1855. NEW GOODS. 1855.
JONES & ROE.
WEEiIiSBORO’ PENNA.
ARE now recemugllieir full supply of SPRING
and SUMMER GOODS, consisting in part ol
DRY GOODS, groceries, PROVISIONS,
READY MADE CLOT ill NG,BOOTS
SHOES, HATS, GAPS. CARPETS, OIL
CLOTHS, MATTING. CROCKERY,
HARDWARE, WOODEN.WARE,
GLASSWARE. WINDOW GLASS
AND SASH, CUTLERY, AC.
Eastern Clocks from the best Manufacto
tories, and warranted to keep good time.
Walls (Vom tile boat manufactories always on
hand, and in fact nearly everything in the Vine ol
Goods can be found in this establishment and prices
that cannot fail from suiting the closest buyers.
Thankful for past favors we would still invite our
customers and buyers generally to on examination
of our new stork, believing that if GOOD Goods
and LOW PRICES are un inducement they will
mako their purchases ul os. JONbb &. ROE.
Wcllsboro. 1 May 31, 185„.
LADIES SHOES A GAITERS.—Ladies will
find a beautiful assortment ol Shoes, Gaiters
and children's shoes at JONES A. ROE S.
May 31st 185.",.
T AWNS A GINGHAMS—A large slock of the
JL above Goods, also Merm.ack and Cnt heco prints
just rec'd a. [May 31st' JONES A ROE S.
TVTEW 'STYLE* MANTILLAS.— Just received
some beautiful slvlcs of Mantillas at
Mav 31. 1355 JONES A ROE’S.
"T’OXG' a SQUARE BROCHA SHAWLS, at
I / verv low prices a JONES A ROES.
Bonnets’ ribbons a linings, also chii
drens flats just received at JON ES A ROE’S.
-q EADY MADE CLOTHING.—Just received a
Ja, larj/c sloes of Ready Made Clolliing for the
pprmr .nid summer trade, winch will he sold at a
ven ilTiall nrohte- JUNES & ROE’S.
MEN'S BOOTS hi SHOES A, GAITERS —Also
Bnv« shoes of every description ot
Mav 31 18.>: JONES &. ROE’S.
TRCXKS Values, Carnci Biff' and Salcbels a
larpp lot m-l received al JON ES & ROE’S.
T\ r~\CKERKI, bv (lie barrel, -i bid., and ] bbl, nl
,M»v 31 Ifloi JON KS ,V ROE’S.
Al,b GOVERNMENT JAVA COFFEE, al
V ' ,Mav 31. In.'. JONES Ac ROE’S
DOCTOR VOCRSULF
The Pocket xPsciilapiiis ;
OR EVERY ONE HIS OWN PHYSICIAN
rpilF, lifmnp E'lmnt
_L wilh One Hundred Li
pravinn'v. showing Dischm
ami Mallormalions of the Hi
man Svsiem in every aba;
and lorn. To which is addt
a T rc.ilies on 1 l>c Diseases i
hemp of the highc*
unnorijnec m married penpl
o* ino*< conlemplatinjr rnai
bv UM. OUNG, M L
lid no falhcr be ashamed lo present a cop. ic
A.m.tlapius lo lu.s chih. ll may save him from an
carlv grave Lei no young man or woman cnlcr
into the scrrel obligations ol married life without
reading ihc Pocket Aesculapius l/Cl no one suf
fering irom a hacking Cough. Pair. in Ine side, rest
less mghLs. nervous. Icclmgv. and ihc whole Iram of
Dyspeptic sensations, and ui- hv Ihcir phys
iPinrk. be another moment wjihout consulting the
Aesculapius. Have the married, or those about lo
be married, any impediment, read Dus truly useful
Door., a- it has been the means of saving Thousands
o unlortun »lc crealnres from the very jaws of death.
■‘.Aiiv person sending 7'toentv-Fivr Cents enelo
set i. ■. Idler, will rm-ivc one copy of Tins work by
ui, ll, o* five copies will be «cnl lor one Dollar
Address, (.post paid DK. W.M YOUNG
Ao. 152 Spruce Sl., VkiLadclphia.
June T, .
HARNESS MAKING.
