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Hydropathic Physician and Surgeon,
ELKLAND, TIOGA COUNTY, PA.
[June 1,4.1855.]
w. w. '
HAS established himseli* In tlie practice of Med
icine and Surgery in the Township of Liberty
Pa., where bo will promptly attend all calls in his
Liberty, Feb. 1.1851,.
JOHN ». BACHE,
A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
-t*- LAW Office, north side Public Square
Wclluboj’ougk, Ft.
Rclbra tonfessrs. Phelps,Podge & Co.,N. Y
ilj Hon.V. Parsons,Philadelphia. July 13.
SPONGER & TROWS,QK, .
Al|p,riicys Sc Goumelors at Law,
CORNIiVO,
Stcnl>cn County, BTew York.
Gko. T. Spencer. C. H. Thomson.
16,1855-ly.
CLOTH DS£$M!N(i
AND
WOOL CARDING
J~jONE ja short notice and reasonable terms at
THE STEAW FOUNDRY
WELLSBORO' , PA..
b. [sept. 13.551 L. C. PENDLETON,
s. f. >msos,
O" Removed to James Lowrey’s Office
lAS. LOWREY& S. F. WILSON,
AfTOtINKYS & COUNSELLORS AT
LAW, will attend the Courts of Tioga, Potter
and McKean counlicK.
Wellaborough, Feb. 1,1853
11. o. GOLF
DAUBER &, HAIR DRESSER,
Wellsboro’ Pa.
Shop in M. A. 0. Bullard’s Grocery. Every.
thing 1 in liis line of business will be done as well
and as promptly os it can be done in the more
fashionable CUy saloons. Preparations for removing
dandruff, and beaolyfiing the hair far gale cheap.
Hair and whiskers dyed anv color. Cali and sec.
Wellsboro’, Oct 18, 1855. (if
Wellsboro’ Academy.
rpilE WINTER TERM of this Institution will
commence December, ith. Special attention will
bi given to the art of teaching. The Assistants are
experienced and approved teachers. Board, Room,
Washing &x. at $l5O to $2 00 per week. There
ire a few rooms in town for those v\ ho wish to board
themselves Tuition at previous rates and no dc.
duction made for absence unless U exceeds a half
term. By order of the Trustee
2C. L. REYNOLDS, Principal .
WeJhboro’ Nor. S. ISZZ
Turning & Chnlrmaliing,
X STICKLEY, Turner, and Chairmakcr, would
t) • inform the public (hot he has recently fitted up
his ahop in good style, and is now prepared lo manu
(ictnrc all kinds oI'CANE & COMMON (’HAIRS,
of the best material and finnh, Also Turning done
in superior slvle, on reasonable terms
SMOP. south end Main sired, opposite 11. W
Darll’s Wagon Shop
QAMUEL HER2OG, having rented part of J.
O Slickley’s shop is prepared lo manufacture all
kinds of CABINET WORK from the best material
and in superior style. lie lias on hand several su
perior Mahognny Bureaus for sale cheap
Wcllsboraugh, April H, I&S V
Tailoring lor the People!
THE undersigned would respectfully announce
lo the Citizens of Wcllshoro’ and vicinity, that
ha has opened a shop over Roberts’ Stove Sl Tin
Store where he will be happy lo attend to the wants
of the people in his line of business
from Ins knowledge of the business he flatters
himself with the belief that those wishing GOOD
FITTING CLOTHING will do well to give him a
call. All work entrusted to him will be done with
neatness, and a
GOUL
FIT
WARRANTED.
CUTTING done to order on short notice.
R. R. RUNDEL,
Wellsboro’ Sept. 10th 185-.
NE XV GOODS
rrni. subscriber would respectfully inform
Mi' customers and friends that lie still con
tmucs the mercantile business, at tho old place, at
the wed known store ofL. I. Nichols, where he will
ot happy to wail on those that will favor him with
t call, and would invite (he attention of the public
generally lo his large and commodious stock of
DRY GOODS,
Groceries, Ready-llndc Cloth
ing and Hardware,
CROCKED, WOODENWaRE, STONE
VVA.RC, ROOTS & SHOES, JIATS
AND CAPS, &c.,
»n tael everything elj-c kept in a counity store, art!
c\cb 100 numerous lo mention, and will sell cheaper
than can be bought this side of New York city.
All kinds of produce taken in exchange for goods
at the highest market price. J. R. BOWEN.
W.eUsborough, June 29,1854.
