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Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All business entrusted to their ire will receive careful and prompt attention. Pen si -ns. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking house c-f Reed A Schetl. Bedford, Pa. Apr l.OXttf PHYSICIANS. QR. 3- F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citisens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an i residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. UoSus. [Ap'l I,#B. MISCELLANEOUS. I ACOB BRENNEMAN, J WOODBEP.RY, PA., SCRIVENER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Will attendtoal!huines entrusted into his bands with promptness and despatch. Will remit mon ey by draft to any part of the country. ITsely Daniel border, Pitt stbect, two toots west of the bed* roan hotel, BEiroun, 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 Doable Refln. ei Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Ge-lc Watch Chains, Breast Pins. Finger Rings, be* -jo ly of Gold Pens. He will supply to ordei any thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2B/65 Dm wTcr OUSE , pbsleb :B CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPEvS, AC. On Pitt =:ret no d or ea.-t of Geo. R. Ortei A i - .*# Store, Bif ri, Pa-, is now t eeli bv wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. At >rdert promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in hw line will do well to give him call. Bedford April 1. r\ ITliiFko~k7 V . DENTIST Office at the old stand in BaxK BvitDrsQ, Juliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to Surgical and Mechanical Dentatrs performed with care anc WARRANTED. Anctetketiee adanidsred, trie a fieri red. Ar al teeth iaei ted at, pec eel, SB.OO and up rcrd. As I am deteimined to do a CASH BUSINESS or none, I have reduced the prices for ArtiSc a Teeth of the various kinds, 20 per eent.. er.d o G< -. i fillings -S per cent. This redact, n will bi made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all suet will receive prompt attention. Tfebfli w M. LLOYD \Y . BANKER. Transacts a General Banking Business, and make collections or all accessible points in the United Stales GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. GOLD, SIL VER. STERLING and CONTINENTAL EXCHANGE bought and sold. U.S. REVENUE STAMPS of all description' always on hand. Arc ants of MercbinU, Mechanics, Farmers at all other solicited. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS Jan. 7, I"t X C HANGS HOTEL. HUNTINGDON, PA. Tats old establishment having been leased bi J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor rUon House, has fceer, entirely renovated and re furnished and supplied with all the modern itn pvoi omenta and conveniences ueoersary to a first clasf Hotel. The dining room has been removed to the firs! four and is now spacious and airy, and the rham bc-rs are all well ventilated, and the proj-rietoi w:ii endeavor to make bis guests perfectly ai home. Address, J. MORRISON, Bxcnaacx Hotel, Sljalytf Huntingdon, Pa LsUTZ & JORDAN. Editor* and Propriety*. Ifaquim Column. J0 ADVERTISERS: THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PIBLLBHID EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BT L U T Z A JORDAN, OFFICE ON JULIANA STREET, BEDFORD, PA. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN SO UTH- WESTERN PENNS TL TANIA. CIRCULATION' OVER 1500. ROME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTS INSERTED ON REA SONABLE TERMS. A FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: pi.oo PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. 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Miss Leer Buss has taught school eight years in the old academy school at Stock bridge, Mass., without the loss of a single day. As she lives two miles from the school house, she must have walked more than 13,000 miles in the time. CHINESE STUPIDITF. —An official proda ma!ion of the Tautai at Tungche prohibits the erection of telegraphic poles in the Ce lestial Kmpire, and with delightful com placency informs the outer world that there is no occasion for a wire in CbiDa. Poles are inconsistent with the favor of the mysterious Fung Shui, the invisible Chinese deity which resides in the atmosphere. It is grieved, and we suppose gored, by sharp points. Tautai will have,-Done of this nonsense, which offends the gods, and as he say.