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RUSSIAN AMERICA.

The Hon Joseph Howe, the eminent
Nova Scotian, has been making a speech, in
which, after paying his respects to the re-
cent act of confederation, he thus speaks of
the cession of Russian America;
Hardly was the measure passed when
England got diplomatic slap in the face by
the purchase of Russian America without
notice or the slightest warming, and even an
effort to adjust the Alabama claims appears
to be but eoldly entertained What next we
may get nobody can tell, bit tlis Is certain,
that by that purchase the hold Of Great
Britain upon this continent Is made more
precd rims. while the difficulties of the con-
federacy are proportionably increased. By
that purchase the United States, have ac
quired country as large as Canada; they
have increased their land frontier from
which they can annoy us by nine hundred
miles and their coast line upon the Pacific
by fifteen hundred. In fact, they sandwich
British Columbia between California on the
one side aud this new purchase on the other,
IN which there are seventy thousand Indians,
so that the defense of our territory beyond
the Rocky Mountains is almost impossible.
The English newspapers try to comfort
themselves with the idea that this country
is all ice and snow. That is mot the case
the worst of it abounds with fur bearing
animals, and the value of the mines and of
the rich valleys in the interior is but little
known. The coast, for thousand miles,
enjoys moist but not very severe climate.
1t abounds with lumber, fish, and water
power. Into this region the young men
from Maine and Massachusetts will rush,
and in five years the whole coast will be en-
Evened with saw mills, fishing craft, and ae-
tive deep sea navigation. Even the ice will
be turned TO account, and viii soon employ
a large amount Of tonnage, conveying it to
the East Indies China and japan. Colum-
bia, thus environed, is to come into the
Confederation. and we are to defend it. By
what means we have yet to learn. But the
worst feature of this transaction is the inter-
nal evidence it bears ofthe intimate relations
between Russia and the United States, out
of which may grow political enterprises that
no man can foreSee
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BEDFORD. Pa. FRIDAY. JUNE IA. 1867

| wish | could forget it, but it seems as if il
were branded on my heart in letters of FIRE
lit was some moments before III. B--c0uld
realize that the miserable creature before
him was indeed the bright, fascinating girl
from whom he had parted so many years be-
fore
Poor Emma, how you must have suffer
ed, be said, compassionately
" But do you forgive me?" she asked anx-
iousy.
Certainly; say no more about it. You
must not stay 10 this wretched place Is
your mother living2"
Yes, sir, in the country.
Would You not like to 60 back to her
with the children?"
fYes sir, she answered sadly, ''but
have no means.
do not trouble yourself said Nh. B.;
as soon as you are sufficiently recovered, |
will take care of that part ofthe undertaking.
Let me know if there is anything else | can
do for you. No thanks, he added hastily,
as the poor woman commenced grateful
Acknowledgements, good bye. +"
This was the second parting.
Young ladies, you who are accustomed to
press your gentlemen friends to partake Of
wine, pause now and ask yourselves the
question, whether you are prepared for the
miserable fate of drunkard wife
NoTE. The above sketch is no imaginary
picture, but one drawn from real life ANY
one wishing to verify the faetsOf the case can
obtain the name and residence of the gentle
man referred TO by calling at the Office of the
National Baptist, No. GAO Arch street.
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THE STAGE AND THE PULPIT.

