1 : hoard Rdgeell say oat loud, “0 Lord 1” and
■give n gron.n, and :then I called b him. I de
“clare, he jumped! ' ■'
So I got him to go look for baby first, because.
I could wait-, and lo I she was all safe In the
■ trlindlc-bed, with Lu beside of her, both on’em
stretched out together, one of her little hands
on his nose; and whenßiissell looked in to the
door she stirred a-bit,'and Lu licked her hand
to keep her quiet. ‘lf tells,in the Bible about
children's angels always seein’ the face of God,
bo’s to know quick what to do for ’em, I sup
pose,; and I’m sure her'n got to her afore the
tornado; for though the house-roof had blow’d
off, and the chimbley tumbled down, there
trenVtrsplinterTior a - brick on -her bed, only
close by -.the head on’t a great honk of stone
had fell-down, and steadied up the clothes-press
from tab Win' right on top of her.
• So. then Russell rode over, six miles, to a
neighbor’s and got two men, and betwixt 'em
all they pried up the' beams of the barn, that
had blowed on to the roof and pinned it down
Oder roe, and then lifted up the boards and got
me out; and I wan’t hurt, except a few bruises
—but after that day I begun to get gray hairs.
Well, Russell was pretty thankful, 1 b’lieve,
more so’n he need to be for such a wife. Wc
fixed up some kind of a shelter, but lu howled
so all night we couldn’t sleep. It seems Bussell
had seen the tornado to Cumberton, and, judg
in’ from its course ’twoold come past the clear
in’, he didn’t wait a minute, but saddled up
ond come off; bat it had crossed the road once
or twice, so it was nigh about eleven o’clock
nfore he got home ; but it was broad moonlight.
So I*- hadn’t been under the roof only about
fifteen hours; but it seemed more.
In the mornin’ Russell set out to find Simon,
and I was so trembUj I' couldn’t boar to stay
alone, and I went with him, he carryin’ baby,
and Lu goin’ before, as tickled as could be.—
We went a long spell through the woods keep
in’ on the edge of the tornado’s road; for't had
made a clean track about a quarter of a mile
wide, and felled the trees fiat—great tulips cut
off as' sharp as pipe-stems, oaks twisted like
dandelion-stems, and hickories curled right up
in a heap. Presently Lu gave a bark, and such
a howl’, and there was Simon, dead enough ; a
big oak hail blowed down, with the trunk right
across his legs above the knots, and smashed
them almost off, 'Twas plain it hadn’t killed
him at once, for the ground all about his head
was tore up as though with it, and
Russell said his teeth and hands was fall of
grass and grit where he’d hit and tore, a-dyin’
so hard. I declare, I shan’t never forget that
sight! Seems as if my body was full of little
icc-spickles every time I think on’t.
Well, Russell couldn’t do nothin’; wo had no
chance to lift the tree, so we went back to the
house, and he rode away after neighbors; and
while ho was gone, I had a long spell of think
in.’ .Mother said she hoped I wouldn't have
no hard lesson to teach me Major’s ways; but
1 had got it, and I know I needed it, cause it
did come so hard. I h’lieve I was a better wo
man after that. I got to think more of other
folk’s comfort than 1 did afore, and whenever
I got goin’ to he dismal ag’in I used to try’n’
find somebody to help; it was a sure cure.
When the neighbors come, Bussell and they
blasted and chopped the tree off of Simon, and
buried him under pine that we calcula
ted not to fell. Lu pined, and howled, and
moaned for his master, till I got him to look
after baby uqw and then, when I was bangin’
out clothes or milkin’ garden, and he got to
like her in the end on’t near as well as Simon.
After a-while there come more settlers out.
our way, and we got a church to go to ; and
the minister, Mr. Jones, he come to know if I
was a member, and when I said I wan’t, he put
in to know if I wasn’t a pious woman.
“ Well,” says I, “ I don’t know, Sir.” So'l
up and told him all about it and hojv I had had
a hard lesson; and he smiled once or twice,
and soys ho, —
“ Your husband thinks you are a Christian,
sister Potter, don’t he ?”
“ Yes, I do,” says Russell, a-comin’ in be
hind me to the door—for he’d just stepped out
to get the minister a basket of plums. I ha’n’t
a doubt on’t, Mr. Jones.”
file minister looked at him, and I see he was
kinder pleased.
