Increase of Postage. One of ihe boldest attempts to oppress the -people, and especially tbepeopleof (he North, was made in the last days of the laie session •of Congress, by the locofoco majority of the Senate, to Increase the rates of ‘postage. .The proposition was to increase.lhe p.rejenl rale of 3 cents to o and 10 cents, according to dis tance, and the vote in the Senate, on this op pressive proposition was as follows : Yeas— Messrs. Benjamin, Bright, Broder ick, Brown, Clay, Clingman, Davis, Filch, •iwin, Hunter, Johnson of Ark,, Johnson of Tenn,, Mallory, Pearce, Polk, Reid, Sebas tian, Thompson of Ky., and Yulep, i Nays —Messrs. Bigler, Chandler, Clark, Douglas, Fessenden, Foster, Ham lin, King, Pugh, Rice, Seward, Stuart, Wtl •on, and Wright. Here, it will be man who voted to increase the rales of postage was a Dem ocrat ; while every Republican present voted against it, five Democrats only voting with them I The proposition to increase the rales was introduced by Mr. Johnson, of Ark. An ap propriate commentary upon his scheme is afforded by the following statistics, which are taken from a pamphlet, by Pliny Miles, upon 1 ' the subject of Postal Reform. The number of leiters carried annually in the five Stales of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and illinios, is 68.669,- 590; the numlier carried in tho fifteen Southern Slates, is 25,921,521. The expenses of tho P. 0. Department, in tho five first named States, are - Kerwiuc derived from them, - Excess of Receipts over Exptnillturoi Expense* in Southern States iUveuue .... Deficit The only Slave Sime which pays ns own postage account.in full is Delaware, which annually pours into the National Treasury, under ihis head, the nMumlimii sum of One hundred and seventy one dollars! N«v York and Massacliuseita alone pay 83,750,- 390 per annum for postage; iheir expenses for this object during the same period, amounting m §1,423,305. The Son’hern and South Western Stales pay for'heir postal ■ facilities, the annual sum of 53,739,2/7 ■;/ while the expense nf providing th'-m, amounts In 84,318,750. li will thus be seen that all the Souihern Slates pav less for posiage than two Northern ones, while their expenses are three limes ns large! The actual cost of carrying a letter in New England and Neu York, is one cent and eight mills; in the Middle Slates, three cents and three mills ; in ihe Souihern and Sin th Western Slates, six cents and seven mills; in Aikansas. eighteen cents and three mills. Herein, if we mistake not, will be found the entire milk of lhe coconnul which we have opened. A refeience to the record of yeas and nays, by which the proposition to raise the rates o! postage was adopted, will show that every member present from a self-sustaining Slate voted against, and that every member from a pauper Slate voted for Ihe amendment, ii was very natural lhai Mr. Johnson, of Ar kansas, should make such a motion, because the burden of the increase would scarcely fall, in any perceptible degree, upon his own ignorant constituents, but altruist entirely upon Ihe laborers and mechanics of the North, who are already disproportionately taxed.— Pittsburg Gazette. “What Abe Lincoln Said." In his Chicago speech, Mr. Douglas charged an alliance between Republicans and Buchanan Democrats to defeat him for Sena, lor, and said that in sneaking of this alli ance, he should do as the Russians did at Sebastopol when.fighting the allies, fire his shot, regardless whether Iha party hit was Englishman, Turk, nr Frenchman. In re ferring to this, Mr. Lincoln said that it ap peared that Mr, Douglas “is not a dead lion, or even a living one—bu' that he is the rug ged Ru«ian bear.” However, he continued, if Mr. Douglas intended to insist upon the alliance—“if he will have it that ihe Admin istration men and wears allied, and we stand in the altitude of English, French, and Turk', and he occupies the post'ion of t he Russian, in that case, I beg he will indulge U' while we suggest to him that those allies took Se bastopol /'* In rcpUing lo Mr. remarks upon what he is pleased to stvle negro equality, Mr, Lincoln was peculiarly happy. He said ; “I protest now and forever against that coun terfeit logic which presumes-that because I don't icaut a negro woman fur a slate , Ido necessarily want her for a wife, Ms un derstanding ts, ili.it I need not. hive her for either, but ns God made us separate, we can leave one another alone, and do one another much good thereby- There are white men enough to marry] all the while women, and enough of black to marry all the black women, and in G"d's name let them be married. The judge regales ns with the ter rible enormities th it take place by the mix ture of races ; that the inferior Iwars the so perior dnwn. Whv, Judge, ‘ i/* ice mill not let thefy get together la the Territories they won't mix Tribune The Atlvntic Tklkgkaph.