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The courts have decided that refusing to take * newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud. grofeiSisioaai & 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, 1869-tf LYJ. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services { o the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfe'.ter, Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church. promptly made. [April, 1'69-tf. ESPY M. ALSIP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin ng counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doers south of the Mcngel House. apl 1, 1869.—tf. JR. DURBORROW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, EBFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. He is, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and ail give special attention to the prosecution i. .'vix.s against the Government for Pensions, Back 1 ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door Sonth of the Jnq-eirer office, and nearly opposite the ' Mcngel House" April 1, 18U9:tf g. L. RUSSELL J. H. LOECEXZCKER RUSSELL A LONGENECKER, ATTORSEVS A COCSSELLOBS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the proseeuticn of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. •Sir Office on Juliana street, south cf the Court House. Apn l:69:!yr. J- M'D. SBARPE E. F. EERR SHARPE A KERR, A TTORNE K5-.4 T-LA W. 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 lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed A Schell. Bedford, Pa. Apr l;69:tf W C. BCHABVFER ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Office with J. W. Dickerson Esq.. 23aprly PHYSICIANS. QR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully lenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an i residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius. [Ap'l 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. OE. SHANNON, BANKER, . BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and South, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptlymadc. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. April 1:69 DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED FORD HOTEL, BKSPORD, 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 Donble 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,'6s. DW. GROUSE, • DEALER IX CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster A 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. '69., (A N. HICKOK, DENTIST. Office at the old stand in BASK BUILDIXG, Juliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry performed with care and WARRANTED. Ancrethetiee adminietered, when dcrired. Ar tificial teeth ineerted at, per eel. 98. 00 and up. ward. As I am detaimined 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 made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such will receive prompt attention. 7feb6B HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having been re-taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms are large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. The table will always be supplied with the best the n arket can afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors. Tn short, it is my purpose to keep a FIRhT-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit a renewal of their patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs. . may!7,'69:ly WM. DIBERT, Prop'r. IAX CHANGE HOTEL, Li HUNTINGDON, PA. This old establishment having been leased by J. 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THE $24,000 which mysteriously disap peared from the arsenal at Philadelphia was found concealed in the grouud. ENAMELLED ladies do not bathe this sea son. It is said that polished ladies still in dulge occasionally in that luxury. WM. B. ASTOR talks of, at his individual expense, finishing the building of the Wash ington monument. William can afford it better than the United States can. ALTHOUGH Olive Logan is at Long Branch, it does not signify peace. Olive Branch sounds pacific but means war to the knife on the blondes. Miss Logan is not blonde herself. THE Coroner of San Francisco during the last twelve months held two hundred and forty-three inquests, three of which were ou persons who had committed suicide, eleven murdered and eighty-two accidentally killed. NINETY FIVE good sized Protestant churches are to be built in Madagascar this year. Missionaries have gone there and have attempted to change the customs of the eouutry as regards the keeping of the Sabbath, with the above results. JAMES FISK, it is said, intends to give a dinner party in New York which shall sur pass anything the Ancientsever attempted. The Suez canal, the Pacific railroad and all of Mr. Fisk's own lines of travel will be used to bring palatable rarities to the feast. A land slide at Stockport, Columbia county, New York, on Monday, carried away about three acres of land, a hundred feet deep. M uch excitement among towns people was caused thereby, thinking an earthquake had visited the place. CAPE MAY, it is said, never before enjoy ed so successful a season as the present. The new hotel and the new fiirtaiiou walk are very popular, more dressing than usual is done, and Mrs. J. W. Forney anddaugh ter are said rather to lead the throng in that respect. Two Dukes and a lesser Lord are said to be among the beaux. THEY have now at Saratoga a young lady possessing eight trunks of Parisian toilettes, several boxes of lingiere, and ten thousand dollars in rings, ear rings, brooches, neck laces and other ornaments. Perhaps it is well enough to remember in this connection that five years ago this fair demoiselle pre sided over her father's dram shop in Sixth avenue.