of P«>«icatlon. TIOGA CODNTYy AGITATOR is pub , rv Thursday Mornfog, and mailed to suh- Ijned ewi ver „ fea son»ble price of Oni Ool (Ciibers at Variably in advance. It is intend- M»P era I - f _ ev ery subscriber when the term for ed l0 L 1 . ■ |L oaid shall hare expired, by the stamp w hich ne on d, e margin of the last paper. .|'| t | ien be slopped until a further re- The pap cr ce j ve d. By lids arrangement no.man » UUDI if iLhl in debt to the'printer, cm lie b '° ” ator is the Official Paper of the Conn Tst • | e and steadily increasing circnhUioß ly, with a nea rly every neighborhood in the reaching 1" s jent/rfe ■>/ postage lo any Post office County- 11 ", limits, and to those living within Iwidna the “ most convenientpostoffiee may l t ’ ie \ - Bbs i°* n Vfrrds, nolexceeding 5 ia- the inquiry. ~BT MEET A MELGROV,*. C„,k lo this aching heart, oh winds! 'speak to my heart to-night; M, Poking spirit always huda, ; r n you some new delight; t'uur wild and whispering tones at night, Bong to my spirit groat delight. Arl , c oil winds, from year chill bed, In this sully twilight hoar; For dm dearest hopes of my heart are dead, And hunt my spirit’s power; Come then, oil winds I Horn your cold bed, And tell me of the slumbering dead. Tell me deep winds! for oft you go, In darkening gloom of night; About the chamber dark and low, Where sleep the dead ; and light Comes not through all the gathered gloom. Oh! sleep limy well in the dark tomb 7 Speak lo me roving winds, and say, *lf in ll.e grave be rest! for cl) 1 l»fc’ s brief and flirting* day,' ju a saddened one at best; Then m tliis still hour speak and say, Jf death will bring my lone heart rest? Charlaton, 1656. Be Polite to All. Kjlalloi Limpy, tho cars will start in a Bionic, huiry up or we shall leave you be bind!” The cars were wailing at a station on one c [ out Western railroads. The engine was puniag and blowing; the baggage master »u busy with baggage ana checks ; the men were hurrying to and fro with chests indvatises. packages and trunks. Menr»o mn and children were rushing for the cars ltd hastily securing their seats, while the lo sßinine puffed, and snorted, and blowed. iman carelessly dressed was standing on die platform of the depot. He was looking around him, and seemingly paid little atten tion '0 what was passing. It was easy to see that he was lame. At a glance one might kaie supposed ihat he was a man ol neither teaiih nor influence. The conductor of the mm gave him a contemptuous look, and slap pa; him familiarly on the shoulder he called out: ‘■Halloa, Limpy better get aboard or the cars will leave you behind I” "Time enough, I reckon,” replied the indi vidual so roughly addressed, and he retained 4:i seem'ngly listless position. The last trunk was tumbled into the bag gage car. “All aboard !” cried the conduc tor. “Gel on, Limpy,” said he as he pass ed ihe carelessly dressed lame man. The lame man made no reply. Just as llietram was slowlv moving away, he stepped on the platform of the last car, and walking in, quietly, took a seat. The train moved on a few mtiea, when the conductor appeared at ihe door of the car where our friend was sit ting. Passing along he soon discovered the stranger wh >m he had seen at the station. "Hand out your money here.” "I don’t pay,” replied the lame man very tj'jtelly. “Don’t pav!’’ “We ll see about that. I shall put you out at the next station 1” and he seized the nhse which was on the rack over the head of our Iriend. “Bit'cr not be so rough, young man,” re turned the stranger. The conductor released the carpet bag for l moment, and seeing he could do no more it™ he pasted on to collect the fare from the ttVr passengers. As he slopped at a seat a ft* paces off, a gentleman who had heard the conversation jos: mentioned, looked up at the conductor and asked him : “Caaou know to whom “you were spea king just notv V’ ~ X | >, sir.” “That was Peter Warburton, the President cf the road.” “Ate\mi sure of that t’’ replied the con doctor, tning to conceal his agitation. “I bow him.” | The color rose a little to the young man’s face but wub a strong effort fie controlled himself, and went on collecting his faro as usual. Meanwhile Mr. Waiburtnn sal quietly in his seat, Vong 0 p 11,0,5 w ho were near him unravel the expression of his counlen nnr tell what would be the next move ,” cnl m the scene. And he—of what keen unkindly taunted *"h the infirmity which had come perhaps 1 rough no fault of his. He could revenge if he chose. He could tell > the dt the simple truth, and the yodng man deprived of his place at once. — 1 hf do it! And yet, »hy should he ine» knew what he was worth. He ,!