—Th<* Aga memnon and Valorous arrived at on (he 12th tThe final break in ilv At lantic Telegraph cable w,is below the Mcrn of ihe Agamemnon. afier 140 miles bad been paid out of ih U ves<el. Tim A-i iinemimn then returned to the rendezvous in mid ocean, nnd cruized there for five days in anticipa tion of meeiing the N’anara. On the Aga memnon arriving at Queenstown, u wag re solved 10 lake in coal and start auain for a final attempt to lav the cable on Saturday, the 17th in-d., there still beinu, on both*lnp'* l 2,500 miles of the cable left. U'Turo ilip commencement of the rercnl atiempi, the A*i amemnon encountered a furious s'orrn, rolled so heavily that gresl fears were enter tained for her safety,. She sustained consid erahle damage. The cause of ihe breakage is unknown, ihe strain upon the cable at the ’ime being quite light. The electric instruments were all injured by the heavy rolling of the ship. A fugative slave -perfectly white arrived in Syracuse, by (he Underground Railroad. — His name is Edward Walker, he is in his 17th year, and he came from Charleston, South Carolina. THE AGITATOR. M. IX. Cobb, Editor & Proprietor. . WELLSBOROUGH, PA. XUtiirsdaj HXornIJBS,. -July 29,. ISSS. » # « All Business,and olherCommiimcationunual beaddressctfto the Editor to insure attention. . We cannot publish anonymous communieations. Republican Conveutlou—Aug. 27, Delcsstte Elections Ang. 21. ID* Attention is directed to the advertisement of Dr. Hancr, on 3d page. A specimen of his Coul may be seen at this office. D* We cannot jost now inform oor friends of the Erie Cons/ilulion who wrote the poem in question' We ure glad that a public castigation is unnecessary. The weather has been delightfully cool for a week. The streets arc dreadful dusty and no signs of rain. Farmers are speeding well with their haying and harvesting. 14 Jaquine. l * The lines you send are not without merit, but they abound in rhythmical faults. We will try to pul them in presentable shape ere long. Try prose. Wc ought to have noticed the material improve ment of the Schoharie Republican some lime since. The outside work is all right now, friend Hall; all you have to do now in order to make it a model pa per, is, to change its principles. A stranger, whose name wc have nol learned, hud Ills loot partially crushed by being thrown from his wagon on the Tioga road, one day last week. He was brought to town and lodged at Sayre’s Hotel. The injury was severe but nol dangerous. - $3,171 433 - 4,370,356 $198,923 $1,846,333 1,565,723 We regret to learn that Mr. Wm. Coolidge, of Deimar, had the ill luck to gel his leg broken last Friday. His team look fright and Bung him under the wagon, when the wheels passed over his leg near the ancle. The fracture was adjusted by. Dr. Webb, of this Village. $2,291,610 The lecture on the present aspects nf the Slavery question, given at the Court House on Tuesday eve ning oi last week, was a masterly production and was extremely well received. A very fair audience was in attendance. Mr. Stebbins is thoroughly ac quainted with lux subject. The Borough Fathers have evidently forgotten the magnificent crop of thistles about the Public Square. The thistle is not the least beautiful in ihe realm of Flora, certainly ; but then, give «a a variety. Sup pose they should mix a few Canada thistles with the (improvised) just lor variety’s sake? The Committee appointed by the Legivlalure to investigate the affairs of the Crawford County, Sho mokin and Tioga County Banks, has reported unfa vorubly of those institutions. As a mutter of justice to the people of the county wc shall publish the oi ficial Report of the Committee as soon as it comes to hand. Mr, G. B. Stebbins delivered a discourse upon The Signs of the Times as denoting the World’s Progress,” in the Court House, last Sundoyvufter & v i noon. The discourse was an excellent tiling and was attentively listened to. He will lecture upon .* The Uses and Abuses of Spirit Manifestations” in the same place, next Sunday, at 4 o’clock, P. M. Friend Cobb: When a democratic office-seeker asks Republicans to support him,on the ground that political differences ought not to influence u man in voting for county officers, what would you answer ? Quiz uuiz. Ask him if that is the way he electioneers his democratic friends. Columbus ou His Way. The enterprising editor of the Philadelphia Daily News has again set sail on a voyage of discovery ■and the first bulletin from the adventurous explorer was signaled lo the world from the mast-head of his craft on the 531st instant. Whatever others may ‘think.of the nature and importance of hi* last dis covery, we ftel lo award lo it that distinguished con sideration so justly due lo the wondcrlul enterprise and creative genius of the Nineteenth Century. The editor of Hie News lakes the American pub lie a-ide and inserts his inky finger into its lalitudi nous bffUon-hole. u Dear Public,” whimpers be in his most insinuating tones, “ the universally accept, ‘‘led theory of the casein nature of the moon is a “ tno*l egregious mistake. 