1 Terms of Publication. THE TtOGA edTOTY AGITATOR Is published, wery Wednesday Morning! and mailed to subscribers; iftlie very reasonable price of ' ' | : ONE DOLLAR PER | htiari&X *» advance. It is intended to notify every' •obsenßer when the term for which he has paid shallj Here expired, by the figures on the printeddabel on the. «vin of each paper. The paper will then be stopped; nfU a farther remittance be received. By this ar-; ho man dan he brought in debt to the| Aoitatoe Is the Official Paper of the Conntyj •fii a largo and steadily increasing circulation reach-! iTr into every noighbo-Sood in the County. It is sent) (ta of pottage io fat Office within the county; jiioits bat whose moat-'eonveoiont post office may be loan adjoining County. ...... . Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper, inclu ded, $5 per year. ~ ; BIISIS3SSS, DIRECTORY, .j ffiToWBEy * S. F. WILSOS, I , TTOENKYS 4 COUNSELLORS AT LAW, will; &. Intend the Court of Tioga, Potior and McKean: [Wellaboro’, Feb. 1,1853-3. ’> s. B. BROOKS, AVTVRmYAND COUNSELLOR AT LAW AllUa EIKLAKD, TIOGA CO. PA. ‘On the multitude of Counselors there la safety.”— Bible. . Sept. 23,1868, ly. ‘ C. N. PABTT, DENTIST, ———/"iFFICE at his residence near the Academy. All work pertaining to yjn*fVPhi3 link ef hnsiness done promptly and 1 ' ' [April 22 t 1868.] warranted- HOUSE '! , CORNIING, N.Y. MaJ. A. Field, ... I Proprietor. Guests taken to and. frpm the Depot free of charge. J. C. WHITTAKER, Bydropaihic Physician and Surgeon, .JBLKLAND, TIOGA <f|o., PENN A. ■Will visit patients id |U parts of the County, or re ceive them for treatment at his house. [June 14,] IZAAR WkLTOS HOUSE, B. b. YEBMIL}rEA, PROPRIETOR Gaines, Tioga County, Pa. : r[IS iso now hotel located 'within easy access oh the best fishing at 1 hunting grounds in Northern* Pa, No pains will he*'pared for the accommodation: of pleasure seekers ant: the traveling public. ■ April 12, 1860. V , * H. iO. COtEi BOBBER AND HAIR-DRESSER. ; SH.OP in the rear of the Post Office. Everything in: his line will be done as well and promptly ns itf cah bo 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 geo. ‘ Wellsboro, Sept. 22, 1839. THE COBNUT JOCBSAL. George W. Pratt, Editor and Proprietor. \ IS published at Corning, Steuben Co., N. Y., at Onij Dollar and Fifty Cents per year, in advance. The Journal isi Republican in politics, and has a circula, tion reaching into pert of Steuben Cpnnty.-r Those fiosirons of extending their business into that and the adjoining counties will find it an excellent ad, yertising medium. Address as above. > | BAKING. MISS k. A. JOL SON, respectfully Minounces to the citizens of Wellsboro and vicinity, that she has taken rooms over Miles & Elliott’s Store, where she is prepared to ex Scute all orders in the fine of DRESS MAKING, paving had experience in the business, she feels conffaont that she can give satisfac, tion to all who may favor her with their patronage. * Sept. 29, 1859. ' f . | jroilir B. SHAKESPEAE, IiILOK. HAVING opened his shop in the room over B; B, 'Smith & Son’s Store, respectfully informs the citizens of Wellsboro’ apd vicinity, that he is prepared to execute orders in his: line of business with prompt, ness and despatch Catting done on short notice . Wellsboro, Oct 21,.1&58.—6m ; t, j>. B iiporc, ni. i»., Graduate of JZt’jTulo Medical College , TTAS established hijpself in the practice of Mcdi rtl cine and SurgorMn the village of Tioga, and will promptly attend ar”professional calls. Office at li H. Smith’s Hotel, wherShe will always be found except when absent on professional business. jsssr- Particular attention paid to the diseases of women and children, Tioga, May 24, ISdOi N. BOIS, . SOLICITOR OP PATENTS, : WASHINGTON, D. 0. , ADVICE as to the patentability of inventions given free of charge.' Drawings from models neatly executed. Charges fbr.obtaining patents- moderate. ; hEFEKESCES. ' i Hon. G. A. Grow, PaA Hugh Toting, Ed. Agitator. I Hon. Q. W. Scranton, ,'Pa, 11. H. Frazier, Ed. JlepuUican « /; : : SICIA If S . the best imported Italian anp A°“ STRINGS. fas« Viol strings, Guitar strings, Tuning F#rka ridges Ac., just received ani for sate at ; I ROY'S DRIK£ STORE. ; WELISBOKO HOTEL, WELLSBOEOIJGH, PA. J 5, 8. FARE. (formerly of the United States Hotel,) Having leased this well known and popular Hons?, solicits the patronage !of the public. .With attentive and obliging waiters, together with the ■Proprietor’s knowledge of the business, he hopes to make the stay of those who stop with him both pleasant ami agreeable. i Wellsboro, May 31, 1860. WATCHES! WATCHES! THE Subscriber has, got a fine aasortmcnt of heavy ENGLISH LEVER HUNTER-CASE- Hold and Wa I dies. which he will sell cheaper than “ dirt” on ‘ Time,’ i. o. to will sell ‘Time Pieefs’ 