Terms of publication. XH® TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is pub. .isbcd/Wcry Thursday Morning, and mailed to sub* scriber&at the very reasonable-price of One Ool tls per annum, irivanotify in advance. It is intend* ■edto notify every subscriber wli£n the term for *rhieb be bos paid sU&U have expired, by the stomp — u Time Oal,” on the margin of the lost paper. The paper will then be stopped until a further re mittance be received. By this arrangement no man can he brought in debt to the printer. • The Agitator is the Official Paper of the Coon ty, wilia a large and steadily increasing circulation reaching into nearly every neighborhood in the County, It is sent free of postage to any Post-office within the county limits, and to those living within Ihe limits, bat whose mostconvenient postoffice may I>e inan adjoining County, . Business Cards, not exceeding 5_ lines, paper in. eluded, $4 per, year. v > , , For the Agitator NO ROSE WITHOUT A THO^N. In childhood's gay, unconscious hours We sport amid the birds and flowers; Those little warblers never sing Of all the sorrows time may bring; And though the flowers fade away, An emblem of oar own decay, Yet smiling childhood cannot tell The lesson that they teach so well, Until inaturer years disclose How many thorns surround the rose. But when our early hopes and. fears Have passed away with bitter tears; When lime, or change reveals how few The friends whose love is warm and true ; When we must weep beside the grave Of one wc would have died to save; When night no surer follows day Than sweetest pleasures pass away Ah ! then the weary pilgrim knows How many thorns surround tbc rose. But, to us nil, there often-come Bright glimpses of a better home, Where the sad heart is ne'er alone— Where worldly cares are all unknown— Where friends once loved arc ever true, And ne'er is hear? the sad adieu. Life's trials o’er, and labors done, .That blessed shore may yet be won ; | And in that land, perhaps there grows fFor each of us, a thornless rose. Virginia. For the Agitator. A SONG FOR SPRING. He comes, he comes, the Icaly god Exulting leaps along the sod, From lemon grove and orange, bower, With bursting bud and opening flower. He comes'; he comes, in green arrayed, From flowery dell and scented glade, With throbbing heart and heaving breast, In myrtle sprigs and lilies drest He comes ; he comes, and in his train The joyous maid and laughing swain, And neighing steed and lowing herd. And spoilive lamb and singing bird. He comes; he comes, the god of Spring, The fragrance of the flowers to bring, • To field and -wood the sweet perfume, To dell and grot new life and fefomn. He comes; he comes—oat on the lea. With merry dance and minstrelsy; And welcome with your blithest song, The pageant as it sweeps along. Select iiiterillanj). CHinese Warriors. Sir Dugald Dalgeliy, tyho was-so scanda lized by the bows and arrows of irfe Children of the Mist among the civilized weapons of Montrose’s host, would have been still more schockcd by the appearance of a Chinese army. The match-locks now in use among them are the bid Portugese match-locks of the sixteenth century, which bears about the same relation to our “old Brown Bess” as “Brown Bess” beats to the minie rifle. The Tartars, mostly cavalry, are soldiers by pro fession. Their arms are bows and broad scimelars; and in comparison with the cum brous and uncertain matchlock, the bow is not to be despised. The scimetar is worn on the left side, like a gentlemanly and Chris tian sword ; but it does not, like lhaf append age dangle at the hams of its wearer; neith er is it ever carried jauntily upon his arm, but protrudes forward shockingly, and is drawn by carrying the right hand behind the back, for the prudent Tartar is of opinion that io\ draw it from the front of bis body would expose his arm to an adversary. Of these Tartar forces, which are the elite of the Chinese army, there are eight brigades, or “banners.” The native soldiers are foi the most part a militia, who perform many of the functions of a garde civique ; and as they are permitted to follow their peaceful avocations duriqg at least two-thirds of the year, they possess about as military on as pect as citizen soldiers usually wear. Their ordinary employments are to guard the city gales, to carry government expresses, to act as custom house officers at the military sta tions along the