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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. | 1 roffjs.sioaal & %ulnm Cards. 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, 1889-tf A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office in the IxqctßEßuil ding, iccond floor.) ~irCollections promptly made. [April,X'69-tf. rtSPY M. ALSIP, Hi ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDPORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin ng counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1369.— tf. T R. DURBORROW. J . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBFORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tics. He also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and WTL. give special attention to the prosecution . '. lit-s against the Government for Pensions, K I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the I , Hirer office, and NEWLY opposite the 'Mengel House" April 1, 186'J:tf S. L. RUSSELL J. H. LOKGEXECKER IY US3ELL A LONGENECKER, II ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi nc - ertrusted to their care. Special attention given T collections and the prosecution of claims F r Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. Office on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Apri L:69:lyr. J' M'D. SHARPE E. P. KERR SHARPE A KERR, A TTORXE YS-A T-LA W. Will p ractice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col ics: .1 from the Government. office on Juliana street, opposite the banking B-.u -e of Reed A Schell. Bedford, Pa. Apr L;69:tf W- C. SCHAEFTER ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., office with J. W. Dickerson Esq.. 23aprly PHYSICIANST QR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citixcns of Bedford and vicinity. Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the bnilding ' rinerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius. [Ap'L 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. I ACOB BRENNEMAN, V WOODBERRY, PA., -CRIVKNEE, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Will attend to all business entrusted into his hands with promptness and despatch. Will remit mon ey by draft to any part ef the country. ITsely OE. SHANNON, BANKER, . EEDRORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections mado for the East, West, North and 5 atb. and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Account, Collected and Remittances promptlymade. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. April 1:69 DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS wxsr OF TBK BID FOBD HOTEL, BESFORD, PA. MATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins. Finger Rings, beet lality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2B,'6s. I) W. C ROUSE, ' '' DEALER 1* CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. K. Oster V Co.V Sivrc, 80-ift>rtl, Pa. y is now prepared ' nl] by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All r tiers promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. liedford April 1. *69., Q S.HICKOK, Office at the old stand in DENIISI. BANK BUILDING, Jnliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to " rg teal and Alecha nical Dentistry performed with care and WARRANTED. -i-or-A etiee administered, when desired. Ar y ' teeth inecrted at, per set, SB.OO and tip. As I AM dcteimined to do a CASH BUSINESS cc, I have reduced the prices for Artificial ' "1' H of the varions kinds. 20 per cent., and of I Fillings 33 per cent. This reduction will be ■ 't only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such *:i! receive prompt attention. 7l"cbSß Washington hotel. ibis large and commodious house, having been : alien by the subscriber, is now open for the ra fEption of visitors and boarders. The rooms are Urge, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. *be table will always be supplied with the best 'it t arket csn afford. The liar is stocked with 'be choicest liquors. In short, it is my purpose ; keep a FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking " public for oast favors, I respcetfully solicit a Tuewal of thetr patronage. V li. Hacks will run constantly between the 'ci and the Springs. ■*JlV:ly WM. LIBERT, Trop'r. PtH x 1X B E HOTEL. i,. HI'NTINODON, PA. J \fr.Vnriff B *'*ishment having been iea#ed by _ • ''i.lsON, formerly proprietor of the Mor !crv . , tls bcfi entirely renovated and re pr. lP „ .ii n /opplied with all the modern im el M| and oonvenienoes necessary to a first room h " been removed lo the first " ,? uo * pacioas and airy, and the ehem wiii i w ventilated, and the proprietor t _• endeavor to make his guests perfectly at Address, J. MORRISON, tliulMf Kicbaso* Hot*l, Huntingdon, I'a. Wh c fieMoxd 3fuqnircr. JOHN LUTZ. Editor and Proprietor. Ifiiqttim Column. i ~ " RPO ADVERTISERS: i I . . "■ ' VI - • f ; t r ! THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. 