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DIRECTORY.
~s 101VKET& S. F. WILSON,
Vr.ir.XEVS i COUNSELLORS AT LAW, will
4 the Court of Tioga, Pottor and McKean
r\Vc!Dboro'. Fob. 1, 135.3,]
" St Be BROOKS,
A XD COUNSELLOR AT LAW
‘ U.lvbt.ND, TIOGA CO. PA.
, pj,.;f.nj<le uf Counaelui*B there is safety.”— SibU.
DR. W. W. WEBB.
0-..JCE .ner Cone’s Law Office, first door below
Var:'- H"td. Nights he will he found at his
jeiK’c* f.r*t d'urabove the bridge on Main Street,
i' e «rdi t Samu(.l Dickinson’s.
X. DARTT, DENTIST,
/'"VI-’FICE at his residence near the
Academy. All work pertaining to
lilfrn’iTuia line of business done promptly ana
„ uJ [April 22, 1858.]
DOUSE
COINING, Y.
n £ VuE, Proprietor.
V, tej .. ukca tw aud from the Depot free of charge.
PEN I\S ILIAIS l A lfo US E
r IVKhLSBOIIO’, PA.
L. D. TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR.
~j. jrrvf.tl' }"i}iular house is centrally located, and
Vjj. u-lf io thv patronage of the travelling public.
’’Vl •
"IHEKICAN HOTEL.
' CORNING, N.Y.,
S FREEMAN, - - • - Proprietor.
Lodgings, 25 eta. Board, 75 cts. per day.
i.nnDg. .Mari.ii I*l, 1b59. (Jy»)
J. C." WHITTAKER,
Jh,flri<jnt(h ic Physician aud JSuryeon,
ELK LA.VP. TIOGA CO., PEXNA.
U'll\ 2-t patients in all parts of the County, orro
them ter treatment at his house. [June 14,]
' H. p. COLE,
BAlißCii A ;V D HAIRDRESSER.
HIIOP ia the rear of the Post Office. Everything in
S hae will be Aone as ■well and promptly as it
iu the city saloons. Preparations for re
.TUjq dandruff, and beautifying the hair, for sale
H.iir and whiskers dyed any color. Call and
a lVtiMj-.ro, Sept. 22, 1859.
GAINES HOTEE.
H C. VL'PMIL PROPRIETOR.
Gaines, Tioga County, Pa.
p'll' w. 1. kin.wn hotel ia located within easy access
[,•* t- st fishing and hunting grounds in Xorth'rn
j mu- will he spared for the accommodation
•clivers and the traveling public,
i':.. 1). Ibbl).
TU£ CORNING JOURNAL.
Starve W. Pratt, Editor and Proprietor.
u- nus'icd at Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y. t at One
[ Ear-an J Fifty Cents per year, in advance. The
.-J !• Republican in politics, and has a clrcula
‘.Mclung into every part of Steuben County.—
!->« leprous of extending their business into that
e ad; fining counties will find it an excellent ad
r s '"r tiiO'l.mn.' Address as above.
D I&JCSS 1A K 1 NO.
Hlv M. A. JOHNSON, respectfully announces to
pi :ht’ an."-'ns of ‘Wellsboro and vicinity, that she
j. -i-e’. rooms over Niles Elliott** Store, where
}_ -• fep itv<l to execute all orders in the line of
ill" MUvING, Having had experience in the
<he feels conGdent that she can give satisfac
'v!'ij may favor her with their patronage.
JOHN B. SI3AKESPEIU,
TAILOR.
liVIXG opened his in the room over
Um Il.Jn.rts Tin Shop, respectfully informs the
t.t Wellcb'-ro' and vicinity, that he is prepared
:.:e inler* in his liue of business with prompt-
-w-ad il‘>[ alc'.i
Cct'inj done on sh'trt notice.
‘ii.ro, (At. 21. ISOS.—6m
I WATCHES! WATCHES!
f"E S ito.'nl.er ha*. srot a fine aasortment of heavy
AAVi'/A// LEV Ell IJUXTER-CASE
3 G»l(! and Silver Watches,
? “* ’e w.Il sell cheaper than “ dirt” on ‘ Time/ i. e.
'** ■■ s .1 ‘lime Piece.-’ on a short (approved) credit.
i l -bii. of REPAIRING done promptly. If a
- r ' f t\ u nut done to the satisfaction of the party
? 1“- no charge will be made.
jht .r,nr« appreciated and a cuntiuanco of patron-
si*li'“Ued.
ro. June 24, 1848.
