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The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodical! from the Post office, or removing and having tbem uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional fraud, a?rofrsstoaal & 3Susiaess (Sards. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. yY c.H 0L A HAN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, BeDronp, PA. Jan. 28, '7O-tf ALEX. KING, .in., A TTQRNEY-A T-LA W. BEDFORD, PA., All business entrusted to bis eare will receive prompt and careful attention Office three doors -outli of the Court House, lately occupied by J. W. Dicktrson. nov2B AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, axoroni), PA. Have formed a partnership in the practice of j the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1869-tf j JYJ. A. POINTH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA. J Respectfully tenders his professional services to the pnblic. Office in the I.VQOI nEßuilding, (second floor.) promptly made. [April,l'69-tf. ESPY' M. ALSTP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully and promptly attend to ali busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin ng counties. Military claims, Pensions, back pay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann & Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south . of the Slengel House. apl 1, 1869.—tf. JR. DURLORROW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBPORD, PA., Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. He ■ i, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent , and at! give special attention to the prosecution j '.lit t against the Government for Pensions, ! Back 1 ay. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the \ Inqvirrr office, and nearly opposite the ' Mengel ' House" April 1, 186!>:tf j S. L. RUSSELL. J. B. LOXOESECKER ■ RUSSELL A LONGENECKER, ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, J Bedford, Pa., Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. B4ir-OCice on Juliana street, south of the Court ; House. Apri 1:69:1yr. j J- M'D. BHARPE E. R. KERR SHARPE A KERR, A TTOR.VE 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, dkc., speedily col lected from the Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking ] house of Heed A Schell. Bedford, Pa. Apr l;69:tf j PHYSICIANS. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius. [Ap'l 1,69. .MISCELLANEOUS. TACOB BRENNEMAN. 11 WOODBEP.RY, PA., SCRIVENER. CONVEYANCER, LICENSED i CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Will attend to all business entrusted into his hands j with promptness and despatch. Will remit mon- j ey by draft to aDy part of the country. 17ly ' DANIEL RORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OP THE BED FORD HOTEL, BEIPORD, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL- P.Y. SPECTACLES. AC. lie 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 his line not on hand. [apr.2?/U5. f) W. C ROUSE, " ~ * - • DEALER 15 CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C. On Pitt street one door ea-et of Goo. E. Oster ! fc Co.'s Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April I. '69.. /l N. HICKOK, >z- v DENTIST. Office at the old stand in BANK Ben DING, Juliana at., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to Surgical and Mechanica I Dentistry performed with care and WARRANTED An.eethetice administered, when desired. Ar tificial teeth inter ted at, per eet, 88.00 and np. ward. As I am detei mined to do a CASH BUSINESS or none, I have reduced the prices for Artificial Ti-eth of the various kinds, 20 per cent., ar.d of Gold fillings S3 per cent. This reduction will He made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such will receive prompt attention. 7feb6B w LLC Y D '* • BANKER. Transacts a General Banking Business, and makes collections on all accessible point* in the United State*. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. GOLD, SIL VER, STERLING and CONTINENTAL EXCHANGE bought and sold. U.S. REVENUE STAMPS of all descriptions aiway* on hand. Accounts of Merchant*, Mechanics, Farmers and all other solicited. IXTERE-T ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS. Jan. 7, "70. I7IX CHANGE HOTEL. Ij 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 -applied with all the modern im provement* and conveniences necessary to a first c!a. Hotel. The dining room has been removed to the first floor and is now spacious and airy, and the cham bers are all well rentilated, and the proprietor will endeavor to make his guesrs perfectly at : tome. Address, J. MORRISON, j EXCHANGE HotEL, 31julytf Huntingdon, Pa. -v L.UTZ & JORDAN. Editors and Proprietors. gnquim Column. RPO ADVERTISERS: THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, T . LUTZ k JORDAN, OFFICE ON JULIANA STREET, BEDFORD, PA. - j . -..j THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM | TN SOUTH- WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, j CIRCULATION OVER 1500. HOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE ; MENTS INSERTED ON REA | SONABLE TERMS. A FIRST CLASS NEWSPAPER. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $2.