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A Postmaster is required to give notice by teller, (returning a paper does not answer the law i when a subscriber docs not take his paper out of the offflfe, and state the reason* tor its not neing taken; and a neglect to do so makes the Postmas ter rtpsoneible to the publishers for the payment. 2. Any person who takes a paper from the Post office, whether directed to his name or another, or whether he hot subscribed or not is responsible for the pay. 3. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may continue to aeud it until payment is made, and olloct the whole amount, tcketker it be taken fr tm fke office or not. There can be no legal disoontin uence until the payment is made. 4. If the subscriber orders his paper to be stopped at a certain time, and the publisher con tinues to send, the subscriber is bound to pay for it, if ke takee it o*t of the Poet Office. The law proceeds upon the ground that a man must pay for what he uses. 5. The courts hare decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud. grotassicnal & (£sv&s. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ALEX, KING, JN., A TTOB.VE Y-A T-LA W, BEDFORD, PA., All business entrusted to his core will receive prompt and careful attention. Offioe three doors South of the Conrt House, lately occupied by J. W. Diekerson. nov2B AND BINGKNFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BBDFOBD, PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new briek building near the I.ntheran Church. [April 1, 1869-tf ]yj A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office in the Ivqcj Rslluild ing, (second floor.) promptly made. [April, 1'69-tf. SPY M. AT.SIP, Jl4 ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDPOBD, PA., Will faithfhlly and promptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to bis care in "Bedford and adjoin r.g counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south fthe Mengel House. apl 1, 1869.—tf. I R. DURBORROW, TL . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEaroBD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to hi- care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. He n, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent ss i w 11. give special attention to the prosecution 'aii.f against the Government for Pensions, Hack I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the :■ ■.airer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel House" April 1. 186U:tf S. L. RI7SSELL. I. H. LONGENECKER R CSS ELL A LONGENECKER, ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will "attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Apri 1:69:1yr. J- M'D. SHARPE B. P. KERR SU lIARPE A KERR, A TTORNE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad jt ining counties. All business entrusted to their c .re will receive careful and prompt attention. 1 en-ions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from tha Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite tbe banking bi use of Reed A Schell. Bedford. Pa. Apr l;69:tf PHYSICIANS. JJR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully senders his professional ser vices to the citixens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an i residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofius. [ Ap'l 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. IACOB BRENNEMAN, V WOODBERRY, PA., -CRIVEXER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Will attend to all business entrusted into Lis hands with promptness and despatch. Will remit mon ey by draft to any part of the country. ITsely DMANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED FORD HOTEL, BEIFOKD, PA. WATCHMAKER 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 Olasses. Goid Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best ualitvof Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. [*pr.2S,'6s. TA W. CROTJSE, * - DEALER IS CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, AC. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster d Co.*s Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared ' -ell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. AH : ders promptly filled. Persor.s desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. '69„ (A N. HICKOK, AjA DENTIST. Office at the old stand in BASK BCFLDISO, Juliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to S n-gical and Mechanical Dentistry performed with care and WARRANTED. Antithetic* administered, ichrn deeired. Ar- Inl teeth inserted at, per eet, 98.00 and up. As I am deteirained to do a CASH BUSINESS r none, I have redueeolitirs, (Sbucation, Uttrraturr anti Jttorals. ;f)ebforb|ttqnirer. ITEMS. THE Legislature of Vermont lias enacted a law which makes liquor dealers responsible | for any damago accruing to either persons or property through the conduct of tbore to whom they sell liquor. HILPEBRAND, the Missouri outlaw, has written a letter in which he says: "God has tarried away the bullet aimed at my life, and I put my trust in Him, and believe the bal ance of my days will be spent more happily." GEO. C. SCDAFFEB, of St Louis, wants a divorce from his wife because she lets the cat cat his supper. His wife is equally anx ious for the divorce because he sleeps with his back to her. GARIBALDI, though suffering severely from rheumatism, will make an effort to at tend the Council of Free Thinkers at Na