RATES OF ADVERTISING. AU advertisementj for !tu than 5 months 10 cents per line for each insertion. Specie inotiees coe-b&lf additional. Ail resolutions of Associa tions, communication" of a limited or indivi lal interest and notices of marriages and deaths, ci needing fire lines, 10 ets. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Court and other Judicial sales, are required by law to be pub lished in both papers. Editoring Notices IS cents per line. All Advertising due afterfirst insertion. A iiberal discount made to yearly advertisers. 3 monts. 6 mouths, 1 year j One square..*,.... $ 4.00 $ *5.00 SIO.OO Twe squares 6.00 9M 16.00 f Three squares h.OO 12.90 20.08 f Oae-fourth column 14.00 36,00 35.00 j Half column - 18.00 35.00 40.00 ; One column 30.00 44.00 80.001 N REST AFI P. LA W S. —We would call the special attention of Post Masters and subscribers to the tvj'.insß to the following synopsis of the News paper laws: 1. A Postmaster is required to give notice by tetter, (returning a paper does not answer the law) when a subscriber does not take his paper out of the office, and state the reasons tor its But being taken; and a neglect to do so makes the Porana* ter rcptvHtiblt to the publishers for the payment. 2. Any person who takes a paper from the Post office, whether directed to his came or another, or -whether be has subscribed or not is responsible for the pay. 3. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and oileci the whole amount, teketker it be taken from the office or not. There can be no legal discontic uence until the payment is ink 4. If the subscriber orders jsis paper to be stopped at a certain time, and the publisher con tinues to send, the subscriber is bound to pay for it, if he take* it oat of the Poet Ojfice. The law proceeds upon the ground that a man must pay for what be uses. 4. The courts have decided that refusing to taks newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud. groffSiSioßal & pastes ATTORNEYS AT LAW. AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, lS6'.*-tf . A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfe'ter, Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. ..SB-Collections promptly made. [April,l'69-tf. ESPY M. AESIP, I ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin n; counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. apl 1,1389.—tf. T It. DURBORROW, •J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. He also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and wil give special attention to the prosecution 'vii s against the Government for Pensions, Back lay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the'Mengel House" April 1, 1863:tf S. L. RUSSELL. J. H. LOREEXECSER RUSSELL A LONGENECKER, ATTORXETS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. ,®ft-Qffice on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Apri 1.-69:1 yr. J■ M'D. SEARCH 2. r. KEUR SIMRPE A KERR. A TTOMA-r Vi J f_7 X H' Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col- | leeted from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking hi use of Reed A SehdL Bedford, Pa. Apr l;69:tf U T C. SCUAEFFFR ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Office with J. W. Dickersou Esq.. 23aprly PHYSICIANS. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office ani residence cn Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. llof,'is. [ApT 1,68. MISCELLANEOUS. OE. SHANNON, BANKER, BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and South, and tbe general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. April 1:60 DANIEL BORDER. PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED FORD HOTEL, BEIFORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL PA*. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watebcs, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on band. [apr.2S,'fia. DW. CHOUSE, • DEALER IS CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster i Co/s Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All orders promptly filled. Person* desiring anything . in hi? hoe will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. 'ft?., f\ N. HICKOK, VV. DENTIST. Office at the old stand in BANK BUILDING, Juliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to Surgical and .Mechanical Dentistry performed with care and WARRANTE D. Antrethetiee addtinietered, tchen ie tired. Ar tijicia! teeth ineerted at, per let. 88.00 and op. tcard. As I am deteimined to do a CASH BUSINESS or none, I have reduced the prices for Artificial Teeth of the various kinds. 20 per cent., and of Gold Fillings 33 per cent. This reduction will be n.aiif only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such : will receive prompt attention. 