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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. groteiSiooai ft %\uine$fi gards. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. KING, JR., ATTORXEY-AT-LA H', BEDFORD, Pa., All business entrusted to his eare will receive prompt and careful attention. Office three doors South of the Court House, lately occupied by J. W. Dickcrson. nov26 AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. j Have formed a partnership in the practice ot , -.ho Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran ; ■Church. [April 1, 1869-tf yj. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBPORD, PA. j Respectfully tenders his professional services ! to the public. Office in the Inqui unllui idiog, j (second floor.) rSTCollections promptly made. [April,l'6#-tt j M. ALSTP, I ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEPFORD, PA., Will faithfnlly and promptly attend to all bust- i ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin- j r, g counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south ofthe Mengcl House. apll, 18(19.—tf. f R. DURBORROW, tf . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBPORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no- 1 tice. He J, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent j and ail give special attention to the prosecution i .'.lis.s against the Government for Pensions, ! Back I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the j Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel j House" April 1, 186U.tf I jr S. L. RUSSELL J. H. LOSGEXECKER RUSSELL A LOXGENECKER, |i 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 claim; j for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Apri i;69:lyr. J" M'D. SHARPE E. P. KERR 1 SHARPE A KERR, A TTORXE VS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad- I joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking ' house of Reed A Schell. Bedford, Pa. Apr l;69:tf PHYSICIANS. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to tho citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an i residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. HoSus. [Ap'l 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. TACOB BRENNKXAN, W WOODBERRY, PA., SCRIVENER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and E*-Officio JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Will attendtoallbu-iness entrusted into his hands with promptness and despatch. Will remit mon ey by draft to any part of the country. 17sely DANIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST op THE BED FORD HOTEL, BkBEORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES, AC. Ue keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glas-es. also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in bis line not on hand. [apr.2B,'6s. j ) W. € ROUSE, CIGARS, TOBACCO, '' PIPES, &C. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster A Co.'s Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared tc sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything iu his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. '69., p N. HICKOK. .V* ... ~ DENTIST. Office at the old n&nd in BANK BUILDING, Juliana st, BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to Surgical and Mechanical Dentutry performed with care and WARRANTED. Awretkctice administered, taken detired. Ar tificial teeth ineerted at, per eet, SB.OO and up. ward. ts r am deteimined to do a CASH BUSINESS or none, I have reduced the prices for Artificial Teeth of the various kinds. 20 per cent., and of Gold Fillings. S3 per cent. This redaction will be made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such will receive prompt attention. 7feb6B \y M. LLOYD ' * • BANKER. Transacts a General Banking Business, and makes collections on all accessible points in the United States. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. GOLD, SIL VER, STERLING and CONTINENTAL EXCHANGE bought and sold. 1 REV EN I E STAMPS of all descriptions always on hand. Accounts of Merchants, Mechanics, Farmers and ail other solicited. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS. Jan. 7, '7O. UXCH AX G £ HOTEL, Ul HUNTINGDON, PA. This old establishment having been leased by J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor rison House, has been entirely renovated and re furnished and supplied with all the modern im provements and conveniences necessary to a first class Hotel. The dining room has been removed to the Erst 9our and is now spacious and airy, and the cham bers are all well ventilated, and the proprietor will endeavor to make his guests perfectly at home. Address, J. MORRISON, , , ESCHAXGB HOTEL, - ljulytf Huntingdon, Pa. JpKIVATE BOARDING. t,')'™' sATE has enlarged her residence on for , the Purpose of taking bearders weekly or yearly. 