ples, on Pecerpber 8, and will probably ven tilate some of his peculiar opinions on eccle siastical despotism and kindred subjects. A Wisconsin paper giyes an account of the capture in northern Montana of "an an imal of a species wholly unknown to natur alists, which is claimed by some to be a relic of the mastodon." This marvelous crea ture is only two years old, but stands seven feet high. MRS. MKBCY BRYANT, of Freedom, Ohio, ! who died last week at the age of 93, has kept a suit of grave clothes ready for more than fifty yrs. Among the articles was a pair of Gne white cotton stockings, which she knit for*funeral stockings before her marriage, more than seventy years ago. THE Duke of Genoa's family have con tradicted the assertions of the Madrid jour- I nals that the young I'rince, if elected, will accept the Spanish crown. The Duke's mother and the father-in law are, and al ways have been, strongly opposed to his ac ceptance of the crown, and the Duke him self has expressed his Grin determination j "not to accept the crown of Spain either now or at any other time." THE wheat growers of California comp'ain bitterly of the want of sufficient vessels to export their produce. There are now 10,- 000 tuns of wheat in store on the banks of the Tuolumne River in Stanislaus County, and more than 5,000 tuns in Napa county, awaiting shipment. The farmers who re fused in the early part of the season to ac cept $2 a bushel for their wheat, would now be glad of an offer of $1,50 per bushel. THE Central Pacific Railroad has a notice posted in its station at Sacramento warning its patrons that where passenger tickets and freight charges are payable in currency, gold will not be received, at any figure. The steady decline of the premium on gold seems to have had the natural effect of enhancing the value of breenbacks in the eyes of the company, and of inducing them to prefer receiving their pay in currency, which is relatively increasing in value. CUBAN INDEPENDENCE.—The following petition has been forwarded to Congress by the ladies of Maryland: "To the Honora ble the Congress of the United States: We, women of the State of Maryland, in the name of civil and religious liberty and Christian charity, respectfully petition that jour honorable body do accord to strug gling, suffering Cuba (he right of a belliger ent power, and at once recognize the inde pendence of her long oppressed people from tHe tyranny of a foreign yoke, which inde pendence they have for more than a year maintained, unaided, by the triumph of their arms." TBCRLOV WEED tells the following story about himself: "During the late war, after the evacuation of Yorktown by Gen. Mc- Clcllan, I entered a car on a Philadelphia train, and sat by a gentleman who wore a military cap, but showed no other sign of military rank. We got into a discussion of McClellan's campaign on the Peninsula. He defended him mildly, and I answered with a scorching ex position of his incapacity and blunders, demonstrating them fully. When we reached Trenton, a ycong officer came up aod saluted my companion very deferentially, and, on inquiry, I discovered that I had been talking to UcClellan him self. I think he felt, however, that I was right in what 1 had said, by the feeble way in which he answered my criticisms." CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.—'Tha boats of the American Coal Company, as well as those of other parties engaged in the canal trade, stopped loading at Cumberland on Saturday for the winter. The water in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was let off on Saturday the 4th iost., but enough will be allowed to remain in the Alexandria canal during the entire winter to afford excellent skating and a good crop of ice, should the weather be cold enough to freeze it. Tbe work of building coal boats for the Ameri can Coal Company will be prosecuted with vigor at Cumberland during tbe suspension of navigation, only four of thirty contracted for having as yet been completed. A boat arrived at Georgetown a few days ago com manded by a female captain, who exhibited a good deal ot tact in soliciting back freight. DEATH OF A SINGCLAR WOMAN.— "Loeky" Ostrom, a singular woman and for seventy-eight years a resident of Pough keepsie, N. Y., died at ten o'clock last Thursday evening. For years she never j entered a church. In her early days her parents refused to give ter hand in marriage to an humble suitor, and since that time "Locky" has wandered about the city alone, all of her blood relations hereabouts being dead. Her brother, Hendrix Ostrom, is said to have died of starvation, leaving a snug sum of money behind, $3,000 of which fell into "Locky's" hands. From that time forth she seemed to inherit the disposition of her brother, and became miserly in all her actions, working very hard and saving every cent of money paid her, and eating her food at other people's tables. A few days ago she took cold, which resulted in fever and death. As her end drew nigh she was asked if she wished to settle any busi ness matters, but she replied in the nega tive, and died leaving $25,000 behind with out a will. It is reported on the streets, that many whose houses "Locky" visited in her lifetime will make out heavy bills against the estate, ard that it is possible near!}' all of the $25,000 will be used up to satisfy such demands. The property is now in the possession of Mr. John P. H. Tall man, a lawyer of this city.