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The courts have decided that refusing to take newspaper* and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intention*! fraud. Itototoual & gustos Cards. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Alex. kino. j., .4 T TO EXE r-A T-LA BEDFORD, PA., All business entrusted to his care will receive prompt and careful attention Office three doors Sooth of the Court House, lately occupied by J. W. Dickcrson. nov26 AND LINGENFELTF.R, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BXDFOBD, PA. \ llave formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran . Church. [April 1, 1869-tf j Tyj. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BXDPOBD, PA. Respectfully tenders his professional services to the public. Office iu the Ixqot Kcßuild ing, ; (second floor.) 2=9~Collcctions promptly made. [April,l'69-tf. ; I7IBFT M. A LSI P. 11 ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEOPOBD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi- j ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and edjoin ng counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1869.—tf. T R. DURBORROW, f) . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBPORD, PA., S Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to j his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. lie >, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and w U give special attention to the prosecution \ , "list against the Government for Pensions, Back I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the ' Mengel House" April 1. 1869:tf S. L~ RISSELL 1. H. LOSGENECKER Russell a longenecker, IVTTOP.REVS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi- | ness entrusted to their eare. Special attention : given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. JFgr-riffice on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Apri l:S9:lyr. ! J* M'D. SHARPS E. r. KERR SHARPE A KERR, .4 TTORXE TS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking 1. use of Reed A Schell. Bedford. Pa. Apr l;69:tf j PHYSICIANS. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional eer- 1 vices to the eititens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. llofius. [Ap'l 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. TACOB BBKNNEMAN, t> WOODBERRY, PA., SCRIYESER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Will attend to all business entrusted into bis hands with promptness and despatch. Will remit mon iy by draft to any part of the country. 17sely Daniel border, PITT STREET, TWO POORS WEST or THE BED FORD HOTEL, BEI PORD, 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 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 band. [apr.2B,'6s. DW. CHOUSE, • DEALER IN CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C. Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster A Co.'a Store, Bedford, Pa., ia now prepared to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All orders promptly filled. Persona desiring anything in bis line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. p N. IIIC KO K , DENTIST. Office at the old stand in BASK BCU.DIXO, Juliana st., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to S ury ical and Mechanical Dentistry \ performed with care and j WARRANTED. Ahfrelketict administered, tehee deeired. Ar- j tijieial teeth inserted at, per set, SN.(IO and up. j teard. As I am Jetsimined to do a CASH BUSINESS . o- none, I hare reduced the prices for Artificial i Teeth of the various kinds, 20 per cent., and of Gold rillings 33 per cent. This reduction will b made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such will receive prompt attention. 7febS3 I W M. LLOY D TV . BANKER. Transacts a Genera! Banking Business, and makes collections on all accessible points in the United State*. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD, SIL VER, STERLING and CONTINENTAL EXCHANGE bought and sold. U. S. REVENUE STAMPS of all descriptions always on hand. Accounts of Merchsnts, Mechanics, Farmers and ali other solicited. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS. Jan. 7, "70. UXCHASBE HOTEL, Hi HUNTINGDON, PA. This old establishment having been leased by J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor- I rison House, has been entirely renovated and re furnished and supplied with all the modern im- j provements and conveniences necessary to a first- ! class Hotel. The dining room hs been removed to the first floor and is now spacious and airy, and the eaam- j hers are ali weli ventilated, and the proprietor will endeavor to make bis guests perfectly at j home. Address, J. MORRISON, EXCHASBK HOTKI, ' Jtjulytf Huntingdon, Pa. j SCHOOL BLANKS.—Articles of Agreement between Directors and Teachers, Checks j B.,nd# of Collectors, Warrants of Collectors, Lond of Treasurers, Ac., for sale at the Jngu'rtr cflice. j Isl TZ & JORDAN# Editors and Proprietor*. Inquirer Column. RPO ADVERTISERS: THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY L U T Z & J O R D A N , OFFICE ON JULIANA STREET, BEDFORD, PA. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN SOUTH WESTERNPENNS7L VANIA. CIRCULATION OVER 1500. HOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTS INSERTED ON REA SONABLE TERMS. A FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER. TERNS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. 