** '’ Qw de had risen by his own exertions ' e position he now held. When a little . he stood bv the street-crossing, 8 ‘ r > I would like to talk with tu,S e ypung man sat down, the President *uj r f ° " lm w hh a face in which was no lone; W lng and B P°heio him in an under ksliiJ.y°Ung ( r ' I have no revengeful h»y e ?, 0 B ral 'fy in this matter; but ,you had it ve L r y imprudent. Your manner, ° e * n l “°* 10 a stranger, would have YOL, V. For the Agitator. been very injurious lo the, interests of the company. I might tell ihent of this, but I tyill not. By doing so I should throw you out of ypuc station, and you might find it dif ficult to get another.. But in future, remem ber lo be polite lo all whom you meet. You cannot judge of a man by the coat he wears, and even thepoorest should be treated with civility. Tithe up your books, sir, 1 shall tell no one of what has pnssed. If you change your.course, nothing which has hap pened shall injure you. Your situation ia still continued. - Good morning, sir I** The Irain of cars swept on, as many a train had done before; but within it a lesson had been giyen and learned, and the purport of that lesson ..ran somewhat thus— don't Judge from appearance*. VlsjLt to a Powder Magazine. The precautions in visiting powder maga zines in Europe are greater than in ihis coun try, where the “free and equal rights Dem ocracy” would hardly submit lo Such rigid rules as are there enforced. It would be considered quite condescension enough on the part of an American ‘-sovereign,” particu larly one of the Young Amerind school, to throw away a lighted cigar. He would have to do something more than that before grati fying his curiosity with a sight of the stores of powder in some of the fortresses on the other side of the water. Yet, with a rigid observance of “the rules,’’ established and printed, perhaps a century ago, danger of being blown up, is not always avoided. A friend tells us an anecdote illustrative of Ihe fact that old rules are not always applicable to a new stale of things. He visited s large fortress in the northern part of Holland, and being ihe son of an old soldier and an artist, pursuit of objects of interest to sketch pencil, he was permitted lo look into the powder-magazine, where more than a hundred thousand pounds of powder were stored. The strong stone building was fenced around with a strong wall, outside of which was a little ante-room, where the applicant for admission entered and rapped upon the wooden door with a wooden knocker, when a little wicket opened upon its wooden hin ges, and the keeper showed his visage and demanded his pass. This being all right, he was directed to pull off his bools on the fur ther side of the room, the wooden floor o( which was kept free from all possible sign of dirt. Then after brushing his stockings and dusting all his garments, he was furnished a pair of cloth slippers, and then pul through the course of questions that were lied up with “red tape” at the “war-office” in the lime of his great-grand-father. “Do you smoke! Then leave your pipe and tobacco, and your flint and steel and tinder.” Each of these articles had to be deposited separate, so as to be sure the (lint and steel should not by any charm get together, al though a hundred feel from the powder, and behind two thick stone walls. Happily our friend had none of these inflammable articles. “Have you any knife, key or article of steel?” He had, as was required to lay them away carefully in separate places. “Have you any gold, silver or copper coins?” Fortunately, although a traveling artist, he had some of these needful accom paniments of a traveler. He was required to show what he had, and make a special de posit, without retaining a single red. “Have you any other piece of metal, flint, glass or mineral of any kind about you ? If so. you must leave that behind.” Having gone through with all “the form alities,” the door opened upon its noiseless wooden hinges, and the “safe visiter’ 1 was permitted to enter the courtyard, which was crossed upon a path of an'i-fi iction materia' to the wooden door of the magazine, which he entered and walked up and down with noiselsss trend between the long rows of powder casks, piled tier on tier, in quantity sufficient to destroy ns many lives and as much property as the late great explosion at Havana. “You are very particular,’’ said the visiter to the keeper, “to avoid all possible chance of accident ?’’ “We simply nbev the rules,” he replied. How those rules do need amending and adopting to the present age of the woild, thought our friend just at that moment, ns he drew his handkerchief from his pocket and applied it to his face, more to hide any change of countenance than for any other purpose, at the same time hardly declaring’ himself fully satisfied with what he had seen, and expressing a wish to retire, and, without wasting time, making a decided movement toward the door. “Here,” thought he, “under the rules, they have divested me of every harmless copper, lest I might carelessly drop one upon the floor and igni’e a grain of loose powder. They have questioned me, ns they did an old Dutch burgomaster a hundred years ago, about my habit of smoking so as to take away my flint and steel. They have ordered me to divest my pockets of nil me tallic substances, lest by some possible mis chance some of them should ignite. I won der they did not inquire whether “saltpetre will explode.” Fortunately they allowed me to retain my cambric handkerchief, and in feeling in my pocket for that I have discov ered the box of friction matches that I use to light my cigars. I think I will retire, resume my coppers and my keys, my watch and finger rings, put on‘my boots, and give the customary coins to the attendants, and go away quite satisfied that I have conformed to all the rules, and have visited a powder magazine with a bos of friction matches in my pocket. It is all right; but. lhank Hea ven, I am now on the outside of the outer wall.”— N. Y. Tribune. THE AGITATOR, ip _Squar^,(l' Srtiotcg to ti)t jgytcnfliott of t&e of ifm&otn ani* t&e Sgveatt of a&tfotm.. P WHILE THESE SHALL BE A WEONO UNSIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MOST CONTINUE. WELLSBORO. TIOGA.COUNTY, TA., THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 8, 1858. Beautify Toor Home. Every man should do his best to own a home. The first money he can spare ought lo be invested in a dwelling, where his family can live permanently. Viewed as a mailer of economy, this is important, not only be cause he can ordinarily build more cheaply than he can rent, but because of the expense caused by frequent change of residence. A man who early in life builds a home for him self and family, will save some thousands of dollars in the course of twenty years, besides avoiding the inconvenience and trouble of removals. Apail from this, there is some thing agreeable to our better nature in having a home that we can call our own. It is a form of property that is moreihan properly. It speaks to the heart, enlists the sentiments, and ennobles the possessor. The associations that spring up around it, as the birthplace of children. —as the scene of life’s holiest emo tions—as the sanctuary where the spirit cher ishes its pure-t thoughts, are such as all value ; and whenever their influence is ex erted, the moral sensibilities are improved and exalted. The greater part of our hap piftess in this world is found at home ; but how few recollect that the happiness of to-day is increased by the place where we were happy on yesterday, arid that, insensibly, scenes and circumstances gather up a store of blessedness for the weary hours of the future! On this account we should do all in our power to make home attractive. Not only should we cultivate such tempers as serve to render its intercourse amiable and affectionate, but we should strive to adorn it with those charms which good sense and re finement so easily imparl to it. We' say easily, for there are persons who think that a home cannot be beautified without a con siderable outlay of money. Such people are in error. It costs little to have a neat flower garden, and to surround your dwelling with simple beauties which delight the eye far more than expensive objects. If \ou will let the sunshine and the dew adorn your yard, they will do more for you than aoy artist. Nature delights in beauty. She loves to brighten the landscape and make it agreeable to the eye. She hangs the ivy around the ruin, and over the slump of a withered tree (wines the graceful vine. A thousand arts she practices to animate the senses and please the mind. Follow her example, and do for yourself what she is always laboring to do (or you. Beauty is a divine instrumentality. It is one of God’s chosen forms of power. We never see creative energy without some thing beyond mere existence, and hence the whole universe is a teacher and inspirer of beauty. Every man was born to be an artist, so far as the appreciation and enjoy ment of beauty are concerned, and he robs himself of one of the precious gilts of his being if he fails to fulfil this beneficent pur pose of his creation. A Wife’s Influence. Judge O'Neal, in the Yorkvilln Enquirer, I**Us ihe following of Judge William of South- Carolina:— “He had the rare blessing to win the love of one of the purest, mildest, and best wo men, whose character hasever been present to ihe writer. He married Margaret Duff.— In his worst days, she never upbraided him by word, look or gesture, but always met him as if he was one of the kindest and best of husbands. This course on her part hum bled him, and made him weep like achi'd.