Terms of Pn|)licatlofc. TSB TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR te. published > a?id midledto.supsoriberr Ttievery^^P™^ SOtUAB PaE ANNUM, r lt >* iitendea to notify every 'briber when t&e term fop which he has paid shall '? 1 - Sroiredt *>y the figure* on;tho printed label oti the ' k ftTe eflo& pitter. • The paper will thenlro stopped , B “P“ fucker remittance he received.' By this ar 'r&nge®e'lt no m»n can be brought in debt to. the ? r^! r i aI tA«m Is the GffloiatPaper of the Comity, = ■,£, hunt and steadily, increasing circulation reach w ■ to every neighborhood injthe Gonnty. It iesent vottage tim Post Office within the county: -tat whose most convenient post office may be ’adjoining Cbjmty. J . ' • . . . - Business Cards, not exceed g 5 lines, paper moln- M $5 per year,' j' ' TISSi^ECTORY. ~s j,OWltfet &S. F. WliSOJf, 1 TTORNEYsI COUNSELLORS AT LAW wiU -AS the qoart of MoEeatt JVdlrtfco' Feb - *» g* B * a, Jji BlfcP|o ®® > iTIORNEYAND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. JiTTOK«** jjp -ifIGAjGO. pa. «!„ tMmttlSto* ft«r. Ik safety."-*^. , Sept. 23,1858, ly. 1 I 1 •tU.-SP**** pwiwp». •\FFICB at roll residence sear the siiet j. c. 'WfiITTAKEH, Jfyiropathio Pigneianiand Surgeon, ELKIiAN D,| TIOGA 'CO., PENNA. Will visit patienß in all parts'of the County, or re vive them for trcafnent at his houee. [Jnne 14,] ’ IZAAK fPAMfeJf MOUSE, B. a PROPRIETOR. Gaines|iPio*a County, Pa. THIS is anew bStelMated within easy access of the beat ashing and hunting grounds in Northern Pa. No pains will fee spired for the accommodation of pleasure seekers W the traveling public; April 12, 1860 t M I j ! ' H.’jtK C,OLE, BARBER ’•jj.'Rß BAIR-DRESSBR. SHOP in the reaf of the Ppst Office. Everything in his line will be done as well andprompUy as it can be done in tile city saloons; Preparations for re moving dandruff, and beautifying the hair, for sale cheap. Hait and whiskers dyed any color. Call and see. Weiishorp, j3ept 22, 1859.* * THE CORNING IOI’RJI AL. George, W. Pratt, editor and Proprietor. IS published at doming,’ Steuben Co., N. T., at One Dollar and Pi ty Cents’ per ydar, in advance. The Journal is RopnhUcah in, polities, and has a circula tion reaching inti ■ every Ip art of Steuben County.— Those desirous of extending their business into that and the adjoiningjcountiea will And it an excellent ad vertising medium.! Address as above. KRESS MAKING. MISSM. a. JOHNSON, respectfully announces to tho'oitiions of Wollsboro and vicinity, that she' has taken rooms s>vor Niles & Elliott's Store, where she is propdred jjb execute all. orders in the line of DRESS- MAKINp," Having had experience in the business, she feels confident that' she can give satisfac tion to all who mly favor her with thdir patronage. Sept. 2Q, 1852, | t JOIIWB.SHAKESPEAR, ' ' T Al’lO 4. HAVIXG qpened his ihop in the room over B. B. Smith k sin’s Stor£, respectfully informs the citizens of Wellsboro’ and ticinity, that he is prepared to cxecuje orders fja his Una of hnsiness with prompt ness any despatch; 1' V Guttif cWellsboro, Oct 1 ■ done of) short notice, 11, 1858.4-6 m ) D. BACOX, M. D., Graduate of Buffalo' Medical College , . EAS established himself in th© practice of Medi cineand Sqrgery in the 'Village of Tioga, and will promptly attend all professional calls. Office at L. H. Smith's Hotel, where he will always be found except when absent on professional bus{«'ness. , - | Particular attention pah I to the diseases o lf women and children, • ' I Tioga, Slay ' ? * . I NJSBU SBOIS, SOLICITOR dF PATENTS, d.,c. ADVICE as to foephtentsbility of inventions given free of charge. Drawings’frotn models neatly executed. Charge*fovobtsining patents moderate. j] iieverpA'ces. Jinn. G. A. Grow, Va. itngb Young,'Ed. Ag&ator. lion - . O. W. Scran t®, Ea, Bt. H. Erarier, Ed; Republican. jf I j j ' , to Siirsici-ilifs. A CHOICE LOT of the Ijest imported Italian anp (Jarman •{ 1 TKgJN STRINGS. Bas« Viol strings! Guitar Tuning Forks Bridges Ac., just received and for sale at ] BOY’S DRUG STORE. WELL|BOB» HOTEL, WEELSBORii tTGH, PA, B, 5. JAEJI, - A-.’ - - - PEOPKIBIOB. {Formerly of the Un 'ed Statci Bold.) Having leased thjs well fcl (own and popular House, solicits the patronage of the j public. With attentive aad obliging waited together with the Proprietor's haoiledgo of the h e hopes to make the stay of .those who slop with tim both pleasant and agreeable , V Wellsboro, Slay 31, 1860, i. WATCHES! WATCHES! THE Subscriber ftps gof a’fine assortment of heavy ENGLISHtyBVER: BUNTER-CASE Gold aud Silver Watches, which he; will sell cheaper than “ dirt” on' Time,- i.