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A Curious Incident
Now that “life’’ at the watering places is
over for the season, and the returned absen
tees, after several weeks spent in setting
things to rights, are entertaining iheir inti
male friends with reminiscencies of their en
joyments at llockaway, Newport, Nahaut,
&c., we occasionally hear of a Summer in
cident worth repealing. A droll one .oc
curred at a marina resort at (he head of!
Long Island Sound, to a couple of the 40 or
50 boarders in the hotel. A newly arrived
gentleman and lady slrolled away one day
in August to long sand-beach far beyond the
bath-house, to enjoy the grander sweep of the
wave ns it rolled majestically to (he shore.
The sublime solitude of the scene appeared
to be shared only by Old Ocean and them
selves, but they were lovers just about to be
married, and wanted no other society than
that of each other. After walking till they
hud become so warm that they looked wish
fully to the templing water, with its clean
sandy bed, and long to lave in its cool trans
lucent depths, they decided to try a bath.
They hud no swimming rig with them, but
fortunately there was a cosy nook on either
sale of the little rocky promontory which
projected into the Sound several rods beyond
;be main margin. The gentleman modestly
retired to the further side of this natural
screen, and the lady divested herself of her
< lothing without a bit of fear that he would j
incur her Diana-likc indignation ; his honor 1
biing above suspicion, and her own being
sans ptur tt sans rcproache .■ Soon she
heard him splashing in the water on the other
side, and as there wasno harm in using their
tongues, although they must not use their
eyes, she cried out to him cheerily as she
rose like a naiad from the wave, and they
had quite a social lime of it, in spile of iheir
s'-paruiion. “Wasn’t it beautiful?” “Yes,
it was glorious.”
But, unfortunately fori them, a small but
quick wined and mischievous boy—a sort of
marine ike Partington —without being seen
himsell, saw it all. He had been fishing
upon a shelf of rock, at the end of the prom
ontory, and not having very good luck had
fallen into a sleep from which he was awa
kened by Iheir exclamations of delight.
There are some youthful minds to which the
conception of a roguish trick or practical
joke is as inevitable as lying. Unhappily,
this lad was one of them. From the point
where he lay he could, wiih only a slight
movement of his-body, see the gentleman on
one side of the ledge and. the lady on the
other; and not far away from each Iheir re
spective heaps jof garments. What a jolly
good joke, he thought to himself it would be
and hide (their clothes I or, still bel'er,
to change one pile for the other. With him
to divise was to execute, and he went fear
lessly about if, yet with great caution lest
should be discoveied and his fun be spoiled.
Watching his opportunity, and taking advan
tage of their absorption in what they were
the little rogue managed by consum
matrability to effect the ominous exchange
in the situation of the unsuspecting bathers’
clothes, and then stole away from the scene.
As lie ran behind a sand-hill his long shadow
between her and the sinking sun attracted
the lady’s notice, and in some trepidation she
hastened to don her apparel. Fancy her
“fi'elinks” on finding not her own clothes,
bui his hat, coal, vest and olher articles,
in exlenso, of the gentleman on the other
side of the promontory ! How could it have
happened—and what was to be done? Was
ihai fearfully long shadow some spirit of the
sea or shore, who, offended, at her intrusion
upon his solitude, had resorted to this method
of punishing her temerity ? It were bet'er
' •'> imagine her situation than attempt to de
scribe it.
In Iho meantime the gentleman, too, re
paired to the shore 'to dress. Speechless
astonishment was depicted in his counte
nance as it fell upon a heap of woman’s
(clothing.
-j “What in thunder,” he muttered lo himself,
j“does this mean ? Is the place turned
-around, or am I crazy ?” In the greatest
perplexity he took up one article of feminine
apparel after another to the number of about
thirty letting one after another drop again
upon the rock where he stood, with many a
half audible ejaculation of wonder. There
was no doubt in his mind as to whom the
things belonged, but how did they get there,
and where were his own clothes '! With one
arm akimbo, he pressed his other hand upon
hia forehead lo collect his bewildered senses,
little thinking that the mischievious elf who
was the author of his embarrassment was
laughing at him from behind the sand hill.