7febßS WASHINGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having been re-taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. Tbe rooms are large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. Tbe tabic will always be supplied with the best tbe market can afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest iiquors. la short.it is my purpose to keep a FIRhT-CLASr* HOTEL. Thanking the pubiie for past favors, I respectfully solicit a renewal of their patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between tbe - Hotel and the Springs. may 17,'62. Ij WM. DLBERT, Prop r. 17 XCHA NG E HOTEL. Vj HUNTINGDON. PA. This old establishment having been leased by J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor rison House, has been entirely renovated and re furnished and supplied with all the modern im provements aad conveniences necessary to a first class no tel. Tbe dining room has been removed to the first ffoor and is now spacious and airy, end tbeeham b-rs are all well ventilated, and the proprietor *ul endeavor to make his guests perfectly at 1. ore. Address, J. MORRISON, EXCHANGE HOTEL. fljuiytf Huntingdon, Pa. ! M AGAZINES.—The following Magazines *or sale at the Inquirer Book Store- ATLAN TIC MONTHLY. PUTNAM'S MONTHLY LIPPIXCOTT'S. GALAXY, PETEBsGN, GO DBY, MD'M. DEMORKSTS, FK/KK LESLIE RIVERSIDE, etc. etc. ft JOH N LUTZ. Editor and Proprietor. ; |nquim >pO ADVERTISERS: , j THEJ3EDFORD INQUIRER. €1 * V PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY 4 JOHN LUTZ, " OFFICE OX JULIANA STREET, BEDFORD, PA. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN | SOUTH- WESTERS PENNSYLVANIA. CIRCULATION OVER 1500. HOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTS INSERTED ON REA SONABLE TERMS. A FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE. JOB PRINTING: ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH, AND IN THE LATEST & MOST APPROVED STYLE, SUCH AS ' PCBTFC'HS OF ANY SIZE, CIRCULARS, BUSINESS CARDS, WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS, BALL TICKETS, PROGRAMMES, CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, SEGAR LABELS, RECEIPTS, LEGAL BLANKS, PHOTOGRAPHER'S CARDS, BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, PAMPHLETS, PAPER BOOKS, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC Our fuilitwF for doing all kinds of Job Printing are equalled by very few establishments in the country. Orders by mail promptly filled. All letters should be addressed to JOHN LUTZ. 3 ftocal aiiti Srnrral jlrtospaprr, Drbotrti to politics, <£bucatton, JUtfrature anb ittorals" tirtforb Inquirer. ITEMS. IT is conceded on all sides that Hon H. W. Williams will be (he unanimous nominee of the Republican State Convention for the . Sujr.'ine Bench. OLD iron rails are largely imported, from England, via Baltimore, for re-manufactuie in the mills of this State. Some six tbou -1 sand tons have arrived within the past four months. A YOUNG man named Henry R. Wilson, while engaged at shifting cars at' Altoona on Tuesday last, was thrown upon the track and run over by several cars, causing fatal injury. JOHN B. GOCGH is going to publish an i autobiography. That of P. T. Barnum is suggested as a model, and it is thought N'asby may be secured to correct his or thography and syntax. MEXICAN advices state that extensive gold fields have been discovered near Colima. The district is represented as be ing one hundred and twenty miles in length, and to exceed the California mines in rich ness. There is a rush of people for the new district. THE "ANCIENT PREJUDICE. " —A colored man named James Washington has brought suit in Quincy, 111., against the St. Louis and Keokuk. Packet Company, to recover damages in the sum of $2,000 —the officers of one of that company's boats having re fused to allow him to sir at the table with white passengers. TWENTY-FOUR States, including Indiana, have ratified the XYth Amendment. Ver mont will, beyond all donbt, follow the good example. Mississippi, Texas and Virginia will be admitted into the Union on its adoption, and thus the full three-fourths of States requisite to finally adopt the amend ment are obtained. RUSH OF EMIGRANTS WEST —Mayor Knight, of Dubuque, lowa, who has re cently returned from a tour in the North west, says the rush of emigrants West this Spring is beyond all precedent, Tn every direction, as far as the eye can reach, the prairie is literally dotted with canvas— covered wagons, and many families are living in tents. TROPLONG, one of Napoleon's most cun ning and servile tools, it has now been ascer tained, died in consequence of a violent al tercation which he had with Hrussmann. Troplong appealed to the Emperor, who re fused to interfere, and the mortification which this event caused to Troplong, brought on an attack of fever, of which he died. A GIRL keeper of a toll gate in Fngland was asked by a swell velocipedisf, who thought to chaff her, how much he had to pay. '"That, sir," replied she, "depends UDOD whether vou ride thronch the cate or whether jou get off your dandy horee anc drag it through ; because in that case every two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse or an a-s pays three pence." <)N a farm in Lowiston, Maine, there is a very curious and extensive beaver dam. Ninety years ago this dam was quite as good as it is now. The beavers felled logs all along the dam; to remove which—to make a canal—was quite a labor. The dam is several hundred feet long, and stumps of trees cut eighty or ninety years ago stand on the verge, their roots having overgrown the logs felled by the beavers. TRINITY. —The strong allegations made agnin.