“Well,” says he, “I don’t think there’s
much doubt of a woman’s being pious when
she’s pious to home; and I don’t want no bet
ter testimony’ll yours, Mr. Potter. I shall ad
mit you to full fellowship, sister, when we have
a church meeting next; for it is my opinion you
•experienced religion under that blotved-dotrn'
barn.”
And I guess I did.—Atlantic Monthly.
Selling their own Children. —The editor
of the Brooklyn Star , a Virginian, says that
instances of the sale of their own children by
slaveholders are by no means uncommon at the
South. He-mentions a remarkable instance
that occurred in his own knowledge. A bro
ther and sister were brought up together till
the brother went to Cambridge. When he re
turned, ho found his father insolvent, and that
his sister was inventoried among the slaves and
about to be sold. lie stole her away and rode
with her night and day, until he reached the
underground railroad west of the Ohio river.—
He gave her a dagger, with the injunction not
to let it from her grasp until she was in Canada,
and also Lis mouej, and left her to the mercy
of the humane. The pursuers got on her track,
and it was only by means of two fast horses,
the property of a member of Congress from
that State, that she was carried to the lake and
escaped to Canada in advance of them. She
taught music, in a seminary at Montreal, until
hhe was married to the son of an' English no
bleman, and her brother now resides with them.
About ten years ago a wealthy planter of Ala
bama died, leaving two daughters, whom he had
educated, partly in a seminary at Philadelphia,
whore they had been accustomed to all the re
finements of life. He left them all hi/ proper
ty, his brothers to be the executors of the will.
They knowing that the father’s marriage to the
mother was invalid, she being a quadroon,
whom he Lad purchased in. New Orleans, took
the property, under the law, and sold the girls
as slaves. The records of this ease can now be
found in the courts of that State.
A Virgina correspondent of The Times says
lio was “very good authority” for stating that
Mr. Buchanan, in spite of his disclaimers,
means, if possible, to procure his own re-nomi
nation to the Presidency-in 18C0, and failing
in that, to control the nomination for the man
whom he may prefer. Certain Virginia office
holders are said to bo vigorously'at-work in his
behalf. It is reported that he baa-entered into
an alliance with Mr. Breckinridge, the Vice-
President, agreeing, if he fails to get the nom
ination for himself, to transfer his influence to
him. Gen. Floyd, the Secretary of War, is
■aid to be in the plot.
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WHAT’S IN A NAflffi ?
There is a good deal in a name—a good deal
more, sometimes, than the name itself seems to
imply—a good deal in the application of the
i name to thing named. We showed last week
how well flash novelists of the modern school
understood the philosophy of names, their ap
plication to the characters drawn, and their
adaptation to our sympathies. Indeed so deeply
rootecTm our hearts does a name sometimes be
come that wo separate it in onr minds from its
object, and strange to say, we worship the name
while we heartily despise the thing which it
-represents.
There was a time in the history of our coun
try when the word Democracy had a signifi
cance above and beyond its mere lexicographic
definition. There was a time when this word
carried.hope to the hearts of the, struggling and
monarch-ridden masses of Europe, and terror
to tyrants everywhere—a time when it meant
“equal and exact justice to all men”—a time
when it was another name for Freedom. In
deed, so much magic was there in this word,
that shortly after the organization of our Gov
ernment one of the two great political parties
of the country called itself by that name. It
was a lucky political hit. To the millions of
European emigrantswhohavesoughtand found
homes on our welcome shores, it appealed with
a syren’s voice. Dawn-trodden and oppressed
at home, they saw in it the exercise of liberty
of speech and action of which before they had
hardly dared to dream. It is not at all surpri
sing that with the hatred of tyranny which Eu
ropean enlightenment inspires, emigrants on
theix-j arrival in this country should declare
themselves democrats, and attach themselves to
a party calling itself democratic, without refer
ence at all to the policy or principles to which,
ns a party it stands committed. And we have
no hesitation in saying that we believe there
are thousands of foreigners who have been de
ceived by the name of Democracy who are de
terred by their pride from espousing principles
far dearer to their hearts, but far less popular
because less understood by the great majority
of their coutrymcn.