After a few moments of hesitation, the
gentleman shouted to his iady-lovo the awk
ward intelligence and in return was informed
that his clothes lay at her feet. All that
was to be done was to exchange the lots ; but,
>w, m the name of delicacy, was that con
summatiou, so devoutly wished, lo he effect.
’ . s “ n s nolv down, but it was not
jJ'! ’• F‘ n *dly, it was arranged that the
lady soouhl venture into the water with her
eyes seaward while the (over should ex
change the clothes and return to his side of
i CvS ' Unfortunately, just as he was
ut to cut around to the other side to per
rm that duly, he caught sight of a couple
i young ladies not far olf, and he felt com
g 0 • lo retreat precipitately to his place
j,” m ’, ™ S ISCom ® ne d companion would
ladll r D oul hasli| y and called to the
and J* ' leir U®lp, but they were distant,
nassm„ W T n * lerBe^aQ d them she saw n boy
“neenlfn ? ° Dg ’ To cul lha slor y shorl > lf >e
iinrjt ‘ y un P' ea sant predicament” lasted
l irr yoan " * a dy felt it necessary, lo save
j „ Yr ro , m being chilled to death, to attire
ueraell m her lover’s clothing, H c , on his
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VOL. IV.
pari, put her garments to the same use for
his own benefit, and a pretty good fit it was ;
(or the two friends were about of a size, and
but for the discrepancy of a full beard he
might, in a less dusky light than then pre
vailed, have passed for a lady. It was his
intention, in some way or another, he hardly
knew how, to rectify the matter immediately ;
but when he had ventured to rejoin his laugh
ing and blushing sweetheart, be.saw the mis
chievous boy a little distance off, with a grin
on his impish countenance, closely watching
their motions. Quickly putting a handker
chief to his face to conceal his tell-tale beard,
the gentleman took the lady’s arm, and they
sauntered on the shore until it was dark, then
entered the hotel as privately as privately as
possible, and making the best of their way
to their respective rooms lost no time in
donning mojp appropriate habiliments.
How to Toll
Here is a bit of advice to young ladies,
selling fonh how they may know whether a
young gallant is really courting them, or
only paying-them polite alleniions. The
confounding the one with the other has been
the source of very much trouble, both before
and since the era of Mr. Pickwick and Mrs.
Burdell:
A young man admires a pretty girl, and
must manifest it. He can’t help doing so
for the life of him. The young lady has a
tender heart, reaching out like vine tendrils
for somelhing to cling to! She sees the ad
miration is -flattered; begins soon to love;
expects some lender avowal ; and perhaps
gels so far as to decide that she will choose
a while satin under that gauze, &c., at the
very moment that the gallant she half loves
is popping the question to another damsel ten
miles off!
Now the difficulty lies in not precisely un
derstanding the difference between polite at
tentions and the lender manifestations of love.
Admiring a beautiful girl, and wishing to
make a wife of her, are not always the same
thing; nmJ therefore it is necessary that the
damsel should be on the alert to discover to
which class The attentions paid her by the
young gentlemen belong.
First then if a 'young man greets you in
a loud, free and hearty tone; if he knows
precisely where to pul his hands; if he
stares you straight in the eye, with his mouth
wide open; if he turns his back upon you
10 speak to another; if he tells you who
made his.coat; if he squeezes your hand ; if
he eats heartily in your presence ; if be/ails
to talk very kindly to your mother; iC/p,
short he sneezes when you are singing, cri-f
ticises your curls, or fails to be foolish fifteen
limes every hour, then don't full in love with
him for the world! He only admires you
Uet him say what he will to the contrary,
p On the other hand, if he bo merry with
everybody else, but quiet with you; if he be
anxious to see if your lea is sufficiently sweet
' ened, and your dear person well wrapped up
when you go out into the cold ; if he talks
very low and never looks you steadily in the
eye; if his cheeks are red and his nose only
blushes, it is enough. If he romps with
your sister, sighs like a pairot bellows, looks
solemn when you are addressed by another
gentleman, and in/acl is the most still, awk
ward, stupid, yet anxious of all your male
friends, you may go ahead and make the
poor fellow happy I
Young ladies ! keep your hearts in a case
of good leather, or some other lough sub
i stance, until the right one is found beyond a
j doub 1 , after which you can go on and love
| and court and be married and happy, wilh
-1 out the leas; bit of trouble.
