of Publication.
COC-VTl' AGITATOR is publishers
rfl Morning, and mailed to subscriber
i>"S.»aUc pries of
DOLLAR PER ANNUM,,®?
lt is intended to notify every
n ( e rm for which ho has paid shall
j’.tf’', i, v tbo stamp—“Tike Out,” on the nmr
paper. The paper will then he stopped
..!,i e r remittance bo received. By this ar
cJ s,!t jo can be brought id debt to the
irff . r
..ii:r. is the OfEciai Paper of the County,
and steadily increasing circulation reach
es 1 neighborhood in the County. It is sent
t 0 any Post Office within the county
most convenient post office may be
i**Rising County.
jr,r .!«c Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper inclu
jfp»?ear-,
business dieectoiiy.
lS IOWBEf* S. F. WILSOJf,
tVabSETS a COUNSELLORS AT LAW, will
I 1 , the Court of Tioga, Pottor and McKean
V.,f nVellsboro’.Feb. 1, 1853.]
c-—^bTbROORS,
rttiUVEF IjVD COUNSELLOR A.*V ii A IV
EI.KLAXD. IXCKiA CO. PA
, tb! nnimnde of CVuu.dor. there is safety.”— Etblt.
iiaS.ltM.iy. .
.PliAt EU & I’IIOUPSOJ,
•JOT.NEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW.
Corning, Steuben Co. N. V.
; J0 T. Spnvcam C. H. Thompson.
jprll 13, 1835. —ly- '
1)R. \V, W. WEBB.
IFFICE over Cone’s Law Office, first.door below
Farr’s Hotel. Nights he w.ll be found at his
rifo ce, first dowabore the bridge on Mam Street,
ar ds Samuel Dickinson’s-
C. S. DARXT, POTISTi
OFFICE at his residence near the
Academy. All work pertaining to
'iiis line of business done promptly and
[April 22, 1858.]
•minted.
DlCttlSSO* HOUSE
.CXI 11 Xlx u , N. Y.
r, Xoe, Proprietor.
: L'lki-i: to and from the Depot free of charge.
fix JSUTASU HOUSE
' WELLSBOKO’, PA.
L. D. TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR.
popular bouse is centrally located, and
to the patronage of tbe tra\ elling public.
jT/.i.vos. ly.
American hotel
CORNING, n. y.,
g FREEMAN, - - - - Proprietor.
r >, °5 cts. Lodgings, 25 cts. Board, 75 cts. per day.
fj'ning, March SI, 1559. <ly.)
J, C. WHITTAKER,
Uydrof'thic Physicxnn and Surgeon.
ELK LAND. TIOGA CO., PENX'A.
fjrTuit patients in all parts of tbe County, orre
tre tka for treatment at his house. [June 14,]
11. O. COLE,
BARBER AXE HAIRDRESSER.
rjHOP in the rear of tbo Post Office. Everything in
SIU line will be done as well and promptly as it
in the city saloon?. Preparations for re
rnn: ijandruff, and beautifying the hair, for sale
Ilnir and whiskers dyed any color. Call and
e/Welbbyro, SepL 22, 1859.
GAIIES HOTEL
EC. VERMJLYEA, PROPRIETOR .
Gaines, Tiogra County, Pa.
THIS well known hotel is located within easy access
if the K*st fuLing and hunting grounds in North’rn
x pain> will be spared for the accommodation
tp’jiiurc seekers and the traveling public,
ipn! 14, ISj'J.
fOI'DERSPORT HOTEL
CUCDKIISPOKT POTTER CO.. PENNA.
D, P. Glassmirc, - - Proprietor.
rtiS lIU'ILL i> located within an hour's drive of
iw head waters of the Allegheny, Genesee, and
Liscbauua rivers. Xo efforts are spared to make
ib tcc for pleasure seekers during thetroutlng sea
uicd for the traveling public at all times,
h: 27, 1559, ly.
| WHS B. SHAEESPEAR,
1 TAILOR,
HWINd opened bis shop in ’ the room over
iVm Roberta Tin Shop, respectfully informs tho
-~tn onVellaboro’ and vicinity, that he is prepared
’•i cute eiders in his line of business with prompt
'-uaJ de*patth
Cultlny dune im ehurt notice.
IV-i-Wo, Uct. 21, IS5S.—6m
WATCHES! WATCHES!
rUB .'•ahscrilcr has pot a fine assortment of heavy
K SLUSH LEVER HUNTER-CASE
Gold and Silver Watches,
he will sell cheaper than “ dirt’' on v< Ti , mc/ i. e.