— This sen'ence, it is hoped, will be remem bered, was ihe language-of Judge Smith to the friend already named, and to those who knew the stern unbending public character of the Judge, it will teach a lesson of how much a patient woman’s love can accomplish. He was'al Inst reformed by an instance of her patient love and devotion, as he himsell told it : “The evening before the Return Day of the Court of Common Pleas for York Dis trict, a client called with fifty writs to bo put in suit. Mr. Smith was not in his office—he was on what is now fashionably called a spree, then a frolic. Mrs. Smith received the writs, and sat down in the office to the work of issuing the writs and processes.— She spent the night at work—Mr. Smith in riotous living.’ At daylight, on his way home from his carousals, he saw a light in his office, and stepped in, and to his great surprise saw his amiable wife, who had just completed what ought to have been his work, with her head on the table and asleep. His entry awoke her. She told him what she had done, and showed him her night’s work —fifty writs and processes. This bowed Ihe strong man, he fell on his knees, implored her pardon, and then and there lailhfully promised her never to drink another drop while he lived.’ ‘This promise,’ says my friend Col. Williams, ‘he faithfully kept,’ and, said the judge to him,‘from that dav, everything which I touched turned to gold.’ ‘His entire success in life,’ says Col. Wil liame, ‘he set down to his faithful observance of this noble promise.’ “No belter eulogy could be pronounced on Mrs. Smith than has just been given in the words of her distinguished husband. The reformauon of such a man as William Smith is a chaplet of glory which few women have been permitted to wear. To Ihe people of South-Carolina, and especially of York Dis trier, certainly no stronger argument in favor of temperance, and total abstinence, need be given.” We cannot all of us be beautiful, but the pleasantness of a good-humored look is de nied to none. We can all of us increase and strengthen the family affections and the de lights of home. eommumcattons. , For tho Agitator, Familiar Letters on Geology, Etc. NUUBBR THREE, Mir Dbau Marit: Before resuming the thread of my argument, i would remark that there are two classes who cling to the Usher Chronology and the literal theory. The first, honest and devout it may be, but who do not let their minds expand so as to see the great and glorious intent of the Jewish and Christ ian dispensations, or who perhaps are timid and conservative, or it may be, have not been placed in a position to get rid of the contract ed theories taught them by predecessors, equally pious, but with equally unexpanded intellects. The second class, the unreason able and unreasoning infidel, who from choice adopts the exegesis which is most unreason able in order that he may have a stand point from which to attack the Scriptures, i would further remark, and more of this hereafter, that man has a spiritual as well as a physical history and nature —that the history of both natures has been progressive—that both the physical and spiritual natures are still pro gressive, depending in life mutually, though mysteriously upon each other, yet separate and distinct, so much so that we feel an in ternal consciousness that the soul or spiritual nature may exist independent of the physical conformation. 1 would also remark that a man’s piety does not depend on what is de nominated his intellect, but upon an individu al nature, that seems to be, as n were, of indi genous growth and transmitted by infusion, which however when so infused is equally capable of expansion and growth. But to resume. You wilt observe that the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth verses of the fourth chapter are entirely disconnected from what goes imme diately before, nor does the subject seem to be connected with what follows in the next chapter. It seems to be a short prophetic declaration that when the generation known under the representative name Cain—a name for national corruption—had overcome and completely extirpated all righteousness in the world, then was born unto Adam, nr was raised up in the earth, a new generation of people under the representative name of Seth and Enos, when a new era of righteousness and an advanced morality was inaugurated, and under them the people began to call up on the name of the Lord as they had done in the Abelian ages. For, observe the phrase ology of the twenty-sixlh verse—“then be gin men to call upon the name of the Lord.” This phrase seems to refer to the days of both Seth and Enos; it may refer only to the days of Enos. This according to the Usher Chronology, would he only about two hundred ond liftv years after the creation of man and Adam’s converse with God in the garden—less than that lime probably by a handled years, when Cain and Abel both of fered sacrifices to Him and when Cain talked face to face with God