In order to illustrate more fully how much
there is in a name, let us for a moment follow
the devious windings of this word Democracy
in the United States. We find that instead of
fostering Freedom and extending its area, the
great work of the Democratic party for the last
tea or twelve years, has been the protection
and extension of slavery. Upon this question
alone the Democracy in all sections of the coun
try Ore agreed. In Washington, Democracy
means federal aggrandisement and centraliza
tion. hut if we go to the North West we find that
there it appeals to the idea of selfigovernmont
in the tmme of Popular Sovereignly. Itadapts
itself to all latitudes, exigencies and circum
stances. In one place it favors a Kail Road to
the Pacific and opposes it in another place.
Thus we find Democracy in California and on
the Upper Mississippi in favor of this great and
truly national measure, and in Georgia, Louisi
ana, and Alabama, it opposes it. Again we
find that in the South Democracy favors iillibu:-a
terism, while in the North it affects to oppose
it. In' short’ it means—or rather it is made to
mean—anything and everything which is de
sired. And so long as the party agrees as it
now does on the Slavery question, and so long
as it covers its deformities with this magic
name, just so long it will remain
party fit for the peculiar use of an aristocracy
far more despotic than any now existing in
Europe. It now desires in the name of the
people to vote money out of the Treasury and
to get control of the Army and Navy for filli
bustering purposes. It votes Oregon into thp
Union because its Senators and Representative
are known to favor these schemes, but it votes
against the admission of Kansas with ‘a popu
lation nearly double that of Oregon, because
her Senators and Representative would be Re
publican. It rotes against the poor hard work
ing settler who desires a free home on our pub
lic domain, and leaves him a prey to the aristo
cratic speculator. This is Democracy 1 Truly
there is much in a name.
Oooglas.
While entering our protest in our last issue
against President-making two years in advance
of the proper time for that work, wo stated that
a statesman might be very popular with the
masses this year and exceedingly unpopular
the next. This fact of itself ought to be suffi
cient to deter journalists from trying to create
public sentiment favorable to some particular
statesman. Perhaps no better example of the
ebb and flow of the tide of popularity could be
selected (ban Stephen A, Douglas. Xetus take
a look at him as ho was and is.
Those familiar with politics for a few years
past will remember that before the repeal of the
Missouri Bestriction, no man in either branch
of our National Legislature was more; devoted
to slavery than he, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill
was the culmination of long years of devotion.
He saw with a,keenness of vision which all his
opponents do not give him credit for, that this
bitter pill could be made palatable to the
Northern Democracy by being sugar-coated
with the political abstraction called Popular
Sovereignty. It will be rometabered that during
all the trouble in Kansas while be sympathised
with the pro-slavery ruffians in their efforts to
force slavery into that territory against the
known wishes of the people, be never once
raised bis voice in favor of a fair and peaceful
practical trial of the pet theory, ho had so stren-
THE. TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.,
_& • *
uously advocated. True to bid mastjers os tbe
needle to .tbe pole, he spoke of and recognized
these brigands' as settlers, and “aovreigns”
whose will, whether enforced by tbe ballot or
the bowie knife, he was bound to respect, as
long as they-were-the-strongest. -When-the
people of Kansas. with on unanimity, of senti
ment never before seen in any territory of the
United States petitioned the Government for
protection in the exercise of their rights as
American citizens, no man in Congress or out
of it got so low down:; in the vocabulary of
abuse than he did. He sneered at their mis
eries,'and mocked at their calamities. His re
port in favor of the Lecoropton Legislature and
its vile enactments was a .tissue of sophistry
falsehood and calumny. The whole country
knew this at the time. His opposition to the
English Bill could never blind us to the perfidy
which ho exhibited in pettifogging before the
country in favor of a Legislature which ho knew
was elected by fraud, and in defence of laws
which made the giving of a cup of cold water
to a bunted slave, a crime worthy of death.
These acts alone, though be should clothe him
self in the sackcloth and ashes of repentance,
can never be forgotten. They cannot bo palli
ated or excused. He was wholly at the service
of the Oligarchs— body and soul—and
all good men despised him. He was greeted
on his return to his own home, by the hisses
and groans of his neighbors. His tide of popu
larity was at its lowest ebb. It could get no
lower.
