r- Prom ike Lottiiville Journal* Terrific Adventure in fhe RKani'- moth Cave. At ihe supposed end of what has'always lw*en considered ihe longest avenue of the Mammoth Gave, nine miles from its entrance, there is a pit, dark and deep and lerible, known as 1 the Maelstrom. Tens of thou sands have gazed into it with awe Ahile Ben gal lights were thrown down it to make its (earful depths visible, but none ever had the daring (a explore it. The celebrated guide, Stephen, who was deemed insensible to fear; was offered six hundred dollars by the pro. prietors of the Cave, if he would descend to the bottom of it, but he shrank from the peril, A few years ago a Tennessee professor, a learned and bold man, resolved to do what no one before him dared do, arid, making his arrangements with great care and he had himself lowered down by a strong rope a hundred feel, but, at that point, his courage failed him, and he called aloud to be drawn out- No human power could ever have induced him to repeat the appalling ex periment. < A couple of weeks ago, however, a young gentleman of Louisville, whose nerves never trembled at mortal' peril, being at the Mam moth Cave with Professor Wright of ourcity and others, determined oo matter what the dangers and difficulties might be, to explore the depths of the Maelstrom. Mr. Proctor, the enterprising proprietor of the Cave, sent to Nashville and procured a long rope of great strength expressly for the purpose. The rope and some necessary timbers were borne by the guides and others to the point «f proposed exploration. The arrangements being soon completed, the rope,"with a heavy fragment of rock attached to it, was let down and swung to arid fro to dislodge any loose rocks that would be likely to fall at the touch. Several were thus dislodged, and Ihe long continued reverberations, rising up like dis tant thunder from below, proclaimed the depth of the horrid chasm. Then the young hern of ihe occasion, with several hats drawn over his head to protect it as far as possible against any masses falling from above, and with a liiiht in his hand qnd the rope fastened around his body, took his place over the awful pit and directed the half-dozen men who held the end of the rope to let him down into Ihe Cimmerian gloom. VVe have heard Irdm his own lips an ac count of his descent. Occasionally masses (if earth and rock went whizzing past, but none struck him. Thirty or forty feet from the top, he saw a ledge, from which as he judged by appearances, two or three avenues led off in different directions. About dred feet from the lop, a cataract from Ihe side of the pit went rushing down the abyss, and, as he descended by the side of the fall ing water and in the midst of the spray, he fell some apprehension that his light would he extinguished, but his care prevented this. He was landed at the bottom of the pit, a hundred and ninety feet from the top. He found it almost perfectly circular, about eighteen feet in diametef, with a small open ing at one point, leading to a hoe chamber of no great extent. He found on the floor Iwuuilifnl specimone of black silex of immense size, vastly larger than were ever discovered in any other part of Ihe Mammoth Cave, and also a multitude of exquisite formations, as pure and white as virgin snow. Making himself heard, with great effort, by his friends, he at length asked them to pull him parity up, in'endmg lo stop on the way and explore a cave that he had observed opening nhoul forty feet above the bottom of the pit. Reaching the mouth of that cave, he swung himself with much exertion into it, and hold ing the end of the rope in his hand, he in cautiously let it go, and it swung out appa rently beyond his reach. The situation was a fearful one, and his friends above could do nothing for him. Soon, however, he made a hdok of the end of his lamp, and, by ex tending himself as far over the verge as pos sible without falling, he succeeded in securing the rope. Fastening it lo a rock, he followed ihe avenue 150 or 200 yards, to a point where he found it blocked by an impassable avalanche of rock and earth. Returning to the mouth of this avenue, he beheld an almost exactly similar mouth of another on the op posite side of (he pit, but, not being able lo swing himself into it, he refnstened the rope around his body, suspended himself again over the abyss, and shouted to his friends to raise him lo the top. The pull was an ex ceedingly severe one, and the rope, being ill adjusted around his body, gave biro the most excruciating pain. But soon his pain was lost in a new and dreadful peril. When he was 90 feel from the mouth of the pit and 100 from the bottom, swaying and swinging in mid-air, he beard rapid and excited