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Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1862-03-07
BgDPORD INQUIRER.

Mississippi, to New Orleans The circle OF
loyal em6Iems which epshrouds the rebellion is
daily advancing 10 every direction towards the
centre of ths Secession dominons. The
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1862-03-07

The troops who have been SO long at Camp
Curtin have left for the Potomac.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
Rates of Advertising.

No credit on advertising, except to yearly
customers, who are expected TO pay quarter
ly in advance.
The privilege of Yearly Advertisers is
strictly limited to their own immediate bust
ness, and the business of an advertising firm
is not considered as including that Of its in
dividual members.
Advertisements, not marked on tile copy
for special number of insertions, will be
continued uutil ordered out, and payment
exacted accordingly.
No advertisement will be inserted gratui-
tously, except brief announcements of not
more than FIVE lines Of deaths, marriages and
religious appointments.
No advertisement to be considered by the
year unless specified by contract between
the parties.
No yearly advertisement will be discontn-
ued without previous notice to US, nor will
any charges be made for less than one year
at yearly rates.
All advertisements of public meetings,
speakings, fairs, fraternities, &C., and all no
tices of private enterprises, or to promote
private interests, must be paid for in ad.
vance. Where the object is manifestlv fer
the public good, or for benevolent purposes,
the publisher will deduct half of the adver
tising rate.
Obituaries and tributes of respect charged
for at the rate nf fifty cents for twelve lines
and must be paid for whea handed IN.
Existing contracts for advertising will be
observed until the period contracted for ex-
pires.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
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else, will not fail to heed-against
any such unjust, partial and de-
structive legislation as is proposed
by the above extract.
We do not ask that publishers
of newspapers should be relieved
from all share in the burdens Of
taxation. They already pay, and
they will eheertully pay, a tax on
their printing establishments equal
to the amount of tax assessed upon
other property Of the same value.
What we object to is the double tar
proposed, ed,-proposed, too, by those
who advocate it, not for the pur-
pose Of bringing in revenue to the
Government, but to break down
the local press, and give the large
city papers monopoly Of the
BUSINESS in the country.
Let our friends of the country
press speak out in time OH this
subject, for those who are urging
it are many and skillful wire
workers, and will leave no effort
untried to carry their point. And
further, let your Representatives in
Congress know that if they aid in
applying this knife to your throat,
they shall not go unremcmbered.
If they fool you once, it is their
fault /; if they fool you twice, it is
your fault. ''-Dayt0n Empire.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
The Finances Of the Country.

On this subject weiqnotc from q
private letter:
Il think the new Secretary OF
War will find the Department in
.frightful disorder, and an amount
of procrastiuated demands that will
appal even Congress itself. | doubt
if any tax the country can pay.
even if Congress should levy it,
can now extricate the Treasury
from insolvency. The liabilities
of the Government, oyer and above
the loans, wiil,I think, be found
to be from four to five hundred
millions, now pressing for pay,
ment. A tax can not Ue collected
i'll less than six months. Treasury
notes to the amount of the tax,
and receivable for it, could be is
sued and kept from great deprecia-
ton, if no further issue should be
made until the payment of the tax.
That process would enable the
Government to realize the tax at
once, so that it would not be the
basis OF loan. A tax yielding
a sum equal to 3 per cent. upon
the present State valuations would
yield the Government about $780,
thus, after paying out this
sum of Indebtedness already incur
red, the Government would proba-
bly, still remain debtor $3.50, 100000,
with daily new liabilities Of at
least 100000, which at the end
of six months would leave the
Government in q deficit of six or
seven hundred millions of dollars
(N. " Argus and atlas.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
The Blockade Efectual.

