Ptifllcatloai. 1
tio qa county Agitator u published
TB Wednesday Morning, airmailed to subscriber!
yetj reasonable price of;, -J ,
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. ,; ( n advance. It is intended to notify every
,rl .. " when the term for which he has paid shall
’"tutted by the figures bn the printed label on the
’ f 1 paper. The paper will then be stopped
’ in ‘farther remittonee ’ be.jpeeeived. By this ar.
* tB o .man can he bought in debt; to the
' AsrrA’ 0E > s Ae' Official Paper of the County,
linp o- n d steadityinerehsing circulation reach-'
1 every neighborhood-in tjhnCoonty. Xtis sent
V „„,tpye to any Post Offlaewithin the county
tat whose most convenient post office-may be
’’adjoining County. • . ,
jiness Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper incln
ss per year. ■ ■ ■ § j ,
business wrectoby.
i LOW RET & JSij:E. WIESON,
tTORSBYS i OftftfSK&OES AT LAW, will
attend the Court.of Pottor and Mike an
•ies. rWelbbero’.Peb. I,ip3.] ■
C. S.DARTT, dentist,
OFFICE ftt Ills, residence near the
Academy, ill' work pertaining to
•- Hoe of business done promptly and
i [April 22, 1858.}
dTckissos house
cansisftil'iN. T,
. A. Field, '•)
■st« taken to and from the '
7 jr. C. WHITVAKEB,
Hydropathic PhysicianPpnd Surgeon.
ELULANOI
ill vi«U patients in all parte jof the County, or ra
re them for treatment at hisfeouee. ' [June 14,],
J. E9ERT,
ttorket and- counsellor at law
Wellsooro, Tioga Co., If a- Will demote faU
ticlussvclj to the practice' of law. . Collections
in aev of the Northern counties ofi Pennsjl
* nov-21,60.
PEfIfISYUYAIfIA HOUSE.
■of Main Street and the Avenue, WelUboro, Pa,
J. W. BIGOSY, PROPRIETOR.
J popular Hotel, having ieen ro-flttcd and ro
jbed throughout, ia now ogeo; to the public as a
:iosB bouse. _ ]
IZAAK WAJiTOJT HOUSE,
c. YEJiillE YEA, fiXOPfIfBTOS.
Gaines, Tioga Ct§mty, Pa.
IS is anew hotel locatedycUhin easy access of
the best fishing andhuntitf| grounds in Northern
So pains will be spired for the accommodation
■asure seekers and the traV-eling public,
ril 12. iB6O. ' ft 1
0.0. C OL E,
BARBER AND MA[^l-i> RESSER.
HOP in the rear of the PosgOffice. Everything in
his line will be done as well and promptly as it
be done in the city Preparations forre
ing dandruff, and beautifying the hair, for sale
ap. Hair and whiskers any color. CaU and
1 Wellsboro, 'Sept. 22, 185» •
THE COBKIRfi tfOIIRSAL.
eorge W. Pratt, Edit# and proprietor.
) published nt Corning, Slettjen Cd-j-N. Y., at One
Dollar and Fifty Cents per Lear, in advance. The
malts Republican in politics, and has a oircula
-1 reaching into every part ijf Steuben County.—
>je desirous of extending thSJir business into that
the adjoining counties will Alnd it an excellent ad-
Using medium. Address as ' ibbve.
FURS! PURS £ FURS!
IDRS—The subscriber haspjust received ft large
- assortment of Mura for ladiis-wear, consisting of
TCB CAPES & VICTORIES, 1
FESSCH SABLE CAPtfSJt VICTORINES,
i 'Eli 'JINK CA PES & J ifkES,
ROCK MARTIN CAPifS & VICTORINES.
Ihese comprise a small quantity of the assortment,
ey have been bought nt low Qdces nhd will bo sold
iitremelv low prices for cash}; at the New Hat Store
Curnidg, N. Y. b S. P- QUICK.
TOM US I Cgl A If S .
CHOICE LOT of tho bespiihporled Italian anp
i German - . *
] VIOLIN STRINGS.
Is Viol strings, Giiftar strings, Toning Forks
idges Ac.. lust received and for sale at
• EQYS3 DRUG STORE.
WELLSBORO pH OTEU,
WELLSBOROUGS, -PA.
1 FARR, - - . - -;i - PROPRIETOR.
-1 {Formerly of the UnitedtStutea Hotel,')
aving iensedahis well knowh and popular House,
ills tbe patronage of the pVlblic. With attentive
llbbligmg waiters, together with the Proprietor's
ivledge °I the business, he hopes, to make the stay
those who stop with! hint; both pleasant and
tcahle, \*
fellsboro, May 31, 1860,
PICTURE FRAMING.