words of horror and alarm above, and soon learned that the rope by which he was upheld had taken fire from the friction of the timber over which it passed. Several moments of awful suspense lo those above, and still more awful to him below, ensued. To them and him a fatal and instant catastrophe seemed inevita ble. But the fire was extinguished with a bottle of water belonging to himself, and then the party above, though almost exhausted by their labors, succeeded in drawing him lo the top. He was as calm and self-possessed as upon his entrance into the pit, but all of his companions, overcome by fatigue, sank upon the ground, and his friend Prof. Wright, from over-exertion and excitement, fainted and remained for a time insensible. The young adventurer left his name carved In Ihe depths of the Maelstrom—the name of the first and only person that ever gazed upon its mysteries. The hero of the exploit is William C. Prentice, the son of George D. Prentice. The Legislature of Minnesota hus passed n law exempting a homestead of eighty acres from levy for the debts incurred; also 8500 worth of household furni'ure, 8300 worth of slock and utensils, 81000 worth of tools, the library of a professional man, and provisions enough to support the family one year. A Canada paper says that a gentleman recently turned five horses into a field of rusted oats and they were all found dead next morning. Rust is supposed to be caused by a very minute insect which lives on the juice of the straw, and the rut!-is its poisonous se cretions. THE AGITATOR. Id. Si. Cobb, Editor & Proprietor. WELLSBOROUGH, FA. Thursday Morning, Sept. 30,1859. • t * Alißaiinc6B r ind otlicrComraunicaliorumust beaddressedto the Editor to insure attention. We cannot publish anonymous communications. Republican Nominations. Far Congress, GALUSHA A. GROWj of Svsquehana, For Assembly, t. P. WILLISTON, of Wellsboro’. LEWIS MANN, of Condersport For Sheriff. SIMEON I. POWER , of Lawrence, For Commissioner, L. D. SEELEY, of Brookfield, For Auditor , JAMES I. JACKSON, of Belmqx. O* See New Advertisements. S3* The tic'.ets ere ready for distribution, CT Dr. Were has removed to the neat double cot* tage ot Mr. A, Crow!, above the upper bridge. The notes or the Tioga County Bank are now re deemed at par al-the Girard Bank, Philadelphia. * The Harmoniums give one of their fine Musical Entertainments at the Court House to-night. Go by all means. Mr. Wm. Turner, a colored man, lectured on Colonization at the Court House Wednesday evening ofr last week. The lecture was admit able in many respects and delivered in good style. It made a fa. vorablc impression. An unusual clatter in the street just beneath our windows on Monday afternoon, led us to investigate a little. We were agreeably surprised to learn that neither a dog.Bght nor a horse race caused the un usual bustle, but an avalanche of Fall and Winter Goods, all the way from New York, was (ambling into Rob's Store and threatening to bury Roe and the Doctor beneath its bales and boxes. P. S. Both escaped with their lives and are just in trim to sell cheap. Our friends in distant paits of the county need not heed the reports so industriously circulated by Mr. John W. Bailey and bis friends, to the effect that (hat anxious gentleman will get a majority in Charleston, DeJmar and Wellsboro. There is no foundation for the report. Charleston will.repudialc Mr. Bailey’s claims by not less than 100—good es timators say 150 majority. Dehsar and Wallsboro will not deviate much from a strictly party vote. The Republicans hereabout are secure in the con. sciousncss of known strength and make no noise. But they will be found at the polls on the I2lh of October, voting the ticket . We do not guest at this —we have learned it from the men who vote, and not from the men who say. (hat “ if money can elect Bailey, he shall be elected l u Look out lor FRAUDS I Watch 1 Rum.—A sad spectacle might have been seen in our streets Saturday afternoon of last week. It was no less than a husband and wife, so veiy drunk on bad whiskey that the man was utterly helpless and the woman scarcely better off. They were here with a load of fruit. When about to return home, the husband was bundled into the straw on the boU tom of the wogon, in a beastly stale. The wife was duly installed as driver, and ludicrous work did she make pf it. There proved to be no joke in the af fair, however, for on the road home, as we learn, the horses ran away and came near making an end of the unfortunate woman. Said a gentlemen to us during last Court: 44 I 44 have attended Court in Wellaboro for many years, “ and never saw so many drunken men in any term “ as I saw in your streets during the first week of 44 this session/' Close