Terms of Publication. THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is pub lished every Thursday Morning, and mailed to. rob* seriber* at the very reasonable price of Owfc Dot* uk per annum, invariably in advance* It is intend* ed to notify every subscriber when ibe term for which he has paid shall have expired, by the stamp —“Time Onv* on the margin of the last paper. The paper wiJl then be stopped until a further re* milfance he received. By this arrangement no man can be brought in debt to tbe printer. Tux Agitator is the Official Paper bf the CjJoon ly, with a Targe and steadily increasing circulation reaching, into nearly every neighborhood fa Jthe County. It is sent free of postage loao/ Post office within the county limits, and to those living Within the limits, bat whose moslconvcnieol posloffice may be in an adjoining County. Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper in cJoded, $4 per yea r. ilfF BOY. He is such a lovely cherub. My darling, darling boy— The pride of his young mother’s heart, Her greatest source of joy, With eyes of dark and thol’Ril depth*, Ard curls of sonny brown, Which cluster o’er a pore high brow That never knew a frown. Such rosy.tinted cheeks—and lips Now closely pressed to mine— Such dimpled hands—and chubby arms That round my neck do twine. My heart is.welling o’er with love For thee my cherished one; Was ever mother blest, with such A darling, darling son? And yet there comes a pang of fear Amid this burst of joy; If sin, with its dark witb’ring blight, Should fall upon my boy— Should he in manhood, leave the path By love and virtue trod, Ah, then a mother’s heart would break Beneath the chast'iilng rod. God grant! that bo may ever bo Ab pare in heart as now; That envy, malice, sin or bate, Ne’er darken o’er bis brow. For this a mother's prayer shall be— His steps her band shall guide; For Ibis her Ups tbe Right commend, And all his errings chide. LENA. Tbe Female Spy. At the time General Howe landed upon Staten Island with a well-appointed army under his command, with the object of wresting from the Americans possession of the City of New York, there was, in a neighboring town of New Jersey, a young lady—a young girl, wo might say, for she could not have seen more than sixteen sum mers—who was eminently distinguished for her beauty, talents, wit, vivacity, and all jjinse striking characteristics which, in a fe male, please and fascinate the opposite sex, and win her admirers among the old and young. She was the daughter of, a Major Moncrieffe, of the British Engineer Corps, and her gifted mind gave evidence of the lavish expenditure which his affection had induced him lo'make to secure to her a bril liant education. The occupation of Staten Island necessarily brought the war into her immediate vicinity, and the neighboring towns on the Jersey shore having become unsafe as a place of residence, she adopted the plan of appealing to General Putnam . for protection. The General sent for her, and took her under his own individual guar dianship. end while he remained in New York she continued to be a member of his family. Here she passed the time, in,leom pany with Mrs. Putnam and her daughters, in spinning and weaving clothing for the American soldiers. The battle of Long Island, and the subsequent retreat of Wash ington and his army from the city, caused a change in the aspect of affairs, and we find her soon afterward at the house of a Mr. Wood, near Peekskill, on the Hudson River. The advent of such an accomplished and beautiful creature as Miss Moncrieffe not be otherwise than a subject of interest 1 to the residents of Peekskill and its vicinity, and she soon became the centre of attrac tion of a brilliant circles of beaux, among whom were a number of the officcers at tached to the American army in the neigh borhood. Although at heart a bitter un compromising Royalist, Mias Moncrieffe man aged so admirably to conceal that fact, and lead those about her to believe that she en tertained the warmest feelings of interest in, and earnest desire for, the success of the American cause, that none hesitated to con verse before her regarding the plans and op erations of the Americans without the least reserve. Shelook advantage oT this fact to get possession of important information, which she was in the habit of t ransmitting to General Howe, through the means of a poor wretch who served as a convenient instru ment in her nefarious plans. Being a splen did equestrienne, it was customary with her to ride along the banks of the Hudson in plea sant weather; and she seized these opportu nities to communicate with her messenger, and, through him, with the British com mander. At regular intervals she would ride down the road, and, at a spot where it passed through a thick wood, she would stop, as though upon some ordinary occasion, and hum a bar of some tune agreed upon. In a moment after, the head, followed by the shoulders and body of a man, would emerge from the dense underbrush; and, while he