Towns of Publication. T t IE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is pub* iishcd every Thursday Morning, and mailed to sub* scnbcrs at the wry reasonable price of Ohk Dob tAa per annum, invariably in advance It is intend ed to notify every subscriber , when the term for which he has paid shall have expired, by the stamp —“Time’Dat,” on the margin of (he last paper. The paper will then be slopped until a further re mittance be received. Bylliis arrangement no man can be brought in debt to tlic printer. The Agitato* is the Official Paper of the Conn ty, with a large and steadily increasing circulation reaching into nearly every neighborhood in JUie County. It is sent fret of pottage to any Post-office within the county limits, and (o those living within tha limits, but whose tnoslconvenient poslofficc may be in an adjoining County. Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper in cluded, $4 per year. From the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. LILIAN LEE. Lilian Lee walked forth one night, The sun was setting in golden light. The birds were singing (heir sweetest lays,) All nature offered a song of praise. But Liljian’s eyes were dim with tears, For her heart was busy with hopes and fears; She had heard a voice for many's day, A voice that she conld not drive away, u Ab, Lilian, Lilian Lee, You Lave been false and cruel to me.” Lilian thought of days gone by. Happy days, and she well knew why. She was the joy of one fond heart. Of his hopes and wishes a cherished part, Why have those happy moments flown? Why does she wander thus alone ? The voice is sadiy repeating still, She must hear it even against her will—* “Ah, Lilian, Lilian Lee, You Ziave been false and cruel to me,” Then she thought how her hasty pride Drove tbo~dear one away from her side; A few cold words, a scornful slight, * And Lilian's sunshine changed to night. And lett her for a distant land, Released his claim on heart and hand; .. His parting words, she can hear them yet, Words that she never can forget— ‘‘Ah, Lilian, Lilian Lee, Yon have been false and cruel (o me.” And he has returned, and wo may meet In private walk, or in public street; Ah! what a meeting that will be. An hour of joy or wo to me. Does there linger in his bosom yet, Borne lender longing, some fond regret ? Or will he think as he passes by, With a chiding mien and a careless “Ah I Lilian, Lilian Lee, You have been false and cruel to me.” While Lilian mused mother came, She knew him not till he called her name; Alas for courage and maiden pride, For Ernest stood by Lilian’s side. She could not speak, but her soft blue eyes Were brimming over with glad surprise, Each felt that they met no more to part, And he said as he clasped Jicr to his hcart’-*-_—. “Ah, Lilian,-'Lilian Lee, y You are more than the world to me.*? . j Tioga County Pa ., 1657. Virg^tia. IntcvrsUnrj SUctrJj. From the Ladies’ Rcpo^itorr, NANCY HART, 4 HEROINE OF THE REVOLUTION. , BY KEY.'II. W. CtJiSKj. Pioneer life .in the early settlement of this country tended to develop strong, if not elegant trails of character. The hardship and exposure incident id the sdtiugation of a pew country to the dominion of civilisation, the daily struggle for the necessaries of life, and the constant attacks from the savage den izens of the forest—more savage and dan gerous when in the human than in the sav age animal form—nurtured a courage and a self-reliance obtained in no other school. Peats of adventure, of strategy, and of he roic dating in deadly conflict with the wild beast or with the murderous Indian, dot ev ery page of our early history. Nurtured in such a school, the hardy pop ulation of tho country received the best Irain ining possible for those stirring scenes of tu mult and conflict which eventuated in our na tional indedendence. During those eventful years of the Revolutionary strife, the whole land .’was but little less than an arena of gue rilla warfare, in which the hardy pioneer and the Indian played a conspicuous part, Du ring these perilous times, tho pioneer women often equaled their hardy husbands in daring and heroic adventure. They were women who were not, perhaps, conversant with the etiquette of fashionable life, would not lend any grace to a modern drawing-room, or readily recognize the uses of the piano; but they were emphatically women for the times. And our common country owes them an un told debt of gratitude" Naxcv HABT'was one- of the most re markable women o( Revolutionary times. Her