roads, rivers and canals ; and to aid the civil magistracy as policemen. In dress and appearance they resemble the val iant supernumeraries who- represent in pro vincial theatres the armies of Richard or Rol ls. Their helmets are made of paper; their boots of a coarse satin; and their uniform consists of a wadded gown and a quilted petti coat. Instead of a military salute, they ack nowledge the presence of an officer by falling on their knees; and in warm weather they ply their fans as assiduously as any dowager duchess in an opera-box in Julv. The gov ernment has occasionally betrayed misgivings of the efiecl'uf these military phenomena \upon barbarians. . There was great anxiety that Lord Amherst should report favorably to his,Brittanic majesty of the martial bear ing of the “celes'ial host.” “Through the whole route,” proclaimed an imperial rescript, “take care that the soldiers have their armor fresh and shining, and their weapons disposed in a commanding style, and that their attitude f;e dignified and formidable.” The authori ties, however, cannot be accused of indiffer ence to the feelings of the soldiers, at least if they have the luck to fall in battle The Jjody of an officer is burnt, and ashes, with his armor and a pompous eulogy, are sent to big friends ; the gwort} of a common soldier are transmitted ip his family ; rewards are apd honorable men’ lion made of the deceased in the Pekin Gq sette.— Westminster '•Rentftp. Taking *t Literally.—A boy who was sent -to know fyow ap old woipan, named Wilkins, was in heallb, delivered his message Ihus | marm, missus Wants to know how old Airs. Wilkins is?” To which she re plied, “She is just seventyifour.” Fonlenelle was 98 years of age when a young ladj asked him at what period of hfe men lose all tastp for gallantry. “Indeed,” replied the old gentleman, “you must ask that question of some one older than mvself.” COBB, STURROCK & CO., YOL, 3. Another Great Exposure. Mb.. Editor write to inform you that Spiritualism is all a humbug; it can all be explained away in the most simple manner. I have this from the most reliable source, and as I feel that 1 owe this explanation (a the public, you will be so kind as to let me occupy a small space in your columns.. I send (Jiis to you because I hear you have just started a new .paper, and 1 know that you will be grati fied for the earliest information. I hope you have not lost anything by it. However, it can’t be a great deal, any way, and this will probably be the last paper you will publish. lam the wife ol Dea. Ezra Buzzard. My name is Julany. I have one daughter, Sally Buzzard, who is a mejum for the spirit rap pings, also is a mejum for trances. - Wnl, last Monday, night—week, ago to night, O my, how it rained—ray husband went to town in tbe afternoon and I was really worried most to death about him. We sot fora seltiu’—l don’t know when 1 have felt so bad about a lain as then. You see Ezra, he aim very well, afid he’s propper liable lo get cold, and this day he went off without his overcoat. That’s what 1 me so' particular about remem bering the day of Ihe week. I sent his coat down to Nancy VVhite’s, Saturday to be mended, and it hadn’t got home Monday, that’s how he happened lo go without it. Wal, as I was a sayin’, we sot Monday night for a sellin,’ and had invited some dozen or ten persons in to join in our devotions, and I told Sally they’d be sure lo come in spite of ihe rain, and as soon as her pa got home I would send him afier some of the wimmin folks. Now that was one thing that worried me, for I was not all sure of Ezra’s getting home in any sort of season. Only just think of it, as we have to go nine miles for every grocery we have, it makes it propper bad wJien we get out, and that’s what makes me sure ’twas Monday night, for we were out of saleratos, and we always set bur bread lo risin’ Monday night, nod mix in the saleratus Tuesday morning—because Tuesday being ironing day you see we always have a good fire a-going to bake by. Wal, Monday night come and so did Ezra, sopping wet to his sk*n. I give him a rum sweat that night and and 1 think that that was all in the world that saved him from a fever, pennirial is good, I always keep a 10l of herbs on hand in case, of sickness in the family. Wal, we all got together Monday night and sot around the little table, —I told Ezra it Was no use to fuss and get the best one out. Wal, we all sot