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. - JOB PRINTING: ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH, AND IN THE LATEST & MOST APPROVED STYLE, SUCH AS POSTERS OF ANY SIZE, CIRCULARS, BUSINE6B CAhDr WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS, BALL TICKETS, PROGRAMMES, CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, SKGAR LABELS, RECEIPTS, LEGAL BLANKS, PHOTOGRAPHER'S CARDS, BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, . PAMPHLETS, PAPER BOOKS, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC Our faeilitici for doing all kinds of Job Printing are equalled by very few eetablishment* in the conntry. Orders by mail promptly filled. All letters should be a>ldrt*so i to LUTZ A JORDAN. a Jioral anb Grnrral firtospaprr, Srbotrb to goUtics, (Gburation, Jtitrvaturr auti JgMal*. ITEMS. INCOME TAX.—Mr. Kellogg, of Connecti cut, has introduced a bill in the H.'Uae of Represetatives, which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, reducing the income tax to be levied and paid upon the gains, profits and income for the year ending December 31, 1869, from five to three per centum on the amount of each person's income liable to said tax over and above the sum of two thousand dollars, which last amount is exempted from said tax. THE POPE SAYS HE IS INFALLIBLE.—The Pope appears to be in advance of the peod ing decision of the Conncil upon the ques tion of Pontifical infallibility. According to the Tablet his Holiness has, within the last few days, approved and enriched with indulgences a prayer for the Greek schis matics, wherein the following words arc worthy of note: "O Mary, Immaculate V irgin, we beseech the to be pleased to en treat the Divine Spirit in favor of our erring brethren, that enlightened by hisquickening grace, they may return to the Catholic Church, under the infallible authority of its chief Pa . tor. the Roman Pontiff\ THE FUNDING BILL.—It is said to be the intention of the Senate Finance Committee to press the consideration of the bill to fund the public debt, and to debate it from day to day uutil disposed of. Secretary Bout well has iniormed members of both the financial committees that if this bill becomes a law, be has assurance of the most trust worthy character, that he can fund five bun dred millions of debt this year into a five per cent. bond. He has received a tele gram announcing that with exchange added 5-20s of '67 were par in Paris, and he be lieves that there is quite a large amount of European capital that will seek investment in the new loan. He regards the Funding bill as the most important to the Govern ment of any other measure now pending. A GENTLEMAN in Michigan, who lately visited their State penitentiary, reports fifty murderers in the male department, nad about thirty in the female department. On these tremendous facts he makes the fol lowing observations: "We hang nobody—and say what you will, Michigan is a murdering State. It has less of foreign population than any Western State. Its people are of New Eogland origin, direct or second hand, as those of Done other, but we shed more blood in a decade than Massachusetts has shed, with all her Celtic immigrants, since the adoption of the National Constitution ! You may tell the story that capital punishment docs not lessen marder to the marines. If the murderer is sure to hang—he will be scarce. On that you may rely." ON* the door of the old mosque iu Damas cus, which was once a Christian church, but for twelve centuries has ranked among the holiest of the Mohammedan sanctuaries, are inscribed these remarkable words : ' Thy kingdom, O Christ, is evorlasiiug, j and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations." Though the name of Christ has been regularly blasphemed, and the dis ciples of Christ regularly cursed for twelve hundred years within it. the inscription has nevertheless remained unimpaired by time It was unknown during the long reign of' Mohammedan intolerance; but when reli gious liberty was partially restored, and the missionaries were enabled to establish a Christian church in that city, it was again j brought to light, encouraging them in their work of faith and labor of'love. How STAMPS ARE TO BE CANCELED.— Tbt Internal Revenue Bureau has directed that after May, Ist, 187(1, all adhesive stamps used upon instruments, documents, wriiings, and papers, mentioned in Sched ule B, of'the laternal Revenue Laws, sba'l be canceled by the person affixing either by wrung upon each and every stamp, in ink, the initials of his name and the date, year, • month and day upon which the same is at tached or used, or by cutting and cancelling the same bv a certain machine approved by ; i ihe commissioner. This regulation has been i made on account of the extensive frauds al i leged to have been committed by washing, ' . restoring and using internal adhesive rev : cnue stemps which have been canceled by j the "ribbon stamp machine." The Com- ! 1 raissioner orders that after May 1.