Bates of Advertising,
Advertisements will be charged 81 per square of
fourteen lines, for one, or three insertions, and 25
cents for every subsequent insertion. AlUdvertise
ments of less than fourteen lines considered as a
souaie. The following rales will be charged for
Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly advertising:—
3 months. 6 months. 12 tJio’s
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iro”™’’- - 10 00 1500 20 00
1 column.- -1800 3000 4000
All adverli* slll6o46 not paving (he number of in
sertions marked upon them, will be kept in until or.
dered oot. « nd charged accordingly. v
'Posters, Handbills, Bill,and Letter Heads, and all
kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments,
executed neatly and promptly. Justices 1 , Consta
bles* and other BLANKS, constantly on hand and
printed to order.
The Capture of Joe Bettys.
Although Ihe event of which we are about
to speak created no peculiar excitement at
the time out of the immediate neighborhood
of its occurrence, and has been noticed by
but few historians, yet it was one °l" mani
fold importance to tbfe inhabitants of a large
and thickly-settled section of the country,
where it occasioned the most intense interest
for a lime.
Joseph or “Joe” Bettys, ar he was com
monly called, was a tesident of Ballston
when the Revolution .commenced, and early
look sides with the Republicans. A ser
geant’s warrant was procured for him, and
he joined Col. Wyncoop’s but his
temper and disposition were so intractable
that he was soon reduced to the ranks for
some act of insubordination. His friends,
however, knowing his character for deter
mined ■ bravery and courage, and unwilling
that his services should be lost to the country,
procured another warrant for him, and had
him transferred to the fleet, under Arnold, on
Lake Champlain. In the naval battle which
soon afterward occurred he eminently distin
guished himself for daring and indomitable
gallantry, and, all the officers on board his
vessejdmving been killed or wounded, he took
Ihe command himself, and fought her with
the utmost intrepidity, until General Water
bury—Arnold’s second in command—was
obliged to order him to repair with the sur
vivors of’ his crew on board his own vessel.
Here he continued to fight with the reckless
contempt of danger peculiar to his disposition,
lomil this vessel in turn became crippled, the
General wounded, most of the crew killed,
and only Bettys and two others left in a
fighting condition, when it was surrendered
to the enemy.
The prisoners were taken to Canada, and
while there Betlys was seduced from his alle
giance, and entered the service of the ene
mies of his country, with the rank of ensign.
His intimate knowledge of the countr y ren
dered his services as a messenger and a spy
—in which capacities he was almost con
stantly employed—of great value, and his
fearful and bloodthirsty disposition made him
a formidable enemy. During one of his mis
sions he was captured, and narrowly escaped
the gallows. He had been condemned to
suffer death, but the entreaties of his aged
parents, and influence of many friends,
obtained a pardon at the hands of General
Washington. Instead of feeling grateful for
this act of generosity, his feelings were very
much embittered by the danger he had es
caped, and he lost no lime in regaining the
ranks of the enemy, rrom mis time tie
seemed to have cast aside all ves'ige of hu
manity, and, guided by alt the dictates of a
fiendish nature, without the slightest com
punctions of conscience, or feeling of pity or
commiseration, he ranged the neighborhood
of his early home, becoming a scourge to his
former friends and neighbors. Possessed of
an uncommon amount of shrewdness and
intelligence for one in his station of life,
powerlul and pthlelic, cold, revengeful and
cruel, inflexible in his determination, untiring
in his purposes, and knowing no fear, he was
well calculated to excite terror among the
people of the border settlements. With a
desperate boldness seldom equaled, ha eschew
ed all disguises, and made his appearance
openly in the midst of the settlers—sometimes
alone, at others accompanied by kindred
spirits—and never taking bis departure
without leaving mourning, misery and sorrow
in his track. He proclaimed himself an
outlaw, arid dared any to attempt his capture,
saying he was as careless of his own life as
he should be of the lives of those who should
' undertake such a task. He declared that he
never would be taken alive, and that his
death would be fearfully avenged by his fol
lowers upon the heads of those who should
iCause it. h is not to be wondered at, therefore,
that his name became as terrific to the set
tlers as were those of the bold buccaneers of
old to the inhabitants of the Spanish Main,
or that he should for a time be successful in
his murderous forays against the Republi
cans. He seized the persons of many of the
most influential and active Whigs, whom he
carried to Canada, subjecting them to the
most cruel and inhuman treatment by the
way. Such as he entertained a particular
resentment against lost their dwellings by
fire, and sometimes their lives. His boldness
and audacity had so increased by the success
of his expeditions that, on one occasion, he
.made an excursion into the city of Albany, for
llhe purpose of abducting the person of Gen
leral Schuyler. There were those, however,
(hold and fearless enough to undertake his
ire, and many were the attempts made
lat purpose before success crowded the
* . was successful at last, and oc
■d in the following manner: Three men,
lents of Ballston, hearing that a suspi
-3 stranger had been seen, thoroughly
id, and on snow shoes, making his way
rd f he of a well-known loyalist,
satisfied of the identity 0 f lhe de .