Up! Close Up! As an open hand is to a friend, so is an unbroken front toun enemy. There is nothing so formidable to an attacking party as a solid column; so, there is nothing so inefficient against an assault as an ex. (ended line. When armies prepare to act on the dc. tensive they arc marshaled in close order. We adverted to the importance of presenting a solid front to the enemy, last week, and cited the skeptical to the example of the Buchanan democra. cy in those counties where they have strength. It may be well enough to quote some of the arguments employed by our Buchanan colemporaries to arouse the masses to the importance of union at the polls. The Luzerne Union says; 44 When a county ticket is formed, as it now is, by the harmonious action of a.convention of delegates, composed of men who maintain and advocate the democratic principle, it certainly becomes the duty, and should be the pleasure of every one who pro* Cesses the name of democrat—who is governed by the principles he professes, to give the whole ticket his cheerful, ardent and undivided*support.” We need not atop to speak of the difference be* tween democracy in Luzerne, where it is strong, and democracy in Tioga _where it is weak. We quote further from the same paper: 41 Let every democrat go to the polls with this motto: 4 UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL;' and with a determination to sustain the principle of his political faith ; then, when the vic tory is won, he will be able to mingle in the general joy, with the friends of Democracy, in a complete and glorious triumph over his enemies.” We might multiply these extracts indefinitely, but that is unnecessary. Every man possessed of ordi nary intelligence, knows that the Sham-democracy build the walls of Party very high and strong. If they grow liberal and less exclusive—affecting to regard certain men of opposite politics with especial favor—it is only where they are in a hopeless mi nority. The friends of James Buchanan can afford to be liberal and tolerant where they lack the power to dictate and proscribe. They can afford to be as liberal in dispensing office to hungry aspirants as the Devil was on a certain occasion with real estate. They are ever willing to give when they have noth ing to give; but when they get power and hold an immense patronage in the hollow of the party hand, then not so much as a ten shilling post-office Is dis pensed to (hose without the pate of that grasping party. In evidence of the truth of this, look around you. The most bitter proscription roles in every department of Government. Every Costom House is officered with Lecompton democrats. Every of fice in the gift of the President, or his appointees, is held to the only use and Wioof of Lecompton men. Whether this gross favoritism be right or wrong, whether it be worthy of commendation or condem nation, whether It be despotism or otherwise,—it is practised by our enemies and we must meet it; it is the kernel of their nut of power and the secret of their strength; It Is to be met and baffled. Repub licans Iwe must meet it! How 7 We most meet it J We must «Jight the Devil mthjtre!** That is to say;—This is a battle requiring blow for blow, stripe for si ripe, threat for threat, proscrip- THE TIOGA OOU-NTY AGITATOR. lion for proscription, insult for insult, and life for life. There is neither rest, respite nor discharge in tilts fight J The man who has enlisted and now looks back, will win the contemptuous pity of his true-hearted companions and the honest execration of the coming generation. The man who chooses this time to prefer bis claims, or to prosecute selfish quarrels to the damage of the cause to whieh the Republican party is devoted, is no true soldier, and Freedom never can so well do without him as now. Let him go. Leave him to the tender mercies of that demon Self whose lusts, once'awakened, are in satiable. The true roan will not halt on the grand march of the frec-soil army. There can be but two parlies in this emergency. One of these parties is generaled by James Buchan an and rallies around the black standard of Slavery. The other party is led by Freedom herself, and rah lies around the standard of universal Liberty and political Equality among men. There is no middle ground, no conservative party. Men go to the bal lot-box and drop their ballot therein; and that bal lot has a tongue whose speech, no matter what the occasion may.be, is for Slavery, or agaiost it. You may use whatever sophistry you please to deceive yourselves; yon may listen' to the subtle excuses framed by casuists; bat when you stand before the her of Contcionee and your better judgment, that inexorable Judge, who can neither be softened with bribes