-t, 1870, j no other method of cancellation than that - first mentioned above eball be recognized as | legal or sufficient. MORE CABLE SCHEMES. —Exclusive of i the two Atlantic cubic companies, not less j than teu submarine telegraph schemes, with a capital of $35,000,000, have been ; promoted or completed within a few months, i The capital of the British Indian subma j rine tel-graph from Suez to Aden and j Bombay is alone put down at 19,000,000; t the Falmouth, Malta and Gibraltar line at $3,91)0,000; the We-t India and Panama line at $3,3oO.OOO; the British Indian extension from Ceylon to Singapore at $2,500 GOO; I the China submarine telegraph at $4,900,- 000: the China and Japan extension the Great Noithern Telegraph at $3 500,000; and the Panama aud South Pacific at SI, 1 900,000. —This wnndrful activity is exciting sotue alarm lest the work bo overdone, and the London Economist advises quiet people not to meddle with cable companies. GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.— The following are some of the leading features of the General Appropriation bili: Common Schools $750,000 State Normal School, 6th district 10,000 Judges Supreme Court 32,500 District Court and Com. Pleas, Judges, Philadelphia 35.000 ! Do. Allegheny 25,000 | Judge Pear.-nn, Dauphin couDty. S,(XX) I Judges in Commonwealth 150,000 i Associate d" 50,000 1 Interest on Funded debt 1,800,000 j Public Printing 25.000 j legislative expense- 2(X),000 i Penn'a. Institution, Deaf and Dumh, ($250 for each pupil).., 40,(XX) Pi nn. Blind Asylum 30.000 j Harrisburg Lunatic Asylum 20,000 I Harrisburg Lunatic Asylnui iur t proveinents 50,000 j M'-dia Training School 20,(XX) ! Philadelphia House of Refuge... 30,tKX) Western Houre of Refuge 30.000 I Northern Home 10 (XX) . Erie Murine Hospital 20,(XX) j Military Claims S,(XX) j Home lor Little Wanderers S,(XX) ; Chaplain of the House 300 | Chaplain of the Semite 3(X) j En-tern Penitentiary 20,000 j Western Penitentiary 22,(XX) \\ nsP-ru Penitentiary improve < mem s 20,000 i Northern Insane Hospital 150,QU0 : Salaiy of Gen. Agent and expens es of Board of Public Charities. 5.000 , State Hiwotian's Department.... 6,000 Eastern Experimental Farm...... 5,000 IVnn. Widow's Asylum 5,0U0 j Heme for Destitute Coloied Chi1dren............. dren............. .. 1.000 I Provision is also made for de titufe aol [ dicrs' orphans. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY. MARCH 4- 5551 INSTABILITY. BT W. J. W. I made a man of snow and I set him in the glow Of a warm meridian sun, And he really looked quite trim for I'd fash ioned well each limb, And I thought my work well done. But when the day was spent, and to see my man I went, He did'nt look so gay, For beneath that glowing sun, my man bad been undone, For he'd melted quite away. I built a "castle in the air" most elegant and rare, Whose turrets reached the skies, And its chambers did unfold such a mass of shining gold That it dazzled quite my eyes, And so much it did me please that I thought I'd lake my ease When such treasure I had found, But ere I was aware my castle so elegant and rare, Had tumbled to the ground. I went unto the strand and I built a dam of sand In a tiver'g bed quite dry, And foolishly did dream that it would stay the stream When the waves were running high, But when the freshet came, my effort proved quite lame ; My dam was washed away, And not a single trace could I find about the place Where its foundation lay. My house on fire caught and a remedy I sought To stay the eager flame, But how noful the mistake I then and there did make— I tell it to my shame, For the tote that I cast on in a moment was all gone From my bewildered gaze : For the fij-e fiercer grew as on the same 1 threw And higher went the blaze. Once I had a friend on whom I did depend; He was generous and kind, And I never had a thought that his lore would come to nought— To him was I so blind ; But the sunshine came and trail and my faith I did repent I thought it could not be When adverse triads did blow; wheu my hopes were lain low, Ob ! where, alas, was he? MORAL. He who trusts in friends on a broken reed ' depends. For they will melt away, And the castles that we build with evanes cence filled, Will crumble to decay. Vain as a dam of sand or a flimsy hempen band, When wave and flame are high. Oh ! how sad to feel that life is so unreal, And we are left to sigh ! HUM IS POISON. It will rob the bead of sense, It will rob the purse of pence, It will rob the mouth of food, And tbe soul of heavenly good. It will sear the tender heart ; Make the young from good depart: Change tbe honest into knaves ; Dig for sots untimely graves. sU;sccUfin?oU2. CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TKAP. "She's lich eh! TheD, by Jove I'll enter the lists, and win her if I can!" The two young men were leaning over the garden fence, slowly breathing out the blue wreathed fragrance of their cigars, and watching the young tnoon, whose golden rim rested almost upon the edge of the west tern woods. "Worth a hundred thousand, they say, at least," said Henry Emmons; "but then, my dear fellow, she is forty and as plain as Medusa!" "I don't care if she were ninety, and had a hump on her back enthusiastically re sponded Herbert Lynn. "I shall see her only through the golden glimmer of her wealth. A rich wife has always been my aim—and now, opportunity befriends me." "And how about blue eyed little Abby ?" "Oh, confound Abby. Now don't look j so indignant, Emmons, how could you ever j suppose that 1 ever meant anything more : than an amusing flirtation with Abby? It's a fellow's business to make himself agreea ble to every pretty girl that comes in hi 3 way, and nobody in their sober senses could ever imagine that I, Herbert Lynn, meant to throw myself away on a cherry-lipped farmers daughter! I'm going for the heirc.