—A 7 ". Y. Paper. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, DEL.U, 1869. faetnj, ► THE GULDEN SIDE. There is many a rest in the road of life, If we would only stop to take it; j j And many a tone from a better land. If the querulous heart would make it! ' jSo the soul that is full of hope, And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth, } The grass is green and the flowers are bright, Though the winter storm prevaileth. Better to hope, though the clouds hang low, | And to keep the eyes still lifted ; For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through, ] When the ominous clouds are rifled ! There never was a night without a day, t jOr an evening without a morning ; - | And the darkest hour, as the poverb goes, | Is the hour before the dawning. i There is many a gem in the-puth oflife. Whiob we pass in our idle pleasure, That is richer far than the jeweled crown, Or the miser's hoard of treasure ; | It may be the love of a little child, ' Or a mother's prayer to Heaven, ; Or only a beggar's grateful thanks For a cup of water given. , Better to weave in the web of life A Lriglit and golden filling, And to do God's will with a ready heart, And hands that are ready and willing; ■ Than to snap the delicate, minute threads Of our curious lives asunder," 1 And then blame heaven for The tangled ends, And sit and grieve and wonder. BETROTHAL. 0 for one hour of such euchanted light, As made a fairer daytime in the shy, When on the willow bank we sat that night, My old time love and I! Awhile we talked so low and tenderly, We felt the listening trees above to lean ; j And loader far the silence seemed to me That felt at last between. Her heart lay floating on its quiet thoughts, Like water-lilies on a tranquil lake ; j And Love within, unknown, because unsought, | Lay dreaming half awake. Ah, Love is lightest sleeper ever knowr.! A whisper, and he started plain to view; ■ Old as the heavens seemed our story grown, While yet the moou was new. And when she'spoke, her answer seemed the while Sweeter for sweetnsss of the lips that told, t Setting a precious word within a smile— ! A diamond ringed with gold. I _ 1 j Then bloomed for us a perfect century-flower: i Then filled the cup and overran the brim ; I And all the stare -processional, that hour ; Chanted a bridal bjmn. Ah. Time, all after days may fly away, j Such joy as that thou hast but once to give, ; And Love is royal from his crowning day, Though kingdomless he live. THE COAL til;ESTlo.\. BY I). J. MORRELL. The free trade press, East and West, tak ing recent events in the anthracite coal re- I gions for a text, are making a wholesale assault upon the coal and iron interest of i the country, ia the bope'that by mere force of clamor they may influence Congress to some legislation upon the tariff, early in the coming session. My attention has been called to an article in the Chicogo Tri bune which contains the current misrepre sentations of the subject, and so clearly re veals the animus of its party that I propose, with your permission, to answer it, extract ing its material points as follows: "The advauce in the wholesale price of coal from #3.50 to SB.OO per ton has brought I home to the country the knowledge that protection may amount to monopoly." Antracite coal is the only coal that has materially advanced in price, and the duty upon it is only foity cents a ton. This duty, imposed by the act of June 30, 1864, has made no trouble for five years past. Will the Chicago Trifsune be kind enough to ex plain to its readers how this protection of forty cents per ton "amounts to a mono poly," and why after sleeping for five years, it is suddenly awakened and become to pow erful as to raise the price of anthracite coal four dollars and a ha'f a ton ? The repeal of this duty would not affect the price, for instead of beiug "found in Nova Scotia in unlimited quantities," as the Tribune asserts, no anthracite coal is found there, very little is found elsewhere, and, as may be seen by the commercial re ports, none whatever is brought into the country. "The coal interest of Pennsylvania have combined with the iron interest, wheroby a duty of $9.00 per ton is placed on pig iron, and of $1.25 on this coal. The result is that the whole manufacturing interests out side of Pennsylvania, especially the iron establishments, have to submit to the tax of $1.75 on Ue coal they obtain from Nova Scotia, or pay the same tax to the coal com panics of Pennsylvania." 1 do not- see why in this statement the duty jumps so suddenly from $1.25 to $1.75, and it is, to say the least a sinister blunder of the types which I have seen repeated elsewhere. The duly on bituminous coal is $1.25 as stated, or say $1.40 on the long ton, and honest inquiry as to how it affects the coal market must be profitable. It was imposed by the act of 1804 to compensate for the difiercnce and cost of labor, &c., here and abroad, and up to this time no evils can be imputed to it. Assuming that it keeps some coal out of the country, it is worth while to ask what amount its repeal would let in, and if, as the Tribune alleges, there is an "unlimited Quantity, J ' or any considerable quantity, waiting to come. The agitation for repeal of duty is in the interest cf Nova Ceotia coal and an in creased supply is promised. Front the best data I can obtain, the annual production of coal in Nova Scotia has not attained to five hundred thousand tons, which