\ A Kentucky Planter Selling his Daughter.
From the Bacyras (Ky.) Journal.
A moving incident came to our knowledge
last week which we lay before our readers.—
We suppress names for reasons obvious to every
one. ‘ 1
Near Louisville, Ky., lives a planter of wealth
arid standing. He was the possessor of a hnn
■ tired negroes, and he was noted for his thrifty,
money-making disposition. He had never been
married, and was an incorrigible bachelor of
fifty. His house was managed by a young lady
of about twenty, his daughter by a quadroon,
whose complexion was lighter by half than his
—and in whom the negro blood was scarcely
visible. The mother., died ten years ago, lea
ving her daughter with its father’s solemn
promise that she should be educated, and should
live os a free woman rather than as a slave,
and that she should pass as his daughter, os
she was. The planter gave his promise, be
cause he bad been really attached to the dying
.woman, and was greatly attached to her and
his beautiful child. And so she grew up radi
antly beautiful—receiving a reasonable educa
tion. all that her'father could give her, and in
time took the management of his household.—-
-She never knew that there was any negro blood
in her veins, and never dreamed that she was a
jsiave.
Last Fall a series of misfortunes overtook
the planter. His house burned down and in it
the notes, books and papers that composed a
large portion of his fortune- His crops failed
~to. a degree, and some -heavy speculations in
■which he was engaged resulted disastrously.—
Added to all this, he bad lost heavily at play,
the besetting sin of Southern gentleman, and
had completely exhaustedall'his ready means,
and found himself in a terrible situation of
having more money to pay titan he could pos
sibly raise in a given time.
lie applied to his attorney for counsel in his
extremity. The attorney after examining the
situation of his affairs, advjsed him to sell off
a portion of his negroes. The planter objec
ted strenuously, first objecting to, the sale of
negroes, and secondly that his force was bare
ly sufficient to work his plantatioq. But after
full deliberation, he found this to be the only
alternative, and sorrowful consented. A list
was made out, and every head that could be
possibly spared was put down. After nil was
done and the most favorable prices for them,
the aggregate fell §5,000 short of the sum.
The attorney remarked quietly that he had
not included all that could be spared.
. “I have put down all I can dispense with,”
replied the planter.
■ “X do not see Mary the housekeeper’s name
in the list,” replied the lawyer. “She, if of
fered to the right person, would make up the
deficiency; I would give that for her myself.”
At any other time the planter would have
taken the suggestion as an insult, but necessity
is a hard master, and be grasped at the idea,
and before an hour the transaction wps closed.
It troubled him not a little to disclose the
matter to her, but the fear of bankruptcy and
ruin drove him to it. The poor girl’s horror
and distress may be imagined. She had known
nothing but happiness, and now was to be
plunged into the deepest and most hopeless
misery. She had been sold, and was then the
property, soul and body, of one who purchased
her merely for the gratification of his beastly
lusts. The idea was too horrible,- and the
swooned, remaining almost delirious for sever
al days.
■ There was another upon whom the intelli.
gence came with crushing weight. Ajnnior
partner in a produce house in Louisville had
frequently visited the planter’s house on busi
ness, and, struck with the beauty and intelli
gence of the supposed daughter, had become
enamored, and after prosecuting his suit a
proper time had declared his passion, and, un
known to the father, the two hap betrothed
themselves. As soon as possible, after her
father had told her her fate, she dispatched a
messenger to him, stating the facts, and im
ploring him' to save her from the doom that
awaited her. Though thunderstruck at the
■'intelligence that his affianced bride was a slave,
and had just been sold to a fate worse than
death, like a - true man he determined to rescue
her. That night he saw her, and a plan was
formed for flight. 1
The day she was] transfered to the possess
ion of her purchaser they fled, and in due time
arrived at Cincinnati, where they were mar
ried. Our hero obtained an interview with one
of the agents of the Underground Railroad lo
cated in that city, who immediately telegraphed
instructions to the different agents along
the line to keep strict watch, aud if woman
catchers were on the watch, at any point, to
telegraph hack, and give the fugitives timely
notice, that they might leave the train. Ac
cordingly they started, purchasing -tickets for
Crestline.