pushed back the leaves with one hand, the other was held out to receive the missive which ho knew was prepared for him.' In this way the English General received much valuable information, and so secretly and discreet was it managed that the Americans never once suspected that their fair enchan tress was the spy to whose activity and effi ciency they owed the frustration of many of their plans. Accidental length unveiled her duplicity and crime. On one occasion, as she was taking her accustomed ride down (he road, her horse was startled at the barking of a dog which darted out' from a farm yard which she was passing, and shyed to the op. posite side so suddenly as to throw her to the ground with violence. The females ’in the house, who bad witnessed, the accident, ran out, took her tenderly up in ibeir arms, and conveyed her within doors, while the man went in pursuit of her horse. The force, with which she bad fallen had rendered her in sensible, and she was laid upon a bed, while every means at the command of her nurses was used for her resuscitation. Anxious to give her a freer respiration, one of thorn opened the front of her riding habit, and, as she did so, a letter diopped for that receptacle upon the floor. It was picked up and placed upon the table without exciting curiosity. At VOL. 1 For The Agitator. •his moment the man returned to the bouse, and in a few moments the young lady be gen to recover her consciousness. Upon be ing fully restored and seeing strange faces about her,'she started ujvand seized the open laps of her vest, while'Ti error and dismay wore strongly depicted upon her countenance as she discovered that the missive it had hold was gone. In tone which gave evidence of the most excited feelings, she asked for the letter. One of the females took it up, and was about to hand it to her, when the mao, whose suspicions were aroused by her man ner, took it from her, and finding that it was directed to New York; he refused to let her have it. Her earnest entreaties only served to strengthen his doubts that all was not right, and, notwithstanding her threats and offers of rewards, he resolutely -determined not to deliver up the important document. Finding all her efforts for its recovery una vailable, the young woman readjusted her dress, mounted her horse, and returned to Mr. Wood’s, where she made immediate preparations to take- her departure fer tbe city. Fate was against her, however, as the farmer had hastened with the suspicious mis sive to headquarters; a parly of soldiers rode up to the house shon after, and the officer in command informed her that she was a priso ner. Without giving her lime to destroy or secrete her papers, she was removed to the opposite side of the river, where she Was se curely guarded until her case could receive the attention of higher authority. Meanwhile, her trunks and effects were carefully searched, and gave the strongest evidence of her guilt. Several papers relating to military matters were found, and the letter which had caused her arrest proved to contain important in formation relative to the movements of the American army. And, as if to place her conviction beyond peradventuro, the messen ger whom she had' employed, appeared against her at her examination. Hearing of her arrest, and fearing that his connection with her might affect the welfare of his fam ily, he resolved to offer his evidence, in hopes that it might mitigate, if it did not avert his own punishment. Her examination presented a scene worthy the'pencil of,the most accomplished artist.; and affording, as it does, the subject of a striking and exceeding graphic picture, it is earnestly to he desired that it may one day live upon canvas, to depict for future genera tions an interesting episode_in the “Domes tic History of the Revolution.” Although hftf guilt y»t of tier punishment was one difficult of solu tion. A gibbet and a rope would have been the fate or one of tho opposite sex ; but to punish in this manner a delicate and high); accomplished female—and one, too, pos sessed of the attainments and accomplish ments of Miss MoncriefTe, was too revolting to humanity to be entertained for a moment. The solution was made easy by the earnest appeal in her behalf of her relatives and highly influential friends in New York.