«. he will sell 'Time Rieoes’on (i short (approved)' credit. AH kinds of BE#AIRING done promptly. If a job of work is not .to thf satisfaction' of the party ordering it, no charge will befmade. Past favors appreciated and a cohtirisnce 'of patron age kindly solicited.' 1 ANDIE-FOLEY. Wellsboro, June 24/ 1848. " SADDLE AND SASNESB MAKER, , WELhfeboßO ST., TIOGA, PA. ' TAKES thid .method of informing the citizens of Tioga, and’of {he Coonty generally, that he haa established himself! at. Tioga,, where be will manufac ture ond’keep on hand for sale agoodstock of Saddles, Br idles, [{leavy Hirness, Carriage Harness °f “11 kinds Ac. .Also Homes, Halters, Whips, Traces, Collars ic. All -work warranted. , . Repairin'- ' THE AGITATOR. liriwtrtr to mmvitmian at m kvt a at iFmtrom m s»*einr j6e 3tootrm, WHILE TEHEE SHALL BE a| WRONG UNEIQHTED, UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. vol. m. , . lor tha Agitator. ; OLD FRIENDS. ■ Weall havehiddcnin the heart, - .'I A memory that will not depart; : A -memory of the friends of old, tales that lowing lips hate told, TboJUpj that now axe atill and eold 1 . . A thought of eyes serenely bine. Or those that wore a darker hoe, ; Of soft bright locks we onoe caressed, : .Of hands that we have closely pressed. Now folded on the ioy breast. But tho* their graves lie dork and low, 'Neath summerrain and winter show,, : Wadinow that they, our friends so dear. Are tiring in aliigker sphere— ’ Oh 1 may they love ns there, as here I - ; And they who live the earth-life yet, Tho’ far away, do they forget ’■ The friends that blessedour early years, ; And they who shared the smiles and tears, : Of later life, its hopes ahd fears ? Our memory to its trust is true, - 1 We give them each and all their due, And oh! they ehonld remember ieoj - Bat ever comes the question thus, / , We think of them-rdo they of ns? ; We cannot tell, we do not know, 1 Bat calmly on - our way we go,- ! (The way a Father’s love hath planned;) ‘ And tract that in a' Better Land, . Old friends again will round.as stand; i- That Ups will wear the smile they wore i For us in sunny years before; - ■ That cordial hands will clasp out own, ■ Andyoices speak in earnest tone, , The voices we so weU have known. ! And mSny, all unknown while here, ! May in that country grow most dear, And pain and parting will be o’er, ! For when we pass that low dark door, f Wo sin; wo weep, a e die no more. Virginia. from the Atlantic Mpntbly. A' YANKEE SCHOOL -MASTER. ssie advent of Master Langdp* to Pigwacket Center created a much more lively sensation than had attended that of either of his predeces sors. .Looks gofa good ways all the world over, andithough there were several good-looking peo ple in the place/and Major Bush .was {what the natives of the toVncalled a “hanspm man,”that is, big, fat, ans_EedrS‘et the sight of a fellow, .with the natural air wltitlhgrowa up with carefully bred young per sons, was a novelty. r The'Brahmin blood which came from the grandfather as well as from his mother, a direct descendant of the old Flynt family, well known by the famous tutor, Henry Flint (see Capt, Hary. Anno 1693,) had been enlivened and enrichen’ed by that of the Wentr" worths, which-had had a good deal of ripe old Maderia and other generous elements mingled with it, so that it ran to gout sometimes in the old folks, and to a high spirit) warm complex sionj and curly hair in some of the younger onet The soft curling hair of Mr Bernard had inherited—something,perhaps, of the high spirit; but that we shall have a chance of find out by-and-by. But the long sermons and the frugal board of his Brahmin ancestry, with < his ownihabits of-study, had told upon his color which was subdued to something more of deli cacy than one would care to see iaa young, fel low with rough work before him. This, .how ever, made him look more interesting, or, as the young ladies atAlajor Bash’s said, “inter estin’.” j When Mr. Bernard showed himself at mee ting/ on the first Sunday after his arrival, it mayibe supposed that a good many eyes were turned upon the young schoolmaster. There Was Something heroic, in his coming forward ao readily to take a place which called (for a strong band, and a prompt, steady will to guide it. In fact, his position was that of a military chieftain on the eve, of battle. Everybody knew everything in Figwaket Center; and it . was anundcrstoo4,thing that the young rebels meant to pat down the n'ew master, if tliey could. It was natural that the girls, in the village,-called in tile jocal dialect, as hearfoy as oar alphabet will- represent it, Al miny Cutterr, and ArwiUy'Braowne, should feel hnd express, an interest in the good-looking stranger, and that, when their flattering com ments were repeated'-in the hearing of their