In the meantime the lawyer, as soon as he
discovered his loss, had commenced active mea
sures to recover it. He had no difficulty in
tracing them to Cincinnati, and none whatever
in ascertaining that their destination was Crest
line. But having arrived several hours after
their departure, he was obliged to content him
self with telegraphing to Crestline to the proper
officers to arrest them at that place. But un.
fortunately for his prospects, the intended ar
rest got wind, and when the train reached Ga
llon, two citizens of that place stepped into
the oar, and a conversation of a few moments
ensued, in the lowest kind of whispers, at the
close of which the four left the car. A car
riage was in waiting, and in two hours the fair
fugitive and her husband were domiciled in
the-house of one of our whole-souled farmers,
near Bucyrus, who has long taken pleasure in
helping fugitives on their way to the Canadian
Canaan.
' When the train on which they embarked
reached Crestline, the officials were unuttera
bly chagrined at not finding the fugitives, and
more so when they learned that she had been
within four miles of them.
After a lapse of two weeks they ventured a
move, and went to Detroit by the way of San
dusky City, and without accident reached the
Canadian _sbore. They are now residing in
Toronto. %
Novel Grou.vds foe Divorce,—A woman
made application at Cincinnati, a day or two
since, for a divorce, on the ground that her hus
band was a confounded fool. The magistrate
informed her that if that were held to be a
valid reason in law, half the married women in
the c ‘ty would be legally entitled to a matri
monial separation. The woman seemed com
forted with thi»' assurance—wretchedness is
alway alleviated by numbers—and departed
from the Magistrate’s Court with an improved
frame of mind; and with a touch ' of consola
tion. v
The Germans in the United States publish at
present mote than 200 periodical papers.
THE AGITATOR.
in. H. Cobb, Cdltor & Proprietor.
WELLSBOROUGH, PA.
so, isso.
All Business and other Communications must-ha
addressed to the Editor to receive attention.
S. SI. Pettmoili & Co., 110 Nassau New York, and 10
State St., Boston, are the Agents for the Agitator, and the
most influential and. largest circulating Newspapers tn the
United States and the Canadas. They are authorized to con
tract for us at our lowest rates. i
Mr. C. G. Williams vrill rejid a poem enti
titled “ The Age of Brass,” before the Liters
ry Association, this evening. Seats free.
Such a* may want the Trial List for refer
ence will do well to cut it out; we may not
publish it again, owing to the crowd of advs.
The confusion attendant upon undressing
and redressing the paper must cc,ver a multi
tude of sins of omission this wp.ek. A commu
nication from the County Superintendent has
'been deferred in consoqu cnee.
Our correspondent, “ X,” is down on the
dogs with a vengeance. He only speaks the
sentiments of five-sixths. of the inhabitants of
this village—we mean five-sixths of those who
do not value dog-flesh above human comfort.
If any friend of Dogs wishes to enter the a
rena in their defence, our columns are open.
Godey’s Lady’s Book for February has come
to hand promptly, ns is its wont. The ladies
will find this Magazine a very valuable refer
ence in housewifery and in fancy needle-work.
The accomplished editress, Mrs. Hale, is ‘au
thority’ in those matters. IVe can furnish it
to our subscribers at §2 per year; or it may he
purchased at the counter of Messrs. Smith &
Richards.
We were unable to attend the lecture of Mr.
Hollis in the Court House last Friday evening,
the which we very much regret. From the lit
tle we have been able to glean concerning it, it
appears to have been a meritorious effort. We
hear that he has been solicited to repeat it on
Friday evening of this week. We have receiv
ed no intimation of his determination to com
ply with the request.
Every man and boy has a vivid remembrance
of the day when he donned his first trousers
and appeared on the stage as a two-legged crea
ture. Each remembers the next era in his life
—his exaltation to the plane of long-tailed-coat
dom from the level of round-aboutdom. Two
important eras in life, are these.
But scarcely less joyful is the day when the
boy puts on a new jacket, llow solicitous is
he lest its glossy nap get ruffed! lie denies
himself the pleasure of his accustomed rough
and-tumble with his school-mates, and stands
daintily aloof from the smutty-faced youngsters
with an air l of “Take care—you! Don’t you
see my new jacket?" Pleasant memories are
these, good folk.
You will see that The Agitator has just put
on its first new jacket. Pardon us for the pride
we cannot help but feel on the occasion. It is
as if we had arrayed a pet child in his first
new jacket and sat watching the mingling emo
tions of joy and pride in his sunny face. The
jacket is'of costly material and fits well. We
have no time to say more this week. May the
new dress please you as it pleases us.
Public Opinion.