— She was carefully conducted under a flag to the British lines, where she was delivered into the hands of her father's friends. She subsequently went to England, where she spent the rest of her life, and, although for a time she moved in the first society, yet the qualities of her heart were not calculated to make her path in life a happy or pleasant one, and we naturally anticipate the fact that her end was amid all the surroundings of poverty and disgrace. The treacherous mes senger who had aided in her crime, and in the hour of her trial had turned upon her in hopes to secure his own escape, was impris oned for a long period, but whether be suffered a severer punishment, is not recorded. “I remember,” says a late Postmaster Generator the United States, “the first lime I visited Burlington, Vt., as Judge of the Supreme Court. I had left it many years before a poor boy. At the time I left, there were two families of special note for their standing and wealth. Each of them had a son about my own age. I was very poor and they very rich. During the long years, of hard toil which had passed before my return, I had almost forgotten them. They had already forgotten me. Approaching the Court [louse, for the first time, in company with several gentlemen of the bench and bar, I noticed in the court yard, a huge pile of old furniture, about to be sold at auction. The scenes of early boyhood, with which I was sot rounded, prompted me to ask whose it was. I was told it belonged to Mr. J. I re member a family ofjibat name, very wealthy; there was a son, too; can it be he? ( was told that it was f even so. He was the son of one of the families already alluded to. He had inherited more than I bad earned, and spent it all; and now his own family was reduced to want, and his very furniture was that day to be sold for debt. I went into the court house suddenly, yet almost glad'that I was born poor. I was soon absorbed in the business before roe. One of the first cases called, originated in a low, drunken quarrel between Mr. A. and Mr. H. Mr. H., thought I, that is a familiar name. Can it be? In short, I found indeed that this was the son of the other wealthy man referred to. I was overwhelmed alike with astonishment and thanksgiving—astonishment at the change in our relative standing, and thanksgiving that f was not born to inherit wealth without toil." That poor boy has since been Postmaster General of the United Slates, and is now one of the United States Senators from Ver .room. Those fathers provide better for their children who leave them with the' highest education, the purest morals, and—the least money. THE AGITATOR. to tbe sstunMon of tbe&rea of jfmbomana tbeSjrreaSiof j^ealtbg»tfovnT WELLSBOROU6H, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 16, 1857. The Two Heirs. “ THE AGITATION OF THOUGHT IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.” Gommunitutionff, For the Agitator A Woman’s Voice Against Slavery. Who, that has a heart not wholly lost to all feelings of patriotism, can look out upon the present condition of our land, and not exclaim, Alas! my country ! to what fatal end are you hastening ? Every southern breeze brings to ns the groanings of the oppressed and downtrodden; every western zephyr is compelled to bear on its wings the records of crimes, for which a barbarous nation might blush. Yet this is called a land of l.berly. Ab I how mis named 1 This land, which has- opened her arms to receive the oppressed of other nations, which has so nobly offered succor to the exiled and distressed, and afforded happy homes to so many of those who have sought jher shores, persists in riveting upon her own subjects, chains more galling, than are laid upon the slaves of any other land called civilized. Great enough were the crime, to stamp ever lasting infamy upon our country’s fame, were the colored slave alone,'kept in bondage. But we know that many are bought and sold, who bear so slight a resemblance to any but the fairest of our own countrymen, as to forbid the suspicion that they 3re descendants of a colored race ,* and this, Ob! this, with all its attendant vices, is the' darkest stain upon our nation. Is i( a slight thing to crush all the belter feelings of a human being; to quench the aspirations of the immortal soul ; and deny to it that light and instruction which Christ has commanded his servants to bear to every creature? Is the breaking up of families, the sundering of the holiest ties of lile, and the desecration of all that is sacred to humanity —is this a trifle ? Yet this, all grows out of the system which our government sustains— aye, and endeavors to extend. To the wretched, heart-broken, downtrod den and scourged slave, is denied "the bread of lifeand he, who dares to assist the longing spirit in its endeavors to break through the bond of ignorance which envel opes it, and gratify that desire for knowledge, which God has implanted in every is hunted, and punished, as the basest of crimi nals. And our government connives at all this. Look, for one moment, at (he thousand evils growing out of (his system, and then, if you can, say that it is not a. cuua ta our land—a JUgs-w-sv L-.vw.iMrr tl- It perverts the better capacities of man ; it excites his cupidity to such ia degree, that he can remorselessly steal add sell the souls and bodies of his fellow man ; it brutalizes his feelings, until he hesitates not to scourge, without mercy,a human being; it leads him to exasperation against every person who dares la reason against this iniquitous sys lent ■; it leads him to .deny instruction to the souls which are under his control ; and it conspires to efface, from al| who are connect ed with it, the last, faint semblance