1 ’ \\ cdo not pretend lo give the precise language of the worthy editor, but its equivalent, rather. The denial wall which he sets out i* quite as startling as our equivalent given above. He has discovered that the Republican vole of 1856 had no more effect upon the South than the the winking and blinking of the good-humored chap who lives in the Moon, He admits that the cam piign of that year introduced a powerful leaven in-; lo the South and that that leaven Is leavening the State of Missouri into a slate of Freedom. But the Republican sentiment of the broad North must not claim any credit therefor. The Republican parly reminds the cdi'nr of the conceited Fly who pilled the poor horses, dragging a loaded conch over a hot and du-ly ruad. “ It’s a pity lu add my enormous “ weight to the burden of these poor horses,” said the benevolent Fly, and so saying he popped out at the window. The AVics docs rml give this exact version of the fable ; but one quite as facetious and put to the matter in hand. * \ Thcd the editor goes on," to say that Slavery is regulated by imaginary lines, called parallels of lat itude ; by other imuginnry lines called meridians of longitude; bv the geological and topographical lea lures of the earth ; and last, though Hot least by any means, by the existence of a larg'd body of anti slavery men in the South and Southwest cVfply im bued with the “ American sentiment.” He think'* that the division ol Texas mu-l inaugurate two or three Free Stales; and finally, that Slavery will be .driven lo lake refuge in the sugar and rice produc ing States- Perhaps so, and may-be not. That is not the question at issue ; but rather—to what in fluence is the growing anti-slavery sentiment of the Southwest attributable ? The News may, or may not have heard of F. P* Blair, jr., and Gr.uz Brown, of Missouri. It may have learned that those gentlemen are the prominent leaders of the Em incipalinn Movement in that Stale. And who an the'-c Fne Slate leaders and what their political faith ? They are not and never have been Americans. Mr. Blair owes his seal in Congress to the votes joT men whom the News de disfranchise—to Germans. Mr. Brown owes lii» lasTVmter’s seal ini the Missouri Legislature to the votes of Germans. The Emancipation move ment i- officered and sustained, not by Know-Noth ings, but by Republicans; and owes its strength in great pari, to the German voters. the Census report of 1850 and note the districts in which the German population is greatest Now take up the official rclurns of the Missouri election of last Au gust and inform us where the Free Stale vote was largest Then quarrel with (he fuels and figures- So much for the influence ot Republicanism; now let as see what Know-Nolhingism has done or is do. THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOE. ing for Freedom in the South and iu the North. In 1856, the American parly met in National Conven tion'und Fillmore for the Prcsi dehcy. He it was who defiled our statutes wilji the Fugitive Slave Law. He it was who issued hfc-pu. crile coifing upon Christian men to aid in manacling a fugitive from bonds, because, for* sooth, the Union was in danger! And this same Millard Fillmore lay down end licked the bools of the Oligarchs in *56, and slimed the North aft' over with the filth. And such a miserable trimmer is held up as.the champion of Freedom! Ugh! But what is this much-vaunted w American .sen timent” doing in Freedom’s behalf? Wc must go into its Southern strongholds to learn what it is do ing. Commencing with Maryland, its strongest hold, and what do we find ? Any scheme of Eman cipation afoot?) Oh, no! on the contrary,it is not sis weeks since l a man was tarred and feathered in thaT Slate, on the merest suspicion that he wus un sound “on the goose,*’ Go next into Kentucky— another stronghold. Any scheme of emancipation on foot there 7 Oh, no! it is not a year since Rev. John G. Fee was mobbed lor daring to preach the truth concerning Slavery to a white congrcgsilion. Go into Tennessee; any scheme of emancipation on fool there? No. Go into Louisiana—next to Ma ryland, the strongest in the Know-Nothing faith. Any Free Slulc movement there ? None. Is there any talk of emancipation in North Carolina? No. In the name of sense, then, what is the 11 American sentiment” doing,to deliver the people from this curse? Where it is strong, Slavery is strong. In the Slates, where it abounds there is neither freedom of press, thought, nor opinion., The News hns mis taken a fog-bank for