of Publication. “ ttOOA COUNTY AGITATOR is published I® ?,«,!«» Morning, nnd mailed to subscribo price of , ■■ dollar per ANNUM, -'■ih in odronre- It is intended to notify every .rheii the term for which ho has paid shall s^'re J hv the stamp—“ Time Oct,” on tho mar- Ij't paper. The paper will then bo stopped farther remittance ho received. By this ar id s , „o man can ho brought in debt to tho Agitator is the Official Paper of the County, steadily increasing circulation reach everv neighborhood in tho County. It is sent cto any I>ost offi . co wit hi Q the county most convenient post office may bo County. ii% 3 Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper inclu* year. •_ - ' IUSINESS DIRECTOEy. _ Vis'tOWBETA S. F. WIESOW, lIIORSEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW, will 4 .(lead I* lo Court of Tioga, I‘ottor and McKean ['i'ellsboro’, Fob. 1, 1863.] bkooms. rmnNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW i‘‘ U EJ.KI.VND, TIOOA CO. PA. thf mnUUu'lo of Counselors there is safety.’’— Bible. 3pl, 23, IS6S I _Ty I '~~VVL. W. W- WEBB. rrT pp oV cr Cone’s Law Office, first door below I v r's Hotel. Nights ho will bo found at his ■Jnee fir=t door above tho bridge on Main Street, Samuel , c *. DAUXT, DEWTIST, i i - , /"ypFICE at his residence near the \ I Acuderay. All work pertaining to lino of business (lone promptly,and [April 22, 1858.] turantad, DlCKlffSOaf HOUSE co]tX I x u " . . I q Proprietor. taken to raj from the Depot free, of. charge. I pleTn KS V I VANIA- HOUSE ‘ WEI.I-SBORO’, PA. L. D. TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR. n,i< deservedly popular liouno in centrally located, and .sJj ii-.'lf lo tin- palronnge o( tlio travelling public. ”t'r. W- ; HOTEL. -> roiiNi-su, X. V., g FREEMAN, - - Proprietor. K ili 25cts. Lodgings, 25 cts, Board, 75 cts. per day. fnrofng. Mart'll 41. 1359. (ly.) "—j. C. WHITTAKER, lli/itnijiiilhlc I’/iyiiclnn and Surgeon. EI.Ki.AND. TIOGA CO., PEXXA. ' Kill visit patients in nil parts of the County. -or ro- T f them for treatment at his house. [Juno 14,] 11, O. C OE E, HArJII.’I! AM) JIA Ul-EJtEESEJI fi|loP in the rear of the Post Office. Everything in S [n'= line will ho done as well ami promptly as it .le done in (lie city saloons. Preparations for ro dandruff, ami beautifying the hair, for sale Hair null whiskers dyed .any color. Call and h. Aiellsbnro. Sept. 22. 1850. | GAINES HOTEL, !I.C. VKHM/j/yEA,. PltOPltlKTOn. Gaines, Tioga Connty, Pa. Till? well known hotel.islocated within easy access uf tliehe-tfidiin" and hunting grounds in Xortb’rn >1 Xo pains will ho spared for tho accommodation if pleasure seekers and the traveling public, tpri! M. 185'). _ Tini rOHASNG JOSJR.HAL. George W, Pratt, Editor and Proprietor, TffuMisheil at Corning, Steuben Co., X. Y„ at Ono ] li'.lm'r ami Fifty Cents per year, in advance. .Tho .mail: Republican in politics, and has a eirrula '.smelling into every part of Steuben Comity.— fr-edesirous of extending their business into that dike adjoining counties will find it an cxccllfcut ad ■ciinnj medium. Address as above. CODDL'BSPORT HOTEL COI'DKR.SPoRT POTTER CO.. PEXNA. 5. F, Glassmirc, - _ - Proprietor. . THIS H>)TKI. is located within an hour's drive o the head wateis of the Allegheny, Genesee, and 'ifielianmi r'n crs. Xo efforts arc spared to make ali\wc for pleasure seekers during the fronting eea u.ai'i for the traveling public at all times. Jin. ; S7. IS.VJ, ly. \ 10HA B.IHAKESPMR, f , T A I I/O R. HAVIXCi opened Ilia shop in the room over Ifni. Huberts Tin Shop, respectfully informs the ukdj of Wellsboro’ end vicinity,(hat he is pnyiarcd "'mule orders in his line of business with prompt and despatch 1 • Cutting done on xhort notice. Jfellslmro, Oct, 21, 1858.—full WATCHES! WATCHES! IHE Subscriber bus got n fine aasortment of heavy KSUUSH LEVER HUNTER-CASE Gold ami Silver Watches, '.kb be wifi pell cheaper than “dirt” on ‘Time/ i. c. n*Rlsc!! ‘Time Pieces'on a short (approved) credit. AH kinds of KKPAIKI Xii done promptly. If n ' of work is not done to the satisfaction of the party .'■•kring it, no charge will bo made. favors appreciated and a conliunjicc of patron kindly solicited, il - ANDIE FOLEY. AVcllsboro, June 21, 1818. m home industry. pIK STBPCKIBKH having established a XfAR -1 BLK MAXI’F.UTORV at the village of Tioga, 'niche i» prcparcil to furnish Monuments, Tom!)-Stones, &c,, " be-t 'Ett.HOIKT&ITALIAS MARBLE V;'* rc«ptctfullv solicit the patronage of this and ad- Cfmntk*?. giving a good on hand he is now ready to cx order? with neatness, accuracy and dispatch. _ Adiryrk delivered if desired. JOHN RLAMPIKD. _ Tioga Vo-, Pa.. Sept. 28. 