A 1 induction of a Voting- Girl—A Great Wrong in onr own Midst. Our village has been the scene of considera ble excitement for some days past, in conse quence of the sudden and mysterious disap pearance, some two or three weeks since, of a young girl, aged about thirteen years, by the name of Catherine Lnngdon, residing in the family of Nelson Lee, proprietor of the Ameri can Hotel in this place, to whom she had been entrusted by her father, John Langdon, to rear up to womanhood. She has since, by extraor dinary efforts, been found and restored to her father and friends. The reported particulars of her absence, as given by herself, as near as we have been able to gather them, are as fol lows; It seems that Catherine was attending school, and on Monday the 20th December last she was enticed away in company with a young Irish girl by the name of Sarah Shaugbncssey to the house of the Hon. R. R. Little, where another Irish girl, by the name of Mary Mc- Guire, was in waiting to receive her. Catherine was taken from thence, in company with these two girls, to the house of Mrs. Goad, a widow lady, where the Irish frequently hold “mass.” The young girl being-ratlier thinly clad, without clothing sufficient for a journey into the coun try, Mrs. Goad, she said, furnished her with a shawl, and she was taken from thence about a mile from the village, on the road leading from Tunkhannock to Laceyville, where she loitered in company with the two girls above mentioned, until a Mr. Wm. Collins, an Irishman, soon came along, as if by arrangement, and took her into his wagon and conveyed her to his home in the backwoods of Washington township, where no human being would ever thought of looking, and there she was kept for nearly a week, under the instructions if she saw any body approaching, to secrete herself. From this place she was taken to Meshoppen village vhero the Catholic priest was bolding “mass,” who took charge of her and conveyed her from thence to a place called a Convent, in the town ship of Choconut, Susquehanna county Pa., — distant about thirty miles—where she remained -•until accidentally recovered by her father a few days since, Mr. Langdon, who resides some distance from town, hearing of the strange disappear ance of his daughter, immediately made dili gent search and inquiry for her. He proceeded to this Mary McGuire, who had been suspected nt complicity in the affair, and extorted from her a confession of the whereabouts of his daughter, and immediately started in pursuit of her. Arriving within about two miles of the institution above mentioned ho secured the ser vices of two athletic men, and wended his way to the place pointed out to him by the said Mary McGuire. On arriving at the institution, he discovered his daughter in the yard, either playing or carrying wood, and the daughter im mediately recognizing her father ran to him, saying, “there is my father !" The father im mediately took his child into the sleigh and started at a rapid pace towards home, before any one had time to interfere with his progress. .The probabilities are that had not the father thua fortuitously discovered his child while in the yard, he never would have seen her more. She most likely would have been secreted, and removed from thence to some distant den of Catholic iniquity. 1 Tliis case of abduction is somewhat similar to the Mortara case, which has created so much excitement in this and other countries, and calls loudly for redress. Let every father take it home to himself, and say if he would not follow the parties engaged in such a crime to the bitter . ends of the law. —North Branch Democrat. Suicide of one of the Hutchinson Family. The telegraph sends us meagre accounts of the suicide, on the 11th inst., of Mr. Judson J. Hutchinson, one of the members of the Hutch inson family, once so popular here. It is some fifteen years since this band of singers, con sisting of the three brothers, Judson, John and Asa, aud Jesse, since dead, was their financial manager. Their concerts were at that time as much the rage as the opera is now. Good mu sic was not so frequently heard in New York then as at the present day, and the simple quartette and songs of the Hutchinsons, with the accompaniment of an asthmatic seraphine, were enthusiastically admired. They went to Great Britain, where they were well received, and a long biography of the family written by Mary Ilowitt, appeared in UoxciiCs Journal: traveled all over the United States, until the marriage of Abby and her retirement to private life broke up the troupe. The brothers, how ever, obtained the services of another soprano, made a visit to California, became followers of various