docs not amount to twenty-five per cent, of the an nual increased consumption of Ameiican coal. Reliance upon Nova Scotia for more than an inconsiderable part of cur supply would raise the price of Nova Scotia coa! much more than the duty of $1.25 now paid, and tie least discouragement of domestic production would be as effective in enhanc ing the cost as a doubling of the duty. Taking the Tribune's statement for veri- j ty, it muil appear that repeal of the duty would be but a slight encouragement to importation compared with the alleged in crease in price of coal from $3.50 to SB.OO per to >. If it could come at all at $3.50 per ton, and the payment of the duty ltfl a j profit, why should not an unlimited quanti come in at SB.OO Why do not the free-traders rely upon this immense profit to stimulate importation of an "unlimited quantity" for the supply of our market, instead of clamoring for a repeal of the duty which, upon their own showing, is trivial? -J'bis gap in their logic indicates a sup pression of material facts. The scarcity is I in anthracite coal, the duty complained of is upon bituminous. There is no anthracite coal in Nova Scotia, or anywhere else, to come, and neither Nova Scotia nor Ameri-. eaa bituminous coal can take its place. The trouble in the anthracite regions slightly •utgeased 4 the consumption of bituminous coal, but the extra demand soon slackened, and the price was not mateiially affected by if. Repeal of the duty on bituminous coal won'd not reduce the price of anthracite coal to aDy appreciable extent; the produ cer y of the former- are in no fault—if the tarifrts any protection they are just as de serving of it now as they ever were, and the outcry against them is merely an effort by interested parties to excite such a prejudice as may result in a blind raid upon the pro ductive interest of the country. The resources of the United States for a supply of bituminous coal, under all circum stances, are practically unlimited, and the duty bas been and still is beneficial as a means of saving our market from becoming a reservoir for surplus foreign stock, and thus steadying it, and of extending the area of douestic production. The assertion that the duty has been a tax upon the consumer is false, for it is but the equivalent of less than one hundred miles of transportation, beyond which distance from the searboard Nova Scotia coal, if free of duty, would neve? penetrate. The duty has helped to make and operate a good many miles of railroad from which the country has derived large incidental improvement, and, if cut off, the development of the coal fields of Middle Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, lowa and the Southern States, in which great activity now prevails, might be arrested. Owing to the doty, a considera ble part of the domestic supply meets the foreign upon equal terms upon the Atlantic seaboard, but the duty being removed, it would be in equilibrium a hundred miles inland, and must go forward at a loss. In consequence, the seaboard cities would re ceive a less domestic supply, and in the end they might find Nova Scotia coal freeof du ty costing them more than it docs now. The anthracite coal field of this country, and I may bay of the world, is limited in extent, and combinations for the control of its products are practicable. Owing to a variety of causes, the interest has been gradually consolidated in comparitively few owners with large capitals, combined with the control of lines of transportation, and the result is a creation of a virtual monopoly which for the first time in the history of the country has.thown capacity for serious mis chief. The iron makers who are consumers ol anthracite coal are the worst sufferers froui its high price and short supply, yet they are so violently assailed and threatened by the Chicego editor as if they wcreco con spirators, and for added matter of aggrava tion he elaborately misrepresents the iron question, in such fashion as to deserve a re ply, which I hope to make hereafter. The attack upon the bituminous coal in terest is wholly gratuitous, and must be at tributed to ignorance the most dense, or reckless malevolence. I am not defending the Anthracite Coal Combination. All combinations for speculative purposes aro to be deprecated, but, to my mind, those for enhancing the cost of the food of the peo pie are worst of all. The coal miners and operators are doing now, for the first time, what Chicago speculators in meat and bread stuff are doing constantly! and the duly on coal may as justly be charged with the one abuse a- with the other. The operators were in the coal combination at the start, but the men took it up and carried it out for their own benefit, for the purpose, dis tinctly avowed, of making an increase of wages. I think strikes are generally a mis take, and often disastrous, and this one, so far as the interest of the miners are con cerned, may be no exception; yet it docs seem somewhat ungenerous that there should be such general outcry against the workingmcD, who are exposed daily to such horrible risks as that disaster at the Avon dale mine, reported as I write, which is supposed to have cost the lives of more than two hundred men, and involves present and prospective agonies of body and mind, of which the consumer of anthracite coal, sit ting comfortably by his pleasant fire, can form no conception whatever.