1 Soft. WJF. TERBEEE, I COKXIXO, x. V. Wholesale and Retail Dealer, in .Ud ‘iii'htnt, L»fid, %!nr, and o*dor*d m ,f . \ "rn{*h f (*nmj*hrue and Iluming i, and (Rax*, Pure Liquors for - I''i(eu( Mt‘ilicinpft l AytixtnJ > aintx and Rrn*he», ■ bnnaj AiticltFlavorin'*? J'Lvlrovl*, <£*«•., ALSO, —A general n««ortmcni of School Looks— * ' I’l.Uik Puuks, Staple and Fancy . .Stationary, vinans, Druggist? and Country Merchants dealing the above articles can he supplied at a small -n New York prices. [Sept. 22, 1357.] M-W STOtK AMI Tl.\ SHOP! HOY’S DRUG STORE, „m /,ae -I 011 <'<ui -htiij 'jYfoiv.'j', Tin, and Jajianned i J{'* rc fib fine-fed f ihc usual jyriccs. "t *l' S Oven Cook titovo and Trira sls,oo. ■'Winds „1 Tin and Hardware r C! M'. V I’ny. I^ ;l - v an y cue who wonts anything in this lino ollr Price? before purciinsing elsewhere. c! . e place- -two doors smith of Farr's 110- HoyVDrug Store. CALL AM) SEK 13 • W e |?^>»‘innmn*c to tlio peoplo of Tlopa County v'kewj y U y vr .' l ‘* fiH -ill orders for Apple. IVfir i * Aprlrot. ami Hcfuluous k .m7v Oitrranl** Kn-plN'rrh’fs tu M otrau hemes of all now ami approved vari —‘ “'’HMlnq of Hybrid, Perpetual and Kum ‘^PUril«urbon, ,Xoifcetto, Ten, Ulp-*; JJ * llO,l HunMne Uosejt. In file finrM nrw rti l.ilifw v,' , A riotipf? nf Althea, Calyeanthua, M HUr rVn r YPmu mims WlgilUj* A;c. «4 t ’VLRS-- I>ac,m i‘ w * I'llilUs Pblw*. Tulips, r V*’- ifiacmilu, Najvitua; Jonquils I**l - -•*. 1 ofri nr:. t;- ( .Hing or Pinning ,i PI l-o t n - »■ i i i .V.V , pa. Til Befcote* to tfce WHILE THERE SHALL VOL. y; From the Springfield Republican YE AND BYE.” ; when our hearts are gay. Vs young slty is blue and bright, the morning hours away a thought of the coming night. wo will win of fame nioho in her temple high, .11 ring with our honored name, j that are coming "‘bye and bye." But time rolls onward arid hope delays Ilor flattering promise to fulfill!. Yet we list to her song of the future days, And, trusting as over, believe her still. IVo heave no sigh for the swift-winged hours That are flitting by us so silently,— IVc aro lookin'" still for the thornless flowers' That we nrtj to gather “byo'and bye." Years remorselessly speed away, Stealing tin bloom from the fading cheek, Streaking the sunny locks with grey, But never 1 ringing the good wo seek, Till weary of sorrow the aching breast -Butlongs i;i the quiet grave to lio. And only sighs for tho dre/imiess rest That shall to Us portion "bye and bye." , Hero in our cjirysalis state we lie, Shaping wings for’a heavenly birth, And the spirit, that fain would mount and fly Is bound by life’s pitiful creeds to earth ; But soon or late shall its chains be riven, IVe shall gain the knowledge for which wo sig’ “Why much was withheld and little given,— AVq shall kpow Clod's reasons “bye and bye.” IVinciikiios, [Mass. , N, A. IV. P “B Wo say it first When ourjli And we dretitn With never "Byo'and bye' Some lofty i The world shal In the yearij 9 Mrs. Ch]ld to Governor Wise. TUo following sharp paragraphs of a let from Mrs. Lydia Maria Child to Gov. Wi sufficiently explain for themselves the circu stances under, which they were written. W, all his gigantic letter-writing powers, the G: ornor has found more than his match in t; Boston woman, who at first only inquirer him whether she could visit old John Browi safety: “In your civil but very diplomatic repl; my letter, you inform me that I have a cot tutional right to visit Virginia, for peacet purposes, in common with every citizen of United States. I .was perfectly well aware t such was the theory of constitutional obligai in the Slave States ; but I was also awar what yon omit to mention, viz; that the ( stitution has, in reality, been completely systematically nullified whenever it suited convenience) or the policy of the Slave Po Your constitutional obligation, for which profess so much respect, has never proved protection to citizens of the Froe States happened tb have a black, brown, or ye complexion ; nor to any white person w you even suspected of entertaining opinions posite. to your own, on a question of vast i portance to the temporal welfare and moral ex ample of our common country. This total disregard of constitutional obligation has been manifested) not) merely by the Lynch law of mobs in th ( o Slave States, but by the deliberate action of Magistrates and legislators. What reg'ard was paid to constitutional obligation in South Carolina, when Massachusetts sen; the lion. Mr. Hoar there as an envoy, on a p irely legal erranjd ? Mr. Iledict, Professorof Politi cal Economy in tho University of North laro lina, had a constitutionol right to reside ir that State. Wliat regard was paid to that 'ight, when ho vyas driven from his home, mere y for declaring