DOCTOR YOURSELF!
The Pocket JEscnlapins ;
OR EVERY ONE HIS OWN PHYSICIAN
THE fitVieib RrJhinr
with Ono Hundred El
g ravings, showing Disem
end Malformations of thef
man System in every slu
and form. To which is &dc
a Treaties on the Diseases
Females being of (he htgl
importance to married peoj
or those contemplating mi
riage.
By Wn. Yodno, M. D.
Lei no father be ashamed to present n copy of the
jEfcunpiua to hie child. It may save him from on
esrly grove. Let no young- man or woman enter
into the secret obligations of married lilh without
wading the Pocarr jEscolapius. Let no one suf
fering from a hacking Cough, Pain in the side, wit
less nights, nervous feelings, and the whole troin of
Dyspeptic sensations, and given up by their phys
ician, bo another moment without consulting the
'EscytAPios. Have the married, or those about to
be married, any impediment, read this truly nsefol
book, as it has been the means of saving thousands
“"fortunate creatures from the very jaws of death.
CTAnv person sending Twenty-Fite Cents enclo
•ed m a letter, will receive ono copy of this work by
Bail or Eve Copies will bo sent for one Dollar.
Address, (post paid.) DR. WM. YODNG.
• A«. 152 Spruce St., Philadelphia.
Junt 7,1853-1 v. r
VOL, %.
SION OF THE “810 SADDLE.”
r IIHE subscriber having re
-*■ moved his Harness Shop to
Ben. Beetle old Stand, two doors
abOve tlio Presbyterian Church iii
ready to make to order all articles pertaining to the
business, in the best .manner and ,Of the very best
material,
it) FARMERS AND OTHERS he would
say that ho sells articles-in their line of business
CHEAPER FOR CASH than any'oilier estab
lishment in lire county. A goad assortment of
Whips, Harness, &c., &c.,
constantly on band.
CARBIAGE TRINMING done ip (be best style,
and as cheap as it can bo dono elsewhere.
REPAIRING done on short notice and in
the best possible manner.
BIT All orders promptly filled and warranted to
give entire satisfaction.
ICT Call and examine his stock before purchasing
elsewhere. u Live and Let Live,** is his motto.
O’ Most kinds of Country Produce taken in ex.
change for work at the best market price.
A fair share of public patronage respectfully so.
licilcd. E. E. KIMBALL.
Wellsboro,’Feb. 1,1855.
rpo all persons afflicted with Sexual diseases,
X such os SPERMATORRHOEA, SEMINAL
WEAKNESS. IMPOTENCE, GONOURHCEA,
GLEET. SYPHILIS, the Vice of ONANISM, or
SELF.ABDSE, dtc., «fcc.,
The HOWARD ASSOCIATION of Philadelphia
in view ol the awful destruction of human life and
health, caused by Sexual diseases, and the decepl ions
which arc practiced upon the unfortunate victims of
such diseases by Quacks, have directed their Con
suiting Surgeon, asa CHARITABLE ACT worthy
of their name, to give MEDICAL ADVICE GRA
TIS, to oil persons thus afllioied, (Mule or Female,)
who apply by letter, with a description of their con
dilion, (age, occupation, habits of life, Ac.,) and in
case of extreme poverty and suffering, to FURNISH
MEDICINES FREE OF CHARGE.
The Howard Association is a benevolent Tnslito.
lion, established by special endowment, for the re
lief of the sick and distressed, afflicted with “Viru
lent and Epidemic Diseases,” and its funds can bo
used for no other purpose. It has now a surplus of
means, which the Directors have voted to advertise
the above notice. It is needless to add that the As-
Rocialion commands the highest Medical skill of the
age, and will furnish the most approved modern
treatment.—'Valuable advice also given to sick and
nervous females, afflicted with Womb Complaint
Lcucorrhcea, dec.
Address, (post-paid,) Dr. GEO. R. CALHOUN
Consulting Surgeon, Howard Associaliop, No. 2
South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
By order of the Directors,
NEW SPRING GOODS.
