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The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing ui d having them uncalled for, is prima facin evidence of intentional fraud. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. IMM ELL AND LINUENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. Have FUMED A partnership in .he practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, LSFI'J-tf R|. A. POINT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. P.espeetfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office in the IXOOI agßuild ing, ( second floor.) "•it-Collections promptly male. [April,l'69-tf. IT SPY M. ALSIP, ill ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, 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 Maun A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south ofthe Mengel House. apl 1, ISM.— tf. T R. DURBORROW, tJ . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BKBFOBD, PT N Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. He i, 5.1.0, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and wil give special attention to the prosecution lit S against the Government for Pensions, LLACK I ay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the /nyoirer oflice, and nearly opposite the Mengel House" April 1. 18FI9:tf 8. t. RUSSELL. J. B. LONG E.N EC K BR 1 ) USSELL A LONGENECKBR, J VI A<TTORNEVB A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi nes entrusted to their caro. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ao. on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Apri L:69:lyr. J' M'n. SHARPS E. F. KERR SHUAKPE A KERR. A TTOHSE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad j ting counties. AH business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, BOUNTY, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col leeted from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house of Reed A ftchetl. Bedford, Pa. Apr l;8'J:t. C. SCHAEFFER ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, I*A., Office with J. W. Dickerson Esq.. 23aprly PHY S I CI AN s! ryR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the bnildins formerly occupied by Dr. J. IT. Hofius- [Ap'L 1,119. MISCELLANEOUS. [ACOB BRENNEMAN. U WOODBERRT, PA., SCRIVENER. CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-OEcio JUSTICE OF TUE PEACE, M ill attend to all business entrusted into his hands with promptness and despatch Will remit mon ey by draft to any part cf tho country. L"rely OE. SHANNON, BANKER. . BEDFORD. PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and 5 MTH. and the general business of Exchange I transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptlymade. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. April 1:69 DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED FORD HOTEL, BR.IF JRD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold ami Sil ver Watches. Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on band. [ ipr.28.'65. TA W. CROUSE, * • DEALER I!F CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, AC. On Pitf street one door east ot Geo. R. Oxter 6 Co.'* Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All ORDERS promptly filled. Persons desiring ANYTHING in hi* hoe will DO well to give him A eall. Bedford April 1. *9., p N. IIIC K0 K , LV. DENTIST. Office at the old stand in BANK BUILDING. Juliana st., BEDFORD. AH operations pertaining to Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry performed with care and WARRANTED. Anaesthetic* admini*tered, when desired. Ar t\ ir.l teeth inserted at, per set, SB.OO a*id up- Hard. As I am detei mined to do a CASH BUSIXESS or none, I have reduced the prices for Artificial Teeth of the ysirioiii* kinds. 20 per cent., ar.d of Gold f illings S3 per cent This redaction will he N le only to strictly Cash Patients, and all SUCH will receive PROMPT attention. 7feb6B WASHINGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having heen re taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms are large, well ventilated, and com fort* bty furnished. Th. table will always be supplied with the l*t the u arkot can afford. The liar is stocked with the choicest liquors. In short, it is tay purpose to keep a FIR>T CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit r. renewal of their patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs, may 17,"69:1 j WM. DIBERT, Prop'r. PXIHASUE HOTEL, lj HUNTINGDON, PA. This old establishment having been leased by MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor rison House, has been entirely renovated and re lurnithed arid supplied with all tbe modern im. j provemeuts and conveniences necessary to a flrst ciass Hotel. 1 be dming room has been removed to the first "•' and ig now spacious and otry,n l thei-ham <>E,• are all well ventilated, and the proprietor wit. endeavor to make his guests perfectly at home. —ddreaa, J. MORRISON, ~, , EICHASGB HOTEL, Huntingdon, Pa. JOHN I.t'TZ. Editor and Proprietor. <Jnquirrr Column. r £o ADVERTISERS: THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, by JOHN LCTZ, OFFICE ON JULIAS A STREET, BEDFORD, PA. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN SOUTH- WESTERN PENNSIL YANIA. CIRCULATION OVER 1500. HOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTB INSERTED ON REA SONABLE TERMS. A FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. JOB PRINTING : ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK DONE wrrn NEATNESS AND DISPATCH, AND IN THE LATEST & MOST APPROVED STYLE, SUCH AS POSTERS OF ANY SIZE, CIRCULARS, BUSINESS CARDS, WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS, | BALL TICKETS, PROGRAMMES, CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, SEGAR LABELS, RECEIPTS, LEGAL BLANKS, PHOTOGRAPHER'S CARDS, BILL HEADS, LETTER nKADS, PAMPHLETS, PAPER BOOKS, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC Our facilities for doing an kinds of Job Printing are equalled by very few establishment? in tbc country. Orders by mail promptly filled. All letters should be addressed to JOHN LCTZ. i a local anti Cnirtal ftrtospaprr, Brbotrt) to failure, gftutation, literature anft fSorals. ITEMS. Ox the 4th, Mr. Knapp, foreman of 1 the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad j shops at Leavitt-burg, wa- kdhd by being run over by a switch engine, while standing ! on the track. j ADMIRAL FARRAOUT was much easier last evening, and renewed hopes of hi? re covery are entertained. His strong will sustains him in his severe sickness, but his bodily strength is very small. LARGEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD—.When the D< w Union Hotel ot the Leland Broth ers in Saratoga is completed, it will lie the largest hotel in the world. It will have a frontage ofoste thousand and fifty feet, five ! stories high. It is to be built of brick, and divided into nine compartments, almost fire proof. The contractor is to finish the grand j hotel by the Ist day of June next. J THE FIRST SNOW STORM.—A violent snow storm ,-ci iu at St. Louis, about seven o'clock Tu •day morning, and continued un til norm. Although the snow melted fast, j there was still three inches on the ground when it stopped. A heavy mow storm be- i can at Louisville at about, noon. Snow fell on Monday night at Jacksonville and other : parts of Illinois, and in Missouri and Kan sas. In Omaha on Tuesday the thermome ter was below the freezing point. IN A UATE California speech, Mr. Seward j said: ''To our shores I would welcome all men who love liberty. I would bave no rebellion in the land, if I could prevent it or suppress it. I would have the country exclude all rebels from its broad domain, and I would hive it extend until there was no room for them out-ide of it on this con tinent. In a word, I would have a sort of spider policy, which would extend itself abroad, take everything in, and let nothing i get out." Mexico and Canada take heart.; Mr. Seward, it will be remembered, was the purchaser of Ala-ka, which G nera! Thomas pronounces "utterly worthless." THE SWEDES IN MISSOURI.—An extensive cotton manufacturer near Stockholm, in Sweden, ha-just purcha-ed twelve thousand acres of land in southca-t Mis ouri. where he proposes to colon<ze some fifteen hundred amUies of Swedi.-h emigrants, aod to try, on a grand scale, the experiment of at once ' raising and manufacturing cotton. The great manufacturers of New England are already turning their eyes toward the South and its peculiar advantages under i the new conditions of labor tor preci.-ely such an experiment. If successful—arid it can hardly fail—it will inaugurate a revolu i tion the consequences of which are at; present incalculable. UNFULFILLED PREDICTIONS.—The pre 1 diction.- as to the extraordinary high tides which it was announced would occur in England on Oetoler 6-'h, have not been ful- 1 fiilcd. The Pall Mall Gazette says that the tides were iri most places higher than usual, but not so high as the spring tide- in March la-t. The highest ranges were on thn w coast, but the wind was light and from the eastward. At Plymouth, on the south coast, the tide was (wo feet nine inches above the bight given in the official tide ta- : hies, and similar increases occurred along the coa-ts of Devonshire and Cornwall. Ex tensive preparations were made at many places for the removal of goods and large crowds were assembled to witness the phe nomenon, but dispersed wheu the ebb com menced. RECEIVED AN ANSWER.—A .sub commit tee of a School Board not a thousand miles ftoui Li nn, were examining a class in a pri mary school. One of the committee under took to sharpen up their wits by propound ing the following question : "If I had a mince pie, and .should give two twelfths to John, two twelfths to Isaac, two twelfths to Harry, and should keep half of the pie my self, what should there be left ?" There was a profound study etnong the schollars; but, finally one held up his hand as a signal that he was ready to answer. "Well, sir, what would there be left? Speak up loud so that all can hear," said the committee uian. "The plate I" shouted the little fellow. The committee-man turned red in the face, while the other members rorri-d aloud. That boy was excused from answering any more questions. WOMAN'S RIGHTS.—A middle aged wo man ofSuncock, N. 11., named Mrs. Lind sey, has, for some time past, refused to pay her highway tax. She was not act'-uted by any inconvenience in the payment of her rates, for she is worth considerable proper ty, but -h- expressed a dislike to the princi ple of th-- tax. She was told by the survey or that she must pay her tax in money or work it out on the roads. Her leply was that she would work it our. Accordingly, on Monday morning last, she bought a new hoc, joined the gang of men who were work ing on the highway, and labored until sun down, doing a good day's wotk. She said that she should be on hand the next day and continue her work. The affair caused considerable of a sensation in Suncook, and Mrs. Lind-ey is pronounced to he a pretty plucky and apt illustration of woman's rights. THE LARGEST CANNON.