Editor*’ Fund Association. The last N. Y. Eoening Post contains a very able and eloquent article urging upon the merchants of Gotham the propriety and necessity of a ‘‘Merchpnls’ Fund” for the relief of indigent merchants, especially such as an aged and infirm.’ This cajls to mind the fact that during the session of the Penn sylvania Editorial Union, held in''Philadel phia last April, it was proposed that an Ed itorial Fund Association should be formed, having for its object the relief of indigent and infirm editors, and the temporary aid of members of the profession who may meet with misfortune. As the next meeting of the Editorial Union .will be held in October it is proper that the press should consider this matter and exchange opinions in a subject of so much importance to every in dividual member. Almost, every other pro- Cession has its Protective Relief Associations. It not unfrpqoently happens that an editor who has won distinction with the quill, who has stood high if) the estimation of the public and the profession, is reduced to penury in old ase, and his declining years are saddened by want. He has lost the vigor and fire of youth, his leaders no longer impel parlies to action, or move the people in behalf of great public enterprises. He is no longer able to earn a subsistence by his profession, and canpol engage in oTher pursuits. He sub sists by the charily of his neighbors or sinks into pauperism, and the man who once was a leading spirit in a party or community, is left to die in wretchedness. When we con template the career of such a man it cannot be but with feelings of pain. He has lived the public and when his capacity for usefulness is gone he is forgotten or neglected. Who has been more earnest in inculcating good morals, in advancing great enterprises, in setting forth the claims of benevolent in stitutions 1 There has not been any impor tant local or national enterprise which has not enlisted his sympathies and his pen. He has, perhaps, been more regardful of the public good than of his pecuniary ioteresls. Indeed, it is safe to presume that a large pro portion of the best members of the profession manifest little desire to accomulale wealth. Their minds are so completely absoibed in their professional labors that they are con tent with a bare living. The business man who makes wealth an object of life may say this is bad policy, and (hut a man who is thus careless of his monetary interests de serves poverty. But this is not just judg. men). The earnest editor who glories in bis profession, and who labors to make men wiser nod belter, is almost invariably deficient in practical, business talent—the talent that amasses wealth. The public does not generally appreciate the labors of an editor who respects ilia call ing, and who is impelled by a sense of duly and the laudable ambition to do good. None but the members of the same profession can understand this fully, and to them properly belongs the sacred duty of providing for their honorable brethren who have met with ad verse fortune. It is their high privilege to protect and relieve their fellow soldiers who are indigent, weary and wayworn, and we trust they will speedily form Fund Associa tions in every S'ate in the Union. The Pennsylvania Editorial Union at its next meeting should take the initiatory steps in this matter.— Erie Constitution . A Robe De Chambre.— The Pans Presse ; thus relates an incident that happened in that I city, and caased great glee. Mr. X. is mar-1 tied and the father of a charming girl. So on Si. John's day, which was also his birth day, the mother and daughter made a pres ent to Mr. X., of a magnificent robe de chambre, which proved to have only one defect, that of being 100 long by more than a quarter of a yard. It was in the evening of the 23d of June that they ascertained this, and Madame X., who, lhai evening, remained at home, while her husband and daughter were at a parly, look the opportunity to shorten the robe without saying a word to anybody. The next day Mademoiselle X., rising very early, hastened, with the same discretion, to. cut off the bottom of the garment, which she thought 100 long; and two hours afterwards, when Mr. X., on gening up, perceived the robe de chambre thrown across a portman teau, he immediately directed his servant to take it quickly to the tailor to lake off the quarter of a yard, which he thought was still on. Alas ! when they brought back the un fortunate garment at dinner lime, and Mr. X. called his friends to admire his present, he found that instead of a quarter of a yard, it was shortened by nearly a yard, and was no longer a robede chambre, but only a vest. Imagine the laughter which ensued when all was explained. However it may be