Some fear it, some defy, and more yield to it
a slavish homage. Neither of these classes un
derstandingly worship, fear, or set at nought
this potent thing, Public Opinion. What is it,
that these should tremble like very cowards at
the slightest beckoning of its little finger ? or
that these should prostrate themselves, in soul
as in body, before it ? or that not a few should
insolently defy its decisions ?
It is not a thing to be feared, worshipped, or
defied. It is a thing to be respected, however
its decrees may sin against the better reason of
candid men. It is the offspring of human ex
cellence and human frailty, trained in a school
whose teachers are Pride, Ambition and Fra
ternal Love. What wonder if it descend nn.
justly and woundingly, then, upon the guiltless,
or protectingly upon the guilty? Its judg
ments are warped by education; it is bribed by
Self-Love and biased by its love of arbitrary
power; yet, with all its imperfections, it is en
titled to respect. If it be a tyrant, so are its
progenitors tyrants ; if it be cruel, so are its
progenitors cruel; if it wrong the unfortunate
arraigned at its bar, so do its progenitors per
secute each other. Who is primarily in fault?
“Let us reason together:” Men are morally
lifted up, or cast down by their own choice, not
a little influenced by their associations. This
is nut to claim that all men are equal in excel
lence of soul and mind, for observation and
comparison jointly teach the contrary. But
under like circumstances of birth, education
and association, if there be a moral gulf sepa
rating man from his fellow, he that wallows in
the pit may be said to do so from choice rather
than from necessity. The contemners of pub
lic opinion charge against it that it ignores this
moral gulf if it be bridged with gold, or place.
That is too true; but are not all, or nearly all
men candidates for the favors of wealth and
place ? The wrong lies in the constitution of
the human mind. Public sentiment takes color
and shape from the outworkings of these or
ganic defects.
Those who fear, worship, or defy Public sen
timent, do but increase the evil. How thor
oughly despised is that man or Woman who is
oxer deliberating as to what Mrs. Grundy will
say, provided he, or she does this, or that! Mrs.
Grundy is the autocrat; she must be propitia
ted by often sacrifices; she must be deferred
to; aud this class finally succeed in sending
conscience and common sense into hopeless ex
ile, leaving their barks at the mercy of Mrs.
Grundy’s capricious breath, now scaling the
waves, anon broaching-to with the maters ma
king a clean breach over them and finally forced
to scud-directly -upon- a lee-shore. -They scud
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
to certain wreck; and when the great Under
writer proceeds to the final investigation the
craven masters will have no excuse for the dis
aster, save this: ‘We unshipped the helm and
trusted to'Mrs. Grundy I’'
Now what can be said of the second -class —
composed of such as follow in the train of Mrs.
Grundy, not tremblingly, but idolatrdnsTy ? in
slavish subservience to her slightest wish- They
never inquire what that lady mil say,, hijt only
What--wilt thou have us to dot' Knowing
her ‘weak spof they fear not, since, while not
seeming to defer, she really leads by complying
with the wishes of her courtiers. Beally, the
deference is mutual. These shape Mrs. Grun
dy’s decisions for their own uplifting—fawning
for the thrift that may accrue. They wallow
in the mire of idolatry until Manhood and Wo
manhood go into voluntary exile with stained
garments and defiled hands. They lead a but
terfly life, basking in the sunshine, wilfully for
getful of the inevitable winter. They will per
ish miserably in the first frost of autumn, be
wailing, too late, the likeness of their fate to
that of the barren fig-tree, and bereft of excuse
save this: ‘We loved the sunshine of public
approval.’ '
The third class is most difficult of approach.
It has one virtue of which the others cannot
boast— Purpose. It is mainly composed of
men and women who have discovered a wrong
somewhere and set themselves about driving it
away with words of mockery and defiance.
Some few individuals of this class are only dis
contented. grumblers who grumble at' every
thing; but the greater number are honest and
loyal to their highest ideas of Bight, of Truth.
They are more zealous than rational. They
would pull down the old house before laying
the foundation of the new structure. They are
mistaken, but neither coward, unthinking nor
vicious. Some few have been embittered by
the tyranny aqd intolerance of Public Opiniom
therefore they return scorn for scorn, reviling
for reviling, blow for blow; thus they do the
very deeds which so move them to indignation
against others. This paradox in action is very
common; it will be less common when man be
comes less impulsive and more philosophical.
Those who despise public sentiment ferget
one thing: They forget that they havo-2kldpdin
making it what it is. They likewise forget thaf
an intolerant example before mSn cannot move
them to acts of toleration toward each other.