an island. Up helm and away, Mr. Flanagan ! Your discovery is no discovery at all. We now lorn to the most astounding discovery of all that Mr. Flanagan has made. Says he: “No 44 more fruitless political movement has ever been 4 ‘ undertaken in this country than that of the Frc- J 41 monlcrs of ’56. Had there been no such movement 44 Fillmore t could now be President of the United , 44 States ” Will wonders never ceuse? Had there ! been no rebellion Queen Victoria would have been | our most gracious ruler to day ! Had Washington ' died in inl'aiioy he would not have been the Father of his Country! Had Gen. Cass kept out of the field Van Boren might have been elected in 1848 ! Had Gen. Scott kept out of the field John P, Hale might have been elected in 1652 ! Wc do not as* some to claim all the honor of these discoveries. No; wc have but cruised in the wake ol the adven turous editor ol tlie News. We see the fine point of his argument. Referring to the official returns of 1856, wc find that Fillmore received in all, 873, 055 voles, while Fremont received only 1,341,812 votes ! It appears very plain that Mr. Fremont should have kept out of Mr. Fillmore’s way. We agree with Mr, Flanagan that Mr. Fillmore would have rcceiv. cd more voles hud people voted for him more gener ally ; and had he got a majority of the electors he would be in the While Hou;-e to day. But we must remind Mr. Flanagan that there is an old adage to this effect; 44 li’a no use to cry for spilled milk I” Be silent and men shall deem you wNc, But what portends this savage onslaught by the News upon the Republican party, and at the heels of the Union Convention ? Is it true, then, that wc have the gill of prophecy? Wc must conclude so, since that paper is doing just what wc over and over again predicted it would do, provided the Convention did not adopt an anti-Republican platform. The Convention happened to be coni-ervalively Republic an, and the American Lion refuses to mule with the Republican Lamb. We arc not disappointed ; and it the News -continues to slab at the' State ticket vigorously, it would not much surprise usifjnl.n M. Read should beat Lecmnplon Porter by 20,000. Even sturdy and true old Tioga might rejoice over a victory winch the Sanderson clique arc doing their utmost to prevent. When that clique exults, wc al ways suspect something wrong, and vice versa . Mass Meeting at the Court House. The Court Hou'-c was lifcrully crammed Wednesday eve nifTg of last week, whh people assembled to listen to Misers. Grow, Wilmol and Willi-lon. Mr. Grow ( labored under the disadvantage of a heavy cold, but 1 made an able speech, nevertheless, which was lis tent'd to with profound attention, lie took up the action of Government rcUiive to the Slave Power, for the last half-century, bringing it down, step by step, to the present lime. Owing to the crowded slate of the house we did not attempt a report of the speech. As Mr. Grow concluded, calls for Judge Wilmot were beard on all sides. The Judge sjid be was not 4 * down in (he bills 1 ’ und would not lake up a great deal of time. He spoke about a quarter of an hour in (he nervous and impressive style so emi nently characteristic of the man, and which is the secret of his power over the hearts of an audience* Hq dealt feelingly with the great question in its moral aspects. CalU for Mr. Wilhston being made, lbi*t gentleman responded in an earnest speech, de voted to the degeneracy und corruption df the sev eral branches of Government in its eagerness to do the will of the Oligarchy, At the close of the meeting a resolution commit ling the Republics nsof Tioga county to the support of the Union Stale ticket was presented by Mr Em ery. Tins was objected to on the grounds that its submission in that mc:ting was inappropriate, it be ing a local meeting ; that the Convention to assem ble on thcSTlhuf August could alone justly speak for the County ; and that the vote on the rcs-oUumn Could have no binding force or effect. These objec- were su~lained'by the meeting and the rasolu tion Was _r»jetted. Hon. assisted by Messrs. Lewis Miller, ot Delmar Poller, of Middlcbury, presided over the meeting. We have seen no such gathering in the Court House since 1856. Thanks are due the Charleston Band for their services on the occasion, Our Position. —As there seems to be a diaposi lion lo misrepresent our position on the Stale ticket, in some quarters, ul least, vve find it necessary to explain; and will try to do It in such terms us shall make any future recurrence to the matter nnneces- sarv, We took ground against the Call fora Union Con vention from deliberate convictions of ihe impolicy of fusion. The integrity of those convictions has not been disturbed. We staled in the outset that should battle fusion with might und main ; and that if the Convention should adopt a platform in any particular hostile lo the leading tends of that upon which the parly stood in ’56, we should oppose its nominations. We also said that we could not con scienUop.