and bitterly felt his power to punish. Admitting that all this is to be understood literally and not as a proph etic tablet, we have an age of righteousness —an age when God is enttr' ly banished from even the language of man, and then again an age when men begirt In call upon the name of the Lord, in the space of at least three generations. In this connection observe the second verse of the fifth chapter and the peculiar phraseol ogy there made use of—“male and female created he them and he called their name Adam.” Now this peculiar phraseology alone would go very fir to prove that the name Adam was here made use of as repre sentative, to denote the first age ns well as the creation of the human race, and if so then Seth and Enos and all Ihe names made use of in the fifth chapter are but representa tive in like manner, for if Adam was, the an alogy of the use would imply that all were. Adopting, 100, this theory or exegesis will reconcile the apnarenl clashing of the gene alogies of ihe fourth and fifth chapters.— Read the eighteenth verse of the fourth chap ter and compare it with the fifih chapter from ihe eighteenth to the twenty-fifth verses inclusive. There is certainly a very singu lar coincidence of names if they do not syn chronize—the two last being identical in form and order, and the three first reversed and slightly changed in form. The flood or great general deluge was, ac cording to the chrqnologists in the year of the vyorld sixteen hundred and fifty-five. During this antediluvian period, we have lhe discov. ery of iron and its various manufactures,'the combination of zinc and copper into brass, and consequently the discovery of the ores of zinc and copper and the art of smelting both them and iron. We have also distinctly recognized the occupations nr professions of the iron-smith, the brass-smith, and hv impli cation workers in copper and zinc. We have also the art of architecture carried to a great slate of perfection, as witnessed in the build ing of the ark, a vessel to sail upon the wa ters, and by implication, navigation. We have also in music, players upon the harp and organ, and by consequence, manufactu rers of such musical instruments. Wu have also the institution of marriage coeval with man, and after a few short years the institution overthrown and destroyed, and polygamy and all Us kindred vices pervading every department of society—the institution of sacrificial offerings to the Lord —a true recognition of the supremacy of Jehovah— man again so degraded and so destitute of any religious sentiment that the age of Seth and Enos was a complete and perfect begin ning of the worship of God as compared with the gndlessneas of all men in the past, and then again, the whole world so sunk in vice that it could not be renovated except by its almost total destruction. W e have also the building of cities, and the gathering together of population into such cities, and by impli cation, tracjle and commerce. ',\ ;; All this,,remember, was in the veyy infan cy of the world—in the first sixteen hundred years according to the Literalists; land re member, too, that when the flood came, it and destroyed the knowledge of ■aft these arts, except what might be supposed to have been known by Noah and (its sons, and that 100 whether the flood was pariial, ac cording to Hitchcock, Lyell, Miller arid other geologists, or general, according to the com mon opinion. For these very geqlngisjs, while they agree that the flood, happening twenty-three hundred and fifty years ago,- could not have been general, admif that it overflowed and destroyed all the inhabited pans of the globe, and that no human beings were saved but Noah and his family. ! So far as the destruction of the world >ndj Us im provements were concerned, the flood was a universal cataclysis, and a new world began with Noah and his sons. ||, . Take the exegesis of the Literals, or the Usher chronologisls, and the whole sieems to be pinched down into a mere childish narra tive, unworthy the prophet and derogatory to the honor of the great Creator. Aqmit the exegesis that I have indicated, and it is a most sublime prophetic tableau of the ages before the flood—of man in his, to us, iVimitive stale, and of the great changes brought about in society by man’s,evil passions in his pro gression from a primitive stale of ienocency to that state of society, when “eyery limagin aiion of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually”—man beginning with the sacrifices, not of the affections jan i of the intellect, but of lambs and of bullocks, and ending in murder, debauchery,j ard every other evil device. ' \ i But my dear Mary, I must draw I letter to a close, for 1 do not wish tojcrcwd your mind with too many facts at once, ort to pro ceed so fast that you will not find lime from your