’HOME INDUSTRY.
'Ph.-CKIPER having established a MAR*
a t-I.E M \NI’FAfTURY at the village of Tioga,
I" 5 U t-rep.m dto furnish
I bailments, Tomb-Stones, &c.,
tRUOKT iV ITALIAN MARBLE
‘■Ay...‘(fully solicit the patronage of this and ad
-1 ai: <>d stock on hand jio is now ready to ex
-1 r, lfrs nuh neatness, accuracy and dispatch.
" T rk dt..herd if desired.
JOHN BLAMPIED.
Co., Pa., Sept. 23, 1850.
" 31. TEBBELLi
• COKXING, X. Y.
wholesale and Retail Dealer, in
‘ lj '- .{’id Medicine*. Lund. Zinc, n,nd Colored
*. 1 'irnidi, Urunhet >• Cntnyheucand Vurntng
h- .Vi ,j}\ S-nlr and Glut*, Pure Liquors for
Medicines, Artists Paints and lirn*hc* }
\ I-inri. Articles, Platorimg Extract*, «£c.,
Al-SO,
.'■-■.f'r.i'! as-urtmciit of School Books—
hhiuii 80-'lvs, .Staple and Fancy
y Stationary.
■/ ( brug'/st.- and Country Merchants dealing
'■ l '" articles can be supplied at a small
■' 11 * v «w Y-.rk prices. [Sept. 22, 1857.]
1 ft SOlEllWlCP!
rA'Pl'osiTE HOY'S DRUG STORE,
I ' Ouy Stoves, Tin, and Japanned
\ v..! r “ J°r oat-half ike usual prices,
r- —' I! * P'etated Oven Cook Stove and Trim
v. _ il > and Hardware
r Pav.
lv ‘“ n y >'Ro who wants anything in this line
,J,i r pnct< before purchasing elsewhere.
• „V' ‘ ne plice— two doors south of Farr's Ho
y.i'l 1 '- 1 '"-'’ 8 lJru = Store - CALL AXD SEE
£>. DOMING,
I ' l '' ''nnimnco to the people of Tioga Coasts
’ r- l>tr-<l to fin all orders for Apple. Pear
< 4 -.. ( rC ’*nnv. Apricot, Evergreen ami Deciduous
' AUo Cui ninu Raspberries. Gooseberries,
a ‘ ’* stuwbcijjts of all new and approved rari
nf Hybrid, Perpetual and Sum
. /»r „,, M r I’o-i-, Mots, Bourbon. Xolsette, Tea,
4Prn r 41 Hoses.
: V UoER all the finest ncww>
.. v , _ A nrtir-s of Althea, CaJ.vcanthus,
tjW wr,t -'*- ?yriagiafi. Viburnums, Wigilias Ac.
'* ER,S— Pa e ft niea. Dahlias, Phloxes. Tulips,
Hyacinths, Narcisais; Jonquils, Lib
l l^n,
-tfnM?' l ,‘" l ■ , Strawberry. 4 doi. plants, io
Bud-ling or Pruning will bo
• ‘ * Mr*- iv
n t.. ra.
TilE AGITATOR
VOL. VI.
From tbo Religious Recorder.
TRUST IN THE LORD/
“Trust in the Lord and do good; bo shalt thou dwell lu the
Land and renly thou shalt be fed.”
“Trust in the Lord” the mighty king
Who bears his people cry ;
Trust in bis name for he avows
To hear thy faintest sigh.
Well be remembers wo are dust.
We children of bis love;
Ho breakeib not the slender reed
Forbearing friend above.
“Trust in the Lord” for thou art made,
Heir to a fadeless crown;
Abide in him so shalt thou 'scape
The terrors of his frown.
Long shalt thou dwell with those thou lovcafc
Thy hands our work shalt see,
Kre thou exchange this cumbrous coil,
For immortality.
“Trust in the Lord” thou shalt be fed,
Nor thirst nor hunger more;
His fullness well supplies our need—
While lingering on life's shore ;
Wo would be tbino then ever more.
Give us our “daily bread”—
Lord 'tis the food of life we ask,
’Tis that we would be fed.
} 0 give us Lord the richest dews
I That grace divine distills;
1 The fountain head! whose peerless light
Illumines Zion’s bills.