NEW ARKAAfeEHEKTS ! !
sulxmi'i- Ikiviiih ni)
cii.iscd Ihc HARNESS SHOP
OVRIt A CROW LJt CO'S WAd-
ON StlOl'. l'a*. nrc
rciidv io make lo order dll articles pcri.uuino- to the
DU'-mess, in Hie bcil manner and of the very bej»t
mulcriw
IV FARMERS AND OTHERS he would
sav lhai he sells articles in Ihctr line of baslnese
CHEAPER PVR CASH limn any oilier estab
lishment in the county A good assortment of
Whip*. Itarncs*. «fcc., Ac.,
cofM.intly on inr..
urpAIRING done on sborl notice and in
the fiol po-sibb* mane''
l»T All order* iirmnnllv filled and warranted to
give enure salManim
\J' ( all am) riiiunc iii< «lock hclore purchasing
CKewlicr' “ Liu ami Lei Luc ’* i* his moll*,
kind* o r { nunlrv liken in ex
eh.mgr lor uorh a I in« Dcsl market price
A lair snare oi imbue patronage respectfully so
lie.. L. L. KIMBALL.
WelUhnrr * Fei». i, 1?."
'lnrmiii; A. (lialriutiliiug:.
T BTILKLLV. Turner, and Choirmaker, would
o . in ofrn itic public Dial he ha? recently filled up
in* o-'mi. u- goon style, aim is now prejvired m manu-
MPt.tn .il’ kina* n/T.VNL A C’OMMOV (’HAIRS.
in* rw. nnierul and Also Turning done
in snjw-nir style, on term 4
SM<). snnu end Mam street, opposite IL W
" SHU.
W( Li UF.UZOG, li.mng rented part of J.
> Sim n L v*- simp prep.m. tc manufacture nil
kimi' n*‘ C'AIIIXKT WORK from the best material
anr m superior slvlc Me lias on hand several bu
l»enor M.inogunv Bureaus lor sale cheap.
M t ii'iiorougi., April 1».
WASTE!
TOtTvXLVMAN U*AGC;oN-M UCF.k wanted to
e ; worK lo Die day, mouli. or oi shares, at llic
shop o r Um Suli.-criiar n> CTvnu: township, Tioga
Co. F t. I have r large nunnittv of seasoned lum
ber on hand, ready to Ik- worked, and would prefer
to give Die workman a share of Hie proceeds
CMARLLS PRITCTIARL.
( ivinc:, June 14 Ifiml. {’
NEW GROCERY PROVISION
STOIU«
A' nll cl O. BULLARD, DraWs
m pno visions, groceries, boots
It SHOES, READYMADE CLOTIWAG, Wood
b Willoie Uwrf. Tobacco, Ctpan, Fruit -s Confec*
b( Al the Stand recently occupied
bv Robert Uoy, Wcllsboro*. I'a.
Plaster! Price Reduced!
TIIV, subscriber has just received al his mill near
Mansfield, 350 lonsCwyupa PLASTER atone,
where he will Keep constantly on hand I’resh ptound
pUßlcr supply all that may give him a call. No
mi'iikc (ins timcLiphlning- never sirikes one tree
twice Price $.>,50 per im. AMOS BIXBV.
MiinsficUl, Fch. 15.185 f
w, w. U i 1111. m. D..
TJAS eMablulicd himself in (lie practice of Med
-1 J- n ine and Surgery in llic Township of Liberty
I*D., whers no will promptly attend all calls in Ins
prore&uor.
Liberty, Feb. 1.1854
PARASOLS.— A benulilu. assortment mstre.
reived at [May 31, JONES Ac, ROE'
DR. MUARIOEAU’S Private Medical Compan,
ton. For Sale at BAILEY Ac. FOLEY’S.
SSES.—Beniamin's Superior] Brass Truss,
JL t'T sale o; ' (June 2S V. CASE.
AJILL SAWS Ac. FILES.—A large lot just re
-'F. eenou a. JONES At, ROE’S,
COBB, STURROCK CO„
VOL. 1
3 Beautiful Do tin.
[For the Agitator.]
REST.
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more dealii, neither sor
row, nor crying, neither shall there be any more
pain : tor the turmer things have passed away,”—
Rev. jji. —4.
While through life’s wilderness we roam,
Without a resting-place or home,
While snares our every step surprise,
And parting (ears oil dim our eyes—
How blest the hope to meet one d&y,
Where God shall wipe all tears away.