around the table. I didn’t think we should have much of any doin’s, formally had been kind o’ ptndling all day, but I dosed her with some home made bitters, and 1 think she fell better, come night. These bitters are the best things in the world to have in the house; — let’s see, where did I put that prescription? I believe it’s upstairs in the till of that old chest. I’ll hunt it up some day and send you. Wal, we was settin’ round the table all of a sudden Sally rolled up her eyes and gave a jump, then I knew that she was going into a trance. She is very imposing when site is in a trance. She is awfully intellectual in her natural stale but when she is tranced there’s no spirit 100 large to speak through her. This lime, says I, who is it? O, her voice was the solemnest that ever I heard as she says, “George Washington.” It drawed tears to my eyes to think that he should havq left (he seventh heaven and come to us. But imagine our surprise, when he said, “I never came to earth before, but finding it was pos sible to speak through this medium I came to give the world a great truth.” Says he, “Spirits cannot come hack to earth to com municate ; it is impossible." Says I, “Then mediums are all lying and deceiving creatures.” Says he, “God forbid ! The poor creatures are not to blame;” And then he went on to explain how by self-magnetism, their back brains was all drawed into their front brains, thereby confusing and crazing them, until they imagine that thgy are kings and queens. I don’t understand scicnlifics very well, but this seems very plausible and clear to me. But Ezra, he’s mighty shrewd at under slpndthl. You oughler seen how<he picked -George Washington U P 00 every pint, until he was thoroughly convinced of the truth of his theory,Vjid then he said, we must have done with thisirtckery,—that Sally’s brains should not be so unnaturally drawed out. And, says he, Ihe next thing she’ll be lopped offlike a flower in the spring,—he always was poetical. George Washington here made a beautiful prayer, in which he besought us to wrastle with the demon Spiritualism and return lo our good old Baptist ways. I asked him if this revelation, hod been made any where else, and he said, No. Then he said, “spread it to the ends of the earth.” I made inquiries about the spiritual papers and I find that yours is a new one just started, and so I thought it would save you a great deal of trouble and expense, to send this right on, without any more fuss. If you please, you may enclose me two letter stamps lor this, I reckon that wont more than pay for tbe ink and paper besides the postage. ' > Yours, Julany Buzzard. Oak Swamp, Bristol Co., Mass. Jeiiosdphat. “Are you an Odd Fellow? “No, sir; I've been married a week.” “Are you a Mason ?” “No j I’m a carpenter.” ‘(Worse and worse! Are-you a son of Temperance ?” “No, sir; I am a son of Mr John Smith.” The querist went on his way. > It is not unfrequently the case that the kisses and attentions bestowed on the child of six years, arf inlcpdetj for fcer sister of six teen, _ 1 THE Befcotrß to tljc of tfje area at JFmUom anO ti>c at t&g iUCovm WELLSBOROUGH, TIOGA COUNTY, PA, From tbo Banner of Light. f;* r , r- i ~ AGITATOR. “THE AGITATION OF THOUGHT IS THE BEGINNING,OF WISDOM.” Chinese Sugar Cane. 1. Planting.—Choose a warm mellow soil, such as you would confidently expect to grow at least fifty bushels or Indian Corn to the acre. Plow early, plow deep and thor oughly. Plant as early as you could venture to plant corn. ‘ If you have a hot bed, start a little seed in one corner of it. If you plant considerably, put in your seed at different times—say, in this latitude, one quarter each on the Ist, 10th and 20lh of May and Ist of June respectively. Plant (foe- seed) in hills, six seeds to the hill, and at a distance of four feet each way. Try some five feet apart east and west (so as to let the sun between the rows,) and some in drills—say four to five feel apart. If you have seed in abundance sow a little in drills two feet apart. Cover lightly, as the seeds rot if covered deeply. Keep the hens at a distance dr it will come up 100 soon. 2. Tillage. —The Sorghum comes up looking very puny—much like broom corn or barn grass. If suckers start, a majority say cut or pinch them off—that is in sowing for seed. This need not be done in growing for sugar. 