A Nocturnal Corned; of Errors. Vroru tho Cincinnati Emjuirer* Some da\a eince a young couple who had newly donned hymenial vesiments, came from their home, a pleasant village in this Slate, to spend a portion of that supposed to-be-delictous period known as the honey moon, and placed themselves under the change of the proprietor of the Spencer H iase. They then sallied forth to witness the beauties and peculiarities of Queen City, and do as brides are ever wont, a quantity of the little business embraced in the term ‘‘shopping.” They were gone several hours and did not re'urn to the hotel until near sundown, quite fatigued with their exertions, -The bride, Mrs. R., then found that she had forgotten some articles indtspensible to her toilet, and unwilling to disturb her husband, who she knew must be weary, slipped out while he was down stairs, and went up to Fourth street to get the diminutive bundle. She was successful in her search for the store and the article, but on her way back mistook, from her ignorance of the city, Main street for Broadway, and the Madison for the Spen cer House, which are situated nearly opposite to each o'her. Mrs. H. went into the hotel, and thinking it looked rather different from the other, asked one of the waiters she met in the hall, in rather a low and indistinct lone, if that was the “Spencer,” to which, he, failing to understand her, replied in the affirmative. S te then ordered him to bring her the key to No. 48, which he did, and she entered it, and removed her bonnet, shawl and other portions of her attire, and crept between the sheets of the bed to enjoy a little nap after her long walk, neves- dreaming she was in the wrong house, for the reason that ihe npanmeni happened lo have ihe same posi tion, and be furnished very much like her room at the “Spencer.” Instead of taking a “little nap,” she fell into a profound sleep, that continued hour nftff hour until 21 o’clock, at which time she was disturbed by a most unexpected in cident. The rightful occupant of No. 48, a mer chant from a town in Indiana, who had been to the theatre and become a little intoxicated, went to the Madison, and wishing no one to see his condition, walked up to his room withou’ a light, and fortunately or unfortu nately, found the door unlocked. He entered quietly, and as total darkness reigned there, he removed his garments and crept into the spacious double bed, not disturbing in the lcas» the fairbride who lay near the wall, * How long the two reposed there side by side, with only a fool of space between them, all unconscious of the olher’i presence, is not exactly known, but probably about an hour, when a tremendous noise was heard in the apartment from which female screams issued wildly, piercingly and ceaselessly. The hotel was in an uproar; proprietors, clerks, waiters, porters and guests, dressed and half-dressed, were at (he door of “forty eight” in a few minutes, blocking up the en trance and asking each other eagerly, “What is the matter!” “For God’s sake, tell us whnt is the (rouble !” - , The c »use of this outcry may be imagined. The bride had awakened about midnight, and putting her hand over her husband it fell upon the fnJjnnian’s face, and (he soft, warm touch aroused him al once. Ho did not un derstand it exactly, though he did not dislike it, and in a moment more Mrs. R. said, “Mr dearest husband, where have you been all this while V’ “Husband,’’ echoed the merchant, begin ning to see, like Lord Timsel, that he had “made a small mistake here “I am no body’s husband. 1 reckon, my dear madam, you’re in the wrong bed.” In the wrong bed—horror of horrors, thought.the bride —what would her liege lord, what would the curious world say ? And Mrs. R. screamed terribly, and sprang from her couch just as her companion did the same. He was fully as much alarmed as she, and entreated her to give him lime and he would leave the apartment, although it was the one he had engaged—he’d make oath to that. Scream, scream, scream, was the only re ply to this kindly proposition. “My God, Madam, don’t yell so ! you’ll wake the house. Be reasonable; f swear it’s only a mistake. Have some thought of the consequences. I don’t wan’t to hurt you —1 swear I don’t. You’ll get me shot and yourself—well, 1 won’t say what.” -The screams increased, and the poor In dianian, expecting every moment to see a pistol thrust in ■ his face by a jealous husband, turned pale as death, which he expected, and resigned himself to his fate. Just at this juncture, the throng outside presented itself at the door, and beheld Mrs. R. cowering in one corner, exercising her lungs magnificently, and whh a sheet wrapped over