-s I tell you I" Herbert Lynn drew his tall, finely model led figure up as be spoke, and carressed his golden browu mustache, with a sort of lazy, scornful light in his eyes. He was very handsome, and he knew it, this city-bred Apollo, who had come cut into the country to rest and recruit after his wearisome siege of fever. Emmons looked at him with a curious smile. "Lynn, you are the coolest fellow I ever knew!" "Very probably. But I say, Harry what briogs that fair feminine Maiden out here?" "Oh, they say she is annoyed to death with fortune hunters, and wants to pass as a mere ordinary young lady here. It was by the merest chance that I happened to hear that Rebecca Lacy was the heiress to the famous old estate of Licy of Thorndikc." "Good !" said Lyno, with evident satisfac tion, "then I shall have an opportunity of playiDg the devoted and disinterested lover! How astoni.-hed I shall be, when, amid her soft blushes of yielding confusion, and—and all that sort of thing you know—she tells me that she will not come altogether por tionless to nie 1" Emmons da-bed his cigar down among Abby Wallace's velvet blossomed sweet williaius. "Lynn, what an unmitigated puppy yon are! You never seem to dream for an in stant of such 3 thing as a possible refusal!" "Not mueh danger of that," said the handsome Adonia, laughing. "You see, Harry, I've always been one of the lucky ones, and I don't think Dame Fortune will desert n.e now ! When does she arrive?" "To ui :iro v afternoon, by stage." And the two young men talked on, while Abby \\ allace, weeding her border of china-asters, behind the high black thorn hedge, he&id it all with a heart that seemed turning to ice wi-bin her. bo Herbert Lynn had only been making a plaything of her, after all—a mere toy to while away the tedium of those long, dull summer days! And she had thought But no matter. Abby would think so no : more—she was effectually arroused now from her delicious dreim of happiness—and she crept away into the house with tearless eyes and cheeks where the innocent roses were blanched to deadly white. "'I can be revenged yet—and I will be" Abby murmered to herself. Mißebecca Lacy arrived the next day, according to programme, with a perfect avalanche of trunks, carpet-bags, packing boxes, and valises, an enthusiastic poodle, ! two eanaries and a screaming macaw. She was not pretty—in fact, Mr. Lynn, | though determined to view her through ac atmophere of couleur de rose, could not' di-guLe from himself the obtrusive fact • that she was exceedingly plain. Her Hair was of that, dull, lustreless brown, which catches neither depth from the shadow, nor golden shine from the sun- j beini; her complexion was thick and muddy, , he' mouth wide and her teeth decaying and j bal; while her nose, instead of stopping shrrt at that piquant curve which is called repousse, looked as if she had flattened its extreme end against a pine-board ! Add to this a stont fignre, with round shoulders, elephantine ankles, and no visfcle waist, and you will have a pretty correct idea of Miss Rebecca Lacy's tout ensemble, Bven Herbert Lynn was taken somewhat; back at first. "Venus and the Three Graces " be mut tered to himself, '"the idea of passing one's life by the side of such a Gorgon as that!" But then he remembered his empty purse and his expensive habits. "Herbert, my dear boy," he apostro phized himself, "don't make a donkey ol yourself. Your age of sentimental softness is Over —the main chance, my boy, is what you have to look out for ! Just now it'syour business to make love to Miss Rebecca La cv, and you'd better be about it before some one else cuts in. Abby takes my defection very •well. What a plucky little creature she is! I only wish it were she who had the hundred thousand dollars tacked to her apron strings 1" So our mercenary-minded hero set him self diligently to work, to be-iege the fort ross of Miss Lacy's maiden heart. If one wishes to make love, there is no better spot on earth than a cosy old farm house, overshadowed with apple trees, and surrounded with pleasant walks—and Abby Wallace, considerate little lassie that she was, seemed to contrive every possible method of throwing the lovers together. Miss Rebecca started; she bad never been courted so diligently before. And, to tell the truth, it was dull work for Herbert Lyun. Intellectual diamonds do sometimes sparkle beneath rough, uneut surfaces, but this was not the case with Miss Rebecca L-iey. If she had not been an heiress, people would have pronounced her a fool—and Lyon was as quick to perceive her mental deficiencies as if he had not been wooing her after the most approved fashion. "She is confounded stupid," he said con filentially, to his friend Ktnmons, who only laughed. "Look here, Abby," said Miss Rebecca, one evening to