5 r 1 1 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY JOHN LUTZ, OFFICE ON JULIANA STREET, BEDFOED, PA THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN SOUTH- WESTERNFENNSTL VANIA. CIRCULATION OVER 1500. HOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTS INSERTED ON REA SONABLE TERMS. A FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. 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A MAN in Milwaukee deposited SIOO in a bank, and being told the interest would be five per cent., at the end of the year he came with fire dollars in currency to pay the interest. Learning that the interest went the other way, he departed wondering why a man should pay him for being allowed to take care of his money a whole year. ONE C. M. Case, of New Y"ork, who recently became bondsman for Henry Woods, a notorious counterfeiter, repre senting that he owned five thousand acres of land in Suffolk eounty, L. 1., on which there was no incumbrance, has been held in $15,000 for examination, it appearing that his statement under oath is contradicted by the record. EXPLANATORY. —It must be a query in the masculine mind, what is the meaning of the long, coarse hanks of gray, blonde, and brown tow hanging in Haberdashers' win dows. These are material for stuffing the long and abundant braids which are so fash ionable on every woman's head. The scant supply of natural hair is carefully wound round these wisps of flax, which are dyed as near the natural color of the locks as possi ble, and a rich braid is the result. Our wo men might emulate the conduct of the Gre cian maidens, who cut off their hair for bow strings, without such sacrifice. All they would have to do would be to produce the store of hemp threads from their tresses, ! and supplement hair with silvery Mantilla. ' WHEREABOUTS OF MINISTER CURTIN. — Advices received from His Excellency An drew G. Curtin, state that owing to the pro longed absence of the Emperor from St. Petersburg, it has not been possible yet to present his credential as Envoy Extraordi nary aud Minister Plenipotentiary to that Court, He was, till lately, at Dresden with his family, under the instructions of Secre tary Fish, awaiting the return of Minister Gortschakoff from London, when he will be presented. Hon. T. J. Coffey, the Secreta ry of the Legation, accompanies the ex-Gov crnor, and has placed his children at school in Dresden. The health of Minister Curtin has been good, and he has received during his visit many attentions from not only American, but English, French and German tourists at Dresden, who are enthusiastic in their expressions of admiration of our Penn sylvania Ambassador. MURDERER HANGED BY A MOB.— In Por tage City, Wisconsin, on Thursday, Wm. Spain, lawyer, and Barney Britt, farmer, mot in the street and renewed a quarrel that had its origin when they were mem bers of the Nineteenth Wisconsin Regi ment. After they had separated Spain went home, procured a revolver, and on meeting Britt again soon afterward shot and almost instantly killed him, scarcely a word being exchanged. Spain then de liberately walked down street, flourishing his revolver, closely followed by Marshal Iliekoy, who arrested him. While he was passing up the street again an excited crowd of people followed, and when oppo site the American Express office a general onslaught was made upon the prisoner. The excitement increased fearfully, aud cries of "Hang him!" "Hang him!" rent the air. The crowd soon increased at the express office to the number of one hun dred, who took the prisoner into their pos session, placed a iope about his neck and dragged him to the nearest tree, below the Ellsworth House, and hanged him. A GREAT NATIONAL ENTERPRISE.— New Mouth for the Mississippi River—Morfolk to he made an Important Port. The Wash ington correspondent of the New York Her ald says: The naturally navigable waters of the Mississippi valley aggregate nearly 1700 miles. Water has its currents and so has trade. But those of the latter do not run with the former; for in the main the great outlet of trade is northeast by the lakes, Erie Canal and Hudson, instead of South, by the Gulf of Mexico. It is now proposed to open away across the Virginia mountains broad and deep enough to drain the Missis sippi valley due eastward into the Chesa peake, not of water, of course, but of pro duce. The old James river and Kanawha Canal—already finished half the distance— : was to connect the waters of the James with those of the Kanawha, a tributary of the Ohio; but the proposed canal is to be of a capacity equal at least to Jthe great Erie Canal of New York. Such a canal, by sup i plying 