When o’er the lowly mound we bend.
The hallowed spot which holds a friend,
While from the aching eyes and heart
The tears and groans of anguish start—
Then faith points up to worlds above,
Death cannot reach that place of love.
Sorrow shall never enter there;
No tears ol grief no pain or carp,
No scenes of strife, no aching heart,
In that bright world shall have a port—
But all be one unclouded day,
Where “former things have passed away.”
Pleasant Valleij t Jowa.
[We think the above is a beautiful poem, to.]
& SDomrfltCc Stocg.
ADY AND JANE
-0R-
The Drunkard’s Good Angels.
“Come Ady nnd Jane, il is time you were
in bed,” said Mrs. Freeman to her little girls,
about nine o'clock one evening. Ady was
nine years old, and Jane was a year and a
half younger. The two children had been
sining m the work table with their mother,
one of them studying her lesson, and the
other engaged on a piece of fancy needle
work.
“Papa has not come home yet,” answered
Adv.
“No dear ; but il is getting late, and it is
lime you were in bed. He may not be at
home for an hour.”
Ady laid aside her work nnd left the table,
and Jane closed her book and pul them away
in her school satchel.
“You can light ihe lamp on the mantel
piece,” said Mrs. Freeman, after a few mo
meins, looking around as she spoke, when
she saw the children had put on their bonnets
and were lying their warm capes close about
their necks. She understood very well the
meaning of this, and therefore did not ask a
question, although the tears came in her eyes
and her voice trembled as she said—
“Il is a very cold night children.”
“Bui we won’t feel 11 moiher,” replied
Ady, “we’ll run along very quick.”
And llic Iwo lillle ones went out before
iheir mother, whose feelings were choking
her, could say a word more. As they closed
the d<>.■ r after them, and left her alone, she
raided her eyes upward and murmured, “God
bless and reward the dear children.”
It was a black winter night, as the little
adventurers stepped into the street, the wind
swept fiercely along, and almost drove them
buck against the door. But they caught each
other firmly by the hands, and bending their
lorms to meet the pressure of the cold rush
ing air, hurried on their way where they
were going as fast as their feet could move.
The streets were daik and deserted; hoi the
children were not nlraid. Hope filled their
hearts and left no room for fear.
They did not speak a word to each other
as they hastened along. After going for n
distance of several blocks, they slopped be
fore a house over the door of which was a
handsome lamp, bearing the words “Oysters
and Refreshments.” It was a strange place
for two lillle girls like ihem to enter, and at
such an hour; but after standing a few min
utes they pushed against tho green door—it
turned lightly upon its hinges—and slopped
into a large and brilliantly lighted bar room.
“Bless us !” exclaimed a man who sal
reading at a table, “here are those babes
again.”
Ady and Jane stood near the door, and
looked all around the room. But not se.emg
the object of their search, they went up to
the bar and said timidly to a man who stood
behind it pouring liquor into glasses,—
“Hus papa been here to-nighf?”
The man leaned over llie bar until hia face
was close to Ihe children, and said in an an
gry way,
“I don’t know any thing about your fallter
—and don’t come here again—if you do I’ll
call my big dog out of ihe yard and make
him bite you.”
Ady and Jane fell frightened, as well by
the harsh manner as angry words of ihe
man, and they started back from him, and
were turning towards the door, with sad
faces, when the person who first marked
their entrance, culled out loud enough for
them to hear him—
“ Come here my liule girls.”
The children slopped and looked al him,
when he beckoned them to approach, and
they did so.
“Are you looking for your father ]” he
asked.
“Yes sir,” replied Ady,
“Wlml did the man at ihe bar say to you ]”
“He said Papa was not here, and t hat if
we came any more ha would set his big dog
on us.’’
The man knit his brows for an instant,
and said, “Who sem you here]”
“Nobody,” answered Ady.
“Don’t your mother know you have come?”
“Yea sir; she told us to go to bed, but we
could not until Papa was at home,”
"Ho is here.”
“Is ho]” and the children’s face bright,
ened.
“Yes, he is at the other end of the rooni
asleep, I’ll g 0 and wake him up for you."
THE
Befcoteor *° *t>c ggfrttngCon of tfte nxm $t ifmtam mtf l&tfotrm.
