Pitwill o! a Truaut Husband. For (ho loot four years (here has resided in this oily, with occasional intervals, one ‘•Dr. .Askenazi, Hungarian physician”—a small man, of ill favored, yel strongly marked Jewish countenance—speaking En glish and several other European languages very brokenly, claiming lo have been a sur. geon in the Hungarian patriot army in 1848, and lo have come to this country with Kos suih, but by his vernacular betraying that he was originally either from Poland or Southern Russia. His mode of life was in lha highest degree parsimonious—occupy ing generally a small, cheap room, which answered as well for his office as dormitory and kitchen, in which he prepared his own meals. Among his intimates, who were very lew, he passed as a man of great learning, and by those with whom he practised as a physician or surgeon he was regarded as a man of great professional skill. “Dr. Askenazi, Hungarian,” was thus getting along smoothly and prosperously, until some ten days ago, when his dream of repose' was very materially interrupted by the arrival of a lady in this city, who claimed to be his lawful, wedded spouse—who made upon him, in that character, certain weighty claims, mid preferred against him certain weighty charges, the effect of which have been to place the linlo “Doctor” m limbo from, that day to this. The lady 'having proved the identity of her man, sought a le gal adviser, in which she made substantially the following statement: Some twenty years ago, then a lass of fifteen Summers—the favorite of her parents, living in the village of Kreena, (Krasnov ?) Russia, near the borders of -Poland—a Jew. css—she made the acquaintance of a young man—poor but distinguished for bis learning sod piety, named Ashbur Seltzar. He had been educated for a rabbi, and had so greatly won the esteem and confidence of the chief rabbi of the place that he was frequently en trusted with the administration of the (Jew. isli) law in his (the chief rabbi’s) absence. Her parents and all parties assenting she was married to the learned young rabbi. On her marriage, her parents gave them n marriage portion of about SI,OOO, on which they lived about a tear at Kreena, when the youpg rabbi suddenly disappeared and was gone some three years before she ascertained his whereabouts. Finally, she heard of him at Damzie, in Prussia, whither she followed him, found him, and returned with him to Serai, in Poland. Here they lived together another year, during which a child was born to them. When the child was some three month old, they went on a visit to her mother at Kreena—remained there a few weeks, then started back for "Serai. Arriving at the bor der, the rabbi, it appeared, had provided a passport only for himself, and intimating to. an officer that the lady was none of his, and had no passport, he was conveyed across the stream, while sho was left behind. This was the Inst she had seen of her loving spouse until she met him ten days ago in Ottawa. j , But she was unwilling lo give him up so. Arming herself with funds and the neces sary papers, she started in pursuit. She found (races of him in various places through out Europe, but was never able to fix his lo cally until, after some three years, she learned that he had been at Jerusalem—had there married a second wife—had in a year left her—had thence been wandering over Europe, assuming the character of a “Jeru salemite,” begging funds for the destitute children of Israel at Jerusalem; that in this way he had accumulated considerable money; that a brother of his second wife had pursued him, found him in Germany, and got a Jew ish- writing of divorcement from him, re lurned.with it to Jerusalem and found it de fective, followed him 'to London, where he got another writing that was in due form. Then all traces of him disappeared until some two years ago, when she learned that he had deposited some money with a banker in H-tn over.-with orders to forward it whither lie should direct by letter. The banker finally got a letter directing him to send the monev lo a banker named Israel, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Thither she followed, and there was informed that the money had been sent to Seltzar, in care of Dr, Askenazi at Ottawa, and here, by accident, met Dr. A. in the street, whom sho at once recognized as her truant lord. The Doctor made a feeble efluit to identify, but soon caved in, and showed a tisposhion to come lo terms. Her demands were reasonable enough, s.'l she asked was a divorcement and some (1,500 in money lo endble her to return to /ter parents. The first the Doctor was wil ling enough lo acceed to, but being a great miser, utterly scouts the latter proposition, to evade which he tried earnestly to persuade her to live with him again. This she per emptorily declines, but commences a pro ceeding