her form and head, and the Indianian in the middle of the room, enveloped in a coverlet, ejaculating, “My God, Madam, don’t!” The junior proprietor, Dr. Cahill, saw there must bo some mistake, and, requesting the others to retire, called the merchant out with him into another room, and there learned the whole story. The Doctor ihen sent one of the ladies of the hotel, to Mrs. R„ and the entire affair was explained, greatly in her relief—though she was overwhelmed with confusion at a circumstance which might have ruined her reputation for ever. Under the escort of the Doctor, she was conveyed to the “Spencer,” where the hus band was found pacing the corridors with frantic rpien and half-crazed with grief at the mysterious disappearance of his wife, whom he believed had been spirited away by a villain or murdered for her jewels in this “infernal city,” where, as he expressed it, “they would kill a man fur a dollar any time.” Washington, Dec. 26, 1858, There has been a free interchange of views among many leading Republican Senaiors and Representatives, for which an occasion has been afforded since the commencement of the recess. The opinion was unanimous jhat parties and politics are so shaped in this Con gress that no'hing will be effected during the piesent session concerning the Pacific Rail road, or a modification of the tariff - . THE AGITATOR. HI. H. Cobb, Editor & Proprietor. WELLSBOROUGH, FA. Thursday Morning, Pec, SO, ISSS. • « Al I Business,and otherConunanicationsmast beaddressedlo the Edilorto insure attention. S. M. I’ctte.noju, & Co., 119 Nassau St., New York, and 10 State St.. Boston, are the Agents for the Agitator, and the mo‘t influential and largest circulating Newspapers iu the United State* and the Canadas. They are authorized to con tract for us at our lowest rates. We cannot publish anonymous communications. ID* Wood* the Ambrotypist, ia In town. Hon. G. A. Grow w.ll please accept thanks for bound copies of llic Congressional Globe. Attention is directed to the advertisement of Mr. S- B. Elliott, He odors a fine opportunity to such of our young men as wish to improve their talents and make them practical. Suesctibers from whom wo have agreed to take Wood will favor us greatly by bringing it to us at once. Not green wood! Don't bring green wood ! Let us have the water by itself and tho wood by it self. The Carrier of Tub Agitator will visit his patrons on New. Year Day as has been his custom heretofore. lie has faithfully served the good folk of Wcllsboro during the past year and we doubt not they will signify their appreciation of his fidelity by their accustomed generosity. In sunshine and tn storm he visits you. Some very excellent thoughts on the New-Fear came too Ulc for insertion this week, but they will be in season next week. Contributors should bear in mind that the cast of our inside forms is made beyond material alteration by Monday noon. We never change the programme after that time, unless, as sometimes happens, it can be done without delay ing the hour of publication. A communication from S. B. P., also arrived too late for this week. Several communications await an examination. Be patient. Frightful Accident ! —We have just received a few of the particulars of a shocking occurrence in volving the horrible death oPa little daughter of Mr. Josiah Griffin, of Charleston township, Monday afternoon. Mr. Griffin was preparing some highly inflammable substance over the stove, when the com pound suddenly took fire and drove those present out of doors. The house was soon in Barnes. The lit tle girl, eight years bf age, chanced to be in the chamber and was found at the foot of the stairs al most entirely consumed. Mrs. G., was severely In jured by burning, her clothes being her frantic efforts to rescue the child. This is ft terri ble blow. / Santa Claus —a saint not in the calendar of the New-England little folks—visited us for the first lime Christmas morning. Early taught to put not our trust in either saints or princes, vve bad learn ed to look upon the legend of Santa Claus with suspi cion. But rt airy nothings” do not make donations of ncw.hnls lo seedy editors; therefore, since the veritable Santa Claus presented us with a new hat, we hasten to declare ourself to (he little folks as a convert to their Christinas theory. For their edifi cation we may describe him as he appeared to our wondering eyes. He was tall, had killing whiskers and a kindly eye. We recognized him as a saint at first glance. So there ere a great many San ta Clauses, children, and you sec them nearly every day in the year. A happy New-Year to youl January 1, 1859. To him and to her who have endeavored