The New Orleans Commercial
Bulletin of the 7th instant has
these admissions:
* "Yet the question
again and again comes back, will
France or England, or both COM
bined, really and practically raise
the blockade? They may, certain
ly. There is no reason, as we look
at the business, why they should
not. And this has been the truth
for more than six months. Yet
the blockade has remained. and
the great port of New Orleans has
been Theoretically sealed to the
commerce Of the world all that
time, and may continue so six
months longer, unless we ourselves
bleak the seal. Here is the pinch
ing point. Shall we permit the
port to remain closed six months
longer without making bold,
vigorous, aye, desperate effort to
open it? We say no, and we be-
lieve this is the voice of almost the
rentife community both in town
and country. Open our port, and
the cotton of the Cotton States
could and would go to England
and France. Nothing, under cir
cumstances of the case, with the
condition of the manufacturing
districts of England, France and
Germany which we know to exist,
and with the known public feeling
in those countries as to the state OF
the American quarrel, could pre-
vent it. Open the port of New
Orleans, then, and cotton moves
With that movement every thing
else would move. Every depart
ment of the Government would
feel a thrill as if an electric spark
had shot through and through it..
The heart OF every man in the
Confederacy would bound. Such
pean would salute the ears of
our enemies as would transfx them
with despair. We do believe the
war would be virtually at an end ;
but if it should not be, if the enemy,
bent upon absolute self-destruction,
should resolve to keep up the stu
pid and malignant attempt to an
noy us, we should have received
such energies through the move
ment of our great staples as would
enable us to carry on the war more
vigorously than ever, and with less
conscious burdens, as long as it
might suit the enemy to wage it."
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
New England VS. Northwest

1t seems that plan is on foot TO
take from Cincinnati all the man
ufactory of all clothing, &C., and
bestow these contracts on New
York, Boston and Philadelphia
Well, this is in conformity to the
growing jealousy of the New Eng
land and Eastern States against
the great North West, and is done
in order to facilitate the Abolition
interests of the East at the expense
of the West. We hope this, added
to many other facts of the same
kind, will the tendency to open the
eyes of the Western people to the
great Importance of arising and
asserting their rights and interests,
ere they are totally troddeH under
foot. The West has now to sell
at one-half the prices formerly re-
ceived, and buy at two prices
solely on account of the war and
the blockade of the Mississippi
River, and the stopping of the
Southern markets. While this is
SO, the East have a good market
at high prices foral they produce,
and are reaping golden harvests by
manufacturing clothing, supplying
the contracts for bread, beef, &c.,
to the army. While the East is
becoming rich by the war and the
blockade, the West is being i'm,
poverished and will soon be crushed
into the dust. How long will the
great West stand this state of
things? The East is making mon
ey out OF the war, while the West
is paying the fiddler, without be-
ing permitted to reap any benefit,
or even to share q tithe of the
contracts.
A public meeting was held in
Cincinnati on the subject, a few
days since, to protest most
strongly against this grand impo-
sition.
Perhaps the next act of seces-
sion will be the West cutting loose
from the East, and establishing
great Western Empire.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
How to Make Selfish People.

The way to spoil a child is to
give it all it wants, and require
nothing in return. cr'he wav to
make a child grow up to be amia-
bic and unselfsh, is to give it little,
and require of it much. For it is
not what others do for us that
benefits US, but what we do for
Ourselves and others. We know
parents whose only study is to
crafty their children, and this they
think is generosity. 1t is not gen
erosity-it is seltishness. To graf
ify child is a keen delight, but to
make it do its duty is often trouble
some. To let it off a lesson costs
q word ; to give it a toy is all affair
of a few cents; to say to it some
fond and flattering word is no
trouble at all. But the moment
you begin to enforce a duty, or
compel faithful performance of a
TASK, you encounter dltticltles; you
have to take trouble and practice
some of the cardinal virtues; you
have to be patient, firm and wise.
The difference between a good pa
rent and bad parent is this a
good parent treats his child in the
way that will be most beneficial to
it when grown up; a bad parent
thinks only of the child's enjoy
ment of to-day.
Who are the generous and pub
lie spirited? Who are the first to
rush to tho defense of an imperiled
country? Who are good and
obliging neighbors 4? Who bestir
themselves for the improvement of
their village or town? Go back
to the early homes of these people,
and you will find they were brought
up to tighten the pareLts' load,
not make it heavier. They learned
self-denial and good sense by being
obliged to perform at least as
much work as they caused. The
boys were hoeing corn, bringing
in wood, and hunting the COWS |;
the gir.s were helping their moth
ers. In this way, they acquired a
certain invaluable esomething which
prevented them from being either
very selfish or very foolish This
something we know not how to
name, but it is the difference be-
tween a person of sense and a fool.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
ASTONISHING!