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A MORAL debating society out West is en gaged in the discussion of the following question : "If a man deserts his wife which, j is the most abandoned, the man or woman?', THE editor of the Alabama Strife Journal 1 modestly requests that some of his patrons will present him and bis printers with a bar rel of good whisky and a bushel basket of eggs, as a slight token of their appreciation. BANDMANN, who is playing tragedy to Melbourne, stabbed the lady who played j "Desdemona," one night, so hunglingly that his sword made along gash in her back, and instead of dying quietly, she made a great fuss aboat it though it didn't, kill her. A MAINE soldier has had his name re moved from the pension rolls, saying he has regained his health and does not need the pension. Commissioner Van Aernaui wrote him that his name "should go down into history as a worthy example for the coming generations." THE consumption of horse flesh in Europe continues to increase. The quantity sold during September, October and November, 1868, was 226,000 pounds, being the pro duce of .565 horses ; io the same period of 1869 it had increased to 273,200 pounds, 683 of those animals. A NOTORIOUS assassin, who had frequent ly escaped justice, was taken at last, having just committed a most unprovoked murder. "Why did you kill this man?" asked the judge ; "he did not harm you, and the mur der should do you no good." "Oh," replied the prisoner, "it was only to keep up my reputation." IN one of the Cincinnati pork packing houses 750 hogs perish daily. The carcasses are cut up with the utmost celerity. A portion goes out iu hams; another is trans formed into sausages—ove! two tons per day. All the lard is extracted by steam, and from this a vast quantity of oil. The bristles go : to brush-makers—about seventy five tons j per year. THERE is an interesting suit for divorce pending in Chicago. The complainant, Margaret E. McNelly, alleges that she mar ried defendant at Kankakee, July 4, 1868, she being then but thirteen years old. She was visiting friends io Kankakee, atid de fendant wooed and won her by representing himself to be a rich man. when in fact he was only a day laborer. The bill also al leges that, at the time she was married, "she was not lawfully able to enter into such a contract." THE latest method of curing consumption is that practiced at an establishment on the banks of the Rhine called the "gtape cure." Patients have excellent quarters, plenty of fresh air, aDd every day go into the gardens, each one carrying a basket, which is filled under the watchful eye of the doctor. The patient then retires to a pleasant arbor, and slowly sucks the grapes. A tine orchestra enlivens the curing process with excellent I music. It is claimed that permanent cures ; are effected in from four to six weeks. A LUDICROUS scene took place at the Tu- i ilcries on Christmas Eve. There was to be a children's party for the friends of the Prince Imperial, and a very fine specimen of the Christmas tree. All was ready, and the Prince thought he should like to see the j tree; so he entered the room. er.d, lo! he found an uninvited guest already ihere— a favorite monkey belonging to some one in the palace had got into the room, treated himself to all the prizes, eaten all the "goodies," and, finally, having set fire to the tree, was sitting down enjoying the fun. THE brokers of New York, not satisfied with their nnimjjeded schemes of gambling in gold and stocks, desired to avoid the pay ment of the small tax of one twentieth of one per cent, on their transactions, required j by the revenue laws. They protested and in various ways sought to have their tax j set aside, but at length have receded, and concluded to do one hoDest act, pay the Government tax. The tax was not heavy, was a small affair, and did not bear onerously on individuals. Still, it was resisted till tbe brokers had exhausted all expedients, j The receipts from this source will be about ten millions a year. CONGRESS, it is said, wants to investigate the recent gold muddle at New York, with a view tu finding a basis of such legislation a# will prevent the occurrence of a similar one. I his is moonshine. No law can be framed of so close a web as to prevent ingenious financiers from slipping through it. Laws may be made to close up tbe path the rogues moved iD last fall, but they will open another path the next time. Besides, there was law enough before to punish them if the authorities had had the purpose to do it. The chance to prevent another gold muddle was lost when no punishment was visited upon those who made the first. THE Keutucky Legislature has passed a very considerate bill "exempting ministers from execution. It should be uuder.