which mao originally bore to his Creator. Who can deny that it perverts the judg ment, when (he only offence for which one of our citizens was held for weeks, and even months, a prisoner, was, (hat be had im parted (he knowledge, to one in bondage, that she was on free soil! And is Ibis an isolated case? Would it were. But similar instan ces are numerous. If judgment were unbiased, and reason ruled, we should not have before our eyes, (he record ol the most shameful statute which has aver disgraced one of the States of our “beautiful west.” The law, to fine a man, and even imprison and sell him on default of fine, simply for coming into the Sta'e, and peacefully remain ing there, is a new species of refined justice. Yet its execution was only prevented, by the payment of the required sum, by one, who would fain save his country from (he stigma which must attach to such a step. Need we speak of the course which has been taken in regard to Kanzas? Do not all the world know of the baseness of our rulers, in managing thfe affairs of that distressed por tion of our country 1 VVe have too much reason to believe that many, now in authority, have, Judas like, boriered innocent blood for gain. And, as they have gone- thus far in their traitorous acts, it would, perhaps, be belter for their country, if they would follow a little farther in the steps of their illustrious predecessor. Look at the incidents which have just transpired upon our coasts—vessels arrested in the act of setting out upon the basest ex pedition which Beads ever invented—and candor must concede, that this system creates an inordinate desire for wealth and power. That it brutalizes the feelings, is too clearly proven to admit of a doubt, by the reliable testimony which is constantly pouting in upon us, of repeated uses of the scourge and tor ture, for the most trivial offences. No one is safe where this power holds sway, if he speaks against it. He must like one of the noblemen of our land, not only bring the word of God, the constitution of our country, and even arms Of defence, to prevent molesta tion, yet these combined, do'not always avail him. And it is not only in the portion of our land where this system holds sway, that this spirit is manifested. But even here, in the north, in that portion which is in a measure free from the curse, a minister is dismissed by his congregation, for speaking against the sale of the souls and bodies of men, the hunt ing up of the Seeing slave, and returning him again to hondage-’-and a professedly Chris tian paper comes oulwith the corotfiendatioU: “Served him right 5” A minister cannot obey the injunction of his Master ; "Go yo into oil the world, and preach the gospel to every creature,” and be safe. Were be to attempt to impart sufficient knowledge, to enable (he poor slave to under stand'the teachings of the Bible, he would be unfitting him for bondage. Ignorance and slavery must go together. There are those, in the south, who. even advocate tbe enslaving of the poor whites ; -Tor,” say they, “it were better to ha the slave of one man, than of the whole commu nity.” Does not ibis prove the degenerating influence which slavery exerts upon all who ore connected with it 1 There are nobler minds, and more philanthropic- hearts in the possession of many of the poor laborers here, than can be found among those, who advo cate or assent to such sentiments. To be a poor man at the south,.must be misery, scarcely that endured by the slave. The moral blight, which has fallen upon every thing there, is most severely felt by him. Every avenue for his improvement is closed, and it would be almost certain de struction to every hope, or comfort, for him to express an opinion differing from those, under whose influence he is. Ministers of the Gospel have not escaped the contamination. There are not a few who uphold this system, or tacitly assent to it. With all of that “charity which hopelh all things,” it is almost impossible, to believe that any person, in this enlightened age, can be so egregiously ignorant, as to advocate, or even behold such iniquity in silence, and have within his breast the spirit of Christ. When we look at all these things, the startling question is brought home “Will not God visit, in judgment, this nation “Will not the cry of the oppressed enter into the ears of the' most High J” Though he bear long with this iniquity, yet fearful must be the reckoning, when he “brings every word, with every secret thought into judgment.', Then, the oppressed, and oppressor will re ceive their reward. And what, if the blood of those souls, who have been compelled to live and die in heathenish darkness, in a civi lized land, be found upon those, who denied unto them “the bread of life !” L, For the Agitator. Little Histories. - BY SIF.L.AHIG. I have thought it might be interesting to you, if I should sketch the lives of some of the notabilities of our town. I have learned a few that have a dash of romance in them. AJew-davnaon I wmis ni« 1 