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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 ollect the whole amount, uh'ktr it fie to it a from the office or not. There can be n,. iegal dtaeontin uence until the payment is made. 4. If the subscriber orders hit paper to be stopped at a certain time, and the publiaher con tinuesto send, the subscriber is boand to pay for it, if ke taker it out of the Poet Office. The law proceeds upon the ground that a man must pay for what he uses. 5. The courts hare decided that refusing to Uk# newspapers and periodical# from the Post office, or removing and baring them uuealLtd for# is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud -2?rafr*sioaal & sasiafM &ards. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, anDroßß, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1869-tf -YJ A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa. Respectfully tender# hi# professional services to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfe'ter, Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. ff®-Colluctiona promptly made. [April, 1'69-tf. ESPY M. ALSTP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa., Will taithfnlly and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to hi* eare in Bedford and adjoin ng counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bcunty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1860.—tf. T R. DURBORROW, #J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBFOXD, Pa., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. He H also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and ail give special attention to the prosecution 'vii f against the Government for Pensions, Back I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Jnliana street, one door South of the Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel House" April 1, lfifiihtf . L. RUSSELL. 1. a. LOK6EXBCXER RUSSELL A LONGENECKER, ATToaaars A COC.VBELLOES ar Law, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and 'be prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. S#-Office on Jnliana street, south of the Court House, Apri l::lyr. J- M'D. SHARPS - *• '• RRRR SHARPS A KERB, A TTOKSE TS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their core will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking bouse of Reed A Schetl. Bedford, Pa. Apr l:69:tf \y C. SCHAEFFER ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Uffiee with J. W. Dickerson Esq.. Soaprly P HYSICIANB. Q K B. F. HARRY', Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citisens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius. [Ap'l 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. OE. SHANNON, BANKER, BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT ASD DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, Wert. North and South, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances proinptljmade. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. April 1:63 DANIEL BOKDER, PITT STRT, TWO noons WEST or THE Ban roßt> HOTEL, BEITOHD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keep 3 on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold W ateh Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order a nj thing in his line_sot on hand. [apr.2S/65. T\ W. CROUSE, LJ. DEALER IS CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, AC. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster Jt Co.'s Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. 'CO., ri N. HICKOK. n-3. DENTIST. 0E ee at the old stand in Bask BCN.Disct, Juliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to Surgical and Mechanical Dtntittry performed with care and WARRANTED. Anteetketici administered, icftm desired, Ar tificial teeth inserted at, per get, SS.OO and up icard. Aa I am deteimined to do a CASH BUSINESS ur none, I have reduced the prieee for Artificial Teeth of the various kiada, 24 per cent., and of Gold Killings 33 per cent. This reduction will he made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all sueh will receive prompt attention. TfebfiS HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having been re-taken by tbe subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms are Urge, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. The table will always be supplied with the best. !he uarket can afford. Tbe Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors- In short, it ia my purpose to keep a FIRrT-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public for paat favors, I respeetfclly solicit a renewal of their patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs, may 17,'fiifcly WM. DIBERT, Prop'r. DXCIIASGK HOTEL, Vj HUNTINGDON. PA. This old establishment having been leased by J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor ri- n House, has been entirely renovated and re furnished and supplied with all tbe modern im provements and conveniences necessary to a first class llotel. The dining room has been removed to the first Boor and is now spacious and airy, and tbe eham '>er are all well ventilated, and the proprietor will endeavor to maka bia guests perfectly at ho**, Address, J. MORRISON, Kxcnxxo* Hotel. oljuiyt l Huntingdon, Pa. \ f AGAZINES.—The following Magarinoi 'or | •£., ■* th* Inquirer Book Store: ATLAN TA MONTHLY. PUTNAM'S MONTHLY £Y? I £S? TRB . GALAXY. 