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 Will be made. * ; Fast favors appreciated and, a continence of patron age kindly solicited.ANDlE FOLEY.; Wellsboro, June 21,1818. j F. W. RBISEj Saddle and harness maker, ! WELLSBOKO ST., TIOGA, PA. ' ; TAKES this method of-looming the citizens pf Tioga, and pf the County generally, that he has established himself at?ioga, where he will manufac ture and keep on hand for sale a good stock of Saddles, Bridles, Heavy Harness, Carriage Harness of all kinds Ac. Also Hames, Halters, Whips, Traces, dollars <tc. All work Warranted. Repairing done on notice. Tioga, Sept, 1,18j>9*—ly. j&ckmß&w & BAtt^y, \\T QULB inform lie public, that having purchased TT the Mill properiy, known as the “CULVER MILL," and having Repaired .and supplied it with hew bolts and machinery, are now prepared to do CUSTOM ORK io the entire satisfaction of its patrons. With the-aid of onr experienced miller, Mr. L, D. Mitchel, and the unsparing efforts of the proprietors, they intend id kqep up an establishment second to nonein the county. Dash paid for wheat and corn, and the highest market £rice given. . EDW, Mcl2< ROY, ; .March 15, 1860, tf. 1 JtfO. W, BAILEY.: TIOGA' REGULATOR. fXKORGB P. has opened a new vJTvewely Stord at' Tioga ITiHjagd, Tiogd County* Pa. ko is prepi Ired to do all kinds of Watch, Clock andgftwelry repairing, hi a workmanlike manner. All y *ffiaY arra kted tr> giye entire satisfaction. not pretend to do work better than any other wh, hut we can. do as good work as can he done in W cities or Also Watches Plated. ' . „ i . georqb f, hcfmpheey. Twga, Pa.. ?Ja»h }5, 13C0. (It ) THB AGITATOR 33ehote«J to Vbt wetwnion of ifyt Uvtn of jFmSoiw amrt&e Spread of Reform, . ■ . ■ l I ; : m. m \ THE CHILDREN’S HOUR. Between the dark and the daylight, 'When the night is beginning to lower. Comes a pause in the day's occupation That is known os the Children’s Hour. I heat in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened. The voices soft and sweet. From njy study I see in the lamplight/ Descending the hroad hall stair. Grave Alice and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. , A whisper, and silenoe: "Yet I know by-their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by l&rpriso. A sadden rash from the stairway, A sudden raid from the ball. By left unguarded • s£hey enter my castle wall! „ J They climb up into my turret r~/“ O’er the arms and back of my chair; r If I try to escape, they surround mo ; * F They seem to bo everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses, Thoir arms,about mo entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine! Do you think, 0 bluo-eyed banditti. Because you have scaled tb« wall, Such an old moustache as I am la.net a match for you all 1. I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, , But put you down in the dungeons In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever. Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulderto dust away. : —Atlantic Monthly. MB. LINCOLN AT HOME, The New York Herald, with a view to fl id out something at which it could sneer, sent a special reporter to Springfield, the home of Abraham Lincoln, who wrote the follow! ig letter; ' j THE HOUSE HE LITES IN—A ROMANCE. In a large two story frame house—bearing po slight resemblance to Washington’s headquar ters at Cambridge, Massachusetts, now the r|s idenoe of Professor Longfellow—resides. (She Republican candidate for President of, the XTpi ted States, Abraham Lincoln. It is' situated at the corner of Eighth and Edward streets, !in this city. Here Mr. Lincoln has resided for some twenty years. The edifice affords no dioations of ostentation. It has no ornamen no flowers or'_ shrubbery, no marble vases .cooling fountains, no fashionable fences si rounding it," but is built plump out to the sii walk, the steps rather encroaching upon t walk. It is like the residence of an Americ gentleman in .easy ciroumstaiices, and is fj nished in like manner. It is not near so an tocratic an establishment as the houses of maj members of yoUr common council; in short, there is no aristocracy About it, but it is a com- home, in which it would seam that a mamli|uld enjoy life, surrounded by Ijis family. Immediately opposite the residencefof Mr. Lincoln, on Eighth street, is a mansion that was once the Western home of Lemuel Higbee, a gentleman who left the State of Mas sachusetts some thirty years ago, settled fin Springfield, and for his honesty and integr was placed by his fellow citizens in pfomina positions of trust and confidence. “Honest ( Lem” was as much a favorite phrase in tb< days in this region as “Honest Old Abe” is now! The widow of Mr. Higbee is now living in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mr. Lino dn and Mr. Higbee were associated in several ■m terprises of public interests, and the early ef forts of the one, and the more recent efforts of the other, have contributed largly to the re; iu tation Springfield now enjoys as one of the b :st and most honestly governed cities in the Wist. HIS FAMILY AND THEIR CONNECTIONS. Enjoying life in >a easy manner, and ye ; a practicing attorney in all the courts of the St ite and of States, Mr. Lincoln se its repose in the midst of his family ■whenever he duties of his profession and his political enga ce ments will enable him to do so. Col. Line )ln came from the best among our Revolution iry stock, and from among those who were the f ret to penetrate the Western wilds, and sacrificed their lives in clearing the road for the advan cing tide of civilization. His grandfather; whose ancestors came originally from Mew England, whence they were driven by the per ieoutions of the Quakers —a society with which they were presumed by the fanatics of that day to be affiliated —was bom in the county of Berks, Pennsylvania. Here there are tries of German in Lincoln’s lineage. Removing in after life to the valley of the Shenandoah! in Virginia, the father of the subject of the sketch was born. Moving westward before the Revo lution, Colonel Lincoln’s father penetrated the wilderness, and ha companionship with thefre nowned Colonel Boone, participated in many of those heroic conflicts with the savages, the rec ords of which crimson the pages of our early Western history. The “dark and bloldy ground” are words familiar to all readers of American history, and upon that sanguinary ground the father of Colonel Lincoln fou] ' and finally periahed beneath the tomahawi the savage. In what was.then called Hardin com Kentucky, but in that part of it which i Constitutes Larue county, Abraham Lincoln bom, in the year 1809. His mother was daughter of a man of nerve and energy, she herself possessed those distinctive oharac istics which have since rendered her son - a r of mark in our country. Lincoln had a li ted education, and, removing to lllinoisi •passed through various spheres in life, at i time in a humble, as he is now in an exalj position in the estimation of his fellow citiz) He exhibited the grit of his progenitor vtj the savage chief Black Hawk commenced | warfare upon the citizens of our Northwesj frontier, and he entered into that contestj brief duration when fairly commenced —V all his then youthful “energy and spirit, wl cow seeip to be but little impaired. In this j PROPRIETOR. Wnrt.E THERE SHALL EE A WRONG UNRIGHTED,, AND UNTIL “MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. WELIiBOEO, TIOGA COUNTY. PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER I86(h BT H. W. LONGFELLOW. Spwxo field, ni., Aug. 8, 1860] he held the rank of captain, but he was deser ving the title of colonel, and hy those who knew hjm best was notiunfrequently so addressed;— Passingover his subsequent career as a prac titioner at law, having studied law with a"son of Ninian Edwards, at Edwardsville, Elinoia, as a member of thd'lUinois Logialature for. sev eral sessions-—during which he directed 'his at tention to the interests of the people more than to personal aggrandizement—and as a member of Congress during the term of '47 and '49, the oonntry.at became acquainted with his name by his- political battle in 185 S with the then invincible “Little Giant,” Douglas. Here his political history becomes identical with that of the present day, and the readers of the Sir aid being doubtless familiar with its great points, there we leave it for their own digestion. ■ WHOM HE MARRIED, AND HIS WIFE’S FAMILY RELATIONS. Colonel Lincoln married Miss Mary Todd, daughter of Robert S. Todd, Esq., a highly re spectable citizen, living near Lexington, Ken tucky where Miss Todd was'fSbrn. Mr. Todd is now dead., Ha was Clerk of the Kentucky House of Representatives, and filled other po sitions of trust, and was allied to some of the most enterprising and worthy families in the State of Kentucky—among them the Helms, one of’, whoui was formerly Governor of the State; the Wintersmiths, a family of influence, and others, some of whom havo lately called upon Lincoln, at his home in Springfield, and renewed the remembrance of those family, ties which, in some oases, unhappily sink into obliv ion. Miss Mary Todd was a pretty young lady, and the graces and accomplishments of former years still serve in maturer ones.to adorn a happy family household. They have three children—all boys—one of whom is now study ing at the academy in Exter, N. H., where Dan iel Webster began his actual educational career. The.two other boys are at home with their pa rent’s, bright little lads, and seeming to care no more for the hurrahs with which their father is received than if they' were bestowed upon any other man. They appear to take the enthusi asm as a matter of course; for, as they love their father and their mother, no applause seems less than their deserving. , WHAT BIS NEIGHBORS SAT OF HIM, After a pretty thorough investigation, I find that there is not a man in this region who says, a word against the honesty of Abraham Lincoln}' They like his sociability) and his familiarity.