husband, Benjamin Hart, was a brother of-the celebrated Col. Thomas Hart of Ken tucky, who was father of the wife of Henry Clay, and also maternal uncle of Thomas Hart Beijton. Our heroine was therefore re spectably connected.' A short time before the Revolution, she and her husband remov ed from North Carolina to Georgia, and set tled in Elbert county, nn Broad river Ttear where the stream, called from her, “War Woman’s Creek,” empties into it. The spot, it is said is still marked by an “apple or chard” but we apprehend that many other spots are marked in the same way. If it shall appear to our readers that We have given to our heroine a rather rough selling, it must also be borne in mind that the setting should correspond to the jewel. The most brilliant diamond is but a refined piece of charcoal, so chemists tell us. Thus refined it may be set in gold, but charcoal sketches are only adopted to the charcoal state. We do not mean that our subject was black as to the article of skin; nor, indeed that morally her nature wore a darker stain than many who move i n refined and polished society. But that there was a roijofi exterior which would reepl attempt at gliding as unnatural and out of place, Nancy HarCwas not beautiful j but never theless was designed to make a figure in the World. She was six feet in higfp, well-limbed and muscular; in fact 0 p Patagonian pro portions, and, it must also be confessed some what ungainly figure. Her mouth was broad and angular—she was horridly cross-eyed ; her countenance was unmistakably decided, and somewhat ferocious in its expression, and in her speech she was mde, in manners, awkward, In her general character, also, Nancy Hart was decidedly a “case.” Her temper when U P> * as modelled something after the tor nado order, nor was she very choice of the anguage, or the acts in which expressed. act » il must be acknowledged that she was ne less cross-grained than cross-cued. Her THE AGITATOR. DtbotcO to t&e mpttnsion of tbe of ifm&om anSMlje ofi ©calt&g Reform COBB, STURROCK & CO„ YOL. 3. ideas of liberty were somewhat brightened, and it is said that over her husband she held „ <f The reins of absolute command, With all tho government of house and land. And empire - o’er his, tongue, and o’er his hand.” She was expert in the use of the rifle.and, though cross-eyed, she was a keen marks man, No hunter excelled her in this. She was a “dead shot.” This was her boast. Nothing was more common than to see her in full chase of the hounding deer. The huge Rollers that hung round her cabin, and upheld her trusty gun, gave proof of skill in gunnery ; and the white comb, drained of its honesty and hung op for ornament, testified her- skill in bee-hunting. —.But Nancy Hart had her amiable qualities leaning to humanity. She'was an energetic house wife and an excellent cook. Her his fnographer says that “many can testify to her magical art in the uses of cookery.”— She was generous and hospitable. In the management of diseases, and in knowledge of the medical virtues of herbs, she excelled, and was resorted to from far and near. In cases like these the full current of her sym. pathy flowed out in a clear strong tide. From all this it is evident that a woman’s heart was enshrined within that rough exterior. In ref erence to these kindly services she was called to perform, she would often say, with more strength than elegance, “Drat.cm’, when they got into (rouble they always send for me.”- This was true in more than one sense of the word, as is evident from the following incident. The husband of her daughter Sally, was a man after her own heart. While moving his family into Georgia, he encamped by the wayside. The next morning a while man, employed ns a wagoner, being ordered in a preemplory manner to do something, refused in a manner more insolent than com ported with the feelings of the son.in-law.