-*-I sell ‘Time Pieces’ on a short (approved j'feredit.
Ifi kinds of UEPAIUIN(t done promptly.*. If a
. W'Tk js n f,t don e j 0 the satisfaction of the party
u, no c barge will ho made.
• L<: tmur. appreciated and a contiuance of patron-
Vcadly solicited. ANDIE FOLEV.
June 24, IS4S.
CORAfI.TG BOOK STORE.
THE Mibscrihers have removed to tho largb and
t’cqaiuly fitted up Brick Store —four doors east
I * ,3llu rt block, Corning—and will keep on hand a
*t* wsortiucnt of New Books, among which arc
Religious Standard Works,
. IItjTuUICAL BOOKS,
«£« ny }ic!iu)i. I‘octival Work*, School Book»,
SHEET MUSIC,
-ot«. Mntjon.cry am] Wall Paper, N. V. Daily and
papers, all the Magazines at
mi. Publishers prices.
cheap. KOBINSON Jk CO.
21, *57.
WM.-TERBELL,
COUXIXO. S. Y.
wholesale and Retail Dealer, in
‘• ''it '( Lead, Zinc, and Colored
•*'l' / ’ * Cawphenc and JJnnnufj
V' and Glass, J*urc Liquors far
fa ' n ' , ' l( ' ,tf -V' dir incs, Artists Paint* and Brushes,
• ai ‘ t:n J' druici/ Articles, Flavarivnj Extracts, &c.,
. A I.SO,
a.-fortment of School Books—
fcl.mk Bu.iks, Staple anti Fancy
h?t-v Stationary.
ru ?-*' ts and Country Merchants-jieaUng
Urj" ° a * ,,, ' u ‘‘Articles can be supplied at a small
Xeir York prices. [Sept. 22, 1857.]
sr
iSWEMD TIN SIMP!
HOY'S DRUG STORE.L®}
Kre Jt° u m J I U, J Stoves , Tin, and Japanned
“ rc f (ir onc-halj' the usual prices.
*£vi.^ evutc< l Oven Cook Stov& and Trim
&!’ 00 -
i Till and Hardware '
Ready Pay.
fctiU anj 1 ' a oue wan * s anything in this line
WjIV / e » uur P?‘ cea before purchasing elsewhere.
place—two doors south of Farr’s Ho-
Drusst ° rc * calland see!
■ D ' EEMlfr Gr,
anTlonn ce to the people of Tioga County
;*cfc.cj, Pi i-pire<l to fill all-orders for Apple, Pear,
t Apricot, Evergreen and l>eculuous
Al ' u Currunts. Raspberries. Gooseberries,
r**- ua of all now ami approved \ari
% < - w,M ’ s t«ng of Ilybrld, Perpetual and Snm
f^l^^rcinT.. ,n * ir J 1 ‘ ofce *’ Bourbon. Noisette, Tea,
JUn T>n ’ and limbing Ro&es.
i BBRR. Y — luclnding all the finest tfeW ta
hT 14 - Lilacs r„ . „ rifles of Altbeo, Cajycantbas,
f Tfynrr n l^ irath ’ Syringias. Viburnums, WiglHas Ac.
WIS—^ aeon,ca > UahKafe, Phloxes. TnKp*,.
Uyaciuths, Narciuhis; Jonquils. LH
fifties.
U L\T. i . B rsl t r a ' VbC,rr3 '- ' 4JOZ ' l ” ant "’* s - .
' , , r /' r4^in S' BmMing or Pruning will bo
•* ‘ ' J A’l’irocs
Hv I?. L A IMI.VC. Welfcbcro, pa.
THE AGITATOR
BeholeDr to *De fEXUnnion of tfle Hvm of ifmOom mi 3r tftt SpreaO of Reform.
WHILE THEBE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAljl’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
VOL. VI.
I POUND DEAD
BV ALB EHT LAIBHTOB
Pound dead—diad and alone!
There was nobody near, nobody near,
When the outcast died on hie pillow of stone.
No mother, no brother, no sister dear,
Not a friendly voice to soothe or iheer.
Not a watching eye or a pitying tearj
Found dead—dead and alone,
In the roofless street, on a pillow of stone.
Many a weary day went by.
While wretched and worn ho begged for bread.
Tired of life and longing to lie
Peacefully down with the silent dead;
Hunger and cold, and scorn and pais.
Had wasted his form and seared his brain,
Till at last on the bed of frozen ground,
With a pillow of stone, was the outcast found.