A Good B.ink Customer, —The Hartford
Times tells the following of a case of “idle
capital.”
“A remarkable case of the careful preser
vation of bank bills came to light in Middle
town about two weeks since. Rlr. John Cone,
who resides .near Haddam, appeared at the
counter of the Middletown Bank with 81,000
of its bills, and asked for the specie, which
was promptly given lo him. These bills
were paid lo him in 183.5, and they were
returned it) the same packages, and with the
same strips of paper and marks that were
upon them when paid out. Mr. Cone had
kept them 22 years, of course, without inter
est. Hod he placed the money in some good
savings' bank when it was first paid to him
be would now he entitled to nearly 83,000
instead of 81,000.”
This is what might be called (says the
New Haven Register) keeping “a good bank
account.” A few such benevolent men as
Mr, Cone would enable a bank to keep out a
very respectable “circulation.” It is what
may be determined “the height of confi
dence.”
Advantagb of Punctuation.—Punctu
ation, that is, the putting of stops in the
proper places, cannot he too sedulously stud
ied. VVe lately read in a country paper the
following startling account of Lord Palmer
ston’s appearance in the House of Commons :
—“Lord Palmerston then entered on his
head, a whi'e hat upon his feet, a large and
well polished pair of boots upon his brow, a
dark cloud in his hand, his faithful walking
slick in his eye, a menacing glare, saying
nothing,-ijhe sal down.— Punch.
An anecdote is related of a young preacher
at a city church, who had for his text a verso
from tho parable of the ten virgins, and in
the course of his sermon exclaimed —“that
in old limes it was customary, when the
bridegroom and the bride were coming, for
ten virgins to go out and meet them and
escort them home, five of these virgins being
males and five females /”
WELISBORO,, TIOGA COUNTY, I PA., THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 3, 1857.
THE AGITATOR.
m. H. C0bb,.... ..Editor.
WELLSBOROUGH, FA.
Thursday morning, I>cc, 3, 1857.
Al)Busincss,and othcrCommunicationsmuet
be addressed to the Editor to insure attention.
We cannot publish anonymous tommuiiications.
Jo accordance with the request of the editor we
again issue but a halt sheet, contrary to our adver
tisemenl of last week. We shall make no excuse,
and allow him to offer his own apologies in the next
issue.
Bank Applications. —-The Harrisburg Telegraph
publishes notices of intended applications to theinck l
Legislature for chartersJbr twenly-two new Banks*
one for a general Banking law, three for increase or
capital, and two for extension of charters.
Mb. C.- D. Brown opened a Singing School in the
Session Room of the Presbyterian Church,on llie Ist
inst. Mr. B- is highly spoken of as a Teacher, and
wo cheerfully recommend bis School to those who
wish to improve in this much neglected branch of
education.
Mas Rucksian opened a Select School at her resl
dcncc on Tuesday, the Ist inst. Wo presume the
name of the Principal will be a sufficient recommen
dalion of tlie school to all parents who wish to place
their children under a faithful and efficient Instrnc.
tor. Her charges arc moderate; but double the
amount would not be an equivalent for her services.
Wisconsin.— The official and unofficial returns
from all the counties in Wlscouson elect Randall, the
Republican candidate for Governor, by 45 majority
accor ding to the Milwaukee JVeics, the democratic
organ, and by 219 according to the Republican
count. The Republicans also elect most of the
State ticket, and have both branches of the Legisla
ture. The democrats crowed too soon.