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AH letters should be addressed u, JOHN LUTZ. 3 Horal anti (General Jlftospaper, 23ebotetJ to s>olitirs, (Gtmeation, Hiteraturc anti i^lorals. ITEMS. KOOPMASSCHAAP is Dutch for Cage men up—a very appropriate Dauie for dealers in coolies. Was he baptised thus by his Chris tian parents or his Chinese children ? THE New York Tribune thinks if the Na tional capital should be removed to Chicago the sole amusements of Congress would be looking at the lake tunnel and getting di vorced. A MAN once went to an eccentric lawyer to be qualified for some petty office. The lawyer said to him : "Hold up your hand ! I'll swear you, but all creation couldn't qualify you." No EX-PRESIDENT since the days ot John Quincy Adams has ever had the courage to resist Washington after his term of office had expired, until Andrew Johnson lately returned fo the scene of his former great ness. A COMPANY has been formed in Chicago, and will soon be in operation, for distilling alcohol and extracting soap grease from or dinary city garbage. It is estimated that each barrel of garbage will yield three pounds of soap grease and four gallon of proof spirits. JAPAN is a battleground of religious ideas as well as of political ambition. A great pressure is brought to bear on the authori ties in favor of religious fieedom. For a long period the Japanese having regarded Christianity with especial fear, but the opinion is now prevalent and gaining ground among them, that Christianity is soon to be their prevailing religion. THE rebels who fled the county to escape the just punishment of their great crime, and went to Brazil, soon tired of their new home, and began to return when it was known that their sins bad been forgiven them. The last batch of them, who were determined to stay in a laud where slavery was still rampant, have only jast now come back. They find that there is no place like the home they tried to destroy. THE ratification of the Fifteenth Amend ment is no longer a question of uncertainty. It is assured beyond any perad venture. In deed the Democrats, in some places at least, show a disposition to give it the go by and hunt np new issnes by which the party or ganization may be maintained. Dead issues have never yet been dug up with profit, and the truth may as well be learned now as hereafter. NEW ONE DOLLAR NOTES —The Treas ure Department will soon issue new United States notes of the denomination of one dollar, the plates for which are now being ' enzravej. Upon ths new notes the bust of Wasuington will be substituted for the vig nette of Justice Chase. This is in accor dance with an act of Congress, which pro hibits tbe likeness of any person now liv ing from being on the face of the national currency. IMPORTANT PRIVILEGE TO BANKS.— I THO Secretary of tbe Treasury has determined to permit national banking associations to sub stitute for their five-twenty securities on their circulation ten forties at the rate of eighty-five per cent, of their par value and other gold bearing six percent, securities at tbe rate of ninety per cent. This ex change is subject to revision if it occars so frequently as to become onerous to the De partment SECRETARY BOUTWEU.'B ECONOMY.— The determination of Secretary Boutwell to adhere to the economical rule caunot be bet ter understood than in stating that, since he assumed the duties of Secretary of ihe Treasury, there has not been a single ap pointment made in his own office, while a number has been discharged. The same rule has been practically carried out in all the bureaus, and tbe pay rolls of this de partment at the end of the present month will show a very flattering reduction of ex penses compared with ths rolls on his ac cession to this office. THE Pacific Railroad Company is begin ning to show some sense, which it has been entirely too long in doing. It has reduced the price of passage to emigrants to fifty dollars from Philadelphia to California, which is some inducement for this class to venture their fortunes in that distant part of the Union, and without whom eve r the railroads thither would prove a failure. It ha-also reduced the freight-charge on fruit to five cents per pound, which, though still high, m;7 enable the heavier producers to furnish us with a portion of their surplus. Railroads, especially those of great extent, to become popular and profitable, ought to ! learn from the widespread lessons of ex l perience by fixing their scale of fares so low us will, with a careful estimate, barely cover J expenses. The idea of dividends the first ; year or two should be utterly banished. The • otber idea, public accommodation at all hazard", would soon realize all possible an ticipations of success, A NEW MORNING DAILY.— John Russell Young is now making the necessary arrange ments sor starting a penny morning paper in | New York. Considerable capital is placed at bis disposal. It is rumored, in fact, that Jay, Gould 4 Co. arc to furnish the great bulk of the proceeds, and a very large cir culation is confidently expected. Indeed, the projectors have put theirfigures aB high as two hundred and fifty thousand. Penny papers, morning or evening, have not thus far proved successful in New York, and this new venture will have to be conducted with extraordinary tact and vigor if it attains a tithe of tbe success which its projectors have mapped out for it. Young still con tinues to edit the Spirit of flu• Time s dur ing George Wilkes' absence abroad. DANGEROUS KITE FLYING.