9 McCLAIN, the world renowned Artist,
~. would say to all who is desrous to get
agood Likeness, to give him call
Mac. is prepared to take Pictures in all
kinds of weather, and of any size, from the
smallest Locket or Pin, to the life size Phot-
oS,Graph: Having been permanently estab-
Gshed in the city of Eaton, as an artist, for
several years, and being fully posted in ali
the late styles and improvements he will
guarantee satisfaction to all who may wish
anything in his line. Copies taken from old
Daguerreotypes, Portrait Paintings Land
IcaPes, Residences, &c. He would also in.
form the plblic that he has greatly reduced
the price of Pictures of late, therefore none
need go without their miniature, when tbov
can get it complete in case for the small
sum Of fifty cents.
Rooms east of the Court House, over De-
GrOots Saloon,
jan II, 1851 SAML NCLAIN.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
ADVERTISEMENT.

TO DISABLED SOLDIERS, sEAMEN
AND MARINES AND WIDOWS OR 9TH
ER HEIRS OF THOSE WHO HAVE
DIED OR BEEN KILLED IN The SER.
VICE. CHAs. C. Tucker ATTORNEY ron
CLAIMANTS. BdUYTY LAND AND PENSION
AGENT. WASHINGTON CRY, D. c.
Pensions procured for Soldiers, Seamen
and Marines Of the present war, who are
disabled by reason Of Wounds received or
disease contracted while in service, and
Pensions, Bounty money and arrears of pay
obtained for widows or other heirs of those
who have died or been killed while in service
20 Bounty Land procured for service in
any Of the other wars.
CHAS. C. TUCKER, Washington.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
Important to NEWSPAPERS.

The following extract is from
Washington correspondence of the
N. Y. World.
"TAXING THE NEwspApERs.-Thc
abolition of the franking privilege
carries with it the right of newspa-
pers to exchange without the pay
ment of postage, an important item
in the newspaper business. 1t will
amount to serious tax on papers
will large exchange lists. find
n strong feeling here in favor Of
taxing newspaper PropFtCtors Il
quarter or half a cent for each
sheet they print. 1t would pro-
dnce al enormous income to the
Government, and it is urged would
be public benefit in raising the
price of the journals, and concen-
trating The business in the interest
of the really able and worthy large
city newspapers. Fewer papers
and better ones would be the re-
suit. tits doubted, however, wheth =
cr the members care to face the
c'amor this tax would create among
the journals in the rural districts. ;"
"The assertion that the passage
OF such an act would be a public
benefit, as it would concentrate
the business in the Interest Of the
really able and worthy large city
newspapers is decidedly modest,
coming from the World, a paper
whose editor alexander Cum
mings) figures so conspicuously in
the recent report of the Congress
sional Investigating Committee
the same gentleman who spent
thousands Of the peoples money in
purchasing London Porter, Straw
Hats, Linen Pantaloons, etc, for
the soldiers, and who has this day
over hundred thousand dollars of
the money in his hands unac-
counted for. Worthy indeed, so
long as Greely, Bennett, Forncy,
ct omn' genes, have control of the
large city papers. If all the ability,
worth and honesty of the editorial
profession of the country is CEN
tered in these men, may the Lord
have mercy on the rest.
For years the country press las
been compelled to compete with
the cheap papers Of the larger
cities, at prices which every prac.
teal printer knows were barely
remunerative, until now in many
counties, the dollar weeklies of the
East have a circulation equal to
the local papers published in these
counties. And for this, the Gown
try press is, to great extent, to
blame.
They have year after year pub
lished the column prospectuses of.
eXtolled the superiority and labored
as hard as for themselves to in
crease the subscription of these
eastern journals. They have aided
in warming into life viper which
is gradually but surely crushing
out their own existence. They
have given a power and an infu-
ence to the press of the larger
cities, which is now being used to
destroy the local press.
The efforts now made by this
former to still further cripple the
latter, should call forth from the
country press universal and
unanimous protest-a protest which
the men, who owe their positions
IN Congress to the influence of the
local press more than anything
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
Terms Of Subscriution.
To Clubs.