How to Mend the Times. —The Lebanon Courier
submits an admirable plan to mend the times, and
one which we especially commend to the patrons of
the Agitator, and suggest the coining Court term as
a convenient season to. pul it in practice. It says :
•“The hard times now prevailing are in a great
degree attributable to a want of confidence. Wc
know how confidence can be restored, and it is thus ;
Let every one who owes the printer pay right up.—
This will satisfy the printer that money is plenty.—
He will tell it to his readers. His readers will be
convinced. Money will again be circulated and all
will be well again. To you that owe the printer,
come right along and fork up. Patriotism now de
mands it; and he that is deaf to the calls of his
country is a sinner indeed. 11
Like the boy who contracted the habit of begin*
ningat the wrong end of hia dinner—to wit—the
pie and cake—l skipped the relation of things seen
in the intermediate stages of my journey, arid wrote
last from Windsor in the Connecticut Valley. The
truth being, that ray sojourn in that ancient town
was, in many respects, exceedingly interesting—
more so than my short stay in New York.
I thought Gotham monstrous in size and in ini.
quily half-a-dozen years since; but it was hut a ba
by.city and pure as the driven snow then, compared
with) the interminable congeries of streets —so to
speak—fenced in with huge piles of stone, and-britk,
and mortar, and the startling tales of wholesale mnr.
dcr proclaimed in every nook and corner by the
daily press of that great city as it exists to-day.—
It will not do to compare New York, with London
or Paris, for the simple and sufficient reason that
neither of these great cities have Fernando Wood
as Lord Mayor. Violence and outrage mark the
reign of tyrants and villains only.
To the sights. We (that is friend B. and myself)
look our first peep at the elephant through certain
and singular glass boxes at Barnum’s Muscum |
which boxes of glass were filled with salt, or fresh
walcf, containing marine and fresh water fish and
vegetables, and which we learned from the canvas
bulletin outside, is called an aquarium. This aqua
rium is one of the few “puffed*’ wonders of Gotham
really worth seeing. It is no humbug; and a few
hours may be spent profitably by any one at' all cu.
rious as to the modus operandi of "life under water,’’
in the halls devoted to the mysteries of the “great
deep” on a small scale. In one corner of the Hall
we observed two beavers in a strong cage, whose
ample tails, webbed feet and surly bclWvior atlractcd
the eye, while certain unmannerly spittings in which
they indulged from time to time, warned us through
the olfactories to keep our distance. We forcborc
looking for the “real, genuine” club which killed
Capl. Cook, it being, as friend B. fancied, "in the
keeping of the man who struck Biily Patterson.”
Sunday mnrning found us early on Broadway in
search of the "Church of the Good Shepherd,’-
whore as we learned from advertisements. Rev. T.
L. Harris officiates as pastor. We found a room
capable of accommodating two or three hundred
persons, with plainly furnished seals arranged ara
phitbcalrally. Bat few persons bad arrived when we
entered, but the room was comfortably filled by the
usual hour of commencing service. We were there
to bear one of the most remarkable men of the age,
and who, were bis cause more popular, would find
Trinity Church too small to accommodate his audi
ences. Mr. Harris is under the medium size, and
not likely to bo “picked out among ten thousand.”
lie has a fine eye, however, and in his moments of
inspiration its expression is fascinating. His ser.
mon, which -was one of the most strangely moving
we ever listened to, impressed us ns partaking more
largely of the heart than of the head, yet it was a
fine intellectual effort. Painfully intense in earnest
ness, and with an unlimited command of beautiful
language, his discourse was a series of brilliant fig
ures, each R perfect lesson in itself, in which the
path of Christian duty discovered itself beset with
the rugged rocks of self-denial, bat lending upward
—ever upward, until it melted away into the view,
less paths of the angels.
Mr. Harris is a Swendeahorgian. We scrutinized
the faces of the audience closely, and were gratified
to find no face there blistering with the brand of
vice. We saw an intelligent and earnest band of
men and women, evidently of the best class—that is
ol the middle class. The women displayed mure
soul titan-crinoline.
In Iho afternoon wc crossed over to BrooUyh (o
A 6 I T A TO R.
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Editorial Correspondence.
North Colebrook, Conn., Nov. 25,1857.