WELLSBOROUGH, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY HORNING, AUGUST 23, 1858.
DT M. L. DOUD.
DY T. s. AUTHUIi,
AGITATO H.
“XHP AGITATION OP THOUGHT IS THE BEGINNING OP WISDOM.”
Half intoxicated and asleep, it was with
difficulty that Mr, Freeman could be aroused.
As soon, however, as his eyes were fairly
opened and he (bund that Ady and Jane had
each grasped tightly one of his hands, he
rose up and yielded passively to their direc
tion ; he suffered them to dead him away.
“( guess you never saw them before 1”
said one of the barkeepers, lightly.
“No, nor never wish to again, at least in
this place. . Who is their father V
“Freeman the lawyer.”
“The one who-a few years ago conducted
with so much ability the case against the
Marine Insurance Company"! 1 ’
“The same.”
“Is it possible 1”
A little group now formed around the man,
and a good deal was said about Freeman and
his fall from sobriety. One who had several
times seen Ady and Jane come in and lead
Him home, as they had just done, said it was
a most touching case.
“To see,” said one, “how passively he
yields himself lo ihe little things when they
come after him—Sometimes when I see them
[ am almost weak enough to shed tears.”
“They are his good angels,” remarked
another, “but I am afraid they are not quite
strong enough to lead him back lo the paths
he has forsaken.”
“You may think what you please about it,
gentlemen,’’ spoke Ihe landlord, “but I can
tell you I wouldn’t give much for a mother
who would let two little things like them go
wandering about the streets alone at this time
of night.”
One of those who expressed interest in the
little children, fell angry at this remark, and
retorted with some bitterness—
“And I would give less for the man who
would make their father drunk.”
“Ditto lo that,” responded one of the
company. “And here is my hand lo that,”
said another.
The landlord, finding that a majority of
his company were likely to be against him,
smothered his angry feelings and kept silent.
A few minutes afterwards, two or three of the
inmates of the bar room went away.
About ten o’clock the next morning, while
Mr. Freeman, who was generally sober in
the forepart of the day, was in his office, a
stranger entered, and after silling down, said.
“1 must crave your pardon beforehand for
what lam going to say. Will you promise
me not lo be nflended ?”
“If yon offer me an insult I will certainly
resent it," said the lawyer.
“So far from that, I came with the design
to do you a great service.”
“Very well, say on.”
“1 was at Lawson’s Refractory last night?”
“Well!”
“And I saw something there that touched
mv heart. If I slept at all last night it was
only to dream of it. I have two I ill le girls
and I love them tenderly. Oh, sir, Ihe thought
of their coming out, in a cold winter night in
search of me, and at such a place, makes the
blood run cold in mv veins.”
Words so unexpected coming upon Free
man when he was comparatively sober, dis
turbed him deeply. In spite of his endeav
ors lo remain ealm, he trembled all over.—
Me mode an effort to say something in reply,
but rnuld not uiter a word.
“My dear sir,” pursued the stranger, “you
have fallen bv the hand of monster intem
perance and 1 fiel that you are in greal peril.
You have not, however, fallen hopelessly.—
You may rise -yet if you will.. Let me, in
the name of ihe sweet babies, who have
shown in so wonderful a manner, their love
for you, conjure you lo rise superior lo that
deadly foe. Reward these good children with
the highest blessing their hearts can desire.—
Come wiih me, and sign the pledge of Free
dom:- Let us, through strangers lo each
other, unite in this one net.”
Half bewildered, yet with a new heart,
Freeman arose, and suffered the man, who
drew his arm through his, to lead him nwav.
Before they separated both had signed the
pledge.
That evening, unexpectedly, to ihe joy of
his family, Mr. Freeman was perfectly so
ber when he came home. After lea, while
Ady and Jane were standing on either aide of
him, ns he sat near their mother, an arm
around each of them, he said, in a tow whis
per, bending his head down and drawing them
closer to him—
“ You will never have to come after me
again.”
’ The children lifted up their eyes quickly
to his face, but half understanding what he
meant.”
“I will never go there again,” he added,
"I will always slay at home with you.”
Ady and Jane, now comprehending what
their huher meant, overcome with joy, hid
their faces in his lap, and wept for very glad
ness.