-ly or consistently do battle under any other standard than (hut on winch is in-cribcd “ No more Slave Slates.” The action of the Convention re leases us from the duty ol' oppo-mg the Slate ticket while it docs not enlist our active sympathy and support. Our position, then, is lias : Armed ncu. trahty; in other words, we shall fight the Leeomp ton Slate ticket to the best of our ability and Icav*c the Union State ticket lo take care of itself. We shall oppose the sham democratic ticket because it stands on an uncluistian, a ruffianly platform—de fying God und degrading man. The sins of the Union platform are sins of omission, simply. There is nothing therein, touching the great question, that any Republican will col endorse; but it does not come up to the work squarely and uncompromising [y and therefore we choose to let it triumph or fall without us. If it bears its nominees to victory, and it \goks very trmclulial-sray claim no credit. If defeat ensue, probably its friends will bear it. with becoming fortitude. John M. Read h-iS stood on the Free-soil side of the house since 1848, and deserves a belter platform. Thai’s all. Judge Lfucli In Indiana —A Man Tarred and Feailiered, A married man named Coons whtTls're speciablv connected, was tarred and feather ed on the night of the 6th insl., at Crawford ville, Indiana. The Lafayette Courier of ihe 7th has the following particulars : “It seems that the gay Lothario has been in correspondence for some months past with a respectable young lady of that town, and had proposed an elopement, to which she consented. By arrangements, the deluded girl was to go to_Ladoga, on the pretense of visiting some relatives, and he was !o follow the next day, and joining there, leave togeth er on the first train for the South'. Accord-, ingly, on Monday she went down to Ladoga, and was followed yesterday morning by the gay deceiver. In the meantime the people of Crawfordville had got wind of the affair, an informal meeting-of jiffy or more citizens was held and a committee of five resolute men appointed, with instructions lo procerd at once to Ladoga and lake Coons in cuslo dy. “The committee left on the evening train, and arriving at Ladoga, captured him and brought him back on the 10 o’clock train last night. They were met at the depot by a large crowd of citizens, and the guilty wretch was escorted lo the court house, which had been lighted up for lh<s occasion. Judge Lynch organized his court, and Mr. Coons was pul upon trial. Eighteen love letters over his signature and addressed to the young lady whom he had sought lo victimize, were pro ' duced and read to the multitude. No other ! evidence was needed, and after a few speech j es had been made by prominent dozens, i he lights were suddenly extinguished—Coons caught and dragged.to the court house yard —every shell of clothing lorn from his back —a bucket of warn) tar poured over his head, and a bag of feathers artistically applied. A more hideous looking object, says our in formant, cannot he imagined. He was coat ed from head lo heels. The committee took him in charge and escorted him to Ihe out skirts of the town, where they humanely pro vided him with a suit of clothing, and by a vigorous application of soft soap and lard re moved tlie tar and feaihers. He wn«s placed aboard the train for this city to-day, and leaves by the Valley Road lo night for Cali fornia. Choice Democratic Readings, “Bet wen a Constitution which confer 4 * only upon citizen of the United Slates ihe elective franchise and eligibility to office, and a Con slim ion which admits negroes, mixed breeds, and n comers from all quarters ol he eirth, chunking all the longues of Bable, to lhe-e privileges, the founders of our in-Mulions would have made a very pmmpl decision.” Washington Union, Apr. IS//*. “We learn now from the newspapers that there is lo be a proposition lot the formation of another S'lite’out of portions of Wisconsin and Michigan, wnh the outlandish name of Ontonagon, or something like it. Well It is a fil name for a Stale which, in all probabil ity, will he inhabited by scmcely anybody that e-in speak the Engli-h lunuuntre—the nu,pouring ol every foreign hive that cannot «upport us own citizens.”— Mr. Garnet of Virginia, in the House, May 4//*. 4 *l have no idea that we ought to invite exiles from all parts of the world.”—- Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, in Senate. May 4 lh “The spifif of (he Le.ivenwmtih Cun.