I s I I Terras of Publication. p • 1 , [o( j \ COUNTY AGITATOR is published El!®*. .Ji'v M-'niiug, and mailed. to. subscribers | V price of F >^' oxC DOLLAR per-annujw, I':, '*, ~ dmme. It is intended to notify every ffrL’**' - -' V [n the term for which he has paid.Bhall i, v the Oct,” on the mar. ,'.t paper. The paper will then be stopped Sr 'VViiV remittance bo received. By rim pr ||; * , n o man can be brought in debt to. the $ W' Vrvioß is the Official Paper of the County, steadily increasing circulation reach ;Sl3%rv neighborhood in the County. It is sent ,e ). jW V m any Post Office within-the county w |,,^t'wh°sc most convenient post office may be Hj' l lin jnz County. Curls, not exceeding 5 lines, paper inclu ■ / fs&ESS DIRECTORY. lt (OWKEY & s. F. WILSON,' l* ! : ' rvs i COUNSELLORS AT »AW, will 1 the Court of Tioga, Pnltor and McKean I 0 ftVc'.Uhoro'. Feb. 1, 1853.] r § s. brooks, wropvr'i' I ND COUNSELLOR AT LAW jIOKAL» • ,vnd. TIOGA .co. i*A, I . ', ~f Coun.-i.lors there ia’safety.”— Btble. ;. r ..VeKU.'-;t I>- bn «• w 7 ”'* ~ Jf - r Cunc’s Law Office, first door below ‘iV •- n tel. he will be found at his rjj F ;irr ; \ ,‘ r .,K (( ve the bridge on Alain Street, ; „j cn -c fir.-* • - s r ; wr d9 S.u.;«cl D i-K" ■“ n :: oautt, dentist, (* ..* at his residence near the I )‘ All work pertaining to j vi business done promptly ana ‘ [April 22, IS5S.]_ I pIC K I X il OU SE fiiXl. F iu./—'• Proprietor. .'irrWr'i" n.il In in ilic~Bel'iit free nr clmrge. ■ ?r ,> ><> *t.\A A * A i: OI S E , U 1 M.SliniiiV. .'A. I D. TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR. Il I.n.’h i.’puit' Ijousm. 5- ronu.tlly located, and J-i- ltd’ll’tn tlu- jutiunagc of <bc tra\cUing public.' HOTEL. - ‘ ronxiXG, x.r.. | £ FREEMAN, - - - - Proprietor. If- . n- . s L'l'i -in ,r s, 2a cis. Board, 75 cts. per day. i." I! TI Soi>._ (lv.) ;' 7 j. C. WHITTAKER, Plnj.Siiim <nid Sart/con. ELK EASE. TIOGA CO., PEXNA. . M visit p.uicats in nil purls of tho County, or re nem fur ire iluicnt at liis house- [Juno 14,] ?' vEliniLl’EA'S HOTEL. f; £ c rt:i:iin.YUA. proprietor. % Gaines, Tio|fa County, Pa. S'-Pllli it ini" liolfl l.ieate.l «ithm ca«y access of pc W-t i' J "’i- uni hunting grounds in Northern \A y, t j.mil be spared fur tho accommodation r ! , and the traveling puLhc. [A-nllf. lifi'l. H. O. COLE, VM’.HER ASD HAIRDRESSER. vjol> in t'.ic rear of tlic Post Office. Everything in V, . iin; nil! i'C done ns tvcll and promptly as it m the eity saloons. Preparations for rc ti3 t tui'i bcautiUtug the hair, for sale llnr in.l whird.cr-, d\cd-any color. Call and i itmn:. .ro .s«*pt. 2.‘. isjy. TKE COBBING JOURNAL. W. Pratt, Editor and Proprietor. t. ,inh-Lc 1 af Cuming. Sieubcp Co., X. Y., at Ono [:-.j l.ii .iii-i Fiity Cents per \car, in advance. The Uepublscan in politics, and has a circula . into c\"cry part of Steuben County.— e !•„' p>n*. of extending their business into that i'iie •uiij' counties will line! it an excellent nd --I’l.'n’C'liU’n. Addicts a* above. |> II ESS Itt A K ISC. \\\>.> M V J'JIIXSON. respectfully announces tn \]_ ih»» ■ of and vicinity, that sbo '•uken i... o'- over Xilhs & Elliott's Store, where ■ ■' prep ,r**il tu cxccuie nil onsets in the line <»f Havin': had experience in the *Le jaK confident that she can give satisfuo . ;• il’ «1,., m ivfavor her w'itn their patronage. L' 1 IS.)'. 1 . B. SHAEiESPE.IK, TAILOU. awrxa opened hi<= shop in the mom over Wm llnVrts Tin Simp, t especially informs the ■'? i,f\V(.iUb .ru’ and a icinity. that he is prepared i.’. ,‘ C order- in his line of business with prompt s's:al de-natch ?_ rfonc on *hort notice. ,r 0( Oct. 21, ISoS.—fiiii . f WATCHES! WATCHES! ssfpllE ?ah«'*riher has got a fine na«orimcnt of heavy ;'■[ r.XGUXH LEVER lICXTER-CASE Gold ami Silver Waselus, ■~:’a he will tell cheaper than ** diit’on ‘Time, i. c. •»likU ‘Time Pieced on a short (approved) credit, i-r kinds of REPAIRING done promptly. If a if work is not done to the satisfaction of the party “vr-ir, no charge will he made. rcA f.iv or® appreciated and a continance of pa tron crdly solicited. ANDIE FOLEY. ; "t 'horn. June 2-i, iPIP. HOME INDUSTRY. T.IE SlTl.