in our Circuit Court for divorce and allimony, and for fear her “rabbi” may lake leave of her again, she has lacked him up on a writ of Tie exeat. _ The Doctor is known to have some eight or ten thousand dollars in gold in his pos session, and could easily discharge the lady’s moderate demands, but is so miserly that he may lingers long while in jail before he will do it. The Indy is not unhandsome, appa rently very intelligent, and evidently brim full of grit, —Ottawa {III.) Free Trader. - The following from the National Fra, is the very best review of the President's Mes sage which we have yet seen, ft is an im provement, in fa ct, on the Message itself:— '-‘The President’s Message is long, and not at ettinteresting, but everybody should read it. He misrepresents the history of Kansas, bul lies Spain, asked to, be invested by Congress with means to buy Cuba, authority to flog Central America, and take possession of por liona of Mexico convenient for the uses of our Southern brethren, and comes out fora revision of (he Tariff, (be adoption of specific duties, and incidental protection. . Malicious— We learn by the Adeerliur that Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, .of Elmira, has actually been elected Captain of a mili tary company in that town. Truly limb it been said, this world is divided into three gen eral classes, viz: Saints, Sinners, and the Beecher Family." Go it Captain Beecher. Wdlseille Free Prcse. THE AGITATOR. a dark colpr, deeply imbedded in its substance. He denominates this foreign irritant M Nigger. 1 * He comprehends that the patient's illness is due to (he presence of a “nigger In the spleen. 11 Of coarse beset* about removing the irritant? No each a Ibiirg. On the contrary, he declares that (tie proper course of treatment requires that the presence of the “ oigger“ in the spleen shall be studiously ig. - nored. It has no business to be there, says he with a sinister shake of the head, bat the better way to destroy its malign influence is to cover it up: and there leave it to smother in the heart of the econ. We cannal publish anonymous communications. om J'* M. H. Cobb, Uditoi * Proprietor. WELLSBOROUaH, FA. Thnrsday Morning, Pee. 23, ISSS. * # » A) 1 Business,and otherCommunicatlon j-must beaddreaaedto the Kditorto insurealtention. S. M. Pcttxscill & Co., 319 Nassau St., Kew York, and 10 State St., Boston, am the Agents for the Agitator, and the most influential and largest circulating Newspapers in the United States and the Canadas. They are authorized to con* tract for us at our lowest rates. ID* See advertisement of Messrs. Guernsey & Swan, dealers in breadstuff* at Tioga Village. We arc requested to slate that all subscriptions to the Cosmopolitan Art Association Enterprise must he handed iu to 1.1). Richards, Esq, previous to the 28th insL St. Nicholas, patron saint of the little folks, has deposited a great quantity of toys and trinkets with Messrs. Smith & Richards, who will sell them for a trifle—enough to cover expenses. Call directly. We are requested to correct an error in the re* port ol the Committee on Field Crops, published in Ihesifcolnmns last week. Mr. Wm. Francis has an award for best 100 bushels of Turneps. They were the product of £ ol an acre instead of one acre. We receive, regularly, the Philadelphia Doily Bulletin , at once the most ably conducted and best Independent Newspaper published in that city. To every one desiring a Philadelphia daily, we most heartily commend it Reader, we have enjoyed an obstinate cold in the head during four days. Our *nV und ‘mV lake au dible form as *bV and ‘d’s.’ We have nut been en ablcd to do anything as it should have been done, and have forgotten halfo.score of matters which wc promised to notice. Absolve us. TAKE NOTlCE—that all subscribers in the De. cember Club of The Weekly Tribune, who have not paid their dollar, arc requested to do so without de. lay. If any delay payment beyond Saturday of the current week they will cause ns needless trouble and expense. Call at The Agitator Office. Col. Emery's Lecture. —The Court House being occupied lost Thursday evening, Col. Emery did not lecture as advertised. He will lecture Thursday eve. ning, Jan. 6, in the Court House. He has selected an interesting theme and is competent to handle it creditably. Let the attendance be universal and in so much testily that our people will aid to sustain the Association. Wc shall have to postpone the* balance of onr share of the controversy with our wide.awake neigh bor of the Lockhaven Watchmm t until it can be re sumed at the feast to which he so kindly invites ns* Mow soon we may be able to avail ourself of bU hospitality it is just now impossible to say. He is aware that the vegetarian never requires dinner to be wailed on his account; so it matters not whether we drop in a