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THE LAW OF TRUE mARRIAGE.

Wherever man pays reverence to woman
wherever any man feels the influence of
any woman, purifying, Christening, abashing,
strengthening him against temptation, lead
ing him from evil, administering to his self
respect, medicining his WEAKNESS, peopling
his solitude, winning him from his sordid
prizes; enlivening his monotonous days with
mirth, or fancy, or wit, flashing Heaven uo-
on his earth, and mollowing it all for spirit
ual fertility-there is the clement of mar
riage. Wherever woman pays reverence to
man-whereyer any woman rejoices in the
strength Of any man, feels it TO be God 5
agent, upholding her weakness, confirming
her purpose, and crowning her power; when
ever he reveals himself to her, just, upright,
infexible, yet tolerating, mereiful, benign
ant, not unrufiied, perhaps, but not over
come by the world s turbulence, aad res
ponding to all her gentleness, his feet on the
earth, his head among the stars, helping her
to hold her soul steadfast in right, to stand
firm against the encroachments of friyoity,
vanity, impatIenee, fatigue and discourage
ment, helping to preserve her energy, to
consolidate her thought, to utilize her benev.
olence, and illume her life-there is the
essence of marriage. Its love is founded on
respect, and increases selfrespect, at the
very moment Of merging self into another.
Its love is mutual equally giving and re-
ceiYing at every instant of its action. There
is neither dependence nor Independence
but inter dependence Years cannot weak
en- the bonds, distance cannot suuder them,
1t is love which yanquishes the grave, and
transfgures death itself into life.-- Gaa
Hamilton.
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left 10 the carriage was not alluded to. Mrs.
N. went home full Of joy at her success, to
help her husband devise some plan BY which
Mrs. Duncan could be assisted, without
seeming to place her under any obligation.
Mr.. Rallston had paid large amount for
Mr.. Monroe, when the latter had been. as
it seemed to himself, hopelessly involved
for which be refused to receive, afterward.
more than the principal The interest was
now estimated and found to be large sum
more than sufficient for the support of
Mrs. Dunean's family until Annie eduea-
ton should be finished A check for the
amount was made out and sent to Mrs. d.,
as "a debt due her father, and to which she
the only heir was entitled to. She never
knew how the debt was contracted, but re-
ceiyed it gratefully, withoutthe least wound
to her pride or delicacy.
In a short time Annie Duncan s worth be-
came known to her fellow pupils, while her
superior scholarship and ladylike deport
ment made them admire and love her.
Helen Price was taken from school BY her
shoddy mother, and placed where no plebi-
an-that is according to her definition of
the term-Borld be received. Away from
her influence, Julia felt the deepest NORTH
cation for her unkind Judgment and silly
prejudices, and never after allowed herself
to estimate persons by any outside ormerely
adventitious circumstances.
Annie graduated with the highest honors
The apartments we're exchanged for good
house in a desirable part Of the city and
through the recommendations of Miss
Thomas and the Monroes, a profitable
school was commenced. The brothers were
educated according to Annie plan, and
made good and useful men Annie and
Julia became devoted friends.
After teaching few years, Annie Duncan
became the wife Of most estimable and
talented lawyer. She left the care of the
school to her mother and sister. After
travelling abroad for time with her hus
band, they returned to an elegant home,
presented them by his father.
Mr.. Price made one more unsuccessful
venture, that wrecked his fortune aud made
him discouraged and broken down mer-
chant. Mrs. Price kept boarders for
while; but, failing in that, she and Helen
we're obliged to resort to tailoring. Mr..
Price succeeded in getting clerkship in
wholesale establishment. By means of his
salary and the wife and daughters earn
ings, they madea comfortable living down
town
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THE YOUNGER SISTER.
BY JoHS C. WHITTIER.