— N. Y. Gazette. Tnn "Avitor" or flying machine, now in course of construction at San Francisco, is only a partial success. It will navigate the air in a calm, but the slightest breeze dis- CODOCRTO IT A MOVEWENK. TINE I' ■ ANCTO co Chronicle thinks that if the inventor should ever start for New York, he would be quite as likely to bring up at Cape Horn or the North Pole. A STARTLING REVELATION. —A Calcutta savant has startled India with the affirma tion that a race of tailed men and women are to be found in the forests of Borneo. He says his information comes from Sara wak traders, who state that this "missing link" race live in the trees, have bows and arrows and other rude implements, and sub sist entirely by hunting. An expedition is to be sent in search of the curiosity. AFTER some opposition, some Hartford parents recently consented to the marriage of their daughter with a youth whose pre tensions they had not favorably regarded. The cermony was all jarranged, guests as sembled, ami the minister about to com mence, when the coxcomb announced that nothing more was necessary, as he had married the girl three weeks ago. The result was a surprise party of large dimen sion. AT a meeting recently held by the Land League, on the Kansas neutral lands, speeches were made by Hon. Sidney Clarke, and others. Resolutions were passed unan imously denouncing James B. Joy, and United States Senators Ross and Pomeroy, asking them to re?ign their seats, cutting ioose from the Republican party and form ing a new and independent State Central Committee. Senator Pomeroy was burned in effigy. Gov. SMITH, of Alabama, lias issued a vigorous proclamation against lawlessness in Madison county, on account of informa tion that citizens arc whipped and otherwise outraged, and even murdered by disguised men, and that neither citizens nor officers seem to take steps to have the offenders ar rested. The Governor directs the Sheriff to proceed immediately with a posse comi tate, and by calling upon the military to arrest the offenders and assure ample pro tection to citizens. PROLIFIC. —Quoting from an exchange, that "a father, mother and nine children, I from Pennsylvania, recently passed through : Grand Rapfds, Mich., on their way to Min- I nesota, the children being three pair of twins and one triplet," the St. Paul FVeas | says: ''lf these things are done in the green tree, what may we not expect in the dry, after this prolific pair shall have had the benefit of a few months of the wonderfully stimulating qualities of our Minnesota cli -1 mate? Evidently quartettes and quintettes, ■ and astonishing developments in the next : census." TERRIBLE DROPOUT IN VIRGINIA.—A letter from Hanover, Vs., to the Alexandria Gazette says: Within the memory of the 1 oldest inhabitant no such draught has ever visited our sections as this. For forty-five or more days no rain has fallen to wet the earth, and during the whole time there have been blighting winds and scorching suns. The grass is withered and dry, the gardens have ceased to yield their usual products, aud the corn is in every stage of disability, from the stunted dwarf to the faded and di ied leaf. On lands which usually produce from five to eight barrels of corn to the acre, the tassel is making its appearance from two to three feet high. Our most reliable far mers say that future propitious seasons cannot produce more than half a crop on the best cultivated lands. The oat 3is es timated at one half its usual crop. Tobacco is small, sickly, and very much missing. Peas, potatoes, melons, buckwheat, sugar cane, broom-corn, cotton, pumpkins, &c. arc in a sickly and precarious condition. BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13. 