Pound dead—dead and alone,
, On a pillow of stone in the roofless street j
Nobody heard his rough, faint moan,
Or knew when his sad heart ceosed to beatj
Mo mourner lingered with tears or sighs,
But the stars looked down with pitying eyes,
And th© chill winds passed with a wailing sound.
O’er the lone spot where his form was found.
Found dead—yet not alone;
There was somebody near, somebody near.
To claim the wanderer as his own,
And find a home for the homeless here;
One, when every human door
Is closed to his children, scorned and poor,
Who opens the Heavenly-portals wide—
Ah, God was near when the outcast died!
The Cavern.
A REMI.VISCE.VCE OF 7VCA.TAS.
The guide, a tall and muscular native, held
up his torch, as we paused, sick and giddy, on
the dripping rocks at the foot of the mighty
grotto. Heretofore we hardly dared even to
breathe; we had mechanically clung to the
rugged logs which for seventy or eighty feet
had been our only dependence, the dizzy and
almost perpendicular height which we had de
scended frowned gloomily upon us, and the
boldest of us could hardly repress a shudder,
as wo heheld the dangers wo had so successfully
passed.
Many perils both by sea and land had beset
our way, and we had endured them without a
thought, but this descending into the very
bowels of the earth—this treading on sound
rocks where tbe blessed light of sun or moon
had never entered; the subterranean echoes
catching our slightest whispers, and sending
them reverberating from crag to crag, like the
fiendish mocking of evil spirits ; it was appall
ing ! Even the light-hearted Carleton was si
lent and pale, and our very breath wag drawn
softly, as-if we feared to wake some slumber
ing satyr or gnomo beneath our feet.
It was a sublime and picturesque tout ensem
ble for an artist pencil, the red lurid glare of
the torch reflected from the thousand glittering
points of rock and gigantic crags, and gleam
ing suddenly on the dark, deep waters at our
feet. Thera was our pale and shuddering group
—the stately figure of our guide with his droop
ing palmetto, and the unconscious grace of his
attitude—the vast outlines of cavernous depth
—the rude ladder of logs, and the scattered
figures slowly descending this singular high
way ! Among the black masses of shadow,
you could just discern yawning and gloomy
arc.hes, which the guide told us led into an opon
space where were the sources of nine deep wells,
to and from which busy water carriers were
traveling continually.
“So this, said Carleton, in a bland tone,
scarcely above a whisper, “is the dreadful
cavern where the maiden concealed herself so
long. I wonder why
“Some love affair, you may depend ,” said
Walker. “What is that quotation of Scott’s?
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove;
and why shouldn’t love rule the untutored
breast of the maid of Yucatan !”
“At all events,” observed I, “our maiden
showed a remarkable taste for the sublime and
picturesque, when she chose this rocky re
treat. See the torchlight quivering among
those fine old rocks 1”
“I don’t know,” said Carleton, “it is mag
nificent —but how chilling a splendor!, It
is like the keen starlight of the Artie Zone,
among icebergs of northern seas.—Just think
of the tropical light and radiance above; just
think of tlio palm trees and agaves waving
over our heads—the noonday glow of this
southern clime ; and then look around at the
gloom and silence of this horrid spot! Walker
it makes me think of the tomb !”
Walker leaned smilingly forward to peep
under the broad palmetto that hung over Car
leton’s brow!
Look at him, Lindsay! how pale he is !” he
cried gaily: “who would have thought our
light hearted Carleton could be so effected by a
tumble down old cave 1”
I smiled and made some light remark not to J
embarrass Carle ton farther, but I confess to
being somewhat surprised at this unusual gloom
of our gay spirited and youthful young friend,
whose constant flow of vivacity had given such
a zest to our entire journey.
The guide stood looking from one to another,
his large southern eyes dilated, with a sort of
wistful curiosity, to critch the foreign accents
of our tongue, and slowly swinging his torch
from aide to side.—Then, as we ceased speak
ing, he began to relate, in his soft musical pa
thos, the romance of the cave—the tale of the
Indian maiden who had sought refuge from
tyranny among those hollow rocks, and whose
young bloom aqfi beauty had pined away in £be
eternal darkness rind sepulchral atmosphere of
this awful place; and how many curious spec
tators had preceded us on, these very rocks,
pointing to the busy water carriers."* We too,
by the way, in assuming the more sntabtc dress
of the peasants had moved the huge stone wa
ter jugs in a moment of sport, and were hearti
ly tired of their empty weight by this time.
“Are there not many accidents?" inquired
Carleton, in k low voice.