ism. y, and interlarded their concerts with abolition songs and phrenological speeches. Of late years they have not attracted such good audiences ; public taste has changed, and the Hutchinson brothers have not recently appeared in public. They made considerable money by their concerts and several years ago built a cu rious house at their birthplace, Lynn, Massa chusetts. Directly behind this town rises a bold, precipitous granite hill, known in the vi cinity as the “High Rock.” On the slope of this, and near the top, is perched the home of the Hutchinsons. It is an odd.affatr, of wood, painted brown, and of a nondescript style of architecture. It commands a noble view of Lynn and various adjacent towns, while the peninsula of Yahanfc is seen nearly in front, stretching far out into the ocean. This house has been closed during the absence of the Hutchinsons on their concert tours; but the public had free access througli the grounds to the summit of the High Rock, which is often visited by strangers and others desirous of en joying the beautiful prospect. Mr. Hutchinson committed suicide by hanging himself, being probably deranged at the time. Mrs. Patton (Abby,) John and Asa are all that are left of the once famous Hutchinson family.—K Evening Post Pleasant Incident.— At the funeral of a little babe in New Sharon, a few days since, says the Gospel Banner, a circumstance oc cured, remarkably cheering and suggestive: The little one, all beautifully robed fur the grave, was laid in its coffin on the morning of its burial. The weeping friends placed in its 'little hand a small boquet of flowers, among which was an -unopened rose-bud of the “Ruse of Sharon.” The lid was then placed upon the coffin, and the funeral service performed When after the lapse of not more than two or three hours, the coffin was opened again, and the friends gathered round to look upon it for the last time, that bud had become a full blown rose, while grasped in the cold hand of death. It seemed as though a voice came up from those beautifully sealed li pa , saying, “Weep not fur •me; though broken from the parent steam I am blooming m the Paradise of God. Mill ions of infant souls compose the family above.” THE AGITATOR. M. U. Cobb, Editor & Proprietor. WELLSBOROUGH, PA. Thursday UXorning, Jan. 37,1850. All Business and other Communications must bo addressed to the Editor to receive attention. 8. M. Pettenoill k Co., 119 Nassau St, New York, and 10 State St., Boston, are the Agents for the Agitator, and the most influential and largest circulating Newspapers in the United States and the Canadas. The; are authorized to con* tract for us at our lowest rates.' Special Notice. With the present number, my connection with fae Agitator as Proprietor thereof, ceases. All dues for Advertising and Jobbing will be received by me. Agents in the several townships having subscription moneys in their hands will please pay over to my successor, Mr. Young, to whom all letters pertaining to the paper should henceforth be addressed. Friends will direct letters intended for mo to Wellaboto, until further notice. The time of Elder Stone’s Donation is chang ed to the 9th of February. L. P. Williston, Esq., will please accept thanks for State documents. Col. Eu Sheer was elected Treasurer of this Commonwealth last Monday week. We are unable to notice several matters as we intended, owing to the crowded state of our columns. Subscribers to the N. Y. Evening Post, and N. Y. Tribune, are requested to pay in their subscriptions without further delay. We understand that the late change in the weather affected the oyster market moat mirac ulously. It is reported that the prince of bi valves never commanded so high a price in this market as on Thursday night of last week. Large Game. — A fine, large Buck made his appearance in the Public Square with more haste than dignity, Wednesday of last week. A posse of the citizens, with dogs, took his case into consideration and, after an exciting chase, his audacious Buckship was captured and killed. The Lectures.—Mr. Williams lectured be fore the Lit. Association in the Court House, last Thursday evening, as advertised. The theme, “The Age of Brass,” was skillfully handled and the effort flatteringly received by an intelligent audience. The reading is highly commended. | The next lecture of the course is to be deliv ered by Mr. H. N. W iluams. Neither the sub ject nor the time of delivery are known to us. There will be a debate this evening. GOOS-BTB. The world is full of leave-takings. 