Postmasters receiving subscriptions, and
distributing papers, and parties forming
clubs of five, and upwards, and forwarding
the money in advance, will be entitled to
one copy gratis for IL months.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
The Law Of Newspapers:

|. Subscribers who do notglve express notice
to the contrary, are considered as wishing to
continue their subscription.
g. If subscribers order the discontinuance
Of their papers, the publishers may continue
TO send them until all arrearages are paid
g. II subscribers refuse or neglect to take
their papers from the Office to which they
are directed, they are held responsible till
they have settled the bill and ordered the pa
per discontinued ,t"
4. If subscribers move to other places
without informing the publishers, and the
papers are sent to the former direction, they
are held responsible.
g. The law Courts have decided that re-
fusing to take paper from the Office is "pri-
ma facie" evidence of intentional fraud.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30

HAPPINEss,-This looking forward
for enjoyment don't pay. The only
true happiness is to take the drops
of happiness, as God gives them
to us every day of our lives the
boy must learn to be happy when
he is plodding over his lesson; the
apprentice when he is learning his
trade; the merchant while he is
making his fortune. If he fails to
learn this art he will be sure to
miss his enjoyment when he gains
What he sighs for.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
"a. DR.. J. lie FEVER,
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN,
o.

Office, at my residence, Somers Street
our doors east of Levin T. McCabes, north
side: e:--where | can always be found, unless
professionally engaged.
AGg,St s2nd, lssi.
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
The Education of Childhood.

llmOtnV lltcOlnD S new DOoK-
Lessons in LJc-abounds in useful
hints as to education and the
practical duties Of life in general,
as few passages will show. How
clearly human nature is depicted
in the following paragraph:
| call my child to my knee in
anger; [ strike him a hasty blow
that carries with it the peculiar
sting Of anger; | speak a loud re-
proof that bears with it the spirit
of anger; and | look in vain for
any relenting in his flashing eyes,
flushed face, and compressed lips.
| have made my chile angry, and
my uncontrolled passion has pro.
duccd after its kind. | have sown
anger, and | have rcaped anger in
simultaneously. Perhaps 1 become
still more.anSry, in consequence OF
the passion manifested in my child,
and | speak and strike again. lie
is weak and 1 am strong. hut
though he bow his head, crushed
into silence, [ may be sure that
there is a sullcn heart in that little
bosom, and anger the more bitter
because it is impotent. / pnt the
child away from me, and think of
what i have done. am full of
relentings, for | long for his par
don, for | know that | have offend
ed and deeply injured one of
Chrti3t's little ones. | call him to
me again, press his head to my
breast, kiss him and weep. No
word is spoken, but the little bosom
heaves, the little eyes grow ten
de"ly pcnitent, the little hands
clasp my neck, and my sorrows
have produced after their kind
The child is conquered and SO
am |.
Further on, the writer teaches
us what he calls the grand lesson
in the education of childhood; it
certainly contains a suggestion
worthy Of the consideration, not
only of parents, but Of every one.
Here it is:
So we come to the grand lesson,
that if we would have good chill
dren, we must ourselves be exactly
what we would have them become;
if we would govern our families,
we must first govern ourselves if
we would have only pleasant words
greet our ears in the home circle,
we mustspeaS only pleasant words.
We should see to it that we plant
nothing, the legitimate fruits Of
which we shall not be willing to
see borne in the lives eff our chill
dren. If our children are bad, the
fault is, ninety-nine cases in Il hun
dred, our own, in some way. If
we would reform society, or make
it better in any respect, onr quick
est way to do is to reform and
make ourselves better. II | would
reap courtesy and hospitality, and
kindness and love, | must plant
them and 1t is the sum of all ar
rogance to assume that | have a
right to reap them without plant
ing them. A man who receives
courtesy without exercising it,
reaps that which he has not sown.
He is a thief, and ought in justice
to be kicked out of society. -
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The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30

