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The modern diswwetjes in Electricity have opened anew scene in nature, end a much more extensive one than could have been imagined. They have showed us a near re lation between Electricity and Lightning,' of .which former ages bad not the least suspicion. It is now incontestably proved, that the matter in both these cases is the same, that it is governed in its operation by the same laws, and that it is productive of effects, the same in kind, and differing only in degree. Elec tricity then is artificial Lightning. By this discovery we are enabled 'to make experi ments upon Lightning, and to examine the manner of its acting, as often as we please, and without. any danger. And we now. assert far truth, what twenty years ago would have been perfectly incredible, that this tre mendous meteor, which has been the-terror of all ages, is in a great measure subjected to human power. Its violence cannot, indeed, be resisted, but its course may be averted. From numerous experiments made upon the electrical fire, or artificial lightning, com pared with observations of the effects of natural lightning, it appears that different bodies are more or less perfect conductor* of it. It is well known, that trees are frequently shivered Gy lightning, and that wooden buildings are shattered, and some times set on fire, by it; and the higher these are, that is the nearer the clouds, so much the more are they exposed to these injuries. The masts of vessels, and steeples are most frequently struck. The bricks of chi males, and the stones in our buildings are often driven out of their places. Animals are stunned, or killed, according to the force of the stroke. But metals are not hurt by it, unless they are thin or slender, and then are sometimes melted a little. And it is obscrv able, that when buildings have been struck, wherever there has been a quantity of metal to conduct the lightning, there the contiguous parts of the buildings remained unhurt; but where the metal ended, there tho other mate rials were torn and shattered. Accidents of these kinds are so frequent, that not a sum mer passes without some or other of them ; and we have had two recent instances, in the steeples of Hampton and Waltham, of which the News-papers have given an account. From the foregoing particulars it appears, that metals are the best conductors of the electric fire; and that wood, bricks, stones and animat bodies are ill qualified to be Con ductors of it. And all this is fully confirmed by the experiments of Electricity, which show, that the electric fire is most strongly attracted by metals; —that it seeks them in preference to all other bodies; —that when it can find a sufficient ‘’quantity of metal to conduct or convey it, it passes along without doing any injury to that or the neighboring bodies; and that its destructive force is only perceived, when there is a failure of metal to conduct it. These observations have suggested a method of preserving our persons and proper ties from the fatal effects of this violent me teor ; for which the world is indebted to the happy genius of our illustrious Countryman, Dr. FRANKLIN. Agreeable to the forego ing principles, if a continued line of nay metal (iron, for instance) of a sufficient thick ness, be formed, reaching from above the highest part of a building, down , to the ground, the lightning which might fail on that building will flow in a silent innocuous stream through the bedy of the metal, without injury' to jho building or ths persons in it; And it will flow the more readily, if the metal end at the top is in sharp points, rather than in a flat surface -ora knob, ; - ’Tia a great pi'y that this admirable inwen. lion, so simple in its preparation, so beneficial in its consequences, and approved now by ' the experience of several years, and in differ, ent countries, should not bo universally adopted. v*No objections of a philosophic kind have been made to it, that are worth mentioning. What has hindred its being, brought into common use, has rather been religious scruples. Many persons have con sidered Thunder and Lightning as tokens of the divine justice; and in consequence look upon it as a degree of impiety to endeavor to prevent them from doing their full execution. But these scruples, I humbly conceive, aie founded on misapprehensions of ifte method in which Divine Providence has thought fit to govern the material world ; which is, not by immediate, extraordinary interpositions of power, but by stated, general laws. Rain, snow, hail, stormy winds, heat an 3 cold, are as truly instruments in the hand of GOD for carrying on the purposes of his providence, as thunder and lightning are ; and these latter are as salutary and as necessary to the well being of the world as the former; and if it be not only allowable but a duty to make use oF the means that GOD has put into our hands, to secure ourselves from the hurlfulor dangerous effects of any of the former, it must for the same reason bo equally- so in respect of the latter. If a stream of light nmg fall an a building furnished with pointed lbs*ani* described, it is as much cm.