-tood that this alludes not to the lynching of anti stttvory mioiatcrs, not to tho hanging of clergymen who may indulge in murder; but to ministers who run in debt, and either can not or will not pay up—in fact, to that lit tle document which commands the Sheriff to take the body, unless he can find satis factory property. We trust that the Ken tucky preachers will show their gratitude by keeping out of debt, in which laudable ef fort they will probably be assisted by the traders of their respective neighborhoods. WOMAN QUESTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. —South Carolina hastaken "a jump ahead" on the woman question. A bill has passed to the third reading in the Legislature, whieh provides that no real or personal property held by a woman at the time of her marriage shall be subject to levy or sale for her husband's debts, but shall be her separate property ; that a married woman shall have power to bequeath, devise or con vey her separate property in the tame man ner and to the same extent as if she were \ unmarried ; that she may purchase any spe cies ol property in her own name, and may coutract and be contracted with ID the same manner as if she were an unmarried woman; ! that in all matters relating to her seperate 1 proj crty and her separate contracts she may sue and be sued, plead snd he impleaded, and in every respect be entitled to, and be subject to, the same legal rights and reme dies as if she were unmarried; nor shall any joinder of her husband as a party with her be necessary in any action brought by her or agaiust her in matters relating to her separate property, or arising out of her sep arate contracts. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY. JAN. 28- 1870. §TOETNJ* CLING TO THOSE WHO CLING TO YOU. There are uiany friends of summer, Who are kind while flowers bloom, But when winter chills the blossoms, They depart with the perfume, On the Lro&d highway of action Friends of worth are far and few; So when one has proved his friendship, Cling to him who clings to you. Do not harshly judge your neighbor, Do not deem bis life untrue, If he makes no great pretensions, Deeds are great though words are few; Those who stand amid the tempest. Firm as when the skies are blue, Will be friends while life enduretb, Cling to those who cling to you. When yon see a worthy brother Buffeting the stormy main, Lend a helping haisd fraternal, Till be reach the shore again; Don't desert the old and tried friend When misfortune conies in view, For he then needs friendship's comforts, Cling to those who cling to you. GEARY'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. FELLOW CITIZENS T— -Having been honor ed, a second time, by the voluntary suffrage# j of my countrymen as their choice for Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth of Peno sylvania, I have, in the presence of God and this assembled multitude, renewed the solemn and binding obligation required of me by law, to -upport the State and National Constitutions, and to perform with fidelity the duties devolving upon me as Governor. It shall be my constant aim and most earn est effort to observe the very letter as wel[ as the full spirit, meaning and intent of the obligation I have just taken. Deeply impressed with the most profound gratitude, I can but express my most hearty thanks to the good citizens of the Common wealth for the generous confidence and partiality they have reposed in me by re election to the uio-t honorable and most re sponsible position in their gift. But know ing well their exactions and requirements of i one who occupies a position so exalted, it is! with extreme diffidence I agmo undertake : responsibilities of such vast importance, which even the boldest and mo.-t gifted might he.-kate to assume. And however determined may be my endeavors to re alize the expectations of my friends in sup port of the right, and to battle against whatever, in my judgment, may be wrong, still I am conscious of the necessity for some sustaining power, and, therefore, I un hesitatingly acknowledge my dependence upon the enlightened support and patriot ism of my fellow-citizens, and my firm re lianee upon the unerring wisdom and never fading aid of Him who controls alike the destinies of individuals and of nations. The settlement of the vexed questions growing out of the armed conflict with treason, devolves a mighty responsibility on the loyol men of the land. Armed rebellion was signally cru-hed by the force of armed loyalty, and the government has triumphant ly establLhod its ability successfully to sup press domestic insurrection, however gigan tic. The war itsell has served to stimulate our people to fresh energies, and to the de velopment of new enterprises. Our man ufactories have multiplied, plenty has smiled upon our fie'ds, and blessed the labors of the husbandman. Peace has restored our people to their homes, and cheered our fire sides. The rates of taxation have been re duced, and arc entirely abolished upon real estate for the use of the Commonwealth. Our State debt is being steadily and surely liquidated. Immense sums have been paid for pensions and other charities. The cause of education has advanced, and the institu tions for the support and tuition of the soldiers' orphans have been liberally sup plied. Railroads have been constructed, and new material resources developed. And thus our State and Nation are rapidly pro grossing in the attainment of those elemenis of greatness which have already placed our ; country in the foremost rank of the powers ' of the earth. The great railroad which binds our State to the Far West, and it in 1 turn to the oriental nations, has been com pleted, and all our efforts to add to our material prosperity have been crowned with unparalleled SL -cess. It was my privilege to announce from this stand, three years ago, the principles which would guide me in the administration of the office of Governor. At that time I dwelt upon and expressed my views in reference to all questions then occupying a share of public attention. I have since, from time to time, ia messages to the Legislature, set forth the condition of the State, recom mended such mea-ures as I deemed ex pedient and calculated to advance her in terests, and expressed my views upon the various topics of the day that were of State or National importance. And having fully reflected thereon, I am the more eonflrmed therein, and know of no reason why I should not endorse and reiterate them as fully, on this occasion, as if I again promulgated them word for word. And now, acknowledging my responsibility in its broadest sense, as a representative, to my o m.