Last winter there was a change. He saw
that unless a lucky card was played ho should
sink into merited obscurity. An election was
soon to take place in Illinois which would de
cide his fate. With an earnestness of purpose
and with force of character possessed by few
men in America—qualities which have made
him all he is—he went to work to retrieve his
failing fortunes. In 185 G he had aided Pierce
in sustaining n villainous fraud, but in 1853 he
shrunk from the dirty work laid out by Bu
chanan, not because he hated the work but be
cause he knew the consequent obscurity which
was sure to follow it. lie chose to ignore all
his antecedents, and he gave battle to those with
whom in the Senate he had fought shoulder to
shoulder. With the courage which only agood
cause can inspire, he rose to die dignity of it
statesman. The whole country resounded with
his praises, and for a few weeks he was the
moat popular man in the United States. Thou
sands of Democrats who were disgusted with
the treachery of Buchanan clung to, and huilt
their hopes upon him. lie went home' to Illi
nois and engaged in a political campaign.
Every speech he made damaged him with the
masses outside of the Egypt of that State. He
abused and denounced the friends of Freedom
—those who .had lately held up his hands
in the Senate and elsewhere—as traitors to the
country. He was re-elected to the Senate,
and in the heyday of success he made a trium
phal tour through the South. Ho returned to
Washington and took his place in the Senate
where he is to-day the same Douglas he was
in 185-1 and 1850, —the same foe to Freedom
which he always has been and from the coarse-'
ness of bis nature always must be. He is a
Senator for sis years, but in acquiring this po
sition he lost the confidence of the South, a con
fidence which it will take many years of his
former devotion to regain. Other statesmen
and even the smaller fry of political aspirants,
may take a lesson from Stephen A. Douglas
which it might he well for them to remember.
Mon make or lose their political popularity
"by the justice or injustice of their acts.
Startling Report from Kansas. —A gentle
man who arrived in St. Louis AVednesday even
ing brings a startling rumor from Kansas, from
which Territory he came direct.
He'states that when he loft Shawnee, which
was on Saturday, the sth inst., there waj a
rumor current that Brown who had been blocked
in some log huts, near Nebraska, and was re
leased by a force of Free State citizens of Kan
sas, had afterwards met the Missouri posse un
der the direction of Dr. Woods, Deputy '’Mar
shal, whom Brown captured, and immediately
hung. lie reached AVcstport on Sunday, where
the same rumor preceeded consid
erable sensation. !
Mr. Smith, the well-known, hotel keeper in
AVestport, was of the opinion that Dr. AV'oods
bad not been hung, although be believed he
had bean made a prisoner by Brown.
It is thought, if the report is true that Brown
has hung AVoods, that the citizens of Platte
City will wreak their vengeance on Mr. Doy
and his son.
AVu. 11. Seward. —The Baltimore Patriot
pays the following compliment to Mr. Seword.
It is new language for a Southern paper: Mr.
Seward is, without doubt, one of the most re
markable statesmen of the age and of this coun
try. Of vast culture and requirements; of
shrewd, clear-eyed, broad-visioned and thor
oughly philosophic intellect; of temper and
temperament singularly self-possessed—digni
fied and serene—combining in an extraordin
ary degree the shrewdness of the politican with
the benevolence of the philanthropist—of spot
less life and character—of perfect consistency
in his whole course, and heroic fearlessness in
utterance of his sentiments, AVilliara H. Sew
ard stands to-day on an historic eminence which
few other living public men occupy, Mr. Sew
ard is one of those rare sons of centuries who
leaves no man indifferent about.him, but makes
every man either his enemy or devoted friend.
Don’t Like Them.— De Bow’s Southern Re
view, in noticing Eli Thayer’s scheme of or
ganized emigration, says:
“We should like Meagre. Sumner and Thay
er’s ‘plot’ batter, if they would dispense with
common schools, rifles, and the right of suffrage
for their laborers,! These things are not useful
or necessary to mere common laborers—beget
idleness and discontent, and in time generate
insurrections, revolution, anarchy and agrarian
ism."
§35 pays for a Course of Instruction at the
Iron City College of Pittsburgh, Pa. Young
men graduating at this Institution are guaran
tied to be capable to manage the books of any
business concern and qualified to earn from
ssoo‘to §lOOO per year.