Fancy, says the Glasgow Scotland Herald,
the thrilling effect of the Scriptures if read
as Kean reads Shakespeare, orrecites Macau-
lay. And why should we not have it so?
Is 1t right and proper that every book for
public reading should have justice done to
it except the Bible? And that, while every
other subject is allowed the advantage of
natural and impressive delivery, religion
which is the most important of all, should
be denied By all? The monstrous fallacy
with which well meaning but obtuse people
have been beguiled o. have beguiled them
selves, is that such reading and reciting
would be theatrical, and that theatrical
exhibitions are aot becoming IN the house of
God To this hollow and ridiculous fslacy
may be traced most of the execrable pulpit
reading and delivery that rob the Scriptures
of half their power, and have often made
the dullness of a sermon proverbial. Set
Kean to read the song of Miriam or the fight
of David with Goliah, or the story of the
prodigal son, or Christ's denunciations of
the ScFibes and Pharisees, or to Fecite one
of Chambers sermons, and you will see peO-
pie who had begun to adjust themselves in
the corner of their seats for their accustomed
snooze sit up and listen TO him very close,
with eager eyes and bated breath. And all
this simply because Kean would do the piece
justice, that is, read it naturally, and as it
ought to be read. On what possible ground
either of common sense or good taste, can
objection be taken TO the natural delivery of
at least the sermon? lfGarrick could set
even the grim soldier, who was on duty at
the corner Of the street blubbering like a
child, and if Mrs. Siddons could so over
power the eminent tragedian, Young, that
he could not refrain from sobbing aloud
though he was himself on the stage acting
the villain of the piece aud all this while
merely utteiing the words Of fictitious
charactcr-what overwhelming affects in
the way Of awakening sinners and pressing
home the message OF the Gospel might not
be introduced by men who are giving utter
ance in their own character, to the most
sublime and soul stirring truths?
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A DANGEROUS INSECT.

Du Chaillu, the celebrated traveller in a
leetuc on Africa, gives the following de-
ScrIption OF the black Bashikonay ant.
These black Bashikonay may Be well call.
ed the lords Of the forest. IL is the most
VoraeiOus creature / eyer met. Il is the
dread Of ali living animals, from the leopard
to the smallest insect Its their habits to
march through the forest in long regular
line, line about two inches broad and often
several miles in length; all along this line
are larger ants, who act as officers-stand
outside the ranks and keep this singular ar
my in order. If they come to a place where
there are no trees to shelter them from the
sun whose heat they cannot bear they inn
nIediately build an underground tunnel,
through which the whole army pass in col.
umns to the forest beyond.
When they grow hungry, as by sudden
command, the long file spreads itself through
the forest, advancing forward, attacking and
devouFlag all living things with fury quite
irresistible. The elephant and the gorilla
fly before them, the black men run away;
every animal that lives in their line Of march
is chased. In an incredibly short space of
time those that are caught are overwhelmed,
killed, eaten, and only the bare skeleton re-
mains. They seem to travel day and night.
Many time have | been awakened out of a
sleep and obliged to rush into the water to
save myself from them When they enter
a house they clear it of every living thing
Cockroaches are devoured in an instant;
rats and mice spring around the room in
vain. They will not touch vegetable mat
ter thus they are very useful, clearing the
country of many insects. When on their
march the insect world flies before them,
and | have often had the approach of a
Bashikonary arm heralded to me by this
means
Wherever they go they make a clean
sweep even ascending to the top of the trees
in pursuit Of their prey. Their manner of
attack is an impetuous leap, instantly the
strong pincers are fastened and they only
let go when the piece gives way. At such
time this little insect seems animated by a
kind of fury which causes it to disregard
entirely its own safety. The negroes relate
that criminals, by which they generally
mean Wizards, have sometimes been ex-
posed to BashikoDy ants, tied to a tree so
they may not escape, and then been devour-
ed to the bones. They are larger than any
ants we have in America The number OF
one of their armies is so great that one does
not like to enter into calculations, but have
seen a continuous line passing at a good
speed a particular place for twelve hours.
90 you may imagine how many millions
there have been.
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GROW IN GRACE.