— The monster cannon cast. in the ecd of the sixteenth cen tury by the Emperor Feedor Ivanovitch, which is one of the principal ''lions" of the Kremlin, and has hiibeito enjoyed the reputation of being the largest piece ol ar tillery in Russia, has ai length fouud a rival and superior in the colossal gun recently cast at Jb.ru. Tbi- military Titan, accord ing to the account of a correspondent of th- St. Petersburg Nercs, is fully two-thirds larger than its predecessor, and throws a ball weighing eighty Russian poods, or L'.SSO pounds. It is at present being tested by a commission of engineers, the Government having anuounc.d its intention, in case the report be favorable, of ordering five otbor pieces of similar caliber. SENSIBLE ADVICE —We commend the following front a Western journal or recent date to all men hereabouts who contemplate "going West." We get letters every day from young men who want to come out West. It'is impossible to answer them all. We can say tu general teims that a capable, honest and sol>er y- ung man can do better here than in the East. The chances are in his fvor. A-> Webster said, "There is room above. But there is no room here for tueu who expect a fortune o drop out of the skies or spring spontaneously out bf the earth. It is a good dtal here as elsewhere. We Lave to work for our owu bread, and those who work hardest get the most sod best." BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, O T. 29- 1869. THE NEtV SLATE. See my -late I I dot it new, Cos 1 b'oke the other, Put my 'ittle foot right froo, Kunniir' after mother. I tan make you lots o' sings, Pass as you tan tell 'em, T's and B's and big O rings, Only I tan't spell 'em. 1 tan make a funny pig. Wid a turlv tail-y, 'lt le eyes, and snout so big iPokiu' in a pail-y I tan make a elephant, Wid his trunk a hartgiu' ; An' a boy—who says I tan't?— Wid his dun a baugiu'. Au' the smoke a tummiii' out (Wid my t'umb I do it. Itubbin' all the white about), Sparks a flyin' froo it. I tan make a pretty house Wid a irce behind it, An' a'ittle mousy mouse Butiuiu round to find it. I tan put my hand out flat I On the slate, and draw it (Ticklio' is the worst of that) I Did you ever saw it? I tan draw me runnin' 'bout— Mamma's 'ittle posset (Slate so dusty, rubbin' out, Dess oo'd better wass it). Now, and then, s'all I make a tree Wid a birdie on it? All my piciures you's ail see It you'll wait a minute. No, I dess I'll make a man Juss like Uncle Holly. See it tummiii, fass's il tan ' Bel my slate is jolly I gUsrdlitnnwiS. DKEAIL the Phenomenon of Dreams—Activity oj the Mental Faculties During Sleep—Nov et Ideas on the Subject—Remarkable In stances, etc., etc. 1 lie N'-w Yoik Keening Mail publishes a Very interesting article on "Dreams," from which wo take the following extracts : DREAMING. The uiind, now liberated from the shack le-of its earthly tenement, opens upon its career of fancy. It annihilates space and time. The earth is too narrow for its wan deiings and the infinite expanse is alone ca pable of furnishing a field for its rapid fl.ght. '•How strange is sleep ! when his dark spell lies On the drowsy lids of human eyes, The years of a life will fl,. a t along In the compass of a page's song ; And the mountain's peak and the ocean's VS ill scarce give food to his passing eye. ' The stage of dreaming is characterized by the perfect closure of one or more of the avenues of special some. When this oc curs, the harmony between the world and ourselves is broken. The mind is DO longer controlled by outward influences, but is struggling under the combined effects of it own innate powers end imperfectly trans mitted sensational impressions. We have lost the means whereby the perception o! an impression of our sense can be tested by the co operating scrutiny of any. Dr. Ab ererombie says that ''in dreams the impres sions which arise in the mind are believed to have a real and present existence ; and this belief is not corrected, as in the waking state, by comparing the conception with the things of the external world ; and that the ideas of images in the mind follow one an other, according to associations over which we have on control; we cannot, as in the wakiug state, vary the series or stop it at our will. The wonderful clearness at times ot the mind iu dreams, must have been ob served by all who have given attention to the subject. This lucidity is particularly observed in imaginary conversation, public speaking and composing, the memory ol wlich the individual seldom retains 011 awaking, but he is astonished at the exuber ance of his idea- as well as the ea-e with which he expressed theui. During sleep the mental organ presents the same phe nomena as when awake, for in dreams cer tain elements only are actively excited— t hose having reference to the object of the ! dream—but the mote passive organs are ready to change their -tate, as circumstances tiiay aipe to change the character of thi dream. On being suddenly aroused, we are generally conscious of having dreamed, with little or no recolk-etion, however, of the subject. But when we awake gradually— the necessity for longer sleep having cea-ed —the senses recover their functions one af ter another, until ail are fully awake. In such cases the dream is mo.