-t Trinity Church, New York, on the moticn for appointment of a receiver, are that she give- no account to the public of her revenues or the use she makes of them; that she leases her property for grossly im moral purposes, and that she has ceased to be a Protestant institution, the preachers in her pulpit denouncing Protestantism as a failure; and no uian can gainsay these statements. GENERAL THOMAS has ordered a military exploration of south-eastern Nevada, with a view to ascertaining the character and re sources of the country before establishing military posts there. Mining exploration in that district is limited bec.in- •• of the dread of Indians and the great distance of the base of supplies. So far as penetrated, the mines have proved rich in minrral deposits, and less lacking in arable lands, timber and water than supposed. SMALL POX has again made its appear ance at New York Quarantine, a bark from Bremen having recently arrived with twen ty-four cases on board. The progress of the disease among the passengers is attributed to the want of proper facilities for the sep aration of the wc-ll from the ill. The suf firings of the emigrants coming to the Uni ted States during the last six months have been unusually severe, and the want of proper food, and the confinement in the dark, ill ventilated and closely crowded steerage, are sufficient causes for the pro duction of ship fever, small-pox and similar diseases. THE American Institute of Homeopathy has finally yielded to the claims of the wo men. One ot two female practitioners were on the ground applying for admission. The committee to whom their application was referred would not report; but on the last day of the session the matter was brought up in the shape of an amendment to the eon-t:tution. The women carried the day— yeas >O, nays 32. The Eclictic Medical So ciety of the State of New York has already admitted women to membership, and they are also allowed to study medicine at the principal colleges of that school. PROVINCIALISMS. —Many years ago the celebrated Andrew Broaddus, of Caroline, was at the Merry Oaks, a noted tavern in Hanover county. Mr Liscomb, the hour, brought out some cider, then a favorite 1 beverage in Virginia, for Mr Broaddus to try. After drinking it he remarked: "It tastes beautiful, as a Yankee said at my bouse a short time siaoe." Looking around he saw a stranger in the room, of rather quizzical appearance, with a broad smile cn his face. Mr Broaddu.-, who was tbe pink of politeness, said instantly: "I mean no oSense, we have our Yirgioianisms as the Yankees have their Yaokecisms." Tbe stranger encouraged by the remark said; "I was not long ago in the eity of Charles ton. South Carolina, and a negro was riding along the street on a small, lean, raw-boned, long haired mule. Another npgro, coming up to him, remarked' 'Lor, your jack ace looks mighty sorry ; he 'pears he can scarce hudgit t J tote ye.' " Broaddus enjoyed the rttort, and confessed that be was beaten. BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1860. GLMLLANFFLUIS. A CHICAGO SONG IK LONDON. ; STRONG EFFECT OF MUSIC ILLUSTRATED BY SPECTACLE. A correspondent gives the following ac count of the singing of ' Fitter Come Home, ' in one of the music halls in Lon j don: Having reached the hall, we paid an ad mission fee of sixpeuee. There was a very | neat stage, with gaudy drop scene, side i wing and a tolerable good orchestra. In the stalls sat the chairman, to keep otder over as 1 motley an audience as ever was seen out of , the galery of Victoria Theatre. "Co tors | seemed to predominate. Ail appeared plen tifullv supplied with porter, and all were en- I joying their pipes to such an extent as to make the place almost suffocating, for there | must have been an audience of nearly five j hundred. A nigger "walk around" was just being finished, and tbe shouts of "encore" whistling and stamping of feet made the hali l>erfectly bewildering. A name was announced from the chairman which wc could not catch, and amidst clap ; ping of bauds and stamping of feet, there | was a l„zi of "This is the 60Dg !" The wait er called loudly, "Any more orders?" and these being taken and duly executed, all