-, cau-es the death of many worthy citiieos. JEFFERSON DAVIS and his Cabinet officers are being sharply criticised in New Orlvaus. The people of the Crescent City, the genu ine Southern inhabitants—not the new set tlers from the North —desire to know whst has become of the four million dollars in Specie that was taken from the Bank of Louisiana in the early months of the war. They do not expect to get back any of the coiu, but they think that the heads of the Rebellion should let item know to what uses they applied the money of the bank. It is to be hoped that Jeffeascn Davis or some of his "high toned" friends will explain. THE Democrats of Ohio are fairly boiling over with wrath at the political blunder into which they were seduced by the Cincinnati Enquirer. In voting for the "Reform" ticket they bad to swallow, mauger ome very intense repugnance, a batch of Repub licans whom they were bidden to accept by their own organ. Once in their seats the Republicans voted for the Fifteenth amend ment, and so went back on their mongrel con stituents. It is said by those who ire in a position to know, that a "Reform ' ticket, preached by the Enquirer , will not be very popular among the Democrats of Ohio for a few years to come. GAMBLING ON A VERDICT. —Tbe libel suit of George Wilkes against the proprie tors of the Turf. Field and Farm, afforded an opportunity for a number of New York sports to "go their pile" on tbe result of the case. On the opeoing of the eourt oo Friday, a number of bets were made. One man bet to #IOO that Bruce would be convicted. This was promptly covered. When the juty went out heavy odds were offered in favor of an acquittal, with no takers. Those who bad previously given odds began to hedge. After an absence of about three quarters of an hour, the jury re turned a verdict of not guilty. Io one in stance a prominent sporting man lost five thousand dollars. Others lost and won in smaller or io larger sum". Sotae sporting men have learned tbe truth of the old proverb that nothing is so uncertain as the verdiet of a jury. A SINGULAR SUlT.—There is a curious and interesting suit just now in the Chancery Court, in London. In 17'.<2 a society, called the West New Jersey Society, purchased sundry tracts of land in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. One John Love was a mem ber and held ten shares which he trans fen-ed, in 1693, to a Mr. Ffowks. Strange to say, the society is still legally in existence and holds some seven or eight thousand pounds, representing the value of those ten shares. The object of the present proceed ings is to a-certaio who are the next of kin to that Mr. Ffowks, who died some one hundred and fifty years ago. Small as tbe sum is there are already numerous claim ants. It is certain'y both curious aud inter e-ting that the Lnglisb Court of Chancery should be now, in 1870, engaged in dispo sing of a case of which the cause of action transpired in Pennsylvania and New Jersey when they were British colonies, aod in fact shortly after tbeir settlement. WHO WILL BE THE AMERICAN CARDINAL.' —A letter from Rome brings the following hint about the proposed American cord-nab "Some of tbe bishops are so delighted at tbe opportunity afforded them of sh wine their proficiency io Latin, that they get on the stump at the slightest provocation and make long speeches. Some of our American bishops have especially distinguished them selves in tht manner. Archbishop Ken r'ek, ofSt. Loui*. was most eloquent on tht expediency of 'the Council at this moment, and its necessity a* a regenerator of society.' None of his colleagues bad contested this point; hut his Grace is after a cardinal's bat. and hoped that his oratorical effort* might help his chane - Br the way there seems little donbt that an Eminence will b chosen from among tbe four following: Me- Closkey, Spaldine, Purcell and Kenrick. The latter counted confidently on his pro motion two year ago, bat he was obliged t< go borne as he came, without the red stock ingv. As it is, the Pope, although hecaono interfere, lest he should be aocu-ed of t de-ire to preveut freedom of discussion does not look favoably on all this waste o time in irrelevant speech miking, so thai Arehbishop Spalding will probably yet dis tance his more wordy competitors. " PROTECTION OF COAL MINSK*. —A bii has been introduced in the House of Reprsen tatives at Washington by Mr. Hay, of Illi nois, to more effectually protect the lives c people working in mines. It provides fo all the details of mining. Among othe things, that the owners of mines shall pre 1 pare a map of their mine, showing tbe shafts slopes, 4c., 4c., which shall be deposits with the inspector of mines provided for it I tbe bill, which map shall be corrected annu : ally. Each mine is to have within a spcci fied time two shafts or slopes, not less thai me hundred and fifty feet in width, wit! distinct means of ingress and egress, to b< kept in an available condition. The ventila i tion rnu-t be at all times free and perfect A "mining boss" is to have charge of tb mines, and he or his assistants must entci j the mines and report all safe before an; I other person is allowed to enter. The; : must also be the lust to leave the mines, am ! see that all is propetly secured. Tbe lamp are to be under tbe super* i.-ion of a specia deputy of the mining boss, 4e. Speakint tubes from the surface to the bottom of th 1 mine are also provided, and everything ii j connection with the proper working of i I mine is carefully specified in the bill I was referred to tbe Committee on Mines air ; Mining. BEDFORD, FA.. FRIDAY, FEB. 11. 