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A Wife worth 100,000 Dollars.
It was fifteen years ago ibis wialer that I
attended a dancing school in Detroit, wiih a
young lady then residing in the city. I made
up my mind some years before, that I would
never get married, but it was such pleasant
business, I couldn’t find it in my heart to
“lei ihe girls alone” altogether,'so I paid her
tuition fee and attended the class in her com
pany, every night. About the middle of the
term, several of the young people, ourselves
included, were talking in the ball-room, On
the subject of malrimony, and I of course be
came interested as well as the others. On
going borne that evening I told my compan
ion that I had determined to get married dur
ing ihe spring, and asked her advice in re
gard to the selection of a wife. She made
no reply for a moment, and I told her if she
didn’t know anybody belter fitted for me, I
would like to have her think the malteff'over
and tell me what she thought of marrying
me.herself. I was joking all this lime you
must understand, and had no more thought of
marrying her, lhan I have now of marrying
Queen Vic. She promised ip think of it,
however, and I returned lo my hoarding house
and gave the subjecl no farther thought until
some weeks later—and as luck would nave
it, on the lasi evening of the school the sub
ject was again brought up in conversation
just as we were preparing lo retdrn to our
homes for ihe night. After leaving Ihe hall
we talked and chatted of different matters on
different subjects, till we reached her resi
dence. It was late, and I did not enter Ihe
house, though she strongly urged me lo do
so. I had bid her good night and turning
away, when I happened to remember the
promise she had made, and I said :
“Helen, you promised to let me know to
night, whether you would marry me this
spring. Have you made up your mind 1”
“Yes, said she, 1 have been thinking about
it, but 1 guess lam a little too young. If it
wasn’t for that, I guess I would have no ob
jection.”
“Well then, good night,” said I. “I didn’t
think you would do it —but I am bound lo
marry somebody, and this spring too.”
Before leaving her, I engaged to call again
die following evening.' That night I slept
soundly, and the next morning I had forgot
ten all about my night’s adventure. During
the day I received an invitation to attend a
ball to bo held that evening a few miles out
of the city, and I made my arrangements ac
cordingly. Towards dusk I remembered my
agreement to, see Helen, and 1 thought 1
would run over fora moment, and afterwards
attend the b all.
Arrived at the hopse I met the lady in the
door-way dressed, and I" thdbght in an extra
style, which I was at a loss to account for,
though I believe I concluded that she had
company, and I therefore was in hopes that
I should not be detained long. Helen wel
comed ime into the parlor with a sweet smile,
and took her seat beside me on the sofa. I
was expecting every moment to see some
stranger come in, and 1 had not yet become
satisfied that we were alone when she said :
“Henry, I have made op my mind to have
yon.’’
Had a thunder-clap struck me I could not
have been more suprised, and after an instant
of hoahation I stammered out
“What do you say ?”
“1 have concluded to marry you !”—she
said.
“Oh ho, have you ! We 11,.!, suppose it is
all right—what time shall the event take
place !”
“I thought if it would suit you, that you
might drive around next Sunday, and we will
go to mother’s at Dearborn, and we will be
married there.”
“Well,” said I, “I’ll see if I can,” and as
soon as possible 1 took my leave.
•I didn’t go to the ball that night—l forgot
all about it, and sal over the stove till morn
ing, thinking of what a scrape I had got
myself into. I even forgot to keep the fire
going, and almost froze in my seat. When
daylight began to peep in the windows, I had
made up my mind what to do. I would go
over and tell Helen that we must get married
immediately or not at all; and if she agreed
to that I saw no other way but to submit to
my fate.
, When I entered the gate leading up to the
house I heard her singing a lively song, and
my conscience almost smote me for deceiving
the poor girl as I had, but I summoned up
courage to ring ihe bell, and pulling up my
collar and throwing my head back I anx
iously waited for an answer to my summons.
She came to ihe door, end J was again shown
into the parlor, and she look her place beside
me on the sofa as before.
“Helen,” I commenced.
“Well, what V’
k® marr *ied to-day, or I don’t
think 1 shall be married at all.”
ll stuck m my throat as I said it, for I
WBS te [ lln B » whopper; but imagine
my surprise, when she replied: t 6
mav d • li ’ jUS ' aSy ° U P ,ease -Henrv. You
o' o C t rl ? n rt UrC ,r^ e around “boul twelve
0 clock, aud I will be ready.”