to live in the past in such manner as never to blush for their record, the flight of time must awaken pleasing, rather than painful emotions. Sudden, swill and terrible is the ru-b of the ye ars as they wheel into the shadowy bourne of the Past, as contemplated by those who have put aside golden Opportunity to idle with the bubbles that dance for a brief moment in the sunshine of fleeting pleasure an d vanish for. ever. We stand again in the vestibule of Time. Some of a* eagerly crowding the threshold ot the door which is about to open for the first time lo mortals, and some have not yet turned their faces from that door which is about lo close forever against the re turn of every one. To the best and the purest,even, the hour is big with grave thought, the event is sol emn. We hear the requiem of the Old and the era. dle-sang of the Now, mounting and blending in a cadence Chat heals as it wounds; and so the pain of leave-taking is tempered lo ua—Hope’s sweetness overcoming its bitterness. Shall we question ourselves if the world has bet ter grown during the twelvemonth whose account is going to its great audit ? Rather let us inquire within. If each of us has grown better, then has the great world been moved a step toward perfection. For all is so nicely adjusted in the Divine economy that the better growth of the least results in the measurable uplifting of the highest. So, also, if each has grown no better ; if each has retrograded, i (and none can stand still) then is the great world turned back, grown no belter, certainly. The object of living should be two fold; the im provement of self, fir*i, because there all improve ment mu*l begin, and secondly, the betterment of the many with whom we are brought in often con tact. Few of us intelligently live ; not one lives up lo hi<«, or her best understanding of the purpose for which man is placed here j all sometimes flatter themselves that nothing has been omitted which should have been done. Vet who can justly claim that he his complied with nil the requirements of duly in any year—in any day* even? * l What shall Ido?'* That question denotes pro gress in the right direction. The field is mighty, yet how few the reapers ! It is well that no mind is permitted to comprehend the uncultivated Vast I League upon league stretches away the illimitable Continent of Labor—away, beyond the combined ken of reflected intelligence! Mercifully arc we dealt with that we think the meeting horizons the extreme of lime. Could we stand with the Omnis cient, beholding as He does the breadth and sum of Creation; could we see worlds like this dwindle to the rank of atoms, universes to integers of systems and systems lo points of light—could we see this we should perish, and with us the means of earth's regeneration. To reach after that higher knowledge is not only not forbidden, but made a necessity of the soul. The attainment is most wisely withheld. We should so live that every day may be invested with the rights and dignities of u plfew-Year Day. It is not enough that men and women once in a year resolve to do right. The soul recognizes no arbitrary divisionsof time into days, weeks, months and years; it does not, of itself, mark the flight of time, but dwells apart from the landmarks and fin ger.posls planted by fearful human nature lest man, more intent on the sensuous than the spiritual, may lose himself in the mazy labyrinths of visible change. Since the soul computes not time by days, months and years, why do we mock it with annual resolu tions? Rightly, its eternal occupation is to plan, and to do. To seek out tbo wrong and to right it* THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. To rebuke, in deed t those who pass by on the other side. Thus, the New-Year of the soul is made per petually recurrent, in reflection as constant as in ac tion, its earth-life a proud success. Could we all intelligently comprehend that none can live for themselves alone, the battle would be fought. But so few, perhaps none, fully comprehend this truth. We chase the bubbles, lame, rank pow er—deeming these whereas, they confer no substantial happiness, but oftener pain. Richest if amassed for either of the objects just mentioned, bile like a serpent and sling like an adder/ It is doubtful if one may grow rich and yet live rightly in all respects. Wealth is usually purchased at the price of temporary blindness to the miseries that lie to the right and to the left of the paths we pur sue, of deafness to the cries of those who grope in the sunless purlieus of Disease and Famine. Is it not so ? Do we impeach the commerce of the world when we pronounce it essentially anti. Christian ? Perhaps that may be pretty broad. We do not believe that the world could sustain a Christian com mercial system in Its present state of progress. It does not follow that no better system is possible. It should operate as a stimulant, moving us to new effort. Bnt in what way is the world to be aided up to that higher position other than that of self improvement? The reform must commence with each of us. j How many, then, after due reflection, will resolve to make the world belter for living in it? How many will resolve to live and act like beings who comprehend that they shall live, not for months and years only, but forever ? Lite, here, is but a span! Its honors, emoluments and petty triumphs perish with the clay; or, if they survive, they vanish with the childish pomp and circumstance of (he funeral cortege which pauses a moment at the graveside, to be gaped at byAhe s crowd, which, returned to the busy scenes of~active life, will not remember that the earth yesterday swallowed up the ashes of one whom men fawned upon and flattered. When men and women learn to look beyond the perishable and to live for the imperishable, then will every day be a New-Year day—the birth-day of Resolution, holy because dedicated to duly, and a season of joyful calm because culm is the fruitage of a right i deter mination. ; If we can turn to Ihe record of the departing year without shame, there is no good reason to re gret the flight of time. The departure of the years should enrich us in experience, and if grown wiser, why not happier, if wisdom be the parent of true enjoyment ? None can reach their ideal of a cor. reel life, but nearly all may approach it. As it is permitted men to sigh alter Infinite Knowledge with no hope of attainment, so they are permitted to sigh for perfection while conscious that perfection is un attainable by finite creatures. The philosopher will recognize Wisdom m this arrangement. The de sire for infinite knowledge leads man to dare every accessible height, and so, forward, until be plants bis feet where mortal never trod before. But wo digress. IWe set out to send you, patrons and friends, cordial greeting. We do so now for the fifth time—may-be for the last. May the world be belter for the lesson of your lives and may you live to enjoy the return of many Happy New-Years. Doubtless there is a glory of the intellect, but there is another glojy of the muscle. There is one glory of tlie soul and another of pluck. The model Legislator must be radiant with the twin glories of muscle and pluck. | The Benicia Boy is a fellow ! flow gloriously he battered the nose of J. Morrissey, Esq.! ilt wus no disgrace to Mr. Hcc nan that he lost his wind. It was no mark of cow ardice in J. Morrissey, Esq., that he went on the ground backed by armed retainers. It showed that he had friends; the result of the contest showed that he had muscle and pluck. Both gentlemen coveved themselves with glory as with a garment. Why should they not be hereafter known to an admiring people as the Hon.' Heenan and the Hon. J. Morris sey? Does any one forbid the banns? . The Hon. Mr. English and the Hon. Mr. Monti gomery met on a broad Avenue in Washington the other day. Both these gentlemen represent the sov ereign will and pleasure of 100,000 men and women at the moderate price of $3,000 per year. Hon. Mr. Montgomery passed Hon. English without the cus tomary salutation— wiegehts ? The latter magnan imously suffered this great indignity to go unpun ished. But the Montgomery repeated the insult. He insulted the English, and through him, 100,000 men and women of the sovereign State of Indiana. The mailer grew lo be serious. Manifestly. English eould not long endure the murmurs of 100,000 men and women. He could not return to his insulted constituency with no evidence that the insult had been repelled. Comprehending this, be lifted up his canc and brought it down upon the head of the “ soothless insulter” with vengeful emphasis. The Montgomery reeled beneath the weight !of muscle> reeled, but fell not. Waxing wroth, the smitten seized a brick and hurled it at the flying assaulter* Montgomery was bewildered, and forgot: that him self, not English, had been baptized with Sticks. He smote Achilles English upon the heel, with a brick I We regret that he did not search his hat for another with which to batter his adversary. Hud English crept stealthily upon his insulter the act would have been grand beyond description. It would have redounded to the undying credit of mus cle. But he foolishly smote his insul'.cr in a broad avenue, where bis adversary might have taken leg. bail for security and so have barred the insulted of remedy. English should be recalled. He has made a great blunder. The glory of muscle dcparleth. 