3. Harvesting. —Whenever- the seed shall be hard and black, cut off the upper parttrf the stalks, say three feet long and hang them up like broom corn, in a dry chamber, suspended from the ceiling, so as to be out the way of rats, &c. Now cut your stalks, pull off the leaves, and satisfy your self that all manner of slock will eat them ; cut up a few of the stalks, and try a like ex periment with them ; and put the test of the stalks through any kind of a crushing mill that may be handy—a cider mill would be better than nothing—catch the juice and in stantly warm it over a slow fire ia a large ket tle, skimming off the scum so long as any shall rise. Then boil the juice four fifths away, as if it were maple sugar. Use a little lime or lime water to neutralize the phosphoric acid, which"will give a slightly acid but not unpleasant to the syrup. Save some syrup without thus neutralizing the acid, as you may like it best that way. Don’t waste the scum, but throw it to the pigs, where it will make at least excellent manure. Feed -the pumace or crushed stalk to your cattle; and having thus cleared the ground be ready to plant or sow extensivevely next spring. . 4. Fodder. —We estimate, whenever seed shall be abundant, any rich warm land will produce a third more fodder per acre if sown with Sorghum than if sown with Indian Corn, and that the Sorghum is at least 25 per cent, more nutneious than the corn. But alt that Can be (-fleeted lhi« yoor is to grow n good supply of seed and prove that this plant is valuable both for syrup and fodder or for grinding for sugar. One word of caution to the experimenters I Don’t run the thing into thfe ground. The Sorghum will prove a valuable addition to our crops, if we don’t render it odious by some Multicaulis foolery. But wheat, Indian corn and clover are not going out of fashion for some years to come. Tue Chinese Devils. —There is more human nature than natural superstition in the following anecdote which occors in Mead ow’s History of the Chinese and their Rebel lions. The poor Chinese lad is not the first one who has lost his appetite on account of some tall or short “devil” in petticoats:— “A Chinese who had been disappointed in marriage, and h/d grievously suffered thro’ women in many other ways—retired with his infant son to the peaks of a mountain range, in Kwei-choo, to a spot quite inacces sible to little footed Chinese women. He trained the boy to worship the gods andsland in awe and abhorrence of the devils ; but he never mentioned woman to him, and always descended the mountain alone to buy food.— At length, however, the infirmities of age compelled him to take ihe young man wiih him to carry the heavy hag of rice. As they were leaving the market town together the son suddenly stopped shortj and pointing to three approaching objects, cried—“ Father, what are these thipgs ! Look I look! what are they I” The 'father has’ily answered with Ihe peremptory order—“ Turn away your head ; they are devils!’’ The son, in some alarm, turned away, noticing that the evil thingseWgfcefgazing.at him wiih surprise from belfindartre ir paus. He wajked to the mountain top in silence, ale no saeper, and from that -day lost his appetite and was afflic ted wiih melancholy. For some time his anxious and puzzled parent could get no satis factory answer to his inquiries; but at length ihe young man burst out, crying with inex plicable pain—“Oh, father, that tallest devil —that tallest devil—father.” Industrious Habits. —Teach your chil dren to be industrious. It is the best preven tive to crime, the best quardian to virtue.— Head the histories of the hundreds who fill our prisons, and learn that idleness was the chief cause of their ruim_fFoung men of in dustrious'habits are-seldom found in the sinks of pollution—disgracing themselves and their parents. ThefjTtgrease of' crime among us is chiefly caused by the distaste of honest labor. If we would preserve the generations from those sins and vices which degrade ihe present times, learn them good trades, and bring them up to good and industrious habits. Idleness, late hours, a disregard of the Sab bath, drink and the perusal of obscene sheets are causing the ruin of millions. “I have always preserved my reputation,” said Mrs. one evening, addressing her self rather pointedly to another lady, to which the latter as pointedly replied, “I know dhal you always set a most ridiculous value upon trifles,** j \ THURSDAY MORNING. MAY % 1857. ©urCottrESßon^nce^ For The Agitator. Letter from the West. Mb. Cobb: By way of explanation-! will stale that the Government surveyors when surveying the lands are required to give in their “field notes” a description of the soil, and they classify it into first quality, second quality &c. What is called first quality, con sists of a black sandy loam and is generally several feet in depth and is Ihe most product ive land found. The second quality consists of a greater proportion of sand and is not of so deep a black color; yet this second quality will admit of being favorably compared for pri ductiveness with the richest and best"river bottoms of Pennsylvania. Of the poorer qualities I will not speak, for there is but lit tle in this country of a poorer quality than second, and what there is will not he needed for many years to come, as there is yet a great abundance of the first quality awaiting the husbandman: The country from Superior south for a dis tance of 20 miles is an elevated plain, dense ly timbered with spruce, lamarac, cedar, while birch, fir, while pine &c., with a thin soil of black loam and a sub soil of red clay. This whole district is too wet for general farming purposes and may he styled seegnd quality ; it is good for grazing purposes and I have been shown some fine specimens of potatoes raised here-which, are said to yield largely in this soil. I also saw some fine winter wheat raised here. Government land wiihin 10 miles of Su perior is mostly taken, and the price varies from 85 to $lOO ;3Sr acre according to the distance from the “city plat.” This land will eventually bo very valuable, as the city of Superior will unquestionably be a second Chicago in commercial importance. It has an unequalled harbor for safety and is the western point of lake navigation, and Ihe projected storting point of the main trunk of the Northern Pacific R. R. The distance from Buffalo, Cleaveland &c. is but 50 miles more to Superior than to Chicago, and. the charge on freight is the same .as it is to Chi cago ; hence by reference to its geographical position you will see that it must eventually be the great point Lof transshipment for the whole north western country, extending south to the northern line of lowa and west to the Pacific. When this St. Croix and Lake Su perior R. R. is completed freights can be de livered in Dubuque by way of Superior as cheaply as by way of Chicago. To show you how welt the importance of Superior as a commercial point is apprecia ted I will simply stale the' fact that a little more than 2 years ago the present city was a dense forest inhabited only by wild animals and Indians. At the last Fall’s census it contained 1600 inhabitants with numerous fine buildings and presenting all the business features of an eastern, city. The whole of buildings erected during Ihe (wo years was between two and three hundred, but I do not now recollect.the exact number. After traveling south from Superior this 20 miles you come to Black river where it breaks through what is here known as the “south range,” a chain of mountains resembling somewhat the Alleghanies, which extend along the south shore of lake Superior its en tire length and with the various spurs occupy a breadth north and south of about 40 miles. Where our road strikes Black river there is a new town started by our party called Jones, ville and has very flattering prospects, but 1 believe I have spoken of this in a former let ter, The soil generally on the “Range” is not good, and the country here is full of tam arac swamps with here and there afteautiful lake. This section is considered very valua ble for.its mineral wealth and timber. It is here where the great beds of copper are found, also silver in its virgin purity and iron ore of the best quality. Of ihe timber on the “Range” the most valuable is the white pine, tamarac and cedar, which are floated down Ihe streams to market. This business is said to be very lucrative. The lumbermen go up into the pineries in the Fall with their supplies (they cut their hay on natural mead ows near the pineries) for ihe-winter, and do not return until they bring on the spring floods the proceeds of their winter’s work.— Each parly is divided into one or more “teams” as they are styled, each “team” con sisting of 12 men and 4 yoke of oxen, and their practice is to cut down and trim a tree, then hitch the “team” to it and launch it en tire inlo the stream and thus run it to mar ket. One “leam’ J jvill pul in from Ito li million of feet ip the course of the winter. Traveling south from Jonesville 45 miles by the road wejopened you come to the St. Croi.