seemed to settle down quietly to listen to the : song. There was the symphony, and anoth- j er buzfc of "This is it 1" and we began to j feel anxious. Presently a female came in front of the curtain, amidst great applause, : and commenced "Father, dear Father," Ac. j Every word was distinct, and she sang the ballad with great feeling. In order howev er, to fully describe the scene which follow, ed each verse, it is necessary to give 'Little Mary's' song : "Father, dear father, come home with me now, _ The clock in the steeple strikes one ! (Gong) \ou promised, dear father, that you would come home As soon as your day's work was done. Our fire has gone out—our house is all dark. And mother's heen watching since tea, With poor little Benny so sick in her arms, And no one to help tier but me. Come home, come home, come home, Please, father, dear father, come home." At the e inclusion of the last line the drop set uc drew up, disclosing the father sitting at the door of a public in a drunken, bemuddled sta'e, with a pipe and pot before Itiiu. Little Mary was trying to drag him from his seat, at the same time pointing to a curtain behind, as she took up the refrain from the lady, and touchingly sang, "Com-. Home, Ac. The other curtain was now drawn a-ide, disclosing a wretched room in which was the mother and the poor, siekly looking boy in her lap, and in the act of feeding him with a spoon. Simultaneously with the drawing of tbe curtain, the lime light was brought to bear upon the tableaux, giving them a truly startling effect. After a moment or two the act drop came down, and the lady proceeded : "l-Hluer. dear lamer, couie uuiuc now, The clock in the steeple strikes two! (Gong. gong-) The night has grown colder, and Benny is worse. But be has been calling for you. Indeed he is worse, ma says he will die, Perhaps before morning will dawn, And ibis was the message she sent me to bring Come home, come home, come home. Please, father, dear father, come home." The act drop rises again, and now the child has hold of the pewter pot, trying to take it from the drunken parent, and, as .-he continues the last two lines, "Come home," etc., the other curtain is drawn aside, and we next tee the child stretched out on its mother's lap, and, as it just raises its little bead aud falls back with a gasp, with the lime light reflecting strongly upon it, there was a Teality about the whole, terrible to view. Sobs were beard from all parts of the hail, coming from the female portion of the audi ence, while tears trickled down many a male cheek. Me have seen "Susan Hoplcy," "The Stranger," "Jane Shore," "East Lynne," and other effective pieces played' but never before did we witness such a scene of general cry ing. The principal feature called to mind the picture of the "Sister of Mercy," with the dying child in her lap and the death was fearfully natural. Even the lady who sung tbe song was affected, and could scarcely proceed with the third verse: "Father, dear father, come home with me now. The clock in the steeple strikes three! (Gong, gong, gong.) The house is so lenely, tbe hours so long. For poor, weeping mother and me. Yes: we are alone —poor Benny is dead. And goGe with the angels of light, And these were the very last words that he said— | ' I want to kiss papa good night! ' Come home, come home, come home. Please, father, dear father, come home." Again the drop rose, dise'o-dng little Mary on her knees, appealing to her father, who, with the pot elevated, is in the act of strik ing her with it, as she sings "Come Home," and then the back curtain draws aside show ing the mother praying over a child's coffin. But now the sobs burst still more freely, and two females are carried ont fainting. The scene was truly harrowing, and we gladly turned our eyes away. An additional verse was sung about "Poor Benny" being with the angles above. The drop rose; the father sober now, is weeping over the coffin with the mother, and little Mary on her knees, singing, "Home, home, lather, dear father's come home." At this momt nt the curiaiu is drawn aside, and itlle Benny is suspenned over the coffin with wings's smiling down upon them and point ing upward. The father falls forward on his face, the act drop descends, and for a lew minutes all is hushed save the sobs of the females. "There," said a workman by our side, as he heaved a sigh of relief, "Mr. Spurgeon never preached a better sermon than that," an expression to which we assented, and then left the hall. "THE DEVIL TO PAT."— This phrase, doubtless, originated in a printing offiee, on some Saturday night's settlement of wage\ John,' says tbe publisher to the book keeper, "bow stands the ca.-li account?' 'Small balance ou hand sir. ' 'Let's see,' re joined the publisher, 'how /ar that will go towards satisfying the hand-!' John begins to figur arithmetically: so much due fo Potkins, so much to Typus, so much to Grubhie, and so on, through a dozen dittos. The publisher stands aghast. 