MXTIET GLASSES, Portraits; Pictures, Certificates
, Eogravicgs, Needle' Work, A#*, Ac., framed in
i ne;ie ; i manner, in-plain aad ornamented Gilt,
a Wood; Blank Walnut, Oaki'Mahogahy, Ac. Per
is leaving any article for framing, can feceive them
it day frnmed in any style th|y wish and hung for
So. Specimens at j;
-SMITH'S BOOK STORE.
~~ E.' IS. BENEDICT, -M. D-,
Vf OTj'LD inforin tbe public thjat he is permanently
T located' in_Elkland Boris) Tioga Co.-'Pa., and
'repared by thirty year?* expedience to treat all dis
mof the eyes and the|r appendagestfa scientific
n clplcs, tLOsi that be can curse Without rail# that
artful disease, called St. Vwis* Dane®, (Chorea
I it!,) and will attend to other business io
lino of Physic and Surgery-?
Elkiand Boro, August 8, ‘lB6o^rjj
mcoitoY a ilailey,
\T O.ULD inform tbe public, laat-hdving purchased
T the Mill property, kuoww as th'e ‘‘CULVER
and having repaired supjffied it with
ir bolts and machinery,* arc prepared to do
CUSTOM RK
entire satteftujtionnf its patrons. With tbe aid
our experienced miller, Mr. £,jD« Mitchob-and tbe
•paring efforts of tbe proprietors, they intern! to
: P op an establishment second ip none in the county.
paid for wheat and corn, ftinl the highest market
Ce given. • . |DW. McINROy,
>«chU, 1860. tf.
TIOGA REGU3LATOR.
'EOKGE F. HUMPHREY* has opened a new
" Jewely Store at :■
Ti<sa Village, Tioga? County, Pa.
l cr = to is prepared to do all Bpd« of Vatoh, Clock'
Jewelry repairing, id a workmanlike u.anner. All
warranted to give entire BiU*fßotion.
■0 CO not pretend to do work se(ter than any other
>.out ire can do as good woti as can be done in
C 1““ or elsewhere. Also Welches Plated,
„ ‘ HUMPHREY.
■!!&*■ ?a,, March 15, 1860, (if.) ' \
ItEW HAT CAP STORE.
Subscriber haa just opened in this place a new
is s*i* ®* ore > wherelfijintends to moßpfij.c
- on hand a large doji'general assortment
Silk and fienaimore Ssta, ,
own manufacture, nhich;t}ill be sold at hard
"pneea , . T , .
[ - SILK ■
fi-*on short notice. P' .
idfo.ir. 6 - 13 at this Stoia at dotted with a French
nd »o? ture ’ w * l ' c ? l ®«kes the Jl’soft and easy to the
tit ii L. at thj of b’eakiog your bead to
& S lo ™ Id the Hoi? Block opposite the
r*|Ofon House. S. P. QUICK.
AugT.l5, 185 ft.; . £ .
*O,OOO bbls. Pork For Sale. .
HEAVY M3BSPOBK at slo,f 6
>U4 «uTw" tta b y tb# pontfd at 10 eU., and war-
WvSb*"*-"
J
,j
. Proprietor.
>epot free of charge.
I i From tbe 2iew York independent).
i i THE BOLIT'ICAL PANIC.
| Webster defines a panic to be “a uudden
frightjwithout real cause, ft terror inspired by
a; trifling cause or a misapprehension tjf dan
ger.” j The panic which for a mOhth has
stolen; away the common sense of tbe Atneri
d|m people is, so far as its political rejations
aye concerned, a fright of this sort, “ aj terror
inspired bya trifljng cause land a misapprehen
sion of danger.” What real foundation it has
is strictly commercial. The fact of the inabili
ty of (jhe South to pay itai debts would have
been jpst as much a fact, land probably have
been Blade manifest about this time, had we
been ih tbe middle of a Presidential term in
stead Of at the end of one. . ‘
'Whfn the result of the State election in Penn
sylvania in October made ilt plain to the coun
try thit Lincoln would beieleeted, )he opposi
tion w|sre persuaded that nothing but some des
perate) measure would defeat him. The mens-"
ure resorted to was one w nch never ‘ nefore
failed bf its purpose—the ci|y of disunion. Ac-
reckless and unscrupulous
journa3s of this city scrap 'd together all the
bdmbapt and fustian, all the sound and fury
that ccjuld hb found in Sol them newspapers,
atid paraded them from day to day, week in
■arid week out, before their readers, by the col
urpnfuj, by the pagefnl, by the paperful, jn the
hope that by thus playing upon the {fears of the
North they might induce her voters to {with
hold their votes from the Republican ticket in
the apprehension that the Dnion would tie dis
solved imd chaos come agnid should Linqplh be
elected). Their immediate purpose was defeated,
and thfe Republican ticket si Ccessful j; bulj they
nevertheless had so far filled the public mind
with anxiety, that when, afiet the election was'
over, tile news came that the South, or a part
of the |3oulh, meant what they said, and still
the intention-of seceding, then panic
and a nameless terror of pre
dicted [disaster, confirmed by the discovery of
the nctpal rottenness of Southern credit—which
ought,land, under other eircumstanbes, would
halve bfeen confined to that-i—made inen turn
pale with fright. It was ‘‘d tferror inspir:d by
a trifling cause,” and it became formidable
from ‘fa misapprehension of danger.”