™ , r° f L G ? d lhal il * hould follow the tho k 9 , 0 / ,roa W|tflout injuring the rest of buddmg, a, lhali wben j, a com snlii j '’“■'‘ling, it should War and hnw«nJ^ ard i S ’ of 561 tlle m 00 fce. And 1 or /.one y person# can have scruples nactence about preventing a building by fgWnpnd yet can fc -j/ j Ulmost wdeavoretb extinguish a Hi.t ! a ° j’ as [ bey suppose by the irarae d » e hand of GOD, I leave them to explain 3 lhe y are able. J. WINTHROP. THE AGITATOR, BtbottU to ifie mxttmitm of tse of iFmtrom un& tfje Sprcazr of ftefovm* waits THREE SHALE BE A WHOSO UNSIGHTED, AS* SSTtti “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MA«”; SHAH CEASE. ASWATIOJ* MUST CONTINUE, YOL IV. - X f A’ .Yankee'ln Missouri. A toiler in the Missouri Democrat, atrik iDgHrJllusjraies in the following interesting sketefi, thesdifference between Yankee emer prise|ind tleindolem habits of men raised in slafq|State%:'- Wtes thpaibalf a hundred miles from St. Lo traps I traveled through Missouri, I could but mark the tame and quiet aspect of the coufllry, exhibiting a sad want of enterprise amqng the people in that particular neighbor ho«l; fences'll most concealed in the thick brash; grown up inside as well’as outside : the fields,' houses of most somber appearance, wanting even in the cleanly show a peck of lime and an hours work would impart.— Looking at the rich soil and pondering the umhriliy appearance of the country, I rode along in the stillness of the morning, no sound disturbing (be quiet, save the occasional re port of the gun of some hunter of petty game far up or down the valley ; in the sounds themselves I thought 1 found to some extent the solution of the question of why it was that land so rich and fertile was so badly tilled; farmers were out squirrel hunting while the spring time was upon them and the fen ces not yet repaired. While I was meditating on the change a few years will produce in that region of country, a sudden turn in the road brought me to one of those beautiful streams of water found curved among the hills every few miles along my route, and the sound of a waterfall mingled with the rattle, clatter and buzzing sounds of a mill saluted my ears, white a scene presented itself so highly contrasting with everything in the surrounding country, that (he very contrast seemed (o invest it with new beauties. There stood a fine flouring mill, with numerous wagons being loaded and unloaded, horses receiving and being releived of their burdens, numerous small boys perch’d on the top of bass of meal or flour, turning their horses’ heads homeward; dozens of men were piling and handling lumber; the whole scene in fact, wearing an Unmistakable look of bustle and business, as though the energy of a whole neighborhood bad been centered in that particular spot. ( A little further on, crowning the summit of an eminence overlooking the scene I have at tempted to describe, was a handsome resi dence built in modern style, neat and tasteful in every part, white up and down the stream, large fields of wheal and green meadows were spread out so picturesquely that with my admiration there arose a desire to know the possessor of such fine property. He was pointed out to me by one of the laborers; on approachidgTirfh I was received wiih an affa bie and courteous manner, and was soon in possession of all the information I desired.— He was a native of Massachusetts, had not yet reached middle age, came to Missouri six years ago, went to work to start a manufac turing establishment in the neighborhood where he now lives, found no encouragement but met with every opposition, was denounced as a Yankee and an abolitionist, threats were made to drive him from the country, influen tial men deliberately went to Work to organ ize a system to foment opposition to him ; he soon found himself without a dollar, but with in him there was that which is worth more than money—there was a will, a determined energy which laughs at poverty. Friends, for he had some friends even there, came to his assistance'with a few hundred dollars, and on three acres of land, there in the undis turbed forest, he began the erection of his mill, soon bad it up and going, paid off all his liabilities, now owned eight hundred acres of the fine land around him, he has been offered $20,000 for his property; though itisnot half it is worth, was improving it all the time, hired all bis labor. in answer to a question as to bis political opinion, he answered freely, “I am a free softer, sir,” and pointing around him over bis fields, he added, “here is eight hundred acres of free soil in Missouri, and it shall grow to eight thousand actes.’’ Narrow Escape from Wealth.—The venerable and reverened Dr. Humphrey, of Pittsburg, writing from Chicago to the If. Y. Evangelist, thus dilates on an instance of his life; How marvellous has been the rise of prop erty in Chicago ! Happening to be there in the summer of 1839, when tho Dearborn res ervation was brought into market, I bought two small lots, and sold them about seven'or eight years ago for $2,500, which was tho’t to be a fair price. Now the new Richmond Hotel, one of the finest in Chicago, stands bn the same ground, which I am assured would, if I had kept it to this time, have brought me eighty thousand dollars ! -, So you see bow narrowly I have escaped being a rich man, and tearing my boys, had they been young, to rely upon my fortune, and not their , own industry, economy and good behaviour. . ... f slept upon ’ the premises last night at a fair hotel charge, and without. being kept awake one moment in thinking of what I had. IOSt. ....-, r. I had excellent accommodations, and what could I ask for more T If the children of the proprietor who bought the (and of me (if he has any) escape with the great fortune, as safely as, mine have done without il, they will be an exception to the general experience of wealthy families. •“Little boy, can I g<f through this gate to the river 1” politely inquired .a fashionably dressed lady. “P’haps so;, a.load of hay went through, this mornipg,.was the horrid Te p'y- ' "I’ll lake your part ” as the dog said when he robbed the cat of her portion of the dirner, WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1^57. Adventure of an Auburn Editor. The editor of the Auburn American re cently attended a (rial of Mowers and Reap; ers, and while examining bo orchard adjoin ing the meadow in which the trial took place, experienced a trial of quite another descrip tion, His description of the affair is too good to be lost: ■ . “Thai boll was one of them; 'He was monarch of all he coul eat, chase or gore.— Being deriply-interested in the apple crop, be wandered out of the field in which the mow ing was’ going on, into friend ShdlweH’sor chard. Fat and handsome blooded bows were tying about, chewing their cuds, and utterly indifferent to-what was going bn. We wan-- dered pn from tree to tree in. the large orch ard, and while critically examining some, very fine looking fruit, was suddenly and, rather unpleasantly startled from our train of iho’t by the bellowing of Mr. Taurus, whose maj esty had been reclining, and of whose august presence we were unaware. Ho elevated bis tail and made the- eatlh .fly with his “awful paws,” and having thus manifested his hostil ity and given lone, if not color, to bis idea, that we were an interloper, made a plunge towards us. A moment’s view of our. antag onist was.just about enough. -He-bad a tre mendous front. His eyes flashed fire. He roared like a “Bull of Bashen.” We did not at all' fancy the style of his, horns. They were straight as needles, and about as sharp. He exhibited an uumjstakeable desire to em ploy ihem upon us. Knowing that it was expected of os to re port the test trial going on in another field, we remembered the prior and pressing inter, ests of our friends, and set up a smart run. So did Mr. Bull! We scampered. He scam pered. He made belter time than we could “bottom out.” He gained on us rapidly.— We could almost feel bis hot breath on the back of our neck. It was neck or nothing. Rail fence twenty rods off! Tight race]- No bets! Bull in high spirits ! Gave up'tbi a “goner !” No such thing! Friendly ap. pie tree with low branches 1 Clutched two of them and lifted our precious body into the tree ! Taurus arrived just as we cleared the ground! Pawed-and roared horribly—Tau rus did ! We attempted to reason with him. No sort of use ! He was obstinate sad hard of heart. Evidently a great scamp. We eyed him. He eyed us, Good sight for both of us. Being in the newspaper line, we are in favor of the earliest publication of import ant news, but we confess that the Bull-let-in contemplated on this occasion shocked our sense of propriety. And the . fact that vtg were treed, illustrated our antipait-j. in prnr*. (icing the popular fqat of “taking the bull by the horns.” In this case it would assuredly have been “a horn 100 much.” So, Our enemy pawed around the tree, bellow ing after the manner of “Boanerges the son of thunder,” glared at us, and finally walked off the distance of. three trees. Thinking all wax right, we slid down heroically, and “put” fof the crazy old r fence. Tht distance from tree to bull, and from bull to fence, was just about an even thing, Bui our assailant saw the movement, and once roore.the chase was a hot one. But this time we distanced the “horned critter,” and,scaling the fence, land ed in a field of ryeat abouj-the same moment that our pursuer’s boros struck the top rails of the fence, and sent themAying, Separa ted by the fence, we read the' scoundrel a lec ture that we hope he will remember to his last moments. We made alb due allowances in his case for the excitement caused by (ho hubbub of the mowing and reaping affair, but nevertheless, concluded that he, was a great scamp. ~ , • . ; ■ Typographical Errors. —The most cu rious mistakes are made by printers, which are often overlooked.by the proof-reader.