You must hold intercourse with God or
your soul will die; you must grow IN grace
or you will lose il.
This inculcates the necessity of the Chris
tian having free intercourse with God, by a
cioseness in him, through the ministry of
suffering, bereavement or the daily refine
ment of our nature: through trials, care,
buffetings, casting all behind him, and look
ing unto Jesus, the author and fnisher of
our faith, trusting in him entirely; and tax
ing his Bible he sits down to examing some
passage in the light of the Holy Spirit. and
! TO hold communion with God, examine his
present condition, talks with him about his
wants, his troubles, his hopes and fears,
| and he replies by sending the comforting
portion of the Holy ST irit to fill his heart
and be his guide and monitor. The eyi-
| dence of this communion is seen IN the life
of the believer by his attention to minor
and great duties, his care in the use OF Ian
| guage In converse with sinners or saints,
| reading the Bible carefully, ever seeking to
! learn its truths, with much prayer; seeking
| to win souls to Jesus, not from the further
ance of any sect, but to help on the glorious
unity of all in Christ Jesus, who believe IN
him, and his connection with his fellow men,
he shows by his honest dealing that his ac-
/ tions proceed, from the depths Of heart
| full Of the love Of God. The last clause of
! this sentence is one worthy the attention of
all those who have made profession of
religion once, but who are now living in the
world. one of his boldest advocates of all
kinds of pleasure, but who know nothing of
the calm, quiet growth of spirituality, in
the soul Of the Lce believer; nor viii they
ever know it unless they abandon the world,
deny themselves, take up their crosses and
| follow Jesus. II is the recorded testimony
Of spiritual persons, that all who live for
pleasure neither grow in grace nor win souls
| to Jesus
''Blest are the souls that thirst for grace,
Hunger and thirst for righteousness
They shall be well supplied and fed,
With living streams and living bread.
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SANDS OF GOLD.

There S secret drawer in every heart as
in every desk, if we only knew how to touch
the spring oft.
Dispose of the time past for observation
and reflection; time present to duty; and
time to come to Providence.
Pitifull that a man should so care for
riches, as if they were his own; yet so use
them, as if they were another $; that when
he might be happy in spending them. he
will be miserable in keeping them; aud had
rather, dying, leave wealth with his enemies,
than, being alive, relieve his friends.
IT is no wonder if he who reads, eonverses
and meditatos, improves in knowledge. BY
the first, man converseS with the dead, by
the second, with the living, and by the third.
with himself SO that he appropriates to
himself all the knowledge which can be got
from those who have lived and those now
alive.
When the world crowds Christ out of
the heart, duty becomes simply cold, irk-
some, hard duty, and the worship of God a
bore.
A business that does not challenge the
scrutiny of God, and the approval Of good
conscience, cannot be consistent and proper.
Cherish your best hopes as u faith, and
abide by them in action
Tear Dropsl Resting like pearls upon
the red cheek of childhood in its first grief;
swelling into young eyes in bursts of merry
laughter; falling like summer showers up
on the new made graves of loved ones;
wrung from the heart, scalding hot, upon
the bier of youths blighted flowers and
coffined hopes; pouring tempest like, from
the eyes of a strong man in his agony, or
slowly trickling over the furrowed cheek OF
age. Ever are ye sacred, Tear Drops, for
,Issns 1reDt
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erment than tiIe Archbishopric of Canter
bury; and Dr. Lushington reluctantly ad-
mitted the revenues of that see to be e32,
600 a year Mr. A. Barring gave as his OPP
piuion, that when the leases on the estate
Of the Bishop Of London fell in, the reve-
nues of the diocease would not be worth less
than fh00, 600 year. This the bishop de-
MED, and stated that his own income did
exceed a seventh Of the money; but as this
palace, and fines for renewal at his own val
uation, his income left nothing to be justly
complained of.
a DEFENCE.
"Great as these abuses seem to US in the
present day, there were not wanting Clergy
men who were ready to defend the manner
in which the bishops conducted their do
ceses. Among others, the Rev. Augustus
Campbell, NJ A. rector of Wallesley, in
the county Of Chester, published pamph
let in defence of the rights of the established
church, in which he says. The power, the
influence, and the wealth Of some of the
bishops p,dy be great, but from my heart |
believe that these are dearly bought, not
only by the aHcictg, but by the actual LdbOrS,
both Of body, and mind, which arise from
their official duties. A writer In the EcliA-
J,rgh Rerjel1 (vol. So, page las, February,
1928, when commenting on the pamphlet
quantity remarks:
. N0io Episcopoli is a phrase easily to
be accounted for BY this appalling picture;
but we suspect from few notorious facts
that Mr.. Campbell's imagination has exag
Grated the horrors Of a bishoprie, and that a
bishop even in England is not so broken
down with hard work as the rector of Wal
lesley supposes The Bishop of st. Da.
vid' s, for instance, in addition to the actual
labors Of body and mind attached to his
bishoprie, is able to undertake the arduous
duties of a prebendary Of Durham. The
present Bishop Of LANDAU adds to his epis-
copal duties those of Dean of st. Paul's
The late Bishop of Lincoln (Tomline) did
the same, and Lincoln is the largest diocese
in England. The late Bishop Of Bristol
tMansell), besides holding living or two,
was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge,
where he usually resided, In fact, what
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AN AMERICAN TRIUMPH AT THR PARIS
ExPosITIoN-It will be matter of con
graduation to every American to learn that
the United States has carried off the first
and second prizes for pianos at the Paris
Exposition, the first prize having been
awarded to Steinway & Co., of New York,
the second to Chickering 4 Co., of Boston,
and the third or last prize to Broadwood of
London. The award is especially satisfacto-
~ when it is remembered that the Jury was
composed of some of the most eminent mu-
sical connoisieurs of England, France and
Germany, among them NJ Fetis, probably
the greatest of living musical authorities,
and that the United States is in its mu-
sical infancy, and regarded in Europe as
a novice in everything pertaining TO music
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ever Offices can be held with bishopics are
held with them and as it would neither be
polite, nor we believe Just, to suppose these
right reYerned pluralists neglect the duties
of any of their Offices, we must conclude that
a bishoprie alone must b. very supporta-
bic burden.
BISHOPS OF THE LAST GENERATION.
"a singular instance Of the instability of
the bishops Of the last generation is related.
In former days the great tithes Of the vii
lage of Hilhngden were given to the Bish-
Oh of Worcester to defiay bis travelling ex-
penses to London and back. The smaller
iithes were reserved for the vicar of the par
ish. who was to be appointed by the Bishop
of London. OF late the tithes has increased
enormously in value, and it was the custom
to let those appertaining to the Bishop of
Worcester by public auction to the highest
bidder. They generally Realised about eS,-
600. The last speculator in this spiritual
security was Lord Boston. These tithes
were generally let upon three lives, and
when one fell, in the bishop considering
that the sum he had already received was
not sufficient, demanded 9S,00e before con-
senting to put in another life. This sum
Lord Boston refused to pay, and the bishop
made over tue lltLes 20 MS SaughleTs VINO
used to give the receipts in her own name.
All the service the bishop reudeied for the
amount he received was to preah one ser
mon a year! In the year 1917 an act of
Parliament was passed abolishinG the tithes,
aud setting apart instead seven hundred and
fifty acres of land in compensation for the
great and smaller tithes. The whole trans
action contrasts singularly with the Rev.
DR. Cowe's theory Of the original formation
Of tithes their institution was an un-
recorded revelation made by God to Adam
when in Paradise. "
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TuE BEST INHERrrANoE.-The foIIowin