Jr-“S’ Pr ? cisel y at ‘welve I drew up
« h »n%,Sto m e . h “ be6n W ° rlh mofe
A wid.
you are of 1"“ sai^
*ea m of I hiSSdJ.*' 11 ** lln?0 enDUBh ‘°
Camhf:i^ UESTI .° N is now under discussion at
So f g r h : “ Which «“*■ —H a rat the
lh e man who knows ihe most, or
man who has the most nose ?”•
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THE AGITATOR.
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Be&oteQ to tjje SSjrtcnalm* ot ttie of iFmtrdm anDr tfce SpieaD of ?£raU|>g Befotm.
■WHILE Tfli&E SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUS'f CONTINUE.
YOL. IY.
A Chapter on Matrimony,
A young lady out West, in a communica
tion to the Sandusky Register, upon the sub
jecl of matrimony, says i
“It is a mournful fact that this world is full
of young men who want to,marry < but dare
□ot. Deny this, as some will, it Is neverthe
less true, as, we can easily show. In this
town, for instance, tbOre are some thirty or.
forty young men, well to do in the way of
business and salaries, yet they refuse to lake
the step .which they'all want to lake, but do
not. Why? The large majority of them
have salaries ranging from five hundred lo
seven hundred dollars per year. Now' the
first question to be asked by any sane man,
is, can I properly support a wife, if ,1 take
one ? Then be counts the cost of living as
the woman of bis preference would wish,
and lo ! he finds lo his amazement that his.
income is vastly too small lo support even a
modest “modern” establishment; and, some
what maddened by. the reflection, he plunges
into labor and courts business with an assidu
ity that takes away, his health eventually, in
hopes of attaining an income that shall ena
ble him to marry and have a home of his
own. And this is the secret of the bard, un
ending toil of the young men of to day, who
are fast opproaching thirty yearsof age; this
is the reason of so many disappointed men
and waiting women, deny or hide it as you
may.
“But, says some good woman, you do us
injustice; for any woman that truly loves a
man will adapt herself to his circumstances
with the greatest pleasure., But what man
of any sensitiveness or high sense of honor,
would take a woman from easy circumstan
ces, and a pleasant and well furnished home,
to adorn his four little rooms, and to do his
housework, as the first principles of economy
would demand of him ! Pew will do it; for,
though the woman signifies her willingness
to lake up with such experience, we are all
such creatures of circumstances, that there
would be complaining on her part, eventually,
and sickness from over exertion, unhappiness
from many' cares—all of which would render
marriage anything else than pleasant. And
so the young men very wisely think—prefer-,
ring a few years of single loneliness, in order
to obtain money enough to support a modest
house of between twelve and fifteen hundred
dollars a year expense, rather than to place
a moderately educated woman into the house
of six hundred a year, where she must do
-her own housework.
“Now, what is the remedy 1 Plainly that
women must fit themselves to be such wives
as the young men must have. Else the young
men must fit themselves to be such husbands
as ihe women warn,and spend the very choice
est years of their lile in the dismal drudgery
of a ceaseless toil, breaking' down heabh,,
happiness, energy, only to give ihemselves up
to marriage when the best of their manhood
is gone. The women must choose for them
selves which it shall be, for the matter is
solely in their hands. Let mothers say to
their daugh'ers—put on that calico gown ; go
into the kitchen and prepare dinner; lake
charge of Ihis household, and fit yourself to
become a wife and mother. the young
women cheerfully consent to such service ;
and instead of lavishing all thought, and lime
and money upon ihe adornment of the body,
seek to accustom the hands to proper indus
try, and to school the mind to proper;tastes.
Then there will be no longer complaint that
young men “can’t afford to marry,” and ,we
shall have beautiful, modest houses all around
us, and women will have loving husbands,
and all life once more have somelhing pf the
truthfulness and virtue which it had in the
days of our blessed fathers and mothers,
when it was woman’s ambition to become the
head of the house, and the mother of noble
children.”
There’s some good sense for you, girls
Amekicatc Genehais. —Washington was
a surveyor, and m afier life a farmer—“ E
xpressive silence ! muse his praise.”
Knox was a bookbinder and a stationer.
Morgan (he of the Cowpens) was a dro
ver. Tarleton got from him a sound lecture
on that subject.