THE subscribers arc now opening their
stock of GOODS for the Spring Trade, Com
prising a full and complete assortment, and of the
'usual variety, which will, as heretofore, be sold a ta
very small profit fur READY PAY. Being deter
mined not to be undersold by our neighbors, our
goods arc marked at the lowest figure; and we invite
v comparison ofour goods andjirices with any other
n the market. Among the assortment of
DRY GOODS
willbc found a great variety of Ladics’DrcesGoods
oensisling in part of
Bereges , Berege Delanes t nll-icool Delanes,
Lawns , plain and printed; Ginghams,
English , Scotch and American ;
Poplins , Prints of all shades
and colors , a good stock of
Also, for men’s wear may be found Broad Cloths
Cassimercs, Tweeds, Kentucky Jeans, silk, satin
and summer Vestings.
Also, Sheetings, Shirtings, bleached and brown,
Tickings, Summer Goods for boys’ wear, Colton
Yarn,Carpet Warp,Colton Batten, with a variety
of other ritclea too numerous to mention.
A full slock will be kept on hand. Those in
want of Sugars, Teas, Coffee, Molasses, Stewart’s
best Syrup, Spices, Pepper, Ginger,Sulcratus, Flour,
Fish, Soil Tobacco, or any other article in tills line,
will do welllo call on us before purchasing else
where.
HARDWARE,
ts large and complete an assortment as can be found
in the county. Among which is Cutlery ofall kinds,
Carpenters Tools, Chains, Hoes, Shovels, Forks,
Butts and Screws, Door Hangings, Bills, &c., &c.
CROCKERY, GLASS & STONE-WAR,
f:
! !■:■,
cob 6, sturrock & co.,
40 i -
HARNESS MAKING.
HOWARD ASSOCIATION
PHILADELPHIA.
Important Announcement.
EZRA D. HARTWELL President.
GEO. FAIRCHILD, Secretary,
October 25,1855. —ly.
SILKS
Groceries and Provisions.
Boots and Shoos, Hats and Caps,
Steel , Iron , Nails , Paints and Oils, Glass
and Pvtfy, Ready-Made Clothings fyc,
Thankful for the liberal patronage of the past
season, tho undersigned feel a pleasure in inviting
tho public loan examination of our Spring slock
believing that good Goods and low prices wil in
sure a speedy sale for ready pay.
B. B. SMITH &SON.
WcUsborongh, May 25,1855-
A Man and His Bottle Duo out of the
Snow. —On Sunday afternoon some men
were engaged in clearing the snow from the
sidewalk near Hoe’s foundry, and after dig
ging away a bank of several feel in depth,
much to iheir surprise, they came across a
man sleeping quietly beside his bottle. He
had taken logings on Iho walk Iho evening
previous and got snowed under, His breath
had made a hole in the snow and thus he was
furnished wilh fresh air. A touch of Ibe
snow shovel brought him to consciousness
and he got up and walked off, loking his
faithful companion wilh him, — N, Y. Trib
une,
The only sure principles we can lay
down for our conduct, says Blair, in one of
his admirable sermons, must be founded on
the Christian religion taken in its whole
compass; not confined to the exercise of
devotion, nor to the mere formality of so
cial behavior, but extending to the whole
direction of our conduct towards God and
man. The foundation is to be laid in faith
in Christ as the Saviour uf the world.
A spindle-shanked dandy is palpably n
vagrant, inasmuch as “he has no visible
means of support,”
Never lose an opportunity of seeing any
thing beautiful. Beauty, in God’s hand
writing, is a way-side .sacrament.
.1 ,-, i!“.*‘.Wfi XHoVGBJC IS BEGINNING OF'Jwisb'oMv’ " 1 '
WKUSBORUWiH, TIOGA CUrSTY. PA., TiIVRSI)AV ! SSnje, TERRI
. „non> iff a beautiful thing -from t tho pea of Dr,, CntutKtf,
written on. the death* of.a young son. Many are "the "heart*
that will umveritff pathos with a J»b. - ,i;-, • ,
TUB LITTLE-BOY THAT DIED.
I am alono in my chamber now. '
• Amhthejuiilriighli hour *lB noir;
Ami the (ftgot’a crack* and tho clock’* dulj tick.
Are tU4 otdy strands Ihcatv /• •• »• . j ’
Am! orer my soul in its solitude,
Sweet feelings bf riulncte" glide,
For toy heart aijdtty eyesaroftU whenl.thiak, ,
Of the little boy that died.
[Pram the new volumes or Macanly’s History of England.]