nor intimidated with threats,-—that Judge will not leave you so much as a fig-leaf to cover the utter nakedness of your defence. The issue in this fight is, Freedom, or Slavery I and which do yon choose? Your votes will answer that question on the 12th of October. The objects of a party are identical; that is, the object of ifle Buchanan party in Luzerne and in Ti oga counties is identical. The leaders there appeal to the democratic masses to go to the polls in solid column and vote for democratic men and democrat, measures. The Buchanan leaders dare not do this boldly. Were they to ask men to vole the u Indc pendent 1 * Buchanan ticket aa an endorsement of the Administration and its measures, they very well know that the freemen of Tioga would bury every man on that ticket beyond hope of a political resur rection. They dared not put forward their men on a bold, outspoken platform; yet they hope to gain a partial endorsement of James Buchanan in this clandestine manner. They do not hope for victory this fall; they hope for divisions and feuds among Republicans. They hope to bow the seeds of irrcc oncilabte feuds in our ranks. They are justifiable in doing so—we blame them not for that. We ex. peel them to strain every nerve, to exhaust every argument In order to make while seem black and black white; bot we do not expect that these cun. ning leaders will succeed in hoodwinking intelligent men. We await the 12th of October. , XjAßOß——Every triumph in the domain of Science and Art; every victory which man has won over the untrained forces of Nature, over Error, or. cr Wrongevery step of the world’s progress to ward a better civilization—all this accrued to unti. ring Labor. It is so ordered that the price of ev ery good that man covets Is labor. What docs this teach 7 It teaches this important lesson: That labor is as necessary to the human economy as air and wa fer ; that it is the capital upon which the soul and (he body trades and, like other capital, is worth ab solutely nothing except it be invested. Republicans! Work has given us every victory we have won. Look at the glorious result of the campaign of *56. Work did that. Work gave us our heavy majority last fall. Work will elect the Republican ticket now before the people by an av erage majority of 1,500. Work can do this and nothing but work. A little less than two weeks are left for work 5n this campaign. We hear of a lew Republicans in the county who think the work all done; that they have nothing to do but to lean back in their easy chairs and await the certain triumph of the Rcpub. lican ticket They mistake the object and end of labor, they mistake the purport of the question. It is not, M Shall we elect the ticket” merely ; but, M By how large a majority shall the ticket triumph V That is the question; that is what labor is now cx. peeled to decide. Now, who is at work ? Republicans ! who and how many of you are preparing for the 12th day of October? Who are preparing to get out the voters on that day 7 How many of you arc ready to de vote your lime, your labor and your teams to the getting in of voters from the distant parts of your respective districts 7 Bread (jpeji pot on the bushes; no more does victory crown the sleep of the sluggard! HE WINS Wflb WORKS! How many of you will labor constantly from this day until the polls doss on the 12th of October ? How many will lake il upon them to see that no iI legal voles are polled on that day ? How many will stand ready to strike down the infamous lies which the Mulatto party will circulate on that day ? how many will see to it that the tickets are cot and fold ed before election morning, and judiciously served out on that day 1 Republicans! these details call for labor, vigilance, action. Will yon see to it that this work is well done ? Friends, —we ask nothing at your hands which we refuse to do. We rolled up our sleeves when the campaign opened and have diligently labored from that hour to this—shall labor on until the end. You shall not have it to say that we slept on our post Nor can the sluggard hide away. The result of the campaign will show beyond a peradventnre where work was done and where il was not. There can be no deception iu this matter of labor. Forward 1 A Sullivan correspondent is greatly exercised be cause the Buchanan men are running Mr. John W. Bailey as a Republican in that township. We as sure our friend that the Republicans of Sullivan may consider it complimentary to their loyalty to the cause nearest the hearts of Republican freemen. Mr. Buchanan's friends very wcH know that Mr. J. W. Bailey could not compete with Mr. u Scattering’* in that township) were he pul forward for what he is, an Administration man, holding an office