Greene was a blacksmith, and withal a
Quaker; aibeil, through all his Southern
campaigns and particularly at the Eutaw
Springs, he put off the outward man.
Arnold was a grocer and provision store
keeper in New-Haveu, where his sign is still
to be seen—the same that decorated his shop
before the Revolution.
Gates, who opened Burgoyne’s eyes to the
fact that he could not “march through Ihe
United Slates with five thousand men,” was
a “regular built soldier,” but after the Revo
lution a farmer.
Warren, the martyr of Bunker Hill, was a
physician, and hesitated not to exhibit to his
countrymen, a splendid example o.f the man
ner in which American physicians should
practice, when called upon by their country.
Marion the “swamp fox” of the South,
was a cow-boy.
“Sumpter, the ‘ fighting-cock” of South
Carolina, was a shepherd’s boy.
A gentleman of Charleston purchased a
negro girl for a Very considerable price, and
she was shortly after taken sick and came
very near dying. When convalescent, her
mistress, who had bden very kind and atten
tive to.her during went again-lo
her chamber, and with the pious view of
ascertaining what spiritual or religious im
pressions extreme illness and the prospect
of death made upon the girl, said to-her:
“ What were yoor thoughts and feelings
when you believed yourself about to die 1”
“Ah 1 missus,” said -Sally, “I was sorry
tor think how muchinassa was gwine to lose
by me /”
WELLSBORC/ TIOGA COUNTY, PA* THURSDAY MORNING., OCTOBER 8/1857.
Hints to Horse Dealers.
Tompkins bought a horse—paid three hun
dred dollars for him. The horse, after a few
months proved lo be lame in the right shoul
der. -Tompkins was distressed about it; tried
all sorts of remedies—embrocations, lina
ments, mustang included, under the advice of
the best veterinarians; still the lameness was
obstinate and grew rather worse. He be
came desperate, and bit upon this device to
sell the horse. He drove an ugly ten-pcnny
nail plump' into the right lore-foul, and left it
there for ten days, when he led the tortured
animal limping to a neighboring blacksmith
to be shod. The blacksmith was a dealer in
horses, and quite a jockey'in his way. After
a while Tompkins called at the shop for his
horse.
“Thai’s.a splendid gelding of yours, Mr.
Tompkins;,pity he is so lame,” said the
blacksmith.
“He is, indeed,” replied Tompkins, “but
he is very lame, and I’m afraid he can’t be
cured.”
“Perhaps not, and may be he can,” replied
Vulcan. . “How much would you be willing
lo lake for him the way he stands, money
down.”
“Ah, well, I don’t know what to say about
that. If he is cured, he is worth all I paid
for him, and even much more as horses go
now ; but if his lameness should continue,
you see he is worth nothing—not a dollar.”
The blacksmith began to chaffer. First
he offered filly dollars, then one hundred dol
lars, and at last two hundred dollars for the
animal. Tompkins was persuaded and ac
cepted the last offer. The money was paid
and the horse delivered on the spot.
“Now,” said the blacksmith, “as the bar
gain is finished, 1 will be frank with you, Mr.
Tompkins. I suppose 1 can tell you whal
ailed that horse.”
“Can you?’ said Mr. Tompkins, I shall
be glad lo hear it. 1 thought knew all
about it, or you would not have paid so much
money for him.”
The blacksmith produced ihe nail, and as.
aured Tompkins, with great apparent satisfac
lion, that while paring down the horse’s hoof
he had found that infernal long piece of iron,
and had drawn it out of the frog of the near
fore foot.
“Is that all you know about it V’ Tomp
kins asked very quietly.
“All !” replied the blacksmith; “all I isn’t
that enough, for conscience sake 1"
“Well, replied Tompkins, “I don’t know
ns it is. I will be equally frank with you,
since the bargain is finished. I drove that
nail into the foot, but the lameness- is in the
shoulder I think you will find.”
Printers.—The Belfast Mercury, in an
article on ihe craft, says from high lo low
they are the'same careless, clever, generous,-
well-informed, reckless fellows, knowing how
to act betier than they do; nothing at limes,
everything if occasion requires or the fit
takes them ; no sooner comfortable in one
town than they make tracks for another,
though they travel on “hair space” means,)
And to what will they not turn thdir hands 7
“We have seen,” says an American editor,
“one and the same individual of the craft a
minister in California, a lawyer in'Missouri,
a sheriff in Ohio, a boatman on a Western
canal, sailing a privateer, and a pressman in
a large printing office, i Nor are ihe charac
ters confined lo any one'counlry. They are
everywhere the same. We have met them
as lecturers, actors, traveling preachers, ven
triloquists ;in fact, everything. We have
met on a tramp in this country, members of
this roving profession from all parts of the
globe—Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese,
Germans and Swedes—and all apparently as
much nl home as in their own country.