3declt IaUTZ & JORDANt Editor* and Proprietors. Jftiquim Column. PO ADVERTISERS: TIIE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY MORNING, BT L U T Z A JORDAN, OFFICE ON JULIANA STREET, BEDFORD, PA. PHE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN iOUTII WESTERNPENNSYL YANIA. CIRCULATION OVER 1500. LOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTS INSERTED ON REA SONABLE TERMS. I FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: !2,00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. 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The aggre | gate number of kegs of nails made in that city last year, the Intelligencer says, will reach six hundred and fifty thousand. In cluding the production of the mill at Ben wood, it would swell the aggregate to eight hundred thousand HAIR CLOTH skirts, to take the place of : hoops, Lave recently been imported. There is a flounce around the bottom, in round plaits, on all except the front breadth, and the upper part of the back has rolls of the i material, for a quarter of a yard, in imitation of the bustle. THEY have secured a new anaesthetic in 1 ranee, to supersede chloroform and its va rious substitutes. It is a chemical com pound, and is called "chloral." It is not inhaled, but swallowed, when it produces ' a perfect insensibility without any dangerous accompaniments. This is, in surgical prac | tice, a discovery of the utmost importance. A ERMONT has at last arrived at such a pitch of civilization that it sees what a bad ; mistake it is to tax machinery. Its Legis lature has exempted from taxation for five j years all manufacturing establishments ' t hereafter to be erected in that State, and all the capital and machinery used in opera ting them, and also the capital and ma- ' chinery put into buildings already erected, hut not now used for manufacturing pur- ' poses, whenever the capita! used amounts to one thousand dollars or more. IIJE Polish Land Lmigration Company. Oi which Hon. Caleb Cusbing is President, has just purchased 33,000 acres ofland. ly ing on both side 3 of the James River, in Amherst, Rockingham and Bedford coun ties, \ irginia. It is proposed to place a colony of Poles on the purchased tract, and the transportation of such emigrants to this ; country will at onee be begun, under the charge of Gen. Smolenski, the director of '< emigration. -THE Chicago Tribune makes this positive grammatical pciat: "Will editors of quar i tcrlies and of the New \ork Tribune have the grace to learn that woman is a noun, and cannot be used as an adjective; that we can have woman-lovers or woman-haters, but we will not submit to woman-speakers nor woman teachers; that we can have female ' speakers and female teachers; but we rebel against female colleges, female hospitals, and all other female objects of the neuter gender." THE revolution which has broken out in I the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi is the i worst of two or three which have happened in that state within our memory. It has cap tured a Governor and the most of a Legis lature, and has brought down upon it an order from Juarez calling out a portion of the national guard, if any such force have effectual existence in that state. Worse news, however, is the resignation of General Alatorre, one of the bravest and ablest, and perhaps now the most necessary of the Mexi" can Generals, who follows his late command er, General Diaz, into retirement. Two of the ycuthful nobility ol England have been distinguishing themselves lately. Lord Albert Pelhatn Clinton has won a wager of 50 pounds sterling by walking ten miles in two hours, in the presence of a se loci circle of friends, at Hackney Wick. The Court Journal admits that he had "no pre tentions to style, his feet coming down heavily at every stride," but he walked the distance within three minutes of the pre- I scribed time. "Loud cheers greeted the j pedestrian at the termination of the feat, i which was accomplished solely by great I gameness." THE community of Carter's Station, \ irginia, was considerably exercised a few days ago by the announcement that a Mr. Lyon, who lived in the neighborhood, had , married his mother. It seems that Lyon's father had been twice married, and the children by the first wife continued to live in the family alter the second marriage. Lyon, the father, died, leaving his second ■wife a widow, and Lyon, the son, married his father's widow. The clerk issued the license without a knowledge of the facts, and the minister requested to solemnize the marriage declined; a magistrate likewise re fused, and the pair crossed over to Stony Creek, where they were unknown, and were married- I HE WAGES OF LABOR.