Isuamßt! Terms of Publication. THE TIOGA £OTOTT" Jt^ITAT OR is putlished evet j Thursday Mdnaingj and ihailed to subscriberr $ l 4he very reasonable price of * ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, *&£ Intariahly in mfrmtce. It is intended to notify every jnbscriber when the term for which he has paid shall have expired, by the stamp —‘‘Time Ottt," on the mar. gin of the lapt paper. The paper will then be stopped QotU a farther remittance be received. By this ar raogement no man can be brought in debt to the printer. Tub Agitator is the Official Paper of tb«j County, with a large and steadily increasing circulation reach ing into every neighborhood in tse County. It is sent free of postage to any Post Office within the county limits, but whoso most convenient post office may be in an adjoining County. Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper inclu ded, §5 per year. ( BUSINESS DIRECTORY. _ JAS. LOWRfit * S. F. WILSOS, * A TTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, will A attend the Court of Tioga, fottor and McKean Counties. [Weliaboro', Feb. 1, 1553.] s B. BROOKS, ATTORNEY and counsellor at law * IIUK ELKLAND, TIOGA CO. PA “In the multitude of Counselors there is safety. ’—Bible. Sept. 23, 1858, ly. , - ; G. W. DIBIT, DEJTTBT, ' /~\FFICE at his residence near the I I Academy. All work pertaining to line of business done promptly ana [April 22, 1858.] itimnted. bICKINSOW HOUSE co RUIN ft, N. Y. Maj. A. Field • ■ Guests tikeniuaiiJ from the De PESM IITASI4 UOtSE WiELLSBOItO’, PA. L. D. TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR. This deservedly popular bouse la centrally located, and commend* itself'to the patronage of the truveUing public. Nov. 25.1558. ly. ' - : AM~ " 'ERICAK HOTEI. COKNIXG, N.Y., E FREEMAN, - - - - Proprietor. Meals, 25 cts. Lodgings, 25 cts. Board, 76 cts.pcr day. Corning,'March 31, 1859. (iy.) : J. C. WHITTAKER, Hydropathic Physician and Saryeon. ELKLAND, TIOGA (JO., PEKSA. Mill visit patients in all parts of the County, or re ceive them for treatment at bis house. [June 14,] VEKHIIEVEA’S HOTEL. H. 0. PERMIT YEA, PROPRIETOR. Gaines, Tiaga County, Pa. THIS is anew hotel located within easy access of the best fishing and hunting grounds in Northern Pa No pains will be spared for the accommodation of pleasure seekers and the traveling public. April 12. 1860. 11. O. CO EE, BARBER AHD BAIR-HRESSER. SHOP in the rear of the Post Office. Everything in his line will be dona as well and promptly as it can be done in the city saloons. Preparations for re moving dandruff, and beautifying the hair, for sale cheap. Hair and whiskers dyed any color. Call and see. Mellsboro, Sept. 22, 18j9. THE CORA lAG JOUR AA E; George W. Pratt, Editor and Proprietor. 16 published at Corning, Steuben.'Co., N. Y., at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per year, in advance. The Journal is Republican in politics, and has a circula tion reaching into every part of Steuben County.— Those desirous of extending their business into that and the adjoining counties will find it an excellent ad vertising medium. Address as above. DRESS MAK.IW.G- MISS M. A. JOHNSON, respectfully announces to the citizens of VTclUboro and vicinity, that she has taken rooms over Niles Si Elliott s Store, where ehe is prepared to execute all orders in the line of DRESS MAKING. Having had experience in the business, she feels confident that she can give satisfac tion to all who may favor her with their patronage. Sept 29, 1859. JOHN B. SHAKESPEAK, tailor. HAVING opened bis shop in the room over B. B. * Smith & Sion’s Store, respectfully informs the citizens of Wcllsboro’ and vicinity, that he is prepared to execute order* in his lino of business with prompt ness and dcspal^h Cutting done on short notice. Wcllsboro, Oct, 21, IS5S.—6m - ■ ; TO MUSICIANS. A CHOICE LOT of the best imported Italian anp Oerman I . - VXOUM STRINGS. Sail Viol strings. Guitar,' strings.' Tuning Forks Bruizes 4c., just received and for sale at ‘ ] s ,J ROY’S DRUG STORE. IVELISBOBO B OTI3Is, ..IVELLSBOROUGH, PA. E. S. FARR, {Formerly of the United Statel Hotel.) Haring leased this well known and popular House, solicits tha patronage of the public. With attentive and obliging waiters, together with'the Proprietor’s knowledge of the business, he hopes to moke the stay of those who stop with him both pleasant and agreeable. j 1 IVellaborn, Mny 31. 