They wrong themselves, they wrong society in
their sweeping defiance. Too brave to fear, too
proud to bow to pnblic opinion, they forget .that
respect and consideration may be proper where
fear may be craven and worship blasphemy.
There is another class—comprising but few
individuals at moat, and those mostly on the
evening side of life’s meridian, who respect pub
lic opinion while they are fully aware of its
often injustice. Their calm philosophy has ev
er been a marvel to us; they disregard public
opinion whenever it would seem to forbid them
to act up to their highest convictions of .duty.
They hew up the line of duty, not defiantly, but
with determination. The shrill voice -of Mrs.
Grundy never reaches their ears. They may
pity her and her worshipers; they neither defy
nor scorn.
To the better example of these latter, let as
all turn reverently. It wisely avoids hoth ser
vility and bravado. It incites ns to emulation,
and through emulation each may attain to par
allel excellence. Thus may public opinion be
restored to health and in no other way. Con
tempt for its puerilities may be felt, but it cau
not be forced up to the higher level of manli
ness. It must be reeducated by its parents—
THE PEOPLE.
The Battle of New Orleans was doubtless one
of the most notable of modern butcheries. As
a victory, doubtless the most brilliant and de
cisive ever won upon American soil. We have
no disposition to underrate or belittle it., At
the same time we neither worship Andrew
Jackson nor believe in the invincibility of the
American arms. The Battle of New Orleans
has been a subject of annual jolliHcatWn for
upward of forty years. Military balls, sleigh
rides and general ‘drunks’ have thriven mar
velously with its sanguinary inspiration. ' Be
sides, the occasion, has served as a kind of safe
ty-valve for the escape of surplus patriotism.
If our Wayne County friend is to be believed,
the XXXVth Congress has been guilty of un
paralleled sacrilege; of Vandalism unequaled
in mundane annals. It wilfully, feloniously,
and with malice prepense, refused to adjourn
for two brief days for a general pow-wow in re
membrance of a battle fought and won some
days after the treaty of peace between the Re
public and England was signed, sealed and de
livered. To add to the heinousness of the of
fence, he gravely informs us that this act of
unmitigated villainy was perpetrated by a Re
publican House!—‘jealous-pated, gizzard-soul
ed Black Republicans!’ says friend Beardstee.
We rejoice to hear that there is a Black Repub
lican majority in the Lower House ; it is news
to us. We had ciphered it up quite the con
trary. We stand corrected. 90-odd Republic
ans count a majority over 120-odd Democrats 1
Well, the minuend and the subtrahend have ex
changed places. We shall look for a new trea
tise on mathematics by Prof. Beardslee. Delay
not, 0 most sapient editor 1 Think of the rising
generation groping in heathenish ignorance of
the fact that two is greater than four! Think
of this and address yourself to the task.
Then, our agitated friend declares his belief
in the probability that the Black Bepnblicans
will finally decline a home among the ransomed
if Jackson and Buchanan democrats are to- en
ter that blest repose with them. Calm your
perturbed soul, good friend; there is no proba
bility in the hypothesis that Heaven will J?pen
to receive the supporters of Mr. Bnehapop’/r
Administration. Justice is wary—espQ&Oiy
Eternal Justice. Besides, they have unriii*tak
ably indicated their preference for institutions
which thrive only under the compelling of trop
ic heats. Let him calm himself. . Tbeje is no
danger of the declination be deplores/- ’ :
Our friend is more of a mathematician than 1
philosopher. He must leam to submit with a
good grace to that which is not susceptible of
present remedy.
The Boman Senate was doubtless a dignified
body, as also the Councilor'Grecian Lawgivers.
The British Parliament certainly ranks among
the first deliberative bodies in the world. The
French Parliament may lay claim to dignity if
not to wisdom, and the Congress of this Repub
lic has never had its equal in muscle. But the
Legislature, of this Commonwealth stands like
the Napoleon of Phillips, " Grand, gloomy and
peculiar, * * . wrapt in the solitude of its own
originality!” We have been reading the re
port of its deliberations daring the first days of
the session, and have been somewhat forcibly
reminded of the proceedings of the Literary
Society which meets weekly in the Court House.
The first business taken up was a resolution to
annul the contract for publishing the Legisla
tive Record—a miserable abortion, considered
as a Record, we must say ; but we cannot think
it would add greatly to the repute of that body
were stenography brought in to catch the words
of wisdom that hourly drop from the lips of
the honorable members. No; it is better as it
is. By no means lumber the record with any
more detailed reports than are now vouchsafed.