— Whereupon, he drew his sword, and at a single falow.severed the man’s head from his body. He then look charge of the team and drove on himself as though nothing had hap pened. Passing a house soon after,' he stopped and told the inmates that he had just cut a fellow’s head off at the camp, and they had best go down and bury him. Horrified, the inhabitants pursued the murderer, and' had him lodged in jail to await his tiial. . This brought Nancy into the field. She visited the place several limes, and shortly after her last visit, the jail was found open one morn ing, and the prisoner gone. The mystery of the escape was never unraveled—but among confidential friends, Nancy referring to it, would ’em, &c. But it was for her military exploits that Nancy was especially renowned, and has adJ quited a name in history. When the tempest of revolution swept over the land she was among the first and the most ardent in the support of liberty. She encouraged the “liberty boys,” as she called them, and on more than one occasion showed she'was ready to do or to die for her country. Her husband was cast of a very different mould, and preferred skulking in the cane brake for safely to facing the enemy in deadly strife. She characterized him as n stick, for his cowardice. But we will certainly ffbji some excuse for his timidity, when we re member that the Tories, who prowled over the country, filled it with alarm at their cru elties and every Whig had to conceal himself, or was liable at any hour to-be shot, or to be hung on a limb of the nearest tree. The stormy spirit of our heroine rose with the tempest that howled around her. Many anecdotes are told of her. One evening as she was at home in her log cabin, with her, children around her, and a pot of soap boiling over the fire, her keen eye discovered some one peeping through the crevices. With the quickness of lightning she dashed a ladleful of the boiling soap in the face and eyes of the lurking Tory. Blinded and scalded he roared aloud from pain and' terror. Nancy coolly walked out, and all the while amusing herself with jibes and taunts on him, bound him fast as her prisoner. A venerable lady, still living a few years since, Mrs. Wyche, relates that on one occa sion, having met a Tory on the road, and entering into conversation with him, so as to divert his attention, she seized his gun, and declared that unless he took up the line of march for the fort not for distant, she would shoot him. The dastard was so intimidated, that he actually walked before that brave woman, who delivered him to the commander of the American fort. At one time, she was left in the fort with several women when it attacked ■ by a party of Tories and fndians. \ Mrs. Hart im-, mediately assumed the functions of comman der. There was one cannon in the fort, and that, with all her efforts, she was unable to place $o that its fire could reach the enemy. The other women were all struck powerless with terror. Looking around sho espied a -young man hid under a cow-hide—with her culean strength she instantly drew him forth and threatened him with instant death, at the same time preparing to execute the threat, if he did not forthwith come to her assistance. The poor coward, filled with new alarm, for he well knew with whom he had to deal, assisted her, and she soon fired a charge upon the enemy that caused a hasty retreat. At Another time, when the British were at Augusta, it became very important_for Col. Clarke, the American Commander, to ascer tain the intentions of the enemy. Nancy volunteered for the service, assumed the gar ments of the man, and went openly into the enemy’s camp. Acting the part of a crazy mm, she eluded a)l i suspicion, obtained the desired information, and speedily returned with it to -the American camp. But wo come to the great act of this hero ine—for heroine she was—notwithstanding her jjumblc life and rough character. It WELLSBOEOUGH, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THUESDAY MOENIN6, APEIL 16, 1857. appears thai on one occasion, a party of five Tories, that were scouring the countiy, sud denly entered the cabin of Nancy Han, Her only greeting was a scowl of defiance, but in this seemed rather impotent. The suddenness of their descent had completely surprised her. They charged her with com plicity in the escape of a need rebel who had been pursued by the king’s troops, and would have been hung if taken. With a de fiant ajir, she confessed that she was the means of his escape. She said that when she saw him coming, she let down the bars a few steps from her cabin, and motioned him to enter and pass directly through her house, and then to to take himself to the swamp, ItntLsecure himself as well as he could. It was aTT'rhs-jyork of a moment. The bars were and she entered the house and closedthedbors. She had hardly accomplished this when I hepnrsuing Tories rode up and called out to her in the-togsl boisterous manner. Muffling up her beau and face, she opened the door and inquired why they disturbed a sick, lone woman.