The last days of Jeffrys, one of the atro
cious Judges. >"
Among the many offenders whose names
were mentioned in the course of these inqui
ries, was one »ho stood alone and unap
preached in guilt and infamy, and whom
Whigs and Tories were equally willing to
leave to the extreme rigor of the law. On
that terrible day which was succeeded by the
Irish Night, the roar of a great city, disap.
pointed of Us revenge, had followed Jeffreys
to the drawbridge of thd tower. His impris
onment was not strictly legal; but he at first
accepted with thanks and blessings the pro
tection which those dark walls, made famous
by so many crimes and sorrows, afforded him
against the fury of the multitude. Soon, how.
ever, he became sensible that his life was still
in imminent peril.
For a lime he flattered himself with the
hope that a writ of habeas corpus would lib
erate him from his confinement, and that he
should be able to steal away to some foreign
country, and to hide himself with part of his
ill-gotten wealth from the detestation of man
kind ; but, till the government was settled,
there was no couit competent to grant a writ
of habeas corpus; and, as soon as the gov
ernmenl had been settled, the habeas corpus
act was suspended. Whether the legal guilt
of murder could be brought home to Jeffreys
may be doubled. But he was mornlly guilty
of so many murders, that if there had been
no other way of reaching his life, a retrospect
ive act of attainder would have been clamor
ously demanded by the whole nation. A dis
position to triumph over the fallen has never
been one of the besetting sins of Englishmen j
but the hatred of which Jeffreys was tho ob
ject was without a parallel in our history, and
partook bnt 100 largely of the savageness o(
his own nature.
The people, where he was concerned, were
as cruel as himself, and exulted in his misery
as he had been accusiomed to exult in the
misery of convicts' listening to the sentence
of death, and of familes clad in mourmng.
The rabble congregated before his desecrated
mansion in Duke street, and read on the door,
with shouts of laughter, the bills which an
nounced the sale of his property. Even deli
cate women, who had tears for highwaymen
and housebreakers, breathed nothing but ven
geance against him, The lampoons on him
which were hawked about the town were dis
tinguished by an atrocity rare even in those
days. Hanging would be too mild a death
for him ; a grave under the gibbet 100 respect
able a resting place; he ought to be whipped
to death at the cart’s tail ; he ought to be tor
tuiel like an Indian ; he ought to be devoured
ahvo.
Tho street poets portioned out all his joints
with canibal ferocity, and computed how
man 3 pounds of steaks might be cut from his
well-fattened carcass. Nay, the rage of his
enemies was such that, in language seldom
heard in England, they proclaimed their wish
that he might go to the place of wailing and
gnashing of teeth, to the worm that never
dies, to the fire that is never quenched. They
exhorted him to hang himself in his garters,
and to cut his throat with a razor. They
pul up horrible prayers that he might not be
able to repent, that he might die tho same
hard-hearted, wicked Jeffreys that he had
lived. His spirit, ns mean in adversity, as
insolent and inhuman in prosperity,sank down
under tho load of public abhorrence. His
constitution, originally bad, and much im
paired by intempernuce, was completely bro
ken by distress and anxiety. ‘ >m
Ho was tormented by a cruel internal dis
ease, which tho most skillful surgeons'of that
age were seldom able to relieve. One solace
was left to him —brandy. Even when he had
causes to try, and councils to attend, he had
seldom gone to bed sober. Now, when he
had nothing to occupy bis mind, save terrible
recollections and terrible forebodings, he aban
dorted himself without reserve to his favorite
vice. Many believed him to be bent on short
ening his life by excess. He.thought it bet
ter, they said, to go off in a drunken fit than
Ip be hacked by Ketch, or lorn limb from limb
by the populace. . ]
Once he was roused from a stale of abject
despondency by an agreeaplesensalion, speed
ily followed by a mortifying disappointment.
A parcel bad been left for him at (he Tower.
It appeared to be a barrel of Colchester oys
ters, his favorite dainties. He was greatly
moved; for there are moments when those
who least deserve affection are' pleased to
think that they inspire it. “Thank God,”
he exclaimed, “I have still some friends left ?”
He opened the barrel j gnd from.among jt
I wont ono night to my father’s house—
Went homo to the'tlehr'dneaall^*
And softly I opened the garden gate.
And softly tho door of the hal^
My tnothce came oat to moot her son—
She kissed me and then she sighed,
And horhead fell on her nccX and she wept,
for tho Uttlo hoy that died.
1 shall mbs him when tho flowers come,
In the garden where he played;
I shall •muk h(rh more hy the fireside,
When }he flowers hdvb all decayed. •
I shall set* his toys and empty chair,
And tho horse ho asod to ride;
Ami thpy will speak uilh a silent speech.
