Terms of Fublication, - TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is published ™ Thttr'day Morning, and mailed to subscribe '"ihe very reasonable price of ““one DOLLAR PER ANNUM, ■alhi i* advance. It is intended to notify every >carl 'h€T when tbo term for whioh.be has paid shall H b!C ”ijsd, by the stamp—“Tiub Om,” on the mar l‘ TC -Xe last paper. The paper will then bo stopped P* ° . farther remittance bo received. By this ar acet no man can bo brought in debt to tho Agitator is the Official Paper of the County, •As large and steadily increasing circulation reach • itto every neighborhood in the County. It is sent uef'fcilagv lo an Y Uoat Office within tho county JV jnt whose most convenient post office-may be County. _ , 'Viness Cards, not exceeding 5 lings, paper incln fci. f 5 per year. Business directory. |. s ,IOWRET« S. F. WIISOS, A TTORNBY3 * COUNSELLORS AT LAW, will attend the Coart of Tioga, Pdttor and McKean [Wellsboro’, Feb. 1, 1853.] '— sT B. BROOKS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW i IIUL elkiand, tioqa co. Fa. «Tn tie multitude of Counselors there in safety.”—BiMe. gept Dll. W. W. WEBB. OFFICE over Cone’s Law Office, first door below Farr’s Hotel. Nights he will bo found at his Midence, first door above the bridge on Main Street, towards Samuel Dickinson’s. dentist. at his residence near the Academy. All work pertaining, to UtR i fTThi« line of business done promptly-and [April 22, 1558.] warranted. dickiksos house COEX I x 0 > x - p. C. Noe, Proprietor. Guests Depot free of charge. PESSSYIiVAKIA HOUSE WELLSBORO’, PA. L. D. TAVXOR, PROPRIETOR. This deservedly popular house is centrally located, and' tttnmends itself to the patronage ot tbe travelling public, jior. ISSB, ly. ; ■ American hotel. , -CORNING, N.T., E rKtEMAN, - - - - Proprietor. iffsl*. 2irts. Lodgings, 25 cts. Board, 75 cts.per day. Coming, March 31, 1859. (ly.) J. C. WHITTAKER, Hydropathic Phyticianf and Surgeon. EI/KLAND, TIOGA I'CO., PENNA. Will visit patients in all parts of the County, or re tire them for treatment at his house. [June 14,] B. O. COLE, BARBER asd hair-dresser , SHOP in tbe rear of the Post Office. Everything in bi* line will be done as well and promptly as it nn be done in the city saloons. Preparations for re coring dandruff, and beautifying the hair, for sale cheap. Hair and whUkers dyed any color. Call and *e. Wellsboro, Sept. 22, 1859. . GAINES HOTEL. If, VERMIL YEA, PROPRIETOR Gaines, Tioga Comity, Fa. THIS well known hotel is located within easy access of the best fishing andhunting grounds in North’rn I't Xo pains will bo spared for the accommodation if pleasure seekers and the traveling public. April 14.1359. THE CORNING JOURNAL. Surge W. Pratt, Editor and Proprietor. 15 published at Corningl Steuben Co., N. Y., at One boll&r and Fifty Cents per year, in advance. The bursal is Republican in politics, and has a circula. mu reaching into every part of Steuben County.— flare desirous of extending their business into that nj the adjoining counties will find it an excellent ad- Tertising medium. Address as above. COIDEKSPORT HOTEL. COUDERSPOBX POTTEK CO., PENNA. t, p. Glassmire, - - Proprietor. THIS 110 TEL is located within an hour’s drive o the head waters of the Allegheny, Genesee, and hipiehanna rivers. Xo efforts are spared to make tuhonie fur pleasure seekers during the trouting sca ittjind fur the traveling public at all times. Jid, 27.1559, ly. JOHN B. SHAKESPEAB, TAILOR. HAVING opened his shop in the room over Wm. Roberts Tin Shop, respectfully informs the cuisas of Wcllsboro’ and vicinity, that he is prepared tuiecute orders in his line of business with prompt ibi and despatch Cutting dune on short notice. TVt’l-bjro, Oct 21, IS.'jS.—Cm watches: watches: Toe Subt' nbcr has got a fine aasorlment of heavy EpJLISH LEVER lIENTER-CASE f Cold and Silver Watches, he will sell cheaper than'" dirt” on ‘Time/ i. c. -* will sell ‘Time Pieces' on a short (approved) credit. All kinds of REPAIRING don© promptly. If a .A of work U not done to the satisfaction of the party ■ritrmg it, no charge will be made. Put favors appreciated and a contiuance of patron •fiiindjv solicited. 5 ANDIE FOLEY, June 24, ISIS. HOME INDUSTRY. THE SUBSCRIBER having established a MAR BLE MANUFACTORY at the village of Tioga, *i:reLe is prepared to furnish , Qonuments, Tomb-StoneS, &c,, At lest WRWONT & ITALIAN MARBLE T t’d respectfully- solicit the patronage of this and ad • ning couniifcd. Having a good .