/ned to make a bold and strenuous effort
ke him alive. Their names were Corev
ms and Fulmer; and. havivg armed
■selves they started in pursuit. The trail
nem by a circuitous route to the house
‘, lory before mentioned, which they
uLn W|lh lhe . Ulmost circumspection;
■overed ml °. lhe window*, they
ie lahlo h j ° bjecl of ,heir search seated
led Dren-. dl j CU^SIDS 0 hear, y meal - He
Is lav on te ?t, r ° r aD emer B eDc y for bis
whL Slde of hiin * read y lo h,s
muzzfl 18 nfle B,ood h® l * 060 his knees,
m • eslln S ln the hollow of his shoul
biirJ B *’ arrao B ed 'heir 1 plan, they sod
unnn ;£ pen . tho door > and in an instant,
P he miscreant, wljo did not yield
THE AGITATOR
acbotcV to t&e SSjrtetiffCotf of tfte of iFm&om auK tf)t SpicaD of 2&ealt|)£ itefom.
WHILE THEBE SHALL BE A WEOKG UNSIGHTED, AND UNTIL “Man’s INHUMANITY TO MAN 11 SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
VOL. IV.
without a fearful contest. He attempted to
his rifle, but having neglected to
remove the deerskin covering of the lock,
did not succeed in so doing; and before he
could seize his pistols he was himself seized
in the powerful grasp of two of the intrepid
men, while the third presented bis bayonet
at his breast, threatening him with instant
death if he did not surrender. Unarmed as
he was, it cost a herculean struggle to over
come him, and bind bis limbs beyond the
possibility of escape. The three were an
overmatch for him, however, and he was at
length secured. After a while he requested
permission to smoke, and as he was lighting
his pipe he was seen to cast something into
the fire, wnich was immediately seized, and
proved to be a hollow ball, containing a mes
sage in cypher to Sir Henry Clinton, with
an order for thirty guineas on its delivery.
He plead hard with his captors for permission
to burn the papers, and offered one hundred
guineas for the privilege. All his offers were
refused with scorn, and becoming satisfied of
the impossibility of bribing his captors, he
exclaimed, “Then I’m a dead man,” It was
even so. He was not allowed again to
escape, but he was taken to Albany, where
he was tried, condemned, and executed as a
spy-
The capthrs of Bellys were deserving of
the same if nol higher honors than those con
ferred upon the captors of Andre. The latter
was unarmed, and his capture was the result
of accident j while the former was nol taken
without the risk of life, and after a fearful
struggle. He was known to be thoroughly
armed, and a desperado of the worst charac
ter and a disposition. Bettys was a far more
dangerous 'man, though, perhaps, not so im
portant as Andre. Both tempted their cap
tors with gold, and the offers of both were
spurned with contempt. In this the cases
were similar, and in view of ulterior conse
quences, perhaps, the importance of the cap.