Then trust bis name, nor eager be,
1 The sybil’s lore to know j
No longer hang the voiceless harps.
Where Babel’s waters flow,
Lawreuceville. M. A. S.
The following story was taken from that in
teresting boob, “Parley's Thousand and One
Stories." It is founded upon, an occurrence
which actually took place in Vermont some
forty years ago. The facts are almost literally
related as follows: *
My liked the business of
carrying the mailßetteix,than I did; and sol
went to work in a new clearing I had com
menced, o-bout a mile and a half from home,
.and not quite so far from the house of a brother
in-law. I used to stay as often at one place as
at the other. It was a bad arrangement, as,
in case of accident, neither family would be
alarmed or go to look for me, if I should not
come home. I felt the force of this in v the
course of the winter, as you will see directly.
There had fallen one of our old-fa.sliioneil
Northern New Yoik snows crusted over hard
enough to bear a man. I was getting oh fa
mously with my clearing, getting ready to build
a house in the spring. I was ambitious, and
worked and late, going without my din
ner Bome|iays, when my bread and meat I had
brought in my pocket were frozen so hard that
I could mjt masticate it, without taking up too
much of my time. One day it was intensely
cold, with the prospect of a storm that might
hinder my work the next day, and so I worked
on as long as I could see, and after twilight I
felled a tree, which m its descent lodged against
another.! I could not bear the idea of leaving the
job half finished ; I mounted the almoj>t pros
trate body to cut away the limbs to let it down.
The bole of the tree forked, about forty feet
up. into two equal parts with large projecting
lim 1 8 from both. It was one of these I had to
cutaway to bring it to the ground. In my
haste perhaps I was not so careful as I should
have been, at any rate the first blows cased the
lodgement, so that the tree began to settle, and
I was just going to jump off, when the fork
split, and as it did so, one foot dropped into the
space, so that I -could not extricate it for the
moment, but I felt no alarm, for I knew I
could cut awny the tree in a minute, or draw
my foot out of the boot, as the pressure was
not severe. At the fir?.t blow of the axe, the
tree took another start, rolled over, and the
split closed with all its gigantic strength, crush
ing my foot until the very bones were flattened,
and there I hung suspended, just able to touch
the tips of my fingers in the snow; with noth
ing to rest upon for a minute—the air at zero
and growing colder—no prospect of any one
coming that way that night—the nearest house
a mile away—no friends to feel alarmed at my
absence, for one would suppose me safe with
the other.
My axe in its fall, rested upon the snow crust
about ten feet off. If I could only got that, I
might yet save myself. 1 did not think how I
was to cut myself loose from the body of that
great tree, suspended as I was, head down, and
suffering with the rushing current of disordered
blood : yet I thought in that keen blade my
. -only hope of life was fixed. Just forwarder
me grew a slim bush, which I thought if I
could obtain, I could form into a hook by twist
ing the limbs together, and draw the axe with
in my reach..
Although the hush was out of my reach, I
at last succeeded in getting hold of it by means
of a loop by tying my suspenders together. I
drew it towards me and cut it off with my pocket
knife—one of that sort so long known as ‘Bar
low knives/ having a single blade about two
and a half inches long and three-eights of an
inch wide, with equal width all its length, set
in a handle of peculiar shape, half its length,
iron and the other half horn or bone, I suc
ceeded admirally in fashioning my hook, and
almost felt the handle of the axe within my
grasp, so certain was lof success. From the
tree that imprisoned me the ground descended
rapidly for a dozen- rods or more to a little
creek. My axe lay upon the brow of the hill.
The first movement I made towards twisting
the loop of my stick around the handle, so as
to draw it within my reach, loosened it from
its icy rest, and away it went down the hill
crushing through the little frost brittle bushes,
down to a little fall a few rods below, and over
that into the unfrozen pool, with a surging
sound as it fell into the water, that seemed to
send its icy .chill through every vein and artery
in my whole body.
I still had ray knife. True, it was a rough
surgical instrument, but hope and the love of
life gave me strength to climb up by my fas
tened leg and cut away my boot and stocking,
and then with that knife I unjuinted my ancle
and fell to the ground—my leg a footless, bleed
ing stump ! The intensity of the' cold saved
me from bleeding to death. I tore off a part of
my coat, and with my handkerchief and sus
penders managed to hind my leg with a hand
ful of snow, and started to crawl home. I suc
ceeded in reaching within sight of the house,
and then my strength utterly failed me.
