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steadily increasing circulation reach
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w |,,^t'wh°sc most convenient post office may be
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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.
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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." . * “ ' -
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copper,, first-in load, first in iron; first in coal,
jjir.it incotton, amongst the e nationofth'o earth)
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