-Ipu tion admonishes the Southern States of th" relation which they must prepme to sustain towards Kansas. \ We do not allude so much to the enfr mehisement of foreigner*, ahho’ th »i provision is intended as an inducement to the pauper philosophers of Europe lo make Kansas a platform for the propagation of their mischievous-theories in government and religion. It was the six Southern sepoys who repelled Kan** is from 'he C-nfedericy, and threw Iter into the arms of free negroes and foreigners. I*—Rich. 1 * — Rich . South, of April I Gth. “Transient find temporary causes have ihus far been your preservation. The ureal West has been open lo your surplus popula-j don, and your hordes of semi-barbarian immigrants, who are crowding in year by \cnr.” —Senator Hammond's Speech* Mar. 14 fh. Foreign Adventnrers and Ameri can Gill*. One of the mn>l veya'lous troubles among the weabhy families <ff the United Stales, is (he niiauhment which\iheir daughters form for tmpiincipied foreign adventurers, who come over here for .the verv purpose of bettering their fortunes nr gratifying their love of social intrigue, by making iho ac quaintance of romantic young ladies con-; necled wi h wealthy families. At (he present time several distinguished citizens are chasing some of these whiskered adventurers who have run off with spoiled and silly girls. It is but n few days since one of these fel lows, an escaped convict, turned the heads of half (he girls in Newark N. J. A short lime since, a creole hirher, of very dark complexion, flourished through the southern cities, under lhe title of Don Carlos de Cas tro, a political exile from his immense plan tations in Cuba, and caused a hundred sus ceptible joung girls to languish for h«s love. Mr. Rlount, a distinguished lawyer of Mo bile, is now in chase of a wintered French man, a bogus Count, claiming to he an officer ol the £ 'tiave*, of Crimean celebrity, who has runoff from Mobile, leaving his landlord and tailor unpaid, and taking wjih him Mr, Blount’s wife and daughter, the rho'Her hav ing become quite as infatuated wjih the profii gale adventurer as her daughter, and gone off to see them married. This fellow flour ished in New York as Captain Henri Around de Riviere, until he had destroyed the peace of several families and was exposed as an impostor, after which he went South lo play olf his impudence. Flirtation, Jealousy amTTv Th£lnst number of the Suicide. jg p er [,aps ihe raciest specimen of a tie*,, 8 A young man named Alberj G. Eldridge, ever got mlt ; n Northern Pennsi| Vj f, 'B a resident of Toledo, commuted suicide by seems R the editor, had tumping overboard from the steamer Northern - .. . . . . . n caslC tS Light on her last trip down.,;! The circum- to 8° »» Hamsbu.g and enherp ues , lck)]i ,| siances of the case are peculiar, and show to Devil or our friend “VVilliain usurp?,) IS what an extent the feelings may be wroughi iripod during his absence. The folio*,, m upon by lhat all powerful sentiment, love.— contains about one-sixteenth part of ihe Mr. Eldiidge was in company j with a party t 0 be f oom j in tbe editorial columns, wfio had made the tour of.Laho Superior.— Q(jr reader 9 up a 3 hear|y a , h Among- these was a young laov from Cleve- , . , ■ , er u M land, named Miss H—. daughter of a heavy ««« M ***s forwarding merchant in that [City. To .his nexi six monlhs. He has just young lady, who was everything attractive the absence of Rogers and continues; v and interesting, the unfortunate young man was devoiedly attached. Hoy? long the at tachment had existed, or lo jwhat extent it was reciprocated, we are noiliable to say ; but his attentions were very arduous during ihe early portion of the trip, jHe lived in the pure light of an undivided lovaj and was most happy in being near its object—at least so his undisguised and open oeijons indicated. AH went happily until the return of the boat, wherr she received as a passenger a young man who became acquainted whh Miss H— r, and thenceforward devoted himself to her. She seemed to have entered injto the flirtation with a keen zest, so keen, intjfuci, that her lover was driven into a unmistakable fit of the blues. He spent hisUime in walk ing the upper deck with his bands in his pock ets, sitting with his feet hanging over the side, and leaning over the stern, ghzing into the dark, troubled waters, lhat rivalled the com motion which that worst ofjall disappoint ments —a love derided—had snrred up in his own bosom. At Mackinac the parly went ashore to inspect the island, aldd wanted him to accompany them. He moodily refused, saying that he was not wanteq! His conduct attracted the attention of everybody on board, which made his poor case wopse, for nobody has sympathy with the troubles of a lover except those who are bound inj the same ties. Shorty after entering lake Huron he was ac costed by his mistress as he sat bv himself on the side of the boat. She placed her hand upon his shoulder, and spoke to him in an in quiring tone. He replied ihaljhe had no de sire to mingle in the diversions of his com panions, hut would ra'her die jat once. She replied kindly, desiring him pot to speak so, and requested him to come injo the cabin.