imagined that neither Madame nor Mile, X. joined in the laugh very heartily. Steak ps the Erie Cakal. —The suc cessful introduction of steam as a motive power on the Erie Canal is an event second in imparlance only to the original completion of that avenue of commerce. One steam canal boat has made a tr.p through the entire length of the canal. The canal propeller Steinberg has been making a triumphal trip from Buffalo to Rochester and back. Great rejoicings were had at both ends of the route and along the line. Gov. King, the press, and a number of other gentlemen were of the excursionists, and the feasibility of the navigation of the canal by steam is clearly established. The only drawback now seems to be the bridges, which are too low to per mit the passage of boat pipes without great delay and inconvenience. That of course can be remedied, and should be. The Steinberg'made four and five miles an hour, creating only a swell not exceeding three inches in height, and Ids in fact than used to be created by the fast packets.— Commissioner Ruggles slated that steam would reduce freight from Buffalo to New York fifty per cent. PEBTTir Good. —At the Fourth or July celebration, held at Lexington, the 1 following toad waa offered i "Hoopt and Tight Pantt —the unqualified representatives of financial extremet. May the chirms of the ladies be as boundhts at their thins ( and may the gents never gel at tight as (heir breeches.’’ THE AGITATOR. in. H. Cobb, EdltorA Proprietor. WELLSBOROTTGH, PA/ n^n^ a rjnormns,jAng'. s^tsstr. - %* Ail Basincss\and olhefCommanicaliotiJ-mußt be addressed to the Editof to insure attention. We cannot publish anonymous communications. Republican Conv.culloUrrA.tig. 27. Jack Frost made Iris appearance hereabout last Monday morning. No damage done the crops that we hear of. The frost of Monday night killed the vines and seriously injured other crops in this borough. Correspondents will please bear with us for any seeming neglect of their favors. Indisposition has prevented us from a prompt acknowledgment of fa vors. \ We have seen nothing to compote with Beards lee’s homily on editorial courtesy, in the last Wayne Herald, He must have written that article in his robe de null will) the mercury at zero. If any of our friends wish to possess themselves of all the best and most popular songs of the duy, with the music, they will du well to call at the book store o) Smith & Richards and buy the “ Gentle Annie Melodist.” It is a pretty thing. The attendance at the Delegate elections last Sat urday seems to have been very large in all parts of the county. Delmar, Charleston and Wcllsboro, turned out en masse. We were forcibly reminded of the general election of 1856. It is as well to keep cool, gentlemen. “ A Sufferer" asks us to name a sovereign rem edy for bores . He is informed that butene remedy is known to us, great as has been our experience for six years. That remedy is simple : Pour a bucket of water over them. In ynur case, spill a pound of powder “ in bis accustomed seat.” and apply a coal of fire. We learn by the Democrat that about $2,500 was subscribed toward the completion of the Mansfield Seminary building, at the meeting held In that vil lage recently. We can see no reason to doubt tbe success of the enterprise if a sum like that can be raised to a single day and in these times. It would give us much pleasure to chronicle the completion of the building and the re-establishment of the school. The renovation of the old Academy building is fairly began and progressing rapidly. We -learn that it is 4o be completed and ready for occupation by the Ist of December. In the racantime.a Select School, under the charge of Mr, L. R. Burlingame, will be taught in the second story of the Engle buil. ding. Mr. Burlingame comes to us highly recom mended both as a scholar and-teacher, and will, we trust, receive a. generous patronage. The great need of such a school was never more fell than at this time. His advertisement will be found in another place. The Ocean Telegraph: Jollification in Wells boro.