^ rivepW the southern base of the “Range,” and/here also you leave the dense evergreen IpfesG'and come upon a prairie country wjfh Requenl largd-gTbves of poplar, white biren, sugar maple, basswood &c., also large tracts of oak openings and occasional groves of N orwa y pitch pine. At this point also the St. Croix and Lake Superior R. R. crosses the St. Croix river. A new town site is located here called Nish adana which will insure the proprietors a for-, tune in a few years, for this is the only out let to a vast pine region of some hundred miles in diameter, and it is from this point they must get their supplies. The river here also affords-a good water power which will no doubt soon be-put to good use in manufac turing the pine liroßM which lines either bank of the St. Croix for over 100 miles above and also its tributaries among which the most important are the Nimacugan and Eau’Clare (clear water) rivers, each naviga ble for a distance of nearly 100 miles above their confluence with the St. Croix. The country from this town of Nishadana south to St, Croix Falls, a distance of 75 PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS miles, is about equally .divided between prairie and woodland." The surface is mostly un • even or rolling although there are many smal prairies as level-as a house floor. The ma jority of the land is of thejsecond quality, bu there ar.e- many districts- composed of firs; quality and the whole is well watered and timbered and may be called good for agricul - tural purposes. From Superior to St. Croix Falls the coun - try is almost entirely uninhabited except by the Chippewa Indians, there being but three o • four white families residing in the whole dis tance and they have located here within the past few months. The lands have been re cently surveyed by Government and have never been offered in market but are to be pul in market some time during the coming summer, and in view of the great lumbering interests connected with this section I think it the moat desirable point for investment I have seen in the west. From St. Croix Falls south to the Mississipl pi—a distance of 65 or 70 miles the general character of the country is rolling prairie well watered and tolerably well timbered!, and most of the soil of the first quality.—f Government land is mostly taken within 20 miles of the river and is held at from $5 to $125 per acre according to its locality.— This section has been in market and is rapid ly filling up with- settlers although 4 years ago it was as wild as the region north of St. Croix falls to Superior now is. The St. Croix is navigable for steamboats as far up as the falls and many large towns are springing up along its banks, among the most important of which may be mentioned St. Croix Tails, Osceola and Marine, and the cities of Stillwater, Hudson and Prescott.— All of these towns enter largely into the man ufacture of lumber, having jheir logs rafted down the St. Croix from the pineries.' The price for sawing is $7 per M. (cash), and.lhe price of green lumber at the mills varies from $l7 to $35 dollars per M. according to quali ty. The demand for lumber even at these prices is greater than the supply, as there are so many new comers who want to build. All kinds of business here will afford het ter profits than in (he east with the exceptioi perhaps of day laborers, and they get muci) higher wages, but it costs them more to live and on the whole will not be able lo save more than they would in Pa., but they cac if they choose “preempt” 160 acres of l!and and the rise in that.will enrich them within a few years. Any industrious, prudent man with or without capital can do better in this country than in’ the east for a few years tc come. ■ ! . The best legitimate business here now i: farming, for there are not producers enougi to supply the influx of emigration—and the consequence is that produce of all kinds it very high and commands cash at all times.