— A young lad at Lake Station, Mississippi, bad a large kite presented to biro, about six feet by four in size, which he attempted to fly the other day, just as tbe wind was increasing and a storm was threatening. Tbe wind drew the kite so heavily as to drag the boy along also. To prevent lodging bis favorite, he wound the cord around his body. At last the wind bore the kite and boy upward, until the young kiteflyer caught in the top of a tree, and was suspended seventy-five feet above the giound. A flood of rain came on. abating the wind and allowing the little sufferer to be rescued. He was found to be unconscious, and so bruised and mar red as to be scarcely recognized, bnt was restored the same evening ana is now doing well. AMONG the public officers recently re moved by the President is the widely known Elihu Bcuritt, the ''learned blacksmith," who Las for scveial yoars held the place of Consul at Brimingham, England. BKDPOKD. PA.. FRIDAY, AUCHTST 6 1869. For the IRQCIREH. j] DESPERATION. I watched him as with strong impulse: A purpose firm and fixed, He seized the keen-edged instrument — I thought him ''slightly mixed." 1 saw him raise the glittering steel Full flashing in the sun, A moment more and I feit sure A desperate act he'd done. His busby head dishevelled was ; His neck and throat were bare I shrieked aloud you crazy man What are you doing there? Hold! madman, hold — U iav the stroke ! Why seek a reeking grave? But ere I could arrest his arm He had — begun fo share. t. CHURCH~BELI.ES. Coming ia couples, Smiling so sweetly, „j Up the long aisle Tripping so neatly. Envying bonnets, Envying laces, Nodding at neighbors. Peering in faces. Whispering softly, Heeding no sermon, What they go for Hard ta determine. On all around them Gazing benignly, Wholly unconscious, Singing divinely. Prosy discoursing Don't suit whims: Plain they assemble Just for the "kirns" igUsfrllanroH*. v —' HOW XH CAN DO MOAT WORK a A few years ago a wide circle of friends i and admirers sorrowed over the premature loss to the world of Theodore Parker and Thomas Starr King, in the conviction that both these ardent and brilliant minds were cut off, one in the morning, and the other at noon of his career, by imprudent and ex co-sivc intellectual labor. Sixty years added -to their joint lives would have been equiva lent to the creation of" two such men, with all the stores of int-llectual wealth already j accumulated, which they had spent nearly 1 their whole lives fo gain. The latter half of hcir lives could not have failed to bear the fruits of which the part they actually j lived bore ouiy the blossoms. It is painful to see (treat lives thus shortened, and the world denied the benefits of what they might have accomplished, when not only the longevity ef robust men like Scott, Humboldt, Brougham, Laudor. Thiers, Tennyson and Bryant, but the well preserv ed lives and full orbed usefulness of invalids ! like Pope, Charlotte Blonte, Paysou, and many others, prove that literary life is u a necessarily averse to health, but, by proper care, may be favorab'e to the attainment of ripe years, as well as the most coveted, and perhaps the most unsullied, of all kinds of reputation. A few months since Genera! Charles G. Halpine (Miles O'Reilly, a man of perhaps the most striking genius Ameri ca has known since Pee was cut off sudden ly and sadiy, when the world was barely discovering his rare and genial powers. AuJ it is worthy of note that in the case of Miles O'Reilly, as in the more recent one of Hen ry J. Raymond, and the earlier ones of King and Parker, and the long previous and more prominent cases of Byron, the youßger Pitt and Napoleon, all of whom died prematurely, and from like causes, the feature most dwelt upon in their lives was their capacity for filling sudden, protracted and enormous diafts upon their mental and physical (rowers, living whole weeks of labor within a few hours or days. In fact, there is a sort of Napoleonic element in the lives of each of these men which seems to bear them on through tfceir Marengos and Aos terlitaes onlv to bring them to their Water loo. Their lives have a broken symmetry I like a beautifully fluted column severed in mid air. Halpine and Raymond have writ ten their twelve columns at a sitting. This, in a narrow field, was like Napoleon dicta ting to four secretaries at once, averaging twenty hours of labor per day, and only four of sleep. It was like the hoy Pitt entering upon life as Premier of Great Britain, with an ambition to combine ail Europe and crush Bonaparte. The men who are characterized by such feats of herculean labor must separate them by very thorough intervals of rest or die young. Such a mode of life, though it may result in scintillations of brilliant effort, only remind us how much mure might have been attained with the same endowments, had the possessor been gifted with a greater faculty for judieious indolence. There are so many who err in the direction of idleness, that the world has reached a mischievous style of indiscriminate eulogy of industry, and work, as if they were all under circum stances admirable, even though carried