-took on hand he is now ready to cx frjl4 all orders with neatness, accuracy and dispatch. All work delivered if desired. , JOHN BLAMPIED. T,u S»-Tw.ga Co., Pa., Sept. 28,1839. WM, TERBELL, CORNING. N. Y. Wholesale and Retail Dealer, in I OS, And .I Ldirinrs, Lind, Zinc, and Colorrd \ V>irni*h, Rnivhcb Camgheucand Iturning EnuJt and Glass, I*nre Liquors Jur . '! I | '‘i Lntmt Medicines, .-IrfiVs Paints and Brushes, ‘'."''•'■rv. fancy Articles, Flavortnig Extracts, ALSO, "A gcccr.il assortment of School Books— Blank Books, Staple and Fancy *r . Stationary. _vttiaas, Druggists and Country Merchants dealing '^7 ff the above articles can be supplied at a small _ on New York prices. [Sept. 22, 1557.] St'ISTiUESMTIfSirOP! BOY’S DRUG STORE. jgt tiCie Vfu can lug Stoves, Tin , and Japanned Burt; fur one-half the usual prices, s’.J» e Elevated Oven Cook Stove and Trim v $15,00. '•Hind; nf Tin and Hardware for Ready Pay. an >' one who wants anything in this line W-Oi Sfce our l ,r * ccs Before purchasing elsewhere. .. "ufcct the place—two doors south of Farr’s Ho - 2 P l o ,ls-9 ° J ’x Dr “ S St ° rC ’ ° ALL AND SEE D. DEMING, CtfuMy Rnn °unce to the people of Tioga County to fill all orders for Apple, Pear *y?* - NectA nne, Apricot, Evcrcreon and Deciduous Also Currants Jtaspbcrrics, Gooseberries, V Q 111(1 Strawberries of all now and approved vari- of Hybrid, Perpetual and Srnn '=a!nrm “"■ r Itosl! -’ -Moss, Bourbon, Noisette, Tea, top T ,‘“ a - a, "l Climbing Roses. . K L BBER Y_Tncluding all the finest new rn '-•ta Lila,, c A rietics of Althea, Cntyeantlnu, [T A,,, a ‘ I—S, ftyiingiaa. Viburnums, Wigilias Ac. ERS— P< "oui'is. Dahlias, Phloxes. Tulips, ' Uyaciutha, Narcissis; Jonquils, til larielios. «oz. plants, $5. ' " : ' v . / Grafting, Budding or Pruning will bo I’., .. u to. Address U. D. DIIJUNG, Wellsboro, Pa. THE AGITATOR Zlefrotcg to tfjc SSxttnaion of the ofiFmJjom anh the s»#vea& of ©ealttig Reform* WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIQHTED, 1 AND UNTIL ‘‘MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. voL yi. THE SEXTON’S DREAM. bt prants j. White. On a marble slab in the Churchyard old Sifcteth the Sex ton r gray, - At mid of night, os the olden .year Is sighing its life away. Pale and cold from the half-hid moon. Falleth a gentle beam, Playing along his frosted locks With a glittering silver gleam. Little he recks the clinging damp, " As bo bows in silent prayer; Nor the wind that springs with a lonely chill From the dead entombed there. He sleepeth now—on a sculptured urn He resteth his weary head, While noiseless round him gather All of his angel dead. Little ones time, Risen from out the mould. Brushing across his silveredlock3- Kinglets of silken gold. One of a fair and angel form Bondcth over him low. He smileth, or in his dreaming He claspoth her fondly now! Madge, with her tresses of sunny tint, Brow of a*heavenly snow, Who died sin broken and scorned of all. Weary long years ago. Madge, who had died on his heaving breast, Penitent, sobbing the while; Now, in God's Heaven of Holy Love, Shriven of all her guile. Softly she pillows the old man’s bead , On her bosom of driven snow. Whispering tales of tho oldon time, Of the buried long ago. Faint, from the tall cathedral spire, Cometh a feeble shout; Heavily now are the brazen bells Ringing the old year out. Gently his dream is fading away, Tho little ones all have flown; Yet not for a wearily passing year Is he left upon earth alone. The bells that are ringing the old year Out, Toll for the Sexton dead, Lying upon the marble cold Where he pillowed his weary head. —Evening Post Loving and Patient. A LESSON FOR HUSBANDS. “A faithful wife, a tender mother, a true friend,' the life of our departed sister was beau tiful. She had trial, pain, com mon lot of all; but there was this difference be tween our sister and many others—in lifer trials, pains and suffering, ehe was always loving and patient.” And with these words the minister closed the eulogy. His voice was earnest, and there was a low tremor of feeling in his tones, lie had known this faithful wife, this true friend well, and therefore he had uttered no mere common places, as he