The War Question. »
AlLthe late arrivalifrom Europe represent
England and franco as actively engngedln
warlike preparations. These of the latter pow
er are-supposed-to be directed toward Austria,
and, with the help of Sardinia, it is easy to see
that'Louis' Jfapolebn has such advantages as
may make him not averse to -a trial -of French
valor bn' the scone' bf Tiis'great Uncle’s most'
brilliant campaigns. Tbe-prssent attitude of
England seems to be pacific, so far as relates
to her participation as a principal in the ap
prehended conflict. The steadiness ofber stock
qxchungo indicates this, though she follows tbe
example of the wild boar in the fable, and
sharpens her'tusks'fri “time of peace.. The
continentel markets are clearly on a war' foot
ing. It ’ must be remembered, however, that
the Stock Exchange is the most sensitive index
tbat can be imagined. It always tends to an
extreme exaggeration of danger beyond any
real cause.
Thera is a possible motive in the military
preparations of England and France, that does
not look to southern Europe for a solution.—
Neither of these powers has been blind, oral-, —. ,
together indifferent, to the annexing policy of Death Warrants.— Gov. Packerhas signed
the United States. So long as it was confined the death warrants of Christian Jacobi and Da
ta bur own shores, or appeared to,be the result T *d S. Evans, the wife at Pitts
of a natural spread of population over our burgh, and ordered their executions to ’take
immediate borders, they might think it Friday, the 20th day of May next,
wise to interfere ; bnt now that it is extending ' 1 1
to foreign shores, and threatens the dismember- j
meat of European empire, they may have con- J
eluded that the time is approaching for,them to '
say an effective word in the matter. What is a i
more common mask in the art of war. than for I
States to endeavor to mislead each other by,
pretended preparations, and diplomacy in a
false direction ? We throw out the suggestion j
for what it is worth, that Southern Europe is
less likely to witness the shock of war than the ,
West Indies. The motives to such a master
stroke of military policy are by no means weak
with either England or France. It" may well
be considered by the former that it will be
easier to arrest the march of American con
quest before than after we shall have seized
Cuba. Her own possessions in the immediate
vicinity are too important and valuable to be
outflanked at one blow by the hostile occupancy
of that island. France, it is well known, is
said to contemplate serious designs with res-I
peot to Central America. The Catholic popu
lation of that region, and the unsettled state of
Mexico, might readily open an enticing view to
the ambition of the French Emperor. He
would thereby deserve a cornation at the hands
of the Pope, and place himself in a position to
obtain concessions for Italy better than by the
agency of the sword.
The dethronement of Soruxjt'E, though in
itself not a fact, probably, of great importance,
may open the door to an active intervention by
France in the affairs of Hayti. She lost that
island by the enmity of England, and she
might now regain it by her alliance. Have not
other powers an equal right with the United
States to plan new conquests in the West Indies ?
Did not President Pierce depute Madame Caz
nead to negotiate for a permanent footing in
Dominica, with a view to ulterior designs,
which were only nbt openly avowed, but for
which the times proved not ripe ?
The war party in our own Congress—for
such a party has been growing steadily for a
number of years past—is determined to push
forward the conquest of Cuba; and so reckless
is it in the pursuit that it docs not pause to
violate both the spirit and the letter cf the
Constitution by virtually vesting in the hands
of the President the extreme function of war,
which instrument designed to repose in
Congress ,alone. "We cannot conceal from our
selves the possibility that the two great powers
of Europe are tending to a closer alliance for
their common protection and that of their
neighbor, and that the apparent imminency of
war with Austria may servo them an excellent
purpose in masking their real designs with res
pect to the United States. —Century
Homestead Exemption.
The Senators from the Free States who voted
(in effect) to kill the Homestead bill, by laying
it aside to take up an appropriation hill were
Messes. Allen of R. I. Fitch of Ind.
Bigler of Pa. Gwin of Cal.
Lane of Oregon.
Of these, Messrs. Allen (already superseded
by a Republican,) Fitch (squatter) and Bigler
are known to have been decidedly repudiated
in the late elections in their several States.
Messrs. Gwin and Lane represent States where
the Public Lands are freely appropriated to pri
vate use without paying therefor to the Treas
ury. In Oregon, the early settlers received C4O
and 320 acres each merely for being settlers,
without paying a farthing therefor. It seems
hard, indeed, that the Representatives of two
States so favored should be voting against tho
settlers of all other new States. But we must
take things as we find them.