— Generally speaking the good sense'of printers and readers make ariiad manuscript perfect ly clear. An exchange presents the follow ing specimens of some amusing errors which its Editor has noted ; During the Mexican war one .of the Eng lish newspapers hurriedly announced an-im portanl item of,news from Mexico, that Gen. Pillow and thirty-seven of his men bad been lost in a bottle’(battle.) Some other paper informed the public, not-long ago, that a man in a brown surtoul was yesterday brought be fore the police courfon charge of having sto len a small ox (box) Irom a lady’s work bag. The stolen properly , was found in bis waist coal pocket. A rat (raft) says another paper, descending the river, came in contact wuh a steamboat ; and, so serious was the injury to the boat, lhal great exertions were necessary to save it. An. English paper once stated that the Russian General, Backinoffkowsy was found dead with a long word in his mouth. It was perhaps, the same paper . that, in giving a description of a battle be tween Polos, said that the conflict was dread ful,, and the, enemy was repulsed with great .laughter (slaughter). Again ;-r-A gentleman was • yesterday brought up to answer the charge of having eatpn (beaten) a stage dri ver, for demanding more than his fare. At the late fourth of July dinner in the town of Charleston, none of ihe.pouliry were eatable except the owls (fowls), • Conclusive Logic.—A very celebrated Scotch Divine in oneof hisiertnonscrowded the following mass of argument into a single sentence: “TWi world we inhabit must have had an origin] that origin must have teen intelligent ; that intelligence mu4l have been Ultimate; 1 (fiat ultimate power most have been supreme; and that which always was «nd is Supreme, we know by the name of God.” Mr, Editor he Did climb the apple tree The ball la see. A Scared African, The brig Flora, Capt. Yales, of Now cas tle, Maine, arrived at the port of New-York' on Monday from Dix Cove, West Codstpf Africa, May 20, bringing among her crew sF native Krooman, who had ’ been taken on board at Dix Cove, as a foremost hand. '((The fears of this native African had been excited on the passage by the sailors, who gave him to understand %hal he would be sold, as a slave when he reached the Whiteman’s coun try. When the vessel hauled into the Atlantic dock, a monkey on board attracted a curious, crowd, bu( was forgotten 'soon by the sepe rior attractions of the African, with a pair of huge bracelets on his wrists. Seeing so many white and strange faces he became, alarmed, and running - into the forecastle threw off all his • clothing, except a blue jumper, and then sprung into the rigging, and with the- hgilily of a monkey: ran up to the. fere loyal, yard, where he parched himself; 1 and by his moaner bid defiance to all white folks. - . j A naked Africaii in snch a position soon drew a large throng of spectators; the mate tried- every means to; -induce him to come down, but without efleet;-to the males com mands he would Wake'but one reply, “me dies, rne dies,” -and by his gestures intima ting that: he would cut his throat before lie would be’taken. He remained on the yard for about three hours, the excited crowd hooting,’yelling and throwing stones at the poor creature, to increase his alarm of course. He finally told the mate he would come down if “while man go ’way,” or, “Cap’n come.” The vessel was hauled away from (ha dock to gel rid of the mob, but at length three “bumbers,” or longshoremen, went on board, and in defiance of the mate’s remon strances, climbed the rigging to force the Krooman down; Their efforts to catch him, however, were wholly in vain; he ran from one yard arm to. uooiher, and sprang about ihe 'tins and braces like a cat, defy ing. all attempts to reach him.. At-one lime he dropped from the outer end of the royal yard arm and caught the topgallant list alighting safety upon the yard below. . , These wretches, finding he was too spry for them aloft, then descended To the deck, and pushing the male aside, seized the lop' gallant braces pnd began lo surge, to pull and slack up and. awing the yard back arid forth in the most violent manner, the negro clinching with might and main to the yard and lift, the crowd on the doek the mean-, time yelling