— Hhe is universally regarded as a plain, unas suming man, possessingistrong common sense, wedded to a quickness of perception that detects the right.from the wrong and winnows the chaff from the wheat, whetheij the question be one of a legal character or the selection of a true man from an impostor. “What do you think oif Lincoln as a man t” I asked of a resident of [Springfield. “I like him as a man, and everybody else can’t help but do the isame. He is hones't, talks sense, and is not too proud to sit down upon his doorsteps in his shirt sleeves and chat with his-neighbors. I have always been a dem ocrat, but I am almost inclined to go for Lin coln.” [v ~ “Will the split in the democratic party prove of any service to Lincoln in Illinois ?” “Yes, sir. Egypt is almost wiped out as a democratic stronghold, and with scarcely a hope to elect Douglas to the Presidency, there are many who will, from State pride, vote ooln, as they think there is a good chance for his election.” LINCOLN AT HOME, “We called upon Mr. Lincoln at his residence last evening, and were readily admitted. There were present Mrs. .Lincoln and Mrs. Judd, the latter the wife of the-republican candidate for Governor of the State ; the Hon, E. B. Wash bum, member of Congress from the Galena dis trict, and Lincoln’s two little home boys. The ladies were especially gracious and entertain ing, while “Old Abe” and your correspondent took a chair together and talked upon every topic now attracting the attention of the public. We have conversed with many gentle men in prominent political positions, but to Abraham Lincoln must we accord.the palm of frankness. Ho had no disguises. The subject of Southern slavery wias touched upon, and Mr. Lincoln emphatically declared that it was his principle not to touch it where it exists, but to prevent its spread into Territories now free. He spoke of slavery as an institution that did not meet the universal sanction of the Sou thern people. “Public opinion is not always private opinion," he said; and instancing Lamartine’s account of the execution of Louis XVI, wherein it appeared that although the lea ding revolutionists were.publicly obliged to de clare in favor of that deed, they were privately opposed to it. He said that it was the same with many people in the South ; they were obliged to sustain slavery, although they secret ly abhorred the institution. He would protect the South in its institutions ns they exist, and said that Southerners did not comprehend the position of the Republicans in regard to slavery. The Southern mind, ho said, was laboring un der the delusion that the republicans were to liberate the slavdh, who were to apply firebrands to the fields and dwellings of their masters, massacre old and young, and produce a slato of general anarchy and bloodshed in the South.— Ho swept this assumption away by a decisive denial of its correctness. Ha said he would like to go South and talk to the Southerners on this ttoic, were it not that the, minds of some were fo inflamed against him that they would not listen to his reasoning, but, on the other hand, might be inclined to inflict Lynch law upon his person should he appear among them. He bad, he said, on - one occasion been invited to go into Kentucky and revisit some of tbe scones with whose history his father in his life time had been identified. On asking by letter whether Judge Lynch would be present, ne re ceived no response; and he therefore came to the conclusion that the invitation was a trap laid by dome designing person to inveigle him into a slave State for the purpose of doing vio lence to his person. The conversation was lively, and occasionally interspersed with some brilliant flashes of wit and good nature from the Kentucky la<jly, bis wife. fra s the md ter- bis persona!, appearance.. Col. Lincoln’s personal Appearance has so often been desonbe&'in the newspaper prints that it is unnecessary for me to enlarge upon it here; bat as a great deal has been' said about his ugliness, I will say a word or two on that score, if only for the purpose of enlisting the attention of the ladies North anJ Sonth. Men of the West may care for personal beauty in woman, hut in a man beauty constitutes a very small claim upon their regard. But Lincoln is not an ugly man. His features may appear rugged to the casual observer, but when en gaged in earnest and entertaining conversation they assume an aspect