stood, uncovered, by the grave around which gathered the weeping mourners. “Loving and patient,” said one to another, as they waited slowly amid the flower-covered tomb-stones, on their way out from the ceme tery. “Yes, she was all that —few so loving, few so patient.” “And few with 1 more need of patience,” was replied. “They speak of home martyrs some times, I think shd was one. The loving heart asks for love in return, and if it receives not this food to nourish its life in sufficient meas ure, it droops, wastes, dies. So did our precious friend-" “You think so ?” . “I am sure of it.” “Mr. Carson was not an unkind man.” “He did not treat her with the brutality of an ignorant'French peasant, hut, for ail that, he is none the leas guilty of having diminished by years, the period of her earthly existence.” “Then it was an uncongenial marriage,” said the other. “A mild way of speaking truth,” answered this friend. “Yes, it was, I think, wholly un congenial for her. He was, probably, as well satisfied with her as he would have been with any woman. She ministered to his selfish pleasures, And was, as we have just heard, lov ing and pa lent, It was all right, so far as his enjoyments were concerned; as for her, life, I think, was lone long martyrdom of the heart.— But it is all over now, and she sleeps well.” And so they talked as they went out from the place of graves. “Loving and patient!” The bereaved hus band carried the words home with him. They had fallen upon his ears with a new meaning applied to his wife, and gave tp his mind a cer tain new perception as to her character —“A faithful wife, tender mother, a true friend.”— These were the minister’s words also, and they were sounding still in his ears. How singular ly elevated had become, all at once, Mr. Car sou’s ideal of his wife. Her character stood out with a new distinctness. “She had trial, pain, suffering.” Alas 1 and this was true also to the bereaved husband in a way never before appreciated. Back to his home returned Mr. Carson, and gathered his motherless children around him. How very, very desolate he felt. What a pres sure there was upon his bosom —what an aching void within. ' “Loving and patient.” The brief sentence found an involuntary repetition in his mind, — He kept saying it over and over, until memory began to draw pictures of the post. Let us transfer one of those pictures to the canvas.— Here it is. Mr. Carson gazed upori it until it gave him the heart-ache. They had been married over a year, when Mrs. Carson, who had not seen her mother du ring that period, asked to “go home,” a distance of some two hundred miles, and make a short visit. Since her marriage she had not visited tho dear old place, though tho heart kept going back to its loved ones, yearning all the while. •‘X don’t sea how that la possible,” answered her husband, coldly, and in evident surprise at the request. “You can’t go alone, and for me to leave my business is out of the question.” Tears came instantly to the soft brown eyes of the young wife. “I have not seen my mother since I came from home." , . Down, down through years, came to Mr. Car son the voice of his wife, as it trembled on this sentence. Not a single shade of its tender sad ness was gone. And now it fell upon sensitive ears that searched into all its meanings. But WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY. PA., THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 17, 1859. when living lip* uttered the words so faithfully kept by memory, they awakened no feeling of sympathy in hi* selfish heart. “Came from, home!", He then said, to himself, angrily, “Isn’t this her home f ” “Write to your mother,, and ask her to come and make us a visit," replied Mr. Carson. “Mother has' a large family and many cares —she could not get away for so long a journey.” “And you have cares, and a home where your presence is needed," said her husband. Then ie added, “No, no, Mary, I can’t see that it is possible now." can go alone." Tears had been gathering in spite of her efforts to repress them, and now a few drops fell slowly over her oheoks. “Don’t think of that for a moment. Xam particularly apposed to ladies traveling alone. I don’t think it at all safe. Apd then the baby is young. It would be certain to take cold, and might contract a fatal disease." “Baby is nearly