the farmer's daughter, "what is that fellow chasing me around for, alt the time?" "Why, Miss Rebecca, he's in love with you. Miss Lacy started, then giggled. "Dear me—it's very n ' ce ,0 have a lover isn't it! And do you suppose he'll ask me to marry him?'' "Of course be will!" Mi>s Rebecca giggled again. "I wonder what my neice will say? My neice is coining nest week." Which fact being duly transmitted to Mr. Lynn, only made him hasten the campaign, j "For of course, her relations will object— I relations always do," argued Herbert, sage- I ly. " The quicker one rushes matters through, the better it will be!" And that very afternoon he contrived to lure Miss Rebecca forth into the tremulous green shadows of a honey suckle arbor at the foot of the garden. "Sit down here, Rebecca Miss Lacy,' lie murmured, taking her parasol from her. "Aren't you afraid of spiders and cater piilere? I am!" said the fair one, looking I dubiously around her. "Rebecca " "And I think it's damp under foot—and i I'm always subject to rheumatism in the joints." "Hear me one moment, dearest —tell me that the frantic, adoring love of my nature for thee, is returned! Rebecca, sweetest dream of my life, uv heart is all thine own!" Miss Lucy blushed—blushes were not he coming to her, turning her complexion to a dull mahogany color —and simpered— "Do you mean that you want to marry me?" "Dearest, yes. Will you be mine!" Miss Lacy capitulated at once, with a hys teric giggle, and threw herself 011 Herbert Lynn's shoulder, with an impetus that had nearly destroyed his balance, j "Then you love me, Rebecca?" "I think you're the very nicest youug man I ever saw!" murmured the confiding fair one. "But oh! what will mv niece say?" What care we what she says, Rcbccca? Are not our hearts our own? "Ye-e-s—but then she's always telling me what an old fuol I am, and—and—" "Listen, my love," said Herbert, with a sudden inspiration, let us put our fate be yond the reach of any moddling hand." i "I don't understand you," said Miss Lacy j with a stupid stare. "Yonder lies the parsonage, endowered lin roses, a fit casket for love's vows—let us walk quietly over there and be married!" "Before my niece comes?" and Miss Re becca caught greedily at the idea. Herbert thought she had never looked so ! preter naturally uzly before, hut. after all. ! what did looks signify? Perhaps he should be a handsome young i widower ere many y eat shad elapsed! "Come, then, tuy treasure," he murmur j ed sentimentally. An hour afterwards, Herbert Lynn, re I turned to the quiet old farm house a mar ried man, with bis wife leaning (no fairy weight) upon liiaarm. "We are just in timo—there are Becky's trunks on the piazza now," shrieked Mrs. Lynn, "and there's Becky herself." The niece, a tall, pretty girl of eighteen, glanced at the advancing couple in sur prise. "Why, aunt Rebecca, what doea this mean?" Aunt Rebecca gave a nervous little titter. "It—it means that I'm married to Mr. Lynn. This is your Uncle, my dear!" "And I assure you," added Herbert, loftily," that all the efforts of designing rel atives to interfere with onr happiness will be treated with the scorn they deserve." "Dear me," said the niece cooly, "nobody has any desire to interfere, I can assure you, sir. Of course, since Aunt Rebecca has now a natural protector, 1 shall with draw the allowance I have always made her, and " "The allowance? I doubt whether I un derstand yoo?" "Why," exclaimed the blushing bride, "our Becky's a great heiress. Didn't you know it? With more money than she can tell what to do with; aud she's always allowed me fifty dollars a month." "Then you—you are not the rich Miss Lacy?" dropped from Herbert's lips as be stared stonily at his newly-made wife. "I've got five hundred dollars of my own in the Lewinsville Bank," said Mrs. Her bert Lynn, in all the pride of conscious pos session. Five hundred dollars of her own! Her bert felt, with a sick thrill of despair, that he had indeed sold his birth-right for a mess of pottage. "Yes," said Abby Wa'lace, with a mis chievous smile dimpling her lips, "the fame ol Miss Rebecca Lacy's wealth had preceded her here, and neither Mr. Lynn, nor Mr. Emmons, knew —in fact, no one knew, but myself—that there were two Miss Rebecca Lacyet 1 hope you ate not disappointed. Mr. Lynn!" YOUNG WOMANHOOD. Young womanhood —the sweet moon on the horizon's verge—a thought matured, but uot uttered—a conception warm and glowing not embodied—the rich halo which predicts the rising sun—the rosy down that bespeaks the ripening peach—a flower— A flower which is not qcite a flower, Yet is no more a bud. Collegers Hyperion. Young womanhood —a moving mass of undeveloped beauty, well supplied with tongue—a thing composed of powder, hoop* and flounces, to be by torn pitied, loved and flattered—a puff of vanity, void of solid sub stance, and calculated to deceive —a pigeon— A pigeon which is not quite a pigeon, Yet 'twill not do to call a squab. —Jackson Flag. We mutt have a finger in the pie if we get it burned for our impudence. Young womanhood —a proof sheet with but one error —a ginger-cake not quite done, but will do to take along if a fellow has no time to wait—milk and peaches that lack a little