Terms off I^wWiosilioH# TriE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is pul. „ne'd every Thursday Morning, and mailed to sub fibers at the very reasonable price of On* Dot- annual JariaUy inadoanec li is intend- A notify every subscriber when the term for wl, ci. he his 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 rxiiltance hc received. By this arrangement no man Ca THE Agltltos the Conn .„ wilh a large and steadily increasing circulation reaching into nearly every neighborhood in the Count/ It is teal free of pottage to any Post-office miiliin ihe county limits, and to those living within I the limits, hot whose most convenient postoffice may be in an adjoining County. Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper in eluded Ji per year. For The Agitator. THOMAS H. BENTON. He sleeps, the hero of a noble fame ! His worthy deeds won laurels that shall bloom While his frail clay doth moulder in the tomb. HistVy for him records a wondrous name — Enduring, that the nations may adore. Since the true heart of Benton beats no more. Well may the nation weep its honored son, And fragrant incense to his memory burn Whose dust is gathered in the moldcring urn ; Yet, tho’ his glorious race on earth is run, There Ungers still a deathless ray behind— “ The undying produce of immortal mind.” Ye friends of greatness,list lliesolemn knell I Weep for a loss Uialtimc cannot redeem I The eye is closed where genius’ fires did gleam, The voice, which souls at will did rouse orqucll, Is hushed for aye! That master hand is still. Which list’ning senates once did sway at will. O, Death! how awful is thy might! in vain Wc supplicate ; the lowly and the great, The child of poverty, the head of State And all the nations by thee shall be slain ! All jcmrney downward to a common grave, From proudest monarch to the meanest slave. Vnion, May, 1858. O. S. Dann. A GHOST STORY. Nearly four years since, on a visit to my friends in the town of Warren, Herkimer co., N. Y., 1 found the whole community in a slate of receding excitement on account of a most extraordinary occurrence which had jusi then transpired. As I have kept no memoranda, I may not be able to state every circumstance precisely as it occurred. lam quite sure, however, that I can give the sub stance of ihe fads. In a particular locality of the town named above, there resided a widow A., who had been lelt, al the demise of her husband, in possession of a pretty large farm, Irom the proceeds of which she was getting a comfort able livelihood for herself and family. "But, to do this, she had to avail herself of con siderable. hired help. Al the period referred 10, it being harvest time, she had more than her usual number of employees, male and (fe male. And at that day it was deemed no disparagement for ihe first young men and wemen in the town 10 go out lo service ; yel laziness was a crime “ indictable al common law”—al least that kind of common law then generally recognized in ihe social babils of the country people. The persons in the service of ihe widow were of this class, and of course, were as little likely lo be led as tray m iheir estimate of things as most of their cotemporaries. Between sundown and dark on what prov ed, it must be confessed, an eventful evening, a young woman, employed by the family in question, went up to the welt, situate on the gradually rising slope, a few rods above the dwelling, “to a pail o’ water.” The bucket, suspended by the good old-fashioned sweep, was soon sent to near the hoilum of the well, and then returned lo the starling point brim-full of that sparkling liquid, which was speedily discharged into the wailing pail, and that taken by the fair damsel, not exactly as Rebecca look her pitcher upon her shoul der, Tint in her hand, when, lo and behold, a sound came up from ihe depths of the well, resembl na much, as she thought, the human 'oice! She paused a moment to listen. The Ipo'n! H'a s s There could be no kni'isiUe. She did hear words and groans ; fcnd,under ihe startling-conviction, attempted ■o grt hid; lo the house, and actually suc ftcfdrd 1 li must b e admitted, however, that ■fie leal was not executed in the most grace ful style. What young lady could avoid ■n:n' d_> under -uch a severe provocation 1 |l she did not actually faint, she did the next fe-i tiling—f,-|| m the ground,jand rolled wilh psr pail cjaiie down ihe house, and might have f-i inter!, but forme hydropalhic Brealment ol which she was unwilling and, P niiiiht he, the unconscious subject. She ■rawled mio the house, and, as well as sighs Bnd interjections would permit, told her siory. P'*s, of cnu rse, could not be credited. It ■as agreed, on all hands, that her credulity f f have ft'” lh e better of her senses. She pad been prodigiously affrighted, and hence ■ad imagined an improbable thing. But then ■ r ,Cr mUSt be sel, ' ed ' especially as it ■°, ie tery inconvenient lo pass the whole ■gtii without water in the house. Accor ■tng; two young men agreed to do what ■sr am y they should have