lure rests with Paulding, Williams and Van
Wen ; but, when viewed in the light of the
peril of Ihe enterprise, Cotey, Perkins and
Fulmer are deserving of the warmest praise
for their bravery and intrepidity. Yet Ihe
only return they received was the arms of
their prisoner, w.hde the others received rich
rewards, and were honored after death by
monuments, upon which, as well as upon the
page of history, their patriotism and- honesty
have been lauded to the skies. With what
a partial hand is the meed of praise bestowed I
Editorship.— We have known a very
learned gentleman to obligingly bring us a
contribution with the remark, that aa wa word
continually occupied, it must doubtless be
quite an accommodation to receive a good
article once in awhile—and on examining the
“good” article in question, we have found
three gross grammatical errors, divers sins of
awkwardness, and two words misspelled in
the fust and second sentences. A lecture
which will bear printing as it is deliveied, is
an exception ; and in a word, there are very
few men, who have not served a regular ap
preuticeship to Ihe types, who can sit down,
and without “bailor let,” express their lliol’a
readily and fluently in writing. Yet with all
this, we daily meet with gentlemen who, be
cause they have made an occasional hit in a
letter to a friend, or have elaborated a drawl
ing poem in some incautious paper, talk dar
ingly and dashingly of journalism, and gra
ciously inform us how they would make
things fly rounds if they were only editors.
Singular—every man no matter how stu
pid be is, always seems to be morally con
vinced that if everything else fails, be can
either’ manage a small farm or edit a paper—
and experience shows that where there are a
hundred educated young men capable of suc
cessfully practicing a profession, there is not
more than one or two who is really enough a
genius, a scholar, and a man of practical
sense to make a good editor. In fact, though
all the world read papers, there are very few
out of the business who have ever taken the
pains to acquire much information relative to
it—and the natural coneequence is that its
difficulties are unappreciated. —Boston Inves
tigator.
Contentment.— Napoleon when at the
height of his power, happened to be at the
Amiens, and as he was crossing the public
square to leave the city, amidst the acclama
tions of all iis inhabitants, who had run in
crowds and almost blocked up the passage,
he cast bis eyes over the immense multitude,
and discovered in one corner of the square, a
stone culler, whose attention had not been
one moment drawn from bis labor by all the
splendor of the spectacle. The singular in
difference of this man excited the curiosity of
the Emperor ; he desired to know something
of him, and spurred his horse onward, and
stopped directly in front of ihe man.
“What are you doing there?” asked the
Emperor, with the pleasant tones which dis
tinguished him on such occasions.
The workman raised his eyes and recog.
nized the Emperor.
“Sir,” answered he, “I am hewing this
stone you see.”
“You have been in the army have you
not ?” said the Emperor, whe recognized in
him an old soldier. “You made the cam
paign of Egypt—were you not an under
officer ?”
“h was even so, sir.”
“And why did you leave the servive,”
"Because 1 served out my lime and ob
tained my discharge.’’
“I am sorry Cor il—you are a fine fellow
—I am desirous of doing something for you—
speak, what do you wish ?”
"Only that your Majesty would allow me
to hew this stone. My labor procures me all
I want; I have no need of anything;”
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 27, 1857.
The Capitol Extension.
The progress within the last few weeks of
the work on the Capitol extension, has been
such as to be very palpable even to the ordi
nary observer. In particular, the removal
of the wilderness of scaffolding from the in
terior of the great halls of the Senate and
House of Repiesenlaliues, makes the advance
striking. Of both these spacious and noble
halls the ceilings are finished and out of hand,
and present a beauty of style, workmanship
and completeness superior to anything of the
kind on this continent. That of the House
is the warmest in style and most elaborated
finish; but there are tastes which, on the
whole, may prefer the Senate’s. Both how
ever, are akin in their general manner, and
only differ ns good tastes would have them do.
We find the flooring of the committee and
other rooms, halls, passages and avenues of
both the new wings to be proceeding rapidly.