1870. fortnj. A KAKKHELL Fiow Uowa, cold rivulet, to the sea. Thy tribute were deliver: No more by thee my steps shall be. Forever and forever. Plow, softly flow, by lawa and lea, A rivulet then a river; Nowhere by thee tr.y steps shall be, Forever acd forever. But here will sigh thine alder tree. And here thine aspen shiver; And here by tbee trill hum the bee, Forever and forever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons will quiver; But not by thee my steps shall be. Forever and forever. U£I>DED LOVE. J. G. WOITTtKR. And if the husband or the wife Iu home's strong light discovers Such alight defaults as failed to meet The blinded eyes of lovers. Why o' >1 we care to ask ? who dreams Without their thorns of roses. Or wonders that the truest steel The readiest spark discloses? For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true livicg; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving. Uawou.s. THE SLAVL LAW UIVEKS. Hon. A. K. MeClare of this state, who has been sojourning during the winter at Columbia, the Capital of South Carolina, has written a letter to the Ck imbtMbrtrg under the above title, as follows: To tkt Ed Cor# of tke Franklin FUpotitory. The Slave Law Givers. Here the Slave is now the Master : the Boodman is the Law-giver. Here has been fulfilled that singular prophecy ventured by lefferson soon after his retirement from the Presidency. Sp. aking of the crime of S!a very, he said, "that considering numbers, native and natu.ra! means only, a revolution :>f the wheel of fortune, an exchange of sit uation, is among possible events, and it may become prohable by supernatural interfe rence ! Tbe Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a con test." I walked leisurely along the broad streets of Columbia, to the imposing, but still un finished capitol of South Carolina. The softest breeze of Northern spriog-timc greet ed me, and the beautiful magnolia, mock orange, firs, and other evergreens, seemed to proclaim perpetual summer. The street* are crowded with motley groups of whites and blacks, and on the modest elevation that fixes the centre of the main avenue stands the point of attraction —the capitol with the Legislature in session. I entered the vast rotunda, and passed on to the legisla tive halls, to witness the deliberations of the novel Legislature of reconstructed South Carolina. Tbe Senate Hall, designed to echo the eloquence of the Hamdens, the Rhetts. the Hammonds, and other distinguished sons o' chivalry, has been fitted up in a modest ele gance and eighteen whites and fifteen ne groes fill its chairs. As a body, it is but little below some Northern Senates I have seen, in point of intelligence, and among its members are able men of both races. Mr. Corbins th President, is a very able law yer and debater, and peihaps the command icg intellect of all the contributions from the North to the statesmanship of Soutb Carolina. He is well appreciated, too, a< he is Senator. U. S. District Attorney, and codifier of tbe laws, and fills all with credit Senator Jillioo. another son of New Eng land, is a gentleman of culture, and is State Commissioner of Education, as well as kg islator. Senator Leslie is an ex New York Democrat acd ex Democratic legislator frotr Brooklyn. He is now a Republican Sena tor, and State Land Commissioner. Thes< doubly or trebly hobored gentlemen are not singular, however. There was a lack o: white material when the wheels of govern ment were put in motion, and it became ai agreeable necessity for a number to accep' multiplied office.- Mr. Moses, -Speaker o the House, is Adjutant General; and Mr Naele, Controller Geoeral; Mr Tomlinson Auditor General: Mr. Elliott, Aaistan Adjutant General, and Mt. Stolbrand, Sn perintendent of tbe Penitentiary, are al commissionel State officers, and member of tbe House. The most notable negro in the Legislator* is Senator IVricbf. lie is a full-blooder negro, cf medium size, with a finely cbis eled face and haodsomely developed head He came here with the cirtificate acd sea of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a an Attorney at-Law. His features acd font are fairly Caucasian in all color, and hi speaks fluently and forcibly. He is emimn tor his integrity, and devotes himself intel ligently and earnestly to the advancemen of his race and State. On the right of tin Chamber sits a till, gaunt, full blooded tie gro. black as mid night, with the regula Southern negro dialect, and the awkwati gait of a fieid-hmd. He is Senator Nash the representative of tbe capital district and successor to II ade Hampton. He i quite intelligent although entirely unedu caicd, and was. in olden times, the best ho tel porter in Columbia. Senator Cain sit near the centre aisle, and boasts of no dis count on his African blood. He is a toler able debitor, and an ardent preacher of th Methodist persuasion. A little in front o him, sits Senator Swails, a light quadroor and a hasty graduate of the country fn< schools of tbe Cumberland Vavey. He i doubtless remembered by many of the citi zens of Cnambersburg. He writes a beau tiful hand and speaks quite intelligently. Tbe hour of noon is indicated by tbe plaii mahogany circular clock above the doot the Senate is called to order. A very plain jet-black, white chokered man stepped u; on the Speaker s stand, and called the Sen ators to their devotions. A more simple beautiful and appropriate prayer I neve heard, than Chaplain Adams offered for hi ; dubiou- flock, and stricken Commonwealth Routine legislation then followed, and turned to take a look at the popular brine of the Legislature. It sits in the spaciou library room ol the new capitol, tcmperar ly appropriated to the purpose, aod a larg gallery i- usually crowded with negroes | watcbin.