— They inquired if a man had passed on horse back. She replied no, but she had seen a man on a sorrel horse turn out of the road into the woods some two or three hundred yards back. That must be the fellow, said the Tories, and they were off in the pursuit. Well fooled; she continued, they went in an opposite direction to that of my Whig boy—when if they had not been so lofty minded, but had looked oh the ground inside the bars, they would hqve seen his horse’s, tracks up to that door, (pointing to the front door of the cabin,) ns plain as you can now see the horse’s tracks on this very floor, and out of the other door down the path to the swamp. As might be supposed, the. Tories were much incensed at the narra tion ; and might have proceeded at once to acts of violence, but they determined that she should first provide for them a meal, They [therefore ordered her to get them some din ner. Undaunteddn spirit, she replied I never feed kingsmen if I can help it, and the vil lains have put it out oPmy power to feed even my own family and friends, by stealing all my poultry and pigs, except that one old gobbler you see in the yard. We’ll lake the gobbler, said one of the party, and raising his gun shot it dead. Nancy raved and swore for a time—they gave her to under stand that the’only fate to herself was the only alternative. Upon this she apparently, cooled down her passion, and dressed and cooked the slaughtered gobbler, accompany, ing it with a few hasty hoo-cakes and fresh honeycomb. While their meal was in course of preparation, tiro «r>hranders rpaaled them selves with hearty draughts from their whis key bottle,-and became somewhat jovial.— When their dinner was ready they simulta, neously slacked their guns at the door. The back door had been previnvsly closed,so that escape was cut off in that direction. The “war-woman’s skill in strategy land courage now appeared. Passing to the door as in the course of service, she suddenly turned, and the first thing the alarmed Tories saw was one of their own guns pointed into their midst. With a tremendous oath, she declared she would blow <sut the brains of the first one that moved. This did not prevent a sort of spasmodic movement, when crack went the rifle, and one of their companions was wel tering in his gore. Quicker than thought another was pointed in the same direction ; and another of the robbers fell wounded to the floor’.- Jler little daughter was now at her side with the third rifle ready for use.— The three remaining menr shrank back with the full belief that the cross-eyes of the fierce Amnyonian were fixed upon himself. The decisive point was gained. Go, she said to her little son, and tell your father and the men that I have taken five" robbing Tories, and want them to come. In a short time the men were seep coming in from the field. More restless grew the im periled Tories, but neither one of them dared to move, so certain was eqch that tho glaring eyes of their captor was fixed upon himself. They proposed to surrender, and to shake hands as ratifying their surrender —but the wily woman was not to be foiled. The deadly rifle was steady in its aim. Her hus band and his companions soon arrived, and prepared to shoot down tho prisoners. Would that some gleam of instinctive humanity had now shot forth to crown the daring act of the heroic woman ! But such was not the tem per of the limes. The war-ljke spirit was up to burning heal. She declared that the pris oners had surrendered to her, and that shoot ing was 100 good for them. This was enough. The four living men were seized, bound, and taken out by the way-side, where they were hung upon the branch of a tree, As lately as 1838 the place, of this trag edy was pointed out to tho traveler. The cabin occupied by the Harts had been re moved, but the tree on which the four Tories 'were hung was still standing. After the war of the revolution had ceased, and the independence of the country was : gained, population begat) to flow into that re gion, and game and bees were decreasing, and the country “getting old” so fast, that Nancy Hart could stand it no longer. Ac cordingly,'in spite of the remonstrances of her husband, she “pulled up their stakes,” and departed for the wilds of the west, where there was—more room. Where or whet) she ended her days is not known. ,11 we mistake not-, a county in the State'bears the name of Hart, and the county seal of Nancy ville, irf' honor of this heroine of the Revolution. Motto for Stage be found somewhere 1n the classics: "Jam forte in ornnibus.” “ THE AGITATION OF THOUGHT IS THE BEGINNING