The [danger apprehended was two-fold ; first,
the daiiger of dissolution ; second, the disaster
rihat would follow that event. But the danger
was m|sapprehended, because it included the
fear ofia secession of other states besides South
Carolina, and gave to the secession of, that
state ap importance that does not belong 'to it.
There is and has been but liittlo ground for ap
prehension that any other sltate, except South
Cafoljifft, will go out of the tlnion; y[nd if is of
very little consequence whether she gpea or not,
if the behaves no belter. j , ; -
Sontli Carolina fell into a state; of chronic
i dip toy ion the subject of secession about thirty
years ago, and has continued, ever since, in a
condition of hopeless imbecility. Her cause is
beyond any other treatment than Ithatj of a
strait-jacket, and a rigid diet of bread and wa
ter! She is perfectly in earnest timber ravings,
anpl is determined to go ont| into the cold and
starve, br to break things to; pieces ip a dread
ful manner, if she is prevented, When her
condition is thus rightfully apprehended, it will
also be |seen that she is only dangerous so; long
as she & kept inside, and net-permitted to have
her own way. Let her go ; a large black man,
bigger [ban herself, stands ready to jjeceite her
with a strait-jacket the moment she crosses the
threshold, and free-trade and (jtireot taxation
are a diet that will bring the blood pway from
her brajn and reduce her system to chat condi
tion tbitt ‘she' may by-and-by, in God's good
time, recover her reason. If she is determined
to rid tne rest of the family of her j presence,
they will be delivered from a very pestilent and.
noisy nlerober, who, for more than a quarter of,
a centuty. has done nothing but break the peace
of the whole household. ’ ;
. Now [if. this be'a true statement of bet case,
—and it certainly is,—why should iany. threat
of the Recession of such a State disturb the
commence of tho whole country? SouthCftro
lina contains about as, many white people as the
city of Brooklyn, probably does not contain so
much wealth, certainly has not so much Intelli
gence, ind-iinot of more consequence to the
Union-r-we to Brookljfg—
; ffip.'w.'bailey.
THE
j achotcO to the ZZyUnaion of ti)t grta of jFrcctrom aitg tf& Sprrah of l£ealt&g Reform.
WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG WfiIGHTBD, AND' UNTIL "MAN’S INHUMANITY -TO MAN” SHALL *CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
rojL. m
i THE, RTVEU PATp.
| BY JOHN O, WjBXnjXEB. !
J No bird*song floated diwn jtbe bjjtl,
I The tangled.grass b?lo|r was still;
■JNo rustle from the birchen stem,
pfa'ripple from the watferia nem. 1
< Tbe dust, of twilight round ns grew,
:We felt-the falling of tpe,dew;
I Tor, from Us, ere the day was, dune,
fThe Wooded hills shut the bub.
?Bat on the river's farther slilb -i
:We saw tho hill 80 glorffied^—
IA tender glow, exceeding fair,
|A dream of day without its glare. ■ •:
|With us tbe damp, tbe febill? the gloomj
iWith them the sunsct’sfrosyrbloom;
|Wbile dark, through willow vistas seep,
jibe river rolled in shajle between.
{From out the darkness where we trod, j
|Wo gazed upon those hjlla of God, j
fWhose light seemed not of moon or sun,
5We spake not, bat oar thought was one.
5•! • 1
[We paused, as if from that bright shore
jßeckoned our dear gone before: i
|And still our beating hfearts to hear
The voices lost to mortal ear!
I f
our pathway turned from night;
KTbe hills swung open to the light ; '■
flhro’ their green gates the sunshine shdw'd,
• IA long, slant splendor downward flowed,
(Down glade, and glen, And bank it rolljed;
■lt bridged the shaded stream with gold;
(And, borne on piers of inist, allied
The shadowy with the spoilt sldel i
“So, M prayed we. “ when lour feet draw ijear
•The river dark with moVtal fear, ,
>'r 1 i
“!And the night cometh ohill with dew f
|O, Father!—let thy break through!
"jSo let the hills of light jdivide, j
po bridge with faith thej sunless tide!
