Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-10-02
SHARP RHEToRIc.


fuI sermon on q recent Sunday evening on
the text Thou shalt not steal, Ia the
courcs of his remarks be attacked the Pen
dlcton proposition, which the Copperhead
party has since deliberately adopted as the
main plank in its platform, with his sharp
estrhetorie. He said.
Tregard the refusal to pay the bonds q
these United States in gold or silver as being
in every disguise and under every possible
idea an atrocious theft; and ! pronounce
that man. either by mistake or Intentionally,
a thief who does il, OF attempts to procure
the doing Of It. Il is an attempt to make
this nation a vast thieying body. Applause.
L is not an accusation that can be laid
against one party or the other There arc
thieves ia both parties that are clalnoIens
for tfis national reI1udiation. This Is a
crime that / think would not have It,
. parallel even among kaayes 1t takes a sort
Of man smirched with patriotism and var
nished with piety TO do the wickedest thing.
Sensation. A pickp0cket would not steal
the medicine away from the physician who
was healing hisown mother. But, while men
Fin the nation hour Of extremity and peril
lent their aid, it Is now proposed that We
shall pick their pockets and steal from them.
Il is a thing for which there were no titles
Haonstrous enough. 1t is thing that every
man who has conscience or a particule Of
honor ought to hiss at aad spew at. It's a
shame that the Church-that IS so loud
against dancing and card playing-has not a
word 70 say against national robbery, nation
al dishoIsaz and national dishonesty.
4 WoAAx's FR1EypsIIP. 1t is won
drous advantage to man, in every pursuit
or vocation, to secure an adviser IN sensi-
BE woman. In woman there is at once a
subtle delicacv Of tact and plain soundness
Of Judgment which are rarely combined to
an equal degree in man A woman, if she
be really your friend, viii have sensitive
regard for your character, honor and repute.
She viii seldom counsel you to do shabby
thing, for a womau-friend always desires TO
be proud Of you At the same time, her
constitutional tiInidity makes her more eau
tious than your male friend She, there
fore, seldom c0unsels you to do an impru-
den; thing. A man best female friend is
a wife of good sense and heart, whom he
loves and who loves HIM But, supposing
the man to be without such helpmate. fe-
male friendship he must still have, or his
intellect viii be without a garden, and there
viii be many an urheeded gap even in its
strongest fence. Better and safer, Of
course. such friendship where disparites Of
years or circumstances put the idea Ct love
out Of the question. We may have female
friendships with those much older, and
those much younger than ourselves. Fe-
male friendship Is 10 man the bulwark,
-oesor-or, oryl osrt.s,l1eut Of his existence
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PReaREss OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The Sa, Francisco Bulletin, of Aug. 20,
says; The Central Pacific Railroad is com
pleted to a point 26S miles east of Saera-
mento, aud nearly 400 miles from San Fran
cizeo. On the 18th inst, over six miles of
track we're laid. This beats the best work
ever done on the Union Pacific, and we are
promised that seven miles shall be laid in
one day, if necessary to keep the palm for
the California company. Probably at least
eight or ten miles Of track per day is now
being regularly laid by the two companies.
Eight days ago, about TT miles remained
TO be built between the termini of the Cen
tral and Union Pacific IF only six miles of
track Per day has been laid, this distance is
reduced to 669 miles At this rate of
track-laying, only 557 miles Of staging are
necessary to day. 1t is safe to assume that
there will be at least 80 additional working
days before Winter sets in; and these viii
give 240 miles additional of completed track,
leaving only ST. miles to be laid next season.
Difficult as it is to comprehend the great
fact, there seems to be scarcely a doubt that
by the 4th of July next the journey from
New York to San Francisco may be made
entirely by rail.