4.,MuliiL. vpocrlttngof Mrs- Allis, she said ; Shall I tell you of the first time I ever saw her? It is a story I (ell but seldom. I gladly assented, for I had often wished to know something of her early history, and I knew they had long been acquainted. You know 1 commenced life here, she re sumed, as a seamstress, working for Mrs. Mcllen, milliner and dressmaker. Mr. Mel lon was a mechanic, and hired several young men who boarded in the house, which made a considerable family of pleasant and sociable young people. When I had been hereabout two years, I was passing up (be street ine afternoon, when my attention was arrested by a farmer’s oxen, which tired of standing in the sun, had started off with the wagon tow ards home. My first impulse was to stop them myself, but fear, either,of the oxen or of being seen, withheld me, and I was look ing round for a boy to send, when a little girl ran by me and picking up a stick turned them around, and walking by them, drove them back to the store. As she passed me quite closely, I said to her; “You are a brave girl, I could not have done that,” “1 suppose you are not a farmer’s girl,” she replied in a some what cuit tone, glancing up as if not quite pleased. “Yes, I am, or was at least,' ! ? I answered. She stopped, and turning directly facing me, looked in ray eyes lor nearly a minute, then without speaking, went on with her oxen.— A moment after, an uncouth, shaggy looking man came out of the store, threw some bun dles into the wagon, and he and the girl get ting in they drove away. Her image often recurred to me for several days. She was well browned by exposure to the sun, and her dress indicated less care than farmer’s children usually receive; but her large, cleat blue eye might have compensated for many defects, and 1. knew when she looked at me, it told of thought, but of what, I could not determine. This was in midsummer. A few weeks after, Mrs. Mellen said she had an ap. plication for an apprentice. A man from the country wanted to place his daughter wiih her. She was only twelve years old, but very smart with the needle, and very anxious to come, her father said. , She had decided to receive her toward Fall when we should be hurried with work. About the first of Octo ber it was remarked at dinner that the pew girl was coining. As Mrs. Mellen bad said she was pretty, there was a little anxiety to see her, notwithstanding she was .but a child. We had assembled in the supper room, when she came in with Mrs. Mellen. Though much improved in personal appearance, { at once recognized the heroine of the oxen.— The instant our eyes met, she slopped and re garded me wiih such a droll look of mingled surprise and inquiry, that I could not resist smiling, and some of the boys observing it, burst into a rude laugh. She colored deeply, and for a moment covered her face with her hands, then lacking me in the face again, she exclaimed: “You was making fun of me, I know you was.” 1 assured her I was not, that the hoys w«e laughing becauseshe looked at me so, that I had told nobody of out first meeting, god if she pleased, it should remain a secret between US. She stamped and said she did not like to be laughed a', till Mr. Mellen bade her come to supper and be quiet. She was in stantly quiet, and went to the table., She did not eat much, and seemed to notice nothing that was said, but when we left tho table, she came and put her band in mine, and looked earnestly in my face. 1 drew her aside, sai'd I was glad to see her there, and asked if we should be friends. She said “yes, if I did not laugh at her.” I assured her I did not, which she now seemed inclined to believe. Vfrc were good friends after that, but her deport ment toward the rest of the family was re served and somewhat defiant. Her father, mindful of her health, had stipulated that she should not work evenings. She was to re ceive nothing the first year but her board, and ; I feared that she would not be very well clothed. After a little, we found that she spent all the evenings while we were in the shop, atone in; our sleeping room, but what she did none of us could learn. One evening in a week we went to evening school. She went with us, and would sit up after 9 o'clock: to learn her lessons. After awhile, she told| me of her own accord what she thought the| first time we met. “I thought you a very; fine lady,” she said, and when you said youi was a farmer’s daughter, I wondered if L could be a lady too, and before 1 had done; looMng in your eyes, I resolved that I would.; I knew I never should learn much at home,! and after awhile 1 thought of coming here,] and persuaded father to let me come, but I did not know you were here.” She had a step-mother, an ignorant woman, who, though kind to her, could not tench and train her,! and young as she was, she fell it, though she; never spoke of her with disrespect. We didj not find out'huw she spent her evenings, till; our New Year’s ball, when she insisted upon; going, as she had received an invitation.