-f UIIiKK having c-it.iUishod aJIAE- I !iI.E JnXITACi'OUY at the village of Tioga, ■‘‘v ’-t i? ijn.imiL'l to furnish Hominients, Tomb- Stones, &c., i l c rc-l & ITALIAN MARBLE M ro-p-.u'diy solicit the patronage nf this and ad- 1 ‘Wpo* i -Mid stock on hand he is now ready to ex ‘ - ill i r-i- t- aph neatne-s, accuracy and dispatch ‘•«orl. d'.hvorcd if de^ed. JOHN PLAMPIED. C«p, Pa., Sept. ZS, 1559. W 31, TERBELt, 1 COUNiNU, N. Y. Wholesale and Retail Dealer, in "fiL*'" 'cine t, Lend, Zinc, ttnd Colored iirnthei C■ mjjheuQ antl Hunting di >in'/ (//.I*-*. Pure Liquors for • incs Artists Po!n*x and Jini*hee, :lc», Fl'Hotimj Extract!) &c., ALSO, irnucnt of School Books—- 'ks, Staple and Fancy Stationary. imd Country Mcrcfaapte dealing tides can be supplied) at a small prices. [Sept. 22, 1857.] E M TIN SHOP! IOV’S DRUG STORE. .y Stoves, Tin, and Jajmnncd the usual prices'. tc'l Oven Cuok Slovo and Trim- nd Hardware ily Pay. who wants anything in this lino kca before purchasing elsewhere. :—two doors south of Furr's 110- Dvug Store. CALL SEE DEMING, jun-c to the people of Tioga County 1 to fill all orders for Apple. Penr ip. Apricot, Evergreen and jlecldaons CruTAnts,; Gooseberries, icrriLS of all new and approved vaci* ing of Hybrid, Perpetual and Sum ■leOlcm, “Bonrhon, Noisette, limbing llosos. 1 V Including nil theflnest new voi ' ricties of Althea, CalycnnUixu, , Syringias. Viburnums, Wlgilias <tc. .Paaoalos. Dahlias, .Talipn, Hyacinths, Karclasis; Jonquils, Lil •ooli Strawberry. 4 doz.'plants, $5. 'lirjtcd. ttot. Budding Or Pruning will bo ~•\.t '■ ... , p . i •. , Bcbot tXf to tfcc Sytcnaton of the area of jynefcom aws t&t'Sgtcaft- of ©raXtbg Reform. ■WHILE THEBE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGIITED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. VOL. VI. The - following beautiful lines were written by a convict in the Ohio Penitentiary: TO MY MOTHER I've wandered from thee, mother, For from roy*bnppy home j , I've left the land that gave me birth, In other climes to roam ; And time, since then, has rolled Us years. And marked them on my brow : Yet I bare often thought of thee— I'm thinking of thee now. I'm thinking on the day, mother, When at my tender side, You watched the dawning of ,my youth, And kissed me in your pride; Then brightly was my heart lit up With hopes of future joy, While your bright fancy honors wove To deck your dailmg boy. I’m thinking-on the day, mother, When with anxious rate, You lilted up jour heart to Heaver.— Your hope, jour trust was there; Fond memory brings j'onr parting words. While tears roll'd down your cheek; Thy long lost, loving look told more - Than ever words could speak. I’m far away from thee, mother, No friend is near me now To soothe me with a tender word, Or cool my aching brow ; The dearest ties wuvo Arc now nil torn from me; They left me when the trouble came— They did nothjvc like thee. I’m lonely and forsaken now, Unpitied and unblcst; Yet still 1 would not let thee know How solely I'm distressed; I know you would not chide, You could not give me blame ; Dut soothe mo with your tender words, And bid me hope again. I would not have theo know. How brightened hopes decay"; The tempter with baneful cup Has daHied them all away ; And shame has left its venom sting, To rack with anguish wild— Yet still I would nut havh thee know The sorrow of tby child. Oh ! I have wandered far, mother, Sinccjl dcsirlcd thee, f And left thy trusting heart to break, Beyond the deep blue sen; Oh, mother ! still I lovo theo well, And love to bear thee speak. And feel again thy balmy breath Upon my careworn cheek. But, ah ! there is a thought, mother, Pervades my bleeding breast, That thy freed spirit may have flown To its eternal rest; And while I wipe (be tear away. There whispers in my car A voice that speaks o{ heaven and lhce> And bids me enter there. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Hon. Andrew O, Cui'lin. Andrew G. Curtin, tho candidate of the People’s parly for Governor of Pennsylvania, was born the 22d of Apill, 1817, in Beliefonte, a beautiful village in the a unty of Centic, so called because it lies in tho veiy heart of the Commonwealth. This county is away from tho great mutes between tho North and the South, the East and the West, and thus it i* not as well known as it ought to be, hut it is cxeced ingly rich and lovely, abounding in iron ores, fertile valleys, and fine stream*. The rare fa ciltlcs of this region attracted tn it, at an early day, the energies and the i evidence of Roland Guilin, who, for folly years, was a 5 leading ijon manufacturer in Centre county, accunimnhited a competent estate and ha« left three sons, broth ers of Andrew, engaged in the staple business of Pennsylvania. Andrew G. Cuitin comes of first-rate Pennsylvania stork. Ills father mar ried a daughter of Andrew Gregg, who was one of the great men of Pennsylvania in the early part of this century. He was ft representative from the interior of the State of the first Con gress under the Constitution, and sat in the House of Representatives for eighteen succes sive