“Accidents! the sonor could not count them
in a day. There are as ma*ny as the leaves on
the tree !”*
One might make a very readable romance out
of these scraps of Indian tradition,” observed
Walker,- looking around as he sat idly on the
rock; “there is something very sublime in tVte
idea of that young girl among the solemn bid
crags and waters. Lindessy, I have an idea 1
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1859.
I’ll paint a picture when I get home, and ca 1
it “The maid of the cavern,”
“And whose fr ' -
face is to represent the her
oine ?"
“I don’t know—Carleton’s black eyed sistnr
will sit for me I suppose."
I glanced toward Carleton with a smile but
instead of returning my look, he gazed fired ly
on the waters and was very pale.
“Lindesay,” he whispered, do you believe in
presentiments ? I have such a strange forel o
ding at my heart.”
“I dont know what you mean,” I return 2d
lightly. “I bare a presentiment thot, if X mice
get out of this place, I shall ignore all cave and
caverns for ever more in future. It is rather too
appalling a business.” _ ’
The senor must look at tho different prosp lo
ts," insinuated our guide, as we rose "you have
not seen the half of our wonders.”
We passed along the usual route, rather
more to satisfy the guide’s apparent desire
than our own curiosity, for we were in haste to
escape from the gloomy place, whose dim heavy
atmosphere pressed like a leaden weight upon
our lungs. Never were mortals more relieved
than we when at length wo reached the ladder
of logs once more.
“And now hurrah for daylight !” cries Walk
er, waving his hat, and commencing the asee nt.
1 hastened after, Carleton came last, follov ed
at a little distance by the guide. We left )ur
stone jugs behind at the mercy of any stray
water carrier who might happen to approp rite
them not choosing to be any longer encumbered
by their weight. I
We had not half scaled the ladder when]
guide called to us to observe the effect of to
among the vast and stupendous crags by wli
we were surrounded. In waving it backwai
and forwards, to watch the hasty step of li
and shade produced by this manoeuvre, hej
guardedly dropped his torch. It fell dq
down, until with a hollow sound it shot >5
the dark tides below, and was extinguished*,
instinctively closed my eyes as it fell, and
the pale dim light of another torch, far bel
I could just see that Carleton tottered Ji
trembled. I
“Look upward, senor!’’ shrieked the gi
“To the sky! For the love of Heaven,
up !”
His fearful scream was re-echoed by us both,
as our companion slowly swayed backwards
and forwards for an instant, and then with a
low shuddering cry lost his hold and fell. . The
deep and sudden splash was all we heard--the
bubble of tnrpid waters, and then a horror
stricken hush fell upon every human being in
the cave. My grasp slackened—a thick dark
ness came over my sight, and, for a momi nt, I
too, seemed to leave all consciousness, except of
a white and teror struck face above me—that of
Walker! I never knew how it was—tc this
day I cannot tell how 1 reached a phceof
safety, but the first that I remembered, we were
crouching together on the platform on the top
ladder, our hands clasped before our eyes, as if
to shut out some terrible vision.
Yet the brow of Carfeton, when two
afterwards, they brought him out for
was fair and beautiful as that of a child,
not know when the guides discovered the c<
I believe that there was instantaneous »
which for some time proved unavailing,)
could not frame my trembling lips to ask!
gle question he was.silently brought fron
heavy darkness bciow, into tha sunshinj
silently placed in our arms.
That evening, at sunset, a bright haired
American youth was laid in his tropical grave,
among the palm trees of Yucatan, with two
sincere mourners standing at the head, and
sighing to think how they should bear the news
to those at home. , In the background a group
of Indians were commenting on the early doom
of the dead. 1
“The senor was very young,” murtnl
comely women who leaned against a tij
near by. “Perhaps he had a mother
northern land. Holy Virgin 1 and she
sea his grave!”
There was a world of pathos in her
words! For months afterwards, I never
my eyes without beholding a dreadful
tasmagoria of the crags and rocks cl
dreadful grotto. I never fell asleep but I
with a start, hearing the dying cry of ni;
panion in my ears. It haunted me like a
and to this day I cannot revert without a
dcr to the subterranean shadows and bri
gloom of that lonely cavern of Yucatan.
Sold Cheap. —Old uncle John Johnsoi
out in Chicago. lie came from the *r
steady habits,” a long time ago, and wi
right glad to see the friends he had left c
bub it was a long way to go, and be vj
and stiff in the joints, lie sent bis soi
to visit, and bring him a full report of
folks he once knew. Tom was right
make the trip, but when he got to Nor
soon found the girls so agreeable, that
got all the old cronies his father wantec
hunt and went back after a month
His father asked him about his old n
Perkins, but Tom didn’t recollect the n!