— From the Pittsburgh Commercial FLIRTATIONS. In every clime under the sun flirtations have been indulged in from time immemo rial, but perbaj s in no age more extensively than our own. Can any one recall a seaside recollection, a ball or paity reminiscence, the memory of a day's blithe and careless ex cursion, or, indeed, any pleasure or a like character, in which those of opposite sexes participated, unmarked by one or more fiir tations? It is somewhat remarkab'e that cveu th; mos't desperate flirts will rarely acknowledge th mse'ves guilty of flirting. They denom im his species of amusement under vari ous names, as though the name, and not tbe thiug itself, oppressed the conscience. The only two classes, however, into which "flir tations" can be divided, are innocent and wicked. What an innocent flirtation may be, we leave for tbose who understand it to defiee. The author of a book of essays, called "The Gentle Life," mildly defines a wicked flirtation as "the exercise of our powers of fascination and of pleasing, with tbe express purpose of conveying to the mind of a person of the opposite sex the as surance that his Or her society is particular ly agreeable to ÜB. There ore a thousand ways of doing this, and every way is wrong. A word, a squeeze of the hand, a gesture of admiration, or, at times, one of impatience; will equalfy serve, and will send back tbe blood to the heart of a silly girl with a flut ter of impatient and tumultuous joy. Both sexes arc equally to blame; for this kind of flirtation is a species of lying, and one can lie with the eye or tfce band as well as with the tongue." We tbiuk it was Buiwer who said in one of his early novels, that "conscience is the moct elastic material in the world. To-day you cannot stre'eh it over a mole-bill, to morrow it hides a moun'ain." The first trifling with a human heart occasions re morse—but when what was once the pastime of an hour becomes the pastime of a life, the conscience is cheated into the belief that flirtations arc harmless, and unworthy of the denunciations of even those who suffer. Many a maiden, laughing away regret, leads her adorer further and further into the domain of I/jve's rapturous kingdom, weaving around him the toft network of her enchantment, until, poor fool, he breathes a lotus-laden atmosphere; is deaf to all sounds save the low, sweet song of the sy ren, and his very soul d:unk with the in toxication of the melody. He dreams the ecstatic dream of reciprocated affection, and wakes to find himself excluded from the kingdom, deserted for a new admirer, the song which so enraptured him sunk to an other listener, and something gone from his life that, were he to live a thousand years will never come back to it. Shut out from his earthly paradise, per chance he seeks to drown his bitter disap pointment in the excitement of perilous ad venture ; finally, it may be, having lost faith in woman's truth, changing into that thing, a male flirt; whose business in life it is, per haps without a single written of spoken vow of love, simply by thoso delicate attentions that cost so little but mean so much, to win the fresh, pure, trusting heart of a girl— to toy with it as with a token—and finally to throw it back upon itself as something too poor to keep; teaching her, as he has been taught, that "there are other songs without words besides those of Mendelssohn's" and when her every sense is wrapt in the soft music "That gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired-eyelids upon tired eyes." Suddenly stopping the soul satisfying strains, and leaving her to carry about with her a heart that will feel an aching void until the airs of heaven sweep ovci her weary spirit, and, awakening answering chords, make of her everlasting existence a harmo ny. Willis sang: "Give me a sly flirtation, 'Neath the light of a chandelier, With music to fill up the pauses, And nobody very near." _ And well known is it that the atmosphere of parties, sided by the seductive accompani ments of music, the feverish dance, the bril liant tuillettes, the generous wines, the sparkle and mingled wit, wisdom, and folly of conversation, and above all, the conspic uous display of beauty in woman, and grace in man, quickens into active life this fascina ting source of pleasure. Nightly, words which, if'honestly spoken to hearts that listen because they love to hear, would make life sweeter to two souls, words and vows oflove emptier than air are listened to with kindling eye, and panting bosom, and burning blushes; and low-voic ed protestations, that seem to bear the very soul of truth, but "false as Crcssids," thrill many a manly heart whose awakened love is worse than useless. If these "wicked flirtations" were confin ed to those who arc in maiden meditation fancy tree, and those who rejoice in bachelor freedom, the unhappiness resulting there from might be of less consequence ; but the most careless observer cannot fail to notice that flirtations arc as much, if, indeed, not more indulged by tbose who, at the altar, once promised to love, chetish, and cling to one only through life. By those who thus belittle their true manhood aod womanhood, in a little while it comes to be considered "A glorious prowess, in sooth, with a word To wpund the trusting and tame the proud, E'en as a leaf by a breath is stirred, A spray by a dew-drop bowed. And so the battle goes bravely through, i {And hearts get hardened as tongues flow free, And swells the blazon, 'I conquer