years. Then he was transfered to the U. S. Senate, and served a term of sis years. — Andrew Gregg was a steady supporter of the Administration of the enilicr Presidents, and especially of Jefferson and Madison. .Ho offered in Congress the famous war resolutions which pruceded our last conflict with Great Britain and which elicited the eloquence of Hjlnry Clay and John Randolph. After his rotirementfrom Congress, he acted of the Com monwealth during the Administration of Gov ernor Joseph Heister. Every Pennsylvanian of middle age will remember the fierce and de cisive State canvass of 1823, when the old Fed eral party, under the lead of Andrew Gregg as their candidate for Governor, made a last stand for victory and existence, and were defeated by tho old Pennsylvania ‘Democracy, under the Pad of Johb Andrew Shultz.. There can be no doubt that 'he grandson, Andrew G. Curtin, standard-bearer as lie is of the rail Democracy of the State at this day, will fare better than his grandfather. ’ The subject of our sketch was educated at the Academy of the Rev. J. Kirkpatrick in Milton, Northumberland count} - . Mr. Kirk patrick, still living in Allegheny county, was one of the old style of instructions. lie “turned out” his boys thoroughly impregnated with the classics and mathematics. It is quite a coinci dence, that Gov. James Pollock, President _pf the late State Convention which nominated My. Curtin, and Messrs.. Samuel Calvin and David Taggart, both candidates for the nomination, were educated by the same instructor. These three gentlemen, in their speech to the Conven tion, endorsing its -referred, in most touching terms, to the happy memories ■of the' sunny days when they were boys together in the gobd old Milton Academy. After getting well imbued with ns much Lat in, Greek, hnd Mathematics as any of our col leges afford!, the young Curtin Was placed in the law-office and law school-of Judge Reed, of Carlisle. This school wai one of tho depart metatsof Dickinson College, and ns long as its professor lived it flourished, and sent forth some of tho best lawyers and ptib’ic men- of-Penn- Judge Reed was well-known for bis “Pennsylvania'BlackStbni,” one of the first at temnts ever made to adopt the immorlnl-“Com- j menterics” to our modern law*, lie was a" first-rat# lawyer, and an,adop"tm teaching legal principles. G..Cnrtin was. admitted to the bar in 1839, and vtheUaw native town. He immediately entered upcn^_o_ WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 19, 1860. largo and varied practice, and has ever since been constantly and actively employed in the counties of Centre, Clearfield, Mtfilin and Clin ton. His great information, his vigorous mind, and his candor, recommended him to the courts, his winning style made him powerful with ju ries. He rapidly became one of the best known and most rising young men-in central Pensyl vania. A man with the gifts and temperament of Andrew G. Curtin could not fail to be largely interested and concerned in public affairs.— Strikingly amiable, genial, and waim hearted, of luminous, quick, and extensive intelligence, of the most engaging addresses, endowed will, a fluent, facetious,-and captivating eloquence, and instinct with old PenneyUania traditions of policy and patriotism, he threw himself at once into these political controversies which, a» Burke tells us, are the noblest employments ol the.cultivated man. lie was at) anient and thorough going Whig, and in 1849 he took an active pan in that enthusiastic campaign which made General Harrison President of the Uni ted States. In 1844 he was a fervent adherent of the illustrious candidate of the Whigs, and he stmped all central Pennsylvania fur Henry Clay and protection to American Industry. In that struggle, Mr. Curtin first acquired his wide spread reputation for effective and resistless popular eloquence. There is not acounty from the Susquehanna to the Alleghenies, in which the name of Andrew (3. Curtin ever fails to at tract the very largest crouds, who eageily gath- the feasts of wisdom and wit, humor and pathos, of poetry, statistics, stony, argument and imagery, which spread out in his glowing and melodious periods. • ,In 1848, he was placed on the Whig Electoral ticket, and again traveled many sections of the State in behalf ol General Zachary Tailor. He was an original suppozter of the nomina tion of Gen. Winfield Scott, and in 1852 lie was again placed on the Electoral ticket and worked with his usual zeal to cany the State for the Hero of the Valley of Mexico; Indeed Mr. Curtin was at all times a thmough and imbred Pennsylvania Whig, devoted