1869. " GO IT ALONE. " There's a game much in fashion I think it's called Euchre, Though I've never played it for pleasure or lucre. In which when the cards are in certain con ditions, The players appear to have changed their positions— And one of them cries in a confident tone — "I think I might venture to go it alone !" While watching the game, 'tis a whim of the bard's. A moral to draw from the skirmish in cards, And to fancy he finds in the trivial strife. Some excellent hints for the battle of Life, Where, whether the prize be a ribbon or throne, The winner is he who can "go it alone!" When great Galileo proclaimed that the world In a regular orbit was ceaselessly whirled, And got—not a convert for all of his pains, But only derision, and prison, aLd chains — "It moves for all that," was his answering tone, For he knew, like the eartb, he could f'go it alone 1" When Kepler, with intellect piercing afar, Discovered the laws of each planet and star: And doctors, who ought to have lauded his name, Derided his learning and blackened his fame; "I can wait," he replied, "till the truth.you shall own For he felt in his he-art he could "go it alone!" Alas for the player who idly depends, Iu the struggle of life, upon kindred and friends ! Whatever the value ot blessings like these, They can never atone inglorious ease; Nor comfort the coward who finds with a groan, That his crutches have left him to "go it alone !" There is something, no doubt iu the hand you may hold ; Health, family, culture, with beauty and gold, The fortuuate owner may fairly regard, As each in its way a most excellent card let the game may be lost with all these for your own. Unless you've the courage to "go it alone !" In battle or business, whatever the game, In law or in love, it is ever the same: In the struggle for power or scramble for pelf, Let this be you motto: "Rely on yourself!" For whether the prize be a ribbon on throne, The victor is he who can "go it alone!" JOHN G. SAXE. THE .NICEST KIND OK "CROQUET." The evening was bright with the moon of May. And the lawn was light as though lit by day— From the windows I looked—to see Croquet. Of mallets and balls the usual display : The hoops all stood in arch array, And I said to myself, "soon we'll see Cro quet." Rut the mallpt and balls unheeded lay, And the maid and the youth! side by side sat they, And I thought to myself, Is that Croquet? I saw the Ecamp — it was light as day— Put his arm round her waist in a loving way And he squeezed her hand. Was that Cro quet? While the red rover rolled forgotten away, He whispered all that a lover should say, And he kissed her lips— what a queer Cro quet ! Silent they sat 'neath the moon of May ; But I knew by her blushes she said not Nay, And I thought in my heart, now that's Cro quet. THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS. Many of the early settlers of Pennsylvania and Maryland were Germans, Hollanders, and Swiss, who were driven by religious in tolerance in their own lands to seek BOW homes in free America. William Penn, the Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania, and George Calvert, the Catholic founder of Maryland, hiving secured guarantees of civil and religious liberty in the characters of their respective provinces, the shores of the Delaware and Chesapeake naturally offered an asylum to all who preferred tolerance to intolerance in matters of religion. During the closing year of the seventeenth century, and up to the commencement of the Ameri can Revolution in the succeeding century, many thousands of the people we have mentioned crossed the ocean and settled in Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland. Some of them pushed into the Shenandoah Val ley in Virginia. The Rhenish provinces of Germany seem to have furnished a large proportion of the German settlers. Rhenish Bavaria (Pfalz), Wurtemburg, and Baden sent large numbers of emigrants. Switzer land sent many thousands. There never was a very large emigration of Hollanders to Pennsylvania, the prows of their vessels beiDg generally directed toward New lork In a briel time the representatives of the three nationalities became so thoroughly in termingled, by reason of religious ties, in termarriages, similarity of custom and lan guage, and general harmony of interests, that they formed one homogeneous class, by some called Pennsylvania Germans, and by others Pennsylvania Dutch. The Swiss set tlers ceased entirely to be called Scbweizers or Swiss. With the perfect union thus established, and familiar intercourse with the English speaking settle]s, came a new colloquial and written language, also called Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch, which is still largely spoken, but not much written, in some sections of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and in some portions of the West ern states to which the descendants of the Pennsylvania Germans emigrated. As a language, it must in time yield at all points to the pure English and German tongues. Few now speak it who do not also speak English. It is mainly a compound of the Bavarian and Swiss dialects of the German language, with many English and a few Dutch (Holland) words added. It is doubt ful if a Pennsylvania German could make himself understood in any part of Holland, Germany or Switzerland to day. The religious belief oi the early Pennsyl vania Germans was that of the Mennonites and German Baptists or Tunkers. The Mennonites were the first to come. Their first settlement in this country was made at Germantown in 1633, the year after Penn commenced his settlement at Philadelphia. 