“|So let the eyes that full ion esfth - j
jOn thy eternal hills loot forth : i
f i j
“iAnd in thy beckoning angels know 1
|The dear ones whom wej loved below i
i I
WIELLSBORi
i i
th
eig
its;
bae
wh|
eat
naf ion of 40,000,000 of people. She may go,
an(i the great West will produce not a bushel
tbs less of corn and wbpat, not ft pound the less
of >ork and beef, not ai wgsp the less of hay;
an< our great East-and-Weat railroads will not
hate a pound the less of produce to bring to
ma'ket;—she may go, and not a spindle the
lesi will whirl in Lowell or Lawrence; —she
ma r go, and not a sail the less will dot the har
bor) of the North; —she may'go, and not a
whom ore unwilling pauper laborers, while the
other section are dependent upon these for the
few| necessaries and the not many luxuries of
iifeltbey are permitted to enjoy.' Out of the
Union she will da less, for all of the trade she
now does, that comes to her from bordering
states will find its way to Savannah and Mo
bile! and tbe little cotton she rajisee she will be
glad to send to market in tbe ships that will
take it quickest and cheapest. So little reason
have we to fear of disaster and loss to the com
merce and trade of tbe countryjfrom the seces
sion of South Carolina. It is marvelous that
the (threat of such an event,! such 41 a mere
misapprehension of danger,!’ should so blind
men to tbe dictates of common iense.
There is no chronic idiotoy ln| any Southern
staff, as a whole, exceptin South Carolina, and
therefore no other Southern state is goingbut
of the Union, unless such an event be precipi
tatea by an • unhappy attempt to coerce her to
stay! in. In that ,event, Southern pride may
rally other states to her aid, and the fu-mation
of Southern confederacy be eonsequence.
Butfeven this, the worst that cab be npprehen
■ ded,|is not likely to happen; for tbe -South
Ynolrs, even better than we do, that this would
gresiat only in a temporary disarrangement of
affairs at the North, while at the 'Suutb it would
produce disagreement and disunion among
thertselves, the absolute compulsion of the
border slave states torjofn the Northern confed
eracy, and the speedy downfall of slavery in
all those states. An emanoipatibn party exists
already in Missouri and 1 Kentucky. Western
Virginia with its free-labor, and Eastern Vir
ginia with its slave-labor, is already a state di
vides against itself. The question of slavery,
as a| politico-economical question, is already
agitating Maryland and Delaware, The Union
party in all these states would insist upon an
nexation to the Northern and
would carry the point with the moral voice of
the North to back them. Wjth; a confederacy*
immediately Sputh of them—with free trade in
Afridan negroes—what would become of the
slave# of these border states? Like the horses
o|f a )oor farmer, which he can neither sell nor
they would soon “eat their heads off,”
and would be the only remedy.
IVou d not the acquisition of half a dozen free
state , with all their wealth of undeveloped
mine i and virgin soil, open to the free labor
and 1 snergy of the North, with- their eight Og
ten millions of emancipated people, who would
want and earn more food than the three pounds
of, bicon and the peck of corn a week, more
than §lO worth of clothing a year,—be large
cqmf ensation for the loss of the trade of the
secec ing states, if should lose it? But we
sbou J not lose it. Tpe cotton states are at the
foot i f the world, notj the worlij at the foot of
the c )tton states, as South Carolina fondly be
lieve . They raise nothing else,, and can raise
noth ng else but that pr seme other great rough
stjapl: that can! be produced 1 by hands only, and
not leads. Men are pot slaves When they have
head!, and therefore ho other industry is possi
ble to the slave statels. They must sell their
cpttojK or starve, and they m.ust send it to mar
ket in the ships that will take it most safely,
and at, tbe smallest p ice, .and these, as any in
surai ce office will tell them, are Northern ships.
-They must buy their goods where they can get
them cheapest, and th srefiire they will purchase
shoes for their slaves in Lynn and New York,
and not in Paris, their negro-cloths and cheap
cotton goods in Lowell and not Manchester.
Statejcoifventions cannot alter the laws of trade,
apd commerce never dissolves tpe Union with
the siiarlest men by preamble and resolution.
In *be worst event, then, it is ihe South and
not t|e North that is to be loser by Disunion',
and the South is too wise to venture upon so
desperate a measure to cure herj fancied ills.
The iolitical panic is a " terror, inspired by a
trifling cause,'or a misapprehension of danger.”
The aountry was .never in .so good a condition
to trrf this question as now; tbe only real canse
of apprehension is tbat’a senseless fright will
induce soma invertebrkted animals at Washing
ton t| make' a compromise to quiet the clamor,
and «>. put off the question, to a lime when we
are lass able to meet it. j — . ‘ •
if.
ghoul
agitator:
TIOGA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 26, 1860.