sugar—a five-franc piece that will an swer for a dollar rather than take a ragged bill—o strawberry— A strawberry that is not ripe, Yet is no longer green. —Shelbyrille Expositor. Young womanhood—a thing of beauty— an abject that leads man to virtue, yet lures him to vice—is worthy of the highest praise, yet often deserves censure—a strange com pound of good and bad—young womau hood— A dream which is not all a dream, And not quite reality. —Nashville Gazette. Young womanhood—an inviting, beauti fully bound book in muslin and gilt, yet half bound and guiltless, just ready to enter Hy men's bindery. An opening volume, yet unread and unreadable beyong the title page and preface. A volume of poetry, and yet blank verse. Within this awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Yet when a youth such paius we took, We think we know her "like a book." Union. The Conservative will hazard a word upon this interesting subject—it appearing to be a privileged one—at the risk of having a nose pulling. Young womanhood—"a thing of beauty," jet far from being "a joy forever. Fresh us the morn, and at the same time, if possi ble, more evanescent. W itb voice as sweet as lovers' tongues, and lar more deceptive. A doubtful kind of merchantable commodity, so perishable that it is often lost before an acceptable bid is offered. Hardly worth the value set upon it. Yet were it as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea ' Men would adveuture for such merchandise. —Cohservative. We will risk our few remaining hairs in the good cause: Young womanhood—a lucious and juicy orange, which peels beau ufully, and which, the sweeter and more golden it is, tbe better it is relished. An unbroken bill, tbe luxury of spending which is yet in store for the lortuoate possesser. But, While our hearts can feel or lips can speak, Our words shall fail not, though our wordß are weak — Weak to express what bends each nolue soul lu mild submission to its sweet control; Which smooths each wrinkle from the brow ot care, And sets eternal youth in beauty there? —which refers to the love of the aforesaid youug woman.— Cincinnati Times. INFLUENCE. —A man cannot sin without having the influence, and ia some sense, the punishment ol his sin fall upon others. Thus a man cannot indulge in the use of strong drinks without having sad conse quense rest fearfully upon many helpless and innocent dependents. Tbe bitter crime and treason of a few have brought indes cribable and innumerable disasters upon all tbe inhabitants of a great and once pros perous nation. Under the moral govern ment of God, the results of moral action are not limited to the agents of those actions. | Ttiey spread and spread, and when a wrong act is committed there is no such thing as determining where its influence will stop, i Wicked men do not slop and think what j trains they are btarting, and what conse quences will follow their rash and foolhardy couduct. Drop a bottle in the sea and you do uot know to what shore the unseen cur rents of the deep will drift it Utter tbe feeblest word and you cannot tell over what hearts it may breatho, and into what fopms it will crystalize and live forever. VOL. 43: \Q 9. COIN! UK GASPARIN ON FEMALE IVPPRAGB. While so many of our thoughtless or light brained American writers and speakers are rendering themselves ridiculous in the esti mation of cool-headed thinkers of both sexes, it is not amiss to preseot them with the views expressed by the eminent scholar and philosopher. Count De Gasparin, on their favorite "hobby," female suffrage. A j close reasoner, always arguing from cause and effect, he has given a forcible to : the public iu VEyalile on this vef-y subject, and on whose train of analysis and conclu sion cannot be gainsayed by the most ardent supporter of the cause. As an elector, be claims that woman would "fill her role as mother equa'ly ill with that of wife," both to be lost ultimately "in the whirl of poli tics." There are few persons, male or fe male, who will not agree with Gasparin in this deduction. Io proof of bis argument, he saj s: "In the first place, public life claims time. Those who invite woman to become a man really only wish it to a minimum extent. Unfortunately, logic has its inexorabilities. One is man or one is not. One enters pub lie life or one does not; it is a question of raking up or letting alone. The women who embark in public affairs must devote a portion of their lives to reading the jour nals, studying public and political opinion, assisting at public meetings and following parliamentary discussions. * * * *yy e should fee women's clubs, salon* of political women, and journals written by women, (very well written, I doubt not.) We should have to stand by the comin'g of the female man [ftmmchomme,) inferior both to the woman and to the man who would have re nounced all grace and not have exchanged it for strength. Think of women delivered over to the press reports, to the insolent caricature. Traiued to the contest, giving and taking hard Li's, she would soon loose tbe charm of softness and modesty, which are at once a charm aod a defense. I know well what the family would lose. I wish to be informed what politics would gain. Would