under James Buchanan. Wc understand that Mr. Bailey is running as a teetotaler in some parts. Now that gentleman is as much a teetotaler as be is a Repub lican ; that is to say, he is neither. He does nut claim to be either where be is known. But he may be truly called a temperate man. We have never seen him the worse for liquor. Our friends will do well to bear it in mind (hat, the men whu advocate the election of Mr. John W. Bailey cannot be more scrupulous than their great captain, Jamss Buchanan, and remain orthodox democrats. He went into power on the back of a great lie, as Col. Forney very frankly acknowledged In his Tarry towp speech. He has invariably sought to carry out his policy by fraud and unmitigated ly. iug. He bestows his patronagc.ppon the most un scrupulous men under him; and we consider his re, fusal to deal out the smallest crumb of office to the famishing faithful in Tioga, as an unstudied com* pllment to their decency.' But we call the old gen tleman's attention to the efforts now being made by his party to elect Mr. John W. Bailey*—assuring bis Excellency that If bis fnendt in Tioga have hereto fore been too decent to receive his favor, the difficnl- ty no lodger exists. And if be will trust us Ip do him a favor, we can pick out a Cabinet for him just in the filllo county of Tiogn, and insure them (o oullio his present advisers two to one. This offer stands open six weeks only. We shall charge yon nothing for the favor, Mr. Buchanan. Boys are said to brace up their courage while passing a grave-yard on a dark night, by whistling. We remember an instance of that kind, and very likely many who read ibis may be reminded of sim ilar incidents. When we see our Buchanan friends so apparently eager to bet on their dark-lantern tick, el, we are forcibly reminded of the boy shyiog post a church yard to the tune of Yankee Doodle. We desire to say a word to Republicans touching this betting on results of elections: Ist—lt is a misdemeanor, punishable by forfeit ure of the sum risked and the temporary disfran. cbisemenl of the parties to the wager. 3d—lt is an immoral practice; cot a whit better than betting at cards, dice, taro or roulette. 3d—lt shows that the person who is eager to bet at ail times and on ail occasions, is straggling to keep his courage up in the absence of any rational hope of success for bis favorite candidates. You have not forgotten bow the Bucbancers ran over the county in 1856—offering to bet large sums that Fremont's majority in Tioga would fall under 1000 ? You remember how they wanted to bet that Wilmofs majority last full would be less than 1000. It is characteristic of that grade of politicians. If their case is hopeless, they get up a prodigious fu ror and insist upon belling against fearful odds.. Now, if it comforts these men, or in any wise blunts the sling of certain defeat, why not let the trembling boys whistle ? Only do not disfranchise yourselves by belling with them. The Buchanan State ticket stands on a platform fully entire policy of James Buchanan and the Dred Scott Decision. The men who urge the election of Messrs. Bailey, Munroe and Rey nolds, also urge the election of Porter and Frost. Now, when these Buchanan men, to induce Re publicans to vote the ** Independent” Buchanan ticket, argue that this election has no bearing upon national politics, would it not be well enough to ask them what a Judge of the Supreme Court, or a Ca nal Commissioner has to do with national politics? If they arc in earnest, possibly they may con sent to support John M. Read and Mr. Frazer—the anti-Lecomplon candidates for Supreme Judge and Canal Commissioner. But these men do not intend to do anything of that sort. They will vote to en dorse the Administration ; and they know that a vote for their county tiehet is a vote to endorse James Buchanan. Think of it. “ Independent” Buchanan Ticket. Sheriff— John W. Bailey, of Charleston. Assembly —A. J. Munroe, of Knoxville. Commissioner — Calvin Reynolds, of Sullivan. How the Republicans Carried Maine. The New YorK Evening Post , referring to the brilliant victory in Maine, says : “Maine has a very large extent of sea coast, and a more formidable army of cus tom-house officers in the service of the Ad ministration, in proportion to her population, if we are not mistaken, than any other Stale. The victory over this well-trained, unscrupu lous horde, equipped with unlimited supplies of federal money and other electioneering ammunition, must beattributed in a large mea sure to the active and thorough canvassing carried on by the Republican parly. Emu lating the tactics of the adversary, they have kept at their central headquarters a register of the number of voters in every town of