t«V S'Jl.ti- k iff.Us«A»rekjthl- L«(i Thurathiy ■*ftiHWori, ir fe goiqtepul wnicJtM.hfed been p’urchas mgfjrom vjmous dealer* jnihfeiCiiy,t«ifeu| upon an expedition after b medium by 'Which tede'rry otfl bus pldp’sJl Hftvihj ftjitod liii ha beg«ntoinquuß,for ftajgnt age/11, which alter mom exertion* he found, and that to hia-gopt; A g»mtem«n (tO a Jltq* peai*nce);<&'rtw : op to tq a iul, send freight out which Hi ram Ledyard (for that was his iremejffeertonk rfed in thoafflrmatisr. ' “Bo • ranger, t‘atfd (thmk of sead«ng’Hby.«mMi n unfed Bennett } lei us go Oper and swhifri;’’ They did go; and havißg ! feAtfetad t|te ! feffiefe’i>F the liaaumed Mr.> BeoMtt, ' the stranger sdid ‘t.Mr, Bennel, you c*n send Out some freight for me; can’t yon t” -Bi tlaieddhai be'fchlifdi' He (ihe atranger) tben lendeifedß #idO bill upon the * New York Trust •Oimpanyi ,, - l i- ; Mr. Bennett Said that owing to the bank be m ? closed he could not change the bill that •f ethoon,- upon which the stranger mahififVJ ted some alerm,*ay ing, “ iatft it good !” " 0, yea,” said Bennett, 11 it is good enough, but I base not cash enough to change it for’ you.” Hiram Ledyard, ■ however, heihg of an obliging (urn of disposition, offered accom modation, which was at onoe respectfully ac cepted, and having pulled his pocket book out. began to count out (he change, but his hands bring cold, and he having exhibited extreme nervousness, Mr. Bennett, the assumed freight agent, asked Mr. Ledyard to sit down and warm his hands, and he would count the change. Hiram sat down, when Mr. Bennett, counted out the change to the “ other gentle man.” This business settled, Mr. B. inform ed Mr. Hiram that he waa going to close bis office, and that he would call in the morning and brings correct list of his goods, he would tell him the exact charge for freight. Hiram here parted with his new friends, and return ed to his hotel. ■ Here he presented his hun dred dollar bill to one oflhe clerks; who told him (hat it was not worth anything. Having received this information, Hiram sat down to make fort her investigations in his pocket book, whereupon he found that his very kind friend Bennett had not only acted as an accomplice in paining upon him a spurious bank bill, but had even counted out a hundred dollars more than the change, Hiram said that there were $2OO gone. ■ . / He immediately repaired to the office of Mr, Matsell | but neither Mr, Mafsell nor his* aids were able to find Mr. Bennett or the “ other man.” Friend Hiram .'is from Mount Pleasant, Wayne County, Pa., and will, doubtleas,. retain a vivid recollection of his visit to 11 York,” as he returns to his friends. When (old lasi Friday morning that be ought to read the newpapera, he said that he did sometimes read them, but he “ never tho't of such a thing.”— N. Y. Tribune. Abont {tea. Cass. Geo. W. Bungay, otibellion Independent is notv engaged in writing for his paper pen and ink portraits of Congressional characters. Prom his drawing of Gen. Cass, we clip the f dlowing: Gen. Cass is an accomplished classical and belles lottres scholar, having omitted no op portunity to improve his limited early educa tion, He has never in the slightest degre in dulged in the use of intoxicating liquors.