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275 Colonies, l25 Authors
100 Lieut. Colonels, 40 Artists.
250 her Officers I25 STAGE
rs Navy Officers. 80 Prom'nt Women.
60 l56 Prominent Foreign Portraits,
0C COPIES OF WORKS OF ART.
including reproductions of the most celebrated En-
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Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-05-19
COPPERHEAD RECORD.

The Copperheads are pretending to be re-
jolced over the recent great successes Of our
troops, and some of them have the hardi-
hood to say that they always expected that
the rebellion would be put down by force of
arms. Here is how much they expected IL
as declared by their National Convention:
That this Convention does explicitly de-
clare, as the sense of the American people,
AFTER FOUR YEARS OF FAILURE
TO RESTORE THE UNION BY THE
EXPERIMENT OF WAR, =
justice, humanity, liberty and the pubic a0el-
fare demand that immediate efforts be made
for a cessation Of hoStt ines, ete.
And we also remember this
ReSolUed, That we believe The further
prosecution Of the present a1dr cdnnoS result
IN the restoration of the Union and the pres
erUatioa of oar Constitution, as oar fathers
paadelt, unless the Presidents Emancipa-
ton Proclamation be withdrawn"
Again on the 18th of June, 1863, the
Copperhead Convention of Illinois resolved
as follows
Resolced, That zoe are opposed to the .fur-
tter ofenstre prosecution of the todr, as tend
ing to subUeyt the Constitution and the Coz
ernnaent and entrailing upon this nation all
the disastrous consequences of misrule and
anarchy.
All of which is respectfully submitted to
those of our Democratic friends who are
now rejoicing at the recent glorious victo-
ries, and over the hattering prospects a.
1Icdd.
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TIE SECRET OF YOUTH.

There are women who cannot grow Old
women, who, without any special effort, re-
main always young and attractive. The
number is smaller than il should be; but
there Is still a sufficient number to mark the
wide difference between this class and the
other. The great secret of this perpetual
youth lies n0tin beauty, for some women
possess it who are not al all handsome; nor
in dress, for they are frequently careless in
that respect, 30 far Is mere arbitrary die
tates of fashion are concerned nor In hav-
ing nothing TO do, fer these ever Young NO
men are always busy as bees, and ii IN very
well known that idleness win fret people into
old age and ugliDess faster than overwork.
The charm, we imagine, lies Ia sunny tenn
per, neither more or less-the blessed gift Of
always looking on the bright side Of life,
and stretching the mantle Of charity over
everybody's faults and failings. 1t is not
much of secret but it is all that we have
been able to discover and we have watched
such with great interest and determine
ten to report truthfully for the benefit of
the sex. 1t is provoking that it is some
thing which cannot be corked up and sold
for fifty cents per bottle; but, as this isimpos-
sible, why, the most Of us viii have to keep
on growing old and ugly and disagreeable as
unsual. Jenny June.
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THE CHEERFUL VOICE.

The comfort and happiness of home and
home intercourse, let me here say, depend
very much on the kindly and affectionate
training Of the voice. Trouble, and care,
and vexation will and must, ofcourse, come;
but let them not creep into our voices. Let
only our kindly and happier feelings be vocal
In our homes. Let them be so If for no
other reason, for the little children sake.
These sensitive little beings are exceedingly
susceptible to the tones. Let us have con-
sideration for them. They hear so much
that we have forgotten to hear. For as we
advance in years, our life becomes more in
terror. We are abstracted from outward
scenes and sounds, We think, we reflect,
we begin gradually to deal with the past as
we have formerly vividly lived in the pres
ent Our ear grows dull to external sound /;
it is turned inward, and listen chiefly to the
echoes of past voices. We catch no more
merry laughter of children We hear no
more the note of the morning bird. The
brook, that used to prattle gaily to us, rush
es by unheeded-we have forgotten to hear
such things. But little children, remember,
sensitive hear them all. Mark how, at ev-
and listens And thus with equal sensitive
ness, does it catch the tones of human vol
ces. How were it possible that the sharp
and hasty word, the fretful and complaining
tone, should notstartle and pain, even de-
press, the sensitive little being whose harp
of life is so newly and delicately strung, vi
brating even to the gentle breeze, and thrill
ling sensitively ever to the tones of such
voices as sweep across it Let us be kind
and cheerful-spoken, then, in our homes =
Once Month.
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PROFANITY.