'Here is not money enough, by a jugful!' 'No, sir: and, j bet-id- , there is the dea'f to /-\y.' CT mors STATISTICS CONCERNING MEN WITHOUT TRADES Olt PROFESSIONS. IB a recent con venation with Dr. Gihon, private Secretary of Gov. Geary, we gained j a curious fact concerning crime and men without trades or professions. Dr. Gihon j has been pay ing particular attention lately, , to the applications daily aud almost hourly ; made for Executive clemency and pardon. 1 how not acquainted with the burdensome routine of Executive duty in this respect, cm not possibly form any idea of the embar rassment in tbe harrowing solicitude and the overwhelming responsibility of properly . j wielding the pardoning power. The curious ! part of Dr. Gihon's statement is. that in i uinet-jcn cases out of twen'y, young convicts 1 are men without trades or professions, who i have keen left by their parents to reach ma turity without having undergone the di.ci piinc tud the training acquired while learn ing a trade or studying a profession. "When parents or friends applying for pardon for such o benders have been a.-ked why they were Dot taught trades, the rejly has been vonch safed, "//<> teas too >rea/:ly;" "//< was too sensitive,' or ''lie thought it teas I bneath him. ' Too weakly, too sensitive, too proud to learn a trade, but not proud i enough to keep out of the penitentiary! Of course we do not pretend to assert that j learning a trade or profession is the sure j way of keeping out of wrong doing. There : are great rascals among mechanics and pro fessional men. But the man who has a tride or a profession, is always the most in j dependent, and has fairer prospects at hai.d I of permanent success in life. And what is : also true, in this connection, in a practical | way is the lack of skilled labor in the United 1 States. American boys for the last ten 1 I years, have been loath to learn trades. Too many of tbeni desire to wield yard sticks instead of hammers, saws and planes. The consequence now is, that skilled labor is scarce, and that the best places in ourwork i shops are filled by foreigners. By some kind of teaching we must reform this evil. There must be more encouragement for boys to learn trades—and the mechanical voca tion must be dignified and elevated by be ing recognized as worthy tbe studc and the acquirement of the most intelligent and the most favored in every community. We met a lad a day or two since from a neighboring village, who was on his way to enier one o! : tbe large machine shops in Philadelphia, to j learn a trade. He had an education to fit j him for any profession and when he reaeh- j es his majority, he will become the possess or of a competency; nevertheless, the native good sense of the boy, backed by the prat - • tical advice of an older brother, induced him to learn a trade, and we predict that that ! boy will become a man of respectability and ! iufluence in any community blessed hereaf- j ter with his citizenship. | —Dr. Gihon's observations and conclu sions on this subject are sound and practi cal. He thinks if more boys learn trades | future Governors of the Commonwealth win ,i*ve k--s applications im c-muu- m dispose of.— llarrixLurg State Guard. THE EXHAUSTIVE NESS OF WOHK. Tbe following beautiful passage is by tbe Rev. J. F. Corning. It will be appreciated by ail " brain workers:" " While I sit at my study table with my pen in hand, the fingers moving with tardy pace at the beck on ofbrain, I hear right below my window, in the adjacent field, the monotonous ring of a laborer's hoe upon tbe corn hills. While he hots he whistles, hour by hour, until the clock strikes twelve, and then with a ravenous appetite repairs to his bountiful yet simple meal, only to resume his task again, and pursue it to the setting of the sun. As I stood at- the window watching his toil, aud turned-again to pen and paper, I a.-kc! myself how it happened that the man wtth the-hoe will labor his eight or ten hours a day with less fatigue than the man with his pen will toil his three or four. Hugh Miller was a great worker with the shovel and the pick—would have made a good hand in a slate quarry, in grading a railroad, or digging a canal. But one night, as you know, he shot himself in a nervous (ever. What was the difference between the great geologist and the man with the hoc whistling under my wiudow? Simply j this, the former was a worker ofbrain, and the latter a worker of muscle. Let this man with the hoe lay down his husbandry for a little while aud set himself to studying one of the stoks of corn, or the chemistry of one of those hills of soil, and very likely he would soon learn what it is to lose one's ap petite, and hear the clock strike nearly all the night hours in