Supposing the vote on this occasion to repre
sent fairly the several States represented therein
—which is certainly liberal to the enemies of
this measure—and the Electoral weight of the
two sides compares as follows:
For the Sill . Elec. Vote. Apainst it. Elec. Vote,
Maine 8 i Rhode Island.. . 2
Massachusetts. . 13 J Indiana 6j
New Hampshire. 5 Pennsylvania, .27
Vermont 5 Delaware 3
J Rhode Island. .. 2 Maryland 8
Connecticut. ... 6 A r iirginia 15
New York. ... 35 North Carolina. 10
Ohio 23 South Carolina, . 8
J Indiana. 6j Georgia 10
Ulinois IX Alabama 9
Michigan 6 Mississippi ... 7
AVisconsin .... 5 Florida . .... 3
lowa .’ . ..... 4 Louisiana . ... 6
Tennessee .... 12 Arkansas .... 4
Minnesota 4 Missouri 9
i Texas 2 J Texas 2
J Oregon 1J j Oregon ..... lj
Total 1-19 Total ..... 131
New Jeesey, absent or silent.
—The accident of Mr. Cameron’s absence and
the vote of Missouri’s Senators against Mis
souri’s interests and known wishes, alone pre
vent on overwhelming preponderance in this
vote on the side of Free Homes. The vote of
Mr. Fitch against the bill was not such as the
true Senators from Indiana would have given—
not such as Indiana ■ herself can approve. A
glance at the tabic above will suffice to show
that the popular preponderance in favor of the
Free Homestead principle is overwhelming,—
And now we beg the Democratic politicians to
ponder well this question—Can you afford to
throw this question over into the next Presi
dential Election ? You must see that the Free
Home principle is destined to prevail—then
why,not give way now, and have the matter
settled and out of the way ?—-V. I'. Tribune.
i PEJOrsrtrAtnri and ratj Tariff.— Tie whip
U Bracking load over the shoulders of the Penn
sylvania Democrats. Tlje slave drivers at
Washington, speaking through their agent, the
editor of the- State*-, gives jtbe Keystone breth
ren to understand that their natural craving
foFa tariff will be lashed ijight out of them.—
That paper says: - i • >
' “Oar associates In the Keystone [State have
already been indulged to the utmost limit of
forbearance, . They. have; been tolerated for
years in the open profession of heresy, j We
pofhiltted them to' sacrifice Dallas for his in
trepid fidelity to the principles of the party* and
we allowed them to promote Buchanan because
of his non-conformity to ]a cardinal point of
Democratic doctrine. These things have been
done for the Protectionist (Democracy of Penn
sylvania, and yet they have the audacity to
exact a still further compromise of principle. —
The demand is insufferable. Protection ii an
other name Jar Abolitionism, and rather than
bo responsible for its imposition, the represen
tatives of the slave-holdinjg States would 1 sur
render the control of the pov'ernment.” \
,Donation. J \
THE friends of Rev. J. J bit ALEMOX propose to
make him a Donation Visit at his residence in
"Wellshoro, on the afternoon and evening of VVeftnes
day and Thursday,- the 2d and 3d of March. The af
ternoon and evening of tho first day will be devoted
to the entertainment of adult?, and the second day to
the entertainment of tbo children. A general invita
tion isestended. jßy order of Committee.
Notic
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those indebted to the late firj
requested to call and settle t
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of C. L. Wilcox.
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CA SH PAID FOR FURS,
Solo and Upper Leather for sale—Cheap fo^Cash.
NIMBLE SIXPENCE AHEAD!
SLOW SHILLING NOWHAiB!
I will pay the Ready Casl from this date for Good
Merchantable Grain of all descriptions, •’
hi o Also I will pay the highest
.9 a h a ■*» ? * Mark* t Price furl Hides,iSklns,
,S * K and j J;
5. o K is a h 1 will sell Leather Cheaper
o’ § « < ** o 9 (FOR CASH) than tbo Cheap-
K S S est. j J
***«»* * X. 18. Custom
and Shoes, as good as the be it, at the lowest figures.—
Measures taken and work made to order and f
% WARRANTED]. I
A General Assortment of ] > egjs'iTbrcad, Wax,
Stitching Silk, Bristles, Awls, Tacks, Ac,, Ac. J
P. S. The Boot and Shqt Department is under the
direct supervision of C. Sears, whoso twenty years
experience in the business may he presumed to qualify
him for giving emstomors #, p irticplar fits/’ *-
Shop third door north of R. Bowen's Store.