Of the little boy that died. ' ,
Wo shall go homo to our Father's houso,
To our Father’s houso in tho skies,
Where tho hope of our souls shall luvro no blight,
Our lore no broken tics.
We shall roaiQ on tho hanks of the river of peace
And bathe in it* blissful title,
And one of the joys of ou? Ilcavcu shall bo
Tho Uttlo boy*that died.
BIOGRAPHY.
Ji '*M * *|ii t y n’,7 w -$
intis V*? 'TfVn.?
Heap of shoils out tumbled a stout hollar/-
• 'll does not appear that dne tjf the flatterers
or buflbons whom' he had enriched out of the
plundefof. hia victims,-c'afnh to. comfort him
in the' day- of trouble." But he was nOi ldA
in ultett' solitude. John Tutchin, 1 whom he
had sentenced Vo he llbgged jCvcry ' fortnight
for seven years; made bfs way imd did Tenter,
and presented himself' before the Pullen op
pressor.; Poor Jeffry'S, humbled to the dust,
behaved With abject civility,' and called for
wine. “1 a’mglad, hlf”’ he'sald, "to see you."
"And I am glad,” answered tho resentful
Whig, "to see your I6ri)s|iip in this place.!’
“[ served my muster/’ said JeffreYs *. "I .was
bound in concjence to do so.’ v "Where was
your conscience,*’ said Tutchin, “when you
passed that sentence on i mo at Dorchester?”
“It was|set dow# in my instructions,” an
swered Jeffreys, lawningly, “that 1 was to
show no! mercy to men like you, men of parts
and'courage, When 1 went back to court I
was reprimanded for my lenity.”
Evin Tutchiu, acrimonious as .was his na
ture, and us great as were his wrongs, seems
to have been u liule mollified by the pitiable
spectacle which he had at first contemplated
with vindictive pleasure. He always denied
the truth of the report that he was the person
who sent the Colchester barrel to tho Tower.
A more Benevolent man, John Sharp, the
excellent Dean of Norwich, forced himself to
visit the prisoner. It was a painful task, but
Sharp had been treated by Jeffreys, in old
limes, as kindly as it was irt the nature of
Jeffreys to treat anybody, and had once or
twice been able, by patiently wailing until the
storm of curses and invectives had spent it
self, and by dexterously seizing the moment
of goot) humor, to obtain for unhappy fami
lies some mitigation of their sufferings, The
prisoner was surprised and pleased. “VV.hat!"
he said, “dare you own me now I”
It was in vain, however, thiff tho amiable
divine tried to give a salutary pain to that
seared conscience. Jeffreys, instead of ack
nowledging his guilt, exclaimed vehemently
against tho injustice of mankind. “People
call me a murderer for doing w hat at the time
was applauded by some who are now high in
public favor. They call me a drunkard be
cause I take punch to relievo me in my ago
nf.’’ lie would not admit that; as President
of the High Commission, he had done any
thing that deserved reproach. His colleagues,
he satd, were the real criminals; and now
they threw all the blame on him. lie spoke
with peculiar asperity of Sprat, who had un
doubtedly been the most humane and mode
rale member of the board.
It soon became clear that the wicked judge
was fast sinking under the weichrof bodily
and mental suffering. Doctor John Scott,
prebendary ofSt. Paul’s,n clergyman of great
sanctity, and au'bor of the Christian L'fe, a
treatise once widely renowned, was summon
ed, probably on the recommendation of his
intimate fiend Sharp, io' the bedside of the
tiding man. /( wns ; n vain, however, that
Scott spoke, ns Sharp had already spoken, of
the hideous butcheries of Dorchester and
Taunton. To the' last, Jeffreys continued to
repeat that those who thonghl him cruel did
not know what his orders were; that he de
served praise instead of blame, and that his
clemency had drawn on him theex'remo dis
pleasure of his master.
Disease, assisted by strong drink and mis
ery, did its work fast. The patient’s stom
ach rejected all nourishment. He dwindled
in a few weeks from a portly and even cor
pulent man to a skeleton. On tho 18th of
April he died, in (he forty-first year of his
age. lie had been Chief Jusiiej of the
King's Bench at thirty-five, and Lord Chan
cellor at Ibirly-seven. ' In the whole history
of the EnglLh bar there is no other instance
of so rapid an elevation, or of so terrible a
fall. Tho emaciated corpse was laid, with
nil privacy, next to the corpse of Monmouth
in the chape) of the Tower.