-t fully remem bered. To this general fact, however, there are exceptions, for when suddenly aroused either by intensity of mental excitement, or from external cause-, we retain vividly the strong impression then existing, beeau-e the senses of external relation are taken by sur- j prise, and. even though awakened, the train * of thought cannot be in all cases so quickly j arrested. The mind is at all times subject I to its proper stimuli; but during sound sleep j that of external relation is cut off by the tor por of the special senses, and it is therefore less liable to be activtly engaged than when all of its sourc s of communication are open \ C'tin be says: "The senses themselves do not form ideas." We do not, milker can ' we, dream of what we possess no knowledge. But memory may, on the impression of a sen-c, recall to mind a fact or circumstance and the imagination may t ike it up and niuitip'y it into a thousand forms and invest them with an endless variety of fanciful cre ations, for Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain. Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain, Awake but one, and, lo! what myriads rise, Each stamps his other as the image flies." Dr. Parr says: "In dreams we seem to reason, to argue, to compose, and iu all these circumstances, during sleep, we are highly gratify d, and think we excel. If, however, we remember our dreams, our reasonings we find to be weak, our argu ments inconclusive, and our compositions trifling and absurd." The powerful intel lect will reason just as correctly when asleep, upon the premises given, as when awake; but uufortunaiely the data are iu many in stances iudistiuct aud erroneous when the uii&d is debarred the influence* of those means through which facts are presented, and the judgment regulated. The imper fiction of memory, also, in sleep, is a prolific source of error in regard to what the actual i powers of the mind are iu this condition. JUDGMENT IN DREAMS. Rut the power of judging is probably as good as when awake, for it decides only up on the premises presented in either eas*", and duiing sleep and in dreams the premises are u uaily scanty and at fault. When Dr. Johnson, in referring to a dream in which he had a contest of wit with another indi vidual -aid : "Now one may mark here the - flee: of sleep in wakening the power of re flecti.m; for, had not my judgment failed me, I should hare seen that the wit of this .-uppo-ed antagonist, by whose superiority | I Lit myself depressed, was as much furnisb j ed by uie as that which I thought I had been uttering in my own character." No doubt the error of judgment and weakening of the rcfl- etlve powers arose from a lack of all the c rerun stances in the ca-e being pre sent dt - fos mind. Certainly he has lost | identify, because in his dreams he furnished I argument for another person without com prehen-1 ing that he was doing so, and there fore, a ju-t conclusion could not be arrived et. Rut the feeling of chagrin or mortifiea tion which he experienced was a legitimate result of his judgment founded on the jrre mires. ACTION OF THE MIND IN DREAMS. The action of the mental organs will ac count for many of the singular associations during seep and in the language of the fair Poetess wdl show that "It is Thought at work amidst buried hours, it is Love keeping vigilo er perished flowers! Oh! we bear wuhiri us mysterious things, Ot Memory ami Anguish unfatbomed spring. And Passion, those gulfs of the heart to fill With bitter waves which it ue'er may still." 10 illustrate the as-nciatc action of the mind iu sleep we will transcribe the dream of Professor Mass, of Halle, aui his arraly.-i --oi its pheuotuena. The Professor says that "Idreamed once that the Pope visited me. lie commanded uie to open my desk, aui carefully examined all the papers it contain ed. While he was thus employed, a very sptikliog diamond fell out of his nipple crown into my de k, of which, however, u> ii her of us took any notice. As soon a.- ih Pope had withdrawn I retired to bed, hut was soon obliged to tiscon account ot a thick smoke, the cause of which 1 had yei to learn. Upon examination, I discovered that the diamond had set tire to the papers in mv desk, and burned them to a.-ihes." In explanation he observes, that "On the pre oeding evening I was visited by a friend, with whom I had a lively conversation up II Joseph the Second's su| pression of mon asteries and convents. \\ :th this idea, though I did not become conscious of it in the dream, was associated the visit which the Pupa publicly paid to the Emperor Jo seph at V tenna. in consequence of ihemeas ure taken against the clergy ; and with this again was combined, however faintlv. the representation of the visit which had been ■ -id to rue by tuy friend. These two events acre, by the sub reasoning faculty, conr joundtd into one, according to the e-tab iihed rule, that things which agree in their parts also correspond as to the whole, hence the Pope's visit was changed into a visit made to me. The sub-reasoning faculty ilien, in order t > account for the most ex trtoidii.ary visit, fixed upon that which wa tte most important object in my rooms, namely, the d sk, or rather the papers it eon tsined. That a diamond fell out of the triple crown was a collateral association, which was owing merely to the reprc-enta tion of the do k. Some dtys before, when opening the desk, I had broken the gla-s ol my watch, which I held in my hand, and the fragment fell among the papers, hence uofurther attention wa- paid to the dii itiond. But afterward the rcprc-entation ol the snark'ting stone was again excited, and became the prevailing idea, hence it dcter totu-d succeeding association. On account of its similarity, it excited the represents tion of fire, with which it was confounded, hence arose fire and smoke. But, in the event the writings only were burned, nor the de.