'We meet, greet each other, form acquaintances knit our souls into the bonds of Friendships destin ed to survive the clay, and not seldom become so mingled in thought, hope, emotion and aspi ration that the landmarks of a separate identity are swept away for time—perhaps for eternity. And then we separate; some led away into di verging paths by yearnings and ambitions con necting them with life’s business; some are thrust away from each other by untoward for tune ; and some are snatched away by the un seen Hand which never forgets its cunning. And life is rife with good-byes. It is now four and a half years since I came to live with you, to labor with you, to see your interests as mine, mine as yours and our mutu al interests as the interests of Max, everywhere. If anything of success has accrued to you and to me in the liberalization and better progress of popular sentiment, I do not forget that the credit must be shared, as the labor was shared, equally. I bear in mind that the field was ready for the seed whieh I have helped to scatter, and for the privilege of so aiding you I cannot seem grateful enough. As I promised in my saluta tion—that I would defend the Right, however unpopular it might be, and denounce the Wrong, however powerful and popular it might be, and this, too, without regard to personal consequen ces, asking no quarter and granting none—so have I done. Nobly have you sustained me. Your hands have been ever outstretched, your hearts have alway beat kindly, your kind words have gladdened some of the darkest days of my life with sunshine ; and up to this hour of final separation the evidences of your appreciation, liberality |jind good-will have multiplied with the lapse of time. I shall not forget it. There is a gratitude which baffles language to express. My attachment for Tioga county and its thou sands of warm hearts was never so great as it is to-day. I go away at the beck of no sudden impulse, and your patronage is sufficient assurance that lam not driven out. I have desired to go away for more than two years. The Agitator is the only child of my house. I took it from the cradle, taught it its infant paces and gave to it all that I had to give in the days of its help lessness and adversity. So, from a precarious existence, have I watched and tended it up to this hour—the hour of its greatest strength as yet, and full of promise of still greater prosper ity under Us new conductor. It is not my de sire to greatly magnify my labors ; yet, when we sit down in the old place in the family circle on the eve of departure, do we not speak more freely and frankly ? Bear with me. If The Agitator has proved a pleasant weekly visitor at the firesides of some of you, it has become so through labors of which you have little dreamed. Imperfect as it is, far short of my ideal as it falls, I have worked my life into it. I have shunned no labor. It has cost me more sleepless nights than have been good for the body to'endure. These four and a half years have been brimmed with Beal life to me, fraught with varUd experiences, some pleasant, | some painful, but all disciplinary, necessary, and therefore good. I could not recal aught if I would —would not if I could, I would not say that were I not conscious that my heart beats truer for jian because of these silent and j continual wrestlings. I could not afford to lose j the strange experiences of these few years THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. beginning as .they do in the rosy morning of, young Manhood, when least looked-for, yet most needed, and leading through fields of sun shine and shadow whose alternations hare come' to be more loved than feared. Friends and patrons: Through your liber ality The Agitator passes from my hands in the hour of its greatest prosperity. NoNew Year has added so many names to its subscription book —none has commenced with such on increase of general patronage. lam glad to say this— I wish I could say that the income of the paper had trebled in these four and a half years. It has doubled; you can treble it and be no poorer. And I am yet more gratified in being enabled to deliver the establishment into the hands of a gentleman in every way qualified to conduct" it up to a higher pitch of influence and pros perity than it has yet reached. The paper will hereafter be in the control of Hugh You.vg, esq., who comes to the work with willing hands and a heart that has ever throbbed in sympathy with the wronged and oppressed, everywhere. He comes to the work with no little experience as a journalist, experience purchased “in the times that tried men’s souls,” amid the difficul ties and dangers which overflowed Kansas with ruin in 1856. In that year Mr. Young stood shoulder to shoulder with the Free State lead ers in Kansas, in the treble capacity of soldier, Special Correspondent of the Missouri Demo crat and Correspondent of the New York Trib une, —posts which he filled ably and faithfully, as the Press bore ample and flattering testimo ny daring the period of his connection with those Journals, He was likewise for one year one of the editors, of the Serald of Freedom, published at Lawrence, Kansas. 