it Pobllcallem. „„ -»oOA COUNTY AGITATOR is pub fQE Adorning, and milled to sob* ***•?. S2iTressonabl"price of On. Dol* -fibers at tn {ttvar iably in adtanct. It is intend* iip erimM i fia | JSCl .ji )el . w hen the term for i lO . ” oU il{. Mid shall have expired, by the stamp rhich he «■ r (he margin of the last paper. -“Time -Vi (jjen be stopped nntiia further re fhs paP't '!‘ c „j re d. By this arrangement no man lillaßC® he rw deM to t]le pr ; n ter. jio he is (he Official Paper of the Coun Tar A °. lT ‘ a ad steadily increasing circulation f, wilhaWS nCa rly every neighborhood in the aching 1 ■ sCD i/rre of pottage to any Post-office oonlj- it ’’ limits, and to those living within ilhin the conn mos( coDreoieatpostoffice mij County. < i° ,D * VTards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper in. Sen-- rrmswEET • gem. G p oL u(iD, author of the Tjtcomb tal just published a Utile book The following cradle-song is but * many gems, which ta f »Wd on iU It i! the Utile one thinking about 7 SI wonderful Hungs no doubt. . Cowritten history. Tlnlatbonied mystery. y . bt laughs and cries, and eaU and drinks, !, -hockles and crows, and noda and winks, { fto head wsreu full of kink, and curious riddles as any sphinx Warped by colic and wet by tears, Punctured by pins and tortured by tears Our little nephew will lose two years; A nd he'll never know Where the eammera go; 1 Ho need not laugh, lor he’ll find it so ! Who can tell what a baby thinks?. Who can follow Hie goasamat tanks V w i,ich the mannikin feels his way Out from the shore of the great unknown. Blind, sod wailing, and alone, Into the light of day 7 0„t from the shore of the unknown sea. Toning m pitiful agony,- Of lire unknown sea that reels and rolle Specked with the barks pf little sonla— nlrki Ural were launched on the other aide. And dipped from Heaven on an ebbing tide! What does he think of his mother's eyes 7 What doe* he think of his mother’s hair 7 i Whit of the cradle roof that fliea forward and backward through the air 7 What does he think of his mother's breast— {ireaad beautiful, smooth and white, gating it ever wilji fresh delight— Cup of his life and couch of his rest? What does he think when her quick embrace Pnuta hia hand and buries bis face Peep where the heart-throbs siok and swell With a tenderness she c m never tell) Though aha murmur the words Of ill the birds — Wonli the has learned to murmur well 7 y'ov he thinks he’ll go to sleep! 1 can see the shadow creep Over hit eyes in soft eclipse, Orer bis brow, and over his lips. Out to his little finger tips! Softly sinking, down be goes! Down be goes ! Down be goes! Seel He ia hushed in sweet repose! THE PRISONERS mosl gi ihe commencement of bostili- I was cruising on the West India station, small sloop oT war, of which I was then id in command; when in a desperate tgement with an enemy’s ship of superior s,Lur captain and a number of the men i killed, our vraaef captured, and the re ider of the crew were sent on shore on of the smaller islands then in possession (he French. Being the only officer whom <en protected from death. 1 was marched te head of those of my comrades who s able to waih, to the common prison of petty capi'al of the island. Wa were incarcerated in small, dark, and 'isome cells, without any mitigation of miseries, for several months, la one of daily visiia to my breathing place, the bars of which reached within two feet le ground, I had planted myself against tide of ihe window, wiih my arms folded, my eyes fixed on the fine blue sky, as tgardlesj of any thing terrestrial. When iihdrew my attention from the bright :i», the sight of which to a sailor is si as reviving as the face of an old ac miance, a tall, ihm figure, of a stern vis indented with wrinkles, caught my obser- He wore a huge cocked hat, from ' which a few straggling grey hairs had . half-way down his sunken cheeks, w remainder were fas'ened logeiher in ijueue. ihat extended downwards nearly '» >i ihe skirls of a blue coat, obsolete >hape and dimensions. His legs were •rf is a tremendous pair of military »hich reached halfway up his thighs; f *»' armed with a tall and substantial 'tided cane, which he occasionally car 'te a musket, on his shoulder, as he ted backwards and forwards at some latance from our prison. I frequently 'ed him, with both his hands clasped ihe top of hia cane, that at the same rtved as a resting-place for bis chin ; imagined, that he filed his eyes in /Upon my countenance. Whatahard '™ c f mc he must be, thought Ito gaze ’’touch miaery.and with so little ap toitoern! Sometimes I fancied I could 1 1 gleam of compassion break through rudsof his rigid features; and there j u P r ight dignity In his deportment, 1 “«d me to suppose it could not cover tl “f meanness and depravity ; and on ‘fitrhen the man in the blue coal was |S't to be aeen, 1 felt an indescribable "ippotoimeni, which, on subsequent l0D! ln »>y cell, I ascribed to the ex paucity of those who made the court * P'aw of resort. x ' "! i 66 ' 1 ac * e ' a P set d without my again him, one morning I remained with (..