1 hose who settled at Germautowu were Hoffcudsrs. The Mennonitea who followed tbeui came from Holland, Germany, and Switzerland. The first colony of theßreth crn or 1 makers also settled at Gcrmantown and its vicinity in 1719 —eighty-six years after the first Mennonite settlement. They were Germans who had taken refuge from re ligioua persecution in Holland. Other Tunk ers followed in 1729, and during succeeding years. America soon became the strong hold of the new religion. Although its ad herents spread into various parts of Ger utany, Holland, and Switzerland, our re searches lead us to conclude that the most of them finally found their way to this court try. Jhe Mennonites, on the other hand, are still more numerous in Europe than in America, Holland being their stronghold. Here their founder, Menno Simon, was born iu 1595. Jacob Amen, the leading spirit of the Amish branch of the Menno nite sect, was a native of Switzerland. Strictly speaking, the Tunkey and Men nonite faiths were almost identical at the time of which we are writing, differing only in minor particulars. Both st-c's recognised and still recognize the Dortrecht Confession of 1612 as their standard theological belief. The points of differences relate chiefly to Church government and other outward ob servaDees ; but even in these there is great simiiaiity of practice. The Mennonites were is existence long anterior to the Tunk ers. .Jenno iSimon, their founder, was a cotcroporary of Luther in the sixteenth cen tury, vhile the Tunkers did not have a de nomirational existence until the beginning of the eighteenth century, their first Church havitg been organized in 1708, at Swartze nau, in the province of Witgenstein. It is proptr to add that both the Tunkers and Mennonites claimed to have received their religious faith in great part from the Wal densjs and Albigenses, and through them from the Primitive Christian?. It may be of interest to the reader to learn that Witgenstein was formerly a small State of about twenty five German square miles governed by a count, and that half of it -übsequently belonged to the Duchy of Nassau, and half to Rhenish Prussia. Now, since Nassau was absorbed bv Prussia in 1866, it all belongs to the kingdom of Prussia. Niuety-nine out of every hundred of the Mennonites and Tunkers are farmers. Their mode of life is simple in the extreme. They dress plainly, live frugally, and prae tice a very strict code of morals. Their honesty, truthfulness, and industry are proverbial. They do not mingle much with t lie world, but are stayers at home, minding their own business, and minding it well. Poverty is almost unknown among them. They are slow to abandon the customs of their fathers, and do not readily adopt mod ern innovations of any kind. They were originally opposed to the common-school system, but now almost unanimously favor it. They are opposed to war, and gener ally settle all disputes among themselves without going to law. Wc have said that the Mennouitc3 and Tunkers were the first of the German set tlers of our State, and to this we now add that they constitute to-day a very large por tion of our old Pennsylvania German popu lation, especially in the rural districts. Lutherans, Moravians, and representatives of other religious denominations followed them from Germany, but did not precede them. M'hole sections of our State arc in habited by thcni. They early spread into the fertile Cumberland Valley, and thence pushed into Bedford, Somerset, and Cam bria counties. A few of them crossed the Chestnut Ridge and Laurel Hill into West moreland, Indiana, and other western coun ties, of the State. Their settlement in Cam bria county was made during the closing year of the last century, in and around Johnstown, in what was then called the "ccuemaugh country." The portion of Cambria county thus settled by them was embraced in Somerset county up to 1807. A very large majority of all the farmers in the neighborhood of Johnstown to this day Mennonies and Tunkers, the latter largely predominating. A majority of the whole are believed to be of Swiss origin.—Johns town (Pa.) Tribune. \N HONEST NEW YOHK VIEW OF THE PENNSYLVANIA PLATFORM. The New York Citizen , an able Demo eratic paper, in a long article on ''Demo cratic Principles and Practices," has the following remarks applicable to tbc Democ racy that uiet in convention lately at Ilarris burg: "We bold that the Democracy, to suc ceed, must discard old issues, and bring itself fairly up to the times. It is useless to quarrel over questions that the force of circumstances has settled, we cannot re enslave the negro if we would; our South cm bretbern placed a whip in the hands of our enemies to drive us naked through the world; the rebel States of their own motion went out of the Union, and they had to be brought back by "military des potism," or they never would have come back at all. It was to the military tyran nies of Sherman, the violences