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listen to Henry Ward Beecher. As luck would
have it, Mr. Beecher did not prcacb. Wc next
sought out Dr. BethuneV Church, nnd ascertained
that he too was absent. Referring to the Herald we
found a lecture by Miss Eauia Hardinge, advertised
at Clinton Hall, and thither wc tifent. We found
the audience already assembled and tlio Hall filled
with earnest and intelligent appearing men and wo*
men, with nothing of tire fantastic in their looks or
actions. Miss Uardtnge is simply good looking—
not beautiful as the world goes. She spoke in the
trance state, and her discourse was a masterly thing
—brilliant and solid aa well. Her rhetoric was
faultless and her reasoning cogent and just. “The
Uses of Spiritualism 11 was the theme, and we had
never heard the theme so well handled by mao or
woman. Toward the close, wc were reminded of
the fact that rowdies sometimes vex decent people
in large villages as well as in small ones, by certain
well-dressed individuals who persistedin hissing and
other noisy demonstrations In the passage-way from
the stairs to the Hall. Yet that discourse enjoined
upon all men obedience (o the moral and religious
precepts of Jesus Christ from the beginning to the
end.
Sunday evening, we went to Dodsworlh’s Hall,
far up. Broadway, and listened to a lecture by Miss
Charlotte Beede. This ludy has a calm exterior,
and is of a prepossessing appearance. Her lecture
was well written and well read, and was listened to
with earnest attention. The preliminary services
were similar to those witnessed in the churches of
other denominations;' so also were those at the
“Church of the Good Shepherd 11 and at Clinton Hall,
Thus passed our Sabbath, and profitably.
Next day wc wcut early to sec “Rosa Bonhedr’s
Great Painting of the Horse Fair at Elmira. 11 This
work of art would be remarkable had it been the
offspring of masculine (?) genius instead of a wo
man's. 1 shall not attempt to describe this magni
ficent work of art. To be comprehended it must be
seen.'
Thence wc went to the Dnsseldorf Gallery of
Art, where is on exhibition the celebrated OussclJorf
'paintings, and Power’s Greek Slave. Here wc saw
Lessing’s great masterpiece, “Huss before the
Stake, 11 —to stand before which will repay a journey
of a thousand miles Here also wc saw “Diana and
her Nymphs,” by Sokn, a “Fancy Scene 11 by Stein
bruck, “Othello and Dcsdemona,” by Hildebrandt—
a magnificent painting, of which friend B. became
quite enamored, “Lear 11 dying, (by the same artist,)
“Return of the Reapers, 11 by Becker, and “Falslaff
Mustering Recruits,” by Schrodter. Among the
landscapes wc noticed particularly “Stag Hunt and
Storm in Autumn,” by Lauge, ‘'Morning Landscape
in the Tyrol,” by Schiller, and a Landscape by Les
sing which must be looked at a full hoar in order to
appreciate its incomparable excellencies.
The Greek Slave forms a prominent feature In
lliis Gallery. I admired it a full half hour, and as
sured friend D., that it could not be bettered; to all
of which he rcmarkcdi very dryly, that he had dis
covered something inconsistent, to wit, —Ural the
statue is nude, yet the hair is dressed in the'Grecian
stylo—wreathed up—and the hands are chained !
This droll criticism, as well as original, drove the
poetry of the tiling out of my head entirely.
The Dusscldorf Paintings arc by the graduates
of the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts, and were pur
chased by the Cosmopolitan Art Association at a
heavy expense. They form the most attractive ex
hibition in the city, and he who visits New York
and neglects to spend half a day there, if be be a
lover of the beautiful and the chaste, is not wise.
What else we saw need not be chronicled in this
letter which has already onUravelcd its projected
limits. I may just remark that we saw Charlotte
Cushman in Shakspcarc's Henry the Eighth, and
the Ravel Troupe in the Pantomime of “Boreas,”
at Niblo’s.
Winter has set in in earnest. M. H. C.