1 mention these facta to show that in abandoning my post the interests of the cause have not been for a moment forgotten. I have enjoyed the friend ship of Mr.' Young for several years and know him as a man of high-toned principle, genial, and as true as steel. I may ask for him the favorable consideration of every true Republi can, saying to you all that a favor shown him will be considered a favor shown to myself; for my interest in the welfare of the Agitator will never abate, the interests of the cause of Free dom in Tioga will never be less dear to me than they have been. Give him your aid in every thing that can contribute to bis prosperity and the resources of the paper will never fail. ' I know, by experience, that the Republicans of Tioga will never suffer Mr. Young to regret having assumed this new responsibility. I can only thank the kind friends who have interested themselves in the pecuniary and po litical success of this paper. May that interest never flag. The many excellent contributors and corres pondents of The Agitator are entitled to my highest esteem. It is not without sincere re gret that I part company with them. My suc cessor will be duly grateful for a continuance of their favors. M. H. Cobb. To my brethren of the Press, thanks for the many courtesies and uniform consideration they have shown me. I shall not say “ Good-bye” to them, since this field is abandoned only that I may enter upon another, where there is pio neer's work to be done. Till then. Friends, patrons, to each, to all, in the first and best sense of the term; Good-bye. M. H. COBB. In assuming the editorial management of a political newspaper, we trust we are duly im pressed with the great responsibility which rests upon us. To cater to the literary tastes of the public; to take a straightforward, just, and manly course on every subject which affects in any manner j the well being of society, re gardless alike of the smiles or frowns of any man or set of men; to advocate and encourage Right, and to rebuke and denounce Wrong wherever either may be found; to bo courteous and tolerant to those who may differ with us politically cQr otherwise ; to do all this success fully, requires more than ordinary experience and ability. Whether the Agitator will main tain its present, pre-eminence among its cotem poraries outside of the cities, remains to be demonstrated, j We shall spare no efforts to make it as good as could reasonably be expected of a country newspaper. We may fail to do so, nevertheless our readers may rest assured that the paper will bo no less in earnest in its work than heretofore. While we feel grateful for the kind words which Mr. Cobb has spoken to you above in our behalf, and for the generous allusions he has made to some former services in the cause of Freedom, we had hoped to come before you an entire stranger, relying solely upon our columns for that status which your intelligence and judgment will accord to ns. We will now proceed to state frankly the course we intend to pursue, so that no misun derstanding can possibly arise between us and our readers. We believe in the principles embodied in the Philadelphia Platform. The brilliant victories gained in almost every Free State, in the mem orable contest of 1856, showed how dear these principles were to the popular heart; and the Republican victories in the States from time to time since then, but go to show that these prin ciples are becoming better understood and.that the masses are determined sooner or later to rid themselves of the iron rule of the Oligarchs, and to place [the Government where the fathers designed it should be, on the side of Free Soil, Free Labor and Free Men. The Agitator will therefore continue to be “devoted to the exten sion of the Area of Freedom and the spread of Healthy Reform.” With this motto at our mast head, we would be manifestly false to our selves if we passed by in silence the great sin, which, next to slavery, blocks up and retards our intellectual and moral progress as a nation. We believe therefore in Temperance princi ples, and in their practical application to every day life. We believe that the License Law of last year is a nuisance, and the sooner it is re pealed and a more stringent law enacted in its SALUTATORY. place, the better will it be for the people. "We believe