something in them. Talk with pteople that kn >w something; bear lectures and learn by them. This is one good of preaching. A man thinks and works an] tells us the rc-ult And if wc listen, aud hear, and understand, the mind and soul are worked. Il the spiritual nature is aroused so much the better. We have seen a plain face really glori fied by the love of God and man which shone through it. Let us grow handsome. Men say tbey can't afford books, and sometimes they don't even pay for their newspaper. In that i-a-c it does them little good, they must feel so mean while they are reading it. But men can afford what they really choose. If all the money *i>ent in self induigenoe, in huriful indulgence, was spent in books, self improvement; we should see a change. Men would grow handsome and women too. The soul would shine out through the eyes. We were not meant to be mere animals. I>et us have books and read them, and lectures and hear them, and sermons and heed them. BELi -saor. *! KN. The maxim that "every man is the archi teet of his own fortune, has been striking ly verified and illustrated in the history of American >ut<*-mcn. The following col lection of facts respecting some of our great men may prove interesting: Very few of the fathers of our republic were the inheritors of distinction. Wash ington was almost the only gentleman by right of birth in al! that astoui.-hing compa ny of thinkers and actors. Two or three Virginians, John Jay, of New I ork. and half a dozen meaner men from other provin ce*. were exception*. But Franklin was a printer's boy: Sherman, a shoemaker; Knox was a book-binder; Green, a blacksmith; John Adams and Marshall, the sons of poor farmers: and Hamilton, the most subtile, fiery, and electrical, but at the same time the most composed aud orderly genius of all. exceptine the unapproachable Chief, was of as humble parentage as the rest, and himself at the beginning, a clerk or shop keeper. And if we come down to a late pe riod, Daniel Webster was the son of a coun try farmer, and was. rescued from the occu pation of a drover only by the shrewd ob servation of Christopher Gore, whom he called upon for advice in respect to a difti culty arising from the sale of a pair of steers; John C. Calhoun was the son of a tan ner and currier; the father of Henry Clay belonged to the poorer class of Baptist min isters: Martiu Van Buren. during the fitful leisure of the day gathered pioe knots to light hi* evening studies; Thomas Corwin was a wagoner: Silas Wright, by heritage, a machinist. In later times wc have had Lincoln of the flat-boat; Johnson, the tailor: Grant, the tanner; Wilson, the shoemaker's apprentice: and many others among our statesmen, who receive the applause and reverence of mankind, passed their earlfhr years, of what, in other countries, would be almost impassable distance from the emi nences which they now enjoy. All this is encouraging for our aspiring voune men who would dare and do, rather than lean on the reputation of their ances tors. In the old monarchies the question is, what is your pedigree; or who were your progenitors? Here, in our republic, the question is, What hare you done? what are you doing? at what do you aim? To do, to grow, to improve, and become all that God intended us to, i our privilege, our right and our duty. "'God helps those who help themselves." W HAT ARE Toe LTVIHG FOB.— A pastor, walking out recently, met a little girl be longing to bis floek. As they walked on together, be spoke to her of her studies, and was pleased to see her manifesting an int?te-t, amounting almost to enthusiasm, in the cultivation of her inind. "But why, Eilic," asked the pastor, "arc you so anxious to succeed in your studies? What do you mean to do with your educa tion after you have got it?" said the girl, "I want to learn, that I may do some good in the world. I don't want to have to tell the Lord in the day of judgment that I have lived so long in the world without having done any good in it." Noble purpose! Who of our young friends are studying and living to so good an end? Who of us are making an every day impress for good on the hearts and lives of those among whom we move? THE way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Is diving to the bottom of plea-ores we bring up more gravel than pearls. VOL. 42i NO. 22 PRETTY TOP HOOTS. If their is anything prettier or more sen sible than the short dresses which the la dies wear now, what is it? If iherc is any thing more bewitching than those cunning little feet that trip with alight spring across the streets and along our sidewalks, even in the muddv days, what can it be? As when lennyson s Princess and her traiu were climbing the rocks, "Many a light foot attune tike a jswel set In the dark crag So they shine over our rough cross-walks and pavements. And you remember, that one very charming characteristic of pretty Arabella Allen in Pickwick was, that she wore a very nice little pair of boots with fur around the tops, which Mr. Pickwick caught a glimpse of, as she was getting over the style with a bevy of damsels who were en joying their Chri.-tmas frolic, and "who," says the author, '"having pretty feet and unexceptionable ankles, preferred standing on the top rail five minutes, declaring that they were too tTightened to raov." The short dresses have led the ladies to pay particular attention to their feet, and they have almost reached perfection in those thick, firm and artistically shaped shoes which they now wear, iri place of the thin soled and sprawling things around which they u-cd to drabble their muddy skirts. A woman s foot now is, as it ought to be, a legitimate object of admiration, audit is not neee-sary for curious loungers to wait for muddy days and wind storms, and to congregate on corners to see them, while the modest young ladies could only express their admiration of that wise compensation of Providence, by which the same wind that mussed their crinoline, blew dust into the eyes of the wicked young men who would take advantage of their confusion. We can echo at this time an equal praise to the giri that wears short dresses that Stedman sang in the''sweet brogue of the Emerald 1.