In the northern wing, the workmen are now
pulling np the newel-posts, railings and fenc
ings of the main passages to the Senate cham
ber, all of which posts, rails and fencing are
of Tennesee marble, and therefore of unsur
passed richness and beauty. Toour eye this
is the most beautiful marble work we have
ever seen. In both the connection wings be
tween the old Capitols and wings, (tie pro
gress is such as to have arisen to the level of
the ground, and on Ihe south connection some
what above it.
As to ihe undertaking of raising the new
dome on (he old or central building; it is pro
ceeding steadily and surely. Of the general
plan of the dome it is sufficient to say that
its bulk is divided into four sections—the first
occupied by thirty-six columns of cast iron
twenty feet high, and about three (eet in di
ameter at the top. These columns rest on a
foundation consisting of cast iron plate, which
again rests on a circular wall, belted, girded,
cramped and compacted by every judicious
imaginable contrivance, into a mass of solid
matter, forming as it were, but a single body.
On these columns (which are hollow and
about an inch.thick,) when in position, will
be placed a ring to form the foundation for a
superimposed section of pilasters, less in size
than (he columns, but agreeing with the'tn in
number, on which will he a strong panel
work, constituting a third section or attic.—
The fourth section is a dome or cupola prop
er, and differs from other domes in having an
elliptical instead of a circular section. The
whole will be surrounded by stout circular
plates of iron of considerable thickness, bear
ing an altar-like structure, girt with faces, all
l wut' t p > ads
Pluribus Unum,” and on Ihe globe stands a
tall figure of the Goddess of Liberty, erect,
with a sword and shield and around her fore
head a fillet studded with stars, being Craw
ford’s greatest'work. —National Intelligen
cer.
Tea Tasting.— The Nef York corres
pondem gives the following particulars of the
effects of “tea tasting’’ and jsampling upon
the constitutions of those engaged in,lhe btfsi
ness: ,
“The death of a famous lea broker in this
city lately, calls to mind the curious nature
of this business.- I wonder if any of your
readers at the West know that their fastidi
ousness in the choice of the herb which
cheers, but not inebriates, is the cause of the
establishment of a profession, called “tea
tasting”—which is as certain death to a man
.as the continued practice of opium eating.—
The success of the tea broker or taster de
pends upon the trained accuracy of his nose
and palato, his experience in the want of the
American market, and a keen business tact.
If he has these qualities in high cultivation
he may make from 820,000 to per
annum while he lives, and die of ulceration
of the lungs. He overhauls a cargo of lea,
classifies it, and determines the value of each
sort. In doing this he first looks at the col
or of the leaf and the general cleanliness of
it. He next takes a quantity of the herb in
his hand, and breathing his warm breath on
it, snuffs up the fragrance. In doing this he
draws into his lungs a quantity of irritating
and stimulating dust which is by no means
wholesome. Then sitting down at the table
in his office, on which is a long row of little
porcelain cups and a pot of hot water, he
“draws” the tea and tastes the infusisn. In
this way He classifies the different sorts of the
minutest shade, marks the different prices
and is then ready to compare his work with
the invoice. The skill of these tasters is
fairly marvellous, but the effect of the busi
ness on their health is, as 1 have said, ruin
ous. They grow lean, nervous and con
sumptive. __
Taking it Coorxv.—The following is the
latest joke upon John Bull:
John was traveling on some Western rail
road, when a tremendousexplosion took place,
the cars at the same time coming to a sudden
halt. The passengeis sprang up in terror,
and rushed out to acquaint themselves with
the mischief—all but Mr. Bull, who contin
ued reading his newspaper. In a moment
somebody rushed back and informed him
that the boiler had burst.
“Awe!” muttered the Englishman.
“Yes,” continued his informant, “and six
teen persons have bqen killed.”
“Awe?” grunted l the Englishman again.
“And—and” said his interlocutor, with an
effort, “your own man—your servant—has
been blown into a hundred pieces.