—Before the dis ; covery of America, money was so scarce that the price of a day's wvifc was fixed by act of the English Parliament in 1351 at i one penny per day; and in 1314 the allow ance of the chaplain to the Scotch bishops (then in piison in England) was three half pence per day. At this time 24 eggs were : sold for a penny, a pair of shoes for 4 pence, a lat goose for 2i pence, a hen for a penny, wheat 3 pence per bushel, and A fat ox for six shillings and eight pence. So that, in those days a clay's work would buy a hen 1 or two dozen eggs; two days' work would buy a pair of shoes, and a fat ox cost eighty days work. On the whole human labor bro't in the average about half as much food and perhaps one-fourth as much cloth or ! clothing as it now dees. On the whole, we ! guess "the good old times" were not worth I recalling. [The above facts are given in Adam Clark's Commetary cn Matt. xx. 2.] IIEBE is another good word for Alaska from the San Francisco Bulletin-. Whenever the timber resources of Alaska have been brought to view as an element of future wealth, some one of the many volunteers who are depreciating that country is ready to inform the world that there is a plenty of timber this si Je of Alaska. Wo have before us some data furnished by a resident of Sitka, wbich shows among other things that thare is an extent of country bordering on the coast of Alaska, equal to twenty miles of width and "iOO miles in length iD which the white and yellow cedar predominates. How much more ex tensive the "Cedar Country" may be our informant did not know. The cedar tim ber is there inexhaustable. Our redwood timber covers a limited area, and at the i present rate of destruction will not last fifty j years. The time will come when the cedar ! forests of Alaska will be more famou3 and a greater source of wealth than are now the redwood forests of California. Probably no i tree is now growing upon the Pacific coast of so much real value as the red cedar of! Alaska. BEDFORD, Px., FRf DA V, JAN. 21 • i WHY DON'T IIE COME. W by don't he come? he promieed roe He surely should be here, 1 And Pa and Ma are out to tea — For occe the coast is clear. I wonder what he wants to say ? When last his leave he took He asked roe twice at borne to stay— I wonder how I look ! Oh my ! I'm almost out of breath ' Suppose be asks ? what then? I'll certainly be scared to death, I'm so afraid of men. I think I'll have him though, at last — Bat first I'll answer no— tor many a girl by harrying fast. Outstrips her tardy beau. j Oh, here he comes—his step I hear, And now he'll soon begin 1 I would not for the world appear In haste to let him in 1 Tilt MUSICIAN'S MAKKIAUE. After having passed the summer in visit ing the principal towns of Germany, the celebrated pianist Liszt arrived at Prague, j in October, 1846. 1 ho next day alter he came bis apartment was entered by a stranger—an old man, whose appearance indicated misery and suf fering. The great musician received him with a cordiality which he would not, per haps have shown to a nobleman. Encour aged by his kindness, his visitor said— "l come to vou, sir, as a brother. Ex cuse me if I take this title, notwithstanding the distance that divides us; but formerly I could boast some skill in playingon the piano, and by giving instructions I gained a com fortable livelihood. Now lam old, feeble, burdened with a large family, and destitute of pupils. I live at Nuremburg, but I came to Pi ague to seek to recover the remnant of a small property which belonged to my an cestors. Although nominally successful, the expenses of a long litigation has more than swallowed up the trifling sum I re covered. To-day I set out for home—pen niless." "And you have come to iue? You have done well, and I thank you for this proof oi your esteem. To assist a brother professor is to mc more than a duty, it is a pleasure. Artists should have their purse in common; and if fortune neglect some, in order to treat others better than they deserve, it only makes it more necessary to preserve the equilibrium by fraternal kindness. That's my system ; so don t speak of gratitude, for I feel that I only discharge my debt." As he uttered these generous words, Li.-zt opened a drawer in his writing case, end started when he saw that this usual deposi tory fur his money contained but three du cats. He summoned his servant. "Whereis the money?" he asked. "There, sir," replied the man, pointing to the open drawer. "There! Why, there's scarcely anything." "I know it, sir. If you please to remem ber I told you yesterday that the cash was ! nearly exhausted." "You tee, my dear brother," said Liszt, smiling, "that for a moment I am no richer than you ; but that does not trouble me. I i have credit, and I can make ready money start Irom the keys of my piano. However, as you are in haste to leave Prague and re ; turn home, you shall not be delayed by my present want of funds." So saying he opened another drawer, and taking out a splendid medallion, gave it to the old man. "There," said he, "that will do. It was ; a present made to me by the Emperor of j Austria—his own portrait set in diamonds. ; The painting is nothing remarkable, but the j stones are fine. Take them and dispose of them, and whatever they bring shall be ; yours." | The old musician tried in vain to decline |so rich a gift. Liszt would not hear of a refusal, and the poor man at length with drew, after invoking the choicest blessing of heaven on his generous benefaetor. He then repaired to