to the degree of self-murder. But excessive industry is as much a greater rice than idle ness. as suicide is a greater crime than beg gary, because it affects more fatally a nobler and better class of persons. It is not mere ly in the lessening of the quantity but in the deterioration to the quality, also of a life's work, that ill-regulated industry is danger ous auj often latal to the worker. Long before excessive toil has swept off its victim, his capacity for enjoyment is made dull, his judgment obscured, his tastes blunted, and often his moral perceptions perverted and his reputation marred by its corroding influ ence-. The failures of life admonish him of his need of rest. It i- a characteristic fea ture of these brilliant and spasmodic men that their hearts burn out with the fires of life at least as fast as tu ir vital forces. They drift away from the moorings of stead fast principle, and at their deaths their obit uaries are charitably silent, in mtuty instan ces, on weli known follies or vices, which enter vitally into any impartial estimate of either their private or public lives. The most rationa 1 division of human life would devote about one-third of every day to work, one-third to recreation, society, amusement, hygiene, intellectual and es thetic culture, and one-third to rest and sleep. The lives of some of our most suc cessful men show that sueh a division re sults in a greater aggregate of achievement and of utility. Few authors have been so voluminous as Bulwer, and yet he steadilv confined himself to three hours' writing per day. Ha tame to his three hours' work full not only of mental and .xesthetic cul- ture, but of nervous vitality and physical vigor. Before as lies a brief "personal" it m to the effect that "Dickens is recovered ami walks as much us ever." Beecber, one of oar greatest and most successful workers, makes labor incidental to his life, not its absorbing pursuit. Ho lives through the week and on Sunday morning early, or oc casiottally on Saturday, begins to think j | what he shall say in his next sermon. Pres ident Grant is the most successful man of j his ge in proportion to his intellectual en ! dowments, and has performed a work equal to that of the first heroes of ancient or mod j ern times, let he never was in a hurry, never tried to do or say a brilliant thing, and never overworked himself Utility is j better that brilliancy, as the aggregate iron of the world is worth infinitely more than | its diamonds. It must be a very rare exi- : | geney which can justify a departure from 1 tiie rule that the most profitable mode of working iu the long run is never to do in any one d#y more work than you feel you would be fully able to do steadily on every •lay of the week, month or year. In accord ance with this general rule, the greatest of | the world's great workers have labored. To this mode of work we owe the infinite j fund of pure pleasure which ia being trans mitted to endless future generations in Bix Waller Scott's inexhaustible volumes, in ! Ilickena' vast versatility, io Tennyson's rich depth, and Humboldt's massive learning. The spasmodic action of the force?, in mind as* in nature, is brilliant but destructive, i The volcano, avalanche and flood, tbe tem pest, earthquake and conflagration are im | pressive phenomena, but they are not the means by which nature performs her great est and most salutary changes. When a j continent is to be built, the little coral worm i< set to work; when a mountain is to be j lowered, the silent frost is employed; and throughout tbe processes of nature and of mind, tbe greatest achievements rcsultfrom those agencies which labor steadily and si lently through long periods of time.—Chi \ cago Tribv.ne. A WESTERN DROVER'S STORY. My name is Anthony Hunt. I aui a dro ver ; and I live miles and miles away, upon the Western prarie. There wasn't, a home in S'ght when we moved there, my wife and T, and now we haven't many neighbors, though those we have are g°f>d ones. One day about ten years ago, I went away from borne to sell some fifty head of cattle —fine creatures as I ever saw. I was to buy some dry goods and groceries before I came back, and, above all. a doll for oar youngest Dolly ; she had never had a store doll of her own, only the rag babies her mother made her. Dolly could talk nothing else, aud went down to the very gate to call after me "to buy a big one." Nobody but a parent can understand how i'ull my miDd was of that toy, and how, when tbe cattle were sold, the Abte. 1 hurried off to buy Dolly's doll. I founds large one, with eyes that would open and shut wheo you pulled a wire, and had it wrapped up in paper and tucked it under my arm, while I had the parcels of calico and delaine and tea and suzar put up. Then, late as it was. I started for home. It might have been mote prudent to stay until morning, but I felt anxious to get back, and eager to hear Dolly's prattle about her doll. 1 was mounted on a steady going old horse of mine, and pretty well loaded. Night set in before I was a mile from town, and set tled down dark as pitch while I was in the middle of the wildest bit of road I know of. I eonld have felt my way through, liemem- Lured it so well, and it was almost that when the storm that had been brewing, broke aud pelted the rain in torrents, five miles, or may be six, from home yet, too. I