- with intense interest the maide efforts of their respective brethren, as Law- ! makers Speaker Moses is in the chair, | and he presides with great dignity and abili ty. Ha is an Israelite, and an enthusiast. From an extreme rebel be has transformed himself into an extreme Republican, As a staff officer of Governor Pickens, he was ac corded the honor of hoisting the Confeder ate flag over Fort fcjumpter, when Anderson surrendered, and now he presides over the first Republican Legislature. Hk father was a rebel commissioner to persuade North Carolina to join in secession, and now be ad ministers Republican laws in hearty sympa thy, as Chief Justice of the State. The Speaker soon vacated the chair, and a stout, finely formed negro took his place and presided very gracefully. He is Mr. i Weipper, of Charleston —a Michigan wail that eatne with war and lodged, when the army was disbanded, His face is round, full and well-drawn. If covered with a white skin and flaxen hair hk features would be mre than ordinarily good. He is the Patriik Henry of the House as an orator: i but he want of culture mars the beauty of his sentences He is a lawyer, and "pit" j til the vacant scat of the Supreme Bench, : as d-es Senator Wright. Mr. Elliot, a j Massachusetts negro of full blood, is per haps th< ablest disputant and parliamentary leader 01 the colored side of the House. I 1 saw b:n lead in a desperate struggle of two : days, ii surport of a bill that was fought desperately by filibustering, and he man- I ag- d | with great skill until he covered his his eftcts with success. Capt. Small, the hero )f the "Planter" during the war, is j also amember. He is a stout, burly, mul 1 atto, rod his face indicates considerable in I telligoce and great decision of purpose, i I'ervij is a neat, slender mulatto, and bails from Ibiiadelpbia, where bis fathea is well I knowt as one of the most successful finan-1 cial proces of his race. The son is the De" ; gro Bau Brummel of the House—dresses : very i-tefuily, and parts his soft waving hair it the middle. He is an active at.d t influetial member and speaks well. De Largais a dumpy, little quadroon, a fluent but no very forcible talker, and has a pas- ■ sion fe the floor. He was a steward in the rebel avy during the war. Cook, of Green We. is a very genteel mulatto, and a j quiet bt efficient member. He is the son j of bis fvmer master, and long struggled to free binself from bondage. He saved fif teen budred dollars, by sixpences and sliiil-i ings earrd after labor hours, aod offered it j in Tain or bis liberty. Finally rebellion I brotght "unancipatioo. and his savings gave j bima comfortable home. Tie House is nearly two thirds negroes, i who went once slaves, and every possible ! sbae is to be found. There are half a dox ] en temhers who would readily pass for punwfcites, but they were South Carolina slavs only a few years ago. Mr. Tomlin- ! soD,i Philadelphia Quaker, and ac offshoot of tk Bureau, is the ablest white man on the oor, and one of the most vigilant and faitftil members in either branch. Close . to bu sit Gen. Dennis and Mr. Jenks, two of Gable political leaders of the House. In tb trwtf row is the partriarch of the Legislauo--sn old native, white preacher, his head Vac bed by th fiwi of more than seven winters. On each side of the Speaker si a bright mulatto clerk, and close by is s. litter, the reporter. In the gallery sit-he first negro of South Caroli na. with h sprightly quadroon wife by his j side. Mr.'ordoza, the Secretary of State, j is a robu full-faced mulatto, and every thine abo'him indicates the highest cul- . ture. Htaiher and master wa an officer of enstoe in Charleston, and gave him a ] complete location in Scotland. He was regularly dained as a minister, and was j pastor of- New England congregation for j some yea before the war. Gen. Howard has urge rim to accept a professorship in j ■he Liotf University, bat he wisely pre- j fers to fve his long oppressed race in South (olina. He is highly respected by all class and exerts a most salutary in fluence ail matters pertaining to the in terest fthe blacks. If he desired to fill the Erutive Chair of hk State or a seat in Coaeaa, either would be conceded to h'ra voout a serious struggle; but for the preseine is content to continue as Secre tary ota'e. It is not improbable, howev er. t! on the 4th of March, 1871, Mr. Cardt, once the slave of South Carolina, may ear at the bar of the U. S. Senate to quy as the representative of the chiv alry the first legislative tribunal of the natio A - K - M - CtMBIA, S. C., January 12, IS7O. THE HEW TARIFF. ItJtDs to have been the object of the com-ee to reduce the burdens of the peo ple thout materially impairing tbe rev enu>f tbe Government, and to stimulate coirrce while withdrawing no consider ablcount of protection from our manu facing and mechanical interests. Tbe freet is greatly enlarged by adding arti ciese product chiefly of tropical climates, wb enter into an infinite number of our iB.