indigehoas admirers, among whom were some of the older “boys” of the school, it ehouldnot add to the amiable disposition of the turbulent , yonfli., Monday came, and the new schoolmaster was in his chair at the upper end of the school-house, on the raised platform. '. The rustics looked at bis handsome face, thoughtful, peaceful*pleas ant, cheerful, bat sharply out round the, lips arid proudly lightened about the eyes. The ringleader of the mischief-makers, .the young butcher, who has before figured in this narra tive, looked at him stealthily, whenever he got a chance to study him unobserved; .for the truth was, be felt’uncomfortable whenever he found the litrgeV dark eyes fixed on his little/ sharp, .dCep-set, gray ones. ..But-be found paeans’to study him pretty well—first his face, then-his neck and shoulders, the set of his arms, the narrowing-of his loins, theHaaka of his legs/ and the way he moved. In short he examined him as he wSdld have examined a steer, to see what he could' do and how he would cut up. ' If he could only have gone to ' him and felt of his muscles, he 'would have been entirely satisfied. He was not a wise youth, but he did know well enough th,at, though, big arms and legs are very gdodithings, there ir\ something besides size that -goes to make a Rian ; and he had heard jptories of a fighting/man, caled .“The Spider,” ffromlhis attenuated {apportions, who was yet a terrible hitter' in the ring, and had whipped many a big limbed fellow in and out of the roped arena; Nothingnould be smoother than,the way .in whioH everything went on for the first day or two. i' The new master was so kind and cour teous, beseemed to taka everything in such a natural, easy way, that there was no chance to pick s quarrel with him. He in'the mean time -thought it best to, watch the.boys and young! men for a .day or twowithas little show of authority as possible. It was easy enough tosef that hd would have occasion for'it. before lo»g4 , . • -, i ' Tifo School-house was a-grim. oMj red, One story,buil<iifig perched oh a bate rock At the/ top of a hill—parte .because this was a ooh spiouous site., for the temple of learning, and: paftijtbocause land is cheap where there is no WILLSBpRO, TIOGA COUNTY. PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1860. pianoe even for rye or, buckwheat, and the very sheep find nothing'to nibble. : About the little pferoh were carved initials and dates, at various bights,' from the stature of nine, to that of etghieen< Inside were old nnpainted desks, un pjiinted, .but browned with the number of hu ihan contact—andhacked by innumerable jack khives.' It was long since the walls bad been whitewashed, as might be conjectured by the virions traces left upon them,* wherever idle hands or sleepy heads could reach them. A carious appearance 'was noticeble on various higher parts of the.wsll, namely, wart-like erup tion; as one would be tempted ,to call it, being in reality a crop of the soft missiles before i mentioned, which, adhering in considerable numbers and hardening after the usual fashion oivapier maehe, formed at last permanent orna its of the edifice. . ’ : • he young master’s quick eye soon noticed ;• a particular part of the wall was most ired with these ornamental appendages, ir* position pointed sufficiently clearly to the »of the room they-came from. In fact, there a nest of young mutineers just there, cb must be broken up by ia coup 'd'etat.— s was easily effected by redistributing the seats and arranging the scholars I according to classes, so that a mischievous fellow, charged Ml'of the rebellious imponderable, should find himself between two non-conductors, in the shape of small boys of studious habits. In was managed quietly enough, in such a plausible start of way that, its motive was hot thought of. Bpt its effects were soon felt; and then began a System of correspondence by signs, and the throwing of little scrawls done up in pellets, ai|d announced -by preliminary a’km’s! to call the attention of the distant youth addressed.