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