the shop of the prio | cipal jeweler in the city in order to sell the diamonds. Seeing a miserably dressed man j anxious to dispose of magnificent jewels, i with whose value he was unacquainted, the master of the shop very naturally suspected his honesty; and, while appearing to exam ing the diamonds with close attention, he whispered a few words in the ear of one of his assistants. The latter went out, and speedily returned, accompanied by several j soldiers of police, who arrested the unhappy I artist in spite of his protestations of inno j cence. "You must first come to prison," they i said; "afterward you can give an explana | tion to the magistrate." The prisoner wrote a few lines to his bene : factor, imploring his assistance. Liszt hast ened to the jeweler. "Sir," said he, "you have caused the ar : rest of an innocent man. Come with me I immediately, and let us have him released, j He is the lawful owner of the jewels inques | tion, for I gave them to him." "But, sir, " asked the merchant, "who : are you?" "My name is Liszt." "I do not know any very rich man of that : name." "That may be; yet 1 am tolerably well | known." "Are you awaac, sir, that those diamonds arc worth six thousand floriDS—that is to say, about five hundred guineas, or twelve thousaud francs?" "So much the better for him on whom I have bestowed them." "But in order to make such a present you must be verv wealthy."' 'My actual fortune consists of three du cats." "Then you are a magician !" "By no means; and yet, by just moving my fingers, I can obtain as mueh money as I desire." "Then you must be a magician !" "It yon choose I'll disclose to you the magic I employ." Liszt had seen a piano in the parlor be hind the shop. He opened it, and ran his fingers over the keys; then, seized hy sodden inspiration, he improvised one of those soul touching symphonies peculiar to himself. As ht sounded the first chords, a beauti ful young girl entered the room. While the melo y continued she remained speech less and imui jtable ; then, as tjie last note ditd away, she cried, with irressistible en tbusiasm— Bravo, Liszt! ,tis wondrous!,' "Dost thou know him, then, my daught fer t asked the jeweler, j t 'This is the first time that I have had the t&as iro of seeing or hearing him," repliied ** j "hut I do know that none living, save Liszt. could draw such sweet sounds from the piano." |Ex pressed with grace and modesty, by a young girl of remarkable beauty, this ad miration could not fail to be more than flat tering to the artist. However, after making lis best acknowledgements, Liszt withdrew, in-order to deliver the prisoner, and was ac ccftnpanied by the jeweler. ff infallibility is adopted, it is now said pos itively the French Concordat will be at once withdrawn, and Pius IX. will find that with a new position, new relations will also have to be arranged. So strongly is this inten tion announced that the Pope's friends ac :use France of dictating, and Frenchmen do not deny the imputation. The situation is iesciibed on both sides as gravistima; and nobody sees the way out of it. except by iontinual adjournments, till time itsclfbring some sort of escape. But as for aDy conclu sions being come to and proclaimed by Jan- ' uary Gth, is pronounced impossible. POSITION OF TIIE AMERICAN BISHOPS. * * * * The Papal authorities have housed the Bishops with careful and dis criminating hospitality. Those who could not be absolutely (rusted have been lodged with safe companions, in the proportion of one weak brother to half a dozen strong. In one palace, two or three known to want their faith confirmed, are in charge of ten stout believers. The Jesuits have had the manipulation of the flock, and have done it Tljnrfl Js not onp of tlu.m wl,nhnir Perot vale, now become a hermit, to his fellow-recluse, Ambrosius. Ihe narrative, however, is preceded by a shorter poem, called "The Coming of Ar thur,' in which the miraculous origin of the great warrior king is described. The poem on 'The Holy Grail" is pitch ed throughout in a higher key. The imagi nation is more fervid, the language more rich and sensitive, the music of the versifi cation sweeter, profounder, and more sono rous. Mr. Tennyson seems here to have been thoroughly penetrated by his subject. Ho writes of the Grail as though he himself firmly believed in it, or as though he had actually engaged in the quest, passing through dim and perilous ways, through tnarvtls, and shadows, and phantasmal scenes, and seeing only the shine of the far glory over dark horizons and portentous lands. The religious faith of the old legend, and its beautiAil romance, are equally bro't forth by the intense poetic sympathy of the writer. We follow him through splendid and majestic visions into the heart of a su pernatural world and are content lor the time being to dream with the old monks, and believe according to the fancies of an elder age. UNPUBLISHED ANECDOTES OF WASHINGTON. As what relates to the Father of his Couutry seems the inheritance of our nation, the following