Better annul the present contract and resolve,
never to give out another. If you have any re-i
spectfor your constituents, gentlemen, annul
your contract with Mr. Haldeman and swear a
big oath not to renew it with anybody. Yon
have the Daily Telegraph, and Us reports are
fuller and more intelligible than any in the of
ficial organ. Know when yon are well off and
thank God that the Telegraph is too poor to em
ploy stenographers. Be quiet.
' Elmira ahd Corning are undergoing purifica
tion by fire. The Advertiser of last week has
detailed reports of three destructive fires in
that village during the week, resulting in a loss
of $16,000, or thereabouts. Three buildings
were burned in Corning on Saturday night.
The Terrett House was saved with difficulty.
Friemd Cobb: Why the devil don’t you
send iny papers to Jasper, Steuben Co., N. Y.T
Because we understood you to say that yon
had returned to Brookfield. Take it coolly.
Another Fire in Corning.
This morning, about two o’clock, the large
and substantial stone block, owned by Mr. R.
E. Robisson, known as “Novelty Block," was
discovered to be on fire in the 2d Story of the
Bakery. The citizens and Firemen speedily
rallied but all efforts to save the block were
fruitless. It was with the utmost exertion that
the wooden buildings opposite on Pine St. were
saved from the devouring flames. Novelty
Block was composed of a 4 Story Flouring Mill
and three 3 Story buildings, the latter of which
were separated by wood partitions. The first
floors of the latter were occupied as a Confec
tionery and Bakery, a Cabinet ware room, and
a Mill room for flour and feed. The 2d Stories
of the Bakery were occupied as a Turning Shop,
and the 2d Stories of the other two as Cabinet
Ware rooms, filled completely full with valua
ble furniture. The 3d Story was occupied as
a Candy Manufactory a Cabinet finishing room
and Ware room, A large amount of Lumber
was stowed in the rear of the 2d Stories. The
fire made such rapid progress that the whole
interior was speedily burning furiously. A
door through the stone wall of the Mill caused
the fire to communicate with the Flouring Mill,
which was also soon destroyed. It was a most
painful sight to witness the destruction of so
much property and of such a valuable Block
which was one of the most imposing buildings
in Corning, an ornament to the village and a
standing Monument of the unconquerable en
ergy and remarkable enterprise of Mr. E. E.
Robinsox. His loss in these valuable buildings
and contents is very heavy, and but partially
covered by insurance. His loss is a public ca
lamity of no ordinary magnitude; in fact no
one man has done as much by his public en
terprise to increase the business of Corning
and give steady employment to a large force of
men as Mr. Robinson.
Mr. R. was insured §13,600. His loss above
the Insurance is estimated at over §20,000.
By the destruction of this Block forty men
are thrown out of employment.— Corning Jour
nal loth insi.
Organization of the State Legislature.—
Both branches of the State Legislature organi
zed-on the 4th. The Democrats being in a
majority in the Senate, elected the following
officers: l
Speaker—Hon. John Creswell.
Clerk—Wm. M. Miller.
Assistant Clerk—Frank M. Hutchinson.
Transcribing Clerks—-J. Simpson Africa, A.
J, Barr, and Wm. S. Picking.
Sergeant at Arms—Theophilus Snyder.
Doorkeeper—Charles Wolf.
Messenger—Herman Yerkes.
The "House is under the control of the Op
position. The following officers were elected:
Speaker—Hon. Wm. C. A. Lawrence.
Clerk—J. S. Kea,
Assistant Clerk—Judson Holcomb.
Transcribing Clerks—John Picking, E. H.
Rauch, C. W. Gilfillan, and Wm. Foster.
Food for Scandal. —At Cleveland, Ohio,
Robert J. Hawley, the father of eleven children,
has left his wife and' family, and his serious
office of sexton, and eloped with a young girl
named Rebecca Raymond. Hawley took all the
money he coaid get together, and left his large
family destitute.. He is forty years old, and
has heretofore been a model of propriety.—
There is great excitement at South Shodack,
N. Y., on account of the elopement of Sylves
ter Grant with. Evangeline Folansbee. This
wretch also left a family of children for his
wife to take care of. William Ferris married
a widow McCarthy, at Roxbury, persuaded her
to take her savings, $4ll, from the savings
bank, and has decamped with it, not waiting to
complete the honey moon. It is not known
whether there is another woman in this case or
not. The widow cares nothing for the loss of
the deceiving spalpeen, but she sorely misses
the money.