Ardent lovers of liberiy, king-craft and
priests find but little favor in their eyes..
They are always with the people. When the
Charlisl excilement was raging in England,
the most eloquent and spirited leaders in the
movement were printers. When barricades
were raised in Paris in 1848, the compositors
cast their type into bullets and shot ihem at
the royalist troops. When the Americans
were at war with Mexico, one of Gen. Tay
lor’s regiments was composed almost entirely
of printers, and they were the bravest of his
troops.”
Canadian Yankee.—Over Ihe line, in
Canada, they are quite as inquisiliae as their
Yankee, neighbors—probably the South wind
carries the infection over—and they are cer
tainly more in danger than the Jersey farm
ers are at Sandy Hook.
Some years since, os we learn by a letter
from a Canadian friend, the Receiver General
was traveling on a steamboat, with consider
able funds for the Government, and for the
sake of safety and privacy, he engaged the
whole of the ladies’ cabin. The passengers
were all alive to ascertain the reason of this
arrangement, and especially to know what
business the great man could have on hand
lo require so much room and money.
At length one of them, more bold than the
rest, voluoteecred to introduce the subject, as
the receiver was walking the deck, and ap
proaching, asked if he was on a government
contract.
“Yes !” was the gruff reply.
“A very large one 7”
“Yes, very large.”
“May I ask what it is 7”
“Yes.”
“Well say, sir, what is it ?” •
“Why, you see,” said the Receiver Gene
ral, with great seriousness, “the King of Eng
land has made a present to the King of Siam,
of his half of Lake Ontario, .and I am en
aged to bottle it off;”
No more questions were asked.
The Doctor and hjs Horse. —Studious
persons are sometimes surprisingly ignorant
how to act on ordinary occasions. A Scot
tish paper says that Dr. Chalmers'eame home
one evening on horseback, and as neither Ihe
men who had the charge df his horse nor the
key of ihd siable could be found, he was fnr
some time not a little puzzled where to find
a temporary residence for the animal. At
last he fixed on the garden as the fittest place
he could think of for the purpose ; and, hav
ing led the horse thither, he' placed it-on the
garden walk. When bis sister, who had
also been from home, returned, arid was told
that the key of the stable could not be found,
she inquired what bad been done with the
horse. * ,i
“I look it lo Ihe garden,” said the doctor.
“To the garden I” she exclaimed ; “Then
all our flower and vegetable beds will be de
stroyed.” . N
“Don’t be afraid of that,” said the doctor,
“for 1 look particular care to place the horse
on the garden walk.”
“And did you really imagine,” rejoined the
sister, “that he would remain there ?”
“I.have no doubt of it,” said the doctor;
“for so sagacious an animal as the horse
could not fail to he aware of the propriety
of refraining from injuring the products of
the gardeo.”
“I am afraid,” said Miss Chalrriers, “that
you will think still less favorably of the dis
cretion of the horse when you see the gar
den.”
To decide the controversy by an appeal to
facts, they went to the garden and found,
from the ruthless devastation which the tramp
ling and rolling of the animal had spread
over every part of it, that the natural philos
ophy of the horse was a subject with which
the lady was far more accurately acquainted
than her learned brolher.
“I never could have imagined that horses
were such senseless animals,”
Rather Ambiguous.—A great many
people find much difficulty in saying what
they mean—as much perhaps as some editors
find in meaning what they say. A certain
witness, in an assault and battery suit, we
once heard mix things up considerably, in
giving his account of the affair. Afier rela-
ting how Dennis came up and struck him, he
proceeded—
“So yer honor, I just hauled off and
swiped his jaw. Just then his dog cum
along, and I hit him again and dropped him.”
‘ “Hit the dog?”
“No, yer honor, hit Dennis. And then I
up wid a stun and throwed it at him, and it
rolled over and ovci.”
“Threw a s one at Dennis!”
“At the dog, yer honor. And he got up
and hit me again.”
