RATES OF ADVERTISING. All advertisements for less than S months It cents JM u lino for each insertion. Specia lao&ees one-half additional. All reflations of Associa tions, communications of a limited or intliTidal interest and notices of marriage* and deaths, ex ceeding fire lines, 10 eta. per lino. All legal noti ces of every kind, and all Orphans' Conrt and tfcer Judicial sales, are required bj law to be pub :.sbe facia evidence of intentional fraud. sessional & 55ustafss ffards. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. j M.REYNOLDS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bttrant PA. isiness intru-ted to bim will be attended to with great care. Upon notice will appear for par -11 • a f u its before Justices of the Peace in any i tof the county. Office with J. W. Dickerson, I, on Juliana St., next door north of Mengei h use. 4marly. W C . HO LAH AN , ATTORNBY-AT-LAW, BEDFORD, Pa. Jan. 28, '7O-tf ■ AXC A. Kixc, jr. Oi'ANG tc KINO. >- ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW, BEDFORD, PA. V inptly attend to all business intrusted to : care in Bedford and adjoining counties. ■ c m Gazette building, on the corner of pub - .uare and Juliana street. Sap JMMMEU AND LINGENFELTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, IKDFORD, PA. Have f rmed a partnership in the practice of : - Lav, in new brick building near the Lutheran Chi: h. [April 1, 1869-tf A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BRDFOBD, PA. ■ vrfully tenders his professional service* e public. OEea in the Ixqct RRBuild ing, second floor.) r-driCc'.lection* promptly made. [ April,l'69-tf. TVSPY M. ALSIP, tj ATTORNEY AT LAW, *nd Justice of the peace, Br.croap, PA., ' 1: faithfully and promptly attend to all basi s' t entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin r counties. Military claims, Pensions, back ;ay B unty, Ac. speedily collected. Office in • in on Juliana Street lately cceupird by Reed I a hell Bankers. apl 1, 1569.—tf. ~ DrRI?OH j {(nv 1 • ATTORNKY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., promptly attend to all business intrusted to . e in Bedford and adjoining Counties. See on Juliana street in the building ocru f r many years by King A Jordan, and latc v Uall A Kcagy. :.. RCSSELL. J. a. LOSGKSECCER 1) L'SSELL A LONOENECKER, i k VTTOEXRTS A COCSSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa., ' I attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ness entrusted to their care. Special attention a to collections and the prosecution "f claims - - Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. "-er-Office on Juliana street, south of the C url R use. Apri 1:69:1TT. . M'D. SBARPE t. r. KERB TtHARPE A KERR, 0 A TTORXE rS-A T-LA H". "'•'ill practice in the Courts of Bedford ai d ad .ting counties. All business entrusted to theii •re will receive careful and prompt attention ns. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col. ted from the Government. Office on Juliana strest, opposite the banking t use of Reed A Scheil. Bedford, Pa. Apr PHYSICIANS. J B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser ' t the citisens of Bedford and Ticinity. c an i residence on Pitt Street, in the bßildiog ■:ier y -ecupied by Dr. J. H. Hofios. [ApT 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. I A COB BRENNEMAN, W WOODBERRY, PA., KIVENER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED AIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, tend to all business entrusted into hie hands P" mptnesa and despatch. Will remit mor '.ralt to any part of the country. ITsely j \ ANIEL BORDER, 1 ' PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST or TB* BED- R R; HOTEL, BEIFORD, PA. TCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sii r Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin f i Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold atch Chains. Brevt Pins. Finger Rings, best uality of Gold Peas. lie will supply to ordet any thing in his line not on hand. [apr.2S.'6s. | )B. J. ROSS ANDERSON. ■TecifuUy tenders his professional services to cltiiens of Bedford and vicinity. Office 'hree Joere Eat of the Bedford House. W Night calls attended to with promptness. April 8, 1870-tf p N HICKOK, ' - DENTIST. 5 e at the old stand ia BAVX BCILDISO, Juliana St., BEDFORD. A . iterations pertaining to > rgical and Mechanical Dtntiftry performed with care and WARRANTED. A : rmkctic* administer td, uhen dtsired. Ar il teeth imserUtd at, per set, sß.Oil and mp. t'fird. As I am del*: mined to do a CASH BUSINESS none, I have reduced the liricej for Artificial h of the various kinds, 20 per cent., sr. ] of I r&isgs 23 per c*nt. This reduction will be ale only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such W .U receive prompt attestica. 7febfiS \V r MLLOYD '> • BANKER. 7 -Losact* a General Banking Business, and makes "lections on all accessible points ia the United States. VF.RSMENT SECURITIES. GOLD. SIL VER, STERLING and CONTINENTAL EXCHANGE bought and sold. A REVENUE STAMPS of all descriptions always on hand. Aci .unt* of Merchants, Mechanics, Farmers and all other solicited. INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME. DEPOSITS. Jas. 7, *7O. \ f ARRIAGE CKR TIFCATES.—On haad and •te for sale at the Inquirer office, a fine assirt ment cf Marriage' Certificates. Clergymen end J ustiees should have them. LUTZ 6l JORDAN. Editor and Proprietor*. Jtequim (Etflman. ADVERTISERS: THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY LUTZ A JORDAN, OFFICE OX JULIANA STREET, BEDFORD, PA. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM is SOUTH WESTERN PENNSIL YAXIA. 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 IS TUB LATEST k MOST APPROVED STYLE, SUCH AS POSTERS OF ANY SIZE, CIRCULARS, BUSINESS CARDS WEDDING AND VISITINO CARDS, BALL TICKETS, PROGRAMMES, CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, SEQAR LABELS, RECEIPTS, LEGAL BLANKS, PHOTOGRAPHER'S CARDS, BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS. PAMPHLETS, PAPER BOOKS, ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC. ETC Oar facilities for doing si) kind* of Job Printing ore equalled by very few establishment! in the noon try. Order* by mail promptly filled. All letters should be addressed to LUTZ A JORDAJT. 3 llocal anU (General ftetospaper, DeUoteb to polities, (Gtmratton, Utteraturc anti iiftorals. ITEMS. Templar Lodge of Odd fellows, in San Francisco, has voted $1,200 to assist in in troducing the order into Kurope. ( HIVIVSE, April 13. —This afternoon ) four of our citizens went out fire miles west of this city, to locate hay claims, and were attacked by fifteen mounted Indians and driven to hort Russell. A telegram from South I'a&ssays the citizens there killed eleven Indians yesterday. A dispatch from Sidney says that small parties of Indians were seen on the surrounding bluffs to-day A Novei. Challenge. —The Mechanics Logins Company of New Orleans wants to race half a mile with a hand engine, to be ; I pulled by thirty men, and force water through fifty feet of ho;e in the shortest time, and have challenged the Philadelphia firemen. The Hope Hook and Ladder Company of the same place wast to race with their truck the same distance, with \ twenty six men, and rear ladders up to a building. They are the champion running firemen in the South , and are anxious to test their mettle with the Yankees. SIDNEY", April 14. —A party of Indians cut the stringers on the bridge three miles east of Antelope and threw fourteen cars off j the track about ooe o'clock this morning All the tra'.nmen except one brakesman got on the engine and run to the next station. After they left the Indians broke open a number of cars. The remaining brakesman fired on them and they left. The western bound passenger train was delayed six hours waiting for the Wreck to be cleared away. FATHER HYACINTHE stuck the posters ad vertising his own paper on the pillars of the various chapels in Paris, a privilege accord ed only to the Emperor's speeches and the Bishop's pastorals. AR FALL RIVES, Mass., on December 10, a ru&n, while eating his breakfast, got a nee dle in his throat. It was lodged crosswise, j but was too far down to be seen. After three or four lays it worked into the left ride and came nearly through the neck, causing a painful abscess. A little above the abscess : the needle was so near the surface that it caused the flesh to protrude like a pimple, but the physicians declined to cut to find it, especially as they had some, doubt as to the cause. The abscess was subsequently land ced. The needle in the meantime worked back into the side of the throat and then up under the tougue, causing great swelling and pain. Finally on April U, it was discovered protruding under the tongue and was extrac ted. The needle was Ij inches long, and bad been lour months on its travels. ANNEXATION IN NOVA SCOTIA.—Nova Scotia bas)an annexation league—annexation to the United States. This league sets fortb in an address just issued that the United States contain the chief consumers of Nova Scotian products and it is, therefore, but proper that the province should become a part of the American Union, since in its present attitude its merely nominal depen dence on Great Britain cuts it off from the fostering care of the home government, while the fact that it is a British dependency however nominally, puts it at the disadvan tage, so far as regards the United States, of being part of a foreign power. A'so, argues the address, annexation would not result in increased taxation to Nova Scotia, since the United States would assume the provincial debt, and only subject Nova Scotians in re turn to a Federal taxation, largely based on the use of articles not much in vogue in the province. CAPTAIN CHARLES \V. RATUOSH, of the Corps of Engineers, United States army, the young officer who was sent to make the first exploration by steam up the Yukon river, in Alaska, gives a very interesting narration of ihe expedition. This river has been ascer tained to be among the longest on the con tinent, and is the only important stream that Alaska boasts of. The trip wa3 made in a small steamer, which was carried to the mouth of the river on the dtck of the United States ship Commodore. The expedition consisted of about a dozen men a'.l told, and they were successful in reaching Fort Yukon, near the source of the river, end returning in safety. The captaio gives a very uo er.couraging description of the character and customs of our new Alaskan fellow citizens, and although those he met with on the coast were bad enough, they seemed to grow worse as they proceeded farther toward the interior. The population except the traders, are all In dians, but very cowardly ones. THE Revenue returns for 1860 show that tbe catch of pearls and shell for the past year on tbe Gulf coast of the territory granted to the "Lower California Company" amounted to tbe large sum of $78,000. This, of course is tbe valuation of the pearls given by the divers and speculators, and is consequently very much below the actual value of the catch. A pearl is sold frequently for S2O, which, resold at Panama at S2OO, brings sl,UOOin