—The news of the success of the Atlantic Tel ©graph set the entire country in a blaze of bonfires and illuminations. Immediately on receipt of the Queen’s Message to the President, our worthy Bur gess improvised a meeting of the citizens and prep arations were made for an appropriate celebration oi “ the greatest event of the age.” The bells opened the ball at 74 o’clock, and were rung for thirty minutes. The whole front of the Court House was brilliantly illuminated, anvils pop j.ped und people gathered. The Court room was fill ' ed to overflowing, the ladies’side of thehousebeing, I as is usual in Wellsboro, handsomely represented. | B. B. Smith, Esq., was culled to preside over the meeting. Speeches were then declared to be the order of the hour, calls for various individuals were made* to which perhaps half-a-dozen responded. A “ pome,” written for the occasion, was read by J. Sherwood, Esq., and brought dawn the house. We missed hearing that, as also several of the speeches. But we heard Hall loudly called for in vain. He was a “ -hall where not e’en Echo dwell. Hall silent, hall deserted !” Wc noticed a few extra gray hairs about his tem plea next day, caused, probably, by a sudden rush of blood to bis leet~the only way we can account for their surprising agility just then. ; We must not forget the mnsic iurnished on the occasion by the Wellsboro- Band, doing them great credit, as it \iid, their limited practice considered. The meeting broke up with three hearty cheers for Cyrus W. Field, Queen Victoria and the Telegraph, and the crowd adjourned to wilnesss the bonfire and fireball ezhibiliooon the Public Square, Altogether, it rather outshone ordinary 4lh of July proceedings and passed off with commendable decorum. The Business of I/tfc. A dry subject? Not to the earnest-man and woman. It is a dis agreeable topic to the thoughtless and the falsely educated, (or its consideration never left any young man or young woman self-satisfied and calm. It is none the less important, however; and since none remember too well for what end they are endowed with souls having god like attributes and a desriny outreaching time's utmost, we ask attention to the plain and practical thoughts which just now occur to us. There is a short life—short at the longest—given every mortal born into this strange world and for a wise and good purpose. That life is not given lobe squandered, nor yei to be hidden away in a napkin; it Is given for use—to be devoted to the service of the Omnipotent Giver in uplifting the fallen and in a host of kindnesses, (rifling, taken singly, yet. of incalculable worth to the world in the aggregate. Every true life must overflow with good deeds, for such are the outward signs of spiritual not less than of moral excellence* There is, tlien, no lime to lose—not an hour that can be spared out of the longest life. It is impossi ble but Uiat some hours must be lost in every life, notwithstanding. Some squander the best years of their lives in trifling with the faculties which enli tie roan to rank “ a little lower than the angels,” and in the end literally starve to death in soul and mind; but more pass from boyhood up to manhood undecided touching what the business of their lives shallhe. They reach manhood in years, and,look* i'ng back, see ‘no record of progress showing, like blazed trees on the woodman's trail, the ways they have come* Looking forward, all is darkness and uncertainty ; they have no plan, no map of the fu ture; they had no system in the past; and at last they cover thetr faces with their hands and lie down to die in shame and obscurity,—leaving no rrionu. rnents to mark the fields where the soul gained its victories ovsr the baser ambitions which, in some de gree afflict the best and purest. • It is of this indecision in the choice of vocation that we intend especially to speak. The besetting .THE TIOGA GOXLNTY AGITATOR. -y sin of youth, it it overlooked teacher and the moralist. We .have known yontbg men to select not less than ihree~vocutions doting a single school year and as often abandon to commence anbllier year of like trifling; and-hot one of these -is-yet- more-than- the- merest 1 cipher in commonttyr Oihers, less talented aadless. floored by, ci rc umsla a - cesvsdlkjQl with a durtmclMjbjeif iri*V[ew% saying — u God willing, I will accomplish this work and they will succeed. They will succeed—some earlier In life than others; some will'die in the mo ment of victory ; a few may cot live to witness the triumph of-their, labors; but all will leave some wit ness of the faith that inspired their lives, in the hearts of the living. They are dropping some good seed to spring up and bear good fruit hereafter. Choose your vacation. Have you a selfish ambi tion to gratify ? Pluck it up, root and branch. Bo yon covet fame for fame's sake, wealth for the sake of wealth, place for its sake ? Scourge that covet ousness will) a whip of scorpions. Let fame be an incident of right doing, but never an object of life. Let wealth be sought as a mtans if sought at all— never as an end; and place— -the monster which swallows up the good and the beautiful in the souls of its victims, making knaves of honest men,-—shun that temptation as an object of life. The manhood of thousands has perished under the heel of that mad ambition. “What shall I do?” Measure your capacity, study your capabilities with these truths in mind : Life is short