400 miles of the route, would open the way for transportation without trans shipment between the ocean and 17,000 I miles of already navigable inland waters, j The project is to be brought before Congress ( this winter, and it is expected that it will i be petitioned for by citizens of every part of ! the Union. Great considerations ofnation j al defence are said by military men to justify 1 it, but the grand commercial hypothesis is | the manner in which it would effect the j grain interest of the West and the bread in j terest of the East. It appears by official I reports of the United States engineers j chaxged with surveys, etc., of proposed na tional canals in the Northwe-t, that the i dangers of lake navigation, the numerous transshipments, the necessity of much rail ! road carriage, and the closing of navigation live twelfths of the year, besides the heavy tolls on the Erie Canal, all make the cost of carrying Western grain to the seaboard by existing routes enormous. Another great work proposed is the Coosa cotton route, from Mobile up the Alabama river, thence up the Coosa river till within thirty miles of the south bend of the Tenn essee river; across this thirty miles a ship canal, thence up the Tennessee and its long est branch, the Holston, to the borders of Virginia, near Saltville; from Saltville to Lynchburg (already traversed by a railroad), a double track road, fit for heavy freights, and at Lyochburg striking the Atlanta wa ter route above mentioned to New York. The railroad part is 176 miles long; all the rest water. This route would save near ly 2000 miles of the present route which cot ton takes from the cotton centres in New York and other cities North, and also the dangers of the Florida Keys, for which in surance alone is two and a half per wot. on ship and cargo. "BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, OUT. 1- 1860. -Cortvu. DARK OK FAIR. I Maiden fair ! With the golden bair— j Sweet Brunette , With the locks ot jet, As rou roam side by side On the marge of the tide, I know not on which my heart I should set. The hazel orb Will the heart absorb, And the eyes of blue j Is tender aud true : i But when both are together This sunshiny weather, Their powers combined must our peace undo. Beautiful pair, Our bosoms spare ! The moon and the sun. Shine never as one, ! And why should you two Both rise on our view j When either alone had our worsL'p won? From crown unto feet | In beauty complete, i Like the Night aud the Day j Together you stray, Past the pier and the shipping : So daintily tripping i In your pretty, bewitching, unconscious way! i The maiden fair Would I gladly declare • My darling—and yet There's the dark-eyed Brunette ! And I vow on my word To say which I preferred Is a question with terrible doubt beset! What shall I do To decide 'twist the two ? So beautiful both | That to choose I am loth, And which was the fairest The sweetest and rarest I could not declare, were I put on my oath ! Brunette and fair maid Like Sunshine and Shade Each iu her sphere I Is the loveliest here, [ And I own I'm as fond Of Brunette and of Blonde. A shocking confession I very much fear. ustr. Mr. Nashu at MochchuncJe —lie J'cvicics (hi Political Field, and Comes to tin con clusion that Democracy has got "Mixed." [From the Toledo Blade.] MOCH CHUNK (wich is in the state uv Pennsylvany), Sept. 11, 1869. —At last I hev struck a haven uv rest. At last I hev a shoot abidiu place, for a time at least. How long I may stay, or how soon I may be compelled to pick up my landlord's spare shirt and travel, I can't tell. But what do I care ? For the present I ■" K * r wing uv a man who hez §20,000,000 and who is yoosin it at a terrific rate. Some few uv the drops uv the golden shower is a fallin unto me, and lam content. That is, I am con tent personally. lam cz well off cz I cood be. I hev twice penetrated the august pres. ence uv the Democratic candidate for Gov ernor of Pennsylvany, representing myself ez the pre.-ident of a Democratic club in Philadelpby, and twice hev I received SIOO to carry on the good work. The young man | which guards the outer door uv the candi ! datorial mansben is a most aeoot judge uv \ human nacher. The servant at the door j askt for creden.