“Awe ! bring me the piece that has the
key of my portmanteau .”
“Mike is it yourself that can be afiher
telling me how they make ice crames ?
“Truth I can ; don’t they bake them in could
ovens, to be sure.
Oreide--The New Substitute for Gold.
The manufacture of this new metal, oreide,
under the French patent of H. Migeon, grant*
ed In this country March 3, 1857, has been
commenced on a large scale in Waterbury,
Connecticut, and it will undoubtedly soon be
in use, as itlis already in France for various
articles of domestic economy and all sons of
ornamentation, as it bears the tame relation
to gold as German silver to pure silver; like
German silver] it may be used in a pure con
dition, or as a base of gold plating. It bears
so strong a resemblance to gold that when
manufactured into fine articles, such as we
have been accustomed to see made only of
gold, wB-ere-at once convinced that the arti
cle we are handling is really the pure metal,
yet it is made of material that costs only
eighty cents a pound as it comes from the
furnace where the several metals of its com
position are refined into ingots.- The oreide
is not a new metal—it is only a new com
pound of old metals, so refined in the process
as to have done away with a great part of
their disposition to oxidize, as it only tarnish
es in about the same degree as silver, and
though ebulition lakes , place, if tested with
nitric acid, it does not leave a black spot, so
that it may be actually cleaned with acids
which would destroy such metals as copper
or brass. We have examined the metal in
bars and sheets, prepared for the manufac
ture of various articles] and also in its man
ufactured slate—in spoons, sugar-tongs, nap
kin rings, goblets, buttons, watch chains, va
rious articles of plain and chased jewelry and
cast ornaments, and plates of various thick
jiess from tin foil to the sixteenth of an inch
thick, combined with gold, so as to show gold
upon one side and the oreide upon the other,
and it was certainly very difficult to tell which
was gold and which was oreide. That it is
an improvement in the arts there can be no
doubt, and that it so much resembles gold as
to make it necessarry for our Legislature at
once to require, as in France, that all arti
cles should be stamped “oreide” to prevent
•great frauds, will probably be found out after
a great many people have been pretty severly
cheated. This alloy (oreide) is formed of
100 parts by weight of pure copper, 19 of
zinc, 6 of magnesia, .3 and three-fifths of sal
ammoniac, l and four-fifths parts of quick
lime, and 9 of unpurjiietl tartar.
Whistling “Yankee Double” into Eu
rope.—Hon. Robert C. Wimhrop, in his ad
dress to the Boston Musical Festival, told the
following incident:
...ity'OF pfes/Ttf'U'Slift" i n li i /?£ p * l m.svru'be
festival or banquet, or it might have been a
ball was about to lake place, at which it was
proposed to pay the customary musical com
pliment to all the sovereigns who were either
present or represented on the occasion. The
sovereign people of the United States—repre
sented there as you remember, by Mr. Adams,
Mr. Bayard, Mr. Clay, Mr. Jonathan Russel
and Mr. Gallatin—were of course, not to be
overlooked; and the musical
band master of the place called upon these
commissioners to furnish hirn, with our na
tional air. “Our national air,” said they, is
Yankee Doodle.” “Yankee Doodle,” said
the conductor, “what isj that ? Where can I
find it ? By whom was it composed ? Can
you supply us with the score!” The per
plexity of the Commissioners may be better
conceived than described. They were fairly
at their wit’s end. They had never imagined
that they would have scores of this sort to
settle, and each turned to the other in despair.
At length they bethought them, in a happy
moment, that there was a colored servant of
Clay, who, like many of his race, was a first
rale whistler, and who! was certain to know
Yankee Doodle by heart. He was sent for
accordingly, and the problem was solved with
out further delay. The band master jolted
down the air as the colored boy whistled it ;
“and before night,” said Mr. Adams, “Yan
kee Doodle was set to so many parts that
you would hardly know it, and lit came out
the next day in all the pride, pomp and cir
cumstance of viol and hautboy, of drum,"
trumpet and cymbal, to the edification of the
Allied Sovereigns of Europe, and to the glo
rification of the United Sovereigns of the
U. S. of America.” !
Mn. Brown Treats am. his Customers.