100,000 innocent men and women are avenged, we admit; but the glory of .Muscle is—where ? Mani festly. with Hons. Ilecnan and Morrissey. Since the floor received the impress of Kcitt the highfalu tin, following a blow dealt in andlhere fore proper, the reign of Muscle has steadily declin ed. There has been no exhibition of downright pluck m the Capitol since that memorable night. How we exulted over the scalping of Barksdale by bloodthirsty Potter! Ah 1 then there was hope o f return to aboriginal manners and customs 1 Then there was hope for muscle. In the language of the immortal Henry, ,L There is no longer any room for hope!” OA, mtcarel The Millennium is at hand! There—we have said our say. Should Hons. English, or Montgomery send us a hostile message, they give us choice of weapons. We khull borrow the “ Bloody Dagger” of our illustrious namesake, Sylvanus, Jr., Bonner volente. Sylranus may con sider the weapon engaged. Occasionally! some of our democratic cotempora rics wax facetious and get off something keen at the expense of their President and parly. 1 Cochran, of the Venango usually staid and sober, gels willy in his last issue. In speaking of the Message, he denominates it “ a great paper.” The fun lies in the use of the word “ great,” when he intended to use the word u long.” A little farther on he says: “ Such a conscientious discharge of duly at ** the expense of so much labor, is too rare an ezhi -44 bilion in these days of perfunctory statesmanship, “ to escape especial notice and applause.” The joke consists in using the adjective u conscientious,” as descriptive of any deed of Mr. Buchanan's.! In another place ho says that the democratic par ty will occupy the same position twelve years hcnco that it occupied twelve years ago and occupies now. Well, we will laugh at that when we geldow,n thro’ the absurdity into the fun. What a political pons aeinorvm that proposition it. though. Literary Association. f I)£c. 23d, 1858, Society met as usual, in the Court House. Dr. E. Pratt in the Chair. Minutes of lasi meeting read by the Secretary. Debate be ing in order, on motion the words, “Tioga County” were stricken oUt of .the resolution, making the question read as follows, viz:— “Resolved that the office of the County Su perintendency should be abolished.” A lively discussion followed, at the close ol which (he President, after reviewing the ar guments, gave decision for the negative.— Question selected to discuss January 13th, reads: “Resolved that the President’s last message abounds in misrepresentations.”— No chief disputants appointed. Lectures, so far as arranged will be read in the following order: M. H. Cobb reads ihe first lecture Dec, 30lh ; J. Emery, Jan’y 6th; C. G. Williams, Jan’y 20th. Adjourned to one week. A. L. Ensworth. Sec’y. Mr. Grow, Member of Congress for North ern Pennsylvania, recently made a motion in the Committee of Territories appointed by the House to repeal the restriction on the admission of Kansas, contained in the Eng lish Bill. And why not? If Oregon may come in «ith 30,000, why may not Kansas come in with 50,000 1 Can any man —Re- publican or Democrat—tell? But the Com mittee voted it down: the five Democrats on it, going to keep out Kansas by a rule which they will not apply to Oregon, and the four Republicans voting to put them on an equality. For ibis honest and fair move, Mr. Grow has been denounced as “raising the nigger question and bleeding Kansas,’’ and the Ar gus reproaches him with the epithet “Bully Grow” This charge is most unjust and shameful. Mr. Grow is a quiet, pleasant, affable man—neither n brawler nor a fighter. When Keiit tried to drive him across the Hall, Grow refused, and alood on his equal rights there; and when Keiu undertook to choke him, Grow knocked him down. Does self-defence against an overbearing ruffian make a man a “bully ?” That was all Mr. Grow did. Would the Argus have advised him to skulk and run away at the command of this slave driver Keiit? When Keiu seized him by the throat, would the Argus have advised Grow to be choked senseless, and then kicked or brained ? Had Grow sunk his manhood, and disgraced his Northern blood, would the Argus have called him a “National” man—fit lo be a Lecomplon Democrat ? Neither at the North, nor at Ihe South is Mr. Grow traduced Ijy any manly man for his repulse of a wanton persona) assault. Mr. Keiu himself would not so assail him. T&gjbest men, everywhere—at his own home, ainoall over our Union—applaud him for his prompt resentment, exercised only so far as actual security required. “Resistance to ty rants is obedience lo God,” says the North. “Sic semper lyrannis!” says Old Virginia! But what a degrading, belittling influence has Lecomplonism, when its devotees traduce men—their own neighbors—for a single act, unpremeditated, demanded by Hue honor and self defence! u O what a tangled web they weave When once they practice to deceive.” —Lexcisburg Chronicle. A Desperate Duel. —The following ex tract from a private letter, written by one of the soldiers in the army of Utah, gives the particulars of one of the most desperate duels on record. The tragedy occurred in Cedar Valley, during the ftrvl week in September.