that the existence of doggeries in any village is discreditable to its inhabitants. It is in such haunts that young men take their first lessons in crime. The young man who plays for beer or oysters, can very easily be induced to play for money. The step is short. If these poisons have not brutalized him—if these asso ciations have not stultified the good in his na ture —if he have a conscience yet left to him, he stands before it a self-convicted criminal 1 If it is the duty of society to protect itself from criminals, surely it is no less its duty to rid it self entirely of these nurseries of crime. Believing this, we ask all good citizens, par ticularly those who have sons and daughters growing up around them, to frown down these rum holes, wherever they may be found. We shall from time to time, as circumstances may seem to require, willingly open these columns to those who desire to discuss this question; provided always, that the articles submitted for publication be written in courteous and tempe rate language, and designed to promote the general good. We have bat one new feature to announce. We have set apart the first column of the third page for items of local interest, which, we trust, will be more interesting as we become better ac quainted with the people, and with the county. We hope the friends who have from time to time added to the interest of the paper by their contributions, will continue to do so. We hope every person who feels an interest in the wel fare of his county—every one who has a new fact or idea which might benefit others—will take advantage of the means afforded by these columns to make it known. In this way any intelligent farmer, teacher or mechanic can ben ofit'others, and be benefitted. In conclusion, as it shall be our constant aim to merit the generous support heretofore accord ed to the Agitator, we hope to receive it; but we ask no man to subscribe for the paper who does not feel that he will be as much benefitted Hugh Young. as we, , Adam had his Eve, Sampson his Delilah, Paris his Helen, tineas his Dido, Petrarch his Laura, Byron his “ Maid of Athens,” and last but by no means least, James Gordon Bennett has his Mary-Ann. Had any other than the immortal Bonner made the startling announce ment to the public, we should have taken the liberty to doubt; but since it is accompanied with the news that Edward Everett is to enjoy no longer his solitary grandeur as a star con tributor to the New York Ledger,"but is to be come the pivotal star of the most remarkable constellation in the literary heavens, composed of such lights as Horace Greeley, James Gor don Bennett and Henry J. Raymond. “ Won ders will never cease!” Mrs. Grundy saith it, and she is right for once. Wonders will never cease until Bonner lays down his immortality. To return ; Bennett has, or had his Mary Ann, and what more natural than that he should cel ebrate her charms in flowing verse ? It was natural, and therefore Bennett sang. What more natural than that Bonner should bear the refrain and trace the melody to its source ? hav ing found the spring, what does he but invite the smitten Bennett to rehearse his lines to the charming Mary Ann on the tuneful harp of the New York Ledger? “ Barkis was willin," and in addition volunteered to sing “ The Smile of an Angel.” Mr. Bennett is presumed to pos sess peculiar qualifications for the voluntary. We have seen him try to smile, but the result did not remind ns of the angels. But Bennett writes for the Ledger ; Greeley writes for the Ledger ; Raymond writes for the Ledger; and after that who will not buy the Ledger ? We have a parting suggestion to make to Mr. Bonner. It is this: He should not forget that Mrs. Stowe still remains among those forlorn individuals who do not write for the Ledger. Stephen A. Douglas ditto.- John W. Forney ditto. James Buchanan ditto. Rufus Choate ditto. We might go on to enumerate a host of dittos, but time would not suffice. We are about to retire to the shades of private life for a season, on a stipend of four cents a week, the which will be invested in the Ledger so long as Mary Ann is leal to Bennett and Bennett loyal to Mary Ann. Respite ron Woman. —lt is a common thing to hear Woman’s labor spoken of as of second ary importance. Her industrial responsibili ties are underrated, belittled. She has worked on unnoticed, doing all things “ by the hard est,” while science, combined with skill and in genuity, has forestalled the labor of many hands with machinery which is the wonder of the world. The manufacturer controls the la bor of a thousand hands in the engine which drives his looms and his spindles. The farmer finds his resources trebled