•W l" Qr 4 considerable time, before hid i' Ve lO he properly awake; ~ ,eaml ' 'hat I was returned to my ' n Devonshire, and I seemed. i, e , warm embraces of my good pressed me with transport m. But when I started from xny ikn e1 ’ ani * *°und it but a dream, ess overcame me, the tears trickled mini,, ant * 1 sobbed alond for tr J' ’J 16 * child. This ebullition, j ' eve “ 'he torture of my feelings, y morning orisons to the gracious being with more thsn usual on i proceet * e d w 'nh confidence and 0 my wonted station at the win- • End'll*? long before ray acquainl *■ j ed haionce more made bii ap »v!a ,™. y 1)68,1 palliated with on- lo n .wl,en I aaw himadvan iproacU 7‘ h Bfirro mar,ial st*P '.ifjtd rolt toH ? hBd b**. with W ro ' n « 6 « which ao officer of THE AGITATOR, Befcottfr to tfle 3Sxten*iQn of tfce area of iFmttom ana tlje Spvtatt of ©ealttJg ifceform. i wains xaSBB tt x. whoso ckhiohteo, and trims “man’s utmatKanx to maw” shall cease, agitation must continue. VOL. V. rank displays in the salutation of his inrerior; he then addressed me in French, nearly in the following terms: “Young man, you seem to have been born to better-prospects; I have long pitied your misfortunes.’’ Ho paused. “Sir,” said I, “it is so long since I have heard any sounds, save the harsh voice of our jailor, and the wailing of my fellow, sufferers, that your words of pity are as -cordial to my wounded spirits; and I thank you sincerely /or your condolence.” “I am a man of few words,” replied be, “I am the Governor o I this island,~and on one condition will set yoant liberty.” “Ah ! da not trifle with the wretched ; bat I would fain think you as incapable of offer ing me' dishonorable terms, as I am of ac ceptingthem.” “Sir, if I had supposed you undeserving .the confidence of a man.of honor, I -should not have proffered my assistance. I shall see you on this spot to-morrow”—and with a slight inclination of the head he disap peared. High and various were the perturbations of my mind during that restless night. Hope and fear alternately assailed roe; and alter building a thousand castles in the air. 1 fell into a broken slumber, and woke in the morn ing with my heart fluttering between doubt and expectation. A few minutes sooner than his usual lime, our jailor entered, and told the prisoners that he had orders to treat them with less rigor in future, and that 1 was to follow biro into the court-yard, where he left me in the presence of the Governor, who bowed, and thus addressed me;— “Now, sir, to your terms of release! Do not interrupt me till I have finished my re marks. I have been all my life in the ser vice of my country, and several years Gov ernor of this place. I tell you in confidence, that I do not approve of all the measures of the present rulers of France, yet, I considered it my duty, both for the sake of my country and my family, to remain at the post which' Providence had assigned me. When my country was attacked by foreigners, I did not think it was proper in me as a soldier to quarrel with the government at home. I knew the shameful and rigorous treatment you received, and remonstrated on the sub* ject: but it was in vain. Ail my motions were narrowly watched by an agent of the Directory, who has now left the island. Had I ventured there directly to interfere in miti gating your sufferings, it is probable that the lives of myself and children would have paid the forfeit of my imprudent manifestation of humanity. lam a rough soldier, unused to compliment, and incapable of flattery ;-but 1 am a father, sir, and can feel for you. I Hava two sons and three daughters, who have arrived at the age .when the passions are sltjoqg and the heart susceptible. They are amiable, thoughtless, generous, and affec tionate ; and if you will promise on your word and honor, that you will not form any sentimental or lender connections in my family—that you will not endeavor to load astray the judgments of my sons or the affec tions of my girls, and that you will suffer your acquaintance to deviate either into friendship or love—on these terms you shall become an inmate of my family till (can procure your exchange. And when you pan, it must be done at once, and no subse. quent correspondence will be permitted, I feel for you as a man, but I must not forget (hat you are en enemy to France. Now, sir, if you accept my conditions, follow me.” I made no scruple of assenting, for but those who have long been deprived of the glorious light of day, or who have long been prevented from breathing the free, untainted air of heaven, can form any notion of my feelings at that moment. Enveloped as I was in rags and familiar with filth, I cer tainly thought more about freedom from cap tivity, than about either