like fiends, and awaiting to see him thrown from the yard. The police were called..but rtmlH nnt wnntH nnt (tl«. perse the rowdies. At last, worn out by his exertions to save his life, as a sudden jerk of the braces was given by the scoundrels on deck, the poor fellow was thrown from the yard, and striking the braces fell into the water a distance b( seventy or eighty feel. He barely escaped the rail of the vessel in bis descent; had he struck it, or fellen-bh the' deck, he would have been killed -instantly. Some-boatmen now attempted to- reseflb him from the water, but be dove as quickens* flash, and swimmthgbrider water camri up a fong distance oflt ‘ They pursued him, however, and seizing him by the ivory rings on hia .wrists, endea vored to get him in'o ; the boat; bat he re sisted with all his might, and cried out “Me die I Me die !” -He Was. finally, got on board, and lo satisfy him - that their motives were inendly, one of the boatmen prilled off his own shirt arid pantaloons and pul them' upon him. This immediately quieted his feare t and he surrendered bimselfTo his new friends, who to escape the mob, rowed him to the culler Washington, where he was received and cared for by 1 LieUt. Lellum. .He is called John Davis, and made our reporter understand- that- he came from Gletnaboc taboo, that he fußFnof been paid his wages. Capt. Faunae will enquire info his. case, and. see that the poor African has justice done him.— Times. The Giant of the |World. —The Jack son', (Tenn.) Whig has the following addi tional particulars, furnished by the Rev. John Brooks, concerning the late Miles Darden of Tennessee; „ * , He was twice married. His children are very large, but probably none of them will ever be more than half the weight of their father. He was quite active and lively, and and labored until-about four years he became so fleshythat he was compelled to stay at home, or be hauled about m a two horse wagon. In 1649 he made a contract with a tailor to furnish him a suit of clothes for S 5Q —the cloth was lo cost five dollars per,yard. Upon measurement, it look twelve yards of cloth. So the tailor lost ten dollars and (he making. The, tailor states that three men, each weighing over two hundred pounds, put (he coat on, buttoned it around them, and walked across the square at Lexington, in 1850 it took l'3 i yards of Aax doth, yard wide, to make him a-coal. It took 16 yards of cambric for his shroud ; twenty four yards wide of black velvet to cover the sides and lid of his coffin ; one hundred and twenty five feerof plank to make his coffiin. - His coffin was eight feet long; across the breast thirty-two inches j across the head, eighteen inches j across the 1 foot, fourteen (Defies; ft# depih thirty-five faces. Be weighed, in 1835 eight hundred and severity one pounds. , His height was seven feet six inches. His weight, when he died, as nearly as could be ascertained, was a . fraction oyer 1,000 pounds. . A Vulle boy- hearing bis father say that “There ’ Was --time • for all things,” asked “when is the proper time, father, for Hooking sugar ou) of “the sugar bowl.” &ommmr I cations. To the Ladies, of Wellahoro. . ,Jt saddens me,-dear. ladies, to look around our congregations and see your pale and sa). low faces—and to convince you that this is oof owing to my Jaundiced eye, let me men tion that several strangers who have- visited the place, have remarked the same j- one even .went so Ear a a io say that be saw "but one healthy looking woman in Wellsboro.” We boast of the pure, fresh air of our bills, and *tis a pity that the looks of our people do not make good our boast.,. Allow me from an earnest wish to do you good to make a few suggestions 1 1 - -i Our climate- is probably not.favorable to any great mcreaseof flesh, but.if we rightly' improVed the mean's I 'which God and nature have put irifoour hands,’,’robust Health would not- be so rare nmong-us. | Is it-noi, in part, slavery to,the needle thatJ pales the faces of our women, and causes premature old age.T ■ Lwoold say to ! ibatyoung mother, do less unnecessary needlework, j Let the garments of -yodr little treasures be plainly hemmed.