Paris, and in many cases much greater profits have been made on very fine gems. Not one-half of the cat ah is ever re ported to the Government, and the yield of the Gulf lor 1800 may be safely estimated at SBOO,OOO in gold. Ir wis JIAT believe the Irish papers the Irish Force bill recently passed by the British Parliament will have the effect of largely in creasing the Irish emigration to ibis country during the present year. For some years past the emigration from Ireland has been decreasing as compared with the emigration from Germany, which has been increasing largely; and it has been thought by many that we should never again see such an ex tensive Irish emigration to this country as we bad in former years. Bat it appears now as though this generalization may have been rather too hasty; and, if present promises from Ireland be realized, we shall see that severe measures of legislatioa on the part of the English Government are in themselves sufficient to add many thoasands to the volume of emmagtion. Smiors TSA in large quantities is com pounded in China by persons skilled in the manufacture of imitations. The ingredients cf this fraudulent composition are stated to be of the most disgusting description- A tea sold as "scented caper,'' "gunpowder" and "siftings," is made up of the excrement of silkworms, dust, dirt, extract of gum, with a v ery minute proportion of the genuine leaves. This "China mixture" is sold wholesale at twelve cents a pound, and pays the same amount of duty. It is asserted that there are teas worse than the one mentioned, being rated by the brokers at five cents a pound. Recently a large consignment of these spu rious teas was rejected in England, and it is believed that the cargo was re shipped to the United States. NEVKB lay a stumbling block in the way of a mau who is trying to advance himself in the world honestly and uprightly. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 22. 1870. Joflnj, KATIE LEE AND WILLIE GREY. Two brown heads with tossing cnrls Bed lips shutting over pearls, Bare feet white and wet with dew, Two eyes black and two eyes blue: Little boj and girl were they— Katie Lee and Willie Oroy. They were standing where a brook; Bending like a shepherd's crook, Hashed its silver; and thick ranks Of gTeen willow fringed the banks. Halt in thought and half in play, Katie Lee and Willie Grey, fhey had cheeks like cherries red, He was taller—most a head; She with arms like wreaths of snow, I Swung a basket to ard fro. As she loitered, half in play, Chattering to Willie Grey. "Pretty Katie," Willie said, And there came a dash of red Through the brownness of his cheek. "Boys are strong and girls are weak: And I'll carry, so I will, Katie's basket up the hill." Katie answered m a laugh. "'You shall carry only hall;" And then, tosring back her curls, "Boys are weak as well a? girls." Do yon think that Katie guessed Half the wisdom she expressed? Men are only boys grown tall, Hearts don't change much after all: And when, long years from that day, Katie Lee and Willie Grey Stood again beside the brook. Bending like a shepherd's crook, Is it strange that Willie said, While again a dash of red Crossed the brewnness of bis cheek— '"l am strong, but you are weak. Life is but a slippery steep, Hung'with shadows cold and deep! Will jrou trust me, Katie dear, Walk beside me without fear? May I carry if I will, All your burdens up the bill '" And she answered with a laugh, "No—but yon may carry fcalf." Close beside the little brook, Beading like the shepherd's crook. Washing with its silver hands, Late and early at the sands, Is the cottage, where to day Katie lives with Willie Grey. In the porch she sits, and lo! Swings a basket to and fro, Vastly different from the one That she swung in years agone— This is long, and deep, and wide, And has rockers on each side ! piscdanrous. KALNTLEROY, THE FOKGEK. W hat I am going to tell you, gcDtlcmcn, happened when I was just setting up in business on my own account. My father had been well acquainted for many years with Mr. Fauntleroy, of the famous London banking firm of Marsh, Stracey, Fauntleroy and Graham. Think ing it might be of some future service to me to make my position known to a great man in the commercial world, my father mentioned to his highly respected friend that 1 was about to start in business for myself in a very small way. and with very' little money. Mr Fauntleroy received the information with a kind appearance of in terest, and said that be would have his eye on me. I expected from this that he would wait to see if I could keep on my feet at starting, and that if he found I succeeded pretty well, he would then help me forward if it lay in his power. As events turned out, he proved to be a far better friend than that, and he soon showed me that I had very much underrated the hearty and generous interest which he had felt in my wclfare from the first While I was still fighting with the diffi culties of setting up my office, and recom ml riding myself to connection, Ac., 1 got a me-sagc from Mr. Fauntleroy telling me to call on him. at the banking home, the first time I was passing that way. As you may easily imagi.te, I contrived to tie passing that way on a particularly early occasion. I nnd on presenting myself at the bank, I was shown at once into Mr. Fountleroy's private room. He was as pleasant a man to speak to as ever 1 met with—bright, and gay and com panionable in bis manner —with a son of easy, hearty, jovial blunt new about him that attracted every body. The clerks all liked hiiu—and that is something to say of a partner in a banking house, I can tell you! "Well, younu Trowbridge.'' says he, giving bis papers on the table a brisk push away from him, "so you are going to set up in business for yourself, are you ? I have a great regard for your father, and a great wish to sec you succeed. Have you started yet ? No! ' Just on the point of beginning, eh? Very good. You will have your difficulties IUF frictvJ, ftntl I mean to .