Fight With am Eagle —Two Mem At
tacked. —We learn from an altogether re
liable source, that two men were attacked
one day last week, on Sideling Hill by a
large grey eagle. The eagle flew nl ihe
throat of one of the men who was a short
distance .from the other, but the blow was
warded off. The eagle then struck him
ihrough the wrist with his claw, when they
closed and fell to 'he ground in a fearful
struggle. The other man had his gun with
him, but was prevented from firing by (ear
of killing his friend. He ran immediately to
his assistance and cut the throat of the eagle.
It measured nine feel between the lips of its
wings.a We learn that the enormous bird is
in posession of Capl. J. A. Mann at Harri
snnvillo, who has promised to send it to a
friend in Bedford. —Bedford Enquirer,
A foreigner appeared in the Supreme Court
at Troy to perfect his naturalization. Judge
Gould, who was upon the bench pul certain
questions to lifm, and among others whether
he bad ever .read the Constitution of the
United States, which be was about to swear
to support. The applicant said he had not,
and did not know a word of it. Judge G.
told him he could not be naturalized in that
Court. We quote the Judge’s language on
ibis point :
“I hold that Ihe due, even the decent ad
ministration of the oath depends in part on
the condition that the applicant should at
least understand it; and I will never allow
such an abuse of the law as would he com
mitted by your taking that oath in your
present circumstances.”— Pat. 4’ Jour.
“The Fearful Judgment.” —The Holli
daysburg Standard has information on the
subject of the man sitting on a chair for
blasphemy, which throws some light upon
the origin of the story. It is said that a man
in Union county, and not at Mf. Union, while
winnowing grain, became exasperated on dis
covering that the weevil had destroyed a
portion of his grain—that he indulged in
some tall swearing-—went into the house and
sal down, and the excitement brought on a
severe attack of the apoplexy, from which
ho ultimately recovered. This was the basis
of the wonderful story of a fearful judgment
of which has been extensively
circulated in the newspapers during the last
few weeks.
David Wilmot ou Defeat.
The Erie Constitution publishes the fol
lowing letter from Judge Wilmpt to the editor,
who remarks theft'it was’not written for the
public eye:'
Towasda, Oct. 31, 1857.
Dgar Sir : The battle is lost, as men
ordinarily estimate results, ft will discourage
the weak and doubting ;lthe venal will seek
shelter in the camp of the enemy. The men
of courage and faith will stand firm, with
confidence unshaken incite final triumph of
the right. Courage and perseverance’ are
qualities essential in a conflict with error and
wrong; these, with untiring activity, are
ihe elements of success; in all great revolu
tions. | .
I look lo the future, with unshaken confi
dence. Liberty cannot,- bo crushed out in
ibis age and country, I Oppression has oo
charier from God. The tyrant that exults
in power, and defiantly assaults not the con
siituiional rights of American citizenship, but
the God-given rights of jtnani shall soon fall
a lifeless and loathesome corpse, under (he
persevering and courageous assaults of truth.
The mete politician believes in the potency
of great interests. He scoffs at the idea that
any other than selfish motives influences the
action of men. This is an insult both to
God and man. Truth and Justice are might
ier than Selfishness and Wrong. The he
roes and martyrs of our race attest the no
bleness of humanity.- IMen ate capable of
the highest motives and the most loyal stead
fastness to principle. Truth is never silent,
but pleads ever with irresistible persuasive
ness and power. Tljeie js strength in a no
ble, battling
in a just cause, ihaKcapnot be overcome.
All the great moral forces of Nature are
working unceasingly on the side of the right.
In the struggle of life vile require sirengh in
overcoming obstacles that beset our path.
Disasters lest the constancy and courage of
parties as of men. In the nature of things
reverses must contb, but if we are true lo the
cause of Freedom and, Humanity our triumph
is certain ; nor will the day. Tae long post
poned. Oppression j injustice, and wrong
cannot stand against righteousness and truth
—if so. Omnipotence! fs dethroned—then is
the earth a province! of the Evil One, and
man the helpless victim of his, malignity.