Low as all this had been said, every word
reached the mother’s ear and while her
heart trembled between hope and fear, Mr.
Freeman drew a paper from his pocket and
threw it on the table by which she was silting.
She opened it hastily. It was the Pledge,
with his well known signature subscribed at
the bottom.
With a cry of joy she sprang to his side,
and his arms encircled his wife us well as her
little ones, in a fonder embrace than they had
known for years.
The children’s love had saved ibeir father
—they were, indeed, his “good angels.”
A man with a modest appetite dined at a
hotel, and after eating the whole of a young
pig, was asked if ho would have some pud
ding. He said he didn’t care much about
pudding, hut if they bad another little hog he
would he thankful for it.
Sftttcl).
TOO PUNqTUAL.
The hour was fast approaching for the de
parture of the New Haveh steamboat from
her berth at New York, and the usual crowd
of passengers, and friends of passengers!
newsboys, fruil-vcnders, cabmen and dock
loafers, were assembled on and about the
boat. We were gazing at the motley group,
from Ihe fool of the promenade deck stairs,
when our attention was attracted by the sin
gular action of a toll, brown Yankee, in an
immense wool hat, chocolate colored coat and
panlloons, and a fancy vest. He stood near
the starboard paddle-box, and scrutinizing
sharply every female who came on board,
every now and then consulting an enormous
silver bull’s eye watch, which he raised from
the depths of a capacious fob, by means ofa
powerful steel chain. After mounting guard
in this manner, he dashed furiously down the
gang-plank and up the wharf, re-appearing
on board almost instantaneously, with flushed
face, expressing the most intense anxiety.—
This series of operations he performed several
times, after which he rushed about the boat,
wildly and hopelessly ejaculating:
“What’s the limeer day? Wonder if my
repealer’s fast I Whar’s the cap’n? whar’s
the steward ? whar’s the male? whar’s the
boss that owns the ship t” ,
"What’s the matter, sir ?” we ventured to
ask him, when he stood still for a moment.
“Hain’l see nothin’ of a gal in a blue sun
bonnet, with a while Canton crape shawl—
cost fifteen dollars—pink gown and brown
boots, hey ? come aboard while I was lookin'
for the cnp’n at the pint end of the ship, have
ye ? hey ?”
“No such person has come aboard.”
“Tormented lighinin’! she’s my wife!” he
screamed ; married her yesterday. All her
.trunks and thine are aboard, under a pile of
baggage ns tall as a Connecticut steeple.—
The darn’d black nigger says he can’t hand
it out, and I wont leave my baggageanyhow.
My wife—only think on it—was to have come
on board at half-past four, and here it’s most
live. What’s become of (her? She can’t
have eloped. We haint been married long
enough for that. You don't think she’s been
abducted,‘do ye mister?” Speak! answer!
wont ye ! O! I’m ravin’ destraclcd ! What
are they ringing that bell for ? Is the ship
afire?
“It is the signal for departure—the first
bell. The second will ring in four minutes.”
“Thunder I you don’t say sol Wbar’s
the Can’nl"
I n*u m uic oruc tum.-
The Yankee darted to the captain’s side.
“Cap’n slop the ship for ten minutes won’t
ye?”
“I cant do it, sir.”
“But you must, 1 tell you. I’ll pay you
for it. | Mow much will yo tax?”
“1 could not do it.”
“Cap’n, I’ll give you tew dollars,” gasped
the Yankee.
The captain shook his head
“I’ll give ye five dollars and a half—and a
half —ami a half! he kept repeating dancing
about in his agony, like a mad jackass on a
hot iron plate.
“The boat starts at five precisely, said Ihe
captain, shortly, and turned away.
“0, yeou stunuy hearted heaihin I” "mur
mcred the Yankee, almost bursting into
tears. “Purling man and wife, and we just
one day married."
At this moment the huge paddle wheels be
gan lo paw the water, and the walking-beam
descended heavily, shaking the huge fabric to
her centre. All who were not going to New
Haven went ashore. The hands began to
haul in the gang-plank : the fastenings are
already cast 100-. e.
“Leggo thirl plank I” roared the Yankee,
collaring one of the hands. “Drop it like a
hot polaloe, oi I’ll heave ye in the dock.”
“Yu—yo 1 shouted the men in chotus, as
they heaved on the gangway.