ANDIE FOLEY.
Befcotea to tfje sSxttmion of tfte area of jFmaom anJf tsc Spread of ©calt&£ Reform.
WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
WELLSBORO., TIOGA COUNTY, PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 8, 1860.
A Thrilling- Story.
I tried my voice in vain, for I could make
no one hear me. I exerted myself once more,
and crawled towards the road that I knew He
man must come. It was a painful task, for,
besides my exhaustion, I was perishing with
cold. Just then I heard the sound'of ray bro--
ther’s stage horn, and the jingle of the bells
coming down l the bill. I strained my voice to’
the utmost pitch, but ho did not, could not
bear; but there was another friend—man’s
faithful friend—who did hear. Old Hunter,/
the noble old dog, had insisted on accompany
ing Heman this trip, and’brother said, “Let
him go; who knows what good may come of
it?” Good did come of it, for his ear was
quicker than Heman’s, and he roused up at the
first cry, and as the second cry reached his ear,
he leaped out and in a minute was where I lay
upon the snow. He smelt all around, and I
heitTup my footless leg. Just then the sleigh
bad got up the hill; Hunter sprang hack into
the path, barked loudly, and as the horses came
up, he seized the reins, and would not let go
till lleman called a halt.
Hunter let go his hokl on the horses, jump
ed back to the sleigh, caught hold of Neman's
hand, pulling off the mitten, and away he ran
back where I was, and commenced barking fu
riously: but I heard nothing. The effect upon
me when I knew I was discovered by that faith
ful old dog, and that he never would desert me,
nor cease his efforts until he obtained help, had
caused me to faint. My brother knew that Hun
ter was not at play—that something was the
matter —and he jumped out of the sleigh' and
ran after me.
In a little while I was at homo ; the .doctor
was sent for and my wound properly dressed-
I eventual!}’ recovered, but was, however, a
cripple for life.
The First Found of Franklin’s Party.
From Capt. M'Clintock’s extremely interest
ing “Voyage of the Fox in the Artie Seas"
published by Ticknor & Fields, we take the fol
lowing account of the discovery of the remains
of Sir John Franklin’s men :
“Wo were upon the shore along which the
retreating crews must have marched. My
sledges of course traveled upon the sea-ice close
along the shore; and, although the depth of
snow which covered the us of
almost every hope, yet we kept a
look-out for traces,.nor were we unsuccessful;-
Shortly after midnight of the 24th of May,
when slowly walking along a gravel ridge near
the beach, which the winds kept partially bare
of snow, I came upon a human skeleton, partly
exposed, with here and there a few fragments
of clothing appearing through the snow. The
skeleton—now perfectly bleached—was lying
upon its face, the limbs and smaller bones
either dissevered or gnawed away by some
animals.
A most careful examination of the spot was
of course made, the snow removed, and every
of clothing gathered up. A pocket-book
afforded strong grounds of hope that some in
formation might subsequently be obtained re
specting'the unfortuate owner and the calami
tous inarch of the lost crews, hut at the time it
was frozen. The substance of that which we
gleaned upon the spot may thus be summed
up:
The victim was a young man, slightly built,
and perhaps above the common bight; the dress
appeared to be that of a steward or officer’s
servant, the'loose bow-knot in which his neck
handkerchief was tied not being'used by sea
men or officers. In every particular the dress
confirmed our conjectures as to his rank or
office in the late expedition—the blue jacket
with slashed f sleeves and .braided edging, and
the pilot cloth great-coat with plain covered
buttons. We found also a clothes brush near,
and horn pocket comb. This poor man seems
to have selected the bare ridge top, as affording
the least tiresome walking, and to have fallen
upon his face in the position in which we found
him.
It was a melancholy truth that the old \yoman
spoke when she said, ‘they fell down an|l died
as they walked along/
I do not think the Esquimaux had discovered
this skeleton, or they would have carried off
the brush and comb; superstition prevents
them from disturbing their own dead, but would
not keep them from appropriating the property
of the white mao if any way useful to them.
Dr. Rac obtained a piece of flannel, marked ‘F.
D. V., 1845,’ from the Esquimaux of Boothia
or Repulse Bay ; it had doubtless been a part
of pour Dcs Vocux’s garments.” *
What Toney Don’t Believe.—He don’t hc
leve that a man is any wiser for having A. S.