-k it.-eif; to whieh being of compar atively less value, the attention was not at all directed." SHORTNESS OF TIME IN DREAMS. One of the most remarkable pi enomena connected with dreams is the shortness of time needed for their consnmatioD. Lira Brougham says '"'hat in dictating, a man may frequently fall asleep after uttering a lew words, and be awakened by the amanu ensis repeating the last word to show that he his written the whole; bnt though fiv or six s-conds only have escaped between the delivery of the sentence and its trans fer to paper, the speaker may have passed through a dream extending through half a Me tiin Lord II >lland and Mr. Babbage both confessed this theory. The one was li-tening to friend reading aloud, and lept from the beginning of the sentence to the latter part of the sentence immediately succeeding; yet during this time he had a dream, the particulars of which it would have taken more than a quarter of an hour to write. Mr. Babbage dreamed a succession of eveots, awoke in time to hear the con elusion of a friend's answer to a question be had just put to him. One man was liable to a feeling of suffocation accompanied by a dream of a skeleton graspine Ids throat whenever he slept in a lying position, and hoi tn attendant to wake him the moment he sank down. But though awakened, the moment he began to sink, the time sufficed for a long struggle wi<h the skeleton. Another man dreamed that he crossed the Atlantic, spent a fortnight io Europe, and full overboard when embarking to return, yet his sleep had not lasted more than teD uiinute.\ PREMONITIONS IN DREAMS. The occasional premonitions communica ted in dreams—"iu visions of the night when deep sle p falleth upon mm"—is a mystery winch, as yet, has not, and never may be un ravelled. Lord Stauhupe relates the follow ing singular instance of this description: "A Lord of the Admirality, who was on a visit to Mount Edgecombe, and who was much distressed by dreaming, dreamed that, i walking on the sea shore, he picked up a | b"ok, which appeared to be the log book of; a ship-of-war, of which his brother was the ! captain. He opened it, and read an entry j of the latitude and longitude, as well as of the day and hour, to which was added, 'cur ; captain died." The company endeavored to com'ort hint, by laying a wager that the dream would be fa.sified by the event, and 1 a memorandum was made in writing of what he had stated, which was aft or wards con firmed in every particular." We aslo in troduce the following letter of the Hon. W iliiam felbot, of Alton, to the same effect: "In the year 1768 my father, Matthew Talbot, of Castle Talbot, county Wexford, was much surprised at the recurrence; of a dream three several times during the same night, which caused him to repeat the whole circumstance tn bis wife the next morning. He dreamed that he had arisen as uua', and descended to his library, the morning being hazy. He then seated himself at his a-cretoire to write, when, happening to look up a long avenue of trees oppo.-ite the win dows, he perceived a man in a blue jacket, mounted on a white horse, coming toward the house. My father arose and opened the windows; the man advanced, presented him with a roll of papers, and told him they were invoices of a vessel which had been wrecked, and had drifted in during the night on his son in-law's (Lord Mount Morris') estate close by, and signed '"Bell & Stepheuson." My father's attention was only called to the dream from its frequent occurrence; bat when he found himself seated at his desk on the misty morning, and beheld the identical person whom he had seen in his dreams, in the blue coat, riding on a gray horse, he felt surprised, and opening the window, waited the man's approach. He immediately rode up, and drawing from his pocket a packet of papers, gave them to my father, stating they were invoices belonging to an American vessel whieh had been wrecked, and drifted in upon bis lordship's estate, and there was no person on board to lay claim to the wreck, but that the invoices were signed '"Bell 4 Stephenson," I assure vou, my dear sir, that the above is un-st faithfully given, and actually occurred; but it is not more ex traordinary than ether examples of the pro phetic powers of the mind or soul in sleep which I have frequently heard related." Here is another singular instance related by Dr. Blanchard Fosgate, of Auburn: "Many years ago," l.e says, "when our family re-ided on the banks of the Mohawk, long before the thunder of the steam water paddle echoed along the shores of the Hud son, or the shrill whistle of the locomotive startled the silence of the glen and moun tain; when the river in the summer was cro.