-hels. at wich the youDg man who happened to be in the hall, noticin mc, rebuked him for delayin me. "Terence," remarkt he sharply, "admit ; all such noses without question. Yoo bet I they are our friends." ! That uose hez cost me thousands uv other ! people's dollars to keep it up in color. Thank heaven, it's repaying me some uv the I trouble I hey gone to on its account. I am well enuff off, and possibly ougbt to be satisfied, but the condishen uv the Di : mocrisy afflix me. The fact is, we are in a | bad way, and thcr ain't no way out uv it. i We ain't got no yoonanimity—we ain't got nothin to fite for, and the country hed j universally good crops. The weather's bin I agin us. Ef we could hev hed rain in har vest enuff to hev rustid the wheat, and enuff follerin the wheat harvest to hev rotted the pcrtaters, and then a juicy attack uv cholera and yellow fever, and other disord ers uv that nacher, so that the people cood hev got dissatisfied and ugly and sich, ther wood hev bin some hope for us. The pota to rot in Western Pennsylvany wood hev ! made thousands uv votes this fall alone. | But wat's the yoose uv talking to farmers i with teeis in your eyes uv a country goin to : roonin, ween every mother's son uv cm hev thcr pockets stuffed with greenbacks, and a b3rn lull uv wheat to bring more? Wat's the yoose uv clamoring for change w hen the country's doin cz well ez it kin anyhow ? Then agin, onr management hez bin frightful. In Ohio we made a boggle at the beginning, in the nomenashen uv liose crans. It wuzu't in the nacher uv things | for our patriots who had shot officers sent j out by lloscerans to arrest their sons wich J hed taken bounty and hed deserted to Cana j dv, to vote for IlosccraDs, partickerly ez hundreds uv cm hed bin dragged to Bastiles for emptying their rifles at em. The hur rahs stuck in their throats. I must confess that they made a brave attempt at it, but they looked siek while they did it. The ef forts to hurrah for lloscerans, and tho face they made uv it, reminded me uv an inci dent wich occurred to me wunst I hed a friend whose name it wuz Brown, who wuz given to indulgence in the flowin bole to a fearful extent. Wun nite he at tempted to be convivyel on a new bran uv whisky, and it floored him. At 11 P. M. I found him elingin to a lamp post and vomit in ez tho ther wuz a minatoor earthquake into his iosides. "Brown !" remarked I, layin my hand af fectionately onto his shoulder. "Brown, are you sick ?" "Sick ! Sick? ' replied he, swingiu round to the other side ot tho post and discbargin another avalanch. "Sick! do yoo think I'm doin this for the fun uv thetbin.- ?" Our Democrats in Ohio swallere Rose crans, but their hurrahs were so much like the retchin uv a man with a load onto his stuinick, that it reminded tnc.uv my friend Brown. In Pennsylvany we aint much Utter off. Our candadatc hez pints about bim. He wuz a copperhead doorin the war, which makes all uv that class uv Democrats en thoosiiui'.ic iu his suppoxt; but ou tothcr hand it drives off the war Democrats, with out wich we ain't worth shucks. lie hez money though, and ez he's bleedin freely I lie may keep the organLashen alive till we kin make a fite with s man wich we kin elect. The principle trouble is, however, to find out wat Democracy is at this juncter. In Ohio its agin nigger ekality and in favor uv either payin off the bonds in greenbacks or rcpudiashen in Tennessee its nigger suf frage and nigger offiis boldin ; in Connecti cut its payin the bonds in gold, interest and principle ; in Califoroy its aoti Chinese, and in Loussao, its Chinese. In Maine our peo ple are runnin a perhibertory likkcr law. and everywhere else they're for free wbioky. In Illinois Democracy is free trade ; In Penn sylvany its high protective tariff, and so on around. In short, its so high mixed that 1 wootjei.'t agree to go from one country to an other to make speeches, without having first carefully ascertained wat the Democracy uv that pertikeler believed in. I got Democratic papers from all the States one day, and, by persistent reading uv em for five hours, I became so mixed as to be a promisin candidate for a loonatic asylum. I shel stay wher I am so long ei there is anything to be got out uv the posishen. I hev personated a cheerman uv Philadelphia committees twice with success ; to-morrow I shel try it agin, and after that such ether characters as may occur to me. I must make hay while the sun shines, for the furi ous assaults onto Packer's pile is redoosin it fearfully. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, (Wich wuz Postmaster). UNIVERSITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD. The North German Correspondent, an i English paper published in Berlin, states ; that there are now sixty American students attending lectures at the universities of that city alone, and that those of Heidelberg, Bonn, Jena, Leipzic and the Mining Shool at Freiberg, have quite as many more ma triculants. Every year the number of Ameri can students increases in Germany, and the reason is clear, for the advantages offered by the German universities are nowhere equaled by any in this country. Yet there is no country on the face of the globe whose people are so Tauntingly vain of its educa tional facilities as our own. There never was an emptier boast, nor one more disas