1860. ■ WATCHES! WATCHES! THE Subscriber has cot a fine aosortment of heavy RXOLISH LEVER HUNTER-CASE iCriild mid Silver Walclics, which he will sell cheaper than “dirt” on ‘Time,’ i. e. he will sell ‘Time Pieces’on a short (approved) credit. All kinds of REPAIRING done promptly. If a job of work is not done to the satisfaction of the party ordering it, no charge willjte made. Past favors appreciated and a continence of patron age kindly solicited. ANDIE FOLEY. IVellsboro, June 24, 1848. F. W/KKISE, SADDLE AND fIARNESS MAKIfR, WELLSUORO ST.,TIOGA, PA. TAKES this-method of Informing the citizens of ' Tioga, and of the County generally, that ho has established himself at Tioga, where be will manufac ture and keep on hand for sale a good stock of ' Saddles. Bridles, Heavy Harness, Carriage Harness of all kinds ic. Also Hames, Halters, Whips, Traces, Collars Ac. All work warranted. Repairing done on short notice.. Tioga, SepL 1,1559. —1 y. W. D. TERBELI, CORNING,' N. V._ Wholesale and Retail Dealer; in DRUGS, And Jfcdicines, Lend, Zinc, and Colored Painfe, Ode, Varnish, Brushes Camphene and Burning Fluid, Dye Stuff. Sash and Glass, Pure Liguars for Medicine, Patent Medicines, Artists Paints and Brushes, Per/umenfjjPancy Articles, Flavoring Extracts, Cjl \ff rietlee of Althea, Lilacs, £plraes, ayriogiae. ViburaamßjWigiliaa Ac. FLOWERS— PhIoxes, Tulips, lies. 4 C Hyacinths, Narcissi*; Jonquils, Lil CUAPBS—AH T* fifties. ft lS&rS dding W Pn,Biig ’ iU -T*- 16 ’’ 5 *- ILD.DBMIN(J,W boro,P». ArnGHBLL'S StEUP OP-IPECAC. For Col*, xix CoigV, troop, *o. At Roy’i Drag Store, THE AGITATOR VOL.-VI. I J For tho AgUator. “HOPE OK.” J M Hop© On—Bear Up Forever I” Hope on. 0 heart! not always gloom Shall shadow o'er thy way; ■ The darkest hour of all the night, ta that .which brings the-day. t , Though disappointment round thee ftpre&aj Though lowering bangs'thy sky, Hope on ! the clouds but hide the sun, j The tempest will pass by;— 'Mid all tby fears, tby toil and care. Yield not thy heart to dark dispair. Hope on ! though all tby friends forsake. Trust thou alone in God ; 'Tis His own that chastens thee, 'Tis His that holds the rod. Though envy, 1 malice, slander dare Assail with Upas tongue, Thy innocence is strong to bear. The darts against it dung; And. in that faith be firm, 0 heart I Through every ill to bear thy. part. ... Proprietor, >ot free of charge. Hope on! the longest, darkest night. Will turn to day at last, And then a clearer, brighter light. Shall o’er thy way be cast. Thou bast “ the,promise” still; 0 then. Wronged heart, bear nobly up. Nor let dark memories of the past, Add to thy bitter cup. 0 ! let thy breast be Truth's pure shrine. Thy earnest prayer, “Thy will" be thine. Northumberland, Pa. Ekoxia. From Whitehead’s “Wild Sports of the South.” A NIGHT AMONG THE WOLVES. “The pass was steep and rugged. The wolves they howled and whined; But ho ran like a whirlwind up the pass. And he left the wolves behind.”— [Macaulay. “Mike, what kind of a night would this be for fire-shooting ?” said the Doctor to that med itative Nimrod, who was busy sewing up a moccasin by the light of the camp-fire, after a week of travel.'’ “So, so,” replied Mike, without looking up. “I am going; I think." No answer. Mike put on the mended moo fcasirvand drew off the other. *|*Do you-think we cm kill anything?" “S’poee,” replied Mike.' “Come Charlie, let us try it for a little while.” This was all a ruse on the part of Poke, in order to make Mike think our great hunt was an unpremeditated affair; and thereby increase the glory of killing so much game. It had bedtl arranged between us during the day, that we would try that night, which was of great advantage, as it prevented the game from seeing anything of the hunters, and at the same time rendered their eyes more reflective when exposed to the torch-light. AVe had even gone so far as to make our pitch-pine torches, and the whole preparation was complete. It was a party of two —the Doctor and myself.— There would be rather more interest in getting the game alone; and beside that, Mike's opin ion on fire-sh’ooting was well-known, and We knew he would not go with us—so constant a hunter scorned so primitive a snare as the one we proposed. The negroes we did not want, for the fewer in a party the better. So, one of us taking a gun, and the other carrying a torch, we left the camp. The boys were chuckling together as they watched us go, the dogs howled because they could not go with us, and Mike gave one of his expressive coughs, that said as plainly as words, “Now for it.” We were soon outside of the glare of the camp-fire, the little creek was crossed, and our torch dashed brightly on. the taper trunks of the pine trees, the climbing vines, and the broad-Jeafed plants that by the pools of water. There was no wind, and, walking in the pine woods, there was no sound.. Once in a long while a sand-hill crane, disturbed