-uiooti>o onv of them away front you at the outset. A word of advice fir your private ear—Bank with us. ' You are very kind, sir," 1 answered, "and T should ask nothing better than to profit by your suggestion, if I could. But iny expenses are heavy at starting, and when they are all paid I am airaid I shall have but very little left to put by for the first year. 1 doubt if I shall be able to muster much more than three hundred pounis of surplus cash in the world after paying what 1 most pay before I set up my office, and I should be a^ham-d to trouble your house, sir, to open an account for such a trifle as that." Stuff and nonsense!"' says Mr. Faunt leroy. "Are you a banker? What business have yon to offer an opinion on the matter ? Do as 1 tell you—have it to me—bank with us—and draw fur what you like. Stop! 1 haven't done yet When you open the ac count, speak to the head cashier Perhaps you will find that he has got something to tell you. There! there Igo away—don't interrupt mc—goodbye—Hod bless you!" That was his way—ah ! poor fellow, that was his way! I went to the head cashier the next morn ing when 1 opened my iittlc modicum of an account. He had received orders to pay my drafts without reference to my balance My checks, when 1 bad overdrawn, were to be privately showti to Mr. Fauntleroy. Do many young men who start in business find their prosperous superiors ready to help thern in that way ? Well, I cot on—got on very fairly and ; steadily, being eareful not to venture out of ' my dentil and not to forget small beginning may lead in time to great end*. A prospect of one of these great ends—great, I mean, to such a email trader as 1 was at that period—showed itself to me when I had been some little time in the business. In plain terms, I had a chance of joining in a first rate connection which would give me profit and position, and every-thing I wanted, provided I could qualify myself for engaging in it by getting good security be forehand to a large amount. In the emergency; I thought of iny kind friend, Mr. Fauntleroy, and went to the bank and saw him once more in his private room. There he was at the same table, with the -ante hearty easy way of speaking his mind to you at once in the fewest possible words. I explained the business I earoe upon with some little hesitation and nervousness, for I was afraid he might think I was taking an unfair advantage of his fo r mer kindness to me. When I had done he just nodded his head, snatched up a blank sheet of paper, - £t*"w Uticp uu H lit a raptd wijr, handed '.he writing to me and pushed me out of the room by the two shoulders be fore I could say a single word. I looked at the paper in the outer office. It was my security from that great banking house for the whole amount and for more if more was wanted. 1 could not express my gratitude then and I dv-n't know that 1 can describe it now. I can only say that it has outlived the crime, the disgrace, and the death on the scaffold. I am grieved to speak of the death at all; but I have no other, alternative. The course of my story must now lead me straight on to the latter time, and to the terrible discovery which exposed my bene factor and friend to all England as the for ger Fauntlleroy. I must ask you to suppose a lapse of some time after the occurrence of the events that I have iust been relating. During this in terval, thauks to the kind assistance I bad received at the outset, my position as,a man of business had greatly improved. Imagine me now, if you please, on the hich road to prosperity, with good large offices and a resrceuble staff of clerk*, and picture me to yourself sitting alone in my private room, between four and five o'clock on a certain Saturday afternoon. All my letters had been written, all the p iple who had appointments with me had ben received. I was looking carelessly over the newspaper, and thinking about going h ime when one of my clerks earoe in and s.iid that a stranger wished to see me itnmc dlately on very important business. "Did he mention his name?' leu quired. "\o sir. "Did you a-k hint for it ?" Yes, sir. And be said you would be none the wiser if he told roe what it was."' "Does he look like a begging letter writer ?" ' Hesp ki- sharp and decided, sir. and said it wa~ in 3 our interest that he ciroe, and that you would deeply regret it after ward if you refused to see bim." "He said that did he ? Show hiut in at once." He was shown in immediately: a middling t'z- d man, with a sharp, unwholesome-look ing fa re. and with a flippant, reckless man ner, dressed in a style of shabby smartness, eyeing me with a bold look, and Dot so over ! urdeoed with politene-s as to trouble liim - If at ut taking'off hi? bat when he came in. I had never seen him before in my life, and f could not form the slightest conjecture from his appearance toward guessing bis position in the world. He was not a gentle man, evidently, but as to fixing bis wherea bouts in the inflnatc downward gradation of vagabond existence in London, that was a my-tery which I was totally incompetent to solve. "Is your name Trowbridge ?" be began. "Yes," I answered, dryly enough. "Do you bank with Marsh, Stracey, Fauntleroy and