“Shut up, you braying donkeys I” yelled
the maddened Yankee, “or thoir’ll be an ugly
spot of work.”
But the plunk was got aboard, and the boat
plashed past the pier.
In an instant the Yankee pulled off his coal,
dung his hat beside it on the deck, and rush
ed wildly lo the guard.
“Are you drunk or crazy 1 cried a passen
ger, seizing him.
“I’m gom’ to (ling myself in'o the dock
and swim ashore !” cried ihe Yankee. “1
musen’l leave Sairy Ann alone in New York
City. You may divide the baggage among
ye. Let me go I 1 can swim.”
He struggled so furiously that Ihe conse
quences of his rashness might have been fa
tal, had not a sudden apparition changed his
purpose. A very pretty young woman in a
blue bonnet, white Canton, crape shawl, pink
dress, and brown boots, came toward him.
The big brown Yankee uttered one stento
rian shout of “Sairv Ann I” clasped her in
his arms in spile of her struggling, and kissed
her heartily, right before all the passengers,
“Where did yoii come from,” ho enqui
red.
“From the ladies’ cabin,” anSwpred the
bride. “You told me half past four, but I
thought I'd make sure and come at four.”
“A little too punctual I” said the Yankee.
"But it’s all right now. Hallo, cap’n you
can go ahead now. 1 don’t care about stop
ping. Come nigh losing the passage money
and the baggage—come nigh gelling drowned,
Sairy, all along of you—but it's all right now.
Go ahead steamboat! Rosin up, there, fire
men I Darn the expense!”
When the sun set, the loving couple were
seen seated on the upper deck, the big brown
Yankee’s arm encircling the slender woman
in the blue bonnet and pink dress.
PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS.
©ommmucattonu,
For the Agitator.
COMMON SCHOOLS—3.
SCHOOL HOUSE FURNITUE, AND TEXT bOOK9,
■ But little attention has been paid to
this subject in our county, and considering
the quality ofschool houses, and the onslaught
made heretofore upon everything moveable
about a school house, it is well that but little
expense has been incurred for what would
in all probability have been destroyed. .What
is the appropriate furniture of a good school
house? Ist, a broom. 2d, a water pail
and- cup, 3d, a black-board. 4lh, Web
ster’s Dictionary. sth, outline maps. 6th,
a geographical globe, one foot in diameter.
These, with .a few cards, blocks, numerical
pane, &c. t for beginners in the A, B, C’s and
arithmetic may be considered a very good
outfit. The broom and water pail are so es
sential that the teacher can generally teaze
them out of the directors. In only about one
half the houses are black-boards, or in many
cases apologies of black-boards introduced.
The composition to prepare black-boards Is
given on the 368th page of the Pa. School
Journal. If teachers or directors would be
to very little trouble and expense, this very
great convenience would never be dispensed
with in our school rooms. But there are
many teachers who have not enjoyed the
benefits of a black-board in their own educa
tion, and do not know how to use them
successfully in a school; so the absence of
them in some cases is no great loss, and the
difficulty goes back of ihe black-board. These
black-boards should not be a loose board or a
shingle hung to the wall ; but a permanent
part of the wall itself.
We have not seen n dictionary or a globe
in any of our schools. Teachers, have m a
few instances supplied themselves with these
necessary instruments of their trade. All
teachers that calculate to teach two or four
terms, might well afford the necessary out
lay fuu a good quarto dictionary and terres
trial globe. Whatever be their future colling,
these two things will alwa\ she useful. When
the directors can he assured that such things
ns outline maps, of which we have met with
.none in the county, will l>c properly taken
care of, they will do well to provide them.
We shall have more to say of the equipment
of the teacher when we come to speak of, and
to them.
A part of the furniture of q school-room,
with which every scholar.ts expected to bring
bis part is the text books. Our notes on this
at- - s i-- 6 , •■•■ J luu/c
-ful. We have often found three kinds uf
spelling books, two or three kinds of readers,
and as many each of arithmetic, grammar
and geography. Tins is the discouraging
part of it. Another discouraging thing is.
that many boards of directors have as yet
taken no measures lo suppress this Babel of
tongues. But (hero is a brighter side. Some
directors are acting very efficiently oh this
subject. A few have we think, very properly,
taken the matter in their own hands, and de
cided on Ihe books lo be used, and authorized
their treasurer to keep a depository of such
books lo be supplied lo the schools at cost
price. This can not fail to give general sat
isfaction to the parents, as books can thus be
furnished at from 25 to 50 per cent discount
on what they have been accustomed lo pay.