in his wanderings, would be seen stalking away, with bis red head high in the air, like a sentry on duty ; or the sudden motion of the under-brush would tell us that some ono of the many little harlequins of the wood, that gambol most when men do sleep, had fled from this unusualspec tacle of a moving light. But no deer rewarded our search ; no bear showed us his heavy coat. “Faith,” said the Doctor, “this romantic promenade is getting somewhat long.” “Think of the deer, one buck will well pay us.” PROPRIETOR. “Fudge I if there was no ono to liuigh at Usi I would have turned (>ack long ago. Give me the gun, and you take the light.” Accordingly we changed positions—l going ahead, carrying the torch before me, in such a manner that it would throw the ahead as much as possible, and none on our persons, and the Doctor received and took ray place direcly behind and shaded hy my person. The night had become still darker, and a misty rain commenced falling. We had left the pine woods, after walking a couple of miles, and had come into a grove of lower timber. The long moss dropped id curtains, the odor of magno lias burdened the air, and every minute a denser copse,would force us to turn aside from our route. “Iltish !”| whispered the Doctor, suddenly, with a spasmodic pull at my coat tail, “there’s a deer.” % I was just wondering at this absence of deer, and could not account for it, as it was a rare thign to go a mile in Florida without seeing one. “Where f” I whispered; “I don’t see it.’* “Hush! U has gone now ; but we will ace it in a moment again.” We advanced on tiptoe, both in body and expectation. s=- 5 = - “There I there!” said the Doctor, pointing ■with his j finger a little distance to the left; but the luminous spat was gone before 1 had got my eyes on it. W’e were in the,very place for deer. A heavy wind-fall lay ahead of us, and the mingled trunks and twisted branches looted like the chevauxde frise to some great encartipnient;— The flickering light made the shadows move back and forth with a spectral effect, as though dancing, and the hush of the forest was unbro* ken by any sound. Every moment I expected to see again the two phosphorescent stars that indicate the deer’s eyes, and then the ttfie shot would bring us the prise for our labor. It teemed a long time in coming again. “That deer must be very shy,” whispered the Doctor, just above his breath. The next time, I saw it first. * It was. aotde distance ahead, and there were twc; bat just ScbotcO to the mvitnai on of the area of JFvt Horn an® t®* spr a® of faiths a&form. WHILE THEBE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY lO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. WELLSBOROj TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 26, 1860. before I could point them out to my comrade, they had disappeared. Presently, we saw it on one side of hs. “Charlie,/that’s a will-'o-the-wisp,” said Poke, un rather a subdued tone, “or'the devil; who ever heard of a deer going around so 7" “He is examining you to See what manner of man you are.” , “Perchance it is some spirit of a departed buck, leading us a wild chase to destrby us.” “There it is, right behind me, ns I live!" ejaculated the Doctor, in evident trepidition. Sure enough, as I turned my head, 1 saw the two blue lights that indicate the rbflectihg Ibrtsea of the eye. The doctor was taking aim, but I noticed it was not very steady. He pulled the trigger—a dull snap announced a miss-fire.— : He pulled the other trigger—it Snapped In the same way, The gun was wet with rain: “Was anything ever so provoking 1” said Puke, as the eyes vanished in the darkness; “If it is the devil, he will have you now.” “How can you talk so,” said the Doctor, with a strong accent on the “can.” “There is your deer, Poke, in the windfall,” said I, os I caught sight of the eyes moving rapidly along over the. mass of timber that lay heaped and knotted together. “That’s no deer,’’ said Poke; “no cloven-foot could go over that windfall that way. Pwould rather see the night huntsman of the Harts Mountains than see those eyes again.” As be was speaking, I saw in the inky darkness ahead of us, another pair of eyes, and two or three pairs on the left. The truth flashed on me.