— 1 Let the embroidery which now occupies many an hour that might be spent in-the open air, be laid- aside; and let me urge upon you l that -the cheerful temper, and buoyant spirit which springs from heallh and vigor, is of more consequence Ip the well being of your darlings, and tho happiness of your home, than the ornamented dress in which you take so much pride and pleasure. If you are feeble, ride when you can— but it is far boiler to walk-— walk miles ; but belter still, go into your gardens, your yards, and do not disdain the use of the hoe and trowel, or even the spade j lake the trimming knife or saw, and by active exercise in the open air, you will gain health and strength, happiness and beauty ..and at the same time send nerses 'and medicine to the dogs. It is not all owing to climate that the Ameri can nation is so unlike the English'or Ger man women of the same / age. It is more I (roly- believe to their babifs of living so much in-doort, •In oar long Winters it is difficult to avoid this as much ad could he desired ; btrt let me beg ydti ncjto, to be laying in strength and vigor for coming days, by en joying as much ns possible the free air of heaven. i ' ’ In English families ofj cultivation and in telligence, daily [exercise is considered as much a mailer [of course,! as the daily meals, and an English woman 'of rank and station is not ashamed to planf.totvccd, and to-work among her flowers ancLshjoba in « manner •perfectly shocking I 'dreadfully: vulgar! ‘ ' Hannah More, that noblest.and moat useful of women, speaking of .her home at Bailey Wood, said it was much.endeared to them from the circumstance! hat every tree and shrub was planfedby their own hands,' How many women in Wellsboto have ever planted one tree? And then such walks as these En glish women take. Prof Humphrey writes, “(-was spending the day with an interesting family, and tl Was prbposed «r visit some fine mitiS, 'five miles distant. After exploring them to our satisfaction we returned by a dif ferent road, a mile farther round, f must cbnless that this wfflfc of eleven miles, was rather too much’ for me. j But to my anxious inquiries, next morning, Mr. W. said his sis ters Were accustomed lojsuch tvalk%mnd did not mind ihemT j In these, remarks ,! have particularly ad dressed those who have passed the first bloom of youth. To the younger ladies it is .only necessary’m sny, that the means suggested to reflyre the roses of the mothers, will infalli bly preserve those of the daughters. ! PHILO. -Tdo'“PjtEciiSE. > * —Twenty or twenty-five years ago old Phleg o|>‘ >n Madison county, w'as'tefllng Tits friend Jones, coosarnin’ of a fight. Phleg had eery! little edicalion, but Jones was a man of right smart readin.”— So old Phleg went on lejlio’, "and,” says he, “the y fit and fit and jil!" “And” yays Jones, with a knowin* look, “did thee keep n-filiin!7 Old Phleg drawed himself up and looked as sour as buttermilk into Jones’ face, and says lie— , -* “You're cursed precis font I then blast you.” | , Phleg was a man e warn’l, ip say, a book Ip Blushes anitTeahs! —Goethe was in com pany «hfh a mother and her daughter, when the latter, being reproved Tor some fault, blushed'and burs* Into tears. He sard: How beautiful your reproof has made your daugh ter. The crimson hue pnd those silvery tears become her better lhanjany ornament of gold and pearls. Those may be hung on the neck of a wanton, but these are never seen disconnected with moril piety. A full blown rose, sprinkled with the purest dew, is not so beautiful as this child (blushing beneath her parent’s displeasure, a'nd shedding (ears of sorrow for her fault,, A blush is the sign which nature' hangs' out to show where chas lily and honor dwells, j A certain'judge observing much tittering in Court one day, and fancying that he was the object, whispered to Curran who-stood near the bench : “Curran do you see! anything ridiculous in this wig 1" ' 1 “Nothing but the he witty barrister’s reply aad, my lord,” was ihe Squailer Sovereignly: the-entrance of six full dressed ladies' into a large omnibus, and talcing' ■ dXdhttive por session ■‘-thereof, while eighteen spare gentlemen are forcibly ex pelled. j THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is pub lished every Thursday Morning, and mailed to -üb, •Briber, at the very reasonable price of Omt Dole ta* per annum, intwrieWy taodasae*. It is intend ed to notify every subscriber when the term for which, he baa paid shall have expired, by the stamp —■"Time Out," on the margin of the last paper. The paper will then be stopped until a further re, mittance be received. By this arrangement no map Can be brought in debt to the printer. Tg* Agitator is the Official jiperof lie Coop ty, with a large and steadily increasing circnlaliop reaching into nearly every neighborhood in the Connty. It is sent free of pottage to any Yoat officu within the county limits, and to those living witbip the limits,hot whose moslcopvenienl poatoffic? may be in an adjoining County. ‘NO. 71. Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper in cluded,' $4 per year. The following stoxy was told in Sandusky, Ohio, and appears in the Massillon iVsiM, which says: A. patty of young men In (batancient city amuse their leisure moments at the hotels in drawing ■ long how, or telling wonderful yarns for the benefit of those, apparently ver dant, who may happen to come in from other pacts. They tried the effect of a few extra ordinary wolf ,stories upon a venerable and sedate customer not long since who had come to spend the night at bote), and be listened to them with ranch surprise and interest until their stock appeared to have run out amf the conversation flagged, whep he remarked that be bad been much interested in the news they had given him, relative to the inhabitants of that country ; but regarded an event in his early life as more pecuhat than any they bad named. Said He; Tot The Agitator. « “When a young roan, I was travelling in western New York, and late of a stormy night applied at a log cabin for lodging. The occupant, a woman refused it, saying her husband and sons were out hunting, and if they found me there, would murder roe, I preferred the chance of the storm, and she consented that I might lie down before the fire. In the night I heard them coming and scrambled up the chimney. -‘Thinking I was safe when at the lop, 1 stepped over the roof, and, jumping down at the back'of <he cabin, jumped plump iolo a wolf trap. A scream ol pain brought the men and boys out, and they declared I de served a more severe punishment than death, so they kept me both in ,a trap and in sus pense until morning, and then, heading roe up in a hogshead, with no nir or light hut through the they put me on a sled and drove me some four miles up a hill, and then rolled me off to starve. This 1 un doubtedly should have done but for a very singular occurrence. The wolves smelled me out and gathered around my prison, when one of them, in turning around happened to thrust his tail into the hung hole. It was my only chance. I caught a%m hold and held on like death to a negro, which fright ened the wolf, of course, and he started down the bill, followed by the hogshead and mo. It was a very uneasy ride, over the -stones and stumps ; hut I had no idea how long it was until the hogshead striking a stone fairly, the slaves worn by long travel, were broken in, and I jumped out to find myself away down in the lower end of Calaraugus county, thirty miles from the scene-of not express any lfouhVol ffie’Vfuffi'oT your stories, and 1 hope you will not of mine,” It is currently reported that the "sell club” of Sandusky’has not had a full meeting since that occurred. ' Some years ago, during the heat of a cof fee speculation in Boston, when everybody was holding on, wailing for the article to ad vance, an old merchant, keen as a razor, whose store was packed from the first to the fourth floor with prime gteen Rio, concluded, fro m signs he well understood, that prices had reached their acme. He was too old a hand at the bellows not to know, that the moment he, with his immense stock, began to sell,, an alarm would be taken, and down would go the prices. Quietly sending off - a pretty stiff invoice of the article to auction, and giving the auctioneer a good humored hint to mind his own business, he attended the sale, and bid readily at prevailing prices for the coffee. Other holders, that knew he had twice as much on hand as they had, concluded that it was safe to buy when he did, and so stood up manfujly and bought. While old Mr. ’s carmen were tumbling his purchases in at ihe front door of bis warehouse, five times as many were carrying away coffee from the back door. On the next day of sale he bid as freely as ever, and this continued for two or three weeks. One day he failed to appear at a coffee gale, and most of the dealers took the alarm and prices declined a little. During the afternoon a pretty large holder, who had always been ready to buy when be saw Mr. willing, met him in the street, and asked the rate o( coffee. ie about langwidge— “I don’t know what it is going for to day,” replied the old fellow, as cool and pleasant as ice cream. • if natural parts, but Tni man. ••Did it ?” respond Mr. , with what seemed to his fellow tradesman a strange manifestation of indiflerence. - “Yes, certainly ! Haven’t you beard it be lore?” “No—but Inspected as much ” “Whv, we shall all be ruined, if prices go down!” “Not all, I presume,” replied Mr.- with on unmoved countenance. “Me?”exclaimed Mr. —,in well feigned astonishment, “J haven't got a hag in if it store /” At an association dinner, a debate arose as to the benefit of whipping in bringing up chit dren. Old Dr. Morse took the affirmative— His opponent, a young minister whose repu tation for veracity was not very high, affirmed that parenjs often did barm to their children by punishmen', from not knowing the facta of the case. “Why,” said he, “the only lime my father whipped me was for telling the truth-.” “Well,’ 1 retorted the doctor, *‘t{ cored you, didn’t it ?” The doctor beat. No man on a death bed over regretted arty act of self-denial or benevolence* done by h'mself. Terms of Publication. A Rather Tough Story. Diamond Cut Diamond. “ft declined this morning.” “Why, you’re in it deeper than any of os.”
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