.. 1 1■. 1 i ■ •
in that city. Undoubtedly she has some for
ja commerce and some domestic trade, but
jper-centage upon the whole trade and com
irce of the country is sa small, that ite loss
iild hardly be felt, should she be cut loose
in her sister states, towed out, into the Gulf
learn, and anchored to a raft, to drift for ever
■e from.zone ;to zone. We are exaggerating
thing, and setting down naught in malice.
ip industry of a state containing only"about
5,000 white people, supported by 375,000
ik people, who are fed upon Ithree pounds of
d bacon and a peck- of com a week, and
ipse entire clothing does notcoßt $lO a year
c h, cannot by any even if we had
statistics to verify dbe fact, be of any great
3 meat to a great, flourishing, and energetic
ith the less will be filled in all the wide
on beside, not a dollar the less be paid tp all
millions with their heads or tbeir
ds. All this is capable of arithmetical
(onstration. In the Union the does little,
b her small population, more than half of
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF SECESSION,
From the London Times
contrary to probability, Sivith Carolina
p rebel—what then! '
she is bent opon trying tbs chances of
be will, of course be immediately beaten
the field. She has neither men or money
h for war. Herj white population is al
declining relatively to the; black. Even
dlies.she could inot fight fbra day with
mplete discomfiture and humiliation. If
i allowed to secede without opposition,
an she’ subsist ? I Poor in resources, help
'ainst enemies, at the; ineioy of her otVn
, with a sm’4l aristocracy in'debt," and
'' ‘ . ...
1
' . i
the rest of her white population ignorant and.
degraded beyond precedent; with no money to
buy a ship or coal or. steamer, her lands wear
ing out, and n|o manufactures—what can she
do to live f Some people say, “ Let her try.
She is turbulent and troublesome. ,We shall
be well' rid of her; so' give her her wish I"
This is more easily said than done; but it will
not become a practical question. Why should
she resort to eitbch supposition when she can
simply go on ajs she is ? She has, as we have
said, no grievance and no “ cause.” She is in
every way a gainer by the Union, and in fact
could not exist without it. As everybody
knows this who knows anything about her, the
more quietly she acquiesces in her turn of po
litical defeat, the better she will 'preserve her
dignity.
A PIOTUEB OP LIFE.
“ Chtiries,''ootae here.”
Slowly the biy approaches bis mother, when
when the latter gives him a smart box at his
ears, adding; “ There, take that; and now go
to work," ;
11 Why, mother, what have I done ?"
“Done, you llave not done abything, only eet
poring over that old paper for an hour.”
“But, mother, the chores are done, and it is
storming.”
“ Go under the shed, then, and saw wood."
And he went, the boy of fourteen, dwarfed
alike in body and mind, the former by hard la
bor on the farm] the latter by hard’ words and
!“ hard knocks." Poorboy! and this was the
nephew that I had, so longed to see, for I re
membered him as a sprightly boy of three
years, all life ana animation ; and this was,the
sister that I had coine so far to visit, and this
was my first observation day in the family cir
cle, for sickness Had 1 hitherto confined me to my
room, where all hod been stniles and kind, at
tention. My sister 1 was some years older than
myself, bnt being only sisters, we were much
together, and had few if any secrets that we
concealed from each other, and for awhile after
we married, the lone going toward the rising,
the other the setting sun, we bad kept up a
regular correspondence, but the cares of a
growing family and poor health soon checked
the letters andj at last they ceased entirely.
Once she had visited her “ old home” and
friends, and brought Charlie her first born with
her, a bright la 1 of three summers. Eleven
years had passed! when I decided to make Her
a visit and see how she prospered in the far
west. Success had crowned their labors, and
to the casual observer, nothing was wanting to'
roakp life,agreeableJ
Thrt e lovely girls wandered from room to
room. The eld 'st threw down her book, which
instead of reaching the table as she had de-!
signed, foil to the floor. Instead of saying,
“ Pick it up my (laughter," the mother gave
her a quick slap tin the head which sent her
reeling : and picked it up herself. Quiet was
scarcely restored dre another offender, for sonie
light cause, received a box and an angry word,
and thus the afternoon was spent I was in j
hopes that such sdeqes were not common, and !
waited impatiently fhr the evening, hut alas!
it came all too soori, fur as much as my feelings
had been tried through the day, they were
worse tried in thej-eyening. The candle was
placed on the stand in the centre of the room ;
the father, tired with his day’s work in the
woods, had leaned! his chair against the wall'
and was already snoring : the mother with her
youngest in her lap, rocking by the fire ; I with
my feet on the fender and nobody by the light,
Charlie hunted up his paper (which had been
tucked away) and timidly drew up his chair to
the stand in hopes of finishing his story, buff
h vt-k 1 “Come hoy, just move your chair back,
and not make yourself quite so conspicuous.”
lie moved back, and soon slipped out of the
room and was soon forgotten by all but myself;
but often in the course of the- evening did T
wonder where the boy was. About nine he
came in, find I expected a scene, but no ques
tion was asked, ’and be passed on to his room.