— The scarcity of the deer, the-proximity of the windfall, the restlessness of. those baleful eyes, all gave me the clue—the wolves were arround us. . A word to Poke, and the affair was explained, and we stood still for consultation. To heighten the misery of the scene, our torch was almost burnt out—let that die, and the rest could he easily divined; We wore standing, at the time, under a grove of small pecan trees, and at that instant a low snort was heard from the shadow near us, like the cough of a dog: Poke did not say d word ; but; dropping the gun: and seising a limb Of one of the trees over bis head, with an agility for which I had never given him the least credit: elevated himself to the crotch: about ten feet from tbs grjound. I did not wont to do anything of the kind, of course not; I would rather hare placed my back against a tree, and won a glorious death in bat** tie against my numerous foes ; but, alack I for a bad example, I dropped the torch, that broke in pieces in falling,,and clasping the nearest tree, which happened to be a medium-sized gum-tree, soon scrambled op to a place of safe* ty. Lucky it was for me that 1 had that torch id my hand, for when it fell, it lay scattered around the base af the tree, still dickering and flashing in the darkness, and the animals that had surrounded us, as they saw their prey es caping, rushed forward with an angry noise; they saw the glowing .embers, and held back just long enough to permit my escape. As I drew myself up on the first limb, a rush of gratitude passed over niy Soul, and my feelings were as warm as a child's; • Nothing could be seen, for the sombre forest shut out the little light there was in the atmosphere, hut I heard the pattering of feet beneath my forttess, like falling rain. Back and forward they came and went, and snorting sounds and champing teeth made the black night alive with imaginary shapes. 1 wondered bow it fared with the Doc tor, yet dared not cull, for the uncertainty was less fearful reality might be. I pic tured him fallen, dragged back from his half attained refuge, and divided among the hungry pack ; and the very noises below might be the mumbling of bis bones, ‘•While their white tusks crouched o’er bis whiter skull; As it slipped through their jaws when their edges grew dull.” At length I summoned courage, and called “Poke!” “Hulloa!” was the response—more grateful to my ear than any sound in the world. “How are you, my boy?” I called again. “Safe, thank the Lord!” “What a disgraceful situation to be in, and how are we to get out of it?” “I will be grateful if I can only keep in it; for this tree is so small that the wolves can al most reach me when they jump; and, as I climbed up, one caught my coat-tail; and tore it entirely oif;” “Climb up higher then.” “I can’t; the tree is so small that wheti I get any higher, it bonds over and lets me down —oh dear!” “Haven’t you yonr pistol with you ? Try and shoot one, and It may frighten them.” “Oh, dear, no; there are hundreds of them. Just look at them below I” 1 looked down, and surely I could see a drove of them. They were evidently the gray wolf, for, in spite of the darkness, 1 could, once in a while, detect their motions from their light coats. 1 Poke suggested that they tfCre phantom wolves aud declared they were all white. All the fearful stories that I had ever read came coursing through my brain: I saw snow hurried huts snuffed out and ravished by these prowlers* and heard the shriek of the Child, thrown from tho sleigh by its fear-maddened mother, and many an old dreitm re-shaped in my mind the terrors Of nights of fever: Were we to be tired out by their devliah patience?— Was one gang to rfel.eve another until we wea rily fell into their hot tainted jaws, thus to be burled into oblivion 7 1 shouted in the hope that some one might hear me; but what good to shout in that mid night forest? I heard a voice—it was Poke saying bis prayers. I listened devotedly, but could offer none myself, When he had finished; I odiled to him. He answered faintly—i "What is it? apeak quickly; I can’t hold on ranch longer." “Fire your pistol; do tty; It may bring some help, even if it'doea not kill," "I will try,’" answered Poke. There was a momentary padse, and then the sharp craok of a pistol was followed by the ringing of a bullet close by my ear. By the hash I saw Poke; bailees, and almost coatless, banging on the topmost branch of a young pe- can, that bent with him like an orange tree un der a heavy load of fruit. With the report of the pistol there was a scramble among the vo racious crew at our feet; but' they did not go away permanently, and were back in a fo ment. , ■ “Fire' the other barrel; dear Poke, but try arid fire it the other way—point it down.” Bang! sounded the pistol, and I heard a tbum on the ground, as the poor fellow threw away the now useless weapon. ‘•Hold on, Poke ; take heart, my dear boy.'b “Oh, it is cosy enough so'say take Heiirt; but when the tree bends a little moje than usual, I am within a foot of these hell-hounds. Oh, dear 1” At this moment I