The determining of the books lo be used
in ihe several towns in this county is a great
ami important business. We hnve'sometitries
thought of calling a convention of directors
(hr this purpose, and have not abandoned the
idea. The variety of books afloat for school
purposes is surprising. There are ten differ
ent kinds of ainhmetics used in this county.
We mean different authors. About as many |
kinds of geographies, eight authors of gram- |
mar &c. &c. We have taken some pains by
correspondence and examination to satisfy
ourselves of the best books. Though we arc
satisfied that there is a great choice m the
multiplicity of hooks presented lo our atten
tion ; yet in the language of Prof. IJamilton,
formerly of our county, “the great want is
thorough, energetic, live teachers—then it
matters less what authors you use. There is
a choice in buuks, but still more, almost in
finitely more depend upon Ihe teacher, Ilian
hooks.” He adds. “It is a difficult mailer
lo change books,” and yet after looking over
the catalogue sent him of those in most com
mon use in our schools, he thinks some chan
ges migltl profitably he made. He adds fur
ther, what has always and still is a great
question with us, “If it is desirable that the
schools of the county should all use the same
hook, 1 should hesitate long m selecting one
from among two or three first class text hooks
in each department of spelling, reading, arith
metic, geography, grammar, algebra, philos
ophy &c., which he proceeds to mention. As
many friends of education m tins countv
would like lo see his list 1 will give it. “Oi
spellers and readers, Sanders new senes, Den
man’s and Webb’s are good. Of arithmetics,
Greenlettfs Davie’s new, and Perkins rank
among the first. Clark’s and Weld’s are
among the best grammars. Lawrence or
Robinson in nlgebia, and Parkers revised
edition of philosophy ore prominent among
good books in their department.” We have
spoken quite extensively to directors on the
subject of a uniformity of text hooks, and are
happy to know that a healthful feeling is
awaking on this subject.
J. F. CALKINS, Co. Sup't.
One "James Flaherty” was brought up be
fore a mng si rale, in New Orleans, for mar
rving six wives. The magistrate asked him
“how could he be so hardened a villain I’’
“Please your worship,” say James, I was
trying to get a good one.”
iilisceUancoufl.
FACTS FORFARMERS.
Fortjr-tWo pounds of nitrate of soda, has,
on a quarter of an acre of ground, increased
the product of wheat 165 pounds. Ami-book
farmers can’t furstay.
A working ox.requires, of hay, 2 per cent
of his own weight. Thus if he weighs 2000
lbs., he requires 40 lbs. of hay a day. A cow
that gives milk, requires 3 per cent of her
own weight. If she weigh 1000 lbs., she re
quires 80 pounds of hay.
Potash (i he ley of ashes boiled down to a
salt) mixed with grease, forms soft soap. For
want of soda, soap makers use common salt,
which is the muriate of soda, composed of
soda and chlorine in about equal parts.
Alkalies—potash, soda and ammonia are
called fixed alkalies. Potash and soda are
called fixed alkalies, as they will not escape
in gas. Ammonia is called volatile, os it al
ways exists in vapor, unless detained by somo
substance, as plaster or charcoal, for which
it-has an affinity.
Sow good Seed. — u Whatsoever a man
sowcth, that he shall also reap, says the scrip
tures. If you wish cockle, chess, weeds and
poor wheat, then sow such, and you have the
promise of God, that you will reap such. Go
it, you poor anti-book farmers ! Verily, you
will have your reward.
INTO. 6.
Scbsoiliso. —The roots of wheat have
been traced four feet; farmers usually plow
4 inches. Well let the other 3 feel 8 inches
take care of itself. A man must he in small
business to be fussing over a place for wheat
roots to run. The fact is they have no right
to run so far.
Manure. —lf the lend is too sandy, lha
best manure is clay and leached ashes. !t
will puddle it, and render it tenacious of water.
If it is heavy clay, it requires sand to render
it porous. If it ja a muck, it requires lime
to neutralize the acid, and destroy the anti
septic or resinous quality of the soil.