— Hence he is a hale and vigorous old man, in the lull enjoyment of health, although far ad vanced in years. Perhaps there never was so much ambition associated with subservien cy, as the moral character of Gen. Csss ex hibits. Times without number has he betray ed the trust of his constituents, never sympa thizing with the people of the North, and ever oh his' marrow bones before the slave drivers of the South. The patient people at the West suffered long be foie they showed their Sena tor. They remonstrated —he looked down upon them with scorn ; they petitioned—he wiped hw feet upon (heir petitions; they made suggestions—and he sneered at their sugges tions. By and by they voted, and then he had to surrender. He retires from public life (unless Buchan an puts him into his Cabinet, or expatriates him to some foreign mission,} without the po litical distinction he might have won had he been (rue to his constituency and true to hu- He is now looked npon as the great-grand father ofold-fogy-ism, (the lymphatic repre sentative of political dough), whose knees turned on easy binges whenever the black image of American Slavery appeared before him. Tub Joys of M atbbnity I—Grace Green wood, (Mrs. Lippiocott,) in an address to mothers in the last number of the Little Pil grim, thud'writes : “ Since I last addressed you, another year has passed over us—a peaceful and fortnnate year to most of you, I trust, yet doubtless bringing to- the happiest hearts and homes something of change and-sorrow. To me it has bro’t the most profound and sweet: the most solemn and sacred happiness of woman hood—>for within this year I have been joined to “ the great and noble army of metier*.”— lam now one of you. Oh, is a lime when woman may feel that she; like Mary of old, is “ blessed among women,” it is when she folds in bar arena-her first-born child Peels the touch of its tender thrill on her heart-strings—feel upon, her cheek the first eofl breath of a life immortal sees family twinkling in the misty depth of sleepy lillls eyes, s lows that shall yet brighten the world for her. This-joy unspeakable, is Heaven’s abundant compensation for all that is sufihred by women.” Mamno bi MactHitEmr.—A New Hamp shire Yankee has recently applied for a pat oi t for a milking machine, arranged by at-’ laching fouj long flexible lubes to an air tight pail, upon the, ,pide, of which, is p small a|r pump. Tjte tubes are applied to the tests by means of India rubber, sbeaih of sacs. The smrking of ihenir.pumpprodupe* a. vacuum, *od the milk rung out'into ihopaij.) , fit reference to Ladies' dresseo,-<( is do longer summary to say : «The 'height” b«.“ the brearfthn f fashm." , w beft arJnbMtr priison.'tho words ihemwtfve* arebuLiho raufing of lha chaip that teljs the vlciip ji boujod. tr.v -rtl't ‘ ratg-r - a/rt--^*X THE 4<|llA|o||. wsupifiogii, viLJ = T>Bfil>if israißa. Psfc ft. itSfal MKropet indev»oipg,llU» taste n1..~ - Pvtticd^r'attention is directed Wbhr pbrfedpond enladiir. week, Anothei■ Instalment of ** Our Till- TSSsiSmsiL. * acriptiooa for 7k Agiiattr, (or Clymer end adja cent township* Hia,receipts-will.be regndadl as psyment*;.^... The.alptghlng is auper-exceUenlann. everybody ts apparently making the m'ostbf ft r ' Weare under obligation* fo A; (ft Boeirid, Eaq.i pf Whittaker of Elkland, I* P. Boy t Eaq.aud others; for Urge aodvslaable addiliOnato oar aabeoriptioa list. Their effort* aroduly appre ciated. ..At present progress we shall sqon nojnber 4000 cash.subscriber*on oar list.. Come pn, , . .Friepd.Barker,of Colon, will p!c*re swept for a bapdsopie Addition fo par eircaUtipnin.lW tpwnsb|p. •; i - ■ Tho Ropubllcan Meetiqgkt IhoCooit Hooae on Tuesday evening; was well .attended and enthnaiSk. tic. Mf.Wniiaton made one of the’best off hand speeches we ever heard from bint. Messrs. Donald. son and Seymour were elected delegates tn'lbe Ref publican Slate Convention. Toil proceedings next week. Wo have information that a mao. was found, flaxen to death abbot four miles east of Blossburg, on Mon. day of last week. , The coroner's jury returned a verdict of u died from causes unknownlb this jury." Rather a singular verdict, if, as we are informed, the deceased left Blosabnrg a few hours previouily he worse for tiqnor. Bsaizr Without Basto*^—W« have