feverish wakefulness. And thus we get a great organic law of our being to wit: that brain work subtracts vi tality lrom the fountain, while muscle work, only makes draughts upon one of the rami fy ing streams of life. It is estimated by scientific observers that a man will use up as much vital force in working his brains two hours as he will in working his muscles eight." JOURNALISM. —In eight years the entire range and method of the newspaper busi ness has undergone a revolution. First class editors are rarer than first-class lawyers or doctors ; and a first cla-s reporter, ,; kc a thing of beauty, "is a joy ft rccer.' •r. re is he. It is a great mistake that k- d re porting is a second-rate employment. It is j so considered because second rate persons so often fill the desks on a dui'y journal. But it is in reality a most important po.-i --lion. It requires tact, originality, industry, sobriety, good sense, intelligence, quick ness. Of course, every department of a well-conducted pre-s calls for all these excel lent traits, more or less: and. therefore, it is harder to equip ti newspaper than to organ ize an army, or officer a man of-war. Journalism strictly, is the science of hu man nature; a combination of action, and the actor's art, at once a reflection and the thing itself. The really able journalist must therefore be not only a man of thought, but a man of action also. The voluptuous liter ateur has no place iu the modern priuting office; for be only is useful who ein work at night; give up society; subordinate his per sonality to his craft; consider himself, while on duty, as a man on a voyage, bound to serve out a certain time. A newspaper is, indeed, a ship at sea, and almost always in a storm. The billows of popular passion are out on every side, seething and foamin?. Keep her s'eady in the wind ccd there is no danger; but it is fearful to try to run against the current, or in the fac-c of the i wind, and the least insubordination or in ebriety or lack of skill of officers or crew i may be fatal. A CORKY CLASH'S' EPISTLE. ■ Ancujieijtrr ProddeHtialitim —.4 Refuge for ""corded—About Battle* and Bank j Robberies, ; A gentleman named Dibt-io, who was a salt water poet of some eminence in his day, said: There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, i keeps a lookout for the life of poor i "' ac ' t I tl.ink there is, must be a cherub or something keeping a lookout for newspaper men, and providing them with something to write about. I was afraid that when the election was over I should have to go into some other business. A' there is only one business a politician out of office can go into, and maintain his standing in the Democratic party, I had tent a note over to uiy friend Tom Acton to ask him if he had a second hand licence he cou'd let me have cheap, atid I was looking around for an eligibible site for a bar-room. h'rank IV Lite promised to sell out to me if fie wasoelected I iditor But he wasn't.* As Dennis O'Keeffo is going to Albany, I thought he might let me have one of his two hotels, so I went to him and offered to buy him out. He said he couldn't afford to keep one bar. He explained to me the mysteries of the business, how a man must keep two bar rooms to live. It is this: When a customer has ruu his credit at one house as long as the house can stand it, they send him to the other home to get rid of him. Then there is another reason. Whisky is variously and wonderfully made, and taking one kind of poison for any length of time injures a man's health. V hen they sec a steady customer failing, he is recommended a change of whisky, and instead of going to a strange place he is sent to the other establi-hment of the same pro prietor. A friend of O*Pake's keeps six houses, and by judiciously rotating them from one bar to another, some customers have drank his liquors regular upwards of two years, and still live. I told him that I hadu't capital or expe rience enough to run two establishments. He said in that case I had better hire out as a barkeeper somewhere for six months, then I would acquire enough of both to run half a dozen hotels. I have been thinking it over. But what I was going to say about the "sweet little cherub," &e. No sooner is election over, than an inter esting series of BANK ROBBERIES providentially occur, to make the newspa pers interesting. Robbing banks is almost as profitable as being a politician in the ring. And nearly as safe. Shakespeare tnie in OaiiKs. I don't put any trust in banks. Nor my cash either. I always felt able to take care cf all the money I got. And more too. I dou't see why I should trust bauk.s. they never trusted me. I never asked them to, but to oblige a creditor of mine who had a singular halluci nation on the subject of my financial stand ing I let him try the vahie of my name on a check. The till had been .