that ho considered Slavery an impo litic system, injurious to the prosperity of States ? respect for constitutional rights was manifested by Alabama, when a bookseller in Mobile was compelled to fleo for bis life, be cause he had, at the special request of some of the citizens, imported a few copies of a novel that everybody was curious to read ? Your ownlcitizcn, Mr. Uunderyvood, had a constitu tional rigiit toj live in Virginia, and vote for whomsocycr he pleased. What regard was paid to his rights-, "when he was driven fron your State forpecldring himself in favor of tie elec tion of Fremont? With these, and a multitude of other Examples before your eyes, it would seem ns if the loss that was said about :'espect for constitutional obligation at the South, the better Slavery is, in fact, an infringer lent of ind adheres to no law save for its own i of oppression. accuse Capt. John Brown of 'w ;jf butchery for the mothers, :s, and babes of Virginia; and of the well-known fact that In for the crimes of murder, r I will not stop hero to expla i that old hero to be no criminn ;o principles which he sough i’ methods sanctioned by his o ews, though not by mine. A pt. Brown did attempt a sell hurdcr, robbery, and treason ] wn consciousness, involved, I Gov. Wise can consistently him for jennies he has himself commc You have threatened to trample on tho tution, and break the Union, if a in a the logajl voters in these Confederate! dared- to elect a President un favor abb extension of Slavery. Is not such a, tion proof of premeditated treason ? Spring of 3842, you made a speech in C frwh which I copy the following; “ ‘Ocjco set before the people of ll Valley the conquest of the rich Mcxic: inces, find you might as well attemj the wind. This Government might troops>ib u t they would run over the herd of (buffalo. Bet the work once b I do not know that this House would! very long. Give mo five millions oj and U would undertake to do it myi though' I do not know how to set squadron in the field, I could find mer Slavery should pour itself out without and finld no limit but the Southern Oct Camaiichos should no longer hold th mines of Mexico, Every golden imaj had iceeivod the profanation of a false should soondio melted down into gooi can eagles. 1 would cause as mud cross the Rio del Norte as the mules could carry ; aye, and I would make of it, too, than any lazy, bigoted under heaven.’ all law, a purposes "You : knives cj daughter; form me raigned treason.’ I believo mart3 - r I vanc« gious vi that Cal which i to his c bco how ten you thus boasted that you 1 loafers’ would overrun tho tro States ‘like a herd of buffi lr,.jov.t tout t'.A.a to arrest you. “W ‘bnotc United yttMfilow « nn» the Spcea# of ®ealt6» » A 'WRONG UNRIGHTEI), A ND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST OONTII OSOj TIOGA COUNTY, PA'., JEPjKRSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 8, ..1859. WELLS! of a neighboring nation, at peace with tho'Dm-' ted States, did you not pledge yourself to coin* nut treason ? Was it not by the murder of iih oSending Mexicans that you expected to ad vance these schemes of avarice and What humanity had you for Mexican and babes/ whom you proposed tomake'child less and fatherless ? And for What purpose was this wholesale massacre to take- Not to right the wrongs of an oppressed 'clishV not'to sustain any great principle of justico,4)f of freedom; but merely to enable ‘Slavery to; pour itself forth without restraint.’ ,:r ' “Even if Captain Brown were as bad as you paint him, I should suppose ho miist natiirally remind you of the words of Macbeth':/ ■ ‘We hot (each : Bloody instructions, which,'heing : tnugAt/tctUrn'i, a To plague the inventor: This eron-liaudcdfijustiee? ■ Commends the ingredients of our poiaotp;)! chalice To our own lips.’ ■' ' ■' “If Captain Brown Intended, as you say, to commit treason, robbery, and murder v I think I have shown that he could find ample author ity for such proceedings in the public declara tions of Gov. Wise. And if,,as,ho himself-dc: dares, he merely intended to free the oppressed* where could he read a more forcible lesson. thai\ is furnished by the State Seal of Virginia? I looked at it thoughtfully before I opened your letter; and though it had always appeared to me very, suggestive, it never seemed to me as much so as it did now in connection with Capt. John Brown. A liberty-loving hero stands with his foot upon a prostrate despot; under his strong arm, manacles and chains lie bro ken ; and the motto is ‘Sic Semper Tyrannic ‘Thus be it ever, done to Tyrants.' And this is the blazon of a State whoso, most profitable business is the internal Slave-Trade I In.whose