Rceived by mail frpm Mr. I, W. Baioas,of Wesl Macedon> Wayne coaply, N. Y., a specimen Barley, which is really a novelty, Jbe beads . ar§ well filled, the. berry is plump and vre should judge, in every way superior to the old bearded kind. Far.' men pad others can see the specimen sept, at this office, and judge of its merits. We base beard farmers say that Ibo poisonous beards of the common barley conatiloted an insup. erabie objection to its use (or culinary purposes. That objection seems in a (air way of being over come by substituting for it (he beardless variety. Ratbcx Snuiwt—A gentleman who recently passed through Troy, Bradford county, bts given ns some partionlan of a Singular case of poisoning which came to light in that place some .weeks since. A woman had been annoyed by the mysterious dis-, appearance of her bolter from the premises, without being able to deled the thief. At last she procured' a quantity of strychnine and worked it ipto a batch of ftesh hotter. This she placed where it would be taken by the thief. A few. days thereafter two chil dren nf an Irish boarding house keeper fell .sudden ly ill and died; and several of the boarders likewise fell sick, and were at last accounts in extreme dan.. ger. Tho woman was immediately arrested and ladgpd in Towanda jail. This cose presents some knotty points for a *jory to digest, that is, if the prosecution fail to show that the accused suspected ahoqtan halo* -i—UieiT. It is not pmhaUo mat any one with any degree of sensibility or sense, would risk destroying the inno. cent in order to discover the perpetrator of a petty theft. It is a singular case. pmUmaon Honors., Preston S. Brooks, better known as ‘Bally Brooks,' is dead. He died in Washington, last weak, of in fUmalary sore throat Some will no doubt consider the sudden demise of tills man as a special judgment npon him' for ma king a brutal and cowardly assault npon Senator, Sumner. Indeed, it is very evident (hat hie friend* so understand it snd receive it The more rations) anpposition is, that be had either Ignorantly-or care lessly transgressed (be laws of health and tile; and' death was the swiftly executed penalty. Preitoo S. Brooke is dead. He is 90 better, dead er living. Dying, he washed no stain from hie char, aclcr, no guilt from hia aoul.no blood from his In As. The blood of an innocent man stains bis deadbands- Alter.death honors are cometimes false and emp ty—always overdone. The lachrymose eulogies of Brooks in the House ofjtepresentalives after he had passed away, do not in the least cover tip that one dastardly deed.. They did not add to .bis moral stat ure ■ they did not lessen the world’s abhorrence of bis crime. Whoever baled the act once, now that he is dead bates il. Whoever deemed the living Brooks a coward, will say tbst with his death tlic heart of a coward ceased to beat. He is no better, dead, or living. "Say no ill of the dead !”—is an old saying. In speaking of the dead in the walks of private tile, ilia worthy of observance; bat the public ,man is a lawful subject of plain-speaking, living or dead! His private life is private property: his public acta are proper themes of public praise or animadver sion. The poet said with some truth sad a great deal of poetry— The evil that men do, iivet after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones. This ii not sustained by (ho practice of modern tames. If a bad m«n’‘would have virtues, of the practice of which hit whole life is gu'ltless, he bat only to blow out his brains, or, what it more com mon, give himteir up to Excett. and it it doner It it not a purely modern practice—lhit public infla.' lion of collapsed reputations. Public men wets de. ified io ancient limes, and at often on secOnnt (if (heir vices