Feb. 24, 1869/ CLARK L. WILQOX,
KIRBY’S MPWER & EMPKR
THE Subscriber is sellingjthis Valuable machine and
invites ail who want a really good Mower and
Reaper, to examine it before purchasing! any otier ma
chine. It is superior to all |o£her Mowjers and! Hoop
ers in use, in the following particulars: [lt is thilight
est in use; is strong and durable; requires lesjs draft
than any other machine: no side draft though it
cuts a wide swath; will wort on
no other machine can folk w it; very difficult to be
clogged in any kind of gras t, belt wet dr dry; sim
ple in construction and not liable to getjout of repair;
is a perfect combined machine; working equalfy well,
whether mowing or reaping: and is the CHEAPEST
in price, the Mower being only $lO5 and tho combined
machine sl3o—making it all ogether the most’ desirable
Mower and Reaper in market Call at the TSn and
Stove Store and examine for yourselves!
This Reaper took tie first prize at the State
Fairs of Hew York and Inc iana against all competi
tors. It also took the prize at tho Tioga County Fair
last Full. ' *1 } .
Feb. 24.1850. D. P. ROBERTS,
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Welisboro Pa., Feb. 14, ISaf. “ f ««0y
Bacon Mies Susannah Hart Mb. t ..
Briggs Andrew A. Loyd Tboau 1
Ball Lon P. Lion Eli 5 U
Bantly Mathias Mover pSL,,
Brower H. Miller Bcnfc*
Burgess Howard More Mrs^cS*'
Onvlkings Mrs. Mary A. Reese Miss
Coff M. A. Soqoo John
Fisher Chas. H. Spencer W
Farm Journal Smith
Fridley Mrs, A. If. Thomas Mi,, u
Farr Jr. C. TnbbsO.g
Furies Jacob Underhill Hu,
Graham Louisa M. 2 Vaness Mrs. rV
Gllcbell Miss Auth Ann Wilcox b'a;!:,. r
Qilet Mrs. Susan Wells J. g, '•
Hotchkiss Miss Lydia Wheeler flim.
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Persons calling for any of the shore
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Wellsboro, Peb, 24,1859, RICHAR I>3,?. 1
AVER’S SAKSAPARI^>
A compound remedy, in which we h»T ?
the fboat effectual alteratiTe that can be
centrated extract of Para Sarsaparilla, IoT
other substances of still greater alterative povu?**'
an affective antidote for the diseases Sarsapanif 11 '*
to cure. It is believed that sacha reiuedr
those who suffer from Strumous
which will accomplish their euro must pp JT
service to this large class of our afflicted feiw
How completely this compound will do it Jl3,
by experiment on many of the worn cases to t*« A
following complaints :
Scrofula and Scrofulous Complaints, Enjp} rata
live Diseases, Dicers, Pimples, Blotches. Turnon
Scald Head, Syphilis and Syphilitic j*S
Disease, Dropsy, Neuralgia or Tic "w*
Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Erysipelas, Rose or
Fire, and indeed the whole-class of comp/^in viv'
impurity of the Mood.
This compound will be found a great promoter
when token Ip the spring, to expel the foul
fester in she blood at that season of the year, g.£
expulsion of them many rankling disorder* are Lz/*
budr—Multitudes can, by tho aid of this remed'r j-T* 1 '
selves of foal eraptions'i s ? r
sores, through wKich-Ahesystem will su're toTi I®' 1 ®'
corruptions, if not as«isteir''te*-dqtfiis thron-dj ih,
channels of the body by an •alten^tTVe^a M:l j^ f , D 7,
out the vitiated blood whenever vcmftnd
ing through tho skiu in pimples, eruptions or
n when you find it is obstructed and
cleanse it whenever it is foul, and v o ur w .7>
when. Even where no particular dwrder u felt.