— Same of these ware incendiary documents, de voting the schoolmaster to the lower divinities, as “a stuok-np dandy,” jas “a purse proud aristocrat,” as “a sight too big for h®, etc.,” and holding him up in a variety, of equally forcible' phrases to, the indignation ofltbe youthful community ofj School District Np. 1 Pigwacket Center. [Presently the draughtsman pf the school set a jjarricalure in"circulation, labelled, to prevent f stakes, with the schoolmaster’s'name. An mense bell-crowned hat, and a long, pointed, allow-tail coat, showed that the artist had in nip mind the conventional dandy, ns showed in prints of thirty or forty years ago, rather than any afl,tual human aspect of the time. But it wis passed roiind among the boys and made : its laugh, helping of course to undermine the Hipster's authority, os Punch or the Charivari takes the dignity out of an obnoxious minister. o|a morning, on going to the school-room, Master Langdon found an enlarged copy of this skptob, with its label, pinned on the door. He totk it down, smiled, a little, put it into his pcfjket, and entered the school-room. An insid iois silence prevailed, which looked as if some plot were brewing. The boys were ripe for mischief,, but they were afraid. They had real lyjno fault to find with the master, except that hef was drCsSed like a.gentleman, which a cer tain class of fellows always consider a personal insult to themselves. But theroldcr ones were evidently plotting, and more than once the warning a’htm / was heard, and. a dirty little scrap of paper rolled into a wqd ehot from one seat to another. One bf these happened to strike the stove-funnel, and lodged on the mas ten’s desk.' Ha was copl enough not to seem to notice it. He secured it, however, and found anlopportunity to look at it, without being ob served by the boys. It required no immediate notice. ; He who should have enjoyed the privelege of looking upon Mr. Bernard Langdon the next morning,, when .his toilet was about half fin ished, would have had a very pleasant gratui tous exhibition. First he btickled the strap of hil trowsers pretty tightly. Then he took up a heavy pair of dumb-bells, and swung them foi| a few minutes; then two great ‘‘lndian dibs,” with which He enacted all sorts of im polsibleddoking feats. His limbs were not very large, nor His shoulders remarkably broad ; but if you knew as much of the muscles as all per- who look.at stables and pictures with, a critical eye ought to have learned—if you knew tbl. irapetius, lying diamond-shaped oyer the bock and shoulders like, a monk’s cowl, or the de\ioid, whieh caps the shoulders like an epau lette—or the triceps ', which furnishes the calf ofltbe upper arm—or the hard-knotted biceps —or any o'f the great sculptural landmarks, in faijt—you would have'said there was a pretty gojld show of thenr beneath the white satiny. of-Mr. Bernard Langdon. And if you ibad seen him, when he had laid down the In dian clubs, catchJhold of a leather strap, that tiimg from the beam of the old-fashioned ceil ing, and lift and lower himself over and. over agjtin by bis left hand alone, you might have thought it a very simple and easy thing to do, until you tried to do it yourself. Mr. Bernard locjked at himself with the eye of an expert. — “Pretty Well!” he said, “notso much fallen off asp expected.” Then he set.up his bolster in a Very; knowing sort of a way, and delivered two or three blows straight as rulers,' ’ahd swift as pinks. “That will dp,” he said. Then, as if determined to make a certainty of his condi tion, he tooka, dynamometer [from one Of the drawers in his Old veneered bureau. First he squeezed itwithhis two hinds. Then Re placed it an the floor -lifted, steadily, strongly'.— Tim;springs cracked and creaked; the index swbpt with a gteat.stride far 1 ;up into the high figures of the .scale; it was a jgood lift.' He was' satisfied; Be sat down on the edge of the ’.bed aui looked-at bis cleanly-shaped arms. “If I Strike one of those boobies, I iam afraid I shall spoil him." he said. Yet.lbid young man,, whten weighed with his class at the College, floipd barely tarn one hundred; and forty-two .poih'ds in the scale—not a hefl|vy. weight surely; ’ ibuf ’scanb‘of the middle weights, as the present, English champion, for infitonibe, seems to be of a ftr finer quality df muscle, than .the bulkier fellows. ’• ; he master took his' breakfast, with a good appetite that morning, but /perhaps was rather mogequrettoanuffbaL Afterbi-eakfast he went,' • up&toirs anii,put.on''a light loose Jro'ck instead of pis usual! dress-coat, which. a clos| ; flt-' and rather stylish one'. On bis way'to school he met Almina Cutterr, who happened ' "i" " to be walking in the other direction. “ Good morning, Mias Cutterr,” he said; for she and another young lady had been introduced to him on a former occasion, in the usual phrase of po lite sooiety in presenting ladies to gentlemen— “ Mr. Langdon.let me make y’ acquainted with MisaCotterr; let me make y’ acquainted with Miss Braowfie." So the said, “ Good roomin’, Mr. Langdon. Haow’s y*r haalth ?” The ans swertotbis question ought naturally to'have bees the end of the talk ; but Alminy Cutterr lingered and looked 'as if she had something more on her mind. A young fellow does not require much expe rience to read a'simple country girl’s face as if it were A sign