rode on as fast as I could; but ail of a sudden I heard a little cry like a child's voice. I stopped short and listened—l heard it again. I called and it answered me. I couldn't see a thing ; all was dark as pitch. I got down and felt about in the grass —called again, and again was answer ed. Then I began to wonder. I'm not timid, but I was known to be a drover and to have morey about me. It might be a trap to catch me unawares and rob aud mur j der me. I am not superstitious —not very, but how could a real child be out in the prarie in such a night, at such au hour? It might be more than human. The bit of a coward that hides himself in rno-t men showed itself to me then, and I was half inclined to run away, but once more I heard that cry, and said I: "If any man's child is hereabouts, An thony Hunt is not the man to let it die." I searched again. At last I bethought uie of a hollow under the hill, and groped that way. Sure enough. I found a little drippling thing that moaned and sobbed as I took it in my arms. I called my horse, and the beast came to me, and I mounted, and tucked the little soaked thing under my coat as well as I could, promising to take it home to mammy. It seemed tired to death, and pretty soon cried itself to sleep against my bosom. It bad slept there over an hour when 1 saw my own windows. There were lights in them and I supposed my wife had lit ill- tn for my sake, but when I got into the door yard I saw somethibg was the matter, and stool still with a dead fear of heart five minutes before I could lift, tl.e latch. At la t I did it, and saw the room full of neigh tors, and my wife among them weeping. When .-he saw me she bid her face. "Oh, don't tell him," shu said, "it will kill him." "What is if, neighbors!" And one said, "Nhing row, I hope— what's that in your arms?' 1 "A poor lostchild," said I. '"I found it on the road. Take it, will you, I've turned faint," and I lifted the sleeping thing and saw tlje face of my own child, my little Dolly, It was my darling, and none other, that I had picked up upon the drenched road. My little child had wondered out to meet "daidy" and the doll, while her mother was at work, and whom they were lament ing as one dead. I thanked IKaven on my knee 9 before them all. it is riot much of a story, neighbors, but I think of it often in the nights, and wonder how I could bear to live now if I had not stopped when I heard the cry for help on the ruad, the little baby cry, hardly louder than a squirrel's chirp. That'* Dolly yonder with her mother in the meadow, a girl worth saving—l think, ibut then, I'm Iter father, and partial inay prettiest and sweetest thing this Aide of the Mississippi, W > THE LONDON THUS ON THE MALE of CUBA to the UNITED STATES. The London Times of July 15 says : Under such circumstances it would hardly seem desirable for Spain to prolong the con test. After tbe failure of the experiment, tried by General Dolce, it must be evident I that the system of sending public function aries from Madrid to batten on the colony will have to be given np. Something like progress towards an enlightened commer cial policy will soon become a necessity for revolutionized Spain, and, upon the in- j troduction cf more liberal tariffs, it will be difficult for tbe flour of Castile to keep up a competition with that from New Or leans, or far tbe manufacturers of Cata lonia to monopolize the markets of the An tilles, If all that comes to pass, it is im- i possible to see of what earthly use Cuba can any longer be to Spain, unless it be to gratify national pride by the maintenance of a do- j minion which ia disputed in the teeth of some forty thousand or fifty thousand of Spain's ■ best troops. It seems but reasonable to think that considerations of this nature j must bare eome weight with the men now guiding the destinies of the Spanish monar chy, and make them doubt whether Cuba ; does not cost them much more than it is, worth, and whether its loss under almost any ' terms might not be counted clear gain. Al ready nearly ail the far-sighted statesmen in Spain, with General Prim at their head, have expressed their firm conviction that the separation of the colony from the mother country is only a question of time. A just feeling of pride prevents any step in that direction being taken so long as in surrection trusts to arms for tbe success of | its cause. But upon the pacification of the island beiDg effected, and Spani.-h honor re ceiving the fullest satisfaction, it would seem natural that the dictates of wisdom should be listenened to. Cuba is valuable property, Spain is bar! up for c-asb. and a purchaser is at band. Able negotiators would be at no loss for a compromise which, while sparing the jn-t susceptibilities of the Spanish nation, could induce it to yield a ' troublesome sovereignty for a consideration which might afford the means for restoring its shattered finances and consolidating its revolution. It is importaot for Spanish statesmen to think of it; nor is it quite cer tain that they are not thinking of it. The intercourse between the new Spanish Gov ernment and the Cabinet at Washington is carried on on the most cordial and friendly terms. Apart from sciuplcs about high principles of nationality and popular sovereignty, it is an arrangement that would suit all interested parties. Canvass the real