to ail those conservative and humane ideas which distin guished that party, which now sleeps in the graves of Clay and Webster. He is by Uain ing, and by mature con\iclion, a believer in systematic and efficient Protection, in liberal internal improvements, in the policy of cncour aging well paid and wide diffused Free Ameri can labor. Such a Whig could not fail to be a leader and a counselor of the paity, and accor dingly, Mr. Curtin was an influential member of nearly evciy Whig State convention which met during the last ten years of the Whig par ty’s existence. No rlirtii was ever more popular at home. He is endowed with much of that rare magneti-m which neutralize''social and political differences, and makes life man stronger than his party. As an illustration of this in the voar 18-40, Centic* county composed part of the Senatorial district in which Gen. Wm.F. Packer, now Governor, was the Democratic candidate for the Scnat'*. The W hig candidate withdrew from the can vass on the Friday holme the election. At the earnest and general solicitation of the party, Col. Curtin took the field. There remained only three days to canvass a\eiy largodisliict. Yet, while Centre county gave .i nmjoiity ol eleven hundred for the lost of the Democratic ticket, she gave Gcu Packer a majority of only threc hundicd. Three days sufliccd Cut tin, against as strong a candidate ns Packer, to scatter two thirds of tlic Dcnn-cisitic majority. | In the year 1854, Colonel Curtin was strong i ly urged by the counties of Central Pennsylva j nia for the Governorship; and when lion. James Pollock, of Northumberland, received j the nomination, Curtin was made Chairman of I the Stftto Central Committee. Upon the elec tion of Guv. Pollock, he appointed Col. Curtin Secretary of the Commonwealth. He discharged the varied duties of that office with signal abili ty and discretion. G'sv Polock’s Administra tion was singularly pure, moderate and conser vative. It was not distinguished by any start ling measure?, or any exciting innovations. — The agitations and fluctuations caused by the , bieaking up of the Whig party, the pn-.-bivcry , Democratic outrages in Kansas, the rise of the American Republican organization?*, and the tremendous political contest of 1850, withdrew the general attention from mere Slate affairs to those of national concern. But, in the midst of all, the Pollock Administration held its even way,.maintaining the interests and the honor of Peun^ylvtoiin, condemning ‘he barbarities which uppreSMid the people of Kansas, and the faithle>|* servilities of the Pierce and Buchanan Administrations—uttering its voice for protec tion to the industries of Pennsylvania, and ex hibiting, on <‘\ery occasion, that dignified mod eration which is m» peculiar to the Pennsylvania character. That Administration steadily won the confidence of the people as it proceeded, and retired from power attended bylhe respect of every citizen in the Commonwealth, and above eVen the suspicion of corruption or parti ality. Ex-Secretary Curtin, as the .intimate friend and constitutional adviser of the .Govern or, is fairly entitled to a full share of the credit r which attaches to the honest, wise and benign Administration of James Pollock. During that strenuous contest for the United States Senatorship, which distinguished the legislative session of 1855, Col. Curtin wrts strongly and persistcnly urged by a large'body - of friends for that high position. His department of Administration connected him olusoly with our common school system as its Superintendent. He gave laborious atten tion to it, took pffftteular pleasure in perfecting its details and increasing its efficiency. The Commonwealth is greatly indebted- to him for the legislation concerning Normal Schools, which affords the method and means of syste matically training a body of intelligent tejfch ersv.and thus supplying the most pressing-need of our Free Schools. Under- the working t>f the law, one in efficient operation, and others are springing up.in vari i.ousjtfaTts of the Commonwealth, .Secretary Curtin was an original and active advocate of that great measure of.the Pollock ■ Adminlstraiion--the sale of theJJJain Lino of ; tbe“P üßlic~Tmp TRis'mS'asuro , vigorously opposed before its vonsumatiou, out ? >: it is no«; agreed on all hands that it was timely and wi.