highways cofllos of human chattels, chained and manacled are frequently seen I And the Seal and Coffles are both looked upon by other chattels, constantly exposed to the same fate ! What if some Yezey, or Nut Turner, should bo. growing up among those apparently quiet spec-, tutors ? It is in no spirit' of taunt or of exul tation, that I ask this question. I never think of it but with anxiety, sadness, and sympathy. I knew that a slaveholding community necessa rily lives in the midst of gunpowder and, in this ago, sparks of free- thought are flying in every direction. You cannot quench the fires of free thought and human sympathy by any process of cunning or force; but there is a method by which you can effectually ivet the gunpowder. England has already tried it with safety and success. Would that you could be, persuaded to set aside the prejudices of educa tion, and candidly examine the actual working of that experiment! Virginia is so richly en dowed by nature that Free Institutions alone arc wanting to, render her the most prosperous and powerful of States.” lom s>p i al- The following, which we clip from the New ark Advertiser, contains much food for reflection, not only for Farmers and their wives, but also for many who move in everyday life in our large cities. ! < "I am a farmer, and so was my father before me. I have not followed in his footsteps in the way of managing the farm, because I 'have taken Agricultural- papers, and have learned much that was not his to know; and what’s more, the railroad has come within three miles of me, so that the old farm upon which my father toiled so many years, is worth five times what it was in his day. lam not one of the kind of men who croak and grumble about old times. I enjoy modern times, and would not give up my machines, and go back to the old ways of doing things, by hand, for any money. I often wonder if my father can look down from Heaven, and sec tho mowers and reapers fly over the old places where he toiled and sweat. I cannot help chuckling to myself, as I sit in my sulkoy, and ride over the old fa miliar places; cutting down the grass, and raking it up again, like half a dozen men ; to think my boys can go to school all tho year round, and never need suffer from the watft of learning, as I do even to this day. My wife is up to the times, too, and likes to giver her family a good chance in the world, She is a good manager, rising early, and rising to some purpose. I owe half of my prosperity to her help and counsel. My boys arc growing up healthy, sensible young- fellows. The two, oldest harness up the old mare and go to tho Academy, tiirco miles off, and excepting a little while during hay and harvest they do not lose a day all tile year round. The only thing that troubles mo is my daughters. Nanny the old est, is a fine, handsome, smart-girl of nineteen. She went to the district school till she was six teen, and then she had learned all there was to learn there. So we concluded to to Mrs. Drake’s Seminary, about fifty miles off. — She did get along amazingly. In two years she had learned a pile, and besides had painted .beautiful pictures enough to cover our parlor walls, (though I must confess I suspect her teacher gave her a lift at that now and then.) She could sing equal to our parson’s wife, and can set tho tunes in meeting when the Squires away.. She knew tho French for everything around the house, and understood botany, chemistry, natural philosophy, and more things than I could mention. , * lotting sisters, you in- is ‘ar- • ibbery, e in why 1 1, but a ; to ad- n reli- ilowing emc in ,vcrc, to do* not arraign ended. — ) Consti inority of 1 1 States ii to tho dcclara-' In the engross. ic Great in Prov to stop Iscnd its like a While she was at Mrs. Drake’s she only came home at Fall and Spring vacations, and then was so busy sewing and getting ready to go back again that her mother did not think it worth while to set her to work. AVell, last Spring sho caruo homo for good, and a joyful day it was to mo. 1 felt happy to think I had a daughter who had a good education in her head, and spry healthy hands to work. But she is a spoiled girl, for aught 1 can see. but her mother thinks she will como to, after while. i :gin, and , hold me ' dollars, self. Al a single r to do it. i restraint, ;< an. The he richest ;o which worship, I Ameri- Sho can’t bear to'seo me in my shirt sleeves, no matter how'cleari and white, but insists upon my wearing alinenlduster ; for she has learned that “it is disgusting to eat with a man in his shirt-sleeves.” Sho is right-down ashamed of her mother’s hands, because they show that she has been a hard-working woman all her life.