at once pleasing and .en gaging. Many men called .handsome by belles laok.expression in their features when in con versation, whereas the man of genius telegraphs his mind to others not' only by his language, but by the masculine charm of facial expression. Else how could Colonel Lincoln have courted and wedded so charming a young lady as she whose realm is now his own domestio hearth 1 If Lincoln ever gets into the White House, you may be bound for it that 'there will be thousands of beauties from all parts of the country who will acknowledge that the pictures and the prints have sadly belied him, and’ that his cheek bones are not, so large, that his mouth is not so big, that bis figure is not so lank, as they have been led to imagine, and that altogether be is not far from being a' tall, good-looking, middle aged gentleman, who has offices at his disposal. . Colonel Lincoln confesses that he believes he will be elected; aid it would not be a matter of surprise if he were to-day adopting the New York Herdld’s suggestion—viz: making up his Cabinet prior to his Presidential journey to Washington. VIEWS QF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVES GROWN FAT IN WASHINGTON. Among all the candidates for the Presidency of the United States now in the field, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, seems to -be regarded by the people here as the only one who presents the appearance, emphatically and literally, of .[the man of the people. Without ostentation, 'without reserve, without any of' those exqui sitely politp attentions one finds in the man of dhe world, and especially in the kspiring poljti ,cian, nurtured in the patrician atmosphere of '• Washington, Lincoln both looks the man, acts the gentleman, and mirrors at once the keen ness of the astute statesman and the firmness of the rigid executive officer. The people say they have long wanted a President free from the corrupt influences which a long official resi dence at the seat of government is, calculated to entail; and from what I have heard and seen, within the space of a few months, a ma jority of the people of the North, and not a few at the South, are satisfied that in Lincoln they havo found a" man who comes nearer! to a representation of their ideas in this respect than any other named, candidate. Presidents Harrison and Taylor—good men in their good way—did not, it is true, vegetate in-the hotbed of Washington political influences; but, un fortunately, they both soon withered and died under them, after a . brief occupancy of the Presidential chair. But Harrison and fayldr were old; and one was superanuated before he assumed the reins of government, and the other became so shortly after he did. i Lincoln is in the prime of'life and vigor—as strong, lithe and as energetic as almost any public man of his age, and showing in his features, his move ments and manners, his intellect, his knowledge of law, government and the organic rules that sway men and found systems, evidences that he cannot be easily'swerved from a purpose he conceives just to his countrymen. That’s what his friends say. - A HXJJfTEK’S HAHDSHXP3, [Nessml - k — a gentleman who resides in-this county, and who is at present engaged in wri ting a series of articles for Porter’s Spirit of the Times —thus graphically describes a night which he passed in the woods a few miles from this Borough.— Editor Agitator.]. And here, egotist that I am, let me digress for the relation of what happened to me on a bitter cold night among these same ravines ; if was on the very night when the hunger above mentioned froze his feet, that, nearly dead with fatigue and hunger, I was on these barrens, “lost,” and trying to find ray way to the clear ■ings. .Ignoring the odds in legs, I had for two days been racing an enormous buck, thinking to “walk him down !” I had a very nice time at-}t; the buck only showed me his flag twice during the first day, and on the second I got not the first glimpse, of him. The weather during the two days bad been foggy and warm, but on the evening of tbe second the change was sudden, and to a man tired out and lost, fearful. For the best part of the two days the deer had been continually zigzagging about the barrens, going over points and ridges, through laurel brakes and ravines, crossing and re crossing his own track, until, on the evening of the second day he led over a high ridge and down into a valley that I at once pronounced fo be the Marsh Creek valley; here, as I was rapidly descending the hill, the fog began to raise, the snow commenced to harden, and by the time I had descended the hill my wet clothes began to stiffen, while the damming hollow; inside of me was beoomingflust ravenous. I was not on Marsh-Creek, bat. in a strange ra vine where the water ran the’ wrong’ way, the whole look of the land was strange to mo, and, id n word, I was lost; moreover, when ! dime to consider the hap-hazard manner in which I had been tramping about for the last two days, it looked very much as though I might be ten miles or more out of my reckoning, and I felt that there was not ten miles of travel left in I me, though it were to save my life. I decided to camp; and, although I had not a dry thread or a dry match about roe, set about trying to got a fire—an operation I can perform as well as most men, but in which 1 failed in the pres ent instance most miserably, besides nearly freezing during the attempt. It must have been nearly nine o’clock when I gave up the idea of camping and commenced to feel my way down .the rocky, log-encumbered creek, which' I knew must empty into ope of tbe throe larger streams, where 1 could at least find a road. This, too, was a failure. There is ■ a point beyond which any given set of myscles cannot perform without a rest, and my locomotive ma chinery gave out,!as near as lean guess, about midnight. Then!came,.the fearful struggle in. which so many good men and. true have gone under; the everj-to-be-kept-np stamping, dan cing, threshing of freezing hands, and strain ing open of heavy eyelids, by whioh'a chilled, exhausted, starving man is to fight his deadly enemy, slfep ; fdr sleep, the rest which seems so inviting, is neither more nor less than death ; which the imagination lilcea to picture as a calm, easy rest fttjm insupportable fatigue; and not or dreaded cither, I am in clined to believC, for the wearied man isn’t going to indulge in sleep,-not at all. He will just lean against that old log a minute to get breath, and then up and at it again. He isn’t going under yet, by a lorfg shotthere is a tidy hit of calico, and a bright-eyed little’ three year old, at a enug log cabin,.waiting, and keeping a bright fire for Him, with a nice bit of venison ready for broiling, and a pot of hot tea.i on the coals ; he would like a cup of it just now. AH, well, the venison [will keep a day longer and be none the worse tor it, and ho is t but a weak sister, and no hunter at all, who han’t “tough it out" one night without food or fire. So-|he weary man rests jhis back against the log; 'hoi to sleep, of course not. But the strained mus cles relax, the heavy eyelids come together, and he sleeps long apd well. There will bo little anxietynt the snug cabin oh the morrow, “fov he is a hunter apd can take care of himself.” On the next day ■ perhaps, the tidy piece of calieb looks rather often towards the forest, and just at night feels a iittlCanxious and -lonely; but a wounded deer or bear might account for the" absence, or ho may have got into' good hunting, and be j making- the most of it. So she quiets the three year old with a promise of the rifle he is to Have “when he is big enough,’’ “slicks up” the little room, places the teapot where it shall keep hot in case he should happen t 6 be lost and find bis way in late at night, and turns in. On- the following day, perhaps, a couple of neighbors quietly take their rifles, and more from a knowledge of what may have happened, than through a jbelief of what has, take his track. Miles and miles are carelessly gone, over, but as nighi shuts down, they become se rious and watchfully alert. They have found the senseless, objectless trail of a lost man, and as they camp at dark on the zig-zag track, there is no merry laughter; but instead, fearful sto ries of suffering hnd death, through freezing, broken legs, the falling of trees across camp at night, and unlucky gun-shot wounds. In the morning they are on the track soon as as it is light enough to see, and there in plain view of the spot’ whereon they have slept so soundly through ithe night, sits the lost pan, frozen like marble ; he has been dead fbr days. I have digressed to describe this much of hunting misadventure, because, firstly, it, is not a suppostious case; and secondly, because there is a point Ilwish to make. The point is this : when lost off a bitter cold night and un able to get a fire, do not rest in a reclining po sition, or with ah!y support to your back. Take f rest from, your exorcises in a squatting position on a log, so that when you get asleep, as you surely will, you may tumble off and awake to consciousness. - I am aware that this may seem irrelevant, but I know at leabt one case where a life was saved by such a pfoceedure, and more than one where a life was lost by giving way to the intense desire for; res,t and sleep. The night which I spent in the- mountain ra vine in earnest fight with the frost for my life, I look upon still with shuddering dread, nor have I yet recovered from the effects of if, being subject to 4 sudden stiffening of the knee joints, on getting jwet in cold