the State, carefully classified according to the shades of their politics. From many towns they had a list of the names, a statement of the political antecedents, etc., of every elec tor, and no honorable means were left un tried to supply the desired information and obtain the fullest possible vote. Every chair man of a lown or disirict committee was no lified of the exact quota of votes which was expected from the region under his supervis ion. In short, in no other State has there been anything like the perfect svatem of or ganization so memorably exemplified during three successive campaigns and against so fearful odds ; and nothing would more insure a Republican triumph in New York than a careful study of its details, to which an ad dilional interest is imparled from the fact that the pfSn was originally borrowed from New York, and that its paternity is ascribed to Mr. Van Bureri.” This is an example that should be followed in this county. To alfain the same ends, il needs only to use the same means—in one word, needs only organization.- Let the township vigilance committees look to it. The “Old Line Whig” convention adver lised to meet at this place on Monday evening lost, proved a most glorious “fizzle.” At the ringing of the bell, quile a large number of spectators repaired to the Court House to witness the “performance.” After wailing patiently some lime for the ‘Old Line Whigs’ to come forward and call the meeting to carder, and none appearing, Dr. Horton arosp and suggested that as the persons who had called the meeting did not appear to be present, they organize an abolition conven tion, and moved the election of a Chairman; whereupon, an old liner came forward and objected to the motion of Dr. H., and after delivering a very able and eloquent eulogy on the old Whig parly, took his seat. How ever, after considerable sparring, the old Whig left in disgust, and the motion was carried. A committee on resolutions were appointed, and made a report, which was unanimously adopted. On motion, a com mittee on nominations were appointed, who gave notice that they would make their re port at the meeting to be addressed by Fred. Douglass, in Leßaysville, on Monday even ing next. After the transaction'of the usual business, speeches were made ,by several persons present. The proceedings of the meeting throughout, were, of the most ludi crous character. We heartily sympathize with those “Old Line Whigs,” and their Hunker confederates, who have been laboring so earnestly for the past week to distract the Republican forces, at seeing their fondest an ticipations thus ruthlessly blighted.—Brad ford Argus. Hon. E. EMis, who hus been forty years a member of the British Parliament, (says the Boston Traveller ,) is on a lour through the United States, Mr, Ellis age, hale and hearty, and worth upward of a million of dollars. He travelled through the United States fifty-six years ago, this being his second visit. From the St, Louie Republican, Sept . 21. Children Alone In a Balloon. Our correspondent at th® Illinois Fair at Ceniralia acquaints us in thelfollowing thrill ing occurrence: Mr. G. W, Brooks of this cityj an aeronaut of considerable distinction) was advertised to make art ascension from a spot contiguous to the Fair grounds, on Fri day evening, after the closing exercises of the Fair. Instead, however, of i going up him self ho yielded to the solicitations of a young man who has been traveling round with him, learning the theory and practice of balloon ing, and who begged that, as the evening was so fine, he might be allowed;!® test the value of his knowledge*by a little experience. The young man, whose name ’has escaped the recollection of our informant, made the as cension in beautiful style, in the presence of thousands of admiring and J wondering peo ple. 'The atmosphere was' so quiet that he rose almost vertically to aj great hight, and then, when it was supposed He would descend, the balloon passed into a current of air which bore it away to the south-east, and finally carried it out of sight. It was said that Mr. Brooks was much annoyed at his pupil for refusing to descend before [striking the cur rent of air which bore blip away from the scene of the ascension. He did hot return until Saturday morning, about daybreak, and then communicated an account of his most thrilling experiences. The current of air which bore him off to the south-east carried him a distance of about twenty miles before he thought of descending. { By means of his grappling-irons the descent was made with safety and ease, and he found himself alighted near a farm-house, the initiates of which re garded him with the greatest wonder and gratification. The balloon was made fast to a