-r- Our home-made striped carpets that have al ways been my pi’i.h- .i,v il: to be seen."— gold to f Mexico letter use riosthood and your ipsof tho 1..,' if the UlV.lSlwO 'r \ i - ■% ) ' 1 Fanner’s, Girls. r ! ~ G-i'.7 ' j-i, ;Sbo won’t let Bob and Dick run about bare ifooted, for she-aays they lo,bk like beggers. She ;hMi written their names in their spelling-books and Dickie, and- written hors Xan&e Wmj'thb, She says she would rather not eat Ml servants—that is our hired man and wo iiSan who have lived with us six years, and were jbSrn and raised on the nest farm. It makes jhtir sick'to smell pork and cabbage. She has forgotten how to milk; but if anybody'rides ;by-when she is milking, she gets behind the j($W and hides her head, as if she was stealing (iSe rhilk'. ■ I have stood these things without ‘ saying much until last Sunday, whemsbe insis ’ted upon our hired people sitting up in the gal ;loiy, because wo needed all our pew^joom. I vjj hired two pews to have room for all. I ‘kggw.she expected two boarding-school misses ifcjfetoako a visit, and was planning to get our 'men-folks out of sight. I bolted at this, ; aM had a regular blow-up, and toldiXancj she ’ Was-getting too bigfeeling entirely fot a farmer's daughter. She staid home from church and cried ah day. I hate crying women! more than a Jong drought, so I shan’t dare scold her again, il aon’t want to be hard on the girl, but what am t tb'ilo ? lam willing to let her feed the chick ens ifi gloves, and spell all our names wrong, tjnd I’d just as lieves havo the boys wear shoes, but when it comes to overturning everything, and being ashamed of her father, mother, and homo, I am discouraged. I have bought her a piano, and let her learn music two years, for she is naturally musical. She came near fainting one night when the Squire’s son, just out.of college, and a whiskered chap from the city, were here, because I said: “Come Xancc give ns a tune on the pinny.’’ I saw something was wro'ng, but couldn’t guess what, for I bad on myi duster, and wasn’t tipping my chair back, (“a vulgar trick," Xancy calls it.) The' next day,my wife told, mo what was to pay. I. must say that I like] my old-fashioned way of pronouncing as well as her new-fashioned way of spelling. And only this morning after breakfast when her ma told her to shake the table-cloth, what does she do but take !t way through the long hall and out the back door, for fear some one wf uld see her shake it in the same place where si; e had for ten years. I’ve got a new boughton carpet for the parlor, and now she wants the f :ont windows cut down to the floor. ’ Yesterday she ca| might “teach a clisir “Why; do you want keep six girls like y cant think of your j began to cry again,) tears; so I said “ teach. all Winter and Suj school-house, not as fear she will get tan her. hands helping 1 Now, I have giy •three fine girls gror willing to give them believe in it, in spin have made. I won tell mo of any place can get a good educ sos. I can’t stand too big for our old-pv them sensible, wolljJ down my foot agai school teachers . Anecdote of Jim ted to us an anocdoi war which has nev( the American Arm; battle pf Buena Vis, and down the line < The Mexicans had on a neighboring in away most furiously But as tho gurfs we: every case passed c ciently near to can the peculiar whiz oi “duck,” their head! notice this and in h bawled out •. ' “Indiana Bcgimc: In about five mil whiz of a 24-pound head of the gallantl involuntarily he be saw this, and comm lino, which the Ocr with a sort ,of qu: dered out; “Indianaillogim Sow nv Tirn Wav si dm. —A Christian traveling on a steamboat distributed tracts. While they were taken and by many, a gentleman took one, and folding it up, cut it with a pen knife into small pieces ; then holding it up in derision, throw it away. One piece adhered to his.coat; ho picked it off, and looking at It, saw only the word “God.” itc turned it over; on the other side “Eternity.” He wont to the bar, called for brandy to drink to drive them away, but in rain. I Then to the gaining table, -tojfsocial intercourse and conversation; but those solemn words haunted him wherever he went, until ho was brought a penitent to the feet of Jesus. What an encouragement to the Christian traveler to sow seed by the wayside ! In preparations far a journey, never forget the package of tracts. Scatter them that you may thus win souls to your Saviour.