—Some years ago Ben Brown opened a store
in Swoplown, and decided to treat every one
buying at his store. Money being pretty
scarce, there was a good deal of barter go
ing on in those days, so Sam Jones called in
to the grocery and dry goods store of Mr.
Brown and asked for a darning needle offer
ing in exchange an egg. After receiving the
needle, Jones said : I
“Come ain’t you a going to treat?”
“Wbat, on that trade ?”
“Certainty ; a trade’s a; trade let it be big
or little.”, 1
“Well,'what will you take?”
“A glass of wine,”| said Jones.
The wine was poured out, when Jones said:
“Would it be asking too much to request
you to put an egg in the wine? lam very
fond of wine and egg.”
Appalled by the man’s meanness, the store
keeper look the identical egg which he had
received for the darning needle and handed
it to his customer, who on breaking it discov
ered that it contained a double yolk.
“Look here,” said the sponge don’t you
think you ought to give me another darning
needle? This you see is a double yolk,”
The great scientific, question in Cincinnati
at the present time is, “Which is the Old
World, and which is the New ?” The opin
ion is evidently gaining ground “out West,”
that we have long been laboring under an
error on this point. |
(®utr ComfluoniJrncr.
Fbiesd Cobb :—ln my last communica.
tion to you I mentionefFa proposed journey
to the Chippewa River and parts contiguous,
and the furnishing to you Of ‘'held notes” ol
the same &c., but like human of
future events ibis one of mine was doomed
to fail, and “for reasons too numerous to
mention,” I didn’t go to Chippewa and you
will have to do without the “field notes” for
the present. I will simply say that having
passed through that country last fall I had
ocular demonstration of its general charac
ter, and taking in addition the description giv.
en by those conversant with its advantages, I
consider it a desirable point for any who wish
to engage either in agriculture or lumbering,
and in fact the same thing may be truthful!’
.mng may be truthfully
asserted of the whole district | lying between
Lake St. Croix and the Chippewa River.—
The crops in this upper counlfy'are extreme
ly good, better I think on the average than I
ever saw in any country before. Hay, oats,
potatoes, wheat, rye, barley, and in fact all
crops except corn will give an abundant yield.
Corn looks finely and fair for a good
crop, except that it is from ten days to two
weeks later than usual owing to the universal
late spring, and should the fajl season be fa
vorable we will still have a good crop of corn.
Our farmers are-nearly through with their
haying and have commenced harvesting their
wheat and oats. We have plenty of new
potatoes and all other vegetables incident to
this season in Pa.
The weather during the summer has been
as fine as the most fastidious could wish,
whether viewed with an eye to pleasure or
profit. I think I never witnessed so fine a
season before; no sudden chinges, but one
continued succession of warm days and de
liciously cool evenings. For the most part
we have had a cloudless sky with a gentle
brewo from the north-western lakes and
plains, and interspersed by just enough re
freshing showers to supply the wants of vege
tation.
The political parties here are just waking
up to new life and marshaling their forces
for the coming autumnal battle 1 . The Repub
licans confident of success are thoroughly or
ganizing and selecting their csndidales, while
(he democracy divided against itself by the
so called “forty thief” party’s iaving"Usurped
all the fat offices, is distracted, unorganized
and impotent for any good otj evil so far as
success at the polls is concerned.