at its greatest span; it is a rudimcntal condition of the soul—a school where the mind is taught Us infant paces; there is so much labor to be performed in a given lime and the question is, not u how can this business of life be made to pay the best/* but “ how can my life be rendered most use ful in the grand average of lime?’ 1 Such is the question which every young man and woman is re ligiously bound to consider in the choice of a voca tion. Thousands waste half a life in changing their minds, dallying now with this and now with that. Resolving to do this to-day, and something else to-morrow. Halting now at the command of a Pulse pride, and anon vaulting at the haughty beck of selfishness into the dark. They are always just on the threshold of some remarkable deed and on the threshold only—they never cross into the broad and beautiful field of labor beyond; and so they hall between a host of opinions all the best years of tbeir lives, ruining their souls and disappointing the expectations of fond parents and anxious friends. In order that one may be able to fix upon some vocation and steadily pursue its object, there must be capacity to plan as well as will to do. The plan must precede the resolution as deliberative judgment must go before intelligent opinion. The idea of what you will do must be distinct to the mental vis ion, else the mightiest will can avail nothing what ever. Sit down and commune with your souls; ask yourselves the momentous question—" How cun the purpose for which we are created and endowed best and most acceptably be served ?’* Weigh yourselves —estimate your ability—plan, map out your course —resolve to avoid this rock and to brave that; lake your eland and stand by it ! Man has established some most miserable prece dents. He has built false distinctions between la* bor here and labor there, calling this plebeian and that noble, this respectable and Dial vulgar. These distinctions do not generally obtain in little villages like ours, certainly not’to any dangerous degree; but we arc speaking of the outer world where such distinctions do exist and send their influence into the remotest veins and arteries of society. By this means the professions arc overstocked and the me chanic arts impoverished—the effect of which, is, to bring both trades and professions into disrepute. Quackery reigns supreme everywhere. The pro fessions arc filled with men who care for nought bat the accumulation of wealth and the advantage of place, and the trades are made merchandize of. This is not intended lu deter any young man from entering any of the professions or trades, where they have intelligently resolved to do either. There is an abundance of room lor good members in all the professions and trades; in fact, each and all of litem would gain immensely by such accessions. But lo study for a profession as hundreds do,' because it is popular lo do so, degrades not only the man but the profession as well. Nature unerringly indicates the true vocation of every man and woman in the gifts with which she endows them. Listen to the counsels ot this unerring teacher ; her voice is the audible utterance of wisdom and' none ever obeyed her injunction to regret it. Choose your vocation and abide by the choice. Be wise to-day and to morrow will lake care of itself. Siufein Sodger has favored us with a splendid •• epik” “ rit fur the Atlanlik Telagraf with a kwill “ from the tale of the Amerikin Buzzerd.” He is urgent for its publication, so here it is: Trcmcnjus string ! how d'ye feel All quisled up like a immens angledorg On the bottom of the vasty deap 7 Dont ye feel damp, you string you 7 Donl you cgspecl to get pirkeld clean thru A-lyin in the bottom of that immens Fish baril? Miserable worm in'the mnd. Hoot the icclric currants sour your slummik 7 How d'ye like that luvlelur the Quean rit To old Buck, hay 7 dident it make ye feel Kinder athovcrlsh 7 Unfortnit wire I It took a heap of copper to maik ye, Didnt it 1 how many cents D’ye think you’d have maid if Siunts hadnt a dropl you in the brine As wiimnen fukes drop twisted kukes Into hot fat? Speak up, old chap! You needn't bo afeard—nobody - Km tech you—you lay so low. Woodn't ye rather be made into eents And jengle in the packets of such chaps As haint got nary red 7 I went a clammin wance. The Jay was brile As a new cent, and the sail brezes sung Clam-orou«ly thru the clamrake in my hand; But as there is no rose without a thorn, No huncy without B-brcd and no swcte Without a drtsh of bittnr, so my dreme Vanishl, and left me slickin in the mud ! The tide wns oul, but luckless I wos in—. Knee deap, and goin deaper evry minit Jest then a chap cum by ; scz he, you cus, How's clams to da ? Donlyewish Sum chap *nd cum and get