friendship or love. The good old man reiterated hU injunctions as we went along, and added as his chief reason for such precaution. Ido not wish the cheerful serenity of my domestic enjoy ments to be raffled, or my children’s happi. ness to be destroyed.” la about half an hour we arrived at the Government House, which was situated in one of the most delightful valleys of the island. Though not large, it was construct' ed in such a mannet as to afford comfortable and convenient accommodation to a genteel family. Its interior was fitted up in rather an antique style, which bespoke taste and re finement, devoid of splendor and ostentation. I followed my venerable guide into a spacious saloon, in which all the members of the family were assembled 1 and I was so shacked on viewing myself in a mirror, which re flected my figure from bead to foot, that I sickened with disgust at my squalid and Un couth appearance, and wished instantly to retreat from observation. But the Governor, taking me kindly by the band, desired me to advatlce, and said : “My dear children, this is the English prisoner whom I men tioned to yob yesterday ; Ite is your enemy, it is true, but he is an officer and a gentle man, After suffering a rigorous confinement, he is now your guest; therefore remember the cautions which I have given you, and treat him as your hearts shall dictate.” * * * ***** Thus the whole family of which I we* an inmate, formed one social circle, where all was gaiety, happiness, peace. Every night when I retired.to rest, I taxed myself with the crime of having an inclination to break my promise with the Goyerner. Most for* lunate was it for roe, that there was more than one object to excite my admiration) The three charming sisters were all viewed by me as equally fascinating t yet each of them was so different from the others, that it was impossible for roe, who generally saw WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 16, 1858. them together, to resolve upon which I should have fixed my affections, had ( possessed (he power of choice without infringing my word of honor. Though each of them was all that the heart of man could desire; yet to this day whenever I reflect on those pleasing by past scenes, F am at a loss to. determine which of the lovely sisters I ahould prefer. One morning before we had quilled the breakfast table, and whilst we were rallying each other on lbs comparative merits of France and England, the old gentleman opened the door and beckoned me out of the room. He bade me take my hat and follow him, which I did in silence, for some time, without nolicihg the route we had taken, till I observed with a kind of horror, at a turn of the road, that we were proceeding towards the port, I then broke the silence, and asked whither we were going, and what was the purport of our walk ? The Governor looked earnestly upon me, and I thought a tear glis tened in bis eye. “You must abide my directions,” said he, “and it will save yon and others much pain, A cartel has arrived, an exchange of prison ers has been effected, and you wit sail from the island within half an hour.” “But, my dear air, you will allow me to return and take “No, sir! I will have no leave taken—no shedding of tears at parting—no pressure of the hand more eloquent than words—no ut tering of the painful farewell so destructive to the future peace of mind." “Oh, sir, allow me but one word and last sdieu!” “Not one, sir! Remember your promise! I seized the rugged veteran’s hand be tween both of mine, and, pressing it fervently to my lips, I exclaimed—“ Allow me to ex press my gratitude— “ Not to me sir! I have only done my duty ; and all the return I ask is that if the chance of war should throw a countryman of mine into your power, you will think of your well-wishers at the Government house, and be kind to him for their takes. You will find trunks on board containing clothes and every necessary for your voyage. So now we must pait. There is the vessel! God bless you, sir, and send you safe to your na tive shores!” God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offence into everlasting forgetfulness. We go to the grave of a friend, saying “A man is dead”; but angels throng about him, saying “A roan is boro.” Of all earthly music that which reaches the farthest into heaven, is the beating of a loving heart. Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, nar row as they reach the sky. Every Christian should begin to doubt him self, if be finds after ten years, that self-deni al is as hard in the same thing as it was at first. When there is lore in the heart there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover'every black cloud with gorgeous hues. We sleep, but the loom of life never slops; and the pattern which was weaving when the Sun went down, is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. We have ihe promise) of God as thick as daises in summer meadows, that depth, which meo most fearl shall be to us the most blessed of experiences if we trust in him. A man might frame and let loose a star to roll in its orbit, and yet not have-done so memorable a thing before God, as he who lets go a golden-orbed thought to roll through the generations of lime. It is a Joy to know, that there is a realm where all those aspirations which have beto kened us, only to crown us still with thorns, shall be realized, and where there is no bud which shall fall without being filled into fruit. If a bell were hung high in heaven, which the angels swung whenever a roan was lost, how incessantly would it toll in days .of pros perity for men gone down, for honor lost, for integrity lost, and for manhood lost beyond recall! As prisoners in castles look out of their grated windows at the smiling landscape where the sun comes and goes, so we, from this life, as from dungeon bars, look forth to the heavenly land, and are refreshed with sweet visions.of the home that shall be ours when we are free. As birds in the hoar of transmigration fpel the influence of Southern lands, and gladly spread their wings for the realm of light and bloom, so may we, in the hour of death, feel (he sweet solicitations of the life beyond, and joyfblly soar from the chill and shadow of earth to fold our wings and sing in the summer of an eternal home. Do you ask me whether t would help a slave to gain his freedom! 1 answer. 1 would help him with heart, and hand, and voice. I will do for him what I shall wish I had done, athen having lost bis dusky skin and blossomed into the light of Eternity, be and 1 shall stand before our master. Thereare many Christians who ( all their life long, carry their hope as a boy carries a bird’s nest containing an unfledged bird that scarcely peeps, much less sings—poor fledgeless hope. “Caesab,” said a planter to his negro, ‘climb up that trie and thin out the branches.’ - The negro showed no disposition to com ply, and upon being pressed for a reason, answered, “Well, look heah, Hassa, if I go up dsr and fall down and broke my neck, dat’d be a thousand dollars out ’o ; your pocket. Now; why don’t you hire an Irish, man to go op, and den if ha falls and'kills beset/, dsr won’t be no toss to nobody.” Life Thoughts. How Big Darkey Jake was Oared of Batting. Some years since 1 was employed as ware house-clerk in a.large shipping-house in New Orleans, and while in that capacity the fol lowing funny scene occurred: One day a vessel came in, consigned to the house, haring on board a large lot of cheese from New York. During the voyage some of them had become damaged by bilge water, the ship having proved leaky, conse quently the owners refused to receive them; they were therefore sent to the consignees of the ship, to bs stowed until the case was ad justed- 1 discovered, a few days afterwards, that—as to perfume—they were decidedly too fragrant to remain in the warehouse in themiddle of June, and reported the same to my- employers, from whom I received orders to have them overhauled, aod send all that were passable to Beard & Calhoun’s auction man, (then in the old Camp street Theatre,) to be disposed of for the benefit of the. under writers, and the rest to the swamp. 1 got a gang offilack boys' to work on them; and when they stirred ’em up, “Be the bones of Moll Kelly’s quart pot! but the smell was il legant entirely.” 1 kept a respectable dis tance, believe me; for strong niggars and strong cheese, on a hot June day, just bangs all common essences—including a certain “varmint”—we read about. Presently the boys turned out an immense fellow, about three leet six inches-“across the stump,” from which the box had rotted. In the centre, a space about ten inches was very much decayed, and appeared to be about the 'consistency of mush, of a bluish lint, which was caused by the bilge water. The boys bad just set it up on its edge, on a bale of gunny-bags when I noticed over the way a big darkey (then on sale) from Charleston, S. C., who was notorious for his butting pro penalties; having given most of the niggers in that vicinity a taste of his quality in that line. 1 1 had seen him aod another fellow, the night previous, practicing,—they would stand one on each side of a hydrant some ten yards distant, and run at each other with their heads lowered, and clapping their hands on the hy drant, they would butt like veteran rams.— A thought struck me that I might cure him of his’bragging and butting, and have some fun also; so I told the boys to keep dark K and I called “Old Jake” over. “They tell me you are a great fellow for butting, Jake ?” “I is some, massa, —dat’s a fac. I done butt do wool ’lirely orf oh old Pete’s head last night, and Massa Nichols was gwine lo gib me gons! I kin jiss bang do head orf any nigger in dese parts, myself,—l kin?” “Well, Jake, I’ve got a little job in that line for you, when you havn’t anything else lo do.” “I’se on ban’ for all dem kin’ oh jabs, my self,—J is.’’ “Vyell,—you see that large cheese back there ?’’ “I does dat. ! does myself.” “Now if you csn butt a dent in it, you shall have it.” “Golly, massa ! you’re foolin’ dis nigger ?” “No I’m not, Jake,—just try me.” “Wot! you gib me de hull oh dat cheese if I butt a dent in urn ?” “Yes." “be lior! I’ll bust ’em wide open,—( will, myself. Jess stan' back dar, you Or. leans, niggars,. and clear-de track for Ole Souf -Garlina, 'case I’se a Cornin’ itlyself.—l is.” And old Jake started back some fifty feel, and went at it with a gnod quick run, and the next,instant I heard a dull, heavy sound,— a kind of tqtielih, and old lake’s head disap peared from sight, with the top just visible on the o'her side as he rose with his new-fash ioned necklace, the soft, rotten cheese oozing down all round him as he settled down, so that just his .eyes were visible. From the centre of it Jake's voice was scarcely audible and half smothered, as he vainly tried to re move the immense cheese. “O-o-o-o I er de Lor I Maas—'ook um orf. O-o-o-o I bress de Lor ! Lif um up ! Gor-a-mighty I I .” Meanwhile, I was nearly dead myself,— having laid back on a cotton hale, holding myself together to keep ftdm bursting, while the boys stood round old Jake, paying him off. “De Lor! how de nigger’s bref smell I You doesn’t cledti your (eef, ole Jake 7” “t say you didn’t make more dan four times dat ban,’ did you ole boss 7” “Well you is a nasty nigger,—dat’s a fac !’’ “Well, you is the biggest kine of Welsh Rabbit, —you is!” “Whar you git your bar grease 7” And thus the boys run old Jake, —now half amolh ered.T-when t took compassion on him, and told them to take it off, Jake didn’t stay to claim his prise, but put out growling— “Gor-a-mighty ! I done got sole da t time. I’so a ease oh yellow feber, —I is, myself!” Old Jalje was never known to do any more butting in that vicinity after that. A green looking chap from the Green Mountain State went over the line and on to Montreal, ‘to look redmut a leetle.’ Comg into a large and handsome'dry goods store, his verdancy attracted tbs attention of the proprietor, Who attempted to quiz him | but unhappily having an imp-p-p-pediraent in his speech, he had to give it up, and his head clerk came forward to speak for him. The clerk began. ‘Mr. Bull wishes to know if you can tell him why Balaam’s ass spoke I,P1 ,P ‘Waal,’ says Jonathan, ‘I taylber guass how' that Balaam was aatuterin man, and his ass had to speak for him-’ MY OWN FIRESIDE. Oh, how I love my own fireside. How dearer far to me. Than .fashions noisy halls of mirth, Of empty joys aud glee. True happiness there seems enthroned, ji On ever/ radiant face; r As ivory arms wreathe in the dance, | With witching, matchless grace. i- Bot oft beneath the brow serene, '■ The bright and sparkling eye. SJ Hatred's dark turbid waters curl, And rest and peace deny. • But at my own quiet fireside, 3 Ho wrath nor strife can come ; |; For love the halcyon here has made, | Its everlasting home. j .Some seek in fame an easy path [ Whereon their feel may tread; 1 A lowlier name Pd wear, round which | Love its enchantments shed. Let others seek for happiness, [ • ’Neath fashion’s gilded dome; > In fame, or wealth, or aught they like [ Give me my own dear home. Northumberland, Pa eommimEcatCon.s. Resplratioo. The mechanical structure of the re?pira tory apparatus, its aeration of the vital fluid, and the completeness of its actions are wonderful, yet simple—complica ted, yet according to the plainest principles— mysterious in beauty and working power, yet acting in perfection and expediency, with in the understanding of those who would in vestigate. And we will now proceed, to the inquiry, how these statements are truthful, by first cursorily glancing at the lung: in the lower animals, thus being the better able to understand it in the human species. | “The lungs of reptiles are for the most part simple sacs, into which the bronchial tubes (i. e. the minute divisions of the tube through which the breath passes and repass es) open freely and on the walls of! which the pulmonary vessels are distributed.’! Into these sacs the air is admitted, while all around them and lying close to their walls,! is the. blood in its appropriate vessels to be aerated, thus but one side of these vessels is or can be preseated to the air within the sac; e. g., if we lake a bladder, inflate and wind ip cord around it from one end to (heather, when we are done we shall perceive the cord touching the bladder by but one of its four sides] Yet so is it with the saciform lung of any reptile, (lie simplest type of all. Gradually however as we advance in the animal kingdorh. from lower to higher these simple sacs become ad vancingly modified and complicated by de pressions, by septae, by doubling, etcl, until we obtain the lung of a mammal, so much altered by