OP WISDOM.” I , TSfc Cornish Lovers. A young gentleman and lady- of ancient and honorable houses in Cornwall had, from their childhood, entertained for each other a generous and noble passion, which had been long opposed by their friends, by reason of the inequality of thfeir fortunes } but. their constancy to each other, and obedience ,to those on whom they depended, wrought so much upon their relations, that these celebra ted lovers were at length joined in marriage. Soon after the nuptials, the bridegroom was obliged to go into a foreign country, to take care of a considerable fortune, which was left him by a relation, and came very oppor tunely to improve their moderate circumstan ces. They received the congratulations of all the country on this occasion ; and it was a common sentence in every one’s mouth, “You see how faithful love is rewarded.” He took this agreeable vovage, and sent B .O' Jiotne every post fresh accounts of his suc cessSw-his affairs abroad ; but at last, though he designecT'tO'ieturn by the next ship.'he la menled, in- his letTerajAfigt I “business would detain him some time longef'froflajjome,” be cause be would give himself the an unexpected arrival.- „ The young lady, after the heat of the day, walked every evening on the sea-shore, near which she lived, with a familiar friend, her husband’s kinswoman; and diverted herself with what“objects .they met there, or upon discourses ol the future methods of life, in the happy change of their circumstances.— They stood one evening on the shore together in a perfect tranquility, observing the setting of the sun, the calm face of the deep, and the silent heaving of the waves, which gently rolled towards them, and broke at their feet ; when at a distance her kinswoman saw some thing afloat on the waters, which she fancied wa.s a chest; and with a smile told her “she saw it first, and if it came ashore full of jew els, she had a right to U.” They both fixed their eyes upon it, and entertained themselves with the subject of the wreckf tho cousin still asserting her right; but promising, “if it was a prize, to give her a very rich coral for her child, provided she might be god-mother.”— Their mirth soop abated, when they observed upon the nearer approach, that it was a hu man body. The young lady," who'had a heart naturally filled with pity and compas sion, made many melancholy reflections upon the occasion. “Who knows,” says|she, “but this may be the only hope and heir of a wealthy house j the darling of indulgent pa tents, who are now in impertinent mirth, and pleasing themselves with the thoughts of offer ing him a bride they have got ready for him? or, may he not be the master of'a family that wholly depended upon his life 1 There may, for aught we know, be half a-dozen fatherless children, and a lender wife, now exposed to poverty by his death. What pleasure might he have promised himself in the different wel comes lie was to have from her nod them!— But let us go ; it is a dreadful sight ! The best office we can do, is to take care that the poor man, whoever he is, may be decent? ly buried.” She turned away, when a wave threw the carcass on tpe shore. The kins woman immediately shrieked oql, “Oh my cousin !” and fell upon the ground. The un happy wife weut to help her friend, when she saw her own husband at her feel, and dropped in a swoom upon the body. A n old woman who had been the gentleman’s nurse, came out about this time to call the ladies in to sup per, and found her child, as she always called him, dead on her mistress and kins woman both lying dead by him. Her loud lamentations, and calling her young master to life, sqon awaked the friend from her trance, hut the wife was gone forever. The Joker. —ln ihc good o!d limes of Kentucky, when substantial justice was administered in a log cabin, after a very free and easy manner, a suit was brought to re cover certain moneys, of which it Ahat plain'iff had beer) defrauded by the in, genious operation known as thimble tigging. In the course of the trial, plaintiff’s counsel, who happened to he an “expert,” undertook to enlighten the court as to the modus oper qndi of the performance. Putting himself into position, he produced the three cups, and the “little joker,” and proceeded, suiting the action to the word : ‘tThen, may it please the Court, the defen dant, placing the cups on his knee thus, be gan shifting them so, offering to bet that my client could not tell under which cup was the little joker—meaning thereby, may