S., or any other letters, tacked to his name.
lie don’t believe a lawyer is any keener be
cause he wears a pair of spectacles.
lie don’t believe that Schoolmasters,’Physi
cians, and Ministers like to be contradicted a
whit belter than other folks.
He don't believe that all Lawyers are rogues,
any more than he bclives that an eel is a snake.
lie don't believe that the most industrious
man likes to work except when he can't help it.
He don't believe that two young lovers like to,
be caught with their anna around one another.
He don't believe that a young lady ought to
be married before she is twenty-one at least.
He don't believe that young gentlemen should
marry before they are able to support a wife.
He don't believe in getting up early in the
morning, without going to bed early at night.
He don't believe a man is a fool because be
can’t make a speech.
He don't believe that because both wise and
wicjdy begin with a W, that they end in the
same thing.
He don’t believe that a lady is much the
worse for wearing a bustle, though ho decidedly
prefers coffee-bags.
In fact, he don’t believo in a great many
things that'others believe in, and the result is
that he his voted an oddity and a bore, and we
don’t believe that Toney has justice done him
in genera).
“Mrs. Partington makes Shakspeare say,
"Sweet arc the uses of advertisements.” It’s
a : —if he di In.t iK”
Anecdote of John Jacob Astor*
The following amusing anecdote is told of
John Jacob Astor, in the double character of a
patron of literature and parsimonious money
holder, which appears to be exceedingly char i
acteristic. Among the subscribers to Audu-i
bon’s magnificent work on ornithology, the]
subscription price of which was §l,OOO a copy,
appeared the name of John Jacob Astor. Dur
ing the progress of the work, the prosecution
of which was exceedingly expensive, M. Audu
bon of course*called upon several of his sub
scribers for payments. It so happened that
Mr. Astor (probably that he might not be
troubled about small matters,) was not applied
to before the delivery of all the letter-press and
plates. Then, however, Audubon asked for
his thousand dollars : but he was put off with
one excuse or another. “Ah, Mr. Audubon,”
would the owner of millions observe, you come
at a bad time: money is very scarce ; I have
invested all my funds,” At length, the sixth
time, Audubon called upon Astor* for Ids thou-,
sand dollars. As be was ushered into his pres
ence, he found Wm. B. Astor, the son, conver
sing with the father. No sooner did the-rich
man see the man of art, than he began: “Ah,
Mr. Audubon, so you have come again after
your money. Hard times, Mr. Audubon ; mon
ey very scarce.” But just then catching an
inquiring look jfrmn his son, he changed his
tone: “However, Mr. Audubon, I suppose we
must contrive to let you Lave some of your
money, if possible. William,” he added, call
ing to his son, who had walked into an adjoin
ing 'parlor, “have we any money at all in the
bank?” “Yes, .father,'* replied the son, sup
posing he was asked -ns- earnest question per
tinent to what they had been talking about
when the ornithologist came in, “we have §22,-
000 in the hank of New York, §70.000 in the
City Bank, §OO,OOO in the Merchants’, §98,-100
in the Mechanics’, §83.000—’ “That*il do,” ex
clajmed John Jacofc interrupting ill in. It seems
thaf William can give you a check for your
money.”
The Knickerbocker does up a yarn in a su
perior manner. Thorn is more truth than poe
try in the following sketch from the experience
of a country doctor—a fact that more than one
of time bidly-trcatrfd and worse-paid class of
individuals would be willing to verify on oath :
The poor doctor is called from his bed on a
-stormy night with the stirring summons:
“ you to como right straight
away off to child's dead."
“ Then why do you come*? 4l —-
, “ He's poisoned. They gin laudlufiribr-qiiir
egoriky."
“ How much have they given him ?"
“Do no—a great deal. Think he won't get
over it."
The Doctor pushes on through the storm’—
with divers mishaps on tho way, and at length
arrives at the kmi*e of the poisoned patient.—
lie finds it all closed—not a light is to he seen.
He knocks at the door, but no answer. lie
knocks furiously, and at last a night cap ap
pears at the chamber window, and a woman’s
voice calls out—
“ Who’s there ?”
“ The doctor, to be sure. You sent for him.”
“Oh, it’s no matter, doctor. Ephraim is
better. We got a little peered, kinder. Gin
him laudlum, and ho slept kinder sound, but
he’s waked up now.” L
“ How much laudanum did he swallow ?”
“Only two drops; tain’t hurt him none.—
Wonderful bad storm to-night.”