change and additions, that there ia not the slightest resemblance or visible trace of an identity between it and the little sac,— Still all subserve one and the same purpose with different degrees of perfection, As the being may be more or less developed and high in the scale of life. We And many reptiles having additional means of aerifying their blood, as by gills, bronchiae, &c., while their internal saciform lung is merely rudimentary in action, if not in creation, and even imany of the lowest of God's creatures have but depressions, over the entire body, by Which their circulatory fluid is oxygenized, without any special requisites for this process.! But in man is the perfection of all concentrated and collected within the thoracic viscera, principally.and actively engaged in the ex change of carbonic acid for oxygen, exclu sively and actively engaged in vivifying and renewing mammals by removing the products of decomposition and death, and introducing the elements of action and life, the blond— (hat fluid of vitality, receives its “vim” nnd activity as it passes through these viscera, exchanging its venous character for an. arte rial purity, becoming life-giving and life-sus taining. “The size of the lungs in ma i and mamthalia is far smaller in proportion to their bulk than it is in most reptiles, but this dimi nution is more than compensated by tie mi nue subdivision of their cavities, by the pe culiarity of the distribution of their blood vessels, and by the arrangement whereby a cnntinual and rapid interchange both of the blood and air is provided for.” Imagine our windpipes dividing and subdividing as tree and its branches until these smallest aje mi croscopic, opening into and surrounded by minute but aggregated air cells or vesicles, and we have a true and actual representation of the parenchymatous structure of a human' lung; next suppose the capillary bloodjvessela to be passing within the walls of these mi nute tubes (for tubes they are, thougp oUr imagination was of a tree, it ought lo| have been Of a hollow tree with hollow branches) and within tho walls of these air-vesicles also, so as lo expose two of their sides to lt|e ac tion of the air within, e. g., take a honey comb, the contained honey representing all, and the walls around iho “sweet” the| wails of the air-cells, while passing into these!walls as would thrust pins into them, accurate ly penetrating along and within the septae witfajout coming through into either ce|l, see ihe capillary vessels. Thus is it plain how twolof their sides arh exposed at thejsaroe time, since the air-vessels are arranged! simi larly lo these honey-cells, only mnchl more minuie, with their walls thinner than the thin nes( paper, each cellule opening into its fel loW| and communicating more or less direct ly with a bronchial lube. Tit* number of these minute vesicles going to form the entire lung is estimated at six hundred millions.— Attempt to calculate or comprehend thin im mense number, thea consider the size of the human lung and we will, with the limit of hu man nature, understand the almost infinity and exceeding smallness of these eellnjes.— Yet are they so arranged and created in per- *»• -f- { , Advertisements will be charged 81 per a qoara of fourteen lines* for one* or three insertions, and 25 cents for every subsequent insertion; All menu of less than Iborlecn lines considered as * squaie. Tlie following rales will be charged ibr Quarterly* Half-Yearly and Yearly 3 (months. 6 months. 12 mo!* Square,(l4lines,) - $2 50 $4 50* SSqoarcs,- - - - -4 00 6'oo &0# | column, - ... 10 Oft- 15 00 20 00 column. T 8 00 30 00* 40 00 All advertisements not having the number of if* sertions marked upon them, willbejtept in until or dered out, and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, Bill,and Letter all 1 kinds of Jobbing done in country eatoWjirfittienfct,- executed neatly -and promptly. Justices’, Consta bles’and other BLANKS,constantly on. hand anA printed to order. NOJ 20. fcctioa and adaptability to accomplishing de - sign, ihal iheir actions are in harmony and their effects astonishing,—beauty is rhei* structure and unison their action! Each lung is divided into lobes, each lobe into lob ules, and each lobule is composed of tba aforesaid air-vesicles. Neither the fimgs, nor the lobes, nor (he lobules communicate directly with each other, but by means of bronchia., whereas the vesicles of each res pective lobule open freely into' and among each other. The lungs although elastic some what, yet do not possess in ihemselvps the power of expanding and contracting during inspiration and expiration, except aw the afr itself forces its way into them causing their enlargement. But how can air fqrcelts way 1 It cannot strictly speaking, yet let a vacuum be formed and in it rushes to restore the equi librium, if not opposed. Thus' the Tongs be ing placed within a thorax formed of bony