~ c"NIlNiS' IL lIC wi ht' CIV uS-
nominations of Christians would
employ, eacl, from one to four
travelling evangclists, men # deep
pinty, popular preaching talents,
tact, and kind hearts, who should
be appointed to visit the Churches
of their respective denominations,
in all towns and cities, to preach
the Gospel in q conversational AMI
simple phrascology, much more
good would he done to society in
oneyoar, than all the spiritual good
done by anniversary and Chapel
opening sermons in twenty years.
The preachers for the people,
should be men Of n good constitn-
tion. Good health is a great bless
ing to all who are daily partakcr9
of so great n mercy; but to none
is a good state Of health more in
disncnslbIc. tLau to '+lo aorvorto
of God who show rnto others 4.
way Of salvation, The ,r;nis,r
of reconciliation is an arlro..u
work, and the man who wor'
make full proof of it. should
healthy in boJv ~ wclI as styc,
in mind. True, men NAV m,
the ministry a Duysery of ease. n.
a comfortable and dsuuyLorth AL.
too many appear to become nil.
listers. with no higher or lo,i,
aim, thar to actthe dandy in youh
and the dronc in advancing 40.
Young men. whose Door state
health forbils them to follow
trade are not however nious fl.
NAV be, fit for the ministry. Uo.
can they? How dare thcy en,-.
upon it with a fceb1e and siel-'
constitution But we NAV
to1d that Timothy wos vorv de-
cate. The nrobabilitv is tlot Fl,
othy was q man Of Il - ro51 cS'f~~
tuition. until. like other Iaborious
ministers of the Cross. he became
= vrork in his rnastnr's vork Rat
whatever the execution NAV have
hoor or may stnl hotot1,o roporoI
rnIc wo contend thot thc ministrv
is NOT an U,en;toI or on o,n,.'
houso forrv,IiIs Orr rrosnr+ ro
marks are Lowcvor confnad +,
those who arc unhcolthv. and con.
snounntlv unYhln or tL;nl- +bon, .
selves unable, to follow q trade.
and fins fake shcItcr in tbo min,
fry both bcronso If is - oort,,,.
modc Of nossino thronch rfo o,,
on nosv wov of oott;no Lrood A.,
we have no doubt, that MANY wh.
ara sv,ovod l,v No ,igbor r'o4;,.o
than those. climb over tbo wo,,
into n,o Cl,;o.;,, ,,,;,;,t 49,.
, INV Wv '''"'' 'i,'''''' D''
'hey are not the preachers tor the
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30

BREADTH OF RELlGION.-Religion
should influence its possessor in
all the relations of life. Whatever
he does, he should do it better for
being a Christian. Religion should
make one a better student, a better
master, a better parent, a better
child, a better man in every respect.
The pious but eccentric Rowland
Hill, remarked : II would not give
a farthing for a mans religion
whose cat and dog were not better
for it,"
The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-01-30
BRUGG AND WAGON WHIPS.
Travelling Trunks,

&c., Sc,
and STi al articles usually kept in a Harness
Makers Shop. D6E~ Shop on Baron St., two
doors North of Brookins Sons drug sto:e.
N B.-Old carriages repaired and retrim.
mea, on short notice, and in good style.
Eaton, August 29, 1861. If
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-17

New York, May 16.-The store, No 321
Pearl street, occupied by Bunce & Co., Howes
Walker, and others, was burned this morn
ing. Loss $4,000, insured.
collision took place on the Flushing rail-
road this morning. The engineer was killed.
and the locomotives and freight cars smashed.
Union prisoners from Richmond report that
large numbers of families are going south
They said JEFF Davis has gone to Tuscaloosa
The Union sentiment is strong and increasing.
New York, May l6.-The steamer Oriole.
from Newburn, April 18th, arrived tonight.
She has several soldiers on furlough and the
bodies of Lieut., Southworth and Charles
Beman of Connecticut. The health of the
troops at Newbern was good, and the place
was being fortified.
The steamer Parkersburg, from Portland, is
ashore at He'll Gate. Assistance has been
sent. She will probably get off at high water.
ST. LOUIS, May lG'-Cleveland Leader, the
jayhawlSeI and robber, was arrest on the llth
at Ossawatomie. He endeavored to escape,
and was shot. Barbour, one of his gang, was
also arrested and taken to fort Leayenworth.
LOUISVILLE, May 1G.-The steamer Will
liam Wallace is in the river, with thirteen of
Morgans men aboard, bound north.