ye out o* that 7 Aim yonr feet wet, and uint you dchkit, Donl you ogspect to ketch your deth o* Cold ? Wondn’t you like a little drap o’ fresh To likwedale the pickel you are in? The rascal went and left me slickin thare; I nursed my rath and vowed upon my rake To talk revenge on the first helpless critter That came to anchor In such slimy pickle. Grate Siring, farewell I Lie low, keep dark! You’re the string we read of I egspect— The C-slring of a grate aquatic harp On which John Bull and brother Jonathan Shull raise the pcean of millennial peace. SiMFKIN SoDGKR. P. S. Send the Agitator to the Queen as a token of respect from Sodger. The September No. of The Atlantic Monthly sets a feast of substantiate before its readers. 'Among other excellent things we notice the conclusion of u The Kinloch Estate,' ’* a fresh instalment of Daph* ntudes, «A Night with the Telegraph Wires,” and a fine poem entitled u The Birth Mark.” It may bo had of Smith & Richards at the Bookstore. < (P*JJorlh Carolina also retains her position' in the JQesiocnlic Union . i. j;' y We suppose that is\ho polite way of saying that North Carolina redoing a flourishing bosinesslin the juvenile darkey line. The Union is getting Laura. Mulilda-ish. - r TUC Message. *. To the President of the United States, Washington ; Her Majesty desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great-international work in which she has taken ,lbe,deepesl interest. The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in feryenlly hoping Jhal the Electric Cable « hich now connects Great Biituin with the United,States will prove an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded upon their common in -lerest and reciprocal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus communicating with the President, and re newing to him her wishes for the prosperity of the United Slates. Victoria. President Buchanan’s Reply. To Her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain : The President cordially reciprocates the congratulations of her Majesty the Queen, upon ihe success of litis great international enterprise, accomplished by the science, skill and indomitable energy of the two Countries. It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind than was ever won by conquest on the field. May the Atlantic Telegraph under ihe blessing of Heaven prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine Providence to dtffase Religion, Civilization, Liberty and Law throughout the world. In this view will not all the nations of Christendom unite in the declaration that it shall be forever neutral, and that its commu nications shall be held sacred even in the midst of hostilities? James Buchanan. Narrow Escape from Strangulation. —Two physicians, Dr. B. and Dr. VV., en tered ihe Metropolitan Bath-house, on Syc amore, above Fourth street, at a late hour, a night or two ago, and asked for a double bath, which was given them. One of two, Dr. W., disrobed immediately, and during a merry conversation, leaped laughingly ; nto the tub, iuhaling a quantity of water which strangled him at once. He threw up his hands and made every effort lo regain his suspended breath, bnl lo no purpose. He struggled until he grew livid. His fate seemed, inevitable, and Dr. 8., paralyzed by terror, stood by his side and waited for the moment that death would come lo his friend’s relief- Suddenly a thought struck Dr. 8., and reason began to act. He knew that man had been saved from choking by blows up on the back, and in a moment he struck his companion, who, with protruding eyes and livid face, was undergoing all the horrors of strangulation, a heavy blow between Ihe shoulders. Dr, W. threw up the water, and was relieved at once; but so exhausted was he by the terrible scene through which he had passed, that he sank helpless into Ihe tub, and would have been drowned but Dr. 8., lifted him up in his arms and supported him until his strength was partially restored. —Cincinnati Enq. A Mother and her Child torn to Pieces by the Cars. —A Mrs. Maloy and her infant child, about uvo years old, starred by the little Miami Railroad, for Morrow, yes :erday afiernoon, and when the lady reached Deerfield, under ihe impression ihat she had reached her destination, she stepped wjih the child in her arms, from the cars. She soon perceived her mistake, and just as, Ihe Irain started, attempted lo get on board, when her fool slipped and she fell on the track , the train passing over her neck and severing it completely from her body, and across the child’s breast, culling it entirely in two. The other cars in their progress caught up the Bi sected bodies, and tore iheoivitmb from limb, until they presented sueh a horrid mass of broken bones and