“The dog 7”
“No, Dennis. And wid that he stuck his
tail bi-lwixi his legs and run off.”
“Dennis?”
“No, the dog. And when he came back
at me, he got mo down and pounded me, yer
honor.”
“The dog came back at you 7”
“No, Dennis, yer honor. And that’s all
I did lo him, yer honor, and he isn’t hurt
any at all.”
“Who isn’t hurl 7”
“The dog, yer honor.”
This testimony so befogged the case, that
the defendant was acquitted as a mailer of
course.
“Fare Ma’am.” —“How do you do, said
Mrs. Partington, smiling, shaking hands' with
Mr. Rurbank, in Docksquare omnibus, as he
held out his five dexter fingers towards her.
1 “Fare, ma’am !” said he, in reply lo her
inquiry.
“Well, I’m sure I’m glad of it, and how
are the folks at home 7”
“Fare ma’am !” continued he, still extend
ing his his hand. The passengers were in
terested.
“How do you like Boston ?” she screamed
as the omnibus rolled over ihe slopes.
“Pare ma’am !” he shouted without with
drawing his hand, “I want you lo pay me
for your ride!”
“O !” murmured she, “I thought it was
some one that knowed me,” and rumaged
down in the bottom of her reticule for a
ticket, finding at last five coppers lied up in
the corner of her handkerchief—the “last
war” handkerchief, with the stars and stripes
involved in it. and the action of Ihe Constitu
tion and Guerriere stamped upon it.
But the smile she had given him at firs!
was not withdrawn—there was no allow,
ance made for mistakes at that counter —
and he went out with n lighter heart and
heavier pocket, to catch the other ,coach.
Tub Coat of Arms.of Misesota.—We
have been shown the device of the Seal and
Coat of Arms adopted by tho Republican
Conventiou of our future State. It represents
a waterfall —supposed to be that of Mineha
ha within a shield, symbolizing the abundant
water power in the State. An Indian figure
with his face toward the setting sun, and tom
ahawk and arrows at his (eel. Opposite is a
figure of a while man, with a sheaf of wheat
and.agricultural implements. The Indian is
represented as asking of the while man whith
er he shall go, and the white man pointing to
the implements, as if he would direct him in
the habits of civilized life. In one corner a
distant view of Lake Superior and sail; in
the other, the Minnesota River and a steamer.
The three pine regions of the St. Croix, Mis
issippi and Lake Superior are represented by
three pine trees. The motto to accompany
the words, “Stale of Minesota, A. D'., 1857,’
is in these words : “Liberty and Union.”—■
St. Paul Daily Times,
© qmmiinicaUoris,
Toting ’Tien of Tioga.
But a few days will pass,efe you. will be
called upon to cast your vote t'p help decide,
the great pending struggle'. Neyer'before has'
a State election possessed the'.imporlanco of
the one close at hand. In by-jgone days we
have been divided upon various questions of
State policy—mere questions of dollars and
cents, but to-day the, canvass presents itself
in a different form. One great overshadow,
ing principle prevails and although defunct
Americaniem may hold up tljelshadow of the
Pope to betray the masses jlVom the issue
—although the slave-driving democracy may - '
proclaim through its great jhigh priest that
order reigns in Kansas, yetjnotwiihsiandmg
all these collateral efforts to again delude the
voters, all parties impliedly accept the issue :
'Shall Kansas be given up to llje hateful em
brace of Slavery, in spite of |once plighted
faith and the voice of a cleat majority of the
actual residents? Shall the, freemen of Pa.