-!e, to the girl with the balmoral: '•Then here's to the gal *itb the balmoral And dainty top-boot.* glinder, Who'* a* digcrate a- she is swate, And wise as she is tender." GOOD ADVICE TO BOYS.— The following good advice to boys, which we find in an exchange, is worth reading and digesting. How many men would now lie improved in mind and moral.-, if' they had so acted in their youthful day.-: The boy who spends an hour of tac-h evening lonnging idly on a street corner, wastes, in the course of a single year, three hundred and sixty five precious hours which, if applied to study, would familiarize him with the rudiments at least of almost any of the familiar sciences. If, in addition to wasting an hour each evening, he spends five cents for a cigar, which is usually the case, the amount thus wasted would pay for four of the leading magazines of the country. Boys, think of these thing-. Think how much precious time and good money you are wasting, and for what. The gratification afforded by the lounge on the corner, or by the cigar, is not only temporal r. v, n t positively hurtful You cannot indulge in those practices without seriou-ly injuring yourselves. You acquire idle and wastefol habits, which will cling to you through life, and grow upon yen with each succeeding year. You may in after life -hake them off, but the probabilities are that the habits thus formed in early life will remain with you to your dying day. Be warned then in time, and resolve that a- the hour spent in idleness is gone forever, you will improve each passing one, and thereby fit yourselves for usefulness aDd happiness. A MAIDEN'S FIRST LOVE. —Human na ture has no essence more pure; the world knows nothing more chaste; heaven has en dowed the moral heart with no feelings more holy than the nascent love of a young virgin's soul. The warmest language of the -anny South is too cold to shadow forth even a faint outline of that enthusiastic sentiment. And God has made the richest language poor in that respect, because the hearts that thrill with love's emotions are too sacred for the common contemplation. The musical voice of love stirs the source of the sweetest thought within the human breast, and steals into the inost profound recesses of the soul, touching the chords that never vibrated before, and calling into genera! companionship delicious hopes till then un known. Ves. the light of a young madien's first love breaks dimly but beautifully upon her, as the silver lustre of a star glimmers through the thickly woven bower: the first blush that mantles her cheeks, as she feels the primal influences, is faint and pure as that which a rose leaf might cast upon marble, lint how rapidly does that light grow stronger and flush deeper, until the powerful effulgence of the one irradiates every corner of the heart, and the crimson glow of the other suffuses every feature of her countenance. TIIF. GIFTS OF HEAVEN TO WOMAN. — The first and "most important quality in the female sex is sweetness of temper. Heaven did not give to them insinuation and per suasion in order to be surly; it did not make them weak in order to be imperious; it did not give to them a sweet voice in or der to be employed in scolding ; nor did it provide them delicate features in order to be disfigured by anger. AFTECTION. —On the proper and complete exercise of the affections alone the best hap piness of life depends : and, as the meanest scrape of gauze, of bead, or of tinsel looks beautiful and costly through the reflecting mirror of the kaleidoscope, so does the most common and dreary scene acquire attraction and value when beheld through the beauti fying medium of gratified affection. A GOOD GUlDE. —Every young man is cagciiy asking the best way of getting on in life. The Bible gives a very brief answer to the question : '"Walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous." Many books of advice and direction have been written, but that is the gist of them all. AFFLICTION.—The sorrowing believer like a noble and imperial bird, though some times driven down by the storm, yet keeps his plumes expanded and his eye on heaven, until, on the first gleam of sunshine, he shakes his wet and weary pinion, and eagle like, towers again to the sun. IF we did but know how little some enjoy the great things that they possess, there would not be so mueh envy in the world. A SOUL without prayer is like a solitary' sheep without a shepherd. The tempter sees it and lures it away into his snare. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, AC. The (feci ken in puMigkedviery Pxibav morn ng be following rate*: Out 'Yetn, (in advance,) $2.0 " u (if not paid within sixmo*.)... s2.io " " (if not paid witbintbe year,),.. 13.00 All paper* ootaide of Ibe county diaeontioued without notice, at the expiration of the time for which the rabscriptior ha been paid. Single copies of the paper furnished, in wrappers, at fire eeuts each. Communications on subjects of local or genera! ntereet, are respectfully solicitß'l. To ensure at tention favors of tbi" Vind must invariably be accompanied by the name of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaining u, business of the office •bouid be addressed to JOHN L.ITTZ, Bxnroito. Pa- ITEMS. The Alabama Claims.