-lituents, and con sidering the maguitude of the interests which have again been committed to my charge, I feel it is due to the people and in. eumbent upon myself, to refer thcui to the documents indicted, for au outline ol the general policy which is iutended as a guide for tbe incoming administration, rather then encumber this address, or unnecessarily de lay this audii nee with their repetition. I have no new pledges to make, but confident ly refer fo the record of my past life, as evidence at least of my zeal and devotion to the b st interests of my State and country, and for the rectitude of my intentions. And although the inability which I bring to the discharge of such high duties may be limit ed, I shall confidently rely upon the kind I indulgence of nry fellow citizens and upon a conscientious effort to uphold unblemished, and transmit untarnished to my successor in office, and to posterity, the fair fame and good name of our magnificent old Common i wealth. Difficulties of no ordinary character con stantly surround your Executive officer in the discharge of the many duties devolving U[K>n him. concerning each o' which there may he conflicting opinion-. It being, therefore, impossible to satisfy a!!, his on'y safeguar- -to adopt, and act in accordance with tb- terliog and bcnefic.'nt maxims ! 'o which the early fathers gave utterance, which have been functioned by wisdom and experience, and resulted in the rapid growth and prosperity of our institutions, and the liberty and happiness of our people. The Constitution vests "the supreme Executive power" of the State in the Gov | ernor, and directs that "he shall take care | 'bat the laws be faithfully executed." The supreme earthly authority recognized by us, therefore, is the law—the rightfully deter mined will of the people. "No citizen is so exalted as to be above, and none so low as to be beneath its power. The Executive is as much the subject of tbe laws of tbe State as the humblest individual within its bor ders-. In pursuance of these principles, and in the execution of the laws, I have endeav ored during my term of office, faithfully to di>charge every official duty with a full reference to my sworn obligation, and as I shall answer at the last great day. It should be our earnest effort to faith fully discharge all our obligations and re sponsibilities, both as citizens and magis trates. We should cease to tolerate any tliiug as "politically right that is morally wrong," ami actively proscribe the corrup tion which 100 frequently marks the admin istration of public affairs—an evil to which attention cannot too frequently or too for cibly be invited. No sign more eertainly indicates the downfall of free institutions than the indifference of the people to the moral depravity of those in authority. All history warns us to hold to our integrity as we value our national existence, Forcibly impressed with these ideas, I call upon all legislators, and upon all other good citizens, and especially upon the conductors of the public press—the ever faithful sentiments el a free people— to aid in giving that tone to public fentiment which shall purify our State, and relieve her from the reproach of even countenancing those who would make a traffic of their offices in violation of their obligations. Look to it well and closely, fellow citizens, and begin at once to teach your servants that the "public will" mu-t be obeyed, and the "public weal" is tbe first object to be attained in a free govern ment. If you permit speculators fo en rich themselves out of the public Treasury, and at the same time to corrupt the law making branch of the government, you pave tbe way to anarchy, you set tbe example which tempts to crime, and offer to the world an evidence, most conclusive, that self govern ment is a failure. Owing to the many efforts made on the part of the free traders for the abolishment of the natural and wholesome protection now afforded to our home industry and to labor, I consider it a subject which claims a portion of our time Snd attention. If our national inJuGry and natural productions, represented by thousands of factories, mines and other sources of labor, are to be pre served, there should be no reduction of du ties which shall enable the underpaid and overworked population of the Old World to flood onr States with the products of their mines and workshops at the cost of our de struction. The articles thus admitted would undersell the products of our artizans at our very doors, and our factories would be clos ed, as heretofore, by similar causes. This will throw out of employment thousands of industrious men, snd entail ruin upon them and their families, merely for the benefit and aggrandizement of foreign manufac turers and capitalists. As soon as our in dustrial