month, or a year hence, with, or with out warning, since there is to be no slaughtering of fatted calves, no ruthless beheading of dunghill ten. ants, no stuffing of obese turkeys. Here is our O* Brother Dunham. To-day (Tuesday) is the winter solstice, and a gloomy, cheerless anniversary it promises to be- A day whose dawn was so near akin to the shades of night that chanticleer dozed in doubt until near sunrise. If dawn there was, it was so curtained by mist that mortal eye perceived its coming, none drew inspiration from its rosy tints. Blest is lie, or she who cad coax up a feeling of gratitude on such a morning; still more blest is that mortal whose vision can pierce the sullen clouds and revel in the blue sky beyond. y But winter is not altogether unlovely. It may not vie with June, first-born of Summer and Queen ol the Months. Bui its somber sky is the canvas upon which Memory Umns the ever-abiding glories of the June that has been, while fancy projects the glowing June that is to bo, out of which Hope is born to gladden the high and the low. True, its merciless rigors pinch the destitute ; but our very comforts serve to remind us that these shiver over dying embers and long for that crust which is swee. ter than honey in the mouth of the famished. The spectacle of Want in the midst of almost universal Plenty teaches a solemn lesson. It teaches that, in the precession of what seem to be life's Accident.-, the highest'in the scale of competence to-day, may covet the crust of hard-featured Want in a not far distant day. Then let all share the.r abundance with those that hunger and invite the approach of that death which reigns in the silent city—the last City of Refuge. So make the earth to resound with Thanksgivings. II IVlay Be. It may be that all the great Interests ol the Re. public require the I borough defeat and subjugation of the unscrupulous parly now in power; we think those interests do require it. It may be that our form of Government has undergone a radical change, practically, yet by insensible degrees, so that, by the means of political machinery, one man may defeat the will of the people with as much facility and de spatch as a telegraph operator 6m send ten words from Boston to New Orleans; but we have some doubts about it. It may be that the citizens of Republic do not receive a tithe of the benefits they might have, were the Government administered in the benign and liberal spirit which actuated its im. mortal framers—were it honestly and fairly admin, islered, my; were no forced constructions of the or ganic law in vogne and were all men in power pa triots 7 we doubt not so much. It may be that de moralization, corruption, venality and the muhilonns assumed by wrong, so universally prevalent as they are to-day, demand prompt treatment; wc think so. It may be that no one can hope for permanent ad. vantage from the present condition of things—-that they tend to the inevitable destruction of the morals of the people, and through this, to the destruction of the government Use If; we make no doubt of that And it may be that the powers of Government are rapidly being centralized, the governing power being withdrawn from the hands of the people and lodged in the hands of ambitious and unscrupulous mea; that the ballot-box is no longer pure, but the depositary of bribes; these things have become so notorious as to pass among intelligent men without denial 'The Philadelphia Daily News has recently discovered these loose screws, notwithstanding wc cited Us attention to tliem two years ago and have done the like many time.«, since. The News bus a remedy, too, a remedy fresh from the mortar of a notorious political quack. The Republic is pick very tick. Dr. Sanderson proceeds to feel the pa. tient’s pulse, to examine the tongue and fauces. He makes tip his diagnosis and proceeds to com. pound a specific, warranted to kill or cure. The patient is suffering from torpidity of the l|v. cl. It Dr. Sanderson may be believed. He prescribes £alos>al. There is a lack of vitality in the exlrem itotes. He presribes calomel He discovers an en largement of the spleen and bolds np his two hands jn 39 he discovers a foreign irritant, ofi THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. We do not think very many people will agree with Dr. Sanderson in his proposed system of med ication for enlargement of the spleen. The better plan is to remove the irritant and thus give the econ omy a chance to regain its normal condition- The cause of disease mustjnot be ignored in either diag. nosis or medication. JLel os examine into ibe case • The Negro occupies a place in the politics of the country, not by any election or choice of his own. He was forced into the position he now holds, br the class of selfish, timeserving politicians, of whom Millard Fillmore is chief, as