of Sheri dan, the impositions of Hancock, and the persistencies of Grant, that we owe the restoration of the Union on any term -. "What is there in the Pennsylvania platform ? The first three clauses are de voted to the negro, as if everybody did not know that we do not approve of negro suffrage, but that at the same time we cannot help ourselves, and have to thank the obstinacy of the former slaveholders, even after defeat in arms, for the enforce ment of so unwise a principle. Then we have a word in favor of reform, and an other in support of a republican measure, to assist laboring men. Next, there is a denunciation of the last Congress, which is well enough, and certainly fully justi fied in the opinion of the entire country. Then comes a clause for the soldiers, but not a word for the war in which they fought. After that we find a paragraph about foreign matters, which means any thing or nothing; and the whole winds up with a denunciation of the present revenue system. 'This is all Not a sentence on the subject of the Alabama claims or the Cu b*u question, or of the tariff that wrongs the poor man to help the rich. No con demnation of the rebellion against which the soldiers fought, even though the sol diers are praised—the omission being an insult, if any reference to the subject were proper. No fitting expression in favor of r economy in public expenditures? nothing, in fact, first or last, but the old negro question t and general abuse of Republicans. The self same grumbling without proposing au im provement; the same refusal to understand the altered position of the whole country, which has led to defeat so frequently. The nomination of a roan with nothing to recom mend him but the faculty of heaping up wealth, with no record worth mentioning, and nothing about him to arouse cntbu siasro but his money. Not the first sign of true loyalty, nor the least evidence of devo tion to the best interests of the whole, country. Under such circumstances tec do not expect nor wish, that the Democrats should carry Pennsylvania. '"We do not wish this simply because it would be a triumph of the Vallandigbams and Pendletons, and the old school that never learns and never forgets; the former slave power toadies, who imagine that slavery was a thing of beauty and a joy for ever, instead of being at best but a cruel necessity of the Constitution. A triumph on such principles and with such candidates would only revive the dead men of the North and the South, the putrescent bodies which have been smothered under the loyalty of the nation; the malignant rebels, whether they register themselves as enemies of the nation in Cincinnati, IlarrLburg, or New Orleans. A victory now would bring the extremists back to life and power, and with them another defeat jn 1875. The Republicans are begging for admission amongst us, provided they can come in with honor; many old Democrats are anxious to return to their first love; but they will not leave their loyalty or self-respect behind. Accept certain results of the war, exhibit an understanding of the altered phase of some public matters —concede even some thing for harmony, and the Democracy is as sure to carry the next national elections as that the sun shall shine in summer aod the snow fall in winter. Continue in the old rut, and we shall suffer fresh and more overwhelming defeats under the increasing patriotism of the people, and the daily augmentation of their natural pride in their success in the war; we shall be beaten at all points until our party falls to pieces from very rottenness!" GEARY AT LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. A Philadelphia letter says-: The Gov ernor's ripe experience as an Executive, his world wide military celebrity, his invalua ble services rendered to every portion of the Commonwealth during his term of office, together with his advocacy End practice of strict temperance principles, have given him a hold upon the Republican party of the State which cannot be easily shaken. Ilis re-clcction is considered a foregone conclu sion here, no matter who the opposition may select as his opponent. I heard an anec dote here to-day in relation to the taking of Lookout Mountain, which might be insert ed in this connection, and will doubtless be interesting to your readers. Gov. Gcarv has frequently been asked to relate the cir cumstances connected with the initiation of the capture of this famous Mountain in 1863, but his known modesty has made him reti cent concerning his military record, and It was only recently that the following import ant chapter has been added to the history of that eventful battle. I give it subse quently as related by the Governor himself to a personal friend. It appears that Gens. Geary and Hooker were riding together one day just before the capture of the Moun tain, in full view of it, bristling as it was with rebel infantry and artillery, when Gen. G. remarked, 'Hooker,' (their relations were of that intimate character that titles be tween them were always dispensed with,) 'Hooker, I have a plan by which I can take Lookout Mountain.' 