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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.
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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
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£,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(
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