AS one who held herself part
Of all she saw, and let her heart
Against the household bosom lean,
Upon the motley braided mat
Our youngest and our dearest sat,
Lifting her large, sweet, asking eyes,
Now bathed within the fadeless green
And holy peace Of Paradise.
Or, looking from some heavenly hill,
Or from the shade OF sanity palms,
Or silver reach of river calms,
Do those large eyes behold me still?
With me one little year ago:
The chill weight Of the winter snow
For months upon her grave has lain;
And now, when summer south winds blow
And brier and harebell bloom again,
l tread the pleasant paths we trod,
/ see the violet-sprinkled sod
Whereon she leaned, too frail and weak
The hillside flowers she loved to seek,
Yet following me where I went,
With dark eyes full of loves content.
The birds are glad; the brierrose fills
The air with sweetnes5 all the hills
Stretch green to June's unclouded sky:
But still | wait with ear and eye
For something gone which should be nigh,
A loss IN all familiar things,
In flower that blooms and bird that sings
And yet, dear heart remembering thee,
Am not richer than Of old?
Safe ID thy Immortality,
What change can reach the wealth / hold?
What chance can mar the pearl and gold
Thy love hath left in trust with me?
And while in life's late afternoon,
Where cool and long the shadows grow,
| walk to meet the night that soon
Shall shape and shadow overflow,
| cannot feel that thou art far,
Since near at hand the angels are;
And when the sunset gates unbar,
Shall / not see thee waiting staDd,
And, white against the evening star,
The welcoming Of thy beckoning hand?
-Sn01r. Rn1tnH
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VOL. AZ: NO 81

Nv many waters Down went full half u,
wat wuz left Nv the Conyenshun, and Ions
time eonsoomed in pickin nv en- up and
loadin EN- in.
"Repoodeashen T. wuz the next cali, and
without sigh the delegates from Southern
llIinoy, Injeany and Ohio vent down, and
wuz loaded.
Glass Suffrage r. rcmalkt the chairman
nervously, for the Convcnshun wuz qettin
tearfully thin, and with groan two thirds
Of vat WIZ left wuz huddled into the hearses
wich went out slowly.
Now T. sed the chairman, let the lum.
Der, the dead weights, them whose presence
In our party makes it a stencil in the nostrils
Nv the Amerikin people, let them be buried
that we may bey nothin in our ranks obiec-
tionable
And immejitly the drivers Nv the hearses
preclpltated themselves upon Yallaudygum.
voorhees,, Fernandy Wood, PendIeton Hof.
man, Frank Peeree, and all Nv that class,
which BY the way wuz all that remained.
The chairman looked at me wofshly. and
| glowered at him.
Sir !" sed he L must carry VOC out
and bury 700, and then
And then wat ?" sed |.
And then | spose | must commit sooi-
side, ez | voted for all them which we hey
buried, and for all the principles we bev
this day condemned. l spose | too am
dead weight
And he went for me, but durin the strug-
gle, wich ensood | awoke.
The dream wuz only dream, and | wuz
glad that it wuz so. It's all very well to
talk Nv burying dead ishoos and so On. but
sposin we undertake that HercuIap task.
wat follows? Troo. we hev bin reclerIy
bustid on distinctive Democratic ishoos. but
when we throw EN- overheard wat is left NV
us = In what respeck do we differ from the
Abllshnists? Ef we knock out Nv the Demo
cratic creed the assertion that the niger is
a babboon, wat is to prevent US from gciD
over to Wendell Phillips and embracin
Fred. Douglass ? IF we count States rights
and secession and sich, dead ishoos, and
hist EN- out Nv our platform, wherein do we
differ from the blood thirsty wretches who
drenched the country with gore? Eff we
deny the divine rite Nv repoodiashen, do we
not to wunst bow our necks to the bond
holders and become the grinders of the faces
Nv the Dimocrisy wich pay taxes? And
if we bury them wich hev made themselves
obuoxyous to Ablishnists by advocatin all
their doctrines, in what pertikeler do we
differ from Ablishnists themselves who hev
bin trying to bury them for the past twelve
years? And ez zwhen we cut out NV our
creed all that is trooly and distinctly Demo
cratic We hey no creed left, so when we bury
all Nv them wich heY held to these creeds do
We bury the Dem ocratic party?
The idea, however it may look theoreti-
cally, won't do to practis. We must still
hold together, trustin to the folly NV our
adyersaries rather than to our own strength
Suthin viii turn up sometime to let us out,
ev we hev faith and kin endoor long enuf.
So mote it be-
PETROLEUM V. Massey, z. NJ,
tWieh is Postmaster
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DAUGHTERS.