— Globe. “The parties to this sanguinary nfT.iir were two gamblers from St. Louis—Rucker and Peel. U’hat gave rise to the difficulty was, that, in the course of n game for 81,000, Rucker played a secreted card, and was de lected by Peel, who Took the money,-Rucker forfeiting the pile by the false play. The ensuing day the parlies met at the settler’s store. While there,some remark by a third parly revived ihe subject of the game, and the quarrel of words between Rucker and Peel look a more serious turn. Peel said that there was but one way to settle the mat ter —they must fight. They adjourned out side the store, and taking their station shout ten yards apart, drew their revolvers and fired. Both fell at the first shot—Rucker shot in the breast and Peel in the shonlder. One of Peel’s fingers was taken off by the shot. The second shot took effect in both. Rucker then raised up on his knee and fired twice, both balls hitting Peel. The latter, bleeding from six wounds, struggled up from the ground, and resting his revolver on his arm, and taking deliberate aim, shot Rucker to the heart. Peel is not expected to live ; indeed, ns I write a rumor prevails that he is dead. Both these desperados came out from the Stales last spring, and had thousands of dollars of the soldier’s money, which they had won in a “professional way.” Their death is not likely to be regretted among the soldiers. The Welkins Republican says: "We are able lo siale, jusi before going to press dial John Magee is reported to have made arrangements with the Erie Co., by which a third rail is to be laid from Elmira lo Wat kins, connecting with the Williamsport Road, and that Mr. Magee is lo have the privilege of running any amount of Coal and Lumber from the Blossburg region to this point, for transhipment, on favorable terms. It is also reported that the Canandaigua Rond is lo be narrowed lothe Williamsport guage.and that the N. Y. & Erie Co., have bound themselves lo run the line from Elmira lo Canandaigua in connection with the Southern route, lead ing from Elmira to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, &c. —Elmira Advertiser. Dr. Wislar’s Balsam of V\ j ld Cherry is truly a balsam. It contains the balsamic principle of the Wild Cherry, the balsamic properties of tar and of pine. Its ingredt ents are all balsamic. Coughs, colds, and consumption, disapear under its balsamic in fluence. OO” Buy none unless it has the written signature of "I. Butts," on the wrapper. marrying at La’rge. ; One of our Justices of the Peace was called yesterday afternoon, U> go I o a German house in the city and marry a couple. Putting on a clean collar, and puttmj a roarriaige cer lificate in hie pocket, he ilarted for the fes tive scene. Arrived at the house under the direction of a blue legged liitle boy, who pointed out the place, he tnocked and went in. In the middle of the floor stood a stout German girl; sorry and pi imp, her blue eyes rolling out tears as larje as butter pats. “What’s the matter?” sajd the sympathetic Justice. “Matter,” said the girl, “pat Got leib wend off, and wouldn’t marry me, ain’t it?” The Justice said bn supposed it was, and intimated that he had come to .marry some one, and requested life old lady to bring on the lambs to the sacrifice. Old lady said, “dare vos no lambs—Golleib'ish run off and vill not marry my Kalarijia.” “Well,” said the Justice, “Gotleib isn’t’ the only man there is ; —send for some other nan to marry her.” At this Katrina’s face brightened up,and she ejaculated, “Yah—das is goot—4send mil Hans." Hans was send for,, bnl cfluldn’t come. When her messet ger returned, Kata rina, determined not to give it up, said, “Send mit Shoseph.” Shoseph was sent for, but he could not be found. Katrina’s heart fell at Justice was growling in Ka'arina looked out of tl a short and thick young when she rushed to tbs “Fritz —Fritz!” Fritzs pearance at the door, whe said, “Fritz you lofs mil allowed he did, more as s j stand up here,” thunder* before Fritz could real was man and wife, and