THE Best INHERITANCE following
paragraph we clip from one of Henry Ward
Beecher's recently published sermons:
'.Not money, not honor, not even good
name is the best Inheritance Of child. Far
above all secular gifts is a parents good
name: but there are some good things that
are better than that, namely, those trans
missable moral qualities which put the soul,
from the first, under the dominion Of the
higher instinct From my mother | had a
legacy which / would not be able to thank
God enough for in this world, if | was to
live for long ages Have you not reason to
thank God that you sprang from such pa
rents as yours were? And DO you not know
that the nature which they handed down to
you was one that represented, as it were, in
our journal, the point at which they left the
conflict having gained victory upon victory,
that your warfare might be less and your
victories easier? And that which you have
inherited of tendencies toward things noble
and true, and away from things selfish and
false, you may transmit with argumentlng
power. Here is great lesson OF life.
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INFLUENcE OF WOMEN. IF we wish to
know the political and moral condition Of a
State, we must ask what rank women hold
in it. Their influence embraces the whole
Of life. A wife, mother two magical words
comprising the sweetest sources OF mans
felicity. Theirs isthe reign of beauty, ofloye,
of reason. A man takes counsel with his
wife, he obeys his mother, even long after
She has ceased to live, and the idea which
he has received from her become principles,
stronger even than his passion.
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ONE OF THE 5EyERGus PUBLIc Laws