To Dyspeptics.- ; -Soda, Magnesia, and all
Alkalies, either afford but temporary relief or
confirm the disease into a chronic affection
The Oxygenated Bitters immediately relievo
amjl permanently care all forms of Dyspepsia,
and stomach difficulties.
COMMUNICATIONS.
For the Agitator.
“X ,f Diicotcneth of Dogs. ;
Dogs, dogs, dogs, everywhere dogs and not a
decent dog. Bow, wow, wow, night and day,
down street, up street, on the square, in private
bouses and public offices, at every turn, dogs,
droves of dogs. Open the door of a'store or
office, first and foremost a dog’s noserq thrust
against you with a snuff and growl of caveat.
You say “get-out 1” and the owner,- (meaner
dog of the two) says, “let that dog alone!”
then commences a parley and foray Of, words
ending in mutual bate. All for A dirty dog.
You can hardly get along thejside walk by our
Public Houses for droves of dogs. There’s the
black bull, fiat-nose, surly, short-jawed, impu
dent looking brute, never yielding the sidewalk;
then the quiet-looking shepherd dog, at respect
ful distance from bull, looking at Him some
thing as a refined and modest gentleman would
look at Donglas. Then there’s the pert whiffet,
dodging around, foremost in every fight getting
“taller dogs” in, then sliding out with a yelp
or two, leaving bull and Newfoundland and
other two legged brutes to fight it out and see
lair play. There are big black dogs, big white
dogs, spotted dogs, lame dogs and lank, flap
eared bounds. Then the mannish boys and boy
ish men wbo discuss the fighting hang-on qual
ities of these dogs. Lank, sleazy fellows, one
has a'beavy lien on a sign post, another lops
on a salt barrel, and all are i loud and urgent
enforcing their claims ; what a bang-dog look
they have, and when ihey disperse, jone drops
in for a little bud, another hauls up in the bar,
the balance resort to the hay-mow! to discuss
“high-iow-jaok-and-the-game.” Now, what all
these dogs eat would support the poor of our
Boro; would buy us a fire engine, or a fine
stock of books for our Sunday Schools; and
the sheep they have killed within eight miles
of our Boro the past year, and expense of six
law suits consequent, would have kept our poor
in wholesome meat. t
Who owns these dogs ? Mostly, the men who
never visit our churches; never attend at the
bed of a sick neighbor; never made a donation
to a charitable or useful purpose; never had a
thought outside of self and dpg. Every animal
loves its likes; associate with your dog—you
like him —he likes you ; the 'affection is mutual
and well placed; but to the owners of. these
dogs we say, you have no right to ] allow them
to ransack our barns, to steal about our back
doors, in our cellars, snooping into] every open
door and gate way, gulping down whatever
they can scent out into their capacious jaws,
and worse than all, making jnight hideous with
their medley of roars and yelpings, keeping a
whole neighborhood restless! and uneasy in their
bids. Ell stop—let’s see £ past ■—; now
here’s an ornament with handsomely engraved
cases; quiet, unobtrusive, iuseful ;{ worth, say
fifty or one hundred dollars—a present to me
from my husband—a memento of oar young
days. It tells me when to administer the Doc
tor’s prescription to the sick; when to rise and
shake off my slumbers, when to retire to rest.
It does a vast amount of tiusinesslon tick, and
its bold, broad face always .puts me up to time.
Its utility is acknowledged by all; it annoys
no one, unless it be the intonations of the Town
clock hammering one, two, three upon the heart
of the nightly vagabonds who had better be with
their families. Now this i useful ornament is
taxed as a luxury. The assessor must go peer
ing about into our pockets !or put ns on oath to
reach it and make us disgorge; and to the col
lector we must fork over :one dollar. It eats
nothing, it never barks, or yelps in nightly
fighting rows, never strays, into my neighbor’s
aheepfold to pull wool, or pokes its filthy nose
into every uncovered dish about the back door,
or runs off with the choice joint of jlamb or ven
ison. One dollar a tax —and these worthless,
ugly, ungainly, dogs, go; “skittiu about the
streets like weaslea in a barn yard” soot free.
Now we do earnestly urge upon our Burgess
and Council the propriety of passing an ordi
nance assessing the owner of every dag enough
to lop off every worthless j dog that runs at
large;—say, five dollars per j head and we are
informed our member says he will ii,se his efforts
to get a lawjiassed saving every person harm
less from damage for any dog he may kill found
estray upon his premises. ; More tigain.