thought I saw.a light flash ing through the foliage. -A moment more, 1 was sure of it. i “Poke, Puke, they arc coming—some one is coming.” “Where—where! Oh, dear, I can't turn my bead lest I slip off." . . “There they come ; I see then—three torches and men and dogs.” “God bless them I” I heard Poke say, faintly. I was afraid he was fainting. “Hold 09 Poke," I said, and screaming to the men, I called them to hurry. On they came, at a run. I recognised them as they came up with their torches flashing thtoagh the woods; they were Jackson and his men. He had been in our camp only the day previous, and told ns he had a sheep farm in this neighborhood. “Quick, this way,” I shouted—“the wolves! the wolves!” He answered'me. How blessed a thing was the sound of a human voice in our necessity,— They came under the trees we were in. “Hullua there 1 where are vou ? where are the wolves?” ho shouted in bis stentorian tones. “Dare’s de sheep I’m bin bantin’ all dia brassed night,” exclaimed a negro who accom panied Jackson on bis search. I looked around, and there was Jackson’s big flock of sheep, staring blandly at us up in the trees, and at their master, by turn. It had been their eyes we bad seen in the darkness. And there was Jackson see-sawing on a fal len tree—hiccoughing and laughing and crying by turns—and there wero the negroes, and they called in the sheep, “Ho !ho ' ho I Oh, laws a itiaiissy, did I ever—ho Iholho 1 ho I —wolves, oh laws a maussy 1 Poke slid down the tree ho was in; picking up his coat tail, that had been tom off by a broken limb in his hurried ascent, sighing: i‘Ohl that I bad tho wiegs of a dove.’* And so ended our night’s adventure among the vVoIVeS. THE OAKEN OHiIST; TRANSLATED FROM THE CERMA*. In Modena, in the vicinity of Riggio gate, the proud colonnade of an old place attracts the eye of every stranger. If he walks through the magnificent portal, and the sumptuous state rooms where the eye is dazzled and the sense bewildered, he thinks he will retain a reccullectiun of all the splendor he has beheld ; but he wanders On, passes out ofljie house that he entered with wonder and amazement, and he will certainly feel a slight shudder of dread as ho casts back his glance, ond his mind will alone be occupied by an old paken chest which he saw in the place. It stands in a large, spacious room, against one ( of tho bare trails that have no other ornament''than a womanly portrait, which hangs over this, with carvings richly supplied, dark' chest. If the glance of the visitor falls on this picture, which beams forth a tallness of beauty, splendor and youth, he will deem the room which before seemed so bare and empty, sufficiently ornamented ho thinks they did tight not to bring any" other picture into this room, as none would be wor thy to hang by the side of this one. As th,e searching eye of tho visitor sinks deeper. and deader into the blue depths of an expression betraying an inexhaustible source of love* and resignation, he feels by continued gasing pn'a lace beaming with happiness and beatitude, a sense stealing through his heart, that there is on earth something that ' s has the power to transport us into Heaven ; he does not feel a presentiment that he is standing at the grave of all that is looking down on him with' a look of almost snperterrestrial splendor. That young maiden whose smile Sempieri gave With such wonderful fidelity in the picture, smiled even nnjre happily in that hour when the painter, with masterly hand, at the request of her lover, (fastened her .features unto the canvass, on which they are preserved, after hundreds of years, in magical grace and beauty. It waS oti her wedding day. She was one of the loveliest dadghters of the noble house of Orainis—waS betrothed to one of the handsomest and most knightly princes of the old and pow* erlul race of the Colomeas. Through the love of these young hearts, the deadly hate, which had existed between these two families for years, was not oujy ended, but changed into feedings of the Warmest frietidship: Loud shouts df laughteriand rejoiceing fang 'through every room and bdll of the proud, magnificent palace on the wedding day; and if here and there a remnant of the former animosity still brooded; U would vanish before tho smile that beamed from the charming countenance of the young and lovely bride, reminding ope of sun shine irt spring; it would disappear at the Sight of tho overjoyed bridegroom, o’er whose face flitted the ray§ of purest bliss. * The joy and rapture of .the united entered the hearts of all that witnessed their happiness, dnd all rejoiced with them. No one could resist the serene and cheerful atmosphere that pervaded the beautiful festival, and each one in overgushing joy sought the pleasure that best suited their tastes: Towards evening the varied crowds of guests rushed, forth from the sdntptiious parlors of the house, into the gardens; briliautly illuminated 1 With’B thousand variegated colored lanterns, idto which above all the moon poured its soft and mellow light. Suddenly the face of the groom, wearing serious expression, appeared among the m&ny happy groups, and in astonish ment they asked him what had caused a sha dow on his countenance, J Which but a few min- - ntes before beamed forth joy and happiness. ‘I eannot find my bride!’ he cried, hastily and In toffes. betraying the anguish of hit soul; ho added, ‘She told me a frhile ago that she would hide her self, and in a place cfyat I never would think of looking fur bet Hr find her;.- She seems 'to have disappeared completely, not a vestige of her remaining.”.. They laughed at the prince for his apprehension, Jand jokingly aided him in searching the orange grove—but in the hearts of the most cheerful there was uneasi ness, as the night advanced, the festivities drew to a close, and, in spite of the most diligent searches, no trace of the bride was visible. Greater ami greater grow the anxiety, and more eagerly were tiie house and garden- searched ns the night shades descended ; but of all the hoars spent in breathless suspense, not one of their slow, and to every guest painfully gliding seconds brought back the lost one,. ■ Words of'distrust Were uttered by the lament ting Orsinis ; and answered with outcries of sedition by the offended Colonas ; daggers were drawn on the ground where only a few buoys before pledges of everlasting friendship were made, and the glittering blades of swords flashed through the dewy foihige, where before bril liant eyes beamed with love and happiness. It was a frightful, a terrible change!—The more affecting, as during the preceding pleas ures no one had the least apprehension of d rupture 1 Dot though they blamed and ad cused, though they defended themselves and called on God and all the saints to witness their innoce,ncy; though they endeavored to wash out injuries with blood, and carried away with passion many a hgart was pierced with dark suspicion,' neither an imprecation, a murder nor cry of despair—nothing—nothing brought back the lost bride: I’he place of Orsihia was dosed after the mar riage which ended so tragically ; desolate re mained the halls, wehre pleasure and happiness were changed, as it were, with lightning speed, into grief and despair- - Only after hundreds of years was the long-closed portal opened by one of the descendants of the noble race of tin'. Orsinis, and light and air wero once more al lowed to circulate through the rooms that had been veiled in night and darkness so long. The closed house was restored to pleasure and mirth, when one day. the eye of the lady of the house, while walking through the rooms on the arm of her husband, fell on the oaken chest, standing solitarily in a large room This old chest bleased the ypung woman. When she heard that it decended from a'A'cn etian lady of nobility who ajjied herself with the house of OrsiniS several sentnrics ago, and that she brought it to Modena, and in which ever Since the costly wedding robes of the Duchess of Orsinis were retained—the curiosity soiled her to know whether after so long a lapse of time any traces remained of the rich cos tumes of past ages. She ordered the chest opened. The lock was rust-bound, and its ingenious mechanism! long withstood all efforts ; but at last the object was accomplished. But who will describe the hor ror of the young Duchess, her husband; and that of-the servants who opened the resisting lock of the chest, when they all, on raising the | lid, beheld a skeleton reclining in the dust of j decayed brocade garments. | With this string of pearls Count, Colonna' once begirth the lovely head of his young bride, j when Sempieri painted her portrait, and with ■ ‘these rows of pearls the fair being on her wed ding day fastened the orange hloss mi with which her golden curls were entwined. This necklace was the .first terrible vestige of the over-happy bride, who once in • the Drsini palace disappeared/ so mysteriously I This dreadful discovery was followed up which was made after so long a period of time, and soon there remained no doubt but that this fresh and blooming life found death in the oaken chest. \ The skeleton and the pearls were again lowered into the awful depths of this terrible grave, and over was hung the picture of the hadsome young bride. So the room in the Orsini palace