fence, and, after a short conversation with the farmer and his wife, they were persuaded to make an ascension of a few hundred feet, one at a lime. The balloon, relieved Of all extra weight, rose readily and iwas easily pulled down again by means iof the anchor rope. The farmer and his wife were highly pleased with their trips, and while expressing their gratification, two of Iheirjsmatl children, one five and the Other three; years of age, who had looking on, with astonishment, scrambled into the cat and cried out, “Let me go up”—“Let me gojup!” The aeronaut proceeded at once to gratify them, but from some carelessness or accident as he was letting them up, the rope slipped from his hands, and thh balloon mounted upward with the velocity of a rocket. The frantic agony of the parents and the con sternalionof the aeronaut may be imagined. In a minute or two thejballoon had passed entirely out of sight, and was lost in the blue depths of the sky. Nothing could be done but to hasten back to Mr.jßrooksat Centralis, and ask his advice. | Our informant learns (that Mr, Brooks ex pressed his opinion that the balloon would remain in the air about an hour before com mencing to descend, abd, while at its greatest altitude, the children would probably freeze to death, unless, in theirifriglit, they bad pre cipitated themselves from-the car. Mr. Brooks, early on Saturday morning, set out in the direction ihe balloon bad taken, in hopes to recover, il,iand fiod some trace of the lost children. We have up to the present time, heard nothing of his success. Our reporter called! on Mr. Brooks, the brother of the aeronaut, last night, and learned some further particulars. He says he had a conversation with a gentleman who came from Centralia yesterday, who states that the balloon had been found about eight miles from that placed and the children were discovered in a car [fast asleep. This is a most unlikely denouement, and cannot be re ceived without some corroborating informa [Ubn. Mr. Brooks says the young aeronaut’s riame is Wilson. ;■ Another account says : “But on Saturday morning the balloon was discovered in a treje top, about ten miles from the starting point} ■ The children were found safe. The girl said that her brother complained of being cold, atid she laid him down in the cat, and covered him with her apron, and he went iojsleep, but she did not sleep at all. ' ' “The anchor of the balloon was out and caught in a tree lop, and she found by pulling on the anchor-rope that she could puli the balloon down ; but the tree was dead and it soon broke loose, Tlje anchor then caught in a green tree, and,she pulled the balloon down and fastened it to the branches, where it held until morning, which was then not far ofT. - ’ —Buffalo Republic. Slave Rescue. —T?he people of Ofaerlin, 0., a few days since, yescued a colored boy, an alleged fugitive from labor, from the hands of some kidnappers, [ The U. S. Marshal, accompanied with two or three cut-throats, loaded with knives and pistols, inveigled the boy out of Oberlin to a farm a little distance in the country, where he was seized, taken to the town of Wellington, and concealed there in a hotel, which the braves proceeded to fortify. The Oberlin and Wellington peo ple, to the number of f ihousands, immediately backed the constable! in serving a writ upon the thieves for kidnapping and blockading the hotel. The house was entered and filled with men bent on the) rescue of the negro. Ultimately the kidnappers consented to let the boy go on condition they were not injured by the crowd.- The jprornise was given and the boy was soon speeding on his way to Canada. Last Friday, Mr. John Gaspy, who is in the employ of Messrs. W. B. Sievens & Co., while getting out logs on the hill some miles west of Painted Post, had one of his legs caught below the knee, between a log and a sapling. Both hopes were broken, and the larger one protruded through the flesh. He was brought, to his; residence in Centerville as soon as possible, ■ The shock to his sys tem was very severe. The muscles ■ were lacerated, and the ends of ihe bones crushed. Owing to the oblique fracture of the bones it was impossible to keep them in apposition, by any prudent extension of the limb, and thb ends were accordingly sawed off, the fracture adjusted, apd the limb dressed by. Dr. Graves, assisted by Dr. W. D. Terbell. Corning Journal. From the Detroit Tribune, SeptemberEdT^'* The Lost Aeronaut, S We change out heading io-day. k s a fearful word to say of one who was in our midst in the high tide of iv strong, bold, full of hope, with i rocpi : friends about him. “Lost! it sounds “the wailing of tbe wind in the lopa 0 f?? pines!” All hope of ever finding poorTW ton alive is blotted out,-and we can onln moan him as tost. < Mr. Bannister, his companion, raa .