A IloostKii went into a fancy store in Gin
cinatli in quest of a situation. The proprie
tor, or head clerk was silling in his counting
room, contemplating human life through the
softening influence ol cigar smoke. Our Iloo
tier friend addressed him modestly as follows :
“Do you want to hire a hand about your
establishment, sit 1”
The clerk looked up indifferently, but see
ing his customer, concluded to have some fun
out of him ; so he answered very briskly, at
the same lime pulling out a large and costly
handkerchief and blowing his nose on it
“Yes sir, what sort of a situation are you in
want of?’’
“Well,” says Ihe Honsier, “I'm not par
ticular. lam out of work, and almost any
thing will do me for a while."
“Yes, well, I can give you n situation if it
will suit you.”
“What is it ? What is’io be done, and what
will you give? inquired ihe other.
“Well.” wns the answer, “1 want hands to
chaw rags into paper, and if you are willing
to set in you may begin at once."
“Good as wheat,’’ exclaimed tho Hoosier,
so hand over your rags.”
“Here,” was the rejoinder, “take ibis hand
kerchief and commence with that.”
Hoosier snw tho “sell” and quietly putting
the handkerchief into his pocket, remarked
as he turned to go out, “When I get it chawed,
stranger, I will felch it back-.”
A colored clergyman in Philadelphia
recently gave notice as follows from the pul
pit: “There will be a four days’, meeting
every evehing this week-, except Wednesday
afternoon.”
There is no grerfter obstacle in the way
of success in 'life than trusting to something
to turtr lip, instead of going to work and turn
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AM 7>-1856.
The ancient town of Rennis, ip trance, is
n^placo'famous jfpr, jaw. To visit Rennis
without getting advice of some son seems
absurd to tlie country people round about.—
It happened ond day that a farmer named
Bernard, having come to town on business,
bethought himself that as ho had a few hours
to spare it would be well to get the advicp of
a good lawyer. He had often heard of. a
lawyer named Foy, who was in such high
repute.(hat people believed a law suit gained
when ho undertook thei* case. The country-'
man wentmjhis office, and after waiting some
time was ndmiued to_ an interview. He tpid
the:lawyer that Waving! heard so much about
him, and happening to be in town he thought
hu would call and-consult him,
“You wish to bring an action, perhaps,”
replied the lawyer.
“Oh, no!’’replied the farmer, "lam at
piace with all the world.”
Then it is a settlement of properly that
you wan', is it!
“Excuse me, Mr. Lawyer, my family and
I have never made a division, seeing that we
drav' fropuhe same well, as tho saying is.”
“ t is then to "get- me to negotiate n pur
chat e or a sale, that you have come?"
“t)h, n‘6,l am neither rich enough to pur
chase, nor poor enough to sell.”
“Will you tell me, then, what you do want
of no ?” knid the lawyer in a tone of surprise.
- “Why, I htye already told you, Mr. Law.
yer,” replied Barnaul; “I want your advice
I m*an to pay for it of course.” '
The lawyer smiled and Inking pen and pa
per asked the countryman his name.
“Peter Bernard," replied the countryman,
hapay that the lawyer at length understood
wht t he wanted.
“Your age?’’
“Thirty years, or very near it.”
1 Your, vocation 7”
“Whal’d llial?”
“iWpnt do you do for a living."
“lOh ! that is what it means, is it! Why
I am a farmer.”
The lawyer wrote two lines, folded the pa
per) and banded it to his client.
“Is it finished already ?’’ said the farmer. —
“Well and good ! What is to be the price
of that advice,' Hr. Lawyer ?’’
“Three francs.”
Bernard paid the money and look his leave,
delighted that he had madd use of ibis oppor
tunity to gel a piece of advice from the great
lawyer. When the farmer reached home it
was four o’clock ; the journey fatigued him,
and ho determined to rest tno remainder of
llieMay. Meanwhile the liny hid been cut
two days, and was completely made. One
of his men came and asked if they should
draw it in.
R What, this evening ? ’ exclaimed the farm
er’s wife, who had come to meet her husband.
“It would be a pity to begin the work so late,
since it can be done as well to morrow."
Bernard was uncertain which way to dc- ,
cide. Suddenly ho reeollccicd that he had
the lawyer’s advice in his pocket. 1
“Wait a minute,” he exclaimed, “I have an |
advice and a- famous one, loo —that I paid
three francs lor; it ought to tell us what to j
do. Here wife, see what it says, you can ,
road this written hand belter than I.” The,
woman took the paper and read this line ;
"Never put off until to-morrow what you 1
can do to day." !