there be less intrigue, fewer passions, less prejudice, fewer personal questions Laking the place of questions of principal? * * * Woman is superior and influen tial only on condition that she is a true wo man. Take from her neither her silent ac tion nor her noble domestic empire, which includes her household, her children, her husband, too, and in addition to these the rick and the indigent. The political wo man, the blue-stocking, the woman who has exchanged the family for the public; stands already before us in the road on which we are urged, as a warning and scare crow. There is a nut shell in the whole truth about this woman's suffrage question. Only a limited number of the sex in this country, or in England, ask the right to vote. This whole matter has arrived at a stage which presents us with a condition of affairs so dis tasteful that even the critics have of late refused fo waste ink and papar upon its absurdities and revolting scenic effects. Count de Gasparin is right in his logic, and the women of America and England, who are'not ' beside themselves," will thank him for the many words he has written in their behalf. NEVER (JIVE UP. In most cases, the wise and good men will com e down, but never give up. The heroic thing to say is this: "Things are bad, but they may be worse, and with God's blessing I will try to make them better." Who does not know that by resolute adbe rence to this principle many battles have been won after they have been lost? l>ou't the French say that the English have con quered on many fields because they did not know when they had been beaten; in short, because they would never give up? Pluck is a great quality. Let us respect it everywhere; at least whenever enlisted on the side of right. Ugly is the bull dog, and indeed, blackguard looking; but I ad mire one thing about it—it will never give up. And splendid success has often come at length to the man who fought on through failure, hoping against hope. Mr. Disraeli might well have given up after his first speech in the House of Commons; many men would never have opened their lips there again. I declare, I feel something sublime in that defiant, "The day will come when you will be glad to hear me," when we read it by the light of eventa. Of course, only extraordinary success could justify the words. Tbey might have been the vapor ing of a conceited fool. Galileo, compelled to appear to come down, did not give up. Still, it moves. The great Nonconformist preacher, Robert Hall, broke down in his first attempt to preach, but he did not give up. Mr. Ten nyson might have given up, bad he been disheartened by the sharp reviews of his earliest volnme. George Stephenson might also have given up when his railroad and his locomotive were laughed out of the Par liament committee. Mr. Thackeray might have given up when the publishers refused to have anything to do with Vanity Fair. The first articles of men who have become the most successful periodical writers have been consigned to the Balaam box. Possi bly this was in some measure the cause of tbeir success. It taught them to take more pains. It was a taking down. It showed them that their task was not easy; if they would succeed, they must do their very best. And if they had stamina to tesolve that, though taken down, they would not give up, the disappointment was an excellent disci pline. I have known students at College, whose success in carrying off honors was un exampled, who in the first one or two com petitions were ignominiously beaten. Some would have given up. They only came down; they went at their work with a will, and never were beaten more.— Countiy Par son. UNMABBIED WOMEN.—"I am not afraid to live alone," said a noble woman, but I dare not marry unworthily. Is there no heroism here? 1 think that to submit cheerfully to a single hie where circumstances have been unkind, to choose it from a high sense ot duty, or to accept it for the sake of loyalty to a high ideal, is as brave a thing as a woman can do. But, af- | ter all, the woman who docs this, simply 1 demands to be let alone. She begs that you ! will not suppose her insensible to a stab be | canse she does not cry out. She has her ! pride and her delicacy. She urges no claims • upon admiration, but she has po conscious- I ness of disgrace. — Lippincott, SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, AC The FTICCIEEB ia pabliahed every REIDAT morn log he following rote a : Cho 'Tats, (io advance,) - ... JIM " " (it not paid within lx m0a.)... S2.M " " (If not paid within tha year,)... $3.00 All paper* outride of the county dieeontinoed witboat notice, at the expiration of the time for which the anhocriptlon baa been paid. Bingleeopieiof the paperfurniahed,in wrapper* at fire centa each. 