you, Lest you should conquer me.' Fight on, brave souls, 'tis a merry game, Play on rosy lips, 'tis a merry game, Tourney for tourney, and life for life, Weapons and lists the same. Since language was framed but to hide tbe thought, (Moral as deep as the proverb old,) Since daily the delicate miracles wrought, Hourly the legend told; You'll surely own it an idle creed. Frivolous, gallant, and fatherless maid, That forbid, the victim to suffer and bleed, For one vain hour's parade. You'll surely deny, by the evident token Of trophy on trophy won day by day, That hearts may be broken, by light words spoken, Only for something to say. IIABIT IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS. The power of habit cannot be estimated. It exeits its influence in physical, mental, and spiritual matters. Every man is more or less liable to its abuses, and open to its benefits. Habit is a wise provision of a kind Providence, but this blessing, like ev ery other, can le abused. Of course, evil habits are evil, and that continually, but even good habits sometimes become an evil. For example, no babit, perhaps, can be bet ter t han the habit of calling on God in pray er; and yet this habit grows so strong that the man can engage in prayer with thoughtless indifference, it is to be depre cated. That the habit does sometimes be ocme so strong, is evident in every Chris tian congregation and in every praying fam ily. It i=, however, of the advantages, and not of the evils, of religious habits that we pro pose to speak. One of these advantages is in giving greater ease in the discharge of religions duties. When a child takes his first lessons in penmanship, writing is a a slow .and wearisome operation. Every letter is painfuily traced, and a line or two is the work of an hoar; but when the habit of writing is acquired, the hand moves ensi ly and rnpidly. So far as mechanical exe cution is concerned, pages can be written almost without thought. So it is in reli gious matters. Every Christian who is ac customed to lead in family or in private prayer will tell you what a difficult thing it was to do at first. He will tell you how his heart failed and his body trembled, and that failure often attended his efforts. But by long practice, the habit was at last formed, and the duty became easy. What was once a positive pain and dread is now a pleasure. This ease in the discharge of this duty was reached through the power of habit. And so it is with nearly all religious duties. They are hard at first, but frequent repetition will make them easy. All Christians de sire to be able to discharge their duties with ease and pleasure; but the diffident think that this can never b accomplished. It is true, there is no royal door which money, or family, or learning will open; but there is VOL,. 42: SO 47. a common road, over which the rich and | the poor, the learned and the unlearned, must alike travel, and that is the road of habit. If the members of the Church ; would take half the pains to acquire the habit of leading in public prayer that they took to acquire che habit of writing, there would not be a Single one of their number who could not, when ocearion offered, lead the devotions of his fellows. Another advantage of religious habit is, that it makes our duties more profitable to ourselves. This point also can be Illustra ted by a reference to a well-known fact. ben a child is learning to read, and is com polled to spell out the words, be will not obtain much benefit from the sentiments in the book before bim. But when, front long habit, he can read with fluency, the printed page speaks eloquently and profitably to his soul. It may arouse his patriotism, or awaken bis piety, or call forth the noblest aspirations of his being. So, habit makes our religious duties more profitable than they Otherwise would be. "W hen we first sat at the communion table, we were so taken up with the strangeness of our surroundings, that wc could not keep our thoughts fixed on God. And if our mimis are not fixed on the proper subjects of thought, the sacra ment of the Lord's Supper will be of little or no profit. But when, from very long habit, we become familiar with the exercises of communion season, our attention will not be so much distracted, and wc can engage in these exercises with continually increas ing profit. Another advantage of religious habit is, that it enables us to make more rapid pro. gress in the divine life. When our duties are performed with ease and profit, we has ten on from duty to duty. We wonder at the labor we perform, and at the progress we make. Every dsr we make sensible ad vances in grace, and every night the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus appears to be nearer.