— American Messenger. That which thou hast to do, do it with all thy might,” said a'clergyman to his son one morning. “So 1 did,” said Bill, with .an en thusiastic gleam in his eye. rf Ah ! what was it, darling?” and the father’s fingers ran through his offspring's curls. “Why, I walloped Jack Edwards till he yelled like blue blazes. You should just have heard him hollar, dad.” The father looked unhappy while he explained to him that tho precept did not apply to an act like that. ,Ir the girls would have rose on their cheeks they must do as tlje roses do—go to bed with the lilies, and get up with the morning glories. But then we should not waut.thc-iu to sleep in sin I. .Ertv li.-dii, p * AT no to mo to know if she 'id school “No,” said I, tto teach ? X am able to |ou, if I had them. No, I teaching.” Upon this she land I can’t stand woman’s tl” and she is going to teach miner, in a little bib of a good as my pig-house, for ned and freckled and spoil lor mother. |cn up TS'ancy, but I have >\ving up. I am able and i all a good education, for I |e of the dreadful blunder I id like to know if you can where a farmer's daughter iatlon and not lose her son t to have our other girls get ■ shioned farm-honsc; I want ■{informed women, but I set anst having them all turn John Smith. La.ve. — A gentleman rela e yesterday of the Mexican r been publislied: When r was forming line for the ;a, Gen. Lane was riding up >f his Indiana llegiment.— stationed some small guns which were blazing f on Gen. Lane’s regiment. 3ro badly aimed the ball in over their heads put suffi- Jse the men, ns they hoard I the balls, to involuntarily la. Gen. Lane happened to ils rough, stentorian voice he jnt! Xo dodging!” iimtos after, the tremendous 1 shot 1 passed close by the ißrigadicr and jn an instant pbbed Ids head. The nicn uancod a titter all along the oral saw. Turning around zzicnl expression, he thun- mt! Dodge the big ones 1” LET ME LIE B Let me lie by mym 'Mid bright bloon Where I’ve ivanderc In happier hours. ’Twould bo sweet tb Near my own chi Where in fancy’s hi I still Jove to rda O’er the grave of tl Whoso love I no’i How oft I have km 'Neath the eve’s And prayed to my Whose precepts i To help mo to moe! In Heaven abov( She is not here to As thoughtless I Through this dark 1 For Heaven is h Then place mo hes Let the same flo O'er my own tone! And my dear mi ZiOd but A mother, sitting at ovcrheiird her child, w addressing in an adjoij edly, as if in answer : to say my prayc “How many belie thought the' mother ■ same thing in heart, t from themselves the f; “Mother!’' said thq or two after at the ptii look implied that it =’ tion. “Good morning, m; “I’m going out to i “Stop a minute; I me first,’’ The mother laid 1 next chair, ns the bo took him up. lie kn his face down upon against her ear. Th> back and forward. “Are you pretty w she in a kind, gentle, “Yes mother, I a,vh “I am very well t( this morning, and \ thanked God for takii o', and ■ dund th ng care ■ “Did you?” said t) a whisper. • Ho pauf was at work tel my yj (ite of si! “Did you ever f mother, after a min' time taking the hoy her lap, and placing “No, hut 1 you hav “Well, don't you beating?” “Yes,” said the c “If it should stoi his fingg u felt mi; feel min hifdl • i beatin. once.” “Should you ?*’ “Yes, and I cann “Who can ?” A silent pause. “You have a puls bosom hero, and in and I cannot keep Nobody can but Gcc care of you, -who v ot keep i c, too, w, your arnl it beatin d. If he ould?” j iother,” said the child with ind another.pause ensued. ! up this morning, I thought take care of me. I hope ' me and nil the rest of us.” i to take care of me 7” J “I don’t know n a look of-anxlety— , “So when I wok I would ask God tr ho will take care o “Did you asklm “No." I “Why not?” “Because 1 thou ;ht y self. Ood likes to have A long pause enoued expression of countei heart was reached i “Don’t you thinkyoi self?" “Yes,” answered tin He kneeled age n in uttered in his owi i sin prayer for the pre teeth en. Suppose another overhearing the same into the room. “Did I not hca say youv prayers?” The hoy is silo it. “Yes, he did/’ mys fellow. • i ‘you “Well, that if very naughty. You!ought always to say your prayers. (Jo right back, now, and say them, like a good boy, and never let me hear of y( u refusing to do so again.” , The boy goes >ack pou ;ing, and utters the words of prayer while his heart is full of mor tified pride, vest tion and the worst kind of ill will. Plki.v.—A recent traveller, speaking of the Chinese town o ’ Pekin, e ncl the first impres ts on entering within the sions a stranger I'ccel wall, says: “Once lie bnls pas northern gate, measi stupendous wall,' am will bo entirely hewil confused and du sty mi cabs, hundreids i d can gobs in their cnee fast asleep on their sity of wide, perfect streets ; a living occi beggars, of edo'es, bai upon kettle dru ns, oi then, right am. left, hotels, surmour ted 1 wooden walls b ;auti. in fact it is a scene si no,dream could ever ired the thickness; ,of the id is fairly in Pekin, he Idorcl ; all before him is a iass of colors, men, mules, mels, with the weary Mon rod gowns, enthroned and high summit; an immen tly straight, and endless ;an cf the most degraded irben, blind men beating 'rotors delivering speeches ; , brilliant shops, cafes, and by long poles of all colors, daily carved and gilt over ; in unique in the world that bo qo eccentric.’' .