“Well, how is Deacon Huntingdon
Tom hadn’t seen the Beacon.-
“Did you see Mr. Rockwell V “Ni
had missed seeing him. And so the
went on with bis questions, till he s
Tom had been fooling him. Once
: “Did you see old Parson Noy
Tom thought it was nboirt time to h
somebody,- and said promptly, “0. J
first rate—sends lots of love—wants tc
badly.”
“Ob, murder!” gasped the old mai
little pesky rascal, Parson Noyes has 1
these forty years.”
Tom subsided.
A Boston paper says that many;
the whole rown of Nabant was purchc
suit of clothes, and that then its only
tants were wolves, anti deS'r; The asm
said of the inhabitants now, only tli
are in sheep’s clothing-and: the dears i
line.
Never give out that which dues
come.-
Not One of Them ar Sort.
The New Orleans Delia felts the following
good one:
At a session of the Circuit Court of Missis
sippi, in some country town, the lawyers who
were in attendance were in the habit of putting
up at a house of entertainment kept by a buxom
widow lady, of very high sense of propriety,
and great dignity of deportment. The lady
always presided at the bead of the table during
meals, and the place of honor on her right was
regarded as due to the most staid, proper and
elderly member of the Bar.
By unanimous consent of the lawyers. Col.
B——, a very modest, discreet, and pious coun
sellor, was selected for the distinction. Now,
though possessing many sterling virtues, Col.
B possessed one weakness, but it was not
a weakness of the head or of the heart but of
the eyelid.
He bad the habit of winking incessantly and
involuntarily, which, with persons who did not
know the cause of it, left an unfavorable im
pression of the Colonel’s seriousness and sin
cerity. He was eternally being suspected of
what he was the last man to conceive of, to wit
—a design of joking or quizzing everybody,
all on account of the perpetual motion of bis
eyelids.
When, on the first occasion the Colonel took
possession of the seat nearest to “mine host
ess,” his bland and amiable expression and
dignified address created quite a favorable im
pression upon her ladyship. The soup was
over, and the hostess began to ply the Colonel
with various tempting dishes, all of which he
accepted or declined, with a pleasant smile,
and with bis invariable wink. At last it was
perceptible to the company, that the hostess
was eyeing her distinguished guest rather in
quiringly and significantly; these glances were
always met by the Colonel with his usual smile
and wink. But these amiable demonstrations
were far from producing the effect designed
upon Madam, who began to frown and look
very threateningly at the innocent Colonel, who
only smiled and winked the more fascinatingly.
Finally, however, to the very great horror of
the Bar, and the utter annihilation of the wor
thy Colonel the hostess slapped the table in
dignantly with her right hand, and fixing her
eyes very pointedly and fiercely upon the ob
ject of her wrath cried out at the top of her
voice:
jthe
orch
liich
irds,
jght
ifun-
tby
low,
land
lide.
look
“You sanctified, weazen-faced old villain.
I’ll let you know I’m not one of them ar sort!”
What might have followed this explosion of
wrath, it would be impossible to conjecture, as
the unfortunate possessor of the weak eyelids
decamped in haste from the post of honor, and
never after could be persuaded to act the agree
able to buxom widows.
An Exquisite Retort. - !
It is related of Bunyan that, in the height
of his usefulness in and about London, the
bishop of the metropolis had a curiosity to see
him. The coachman of the bishop was a fre
quent hearer of Bunyan, and the bishop had
told him that, whenever in riding out of town,
he should chance to meet Mr. Bunyan, he
wished to see and speak with him. One day,
as John was driving his lordship in a portion
of the suburbs, Banyan was seen plodding hie
way on foot, with his bundle under bis arm,
going out to preach somewere in the outskirts.
“Your grace," said John, “here comes Mr.
Bunyan.”
“Ah !” said the’ bishop ; hold up the horses
when you overtake him, and-let me speak to
him."
tours
furial
Ido
prpse.
parch
but I
ia sin-
m the
ile and
They were soon at his side, the horses were
checked, and the bishop bowed, saying-:
“Mr. Bunyan, I belive !”
“Yes your grace,” said Bunyan, courteously
responding.
lured a
jll tree
in the
;anDot
“Mr. Bunyan," said the bishop, “I am told
you are very ingenious as aa interpreter of the
Scriptures, and I have a difficult passage in my
mind, about which the critics are in dispute,
and of which I would be glad to have your
view. It is St. Paul’s message to Timothy:
"The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus,
when thou oomest, bring with thee; and the
books, especially the parchments."