accept, the doctrine of Justice Taney, that
those who by nature-differ from us in com
plexion shall be classed vyiihlgoods and chat
tels, and that still later idea put ibrlh by James
Buchanan, “That slavery nowjexisls in Kan
sas by virtue of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States.” ‘ i
To you I shall not slop to a|rgue the deep,
damning evil of human slavery. Every one
will admit, that to enslave a fallow man, is a
great palpable wrong, but must I attempt lo
prove that a southern slave is a. man I Slave
holders themselves concede the point. In the
domestic Slate of Virginia there are seventy
two crimes punishable by death, if committed
by an ignorant black man, while only two (/)
of these crimes will subject a Stvhile man to q|
like punishment. ] f
When the fowls of the airj—|the cattle upon
the hills—the dogs of the streets and reptiles
that crawl upon the earth,-fail; to distinguish
a slave from a brute, then will I slop to argue
the manhood of the slave. Shall 1 argue that
it is wrong, morally and sociajly 7 M> Jefferson
says, “It destroys the morali of one party
and ihe love of country of the other—makes
tyrants of ihe masters and [strikes manhood
from the bosom of the bohdman. “ Shull 1
contend that it is wrong religiously and poli
tically 7 In loin, I ask is it consistent (or a
man to partake of the sacraniem in common
with one of his chattels,^! 1 for 347,525
slaveholders to absolutely rule thirteen-mil
lions of freemen of the nonh4—control every
brunch of our government —appogit ail the
officers and dispense the whiiie patronage jifl
litis people I Shall I insist that it is not pccu
oianiy profitable? 1 have, duly Id point IO
the dilapidated plantations of Virginia—the
sterile wastes of ihe Carolinas, aridiihe gene
ral features of poverty and dticay that envel
ops the whole South. At every corner of
this question you please to rifise, the South
ron’s God stands belore us, a-giant wrong—
a national cur=e; and w'hile all civilized na
tions are condemning it as a liiieful relic of
ancient barbarism, this Christian and enlight
ened nation, with a land leemipg with church
es and school houses —with cufieges and acad
emies springing, up in every lhamlel, knows
nothing but to bow iis head m the dust and
blindly obey ihe despotic. mandate of the
slave aristocracy. .1
fl no! only governs our national elections,
absolutely, but intrudes itself upon Slate righs
and eXerls all i|3 efforts lo influence our Smie
elections. Now this is the isjue before us.—
David Wilmot with the hope of extending his
proviso over all lands : not 'occupied by Sla
very, or Gen. Packer to occupy the Execu
tive, chair, for the jlurpose of. giving us a
Douglas-Taney version ofilnQ rights of the
people. j
To the free young working men of the
north this election must directly appeals; fur
it settles as far as the Slate is concerned, not
only the question of Ihe rights ol the black
man, but will conclusively settle whether non
slaveholding whiles have nnylrights—that is,
dear reader, whether you and I have any
righ's that the general government are bound
lo respect —w-hether we in lh£ future shall be
brought in degrading competition with slaye
labor, and an association of ourselves and
pos'erity with those who are bought and sold,
legally whipped and scourged, and pjaced
upon our neighbors ledger ns property. -
Young working man of Tioga, here inour
corner of Wilmot’s benighted d'siricl, labor
is honorable. No mailer iff our hands' aru
calloused over by hard mafiual labor—no
matter if our countenances ajre darkened by
exposure to the summer’s sun. Wo are still
honored and respected for allj,of these. Here
honest poverty is no crime; and “labor, all
labor is noble and holy !’’ and shall we if de
signing lo emigrate to the grpl West, be re
moved from the proud position of free labori
era of the north, and assume the rank and
file ol the poor while of the! soqlh? Tioga
is fast being sett led—a large number of young
men from necessity- are obliged lo seek homes
elsewhere, and candidly 1 submit, shall that
mighty laud of ours lying ifactween the Pa
cific and ihe Mississippi be in the future like
unto Ohio, New York anlf Pennsylvania,
homes for millions of free intelligent freemen 7
—shall in that vast domainj the laborer be
considered worthy of his hire, and “all men”
held to be “free and equal P,f If so, Wilmot
is the man ; but if on the contrary, you wish
lo bring the work of your! hands into Ihe
field of competition with those (hat labor for
nothing—ifyou wish your forever
barred from free schools, vq’.e for Gen Pack
er ! Again, in lasi FaH’sj campaign, little
Tioga was the banner county. How shall
she 101 l of the second Tuesday of October 1
Shall we lose our proud andjenviable position
and concede the banner to our sister Brad
ford or shall we come up inaufaliy.to the
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fight 1 Shall we not rather raise than dimin
ish ihe majority of last Fall 1 Work just
now ia what 'we want. Action will accom
plish everything. Republican clubs should
everywhere be revived-. Class meetings
should be held in every school district. Tha
mode of operating should be agreed upon
for- the . day of election.
should be made for getting .out every voter.
Let these things be done and the majority for
Wilmoi nnd Freedom ln\tbis county shall ex
ceed 3500. Will we doll 1 Time will tell.
FRANK.