“That’s it,” exclaimed Bernard, as if a ;
ray of light had cleared up all "his doubts. |
“Come, boys, come girls ! all to 1 he hay field, ,
It si),all not bo said that I bought a three franc
opinion and made no use of if. I will follow j
the lawyer’s advice.”
Bernard himself set iho example by leading
the way to the work, and not returning till
the hay was brought in. The event seemed
to prove the wisdom of his conduct, and tfie
foresight of the lawyer. Tho weather changed
during ihe night—an unexpected storm burst'
over the valley ; the next morning it wns
found that iho river had overflown its banks
and carried away nil the liny that had been
left in the fields. The crops of Iho neighbor
ing farmers were completely destroyed Ber
nnrd alone had not sutfered. The success of
his first experiment gave him such faith in
the advice of the lawyer, ihat from that lime
forth he adopted it as his rule of conduct, and
uecameconsequently nneof Ihe most prosper
ous farmers in the country. 1 hope that you,
my render, will lake a hint from his success,
and “never pul off till to-morrow what you
can do to-dav.”
“You Know,” Says He.” —While upon
mailers of speech, there is a class who need
some attention - Many persons, w hile in con
versation, constantly indulge in such expres.
sinns as “you know” rind “says lie.” —Let
such consider the following rending from Hal
lee.k’s beaiuiful poem of “Marco Bnzzaris,”
and judge of tho fitness of verbal ex
tras':
Enameled Cards,' —An exchange says:—
“A lilllo child of our acquaintance «ng ren
dered seriously ill last week by chewing a
handsome enameled bull ticket, which its
mother had given it to play with, —For the
benefit of those who do not know, we would
slate that ihc enameled on these cards con
tains arsenic.
“Cslawahe will never yield an inch to
New Jersey,” said a patriotic [Delawarean,
when the Pea Patch case was bring tried.
“If she did,’’ replied a Jersey Blue, ‘‘she
would lose one-half her.territory!”,-
y£il ■ I 'll- Ml! r.C 1 \l
i W ■ ■' ■ ■
A Place of Legal Advice.
“At midnight, in UL» pnardrd lent—yon know,
The Turk lard reaming: of the hour—you know.
When Greece her kuce in suppliance beut*
Should tremble at his power—yen know.
“Strike, till Hits last armed foo expires—Bars bo,
Strike for your altar* mid your )irr«—says ho r
Strike for tho of your slrw.
God and your n.iliie luml—sajs be 1”
[From Parson’s “Inside view of SlaTery.”]
A White mother for Sale.
• ■ ’ ? Mt; G;j H ‘dry gbbds merchafil' of BAslon
was Mfiitjvrpe 1 at 1 1 he .! iUlevoil y of M.j.wheta
he went to partner in trade,. He .had
"Qi hsea in a slave S(ate before, and’was bi(-
tdtly opposed to r emandipaiiofr. Twomer
chants/—slave holders—had been' in ouf com
pany oh the way to that ciiy, Whenever
’slaverjr woj talked bf/MK C. uniformly con’-
'barred with them. : The, next" mo/riing after
we arrived, wo saw a handbilHn the bar-room,
In which ’ forty-four female slaves wora'ad.
vertised" for sale,' ' Stepping oat into the street
we Toupd those "girls siititrg on ihe'sidewalk.
At the "further end of /ho row was a very
beautiful 'girl,'apparently white, and neatly
dressed. The moment Mr. C. discovered her,
he exclaimed, “Whntdo’you think that white
■girl is sitiing there with those negroesTori’* 1
•*I presume she is a slave, sir," said I. '■
“That can’t be!" replied Mr. C., “just look
at her! Why, I never saw a prettier girl in
mv life.”
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NO: 29.
Ndw Mr, C. bad hoard that likely quad
roons are held as staves and sold in the mar
ket ; hut he had never believed that a ltdij
so entirely American,’so elegant in form and
feature, so intellectual in appearance, with
pure blue eyes, and the perfect red and white
Cbucassiun complexion, the same de
graded condition as tho African girl. And
his fine sensibil’uies were greatly shocked at
the idea that a white girl, so beautiful, was
doomed to such disgrace. His heart was
steeled against sympathy for the blacks, but
ii was unshielded on the side towards thejwhito
race, to which his mother wife and daughter
belonged. Hence he was unprepared jto be
lieve it, when i said to him, “she is a slave
sir !•’
There was lha precise number, including
her, advertised in the.till). Still incredulous,
Mr. C. stepped' up' to the drover and asked,
“Is that while girl a slave, sir I ’
“That’s not a white girl ; she is a
sir," replied the drover.