-a this afternoon and can only bring ih e tidings. The balloon he identified, and* the silk of which il was composed to lasi night. He himself remained to for his friend. To-day he comes bad pairingly. He states that the balloor oh which Thurston sat, is torn out f r , silk of the balloon three-quarters of if round,-indicating unerringly that the of the unfortunate man was too great strength of the sides, and that the sil way, when he must have dropped off, only remaining chance would be toe! the smooth material of which the bai made, and he could not have sustair self in that manner. When this we can only conjecture; but that have been within an hour after ht seems highly probable. The balk seen for nearly two hours with a glat it must be remembered that this gree full sixty feel high, was only the si; man’s hand when thus visible, and it be utterly impossible to see the ill-fat if he had dropped off. Mr. Bannisi quite positive that he must have falh reaching Canada al all. Tho stories that are so plentiful ikt was seen in the balloon as it came dot Baptiste Creek, he wholly discredits, i have from the first. Six gentlemen came up from Ad; day to go down to search for the 1 Thurston, but at 3 f>. m. they wye m cided what course to pursue. Thtrkc to the belief that his body, if noun the would be between Knight’s Station,wh started, and Monroe. The only he left is that the'body may be found hand of Affection be permitted tolayn final resting place. The Yankee Charter and insFr snakes.— A correspondent of Tkt Carolinian, at the Sweet Springs of 1 iajthus mentions an exhibition there snake-charmer: “.4 tall, bony, Yankee looking fc last from California, made his with a boa of snakes —rattlesnakes, sins, blacksnakes, vipers, &c. He a crowd around him, though at a re distance, and grasping with both (it bunch'of snakes, coiled them arcc neck, and thrust them into his bo-oi they were strands of silk or cotton, twistings and turnings seemed logit pleasure, while the by-slanders »eie with very opposite emotions. He pr to lame bis savage friends by roes and thus fights the rattlesnake with weapon. Some in the crowd suggested that i. take a wild, untamed snake, and stit power over it, which he agreed to do' This sum was readily subscribed, am llesnahe caught the day before, was so cured. The operator examined tar some caution, but presently turned t over, and threw the renemoos rspti the greensward. He kicked hitnal ral times, caught him by the tail, a® him back and forth, and finally set in the middle, and held him at srmt The snake turned his bead toward f their eyes met-r—the latter died ka steadily upon the! snake and kept' several minutes, when he suddenly around his neck, thrust it into his he had donejhe others, and ibesfiri entirely docile. Two days after. bis experiment for s2oona larger! which bad just been caught, and »» results. A crowd of ladies, gentle®*- children in the piazza of the hotel, the singular exhibition, ft was pa® 1 hold, though the individual seemed the most entire confidence in l>is>‘' control the horrid animals. The Boston Olive Branch. -1 glad to see a change for the belief' this favorite among our weekly pH has recently come into the mane: Messrs. Upham & Dix, both of long been associated in its editor 11 mem, and who now .assume its P management. The paper has be ;D improved by a fine new head draff the acquisition to its list of many of our best writers. Mf.W a ' been a newspaper publisher many 5 11 is well known among the fraier# 1 ? 1 Dix has had much experience u> life, and is at present with the bous lips, Sampson & Co., where his f£i such as to j»ive him an extensive ance, not only with the press of tfc but with the principal authors ot Messrs. Charles C. Hazewell antU bridge, both able writers, and e J popular with the reading public, *' the special ediloral management per. The poetical department by contributions from Mrs. L. H 5 , T. B. Aldrich, Alice Carey, and a inent writers, while its stories *■ nished by such authors as T. b. James O'Brien, Mrs. Gerry, Jra fishers intimate in their openingr® arrangements are nearly co ®f e will add other popular talent to in' 1 - The Olive Branch has hog itefamily newspaper, and its prising publisher cannot fail lo j. mof 3 acceptable to the people, ns, front rank among the leading * of the country. Jim Lane Whipped.—■* im sas has been brought down *?. the Governor of Missouri, whipped as wa learn by tbe St- The whipping was done by a ; Quigley, and occurred in one • towns of Kansas. Lane was the thrashing, and sent a c a ley. It was accepted, and peeled.
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