Buchanan, Douglas and Sanderson are retainers. Take up the President’s Message and whai do you find 7 why, two or ,lhree columns of argument touching the Negro. Take up the reportsof proceedings in Congress, and what do you find 7 why, (hat the first days of (he session abound in half-fledged schemes to keep the Negro prominently before the people, and on the part of the party in power, too. What is the inference? unmistakably, that the Oligarchs will not permit the Negro to be abstracted from the concrete body pol. ilic? Henceforth, until the final triumph of Free, dom, the Negro is to be the leading question before the people and in high places. The power that en. dowed him with a first place in the politics of the Republic, keeps and will keep him there. It is the heightVof folly to propose a union of those opposed to Mr. Buchanan, for operation in 1860, on a plat, form which shall ignore the Slavery question—that chiefest cause of national indisposition. It is not alone folly, but it is proposing after the Almighty has disposed. Republicans have no option. They must meet the questions forced upon them by the ruL ing power, or perish, as an organization. True, a philosopher of the Sanderson school, might sit qui etly down in his burning house, studiously ignoring the presence of conflagration; but the conflagration would rage on, despite his philosophy, until both dwelling and Us philosophic owner should be con surned (o ashes. % No, Dr. Sanderson; there must be no anion in 1860 ul the sacrifice of principle. Merit il, most ruinously conservative sir; There will benooppor tunity to ignore the Negro in that campaign. The Republic is in flames. Slavery is the fire. : When you quench the flames Slavery will be found under neath 4jie rain. Until the flames be extinguished there oi<n be no two opinions touching the duly of right-minded men. The hatred ol Slavery cherish, ed by the masses of the North is no childish out burst of feeling, but deep, uncompromising end in eradicable. It is the involuntary revolt of cultiva. ted natures at the unnatural proposition of states men to purchase power at the fearful cost of a nj. lion’s demoralization. It will abate, then, when the Democratic over its base attempt to re duce, or rather to degrade the Territories into hot. beds of Slavery, and not till then. As to the best policy of the Republican party in 1860 we have little to say that we have nut said. Briefly, let the Convention adopt the Philadelphia Platform with such additions as the events ol the intervening time may require. Our choice of stand ard bearers for that campaign will be concurred in more generally than some people will think proba. hie. With John C. Fremont and David Wilbot to head the column, victory can he gained if gained it may be in 1860. Those men are platforms in themselves. Their names are now household words. They are tried and true—worth a battallion of your mewling, poking conservatives. Give ns these men to lead in 1860 and Mr. Buchanan will not have friends enough left in the Wilmot District to serve as pall-bearers. Forward, (or FREMONT & WILMOT! “Sons,” RedivitOs! —Wc are requested l to stale that a meeting will be held at the Prottionotary’a Office, Monday evening, 27th inst., for the porpote of re-organizing the The Sons of Temperance in this village. We bespeak a full attendant^. A word or two: While oor faith in the efficacy of secret societies for the promotion of moral reform is very weak, onr faith in agitation is deep and en during. But we most rcspectlully suggest that the movers of this proposed meeting extend its object so as to take into earnest consideration the feasibil ity of organizing an “ Anli-Gambling Society," at the same lime. We incline to onr declared policy of several months since, which is to permit the moral rut which infects the lower stratum of Wells boro lo have its course yet a few months longer. Whiskey is doing more lo disgust our citizens'wilh the traffic and consumption of intoxicating bevera ges than all existing or proposed organizations can possibly do, in onr judgment. Yelarejwe ready and willing to co-operate with the friends of tem perance and sound morals in any way they may deem advisable. We counsel agitation. Stir up the miro of debauch until the moral senses of this community shall sicken at the stench. Put a cross on the gates of your gambling shops, where half grown boys are taught to walk the downward way i where heads of families leach sin by precept and example I Or, will some hypocrite deny that there are such shops in this village 7 Deny that drunk ; enness confronts us wherever we turn, r Deny that drunken oaths and ribald jests do not often pain (ho cars of decent men and women. Take your stand on Dtnial —the stronghold of men who defend that which they know to be wrong. We tell you that public