it please the Court, this ball—with the intention of defrauding my client of the sum thus wager ed. For instance, when I raise the cup so, your honor supposes you see the ball.”' “Suppose I see!” interrupted the judge, who closely watched the performance, and was sure that he had detected the ball as one of the cups was accidentally raised. “Why, any darn fool can see where it is, and bet on it and be sure to win. There ain’t no de fraudin’ thar.” ' “Perhaps your honor would jjlfo to go a V on it,” insinuated the counsel. “Go aV ? Yes, and double it, 100, and here js the rhino. It’s under the middle cop.” “I’ll go a V on that,” said the foreman of the jury, “And I, and I,” joined in the ju rors, one after the other, until each had in vested his pile. “Up !” said bis honor. Up it was, but the “little joker” had mys, teriously disappeared. Judge and jury were enlightened, and found no difficulty in briqg ing in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, or) the ground that it was the darndest kind of defreqdin.’ . His adjourned the'Court,, and stood for drinks all round, in considera tion of being “let oil'” from his wager. PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS, THE £AND OF DREAMS. BY W. C. A mighty realm is the land of dreams. With steeps that hang in the twilight sky, And weltering oceans and trailing streams That gleam where the dusky valleys lie. Bat over its shadowy borders flow Sweet rays from a'world of endless morn, And the nearest mountains catch the glow. And flowers in the nearer fields are born. The eoojs of the happy dead repair From the bowers of light to that bordering land. And walk in the fairer glory there, « With the souls of the living, hand to hand: Ope paint* swpet smile_jn shadowy sphere, From eyes that open on earth no more— Qne warning word from a voice once dear— How lliey ring in the memory o’er and o'er! Far off from those liilla that dune with the day,. And fields thalibloom in the heavenly gales, The land of dreams goes stretching away To dimmer mountains and darker ,vale?. There lie the chambers of a gnjlly delight; There walk the spectres ol hope and fear; And soft low voices that float through tho night. Are whispering sin in thi guileless car. Dear maid, in thy girlhood’s opening flower. Scarce weaned from the love of childish play, The tears on whose checks are the opening flower, -Tliat freshens the early bloom of Mayi Thine eycsar&'eloaed, and over thy brow Pass thoughtful Joyous gleams, And I know, by the moving npl*t4haino\v Thy spirit strays in the land of dreamer— Light-hearted maiden, oh, heed thy fcpl 1 ' Oh, keep where that beam of Paradise falls! And only wander where thou mayest meet The blessed ones from its shining walls. So shall thou come from the land of dreams With love and peace to this world of strife, Apd the light that over its border stream®, Shull lie on the path of thy daily life. Select jatscetlemg. Wiiat op Words to Use. — Use simple, Anglo Saxon words, in pref erence to those of Latin and French origin. The latter may seem finer qjnd more high sounding, but the former are y stronger and more expressive, and you will be able to set forth more clearly in them what you have to say. If your thought is a great one, simple words will well befit it; and if it is trifling or commonplace, your grand phrases will only make it seem ridicnlous. Father, mother, brother, sister, home, happiness, heaven ; sun, moon, stars, light, heal ; 10 sit, to stand, to go, to run, are Anglo-Saxon words; as are most of those used to exprese habitual actions and designate persons ann objects fa» miliar and dear to us. We may say in Latm- English, “Felicity q(tends virtue,” but “well being arises from \vell-doing T ’-Saxon-Engiish —is n far belter wording of the same idea. And mark lhe~streng!h, expressiveness, and majestic movement t>f the following lines from Byron’s of Sennacherib,” in which nearly all the words are Anglo- Saxon ; For the Angel of Death spread Ins winy* on the blast And breathed in the faro of tho fuo os Kb passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And--their hearts bent but once nnd forever lay still. ». The French and Latin elements of our lan guage of course have iheir places and use, and can not be left out, but the Anglq : Saxnn should furnish the staple of our common wri ting and talk. —“ How to Write.” Iron for Guns. —Great improvements have taken place in the material used for the manufacture of fire arms. One of these im provements consists