-e, and that the C nmmmwealth \ni« thereby, relieved of an incubus which annually depicted its treasury and corrupted its politic* Since his retirement from the Secretaryship of the Commonwealth, Col. Curtin has devoted himself again to the practice of the law, and to the material and industrial interests of his re gion of the Commonwealth. He has been very active in promoting those lines of railroad which are to bring Centre, Clinton, Clearfield, and the adjoining counties into connection with the Pennsylvania CentruVftnd the Sunbury and Eric railroad. Ho is a gentleman of unusual public spirit, and his whole soul is bound up in the development of the immense mineiai and agricultural resources of his native Stair. By birth, education, and life-long habit and association, be is a Protectionist, and a tradi tionary believer in Free Labor, and in that pol icy which purposely encourages, diversities, and perfects all the arts, and industries, and refine ments of a free and civilized community. Since that auspicious union of the Opposition in Pennsylvania, which has resulted in the for mation and the continued ascendancy of the People’s party, Colonel Cuitin has been, for at lease two years, regarded from many quarters of the State, as a particularly worthy and suit able candidate for Governor, for that high po sition he is peculiarly well qualified, lie unites an even temper, and solid judgment, to great knowledge, not only of hooks but of men and affairs. No man-in the Commonwealth is more familiar with its history, or with its various lo cal interests ; with its diversified capacities and requirements ; with ha legislation, its policy, and its pubjic opinion ; no one lias such an os? tensive acquaintance all over thy State. In all his private relations, and in the discharge of his official duties, ho has achieved a high char acter fur propriety and honor. In head and heart, in temperament and action, he is an in giaincd Pennsylvanian. Within our broad limits there is nunc who can and will make a better Governor. Col. Curtin is not only above all reproach i but is beloved by bis immediate neighbors’and ! hi* personal acquaintances. A man of digni fied presence, of gracious and gentle demeanor, i kin'd-hearted, genial, and sunny-tempered, re-; markably instructive and facinating in conver sation, he is beyond all question, the most pop ular man .of his ugc in Pennsylvania. In his, native county, and through the valleys of cen tral Pennsylvania, every man, woman, and child cherishes a feeding of pusonal attachment for “Andy Curtin.” He is notorious at home for his openhanded liberality, and fur bis con tinual charities. Although ho is not rich, ami lolc office *.vuhout a cent more than when he entered it, 11" man in Centre county has given away ib much money to relieve the wants of the poor, and aid the struggles of the cmhar ru'-ed. It was remarked in the late Conven tion, which nominated him so promptly and by such a decided vote, that no man in the State h id such a body of devoted enthusiastic person al friends. There never was a nomination nn»re joyously hailed. It gives equal satisfac tion among the farmers and iron man of Cen tre, and the merchants and manufacturers of Philadelphia. The commercial metropolis of the State answers it with si wonderful general applause. The -olid business men of the city and State are delighted with it. From Lake Krie to the Delaware, this nomination is regar ded as the beginning of a brilliant campaign, and the harbinger of decisive Stale and Nation al victories. The Peopl's party could not have placed at,the head of their army a more gallant, admirable, and formidable champion. He will make all Pennsylvania ling with his trenchant, sparkling, and sonorous eloquence. He will be surrounded by the best men of the Peopled party—the {lower and promise of its future— young intellectual, and ciubu-iastic J who, fighting by his side, will insure a powerful and stirring di»cussion of our glorious ideas of Free dom, Progrc-s, and the Rights op/Labor. An drew’ (a. Curtin is himself a yjitmg man, in the very prime of life, and when ho becomes Gov ernor of Pennsylvania, bis Administration will exhibit all the virtues of youthful maturity, .solid enterprise, generous liberality, enlightened humanity, and a thorough Pennsylvania policy Tins sketch comes from the heart as well as the head of a true Pennsylvanian, who, much as he admires and trusts the candidate, loves the man. But let no »>ne therefore, suppose that the warmth of friendship colors this picture too highly. Andrew 0. Curtin will soon visit every part of the State himself. Wherever he goes, the crowds who will meet and know him will become charmed nnd eager personal friends In October the people «T Pennsylvania will a'.test the justice of this sketch bv their votes, and the future ooqjse of events will only prove the correctness of their verdict, and turn our anticipations into facts, 1 ’ Joseph was a had* buy. He had succeeded in Minding his mother for some time as to his im bibing propensities. One night Joseph came befor the old lady retired. He sat down and began conversing about the goodness of the crops and other matters. He got along very well until he he supposed \o ber a cigar on the ■mantlep-iece, he caught it up, and placing,one end in diis 1 mouth, began 1 very gravely to light it at thajcandle. He drew ami pulled until he was gettingred in ihe face. The old lady's eyes were open and she addressed him: “If thee takes that ten penny nail fora cigar, it is time thee went to bed.”