three months old “It’s no use arguing the matter,” said Mr. Carson, with considerable impatience of man ner. “You can’t go, Mary, and you might as well give it up at once." Memory had kept with daguerreotype fidelity the expression of his wife’s face, when he flung back upon her this unfeeling interdiction, and now it was before him in nil its rebuking sad ness. “Loving and patient.” This was the com mentary. No angry, impatient, or rebellious word escaped her lips, nor did a frown disfigure her brow. But she seemed to shrink before him, as if a strong hand had borne down hard upon her. Two months from that time news came of the mother’s sudden illness. “I-must go home now,” she said. “It is impossible for me to accompany you— wait for a few days. Your mother will be well again." “I can go alone, Thomas," urged Mrs. Car son. “I will not consent to that Mary,” was posi tively objected. Next week, if your mother should continue to grow worse, I will go with you.” “Oh, Thomas! If I should never see her again!” “You indulge a needless alarm,” said the husband, coldly. “This sickness is but tempo rary, and will pass away.” The pleader was silenced, but the pale, sad face gave signs of intense suffering. A whole week passed without another word. Then came a letter from her father in these words; “Your mother is dying! Gome! Oh, come quickly! We have,been looking for you every hour during the last four days. Don’t delay a moment after receiving this, if you would see your mottcr alive There was no objection to urge now. But when Mrs. Carson re-crossed the threshold over which she bad gone forth a bride, it was to fall with a deep wail of anguish, insensible across the bed where lay the cold form of her almost idolized mother, back to whom she had so pant ed to fly, through more than a year of patient waiting. There was a strange expression in the face of Mrs. Carson for months afterwards. Its mean ing her husband did not seek to penetrate. In deed, perception with him had no plummet line that could reach far enough down to fathom her consciousness. Months passed ere any warmth came back to her cheeks, or any light to her dreamy eyes. Yet no murmer of reproach es caped her lips. She was loving,' dutiful and pa tient. But she never spoke to Mr. Qarson of her mother. Once or twice he referred to the dear departed one,.but she did not seem to hear his remark; and be, from a vague suspicion of the truth, held back from repeating the refer ence. With what painful distinctness was this whole scene restored, as Mr. Carson sat grieving over his great loss, ih the desolate home from which the light of a loving face hod departed forever. Oh, what would he have given for the power to change that one cruel act! Away from the rebuking record, written in his book of life, in characters never to be erased, nut it was only ta gaze upon another almost as selfish, behold -as this faded, memory restored other scenes in which he was the mean, painful opposer, and she the loving, patient, long-suffering wife. It had been all exaction on his part, and gentle compliance on hers, even through reluctance or pain. He had been a selfish tyrant; she a* yielding, dutiful subject, though often burdened beyond nature’s power of endurance. llow little had he taken her needs of mind and body into consideration, daring all the years of their married life. He had scarce thought of her as a being with necessities like his own; but rather as one given to be the ser vant of his wants and pleasures. It mattered little how she thought, felt, or desired. If her action served him that reached the compass of his estimates. "Loving and patient.” What a- new power to smite him as with a whip of stinging scor pions, was the testimony of the preacher gain ing every moment. Yes she had been loving and patient amid cruel wrongs and neglects, that sapped the foundation of her life. Loving arid patient, though daily she bent lower and lower beneath the heavy weight of her un cheered duties. And these were the memories that came back upon the bereaved husband, as he sat, with his motherles children, in the home now made des olate. There had been an angel in his house for years; hat in his blind selfishnes be bad not recognized her presence, even though her band crowned bis days with comfort, and made his pillow soft for him