population of the islaud, and the glthisci I would give only one result —a vote for an nexation to the American Union. Wchave said the "'real"' population, for, after all, Cuba should be for the Cubans, and the '"Peninsulars," if tbe new order of things were less to their taste, Lave always their own country to fall back upon. The only se rious questions arising about the scheme are whether the Americans can at this moment offord the purchase-money, and whether "Spanish statesmen, if they tfcemselres un derstand reason, can easily bring their people to view the matter with their own j eyes. TIMOTHY TITCOMU. HIS HOME AND HIS WRITINGS. Dr. Holland was educated as a physician, and hang out his shingle in Sprinfield, Mass. He soon after started a weekly pa per. which did not succeed. Somewhat dis couraged he moved his family to Yicksburg, Mississippi. Here he became a school teacher, but tired of it in a year. Return ing to Springfield, he was out of employ ment, and very much cast down. Mr. Samuel Bowles invited him to a po sition on the Republican, then a rising pa per. From this point he began to make his literary name. First came tbe ''Bay Road," a noveL This was not a very great success. Then there were the two volumes upon the "History of Western Massachusetts"—a work that required a vast deal of labor, but, which was nor. especially profitable. The next work was the great hit. When "Timothy Titcomb" began his series of let ters, then the uame of Dr. Holland began to be kuown. The "Letters to the l'oung. Single and Married" was received with great favor, and in book-form has sold over sixty thousand copies. "Bitter Sweet,' an ex quisite poem, sealed the reputation of Dr. Holland as a successful writer. Over seven ty five thousand copies of this poem have been sold. The "Life of Lincoln" brought the Hoc tor ten thousand dollars. "Kaihrina" must have already added twenty thousand dollars to the author's exchequer. Dr. Holland, as an editor, has done some good work. His "Crystal Christmas," and "Under the Stars," were two gems that were very beau tiful. In politics Mr. Bowles excelled him. He owned an interest in the Republican till two years ago, when he sold it for $28,- 000, and retired from all editorial labor. As a lecturer Dr. Holland has been ac customed to earn about four thousand dol lars a year. His principal field was the West, and his favorite places Buffalo and Cleveland. There were few lyceura lectur ers more popular than he, but his best work was not lectures. He detested lecturing so much that we doubt whether he will ever take it up again. His home is "BrigLtwood," near Spring field, a very tasteful country place arranged by himself at a cost of nearly forty thousand dollars. He has a delightful family, some of the members of which have already been honored by figuring in his wiitiogs. He is very prominent in church matters, and is utterly free from the habits that sometimes are the ruin of authors. Of large heart, a sympathetic nature, and a fine, manly presence, he is as noble a char acter as ever his pen and imagination have sketched. He is now wealthy, the bulk of his properly having beeD made within four or five years. "Kathrina" is altogether his greatest success. He will remain abroad another year, his principal errand being the education of his children. THE Democratic candidate for Governor i said at Philadelphia that speech making was not his vocatian. But there is a match- ; less eloquence in the open mouth 3 of bis money bags! THE last report upon the lay-delegation question in the Methodist Church, gives an aggregate vote of 107,605, of which 78,536 are aSrmatire and 29,071 negative, a ma jority of nearly 50,000 for lay-representa i tioo. VOL. 12: NO. 38 JUSTICE TO IIABIES. Babies are not to blame for being di.-a greeable—they can't help it. They want to be let aione and kept out of tight, if they are well bred; but their f'uolbh parent* won t let then) hare their way, unlets the word is differently spejed. The unfortu nate Rabies must be taken into the light, and looked at, and criticised, and poked in the ribs, and asked to laugh a little. The idea of laughing under such eircum stances! Crying is much more natural, and they cry, of course. Who wouldn't? To put a sensitive and tcn.-ible baby on esbi bition, and insist ou it playing a comedy part with a dozen pins in its flesh, and sev eral doses of medicine internally, revealing the ignorance of physician*, is much like in sisting that a bereaved FOT> should dance a hornpipe at Lis mother's funeral. Nor are Rabies bound to resemble their father or mother, or both at a time. Tbey must have a confused notion what their per sonal appearance is after being assured they are exact counterparts of their parents, aunts, uncles, grandfathers, graud in others, and all their cotemporaneous relatives. The truth is they don't look like anything in particular but themselves. Beauty is impossible to them and they know it. Their family pride is revolted at the thought of being compared to their ancestors who may chance to be comely. Their intuitive sence of art is quite sufficient to inform thcui that seven to thirty pounds of scarlet avoir dupois, with imperceptible noses, protuber ant eyes, and entire absence of symmetry, do not constitute beauty. They are con scious that they suffer by comparison with other little animals, evtu with geese and pigs, so far as aesthetics go, aud therefore, beauty is a delicate subject they would pre fer not to have discus *ed. Rabies have no individuality of appearance whatever, and I discovering liLenesies between them and mature persons is a.