The Minesoia optn
aowJhsjiJJ s>i\s I wiv r v& ywwy unani
mous in denouncing (he border ruffian faction
headed by the notorious Gorman, who three
months ago was the special mark for the ven
om of the very men who now| fall down and
worship him. The charge then was political
corruption, and the people here cannot dis
cover that the cause has been! removed; but
with the border-ruffian cliques the difference
is that “the bool is on the other foot.” The
Republican members met at ihe lime speci
fied in the enabling act and having a working
majority organized and proceeded to business
and will have a constitution framed and ready
to submit to the people in course of two
or three months. On the other hand the se
cessionists have refused or neglected to pre
sent their credentials, and have met daily in
a room adjoining to receive a political sermon
from the great Gorman and hen adjourn to
the next day to receive the, same thing re
hashed. They have not as yet organized
their revolutionary band for the simple rea
son that they have not members enough to
form a quorum, although they have already
manufactured enough (some 0 or 7) with the
exception of one, and this one they can as
easily manufacture as they have the others
and probably wiU ere long do so. The whole
thing is an abominable politictjl'farce, and the
disorganizes avow that if cannot rule
they will prevent Minnesota Ijom coming in
to the Union at ail. They do not even claim
that they have a quorum legally elected, and
the whole press of the norlh|-wbsl (with the
exception of 3 journals in thei( pay; denounce
their revolutionary proceedings. The people
of the Territory are indignant and could an
election be held to day Mihetota would roll
up such a majority for the_cause of freedom
as was never dreamed of in your philosophy.
There has been a good deal of difficulty on
the western frontier of Mineuota during the
summer with the Sioux Indians of which you
have been advised by the press. But as Gov
ernment has made arrangements to send a
new supply of troops to the Territory it is
hoped these troops will keep the red skins in
awe until the difficulties between them and
government can be so settled as to prevent
hostilities for the future. Tire country here
is filling up with emigrants very fast, and the
sound of the busy hammer salutes our ears
bn all sides. Business of all kinds seems to
be in a flourishing condition. Money is plen
ty and labor of ail kinds in demand. The
people generally eschew visionary specula
tions and have gone to becoming
producers, and in view of this he can safely
predict the “good lime coming.”
Yours truly, C. V. E.
Hudson Wis, July 31st 1^57.
Prejudice may be compared to a misty
morning in October ; a man goes forth to an
eminence, and he sees at the summit of a
neighboring hill a figure, apparently ol gi
gantic; stature, for such the imperfect medium
through which he is viewed would make him
appear; he goes forward a few steps, and
the figure advances towards him; the
lessens as they approach ;S they draw still
nearer, and the extraordinary appearance is
gradually but sensibly diminished; at last
they meet, and perhaps what the person had
taken for a monster proves to be his brother.
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is pub,,
lished every Thursday Morning, and. mailed to sub-1
acribers at the very reasonable psice of On* Dol
per annum, inrxiriahly to afytaee* It is intend
ed to notify eve 17 subscriber vhpn l.he l£*m fo?
which he has paid shall have expired, by the stamp.
•«— u Time Oat,” on the margin of the last paper.
The paper wUUheo be slopped until a further re-,
miltancc be received. By this arrangement a*
can be brought in debt to the printer.
The Agitator is the Official Paper of the Court
ly, with & large and steadily increasing circoJatioiv
reaching into nearly every neighborhood in tha
County. It is sent free of postage to any Post offica
within the county limits, and to those living
the limits,but whose moslconvenient postoffice may:
be in an adjoining County.
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NO. Y.
Business Cards, not exceeding $ lines, paper iq.
ejpded, $4 per year.
Fun in Court.—A ludicrous item of tes
timony was squeezed out of a village ga,llanl
at Mediop, us. the course of ;be Coroner’s in
vestigation. Mr. Amiadab Doolittle was
called on the witness stand, blushing in an
ticipation of the revelations he might be called
upon to make. John W. Graves, Esq., who
conducted the case, “pm him through,” as
folio* s;
Graves—“Wbete were you on Sunday eve*
□in® last V’ |
Doolittle—“At the Methodist Church sis.’'
Graves—“ Where did you go after church,
sir.” ,
Doolittle —“Well, I went down C— street.”
Graves—“ What house did you go to on
C— street ¥ x
Doolittle—“ Well,! went—l went to—well
I don’t know as I’m obliged to tell where I
went.’’
Graves—-“ You are obliged to tell—so oat
with it.”