“ The doctor turns away, buttoning up his
overcoat under his throat, to seek bis home
again, and tries to whistle away mortification
and anger, when the voice calls:
“ Doctor Doctor 1”
“ What do you want ?”
“ Yuli icon i charge nothin* for {hit iciU you? 1 *
It will be hard to resist a tear to the mem
ory of the brave, in reading the following
incident, which occurred on hoard of Perry’s
vessel, after the battle on Lake Erie;
One poor fellow was sent below to the sur
geon, with hss right arm dangling like an emp
ty coat sleeve at his side. It had boon shatter
ed near the shoulder and amputation was pro
nounced unavoidable. He bore the painful op
eration without a groan or murmur, although,
“ cold drops of agony stood upon his trembling
flesh.” i
An hour nr two after his arm was amputa
ted, be called the surgeon to his .-side and said;
“ 1 like to see roy arip, if you have
no objection.” vfi?
“None in the world,” replied the surgeon,
“ if you desire it.”
The amputated limb was at/once brought to
him, and poor Jack pressing-tho cold hand
which had * forgot its cunning,’ in his left ex
claimed with tears in his eyes : -
“ Farewell old messmate! You and I have
weathered many a tough gale together, but
now we must part! You have been a good
friend to me ; I shall never find such another !”
A Droll Post-master. —In (he days of An
drew J.rck>on, Iws Post-master General, Amos
Kendall, wanting to knojy where ahouts was
was the source of the Tombigbee river, wrote
for the required information to the post-master
of a village on its course. " Sir,” wrote the
high officer to the lower, “ this Department de
sires to know how far the Tombigbee river runs
up. Respectfully yours, &c.” The reply was
brief and read thus: “Sir, the Tombigbee
does n’t run up at all; it runs dowb. Very re
spectfully, &c." The Post-master General con
tinued the correspondence in this style : " Sir,
your appointment ns post-master at is re
voked. You will turn over the funds, papers,
&c., pertaining to your office, to you-' succes
sor. Respectfully, &c.” The droll understrap
per closed the correspondence with this parting
shot: "Sir, the revenues of this office, for the
quarter ending Sept. 30, have been 05 cents;
its expenditure, same period, for tallow, can
dles and twine, was $1,05. I trust my succes
sor is instructed to adjust the balance due me.
Most respectfully, «fcc.”
Every one thick® ho has more thu: Lis share
cr |
A Story with a Moral*
Door-bell rings. The Rev. Mr. is in
troduced to the family room, where three chil
dren are busily engaged at play snuggled in
the corner of the room—the mother diligently
engaged in sewing. She rises to meet the ‘min
ister’ and salutes him, while ho, with lofty, cold
repulsive dignity, says:
“Good morning, are you well to-day ?”
And dignified takes a seat.
After la moment’s pause, he says, in the same
unbending manner;
“Trust, madam, that you have been well
since I saw you last I”
“Thank you sir—quite well.”
A brief pause.
“I hope your family have been in good
health ?”
“Well, I thank you—aside from the ordinary
sickness of the children.”
Another paused
“I trust that you have found consolation and
rejoicing since my last visit,” etc., etc.
And thus passed away some fifteen minutes
—the children all the while having suspended
their play with a kind of indescribable fear,
which children can look, glancing wonderfully
at the mother.
Rising to depart, with the same unrelaxing
dignity, the clergyman said:
“I leave my blessings with you and your
family, Mrs. , and will bid you good morn
ing." 0
Hardly had the door closed, when a little
boy of four years ran towards his mother and
clinging tightly u her dress, raised his eyes in
quiringly and with the simple earnestness of a
child said;
.“Mamma, mamma, was dat Dod?”
Diabolical.
In a small town, in one of the counties in
Ohio, a stranger rode u p to the door of a tavern,
and having dismounted, ordered a stall and
some oats fur his horse. A crowd of loafers—
that class of independent citizens who are never
equal to decent men except on election day-f
-swarmed about the bar-room and steps waiting
to be “invited up to the counter." Among the
crowd the stranger’s business was at once the
subject of impertinent speculation. One fellow,
more imprudent than the rest, made free to en
quire what occupation he followed; to which
the latter replied that his business was a secret
at present, hut that he would probably make it
known before leaving town.