is, to a cer tain degree; a churchyard, or vault for tho dead. There has, 'tis true, but one spirit found rest here ; but what may this heart have suffered; this one. mind endured, ere death released both, and broke the bright eyes which even now sparkle.through the gloomy space, and once so happy and full of hope, lojkedfonlly on the world and into the seeming golden futute? A Cctb Yankee. —A Sheriff in Illinois who hates Yankee peddlers as he does “ pizen,” makes it his especial business to see that this class of itinerating mcrchantsdo not vend their wares without ti license. This functionary met a peddler lately whom he suspected of violating tho statutes, and after pticihg a number of his articles; purchased a bottle of tho “Balm of Columbia,” or, as the peddler stated it; “ Balni o’ Kullumby, price one dollar good for the har, assistin’ poor human natur,” and in reply to the peddler’s question whether he wanted any thing else, said he did ; he wanted to see the peddler’s license, which was exhibited, and pro nounced “all right.” Handing back the bot tle to ilid peddler; the sheriff said, “1 don’t know that X really want this stuff now—what will you give for it?” “Wal,” replied the Yankee, “'bein’ it’e you, Sheriff, I'll give you\twenty-five cents for it,” and after purchasing it at a low figure, he said to the sheriff, “ have you got a peddler’s license about your trowSefS anywhere?” He~fcllowed be hadn’t;.atid had no use for the article. At the next village the Yankee complained of the sheriff, who was fined eight dollars] for vending “Balm o’ Kullumby” without a license, " A New Idea. — A philosopher oat West has just opened a school for the. cultivation of the memory, the particular object being to teach how to “remember the poor.” There ought to be a field fur such a work out that way, as well as in some other parts of tho country. There are some IJemocratie editors wjho prob ably couln’t tell the truth without putting their jaws ont of joint. The Douglas and Breckinridge parties may be very fond of music, can't hatt any iencari* Rates of AdvertlslUf.' Advertisements wiirbeicharg-ed $1 periqriaro.qf jfc lines, one or three insertions, hs'd 25 cents for every subsequent insertion. Advertisements of less than 10 lies considered as a square. The subjoined rates will be charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly ad vertisements : 3 MOJTTH3. 6 ICOSTBB. 12 KOKTHf. Square, - - $3,10 $4,50 $6,00 I - 5.00 6,50 8,00 f do. - 8,50 10,00 i oolunin, _ . 8,00 9,5# 12,50 i do * - 15.00 20,00 30.00 Column, - - 25,1-0 4 35.00 50,0 t Advertisements not having thennmberof insertions desired marked upon them, will be published until ori dered out and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads and all kinds of Jobbiug done in country establishments, ex ecuted neatly nml promptly. Justices*, Constable's. and_ other BLANKS constantly on hand. NO. 51. . From the New York Tribune. THE CAITVAS3 BEFORE T7S. With no desire to incite undue .confidence, and with no wish to ignorce.the fact that “we know not what a day may bring forth,” we must Jjtill regard the election of Xiincoln and Hamlin as morally certain. Of course we re alize that the Republicans might throw away the victory so manifestly within their reach by allowing confidence to preclude effort; but we sec no evidence on any side that they propose to spend the'next four months in counting their unhafehed chickens, or in quarreling over their apportionment. On the contrary, we have nev er known a party more willing to wotk, at so ear ly a stage of fhe canvass, than the great mass of them now are. Their meetings are generally large, and animated by the best spirit; their organizations are in a good state of forwardness, and their ranks free from bitter ness or disaffectation. That our leading can didates arc able, worthy and popular, is not permitted tp cover the association with them of local candidates who are otherwise; but in ev ery quarter anxiety is felt to effect such State and minor nominations as will strengthen, not weaken, our national ticket. And these efforts are very generally crowned with success. There arc a few points to which we vVduld d-aw the particular attention of Republicans iri every quarter, in the confideify hope that such attention may he the not -imerely coring our triumph in November, ijut of ma king that triumph complete and enduring.