board. Alminy was a good soul, with red cheeks and fright eyes, 'kind-hearted as she could be, and jt was ont of the question for her to hide her thoughts or feelings like a. fine lady.' Her bright eyes were moist and her red cheeks paler than was their wont, as she said, with her lips quivering—“ Oh 1 Mr. Lang don, them boys’ll be the death of ye, if ye don’t take bare!" I “ Why, what’s toe matter, my dear!” said Mr. Bernard. Don’t think there was anything very odd in that “ my dear,” at toe second in terview with a village belle ; some of these wo man-tamers call a girl “my dear” after- five minutes’ acquaintance, and it sounds, all right as thtg say it. But you hod better not try it at a venture. - ' . It sounded all right to Alminy, as Mr. Bets nard Ssaid it. , “ I’ll tell ye what’s the matter,” said she in a frightened voice. “ Abner’s go’n ;to cap his dog, ’n’ he’ll set him on yez sure’s yer alive. ’T’s the same creator that haaf eat up Eben Squire’s little Jo, a year come nex’ Faost-day.” ; Nojw toe last statement was undoubtedly over colored; as little Jo Squires was running about the village—with an ugly scar on his arm, it is true, where toe beast had caught him with his teeth, 1 on the occasion of the child’s taking-lib erties with him, os he had been accustomed to do with‘a good-tempered Newfoundland dog, who seemed to like beihg palled and hauled round by children. After this the creature was Commonly muzzled, and, as he was fed on raw meat chiefly, was always ready for a fight, which ho was occasionally indulged in when anything stout enough to match him could be found in any of the neighboring villages. “ Ti ger," or, more brifly, Tige, the property of Ab ner Briggs, Junior, belonged to a species not distinctly named in scientific books, but well known to our country folks under' the name of “ Taller dog." They do not use this express ion as they would say black dog or white dog, but almost as definite a meaning as when they speakj of a'terrier or spaniel. A .'‘yaller dog” is a large canine brute, of a dingy old flannel color,;®* no particular Breed except his own, who hangs round a tavern or butcher’Bishop, or trots alongside a team, looking; as if he were disgusted with too world, and the world with him. ! Our inland population, while they- tole rate him', speak of him with contempt. Old , of Meredith Bridge, used to twit the sun of not shining on cloudy days, swearing that if he-hung up his “yaller dog,” he would make a better show of day-light. A country fellow abusing a horse of his neighbor’s vowed that, “ if he had such a boss, he’d swap him for a ‘ Yallah dog,’, and then shoot the dog.” ■ Tige was an ill-conditioned brute by nature, and art had not improved him by cropping his ears and tail, and investing him with a spiked collar. He bore en his person, also, various not ornamental scars, marks of old battles; for T!ge F had fight in him, as was said before and as plight be guessed! by a certain bluntness about the muzzle, witnta projection of the lower jaw, which looked as infhere might be a bull dog stripe among the numerous bar-sinistors of his. lineage. It was hardly fair, however, to leave Alminy Cutterr waiting whilerihia piece of natural his tory was telling. As she spoke of little Jo, who had been “ haaf eat np” by Tige, she oonld not contain her sympathies, and began to cry. “ Why my dear little soul," said Mr. Bernard,, “ What are you worried about ? 1 used to play with a bear when I was a boy; and the beat used to hag me, and I used to kiss him, —so 1” It was tog bad of Mr. Bernard; only the sec ond timehe bad seen Alminy.; bat her kind feelings hhd touched him, and that seemed the most natural way of expressing bis gratitude. Alminy looked round to see if anybody was neat; she saw nobody, so of coarse it would do .no gpod to “ holler.” She saw nobody ;. but a stout young fellow, leading a yellow dog,-muz zled, saw her through a crack in a picket fence,; not a great way.off the road. Many; a year he had been “ hanging ’raun’” Alminy,and never did he see any encouraging look, or hear any « Behave, naow I” or “ Come haow, a’n’t ye, Shamed or othet forbidding phrase of ac quiescence, such as village belles understand as well as ever did the nymph who fled to toe wil lows in the cologne we all remember. , No wonder he was furious, when he saw toe schoolmaster, who had never seen the girl until within a week, touching with his lips those rosy cheeks which he had never dared approach.