Having spent a day or two looking around,
visiting the places where whiskey was sold, and
making various inquiries as to the amount re
" " ' dl© number op habitual drunkards in the
ifjdoga kept hy mon whose
jid enough to
phu'o ; the n'
children never went toscfi
eat—after, in short, making a compteT?mnj»val
inventory of the town, he concluded to leave,
and having mounted his horse, wai about to be
off, when his inquisitive friend, urged on by his
associates, stepped up and said ; \
“See, here, Captain, you promised to tell us
your business before you .left, and we’d like to
hear from you on the point.”
“Well,” said the stranger, “I am an agent
for the Devil—Pm hunting a location for hell,
andi am glad that I have found a place where it
will not be necessary to remove the present in
habitants.”
Mr. Webster was speaking on one occasion
some years ago, in Faneuil Hall. If I remem
ber right, he was arguing in favor of the “Mays
ville road” hill. Mr. Otis sat near him, on the
platform. Mr. Webster proceeded as follows.—
“I am in favor, Mr. Chairman, of all the roads
except—except—”
Here he stuck, and could not think of any
exception. Mr. Otis saw his difficulty, and said
to him in a low voice.
“Say the road to ruin 1”
Mr, Webster heard, and, as if he had merely
stopped for the purpose of making Ins remarks
more effective, repeated the whole as follows;
“I repeat, Mr. Chairman, I am in favor of all
roads except the road to ruin.”
The wit in Otis, in this instance .was well
met by the presence of inind in Webster.
“Ctesar, dis chile gwine to Washington to
’ply for offis ob de gobernment.”
“Well, darkey, what arc you trying to get
off now, eli?”
“I’s gwine to ’ply for the post of sexton in de
Post-offis Apartment?”
“Sexton of Post-offis Apartment?”
“Yes, sah ; I berry de dead letters. Some
times—you hear, Caesar?—sometimes dey hab
money in ’em, and den I rifle do corpse! Y r ou
see ?”
An" exchange having anemneed there
was no occupants of the jail in that district, ex
cept the jailor, a neighboring journal remarked,
that "it was very good, to be sure, there’s nobo
dy in jail; that is, there is nobody that ought
to be in jail,” "Whereupon the first named ed
itor rejoins, that he can assure his cotemporary
there is nobody in the district who pught to be
in jail; “and,” he adds, "we trustee will not
pass through the place and disturb the plcsant
reflection.”
The total eclipse of the sun on the'lBth of
next July, will be a very important one to the
‘scientific world. The director of the Dorpat
Observatory was the first to remark that at the
moment of obscuration, four of the principal
planets—Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn
—will appear in the vicinity of the eclipsed sun
as a kind of rhomboid.il figure; a phenomena
of such extraordinary rarity that many centu
ries will elapse before its repetition.
"The boy at the head of the class will state
what were the Dark Ages of I the world?”
Boy hesitates —“Next—Master Jones, can you
tell me what the Dark Ages were V l ' I guess
they were the ages before the spectacles were
invented.
Three cockncy’s-being out one evening in a
dense fog, came up to a building that they thus
dscribtd. The first said : ’ "There’s, a nouse,”
"No,” said the second, "it’s a nut.” The
'Mrdi'ii, ’ Y~u're r* T h «ir.n 6 -it'^anin.”
Hates of Advertising,
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ecuted neatly and promptly. Justices’, Constables’
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NO. 32.
COMMUNICATION.
In order to show why land In Virginia is not
so desirable or so valuable, as in Pennsylvania,
I have taken two counties —-.one in each State—>
and compared them. These counties are Craw
ford in Pennsylvania and Caroline \n Virginia.
The advantage of location are abopt the same,
but preponderating, if either way,*in favor of
Caroline. j
Crawford in 1850 had 187,481 acres of im
proved and 205,609 of unimproved land reduced
to farms, valued with the and im
plements at §5,328,09(|, or §13,55 per
Caroline had 187,047 acres of improved, and
127,547 acres of unimproved land -reduced to
farms, valued with the improvements and im
plements at §2,780.447 or §8,84 per'acre.
This estimate does not show the relative price
of improved land in the two counties. Calling
however, the unimproved land in elich county,
worth five dollars per acre, we can arrive at tho
price of improved land with greatef accuracy.
Taking that method we shall find .the average
value of improved land in Crawford-to be about
twenty-three dollars and in Caroline eleven and
a half dollars per aero.