--nical and manufacturing processes. Bus means it is hoped to stimulate direct caicrce with those countries which pro d what we require and require what we puce; and to so cheapen our own produc t ! as to give full employment anl wa.i. - ur labor, and yet permit u- to compete v foreign countries in the common tnar kof the world. Tbe dot it? on spices tbe very much reduced, with the view ocreas'ng the revenue from these articles. Tc duties were increased from three to ffiundred per cent, oil ralortm since tbe v which hid the effect of reducing our lunate importations, and of inducing tsmuggiing of these articles. In the cse of its investigations the committee atained that every variety of spices are orted into t'uis country, and shipped in I to the British provinces, from whieh tare smuggled over oar hoes. The du t>n spices will, therefore, be reduced to st what they were before the war, so that sr as they enter into food they may be ht reasonable rates, and the production oential oils, essences, Ac., from tbem, n was a large branch of manufacture b; the war. but has since been suspend cay be resumed. In the same direction is action of the committee on tea, coffee aagar. The sugar interest of Louisiana aa-xas grew up under a duty of three qc-r* of a cent per pound on raw sugar, bt a revenue measure in the early dys oi war this duty was increased to three a per pound on raw sugar and proper tied on higher grades. The action of timmittee makes an average reduction an twenty-five to thirty per cent. The I doty on ten was during the war raised to twenty-five cents per pound, and that on coffee to fourteen cents per pound. The committee purpose to reduce the doty on tea to twenty cents, and that on coffee to ! four—making a reduction of twenty per j cent * The examinations of the committee j have disclosed the fact that the ad valorem system operates most pn-judically to the interests of American merchants and the public revenue by bokiing out inducements' to foreign manufacturers to establish agen- ! cics in this country, to which they consign their goods at rates very much below their j value. The committee has in all j.ractica- j ble cages, converted the ad xxdurtm to epe-! cific duties. The final action of the com j mittee has been to put anthracite coal on the free list, and to leave all other varieties as they arc. The argument for this is that our j coal regulates the price of provincial coal in j our markets, or, in other words, that iffrom strikes among our miners, or other causes, > American ooal advances, provincial coal in- j variably follows it, while if, from over pro- i duction or small demand, the price of Amer- ; ican coal recedes, that of provincial coal } does go down with it, without at all affect- i ing the supply. The amount of duty re-1 ceived from this source by the Treasury is generally about five hundred thousand dol lars per annum. Except to convert adval orem duties into specific on ro led iron, at rates about equivalent to existing duties, few changes in the important item of iron' are propo-ed. The duty on pig iron is re- j duced from Dine to seven dollars per ton, or about the rate of reduction on tea and coffee. It is expected there will he much resistance ! to this reduction in the House. The duties on cast steel have hitherto been ad valorem at these rates, and the records of the Cus tom House show that for the last twenty years the higher grades of steel, of which erest quantities have been imported, have been almost uniformly invoiced at lower . rates than their real values. The Commit- : tee therefore propose to pnt a specific duty on cast steel, which will be a medium rate between two and a quarter per cent, the lowest and three and ten per cant, the highest under the existing tariff. THE EXPOSE OF TIPPLING. IJoic Much it Costt for the Daily Snifter of the Toper. Why is it that go many of the families of the laboring men in our and cities live in such a poor, beggarly way, in so many damp, dark basements, and up in su<;h close, confined, rickety old attics? Many of the beads of these families receive good wages, and get their pay every week or month regularly. But where, in many cases, do their wages go? Not to the bank er, the grocer, the lutcher, the merchant tbey go for strong drink, and beer which do not strengthen the physical man. Franklin taught the printers of London that cold water was better than ale : and cold water has lost