The people of this land are certainly dis
tlngulshed, to an extent unknown In other
countries, except perhaps Great Britain, by
protaneness. A stranger might infer from
the tone OF popular conversation, from the
ordinations Of excited individuals, from
the elamors of anger and passion, that we
acknowledge the Almighty for no other
purpose than that we might have name to
swear by, or a convenient expletive to fill UP
the chasms of discourse. Profaneness is a
SIN the enormity Of which the imagination
cannot conceive, because no thought can
compass the infinite excellencies of Him
whose prerogative it is to be (; who sits upon
the circles Of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers who stretcheth
out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth
them out as tent to dwell in. That a puny
creature of the dust, borne to-day and gone
tomorrow, should have tho aS1daaity To
pour contempt upon that glorious name
which seraphs adore with rapture, is enough
to astonish the heavens and convulse the
earth. Yea, still more astonishing is that
miracle of patience which endures the mon
sters, when one word would arm all nature
against them, make the ground treacherous
beneath them, heaven terrible above them,
and hell ready to meet them at their COM
ing. The magnitude of the sin cannot be
exaggerated 1t is enough to make the
blood curdle, to think of the name of God
banded about as the bauble and plaything
of fools, to point a jest, to season ohscenity,
and to garnish tale This offence cannot
go unpunished If there be a God, he must
vindicate his own magesty and glory. There
must be period when ali shall tremble be-
fore him when every knee shall bow, and
every heart shall do reverence. The sword
of justice cannot always be sheathed, nor
the arm of vengeance slumber. In the
sight of angels, there can be no greater sin
than that of profaneness. They know
something of what God is. They fear that
dreadful name, and their imaginations, lofty
and expanded as they are, cannot measure
the height and depth of that imquity which
can make light of so tremendous a being.
1t is the very spirit and core of all evil, the
quintessence of ungodliness.-Americaa
MeSseu0er
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SAiaG&llaa&pns.
DURATION OF LIFE.

The average duration of life of man in
civilized society is about thirty-three and a
third years. This is called generation,
making three in century. But there are
certain localities and certain communities OF
people where this average is considerably
extended. The mountaineer lives longer
than the lowlander; the farmer than the ar
tisan; the traveller than the sedentary; the
temperate than the selfindulgent; the just
than the dishonest. 'The wicked shall not
live out half his days, is the announcement
of Divinity. The philosophy ofthis is found
in the fact, that the moral character has
strong power over the physical; power
much more controlling than is generally
imagined. The true man conducts himself
in the light of Bible precepts; is temperate
in all things; is 'slow to anger" and on his
grave is written. He went about doing
good. In these three things are the great
elements of human health; the restraint of
the appetites; the control of the passions;
and that highest type of physical exercise,
going ABOUT doing good. Its said 9th, ofthe
John Gurney, that the labor and pains he
took to go and see personally the objects OF
his contemplated charities, so that none OF
Juem sHOulu De uHMoTGHHy DeSIONeu, was
of itself almost the labor Of one man, and he
attended to his immense banking business;
in fact he did too much, and died at sixty.
The average length of human life, Of all
countries, at this age of the world, is about
twenty eight years. 0ne-quarter of all who
die do not reach the age of seven; one-half
die before reaching seventeen; and yet the
average of life of Friends, - in Great Brit
ain and Ireland, in 1860, was nearly ffty-six
years, just double the average life of other
people Surely this is strong inducement
| for all to practice for themselves, and to in
culcate it upon their children day by day,
that simplicity of habit, that quietness Of
demeanor, that restraint of temper, that
control of the appetites and propensities,
and that orderly systematic, and even mode
of life, which 'Friends' discipline incul-
Gates, and which are demonstrably the means
of so largely increasing the average of hui
man existence.
Reasoning from the analogy of the anima
creation, mankind should live nearly an hun
dred years; that law seeming to be, that life
should be five times the length of the perioC
of growth; at least, the general observation
is, that the longer persons are growing, th'
longer they live-other things being equal
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THE TRUE WOMAN. THE true woman,
for whose ambition ahusband love and her
children's alterations are sufficient, who
applies her military instincts to the disci-
pline of her household, and whose legislative
faculties are in making laws for her
nurse; whose heart asks no other honor than
a husband S love and alteration; a woman
who does not think it a weakness to her
toilet and who does not disdain to be
beautiful who believes in the virtue Of
glossy hair and we'll fitting dresses, and who
eschews rents and raveled edges slip shod
shoes and audacious make-ups; womanwho
speaks low, and does not speak much; who
is patient and gentle, intellectual and IN
dustrious; who loves more than she reasons
and yet does not love bin1ly; who never
scolds and rarely argues but adjusts with Q
smile; such woman is the wife veal
dreamed of once incur lives away in the
distancel
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show themselves, and they viii grow more
pTotruslye, sharp and quickly. and make the
dlsunion ~ more and more complete. This
will appear at first rather insensibly under
externals, but win grow to terrible reality.
At hrs. they viii only wish to look at the
moon through separate windows; but very
soon it will be as Hood says, and thew will
want separate moons to- look at and, lastly
there will be no moon, at all, for all the ro-
nance of life will have departed, and its
soft silvery light viii have gone out in total
darkness.
The other mistake is that of supposing
the happiest marriages must be a union Of
congenial tastes and pursuits. Just the op-
posite, we think is true. What does one
want of another who is just like himself,
and IS not complementary of his own imper-
feet being? As Mr.. Emerson puts it ssthey
must be very two before they can be very
one. The more two the better. Ideal
men want practical wives, ideal wives want
practical men; and then, the earth-side and
the heayen-side of life are put together. il
rounds 1t to a glorious completeness. But
they must be put together by inter-pene-
tration, and not by soldering; or, as Swed-
enborg says, they must be coyoiiaed and
not Gd5oiaed.
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general JAcKsoN's MoTTo. Think
before you act, but when the time for action
comes, stop thinking. This is the true
doctrine. Many men fail in life and go down
to the grave with hopes blasted and pros
poets Of happiness unrealized, because they
did not adopt and act upon this motto.
Nothing so prepares man for action as
thought; but nothing so units man for
action in the course of action. Better by far
adopt some course and pursue it energetic
ally, even though it may not be the best,
than to keep continually thinking without
action. $50 ahead" ought to be printed in
every young mans hat, and read until it
becomes a part of his nature, until he can
act upon his Judgment, and not be turned
from bis course BY every wind of interested
advice. In conclusion, we would say,
'aThink before you act; but when the time
for action comes, stop thinking"
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MISTAKES ON MATRIMoNY.