The value! of all the land crops of Crawford
in 1850 was §1,721,350 —of her qtock £1,767,-
510—of her manufactures making
an aggregate of §4,404,188, being§ll9 to each
person and §23,49 to each acre of improved
land. j *
The value of all the land crops in Caroline
in tho same year was §912,375 —of her stock
§527,235 —of her manufactures §206,*861, mak
ing an aggregate of §1,646,471, lieing §B9 to
each person and §8,77 to each acre improved
land. *
We will leave out of view the stock and man
ufactures, and then the literal product of the
soil will be in Crawford 845,50 to each person
and §9,20 to each acre improved, or with the
stock included and tho manufactures excluded
§92,20 to each person and §18,50 each acre
improved—in Caroline taking the [crops alone
§49,43 to each person and §4,80 each acre
improved, and taking crops to‘eaeh'
person, and $7,67 to each acre improved.
Caroline with apparently a much less number
of laborers, works the same amount of land as
Crawford and yet produces to each .person of.
tho aggregate inhabitants only, §7B, and §7,67
to each acre, while Crawford produces §92 to
each person, and §18,50 to each acre improved.
And yet the soil of Caroline is naturally as fer
tile and its climate much more gonial than that
of Crawford. . ]
Who can for a moment doubt that if the in
habitants of Crawford were transported to Car
oline and set down upon her-soil agltheir own,
thoy would, in a very few yearn, niiake it one
rTT ?rmt»tJjniitful and fairest on earth ?
f oo, tCaroline's
population, with all their disaLUiEes^nv4-mades
And who; too, can
of living and culture made the sole
of Crawford, that in a very few yeajrs it might
be said of her ns of a tribe of old f 4 the glory
of Crawford has departed.”
There are other points on which we may
profitably compare the two counties..-
Crawford in 1850 had a of 37,849
free denizens all but ninety-nine of .whom were •
of pure white bloo'd, while Caroline: tiad a pop
ulation of 18,455, only G,891 of whom were
free whites and 11,505 colored, of much 10,001
were slaves. ,
The former county in 1850 had fi|So2 dwell
ingthouses being nearly six persons in each
dwelling and the latter had 1,451: dwelling
houses and nearly thirteen persoiia in each
dwelling. ' ■£
To teach the higher branches of education
Caroline had an annual income of $lOB2O, but
she had in her higher schools only one hundred
and fifteen students, while for pur
pose Crawford had an annual income of only
811,991 and yet she had in her higher schools
seven hundred and seven students. '£ ' I
In her public schools the former bounty had
510 pupils and her annual educational income
for that purpose* was $6,336, while‘Abe latter
county with an annual educational|:income of
§15,700 had in her public schools 9,J96 pupils.
Of the whites above twenty yearsjfof age un
able to read and write there were i£i Caroline
493, or one in every fourteen • whlls| in Craw
ford there were only 27 or one in evlpy 1398.
And taking the laws of Virginia a.*§bar guide,
Caroline has in her borders in a population of
,18,4-36 at least 12,058 unable to read* the Bible
or to write their names—yet she teaches them
the doctrines and principles of and
loicly Jesus ! ! for her church accommodations
are relatively equal to her northern sisters.
It is for the interest of the white population of
that beautiful county of Caroline to - continue
in their present condition. They riiayown tho
blacks and the soil—a soil worth
of dollars and the swarming, teeming and fruit
ful black population valued at more than
millions and rapidly increasing. Increasing
for what purpose '! Perhaps in turn {to be mas
ters ; but a? a people to be compensated at tho
expense of tho race that enslaves, Or there is
no immutable moral law. it
What farmer of. Crawford county with hi*
family of sons and daughters would plunge him
self and them for life and for their IHes into the
midst of such a population as Caroline presents
for the soil and the slaves of a thousand such
counties? Jl'Emeuy.
“Occasional” writes from Washington, that
Mr. Buchanan is extremely indignant at what
he regards the insult put upon his dignity. It
is related of him, that when he heard of the
decision of the House as to the Clerkship, ho
broke out in a torrent of invective, using terms
not the most polite, and showing how true it ia
to have, as Byron expressed it, “afovJner friend
a foe,” the affection of years soon being lust in
the acerbity and bitterness that have sunplan
ted it. - j
“My son, what would you do if ;your dear
father was suddenly taken away from yuu V*
“Swear and chaw tobacker!” f
It is not natural I With men as t-'A9,
early risirr a ,f forcing. \
For th« Agitator,
Crawford and Caroline^