1 I Forltho Agitator.
The W. L. and L. Association.
Met on Thursday evening Jan. lib, pursuant
to adjournment. Col. J. Emery being in the
Chair.
On motion, the Treasurer | was authorized to
levy and collect a tax of twenty-five cents from
each member of the Association, after which it
was moved and carried that the discussion of
the question at present before the Society be
adjourned until two weeks from this evening.
On motion the Society adjournediuntil Thurs
day evening Jan. 20th, dt which* time C. G.
Williams Esq., will read a poem before the As
sociation entitled “The Age iof Brass.”
Seats free, and the public are respectfully in
vited to attend. J. B. Niles, &c’y.
Some women look well anywhere and every
where—in the parlor or in the kitchen—at the
piano or at the wash tub. i Others again do not
look well anywhere, or under any circumstan
ces, the assertion that .“pretty feathers make
pretty birds,” to the contrary nevertheless.
Can anybody cypher out why it is so ?— Mirror
and Keystone. j
Certainly; we have long ago solved this prob
lem, and have only to give you she result of
this solution. The essential'part of man is
spirit, and the material man is fashioned after
the similitude of the soul; of which it is the de
velopment and expression. } As light itself is
invisible and yet rivals all things, iso .the spirit
of man having no external j shape] exhibits its
perfections through the material body. If the
spirit be dignified, healthy and beautiful, its
fine, round polished proportions ora, as distinctly
expressive in the walk and motionsiof the limbs
as in the eye, lip or any other feafjure. A dia
mond is a diamond, no matter wha,t its position
in the casket or which face is up in its. setting.
A beautiful spirit makes a heautful person,
“in the parlor or the kitchen, at 'the piano or
the wash tub”—anywhere, junderj all circum
stances, whether attired l in; gaudy apparel or
clothed in rags 1 God will not allow his image
to be eclipsed by a mean vesture; We speak
in general terms. The Remark of tho Mirror
and Keystone is as applicable to men as women.
How vastly better is the cultivation of the heart
for the promotion of beauty than all external
endeavors.— Elmira Advertiser. I
The Lake and Jenkins' Claim at Lawbence.
—We leam, from the Herald of Freedom that
judgment has gone against General Lane, in
his case before the Land. Office, thef heirs of Col.
Jenkins obtaining title tp the claim —Pittsburg
Gazette , | |
i - !
Uniform Bank Notei.
The excellent suggestion in the foiw.
article from the Germantown TeW?®!
worthy of consideration: “ r **i
For a number of years we hare been w,
upon the Legislature and our banking yj*
tions, the expediency and advantages
form hank notes for all the hanksof
monwealth. The _ reasons that actnaw 14
when the proposition was originally
ed, have yearly been growing
in our judgment, they present themseiw
such force as to convince the most skentia)*
the innumerable advantages resulting w*
adoption and operation. 11
Persons constantly handling hank noia
cessarily become familiar with their chan2
and can generally detect a spurious issue-?
where there is one'who is thus versed in'?
rency knowledge, there are ten liable tote*
ceived by counterfeits. - This arises, i a a ''
measure, from the great multiplicity o{ ?
in every bank having its own—a system
is not only attended with a large erpea,.
the individual institutions, but which ha*,
ticularly a direct tendency to encoaragt £
ains to engrave and put in circulation
notes.
Now, what we propose is, that the Legist
which undoubtedly has the power, should t
point a commission to hove engraved, uJJ
higher style of the art, from patterns vhj
shall be prepared under their direction,
the approval of the Governor,
of the various denominations, from five
up to one thousand, from which all the ’t*j
notes in the State shall be printed, change
only the name and locations of the serai}
atitutions.
. The different notes, under such a
be so few, (but seven in all,) and so well as;
ted, and their general appearance becwa,
familiar to the masses of the people, tin.
would he next to impossible they coaid
cessfully counterfeited. As it is, there is,;,
measure, no protection for nine-tenth of;
people. They are at the mercy of these sis-,
era, without even law enough to punish th;
as they deserve when, through oar tei'sj
forms, and the many loopholes of escape, thj
are convicted of the crime.
Will not our Legislature calmly gjre Si
question a little consideration; and if thai
find it to possess the merit claimed for it,
prompt sanction, with a view to its early ope
ation ?