—The New York Album, the organ of the English residents of this country, says : The English journals, it seems to us, arc too much excited on this question. In this city and country Mr. Sum ner is regarded as a political enthusiast whose opinions must be accepted with a certain amount of mental reservation, ilis speech on the Alabama question was; in the first instance, regarded a neither tuorc nor less than an individual opinion, and the exaggerated importance which has been attached to it on the other side of the At lantic, is a source of surprise on this. Mr. Sumner is, undoubtedly a great egotist, and wished to be the inouth-piece of a great na tion, but his speech is entitled to little more consideration than Mr. Chandler's and the people of the United States know that the latter is little better than an irresponsible agent when he mounts his British hobby horse. Mr. Sumner's speech created very little sensation, to use a popular expression, in America, and as it has not been endorsed by the adrnini-tration at Washington, there is no reason why it should have agitated the British public. We trust, however, ~- tluit we are correct in supposing that the London journals attach more importance to Mr. Sumner's dration than the English Government docs. The bulls in the gold room here, however, ran the premium up to 44J, mauily in consequence of this Ala bama speech of the 31assachusetts Senator, and the bulls in gold and the bears in stocks are trying to make believe that war is a probable contingency, but in our opinion, it is a very improbable one, and the journals on this side that are directly or indirectly, urging the people on to such a catastrophe, are productive of grave public evil. There is no more danger of war between the two nations than there was a year ago, and those who endeavor to make out that there is are working against international peace. The Alabama question ought now to be al lowed to rest, as, after what has been al ready said, no good can be done by agitat ing it afresh. All farther controversy will result, under existing circumstances, in nothing but irritation. EMIGRATION OK LONDON WORKMEN.— About six months sin ;e a body of London workingmcß formed themselves into a so ciety, under the title of the "Mutual Con solidation and Co operative Emigration Land Company," with the object of raising a capital of £'250,000 in £1 shares, payable by weekly instalments; the money so raised to be u-ed from time to time in the emigra tion of the members. The society was duly registered under the Friendly Societies Act, and met weekly at the Eleetic Hall, Den mark -treet, Seho. Shortly after the forma tion of the society its promoters placed themselves in communication with the Gov ernor and Legislature of the Nebraska Ter ritory, United States, by whom a large tract of land vm offered to tlio ociet v at a moro nominal price, and upon conditions by which the society could carry out its plan of co-op eration and family colonization. This offer and its conditions were, after some negotia ii >ns, accepted, and the correspondence be tween the Governor of Nebraska and the committee of the society was, a few weeks since, sent to Mr. John Bright, the Presi dent of the Board of Trade, by a deputation from the society, reported in the public journals. 'The right honorable gentleman, though unable to comply with the request | of the deputaion for governmental sanction ' to the scheme, expressed himself as highly favorable to the objects of the society About three hundred members, chiefly -killed artisan--, have already enrolled them selves in the sociely. which has now com mewed praciieal operations: and on Satur day morning last sixteen of the members, chosen by ballot, and named "'The Pio neers," took their departure for Nebraska Territory in the -hip Paraguay, from the Victoria decks, under the leader-ship of Mr. E. G. Smith, the first secretray of the Society. The whole expenses of the emi gration is born by the society, the members of which were all working men, and as soon as letters are received from these "pioneers"' of the society, should they he of a favorable natun-, a ballot for another lot of emigrants will take place, and be continued periodical ly, until the capital of company is exhaust ed. The emigrants who left on Saturday were all single men, it being thought desira ble to ascertain further particulars before sending out any married men with families. —London Newt, Aprd26th, FIFTY THOUSAND persons die of drunk enness in England annually, and twelve thousand of tbem are women. By the way, in the United States thirty-five thou sand persons die annually of drunkenness. The population of England is about 22,000,- 000. while that of the United States is about 35,0<)0,000. In 1-ranee, with a population of about 3f>,000,000, the annual number of deaths from drunkenness is fifteen hundred —a pretty strong evidence in favor of cheap wines as a preventive of intoxication. THERE ARE only two marriageable girls at Coosa, Oregon. On Sundays half a dozen or more young fellows sit all day on the verandahs in front of the ladies' houses, while each fair one looks at her fol lower? through the half open window. The lovers all the while are whittling bits of white pine. At dark they move home. But the damsels find these visits profita ble, for there is generally left behind a pile of shavings big enough to light fires the rest of the week. ONE OK TOE liquor dealers, discussing temperance before the Excise Board in New Vork, said that he went to Europe, some Ume ago, aDd never heard a glass of water asked for during his absence. He does not say what company he kept; but it is true that if you call tor water in England it Li always brought hot. They suppose you want to shave or make toddy. They do not even water their stock over there. POSTMASTER GENERAL CRESWELL is one of the hardest working men in the Cabinet, and in nothing is he doing more good than in the many reforms He is intro ducing into his branch of the public ser vice. Now that the South is being brought into obedience to the law?, and the iron highways are opening up new worlds to American civilization and commerce, his de partment is at once one of tbo most impor tant and responsible iu the Government BEACTLKI'L was the reply of a venerable man to the question, whether be was still in the land of the living ? "No, but I ain al most there.