weather, which nearly incapacitates me from walking, and which is apt to attack me without a minute’s warning. I was under the impression at the time that my eixhausted, hungry icohdition caused me to ex4ggenUe the intenmty of the 'cold, but it was not so; I found, on- arriving at home, that the ithemometer had indicated a fall of CO 0 from 3l to 9 P. M., and a farther de clension of 10° by the following morning at day-light, at which time it-stood 20° below zero. It was'decidedly a “ tight spot,” and out pf which nothing short of hot, young blqod- and physical toughness would be likely to bring a man with life. Towards the latter part of tbe night I -become so exhausted by compulsory horn-pipos as to be really unable to keep my feet for a minute pt a stretch, in consequence of which I took to climbing up a tree and coming down “ by the run”—an operation by which (I not only warmed !my legs, but used up a suo sta'utial pair of sheep’s-groy indispensibles be fore 'sunrise—a luminous event that was cob. eliminated by thej sun’s appearance square in the northwest.* - I was in'suoh a state of mental and physical,' obfuscation that jt was not without a strong mental effort that! I could make out the points of compass, with the sun in fair vieif. ,At last, however, taking the sun on ray starboard bow, I braved wearily up the hill down whioh I bad come the night bejfore, and slipping down every few yards, continued to make, as Mrs. Chick would say, “an effort,” On reaching the table -land of the barrens, there could hardly have been more than .throe or four miles left in me, though life had depended on it, and I reeled across the comparatively level top of the hill, slipped, fell, or scrambled down the face of it, found myself in the Marsh Creek Road, and within two hundred rods of the only inhabited clearing for miles, and took Up the road with the knowledge that if I could but hold out half an hour longer I was nil right I remember me( -of a drowsy, doggard determination to reach that house, of staifeering and falling repeated-' dy, of waking up! and reeling ahead tf few rods -If any person of- an astronomical turn of mind . shall see fit to donli t this, I beg leave to refer him to some half-dozen of my hunting acquaintances, each and all of whom—Under similes circumstances—have aeeu the sun rise, n{ot only in the northwest, blit in the North, id the Westland in the southv, est,an the South , —in any quarter of the horiion-ln fact, save the East, the latter point of compass being the one from which , the sun neier risejjto a lstt ifcac. Rates of Advertising. Advertisements will bo charged eipcrsqttais of IS lines, one or three insertions, apd 25 cents fot every subsequent insertion. Advertisements of IbSsthsn IS lines considered ns a square. The subjoined rglsf will bo charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Vastly ad* vertiienients: Square, - 2 do. i column, - J d 0.,. Column, - Advertisements not baring the number of insertions desired marked upon be published until or dered oat and charged accordingly.; i Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads and ail kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments, ex ecuted neatly and promptly. Justices’, Constabls'si and other BLANKS constantly oh hand»- m I after each drowsy, tumble, and finally, of seeing • Mr. B n coming .hastily down the road to wards me. I remember nothing more of if,' ( but my friend (I may as well give his name iij full, for be has gone to his rest, and it- was £ neighborly turn he did me on that hitter ing,) Mr. S. Boyden, tells- me 1 that he was obliged to half-carry me to the bouse, where I immediately went into s stupid sleep, from which hopwas unable to rouse mo long enouglt to give me a nip of the Monopgahola I so much neededf I must have been very Seriously; it was a pretty tight spot,. and i i. was~nct_tho desire for Ufa which kept me going (for I longed to sleep, knowing that sleep waa deatb), so much as the Anglo-American dislike of. “ caving ip,” and a consciousness that “ tifd boys” might, even whilo-pi tying me, have a lit tle private opinion that I “died too easy."—. Also, the knowledge that, like finest aoape-gra cea, I was a favorite at home, and that a kind old mother and a couple of sisters might incline to taka such an accident to heart, may have belted oi little. 4 ■ And now, gentle reader,* always supposing you to be. with me, and that wejbave topped the 'hill, look towards the AVest, and -you may see at the distance of a mile a roundish knoll sur rounded by dWarf.chestnuts and poplars v-and in Poplar Ridge, and less thanj a mile beyond that) is the brink of the ravine in which I worried Out that bitter night.' / ' A PHILADELPHIA PUNGENT. Judge Peters, tv Philadelphian and a punster, _ has left behind him] a countless remembered puns. Some few of his rarest ard well worth recording. | 7 A gentleman presenting his! only son to the notice of Ihe judge, said, “ Here is my all’’ —.; The boy was a long, thin, whey-faced stripling.