arduous duties to exam'inej thoroughly for yourself all the authorities 1 quo Band all the arguments I use. Let me [alsij recom mend you to procure if within your reach— “ God revealed in the process of Creation,” by James B. Walker—Prof, Guyot’j|“E'irth and Man’’—some good work op volcanoes, Ido not know what one to ret tmend Smith’s "Natural History of 1 JHuman Species,” though I would by no ins have you stumble on a modern delugt id so be compelled with him to adopt a liilni for man, as Caucasian, am —Dr. S. G. Mnncn’s various works human crania, &0., and—bin I hav' mended enough for one week al lea Miller and Professor Hitchcock, you. will probably consult; and sion, let me recommend vou to ci fully Ihe Bible. Yours truly, Heart-Trials. Heart-trials I What are they 7 not what the world commonly ca and sympathizes with as such, j far deeper, harder to be borne than which admits of consolation througl dium of kind words. 1 Perhaps all may not fully com'prf lerm. Bui lei me for one morhet to the experience of sensitive, (lot aspiring natures, and 1 am sure the me. heart-trials are the hardest tna There may be sickness, poverty, an sand other griefs, which friends presence will lighten of half the but who will took in'o the inner san the soul, and read the record thei e, gles which the heart has known l The cons'anl strife between desire to cuhivale, and gratify thuj lions fur knowledge which our F implanted in the soul of many, in no degree, may pale the cheek, and s'? young life—but who shall knoyv ill The sensitive heart hides away ii recesses the withered bud, whichlwi been a blooming flower, .and mot “what might have been,” but ajsl sympathy. There are records there of unad friendship; of cold, unkind words, f| like ice, upon the warm spirit, wh; self-devotion has striven hard to li{| way of loved friends; alas! how.dt ing has been the requital! J None, perhaps, are better acquai these trials, than sensitive, diffident] How often arc we grieved, at J ifie wanUrf appreciation, the posijivj ness manifested toward such natuj ye, who have the care of the yr are brought into constant companir children, beware how ye chill feelings of their natures, how ye wild, self-destroying channel, (ho which may bless the world with fluence. if nurtured with affectionl There is a want of love, and I in this great world of ours, there ness almost unpardonable. And more from it than the young 1 My heart instinctively goes children whom I have met wit| homes, where the light of affcctiq as scarcely to be visible—so faint no warmth, to bring to maturity ii kindness and love, which are itri| every nature. Would that a voice in every being so situated, and whispj “words of cheer”—tell of a bright • ® | and bid them, even in an unget sphere, still keep in existence jti feelings, which shall yet find heat and understand them. Though [ij life is sad, that the way is he'd which the heart ever turns as the ! future, remember no act oT cdi .atvs of Advertising. intents will be charged 81 per square o ;s, for one, or three insertions, and 25 iry subsequent insertion. All advertise, ss than fourteen hues considered as a le following rates will be 'charged (or lalf-Yearly and Yearly advertising:— 5 months. 6 months. 13 mo’s . rh,(Ulines,) -$2 50 34 50 36 00 SSqnares r . . -4 00 6.00- 8 oft i column 10 00 " 15 00 20 Oft columV- . . . -18 00 30 00 40JM) Ail ac vertisements not having the number of in. sertrann marked opon tlicm. wilt be kept in until or dered oi I, and charged accordingly, Poslei s. Handbills, Bill,and Letter Heads.aad all kinds oi Jobbing done in country establishments, neatly and promptly. Justices’, Const*, bles’ ant other BLANKS,constantly on hand and printed I o order. 'no; is. self-denjal shall fail of its reward. “There i> a silvery lining to every cloud,” and that lining yet be visible, and the wearied, overissued spirit will joy m its brightness I There are some of maturer years, who look back to the tew, who like guardian an gels smiled upon them encouragingly in those childhoojd hours of trial, and bless heaven for sending into this cold world, noble spirits, who took not with an unfeeling eye, upon the trials of children. Their memory is liko bright stars, forever burning. To them, the soul returns thanks, grateful thanks, and to them will heaven send a thousand fold re ward in |blessings, if the prayers which go up in ihejr behalf are heard and accepted. Greenpaslle, lowa. L. The. following story is acknowledged a good one,” but we have never before seen it prinl-1- A fewiyears since, some rogueish boys in a (own n'ot a thousand miles distant from the capitoi of New Hampshire, persuaded Joseph N , pr, as he was generally called, ‘Joe,’ to a'lenil Sunday School. Joe was an over grown, half-witted, profane lad, and the boys had anticipated considerable fun