What shall they do? inquiries a good mat-
ron. What shall daughters do? Our
answer is prompt, pithy and pertinet, and
perhaps, the matron may say, laconic. 1t is
this Learn he art Of Housekeeping, the art
Of arts, too often one of the lost arts with all
who have the most remote idea of the no
ton Of marrying, which it is fair to presume
most daughters have, judging from obser-
yation, not less than the topics of conversa-
ton most common, with girls whether by
the freside, on the street, at school, in the
shop, sewingroom or factory; in fact with
many it seems to be the all-in all-looking
ont, by the way, too many of them alas
for somebody green enough to marry them
for the luxury of supporting them in idle
nessf a luxury that too many young men,
alas and some who are older, have seen
and felt the folly Of, while others are learn
ing wisdom from noting many sad expert
enees. OF all the sad misfortunes that can
befall man, about the greatest, it would
seem, is that of being married to silly,
know-uOthing and do-nothing woman. We,
therefore, say to all matrons, in reply to the
above query, if you will allow us teach in
struct and train your daughters diligently,
faithfully and persistently in az they shall
need to know when they become wives, to
wit to be good housekeepers, These are
plain words, to be sure, yet we are sure that
no mother viii, nor daughter can. success
fully controvert them.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS TERMS &C
TRIALS or a COUNTRY CLERGY
MAN.