had Ihe gallantry ■ 0 f n ’be first instance. The bucket was ■gam made to perform its appropriate func ■ ’ 1 e f a *’ was filled, and the young braves ■ te em the point of returning in triumph lo V oJ se, when the same sepulchral sounds, r ° m lke de l”h s below, fell upon their ■owi ie Pac ’ cou^ I n °f he ques ■sim'i Ti Pounds ' ’hough doleful, were R„ 0 ' * IPy kurr ' ed hack to the anxiously' Bid COrTI P an y> and confirmed all that Bdv ? , *' le preceding witness. No- Rd lO I' 10 We " a S a ’ n ’hat night, 80-itm”''!, morn '”= all was silent there. ■||[ Cd " lac da .v the mailer was carefully H e[H j l , r i an ' t,n g themselves, and cautiously R suli i 0 a lb"’ confidential friends. The He r., as a[l a greement lo meet on the com [oeni,n ® al ’he well, in sufficient num ■ i P f Ce 1,16 phenomena, whatever they ° Und 10 ke ’ heyond the reach of a RdeJv d ° ub '- Accordin g l y. supporting ■pm,., r , a S ln ° each other, they tremblingly R ’he ' v ell at that solemn hour Rbev - len spirUs do moslly Uke shape-” Rod now led ‘ ‘^ ll was soon dark ai, d S, ’U- Bus So ’ j usl as ’hey expected, the myste- B V( trn hji S ° ame U P Prom ’h o deep, dark Rations ® rst ’hey only heard ex- H°aas.” o dls!ress . “groans and solemn Hike out ’ hewever, the invisible agent H lsla ka’ni„ • he communication became un- I f. ' ln| e | hgible. Responsive to in- Rn ihe pp? . e anxious listeners, it said ;“I Rid btirierln °* a man w ho was murdered ■ near this place some years since. THE AGITATOR. EjduotriJ to ii)t Mvttnoion of t#e of JF?«trow aui* t|>e of Reform. WHILE THEBE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE, YOL. IV. If you dig up the well you will find my bones, and then further revelations will be made with regard 10 ihe whole tragedy.— You will know who was (he murderer and who the victim.” This was the subslance of ihe communication, ihough the colloquy be tween the visible and invisible was somewhat extended. The facts thus confirmed by sensible evi dence, and by more than “two or three will’ nesses,” the recipients of this strange reve lation deemed themselves bound in duly, not only to blaze the mailer abroad, but to do what they could to bring ihe guilly to justice, and thus secure repose to the poor troubled spirit. Sleeping as tranquilly that night ns the ex cited stale of their minds would permit, they arose early the next morning and went through the neighborhood, everywhere tel ling the thrilling story, and doing what they could to stir..up the spirit of the people.— Lillie effort was, however, necessary. A simple history of the facts was abundantly sufficient to move the entire community. It was remembered distinctly by some of the plder inhabitants, that a peddler had mysteri ously disappeared from the neighborhood some years before, and this speaking ghost was doubtless his. Startling reminiscences were interchanged, and the excitement there by greatly intensified. Toward evening the people began to assemble at the house of the. widow ; the men bringing the usual ments of excavation, iron-bars, pick-axes, hoes, shovels, etc., wilh the fixed and consci entious purpose of finding the remains of the hapless victim, whose inconsolable spirit had been urging them to purge the community of bloodguilliness. At an earJx_hoQ r in the evening appliances and workmen were on hand in sufficient numbers and variety to do almost anything the exigencies of the case might demand ; and all were ready to com mence operation the very moment the spirit of the well should give the requisite signal Thus matters stood until about nine o’clock, when the sounds from the well slanled the listening multitude. The tenor of the com mnnication was the same as before. After a few minutes’ pause, coats were thrown off, and many a brawny, arm made hare. The spirit directed them how and where to begin ; but (he very moment a blow was struck Ihe said spirit called ihsm “a pack of fools.” This of course, brought mailers to a dead stand, while the parties stood and gazed at each other in mule astonishment. Presently, however, groaning began again, mingled with reproaches upon the company for its inefficiency and want of zeal in pros ecuting a work so immediately connected wilh both juslice and humanily. This led ihe workmen to strike again ; but the very instant operations recommenced they were again called “a pack of fools.” Thus ihe spirit went on, alternately urging them to proceed, and mocking them for doing so, until no one felt inclined to strike another blow. There stood the unhappy company, in a perfect quandary. Perhaps the reader is ready to imagine that, had they been instruct ed in the mysteries of ventriloquism, the perplexing problem would have been instantly solved. Not at all. Ventriloquism had noihing whatever lo do with the case. There were intelligent persons enough present to use this key, had it been capable of unlock ing the mystery. But they had reason to know that these strange noises, these distinct emphatic communications, must be referred to some other