— Instead of complying, he gavp? her one look, and.without a word plunged overboard. A scream from ihe lady broughljihe remainder of the company to the side. He was seen to struggle for u few moments, and then to sink never lo rise. With the imfge of his be loved before his eyes he sprapk into ihe cold embrace of death without an jjiktant’s thought or preparation. He was a young man of good standing in Toledo, and f>as been enga ged in busine>s there for sam£ years. The lady is of one of the best t ftir*ilies in Cleve land, and the event excited no Rule feeling. Every effort was made to kee|j|lhe affair still, the officers of th»* bon reporttpg that he fell overboard accidentally, but we Jiave the above* fads from passengers who ca pp dawn on the boat who were cognizant of the circumstan ces from beginning lo end. | Sentiment:*! Robber—Kisses more Precious Ilian Jewels. A night nr two ago, a fair.jsweet girl, re siding on Race, reat of Foiiiflh street, was partially awaked from her plumbers by a man in her chamber, but noli fully, aroused, she lay with closed tips for aj'mimue, when, the sound being repeated, .she|started op and s iw, by (he light of the little j|| up-m the gas burner, a man’s form disappearing through the window. She screamed Imvolunurilv, and her father, armed with a i revolver, was in her room in a few moments, greatly agi tated and alarmed, question pg his luvelv daughter ns to the cause of fear. She told him what had fruh’ened v*r, and he ran (o the open window, looked bti£ upon the bil conv and into 'he yard, hut co’uld see nching of the terrible man, the rr/iljnighl mbb“r„ and disturber of h«s dove evedjrlarling’s rest] The parent was di-posed io ihiijk bis daughter had been dreaming, that her imagination hid painted wlml was noi real, hot on returning lo her ap tnmen', she assuredjhirn she «a wide awake, and that she jihad sien all :-he had suited. Her faher was still incred ulous, when, in lonkihg around, he observed upon his daughter's dressing where a beautiful enameled watch, u-;pair of heavy bracelets, a diamond ring, and a necklace were lying, a slip of paper, pn which was written: ‘-J Fairest, Dearest f came here to rob, but your beauty has m||de mo honest for i he lime. I saw these jewels, hut be lieving them yours, I could not take them. I have sto'en wbm { value more—three de licious kisses from your unponcious lips. Do not be offended ; they were gentle and innocent. An Unknown Lwek. This story sounds romanticijwe are aware and perhaps some of our maller-of-lacl will be skeptical in relation thereto, but we are assured upon the best authority that it is strictly veracious, and we publish it as an evidence that the age of gallantry and semi meni is not at an end ; ihat'-fhe race of Ri naldo Rinaldini is not exiincli-friV. O. Delta . Terrible Fragedy ! — A ipost shocking affair occured in Maui village, jßroom county, nbout 16 miles from B ngbamron on Friday afternoon, 16th inst. Oliver a man about 30 years of age murdered two of his children by culling their throats with a razor. His wife’s mother had been j'slaying a few days at his house, and the day previous to the murder his wife and wife|| mother weni on a visit to the house of iheiUaller, taking with I hem the two youngest; [children —the girls, leaving the two boys, ope aged seven, the other five, at home. Abdiit 4 o’clock on Friday aflernoon Howard left!! the Tannery of Mr. Sandford, where he worked, went to his house, and returned soon! after to ihe Tannery. Not long after it was discovered that the two little boys had murdered iheir throats being cut with a.jrazor. Ffow. ard was immediately arresledjjand taken be fore NT, VV. Eastman E-qr., atJusiice of Ihe peace of that town, fnr evairiination. The murderer was brought to Bi'righam’on last Friday night, and lodged in; ijail. No ren |Bnn was assigned' by the prisoner, we are in formed, for the act when he tyjts arrested. “Before proceeding farther, it will - be proper to remark, that “we” “our",a - ' “os” as they appear in the editorials of paper,'unconditionally stand for I, mine, me. By this unique arranum'-nt, (uniquew,!