—' One of the guls nsked whether she would! wear her brown or checked flannel, which; she wore to work in. She went to her trunk' and look out a pretty dress, suitable lor her* and the occasion, and nsked if that would an-{ swer. While we were admiring, misohiev-[ ous'Minnie stole to her trunk which she had; led unlocked, and brought out a pair of shoes,; half bound, and then Lottie explained that: she had bound shoes for a neighboring shoe-' maker with whom she had formerly been nc-! quainled, and (whose wife was a dressmaker,! and had helped her keep the secret of her! work and dress, and as we afterwards learned,! though Lottie didnt know it, procured her in-; vitalion to the ball. 1 seldom refer to those; daxajaow. Though most of my acquaint-! ancea know ! useil to sew for a living, we all make believe to know noiluag ofxhßiind 1 I do it because I have not courage to-gd against what the world says is proper, tho 1 ! why the world does so, you know as well as, I do. But Mrs, Allis has no such pride, aod! speaks fearlessly of the time when she sewed! for Mr*. Mellen, and went to evening school,! and laid the foundation of the grace and in-| felligence she noK passesscs. But I often! laugh to myself yet, at the memory of the! little brown, unkempt looking girl, with a bit! of slick in her hand running along the street,! and though she keeps her carriage and drives' and presses as well as a Indy need, I wonder; if even the benevolent Mrs. Allis has ever! done a better action than running after her; father’s oxen. A Quarter of an Hour with a Bad| Book. —About twenly-five years ago I formed a most intimate acquaintance with a young: man of fine education and commanding lal- ! ents, and we soon became bosom friends.—• One morning after school, at a street cornerj he banded me a book which be said be couldj loan me for only one quarter of an bonr.rn We stood at that corner a few moments while I looked at the obscene pictures and read a few pages in that polluting volume. I band-:' ed it back to him and never saw it again; but the poison soon took effect, “the sin left! its mark.”— I can.ifot erase the effects of the impure thoughts which in that quarter of an hour that vile book lodged in my heart, and which, may Gad forgive me, I harbored there; I can and do pray against the sin, and f(jr God’s grace yet to conquer it; but it is a thorn in my flesh, and still causjss me great bitterness and anguish. Ij | ", Young men, ns a lover of your souls, I tell you in all sincerity that there is nothing which I would not willingly-give to hove the veil of oblivion cast over the scenes and the sentiments of that corrupt volume, which still haunts me like foul specters during my hours of private devotion, in the sanctuary, and at the communion (able. O, what sad work did that quarter of on hour make upon a hu man soul. Young men beware of bad booisl and beware also, of evil companion*. My early friend, after well nigh accom plishing my ruin, became a dissolute mani imbibed by. evil sentiments, and 1 at last, as I greatly fear, died by his own hand. “Lef him’thal thinhelh hestandeih take heed lest he fall,”— American Messenger. j During the last illness of Dr. Chirac, the celebrated french physician, he was attacked with delirium, on recovering from which he fell his own pulse, mistaking himself for one of his own patients. “Why was not I called in before?” said be. “It is too late ; has the gentleman been bled?” His attendants an swered in the negative. “Then he is a man,” answered Chirac“be will not live sis hours; and bis prediction was verified, j The following is a copy of a document oh file among the accounts, m Winchester Cal thedral“To work done: Soldering and repairing St. Joseph, 8d; cleaning and ornal mealing Holy Chest fld • repairing the Vir. gin Mary, before and- behind, and making a hew child, 4s'Bdscrewing a nose on the Devil, putting a new horn on His head, and gluing a piece CD his tail, 5s dd ; total, lie id." , I Rux«a of AdvcrlUiui;. Advertisement* 'will bo charged SI per square o fourteen lines, for one, or three insertions, and SS cents fur every subsequent insertion. AU advertise ments of less then fourteen lines considered as a squate. The following rates wtu be chirgcd ftt Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Snarly advertising; 3 months. 6 months. 12 mo's 1 Square, (14 lines,) . $2 50 $4 50 80 00 S Squares,- ... 400 600 8 00 | column, .... 1000 1500 SO 00 1 column.- . ■ . .18 00 30 00 40 00 All advertisements not bavin? the number of in sertion* marked npon them, will be kept in until or dered out, and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, Bill, and Letter Heads, and all kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments, executed neatly and promptly. Justices’, Csosts. blcs’ and other BLANKS, constantly on hand and. printed to order. no. si. Printers vs. Orators. —Compare ' tha orator with the newspaper, and we gain a faint glimpse of the übiquitous power of the latter. The oraior speaks to It few hundreds of thousands—the newspaper addresses its millions. The words of the orator may die on the air—the language of newspapers is stamped upon tables as imperishable as mar* ble. The arguments of the orator may fol low each other so rapidly that a majority of his hearers may struggle in a net of ratiocin ation—the reading in a newspaper may be scanned at leisure, without a fear of perplex!