none of its viitues in 14" years.. The cost of tippling is in the aggregate enormous. The inquiry is often uiade. how are so many drinking houses sustained? Let us see. Twenty men, at 30 cents a day. will pay one of the "tippling shops" $2,190 a year. A man who pays 30 cents a day for "drinks" pays $lO9 50 a year. This is the interest on $1,564 at seven per cent., at simple interest. This sum, 30 cents a day, amounts in ten years to $1,171 95" All this is wasted, paid ont for "an enemy that steals away a man's brains," and robs him and his family of every comfort. Intoxica ting liquors give neither strength to the ; body, vigor to the mind, resolution to the : will, elevation to morals, nor dignity to character. Strong drink drags a man down from bis high estate, depraves all his ap- ] petites, and leaves bim in want and misery, ' the mere wreck and semblance of a man. *" The constant use of intoxicating Iquors } makes hard times for many a man; thus,, a family of five persons will consume four barrels of flour a year, or 1.056 pounds ot bread. This is nearly three pounds a day. Good flour can be bought now at $T a barrel; four times seven makes s2s: and thirty cents a day for drinks is $lO9 50, or SSI 50 more per year than the bread for a family Gf i five persons costs. "Bat," says A, "I only ; take two drinks a day." Very well, you pay ihen for your drinks $73 a year, mily $45 more than you pay for the bread consumed by your whole family, if it contains five per son*. Tbis sum would provide tea and coffee for them. Here, then, we see that the man who pays twenty cents a day lor liquor spends a sum sufficient to supply his iamily with bread, tea and coffee for the year. Is it strange that times are hard, aDd men com plain of the government, and charge that it oppresses them with onerous taxes? The above figures show how meu tax themselves, and how they tax property, too. In 1868, the Inebriate Asyium cost the taxpayers of this city $144,472 40. bile ihe amount of money paid by the city for : flour for all its hospitals, asylums, and for the relief of the poor, was only $102,573 38. The out-door poor cost the city, in 1868, $15KJ,23 Ci. How njuoh nf thi* eotlld he charged to intemperance ? The number of persons committed to the workhouse in tbis city, in 1868, was 15,738. The Commissioners say, "a considerable proportion of the committals is for intoxica tion." The police stations, the prison*, the alms houses, the penitentiary, the miserable homes, all tell of the work of in temperance. It is the great curse of the land—it feeds upon the wages of labor, and like the horse leech's daughter, "it cries give, give," until all is gone of health, char acter, life.—-V'-tc Yoik Evening Post, ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. — Let the busi ness of everyone alone, and attend to your own. Don't buy what you don't want. Lse every hour to advantage, and study to make j even leisure hours useful. Think twice 1 before you spend a shilling—remember you will have another to make fcr it.—Buy low, j sell fair, and take care of the profits. Look over your hooks regularly and if yon find an error, trace it Should a stroke of misfor tune come upon you in trade, retrench, work , harder, lut never fly the track. Confront | difficulties with unflinching perseverance, and they will disappear at last; though you fail in the struggle, you will be honored; but shrink, and you will be despised. IMPROVE your talents in song as a means of worship, health, and enjoyment. For every moment thus spent you will be amply and abundantly blessed. HOLD yourself io restraint without put j ting restraint upon others. VOL. 43s NO 6. THE FOREIGN POPULATION Ol MAINE. A correspondent of' the Boston Jumna writes from Maine t inoerninjr the report o the special commission appointed to ascer tain what measures, if any should be adoptee by that State to eocourage settlements it the unpeopled townships; the commissicc made an extended tour of observatior through the county of Aroostook, when nearly ail the important townships ol Maine are situated. Some time since the cultivation of wheat nearly eeased in Aroostook on account o the ravages of the weevil. Two years ap. aa experimental crop of wheat was groWD. It turned out well. Last year double tfct quantity was sowed, with like good result and this year sufficient wheat has been har vested to feed the entire county. The dwellers in the fertile valley of the St. John —refugees from Acadia—are igno rant and peculiar, but still are interesting people. Driven from tbeir homes by tht conquering Briton, they were wise enough to select for their place of exile the verj "garden of Maine "* The farms of these --ettlers ran in narrow strips from river to road, and to the bill: beyond. In this way a farm a mile long L frequently but a few rods in width. Tht dwellings are chiefly built on the main road, and the commission drove for fifty mile; from the eastern boundary of the State through an almost continuous village. The houses are nearly all wooden and ol a uniform