parietes moveable and moved by muscles,oc cupy a space where no air has access, and but for their presence would be a vacuum ; hence the lungs communicating with the ex ternal air and being situated in the above cavity is enlarged or diminished, which ac lions are performed by muscles around and within the chest. During the act of tnspira . tion these muscles elevate the ribs and pro trude the sternum, while the diaphragm, n muscle within and separating the abdominal contents from the thoracic, is depressed, caus ing ah out-heaving of the belly and increas ing the internal dimensions of the thorax, thus forming the vacuum, only to be filled by an expansion of the'lungs, by the air, from its own weight. How much heft has the aerial fluid ? Only 15 pounds to every square inch ; an amount quite sufficient to exert a tremen dous force, when active. The reason we do not daily suffer from such a pressure is, that fluids press equally in all directions, up as down, fore as aft, to the right as to the left, wherefore the pressure from above is counter pressed by that from below, but if a vacuum there is, thither does the air rush with the above named force for every square inch.— In expiration the pectoral muscles have to overcome this weight of air and cause its ex pulsion from the lungs, by diminution of the space within, which act is performed by their depressing the ribs and sternum and elevat- diaphragm. Watch your own natu ral respiratory eflbrls, so gentle and regular, reckoning how many .square inches to your' breath, and then you can know the power continually exerted, with no fatigue, during sleep or awake, sick or well, by this our breathing apparatus. (It is estimated that , nearly 400 cubic feet of air passes into and. out of the lungs during the twenty-four hours.) Could this be considered as a particular and peculiar manifestation of divine wisdom aad skill 1 If not, what could be? These move ments are more or less under the control of the will, yet not entirely so, as any of us can confirm in making a suicidal attempt by hold ing our-breath J long before we are dead we are forcibly reminded that we have to breathe, which reanimates and obliges us, if we wish to succeed, to try again and then again, un til we shall prove the assertion of one dis'in guished man correctly, viz ; “that no person ever committed suicide, though many have attempted to do so, by simply holding the breath, the pontrol of the will not being sulfi, cienily great to antagonize the stimulus of the ‘besoin de resplrer,' when this has be. come aggravated by the temporary cessation of breathing,” . - Why are they under the control of the will at all, and why are they independent of our volition also ? We are social beings, and Sounds are a necessary concomitant of socia bility, and also nf all creatures, human or brutal, while the production of sound vocally is by certain movements of the vocal cord*, <fec., placed in the upper portion of the res pifatocy lube, acting.during the voluntary cessation of .breathing. Secondly, we must Sleep, and then is volition in abeyance, du ring which tittle were not these movements somewhat free of the will, our breath might slop and with it the machine of living life.— But in man as in earthly nature not a part nr action but is skilfully formed for and wisely subservient to some useful purpose, thus have we found this structure whose processes are vital to health, and hereafter to be considered. For the A| gitstor. ALLIE. For tbo Agitator. 'Bio Feet. —Old negro slumbering wills his feet pointing to a glimmering. Opens one eye and gfets a glimpse or them, as they stand up in obscurity. Mistakes them fur two little negroes, and cries: “Gil Cum’ fora me,” and relapses into sleep. After awhile, dpehs the other eye, and still seeing the in truders, says, “Gif fum’ fore me I say, I kick you in de fire ef you don’t ; I will shu,” and pgain he snores. His dreams not be itig very pleasant, he soon opens both eves, and still seeing the little bests, ho draws .up his foot for the threatened kick, but is alar med to see them advance-upon him, and ex claims : “Wha wha you cornin’ to now.— Humph ! My own foot, by golly," At a political meeting in Illinois, the other day, a speaker named. Long responded in a loud call, and took the stand ; but a big, strapping fellow persisted in crying out, in n stentorian voice, “Long! Long,!” This caused a little confusion, but after some diffi culty in making himself heard, the President succeeded in stating that Mr. Long, the gen tleman honored by the call, was now address ing them. “Oh, he bo hanged 1” replied the fellow, “he’s the little skecsicks that told me to call for Lqng I’ 1 'fhis brought down the Itousp, It’s odd how folks will force disagreeable knowledge npon us— crab apples That' we must ea| qnd defy rl, t stomach a.ho. lalVrol AdvcrfirtHs Galen,
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