sanguinary members, that no one would have dreamed that they had ever belonged to human creatures The track was strewed with the fragments of the two hapless victims o( the accident, present ing a horrid spectacle jhal made the heart sick and the soul shudder. Mrs. Maloy was the wife of an employee on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, and resided, we under stand at Branch Hill in this State. — Cincin nati Enquirer. Coal Bank on Fire. —The citizens living in the vicinity of the glass works in Centre W heeling, yesterday morning, were greeted with the sight of fire coming out of the slack communicating with Ihe coal pi! of the Bel mont Mills, and upon examination it was found that the mine was on fire. The slack was about 15 feel high, and above the top of it the flames streamed about ns high again— a most brilliant flume it was loo —from the combustion of the gas within. Exertions were made to extinguish the fire, but up to 5 o’clock last evening they had not been thor oughly subdued, though three streams of wa ter had been poured into ihe'pit all day.— The chimney was knocked down and all air passages stopped, and it is hoped they will succeed in smothering the flames. It caught from the furnace which was used to expel the foul air and gasses which accumulates in the mine.— Wheeling Times. The Madison, (Wis) Journal records a ro mantic marriage at Mazomania, in that coun ly. The groom was a returned Californian, who left his wife for the auriferous regions about seven years ago ; and the bride the wife that was left. She had heaVd of his death, but subsequently heard he was alive, but did not intend to return, and therefore procured a divorce. A short time since he 'returned, and called on his former wife, A courtship was reopened, the result of which was, he led her to the altar a second lime. A soldier at Lucknow, digging amon w some rubbish, threw up a dirty looking box', that he was about to cover up again in his search for more valuable plunder but conclu ded to open it, when to his astonished eyes was revealed a collection of rubies, diamonds and other precious stones of (he value of 100,00 ft roubles. Future Ot Free Soil ln| Missouri. think free soil by any means prostrated under the late elections, are wide indeed of the mark ari&show little apprecia tion of the elements which go lo jnake up! grearpopTifar movements'. The result rna'y act as a tonic, not as a paralysis —the force Of plurality triumphs can only leach the op position its divided weakness -and' its. United strength. Let us look at Ihe facts of the ballot-box as they stare us in the face, with out concealing their import, oridoubting their validity. What do they show? First, the striking truth is exhibited, that free soil, in no locality, and under no pressure of adversity , has receded one single vote in the State of Missouri. Along the border counties, where lately it was death to utter the! word, emanci pationists are returned to IheiLegislature.— In Jefferson City, where the whole power of the slate execu'ive was brjought to bear against it, Mr. Gardenhire.'ltidugh not suc cessful, wins a clear and emphatic gain over the contest of 1857. One year ago all Ihe opposition united against Ihe national democ racy, yet the latter carried Cole county for Mr. Stewart, by a majority of 285 voles. — This year upon the clear freeisoil issue, with all advantagos of patronage! most lavishly used, the national democracy elect Mr. Cor dell by a majority of only 257 voles. See Ihe neighboring counties ; of them have been closely contested j and in some a few ballots conslilute all the majorities against us, in others we triumph by -large votes. It is true that in most cases the! issue is not dis tinct, and in many are embarrassed with past antagonism, but the expression of public sen timent was made with full knowledge of the direction in which it tended.! That boldness may not attach lo those thus returned may be Irue and tolerated; but llpe seed is there, the iree is growing, the fruit will ripen.— There may not be a member elect to the present General Assembly rfeady to move in the matter of slavery extinction, and yet there have been near forty! thousand voles cast this year directly in ifsi favor. It re quires only unity, bravery, [appreciation, to make those foity thousand mount up in twelve months time to eighty! thousand.