in his improved plow, his Mowing and Reaping machines and his Thresher. Man’s labor has been lightened in divers ways. Until lately, woman has plodded through the routine of duty nncared for. The pathos of Hood’s “ Song of a Shirt” awakened many noble souls to a sense of crim inal neglect of duty. Lives had been stitched away by tens of thousands ere Genius planned the overthrow of that cruel tyrant, the Nerole. The invention of the Sewing Machine must be ranked next in importance to that of the Steam Engine. , Its inventors must be counted among the world’s benefactors. Among the many Machines of this class that manufactured and sold by Messrs. Grover & Baker, of New York, is the best, undoubtedly. W e procured one of their Sewing Machines a few weeks since, and after testing it thoroughly and comparing it with others, must award to it the palm. It is a beautiful piece of mechanism and considered either as an article of utility or 1 of ornament, cannot be surpassed. We make no doubt that this Machine, occupying no more ’ room than an ordinary work-stand, skillfully operated, can perform the labor of twenty wo men and perform it well. There is a charm about its operation, an intelligence, so to speak, perfectly irresistible. This Machine may be seen and examined at the residence of Mr. L. Bache, in this village. Could every family be possessed of one of these Machines, Consump tion and a host of diseases directly traceable to the-Necdle would perish for lack of sustenance. See the advertisement. COMMUNICATIONS. j For the Agitator. ,■ Doe* the County Superintendency Pay? This is a legitimate question, and alt far as Tioga County is concerned I will endeavor to answer it. I believe it does pay and in many ways. _ I I { I. It pays in the rejection of teachers who would damage the schools more than they would profit them. Most of these teachers would ob tain schools if they had certificates, and some of them indeed did teach years under the old system. There are many spelling lessons,in which they cannot pronounce half the words correctly. In the neighborhood where they are hired, though the pupils have been [to school for years yet they can scarcely read or writel— Thirty such teachers have been rejected in the Fall examinations, twenty of whom, would, without doubt, have found somebody to hire them had the old system prevailed ; and .the same might be said of the Spring examinations-. If the average salary of these be placed low, it would even then make a large amount of mon ey worse than thrown away. Suppose they teach for §l2 per month on an average, and four months in the year, their wages would amount to $1,920. [■ 11. It pays by augmenting the usefulness of those who do teach, and stimulating them to become better qualified for their business, j A teacher's value is to be estimated by the amount of correct thinking which he| may cau.se bis pupils to perform during the term,—by the advancement the pupil has made in! the proper development of his moral, intellectual and phys ical being. It is no uncommon thing for the teacher to double or treble his value or useful ness in the school room by giving some atten tion to the various methods of teaching and de voting a reasonable amount of time in prepara tion for the business. The first school of which I had charge I taught for ten dollars per month and boarded myself; the second for seventy dol lars per month, and if I am- any judge in the case my last pay was much better deserved than the first. The difference consisted in the oppor tunity I had enjoyed for improvement during the intermediate time. | . j ■ -.hnrs of this Cr —ity hr-’c the stimu The teachers of this County have the stiu. lus of a thorough and rigid examination, with the prospect of being rejected if found unqual ified, and if qualified of being marked accord ing to their merits and of receiving lowj wages with a low certificate. [ • They have the stimulus of- Teacher’s Insti tutes—both town and county, and of a thorough examination of their school in the presence of Directors and others. I believe I these influen ces, constantly operating, very much increase their usefulness. Indeed I knowjmany who are frank to confess that their ability to teach has been augmented more than threeffold. ■ Allow that teachers earn only two'; dollars more with these influences than they would without them, and as there are twelve hundred months taught during the year, there would be the round sum of §2400 saved to the County. 111. It pays by the influence of ike Superin-, tendent over Ike pupils. 