at night. And worse than this; for love, coldness; for gentle words, unkindly speech. . . Not a gleam of consolation found its way in to this night of sorrow and self-robuke. Our dead return not. As we have been to them so will he our memories of them—blessed, or ac cusing memories, according to our deeds. A Theoretically Benevolent Man, on being asked by a friend to lend him a dollar, an swered briskly, “With pleasurebut suddenly added, “dear me, how unfortunate I I’ve only one lending dollar—and that is out." Tops and Bottoms. Jonathan Dubikens, of a certain town in Connecticut, had, many years ago, grown tired •of sweating for his-father, becanse,- to use his own words, “he didn’t get nothin’, but cabbage and homespun," juuLas- for honors, he might once hasffbeen! promotedttoihnrank: pf corpo ral, if bis sire had not utterly refused to; loan him his cast off suit of regimentals. But, for all his disappointed hopes, Jonathan was a shrewd personage, ready to “gum the flats,” .whenever occasion offered, and exceedingly am bitious of hoarding shiners which he could call his own. Hie pockets, however, had never felt the weight of a single fourpence which did not spmehow. or other, find its way into, the family locker. He therefore broke his allegiance with the old man, begged three-and-sixpence of his grandfather, and journeyed westward;- Fortune adapted him as her own, and he, soon fell in with,a Dutchman, whose inner jnan borrowed its vivacity from the outer, which ranged, some where between Falstdff and turtle-soup fash ions, inclining, as years multiplied, to the for mer, and indicating absence of thought in pro portion to bis corporeal rotundity. Michael Von Higginbeck, girthed precisely eight feet Flemish, His words were few and emphatic— his movements deliberate to a charm—and he made it a chief boast that he had never been cheated. Jonathan learned at an inn that Michael had a snug, but untenanted farm in a distant county in New York; and after making sundry inqui ries touching Mynheer, repaired to his home stead and offered to take the untenanted farm “at the halves.” To this proposition Michael consented, adding a condition that he should have the tops and Jonathan the bottoms of all that was raised, Jonathan retired to his new abode to make 'the bSst of the bargain, and Mi chael to his pipe, chuckling at his adroitness in overreaching the Yankee. Time brought the harvest, and with it Mich ael to demand the rent. The season bad been propitious, and Jonathan had gathered in on abundance. “Will you take yonr half now, sir ?” “Yaw,” said Michael, j Jonathan pointed to a huge pile of tops —the bottoms were potatoes. | The truth suddenly flashed upon Michael’s understanding, but it was too late to grumble; there was his bargain and there were his tops. Thinking still to come around the Yankee, he rented the farm to him another year, this time conditioning for all the bottoms. The season elapsed, and Michael appeared to claim the bottoms; but Jonathan had cultivated nothing but wheat. “Mein Gott!” exclaimed Mynheer, “te tam Yankee gets te tops and te bottoms: but I will them bote mineself next' year. At the close of the year came Michael with his teams; but Jonathan had decamped with the corn - , leaving behind him according to agreement, all the tops and bottoms for the landlord.' A Protest Against Duelling. Colonel Baker stood before the corpse of Sen ator Broderick and delivered his eulogy. In the course of bis oration he said; When William of Nassua, the deliverer of Holland, died, in the presence of his wife, the hand that struck the blow was not nerved by private vengeance. When the Fourth Henry passed unharmed amid the dangers of the field of Ivry to perish in the streets of his capitol by 'the hands of a fanatic, it was not to avenge a private grief. An' exaggerated sense of person al honor—a weak mind, with choleric pajssions, and intense sectional prejudices, united.with great confidence in the use of arms, sometimes serve to stimulate the instrument which accom plishes the deepest and deadliest purpose. Fellow-citizens, one year ago I performed a duty such as I perform to-day, over the remains of Senator Ferguson, who died as Mr. Broder ick died, entangled in the meshes of the code of honor. To-day there is another and a more eminent sacrifice. To-day I