ONE OF THE GENEROUS PUBLIC LAWS
Among the general laws of last session is
one which may justly be called generous
act, as well as a most just concession to dis
abled soldiers. 1t provides that every hon
orably discharged soldier who is a resident
of Pennsylvania, and who. from wounds, or
on account of disease contracted while In
the military or naval service of the United
States, and on account of such disability is
unable to procure livelihood by manual
labor shall have the right to hawk, peddle
and vend any wares, by procuring license
for that purpose to be issued without cost.
All that is required TO insure soldier the
benefit of this act, is a certificate from
surgeon of the United States army that he
is unfit to make his living by manual labor
The soldier must also procure certificate
from a prothonotary of any county in this
State, that he is the bona fide owner of the
goods he sells. No doubt the liberal provi-
sions of this law will induce many disabled
soldiers to adopt peddling as means Of
making a living Harrisburg Telegraph.
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NEVER make use of a woman's name III
an improper place, or at an improper time,
or in mixed company. Never make asser-
tons about her that you think are untrue;
illusions that YOU feel she herself would
blnsh 10 hear. When you meet with men
who do not scruple to make use OF wo-
man,s name in a reckless manner, shun
them, for they are lost to every sense of hon
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goettn
rHE BUGLE SONG.

The spleudor falls on castle walls
And snowy SUBMITS old in story;
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow set toe Wild echoes flying
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying,
dying.
o hark, hear how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther goingi
O sweet and far, from cliff ard scar,
The horns Of Elfand family blowing
Blow, let US hear the purple glens replying ;
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying,
dying.
Q love, they die in yon rich sky,
They mint on hill or reid or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying,
dying.
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The DUNDERBERG-It appears TO be the
very general, although erroneous, impress
sion that the Dunderberg is one Of the most
If not the most, powerful war vessel now
afoat, and that, therefore, our Government
was very unWise to allow her TO be sold to a
foreign Government. The facts do not sus
tain this view Of the case. The Dunderberg
is by ordinary mensuration inferior in size
to the Warrior, Black Prince, Northumber-
land, Agincourt, Minotaur, and other well
known English ships The hull of the
Dunderberg, below the angle of the case
mates, is covered with iron but three and
half inches thick, and the plating surround
ing her battery varies from four TO four and
half inches in thickness In point of ar
NOR, therefore, the Dunderberg is inferior
to nearly every iTon-clad in the British Navy.
The class of monitors now being built In the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, though smaller than
the Dundergerg. carry fourteen inches Of
iron all around the hull, to the three and
half inches of.the Dnnderberg, while they
protest their batteries with fifteen inches OF
solid iron instead of four and half inches,
as il the case in the former vessel Recent
experiments in England have proved that
the nine-inch gun, with chilled pTojectiles,
would 60 through both sides Of the casemate
of the Dunderberg with case, while moni-
tor of the Kalamazoo class would send her
to the bottom in a very short time. By the
use Of Ericsson new gun-carriage the
Dunderberg can mount five-inch in broad
side, and her battery, therefore, is more for
midable than its protection is secure.--Neee
Y0rk Times
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DENTISTS.

u ENTISTRX.
- I. n. BOWSER, REsfDEST DENTIST, WooD-
BERRY, Pa, visits Bloody Run three days Of each
month, commencing with the second Tuesday Of
the month. Prepared to perform all Dental oper-
ations with which he may he favored. Terms
ejthip the reach Of al and strictly cash eceept BY
syecial contract Work 10 be sent by mail OF 9TH
aug5, '64:tf
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He is the most thoroughly educated man
who derives his knowledge not from books
alone, nor from men alone, but from the
careful and discriminating study of both.
A truly learned man is liberal towards oppo-
nents, tolerant of error, charitable toward
frailty and compassionate toward failure.
Only the ignorant and half educated arc
dogmaticaI, illiberal and intolerant
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THE world is fulof trials and annoyance:s,
and will be to the end. But better world
is coming, where there will be no more
trials, no more sin for ever. Ii we would
obtain an inheritance in that world, we must
learn to bear meekly and patiently the trials,
of this. That inheritance is promised only
to the oyercomer. Let as, then, try to pray,
and keep trying and praying that God will
helm us to overcome.