-sed by ford or ferry, and in winter upon the often treacherous ice; early in the spring, before the riv r had broken up, my father on the eve of departure for New York, dreamed that he was in an ice house, striving to get out by climbing up its slip pery contents. The dream was barely re lated and forgotten. The succeeding day, on horseback, he commenced his journey, and was obliged to cross the river. The ice, by evaporation, having 10-t much of its strength, he was precipitated into the stream tielow. Timely assistance, however, rescued him from the impending danger, but the accident and the dream were ever after couoled in his memory. This dream <* the resnltol oipntal association during !eep. and was perfectly natural under the circumstances, but nevertheless a premoni tion of danger. Had it aroused the reflec live powers when awake as strongly as it did duriug sleep, the accident would probably have been avoided. It is curious to observe also how thoughts of the waking hours may bo prolonged and modified in sleep. Dr. Fo-gate says, in a work on sleep: "Not <ing since I was examining the Croton water works in New York city, iocluding some pits which were open in the streets when the great iton tubes were exposed. On fall ing a-leep, I dreamed that in passing one of the pits I jumped down upon a tube about three inches in diameter, for the pur pose of inspecting the work more minutely; but when in this position, on easting my eyes belnw' an awful c-hasm presented itself, crossed in various directions by huge iron water tubes, but the bottom was invisible. However, the depth was seventy feet. In what way this information was imparted is indistinct, but such appeared the awful depth under my slippery footing I could fairly reach the surface above, but could lav hold of nothing, and therefore attempted to leap to the top. I failed, and in falling •odged upon the place just left. This fall will never be forgotten, so long as excess in fright commingled with horror, can leave an impression on my mind. I then thought to cry for help, but dared not le>t mv feet should slip and precipitate me down she dark chasm beneath. After re fleeting long upon my perilous situation, I commenced feeling around the platform surrounding the top, and finally succeeded in fastening my fingers in a crevice between the planks, by which means I drew myself up. The dream ordinarily would have • uded here, but my mind now turned upon the subject which had occupied my attention the preceding evening until a late hour. 1 hought in my dreams that what had just ■ranspired was a prophetic dream, and to what it might point my reflections were di rected, as to what would be the best course to elude the impending danger. During these reflections I awoke excessively ex hausted. In this instance, in a dream, I dreamed that 1 was dreaming. It was a singular mental phenomenon, and of rare occurrence, but not alone on record. CHARGING THE JURY.—A Dutch judge ! io the Western country presided at a trail for murder, and Ton rising to deliver the charge, observed that the prisoner wa* playing chequers with his cusstodian, while the foreman of the jury was fast asleep. De plenishing the ample judical chair with his broadcast person, he thus addressed the jury : 'Mister voreman and t'oder jurymans, der brisoner, Hans Vickter, is finished his game u.it der Sheriff, and has peat him, but I shall dake care he don't peat me, Hans has been tried for murder before you, and you must pring in der vardick, but it must be cording to der law. De man ain't kilt at all. as was proved he was in jail for sheep stealing. But dat ish no madder. Der law says vender ish a tou't you give 'em to der brisoner, but der ish no tou't— so you see der brisoner ish guilty. Pcrsides. he ish a great loafer, I haf kno'd bitn vivty year, and he hasn't tone a atitch of work in all dat dimes, and der is no one depending upon him for deir livin', and he is no use to no boty. 1 dink it would be a good plans to hang (or the example. I dink Mr. Fore i man's, dat he better be hung next fourt' : of July, as der militia ish going to drain io anoder county, and dere 'll be DO fun goin' I on here.' MEN' often go into business as though they had the most implicit faith that God ! in some way would prosper laziness. VOL. 12: XO 40. FOILED BY A WOMAN. "Madame, it is my duty to arrest you ?" "You dare not!" The lips were white with passion rather than fear, and the lady stood before me like a lione.-s at bay. Even then I could not help but note the splendid beauty of this grand lady. Tall and slender, eyes black and flashing; almost lurid now, the specta cle she presented, standing there in the middle of the apartment, was more the appearanec of a queen than a haunted crirui nal. "I must," I replied; "I do not doubt your innocence. Looking into your face, it is strange ihat any one could couple it with guilr; but lam constrained to do my duty; Madame, however inimical it may be to my feelings." "Will you allow me to change my dre6s?" she said, in a tone almost pleasant. The hard lines around her mouth had relaxed, and tie passionate glow on the face gave way to a pleasant smile. "Certainly, I will wait for you here." "I wish also to send a message for a friend ; will you permit bins to pass ?" •'Certainly." This was my first interview with Eugenia C'ornille. I had seen her here for months, the leader of our gayest and most fashiona ble society. In her splendid mansion she dispensed with the most profuse and ele gant hospitality. A Spanish Lady—a widow she had repre sented herself, and had been a resident here almost a year. No one ever suspected hei of being aught than what she seemed, until one day I was otdered to arrest her as a murderess. It was now alleged, said Mr. F., that this lieauty was no other than the woman who had poisoned her husband in Havana, and tied with all his wealth. An immense re ward was offered lor her apprehension, and the circumstances that had come to