Graham ?' "Why do you ask ?" , "Answer my question and you will know. "Aery well, Ido bank with Marsh, Stra coy, Fauntleroy anl Graham —and what then ?" "Draw every farthiog of balance you have ; got before the bank closes at five to-day. I stared at him in amazement. The words for an instant, absolutely petrified me. "Stare as much as you like," he procee- | ded, coolly, "I mean what I say. Look at your clock there. In twenty minutes it wiil strike five, and the baDk will be shut. IVaw out every farthing, I tell you again, and 1 look sharp about it." "Draw out my money 1" I exclaimed par- j tially recovering myself. "Are you in your right senses ? Do you know that the firm I bank with represents one of the first houses in the world ? What do you mean—you. who are a total stranger to me—by taking this extraordinary interest in my affairs ? If you want me to act on vour nltwc, why don't you explain yourself?" * I have explained myself. Act on my \ advice or cot, just as you like. It don't 1 ; matter to me. I have done what I pron.- ! ire I, and there's an end of it." lie turned to the door. The minute hand of the clock was getting on from the twenty minutes to the quarter. "Done what you promised," I repeated, getting up to stop him. "Yes." he said, with his hand on the lock. "1 have given my message \\ batever happens, rc-mcmbcr that. Good afternoon.' - lie was gone before I could speak again. I tried to call after him, bnt my speech suddenly failed nir. It was very tcoti.-h, it was very unaccountable, but there wassome uing in the man s las words which had more than haT frightened me. I looked at the clock. The minute hand ! was cu the quarter. My office was just far enough from the bank to make it ntcessary for me to decido on the instant. If I had time to think, I ' am perfectly certain that I should wot have profited by the extraordinary warning that bad just been addressed to me. The suspi ! cious appearance and manners of the stran ger; the outrugeous improbability of the in ference against the credit of the bank, 1 towards whieh his words pointed; tbe chance that some undeihand attempt was being made, by some euemy of mine, to frighten me into embroiling myself with one of my bcut friends, through showing an ignorant distrust of the firm with which he was associated as a paitnet —ail these con siderations would unquestionably have oc- turred to mc if I could have had time for reflection; and, as a neetp-ary consequence, not ODe farthing of my balance would have been taken from the keeping of the bank on that memorable day. As it was, I bad ju-u. time enough to act. and Dot a spare moment for thinking. Some heavy payments made at tbe beginning of the week bad eo lar decreased my balance that the suui to my credit in the tanking book barely reached fifteen hundred pounds. I snatched np my check book, wrote a draft, for the whole amount, and told one of my clerks to run to the bank and get it cashed before the door closed.—What im pulse urged me on to accept the blind im pulse of burry and tawiiderment I can't say. I acted mechanically, under the influence of the vague inexplicable fear which the man's extraordinary parting words bad aroused io me, without stopping to analyze my own sensations—almost without knowing what 1 was about. In three minutes from tbe time when the stranger had closed my door the clerk had started for the bank, and I was j alone again in my room, with my hands as j cold as toe and aiy bead all in a whirl. I did not recover my control over myself until the clerk came back with the notes in his hand. He had just got to the bank in the ijick of time. As the cash for my draft was banded to him over the counter, the clock struck five, and he heard the order given to close the doors. When I bad counted the bank notes arid had locked them up in the safe, my better sense seemed to come back to me on a sad den. Never have I reproached myself be- j fore or since as I reproached myself at that moment. What sort of return had I made : for Mr. Fauntteroy's fatherly kindness ? I j had insulted by the meanest, the grossest ' di-trust of the hooor sni the credit of his house, and that on the word of an absolute stranger, of a vagabond, if ever there was one yet. It was madness—downright mad ness in any mao to have acted as I had done, j I could hardly believe iu it myself. I ' opened the safe and looked at the bank 1 notes again. I kicked it once more and j flung the key down on the fable in a fury of vexatio.n against tnysclf. There the money was, upbraiding me with my own inconceiv able fully, telling me in the plainest term* that I had risked depriving myself of my best and kindest friend henceforth and for ever. It was necessary to do something at onee towards making all the atonement that lay in my power. I felt that, as soon as I be gan to cool down a little, there was but one plain, straightforward way now left to get out of the scrape in which I had been mad enough to involve myself, so I took my hat, ami. without stopping an instant to hesitate hurried off to tbe bank to make a dean breast of it to Mr. Faun'leroy When I knocked at the private door and asked for him. ! was told that he lad not been at the bank for the last two days. One of (be other partners was there, however, and was working at that moment in his own room. I sent in my name at once, and a-ked to see him, He and I were little tatter than strangers to each other, an 1 the interview wa< likely to be, on that account, unspeak ably embarrassing and humiliating on my side. Still, T could not go home, I could n>t endure the inaction of