trous in its results, for if we set aside our common school system —and even that is a system only in name—our colleges and universities, with less than half a dozen ex ceptions, are incapable of fitting a student for matriculation even in one of the higher German schools. A diploma from a German university, or even from that of Oxford, Cambridge or Dublin, is a guarantee of scholarship, but it it be issued by one of our colleges it means nothing more than that the rocipicß* -'i collegian. It is quite possible I mr him to be iu nine but of ten col leges in America, and yet be an ignoramus. Yet this condition of affairs, which drive our young men abroad to seek educational fa cilities denied them at home, is due not so much to the large class of collegians as to the controlling faculties of the colleges, i Students have long since learned that the diploma is given, not at all for devotion to their studies, but simply and purely be cause parents or guardians have paid the : necessary fees for a certain number of years, I including so many lectures. It is nothing ! against granting tlic diploma that the i lectures have been neglected, so that the ' fees, including that of graduation, have j been paid. Every student who procures j tickets for the regular courses of the col lege knows that his degree will follow, as a matter of course, whether he has studied or not. In the Gorman schools all this is changed. There the student buys his tickets, which entitle him to attend the lectures of the par ticular university he has selected. If bis object is really to learn, he has purchased the chance to do so, but it all rests with him self, and if, after a regular course, he finds that he is ignorant of what he has had an opportunity to acquire, he also finds him i self without a diploma. Having paid for ■ the privilege of attending the lectures, he can do it or not, but when the day of ex amination arrives, and the professors dis | cover that he has not been a student in the real, true sense, he is mercilessly turned i away without recognition. If, on the con trary, he has availed himself of the noble scholastic chances afforded him by a German university, the degree is bestowed, and the student who has won it knows that it car ries weight with it, and that it is worth in the eyes of thoughtful men more than the bit of parchment on which it is written. It means that the winner of it is a scholar, and, until our own colleges and universities be come more anxious about the qualifications of their graduates than their numbers, these institutions will remain uusougbt by those who seriously wish to be educated.—Phila delphia Jnquii er. JUDGE PACKER AT HOME. The Mauch Chunk Gazette, published in Carbon county, tho home of Judge Packer thus speaks of him : "Judge Packer was urged before the c n vention especially on the ground that he was so extremely popular at home —in the Lehigh Valley and Anthracite Coal Region. But it turns out now that he is the candi date above all others most objectionable to this section. Knowing bim to be a grasp ing monopolist, and a most selfi.-h capitalist, who by his grinding exact ions has more than once compelled hundreds of his laborers to cither "strike" or starve, the workingmen of the mines, well organized and flushed with a recent victory, will not touch him with a ten foot pole. If he had come up for the Governorship a few years ago, party feeling might have secured him the full Democratic vote, though many would then have given him a grudging support. But, now, the workingmen, who constitute four fifths of the electors in this region, feel that for them parties are nothing, and their own cause everything. Hence, even the Irish men, whom the Democratic party every where had come to look upon as its own property, are asserting their independence of party feality. Many of these men do not hesitate to say boldly : "Geary has been a good Governor and has been a true friend to us workingmen. So we are going for bim. Packer may be a good enough, man, but we could expect no favors from him as Gover nor." And so from present appearances he will not carry half of his party vote in the coal mines. THE XVTU AMENDMENT. The Democracy are trying to make capi tal out of the X V th amendment to the Con stitution ; not however by producing argu ments to show that the principle it enunci ates is wrong, but by appeals to the passion and prejudices of ignorant men. To all who desire to secure peace in this country, and its attendant, prosperity, a few sugges tions will not be amiss. We all know that the overflow of the rebellion was a difficult task; that it cost hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of treasure. Now after having conquered this revolt, what are we to do ? Are we to allow these bad inec who incited the war to have all they demanded when they succeded ? If so we should have done that before we went to war at all. If we thought it necessary to "conquer a peace," it must follow that we desire to maintain it. How can we do so? Are we to keep a standing army in the South du ring the next generation? If not with rebels how do we expect peace? Does any one believe that these rebels are any more loyal than they were in 18G1 when they fired on the flag ? If so upon what evidence is such an opinion based ? Is it seen in the ostra cism of Northern men, who have emigrated to the South since the war ? Is it to be found in the Ku Klux Klaus, whose deeds have been such as to make a demon blu.