— But that Was all; it was'a sudden impulse; and the-master-turned away from the young girl, laughing, and telling her not to fret herself about him—he would take-care of himself. So Master Langdon'walked on towards his school-house, not displeased, with his little adventure,- nor immensely elated by it ; for he was one of the natural class of the sex .subduers, and had had many a smile without, asking, which hqd. been denied, to the feeble youth why try to win favor by pleading their; passion in rhyme, or even to the more formid able approaches of young officers in volunteer by many to be quite-ir-i resistible to the fair who have once beheld them, from . their windows in the . apaulettes and. plumes and sashes of the “Pigwacket Invinoi hles, or the “ Hackmatook Invineibles,” or the “ Hackmatack Bangers.” Master Langdon, took his seat and began the exercises of his school. The smaller- boys, re plied their lessons well enough, but-somo of the ' larger'ones were negligent and surly. Ho no ticed one or two of them looking towards the door, os if expecting somebody or something in that direction. At half past nine o’clock, Abner Briggs, jr., who had not yet shown him- aslf, made his appear moe, He was followed, by his “yallah dog,” without Sis muzzle, who squatted down very grimly near the door, and gave a wolfish look round the room, as if he were considering which was the plumpest boy to begin with. The young batcher, meanwhile, went to his seat, looking Somewhat flashed, ex cept round the lips, which were hardly as red as common, and set pretty sharply, “Put out that dog, Abner Briggs 1" ’The mas ter spoke as the captain speaks to the. helms man, when there are rocks foaming at the lips, right under his lee. Abner Briggs answered as toe helmsman an swers, when fle' knows he has a mutinous crew round him that mean to ran toe ship out on the reef, and: is one of the mutineers himself. “Put him aout y’rself, if ye a’n’t afeard on him I” The toaster stepped into toe aisle. -The great cur showed his teeth, an d the devlish instincts of his old wolf-ancestry looked out of his eyes, and flashed from his sharp tusks, ahd yawned in his wide month and deep red gnllet. - The movements of animals are so much quick er than those of'humau beings commonly are, that they avoid blows as | easily as one of us steps out the way of an ox-cart. It must be a very stupid dog that lets himself be fun over by a fast driver jn his gig ; he can'jump out of the wheel’s W after the tire has already touched him. So, while one is lifting a stick to strike, or drawing back his foot to kick, the beast makes his spring, and the blow or kick comes too late. . 1 Is was not so this time.; The master was a frnoer, and something of 1 a boxer; he had played at single-stick, and was used to watch ing an adversary’s eye, and coming down on him without any of these premonitory symp toms by which unprncticed persons show long beforehand what mischief I they meditate; “Out With you” he said fiercely—and ex plained what he meant by a sadden flash of his foot that clashed the yellow dog’s . white teeth together, like the springing of a bear-trap. The our knew he had found his master at the first word and glance, as low animals on four legs, or a smaller number, always do; and the blow took him so much by surprise that it curled him up in an instant, and he went bundling out of the open school-house door, with a most pitiful yelp, and his stump of a tail shut down ns close us the owner ever shut the short, stubbed blade of his jaeknife. It was time for the othet Cur to find who his master was. | t *■ Follow yourdog, Abner Briggs 1 “said Mas ter Langdon. [ ’ The stout butcher youth looked round, but toe rebels were all cowed,; and sat still. “ITlgo-whon I’m ready,” he said, “’n I guess I won’t go ’fore I’m| ready.” “ You’re ready now,” said Master Langdon, turning up his cuffs so that; the little boys no ticed the yellow gleam of a pair of gold sleeve buttons, once wore by Col. Percy/Wentworth, famous in toe Old French 1 War. l Abner Briggs, jr., did not apparently think he waa ready, at any ratej for he rose in his place and 'stood with clenqhed fists, defiant, as the master strode towards him. .The master knew the fellow was really frightened, for all his looks, and that he must 1 have no time to' tally. So he caught him i suddenly by the col or, and, with one great pjill, had him out over desk-and on. the open floor. He gave him a sharp fling- backwards, and stood looking at |iim. j i The rough-and-tumble fighters all clinch, as Everybody knows p and’Aimer Briggs, jr., was qne of that kind,,--He remeipbered how hehnd floored Master Weeks, and; he had just “spunk”! enough left in him to try to repeat his former successful experiment bn the new in aster. He sprang at.him open-handed to clttteh him. So toe master had .to strike—Onctj/'but very hard, and just in the place to del it' the authority that doth hedge a schoolmaster, added to the effect of the blow; but the blow was it self a neat, one, and did not require to he re peated. 