* ty. The passion of an orator inflames tho whole assembly—the feeling ol the newspa per sways the continent. The orator is for an audience—the newspaper is for the world; the one shines for an hour, the oiber for all lime. The oraior may be compared to light ning which flashes over a valley for a mo* merit only, leaving it again in darkness ; tho newspaper to a sun blazing over a whole earth. Printing has been happily defined, “the art which preserves all arts. Priming makes the orator more than orator. It catch* es up his dying words, and breathes inlothem the breath of life. It is the speaking gallery through whidh the orator thunders forth in the year of ages. He leans from the tomb over tha cradle of the rising generation. A Scene Not Down in the Brits.— ln ihe City of Providence, there was a large au dience collected within the walls of the,old theatre. The performance.had reached the crisis wherein the dreadful villain of Ihe play was to be shot—the fatal pistol was even pointed at its victim, the house was wrought up to the most intense excitemeni, and all was still as death. _ At this breathless period a highly respectable citizen id the stage-box arose, and addressing the hero of the pistol, while his wife sal by his side, her cheeks ashy pale and a thumb thrust into each ear, said: “Mr. Dufly, Mr. Duffy, don’t shoot the villain just yet I” For love’s sake desist I Mehitable s afraid of a grin .” . t The gun didn’t explode, bat the audience did. Duff waited, but they couldn’t. Srtv Youth. —“ Everything is arranged for your'mnrriago with Susan Tompkins,” said a fothcr to his only son ; “I hope you will behave yourself like a man, Thomas.” The individual addressed was a young man seated in a chair, despatching a piece of bread and molasses. His only answer was a sigh accompanied by a flood of tears. ■ The parent started, and in an angry voice demanded : “What objections can you have? Susan is handsome and wealthy, and married you must be, sometime or other. Your mother and 1 were married, and it is my command that you prepare yourself for your nuptials. “Yes,” finally gobbed Thomas, “that’s a different thing. You married mother, but I’m sent away to marry a strange gal /” Isdustrioos Habits. —Teach your chil dren to be industrious. It is the best pre ventative to crime, the best guardian to virtue. Bead the histories of the hundreds who fill our prisons, and learn that idleness was the chief cause of their ruin. Young- men of industrious habits are seldom found in the sinks of pollution—disgracing themselves and their parents. The incrcrseof 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 the present limes, 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." Delicious Bath. —A grocer in Worcester Mass., the other day left a hogshead of mo. [asses standing in the back yard with the head out. A little Irish boy climbed up on thecdge to get a chance at sticking his Anger in the sweet fluid and then licking- it, when be lost his balance, reeled, and over he went head first into the molasses. He was pulled out by (He heels and led hoinejjfco stuck up that he wouldn’t speak to his old friends. — They had a good time that night in the sban ly, wringing out the clothes and scraping tho molasses from bis clothes into pails. It is said of father Mabillon, who, through out his youth and early manhood, was noted for bis slupidiiy.'tbat at the age of twenty* six he pitched against a staircase, fractured his skull, was trepanned, and afterwards pos sessed a luminous understanding. Perhaps other stupid fellows might as well try the ex periment. At any rate no great barm could be done. A newly arrived John Chinaman, in Shas. ta, California, purcha&d some ice pecenily, and finding it very wet laid it out to dry in the sun. On going lo.look for it again lie found that it had disappeared, and forthwith accused the whole Chinese neighborhood of larceny. A general row was the conse quence. ••The early bird catches the worm.” “Served him right ; be had no business to be up so.carly.” “No, no. It means if you would catch the worfns, you must gel up early.” “Well, if any body wants.worma for break fast, let him get up and catch ’em. I don’t." VVu.vr is LeSac Tender ?—American gold coin in any amount—American silver to the amount of five dollars—thin cent pieces to the amount of ibiity cents, andmne cent pieces to the amount of tea cents, are legal tender. _ _ ~ ■ When' we seo e pretty female foot, we nit. urally conclude that it belong* to h beautiful woman—on the principle “that all is vrcl! 'hat ends well.
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