the next day. Sunday, without having done my best on the spot to repair the error into which my own folly had led me. Uncomfortable as I felt at the prospect of the approaching inter view, I should have beeD far more uneasy io my mind if the partner had declined to see me. To my relief the bank porter returned with a message requesting me to walk in. What particular form my explanations and apologies took when I tried to offer them is more than 1 can tell now. I was so confused and distressed that I hardly knew what I was talking about at the time. The only circumstance that I remember elearly is that I was ashamed to refer to my interview with the strange man, and that I tried to account for my sudden withdrawal of my balance by referring it to some in explicable panic, caused by mischievous re ports which I was unable to trace to their | source, and which, for anything I knew to the contrary, might after all, have been started only in jest. Greatly to my surprise, tbe partner did not seem to notice the lamentable lameness of my excuse, and did ot additionally con fuse me by askiug any questions. A weary j absent look, which I had observed on his j face when I came in, remained on it wlile I : was speaking. It seemed to be an effort to him even to keep up the appearance ot lis tening to me and when I finally broke down in the middle of a sentence and gave up the hope of getting any further, all the answer he gave me was comprised in these few civil commonplace word.-: "Never miud, Mr. Trownbridge: pray don't think of apologizing. We are liable j to make mistakes. Say nothing more abont: it, and bring back the money on Monday if you .till honor US with your confidence." He looked down at his papers as if he was anxious to be alone again, and I had no al- j tentative of course but to leave immediately. I went borne, feeling a little easier in my mind now that I had paved the way for ma king the best practical atonement in my power by bringing ray balance back the frst thiog on Monday morning. Still I passed a weary day on Sunday, reflecting sadly enough that I had not yet made my peace with Fauntlcroy. My anxiety to set myself right with my generous iriend was so in tense that I risked intruding myself on bis privacy by calling al bis town residence on Saturday. He was not there, and hi# servants could tell me nothing of his whereabouts. There was no help for it now but to wait till bis week day duties brought him back to tbe bank. I went to business on Monday morning half an hour earlier than usual, so great was my impatience to restore the amount of that unlucky draft to my account as soon as pos sible after the bank opened. On entering my office, I stopped with a startled feeling just inside the door. Some thing serious had happened. The clerks, instead of beiDg at their desks as usual, were huddled together in a group talking to each other with blank faces. When they saw mc they fell back behind the mana ging man, who stepped forward with a cir cular in his hand. "Have you heard the u-.ws, sir? be said. "No; what is it ?" S He handed mc the circular. My heart VOL. 43: .\Q 16. gave one v iolent throb The instant I looked j at it I felt myself turn pale ; l£.-lt my knees 1 trembling under iuo. it j Msr-b, Strieey, Fiuntleroy sod Graham had stopped pavineut. "The circular had not been issued uiorc . than halt an hour, continued my clerk. "I have just come from the bank, sir. The doors are shut; there is no doubt about, it. Mar.-h A Co, have stopped this morning." i I hardly heard him , I hardly knew who ; was talking to me. My strange visitor of; 1 the Saturday before bad taken in-taut pas j session of my thoughts and his words of warn j ing seemed to be souudingoncc more in my I cars. This man had known the true condi tion of the bank when not a soul out side | doors wa3 aware ol it! The last draft paid J across the counter of that ruined house, when the doors closed on Saturday, was the ; draft that I had so bitterly reproached my self for drawing; the balance. Where had the Strang, r got the information that had • saved me? and whv had he bro'tit to my j ears ? I was still gropiDg, like a man in the dark ! for n Bonwcr to these qoestK-Os—T vn otrH j tdnUhrsa by the vof.vlrovtUe rnvtAet-y of , doubt into which they had plunged me—. when the discovery of the stopping of the ! bank was followed almost immediately by a I second shock, far more dreadful, far heavier to bear so far as I was concerned, than the 1 first. While I and my clerks were dis -assiug ; the failure of the firm, two mercantile men, 1 who were friends of mine, ran into the office ' and overwhelmed us with the news that one ! of the partners had been arrested for forgery. ; , Never shall I forget the terrible Monday : morning when those tidings reached me, and i when I knew that the partner wast Mr. ! i Fauntleroy. I was true to him—l can honestly say that I I was true to my belief in my generous friend i —when that fearfu' news reached me. My '■ fellow merchants had got a!! the particulars ' of the arrest. They told me that two of Mr. Fauntleroy's fellow trustees had come up to ; Loudon to make arrangements about selling 1 stock. On enquiring for Mr. Fauntleroy at the banking house, they had been informoJ that he was not there; and after leaving a message for him they ivacl gooe to the aity u> i make an appointment with their stock bro- i ker for a future day, when their fellow trus-; tees might be able to attend. The stock broker volunteered to make certain buisincss { inquires on the spot with a view to saving as much time as possible and left them