1 - ; “Now go home,” said the master," and don’t let mo see you or your dogi heirs again.” And he turned his puffs down again over the gold sleeve buttons. , j ; | This finished the great Pigwacket Center school rebellion. . What oould be dona with a master who was so pleasant as long as the boys behaved decently, and suph. a terrible fellow when he got “ riled,” as they ealled.it? ' In' a week's time, everything wjia to order, and.the school committee were delighted. The “master, however, had received a proposition so much more agreeable and advantageous, that -be informed the committee he should leave -at the end f of the ifaonth, having in bis eyes a sen sible energetic young polloge graduate, who 7 would be willing and fully competent lb take his place. - | , Living too High. —There is a dreadful ambi tion abroad for being “geptee’.” We keep up appearances too often at the expense of.honesty; and, though we may not he rich, yet we must SSem to be -so. We must be “respectable,” though only in the meanest sense—in mere vulgar outward show.; ■ Wp. have not the cour-' age to go patiently onward in the condition of life in which it faas pleased; God to call ns; but must; heeds live in some fashionable State to which we', ridiculously pleaso to call ourse’vb = , and all to gratify the .vanity of that unsubstan tial genteel world-of which! wa forma part— Thare'isa constant struggle ;ahd pressure for front seats in the social. amphitheatre ; in the feidst Of which all noblei self-denying love is trodden down,'.and many fine natures' arc in evitably crushed to death.l' What waste,;what misery,.what Bankruptcy] cpmo-; from all this ambition to dazzlo others with the glare bf ap parent worldly success, we heed ; not 'describe. The mischievous results show themselvesdn a thousand ways—in the rank frauds committed by men who date to, be dishonest, but do Jno.t dare to seem poor, and in the desperate dashes at fortune, in which the pityiis notso much for those who fail, as for the Hundreds of innocent families who ore so often involved in their ruin.' ... A man may be a fool; with wit, but never with judgement. J Rates of Advertising. ! | Advertisements y?ill be-charjjqd 91 per square of Ift lines, one orthreeinser lions, and 25 cents forerery subsequent insertion. Advertisements of jess than 10 conSidered a? a square. The subjoined rates rrill be charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly ad. uertisementar ? ' Square, - 3 do. 3 , do. i column, - - 8,00 9,60 j 12,50 } do. - 15,00 20,00 30,00 Column, - - 25,00 35,00 : 50,0 f Advertisements nefbaving tbenumber of insertions desired marked upon tbem,-wilt.be published until or* dered ont and charged accordingly. . ' Posters, Handbills, Eljl-jHeads, Letter-Heads and all kinds of Jobbing dong picoontry establishments, ex ecuted neatly'and prAnjpfly. Justices.’, Constable’?, and other BLANKS distantly on hand. NOs BXTSQXTEHAITM'A LUJIBEB THADE. Tenmiles east of Lock Havenis the: scat o t extensive operations in pine lumber, called Phelp’S Mills. It takes its name from the late Anson G. Phelps, of your city, who dating his life, was the projector and proprietor, and whose fame for piety-and benevolence is abroad every* where in the land. The establishment is situ* ated on Pine Creek,; the Tiddaihon of thje Indi ans, and consiating of two sawmills capable of cuttingl4,ooo,ooo feet per annum. The average product, however, is estimated at 8,000,000.— f The logs are procured sixty and seventy miles above, on Pine Creek and its tributaries. The pine cat np at these mills is of a quality great ly superior to that .procured on ; the Sinnemabd ning, Mushanon and Clearfield branches, noticed in my.last letter. One mile below is another . mill, turning out 4,000,000 of feet per annum. \ Pino creek is the most considerable tribute- - ryof the West Branch, and its proportion of the lumber trade of the valley is immense. Up-' ward of one hundred mills are in operation on its waters,'and more than 50,-000,000 feel; of pine lumber are sent down to market annually. The.scenery through its entire course is! of the grandest, as it is of the wildest descriptioi The stream is very, rapid, and seems to . 1 cut its way through mountains which often perpendicularly from the stream bed, on e side, to the height of five or sis hundred Some of these precipices jnt into th<T crtel right angles, breasting the full current; the spectacle at these points Is grand bey description. 