- In the lowa 1 Senate, recently, one member Called another to order, stating that he didn’t wish to see the Demucr-alio party demolished just yets ‘MrNßiisch, the Lieut. Governor and presiding officer, promptly said. “The chair decides that it is never but of order to demolish the Democratic party,” and the Senate sustain ed the decision with a general roar.. Signs. —lf you cpHHutefiHs a sign you will go hungry, if you dor/tjeat your victuals. If you need a new coat, it is not improbable that some tailor is about t\ suffer. If yo.. laugh in your sleep, it is a sign that you can’t do all your laughing .awake. you orosa your knife and fork-, it signifies that they dnp't Be parallel with each other. How to Ecep a Hotel. A man may be a first rate fellow, as Mmt Peel used to sayi and yet not know how to keep a hotel. If ability in hotel keeping be a test of a good fellow, there is one man for whom we can vouch as all sorts of a good tel low. He keeps a hotel or a country tavern, if yon will, away down in the interior of Arkan scs, somewhere. The way we happened to hear ofi him was this: Several weeks ago, two well-known gentle men of_ tins city went traveling for their health, and concluded to try the famous Hot Springs of old “Hackensack.” There being neither river, railroad nor canal to take a body to the Springs, our travelers hired horses to ride in that to their destination. They unluck ily did not follow the right road, or else there was no right road to follow ; at any rate they got lost, and after a fatiguing days ride a barren, inhospitable wilderness, they came to a neat little building, standing alone in a woods, with farming appendages around. Our travelers halted and hallooed. A great tall, raw-boned giant of a fellow stepped out. “Can we get lodging hero to-night?” avked one of the horsemen. . i “tWell, gentlemen, I reckon ye kin,” said the big one, “and wclkim to boot. ' This is a hotel.” The travelers, although they did not like the cut of the landlord’s jib, dismounted, were re lieved of thc-ir horses, and were soon regaling themselves over a good country supper, oft corn dodger-, bacon, milk, fried chickens and coffee. It was a regular country supper, and with their whetted appetites, our invalids enjoyed it amaz ingly. After supper the gigantic landlord sat on the ■ porch with them, talking,' cracking jokes, and ■ treating them occasionally to some good old rye, of which hc'appeaicd to! have a plentiful stock. The invalids sot him down for a tegu lar “brick/’ and were still better pleased when lighted at last to nice suit feather beds with the , whitest of sheets. , ■“I tell you what it Is, Bill,” said Tout, as they were sinking gently into the embraces of- Soninas; “this, follow’ keeps a nice place if it is ‘ out here in the wood?/' ‘•That’s a fart,” replied Bill, “and I suppose ■ it’s a cheap place, too ; but I like it, and I'm willing to pay live fuii city figure on it.” \ Next morning our travelers were aroused # by , their uglv, hut affable landlord,.and regaled ! with a breakfast, if possible, still more appetiz-1 ing than the last night’s work had been. The horses were brought round and it was evident [ that they, tno, had been well cared for. One* of the navders pulled out-his wallet, and said ; to the big entertainer t ; ; I “Well, hindluid, you keep 1 a first-rate little hotel out hoic : butter than \>o expected to find. We arc much pleased with if-, and want to know wli.it the damage is?/’. The landlord drew himself up, and putting on a very sullen look, said : “Gentlemen, i’fa pleased to hear yet* satis fied. The bill is two hundred nnd seventy-five dollars.” f* * ■“How much did you say, sir?” asked the traveler*, both starting. Tlu* b'g uiifl drew himse-lfj up a little higher, looking !