sentiment is not ripened for reform; the few needed no season of excess to arouse them, but the many — the many had become lukewarm, indifferent —nor have they fully recovered. A liillc agitation is quite in place just now, so we give bur vote for the meeting, j The sayings and doings of children and aged per sons arc entitled to a degree of immunity from cen sure. This is a universally recognized claim. In the case of Mr. Buchanan it should rule, no doubt. For Who but a man in his dotage would have perpe. irated so egregious a mistake as his, late Message most assuredly is 7 He deprecates agitation, yet in- Aids upon the country several columns of twaddle to prove that Kansas should have come into the Un» ton a Slave State. He declares interference with the domestic arrangements of foreign States to be inimical to the spirit, purpose and correct construc tion of the Constitution, yet proposes to establish a military protectorate over two Mexican States con tiguous to our southern border. He : would like to purchase Cuba ; be dors not desire to steal it even if we *coold do so without a bloody collision with European powers; but he adds a saving clause to the effect that circumstances may arise, such as to justify the theft of the Queen of tbe Antilles by the model Republic, in self-defence. We dare say the consistency ot his argument appears plain cd. ough to his admirers, but to our perverted vision it doth not yet appear. Apropos of the Mexican Protectorate; W® un iderstand Just what the military occupation of a | country by a foreign power means. The United ' Slates established a protectorate over California it will be remembered. In other words, Col. Fremont \ took possession' of California in the name of the United Stales, and Mexico never regained possession ■ afterward. Such Is the true character of a military protectorate. Washington, Dec. 18,1858, A difficulty occurred between Congressmen English and Montgomery, on Pennsylvania avenue, this morning. They happened to meet for-the first time this session, when Mr. English,(extending his hand, said, “How are you, Mr, Montgomery V % Mr. Montgomery withheld his own hand, and uttered an in voking exprsssion, something like “I don’t speak to puppies,” whereupon Mr. English struck him a severe blow over the head, breaking his cane to pieces and knocking Mr. Mon’gomery into a gutter, but not entirely down. Mr. Montgomery, rising, hurled a brick at Mi. English, striking him on the bool, but doing him no injury. Mr. English stales to his friends that he was entirely un armed, and was not aware that Mr. Mont gomery had any ill feeling toward him up to the time of the rencounter. Mr. Montgom ery is superior in strength to Mr, English. A Tragedy in Real Life —Some twelve or fourteen years non Harlow Case was s re spectable and esteemed citizen of Buffalo.— He held the place of Assistant Postmaster under Mr. Oorsheimer, and was for many years intrusted with the more important du ties of the office. A member of one of the Baptist Churches, upright in every walk of life, married, and the father of a family, he seemed to be as firm in the straightforward paths of virtue as any other. Removing to Sindusky, Ohio, he received the appointment of Collector of that port under Mr. Fillmore. The appointment was one universally ap proved, and the numerous friends of Case in this city were„rejoiced at his success in life. While holding that office he was intimate in the family of a Mr. F., one of his assistants. Mrs. F. was young, beautiful, impassioned, and a fatal attachment grew up between the two, which remained unsuspected until the truth was made known bv the sudden elope ment of Case with Mrs. F., and the simulta neous discovery lhat he had absconded with Government funds to (he amount of some $34,000. From lhat time foiward nearly all trace of the guilty pair was lost. The family of Case, bereaved and betrayed, re mained hopeless in their grief. Mr. F. en gaged in a long but fruitless chase of the fu gitives. And now from off the sea comes tidings a broken, half-told story of lonely wanderings in foreign lands; a foil recital of a never-ceasing remorse, with pitiful and sol itary deaths in far-away islands and on the -stormy waters of the Indian Ocean. Both victims of unhallowed passion are asleep— Iho mother in ihe groves of Cevlon, the little child in the coral forests of the sea. The betrayer still wande.rs the earth, the heavy hand of an avenging God upon him, and sends to his abandoned home this message of his sorrow. —Buffalo Com. Ado., Dec.' 2. Wno ARE THE AGITATORS? —The Admin istration Party hive been two years deplor ing the agilaiion of Slavery, and ever since last Spring have insisted that the Slavery question was finally and conclusively settled. There has been no new attempt at agilaiion on the part of ihe opposilion. But how is il with ihemselves ? The President sends in his Message and two mortal columns of il are devoted to fun ning the flames of Slavery agitation. Congress meets, and on the first day of the session, Mr. Mason, chairman of the Commiuee on Foreign Relations, acting in behalf of the Administration, takes the earli; esi moment lo revive the Slavery agitation by calling up the claim of the owners of the A mislead negroes. The South Carolina Legislature assembles with a conceded Administration majority in both houses. Its whole lime is taken up with the discussion of a proposition to re-open the slave trade, and the revival of “agitation.’’ The Arkansas Legislature, also in session, devotes its time to Pro-Slavery Resolutions for the express purpose of keeping up “agita tion.” The North Carolina Legislature is agita ting the subject of reducing free negroes to Slavery. The Alabama and Florida Legis latures are agitating ihe Slave Trade. The Misstssipi politicians are issuing manifestoes, all lo a greater or less exleni agiialing ihe Slavery question. AH. these are Democratic bodies. Who are ihe “Agitators ?”— Alb. Jour. Shocking Catastrophe. —At a festival of the Methodists in Warren, Mass., held in Union Hall on Wednesday evening, on the occasion of a pastoral visit, the floors gave way, and about 200 persons, .men, women and children, fell through into the Union Store below. The scene was for a time heart rending. The woman, whose name we have not learned, rushed from ihe place to Mr. Blair’s store, at a short distance, exclaiming, “I am scared to death !” when she fainted, and, remaining in an unconscious slate, ex pired at 2 o’clock on Thursday morning. No external marks of injury were found on her person, and il Is, supposed she died from fright. The wife of Dr. Calvin Culler had a leg broken, was much injured in the back, and was badly scalded by the falling of n large boiler of hot water. The stove and boiler, which were healed for the purpose of making tea for the festivities, fell through into Ihe midst of them. It was early in the eve ning, and all tvho intended to be present had not arrived, or more fearful results might have ensued. As it was, it caused intense excitement throughout the town As soon as ihe confusion subsided, Ihe sufferers were taken care of, and may all recover.—Wor cester Spy, Dec. 17. Save your Doctor’s Bills. —When Dr. Wisiar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry will cure coughs, colds, bleeding at the lung*, and ar rest the fell destroyer Consumption, it does more than most Physicians can do. A single I rial will sa lisfy the incredulous. OiT Buy none unless it has the written signature of Butts" on the wrapper. Reporting lu the VJ State Senate, The reporting company for the Senate consists of three persons-p-Mr. Sutton, and two brothers, Murphy by name. Mr, Sutton is chief, bul the Murphys |do all the actual reporting. When a silling commences the younger lakes the chair and writes during the morning, generally until a special or der is taken up. The heavy debate, now coming on, the older brother, who is equal to any emergency, takes -'the chair. This gentleman will write as long as circumstan ces may require with wonderful ease and accuracy. He sits in his jchair in front of the Vice President’s desk with bis slight fig ure, his bright blue eyes, and intelligent countenance. He recognizes every speaker in the chamber by his tone of voice, * * * * * and with wonderful jquickness of ear catches every remark, however low or indis tinct. He sits there hour after hour, while that indefatigable pen flies jovet the smooth sheet, and arrests/the winged words for which a nation and the world are .wailing! No flood of eloquence ever overwhelms him. Like the pouring rain which is frozen as it falls upon the sheeted snow, the torrent of words is transfixed upon the snowy pages of bis notebook by the magic pen of pho nography. No colloquy is 100 quick for him. No interruption can -disconcert his practised ear, or distance bid electric fingers. “Mr. President,’’ from hnlfa dozen Senators, is noted. And when debate has followed debate, and motions to adjourn have been made and lost, and motions ;and debate fol lowed again, till honorable Senators declare themSselves overcome with incessant talking, and are sending lor.lunch, and are slipping out into the refreshment room lb partake of sundry decoctions to keep ; llie spirits up by sending the spirits down—;Ou|r reporter, who has sal there all the while; every power con centrated, every faculty engaged, and who has written as much as they all have talked without rest and without refreshment, writes on without lagging, seemingly as fresh as when he sal down hours before. And thus, from day lb day, one of the greatest triumphs of the age is witnessed by the gaping crowd' in