Doolittle—“l went to Mr, Biggin's.”
Graves: —“How late did you alay 1”
Doolittle—“l staid till—well about ten o'-
clock.”
Graves—“ Where did you go then?”
Doolittle—“ Didn’t go anywhere—l staid
at Mr. Higgin’s.”
Graves—“ How late did you stay ?”
Doolittle—“l staid till—till —f-guess aboul
11 o’clock.”
Graves—“ Yes, and where did you go
then ?"
Doolittle—Didn!l go anywhere—l staid at
Mr. Higgins— till about half past eleven .”
Graves—“ Well, then where did you go?”
Doolittle—“l went to—l don’t know, sir,
that I’m obliged to leli where I went,”
Graves—“ You are, obliged to tell, sir—
where did you go ?”
Doolittle—“l went to—well—l didn’t go
anywhere,. By special request I stayed alt
night!"
Shan’t Bite Me. —There was a fellow of
a certain neighborhood in Arkansas, who was
strongly suspected of sheep stealing. There
were weekly many oases of the. mysterious
disappearance of choice mutton front the
flocks of the planters which were traded to
his door j but being an ingenious chap, ha
generally succeeded in proving an alabi or
some other defence, which reduced the charge
to a mere suspicion.
At last, however, a planter riding- through
the woods perceived the suspected sheep.’thief
stealing from the woods, and after, lnnlrim»,
up to a'ttock of sheep and deliberately knocked
over the largest and fattest. At Ibis moment
the planter rode up, and confronting the thief,
exclaimed:
“Now, sir, I have got you! You can’t get
off; you are caught in the act!”
“What act Y’ indignantly demanded the
thief.
• Sheep-stealing,” was the confident reply
“Sir you had better mind how you charge
a respectable American citizen with such a
crime as sheep-stealing,” replied the gentle
man with the penchant for mutton.
“Now will you deny that I saw you kill
that sheep'!” asked the planter.
“No, sir,” was the prompt answer, “I did
kill him, and I’d do it agam. I’ll kill any
body’s sheep that bites me as I am going
peaceably along the road.”
Two young misses, discussing the qualities
of some young gentleman, were ovetheard
thus:
No. X. “Well, I like Charley, but he is
rather girlish, he hasn’t got the least bit of a
beard.” '
No. 2. “I say Charley has a beard, but
he shaves it off.”
No. X. “No he hasn’t either, any more
than I have.”
No. 2. “I say he has, too, and I know it,
for it pricked my cheek''
The Boston Traveller tells of a patriotic
poet of Philadelphia, who has written a pome
on Mr. Buchanan, in which he invokes him,
in settling the Kansas and other difficulties,
to — s.
We hope Mr. Buchanan will not do any
such ridiculous thing. Let him at least adopt
the Texan costume —s'hirl collar and spurs.
In Missouri they fight duels on slight pro
vocations ; recently two public characters
came near introducing lead into each other’s
systems because one of therp spelt rascal
with a “k.” The party to whom the epithet
was applied didn’t mind being called a rascal,
but to have it written in such a villianous or
thography was more than human nature
could submit (o.
“How do you Teel with such a shocking
looking com on V’ said a young clerk of
more pretensions than brains, one morning.
“[ feel,” said the old Roger, looking at him
steadily, with one eye half closed, as if taking
aim at his victim, “I feel, young man, as if
I had on a coal which had' beta paid for—a
luxury of feeling I think you will never ex
perience.”
A gentleman once conversing in the soci.
ely of a company of ladies and criticising
rather severely the,want of personal beauty
in other ladies of their acquaintance, said—
“ They are the ugliest women I know,’’ and
then with an extraordinary politeness, added,
“present company always excepted.”
A Harrisburg paper gives the following
case of absence of mind i A girl who was
one of our first loves, was one night lighting
us out, after having passed a delightful even
ing, and in a bashful trepidation she blew us
out, and drew the candle behind the door and
kissed it.
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