of him; but the answers to the various queslions propoun ded were given.so readily and correctly that no one could for a moment suppose that he was not[fullv versed in theological lore. Joe was duly ushered in, and placed on a sellee in front of the one on which his friends were set ted, and the recitation commenced, “My friend,” said ihe teacher, who made the world we inhabit?” “Eh r’ said Joe, turning up his eye* like an expiring calf. made the world we inhabit?” Just a|s ho was probably about to give I he answer, jone of the boys sealed behind insert ed a pin [into his (Joe's) unmentionables about nine inches below the ornamental button of bis coati “Godl Almighty !” answered Joe, in an ele vated tone, at the same time rising quickly from his seat. “That is correct,” replied the teacher ; “but it is not necessary that you should rise in answering. A silting pos'ure was just as well.” ' ?cor i he !me; u Joe was again sealed, and the catechism proceeded. “Whd died to save the world ?’’ The pin was again inserted, and Joe re plied—“Je-tia Christ?” in a still louder voice, rising as before, from his seal. “That is also correc 1 , but do not manifest so much feeling; do be more composed and reserved in your manner,” said the teacher in an expostulating lone. After Joe had calmed down, the examina tion went on. “What willJbe the final dpom of all wick ed men ?’’ wasphe subject npw up for consid eration ; and ah the pin was again stuck in, Joe thundered out, with a higher elevation of the hodj—“Hell and damnation!” “My young friend,” said the instructor, “you give true answers to these questions ; but whtl; you are here we wish you to be more mild in your words. Do endeavor, if you can to restrain your enthusiasm, and give a less extended scope to your feelings.” il or!"in s) on Ihe ;{recom- and with oire than jconclu ult cure- J. S. *1 Agitator. fhey are l 4 trials, 'hey are Hal grief jhe me- thcnd the r li appeal ' ing, and '(will tell i s| of life. id[a thou hy (heir purden; iptuary of of strug- A Speech on Scolding Wives, At a Young Men's Debaling Society, spmewhtre om in Illinois, ihe question for discussion was, “which is the greatest evil —a scolding wife or a smoking chimney 1” Afier the appointed disputants had concluded the debate, a spectator rose and begged the privilege of making a few remarks on the occasion. Permission being granted he de livered himself in the following manner. “Mr. President—l’ve been almost mad listening to the debate of these youngsters. They doTr’i about a scolding wife ! Wail until they~have-hadjpne upwards of eight years, and been hammered and yam mered and jawed at all the while, waif until they have been scolded because the fire wouldn’t burn, because the oven was too hot, because the cow kicked over the milk, be-, cause the sun shined, because the hens didn’t lay, beer use the butler wouldn’t come, be cause they are too soon for dinner, because (bey are one minute too late, because they lapped the young ones, because they tore heir-trowsers, or because they anything, whether they could help it or not,) before they speak about the evils of a scolding wife ; why, Mi. President, I’d rather hear the clatter of hammer and stones, and twenty tin pans, and nin<[ brass kellies than a din of a scold ihg wife Yes, sir’ee, them's my sentiments. To my mind, Mr. President, a smolty chim ney is no more to be compared to a scolding wife than a little negro is to a dark night,” There was nothing said about drunken, ill-grain -d, sulky husbands, who come home when they please and still expect the wife to be a perfect angel. ty, ! , and a s e’, aspira ‘pt.her has > ordinary ■i(Men the i its deep ibid have rns over s!nol for pfeciated uhg back Sch, in its >ht up the isliearlen- mted with l| children. Jbeholding ije unkind irek Oh, (jung, wiho with hd belter rn into a i a holy in line care ! I } forbearance is ajselfish -1 who suffer Wouldn’t Bite such Bait.— Our friend Jones tins been doing homage to a pair of bright and talking tender things by moonlight, lately. A few evenings since, Jones rrs'dyed 10 “make his destiny secure.” Accordingly ho fell on his knees before the fair duleinea, and made his passion known. Much lr> his-Surprise, she refused him onl flat. Jumping to. his feet, he informed her in no choice terms that there w£re as good fish in the sea as ever was caught. Judge of the exasperation of our worthy swain, when she coo'ly replied : “Yes but they don't bite at bull-heads /” Jones has learned a lesson. pit Howard h io many or isj so dim = as jlo shed re of [ lamed in ■ ighlreach • :r io them er; future, ■r ;ial; almo hoqe holy |ts 110 read pellng that Ijiei} up, to Bath of its fisdeotlWis A Western Editor thinks that Hiram Pow, ers is a jswindler, because he chiseled an uo formna^rGreek girl out of marble, Early Piety.