at . his office to await his return. He came back, looking very much amazed, with the information that the stock had been sold out ' down to the last five hundred pounds. The I i affair was instantly investigated ; the doca- < meat authorizing the selling out was pro duced ; and the two trustees saw on it side by side with Mr. Fauntleroy's e'mgoature. thcre own namesforged. This happened OD 1 Friday, and the trustees without losing a moment, sent the officers of justioe in pur suit of Mr. Fauntlroy. He was arrested, brought before the magistrate and reman ded on the Saturday. On the Monday I heard from my friends the particulars which 1 have just narrated. But the events of that one morning were not destined to end even yet. I had discov- ' ered the failure of the bank and the arrest j of Mr. Fauntleroy. I was next to be en- : lightened, in the strangest and the saddest j manner, on the difficult question of his inno- ! cecce or guilt. Before mv friends had left! my office—before I had exhausted the argu ments which my gratitude rather than my I reason suggested to me in favor of the pris. : oner, a note maked "immediate, was pla- i ced in my hands, which silenced me the in- ; stant I looked at it. It was written from the prison by Mr Fauntleroy, and it con tained two lines only, entreating me to appy j for the necessary order and to go and see bim immediately. I shall not attempt to describe the flutter j of expectation, the strange mixture of dread : and hope that agitated me when I recog nized his hand writing and discovered what j it was that he desired me to do. I easly ob tained the order, and went to the prison. The authorities knowing the dreadful situation in which he stood, were afraid of his attempting to destroy himself, and had set two men to watch him. One came out as they opened his cell door. The other, j who was bound cot to leave him. very delicately aDd considerately affected to be , looking cut of the window the moment I , was shown in. He was sitting on the side of bis bed with j his head drooping and his hands hanging i listlessly over his knees when I first canght sight of him. At the sound of my approach he started to his feet, and without speaking a word flung both his arms around my neck. My heart swelled up. "Tell me it's net true, sir! For God's sake, tell me it's not true," was all I could say to him. He never answered —oh me ! he never j answered, and he turned away his face. There was cDe dreadful moment of silence. He still held his arms around my Dick, and on a sudden he put his lips close to my car. '"Did you get your money out?" he whis pered. "Were you on time on Saturday affrnon ?" I broke free from him in the astonish of In iring these ward*. 4 What !" I cried out aioud, forgetting the third person at >he window.—"lLat man wbo brought the message—"Hush ' he said, putting his hand upou my lips. "There was no better man to be found, after j the officers had taken me—l kuow no more j about him than you do—l paid bim well, as j a chance messenger and risked his cheating mc of the errand." "You sent hint, ihca "I sent him." My story is over, g nth-men. There is no ncid of me to tell yon that Mr. Fauntlcre-y was found guilty and that he died by tbe hangman's hand. It was in my power to soothe his last moments in the world by ta - king on myself the arrangement of some of ! his prvate affairs, which, remained un settled, and weighed heavily on his mind. They had no connection with the crime he had committed, so I could do him the last little service he was ever to accept at wy haodswith a good heart. I say nothing in defence of his chaaracter —nothing in p-alliation of the offense for j which he suffered. But I cannot forget that j .in the time of his learful extremity, when the strong arm of the law bad already Seized ! him, he thought of the young man wfcwe humble fortunes felt gratitude he bad fr.rly won; whose simple faith lie was rso.vxd sev er to betray. I leave it w greater intellects I than mine to le-oncilethe awemalyoffcis 4 • ' f *. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, AC *7 ■ —— The lscoixx* i pabtirhed ev try F*idlt aais <(t be following rateg : 03* TZAR, (is tdvuee.) sl.o* " " {if not paid within fix n0t,)... M.SO " (if 801 [Aid within the jslsr,)... SJ.W Alt fwpera- utUmde ef the ewt; diMwatwaatf withuf notice, *t the expiration of the time for which the reb-mription her been paid. Singlecopicf the pßperfuiDuhed.ia wrapper* at five cents each. Commanicatioae on subjects of local or general ntereit, are rj*eifo!!y folicitcd. To ensure at tention favors of this kind must invariably he aceompaoied by the ewe of the author, not for publication, but i a guaranty against imposition. AII letters pertaining to bueinese af the office should be addressed to LUT2 A JORDAN, fcinroan. Pa. reckless falsehood toward others arsd his steadfast truth towaS me. It is as certain as that re sit here ibat one i f Faontk-roy's lad efforts in this world wis the effort he mxde to prcsere Hie from being a loser by the trust that I Lad placed in biai. There i< the secret of mr strange tenderness for the memory of a felon, that is why the word villian does somehow still grate on my heart when I hear it associated with his name. UIIAT SI.KKP W I 1.1, ClHt 'I he cry for rest has always been louder than the cry for food. Not that it is more important, but it is ofien' harder to get. The best rest cocoes from sound sleep. Of two men or women, otherwise equal, the one who deepsibe best will be the most moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper, peevishness, uneasiness. It will restore to vigor an overworked brain. It will cure iu&aoity. It will build up and make strong a weak body- ft will do much to curs dyspepsia, particularly that variety known its . nervous dyspepsia lv win ,■>, i ■ vfee )■ ' gour and prostration felt by consumptive*. ; It wiil cure hypochondria. It will core the blues. It will cure the headache. It will cure the heartache. It will cure neuralgia. It will cure a broken spirit. It will cure sorrow. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous maladies that sleep will cure. The cure of sleeplessness, however, is noi se easy, particularly in those who carry grave responsibilities. The habit of sleeping well is one whicb, if broken up for any length of time, is not easily regained. Often a severe illness, treated by powerful drugs, so de rauges the nervous system that sleep is never sweet after it. Or, perhaps, long continued watchfulness produces the same effect; or hard study, or too little exercise of the muscular system, or tea and whiskey drink ing and tobacco using. To break up tfce habit are required: 1. A clean bed. 2 Sufficient exercise to produce weariness, and pleasant occupation. 3. Good air, and not too warm a room. 4. Freedom from too much care. 6. A cieau Stomach. 6. A clear conscience. 7. Avoidance of stimulants aud narcotics For those who are overworked, haggard. nervous, who pass sleepless nights we com mend the adoption of such habits as shall secure sleep, otherwise life will be short, and what there is of it, sadly imperfect.— Herald of Health. Curious Facts lv Regard to Soukd— The following curious observations ih regard to the transmission of .sound have been care fully verified by an extended series of exper iments: The whistle of a locomotive is heard 3200 yard-: through the air, the noise of a railroad train. 2SOO yards; the report of a musket end the Lark of a dog, 1800 yards: an orchestra or the roll of a drum, 1600 yards; the human voice reaches to the dis tance of 1000 vards; the croaking of frogs 900 yards; the chirping of crickets, 800 yards. Distinct speaking is heard in the air from below up to a distance of 600 yards: froui above, it is only understood to a range of 100 vards downward. It has been ascer tained that an echo is well reflected from the surface of smooth water only when the voice comes from an elevation. Other similar phenomena connected with the transmission of sound have been obser ved, but the results disagree either from in accuracy in the observations or from the varying nature of circumstances affecting the numbers obtained. Such variations oc eur to an extent of 10 or 20 per cent, and even more. The weather, being cold and dry, or warm and wet are the chief influen cing causes, in the first cause the sound goes to a greater and in the second to a les ser distance. Advice to Girls.— By Jotk Billing*. My dear girls'keep cool. A blessed future awaits you, enny how Take lessons on the pianas, tha are gelt in skarce. Bi ail means larn tu pla the nu song that has just-cum out. "Whoa John Brown ie over we have Father Abraham cumiDg with this cruel war several strong." This stanxy tuck the first premium at the stait fair. —Don't be a fear d. to git mairied , yurema wrsn'tafeard Be vartuous and putty. Eat slate pencils tha will make yu spry at figers- Eat Ka lone water, that will give yu a good smell. Let your petty coatee drag on the sidewalks, and if enny man steps on them and tares oph the rim, slap his chops at onst. If yu have gat small feet keep them hid—small feet haz gone out ov fashion. Study tavek, Tom Moors and Byrones and Gullivers, is all fust rate. If yu can spare the time be luvly and sweet. Remember one thing, thar ain't nothing in this life worth livin fur | but a rich husband. II you don't b'leve me ask your ma. If yu have got red hair yu had better exchange it for black ; black tha tell us is going to be worn muchly next rear. Don't have enny thing tew du with hoya unless they mean tuisoess. Married Mb*. —There ia ao expression io the face of good married man who has a good wife, that a bachelor's cannot have. It is indescribable. He is a little nearer the angels than the prettiest young fellow living. Yon can see that his broad breast is a pillow for somedody'a bead, and that little fingers pall his whiskers. No one e*er mistakes the good married man. It is only the erratic one, who leaves you iu doubt. The good one can protect all the unprotected females, and : make himself generally agreeable to the adiee, and yet never leave a doubt on any j mind that there is a precious Utile woman at j borne worth all the world to him. A census of South Carolina, just completed ••hows that she has only 2,314 more people than in I860: that there are fewer while males by 5,880, and fewer black males by 11,812; but that there are 9,f06 more while and 9,- 160 more black women than in 1860. The np country districts have all diminished in population, and rhe Charleston and adjacent seacoast districts have increased, owing to :he tendency of the negroes to concentrate for mutual protection in the counties in which they are already most numerous. Health. —lt men gave three times as much aWeatiou as they do to ventilation, ablution and .exercise in the open -xir, add only onr,- thit'J as much to eating, luxury and late hours, the number of doctors, destisls, ami apothecaries, and the amount of neuralgia, dyspepsia, gout, fevers and consumption wosld be changed in corresponding ratio. The sweetest word in our language U love. ■ The greatest word in our language is God. > The word expressing the shortest time ts s now.