-h ? Is it read by the light of blaziug school houses, burned by the spirit of vandalism ? Is it predicated upon the disposition, every where manifested, to reduce the negroes to servitude? With a few honorable excep tions, the Southern aristocrats have not giv en any evidence of their loyalty. They only regret that the rebellion failed.. And are such men to be again trusted; and that too in the light of what they are all the while doing ? If we bad so much faith in their "honor,"' why did we make them ratify the Xlllth amendment to the Constitution? Were not negroes free? Why put it in the Constitution that slavery should no more exist? Why did we insist on the XlYth amendment to the Constitution? Was it not that we thought that the men who were mean enough to repudiate the debt they owed a friend, would hesitate to refuse to pay a public debt, however just it might be? And we can no more trust the negro, in their hands, than we could a madman in a powder magazine. If the rebels were in power they would make the blacks serfs in less than five years, and the attempt to do this would bring on "the war of races," which Democrats arc so ready always to pre dict. We can't afford to have the peace of the country disturbed. And in order to guarantee it, we must remove all tempta tions to do evil. Let it be understood that the negro is a free man, and that he cannot be unjustly treated anywhere, and we do much to give peace to the country. There is no security outside of this amendment, and all honest men ought to rejoice that the Lpgi-laturo oi" Pennsylvania promptly rati fied. Now let us stand by it. — York True Democrat. CORKY O'JL'ANI'S ON BOYS. Some things may be said in favor of boys; some trades would not live without them. The glass put-in-men wouidn t have much to do, and putty would be on the decline, if there were no boys to break the windows. There would be no customers for the cast iron peaches and green apples which come early in tho seasons ; but for the boys, the doctors wouldn't have so much to do in car ing cases of cholera morbus arising there from. Boys can be useful when they have a mind to, and can sell newspapers, black boots, hold horses, and do chores. In printing offices the boys are known as devils —printers have a plain way of speak ing. Boys individually are better than boys col lectively. If there were only one hoy in the world, I think he would be a good boy; it generally takes at least two boys to get up mischief. Have one boy in a store and you have him useful. Hire a second boy, and their time will be chiefly devoted to chasiDg one another over the counter, and firing the dust brush and the directory at each other's heads. A boy begins to be a nuisance when he is eight years old. How soon he grows out of it depends on circumstances. Some never do. It is questionable whether boys lead an enjoyable They would like to have their own way a little more, and a pretty way it would be. Give a boy a choice of all occupations,! n life, and the chances are that he would pre fer either to be a Robinson Crusoe on a des ert island, or a captain of a band of robbers, such as he has read about, and seriously thinks of going into the one or the other of these desirable occupations when ho gets to be a man. He has great respect for a stage driver and the captain ofacnnnl boat—there is an idea of command in these positions that takes his ideas. His idea of being a man is, having plenty of money, doing what you please, and being able to smoke or chew tobacco without getting sick over it. Somebody wrote a song, "Would I were a boy again." Those who had the bringing up of him are not likely to have the same senti ment. Raising a boy once 19 as much as any body wants to undergo, and fortunately, when they once grow up they stay growd up, and have children of their own to afflict them. THE oldest relic of humanity extant is the skeleton of the earliest Pharaoh encased in its original burial robe, and wonderfully per fect, considering the age, which was depos ited eighteen or twenty months ago in the British Museum, and is justly