1 f. Nearly every school in the County was visited last winter, and the name of each pupi| written in a book prepared for that purpose, and on due examination the advancement of each jtupil was marked opposite his name. ' I j These pupils are all looking for the’Superin tendent again this winter. They know right well that he can tell whether they have made any improvement. In many instances they are intensely excited about it. Sometimes a boy who has not made good use of his time, is so thoroughly ashamed of his remissness that he will not submit to an examination by the Sup’t, but will leave the house in spite of the remon strances of the teacher. The j Superintendent however in most cases is able to induce pupils to remain and submit to an examination. ,The faithful scholar is rewarded for; his faithfulness by his ability to answer,, the negligent, one is chagrined at his own failure. J j It requires no arguing to convince any one who has half an eye to human jnature that such an examination by an experienced person is a source of great advantage to the pupjils. True there are some pupils as there are sbme teach ers who will not be influenced! by any ordinary means. These however are few. ■ I think it is not overestimating the matter to say that these influences will occasion the pupil to learn ten cents worth more per month than he would otherwise do and if he attends school four months in the year, this jwouldimake forty cents, and for the eight thousand pupils of the county, three thousand andj two hundred dol lars. There are many other 'sources of advan tage, which however, cannot! be as easily com puted in dollars and cents, and yet he none the less valuable. ' j I firmly believe the above figures are more and much more than realized. They' would make a debt and credit account with the Coun ty as follows: • Tioga Co., to the County Supefintendency, for money saved by the rejection of unqualified teachers. Dr. I 1 $1,920. For better qualification and labors of those who teach, j j 2,400. For influence over pupils, i 3,200. Total, | f $7,520 Cr. By salary of Co. Sup’t., j 900 Balance, The credit here of the $9OO ought not in truth to be given to Tioga County, forj she pays less than S4OO of the entire school appropriation, and receives from that source over $2,200, to be directly distributed among the' townships for the payment of their teachers; iand then this $9OO in addition, of which, she would otherwise receive very little, if any. i \ ! Tor tbs Agitator. Zero. i I had proposed to examine professional and political zeroes before taking iup conditional zero, but having treated; zero as a symbol of operation, as a matter of , course, zero of condi tion should take precedence of those of less ac count and importance. (When] the sign minus is prefixed to on isolated term it is hot to be considered as a symbol of operation, but as a symbol of condition, merely showing that the number or quantity is in a stdte or condition directly opposite to that denoted by plus; thus, the degrees of the thermometer above zero are called positive, while those heldw must be called, negative, being conditionally plus or minus as regards conditional zero, on the scale. I think we proved conclusively in the first ar ticle that there is a plain distinction between absolutely nothing and ,analytical zero, or noth ing and the true mathematical idea of zero; now zero under consideration]differs very mate rially from these, from the fact that it performs a different office where it is used. Thermome ters are used for the purpose of“ determining the variations of temperature. Thoseln'''' moa ose consist simply of a; glass tube i** - exceedingly small bore -with a bulb bio*, 1 ® one extremity and filled with mercury to!?'* one-third the height of the stem. The .!•, ing expelled, the tube is hermetically S' and the freezing point ascertained by • a short time in water containing ice, boiling point hj holding it in the same mJ: in boiling water; these points being detent the intervening space is to be divided into®] parts, called degrees, to indicate temped! between these established points. Belova freezing point, and above the boiling point grees are nsnally marked of precisely magnitude with those of other parts ? scale. Now it appears very evident that point should be established on this scale which to determine the relative varieties of (T perature. Two scales have established tW points at the freezing point, while a thirds placed it 32° bel^jv; they all respectfully aj-. zero. One scalers divided-into 80 parts the freezing to the boiling point, another 100 parts; while Fahrenheit’s thenaonui, which is chiefly used in this country, d this space into 180 parts, and the zero is 32° below the freezing point, so that the toiw point is at 212° above zero. Zero in thii tj-, is simply a conditional symbol with reaps;, s plus and minus, which indicate differeal grees of heat above and below it. J, Lynch Law : in Arkansas—Fite Hyj Thieves Huxc.