pattern, low studded, with con cave roof and projecting eaves. Indoors, the spinning-wheel and loom occupy an hon orable position, and here the mixed wool of white and black flocks is made into home spun gray clothing. A hole burrowed into the nearest hill-side serves for cellar—a structure of small stones aed mud in the door-yard is their oven, and water is heated n a large pot slung over a pole by the brook side. The language of the Madawaskans is French, their mother tongue. Of the men, a very few speak English well; many can hold a broken conversation in our tongue, but most of them, together with the women and children, speak almost exclusively French. In some localities scarcely an Eng lish word is uttered or understood. Even the town records are often kept in French. At Grant Isle, while the commission were examining the books of the town clerk, it was impossible to prevent a smile, in ascer taining that there had been voted the past year for school purposes the sum of "deux cent piastre*," certainly an unusual kind of money with which to educate children in Yankee land. Travelling south from Fort Bent, along the West Aroostook road, houses aDd clear ings become less and less frequent: and after the plantations of Walligrass and Eagle Lake are passed it is an almost unbroken solitude till the settlement about Portage Like is reached. In fact, nearly all the set tled part of Aroostook is along the eastern and northern boundary of the State, and is in shape like a scythe laid upon the ground: ihe eastern tier of townships is the handle, and the valley of the St. John the blade. Inside this imaginary scythe is a vast uo peopled country, larger than the State oi Massachusetts, whose virgin soil awaits the real scythe and plough of the settler. The commission then discuss the question of Scandinavian emigration, which they con tend naturally flows to us. They say the climate of Maine, especially of Aroostook, is much like that of Sweden and Norway. TUE ANTHRACITE COAL TRADE. The Philadelphia Ledger savs: The anthra cite coal trade is very dull, and comparatively ew colleries are at work. The supply o( coal at all the great centers is reported np to the demand, and at Elizabethport con siderably in excess of the supply of vessels necessary for its dis ribution. At Port Richmond, io consequence of the limited production of coal in the Schuylkill region and the demand for it on the line, the sup ply is hardly kept up, though there are but few vessels there and freights are high. Still the shipments for a week past have rather exceeded the receipts. The Reading Railroad reports a tonnage ol £7,383 tons of all kinds for the week ending on the 13tfa inst., against 19,572 tons the previous week, and for the fiscal year to the same date 343,- >24 tons, against 230.6' i 7 tons to corres ponding time last year, showing an increase of 63,147 tons. The tonnage ofall the prin cipal carrying companies for the week, so far as reported, is 156,989 tons, and for the new coal year 721,948 tons, against 54-5,910 tons to corresponding date last year, show ing an increase of 176,033 tons. In the several coal regions, and, in fact, in all the departments of the trade, the next season's budness is discussed with much earnestness. In the Schuylkill region there have been sereral informal conferences between the representatives of the operators and miners in reference to the establishment of a basis for wages, but a? yet nothing has been posi tively concluded. The former urge $2 as the basis, and the representatives of the miners contend for 82 25 to 82 50 per ton. A good feeling seems to prevail between the ; .mies, and there is every reason to believe • he t disputes will be fewer in future between th - operators and the workmen, while the competition between the several regions and tbeir respective carrying companies will be more vigorous—all which will tend to the greatest possible production of coal, and to the cheapening of prices. The prospect for a large production of coal in any one year, so early in the season, was never better than now. There is a disposition among all parties in the trade to work in harmony. THE DUTY OF A MOTHER. —She should be firm, gentle, kind, always ready to attend to her child. She should never laugh at him, at what he does that is winning; never ailow } him to think of his looks, except to be neat and clean in a'l his habits. She should teach him to obey a look; to respect those older than himself, she should never make a command without seeing it is performed in the right manner. Never speak of a child's faults or foibles, or repeat his remarks before him. It is a sure way to spoil a ehi'd. Never reprove a child when excited, nor let your tone of voice be raised when correc ting. Strive to inspire love, not dread: re spect, not fear. Remember you are train ing and educating a soul foi eternity HURRY and cunning are two apprentices of despatch and skill, but neither of tbcm ever learn their master's trade. IF you wish to be good, first beliere that you arc bad. SUBSCRIPTION" TERMS, AC The hwmia i published 9*IBAT mors ing fat following rates : /• o.