— They are briefly these * I. Improve the opportunity io bring important truths home to minds hitherto unconscious of them. —There was never a time So favorable as the present to making a wholesome and durable impression on the minds of our former adver saries." The most ignorant must be aware that the Democratic party has just' been rent in twain by the pressure upon it of what its wri ters and orators have been accustomed con temptuously to characterize as “the Nigger question/ 7 Hence they will be compelled, in spite of their prejudices, to comprehend that this “Nigger question 77 is not created nor evoked by the unwarrantable intermeddling of Aboli tionists or “Black Republicans 77 with the rights of the pejice of the South, bat is an Inevitable! element of our National Politics, which no. soothing sirup of Compromise; no femollient of perpetual Concession, can ever eipel. The in terests and aspirations either of or of Free Labor must and will be paramount in our National policy; wo do not say that they are irreconcilable; hut it is perfectly plain that Dqgberry'saxiom—“When two ride a horse, one must 1 1 le heh tl I 77 —aopltes to their relationship to each other. Slave-breeding has bad a long spell forward ; Free Labor is about to take tfcar turn : Witness the Free llorAestead and Tariff bills so nearly passed by Congress at its latd session. Democrats of forty years, who have opened their eyes to the half-truths of Douglas ism—who at length realize that the South can ask too much—that she is not always the victim of Northern encroachment and fanaticism—can easily be induced to open thdln still wider and sec more. Now is the time to make the whole truth plain to thousands of minds hitherto ’ob stinately dosed against it; and we entreat those who have long labored and hoped for this auspicious day to improve it to the utmost.—• Read what your Democratic nighbors have to offer bearing on the present interesting juno ture in our public affurs, and ask them to see how the matter looks from our pqint of view.— To this end, have aTiw of the best Speeches and Documents always on hand, and be ready to give and receive. Thousands may be perma nently enlightened and convinced in any State where such exchanges shall be general; and the good effects thus produced will be felt throughout the next generation. 11. ]Jo all in got r power to 'strengthen the Republican phalanx in the next Congress,^ To this end, it is eminently desirable that the’ ablest, most experienced, most effective Mem bers of the present House be returned if possi ble. We note with concern that a number have already been superseded or permitted to decline a re-election —that Speaker Pennington hesi tates to serve another term—that three of the four Mi rabers from Michigan have been dropped —and that similar changes are meditated in other quarters. Now be far from us the notion , that a member be sent back merely be j cause he is In the present Congress; we are quite conscious that they are many there whoso places can be more than made good by new se lections. But this we do say and insist on: Where a Member has,proved eminently faithful, I upright, efficient, ho must not be set aside merely ’ because ho has been already twice or thrice ! elected, nor because some other aspirant is im patient'for the place, or some other county ! claims its turn. In view of the momentous js | kuch depending on the composition of the next Congress, such considerations are paltry, imper- I tlnent, despicable. Could the Republican cause ! afford to spare from the House men as Messrs.. 1 Sherman, Crow, Colfax, &c., while the National ! Finances arc out at the elbows, the Homestead ! bill unpissod, the Mail Service in a state of an -1 urchy, and the responsibility of dealing author- I it.uively with all these topics about to devolve jon our side ? Could new men quite as able and worthy even half fill the places of those we. have named ? Every intelligent person, must know they could not. And it will .'prove a public misfortune, if “rotation in office” is per mitted to displace half, or nearly half, the Re publicans who hold seats in the predent House. We bespeak the earnest and vigilant attention of disinterested Republicans to this vitaß matter. 111. Finally, Let everything he done ioenconr• age accessions from our former adversaries .—- always in mind the fact that we polled but over a Million and a Quarter votes for Fre** moivt, and must now poll about Two Millions for Lincoln. The Six Hundred Thousand ad* ditional votes for udr ticket must mainly be. cast by men who*in ’55 supported Fillmore or- Buchanan. Let us meet, then,'every amicable! overture more than half way; let as show that 1 we regard stand with us in the present, contest as brethren, selecting candidates in some cases, expressly to justify that confidence ' in our magnanimity which it is our duty to in-, spire, Wo are t ill exposed to-an adverse 'lt&