'What is it, Geary?' asked Gen. H. 'No man, Hooker,' replied Gen. G., 'can know my plan of attack until I get an order to take the Mountain. Give me the order and then I will let you know my plan, but not until then.' Gen. Hooker, as his custom was when in deep thought, held his head in an incliued position, as if close ly examining the quality of the hair in his charger's mane, and so the two rode side by side for more than a mile, when Gen. H., suddenly looked up and said. 'By G—d, Geary, I believe you are the man to take Lookout Mountain—l give you the order. You will move your division upon it to mor row morning at day break. Now tell me your plan of attack.' Gen. G., then detailed the modus operandi to his superior officer, when Hooker delighted exclaimed, 'You have hit the nail on the head, Geary—The Mountain is ours! The next morning, Gen. Geary fought the battle of Lookout Mountain above the clouds, and all know the grand result. It will take more than ordinary Democratic thunder to beat such a man. Soi'NDixo TIIE WHEELS.— Often as I travel on the railroad, I perceive that our train never passes a certain station without stopping four or five minutes, during which we hear loud ringing of hammers upon the wheels. A couple of men go from one end of the train to the other, one on each side, and with a large hammer strike every wheel, to learn by the sound whether it is in per fect order or not. For this reason the sound is not an unpleasant one. for it tells us that the company is giving proper attention to the safety of its passengers. Our life is like a railroad track, and here and there should be stations, not too far apart, where wc may stop a little while and sound the wheels. And what are the wheels ? Habits. Life's journey is chiefly made in the way of habit; a human action tends to run in grooves. When once fairly started it is easy to go on. But if the wheels of habit are not sound there will be a break down by-and by. 11l temper is a badly cracked wheel, and makes an ugly ring. Take that wheel out. Gluttony and intemperance are bad wheels. If you find them switch off that car and let it stand to one side. Have you a sharp eye for number one ? In your dealings arc you in the habit of making more than is honest out of your playmates ? Listen to the ring of that wheel! It gives a dead sonnd, which says plainly, "Look out for danger ahead!" Yes indeed! If you keep such wheels as these running, one of these days, in round ing some curve, or in passing through some tunnel, there will suddenly be a giving awsy under you and all will be lost! We say, then, to our young friends, sound the wheels, sound the wheels! Keep your selves in good running order. WE are often wrong in wishing to prevent too much of the evil that God himself per mits. Souls may be corrupted by an at tempt to purify them. VOL. 42: NO 29 THE OLDEST CITY IN THE WORLD. Damascus ia the oldest city in the world. Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the shore; Baaibcc is a ruin ; Palmyra is buried in a desert; Nineveh and Babylon have disap peared front the Tigris and Euphrates. Damascus remains what it was before the days of Abraraam—a center of trade and travel —an i.-land of veodure in the desert — "a presidential capital," with material and sacred associations extending through thirty centuries. It was near Damascus that Saul ol 1 arsus saw the light above the brightness of the sun ; the street which is called Strait, in which it was said "he prayed," still runs through the city. The caravan comes and goes as it did a thousand years ago ; there is still the sheik, the ass, and the water wheel; the merchants of the Euphrates and the Mediterranean still "occupy" these "with the multitude of their wares." The city which Mahomet surveyed from a neigh boring height, and was afraid to enter "be cause it was given to man to have but one paradise, and for his part, he was resolved not to have it in this world," is to-day what Julian called the "eye of the East," as it was in the time of Isaiah "the head of Sy ria. 1 ' From Damascus come the damson, our blue plums, and the delicious apricot of Portugal, called damaseo, damask, our beautiful fabric of cotton and silk, with vines and flowers raised upon a smooth, bright ground; the damask rose, introduced into England in the time of Henry VIII., the Damascus blade, so famous the world over for its keen edge and wonderful elasticity ; the secret of whose manufacture was lost when Tamerlane carried off the artist into Persia; and that beautiful art of inlaying wood and steel with silver and gold, a kind of mosaic engraveing and sculpture united —called damaskening—with which boxes, bureaus, swords and guns are ornamented. It is still a city of flowers and bright waters; the streams of Lebanon and "silk of gold" still murmur and sparkle in the wilderness of the Fyrian gardens. UNIIEB the caption of "i*"*, fur Dcmoc- j