Mr. C. bit his lip with suppressed indigna
tion, paused, and then ejaculated, “Is it pos
sible V
“Does she belong to you said he to the
drover,
““Yes, sir," replied the drovor. •
“What do you ask for her I" inquired Mr.
"I was offered eighteen hundred dollars for
her, last night. [ want two thousand for her,"
“What do you ask for that one !” said Mr.
C., pointing to a light quadroon silling next
to the while girl.
“I will take Ifteen hundred for her."
“Well, how much for the black ones hero
aMhisend of tho row ?"
“1 will lake eight hundred apiece," replied
the slave-dealer.
“Why, can that while girl—”
“That isn't a while girl; that’s a nigger,
sir, I tell vou,” interrupted the drover, con
lemptuonslv. At the same time he removed
a woolen cap from her head, which exposed
the light brown hair, and added, “you see her
hair is waved.”
Tins is regarded as evidence that African
blood is mingled with the white. Air. C. had
now become excited, and ho exclaimed,
“Well, then, can that while nigger do more
work than one of your black niggers , that
you ask so much for her I*’
‘■Oh, no,” replied the drover, and percoiv.
in;' ilint ;\fr. C. did not comprehend lltesu.
peiior value of female beauty to physical
nbililv in a slave, he added—“but you know
she is a high girl.’’
“By heavens !” vociferated Mr. C,, his too
bad on I, turiting. to me, with his clenched
hands raised towards llie'heavens, he added.
“I will never sav another word against the
Abolitionists so long as God lets me live 1”
Anecdote of Rev, Doctor Plummer.
TheJ’utsburg Herald lolls the following
anecdote of the Rev. Dr. Plummer, late of
this city ;
During a v imi to the Hoi Springs, on a cer
ium occn-mn, ho was invited bv the company
gaihercd ihero 10 preach for them on'the Sab
bath. He consented. The bail room of tie
hotel was prepared for religious worship, and
tho audience assembled. The speaker an
nounced his text, awl began his discourse ;
but was mortified to find that by some of the
younger and more frivolous of Ids hearers, of
both sexes, the whole performance was looked
upon as a good joke, and to be treated ac
cordingly. Somo wers.smiling, some vero
whispering, and an unseemly levity prevailed
throughout the congregation. For a few min
mes he endeavored to withstand it by a sim
ple presentation of the truth ; hut to no pur
pose. Slopping short in his discourse, he at
once arrested their attention by the question :
“My friends, do you know how these Hu
Springs are said to have been discovered ? I
will tell you. Many years since, an old
Dutchman and his son were passing along
down the vailev, where the road now runs
that you see out there,”—pointing to it through
the window—“.whenobserving the spring, they
slopped their team to water the horses. Tho
old ■. man look up the bucket, went to tho
dipped it in, when some of thu
wntcf-'ffaslied upon Ids hand and scalded him.
Instantly dropping the bucket, he started for
the wagon, running and calling to his son,
in the greaiest consternaiion ; “Trivo on;
hell ish not far from dish place /” At this
his audience burst out laughing—when im
mediately assuming a look of deepest solemn
ity, and dropping Ins voice to the low tones
that in him are like muttered thunders, ho
made the application ; “I tell you, my friends,,
hell is not fur from this plne.e." There were
no more smiles in that congregation that day;
Some who heard it said it seemed to them ns
if the terrors of the Day of Judgomcut had
come.
A Quaker lately popped the question to a
fair Quakeress ns follows: “Hum, yea a
verily. Penelope, the spirit urged) and moved)
me wonderfully to beseech thco to cleave unto
me, flesh, of my flesh and bone of my.bqne.”
“Hum, truly, Obadiah, thou hast wisely
said, and as much ns it is written that it is not
good fop man to bo alone, lo! and behold
I will aojoutn with thee.”
A dying West Indian planter said to a fa
vorite servant, who hud attended him during
his ilness
‘Ah, Son, f am going along, long
“Neber mind,'massy,' said the negro, con
solingly. 'll am all dtuway down'hillp'