E around his neck, and be; she crying between the husband—mein Fritz reel historian compels u: hugged back as well as Justice, with head erec out, leaving the lovers] walked away mediiativel ing all over his sciousncss of having dot in his eye, and honor, 1 in his footstep. —Buffal ■ The Great Mississippi Defalcation— A True Woman. —Of course it iias not been forgotten by most of out readers; that, in 18- 43, an immense defalcation was discovered in the Slate Treasury of Mississippi, J. R. Graves being at the bead of ihatjdepartraent, who as soon as exposure was threatened, es caped, was pursued, caught, and finally got out of the clutches of the officersland reached Canada, where he lived beyond jlhe reach of legal powers. The history of this great de falcation, involving, as was supposed at the time, no leas than Slf 4,300 in {found num bers, is briefly sketchec in, the following ex tract, which we obtained from a report an the case by A. H. Walker, E*q., to GoV. Mc- Willie a short time s(nce. It ]will be seen what an honorable part an honorable, high minded woman playet|’ in the disastrous af fair :—Louisville Journal. ] After Graves had fled and escaped from the officers, and noond knew where the”mon ey was, Mrs. Graves, true to the honest in stincts of woman, sent for .the of the State and voluntarily delivered to him 892,600 in United States Treasury notes, 82,747 68 in gold, 868,232 98 |n Stale war rants, making 8164,570 36, a sum quite suf ficient to have purchased her husband’s lib erty or made herself ajnd family independent; and, while her husbarjd has justly been re garded as a public defaulter an(| pursued by the officers of the law! as a fugitive from jus tice, this devoted wifp has haij. to share all the evils arising out of their unfortunate con dition and live in a distant fond far from friends and-kindred, viihoutevep having had credit for her straightforward womanly hon esty. | I j ’ The Open Polar |3ea. — Dr.iHayes in his address before the GeographicaliSocety read a letter from Prof. Agassiz, in relation to the open Polar Sea, in w itch that gentleman ar gued ihe existence of such a sea, in the fol lowing language: , j “I beg to add a Word with regard to Dr. Hayes'expediiion. consider lit as highly important, not only in a, scientific point of view, but particularly so for the interests of the whale fishery. Tae organization of these huge inhabitants of t ie ocean seems to me to furnish the most d red jproof I that there is an open sea into the Arctics. I The whales being warm-blooded, air-breathing animals, must come to the surface |to breathe. They cannot live without it. Now it is well known that during the winter they are pot found out side—that is, to the south, of the ice-beat of the Arctic seas. They retreat northward du ring the cold season,jand if the whole extent of that Arctic sea was covered with ice,they would necessarily perish during Ihe long win ter. Ido not know' a more direct evidence of ihe presence of extensive open water in the northernmost regions of the globe, than the mode of life of the whales,[and the dis covery of a passage into that! open water which would render whale fishing possible during the winter, would be ond of the 'important results for the improvement of whale fishing. The argument may not strike forcibly one who is not acqaiqted with ihe structure of the whales, but to a physiologist it must be irresistible. ! j Cut few days ‘imerj Morgan L. Marlin in Oshkosfi, Wisconsin, of the steamer, a boy A Chub’s Head since while the sle was lying at a dock) a son of the owne some six or seven (years old,! playino about the angine, aid finally dropped some” thing between the beams supposing the shaft, and stooped over to.recover ill The engi neer entirely ignorant of the Whereabouts of the boy, started the engine, arid the crank revolving, came dojvn arid struck the boy on the back of the neck, cernpleteiy severing His head from his without j giving a mo ment’s lime to cry for help. The father be ing near, started, caught up the headless and the cry, “Oh, God !” which escaped the father s lips, chilled the heart’s blood of ev ery one that saw that awful sight and heard that heart-rendering invocation. - The Tacts of the Some twenty years ago*slaveshi^l a cargo of African negroes on the l,i*f Cuba. They were then sold in lou % 4 purchasers.” A loi was bought h M Spaniards named Ruiz and Mendez d H sequenlly • chartered a small vessel them to another part of the island, s' out of sight of land, the negroes ar o* took possession of the vessel and de® * to be taken back to their native rica. They committed no assault purchasers, further than to demand oft - their release from bondage and their res tion to home, kindred and liberty, t? know nothing of navigation, and tb e A finally found its way into Long Islands?