agency. Standing there in profound silence, the vic tims of doubt and uncertainty, the company again heard Ihe voice from the well ; in altered tones, however. With taunting ac-,1 cents it said : “What a company of fools ! Can’t you understand we are down here in the pasture ?” In a moment or two the same words with the same voice came lo their ears through the subterranean atmosphere; thus drawing attention lo the real speakers, some twenty rods off, in a grazing field below. The mystery was solved in an instant. The voice from the well came lo them through empty “pump log=,” from human lips ! To supply the cattle wilh water when in a dry pasture below, the well had been tapped by cutting a trench and inserting bored logs at a point some four or six feet from the bottom. Whenever the water arose lo this point, it discharged itself through these logs into a trough placed in (he pasture. But when it sunk below this point, ns it usually did in dry weather, Ihe lube itself became dry, thus forming a kind of speaking trumpet. Two shrewd young fellows of the neighborhood had casually ascertained this fact, and mis chievously concerted to perpetrate this trick upon the community. It might seem strange that these pump logs were thought of by none of the company drawn together. It should be remembered, however, that they had been placed there a long time before; so that probably, there were very few persons in the place who ever had a knowledge of their existence, and as the logs were entirely out of sight they were quite forgotten. Members of the widow’s family must of course have known that the logs were there, but they either had too little philosophy to be aware that they could be used for that purpose, or were too much ex cited to think of them at ail. The young men themselves contrived to elude suspicion by alternating, first one and then the other, between the lower end of the log tube and the company. While one was playing ghost the other was at the mouth of the well, as profoundly mystified as any other person present! What did the cat say when she looked out of the window when the ark came aground 7 “Is that ’ar a rat 7” WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING..MAY 20, 1858. Adventure in a Railway Carriage. Soon after I had taken my seat one morn ing at Paddington, in an empty carriage, I was joined just as the train was moving off, by a strange looking young man, with re markably long flowing hair. Ue was, of course, a little hurried, but he seemed beside to be disturbed and wild, so that I was quite alarmed for fear of his not being right in his mind, nor did his subsequent conduct at all re-assure me. Our train was an express, and he inquired eagerly, at once, which was the first station whereat we were advised to stop. I consulted my Cradshaw, and fur nished him the desired information. It was Reading. The young man looked at his watch. “Madam,” said he, “I have but half an hour between me, and, it may be, ruin. Excuse, therefore, my abruptness.— You have I perceive, a pair of scissors in your work box. Oblige mo, if you please, by cutting off my hair.” “Sir,” said I, “it is impossible.” “Madam,” he urged, and a look of severe determination crossed his features, “I am a desperate man. Beware how you refuse what I ask. Cut my hair off—short, close to the roots —immediately ; and there is a newspaper to hold the ambrosial curls.” I thought he was mad of course; and believ ing that it would be dangerous to thwartTiim, I cut off all his hair to the last lock. “Now, madam,” said he, unlocking a small port manteau, “you will further oblige me by looking out of the window, as 1 am about to change my clothes!” Of course [ looked out of the window for a considerable time, and when he observed, “Madame, I need no longer put you to,any inconvenience,” I did not recognize the young man in the least. Instead of his former gay costume, he was attired in black, and wore a grey wig and silver spectacles; he looked like a respectable divine of the church of England of about sixty-four years of age; to complete that character, he had a volume of sermons in his hand—which—they appeared to absorb him—might have been his own. “I do not wish to threaten you, young lady,” he re sumed, “and I think, besides I can trust your kind face. Will you promise me not to reveal this metamorphosis until your, jour ney’s end?" “I will,” said I “most cer tainly.” At Reading the guard and a person in plain clothes looked into the carriage.— “You have the ticket,” my love, said the young man, blandly, and looking at me as though he were my fiilher. “Never mind, sir; we don’t want them,” said the official, as he withdrew his compan ion. “1 shall leave you, Madame,” observed my fellow traveller, ns soon as the coast was clear; “by your kind and courageous con duct you have saved my life, and perhaps even your own.” In another minute he was gone and the train was in motion. Not till the next morning did I learn from the Times paper that the gentleman on whom I had operated as hair cutler had committed a heavy forgery to an enormous amount in London a few hours before I met him, and that he had been tracked into an express train from Paddington, but that, although the tele graph had been put in motion and described him accurately—at Reading, where the train was searched he was nowhere to be found.