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The axe was inclosed iu rods to show that the extreme penalty was never inflicted till milder means had failed: first the rod, and the axe only as a terrible ne cessity. Reader, if you ate unconverted, 1 beg you to look at the symbol and learn a lesson Tbc Lord is gracious and full of compassion toward you. He has waited lo these years, untying the knots very slowly, and seeing whether you will, by His long suffering, be led to repentance. Hitherto, few and fee ble have been any tokens for good in you. Beware! for mercy tarries not forever, and justice will Dot long delay. The rods you have already felt. Those burials of dear ones were all rods to you. That fever, that broken arm, that loss in business —all these put together have been warnings to you, which you cannot despise without commit ting great sin. Many have been brought to God by afflictions; but you, perhaps, have been rather hardened than otherwise. See to it, sinDer! For, when the rods have had their turn, tbe axe must come io for its work. Its edge Is sharp, and its blow is terrible. He who wields it will cut through soul and body, aud none can escape from His wrath. You have found the rod to be very dreadful, but what will the axe be? Hell is not to be thought of without trem bliog; but it will soon be your eternal dwel ling place, unless you repent. Can you en dure its endless torments ? Trembler, there is hope! Jesus died. Jesus lives. Trust io bim who stood in the sinner's place, and you are saved. Oh, may the Holy Ghost now, while you read, lead you to Jesus and 'o safety, for time flies like the weaver's i shuttle, and the thread of life is soon snap : ped. "To day, if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts."— Spurgeon. AMERICAN vs. ENGLISH LONGEV ITY. Eog'ish travellers in the United Slates have often deplored the degeoerac.7 of the Anglo-Saxon stock on this side of the At lantic. The body, they have said, loses in -toutness, the lealurei grow narrow aud pinched, and the vitality of the whole sys ■ tern is diminished. English editorß and political economists have made many a ser mon from this text, and have argued that in two or three centuries the Anglo-Saxon race in this country ni3y become extinct. Eminent physicians among us have ac cepted the truth of this statement, Oliver Wendell Holmes among others, and have attributed the change chiefly to climatic influences, but in part also to social habits. It might have been well, before investiga ting the cause, to settle the facts. There can be little doubt of a wide departure in form and feature from the English type but in the matter of health and longevity the advantage is on our side. So, at least, sta tistics prove, and there is no appeal from their authority. The records of life insurance companies furnish ample and satbfactory data for comparison. The experience of twenty of the most prominent English and Scotch companies, compared with the combined American experience, is as follows: Starring with 10,000 lives at the age of ten the Ameri can loss the first year is 75; the Eng. 79. At age twenty, American loss is 72; English 56. At age forty, American loss is 77; English 81. At age sixty, American loss is 155; English 184. At age eighty, American loss is 200; English 186. Thus, at every period of life below eighty years, with the single exception of the sec ond decade, which is very fatal among us, American vitality is superior to English. As the mother-country has always prided itself on tha robustness of its sons, it will be hard to yield the palm to the so-called degenerate Yankees. But "westward the course of empire takes its way." not* WE'SIIOCLD LIVE. Everybody should live on the sunny side of their house as much as possible, and al low the sun's genial rays to penetrate the rooms. Barkened parlors are fashionable evils. True it is gloomy enough to be ush ered into a tomb like apartment, where one can scarcely grope his way to a seat and to discover, when bis eyes become accustomed to the dim light, that every chair and sofa has on its linen "duster' apparently equip ped for traveling to some unknown land, but ladies must have their carpets kept bright and frc -h, even if tbeir cheeks are the paler for it! And so the shutters are tightly closed, and the heavy curtains drawn. But for the sake of health and beauty, la dies, let this be done only in the "best par lor," if it must be done at all. Let the rooms where the family live be cheerfol and sunny. No lady would expect ber house plants to send out full, brilliant blossoms unless she placed them at a window where the sunshine would invigorate them. No more should she expect her children to show fresh, rosy complexions, or to develope "ge nial dispositions, unless they live in light sunny airy rooms. A. J. K., NOW IN PAIUS, despairing of finding a boot to fit his foot, goes to a new shop every month. Lately with a fresh recommendation he hunted up a new cord wainer, where he inquired the price, and had his measure taken. "You know Mr. L. A. G., of Philadelphia, I suppose," said Mr. K., as he prepared to go out. "Know him! I should think I did,'" replied the shoemaker, with spirit. "I gave him his first com. IT IS estimated that the transfer ofMeth odist ministers each year costs in the aggre gate ope million of dollars. Might it not be wise to make no exchanges for a year or two. and devote this money to charitable and religious purposes? OUR births and our deaths are but changes in the great life we ire living- the life of immortality. As irritable customer, who bargains much but buys little, is productive oI counter-ir ritation.