as of (heir virtues. It trss the. notoriety of (he-man that was memorised,and-'not the basis of that'notoriety. We have read the eolngiee of the. dead. Brooks is offered by Messrs. Kaitl, Savage, Toombsand others, upon the forms! annoaoeemenl of bis death. Those eulogies were oat ai place,and into forts they impaled public merit or virtae to thedeeeowd. insulting to Congress and to , the country ip an ag graveled degree..i.Wben Mr. KeiU uid that ‘Earth • never rested on a truer, breast, nor Hearen opened i‘ wide its gales to receive a, be if. ered a deliberatsly planned |B|uH to.tha ssbes of tht and.rii(p«us des^ r His dealb was bo less,ignominious for galiowj pf 'ts. pipy by Disease., His breast was no truer than any other that baa held a.crrtcji sou), no more,manly (ban tbauf fiw'otbmdoer of deeds, at which humanity Aoddorf^Hu™ 11 away. As' . a hnsbandand father, his 'iraddimdCtih u dmsioa for sorrow and regret." " As apoWominj h& friwti . should bav/left'ws (bnerol Oration lb «fSOpUCs. Tbdattempttbwhitewash saehaeWr‘ THE XIOGA COUNIY AGITATO. ■1 “ I t mi u ;> 1) n. Sfote it Moobtlul if Utfdaad Bto ni M lib UftoHbameter in ini niefa bb it WWwanM jtfnothjtt 1“ *P' r itM® ai the Accident of death cannot caned the evil that -kw,-thetrdylefihfrlie»neUM**»ftbebieodalion of infipnoos oharactfra. \y« 919 ppthlng -rttpoafkil be, thopgh.erery man here in the Norib has, to ppthis hamjin his pocket tf paypie ftpenfp S ( *e.p«nd that grievance over to ibe and i .ol^r ( .iwriuia to tppk oversomo mbralcvilt ip their h'aite V> save the poblip fandi from .peculation, The whUeppushitig ofthp piiliracters of dead men is, in oorriew.'niore reprehensible than the'squandering of p few thoiiMDds.btHa'ose more demoralizing in Sta Vieb niewii no Wilding,to mike Jl onl. wardly bpr khduw its natural deformity be covered dp," Tbercisdahgcr that men .may mis. take aoOH deeply hobo?s as'a tribute paidto depart, ed public homage offered al a shrioe of virtue, when in fact it Tw all a'mockery, iftkerited By corrupt p&liticiana to divert public attention from their Infamies.'' ‘ ''' ' tt was proper for ths friends of this dead ntairto estimate his' character according to 'their : appreeia. lion of the mao, : That he may have been a faith. Oil friend, a kind hnaband and father, is certainly passible. ■ Bat politically he was infamod*; and hi* dentiSe shooid have been simply announced in the House and received in silence. - - Beds worthy of honor, iiving’or‘dead, whose, life, pablie and private, is rounded up 1 with Just and gen. erotu deeds. < L. P. WiLUrroN, Esq,, member from (hie county, returned from, Barfiaburg on Saturday, on a brief visit to his family. , He is in good health and spirits, and reports a healthy state of affairs at the sfeal of Government. He describes the triumph in electing Cameron as transcending anything are North county Ibik ever dreamed of. It seems that the Fonteyitcs were flushed with anticipated victory up to the last moment, and when Wagonseller in a clear, bold voice pronounced for •meron, an awfnl silence set tled down upon the disappointed crew. When the result was announced the enthusiasm of the'Camer onians was unbounded. The discomfiture'of the Forneyites was overwhelming and utter. > Hr. Wißistoo informs us that .alt the- newspaper paragraphs concerning the expulsion of Messrs. Le bo, Wagonseller and Menear. from thsir boarding, house, and the boast el Lebo Ihkt he had received WjOOO for his vote,are ridiculous fabrications. ’ The hunkers have bowled themselvee oat . of,breath in bandying these silly charges. We regret to learn ftom thtr Corning Journal that Major Finn, “mine host” of the. Dickinson Hoo«, it about to take charge of the St. Charles Hotpl, Sy. ricuse, for a term of years. ‘We protesl,in behalf of the Tioga traveling public, against this arrange.’ raent. The Major belongs to the Dickinson House, u the spp.l Moniwi ia.iw i u v ... -wa uieuin~itTO* tne'ehgir«i7a» the hcartis to the circulation. Ma jor Field, as the Journal intimates, is the' prince of Landlords, and Corning will not bo the Corning of oar traveling dreams when he departs *ftie dwell, ers oi the Silind City have no claims on the Major and We'cau only’ account'for this, (heir piracy upon onr Corning neighbors.on the supposition tint the Syracoseans have lost til confidence in the sav. ing properties ol 'salt; and now employ the Major to get their tnme upl Happily, he doesn’t relinquish the proprietorship of the Dickinson, hot will conlin. ue to superintend Its conduct in often visits, Bis cheertbl greeting will be missed by the crowds of hungry and tired railroaders which flock: to the Dickinson House. Success to the Major, wberaver he goes, and may bia tame, his kindly smil e and his abadow—never grow less— Und to Heifer, Sohetbino Worth Sxaiao—Messrs. Niler, Mor. ri»on. Wedge and Gamble, with tho aid of eight hounds, succeeded in capturing two fine £lii on the 13th utL, after a chase continuing four consecvtire days. Tho capture look place on tho watora of KeUle'Cresk. in Totter County. The Back was se cured alive and without injury.' Tho doc wat shot. The Buck waa purchased by Mr. D. A. Stowed of Dchnar, in this county, for tho handsome «Um of SI2J». Mr. 8, exhibited hiih in this place on Tiios day on his way with'Him to New York, whither he Is to be taken (hr disposal. Elk'are becoming ex ,'remelv taro in oUr forests—disappearing slowly to-, ward the setting sunaa the red mad, his forest mate disappeared long year* ago. A few yuan hence and the deer will follow thorn. Man and the nobler kinds of wild Jam® will not dwell together. Man is tho aggressor, however—necessarily, and there fore rightly. Ft* was he not given dominion over the betala of the field and the fawli of the air? Mr. C. L. Horr, recently returned from a Survey ing (onr in tbe.easlarn part of this county, informs ns that his patty.discovered fresh wolf-traoks at va rious points, denoting animals of large size. The severity of the weather baadonbtjesa driven these animals to straits in order to procure food- By the way—these mocb.talkcd.9f ■ varmiate” increase ia formidability tho farther people get away hom them. Tho township elections passed. dff very quietly arid were, we understand, quite generally attended. 80 lar'aa heard front they have retailed in the elec lien of Republicans to fill the important offices. This is in accordance with the good old democratic doc trine—To the victore belong the'honors and Ciqol aments of Office.** ' We trust th«' doctrine will be adhered to by our Republfcali friends everywhere. The following art theborough dffieen for the en aaing year i ' '■ 1 ■■■ ,~v •, I.r, * . Burgess— Osgood. Cm&R-Wm. tfamfo.ftp. Wingate. * r -*“ pesifeUe—W re, O- Thompson. Oeereeefe sf BtchC. A. A. Morale PeUui Matter—R. H. PrtUi . M. Dossldton, J; N. Bache. , - ; The following-officers were elected iuDel mar, ' *«per*M*rt—Roland Read, Thomas Allen,: 'Tkica CJrrk—JuwetStooe. , Judge—lmo Cv Hceton. ,r ■ . A.Balfoqr. TVevsttrsr—leryel.Stoae, - " ®*eel Dinners—Wm. Coolidje, Angus Griffin. ii: I gjft lost met with the foil line* apfleYCoßjaiiiJ Lore," mm rof cmHfVbem (or the A/riUUr, Elhey njflf ewri the eyci of gome I wemhiguid *rye to mate litem tor PfApondi l»o—to My m of their /ature proepecltoo tbe odterrideoT X lift. mntU ifyinj have iuinn Amum Amxtiiu Otunu me (he injustice lo think me Influenced by • tblifsubject U» iKliriwee I THWt'HT 10 KOITATJOA S. 2d P. 8. Hsd I believed they would, Mr. G to copy'(EC' V “ WffittAliO. Jti doosmy-doty, st