Amekican Women-. —The Press, of Phil,
ndelphiu, criticises an article in Harper’s Mag.
azine upon American politeness and says :
“He has told us of what terrible violations
of politeness Americans are guilty of. We
can tell him what they do not commit.—
Travel where you may, all over the Union,
in no place will you see an American woman
laboring in the fields, (as in France and Ger.
many, tike a beast of burden; in no plnco
will you find the habit of beating wives with,
in an inch of their lives so notorious that (as
in England) statutes for the express purpose
of punishing brutal husbands have to be en.
acted and rigidly enforced ; in no place will
you find (as in Ireland) women, with whole
families of young children, begging their
bread oh the highway and in the streets, mis
erable and starving.”
To this the National Era very pertinently
responds: ’
“Is it possible that our sprightly* cotempo
rary never heard of “American wotfien” la
boring in the fields ? Did he ever travel in a
slave.Slale? Are women never beaten in this
country ? Do they never lack for the com
forts of life? The evils to which the Press
alludes occur among the working cTdsses of
Europe How is it with the same class in
the slave Slates ?”
Hoops. —With the exception of the comet,
nothing has afforded a more common mark
for that portion of the press' who deal out
small wit to satisfy weak minds, than hooped
skirls. If carricatures and vulgar illusion
could have driven them from the streets, they
would not be seen ; but still they are worn
—and . why ? Not only because they are
fashionable, but because they are pleasant
and healthy. Physicians have been for
years advising ladies not to hang heavy skirts
around their delicate waists, and they nearly
unanimously agree that fully one half of the
pale cheeks and frail forms, looking towards
premature graves, are dependent on them.
Now, at the first step of reform, they are
met with sneers and ribald.-jests—whh f OQ [.
isb carrica'ures and senseless insinuations.
May the ladies brave the arrows of weak,
scribblers, and stick to their hoops, knowing
that healthy roses will soon paint their
cheeks, and healthy bodies reward llu-ir pa
tience. Hoops for ever! Them’s our sen
timents. *
An old toper afterlndulging quiie freely in
Ins accustomed beverage, amused himself in
teasing a meillesome horse. The animal not
fancying his familiarities suddenly reared,
and the disciple of Bacchus found himself
sprawling in an adjacent mud puddle. Gath
ering himself up, as composedly as his situa
tion would allow, he shouted to his son who
was standing near by : “John, did you sea
me kid; that 'ere hnss 1”
“Why ho, dad ; the boss kicked y_ou 1”
“Reckon not, John. One or lother of us
got badly histed. 'Tain't me John, for I
am here /”
A certain lacjy had been much annoyed by
the ring of the door-bell by the mischievous
bqys, and determined to be fooled no more
by going to the door. In the course of lha
forenoon her minister called to see her,
dressed in his sprucest manner ; he ascended
the steps and gently pulled the bell-bandle,
when the lady shouted from the entry—
“l see you, boy ; if 1 catch you I’ll wring
your neck !”
The frightend gentleman immediately
rushed down the steps, through a small crowd
of young scamps, and has not beed seen
since.
An Englishman speaking in favor of his
own counyy, said to Dr. Thompson :
“You have no coal; and it is this, that
gives England its manufacturing impor
tance.”
The doctor replied :
‘■We are not altogether destitute of coal.
We' have one small bed called the field of
Illinois, which is larger than the whole of
England. If you will wail till we scoop
some of it out, and then bring your Island
overawe will drop it in and annex you.”
As a rose, after a shower, bent down bv
teat drops, wails for a passing breeze or a
kindly hand to shake its branches, that,
lightened, it may stanjl once more upon its
stem, —so one who is bowed down with afflic
tion, longs for a friend to help him out of his
sorrow, and bid him once more rejoice.
Happy is the man who has one to whom he
can look in sorrow’s stormy hour.
Precocious. —Little Sis—“Oh.Bobb, I’m
a-goin’ to have a hooped dress, an oyster,
shell bonnet,a pa.irof ear-drops, and a-baby !”
Little Bub—“ The thunder you is ! Well,.
I’m going to have a pair of tight panis, a
Shanghai coal, a shaved head, crooked cane,
and a pistol!”
A peasant went to a priest to confess hav.
ihg stolen hay from a largo stack belonging
to a neighbor. “How many loads did you
take?” asked the father confessor. “You
may as well reckon the whole stack at once,”
said the peasant, “as l and my wift intend to
feti.li it all away before »e
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