Executors in Trouble. —A correspondents
the New York Tribune writing from PhUadd
phia relates a recent instance of apecolui
demise of property:
Some weeks ago there died in this city;
Quaker gentleman, Josiah Dawson by nao>_~
His age was nearly eighty, and a bachelor t
that. Daring half a century he had lived wid
great frugality, but not meanly, neither Uh
been deaf to the numerous demands upon Ei
benevolence. On the contrary the good ofai
era more destitute was an uppermost consfe
tion in his mind. His income being grain
than his wants or charities required, he op
larly invested the surplus in lots of ground ii
the suburbs. Half a century ago these ba
tions could be bought at prices that seerai
ridiculously low. Only ten years ago (net
were bargains among them for those vho baa
money,.that have turned up most prodwe
places. How enormously remunerative tha
the early investments of the self-denying to
son. Keeping no miserly record of his get
he was quite unconscious of the value of b
estate, and when he died, after proper Ism
to relatives and friends, he gave the cafe rs
due of his property to his executors, in te
for them to distribute among such chahaii
institutions here as in their judgment nrp
be deemed deserving of pecuniary aid. In
lady who had read him the morning paper®
ing years of blindness, he gave a apienir
country seat, with ample grounds, in total
his gratitude. The value of the property 3
be given away it is thought will reach W-"
The executors, also Quakers, are men ffhor.
conscientiously fulfil the trust commtols
them. Already they discover it to be ota
moat onerous kind. They are inundated
applications from every charity in the otj."
Long memorials are laid before then,* 5
privacy is hourly invaded, and the getting*
of an estate promises to Ire as great a tan
to acquire one.
The danger of taking bricks for bed-feL*
was illustrated in a town near Albany, i?
nights since when two young ladies v*? 1
one in cloth to toast their feet with in fish*
of the bed. They woke up in the night:*?
.suffocated, and found the bed on fire, ttek®
having burnt through five quilts pordem s
the skirts lying upon the foot of the bed,
in the mattrass, a portion of a night govt o 9
one of the ladies, and discolored their
smoke. If young ladies must have brith;*
bed-fellows, they will do well to take
by the above.
-M-A-R-R-I-E-D
-la Osceola, Jan. 13th, by L. P, Hoyt
UEL STEVENS amt Mias SARAH lETTfit-
Osceola.'
On the 9th inst, at the Presbyteri-m P&& 0 *
Wellsboro, Mr. JOSEPH KIEBSAM of XortbjaW
land, and Mias JENNETT P. GRDtt'EU*
i THE GROVER & BAKEE
SEWING MACHINE COj
Haying greatly incredaed their facilities for m3D3 :*.Tj
their celebrated Familt Machines, with all tbc
provements, hare reduced their prices, and offer frr ‘
A NEW STYLE NIACBW
PRICE 830. rrTU
HEMMERS, FIVE DOLLARS EST^
It is no longer questioned that these Machines tf*--
in use for family sewing. They
hem’ fell, gather, and stitch
in the most superior manner, and are the only
the market,£hut are so well and simply made.tfl« ‘
be sent Into families with no other instructions tt #
tained In a circular which accompanies W* l
from which
A CHILD OP TEX YEARS
may readily learn how to use them, and keep t& e ®
They make upwards of
FIFTEEN HUNDRED STITCHES A
md will do the sewing of a family cheaper than »
can do It, eren if she works at the rate of
ONE CENT AN HOUR.
Is there a husband, father or brother in the To*
who will permit the drudgery of hand sewing J“ *c*
when a Grover k Baker Machine will do it , '
peditiously, and cheaper than can possibly I* J0 n -
Offices of Exhibition and Sale at J. M. Kobiow
Elmira; 495 Broadway. New York; I** Suomi
730 Chestnut St, Philadelphia; 137 Baltimore -t-,
68 West Fourth St., Cincinnati!. . •>
Agencies in all the principal Cities and Towo*
f United States.
D0c.2,1’58. 4S=*SEND FOR A nRCVLARjt^/
Donation Visi* ,
THE friend, of Re,. L. Stone, are invited to
nation Visit at the Parsonage at Stony i
afternoon and evening, Feb- 2. A gewf" Ijn
tended to the pnblic. “
Notice. . at
Collectors akd supervisors
taxes—Yon are hereby notified that au gt&Z.
collection of taxes on qnseatsd lands ““o,—
required to be made must be made on or w e**’
Of February ip each and every ‘vAjy
be han*d according lo law. See act of * w *, n LL}i\iS t '
Jan. 20, l*W. (per order of th- l-»