“Well your grace,” replied Bunyan, “it is
allowed, I believe, by all, that Timothy was a
bishop of the primitive church and Paul, as all
agree, was a traveling preacher. It appears to
roe this may have been designed in future days,
to teach that in primitive times the bishops
were accustomed to wait upon the traveling
preachers; whereas, in the bishops
ride in their coaches, and the traveling preach
ers, like Paul, are minded to go 'afoot
simple
: closed
phan
f that
waked
y com
i, spell;
i shud
ooding
m lives
|land of
puld be
behind;
fas old,
p, Tom,
| all the
glad to
pich, fao
I he for
-1 him to
’a visit.
Haven’t Got Any of Yoult Size.—Any one
who has lived in Cincinnati (writes Brads) for
ten or fifteen years, will remember E , the
tailor, one of the oldest and best of his craft,
as well as one of the jolliest, always as ready
to take a joke as to give one. It used to be
considered the “fair thing” among a “select
party” to send persons to his store for articles
at variance with what usually cbbstitutes the
stock in trade of members of his profession.
It so happened one day, as one of the “party”
above mentioned; was descending the steps of
the the Burnett House, he encountered a speci
men of Kentucky, who enquired of him where
he could purchase a jewsharp. Of course he
was directed to E -a store, as the establish
ment where they kept the largest assortment
at the most reasonable prices. Our friend pro
ceeded at once to the place indicated, and found
E (who, by the way, was troubled with
an impediment of speech,) waiting on a cus
tomer, and after stating his wants, was politely
requested to “w-wait a few mo-moments.”—
After dispatching bis business with the afore
said customer he, gravely approached Kentucky
with a pair of glove stretchers,■ and observed
•in a very mild tone, “W-we shall h-have to
t-t-take' your mum-mum-measure,” whereupon
he inserted the stretcher into his mouth, spread*
ing open hia countenance to the full extent of
the “stretch,” and with a face indicating the
utmost seriousness, remarked to the astonished
Kentuckian, “Y-yonng man, tr-ee- -harertt ge!r
ger-get any cf y-your
eighbor
ame.
But
Tom
)ld man
saw that
more be
os?”
ave seen
■iss; he’s
see you
. “You
een dead
years ago
ised for a
y inhabi
e may be
e wolves
in crino-
not firs
The Blind Spy.
A TALE OP THE DAM OLD SPASMODIC AQEIII
BY BYLYBSTtH AKAOMONIMf, JR.
Night upon a battle field I
In a tentj guarded by five Zouaves, sat aronnd
a mosaic table, General Washington, Moham
med and Julius Caesar. They were command
ers of the allied forces at the siege of Jerusalem.
It was evident, from the appearance of the ta
ble, that they had been playing faro and drink
ing lager bier.
“Hist!” suddenly exclaimed General Wash
ington, pointing bis finger to his lip.
“Aha!" quoth Mohammed, spitting out a
volume of the Koran, hearing the imprint of
Harper, Brothers.
“Hum 1” squeaked Julius Caesar, placing his
finger to his nose, a la Florence Hotel.
A Zouave at this juncture put his head in the
tent and said, “The murderer of T>i. Burdell is
discovered.”
“Then order the garrison to arms!” cried
General Washington, “and let the Miiwaukie
Light Guard hold Pike’s Peak until the Hor
ace Greeley cavalry charge the Caucasians in
the rear.”
“Don’t you think. General, that if the Min
ie battering ram, such as I used with Nelson,
at Trafalgar, were ordered up, it would be bet
ter?” said Julius Cmsar.
“Bring in Flora Temple, and I myself will
ride to the scene of action,” exclaimed Moham
med. “Bring me a Colt’s revolver and I will
off."
“Hist!” said another Zouave, putting in his
head, “it is not the murderer of Dr. Burdell, it
is the Blind Spy who approaches.”
The allied generals fell to the ground in a fit,
which was only relieved by the entrance of the
Blind Spy 1 Taking from his pocket a bottle
of Burnett's Coccoaim:, he sprinkled it and
said, “My master, Socrktes, bids you surren
der, or he will send you all to the Mammoth
Cave as prisoners of war.”
(To be continued.)
The Oath of a House Thief.— Two men, D.