| - be taken in a Pickwickian sense) the editi, : will avoid a number of pugilistic evnlumj,; upon his return, and ii will also 5 present incumbent, whose business card pears on the first side, from tergiversating,. Yes, we (meaning I) are the editor of i' =3 M'Kean Citizen. Sealed cozily in The ed>. tor’s chair (which is a pile of stove » 0t j boill up about two feel high like a cob hum* with an old roller across the top to sit on) we begin to feet nor importance. We ho. dexterously opened Mr. Roger’s trunk w r j an eight) penny nnrl, and have treated our. selves In a clean shirt and a pretty dp CPU suit of clothes, in order to sustain live dignitj due to our pnsiiion ; and as we view ourselves in the.mirror (a diminutivfe three cornered piece of brokeo looking glass tacked up be. side the Rogers petsisls in calling; his mirror, we are gratified with our oew 3! , pearance. VV'e have also liken from iy trunk and examined two 7 bur dies of letter!, thinking as the editor left without givingy but one special instruction, that they migjj throw some light over our new business; iu; none nf these letters are instructive tom; 9 our new calling; some are amusing, so®, evssed sassy, and the rest range from 154. dling 10 quite, and from that to very lov.ng. We also found a flisk filled with something stowed away in one corner of his trunk, done up in a slocking. VVe tasted of it nice times before we could decide what ii » a i t out have finally come to the conclusion after another ox swallow, and a smell, that im spirits of camphor, with the camphor gum left out. VVe also found the wedding ciri spoken of by Col. Crane; in another colurac, which are tastefully executed. A greaet parl-of these cards are covered, some mi's red and others with black spots, varying u number .from one to ten. Upon the balsas of these! cards, are the pictures of hero.: looking fiiten and meek looking women alia whom are profusely decorated with garment! of many colors. The editor’s apartment where we now are, is a very pleasant little cubby hale, detached from the main printing office. To this apart menL there is two avenues of” ingress, or places to get in. The principal entnnee a made by crawling under the pre'*, climb o’ over the place where they mix ink, an i flea by poshing in sideways through a large cm:, in the,partition, when you will lind vc-elt in the'sanctum sanctorum de la Ci.'r.on.a. Ano’her place of entrance, is down the chimney. There ore two window*'inks apartment, from eiiher of which wphivei magnificent view Looking, out of ihe west window, in the position we ore now in—t'- ting r on thejloor, with the camphor flask ta n ach irviny 0, pi,|| on a-pair ol Royer 5 ne* hoots—we can just see the lop ol 1 lie c-i.”'. sieeple,' relieved hv ihe deep blue “V -VV’e e're roa lookino nut ol the n'her win.l'V, as s -meihiog new in Rooer’s trunk is C? now engaging our a'lemion ; hut we could see out of this window ever 30 ur down (he road.” Southern manners. A correspondent of The Boston Be fi. vvn> ting from the Glen Hviuse at the 'Va.- Mountains, says : “{ have ano her diffi *ul'y to record, from the peculiar character of S »u:h**rn cha** alrv and -Northern sense* of propriety atu in fe huipence. On Tuts lay, a \oung ti 1 " 1, item in. frotn Memphis Term., who hidar rived| during the. dav in company wi h others fiorn Tennessee, endeavored to idU> duce the customs—as he suh-eqoeruly they «ere f of the Sou h. After tinishuui dinner, and whuerthe ladies and genilem-u were still sea’ed at the table, he hfl* sell" back in his chiir. and gave a louder 1 whistle, as if in search of a lost dog. fs chief wai'er, Mr. Griy (who, by the "’O'- is a very civil and polite mm, and a eap-t -waiter, hiving served at the Revere BosionV) answered his call, at ihe sam° > requesting him not to whistle again shnf-i - require any inform nion respecting pariure of stages: —which it appears svas all he desired to le-ijrn from the waiter. Tr.s remark/, coming from a servant, so arouse the Southern chivalry of the Tennessean, that he immediately proceed to the landlmd and demanded the instating’ charge of the chief waiter, threatening,!! demand was not ms'an'.ly complied with,! 3 leave the house. The landlord, wuh a caltn* ness really refreshing, told the whistler di*! the wauer could not be discharged, and n* furnish conveyance for his (di-t nessean’s) departure whenever he shou choose to depart. This rather cooled off chivalrous gentleman for a moment, hut n* went around the house, told hts grievances ij his Southern friends, and by tea-ume he persuaded some half a dozen asses like self to ask for their bills and baggnge. - Thompson, the landlord, ordered a sa, conch to be got .ready, and the party l elli “‘ Gorham, amid the laughter of a largo berof gentlemen who had become with the facts of the difficulty. As this P-‘. son intends visiting Boston, the proprietor**" the Boston hotels had better commence mg iheir wallers in the school of 3nti‘ chivalry, and in order that they may not fertain angels unawares, I give the the party —which is J. P. Perkins, Me [n Tenn. i Many Southern gentlemen n efl . men inr ihe fullest meaning of the w j censured the conductor the Tennessean, laughed heartily at his nresumpl uoUS efn and folly.”
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