* if we compared the tenderness of a steak with the expression of ■ a human countenance. — Packard'* Monthly, \ for May. TUB very last page Theodore Parker's busy fingers ever wrote, tells the child's story, than which, he says, "no event in ujy life has made so deep and lasting im pression on me. A little boy in petticoats, in my fourth year, my father sent me from the field home. A spotted tortoise, in shallow water, at the foot of a rhodora, caught my sight, and I lifted my stick to strike it, when a voice said it was wrong. I stood with lifted stick, in wonder al the new emotion, till rhodora and tortoise van ished from my sight. I hastened home and asked my mother what it was that told me it was wrong. Wiping a tear with her apron, and taking me in her aims, the said: 'Some men call it conscience; but I prefer to call it the voice of God in the soul of man. If you listen to it and obey it. then it will sp®k- .wl guide you right. But if you turn a deaf ear or disobey, then it will fade out, little by little, and leave you in the dark at.d without a guiJe.' " UNANSWERED. How gad and awful it must lie for God to listen, Sitting in white calms upon bis shiniug throne, To all the ceaseless and unanswerable pray ings. Beseeching blindly for the good unknown : The importunate pleadings of strong souls in pain, Yearning for what they never can attain. To answer with a blank and wordless si lence The passionate longings of the heart's desire Over some dear one, on whose brow His finger The awfnl sign hath written—"Come up higher!" To listen, answering not, yst know one breath, One look, would stay the chariot wheels of Death. God is not deaf; the cry ot every human creatare That out of doubt and darkness calls to Him — The infinite, sad chorus of appeal He heareth. Between the hymning of the cherubim: Amid the mnsic of the swinging spheres The lowliest breathing of His name He hears TEACH TIIF. WOMEN TO SAVE. —There's the secret. A saving woman at the head of the family is the very best savings bank yet established—one that receives deposits daily and hourly, with no costly machi nery to manage it. The idea of saving is a pleasant one, and if the woman would imbibe at once, they would cultivate and adhere to it, and thus many when they were not aware of it, would be laying the foundation for a competence, security in a stormy time, and shelter on a rainy day. The woman who sees to her own house has a large field to save in, and the best way to make her oomprehend it is for her to keep an account of current expenses. Probably not one wife in ten has an idea how much are the expenditures of herself and family. Where from one to two thousand dollars are expended annually there is a chance to save something, if the attempt is only made. Let the housewife take the idea— act upon it —and strive over it—and she will save many dollars—perhaps hundreds, where before she thought it impossible. This is a duty, cot a prompting of avarice —a moral obligation that rests upon all upon the women as well as men, but it is a duty, we are sorry to say, that is culti vated very litt'e, even among those who preach the most, and regard themselves as I examples io most matters. leach the women to save, is a good enough maxim I to be in the next edition of "Poor Rich ard's Almauae." THE following is a E-I eciu.e.i of printers j technical terms —it don't mean. however, as it would see® to the ui.ioitialcd ; '•William, put Genera! Washington on ! the galley, and '.hen finish the murder of; the ycung girl you commenced yesterday. Set up the ruins of Herculaneum, and dis tribute the small pox ; you n:ed not finish that runway match, hut have the high wa ter in the paper 'his week. Put a new head on General Grant, and lock up Jeff Davis ; slide that old matter into hell; aod | let that pie alone until after dinner. ou ! can put the La lies' Fair to press, and then ! go to the devil and theo put him to woik on Dtacon Fogy's article on 'Eternal Puoish ! nunt.' "—Printer < Circular. SUBSCRIPTION TERMJB, AC Th I *(,> 11 nr. U try Kn:i>i.r morn ing he following rote* On* Trail, (is advene?,) , tZ.ftO " " (it not paid with in *i* t0u0.).., M-iC " '• if out |..d sitbi* the year,s3 6" AIJ paper* outride of tlio euuoly discontinued without notice, t the eipration of th time for which the subscription he* boon paid. Single eupien of the piper famished, in wrapper*, it fire cent* each. l'(,3tman>9t'ioui on lubiect* of loci! or genera! nter*t, are nrpcrtMilij solicited. To emore at tention favor* of this kind ut invariably be accompanied l.v the uame of the author, not for ;• publication, Hut >:* a gnaran-y again*! imposition. All letter* pertaining to business *f the oß.w should be addressed to JOHN UVTZ, Benrono, Pa. WHAT EVRHT VoCMir MAS SHOULD DO. —L Every young man should make the rno-t of himself, intellectually, morally, socially and physically. 2. He should depend upon his own ef forts to accomplish these r.suit.*. 3. lie should be willing to take advice from those competent to give i, and to fol low such advice, until his own judgment or convictions, properly founded, should otherwise direct. 