There are two mistakes about it. One is
that which DR.. Watts has sanctioned in his
celebrated lyric, that souls were paired when
sent into this world, and somehow have got
mixed and iumbled up, scarcely any one
getting his true counterpart, or having any
chance of doing so and that hence are the
Earrings of the married state. many people
lay off their miseries Upon this mystic fatal
ism, and think, if they had only their true
partners, they should have been supremely
happy. Now the truth is, there are no
persons but those regenerated or becoming
SO who can be brought into any intimate re-
lation. least, of all the most intimate, with
out drawing out all the mutual points of
repulsion in their character.
We are not sent into the world paired
and nicely fitted to each other without any
agency of our own; we are brought here
with selfish natures to be subdued, and an
gelic natures to be unfolded from within I;
and this done through constant watchings,
selfdenials, and efforts Let two persons,
then, with hearts intensely natural, be
brought together IN the most sacred of all
relations. They think they are matched.
They are so. But it may be either for a
draw game at self or for walking aeqats
paSssblS, on the heavenly road. If they be-
gin in earnest life of regeneration, intern
al evils, as they come successively into the
consciousness, will be denied, and have all
their jagged points fled off, and finally, will
be cast out entirely and whereas there
union at first might have been only external,
at length it may become so perfect, that for
aught we know, they may only appear in
the spiritual world, as Mr.. T. L. Harris,
says, like one person instead Of two. AT
any rate they may become together com
plete humanity halved and split in twain.
Or on the other hand, suppose a regener.
ate life does not begin, but selfish and
worldly living rather Then the Jagged
points Of two selfish natures viii begin ta
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WHOM TO MARRY.-When young
woman behaves to her parents in manner
particularly affectionate and respectful, from
principle as well as nature, there is nothing
good and gentle that may not be expected
from her, In whatever condition she may be
placed. Were Ito advise a friend as to his
choice of wife my first counsel would be,
"Look out for pious girl, distinguished for
her attention and love to her parents. The
fund of worth and affection indicated by such
behavior, Joined to the habits of duty and
consideration thereby contracted, being
transferred to the married state, will not fail,
As rule, to render her amid, obliging, and
valuable companion for life. -
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sAxE-GRINDING. - This is a term
borrowed from one of the most charming
stories told by Benjamin Franklin. A little
boy going to schoolwas accosted by a man
carrying an axe. The man calls the boy all
kinds Of pretty and endearing names, and
induces him to enter yard where there is a
grindstone. 'tNow, my pretty little fellow
says he with the axe only turn that handle,
and you II see something pretty. The boy
turns and turns and the man holds the axe
to the stone and pours water over it until the
axe is ground. Straightway he turns with
strident voice and fierce gesture on the boy:
You abandoned little miscreant, he cries,
what do you mean BY playing truant from
school? You deserve good thrashing. Get
you gone sirrah, this Instant And after
this adds Franklin, ''when anybody
aattered me | always thought be had an axe
to grind
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OPENING OF THE CANAL OF SUEZ.
great work of the Suez Canal, undertaken and
carried out by the French, has been opened
for traffic, although not fully completed On
the 9th of April NJ Lesseps, the contractor,
was metin the city of Alexandria, Egypt, by
one hundred and twenty gentlemen, repre-
senting the Chambers of Commerce and great
trade centers of the Oldand New Worlds
who were delegated to witness the eeremo-
NAL of uniting the Mediterranean with the
RedSea. He entertained them 1T a grand
banquet, and the entire party set out the
next morning for the Isthmus of Suez; so that
we shall receive report of the event In day
or two, and hear in a short time that the
canal, which is now readily navigable by
tugs and barks of thirty tons, has been
deepened; so as to admit the largest sea-
going vessels; and if SO, the route to India
around the Cape Of Good Hope viii
generally be abandoned.
There is one view of fhissubject worthy of
consideration. 1t is, the completion of
this canal viii insure the supremacy of
France in the Mediterranean, and give an
easy access to the East Indies for her
powerful navy and immense military force
should rupture take place with England.
The press of the latter country has long
considered this result, and often expressed
its apprehension of It's reality.
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DURBORROW & LUTz, Editors and ProprIetOrs.
Original guetrg.
FOR THE BEDFORD INQUIRER.
THE ASSASSINATION.