** 'Yean, (la —— SXM " " (if not paid within six DM.)... sl-40 " " (if not paid within the year,)... s3.B# All papers outside of the county diseontineed without nnce. At the expiration of the time for which the subscription has bees paid. einglecopiesof the paper furnished, in wrappert at fire cents each. Communication* on subject* of local or general n tercet, are respectfully solicited. To ensure at tention favors of thi* kind mn*t invariably be accomparied ir/lhe name of the author, not for publication, uat us a guaranty against imposition. Ail letterr pertaining to business of the off-re should be addressed to LVTZ A JORDAN, Benroac, Pa. TIIE HOOL INDVSTKY We clip the following from the Report of the Commissioner of Agricult'ire: A period of depression bee been realized by our wooi growers during the post four years, which has been shared by all other wool-growing countries, but which has been greatly modified and relieved by the opera tion of the present tariff, which has prevent ed the utter prostration of this necessary branch of industry in the present, and assured its rapid recuperation in the future. A sufficient quantity of carpet wools, not produced in this country, has been admitted from abroad at how rates of duty; a suffici ency of most grades of clothing wools has been produced at home and sold at lower prices than when foreign wools were admit ted at nominal rates, and so impetus has been given to the production of combing wools, which will not only greatly benefit the textile interest, but improve the quality and quantity of muttou in the markets of the Uod. Dissatisfied with the present receipts and gloomy over future prospects, many farmers have sacrificed a portion of their flocks during the past year. It is estimated that four millions of culls were killed for pelts and tallow. American agri culture. in all its branches, is peculiary sub ject to periods of elevation and depression from the impulsive action which stimulates over-production at one time, foDowed by panic abandonment of tbe temporarily un profitable pursuit. Tbe wool interest has often suffered, not merely from ordinary causes of fluctuation, but more disastrously still from tariff changes, frequent and ex treme as unexpected. It i- essential to the welfare of this important industry, that the present moderate schedule of duties should be continued without modification. CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP. Friendship, founded on the principles of worldly morality, recognized by virtuous heathens, such as that which subsisted be tween Atticus and Cieero. which tbe last of these illustrious men has rendered immor tal. is fitted to survive through all the vicissitudes of life; but it belougs only to a union founded on religion, to continue through an endless duration. The former of these stood the shock of conflicting opin ions, and of a revolution that shook the world: tbe latter is destined to survive when tbe heavens are no more, and to spring fresh from the ashes of tbe universe. The former possessed all the stability which is possible to sublunary things: the latter partakes of the eternity of God. Friendship founded on worldly principles is natural, and though composed of tbe best elements of nature, is not exempt from its mutability and frailty: the latter is spiritual, and therefore un changing and imperishable. The friendship which is founded on kindred tastes and con genial habits, apart from piety, is permitted by the benignity of Providence to embellish a world, with all its magnificence and beauty, but will shortly pass away: that which has religion for its basis will ere long be trans planted in order to adorn the paradise of God.— Robert HaV. A METHODIST DOG. THE following curious dog story is vouched for by a paper in Montreal: "A gentleman owns a dog that has some remarkable instincts. On week-days be ha? all the passions and propensities of other dogs, but on tbe Sabbath his peculiarities and sectarian sentiments come out. He knows when this day comes. He is not the same dog as on other days. He indulges in nnt duties be raised one dollar per ton on >ir iron, and three dollars per ton on rails, ■craps, boiler iron, and ail other desenp ioos of manufactured iron, and that a di ed tax be imposed of OBe dollar upon all vg. bars, rails, plates, and other descrip ioas of iron manufactured in the country, :o compensate for the loss of revenue on tho mportation of foreign iron. WHEN hearts are filled with holy affections iad home is happy, then do the yonng dwell n a charmed circle, which only the natnrafly lepraved would seek to quit, and across vbich boundary temptations to error shine :-ut but feebly. ______ THE tale-bearer, says Dr. South, and the :ale-hearer, ought to bo both hung up to gether, back to back, the one by the tongue, the other by the ear DON'T cherish your sorrows: when God breaks our idols in pieces, it is not for as to put tbe broken bits together again.