rati/," we find the following good thing in the Erie Gazette : Asa Packer made his money by buying coal lands cheap and waiting for advance ment. He can lose it all by buying nomina tions dear and waiting for election. In the late National Democratic Conven tion, when Judge Woodward proposed Asa Packer as a nominee for President, the uni versal whisper was—"Who in is Asa Packer?" After the nest, election the gen eral inquiry will be—"Where in is Asa Packer?" If Asa Packer is the "poor man's candi date" because he has $20,000,000. how much more does he need to be the "rich men's candidate" A pill for Packer—the seventh plank of his platform, which declares that the De mocracy should "gratefully remember" the soldiers. llow can he swallow it and try to beat a soldier candidate ? A Democratic exchange, speakihg of Asa Packer s nomination'says: "It was a sen sible thing in the State Convention to se lect a man possessing both dollars and sense." Exactly, the dollars come ahead of bss sense, a long ways, or else he never would have been nominated. It now re mains to be seen whether his dollars weigh more than the sense of the people. As a Packer, Asa Packer cast over Cass, an overcast that cast over a SIOO,OOO pack. The people will now cast Packer and Pack er's pack where Cass was cast, and thus as a packer, Asa Packer will be overcast The Pennsylvania Democracy have nom inated twenty millions dollars for Governor. It is not intended to make them all Gover nors, only what is left of them after the campaign is over. Step up, gentlemen and vote for your golden calf. The new Democratic cry of "let us have P's"—means literally, let us have a piece of Asa I'acker's money bags. The demand is so general that it will take a good many p's to go round. COUNTRY GIRLS. Meta Victoria Fuller, in a sisterly way, thus talks to country girls : The farmers' daughters are soon to be the life as well as the pride of this country a glorious race of women which no other land can show. I seek not to flatter them ; for before they can become this, they will have to make an earnest effort of one or two kinds. There are some who depreciate their condition ; they demand more consideration than they merit. A want of intelligence upon all the subjects of the day and a re fined education is more excusable iti a coun try girl, in these days of many books and newspapers. Many girls are discouraged because they cannot be sent away from home to boarding school; but men of superior mind and knowledge of this world, would rather have for wives women well and properly educa ted at home. And this education can be had whenever the desire is not wanting. A taste for reading does wonders; and an earnest thirst afte a knowledge is almost cer tain to attain a sweet daughter from the Pierian springs. There is a farmers' daugh ter in this very room in which I am writing —a beautiful, refined and intelligent wo man —in whose girlhood books were not so plenty as now, and who obtained her educa tion under difficulties which would have dis couraged any but one who had a true love for study. MEN WITHOUT HEARTS. —We sometimes meet with men who seem to think that any indulgence in an affectionate feeling is weak ness. They will return from a journey and greet their families with a distant dignity, and move among their children with the cold and lofty splendor of an iceberg sur rounded by its broken fragments. Tbere is bardly a more unnatural sight on earth than one of these families without a heart A father had better extinguish a boy's eyes than take away bis heart. Who that has experienced the joys of friendship, and val ues sympathy and affection, would not rath er lose all that is beautiful in nature's scen ery than be robbed of the hidden treasures of his heart? Cherish, then, your heart's best affections. Indulge in the warm and gushing emotions of filial, paternal, and fra ternal love. HE who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his band a blade without a hilt —one more likely to cut himself than anybody else. PRIDE costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, &C. The Iwch the subscription has been paid. Single copies of the paper famished, in wrappers, at five cents each. Communications on subjects of local or general ntercst, are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention favors of this kind must invariably be accompanied by the name of the antbor, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaining to business of the office should be addressed to JOHN LUTZ, Brnroßo, Pa. PREACHING WITIIOCT A IVEMT. —Bishop Meade, of Virginia, at the commencement of his preaching, used no notes in the pulpit, but subsequently he wrote all his sermons, and was much confined to his manuscripts. It is related of him that, when he was pre paring a book on tbc old preachers and fami lies of Virginia, he asked Mr. Andrew Hunter, of .Jefferson county, Va., to give him some anecdotes for the work . Mr. Huotrr said: "Well, Bishop, I have only one, and