— Household Words. A Negro’s Ingenuity. An accident occurred at an auction sale (he other day, which was so unutterably pro voking that it insists upon being recited. A hne, robust negro man, one of those first class darkies who enjoy alike physical as well as an intellectual superiority over the race of common niggers, was offered for sale. Knowing that if his real good qualities were known, he would be the subject of some compelion, which would perhaps terminate in his consignment to a cotton field, he de termined to look cheap, and stand a chance of being refused by the lookers out for profitable bargains. He was put up on the block, the most complete metamorphosis, in appearance, of a good for nothing nigger outside of Pocahontas. “What are you good for?” asked a keen eyed individual,, with a twinkle that immedi ately put Sambo on his guard. “Good for? ain’t good for nuffin. I’se mitey weak and feeble; don’t reckon I’se gwine to live much longer, bress de good ness.” “Anything the matter with you V’ asked another. “Yars, sir—knocked de knee pan of my leg one day, aint done nuffin but creep about eber since.” “Do you drink ?” “ Knsionally, yars, sir; doesen’l know what I'd do ’doubt sperrils ; Ise so feeble —yars, mass, 1 does drink—l habs to do it.” “I wouldn’t give three cents for him,” said somebody. The auctioneer cried out for a bid. Sambo gave an awful groan lengthened his face a few inches and rubbed his lame leg. Somebody bid one hundred, which was slowly followed up by two hundred, three hundred, four, four fifty, five gone! I He was knocked down to the owner of his wife. His exultation may be imagined. He gave a leap of an athlete, with a most pro yoking grin—best appreciated by the slave speculators near—burst forth with a reso nant. “Yah ! yah ! yah !—Cheapest nigger in de world. Sound as a dollar and wuff a thousand I Somebody’s sole’ sides me— yah I yah ! yah I” as he moved off. Sambo soon had the beafitificalion of being envel oped in the delicate arms of his angeliferous Dinah. Desperate Fight with a Wild Cat.— A Jamesville correspondent gives lo lbe_Chi engo Times an account of a desperate fight between John Weber and a ferocious wild cat. Weber and a few other amateur sports men were hunting for rabbits in the woods skirling the banks of rock river. Weber, supposing he had burrowed a rabbit on the lop of the bluff, about one hundred feet above the water, procured a slick and undertook lo dislodge the game by punching. His efforts were too successful, for, instead of a rabbit, a formidable wild cal sprang out of the hole, and ‘jpitched in” for a fight. Weber, not knowing, the nature of his antagonist, was taken at a disadvantage. Ho had no knife, and the varmint’s teeth and claws were sharp. •‘Mein Gotl l du peest der fader von all rab bits!” he exclaimed, as the cal made a leap at his throat. Weber lost his fooling, and hunter and wild cal rolled in a rough-and tumble fight, and Ihe cal was most at home in that son of a contest. The hunter gave Ihe varmint a few well pul “eye-openers,” but his calship soon put a stop lo that game by seizing Weber’s hand with his teeth and holding it fast. With the other hand he then tried lo throttle the monster, but soon found his claws were in the way. After rolling down the bank a distance, of ninety feet from where Ihe fight commenced, the hunter suc ceeded in gelling uppermost of his antagonist, when he hastily halloed “murder.” This brought one of his companions to the rescue, who crawling down the sleep bank, placed his rifle to the varmint’s [lead and made a hole through it. The wild cat then gave up beat. It was found’Weber had been bit through the hand five limes, besides numerous severe scratches upon his body. The wounded parts immediately commenced swelling in an alarming manner, and he was visited by diz ziness and faintness to such a degree that his companions were obliged lo carry him home, and provide medical assistance. He was found lo be severely but not fatally injured. The wild cat was one of the ordinary north ern species, and weighed twenty pounds. “Got Left.”