I could not refrain from asking ray sister where
Charles spent his evenings. “Oh,” she said,.
“he generally goes over to the other house;;
they take a paper, and always read it aloud,
eieningsr^This-thetrwasthe mystery; the boy
could not flare the privilege of reading at home, 1
and went to the neighbors.
I felt sick, heart-sick, homesick, and longed '<
for the quiet of my own home. Butawholel
winter was before me, and something most be 1
done. At last all had sought their pillow save;
my sister and myself;"an .unpleasant silence!
pervaded the room ; I was thinking how to be
gin; I knew that my sister’s heart was in the
right place if I could reach it; she asked .me
what I was thinking about; I told her I was
thinking of our mother; X asked her if she re
membered how tenderly and lovingly she reared
her family—how she sympathized with all our
little imaginary wrongs and troubles—howshe
taught u's tp pray and sing, as well as read and
work; how pleasantly we spent our evenings,
when motherwould tell us some pleasant story,
or brother Charlie would read the newspapers ?
It was enough, already she was weepjng on
my bosom ; no promise was asked or given, but
I heard her go softly to her boy’s room, and as
(he returned I heard her murmur, “ God bless
him,” and I knew the good work was began.
It was some time before ajl the little outbreaks
were dispensed with, but a Took was sufficient
to still the tempest, and ere spring, the time,
fop my departure had arrived,'a lovelier and'
pleasanter family could not be found. Charles
accompanied mo home to finish his education,'
and he premises still to fulfil the hope of early
years. i
The Officer of the deck on board a man-of
war, asked the man at the .wheel, one day,
“ How does she head ?” It was blowing a gale
of wind. “ South-ayst,” replied Pat, touching
bis hat, but forgetting to add sir to his answer.
“ You’d better put a few more s’s in your an-j
swer when you speak to me/’ said the huffy
lieutenant. “ Ay, ay,' sir-r-r,” returned the'
witty Irishman. A day or two after, the officer
called out again, “ How does she head now
—“ South-ayst and be south, half, south, and
a little southerly your honor, sir,” screamed
?4t,
WEATH-BED OB DOUGLAS JEBBOXiD.
In the life of Douglas Jerrold, by his son’, wi
have the following touching nocount of the
great satirist’s lost! moments in this life : ,
When the doctor presently suggested that
be must not despond—that he might be well
again—those blue eyes seemed to borrow d
last flash, and to express almost scorn. He
saw the falsity spoken in kindness, and repelled
it, for he bad no fear.of death. Then a faintj
ness came upon him again, and be gasped for
air, motioning all from the window.. “ Let me
pass—let me pass he almost whispered.—[
But not yet. He" was. oarrieJ to bed—thef? surj
went down. Dr. Wright had determined to re|
main With his patient throughout the night.—l
He wi>s. easier now, but sinking beyond all
doubt; You could hardly believe it, in thej
night when his caljn voice sounded again to,
speak of friends, to remember everybody, and
to send kind messages to all. One child was,
away in America; and he sent him his blessing;!
Then in the depth of the night, daring the in-|
terval of applying bags of hot salt to his feet.i
he even talked of his news paper, and bade me
carry on his name in it. Then he would lie
back and murmur prayers, and then, as- the]
kind physician hung over bis bed, .he would
cry again and again. “ Hear doctor I dear
doctor! but it’s no use I” ’ And then he would
ask the hour—for he -had a belief that he should
die at midnight. Midnight came, however, and
the gray dawn crept coldly into the sick room,
and still the sufferer lay begging for fresh air.
We cast the window open, but,this was hot
enough; we seised every fan that could be
fojnnd, and waved them before him. “Why
tease a dying wretch V he said presently to the
doctor who was insisting upon giving '-.bint,
medicine. : Then when the breath, got wprsc,
and it appeared that in the next minute he
must be suffocated, he cried, “ Christ l! Christ!”
The sun mounted the heavens sldiwly oh
some most unhappy people that Wife
and daughters had passed the night, sitting
sobbing in the dressing roam, the open door
of which led to the sufferer’s bed.
not bear their tears ; but at frequent intervals
asked for one, then the other, and clasped them
to his heart. In the morning his sister arrived
from the country. He kissed her—then looked
over his shoulder. He could scarcely speak
above a whisper now; but he was seeking the
second sister, to whom he had always been ten
derly attached. She was not there. With a son
on either side of him, and the kind doctor still
leaning over him, he seemed at .perfect ease—,
resigned. Still we waved the fans about him,
giving him nir, and still, at intervals, he talked ;
faintly, but most collectedly,
■ The dawn grew into a lovely summer morn
ing. At ten o'clock, the patient was cupped.