that is about yourself." "Let us have it, then," said the prelate. Mr. 11. then told the following ; Many years ago, when this valley of Vir ginia was a much wilder country than now, you preached here in Jefferson county. You used nr> notes on that occasion. A certain hunter, distinguished for his skill with the rifle, and who had a supreme contempt for a man who requiied "a rest" from which to shoot, was in the congregation, and listened attentively to you. You wore your clerical robes, and he was struck with the strange, dress, ns he hod not heard many Episcopal preachers. After the sermon one asked him how be liked the preacher. "He's a right down good preacher," said the hunter; "and, by the way, he's the only one of them petticoat preachers that I ever heard that could preach without ' rest.'" FLIRTATION WITH HANDKER CHIEFS. The I'hilade'gfiia Star, after discussing the language of the fan, gives the "vocabu lary" of the handkerchief: Drawing across the lips—desirous of an acquaintance, Drawing across the eyes—l am sorry. Taking it by the centre —you are too will ing. Dropping—we will be friends. Twirling in both hands—indifference. Drawing across the cheek —I love you Drawing through the hands—l hate you. Letting it rest on the cheek—yes. Jetting it rest on the left cheek—no. Twisting in the left hand—l wish to be rid of you. Twisting in the right hand —I love an other. m Folding it—l wish to speak with you. Over the shoulder —follow me. Opposite corners in both hands—wait for lIIC. Drawing across the forehead—wc are not watched. Placing on the right ear—you have changed. Letting it renniin on the eyes—you are cruel. Winding around the fore finger—l am en gaged. Winding around the third finger—l am married. Putting it in the pocket—no more at pres ent. YOUNG MEN, PAY ATTENTION.—DO not be a loafer, don't call yourself a loafer, don't keen a loafer's company, don't hang about loafing places. Better work bard for your own prospects. Bustle about if you mean to have anything to bustle about for. .Many a physician has obtained a real patient by riding bard to attend an imaginary one. A quire of blank paper tied up with red tape and carried under a lawyer's arm may make his fortune. Such is the world—to him that hath shall be given. Quit dron ing and complaining. Keep busy and mind your chances. A RICH EDlTOK.—Somebody says editors are poor, whereupon an exchange remarks: "Humbug! Here we are, editor of a coun try newspaper, fairly rolling in wealth. We have a good office, paste-pot, double barrel led gun, two suits of clothes, three kittens, a Newfoundland purp, two gold watches, thirteen day and two night shirts, carpet on our floors, a pretty wife, one corner lot, have ninety cents in cash, are out o£ debt, and have no rich relatives. If we are not wealthy, it is a pity." OBSERVANCE OP THE SABBATH.—Ef forts are made in London ¥o discourage the publication, delivery, and sale of newspa pers on Sunday. One of the largest pro-' prietors is willing to discontinue his Sunday issue, if others will do the same. One news vender stated that in the last eleven years he had been robbed by two-thirds of the boys whom he had employed, which he ascribed to the corrupting influence of Sab bath work. The principal shops in Paris are henceforth to be closed on the Sabbath, the merchants having taken this step of their own accord. They appeal to the good will of the public to aid them in making the measure general. VIRTUE AND VlCE.—Virtue is the hum ble violet nestled away under its broad, green leaves, over whose head the storms of ad versity may pass in safety; vice, the gaudy, poisonous flower, one moment flaunting in francied security, the next, crushed to the earth by somo gust of passion, to be tram pled upon and neglected, even by those who admire itsdangerous beauty. Virtue is the brightest—vice, the blackest thread in the web of life. NATURE will look as gay on the day of our death as ever it did ; the business of the world will go on as briskly as before ; our in habitants will make our successors as wel come as they made us; and even our names in a few years shall perish as if we had nev er been. ONE who has ciphered it out, that two cents placed at compound interest would accumulate sufficient to pay our national debt in four hundred and fifty years. Why don't some one "fund" the two cents? THE best dowry to advance the marriage of a young lady is,—when she has in her countenance mildness in her speech wisdom, in her behavior modesty, and her life virtue. As the best tempered sword is the most flexible, so the truly generous are the most pliant and courteous to their inferiors. EVIL THOUGHTS.— <; We cannot keep the crows from flying over our heads, but we can keep them from building their rests in our hair." Martin Luther. SAMBO in speaking of the happiness of married people, said : 'datar' 'pends al togedder how dey enjoys demselves " HEAVEN gives enough when it gives us opportunity. A SANCTIFIED heart is much better than a silver tongue.