In the hour of disaster and deleat, we must
preserve an abiding fujth in rectitude, and
in the living energies 6f the Truth. We
must never despond,jnor weary in the per
formance of our high duties. There is
nothing in the result ofjlhe late election (hat
should for a moment dishearten our hopes or
relax our efforts, ft has not changed the
essential nature of things, it has not made
the right, this is'beyond the power of
a majority. Majorities! can make the rulers
of 10-duy, but they-cannot make oppression
just, nor eradicate .from the hearts of men
haired of the oppressed. They may uphold
for a time violence and fraud by the strong
arm of military power,!but they cannot law.
fully lake from man it he rights -with, which
his Maker has invested him. Not a stone in
the citadel of our strength has been thrown
down ; we still stand ion the impregnable
rock of Truth. The tyranny, outrage and
wrong ngainst which! we protest, is in no de
gree extenuated by a majority given against
us. Oppression has gained a new lease of
power, but not an iofa of sanction for its
cruelly and injustice. [ Let us renew our
vows.to Freedom, and fgnin streng'b lor fu
ture conflicts, by divesting ourselves of every
selfish and ignoble desire.
Fugitive Slaves —j-Two fugitive slaves,
one from Louisiana, ifiejolher from Marytand,
arrived in Providence last week on the Un
derground Railroad,;and one of them has
been forwarded to Gahada via Worcester.
The Louisiana fugitive rbade an attempt to
escape two.-jears ago,[and reached Cincin
nati, where he was captured by his pursuers t
and taken back, and'afterward cruelly treat
ed. He determined, however, that he would
escape from slavery, and the incidents of his
escape are thus narrated in Ihe Providence
Transcript : I
“He seized the first [favorable opportunity
and fled, determined-loldie before ho should
be again taken back.; Bloodhounds were put
upon his track, but filid not overtake him.
He adopted a novel [expedient lo balk them
and keep them back.)' [He left Cayenne pep
per in his (racks, iihief, after being snuffed
by the hounds, rendeie'd their progress slow.
He reached the Mississippi, committed him
self lo a leaky boat, lying close to the bottom
of the boat, to keep jont of sight of his pur.
suers. He said when her entered the boat he
was resolved that he would find a grave in
the waters of the river before he was cap
luted. Ho got beyond! I,he teach of his pur
suers, and finally secreted himself on board
a ship bound lo the j North. In a short
lime be was found ; feafful that he should be
relumed, he begged,'if that was to be bis
fale, to be thrown overbbard, preferring death
to the horrors from which he had lied. The
captain told him lo calm his fears, he should
not be sent back. And,‘said the captain, “I
wish 1 had » load just [like you.” The cap
tain brought him safely to New-York, di
rected him to.lako the;Fa!l*River route, and
named the boat. He directed him lo come
lo Providence, where, hej would find friends
to aid him in his flight”*
Robbing the Grave!.— Marlin Quinlan,
the city Sexton of: Qhjcngo, a Democratic
Irishman holding his appointment from the
late Democratic Mayor of that city, has been
detected hi rifling the!graves of their dead
and shipping them off in wagons. He was
caught in the very 1 ajet, nine bodies having
been taken up by him in one night to be sold
for dissecting purposes; He was sent to jail.
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kinds of jobbing done in country establishments,
executed neatly and promptly. Justices’, Consta
bles’ and other BLANKS, constantly on band and
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no. xvin.
The Great Eastern. —An unsuccessful
attempt was made to launch .this steamship
on the 3d instant.. Immense preparations
took place, bul lhey were rendered futile by
misunderstanding among tbs workmen. The
weight of the vessel being 15,000 tons, it
was necessary to provide great attractive
powers to pull her into thowater, and almost
equally great to prevent her from slipping in
too rapidly. To accomplish Ihe former, four
lighters were moored ahead with- machines
pulling sixty tons each, and. chains passing
round blocks in four other lighters were
worked on the shore. The restraining power
was applied by the cables passing round
drums firmly attached to pile work 20 feet
square driven in the ground. The prepara*
tions for launching being, complete, an order
was given to wind up the slack between the
drums and the vessel, the tractive machines
at same time commenced operations. The
men at one of the drifttw instead of winding
up the chain paid irout, so that the vessel
began to slide, whirling round the drum, and
throwing the men at the windlass high into
ihe.air breaking their bones and killing one.