A. Roush, and J. F. Holley from Cincinnati, were
sent to prison in Louisville a few days ago on
suspicion of horse stealing, having shipped a
fine stallion the day previous. Roush’s conduct,
such as appearing in false whiskers and the
like, caused his arrest. On bis parson was found
the following' oath, which would indicate be is
one of an organized band of horse thieves.
In tbs name of the Power above, and in the
name of all his hosts of angels and ministers,
whom I invoke to bear record of my words ;
in the name of him below, whom we fear and
whom we hate, I swear.
I swear that from this moment to the end of
my life to devote myself, without any reserve,
to the fancy reform ; that I will never leave it
without the permission of my captain ; that in
sickness or in health, in adversity of in prosper
ity, I will never leave, quit without theconsent
of my captain, even unto death, in all transac
tions ; I will be bound by the laws he has es
tablished and with the regulations he has made;
and I invoke these powers, in the event of my
failing to fulfil this, my oath, to shower down
all the ills of which human nature is suscepti
ble ; may all the maladies’ in which lingering
wretches who crave to die still exist be myfate;
may my days he restless, my nights sleepless,
the pains and ftgonies of hell goad me on to des
peration, my limbs wither from my body, my
body paralyzed with sickness, my breath tain
ted, my eyeballs sightless, my soul damned if I
fail in anything I have sworn ; but I implore
that power to shower upon me ten thousand
times the miseries that mortals ever imagined,
if I, by word, thought, deed or design, betray
one of my brethren or captain, or raise my hand
or voice to witness against them in a court of
justice, maw my tongue rot from its root to the
lip, and leave me a speechless liar, if 1 am in
this guilty; hut I swear to state all that is false,
unless the truth can benefit the prisoner; to
this, in all and eveay part, I swear; to every
word and sentence I swear, by him above, by
him below, by all that rules, by all that serves,
I swear.
Pursic.u. BEXErri of ftiE Sabbath. —-'The
Sabbath is God’s special present to the wor
king man, and one of his chief objects is to
prolong his life, and preserve efficient his work
ing tone, In the vital system it acts like a
compensation pond; it replenishes the spirits,
the elasticity and vigor, whach the last six have
drained away, and supplicJ the force which ia
to fill the six days suocieding; and, in the
economy of existence; it apsvferd the same pur
pose as, in the economy of income, is answered
by a savings bank. The frugal man puts away
a pound to-day and another pound next month,
and who, in a quiet way, is putting by his sta
ted pound from time to time, when he grows old
and frail, gets not only the same pound back
again, but a good many pounds besides. And
the conscientious man, who husbands one day
of his existence every week—who, instead of
allowing the Sabbath to be trampled alTdTdrn
in the bury and scramble of life, treasures it
devountly up, the Lord of the Sabbath keeps it
for him, and. in the length of days, the hale
old age gives it back with usury. The savings
hank of human existence is the weekly Sab
bath.—[A'oi tt British Jieview.
New itecelalion in Geology and Thiologg:-
A correspondent at Erie sends us the following
juvenile dialogue which’ recently occurred in
that city, between the son and daughter (aged
respectively nine and seven years) of a Meth
odist minister, showii’g the physical aiitf nVornl
difference between men and woman, as they
saw it in geology and theology;
Lillie Roy.—" l wonder what makes the Paps
so much crasser than the Mama 7”
Lille Girl. —“if gtfes’s it’s because the Lord
sifted the dust, and made the Paps out of the
bran, and the Mams out of the fine dust!”
Little Roy. —“ Will I bq- A Pap when I get
big,—and be cross, too ?”
Little Girl. —-“I expect so.”
■Little Boy. —(Meditatively) “No I shan’t be
a Pap ;”*-*-evideotly unwilling to believe him
-1 ietf mirth) oat of the Bran.'
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The Difference between French and
scan Brandy;
The Cheater county, Pa., Times is responsi
ble for the following:
A gentleman of our acquaintance wished to
purchase some brandy to be used in sickness;
and,cal led on nn old German liquor dealer in
the city of Philadelphia, when the following
dialogue ensued:
“Have you any imported brandy—genuine
stuff?”
“Very good brandy. Come and trink sortie
claret punch ; dat ish goot, too, yen do vedder
ish hot.”
“No, I thank you, I want a little brandy fur
a sick man.”
“Come and try de punch. One yrlend from
Germany been here. I see him not befoio; for
many years. We been trinkin de pumdi.”
“Come and tell me about the brandy. I want
a little of the best in the market:”
The old gentleman was a little mellow—just,
enough to make him talkative ; and the visit of
his friend had so warmed his sympathies as to
make Him communicative. .