incidents—for which we are indebted to Dr. Alfred Langdon Elwyn of this city—properly belong to the public, fhey are told in the unpublished journal of one of the Signers of the Declaration of In dependence—an authority which places their reality beyond doubt, and they are of interest, as revealing the inmost thonghts in critical periods of some of the principal men of the Revolution. •Shortly after Washington was appointed Ly Congress commander-in-chief- that is in the latter part of May or the beginning of June, 1775; the exact date given in the dia ry is nit teniembered—after the battle of Lexington, but before the Revolutionary M'ar had fairly begun, some intimate friends gave a dinner to the general at the Gray's terry Tavern, near Philadelphia, on the op posite bank of the Schuylkill. The party, of whom the journalist was one, consisted, besides Washington himself, of Dr. Frank lin, John Adams, John Langdon, Thomas Jefferson, and Dr. Benjamin Rush. After, dinner, John Adams, filling his glass, rose and said: 'T propose the health of the com mander in-chief of the American forces!" Washington's face became a little suffused with emotion and he started back in his chair, but said nothing. The others filled their glasses and stood up, exchanging looks. As by an electric flash, while they glanced into each other's eyes, the feeling came over all that the occasion was too grave for hilarity; the prospect of an uncertain civil war rose darkling before their minds, and, their wine untasted, they sat down in silence! The other incident shows Washington's . character in a new and interesting light. The narrator, at that time surgeon of a Pennsylvania regi'monf —•- j ■ - icut a day or two before the battlo of Trenton. The general was engaged in writing, when suddenly tearing off a pieco of the paper on which he had just scribbled something, he crumpled it in his hand, and rising from his seat threw it on the ground, and then paced the floor absorbed in thought. This act was repeated several times, and the doctor's curiosity being arousedj he put his foot on one of the pieces of paper which happened to fall at bis feet, and as Washington walked away transferred it to his pocket. On reaching his own quarters be found the words written were, I wtory or Death. This phrase was given out the next day to the troops as the coun tersign. From Ot-R Monthlv Gossir, in the January number of LippincotCs Maga zine. ANTE JMOKTEM*OBITUARIES. '1 be enterprise of journalists .recently in preparing obituaries, has furnished a theme for no little fun in some quartern, and has been the cause of many grave anecdotes. It is related of one editor that he had au elab orate sketch of General Wool prepared sev eral years since, but having mislaid it in the meantime, while the old hero existed, could not find it when it was needed, and a serious amount of labor and research was entailed in preparing another article. I® seems, however, that the English journalists have exceeded ours in this matter. Indeed, it is likely that the fate of a British obituarist may include the necessity of preparing bis own epitaph before that of many a notabili ty, whom he has obituarized, is published. This is said to have been the case with a biographer of Lord Brougham, who wrote an article chronicling the death of that ao bleman "yesterday," almost eighteen years before the event, and twelve years before his own. When, six years after his own death, that of Lord Brougham occurred, another hand took dawn the yellowed man uscript from its dusty pigeon hole and coui ifoulXtofe art tiw&wAw ter story is told. In the office of the Lon don Daily Star a biography of the deceased nobleman had been in type for sixteen or seventeen months. The paper died four teen days before the earl. A "gay and fes tive" former attache of the New York Her ald, who was a graduate of Union College, wrote, in 1861, a long and elaborate sketch of the Rev. Dr. Nott, the venerable presi dent of that institution, for which the "man aging editor" of that enterprising journal gave him a hundred dollars down, and con tracted to give him another hundred when the subject of the ante-mortem article should depart this life. Dr. Nott did dot die until Januar> 29, 1866. During this interval of five years between the writing of his eulo gistic obituary by his former pupil and the doctor's death, the writer, like most report ers, bccamequite "hard up," and was wont to remark that "Old Nott cluDg to life with fearful tenacity. He told me when he gave me the facts contained in my sketch of his life and character that he could not live a year, which is the only lie I ever knew him to tell: but such is my luck, you know!" A French author says: "When Host my wife every family in which I was acquainted offered me another, bat when I lost my horse, not one of them offered to make him good." A St. Louis paper, speaking of a family in New York that made a fortune out of whisky, .•ays they lire on Twenty-third street, in a perfect delirium tremens of splendor.