jo, bettor health, and lire longer, for deeming tVS
Keep the blood healthy, and all» well; but w«h ik? u
lam of life disordered, there can bo no lasting heabAw
er or later something must go wrong, and the n-7 *
nery of life is disordered or overthrown. sra,a *
Sarsaparilla has, and deserves much, the repotua. ,>
compUahing these ends. But th© worldbn been a-7_
deceived by preparations of it, partly became tharCT
has not all the virtue that-is claimed for it bat Sr
cause many preparations, pretending to be *
tracts of it, contain but little ot lb© vutuu of
or any thing else, l «a?Ki
During late years the public have been tabled v T >
bottles, pretending to give a quart of Extract of &.->ta2
for ono dollar. Most of these liavc beta franj*
sick, for they not only contain little if
often no curative properties whatever. Heace bwnh
painful disappoiatiurat has followed the tm of'ih»nrj
extracts of Sarsaparilla which flood tbs marks:, Ba aw
name itself is justly despised, and has become ijuooraa
with imposition and cheat. Still wc all tlu, cooipoandi
saparilla, and intend to supply such a nuiwlj u ihsll m,
tho name from the load of obloquy which B?oa
we think we have ground for believing it hu tirtut*
aro irresistible by the ordinary ran of tbedaeaie*,-; £
tended to cure. Itvorder to secure their compltts mb
tion from the system, the remedy should be ;udiciftiiij>
ken according tel directions on the bottle.
prepared feY Dr. J. C. Ayer 4Ci
’ _ LOWELL, MASS.
Price, $1 per bottle; Six bottla fbrSi.
AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL
has won for itself such a renown for the cure iiferer*
rittty of Throat and LungCompUtuts. that itunSar©
necessary for ns to recount the evidence ofla rzrtas*.
ever.it has been employed. As it bos louj been 10 rone
uao throughout this section, we need no: do axore tins
sure tho people its quality is kept up to the bat uo«W
been, and that it may be relied oh to do fur their rcbeld
has ever boon found to do.
?
toforc existing between
Sears, under tbo nqme of
jy mutual consent? All
n of Wilcox & Sears arc
be same immediately.—
conducted!in tbejoaae
C. L.IWILCOX.
C. Wi SEARS.
Ayer's Cathartic Pill*
Fob. the cu** of Costireneas. Jaundice, Dyipe?«,MitJ
tion, Dysentery, Foul Stomach, ErysWaa, Uealafc, fct
Rhcumatisßi, Eruptions ami Skm Diseases, Liter
Dropsy. Tetter, Tumors ami Salt Rheum, H'ormt,Gts:S»
ralgi.i, as a Dinner Fill, ami for purifying the blooi
They arc Sugar-coated, so that the roost aertitlre aiH
them pleasabtly, and they aro the best aperient ia {irntf
for all the purpos s of a family physic.
Price 25 cts. per box; Fiveboxes fails
Great numbers of Clergymen. Physicians, SUUORSt
eminent personages, hate lent their names to ten.f»'s*a
paralleled usefulness of these remed.cs, but onr spun
will not permit the insertion erf tbnn. The >*
named, furnish gratis oor American Almanac ;n
are given; mth also full descriptions of the ato»s »
plaints, and the treatment that should beLikved te£s
cure.
Do not be pat off by anprincipleJ dealers vr«h other
partitions they make more profit on. Demand Ain't b<
take no others. The sick want the best aid there u far aa
and they should have it.
All our Remedies are for sale by C. £ <l. I* RoBC®>“
Wclloboro’, and by all Druggists and Merchants threap*
the country.
Feb. 17,1859.—6 m.
YOUTH & MANHOOD.
JUST PUBLISHED, the 23th Thousand, and sitt:i
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A MEDICAL ESSAY ON TUX PHYSICAL ESHACSTIOX iMOrUSS
■’ F&AMS I CAUSED BY ‘•SILF-ABCSE, 1 ' I.\rECTIOX.-ASD TSI3TJ
ons coasEonwrctJ or mkkccry', By K J Cnlrerwtim*
Member of the Royal College of surgeons, 4c.
.fi®-Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Emissions. (?«•» o
Nervous Debility, Impotemcy, Loss of Energy, I»pr*» l
Spirits, Timidity, Diseases of the Sexual OrgaotsaU**
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The best treatise ever written on a subject of Tihl#’
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Address, |b© PoHisbef*, i C KLINE k CO-, I“ im *
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February 17 th, 1859.
“Not to Know Me Argues Yourself W** 1
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HENRY WARD BEECHERS
LIFE THOUGHTS.
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30,000 COPIES.
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that lIENRT WARD EEZCHtt* 1
•'Slave to no sect, who takes no n»L
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LIFE THOUGHTS,
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r J‘Good the more
1 Communicated the more abundant grows-
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Eternity, and teaches us In Life Thoughts
** T T is greatly Wise tq talk with oaf past boj*.
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