- and was formally taken possession ofiS revenue cutter and brought into JJew Fuji where the cases were tried, and theCoAl cided that they were entitled to their free*,! and they were subsequently set at and the two Spaniards lost their “prop«J If we mistake not, the late John Quine, J ams volunteered to be the counsel fori'jj groes, and went to New Haven and their case. They were declared freebiJ District Court of the United States, fJ which an appeal was taken to the lull fed of the United Slates Supreme Court, the decision was affirmed. ] this news, and the ipatiem. j Just then le window and saw German | going by, door and! hallooed, shortly made his ap -13 Katarina’s mother ue Katarina?” Fritz t tuer-kroul. “Then dd the Justice; and position be iata'rina’ajarms were ;• lips pressed to hia, calisthenics, “mein Our duty as a cor ii to sayl that Fritz te knew how. The i, stepped smilingly to themselves, and y,a holyjcalm sleal propartiohs, the con ie|his duly gleaming finest y and rectitude Republican. Soon afterwards the Spanish claimed from our Government for the loss which its citizens had by the decision of the Connecticut Cctr.e the liberation of the Africans. ment recognized this claim, and cratic administration, since that day j, never failed to urge this preposterous aoi 3 rageous claim upon the attention of Conji and recommend its payment. Several C« mittees of both Houses of Congress madr as they generally are, of a majority of f slavery men, have reported in favor of j claim upon various pretexts, but Conja has never yet dared to vole an appropnti, for it, and we trust never will.—ijj, Atlas. . Masonic. —The Grand Lodge oi f sylvania held an election for officers on; day evening, 6th inst., when ihe folia gentleman were elected for the Masomci commencing on St. John’s day next, la: of December : Hon. H. M. Phillips, R. W. Grand ter. i Master. Grand Master. Linius H. Scott, R, W. Junior Gn Warden. urer. Trustees of the Girard Bequest—! Perkins’, Anthony Bournonville, M. D... Hutchinson, David Boyd, David Jayne, Trustees of the New Masonic Loai-Sm uel Badger, Phillip R. Howard, Wafc glish, James Shields, Frederick Lonainji conjunction with the R. W. Grand Oma Trustees of the Grand Lodge Cte fund—Juhn Wilson, Sr., Wm. S. B'c Joseph S. Riley, Sr., Jas. Gw,in, ivt N. Macpherson. YedDo, is Japan. —Mr. Consul Hex in a private letter to an officer of the St" who was in the Japan Expediiion, gnsi following description of the city of ¥&)■ “I have visited the city of Vedda l«o and have had an audience of the East 1 passed neatly six months in leddodc? my two visits, and succeeded at las! as king a commercial treaty that lolly Japan to our enterprising citii“ns anJsrJ Japan fairly into the great family o! tta [ Yeddo is a large oily, of iwo-ilory*M* puddings. The streets are generally u and well sewered, but are not paved. probable that the population is bet'W -500,000 and 2,000,000. There is beauty nor splendor to be found there. *' exterior of the houses is the same u 3 you saw at Simoda and interiors are quite as destitute ol turn".*’ ornament. Even the palace of theEid is built of unpainted wood, and is q* bare of any furniture. The gulden ca- 3 and roofs spoken of by old writers hm* tshed, if thoy ever existed, and 1 by the Japanese that their buildings stti of living are precisely the same W' have been for the last five hundred ts* -A Deer on the Mountain.— cident. —We learn, says Ihe (Pa.) News from persona from tin 1 ,:c ' that large herds of deer have beo iW3,l v , several killed, on ihe Sooth Moontim season, A fesv days since, a getfk® 1 ® siding near Cleversburg, rcurnml O O’ i . fj from Ihe mountains, remarked w 315 f that, had she accompanied him could have seen one of the most® s ®) sights one could witness—a herd o |! ' She told him “that if he would fall o ’ the cellar, she would show him as he had seen in the mountain.” • panying her to the cellar, he waS fo find one of the finest of the ber“> * buck, which she had slain ! k in the early part of the evenings s® e the dogs on the premises keep up s" l ’,. noise, and pursuing them, she they were “worrying a targe de€r zing it by the horns, she called lor which was hastily brought her, dispatched her captive. Numbers tv the settlements for food, which, * e very scarce on the mountain. John Thompson, R. W. Deputy D. C. Skerrett, M. D., R. ff. Peter Willamson, H. W. Grand Wm. H. Adams, R. W. Grand Seers Mrs. Douglas os the Late O- A correspondent of ihe ■ ing of the pleasant domestic