-tanding for some time; but he hadn't said anything to me about it, and I hadn't said anything to him, because I thought I could afford to let it stand as long as be could, and if he hadn't revived j the subject I shouldn't. He did at last remind me of the fact, in a very polite note, stating that he had tome engagements to meet. That is the way with creditois, I find, thoy are always making engagements and expecting their debtors to furnish the money. But as I said before, he was very pc-lite about it and merely said he would like to have my check for the amount. As he had accommodated me so long, I could hardly deny snch a reasonable request. I sent liim a polite answer requesting him to nominate the bank on which he wouli prefer to have the check drawn. He said he would leave that to me, what ever bank my credit was good at. I told him it was immaterial to me; my credit was just as good at one hank as at an other. I finally sent him a check on the Walla- j bout National Bank for the amount. Naturally I felt some interest in learning how my creditor made out at the bank. He dida't make out anything. He came to mc in a more excited state than I had sec-n him before. "Sir," said he, "your cheek is not worth anything..' "I am sorry to hear it, said I, "though it is not entirely unexpected. "The cashier of the bank says he don't know you." "The next time you see him," said I, "tell him to read the Eagle, particularly on Saturday." "But why did you give me your check when you had no money in the bank?" said he. "Because you said you would like to have •mv check, and when a man makes a reason able request I like to accommodate him if I can." . I have had no faith in banks since then. Men who don't read the papers and don t know me, don't know enough to take carc of their property. The Dime Savings bank must be quite a salubrious institution. It had been robbed and didn t know it until the police fonnd it out by accident and ; told them. And then they said it was of no conse quence. The D. 8. Bank must be some relative to the bank where the Wild Tayme grows. SliDging securities around in old tin boxes in such a wild way that anybody can walk off with theui. 31 r. Bcrgh or somebody ought to organ ize a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to banks, to prosecute people who run away with their money. Mv friend Sam Morris says he will prose cute the Mows who robbed the Mechanic's Bank if the police will only arrest them. The police say they will arrest tbcia if the bank men will only give tbe officers their ' names, residences, and what time of day they are to be found at home. The hank clerks say they forgot to ask TOL. 42: NO. 25 the gentlemen to leave their cards, but would be orach obliged to them if they would r luody this little oversight by fend ing in their pasteboards. It' they are gentlemen they wili do so, and -ave further trouble. 8-ill your-, for the present. CORKY O'LANCT. llrftl.ljn E'ljL. CKLEUHATEU HO A US. That 'vcr the Simplon was projected by N tpolcon and made at tbe joint expense of France and Italy. It was completed 1805— being thirty?'* miles lone, about twenty five fr t broad, an 1 passes over twohundred and sixty-four bridges, through six short tuiivi ls of -olid rock —one, however, being thirteen huudicd feet in Imgtb, by twelve in width. It was the most stupendous en terpri-e ever undertaken by man. Art nher toad, marvelous io all respects, pa.-- - over Mount St. Benard. lying be twt, n Switzerland and Italy. It pa-.-cs be te' n two cf the highest point- of tie mountain—the road at that point being eight ti u.-and feet above the level ol the a Tee route is very circuitioo, and pa--e- a celebrated mona-tery, distin_ni-hed for the humanity of tlie monks and the sagacity and monstrous size of a breed of dog- kept there for the assistance of trav el' r.-. Napoleon ercsjed there with an army in 1800. <> (it not paid wit hire ix mvM.)... SXM " " (if wot ;in ; 1 within the year,).,. $3.60 AU paper* uot it of the snanty dtKontiaoed with ml nolic-e, at the eip'r*uoo &f the time for which the enbeeriptioß baa been paid. Kias'ucopki of the paper furnished, in wrapper*, at See eeot each. i. ~n u hjct* of liAi or general ntervot, are leapecti'olly mi'sc i* eel. To eaanrn nt leotwo fa. ,rs of tbi* kind tuu.e invariably be aCfiompaainJ bj- the aauie of (ho author, not for pnbtieatioa, bat a gmara-,1 v a-aiijat itapoeition. All let'rr-perU:. 'n't • baaineaa of the offiae should be addreMed to JOllh' IjUTZ, Bcoronp, Pa. A Great Mary Dccks.— The Louis vile Co,-., ; iu noticing a visitor of "John ny' Mil. .