the gpllary, and the gabbing body in the chamber, with indiffer ence. The reporting system is a triumph of art, science, and intellect.j Few onhose who sit in the gallery of the Senate, and look’down upon its deliberations, and read in the next morning’s Globe a detailed re port, of which their furnishes but a shadow, are aware -of iba labors of the' reporter. . , -When the manuscript is corrected by Mr. Murphv, who thus reports all day, and works frequently more than half the night, in ei ther case, the manuscript, as far as reviewed, is sent to the printer ; so that before the reporters sleep', the entire debite has left their hands, and comes but ini the next mor ning’s Globe. | . j I i O f the most renjarkabhß-'fealures of jne o. .-nji,. _ this reporting is the. ehse wjilh which One reporler reads ihe notes of another. This result is due to phonogrbphy, |lhe : only short hand legible to any other than the writer. — The strongest argument in favor of phono, gtaphy as a universal shorthand, its perfect legibility, not only to the writer but to oth ers, is established triumphantly by. the re porting practice in Congress. ; Nowhere else has it ever been so thjoroiigjily tested, and so fully vindicated. Notes taken at the rale of frequently over two hbndred words per minute, and read with the utmost facility by a person who did not even listen to the de bate, proved conclusively that; phonography is a thing adapted to the every day uses of mankind. I i ft has been said that] stenography is em ployed in Congress—'that Mr. Sutton was a stenographer, but he surrendered it long ago to the superiotity of phonography. Neither he nor Messrs. Murphylemplqy any arbilra. ry shorthand, nor, I believe, ti|o any of the House reporters. I have picked up and read phonographic no'es on the tepjorier’s desk of ihe House, and h-ne been assured that they all use phonography. [ j Reporters in Congress receive liberal pay ; though our Government] would do better-’ to quadruple it than to allow the| debates to re mam. unpublished. Mr., Rives, who has the contract for publishing the] Globe , pays 84.50' per column for trailer in manuscript out of 87.50 received by himl Besides, it has become a custom with thejflouses, at the close of the session, to volej an extra, or “compensation,” of §BOO to qach of the re porters. Session before! this i( was omi’ted, but this session a compensation act has been passed granting them- $1.60(i for. both jhat and the present session. So k will be seen they work hard and w-ax rich.L By ihe arrival of (he'Persia at New York (here is interesting news from Europe.— There is no news of the missijig steamer In dian Empire. Lord-Napier is to be Minister Plenipotentiary to the .Court] of Berlin.— Count Montalembert, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and to ipay a fine of 3.000 fanes, and Douniol, his editor, to one month's imprisonment, and id pay a fine of 1.000 frances. One of the young English Princes is to visit the Canadas. The steam ship Great Eastern is soon to be made ready for sea. Her first trip will probably be to Portland next Sumpter, It «|as reported at Paris that an Anglo French would leave on ihe 19th of December for the- Gulf of Mexico, well provided against filibusters.— Sr. Rosd’Olano has been appointed Captain General of Cuba. Gen. Concha will, how. ever, remain until the difficulties with Mex ico are arranged. Prince was’ about to resign the Administration of the Colonies that he might devp'e himself to ihe Government of Algeria, j The Bank of Frankford had reduced its rate of discount from sto 4 per cent. The Prpssian elections had resulted in the triumph df the Constitu tional party. There was a snort crop often in China this year. All foreigners employed in the Kingdom of Naples are to ba natural ized. i In Vermont recently a yoang man (logged his brother severely for preventing his father from hanging himself. On facing remonstra ted with for whipping.his brother for saving his father’s life, he replied—Yl wanted him to know that it w«,» his husimjss to let'father hate his own xca-ij /” | Washington, Friday, Dec. f The House committee on Terriio r Z7 f a meeting this morning, and rejected I vote of five against four, M r . Grow',' 1 ' posed ameodment to the Senate’s Ore K v'S to repeal that clause of the English bill which prohibits the people of Kansa s f 1,,: ' calling a Convention to from a ‘ until they havp a sufficient population f** Representative to Congress according Federal ratio.. The bill, as it came from? Senate, was then ordered to be reports The members of Congress have d*' pay more closely to date than U3ual-~j n 11 dence that money is not abundant eiSl ’ where. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the has disbursed since the 6th lost., on of mileage and arrears of salary, 8327$ His total disbursements for the presented gress op to Wednesday last, amounted tsh 435,292. Not a little excitement exists of the Pennsylvania politicians on heirs that certain parlies, said to be Federal oj] holders publishing ff new Democratic in Philadelphia, to (he injury they of The Argvsand Pennsylvanian, these journals might be united. Senator Mata has returned to Washing as Minister of the Juarez Administratim, Mexico. plenipotentiary pow (r j. make treaties, and 1 sente all tween this Government' and- his own. The Charleston Conner , Wednesday,«, that-Hon. Lawrence M. Keitl wilt dosu Congressional career after serving c;;,, next term. The History of Phostitctioy,—T, Board of Alms House Governors, o fih ec l of New York, have published on oSHcial j. port under the above title, ft presents a fu! picture of an amount of misery and era that few know of, and even fewer or attempt to cure. VVe copy a few oi'n statistics: There are six thousand puY; prostitutes in the city of New York, ft majority of them are from fifteen to tuny, five years of age. is at a rerr low standard with them. Oiie.fifh ofikj are married women. One half of thereby given birth to children, and more than n*. half of these children are illegitimate. ]J, raiio'of mortality among children of;nss. rules is fyvf rimes greater than the orimt ratio in New York, Sky of these children are living in ihe sboist vice and obscenity. The majnrh cf.'J* women have been prostitutes for lesins four years. The average duration ofipm. lilule’s life is only four years. A capi'il; nearly four millions of dollars, (4,090,0® is invested in the business of prosniuim- The annual expenditure on account of pis. tilulion is more than seven millions of do'la There is an average of two thousandth], doned women constantly maintained suit public expense in the hospitals on B acWi Island, their ages embrace almost every pa riod of life from girlhood to old age. Of these two thousand professional cotft sans, only about three-eights were name) the United Stales. Dn. O. VV. Holmes. —A writer in the h lon Transcript says : “While even new paper in this country has been full olvtsk toe rat’s praises, has quoted his poetry, puns and his epigrams, we learn that litem men in England give him even highere» mendation. Several London journals !» alluded to these papers in high lerm,S from private sources we have more reliif opinions. Ala dinnerparty in London, K 3 months ago, Thackery spoke of this sera: papers as among the foremost in modern eralurp, adding withemphasis, that mlug Englishman could have written them. kie Collins, after alluding to these art-es and to the.new essays of Emerson, snJ,3 “with such contributions, the Allan in 3 not fear competition anywhere in theci't* world.” And recently Charles Readr.i' ding to the Atlantic Monthly, held this gtiage ; “The stories are no worse f V: ' Black wood’s and Fraser’s, &c., and sat the other matter is infinitely beyoci» monthly and Irimeslrtal scribblers, ben!? uine in thought and English in expresra whereas, what passes for cri - icism here i' often but a mere mixture of cuck-tm ad* haw—a set of conventional phrase', tn* not in English, but in Norman Frettw 1 * the jargon of the schools. After twenty years of these * * * without ll of thought novelty or life among I hem. I■* to such papers as the “Autocrat of the fast Table,” with a sense of rebel “ ness.” A Remarkable Ship.— Sh:p l - ! '‘ irt , East Boston have in course of in theirvard a small steamer, whi" propelled in a novel manner. She t* as an experiment, the inventor b ?,n s nished with funds to construct by of the'leading shipbuilders in Ihe city- \ hull is fiflv-two feel long, and thn' wide at the stern, and tapers gr.idtolh' J bows, which are very sharp. SI IB feel deep. On deck she will nineteen feel long. She will be « 0, , an engine of twelve horse power, 10 , ivill be attached Ihe propellers— o ne stern, three feel in diameter, to u0 _ r " , water, and one at the stem, eight ameter, to work in the air. The a, peller is attached to a shaft which with the engine, and also with the ** ( peller at the stern. It is supported at the stem. Both propellers by steam. The smoke-pipe "‘l' 3 - ( * zonlally on the deck. The invent ol^ fident that by this arrangement h sB3^ get twenty-five to thirty miles an , out of this craft. We undersian invention has been tried on a sm3 ? our harbor, and has worked a^m ' ra w j,:' hull is completed and ready for lB ,ry, which is being made in B°' f ' s ,y expected that the vessel will 1 make her trial trip by the midde ber. —Boston Transcript. -- - _ . 7l The deati of the Rtv. John oldest Methodist preacher in |h 5 ~ the last survivor, of the “help er „|1 Wesley, is reported. M f - 1 the 71 st year of his minii ;r . v ' an I Oil t ears old. ' i
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