soy-rale. - WHbodt , now ‘north, now south. Plunge through the snowbanks; don’t let that brush sijreep you out of the sleigh. -When shall we[ get up this mountainT What) must w.o climb that crag T wheel round those roots',-and logs and trees, and how slide down that gully ! No use slicking your ears back, and getting mad. 1 Gerry; you must go it. Whht p rough world this is 7 Who piled up (hose huge rocks, a hundred feel high or mure 1 Who laid the. foundation of these everlasting hills. ' How long has this wilderness (jwel alone in iis solitary majesty,. And thosi pine, and gnarled hemlock ! how many eralions of fathers and grandfathers 'i thou boast since the flood 7' What vi aides of heal and bold hasl ihou seen ? ever shiver and snap in thy hoary under a colder sweat than last week t the wind moan and sigh through thy si ■wardrobe more dulorouslya hundred ■ngn, than during this short new year i Tell us too of'the Rocks of timid deer, stately elk that have walked these so .aulaa.- - .t. ■ - I rw«i ’ qoenlly advocated the sanctity ot compacts, arid he (Phelps) Wished to know whether he (Grow) believed in the sacredncss of the 0r« dinanceof 1787. Mr. Grow replied, certainly, Mr. Phelps resumed, saying that by ihs fifth article of that Ordinance provision was made for five States out of the North-west Territory, which have long since been organ ized ; now another was proposed, i Mr. Grow thought this came wfrh a bad grace from Mr. Phelps, considering the Platte country was taken and included within the limits of Missouri. Mr. Phelps explained: He did not regard theGWinancfe of 1787 or compromise of 1820 as sacred compacts. 'Mr.' Boyce ashed whether Minnesota had sufficient population for ar State. Mr. Grow Wd Minnesota would be about (hft shee of Missouri and that her population is between one hundred and seventy-five thousandand two hundred thousandpersoos. A motion to table the bill wa» then voted down by a large majority. The bill was then pawed, by a vole of 98 against 74. Senate,— The Judiciary Committee re ported back the bill relative to certain Courts ia Philadelphia, with a recommemJalioo that it be passed; also, a bill relative to the office and duties of the Attorney General of the State. The bill relative to liens of mechanics and others on locomotives was reported with a negative recommendation; also, the supple ment lo the ad incorporating the Reading in surance Co. Me. Suable read in place a bill to incorpo rate the Pottsville Railway Co. Mr. Penrose, a supplement to the act rela tive to the jurisdiction and powers of Couns of Common Pleas. Mr. Gregg, a bill to incorporate the Jersey Shore Bank. Mr. Crabbe, a supplement to (he act incor porating the Bank of North America. -The relatives to contempts of Courts was taken up and further debated till the adjourn ment. House. —The joint resolutions relative to the improvement of the Ohio river were made the special order of the day for Tuesday next. On leave given, Mr. Gildea addressed tbs House at some length,' in reply to (he recent remarks of Mr. Wagdosellar, relative to tbs U. S. Senalorial election. He reflected severe ly on the action of Messrs. Lebo, Wagon set ter.and Menear. Mr. McCalmont followed, and in the course of his remarks denounced Mr. Forney m strong terms. The joint resolutions relative to the Terri tory of Kansas -were then 'considered, and gam rise to an animated debate. A Dutchman wdntedto wed a widow and his maoher bf making known his intention wda 'BS follows s—“ If you is content to a IbbttarTot a worse, to be happy fcr a mis erable, and if you Smokes and drinks ale, I shSll like you (brho better arid much worse-’ Uj>on Trjiifch tfee lady said " Yah,” to f(i(u T r rr.^» 't'v Pennsylvania legislature. Hariusbdro, Jan. 30, '57,