in forging the barrels from old horse shoe nails. These, from the cold hammering in their manufacture, acquire a great condensation and strength of fibre, possessing also the requisite qualities of purity and ductility in a high degree. The nails or “stubs,” are first cleaned in a revolving drum and thep welded into a bloom or mass in an air furnace; afterward taken out and forged with heavy trip-hammers; then rolled into bars and reduced of the proper size by hand hammering—in whie.h process every flaw can be detected and worked out or the barrel rejected; the frequent welding, rolling and hammering of the iron, increases its te nacity and strength in an astonishing degree. Some years ago, it was discovered that metal used for gunljarrels was still more improved by the admixture of one.fourth of steel with the iron, giving additional solidity and hard ness, without impairing its strength. Thus in the manufacture of wire twist, alternate .bars of iron nnd steel are placed on each other and forged at a welding heat in one body or bar, which is afterwards rolled down into rods of three-eighths of an inch in breadth and varying in thickness according to the weight of the barrel which tfldSy are in- - tended to make. The first rod is then twist-' ed into a spiral upon an iron .mandrill, nnd welded together •at the edges, assisted by many blows of the forging hammer, to bring every part into juxtaposition while hot. . ' Advice to a Daughter!— '"l cannot for bear pointing out to you, my; detircsl child,” said a distinguished sttuesman to his daughter, “the great udvanlagesCthat will, result from a temperate conduct nnd%\veelness of manner to all people, on all occasions. Never forget that you woman; all your words and actions’ should make you gentle. I never heard your mother—your dear, good mother —say a harsh or hasty thing to any person in my life. Endeavor to imitate her. lam quick and hasty In my temper; but, my darling, it is a misfortune which, not having been sufficiently restrained in my youth, has caused me inexpressible pain. It has given me more trouble to subdue this impetuosity than anything I ever undertook.” There is a dandy irt Chicago of such nice tastes that he greases his boots with ffie oil of burgamot. He is first cousin < / to the youth who sleeps on a bed made of sponge cake. Bates of Advcrtiains- (Advertisements will be charged SI per square of fourteen lines, for one, or three insertion*, and 25 Cents for every subsequent insertion. All-advertise ments of less than,, fourteen lines considered a* a squaic. The following rales will bo cKargfJ for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly advertising: 3 months. 6 months. 12 wvfa 1 {Square,'(l4 lines,) -$3 50 $4 50 86 00 2Squares,- - . -4 00 6QA , £od A column, • • - • id 00 15 00 20 00 • - -18 00 30 00 40 00 j -All advertisements not having the number of in sertions marked upon them, will be kept hi tmtii or dered oat.and charged accordingly. [Ppslcrs, Handbills, Bill,and Letter Headland all kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments, executed neatly and promptly. Justices*, Con«i4- btea* and other BLANKS, constantly on hand and printed to order. no. as. | The Science of the Guillotine. [ A correspondent of the York Times,' who witnessed the execution of Verger, gives a| graphic description of the science of the guillotine: | i The scaffold is erected near eighty feel from the front door of the prison, on four perma nent blocks of slope, in the cpnlre of the roadway leading from the prison to the street. The square is planted with trees. Oo both sides of the roadway stood a double file‘op soldiers wi'h presented arms. When Verger issued from the gate, supported by the exe cutioner and the chaplain, and saw standing before him, the fatal instrument, his forceTor sook him,.and he sank down. It was this passage of eighty feel that was terrible' for the criminal, for he knew that the moment lie ascended the steps before him his hpad would fall. I Verger was hurried along lo the falal’steps. On the way he did nol cease lo repeat “Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have pity on me!” He cried also, “Vice Jesus Christ!’’ The scaffold was nt an elevation of about' five feet from ihe groundts, Arrived on next .to the last siep, ho fell on his knees on the floor of the scaffold, pronounced a few words of prayer,and ihen, addressing the chaplain, saitt : “My brother, I charge you to make amende honorable in my name lo all my superior ecclesiastics 1 wfiotir-I-Jjave offended or madp sorry,; tell them thal.l aemand pardon of them as I par dotr them myself. ~I offer my life in expiation rf my faults.” He-then kissed the crucifix and turned and gave a hasty embrace to the chaplain ;but he never rose lo his feet. As he attempted to do so the executioner, who stood behind him, pushed him forward ■on to tjie slab which carries' his head under the knife. This slab, which is so placed ns lo re ceive the body as Ihe criminal rises from his knees on the last step or floor of the scaffold, is a new invention, used now only for the third lime. It receives the body from the knees to the upper part of the chest, 0 f ne cessity leaving the neck and head projecting beyond. As the crirpinal falls upon it, instead pf being obliged to tie him there, as was for merly the custom, an operation that was some times difficult if the prisoner saw fit to strug gle, springs now suddenly seize the body and hold it firm? This slab slides easily ia grooves, and a slight pressure on the person of the criminal pushes it forward and places his neck in the notch, into which the knife falls. A man is on the other side, ready tq seize his head as it passes in order to steady it, while another stands ready to pull the rope which lets Ihe knife fall. 1 The knife is in form like,the knife of a slraw-culting box, only much heavier. It is placed,diagonally in the two uprights, along the side of ,which it glides like a saw-mill gale; its diagonal position gives It a sawing ppolion jn cutting through the neck. It falls about twelve feel, and so nicelyr is its weight adap'ed lo the force \ required, that it not ipuch more than cuts off the head without su perfluous noise. The moment the knife falls the springs relax by n quick movement, the body is rolled off on to a bascule at the side, tyhich, in turn, tumbles the bpdy on a board, -at the end of which stand two men ready to seize it and slide it into a close carriage, ]which stands reqdy backed up for the purpose. In like manner the majH-whois charged with t,he holding of the head lets it drop into a -basket at his feet, seizes the basket,' and bands it-to a man off the scaffold, who im rpediately places it in a wagon with the body ; the door of the wagon is closed precipitately, and at once moves off the ground. All this is bgt Ihe work of an instant. J VVhen Verger was pushed forward on (lie board he raised up his, shoulders as if to try to release himself from the clamps. His head was bare, and as he did so he turned his face upwards sufficiently to lake a last hurried look to the'side where I slood. I forget ibis last glance of the’ criminal^ - .,His face was then injected, no doubt from being pushed, forward so suddenly on the board. As he made this movement the execuiioier pushed his shoulders hardly down on the board, and this movement served Ihe double purpose of bringing the body flat and of sli ding the head under Ihe ax. The little wheel at ihe top of the upright turned half round and the knife lell! The whole nffiiir was accomplished with such rapidity that a great m'jorily of tho audience did not know that it had occurred. Indeed, its rapidity was its most frightful fea ture. From the moment the condemned man issued from the gate till his body had left tlv ground was but one minute by the watch ! The assassination was not less magnificently performed than.the expiation ! ’ Milp Gcnpo\vdei:.— Many pleasant anec dotes .are Ipld of Mr. G , who, a goad rpany years hgo, was a retail merchant in a populous town in Vermont. He wns famous as “the very pink of politeness,” and was in? Heed an expert salesman. If ho had hot sot the article that might happen to becalvd for, he was sure to name something that was sufli cidntly like itcto answer the purpose. Thus w hen a customer enquired for“winter-straiecd oil,” the merchant told him he hadn’t rot any of that kind exactly—hut he had some that was “strained very title in the foil /” Ui-- parage one article as you might, sure to find something to praise in it—if his lea was not strong it was well flavored, Vfcc.— On one occasion a customer having called lor a sample of gunpowder, rubbed it in his hand to ascertain the proportion of charcoal, ami then observed that it lacked strength, “f know,” answered the imperturbable trades man—falling into Ilia old lea-foimula —“1 know tho powder is not so strong as some, hut top’ll find it nrry htil'i end nirrctobh I, . • - J
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