considered the most valuable of its archaeological treas ures. The lid of the coffiin which contained the royal mummy was inscribed with the name of its occupant. Pharaoh Mykeri mus, who succeeded the heir of the builder of the great pyramid, about ten centuries before the coming of Christ. CLIMAX. —"My son," said an affectionate father at the foot of the stairs, "arise and see the newly risen luminary of day and hear the sweet birds singing their matin soDg of praise to their great Creator; come, while the dew is on the grass, and tender lambs are bleating on the hill-side; come, I say, or I'll be up there with a switch, and give you the soundest thrashing that you ever had in all your born days." SLEEPING on feather beds, or with the hands raised above the head, is very bad for the lungs. So say* a doctor of large ex -1 nericnce. VOL.. 42: NO 3. TO YOUNG LA DHLS. Young ladies, if you wish to be happy and contented after the marriage ceremonies and honeymoon are over, I would suggest the following: Do not choose a lazy man; do not fall in love with a moustache, neither with a hat, neither fashionably cut trousers, nor black ened boots, or pomaded and artificially curl ed liair ; neither look upon graceful dancing and borse-back riding—no, indeed! for with all the above mentioned qualifications of, now a-days called, a fast young man, you would not be nb!e, with the best culinary skill, to cook a meal of victuals with it. But, if a man comes to a.-k you for your heart and hand, inquire if he is a skillful artisan, or a thrifty, industrious farmer who is up early and late, and rather does his own work and loves to do it, than to complain of liard times; or, if he understands to man age his fortune, if he has any, or has the ability to acquire one ; ask him if he thinks there are six days in the week to work, and if he improves them, and then one Sunday to rest on, to praise the Lord acd go to meeting— if so, and you can otherwise love hint, take him, for he is sure to provide for you. But, if he is one of them who loaf about half, and more than half the time, dressed in fashionably-cut garments, afraid to work for ftar of soiling his clothes, always thirsty, and who has the sixth commandment seven times abolished —of course, let him stand in the cold and give him the mitten; for, with such a lounging, good-for-nothing dandy, you would be unhappy as long as you live. If all the young ladies would at once join in a society and determine never to marry a lazy, flippant, good-for-notLing, do-noth ing—the effect would be marvelous and cre ate wonder; for the young men on matrimo nial business would soon see the secret arid go to work, earnestly and honestly, and en deavor to be sober and industrious in order to get them a wife of their wishes; the whole army of loungers and street comer watching gentry would disappear from the earth like frogs in winter. The recipe is bitter and severe, but it will cure undoubt edly—try it and see. GEARY AND PACKER. The two candidates for the Gubernatorial chair have contributed liberally in aid of the widows and orphans of the dead miners. The Philadelphia Bulletin expresses its sat isfaction with the promptness with which both the candidates have acted in the mat ter, and adds: Governor Geary gives five hundred dollars, and Asa Packer gives twenty five hundred. Both of them de serves credit for their generous expressions of sympathy for the bereaved and stricken families of the dead miners; and if we had to deal with adversaries whose instincts would teach them to attribute both of these gifts to the kindest motives, we should pass the cnbjoct by with aiuij'lc ituiila of praise for both contributors. But our experience of Democratic newspapers and Democratic politicians teaches us that the difference be tween the amounts subscribed by the rival candidates will be harped upon by Demo crats who will hold Packer up as a model of generosity, while they will denounce Gov ernor Geary as the incarnation of meanness. Really the latter gave more than the former. >lr. Packer is worth twenty five millions, and his contribution is but half a day's in come. Gov. Geary is a poor man, who gave a large proportion of his whole annual income. We have Scriptural authority for the superior value of his gift; and while we give Mr. Packer all possible credit, we claim for our candidate, in advance of the charges which will certainly be made against him, that he has proved himself the more liberal and self sacrificing giver of the two. THE HARDEST LESSON. —The hardest lesson a human being can learn is that of self conquest. That once learned, all the rest is easy. Perhaps it is more difficult for a woman, for women arc more impul sive than men. It is terrible for any one to set aside all things else for the sake of