our knowledge pointed her out beyond all doubt as the person we were in search of. Yet the person who recognized her the evening before at the theatre advised us to be care ful lest she should escape us. I laughed at the idea. Mr. I. and myself were surely sufficient to arrest a lady. We were old enough in the wavs of cunning to defeat au> ruch attempt. When the lady left me I stepped to the window, and said to Mr. L, who was waiting at the door: "The lady desires to send a messenger for a friend; suffer him to pass." Almost at the same instant, the door o' the apartment opened, and a youth, appa rently a mulatto boy, came out and passed hurriedly through the room into the hall, and from thence into the street. It was, n> doubt, the messenger, I thought, and I picked up a book and commenced reading. Nearly an hoar passed, and still the lady lid not make her appearance, nor did thi boy return. The friend she sent for must live at some distance, I thought, or the lad> is unusually careful about her toilet, and so another hour went by. At last I grew irn P*ftpnt. IrTtftckrftt] at tla© door. "Madame, I can wait no longer." There was no reply. I knocked repeat y, and at last determined to force an en < ranee. Strange fears harrassed me. I be gan to suspect, I know not what. It took but a moment to drive in the door, and. iince in the room, the mystery was revealed. The robes of the lady lay upon the floor ; scattered over the floor were suits of boys' wearing apparel, similar to that worn by the mulatto boy. On the table was a cosmetic that would stain the skin to a light delicate brown. I was foiled, for a surety. The lady escaped in the disguise of the messen ger. I should have detected the ruse; I t'elt humiliated, and determined to redress my error. I knew she would not remain in the city an instant longer than she could get away. I hurried to her bankers, but found that she had drawn the amount due her an hour before. "Who presented the check ?" I asked of ihe clerk. "A mulatto boy. It was made payable to bearer." There was yet a chance. The French steamer left within an hour. It was possi ble she would seek that means of escape. I jumped in a cab and arrived there ten minutes before she left the wharf—just in time to assist an aged, decrepit gentleman into the cabin. There were a few passen gers ; none of them answered the description of the person I sought. I stood on the wharf watching the receding vessel until it disappeared. I was in the act of turning away when a hackman approached me with the remark: "Mr. F., did you see that old man on board ? lie had a long white beard, and hair that fell on his shoulders." "Yes." "Well, there's something curious about him." "Why?" "Why, sir, when he got into my carriage be was a mulatto boy, and when he got out he was an old man !" I will not repeat the expression I used then—it was neither reflned nor polite, for I knew the vessel would be far out to sea bfore she could be overtaken. I was foiled by a woman. Nor could I help rejoicing, now that the chase was over, that she bad escaped. Innocent or guilty, there was a charm abtui larnne could resist. Th -pe'ndor of her wondrous beauty affected all who ap proaehed her. It lingers in my memory yet, and I could not have the sin of her blood upon my conscience. THE LITTLE ONES.—DO you ever think what work a child does in a day ? How, from sunrise to sunset, the dear little feet patter around —to us —so aimlessly ; climb ing op here, kneeling down there, running to another place, but never still, twisting and turning, rolling and reaching, and doubling, as if testing every bone and muscle for their future uses. It is very curious to watch it. One who does so may well and easily under stand the deep breaihiDg of the little sleep er, as, with one arm tossed over its curly head, it prepares for next days gymnastics. A busy creature is a little child. "Sir: BBS," said one of his debtors, isn't it about time you paid me that little bill? "My dear sir," was the consoling reply, it is not a question of time, it is a question of money." A pupil in declamation, having keen told to gesticulate accordding to the sense, in commencing a piece with "The comet lifts its fiery tail," innooentiy lifted iho tail of his coat, and looked aroand for applause. SUBSCRIPTION TERKB, &C The Is peULlwdetry Friisav morn •ag be following ratal.: O*E TEAR, (in advance,) $2.00 " " iii not paid witbin sis mos.}„ $2.50 " (if not paid within the year,)... SS.W All papers ontrideof the county discontinued without notice, at the expiration of the time for which the aabtseription has been paid. bingieeopiesof the pnperfarnished, in srrapr.ers it five centa each. C-iuicuDicatio.n on anbjeeU of local or genera) oterest, are respectfully solicited. To ensure ait caution favors of this hind must invariably be accompanied by the name of the author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. Ail Setter* pertaining to buin<Mi of tbe office should be addressed to JOHN X.UTZ, tIEDKOBr. Pa. LUCK. D;t-k stood looking iu the window of a gift store. He ought to have been io hie place at the office a half an hour before, but he utayed over night with Phil Barney, and over slept himself. "I might as well be hnng for a sheep as a iamb, thought he; "I'm late anyhow, and I II take a peep in here and finish roy cigar. If I should buy any of these gift-things, I shouldn't get a decent prize. I never had any luck in my life. Some folks are always in lack. There is Tom Porter. He