arms are paralyzed and competition is destroyed, the monopolist can command his own price, and it is tbu- clear that the policy of free trade can uever permanently beuefit any country that will sanction its adoption. Impelled by every feeling of in terest, humanity and justice for our arti zans and laborers, we should unhesitatingly set our faces against this heresy. We should, therefor®, not only earnestly legis late for the hen' fit of capital, but for the toiliug sons and daughters of our country. It should be our constant effort to improve their social condition, to advance their intel lectual status, and above all to shield them from the destitutions which is threatened by the enemies of protection to our industri al pursuits. In my several messages fo the Legislature I have taken occasion to refer to a subjoct which I regard as of paramount importance to the prosperity and even the stability of our government. No nation can long exist that attempts to violate any of its obliga tions. Tne most prominent among these is the faithful payment of all its indebtedness. No good rea-on can be given for the repudi atiou of a single farthing. I said in my message of January, 1868, "Tbe pc-ople of Pennsylvania, ever true to the I "nion, and unswerving in their determination to pre -erve its honor, integrity and perpetuity, are proud and free to assert the saeredness of the national debt, and that its ultimate pay ment in full must he secured." In my mes sage of 1869, I called attention to the same subject, in these words; "The voice of Pennsylvania, as well as that of a majority of the States, has at the ballot box pro claimed to the world that ali our national indebtedness, no matter how heavy the burden, will bo paid according bo the letter and spirit of the agreements made and en tered into at the time the debt was contract ed ; and that in this, as in all other respects, our individual and national honor must and shall be preserved." These sentinfents, so dearly expressed, I have taken frequent oc casion to reiterate, aud it affords me great satisfaction to observe that many who have heretofore been hostile to, or silent on this roost important subject, are becoming warm in their advocacy of the principles here e □uneiated. Those who saved this government from j the destruction designed by treason, are they j who will perpetuate it as a blcs-iug for fu ture generations. All that is asked of the people is to strengthen and uphold the hands of the men who have been called to do the work ot reconstruction, and when ; that work is finished in the spirit in which it has been begun by the present National ! Administration, we will have a government ; and a country mighty in their munificence, glorious in their prosperity. The preservation of the peace and quiet oi our country, maintaining unsullied our uationa! honor, and the harmony of the Uuioo are among our highest duties. Let us encourage every branch of home indus try, advance the true interests of moral, pby.-ica! and intellectual labor, and reach ing forward to the priz.r of the manifest destiny of our glorious Commonwealth, we may hope tor ht r increasing prosperity, and, above all, for ti c sniilts of an approving i I'roviJeuce. lea-mst'y invoke a cont'nuanre of the blessings and favors which we, as a people, have long enjoyed, that Pennsylvania may , be ever ready to extend her sympathies to j those struggling for liberty, to succor the helpless exile, and be an asylum to the per secuted and oppressed, and thus forever identify herself with the cause of equal and with the interests of universal freedom, justice and humanity. Then can we with truth and pride proclaim, "Long live the Commonwealth," whose guiding principles are found in the motto of our State, "VIR TUE, LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE." THE CUTTLE-FISH. Mr. L. L Hartt, in his "Chapter on Cut tle-Fishes io The American Naturalist, describes his encounter with one of these octopodson tbe coast of Brazil, which wound its loDg arms, covered with numerous suck ers around his bands in such away as to hold him prisoner for a short time. On re linquishing its hold it dropped on the sand, and, using its long slimy arms as legs, made its way toward the water, looking like a huge aud very tipsy spider. The cuttle-fi=h be longs to the mollusks, a brauc-h of the ani mal kingdom, distinguished for its mem bers beiDg built upon the plan of a sac, and to which Mr. Hyatt has applied the more appropriate name of Saccata. It is distin guished from all other mollusks, such as snails, clams, &c., by having a very large head, a pair of large eyes, and a mouth fur ni.