duty; to say this hope, this joy, this thing that makes life beautiful stands in the way of what ought to be first, and turn one's back upon it; but it can be done, and must be done by every one at some time. One must learn, also, the suppression of emotions which it is not wise to express. If they cannot be killed, then bury them alive, and say nothing. One almost dies in the at tempt, but the proudest moment of any life is when it can be said with truth,— I can do what 1 will with myself; I have no habit I cannot in an instant break; I have no thought I cannot refuse expression; I can forbid myself to be aDgry, to seek vengeance, to resent even uncalled-for in sult and impertinence, and I can take even love, tbe strongest of all human emotions, from my heart, and strangle it, when to love would be either wrong or foolish. The men who drink to excess, the men who gamble, and the women who die of love for some fellow incapable of appreci atingthem, are people incapable of self conquest. Think of that, and learn to con quer your heart, your mind and your ap petite. WALK WHEN YOI BEGIN. —When Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth commenced the practice of law, he lived in Bloom field ; and as his pecuniary means were not large, he was accustomed to come from his office on foot. There was, at the time, a dashing merchant in the city—Mr. 11., who rode in a showy vehicle, drawn by a pair of showy horses; and as he often rode to Bloomfield, he frequently met Mr. E. Meeting him one morning, be reined up his team, and salu ted him with "Good morning, Mr. Ells worth, what are you walking for; why don't you ride ?" "Because," was the reply, "I have found that persons must walk at some peri od of their lives, and I choose to walk when I begin." It would be well if all who are setting out in life were of this opinion; but they are cot. Hence such numbers, determined to ride when they are young, are forced to walk when they are old. A few years having elapsed, Mr. H. failed in business, and was obliged to go afoot; while Mr. E., ascending from small begin Dings, became Minister Plenipotentiary to France, and rode in his coach. Walk when you begin. SOMEBODY says the Mississippi "had raised one foot." When it raises the other, it will probably run. _ WHY is a violin without strings like an oditor's pocket? It u minus the notes. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, AC The IRQI'IRKR if publishedevery FBIDAT mom ing he following rates: 'YEAR, (in advaoce,) . $2.00 " " (if not paid withis fix mot)... $2.50 " " (if not paid within th year,)... $3.00 All papers outside of the county discontinued without notice, at the expiration of the time for which the subscription has been paid. Singleoopiesof the paper furnished, in wrapper*, at five cents each. Communications on subjects of local or general ntercst, are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention favors of this hind must invariably be accompanied by the name of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All letters pertaining to business of the office should be addressed to JOHN LUT'A, BtnroßD, Pa. DEATH.—We have never read anything more beautiful than the following from the pen of George D. Prentice: ''There is but a breath of air and a beat of the heart betwixf this world and the next, and in the brief interval of painful and aw ful suspense, while we feel that death is present with us, that we are powerless and He all power, and the faint pulsation here Ls but tbe prelude of endless life hereafter, we feel in the midst ot tbe stunning calami ty about to befall us, that the earth has no com pen ation good enough to mitigate the Severity of our locs. But there is no grief without some bee< Scient provision to soften it-, intenseness. When the good and lovely die, the memory of their good deeds, like tbe moonbeams on the stormy sea, lights up our darkened hearts and lends to the sur rounding gloom a beauty so sad, so tweet, that we would not if we could dispel the darkness that environs us."' A LITTLE boy came to school, the other day, with a very dirty face. The teacher sent him out to wash it, and after a while be returned with the lower part of his face clean and dry, but the upper portion was streaked with mud. and looked worse than before. "Why didn't you wash your face Johnny ?"— I did wash it," replied Johnny. "Then, why didn't you wipe it all over?" "I did wipe it as high as my shirt fail would reach," was Johnny's conclusive an swer." A HEALTHY BUG. —Old Hanks said:— Soutc years age, I took a bed bug to ao iron foundry, and dropped it into a ladle where the melting iron was, and bad it run into a skillet. Well, my oh! woman used thatskil h t pretty constant for tbe last six years, and here the other day it broke all to sma