— St. Louis Democrat. ; Life Scenes. —The Police-Office is not a place to study human nature tinder favorable aspects. The scenes of misery and degra dation—the blighted forlunes;and conditions of men and women—are not pleasant lo contemplate, and regretful to behold. A few days ago we noticed an instance of a man who was brought before one of our Magis tra'es, on a warrant issued At I lie instanceof his wife, charged with ill treating and abu sing her while in liquor. long since the man alluded to was a sober,, industrious, re spected mechanic, a good hnd loving hus band, —but he has fallen lower and lower through his habits of intoxication, until he has forfeited the respect and confidence of community, and compelled Slhe wife whom he vowed to cherish and protect lo save her self from violence by havjng him arrested and imprisoned. This is but one instance out of scores of a similar character that may be witnessed from lime to time at rhe offices of our Magistrates. How many homes have been desolated, how mmyj hearts broken, how many families impoverished, by indul gence in strong drink ! Ho|y truly it “bite!h like a serpent and stingeth like an adder I” Harrisburg Telegraph, j Incident on the Hard Times. —ln old times, when debtors were lihble to imprison ment, a gemleman, now weljl known in Phila delphia, failed, and forced ;by some of his relentless creditors to becouje the inmate of a prison. But among his creditors there was one glorious spirit, who byi great exertion, and by involving himself, fully accomplished the liberation of his friend.!. He was a com mission merchant and partner in a house that ranked wiih the first in our city for a period of nearly fifty years, without the., slightest taint or blemish. In the evening of his days, however, misfortune reached him, and he found his house tottering qmid the financial storm of last autumn ; and whilst his dt-'tress was greatest, and his fortunes looked darkest, the bread he had cast upon ,the waters, six and twenty years before crime floating back to his door. It was his former debtor’s check book, showing a balance irj one of our city banks, of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with check signed in blank lo his order, and a request that jhe would use the whole, or any part, if it would be of service to him. i ' ■ Death of a Veteran ijorroß and Poin ter. —We have a painful duly to perform, says lhe Steuben Courier in announcing the death of Captain Benjamin Smead, of this village, aged 83 years. He was a practical Printer, and was connected with' the Press for upwards of sixty years some fifty of which were spent as an editor and publisher of a newspaper. He has ,been a resident of this county lor forty.two years, and has al ways commanded the resppel and confidence of our citizens. He died oh Sunday, at half past 3 o’clock in ihe afternoon, without any apparent disease save that of age. Hts lamp of life has been biijrning fainter and fainter for the last year, uplil it expired from lack of aliment simply. I He-sank away slowly and quietly till pulsation ceased and he was no more. . i • Peace to his ashes. iHe was an honest man and his memory Will be cherishd by all who knew him. i Found Dead. —We learn that during the latter part of week before 1 last, Mr. William Montgomery, formerly q resident of this place, and father of Hon.[William Montgom ery, was found dead hebide a haystack in West Finley township, nekr the Virginia line. It is not positively known in what manner he came to his death, but from the fact of two whiskey hollies being found near the body, it is presumed that he killed himself by the excessive use of intoxicating liquor. He had procured a quantity of liijuor in Triadelphia, Virginia, a day or two previously. It is not known how long he had been dead before his body was discovered. (His. remains were interred in a graveyard inilhe.vicinity. The age of the deceased was about seventy years. Wash. Examiner. i i r -i One Woman Cowbiding -InothT s yrom the Boston Herald. Last Tuesday evening an affair of h on came off between two females in p ro ,“® street; pear:the corner of Lyman Place.T exaggerated reports are in circulation rejpj ing, ibis transaction, we have condadedj" give; the, public a. statement of the r aci , which have been in our possession a dayaj two. ' l' I I I It appears that a‘ : married gentleman, ke. siding in Poplar street, has been on intimji terms with a female who figured in Cs | courts a few months ago as the of two police officers of the Fourth Station and this intimacy had proceeded so far ih a J he was in possession of her daguerreoiy M and things. A few days ago one of the tlemen’s children, while at play, found the picture and several letters from the frail 08e concealed under the carpel, and by means they were placed in possession oftfo injured wife. Of course this created a nut, nmonial breeze. The wife sought the fenu'. who had -broken her peace of mind, and ij the course of their interview an arrano en!eJl was made by the terms of which the leii ffl which had passed between the lovers to be exchanged. The letters which « en