4. If he is unfortunate enough to have a rich and indulgent father, he must do the best he can under the cir.um-t ince*, which wii! b>> to eondnet himself very much as though he had not these ohstae'es to over come. 5. He shonTd remember that young mem if they live, grow old. and that the habits of youth are oftcaer than otherwise per peiuated in the u aturu wan. Knowing this fact, he should "govern himself ac I eordinply."' 6. ffcshouii never be dtsAotirjged by small I thinnings, but remember that nearly all gre*t re*olts have been wrought out from apparently slight causes. 7. He should mver, under any circum stances, be idl.\ If he cannot find the cm pioyruent he prefers, let him cotne as near Ids desires as possible—he will thus reach the object of his ambition. 8. All youne men have "inalienable rights.'' among which none is greater aud more sieved than the privilege to be "some body. N. C. MutKER, out of the editorial staff of ih ■ -V' YuiL Tribune, aud the wilt known agricultural writer for that jOJrn.il i-> now on a tour of Observation in the South. In a rec.nt number of the Tribune be tells a funny story of a prominent far mer vhniu he met in Georgia, and whose plan'aiion ho was desirous of visiting, for the purpose < f learning something of his system of farming. His reception was courteous, hut somewhat indifferent; ar.d contrary to the custom of the country, he dil cot invite hiui to visit his place, but ambiguously r< marked, upon the termina tion of an interview, "So you think you w n't go out to my p'ace. I sba'l be home all day to-amirow, aid will show you all aroucd." Con,id rln.' hi-> exceptional conduct sin gular aud somewhat cut ious to find out its cause, he made some inquiries in regard to h s agr cultural frieud, and found a solution of his want of hospitality iu the fact that he had a colored teaman for his wife, and that his p'.ace was graced with a goodly number of mullatto children, of both sexes. Not much wonder that he did not want a scrib bling attache of the Tribune to become cognizant of the practical proof of his adop tion of the doctrine of miscegenation, which such worthies pretend to denounce as a pe culiarly Yankee institution. SITERFICIAL INFIDELS. —Sir Isaac New ton set out in life a clamorous infidel, but on a nice examination of the evidence of Chri-tianity, he found reason to chaDge his opinion. When the celebrated Dr. Bailey was talking infidelity before him, Sir Isaac Newton addressed him in these, or like words: "Dr. Bailey, lam always glad to hear you when you speak about astronomy or other parts of mathematics, because that is a subject jou have studied and well understand; but yon should not talk of Christianity, for you have not studied it. I have and am certain you know nothing about the matter." This was just reproof, and one that would be suitable to be given to half the infidels of the present day, for they often speak of what they have never studied, and what, in fact, they are entirely ignorant of. Dr. Johnson, therefore, well observed, "that no honest man could be an atheist, for no maa could be so after a fair examination!" The name ofßume being mentioned to bim, "No, sir." said he, "flume owned to a clergyman of the Bis hopric of Durham, that he had never read the New Testament with attention." As EQUIVOCAL ANSWER. —A certain literary gentleman, wishing to be untjis turbed one dav, instructed his Irish servant to admit no one, and if any one inquired for him to give them an "equivocal answer/' Night came, and the gentleman proceeded to interrogate Pat as to his callers : "Did any one call ?" "Yes, cur, wan gintleman. ' "What did he say?" "He axed was yer honor in. ' "Well, what did you tell him?" "Sure, 1 gave him a quivvikle answer jist." "How was that?" "I axed him was his grandmother a monkey." A COUNTRY SCHOOL.—"BibIe dictionary class come up!" says the master "Who was Lot's wife ?" "The pillar of salt wot Moses Lid his head on when he went upin -13 Mount Sinai to offer his son Isaac op, cos he had no sheep bat himself to do like wise." "What is said about Jonah?" "Jonah swailowcd a whale, and was thrown up the third day with a parcel of onion seed which he gave to the Queen of Sheba for mending bis trousers, which he had burst in straining to get out of the deu of lions where Daniel had Lc.'n rehearsing for the great Peace Festival." "PAPA,'" said a little urchin to his father the other day, *1 saw a printer go down the street ju-t now." "Did jou souny? How do you know the person was a printer?" "Becau-e I do, Papa. 'But he might have been a carpenter or a shoemaker." "Oh no, Papa, he was a printer—likely an editor—for he was gnawing a bone, and had no stockings en. The crown was out of his hat, and his < oat was torn. I am cert-in he was a printer."' He pawned his good eiotbis fur whiskey. "PA, will y>u pet me a new pair of skatis if I will prove t > joa tl at a dog has ten tails?" "Yc\ my sou." "Well, to begin, one dog has one more tail than no dog, ham't be? ' "Yes." "Weill no dog'has t.ine tails; sad if one i has one more than no dog, then one dog must have ten tails.' He got his skates. j A vovsc HBY *wbo vas rebuked b, her mother for kissing ber intended, just.fied the j act by QUOTING t" e PSAGE. "Whatsoever y j would that men -hould <*° ou. do yw. ' even so lo them."