renew my protest. To-day you utter yours. The Code of Honor is a delusion and a lie 1 It palters with the hope of a true courage and binds it at the feet of craft and cruel skill. It surrounds its victims with the pomp and graces of procession, but it leaves him bound bleeding at the altar. It sub stitutes cold and deliberate purpose for the -courageous and manly impulse, and arms the one to disarm the other. It may prevent fraud between practiced duelists, who should be for ever without its pale; but it makes the mere "trick of the weapon” superior to the noblest cause. It is equal in all its forms—it is une qual in all its substance. The habitude of arms, the early training, the frontier life, the border war, the sectional custom, the life of leisurfc— all these are advantages which -no negotiation can neutralize, and no courage eanovercome. But, fellow-citizens, the protest is not only spoken in yonr words and in mine, it is written in indelible characters; it is written in the blood of Gilbert, in the blood of Ferguson, in the blood of Broderick ; and the inscription will not altogether fade. ■ With the administration of the code in this particular cose I am not here to deal. Amid passionate grief let us strive to be just. I give no credit to rumors, of which personally I know nothing. There are tribunals to which they may be referred ; hut this is not one of them. But I am here to say, that whatever in the code of honor, or out of it, demands the deadly com bat where there is not in all things an.entiro and certain equality, is a prostitution of the name of honor—is an evasipn of the substance —is a shield, blazed with the name of chivalry, to cover the mean malignancy of murder. A lady, whose husband had “left his bed and board" for porta unknown, met one of herlcooa ins shortly afterwards who endeavored to con sole her by saying that she “appeared much better than he expected after so much domestic trouble.” “Trouble I” exclaimed the deserted wife, “I have no trouble at all compared with what Job had. Me lost his children,, his men servants and bis maid-servants, his cattle, his horses and his asses, while I have only lost one jackass POLITICAL. From the Delaware County Republican. Bon. John a and the Presidency. ' PuitiDiLPHiA,,Sept. 5, 1859. My Dear Sib: —Your article in May last, in relation to the nomination of Judge Read as the Opposition candidate for the Presidency, afford ed me much gratification, so far as it stated the incidents of hid career and exhibited the prom nent traits of his character; hut I think that your article might have been improved, had your information as to. the subject of it been more ample. Having known Judge Read nearly ever since he Entered upon active life ns a member of the Philadelphia bar, and witnessed the labors to which be owes bis reputation, I may be able to furnish you with some facts in his history which you may not yet possess, and which it may he desirable to you to receive from an authentic source. I therefore propose very briefly and plainly to tell you what 1 know of him, leaving; it to you to make use in your own way and time, of the information I may give you. 1 With regard to the family of Judge Bead I can say but little beyond what is generally known. His grand-father, George Bead, was a man of distinguished ability, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of the convention that; framed the Constitution of the United States, a Judge of Appeals in Admi ralty under the' Confederation, a Senator in the first Congress, and lastly, Chief Justice of the State of Delaware. His grand uncle, George Boss, was a signer of the Declaration of Inde pendence ; and George Clymer, another signer, was a family connexion. The two brothers of George Rend were actively engaged, and ren -1 dered valuable service in the Revolutionary contest. Thomas was a captain in the conti nental navy, add James an officer in the army. Both fought under Washington at Trenton and Princeton, and James served ns Major at Bran dywine and Germantown. Lieut. Col. Gun ning Bedford, who belonged to the Delaware regiment, and was Governor of Delaware after the war, was a brother-in-law. John Bead, the father of tbs Judge, was ed ucated to the |bar, and admitted to practice about 1790 or ’9l. He settled in Philadelphia, where he married, in 