A young parson thus leelingly describes
his bachelor experience in the first village
in which he settled after entering the min
istry Old ladies' gave me tracts and tor
mentod me in every possible war. One
gave me cough lozenges because a fy got
down nv throat in church; another sent me
her late husband goloshes TO wear when |
went cut on wet evenings the late hus-
bands feet were about FIVE inches long
third sent wonderful kidd Of India rub-
Der bag which she said could be applied
wherever a chill was felt. Not till my sis
ter came to stay with me did | know that
bot water ought to be put into the creature
| before using; had thoughtit a sort of mat
to lay-over my feet, and very useless Of its
| kind. A Miss Thompson was the most dis
agreeable Of the old maids. She actually
one day ran her fingers under my collar to
see if | wore flannel During the year ]
was at Littlebsck, | had thirteen pairs of
| slippers, twenty-five sermon cases and three
smoking caps worked for me One young
lady embroidered Day initials on handker-
chief in shiny looking black thread My
sister says.it was done in hair; and perhaps
that accounts for Miss Rudge being so Of
Tended when said I thought Lester red
marking cotton as good as any other.
Three. young ladies declared that had
trifed with their affections; two, on the
contrary affirmed that they had rejected me;
while the village school mistress assured the
rector that L had tried to press her hand
[ certainly never had such hard work as
while at Littleback played at least three
hundred games OF eroquet, went to an ar
cherry meeting every week, and at any spare
moment | was liable to be sent for by Miss
Anna Phelps to practice an Italian duet.
bore my trials with christian fortitude, till
one morning the rector sent for me and said
that my conduct disgraced my profession.
| took the hint. and at the end Of one year
and three months my career at Littieback
was over The young ladies' cried when
went; they said | was such darling.
Now, ask my impartial reader whether it
was not hard that | should be blamed for
the ladies Of Littebaek? My life is bhghted,
and all that is left of me is thirteen pairs of
slippers, twenty-five sermon cases, three
smoking caps, one handkerchief marked
'T. g., and bad character from my late
employer.
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DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF. To
retain or recover health, persons should be
relieved from anxiety concerning diseases.
The mind has power over the body. For
person to think he has disease viii often
produce that disease. This we see effected
when the mind is intensely concentrated
upon the disease of another. 1t is found in
the hospitals that surgeons and physicians
who make a speciality of certain diseases are
liable to die of themselves; aud the mental
power is so great that sometimes people die
of diseases which they have only in imagina-
ton. We have seen a person sea sick in
anticipation of voyage, before reaching
the vessel. We have known person to die
Of cancer in the stomach, when they had no
cancer or any other mortal disease. A blind
fold man, slightly picked in the arm, has
tainted and died from believing that he was
bleeding to death. Therefore, well persons,
to remain well, should be cheerful and hap
py; and sick persons should have their at
tention directed as much as possible from
themselves 1t is by their faith that men
are saved; and it is BY their faith they die.
As man thinketh so is he If be wills not
to die he can often live in spite of disease;
and if he has little or no attachment to life,
be viii slip away as easily as a child will
fall asleep. Men live by their soul and not
by their bodies. Their bodies have no life
Of themselves; they arc no receptacles of
hfe-tenements for their souls, and the viii
has much to do in continuing the physical
occupancy or giving it up
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The acquisition of riches seems, from the
beginning Of time, to have been one of mans
universal passions. Many causes have
tended to inspire it. In the hands of the
good, riches have been a blessing but who
viii say that, in the hands of the majority,
riches have not been a corruptcr and a curse?
The maddest and The saddest lives have
been spent in the accumulation of riches.
Yet there is no evil in wealth. II is not
money but the love Of money that is the
root of evil When the pursuit of fortune
does not curtail humanities, and its posses
sion enlarges rather than diminishes mans
aspirations to do good and be useful among
men, riches are fair and lovely as the wings
OF ministering angels 1t is a noble feeling,
aud worthy of his exalted character, that
man should desire to surround himself with
comfort and independence. This feeling
" be cherished without undue selfshness
/ 81 hardening of the heart, and the more OF
this worlds goods the true man possesses
the more suffering and want he can relieve.
/ Sought rightly as a means, riches are no.
bic pursuit; sought and honored as an end,
they are base and contemplate.
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The mandarin in Burlingame's troup who
writes up the manners and customs. of the
various countries for the Chinese archives,
has given the Paris correspondent of the
London Post translation of his last letter.
In it he speaks of the table habits of the
Paris barbarians. "We have dined," he
says, ''at their tables, where the stomach is
expected to receive with pleasure some thir-
ty different objects of food, and perhaps ten
different liquids. The French and other
foreigners eat until they feel very uncom-
Portable, and require much medicine drugs,
as may be seen by the many chemists shops
of the city. They have the same capacity
as our pigs. Had you been here the other
night. and observed how those people rudeiy
scrambled for food at the supper table when
we gave our fete. They put their hands
violently on the dishes and disputed with
each other most roughly. In telling about
Burlingame s ball he writes 'Oh ifyou
had seen the women at our ball They came
half undressed that is to say, the upper
part of the body was wholly exposed, but
they are jealous of showing their feet, and
seem to desire to hide the floor also, as each
woman drags about with her q long robe,
on which it is not etiquette to place your
shoe. Their eyes are painted round mot
all of them and they use coloring for the
lips, and pearl powder for various exposed
sections of the frame They purchase the
hair of the dead, and artists work it into
various designs then the women put it on
their heads with flowers and yet they are
not dirty people. The high caste women
are allowed every license At our fete they
were cIasped round the waist by men they
knew not, and danced with painful vigor,
for il was hot "
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NEWSPAPER LAws.-We would call the special
attention Of Post Masters and subscribers to the
INeuIRER to the following synopsis Of the News
paper laws;
l. Postmaster is required to give notice by
.eiter, (retuTning paper does not answer the laF
when subscriber does not take his paper out of
the ofiee and state the reasons for its not being
taken; and neglect to do so makes the Postmas-
ter rePsoasibte to the publishers for the payment
?, Any person who takes paper from the Post
office, whether directed to his name or another or
whether he has subscribed or not is responsible
for the pay.
3. If a person orders his paper discontinued, he
must pay all arrearages, or the publisher NAV
continue to send it until payment is made, and
olieet the whole amount chetler Il be taken froa,
the office NOT. There can be ne legal discontin-
uence until the payment is made.
A. If the subscriber orders his paper To be
stopped al certain time, and the publisher con
tinues 70 send the subscriber is bound to pay for
it. u he fakes ft Out Of the Post Office. The law
proceeds upon the ground thata man must pay
for what he uses.
.. The courts have decided that refusing to take
newspapers and periodicals from the Post Office,
or removing and having them unealled for is
Primd facia evidence of Intentional fraud.
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1XnnANaE HnrRI

