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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. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor
rison House, has been entirely renovated and re
furnished and supplied with all the modern im
provements and conveniences necessary to a first
class Hotel.
The dining room has been removed to the first
tloor and is now spacious and airy, and the cham
bers are all well ventilated, and the proprietor
will endeavor to make his guests perfectly at
home. Address, J. MORRISON,
KXCSAXGE HUTU.
31julytf Huntingdon, Pa.
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ITEMS.
AT Yokohama both sexes bathe together,
and in exactly similar costume. Adam and
Eve were the first to wear it.
TEHERAN has the cholera. As Teheran
is in Persia and Persia is in Asia, it may be
presumed that it is leal Asiatic cholera.
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.
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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.