-' and the judge, looking in his faSe, said to; the father, “Your awl, andyout last too, I should suppose, but I cannot call him a strapping fel low.” ’ *■_, 'lV’hetTon 'tho District; Court Bench, !iS oi£ served to Judge Washington that one of the witnesses had asegelahle head. “How so?" was the inquiry.. “ lie has’ carroty hair, reddish cheeks, a turnup nose, ivnd A sctfft look.** ■ During one of the public days connected with Lafayette’s reception, the Judge was riding in an open carriage with thq-genekal,. who regret ted that he should bo exposed to the,annoyance arising from clouds of flyingj dost. “I ana - used to it,” said Peters, ‘‘l am a judge, and have had dust thrown in my eyes by the law yers for many years.” : ' ' When practicing as he. had a oaaa on triql before a judge who was well known td indulge m extraordinary derelictions from the truth, ( (this judge was evidently biased against Peter’s ease, and while the jury were absent, and considering their verdict, he Wished to.post pone the cause, pleading illness as an excuse, and declared that he was unable to sit bn the bench, fetors saw his manoeuvre, and said, “If your 1 , worship -eanpot sit, we know that you [ can lie, laid therefore yon can receive the ver dict in a reclining posture.”- , i ■ lie was appointed membef’of a buildingoom mittee connected., with ther affairs of a . new church, j A wine merchant had made an excel lent offer for the use of the vaults of the build ing, intending to use them os the place of de- . posit for BPms of his immense stock. The libt eral parly were for oecepting the offer, bnt the’ strict church-goers thought the affair was some thing of a desecration, and wished to decline it. Peters elded with' the latter party, and 'when his sQrpriisfed friends demanded his reasons, “ f have always thought it wrong,said he, “td allow anjjlrireaching ever goddAp'ine.” ~ He attended the anniversary dinner at. thd Cincinnati Society, on the fourth July,tl 828 j; and when about to retire; he Was wards the door of the .room by one of the co lored waitprsion his left, and k gentleman, 4 member cjj {the Society, supported,his tottering steps upon the right. The judge turned round to say farewell to his old acquaintances, and; looking aijljiaisuppOrters, said—My friends, t take leave of roq ifi black and white.” This was his last pun in public, for he died in the course of the succeeding month.— Gentleman t - Maya:ine.\\ j | , j The Sh-IdWs wk Cast.— ln this great wnrhi of sunahin’pjUnd shadow, we Constantly cast shadows oi|)ipoBa aroutid us; and receive sha dows from jtjnom' In return. There is no path way in life Which is not sometime in.the shade; and there is no one who walks oyer these paths,’ it matters not way they [tend, who does not, now add i thfrn, cast his shadows with the rest. Ilowlpfteh do we, by a I mere thought less word or) act, casta shadow on some heart longitligj sir sunlight! IJow often dded the husbandJ by cold greeting, cast glom/i over the face of his young wife; wl?o, it may be, has waited ■ anxiously for the first sound of his footstep, to give him a joyous welcome to his home 4 ! How| often litis thd parent, by a harsh reproof, chilled the everllow* ing spring of confidence and lote which is bub? bling up from the fountains of the heart of thd innocent prittler at his knee! I How often are •the bright rays [of hope torn frpm the clinging grasp of the {jobls of those worn outby poverty and the nevfeij I ending conflicts of life, to the' stinging nm&Mlof the sordid lavaride of thbsa whom the wind honors—aye, loves to honor ! How pft» does the child—even after it hue grown to the full, bloom of ihanhood, and is clad in garments of strength and beauty, bring sorrow to tho parent already tbttering on the brink of eternity. Then beware, lest’you cast' a deeper shadow over those which. iret already darkening j his 1 happiness. The shadows are’ oast, can We thetn ? Can we look back; as we walltj joii) in journey, and seo' W shadowy marks about pur footprints V—Houii Monthly. ."H: ; '[s ; Danbury, the great town in Con necticut!. has nearly '.half a million .dollars in vested in the .hatting business! The sales:of. hats there made amount to a million and a half of dollars yearly, or about a dollar '4 piece foe all the hats mode., Thirteen, hundred-persona are employed!lo the work; chiefly moll aijd .. ‘ : ii!iV ■ : •' 3 UOITTKS. • 6 KOJTTHS. 12 IIOSTHf. . . $3,00 $4,30 . $6.00 £,OO 1 6,50 1 8,00 7',00 B^o 8,00 »;«0 . 12,50 15,00 20,00 1 . 80.00 25,00? ■ 85,00 L . 60,0( io,bi
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