•‘Now, my vriend, you wants good prandy;
and I sells you good prandy. Dare i*h some
prandy I makes myself and dat ish gui*d.—'
Dere ish some X pought in New York, ami dut
ish sheap prandy. Dere is some imported front
Vrancejind dat ish very goot too.”
“Did you say you made that lot yourself?”
“Dat I make myself, and I warrants dat. It
ish made of the verre best whisky.”
“Whisky! I don’t want any of your infer
nal concoctions made of whisky and called
brandy,” !
(Old gentleman solemnly.) “It ish all made
of whisky, vriend, and dat ish de reaMjn why
de Trench brandy is not sogoot as gnot Atneii
can prandy. No prandy ish now distilled from
wine any more; it is not possible to make ic
sheap enough'for dis market from wine, anjil do
American people do not like the real prandy
because they are not used to it.”
“Did you say that Drench brandy is not as
good as our own manufacture? We import
some brandy from France, do we not?”
“0, we import blenty of prandy to please do
rich people, but it ish not goot. In France, do
prandy ish made of potato whisky, and dat isli
not as goot as de corn whisky what we makes
into prandy here I”
Away up in the northern part of Vermont,'
says the Knickerbocker , is a primitive sort of
little village, called “The, Centre.” Here, not
long since, the rustic youth of the vicinity con
gregated for a “dance,” and dance they did,'
said our informant, “with an .unction unknowrt
to our city belles and beaus.”
One interesting young man, having “im-.
bibed” rather too freely,, became “fatigued”
in the course of the evening, and wisely con
cluded to “retire” for a short rest.
A door ajar near the dance-ball revealed, in-,
vitingly, a glimpse of a comfortable bed, of
•which he took pesscssion with a prospect of an
undisturbed “snooze.”
Ifc so happened, howbcit, that this was the
ladies withdrawing-rocm, and no sooner had ho
closed his eyes, than a pair of blooming danfc
sels came in from the hall, and began adjusting
their disordered ringlets, the dim-light of tho
tallow candle not disclosing the tenant of the
bed. The girls had tongues, (like most of their
sex,) which ran on in this wise:
“What a nice dance we’re having! Ilavo
you heard anybody say anything about me,’
Jane ?” -
“La, yes, Sally I Jim Brown says he never
see you look so handsome as you do to-night,'
Have you heard anybody say anything about
me?”
“About you 1 why, sartin ; I heard Joe Flint
tell Sam Jones that you was the /pvettic&t
dressed girl in the room.” •
Whereupon the dear things chuckled, “fixed
iip” a little more; and made off towards the
ball-room. They had hardly reached the door
when our half-conscious friend raised himself
upon his elbow, and quite intelligibly, though
slowly ihcjhired—
“Ha* you heard any bony say anything about
me, girls?”
“Phansy their phelinks” at this juncture
They fled with an explosive scream.
In Pennsylvania there is' a clergyman almost
as remarkable for eloquence and except ricsty
as Lorenzo Low himself. On charity
his pathos, wit,‘and sometimes bitter satire, sue
§ure to win more bank notes and gold coin t»»'.
the State than the decorous eloquence of half
a dozen other men. On a late occasion I.c \\a>
preaching a temperance sermon, which pro
duced unusual effect on the audience. Among
other things, he asserted, as the result i.f lu-I
own observation, that a confessedly “modeialii
drinker” was sure to become a confirmed ine
briate within five years after he had reached
that stage of indulgence.
He was here interrupted by a man in the au
dience, who started up in great excitement,
proclaiming himself a moderate drinker, oj tjV
years standing, and one on whom the u.ihii
made no progress.
The clergyman stopped short, leaned over
tfre pulpit, and wfion the man had ceased
ing. called out:
“I stand up here, and lot me have
a look at you.”
The min made an effort to bravo the of
eyes turned upon him, and Stood Ids ground.
‘‘Xcarer, man 1” cried the minister heiS.m'-
ing with his long linger, "Hold a light up to
this brother’s face some of you. Step up on
the bench arid give us a good look.” ,
The moderate, drinker was not to he looked
down or talked down, and not only mounted the
bench, but allowed a lamp jo he held chisd to
hli face. , I
The mfnistef bent over lub cushion, anil gave’
{fife face a long survey.
“That trill do,” he said drawing back, ■•ihat
will do my friend, and now I say, if I owed the'
devil a debt ojf a hundred drunkards, and had
paid him nioety-nine, and he wouldn’t lake you
in full daymen! at tin? u’id'.d' 3Ve yea.>, 1* AouiJ
never pay hi a. '.' J
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