-hed with a pair of jaws around which are arranged, in a circle, eight or ten arms furnished with suckers. In the common cuttle-fish or squid of our coast, the body, which is long and narrow, is wrapped in a muscular cloak or mantle, like a bag, fitting tightly to the back, but loose in front. It is closed up to tbe neck, where it is open like a loosely-fitting overcoat buttoned up to the ihroat. Attached to its throat, by the mid die, is a short tube, open at both ends. This tube or syphon can be moved about in any direction. The animal breathes by means of gills, which are attached to the front of the body, inside the cloak, and look like the ruffles of a shirt-bosom. By means of these gills the air contained in the water is breathed, and they answer the same pur pose for the cuttle-fish that our lungs do fur us. In order to swiui, the animal swells out the cloak in front, so that the water flows in between it and the body. Then It closes the cloak tightly about the neck, so that tbe only way the Water can get out is through the syphon. Then it contracts forcibly its coat, and tbe water is driven out in a jet from tbe eyphoo, and the body is propelled in an opposite direction like a rocket through the water. This syphon is flexible, like a water hose, and can be bent so as to direct the stream not only forward, but sideways, and backwards, so that the auimal can move in almost any direction, and turn summersaults with perfect ease; and so rapidly do some cuttle-fishes swim, that they are able to make long leaps out of the water. Usually, however, the animal r-wims backward, with its long arms trailing behind. Our common cuttle fi.-h of this coast has, in addition to its eight arms, two long slender tentacles, which may be with drawn into the body. The tail is pointed and furni.-hed with a fin on each side. The octopods to which the Brazilian cuttle-fish belongs, have round purse-like bodies, aud eight arms united at the base with a web, and they swim by opening and shutting their arms like an umbrella; in this mode of swimming they resemble the jelly fishes. The paper nautilus is nothing in the world but a female cuttle-fish that builds a shell. There was a very pretty story told of her habits by Aristotle, tbe old Greek natural ist, which everybody believed until quite lately. He said she rode on the top of the waves, seated in her boat-like shell, and spreading her broad arms to the winds for sails. But, unfortunately, the story has no foundation in fact. She either crawls about on the bottom of the sea, or swims quite like other cuttle-fish, sheli foremost, only occasionally coming to the surface. Strange ly enough, she holds the two broad, hand like extremities of tbe arms against her body, and it is tbe inside of these arms that secrete the paper like schell, which is only a sort of cradle for her eggs. Not so with the pearly nautilus, whieh is furnished with a beautiful coiled up, pearly shell, formed j on the outside of the animal. The shell is divided into numerous chambers, and the anima l , living in the outer one, buildsa par tition across the hack part of it as the shell grows. Cutile fish are sometimes used for food by the Brazilians, and different species may be seen in the markets, where one fre quently finds them still alive. Sometimes as we stoop to examine one, its body is sud- j denly suffused with a deep pinkish gluw. Before we have time to recover our sur prise this color fades, and a beautiful blue takes its place as rapidly as a blush some- times suffuses a delicate cheek. The blue, perhaps, is succeeded by a green, and then j the whole body becomes pink again. One can hardly conceive anything more beauti- 1 ful than this rapid play of colors, which is j produced by the successive distention of seta of little sacks containing fluids of differ i ent colors which are situated under the skin. Tbecuttle fi-h is also furnished with a bag containing an inky fluid, which, when the annual ts attacked or pursued, it ejects into ; the water, thus completely blinding its ad | ver-ary and effectually coveruiug iO refr-.it. I It is frciu this fluid that the color Supia is j made. Beside carrying an ink-bottle some species of cuttle-fish arc provided with a, long, delicate, horny pen, which forms a sort of stiffener to the back. In souro spe- j uies the pen is hard, thick, and broad, aud ; ih; cuttle fish bone of commerce is of this j ! kind. The -species found in our waters is j i very small, and not at all dangerous, being : ! barely large enough to draw blood from the i hand; but in the tropical seas they are very , j large, powerful, and dangerous. The cut-' I tic-fish is the original of Victor Hugo's dev- j ' il-fish, so vividly described in tbe "Toilers I ;of the Sea." If the devilfish were a bene-; ficial one, Mr. Hart says he should be sorry j to destroy oar faith in it; but as it is, he be- ; ! lieves it will be rather a relief than other wise to know that in some important res pects Victor Hugo's stOTy of it is a fable. The Krakcn was a mythical cuttle-fish of fabulous size. WE often suffer ourselves to be put out of all our bearings by misfortune, not of the most serious kind, which, looks very black at the time, but which from its nature, ean | not be lasting. WC are thus like ignorant ' hens that insist upou going to roost in mid ! day because there, is a brief transitory ; I eclipse of the sun. VOL. 43: NO 4* ON GOING SURETY. Ought a man ever to go surety for aoolhe v Why not? It is a moat friendly act. If pru dently done, it may be of the most eminent benefit to a neighbor. It gives Lim the benefit of your good reputation when he is not known. It lends him your credit where his own is not sufficient. It puts liim in funds which otherwise he could not com mand. Such service to a friend is generous and sometimes even noble. No better can lie made of one's money than to help a a true friend. We arc commanded to "re member those in bonds as bound with them." To be sure, this was originally applied to bonds of a different kind, but with not a whit more propriety than to pecuniary bonds. A man who, by a few thousand dol lars, can save his friend and perhaps his