has Dot been on the street any longer than I have, and bis salary i raised, and he has one hundred dollars in the savings' bank. It's ioo bud. I've a good mind to go out West, where wages are better and board cheap." Just then, to use Pick's language, "as b,d luck would have it," his 4 Uncle Rich ard. for whom he was named and whose good-will he particularly valued, drove up in a carriage, to call on an architect whose office was over the gift-store. "What are you doing here, Dick, at half after nine in the morning? Throw away that cigar; get in iny carriage, and I'll take you to the office. I want to talk with you." The architect was our, and Uncle Rich ird'e feet, that had been in active use sixty two year-% carried hitu up and down the -tairs and back tc- his scat about as soon as his eighteen year old nephew could walk from the window to the carriage. "What does the savage old fellow want of me? Thi- is iu.-t a piece of my bad luck," ; -bought Dick. Uncle Richard got in, and repeated his qne-tion. "Why ain't vou at your office? At your age I began my work at six o'clock - filling lamps ad sweeping the store. Vou have one of the best places in town, and I'm afraid you'll lose it if you hang around mornings in this style. Dick if you were not my only sister's orphan son, I'd wipe my hands of you." "It would be just my hide, uncle if you did." "Nonsense ! Dick, don't use that word to tie. It is a word of the devil's coining. There is no such thing as luck. "You call me a lucky man, do you?" -aid Uocle Richard. Dick nodded his head. "Well I didn't sleep nights with idle fel lows like l'hil Barney. I worked to learn the business, and make myself necessary to my employers, so that they would have to take me into partnership when I became a uian—not with my eye on the clock and hand on my cap ready to rush for home. I wore pants a little too short for me, and coat-sleevcs that would not cover my wrists, and coarse boots, till I could honestly pay for better ones. I walked when I wanted to ride, worked wben I wanted to play, fasted when I wanted to eat, held my tODgne when I wanted to make pert replies, got up when I wanted to lie abed, and went to bed 'ffhon X wwntod to oik up j Mid, to CO}* all, X never felt too old to obey my mother's wishes. The devil soon got tired hanging around me whispering about good luck. I laughed in bis face, and now have the re ward ofa life of honest, active labor, through God's blessing." "Dick, what are you going to do?" "Uncle, sometimes I thing I'll go to Chi cago or California, where so many young men'make fortunes." "You'll make a beggar or a thief if you do. The West is overrun now with silly fellows that are in search of luck. The men who succeed out there, work just as I have done. Your luck lies in your feet and bands and head- Listen to me, Dick. Don't run after luck. It is a device of the devil to lead young men into fatal pitfalls, gambling dens, and jails." Just then the carriage stopped. Tom Porter hurried by on his way to the bank, too busy to see Dick or any one. "Look at Tom Pot-tor, Diet. Instead of hanging around a gift-store window in the middle of the morning, sponging cigars, and dreaming about good luck, he is hard at work learning business, and gaining the es teem of his employers. "Never say lcck to me again, Dick, as long as you live."— American Mcftengcr. UOU TO BREATHE. The action ofreopiration should never be carried on through the moutb. "God breathed iDto man's nostrils the breath of life." The correctness of the inspire! writ er of old is fully sustaiDtd by modern physiology. The mischievous habit of car rying on the action of respiration through the mouth instead of through the nose, is the real origin of almost all the disease of the throat and lungs, and even consump tion itself. Medical writers tell us that the excessive prespiration to which some are liable in their sleep, and which is so weaken ing to the system, is mainly the result of sleeping with the mouth open. Whether you walk, sit, read, or write or sleep keep your mouth closed, except when engaged in conversation or necessary vocal reading. The phylosophy is this: The velocity of the blood through the body, and the heat of the body itself, depends mainly upon the quantity of atmosphere air taken into the lungs. Nature measures that qumtity by the nostrils, not bv the mouth. When the mouth is employed the measure is too great; but just sufficient when the nostrils are used. An excess of air overheats the body while its passage through the mouth other wise injuriously affects the throat. Tie habits of children, in this tespcct should be carefully watched and regulated. Open mouths produce a vacant and unseemingly appearance and may be regarded as a very sure precutsor of habitual colds and tore throats. A LADY at sea ; full of apprehensions in a gale of wind, cried out, among other pret ty exclamations, we shall go to the bottom! Mercy on us, how my head swime! Zounds, madam, never fear, said one of the sailors, you can never go to the bottom while your head swims! AN old lady being asked what she thought of the doctrine of "total depravi ty,'" replied that she thought it a very good doctrine ii* the men would live up to it. Tub mere lapse of years is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechan ism of existence. AN Omaha girl fired one shot at a fellow with a revolver, and told him she had five more left, He warned ' s lovely.
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