-till more solemn, and replied distinctly and emphatically— ‘Two hundred ami seventy-five dollars gen- tlemen.” “Do I hear right, sir? do you really mean to charge ns two hundred and sevtMUY-tiv*» dollars for two meals lodging and lior.se feed ?” ‘‘Gentlemen/’ said the landlord, with the most alarming sang Jroid, “that’s no mistake. Two hundred and sevejitv-five dollars is the bill.” ' The invalids got scared. They did not feel strong enough to tight: and if they had, could never have Imped to make anything out of the Ungainly giant who composedly before tlvem. Without saying another word, the trav eler with tho wallet squeezed it, and peeled its different pockets, and succeeded in handing over the full amount required. The landlord thanked his guests politely, and hoped if they should pass that way thev would give him a c ill. The travelers were nowj on their horses, and prepared to renew their solitary ride. Before getting far off, however, the traveler who had so disgorged, turned in his saddle and hailed the landlord. “I say, landlord,” shouted he, “before I gn, I’d just like to ask you; a question—a civil question—at which you can take no offence.” “Fire ahead, gentleman/' was the answer: ‘•ye’ve paid your bill, and ycr wolkim to ask anythin*, without offence.” “Well, how in the naVne of Heaven did you come to charge us two hundred nnd seventy-five dollars for one night’s accommodation, not worth more than five or six dollars at the out side V* . “Certainly, gentlemen,’ I’ll tell ycr, and wel kim. Yer sco I keep a hotel; and sometimes I has customers, and sometimes I hasn’t.—’ When I hasn’t I has to , charge nccordin, and as you arc the first customers I've had well, nigh onto a year, ycr bill was a little bigger’n it moot si bin., otherwise. Tho hotel has to be kept up, gentlemen, :yid when customers is scarce, F has to charge nccirdin.” “Good landlord/* * said both tho travelers, and they both rode off satisfied. - They didn’t g« on tut the springs, hgwever. They took tlic back’track to tho river, ami re turned'to the city for - some more money, the big hotel keeper having; pretty nearly cleaned them out. 1 ' Ke-Mippliod with funds, they were soon off to tho Vbginia Springs, being unwil ling to trust themselves again among the hotels of Arkansas interior. They declare, though, that tho big* landlord who fleeced them was a, capital fellow, all sorts of a fellow, ami knows-koto to keep a Hotel. Willis describes a Sady-whom .he faw in ab. omnibus its “excessively .pretty; arid the dim--, ple< at tho corhers of her mouth .were so deep nnd so turned in, like inverted commas, that her lips looked like, a quotation.” ■ A man who.is “harddip/*- the world. - - AdrertisementfiriU te'cfiSlrpd $1 per square oT )d Uno?, ono or three insertlpsey and subsequent insertion, jldvertiseinents of less ihnn 1A linos considered'as'tc'i4 u ‘' ir e* 'Tbcsubjoineil rotes will be charged for Quarterly?Halt-YearlyaiiH'Tenrly «<U vertisemems; ... . ... Square,- - 2 do. 3 do. i column, - i do. Column, - Advertisements not having thenarnberof inseftfeni desired marked upon them, will he published nttU ttr dered out nnd charged accordingly. _ Posters, Handbills, BilMlend?, Letter-Heads and a’l kinds or Jobbing done in country establishments, ex ecuted neatly aiu| promptly. Justices*, Constable*’, and other BLANIES constantly on band. KO. 38. John Randolph’s Sarcasm* R md.dphV was always withering and .sometimes his \ery look, or even silence was annihilating. Vhe anecdotes told of hint arc almost innumerable, and some of them aw doubtless pure inventions. We cannot vouch for the truth of the following, but-it is charac teristic of the man: A gentleman once related to mo an anecdote which I have not seen'in print. A member of the lower House from Virginia, had recently died. With this gentleman, Randolph was <Jn very friendly trims. His successor was elected in paid, as was said, from his holding lip tfco idea that if elected, he would “chastise John Randolph into his senses.” This braggart In,d been in his seat hut a few days when be sobgnfe to ledeom his pledge by making a furious at tack on the gentleman from Roanoke. lie was in the full tide of angry declamation when the object of his abuse entered the House. On taking his seat he barely glanced at cr, and then began a hasty perusal of the news paper and documents on In’s deck. Ail expected a reply, and rare sport as a matter of course but they were, for that lime, ‘disappointed. Some days after, however, when the Hou|e, the lobbies, and galleries were full, Randolph obtained the floor to speak on some resolution then under consideration. In the course' «f bis remarks be took occasion to speak in the most complimentary terms of bis friend, tho deceased member, whose seat was then ortfii