— United Presbyterian. THE LOSS OF BEAUTY. I know it is sad to be young, fresh and attractive, aid in a few years to be old, fa ded and forlorn, with a weight of care never lifted from the aching shoulders, and the duties of six pressing upon a feeble pair of hands. It is sad to see, inexpressibly more sad must it be to experience. I recall a dozen at least of these hopeless women, whom I once knew as fresh young girls; and yet I think of the husband of each one of these hastening home from his desk, and the long columns of vexatious figures, to take the ailing, fretful child from the weary wife and mother. Sometimes the fading of a woman is un avoidable. Poverty is bard to tear, but, after all, much is the result of placing our standard in dress, in living beyond cur means, so much that I have sometimes thought the fixed classes in the unalterable costumes, really blessed. O, sister, when wiil you learn that a simple dress of inex pensive material, neatly fitted, home sur roundings suited to your means—which your neighbors know as well as yourself—will do more to win admiration and respect, to say nothing of comfort and happiness, than the silks, satins, velvets and laces in which you appear simply out of character and ill at ease? This striring after the unattainable is killing our women; living in houses be yond their means, poorly, if at all supplied with servants ; buying the most expensive materials, leaving no surplus money to pay for the making of garments ; following the constant change of fashion, and when some one with merciful intent, provides a sewing machine, filling the leisure time it should have given to endless tucking, ruffling and embroidery, till what was intended for a blessing has become almost a curse. A wo man should devote a reasonable amount of both thought aod time to her personal ap pearance. But we destroy our charms in our efforts to enhance them. A little atten tion to the blending of colors, to the style prevailing, to the hang of a garment, as women say, will do more to produce the de sired effect than any amount of expensive material and trimming alone.— Hearth and Home. A MYSTERY.— The Onondaga county (X. Y.) giant, as the singular statue or petri faction dug up at Cardiff is called, seems to be still an enigma to scientific men. One authority claims that it is made of gypsum, and that from the known solubility of that material it could not have lain in the wet soil, where it was found, more than three hundred and seventy days. Another expert is sure that it is a petrifaction, basing his opinion on the naturalness of the body, the harmonious proportion of its parts and the contorted position in which it lay. Stil! another observer regards it as a wonderous work of art, thus contradicting those who pronounce it rough and clumsy. The di verse judgments may be classed as follows: First, it is the corpse of a giant; second, it is the production of some sculptors of a re mote Bge; third, it is an imposture, having been buried by some speculators, who dis interred it at the proper time to realize profit from its sale or exhibition. Where there is so much disagreement, we do not attempt 'o form a difinite conclusion. It is evident, however, that the subject is one wbich de serves careful and impartial investigation. If it shall be finally • decided that it is a petrified body, the fact is established that there ooce lived upon this earth a human being ten feet seven inches in bight, with arms nearly five feet in length, measuring thirty seven inches around the neck, and proportionately large in other respects. "As to being afflicted with the gout," said Mrs. - Partingdon, "high living don't bring it on. It is incoherent in some fami lies, and is handed down from father to son. Mr. Hammer, the poor sonl, who has been so long ill with it, disinherits it from his wife's grandmother." F FRIEND relates ibe following:—A mile or two from town he met a boy on horseback crying with cold. "Why don't you get down and lead biro? that is the way to keep warm." "No," said the boy, "it's ab-b-borrowed hoas; and I'll ride him if I freeze." WE may be engaged in the work of the Lord as well with a spade or a plough in our hand as a Bible; on our knees ?crab bing a floor, as on our knees in the attitude of prayer.— Guthrie. \ AN old negro on the Peninsula forcibly illustrated the rapidity of the rebel "tke daddle" there. He said, "You could see the lightning flash from thar boot hce'.s. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, &C The Ivoviaia it published every BRIO AT mors isg hn following rater; 'JNB 'YEAR, (in advance,) $4.00 "* " (it sot paid within sixmos.).,. $4.60 " " (if not paid within the year,)... All papers outside of the coast; discontinued without notice, at the expiration of the time for which the subscription has been paid. Single copies of the paperfuinUhod, is wrappers, at five cents each. Communications on subjects of local or general ntcrcst, are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention favors of this kind must invariably be accompanied by the name of tho author, not for publication, but as a guaranty against imposition. All lettet* pertaining to business of the office should be addrcseed to JOHN LtTTZ, BEDFORD.PA. FKEE TRADE AND PROTECTION. Fiee trade in its unlimited seme, such free trade as is preached by the most vociferous of its advocates, means depend ence upon foreign sources for everything that can be produced cheaper abroad than it can be made at home. It means death to the mechanical and manufacturing interest of the country, and the conversion of the en terprising mechanics, who now add so much to the industrial wealth of the nation, into agriculturists. It means a glut in the market of all agricultural product", and con sequent low prices and discouragement to tho.e engaged in agriculture. It means ex posure to sudden deprivation of those nec essaries of life for which we rely upon foreign sources, at any time our foreign re lations become disturbed, consequent and large advance in their price, and distress re sulting from a diminished supply. Protection, on the contrary, does not im ply prohibition, as