He could hardly move in the bed, and said
again “Why torture a dying.creatore, doctor?”
But the cupping took no effect, and the doctor
went away, to yeturn in a few hours. We were
left alone with a dying father. Friends were
hushed in the room down stairs, listening.for a
faint word of hope. Daughter, sister, wife,
were sobbing in the dressing room. For a mo
tpent, to fetch something for the patient, my
brother left me gjone in the room. My arm
wtts about the dear-sufferer, propping his pillow
as he moved restlessly around. He looked with
a terribly eager look at me, then at the oppo
site side of the bed, for a moment without the
face of that dear boy, who watched there day
and night. His mouth moved, and I could read
thp deep emotion that possessed him. He said
again and again, “ Yea, yes,” still looking at
me, and then at the opposite side of the bed.
I bent down to listen, but he said no more;
Then, as I raised a spoon filled with iced
water to his lips, bis eyes for the first time
wandered. My brother returned and held him
with we. We saw a dreadful change. We
called to the dear ones in the next room and in
wild agony they gathered about the bed. For
a moment again his eyes regained their light;
he saw all about his death-bed; his head
leaned against my breast; he looked up, and
said, as one hand fell in mine, and my brother
took the other, “ This is as it should be.” In
a moment', without a struggle, peacefully as a
child falls asleep in its nurse’s arms, ho fell
into bis long rest, with a smile upon his face.
A wag has made up the following summary
of what he calls the “ Inalienable rights of
Americans,” an 1 which are not enumerated in
the Declaration of Independence;
To know any trade of business without ap
prenticeship or experience.
To marry without regard to fortune, state of
health, position,nr opinion of parents or friends..
To have wife and childffen dependent on con
tingencies’ of business, and in case of sudden
death, leave them wholly unprovided for.
To put off upon hireling strangers the lite
rary, moral and religious education*of chil
dren. - , .
To teach children no good trade, hoping they
will have, when grown up, wit enough to live
on- the industry of other people. ■ \
To enjoy the general symathy, when made
bankrupt by reckless speculations.
To cheat the Government-if possible.
To hold office without being competent to,dis
charge its duties.
To build houses with nine and six inch wSlls,
and go to the funeral of tenants, fireman, and
others, killed by thehMfall, weeping over the
mysterious dispensation , of Providence.
To build up cities and towns without parks,
public squares, broad streets, or ventilated
blocks, and call pestilence a visitation of God.
There is a railroad down South which runs
one train a day, drawn hy a locomotive of about
one coffee-pot power. The conductor is so po
lite'that if a lady cries out, “Mr. Conductor,
I should liken drink of water,”’he immedi
ately jumps off,;blocks the train with a stick,
and'attends to the lady’s wants. . '
“An honest man’s the noblest of the
Lord !" enthusiastically exclaimed a Hardshell
Baptist, and then after a panse, be added, “ but
the Lord hasn’t had‘a job in tbe world fur fifty
years!” . -
Wo suppose bullets njen eomst njes be*
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i Apprentices areinvited to read a littlaway--
aide story, which is hut one of the thousands
like it that margin the highway of life all along,
to its close: ; . -
■I; On Friday last, we dropped in at a station
house, to see ;ivhat 'items might be gathered
from the criminal docket of the tell-tale slate
of the attentive Chief, and having taken'jail
that,was of interest to us,-about passing Oat,
w« met in {he dopr-jvay-one of the most loath
some human beings it has ever been onr lojt to
encounter. We stepped aside, quite willing >
to give the rag-muffled man—for he bad been
lo man once—the latest privilege 4n .passing,
and-was astonished indeed when’ entiling a
glance at us he adlvanced; presented his hand/
and called us by name. We took hie trem
bling band, though at first we oonld discover
nothing in bis haggard features that at al} re
minded us of any former acquaintance ; |but
when he mentioned his name, and the nanrof
the paper on. which we learned the beginning
,of the A* art prieepvative of all arts/’ the veri
table- “ Bill Phillips,” an old fellow apprentice, ■
stood before us. "We had toiled side ‘by side
in a newspaper office (the Lycoming Gazette)
I bearing the name l of the county in which it
1 was located, in the northern part of Pennsyl- ■
1 vania, and we had known him .then as an un
commonly, bright! boy, a natural wit, a pet
among his 1 fellows} and withal the quickest and
most correct compositor in the office. Lear-'
lag the office' and bnsiness on acconnt of ill
health before we had completed pur profession,
we heard.little of Bill, eicej t that, for some
trivial cause, he had run away from his em
ployer, (who was likewise his benefactor) and
I but once heard of him as leading a rather dis
sipated life in thje city of Philadelphia. Wo
sat down on one of the station-house b( aches,"
atiif he recounted his adventures from the-un
lucky day cn-which he threw his “ wardrobe”
over his shoulder! and turned his back.uprn
his employer, down to the tune of our acci
dental meeting in the station-house doer, where ’
he had come to prdcure lodging for thenigbt.