— The Memphis Eagli lea the following from a friend recently return) from Arkansas:' “A man by the name of Rogers stole from an honest old farmer of Arkaojit nj wended his way up into Washington con, where he said he sold it to a farmer there. upon his not being able to give the name of ij man, nor make a satisfactory explanation company who had been in pursuit of the hoa thief took him to the woods and tied him ti riog, and gave him two or three hundred hjl* well laid on. This had the effect of bram pirn to terms. He then confessed where I hotse was, and who were his accessories. R company then proceeded to Red River where they found the missing horse and hi fellows, whose business it was to steal all ti, horses, and whatever else “would paj," tht they could. Whom they hung to limbs of tr~j, until they were dead, dead, dead. Upone®. sideration of Rogers having ‘tamed,’ he mi spared.” “The Wrosg Pew.” —A correspondent d the Addison (N. Y.) Advertiser, writing fen Woodhnll gives the following incident aa ofi recent occurrence to the AYoodhull Brass Bad; —“They were invited to Jasper, to attend i lecture, and enliven it with their music. Tsi lecture was to he at the meeting house, mds the appointed time the band marched up ad proceeded to the gallery. Finding a fevp. tlemen and ladies occupying the seats Ww, they immediately struck up Yankee Doodki very excellent tune and excellently played, lit singularly inappropriate to the occasion— They had broken in suddenly on the solan ities of a prayer meeting! The few pmora below turned around and viewed the interim with staring eyes and gaping mouths which til hand very innocently took for an expressions! admiration, and they at once struck npia American Quick Step.” The Lumber Business. —Our lumbermans at present “as busy as nailers.” We har*l« making inquiries in regard to the estentofi business this season, and although it is ear a question ito procure accurate information nt we are satisfied that about the usual quaaa of square timber will bo made. So far as sirs lumber is concerned, we do not knoß hav s will compare with the products of former ;eia bnt one thing that we do know is, that a kg number of our saw mills are standing idle. 4 the other hand, the "log men” have givens large contracts on the two Clearfield creek), & shannon and Sinnamahoning, which will age? date from 70,000,000 to 80,000,000 feet fi scarcity of snow this winter has however tarded their operations considerably, andju doubtful whether their contracts will all beS —Clearfield Eafisman. Worse than Leap Year. — The ladis l Schuyler county, New York, have a vif? culiarly their own, of intimidating the nit® matrimony., The Kushville Times says dal® day last week, at Huntsville, a .young vfl l who had, or pretended to have, some upon hand and heart of Mr. Thomas** called eft his store and demanded that hi either marry her or submit to the effects"- 1 ? bullet. Mr. W. refused either hor:; -■ : lemma, when she banged away. The halls 2 ® 1 pretty near his centre, but hitting a rib, P® 8 around and out, doing no material bof The young lady was arrested and W' Esquire Benson dismissed the charge,®' her go. A Bald Eagle Frozen to the other day a large bald eagle cau.-t; ‘ tr; J ' in the river Susquehanna, opposite carried it to a cake of ice which a rock, and commenced his feast. DttWig operation, it is supposed that being feet and feathers, from the intense fast to the ice; and being unable-to himself, perished. He was seen fiapp lt ?' wings until dark. There was a ture the great “American,” but be c*" be approached on account of the r floating ice between hi3i and the rishurg Telegraph. f ,§6,620 The New York WaterUy , a mag l published in New York and at 15 ' Boston, at only §2 per annum, ( .satin surface paper, elegantly id ( original cuts, is a most excellent, tistically beautiful paper, well w< ored place in every family. A is the publication of the “TFatt worth more annually than the pri £ —and this week begins a great "The Skeleton Hand !” N. L. REYNOLDS. Mr. Gilman of Maine is warm Mr. Crow’s amendment, which He would also have voted for the but was called out of the Hall bel and Nays were demanded, and edly detained, and, when inform 61 was being taken, hurried back, an* moment too late. Florida has repealed the I** the incarceration of free ne their vessels are in port. So®" 1 believe, is the only State that “ actment on her statute book- Washington, Ji>
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