addressed to the husband were promptly handed over to the young woman, and sis returned his billet-doux, with the exception of one, which she retained, as was suspected for no good or honorable purpose. Of course I his arrangement proved lobs a hollow peace. The husband still hankerd after the frail one, and on the evening » t have mentioned, he had been walking, he hr! been walking and communing with her, and had just parted from her when the injure! wife made her appearance upon the ground armed with a cowhide, and backed by sister’s husband. The wife commenced an attack upon the seduceri" her husband’s affections with the cowhide which she used with all the energy whiclt jealous rage can infuse into the female nature. The cowhide was wrenched from her& ao d by her husband, who rushed to the fescue of his enamorata, and He was knocked down by the brother-in-law of his wife. The esaj. perilled wife followed op the castigations her rival with a small cane and with h« claws, and damaged her apparel considers bly before the affray was ended. The affair caused considerable excitement in the besom of the actors in the drama, and in the neigh borhood where it occurred. The sequel re mains to be developed. Taxing the Government to Suppojt the Democratic Party. — We see it re ported, we do not care upon what authority, that a tax is levied upon the persons eat ployed.in the government service and tin payment thereof exacted. U’e are quiteig norant of the authority upon which this pay. menl is demanded or the purposes to which it is applied when received. We trust, hov ever, that whatever, may be ihus collected may be wisely and economically applied to advance the interests of the Democratic party in its great struggle with the Opposition, ft is said that from one-quaner to one-half of one per cent, on the salaries of officials is thus exacied. Now, without knowing anytjjiag'or the alleged tax, and with no te lief m its existence, as a general thing, we have just this to say on the subject. U there is a person in the public service who does not voluntarily contribute the amount, at leaC, ■ of two dollars and a half a year on each thousand dollarsof his salary to support lb# cause of the Democracy, he should he dis missed at once and his place filled by out who is patiotio and liberal enough to douhie the contribution.— Washington Union, cf dt/gust 12 lh,_ Great Excitement at Williasspcst. A street fight came ofF at Wiliiamsportct Mondtv between Deputy Sheriff Piatt >fi A. Updegraff Esq. ; the parties being of bp standing in the community. This is only u* culmination of a disgraceful crimination it! re-crimination which has been going on B months past in that once orderly town, be tween parlies of the highest respectability growing out of arrests made some lime as* for passing counterfeit money. Chtrpt have been made hy officials against cilß# of the highest respectability and abates® picion, implicating them as accomplice* ;l the distribution of spurious money in t bat ,: ‘ cinity. It was charged in return thv ite l officials had corruptly made the accuia'» a to obtain black-mail money. Mutual illlec* 1 ing was of course engendered, which > a grown into a fierce excitement. The cot" now in session at that place is engaged^ 1 - trial of a suit for slander growing out ot 'ls* matters. —Elmira Advertiser. A Slave Killing her Babe. —Webtd that on Sunday last a slave woman, dj 1 ' 45 years of age, owned by Mr. Clo*cl* n “* Florence, Ky., gave birth to a child, ana' • she-took the infant by the heels and heal 1 brains out ! She then threw it over a and covered it wifd rails. A few hours >1* it was discovered by persons belonging 10 household who happened to pass by, when was found that the face of the child and leg had been nearly eaten off by the The woman was accused of the crime, at first denied it. A physician who examined her person, and had recently given birth to a child. ' mother then acknowledged her g ttl 7 ' gave as a reason for the murder of her l , that she would not raise up children 10 for others all their lives. — Cincinnti!‘ The Philadelphia North American S the following as one of ihe incident ,l ing the rcjoicmiis in ihat Cny on Taw *. honor of the reception of the Queens SQCTg ; gjj. In coming down Race street in ing, we saw an enlhusiasiic English man standing on his door step, a dinner bell in each hand, which he raD ”,£ such effect that the din fairly entire block. He was perspiring and aliernalely shouting, "Long l> ve ( ® vfj esty !” “Long live Prince Halbert. passed the spot half an hour found him still ringing and cheering. dwindled to a gruff whisper, and vj head glistening in the sun like a new y porringer.
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