-head to that city is reminded of an incident that • ceurref in the good old d'y when his father was Governor of Ken toek. Rowel!, who kept a restuurant and drinking saloon, in Frankfort, rendered his monthly account to "Johny" (the boys could get credit then), which amounted to $l5O. "Johnny" went to his father to get the uicney. One hundred and fifiv dollars, John ny ?" said the Governor; "it's a large bill son." Vrs 1 entertained u great many friends during the month." "Have you the bill with you ?" "I b.licve so" —hesitatingly. "Let me see it, son." "Johnny" stowiy drew forth a long strip of b'.ll paper, on which there were cxaeily thirty one items put down as "D'ks," rang ing from ten cents to as many dollar?. The Governor adjusted his specs, and regarded it attentively, and said : "1). K. S.—l). K. S; Johnny, my sen what ilon I)ks s'and for?" "Ducks, father ducks! But of cour.-c they were not aU ducks—some were par tridge- and nipe, and even eggs and oys ter*. But Lou Murray puts them dowu as ducks." The Governor looked first at "Jobany" and tli n at the liH, and giving an ominous "hem wrote a cbefc. Nobody ever Lelii vtd the Governor was 10. led. but after that —"will you take a duck?" was lor a long time a favorite con vivial invitariou with the Frankfort boys. HOSACIE GKEEI.KY'S manuscript is notori ously lad, and ic is sai 1 to require a printer of no ordinary tki Ito set up his copy if he happens to write iu a hurry. The recent n>-v- paper anecdote of an article headed "W ! iara 11. reward,'' wh't-h Mr. Greeley had returned to him . t up 'TTchard III.," i- fresh in the minds id all; hut an occur rence still more funny is related which hap pened in the Tiiiune ■ ffice some time since: A compo-itor had male so nj&Dv errors in - the j.li 1 • ipher -copy, that it irri tated h m to such a degree that he wrote the typo a letter discharging hiui from further duty. The compositor being unable to de < jdter the contents of the note on receiving it, took it to the foreman, who explained to him that it expressed that he was not a care ful man, and Mr. Greeley dispensed with his serviec-s.*' The man laid down his stick, put on his coat and left. The next day he applied fot a situation as assistant foreman in a la*ge printing office in the same street. The proprietor inquired if he could bring a recommendation from his last employer. "All I have is this letter from Mr Gree ley,'" i-aid the young man, boldly predueing the document. The worthy job printer scanned it some fomentsjtritk a perplexed air. '"ll—m— engage you." And he did, and he never .'earned ti 1 two years afterward that the "let ter from Mr. Greeley" was one of discredit instead of commendation, as he had sup posed.—Boston Commercial Bnlletin. DEFINITIONS OF BIBLE TEKMB. —A day's journey wss 33 and 1-6 miles. A Sabbath day's jonrnev was about an English mile. Ezekiel's reed was 11 feet, nearly. A cubit is 22 inches, nearly. A hand's breath is equal to three and five eighth's inches. A finger's breadth is equal to 1 tDch. A shekel of silver was about 50 cents. A shekel of gold was $8.09. A talent of silver was $516.32. A talent of gold was $13,300. A piece of silver or a penny was 13 cents, A farthing was three cents. A srerah was one cent. A taitc was one and a-half cents. A homer contains seventy-five gallons and five pint?. A nepba or bath, contains seven gallons I and five pints. A bin was one gallon and two pints. A firkin was seven piuts. An omer was six pints. A cab was three pints. THE Ten Commandments adopted by the "craft" and expected to be followed : 1. Enter softly. 2. Sit down quietly. 3. Subscribe for the pa{>er. 4. Don't touch the poker. 5. Engage in no controversy, p. Don't smoke. 7. Keep six feet from the table. 8. Don't talk to the printer. 9. Hands off the paper. 10. Eyes off manuscript, Gentlemen observing these rules when entering a printing office will greatly oblige the printers, and need not fear the "devil." The ladies who sometimes bless us with their presence for a few moments, are not expected to observe the rules very strictly, and, indeed, it will be agreeable to ns to j have them break the eighth as often as con venient. Boys, unless accompanied by their fa thers, are particularly requested to keep their hands in their pockets. A BOSTON exchange is responsible for the following story : A short time tinea a man appeared at the Boston City Hall, requesting an in terview with the Chief of Police. "What can I do for yon?" inquired the official. "Are you the Chief?" "Yes." "Can I i-peak to you private^?'' "Yes —speak out." "Will no one hear us?" "No." I "Are you sure ?" i "Yes." "Well, then, listen. As 1 was crossing the Common last night, about twelve o'clock I saw a woman approach the pond with a baby in her arms, looking carefully j around all the while to see if she was followed; and then, when right at the edge, | stopped aml-'- Threw the child into the Frog Pond 1" exclaimed the appalled officer, his face i white with horror. I "No," rcp'ied his vi-itor -"washed it . face. j ... . * - - "PA. what is tlx of giving our P'£ s so much milk? ' "So that tLey may make hog- of them ! selves, darling '