— This stale of things must exist for some foot er five years to come and perhaps longer but asjsoon ns there are producers enough tc cause tit,surplus of course there will be a de. prices, but never to ruinous rates for what is not wanted in the “pineries” can be shipped down the Mississippi, or by the railroads now being built through this country to any port of the globe, and to New Yort at a less expense than fcom any point ir lowa. The average price of produce raised here will not vary far from the following : Wheat Si to Si,so. Cirn, 81,00. Otis, 81,00. Potatoes, 75 els to 81,00. Hay, §lO to 15 Butter, 25 to 50 qts. Eggs, 25 to 30 ms per doz. Pork, 825 to 830 per bbl. Fresh pork 10 to 12 els per pound. Beef, 7to 10 cts. The country from the Mississippi to Nish a-da-na is thickly doited with beautiful lake: of various sizes, and all filled with choice va ricties of fish, among which are pickere weighing 25 to 30 pounds. Game of nl kinds is plenty, aod we have venison, prairie chickens, wild geese, ducks, &c., in great abundance. This whole country abounds with gqoc building material, such as limber, stone, &c There are frequent ledges along the rivet bluffs of free stone, also of a superior quality of lirae. Mechanics sujh as masons, car penters and joiners get from 82>50 to S,OC per day and constant employment. AH kinds of labor is in great demand and no one neec lie idle who chooses to work. > , But 1 will not at present dwell longer or the advantages of this country. 1 will now men'ion some of ihe objections, which, bj Ihe way, are those to border settle tnenls in new conn!ries, such as a wantjoj prqper moral stamina in society, a genera tendency to gambling, drinking, &c. Tjhq country is also filled with speculators w-ho strive to outvie each- other in obtaining the* new comer’s money without a proper. equiya[ lent and make easy fortunes by “gassing.”—j Everything a man gets here costs money and at a big price. A man is deprived also|o( many of the conveniences and luxuries of the east for a season ; but these and many othej adverse coniingences every sensible man should calculate on when going into a nevy country, and I will not dwell longer on the details. | There are many other things of interest to those who contemplate coming west which I have not mentioned- as I fear I am already occupying too much space in your columns, but if I have in Ihe foregoing descriptions given any facts which will be of use lo any of your readera-my-object will have been at tained. My object is not to induce any lo corns west but simply aid them in choice of locality if they should contemplate such a move.-f -(n this connection I would remark that 1 would advise all men who do not expect la' t pork to stay at home, for we have idlers enough here now and most of them«maks In t Advertisements will be charged SI per square, fourteen lines, for one, or three insertions, and 36 csQ|f iV I ? 9V?rj& s !»h«qucot insertion. All advertise ments of less than fourteen lines considered as a sqnaie, The following rales will be charged Car Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly advertising:— B months. l2 mo’s I Square, (14 lines,) - $2 50 $4 50 §5 OO S Squares,- - . . 400 600 800 \ ’ ; 4 column, - - . . 10 00 15 00 20 00 1 column, 18 00 30 00 40 0Q All advertisements.not having (he number of in, sertions marked npon-them, will be 5 kept in unlit or. dcred oat, and charged accordingly.! Posters, Handbills, Bill,and Lettdr Heads, and all kinds of jobbing done in country establishments* executed neatly and promptly. - Justices’, Consta bles* andt>thcr BLANKS, constantly on hand and printed to order. NO. 44. a poor’living at it. If a man expects to suc ceed here he must be industrious and prudent the same as he should bo in the east, and if he is not, his chance for a fortune is worth no more than a ticket in a lottery. ■ I expect to remain in, this country for a season, and if any of your readers wish any farther information in the premises I will cheerfully answerlthrough yoarcolumns such interrogations ns they shall present me in re. gxrd'lo this country. In the meantime if in my perigrinations I find' anything 1 think would be of interest to you I shall probably note it down and again subscribe myself ns Yours truly, C. V. H. now, , Mental Excitement. —Bad news weak ens the action of the heart,-oppresses the lungs, destroys the appetite, stops digestion, and partially suspends all the functions of the system. An emo’ion of shame flushes the (ace; fear blanches it; joy illuminates it; and an instant 'tjirill electrifies a million of nerves.' Surprise spurs the pulse into a gal lop. Delirium infuses great