j pied by his successor, who was a. large portly ■'rhan. With inimitable elocution, which bushed 1 the House into the rhOst perfect silence, he ; turned t«> the soafoccupied by his rude antag* ■ ouNt, and said with his blandest but mosl scorching irony. “I allude to my esteemed 1 friend from Virginia, lardy deceased, and icho*: seat is siill vacant I” As his incomparable em phasis fell on the \\«>rd “vacant,” the death like silence vas dispelled by the most tumultuous laughter, defying all control, and in which friends and-foe.s alike joined* It was told m«5 ns a fact by an intelligent informant, who bad it from one who professed to bd personally ac quainted with the facts, that the effect of this adroit inuendo was so killing to the principal victim, that he resigned his seat in the body m which he so boldly proposed to chastise Juba Randolph into his senses. The Gratest Dnsl on Eccori. An old Mississippian furnishes ;the following to the Woodviilo (Miss.) Sepublitcm; The famous duel, in which forty or more gentleman were engaged, in IS2S, is still re main hered in Natchez. CM. Jim Bowie, tha famous fighter and inventor of the knife which hear its name, used to spend a great deal of his time in Natchez. Ho was challenged by a gentleman of Alexandria, La. whose friends-' to the number of twenty 'or more, accompinied him to Natchez to sec fair play knowing Bowie was a desprato man, and had his own friend* about him. All parties went upon the field. The comb its took their places in the centre, soprated from their friends in the rear, fat enough not to endanger them with their balls. Behold the battle,array thus:—Twcntv armed Louisianians fifty yards behind th!elr champion and his seconds and surgeon, and opposite them, ns far behind Bowie and his seconds and sur- ;orw twenty armed Mississippians. Behold fio heights of Natchez, thronged with spec- tators, and a steamer 5n the river rounded to*: its decks bhick with passengers, watching with deep interest the scene. The plan of the fighfc was to exchange shots twice with the pistols, and to close with knives, Bowie beimg armed with his own terrible weapon. At the first fire both parties escaped. At the second' thd Louisianian was too quick and took advantage of Bowie, who Waited the word. At thl* Bowie’s cecond cred ‘Tout play I*’ and shot the Louisianian dead. The of the latter in stantly killed the slaver of his principal. Bowie drove Ills knite into this man. The surgeons now crossed blade*, while, with loud battle cries, came on the friend*, the light of battle in their eyes. In a moment the whole number were engaged in 4 fearless conflict, 'Dp*ks, pistols nhd knives were used v\ith fatal effect, untiil onn party drove the'other from the field. Ido not know how many were killed and wounded tu all, but it was a dreadful slaughter. Bo\\do fought like a linn, but fell covered with wounds. For months he lingered at the Man sion House before ho fully recovered. A well primed lover of the bottle who ha,d lost his way, reeled into a teetotal grocery anil hiccupcd. “Mr. do you—a —anything—good to take—here?’* “Yes,” replied the temperance shop-keeper “wo have excellent cold water —tho best thing you could have.” “Well, I knew it,” was the reply ; “there U no—one thing—that's done so much for navi gation—as that." . i . Oi.d Tost Bates laid a grea't story about feet. “Talk about feet,” ho used to say, “why I knew “a nigger down in Aricansaw, that had mud smashers like young steamboats. That feller’s feet was a fortune to him, though, at list, for when they started a railroad in hla parts, tho locomotive felldfs gin him' fiftciln hundred dol- 1 lars for his old moccasins. They made a depot out of one, and an ice seream ’ saloon out of tothor." 1 ' 11 ' Messrs. Editors —Though I Foster no ill feelings against the Democratic nominee J f,*r G 'Vernor of Pennsylvania, however str.mgly they try to bring'him out (o view, I predict that he will be- found lehiud A, Curtin. —■ “Sqoib.”— Lancaster Union.' An Irishman, whu was lately reprieved, o&kft stated, tho night.bk&VO. bi3,£iecution, and who wished to get rid of his wife wrote to her »s follows : “f was yesterday hanged, and.died like a hero; do as I bsac it like a man." . * “ ' - Tho United States are first in 'gold, ilrst in copper,, first-in load, first in iron; first in coal, jjir.it incotton, amongst the e nationofth'o earth) ' atsd we may add. S:*t in Ims* 1 3 aortas. 0 irosrns.' 12 jToyrsr j - $3.00 $4,60 ter,crcf 6.00 0,50 ■ r,oo 8,60 io;oo 8.00 0,50 -12,6 fr . 16,00 20,00 30.00 25,00 35,00 50,0 T
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