Want of Lime. —This may be seen in
heavy crops of straw, and light crops of
grain. In root crops, it is seen m tops, and
the roots all branches—or, as they are some
times called, all fingers and toes. It should
never be pul on at ihe same time with ma
nure, as it liberates the ammonia, and allows
it to escape.
Friendship ! What magic ihere is in Hint
one word. It is the comloil of hie, a balm
fur every til, and neU to the influence 01 me
Hihle and Religion, the most potent solace of
life. If in ihis wurld of doums and shadows
we are permuted to laste 01 the joys ana
brigluness oi ihe world above, it is in ihe en
joyment of friendship. How shall ihe true
beauties oi friendship be described ? It is
impossible, lor. any one, nowever talented, to
portray us heavenly language. Imagination
itself trembles to till its proper duty, forced
to acknowledge us inadequate powers. The
poor mortal, borne down by poverty and dis
tress, butfel'ng with the cares and turmoils
of ife, the coid smile of a still more siern
and unfeeling world, turns from the scenes
of his sorrow and woe, lurns to his only com
forter, soother, and alleviator of his sorrows,
and lives anew in the strides, the hopes, and
the funlieams of friendship, dining side by
side with some true and cherished friend, un
der Ihe star spangled canopy of a cloudless
skv, he tells of his wrongs, and of his heart
broken bv the sordid selfishness of an uniust
soeielv —of hopes once bright, whose golden
linted shapes soared upward on ihe wings of
ihnught and love, but now ams ! crushed like
a beauteous rose unuer die fool of some
ihoughiless worldling. He tells of a mother
who once taught him 10 read the Bible—the
teachings of the Lord —(o lisp forth the words
of praise—to love his neighbor as himself,
and to live so ns to die wuh ihe assurance of
joy eiernal—but ah ! ihe misery of the thought
—she 100 passed away, and he stood a lone!
One bv one the angels of life had been Irans
planted to the heaven of unmorlal rest. Gold
with all its illusions ; honor with all iis grat
ifying ihoughls ; power with all its magnifi
cent pagemrv and tapestry of brilliancy, otfer
no balm for Ihe bursting spirit. But when
wealth, honor, distinction fail—when all ihat
is worldly brings no relief, ihere is a messen
ger from God, an angel of mercy, whose me
lodious strains of peace whisper words of life,
happiness, “Friendship !”
RELIGIOUS COURTSHIP
A voung gentleman happened lo sit at
church in a pew adjoining one in which sal a
young lady, for whom he had conceived a
sudden and violent passion, and was desirous
of entering into a courtship on iho spot; but
the place not soiling a formal declaralion, iho
exigency of the case suggested the following
plan : He politely handed t he fair lad-y iho
Bible open, wnh a pin stuck in ) lie following
text —2d epistle of John, 3th—-'And now 1
beseech thee fair lady, not as though I wrolo
a new commandment unto ihee, but that
which we had from the beginning, that wo
love one another.” She returned it, pointing
to Rich, ii, lOih—-‘Then she fell on her face
and bowed herself lo the ground and said unto
him, why have I found grace in thy eyes,
that diou should*! lake knowledge of me.
seeing lam a stranger?” He returned the
book pointing lo the 11th verse of the epistle
of John—‘‘[laving many things lo write unto
you, [ would not write with paper and ink
but [ trust lo come and speak face lo face.”
From the above interview, a marriage took
place the ensuing week.— livff. Republic.
Anecdote of Uuant. — Brant, the famous
Indian chief, was as notable for his wu us
his braverv, and alien made as good a retort
as any attributed to the keenest of his white
brethren. One day a braggart captain was
boasting "hat he would have done if he ha t
met the warrior in a certain emergency. “I’ll
tell \ou,” said Brant, “what you would have
done, you would have followed the example
of another boaster who, on metting me face to
face, look to his heels, and never stopped till
he arrived in Albany, which he chanced to
enter during a great conflagration. Hearing
the Dutchmen cry “Brnunt! Braunl!”—(lire!
fire!) ho only ran the harder, exclaimina,
“There, that cussed old Indian has got hern
be'bre me!”
“Mautha, have you hung up the clothes !”
“No, madam, 1 placed them in a slate of
suspension—hung is vulgar.
FRIENDSHIP