energy. YolD lion commands, and hundreds of muscles spring to execute. Powerful emotion often kills the body at a stroke. Chilo, Diagorns and Sophocles died of joy at the Grecian games. The news of a defeat killed Philip V. The door-keeper of Congress expired' upon hearing of the surrender of Cornwallis. Eminent public speakers have often died in the midst of an impassioned burst of elo quence, or when the deep emotion that pro duced it Suddenly subsided. Largrave, the young Parisian, died when he heard that the musical ptize for which he bad competed wasX adjuged to another. A Beautiful Idea. —Away among the Alleghenies ihere is a spring, so small that a single ox, in a summer’s day, could drink it dry. It steals its unobtrusive way among the hills, till it spreads out in thn beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away a thousand miles, leaving on its banks more than a hundred villages and cities, and many thou sand cultivated firms, and bearing on its bosom more than a tho'usand steamboats. Then joining the Mississippi, it stretches away and away, some twelve hundred miles more, till it falls into the great emblem ol eternity. It is one of the great tributaries of the Ocean, which, obedient only lo God, shall roll and roar till the angel, with one foot on the sea and the other on the land, shall lift up his hand to heaven, and that lime shall be no longer. So with moral influence. It is a tjill—a rivulet—a river—an ocean, boundless and fathomless as A Daring Fox. — A gentleman residing in Scott coumy, Missouri, informs that while he was leisurely riding along the hank of the Mississippi, recently, with a half-dozen favor ite chickens thrown across his saddle-bow, a large fox emerged from the woods and impu dently followed him. Thinking Reynard' would lay himselfliable to capture in making off with them, he-lossed the Shanghais from his horse. They had scarcely struck the „ ground before the fox had seized them. Our friend threw himself,from his horse, but before he had cleverly alighteti, the fox, with all six of the fowls, was several leel out in the Mississippi, paddling with an industry worthy of the occasion, for the opposite bank of the river ! After offering his kingdom for a gun, abopt a dozen times, our friend be strode his L nag, and pushed onward, feeling very much, like acknowledging that he had been abominably “sold !” Ccke for Vanity.—We don’t know the reason for it, but it certainly appears lo be a fact that persons prize no occupation in pro portion lo the fancied ease which it will ad mit. Of this class was an old woman whom I met in my travels. We had been busy during the day in running a line through £ dense piece of woodland. The old lady gazed on Bs fur some time in silence. We all saw: that she wanted to enter 1 into conver sation ; and none with the exception of my self wished to gratify her. I soon commenced" a dialogue on various subjects and "things, and, as a matter of course, 1 put my best foot forward. Struck with my language, sho exclaimed, in a tone quite flattering to my vanity : “La, how lamed you are !” But the com pliment, received a death blow. “If 1 was as lamed a scholar as you,” continued she, “I’d quit injineeriu’ and go to keepin' a little gto cery.” A Leak to nn Mesded. —A friend re luming from the depot, a few mornings siit'-e, with a bottle of freshly ' imported “Maine Law,” saw a young lady, wjiom he must in evitably join. So, putting jthe bottle under bis arm, he walked along-si'de. “Well,” said the young 5 lady, afrer dis posing of “health,” and the “weather,” “what is that bundle you are carrying,so mysteriously under your arm (from which she discovered a dark fluid dripping.) “Oh ! nothing but a coal which the tailor has been mending for me.” , “Oh ! it’s a coal is it 1 Well, youtd butler carry it back, and gel him to sew up one more hole, it leaks ! A Cmntcii Dead-Head. —In churches sleepy.heads have all been numerous, but until recently, we never heard ol any one claiming “dead-head” exemption when the plate went- around. Last Sunday, in a west ern village, when the “plate” was being passed in Church, a gentleman said to the “collector”—“Goon; I’m a dtjad-head— I've got a pass /” Of all the projects of reformers and enthu siasts, no one has done so much to enlarge the sphere of woman in a practical way as —hoops. Rates of Advertising.
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