'For grandeur, I doubt if i Niagara can compete with Pine Week durit flood, when, to the uninitiated, a-descent ol foaming rapids would seem certain destrnct i,m, yet hundreds of hardy Tioga raftsmen annu illy dare its dangers as calmly as your yachtmnn sail their crafts 'on the upper bay. Disaster sometimes overtakes these- hardy navigators, but the loss of life is quite inconsiderable. | WILLIAMSPORT. r ; ! , This is the capital land is the largest town on the West; Branch. | Its share Of the lumber trade is Very great.! Hera is a monster bqjfuij extending upwards jofjfive m:les up and dosfn'tbe riveSr, witlf'n capacity of storage for 375,000 logs, which, allowing! five logs to 1,000 feet, represents 75,000,000 jfeet of.- lamber. Here, too, is located twenty-one .saw mills, running seven hundred and- thipty-ona saws,-with an aggregate capacity of 100,000,000, feet £er annum! • •' ' : The largest mill in operation-bet's is that of Langdon & Diven,- which numbers seven; gaagao averaging fifteen saws each, .and four 1 single saws. I suppose 80,000,000 would be .a large estimate of the average products of these mills. The logs are mostly procured- frogj the Sinne mahoning region, though Pine Creek furnishes considerable stock. The cost of logs delivered at Williamsport boom is somewhat greater than at Lock Haven, owing to its distance from the pine regions. But the advance of the business has, been very rapid, nowithstanding—ao rapid" that the eligible mill-sites are jpretty -mucli ex hausted - ' £ . i THE DISASTER OF MAT, 1860. j I The great flood of May laat.will long ibe re- . membered By the lumbermen of Williamsport and 'vicinity. The drive of logs had-been very great, and the immense boom was crowded to its utmost capacity. The rise of the. rifetwas. nnprecedently rapid and unlocked, for, having : been upwards of fourte?n feet, betweed j night-’ fall and dawnj Of course the crash of the logs in the boom was indiscribable. During tie night the logs in the upper, part of the 1 bocm . hurled, as it is called, and 250,000; 0r'300,000, representing more than:so,ooo,oo6' feet of lum ber, escaped from harbor, and .went down the swollen river. The “hauling” <ff the logs is nothing more their plunging under the r boom-sticks—a thing of often occhrreßoa where. , the latter are not property secured. In this j case the boom-sticks were not anchored to piers, t but attached to buoys.. The damage- was.; im mense ; and, jit- first glance, seemed irrepara-: ; ble. Under the rads of the most fatorable cir cumstances, it cannot fail to effect the heaviest -losses, though it will probably ruianone., I By tliia general log delivery, Messrs. Dubnij & Lowe, nre.reported to hove lost 25,000 -1og<; . 5,000,000 feet pMessrs. LangdonA Divon about 35,000 logs, 7,000,000 feet; -Herdte, Leift* 4 White about 30,000 logs, 0,000,000 feet, Thp balance of the loss falls upon various parties’, more or less heavily. The gehtlefnen named are reputed the heaviest losers, but theirj losses will not, I learn, very seriously disable them in _; business. Nor is -the logs so great as ttpqntha face it appears to bo; because the fugitives, • from the boom have been hunted out in the ; shallows and.-bayous along the rivbfs, and dW-' - petaed of to-the' proprietors of mills below, so ; far ns found.' The actual loss per thousand ' felt is’ estimatedat-$2,50. Stating the whole escapade at 40,.000,000 feet,'which,. I suspect, is ample, the entire loss, amounts to SIOO.OUO." It is -quite impossible to estimate the) exact number of logs lost, and therefore, these figures arc but approximate. i Rilying upon the foregoing,figures andesti matss, the utatistica of' the lumber business in the Valley of the Wed Branch may be ;tnbled, as follows, estimating the market, price at $U> per M,; Quantity Market in./ekt, ■ - Lock Haven and vicinity.,...-.36,000,000 * $540,0ft0 Phelps' mills •* 16,000,000 240,000 H Williamsport '* ■ “ $0,000,000 1^200,0110 Totals,.,' ;;.~132,00a,000 $-1,080,000 This estimate by no means does justice UT tha. vastness of the lumber trade,on the ‘West Branch waters;]for besides this, 1 there are from jlOOQtoy 3000 rafts of sawed lumber, square timber t aml ; , spars, sent down from the upper waters every year. A great number of arks, loaded, with shingles, also descend With ev,ery flood< • This branch of the business cannot easily bo, estimafocT, yet is of no mean importance., . Great quantities of lath, pickets, and pailings are ln nearly alloF.' the! large mills bi which allusion has been oiade. — Gu ends the chapter. ' 8 MONTHS, fl uosnia. 12, iionrnti $3,09 . . $4,30 j $B,OO , 5,00 6,50 , 8,00 'WO , 8,50 | 10,00 From the New Tori: World. DAMAGES, ETC. RECAPITCLiTIOX. (avQ ftrel ond Iveri \s * i its
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