It was the old story, and here he
(twenty years of wandering, a poor, miserable,
friendless, dissipated creature, wbom to, de-o
pri;ve of his glass was to remove the prop
which now served .to sustain, life.'We.took
tho-poor fellow to - better quarters, and turn
ing homewards, began thoughtfully ‘to contrast
tihft career of the i fellow apprentice we bad
just left, with that of others, who, in the same -
Office, served out , their full apprenticeship,
and afterwards filled some of the highest po
sitions in their native State. There was Ellis
Lewis, until, lately; Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania, who not only:
served his time there, but afterwards owned’
and edited the Gazette , leaving it only to fiH
still higher and mure respectable- positions.—
Then there was another, a round faced, smart
hpy; with nothing dike the mother wit-that. (
Bijll Phillips possessed, but he was steady in
his ihabits, served faithfully, arid tf-day- Wil- ‘
lipin F. Packer, fie: Governor of Pennsylvania,
rijcurs to that as the, period when he -was, by
hpnestly and steadily serving out his time, |
idying the foundation for that. which
bps since so abundantly crowned his efforts.—
Lpok at it, boys 1 There are bdt two methods; >
Of accomplishing the journey of life among-,
ttjo close, growing years that intervene: between,
the beginning and Vhc end—the; one deads yon
through a career of honor and 'usefulness, the
other terminates where poor Bill Phillips will
soon lay his weary bones—in Potter’s Field.—
Newark Mercury. \
INSTINCT pp ANIMALS.
In referring to what is called mind or instinct
of dogs and other i animals, full justice, we
think, has never been rendered to the S'mia, or .r
monkey fribe. Their tricks and dexterity hare
been! amusing; but their extraordinary talent,
sagacity.and intuitiveaperception hare been,
;in| a measure, slighted by naturalists generally.
A( monkey or half baboon, belonging to one of
the national vessels, was a remarkable instance
of) this'quickness of perception.' Being a fa
vorite, a number was assigned to him to take ,
his grpg with the%enmen ; thus when the hands
were called to receive 1 their liqnor they came
up by number; the monkey had nnpiber four,
but in following.in Indian file, the sailors fre
quently shoVed him put of the ranks and the
guttler would call number three and. then the
number five. After all had drunk their I’qonr,’
and gome'four or five hundred bad d-par eV.
)iejwouldsing out tliO missing number four,’
when down came the monkey from the rigging, '
the moment the number was called, to get bis
share of the grog, Which be would drink dufof'
a teacup,.take a piece of tobacco from any ■
onh offering, put it in ms mouth, and aseeud the;
shrouds. j ‘
A isingular' circumstance ,ooct>rred ( which
strbngly marked all |tiie characteristics of hit- :
man sagacity and passion. The boys, as it was i
the onstorii, were •' piped to mischief,” for piny ‘
and skylarking, and while amusing themselves _
-some twenty in aringj the monkey sprang from
the] rattling in the nijdstbT them, lie passed
roundthering, looking intently in the face of
every: boyi; at length! Ko stoppedTjefore one, '
andspringing-atr him,’ bit him severely' in each' !
cheek, his line te.eth pnssing'Jhrongh the flesh, : *
bringing with it a stream of blood, and then
ran Up the shronds. The Doctor was immedi- ;
nteiy fsent for, and applying prOps'r-rethfl- [
dlfib to the wounds, theCaptainaskcd'the V'y ' r
what he had donefb the monkey. After shm's"'
hesitation he,admitted that a few weeks hefeird, '
while swabbing the decks, be had thrown a
pail of water over- the monkey, who; dtsoems,
postponed his revenge until he could recognise 1
the boy distinctly among 1 nil his messmates;
This clearly is mind-lcall it sagacity, or what 1
yon please, i - • :i ‘ 1 - - '
(A, tailor, while traveling on the lakes,'was
aiiked by a Yankee Where he lived, and wbiit
bis business was, 4c.; to which he replied, that’;
he lived in Toledo, arid that his profession^wn* f '
sitting on the smooth side of poverty, and jerk l
jng.out the cards of affliction.
| Men will be always apt to think tho money
ma-ket tight if th y arp in the unfortunnl?
habit of jteiiiDC so rhemselrys.
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