Great God and has it come to this;
In this Thy "chosen land"
That "Thine annointed's" stricken down
BY an assassin's hand
Oh ! why not for his righteousness,
Stretch forth Thine arm to save
His country's saviour to the same,
And shield him from the grave
Well might the sun withdraw in shame,
And darkness reign supreme,
And Nature in her anguish shrek
Before the atrocious scene
'Tis but the crucifxion Ger;
He for his country stood,
But now, alas his only thought
Is baptized in his blood.
Just when the light begins TO dawn,
When troason's voice grows dumb,
When bastard criminals stand appalled,,
And traitor hordes suecumb,
He like the pioneer of old
The head Of IsraePs host,
When just in view of Canaan's land
Has yielded up the ghost.
But now, redeemed and disenthralled,
The Nation stands to-day,
Cured Of the cankering sore
The curse which on it lay,
And as Regeneration's stream
Flowed from the Sayiour's side
So now is FREEDOMS golden fruit
Sealed in a crimson tide.
'Tis we'll oh God, thy purpose good;
Thy son for sinners died
Blest Saviour on the accursed tree
'erhy will be done He cried.
So let us bow to thy decree,
And with Thine Eternal Son,
Although deep sorrow rends our hearts,
Exclain "TnY WILL BE DONE"
WI. NJ.
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TIE TRUE MAN.-He is above a mean
thing. He can not stoop to mean fraud.
Invades no secretsin the keeping of another.
He betrays no secrets confded to his own
keeping. He never struts in borrowed
plumage He never takes selfish advantage
of our mistakes. He uses no ignoble
weapons in controversy. He never stabs in
the dark. He is ashamed of inuendoes.
He is not one thing to mans face, and
another behind his back. If by action he
comes in possession of his neighbors
counsels, he passes upon shvnl Gn instant
oblivion. He bearssealed packages without
tampering with the wax. Papers not
meant for his eye, whether they Hutter at
his window, or lie open before him In I'M
guarded exposure, are sacred to him. He
encrvaehes on no privacy of others, however
the sentry sleeps. Bolts and bars, locks and
keys, hedges and pickets, bonds and
securities, notices to tresspassers, are none
of them for him. Hemay be trusted himself
out of sight-near the thinnest partition
anywhere. He buys no Office, he sells none,
he intrigues for none Hewould rather fail of
its rights than win them thro' dishoner. He
will eat honest bread He insults no man.
He tramples on no sensitive feeling. fhe
have rebuke for another, he is straight
forward, open. manly, in short, whatever
hejudges honorable, he practices toward
every man.
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But the sad fact is, that only one man for
every thousand reaches one hundred years.
SUill it is encouraging to know, that the sci
ence Of life, as revealed by the investigations
of the Psychologists and the teachings of ed
ucated medical men, is steadily extending
the period of human existence.
The distinguished historian Macaulay
states that, In l765, one person in twenty
died each year; in 1850, out Of forty persons,
only one died Dupin says, that from l776
to lS43 the duration Of life in Franceincreas-
ed fiftytwo days annually, for in 1871 the
mortality was one in twenty mine; in lS43,
one in forty. The rich men in France live
forty-two years on an average; the poor only
thirty. Those who are s'well-to-do-in-the-
world live about eleven years longer, than
those who have to work from day to day for
a living. Remuneratiye labor and the diffu-
sion of the knowledge of the laws of life
among the masses, with temperance and
thrift, are the great means of adding to hu-
man health and life; but the more important
ngredient-happiness-is only to be found
IN daily loving, obeying, and serving Him
who giveth us all things richly to enjoy I"
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