—A genuine touch of wom an’s nature, as well as human nature, per vades ihe following : J‘A comforlable old couple sat a scat or two in front of us on ihe railroad during one of ihe hottest cays of last summer. The journey was evidently one of ihe events of Iheir lives, and their curiosity excited the at tention of the passengers. At a way sta tion, the old gentleman stepped out lo get a drink, or to buy a doughnut, and heard 'he bell only in time to rush to the door of the ealing house, to see the train moving off with out him. The old lady had Loen fidgeting in her seal, looking out of the window in anx iety fot his return, and when she saw his plight, his frantic gestures for the train lo slop, as it swept further and farther away, site exclaimed: “There, my old man has got left I he has ! —there see, he has! Wa’ll” she continued, silling back in her sent again, “I’m glad on it—it’s always been “Mammy you’ll get left!” and now he’s gone and got left, and I’m glad „„ i, J> on f. Her candid reflection on the accident, and the evident satisfaction she felt in the fad that it was the old man, and not herself, that was left, was greeted by a round of laughing applause. Not a few of the ladies in the car were delighted that it was the old man and not the woman who had made the blun der and “gone and got left.” A Courageous Rat. —An English paper relates the following anecdote : “A gentle man, worthy of all credit, and who may be the more readily trysted as his story ac knowledges his own defeat,"was aroused one night by a heavy bumping noise on the stairs. Unable to account for it, he rose, donned his dressing gown, and with his candle in his D O * hand proceeded to investigate the cause. — Half way down stairs he percived'a large rat employed in facilitating the descent of a half-loaf by pushing it down from one step to another. Anxious to redeem his property, the owner descended after it. The rat at first continued his exertions, but as the ene tny gained upon him, he changed his (actios, and turning his front upward, began to climb toward his opponent. This was just such an intruder ns might with all justice have been kicked down stairs ; but so stern was his air, and so menacing his aspect, that the gentleman hesitated, and hesitation ended his retreat. His feet being only armed with slippers, he lost heart and began slowly to ascend backward ; while the rat deliberately mounted after him, and thus steadily drove him back to his bedroom, the door of which he shut in the face of his foe, and termi nated the adventure by retiring to bed, while the rat returned to his well-earned booty.” The Use of Potasu and Sand. —No vines can produce truit without potash. Dye woods and all color-given plants owe their vivid dyes to potash. Leguminous plants all require potash. Without it we cannot have a mess of peas. Where it exists in a natural state in the soil, there we find leguminous plants growing wild, and in such places only we find wild grapes. All the cereals require potash, phosphate of magnesia, and silica, which is dissolvable in a solution of potash. It is this dissolved sand that forms the hard coal of the stalks, and gives them strength to stand up against the blasts of wind and rain while ripening. It is this substance that gives bamboos their strength, or the beards of grain and blades of grass their cutting sharpness. No cereal ever came to perfec tion in a soil devoid of potash, silica, phos phate of lime, carbonic acid and nitrogen. LIVE IN THE PRESENT. 11 To look back is useless; the Past can never be amended. To lean on tha Future is f the vanity of vanities.* . For, to whom belongethtlo-morrow ?. He, then, that is wise liveth for Gon and the Pres ent.”—Out Letter. : Look not back, poor, wearied heart! Grieve not for the lov’d and dead! Sigh not, grieve not, though, alas ( - Every joy from thee seems fledf Bury in oblivion’s stream \ Cares and anguish of tht past,— r Useless’t is to sigh and pine, | I Fur the days of “ auld lang syne.’’ Look not forward, heart, for bliss ; Build no castles in the air; 1 ! Dream thou not of joys to come, | Though they promise wondrousj fair. Castles based on airy height— I Lovely though they be to sight— I ■ Fall! —alas! tile pain and smart: j Bruise and break the hopeful hehrt! In the present live, dear heart: ’ j In its,varied duties, care; j \Vhercsoe’er thy path on earth, j Yield thee never to despair. j Live to-day—resolved to do ‘ j For the many , not the few; j Live to-day.in faith and love— | L Leave all eLe to God, above. i. ; - CORA. eo mmmucftUons, ror ( the Agitator. Atmospheric Electricity.--Wo. 2. If there be one lime more that! another, in which man feels that he is entirely in the hands of One mightier than himself, in which all his personal pride sinks in the conviction of his utter helplesness, it is when the forked bolts of heaven glare about liimj and the dread artillery of the skies stubs fhtm with its deafening peals,shaking the very earth on which he treads. Then it is that 1 , his cons cience tells him how entirely dependent he is, and how in a moment, the next flash may be to him or his the instrument of death, without his having the slightest power to larresl his fate. 1 j In respect to the other great and irresist able powers of nature, man, in some sort, seeks them out. The lightning’s flash seeks out him. It is true he may go to shores where thunder storms are less violent,' or to others where they are much rriotje violent than in his own land ; but regartjirtg it gene rally, lightning is no respecter of [lime and place. It was as weil known to the ancients as to ourselves. It comes to us, £o!to