1796, a daughter of Sam uel Meredith, an active patriot of the Involu tion, and the first Treasurer of the United States, of whose father General Washington was an intimate friend and frequent guest. — John Bead wnsj a man of influence and talent. He served for two sessions in the Legislature of ■Pennsylvania as a representative from Phila delphia, and ah nnexpired term of four years in the Senate, was for some years City Solicitor, ....a ioid naa luaat. u. —: .3 . n.L dclphia Bank. ; He resigned that post in 1811, and died about five years ago, at an advanced age. John Meredith Bead, the subject of this com munication, is the eldest son of John Read, and was admitted to the bar in 1818 or ’l9. He was educated at the University of Pennsyl vania, and graduated very young. Students at that period often left the University, crowned with its honors, with no more Latin and less Greek, than is jnow required for admission to Yale or Princeton, and it is not likely that Mr. Read was an exception to the ordinary rule.— At a later period, feeling the want of the learn ing which he ought to bavo derived from his collegiate course, he labored to acquire it in the midst of cares | which most men would have thought sufficient to occupy their whole time. His appearance at the time of his admission to the bar was exceedingly youthful. Tall of stature and of manly proportions, his face was fresh and ruddy, and he looked as little like one given to the wasting of midnight oil in reoon- , dito studies as those least troubled with ambi- ! tious dreams. He read much, and bad a strong propensity for literature, but he was no student in the proper sense of the term, and partook with a zest natural to the young, of social en joyments. Life had not yet presented itself to him in its serious aspects', and he thought little of the honors of the profession for which he was ere long to compete. Within a year, how- ‘ ever, of his admission to the bar, he was ap pointed Solicitor for the Philadelphia Bank, and in that capacity became concerned in some important cases, in the management of which he exhibited a remarkable aptitude for legal practice. As business increased, a sense of its responsibilities compelled him to labor, in order : to acquire the I learning necessary for the full performance of his duties, and he soon becamo | distinguished for the diligence with which he i tried them. By degrees he acquired a rooted ! attachment to jhis profession, and studied the ' law as a science., He habitually came into court armed ati all points, and gave his client I the advantage'of a masterly manipulation of j the facts, and the utmost support of authority j of which his cause was capable. lie was not 1 liable to bo confused, disconcerted or flurried, j betrayed no surprise at an unexpected develop ment of the facts, but went through his case I steadily and without excitement, master of it I and of never forgetting for a moment the decorum due to the administration of j us tice, nor the courtesies becoqiing the practice of an honorable profession. He partook largely of the chivalrio spirit of the bur of the olden time—was fair and generous to an opponcut, and shared liberally with a colleague the fruits of bis own laborious preparation. Though early noted as a rising man, his upward course was necessarily slow and toilsome. There were giants in those days at the bar, and they mo nopolized the heavy practice, leaving but the gleanings of the field to their youthful co-la borers. In the fall of 1823 Mr. Read was elected a member of th'o House of -Representatives of Pennsylvania, and during the session of the following winter took an active part in the de bates of that body, and proved himself an able and influential member. He was re-elected the next year, and j had for his colleagues Judges Kane and Stroud, and Mr. Meredith, late Sec retary of the Treasury under Gen. Taylor, con stituting the strongest delegation ever sent by Philadelphia. ...... Having declined further service in the Legis-. lature, be applied himself with increased dili- "Rates, of Advertising. Advertisements will be charged $1 per square of 10 lines, ode or three insertions, and 25 cents for every subsequent insertion. Advertisements of less than ] f lines eonsideredtas a square. 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