—When Algcrnoivfnyd mig'it save'his life by tell denyinghia handwriting— md has brought mo into a . mui.t asuert,a lie or lose ■a a clear indication of my lo.itl/l" falsehood. XOUT.!; CWj T'.TCN' ney was told that he ing ft falsehood —hy he said: “When Gi dilemma in which 1 my life, he <lvs!> nv lory, lII' r. it !■' J-i for run. , NO. ID. • the Agitator. TIIKR. MY i jthcr, iling flower ; d with lovi id ones bcr, imo, 3 ere to slim i dhood'e h< t ight vision ot mother, r knew, It me. : ailing de • nether, f re love, si her wide me, roam vale of so t home. 0e her; , vers bloom ■ firiivo | tiler's toml ■ro it ; Addik lot Sri' •k in her parlor older sister was jbom, say repeat tor, “No I don’t her vror hom an o ling bodrl o his sis good standing,” If “Often say the cy conceal, even it.” 'crs in o hersel hough tli ieling of child, ap lor door, joaring a minute The tone' and morning saluta- vas his child.” fast.” ly break I wantyou to come and see down upon the jward her. _She her lap, and laid lulder, his cheek rocked her chair er vror ran ti islfid in her sin mother ell, this tone. '■ morning ?” said very wi rhen I woke up at I was well, I if°me.” i a low" tone, half this—conscience he boy i: aftei mlflo ?” asked hie (once, at the same ■nd setting him in irs on her wrist, tire?’ ' down a now ? how it goes I should die at beating.” liieh beats in your s and all over you, Ig, nor can you.— : should not take ou would ask him us f sk for ourselves.” The deeply thoughtful lance, showed that the had better ask foryour- readily, his mother’s lap, and pie, broken language, a m ard blessing of llcav caso. Another mother avoids, calls the child 10 boy siy ”ou did not want to Ids s ster behind the little issed under the ponderous Rates of Advertising. Advertisements will bo charged $1 per square of 10 lines, ono or three insertions, and 25 cents for every subsequent insertion. Advertisements ojF loss than 1(' lines considered as a square. Th.csubjoined rates will be charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly pd vertisoments: 1 1 3‘months. 6 jro.N-Tirs.. 12 months. $5,00 $4,50 $0.0,0 j 6,00' 6.50 - ‘B,OO 7.00 5,50 10.00 '/ 8.00 9.50 , 12,50 16.00 20,00 30.00 25.00 35,00 ,60,00 Square, - S • do. >1 do. 1 column, . i do. Column, Advertisements not having the number of insertion, desired'marked upon them, will he published uijtil or dered ont and charged accordingly. ' 1 , Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads and oil kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments, ex ecuted neatly and promptly. ■ Justices*; Constables’, and other constantly on hand. yOLlflc'AL, Por tho Agitator. Judge Read, and j tho Presidency. Hugh Yocxo, Esq., Dear Sir: — l do not oft en trouble newspapers with effusions from my pen, but the efforts which a few inconsiderate persons arc making, to place John M. Read in the way of the Presidential nomination for the Republican party in 1860, so works on my fdelinge, that I am constrained to offer a few comments, nnd present some features, in the personal* of this ’public man, not generally known, and which his qym partial friends, ei ther do not know, or purposely keep back. I deem it proper to premise, by saying, ini justice to myaolf, that I have not, at -any time,/ had a political Controversy, or private difficulty,! with Judge K-oad, to give rise to my prejudices; or acrimony to my feelings, and can therefore write about him dispassionately. Besides, it is an anxious desire to serve the Republican-party which prompts me to travel so far out of my ordinary beat, as to. write for a newspaper about any person or thing. Judge Head is a democrat of the Jackson school, of the most unscrupulous character, going all lengths with his party, and seconding all measures originated to promote the success of its candidates, down to a very late period.— Yet he was never popular with his own party, aufd nover was suported by it for any office of consequence, although always extremely anx ious for distinction in it. He belongs to onc.of the old families of Phila delphia, and was uniformly put, down by the masses, as an aristocrat. His stiff and digni fied demeanor, his taciturn and unsocial quali ties towards all commoners, no doubt gave rise to this unfavorable opinion of the man. But whatever the cause, such is the fact, and it was brought to my notice many times while active ly engaged in polities during a residence of some years in the lower porf'on of our State.'