speak, “in season and cut of ! Its geo-! graphical distribution is less restricted than tbal of any other of nature’s phenome na—tempests, perhaps, excepted. | I With this startling admonhion I before him let any one of the readers of this article pause and reflect what he has done to Secure him self and his property from the filial!effects of the thunderbolt. , Perhaps his past escape through storms still lulls him into self-seen f 5 ] f ritv, and thus he puls off from year to year Ihe only practicable and efficient i mode of warding nflTlhe subtle fluid by sectoring a good lightning rod, the expense of which! is hut a small per coinage on the amount of life and properly hazarded. • i j To those contemplating purchasing rods 1 wish to say a few words: In Ihejfirst place, got a good one, to do which, inquires some skill, as there are thousands of rods palmed off upon the public which are utterly worth less. There are many things to be consider ed in the purchase of a conductor. First, in respect to the material of the rjot^; which metal is the best? Iron is strong and can resist mechanical violence, hut ill rusts and thus in a great measure its conducting powers are destroyed. Brass grows briul^, .and cop per, therefore, though expensive, being dura ble and a good conductor, is preferred. M. Pouillet makes Ihe conducting power of cop per from 5J to 6g limes that of iron. Dr. Priestly makes it 5 limes as much', and Prof. Faraday G 2-5 times as much, so! that after having determined the sectional area of nn O' ‘ \ efficient copper rod, an iron one of about 6j times that area will possess the satire conduct ing power. Rods composed of iron land cop per wire stranded together are worthless as conductors in consequence of liability to rust by the action of the weather ; but a bundle or rope of copper wire has been found to be a very efficient protection agpihst light, ning, ns has been fully tested on Si. Peter’s Church at Rome, all other methods! having previously failed. Iron rods coatejd iwith sil ver, copper or tin, are good conductors. Secondly, in considering the form of the’ rod, I do not lay much stress uponj tbe shape of the cross section. The square figure with its edges may have some advantage over the circular section ; but I am not certain, that as much 'hat as much is not lost by the facility afforded for a lateral discharge aljajdanger-J ous point, as is gained by relieving jibe rod ol a part of its charge all along the four edges. These edges are also relied'upon to discharge the cloud quietly, ns the points at the top of (he rod discharge it; and some times for this purpose the rod is twisted, so that iis edge may be presenied to all points of the horizon. Prof. Joseph Loveridg,! of Har vard University, considers that the twisting slightly injures the conducing power of the rod, and cannot be needed fur ihj; object'in view, as the lightning is not lied down 10 a geometrical straight line for its tjrbit. He considers that it is immaterial whether rods be square, round, or flat; but it is! id be re membered that in all cases, each 'conductor should be as entire and as straight ds possi ble, avoiding the horizontal positidn jand all sharp, angular curves, presenting Jto the clouds a single point. i i The common impression among' scientific and practical men, has been that electricity moves without any perceptible inertia ; hence, in the past construction of lightning: rods, and at the present lime, little care has been taken Advertisements will be charged SI per square a fourteen lines, lor one, or three insertions, and 25 cents fur every subsequent insertion. All advertise ments or less than fourteen lines considered as a Squate. The following rales will bo charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly advertising:— 3 months. 6 months. 13 ton’s Square, (14 lines,) -8250 - 84 50 86 00 SSqnares,- . . . 400 600 800 J column, - , - 10 00 15 00 20 00 column, 18 00 30 00 40 00 All advertisements not having the number of in. sertidhs marked upon them, will be kept in until or. dcred out, and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, Bill,and Letter Heads,and all kinds of jobbing done in country establishments, executed neatly and promptly. Justices’, Consta blcs’and other BLANKS, constantly on hand and printed to order. no.i xm. to avoid short curves and sharp angles in the longitudinal shape of the conductor; and in their erection the horizontal position has been maintained the whole length of the ridge of the building designed to be protected. But later experiments have exploded this theory, and it is now generally admitted by all scientific men that electricity does exhibit signs of Inertia, to such a degree that in the erection of rods the upright position must be maintained. In all cases, rods should be ele vated above every other point of attraction, at least four times the diameter of the qrea to be protecled ; say in a common sized house, from 10 to 12 feet above the lop of the high est chimney, or o'her object extending