Fortunately the brakes were applied, and the
momentum of the vessel slopped, but not
until some of the machinery was broken.
Another trial was subsequently made, but
Ihe vessel would not move. The launch has
been postponed for a month, and the danger
now is (hat the vessel will settle in the earth,
so as to become immovable.
The Susq ueihxxa Lumber Bhsi.vess.—
As every one of our citizens who contem
plate building next Spring is interested in the
price of lumber, and as the supplies come
almost entirely from the Susquehanna, it may
not be out of place to stale the prospects of
the lumber trade al that lime. The Editor of
the Clearfield Journal, who has been making
careful inquiries says : That the existing
financial trouble must necessarily have a de
pressing effect, as the eastern dealers will
find it difficult to raise funds, without paying
ruinous rates of discount, to pay the balances
now due, let alone making further purchases.
Another thing worthy of attention is, that a
considerable portion of last year’s slock re
mains unused in the hands of the consumers.
With these facts before them, out heavy
dealers, who* have heretofore been in the
habit of advancing money to pay the expen
ses of making limber, &c., will be lardy
about doing so now. Indeed, one of the
heaviest dealers in the county told us that he
designed making no advancements.
If a large business is done next Spring, it
cannot reasonably be expected t hat more cash
will be realized from safes than will pay the
expenses of running, if even that, and those
who have bestowed their VVinter’s labor on
it, and undergone the hardships incident to
rafting, and find themselves in a worse situa
lion than if only a light business were done.
We think it is clearly the policy of every
man to contract his operaqaps this season,
or al least hold back until such a lime as a
brighter prospect presents itself.—Harris
burg Telegraph.
Dr. D.unfBACK in his (ravels on the cape
of Good Hope says : I found very frequently
among the Dutch B tors of the back country,
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, which they keep
hung up by a thong around the neck of the
bottle to a peg over the hammocks. Indeed
this seems to be'their sole p'rolection against
the throat and lung disorders which are quite
prevalent among them. I thought it a speak
ing comment .on the practical genius of the
American people, that they should furnish
the staple, I believe the only remedy this
people buy to use. Asking if they used the
same manufacturers. Pills, they told me that
belter purgatives grew all around them than
any body could prepare.
Somebody has invented a clever fiction
about Henry Ward Beecher, which we print
for the sake of the fun that would be in it, if
it were a fact. Mr. Beecher in his wander
ings about New York, disguised, to study the
different aspects of society, recently dropped
into a mock auction shop. He stood some
time, when the auctioneer called out, “Mr.
Beecher, why the devil don’t you bid 7” He
was greatly astonished at finding himself
known In that place. He retired and sent a
friend to ask Funk how he knew him. “How
do 1 know him? Why I have been a promi
nent member of his church for the last five
years, and own the fifth pew from the front I”
Butter. — A letter in a Newark (N.-J.)
paper from a farmer in that Stale says : The
yield of butler here is truly enormous. Never
were there so many pounds of that article
produced—and of such a fine quality. But
little of it has yet reached the market, the
farmers having waited for higher prices;
they thought by this time it could be sold for
twenty-eight, twenty-nine and thirty cents
per pound ; but are just finding out their
mistake ; and next week and the week after
will find the market flooded with fine butter,
and the holders willing to take 14 to 16 cents
per pound.
We have (be same reports from New York
and the other butter growing, regions.
Unlucky Lawyers sent to Jail by an
Indignant Court. —Judge Claggett, of the
first Judicial district in lowa, made a rule
that lawyers who had cases in couit should
not leave without notice. This did not please
them. And to put his honor out of counte
nance, they would get up, one afler another,
and say, with long faces and juvenile accent.
“Please, thir, may I go dull" His honor
bore this as long as he could, when he
had them nil put in jail. The Burlington
JHdirfceye says that “no pubiic edifice (not
excepting the Penitentiary,) ever contained
so much latent rascality as the Madison jail,
« hen.filled with the lawyers of- the district.
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