— The strategetic policy of the Democratic party never allowed it to place its of success on such unpopular men ; and nothing but fatal blindness car. load tb‘o Republicans into such an error. In his political economy, Judge Read is free trade to the fullest pxtent'of the loco foco party. Indeed, that party never went far enough', to carry out his theory, as may he found in his essays on financial policy, published in the Pennsylvanian some years ago. This, is against the man. For two thirds of the Republican party are not free-trade, if they are not positively protective tariff men ; and the reason this was not brought out against him when running for judge, was because it was not con sidered of consequence in this office. . So that in public, as in privale life. Judge R. has no element of popularity about him, notwithstand ing the heavy .majority he secured over- tfm ri val for Supreme Judge, this being entirely at tributed to fortuitous circumstances. He was the first candidate in' the Sta’te, on whom the Republicans, and Americans united. The Le complon outrage, of President Buchanan had just culminated, which so aggravated the whole Opposition of the State, and .many of the loco focos also, that all minor differences- were laid aside, in order to give an overwhelming expres sion of condemnation against the administra tion. Besides, Judgo Il’s. rival, as the son of Gov. D. R. Porter, was verysainpopuJar even in his own party, and Mr. Road was little known out of Philadelphia—hardly a thousand voters in the interior of the state 1 had, heard of him prloFto his nomination for the,Judge-ship. How then could his popularity affect the vote he re ceived? Yet this popular expression, called out by the bold wickedness of a uewly elected Pres ident, is the sole reason why J. M. Read's name is brought out in connection with the Presiden cy. Had it not been for this circumstance, Mr. R. would have remained in the shailo the Re publicans found him in. i As a candidate -for the Presidency, Gen, Cameron, or our own AVilmot, far [transcend in ' claims, and essential qualities, Jujhn M. Rend. Both these gentlemen have come up from among the masses, possess their generous promptings, and share, and command their sympathies.— Both arc well known and truly popular. The vote, the latter received when running for Gov ernor, was no more a tost of his political strength than was the election of Mr. R. an evidence of individual popularity. The energies of the Re publican parly bad just been exhausted, and its spirits depressed by a defeat; and in a good measure distracted by the hopeful promises of the now President. Then the prejudices of the old tariff whigs, was aroused against Air, W, for his course on the tariff in the Congress of ’4O, and their votes partially carried off.— In this work the American party was officious, and efficacious; yet Judge Read for whom this party voted the following year, was infinitely more objectionable in this respect. And un der the circumstances of the parly, no man in the State,'c.ould have polled so large a vote at that .election as Wilnrot did, ■ r That Judge Read is eminently qualified for the Supreme Bench, no one who knows the man will question for a moment. lie is by habit, and talentsjitted for the place. But his very fitness for this position, unfits him as a candidate fjjr the Presidency - . Ill's rigid digni ty is in place here, while there, it is most ob jectionable. Nor is (he stolid indifference to impressions from without, and the systematized habitude of suspicion with which all men are regarded by him who has spent nearly a life time in threading legal intricacies, and in dark ening or lighteing up commercial rascality, any less befitting the one, and unbefiting the other. For these aid in suppressing sympathy, and repulsing temptations, against which a judgo is required to be on his 'guard. And if the Republican part}’ palls for a cold, unbending, proud, suspicious, parchment incused, andrulc of-law devotee as a candidate for the Presidency in 1860, John M. Read is the man ; but 'before if goes into the contest with such a man, it had better bespeak its coffin, and prepare its requi em. So thinks Feus Grcsoi*. ‘ November £Glh, 1850. “Captain, what’s the faro to St Louisi” What part of the boat do you wish to go on,[ cabin or deck ?” “Hang your cabin,” said the! gentleman from Indiana, “I l.ve in a e.tbiii at horn : gi.-r or-.tio.- Ir-.-f vouLegor." I
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