above the roof. The efficiency of the rod depends to a grea’ extent upon its height above sur rounding objects. This is proved by experi ment. Let several rods of unequal height be placed near each other, and it will be ob served lhat the highest carries down the larg est amount of electricity, this amount being measured from each tod by the number of sparks which can be counted in a given time, at a break made for that purpose in each rod.. Under the same circumstances, the most elevated object will be chosen as llio principal conductor by the lightning. In regard to lb) e points, Ihe best probably known are those tipped with platinum, the most powerful of all conductors, anti possess, ing great resistance to ihe'efiVcis of heat aqd the air. Too much cannot be said in dispar agement'of points, however patented, washed with silver or any metal whatever, made not of platinum. The plan, adopted by som", of pointing a rod with a magnetized needle, rests upon no scientific basis whatever. Por the Agitator. or all considerations, die most important is a good connection with the earth, which is so very essential, that without this, nil oth er precautions will be in vain. It is not enough that the conductor enter the earth ; but it must penetrate it to some depth, in fact until it reaches the subsoil, where it will ho well impregnated with water. In order to reduce the des'ructive action of this moisture, or, keep the rod from rusting, and at 'he samo time to give the buried portion of the con ductor every facility for dissipating its charge, it is better that the rod should terminate by several branches in a sunken bed of well burnt charcoal, wood ashes, or spent lan bark. Sometimes the rod can communicate with a well, 01 other reservoir of living wa ter, and it is an old s lying that the danger is over when the lightning reaches the well. The question now presents itself; -how are the roils to lie affixed to (he building—by con ducting or insulating staples? The unequiv oca! reply would be: by conducting staples —not those covered with copal varnish, nor insulated by necks of glass bottles, as has often been recommended by writers on the -object; for, let it be remembered that the (la-h, «Inch may have forced its way through many yards of air, would find no difficulty in passing so slight obstacles as these, if such a direction formed part of the lightning’s path previously prepared, or “felt out.” It is a well established truth, that if a conduct or pa«s near’ a mass of metal in tolerable connexion with the earth, the flash will some times divide itself between the two channels, one portion of it continuing its course down therod, and the o'her portion leaving the rod to pursue the side path. And the question is, whether this division of the charge will be promoted by such insulation as is usual. — Because a glass knob of a few inches in di ameter will insulate the telegraph wire, it is supposed that a lightning conductor may be insulated in the same way, no allowance be ing made for.the vast difference between the tension of voltaic electricity and that of fric tion electricity, or lightning. Nothing is more preposterous ! In order to alleviate the “lateral discharge,” or deviation from, tho main channel, all suspected vicinal, electri fied bodies should be united In the conductor itsell, by means of metallic wires or bands; then if the building is predisposed, by the an tecedent induction chain, to share with the md in conveying avvpy tho fluid, let it bo done whilom an explosion—without a fracas, as the French emphatically call it. • Rods should neither be painted nr var nished, as that diminishes their conducting power. _ If made of copper they should bo erected at cither nr both ends of a building, (and as before intimated, the integrity and upright position of the rod should be main tained as far as practicable, avoiding also, all abrupt angles and short turns,) at a dis tance ot .about four inches from the walls, supported by ■ iron; staples horizontally in dined downward. D. “He Couldn’t Stand That.” — A young gentleman of otir acquaintance, who had been “paying his devours” (ns Mrs. Par tington would say) ton young lady for soma lime, suddenly left her. We asked him the reason, and he told us in the following words : “I had been with her, you know, a good while, and noticed- that she was rather cnnl in her remarks, and hinted that she would rather go home alnne'than have me with her ; but 1 didn’t mind that, you know. Well one night when we got to the door, says she, “Mr. ■ ■ Ido not wish your company any longer, and I’ll thank you to keep in your place, and awav from me.” That was a little 100 hard, and I Wouldn't stand it. 1 sacked her that very night /”—Lynn [Mass ) News. Cream may be frozen by simply pu'ling it in a glass's vessel, and then placing the whole in an old bachelm’s bosom. Ouserve when others are suffering, and drop a word of kindness and sympaihv suited to lh r, m. Rates of Advertising.
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