family, from bankruptcy aud want, could hardly spend his money in a manner which, all his life long, he would remember with more satisfaction. But, there are certain moral and pruden tial considerations which should always be borne in tuind in going surety for a friend. You should make up your mind how much property you have, ami how much you are wtlliioj to give away, absolutely, for tbat friend whom you endorse. For no blunder can tc worse than to endorse on the suppo sition that you will not have to jniy. Never indorse without saying to yourself, "Thin may come round upon me. I may have to pay it; and if it comes to that, lam able and willing." Nine out of ten of the fatal mistakes made by bondsmen arise from ta king the opposite course to this. They con sider the act of indorsing a friend's paper as a mere commercial form. "There is no risk. I sbali not have it to pay. He is abuodantly able to take care of bis paper. I shall help him without harming myself, and he is a stingy man who will not do that." I This is the calculation on which a manbind.- tiim-clf to pay a friend s debts in case the friend cannot pay them himself. l>ut how do these things turn out? One need not go far to ascertain! Every village has an illustration. Tbe borrower was more involved than you supposed, or, perhaps, j than he himself knew, and his creditors closed j on him and wound him up, and were over joyed to find such a good name on his paper. Or, the sanguine scheme on which he had ventured, which seemed sure of success, al most without possibility of failure, sudden ly, like a loaded wagon, slipped off a wheel and upset into the dirt! Or, just as every thing was at the point of success, your friend sickened and could not look after his affairs, some critical matter was neglected, or some dishonest person stepped in and crooked matter.-; your friend died, the es tate went into the executor s bands for set tlement, was badly managed, warped and crooked, and finally turned out insolvent. And what became of you? Why, you were surely for the full amount of what vou are worth! In an hour you find yourself con fronted with debt that sweeps away your house, your farm, your little sum in bank, and leaves you just where you began twenty five years ago, with this difference, that then you bad only yourself to provide for, and now you have a wife and eight children. Then you were twenty-five years old, and life was ail before you, and now you arc fifty years, and life pretty much behind you! You have given away your children's bread. You have not yet saved your friend, but have ruined yourself! Perhaps your friend had settled on liis wife a small 'property. So much the better for her, if he had. Of course she wiil divide with you, since it was to save her husband, that you were ruined. But, if she will not (and human nature is made up of shaky stuff;! and her children go to school, while yours stay at home; and if they live in a comfortable house, pleas antly furnished, while you are hiring a few rooms in the cheapest quarter of the town, then I suspect that you will chew the end of a great many bitter reflection?. W hen it is too late, you will be very wise. You will say to yourself, it may be, "A Ixl an is a fool who signs for any larger sum than he can conveniently pay." Amen, say I! "Before a man puts his name down on another man's paper, he should ask himself, Am 1 willing to give this person as much money as I sign for?" Amen, say I? "To sign a bond on a supposition that it is a mere form, and that you will havo noth ing to pay, is to put one's head into a fool's noose." Amen, again, say I! There is no harm in signing for a neigh bor if you Lave got the property; if you are able to pay the amount without harming your own household; and if you love the man for whom you sign enough to be wilL ing to GIVE him outright the sum covered by your endorsement. Otherwise, to go surety for a neighbor is a folly, a sin and a shame.— Henry Ward Beecher. WONDERS. —When a young man is a clerk of a store and dresses like a prince, smokes "foreign cigars," drinks "nice brandy," at tends theatres, dances and the like, f won der if he does ail on the avails of the clerk ship? When a young lady sits in the parlor dur ing the day, with her lily white fingers cov-1 cicd with rings, I wonder if her mother' doscn't wash the dishes and do the work in the kitchen? When the deacon of the church sells j strong butter, recommending it as a good ! article, 1 wonder what he relies upon for salvation ? When a lady laces her waist a third less J than nature made it, I wonder if her pretty figure will not shorten life a dozen years or more, besides making her miserable while she does live ? When a young man is dependent upon ! his daily toils for his income, and marries a j lady who does cot know how to make a loaf of bread or mend a garment. I wonder if he is not lacking somewhere, eay towards the top, for instance? When a man reeeß es a periodical or news paper weekly, and takes great delight in reading it, and don't pay for it, I wonder j I if he has a soul or a gizzard ? | The first-born child of the Crown Prince i r of Italy has been christened Victor Em-1 | manuel, Prince of Naples, so that this 1 famous name will be perpetuated in the i royal line of Italy. The Neapolitans are in ecstaeies over the little Prince and his lovely mother. 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