its opponents, many of them, unfairly claim. It only means the ajuotroent of tariffs so that we can compete with foreign producers iu all industries which may, with moderate encouragement, thrive here, and for which we possess equal natural advantages with foreign competitors. It means protection of labor against forced competition with the cheap labor of Europe. It means opportunity for those whose natural genius leads them into other fields of industry than agriculture, to develop that genius aDd thus add to the mental wealth of the country as well as its material re sources" All cannot be successful farmers or merchants, and any policy which tends to eoufine the abilities cf men to any one channel is a bad policy. We hear a great deal about the distinc tion between a revenue tariff and a protec tive tariff, as though the e were or ought to be considered separately; "we do not believe in this distinction. We hold that the best rerenue tariff will be on that protects the in dustries of a commonwealth—the sources from which all revenue must come, notwith standing the sophistry by which it is at tempted to disguise this important and fundamental truth. No more fatal error has ever found ad herents in the political history of our country than the doctrine of "free trade." When mankind become one nation, one brotherhood; when all produce equally, not alone for self but for the good of the wLole: when ignorance, and greed, and lust of power no longer exist; when the millennium has come, fiee trade will b the thiug, meanwhile we seem to live in an epoch too early for that blissful consummation. The truth of the above proposition is found not only in logical conclusions from well established premises, but in the history of the United States for the last half centu ry. T1 e tariff of 1833 produced its legitimate results in the ruin of 1837, and the country recovered only under the protective tariff of 1812. Tho subsequent adoption of a free trade policy in 1846 brought us to the very verge of disaster in 1849, which was staved off a few years by the gold production of California. ButJßs7 brought the climax of distress upon the country, and there are many young men who can remember that bitter lesson. To use the words of Henry C. Carey: "Once again do we find the country driven to protection, and the puplic credit by its means so well established as to enable the Treasury with little difficulty to obtwin the means of carrying on a war whose annual ccst was more than the total public expenditure of half a century, including the war with Great Britain in 1812. Thrice thus, with tariffs of 1842 and 1860, has pro tection redeemed the country from almost ruin. Thrice thus, under the revenue tariffs of 1817, 1834, and 1849, has it been sunk so low that none could be found "so poor as to do it reverence," Such having been our experience through half a century) it might have been supposed that the question would be regarded now as settled, yet do wo find among us men in office, and out of office, secretaries and senators, owners of ships and railroads, farmers and laborers, denouncing the system under which, at every period of its existence, and more especially in that of the recent war, they had so largely prospered—thereby proving how accurate has been the description of them by an eminent foreigner as "the people who soonest forget yesterday." These are well known and often asserted facts, yet blind to their teachings, the preachers of free trade are urging their views upon the public, have enlisted in their behalf even the services of eminent divines and college professors, in order to win by clap-trap a certain class who are led by distinguished names and high sounding titles. Such men, distinguished for their want of financial ability almost as much as for their great acquirements in letters and theology, are the men who are to instruct the country upon political economy. None are more likely to be deceived by their special pleading than farmers, and no class would be uiore seriously injured by the adoption of a free trade policy. Far re moved from commercial centres, and not conversant with the details of trade, it seems difficult for them to comprehend how cheap- ning iron and gotten goods should not be beneficial to them. They 3o not see Connection between the prices of manu factured goods, aud the prices of their pro duets, and the value of land. The best way to convince them is to point them to the in disputable faot that when such goods havo hitherto advanced io price under the genial influence of protection, their ability to pur chase has always advanced in a greater ratio from the consequent increase in the value of farm products. We trust farmers will not permit themselves to be deceived iu this matter. Let them judge of the present and the future by the past, which sheds a clear unmistakable light upon this subject, and in the history of which stand yoked together, invariably, protection aud pros perity, free trade and disaster.— Scientific American. MB. J. HARRIS says in the Agriculturist that he does not know how he could get along without petroleum. He keeps the wood work of his farm tools audrimpliments saturated with it, to keep the sun, rain and air from swelling and shrinking and rusting them. IN Mc.Henry county, 111., there are eleven cheese factories, which use the milk of about 3,400 cows, and the past snasou have made about 1,000,000 pounds of cheese.