~ y II d II o TEL,
II HUNTINGDON, PA.
This old establishment having been leased by
}. MORRISON, formerly proprietor Of the Nor
riSoa House, has been entirely renovated and re-
furnished and supplied with all the modern i'm
proyements and conYeniences necessary to a first
class Hotel
The dining room has been removed to the first
hoOr and is now spacious and airy, and the cham
oers are all well ventilated, and the proprietor
Wlh endeavor to make his guests perfectly at
nome address, j. MORRISON,
EXCHANGE HorEL,
'lJuiyu Huntingdon Pa.
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MAGAZINES following Magazines for
~ ~ sale a. the Inquirer Book Store: ALLAN
IIC MONTHLY, PUTNAM'S MONTHLY
L1,IIiP,PlNC0fTs, LII, GALAXY, PETERSON, GO
y "a ~ ~ MD n. DEMoRESTS, FRANK LESLIE
~ 4 A1'SADb' ese' etc. Il
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WASHINGTON HOTEL.

This large and commodious house, having been
retaken by the subscriber, now open for the re-
ception Of visitors and boarders. The rooms are
large, well ventilated and comfortably furnished.
The table viii always be supplied with the best
the arket afford. The Bar is stocked with
the choicest liquors. In short, il is my purpose
TO keep FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. Thanking
the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit
renewal Of their patronage.
n. b. Hacks will run constantly between the
Hotel and the Springs.
mayI7, ,69:Iy WIN. DIBRRT, PROM
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HOW IT LOOKS TO A cHINAMAN.

2oLEUM '. N3SBY, L. NJ,
tWich is Postmaster.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-29

OPENING REHEARSAL FOB TIE BOSTON PEACE
FEsTIyAL.-The keynote Of the great peace
jubilee was struck last evening IN the opening
rehearsal Of the first section OF Boston singers,
at Bumsteld Hall, under Nh. Carl rahn.
In response to the advertisement OF Nj. Tour
jee, o Sarge number Of ladies and gentlemn--,
assembled, completely filing tas hall md not
q few who sought admission Were .ornneiIed to
return home to await the >: opening Of the sec
ond series Of rehears" "a Wbich are to follow
tsa ne1. meen. nall contains something less
thsn thn se't y. hundred seats, and not only were
VIZ 30 filed, but double rows Of gentlemen
lined the walls. The enrolment books in the
hands OF Mr.. Pc. each applicant being com. m.
PEELED to register his or her name and the part
sang-showed the assemblage to be mad made
up as follows: Sopranos, 314; altos,
101 (; tenors, 156; basses, 22o = total 79l. .
Pamphlets containing two OF the choruses to
oe sung at the festival, viz: Nos. and s. 10
God on High" from Mendelssohn's sSt. Paul;
and ''The Marvellous Work, from Haydn 8
Creation" and part of ''The Heavens are
Telling" also from the Creation" were placed
in the hands OF the singers as they entered the
halls, and it was announced that all the cho-
ruses would be in print next week. Mr. Ter
rahn promptly began work with his usual
suayity and energy, and for an hour and hall
the choristers were drilled upon TO God on
High" and "The Marvellous Work" MIR. Car
lyle Petersilea presiding at the piano. The
Tocalists seemed as earnest in the work as the
conductor, and it was very evident at the out
set that the chorus was made up OF the very
best material.-B0Ston Journal.