Terns of Publication; ,« TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is pobllehed Wednesday Morning, and mailed to snbaoriberi rt! j reasonable price'of.:. / ■ : - ' oN E DOLLAR PER ANNUM,,*£. -| advance. '■ It lain tended to notify eVory "Hr when tEe term for Which he had paid shall ™red by the figures on the printed label on the. ’of each paper. Thephperwill then be stopped' ‘. farther remittance' be received. Bythisar * t no man can be .brought in debt to ,tbe ifliT-iTOB is the Official,Paper of the County, 'large and steadily increasing circulation reaofi * etery neighborhood-in the County. It is sent V pottag' to any subscriber within the county trat whose most .convenient post office may be County. •! '• ' " ; ' ia „B Girds, not exceeding 6 Ipines, paper inoW \ per year; j•, ' : • BUSINESS DERICTOSY. LOW KEY A s. If* WILSOH, TTORNEYS A COENSELLOSS AT LAW, will 1 attend the Court of Tioga. Ippttor and McKean ies. fWellsbqro’.Feb.yiSigi] ■ -■ I.DABTT, DSGSTIST, ' •. OFFICE at hie. nearthe Academy. All|W orb, pertaining to is line of business oone promptly and '[April 22,185R] pICKIKtiOK JiOCSti ' COfiiJSlNft, -If T. . .A. Field, .......... . J 1. .. Proprietor. ists taken to and from free of charge. j. C. WBITTfKEB, Hydropathic Phytician md‘ Surgeon. ELKLAND, TIOGA ®O., PENNA. 'll visit patients in all parts A the County, or re r( them for treatment at bis hopae. [June U 4 J. EnERf, .■ TTORNEY AND CO&NSSiiDOR AT LAW WellsbofO, Tiogi Co:, PC, -Will derote his. 5,7 exclusively to the practice »f law. Collections .do in shy of the Northern Counties, of Pennsyl- U- ’ {; novi!l - 60 PESSSYLVAXIAj house. initr of Main Street and tie A&nue, WelUboro, Pa, J. W. BIGONY, PEO'|aIETOB. . Ibis popular Hotel, having ban re-fitted ani.re jrmshed throughout, is now op|p to the pubjio as a irst-clasß house. , _ . «j IZAiE WALTO* HOUSE, Si C. VEItHILTEA, PpOPBIETOR.' Gaines, Tioga Copjxty, Pa. THIS is a new hotel located within easy access of tbs best fishing and honting«tQandB in Northern ’a ho pains will be spared fopiho accommodation [ pleasure seekers and the tntvduhg public. ' April 12, .1880. ~ \ ] 11. O. CO|/E, BARBER AXD BAih'rJDHESSEE. BHOP in the rear of the Post gffiee. Everything in his line will be done as wog and promptly 'as it an bo done in the city saloons. reparations for re aonnir dandruff, and beautify® tbe hare, for sale ttsp.” Hair and whiskers dyedfany color. Call and (e . Wellsbnro, Sept. 22,1609. j; f ""THE COBBfiNG jjblJßMAfc. George W. Pratt, Editoxijand proprietor. IS published at Coming, Stenbpn Co., N. Y,J at One Dollar and Fifty CenU por year, in advance. The curnal.rs Republican in’, politi®, and baa a circula ;ioa reaching into every part * Steuben County.— [hose desirous of extending tbar business into that sod tbe adjoining counties' l will Kid it an excellent ad rertising medium. Address as above. Ft US'. rUBfS!|WUBS! v FURS'.— The subscriber has just received a large assortment of Furs for ladies wear, consisting of I'ITCH CAPES & VTCTORIXJES,' FREXm SABLE CAP& VICTCItIXES, RIVER ML\'K CAPES & ■ > ROCK MARTLX CAPES d VICTORIXES .; These comprise a small quantity of the assortment-! They have been bought at low prjceS and will be sold aftitremely low prices for ia Cornidg, N. T. QBIOK. T O .MUSI C| AN S . A CHOICE LOT of the best imported Italian anp German . * ■ VIOLIN STRINGS. Bjij Viol strings. Guitar strings, Tuning Forks Briaecs ic., just received and for sale at , HOT’S DRUG STORE. WELJ.SBOBO ‘jjlHO’PEEi, WELLSBOEOUGII, PA. I E. !. FARR, - - -' - j - PROPRIETOR, (formerly of the United fiiules Hotel.) Hiring leased this weUknWiand House, solicits ibe patronage of the" p»lic. With attentive end obliging waiters, together |Rth the Proprietor s knowledge of the business, he hopes to make the stay of those who stop with {Uni both pleasant and agreeable 1 '■ . Welisboro, May 31, I860;* -if~. ______ PICTURE iSItAHISG. TOILET GLASSES, Portraits, Pictures, Certificates Engravings, Needle IVi) rtf, Ac., Ac., framed in the oeaest maon&r, in plain! s.ndTornamented Gilt. Rose Woo l, Black Walnut, Oak, Mahogany, Ac. Per *ooi leaving any article for can receive them next’day /famed in any they wish and bung for them. Specimens at . ( ? , • „ SJUItH’S BOOK STORE. E. B. BENEDICT, M . TVrorLlTinfurm tbe pubficgiat he is permanently y\ located in Elklaod ijofcp, Tioga Co, Pa., and : prepared by thirty years* e ipsribnce to treat all dis uses of the eyes and tfeelr ’api'endages on scientific principles, and that he can' cure without fail, that dreadful disease, called St. YUas' Dance, (Chorea Stacii Viti,} and will .attend other business iu y . tie line of Physic anq Surgqryf.,^! Slkland Boro, August 8, IdoO*, i McINROV Ai':|BA*EET, ¥OULD inform the pabltajl^thaving purchased the Mill property, ka< nS as the “CULVER MILL,” and baring repaired, and supplied it with new bolts and machinery, are- apw prepared to do CUSTOM;(iSOBK. j. to the entire satisfaction of ilo nitrons. With the aid «r our experienced raHler, D. Mitchel, and the “"sparing efforts of the the, intend to seep np an establishment seiuop. to none in tbe county - O&sli paid for wheat and corn, and tbe highest market fries girtn. ■ J j EDW. McINROY, l5, iB6O, tf. ■ 1 jffNO- W. BAILEY. TIOGA BE«|UTOB. George F. HCMPHBSrs juts opened a new Jewely Store at' *{| \ Tioga Village, Tittgi jCounty, Fa. he is prepared to do'ilU fends of Watch, Clock Jewelry repairing, in itanner. All * to to give entii a "'do not pretend to do V any other ® W 1 «'JI we can do aa goodwbcfeas can be done in ac f -’'r elsewhere. Alfli Watches Plated. ffEOIJSfiF. HUMPHREY. * _«og», Pa., March -15, ISfip,^.) Teiv Hat Awn tfAP STOKE. T3E has just opened in this place a new Hat and Cap Store, where kein tends to manufac «« and keep on hand a large and general assortment p aihioaahle Silk and Oaasimero Bats, lly °*n manufacture, wMicb&Ul be sold at bard ’ «SM prices. I . SILK M.TS ' t ? r or^er on slort notice.Sj * n “ ats at this Store «ge fitted with a French 1 °I or ™ atu, e, which makes tttSn soft nnd easy to the a ®J*j|hout the trouble cf-Seaking your bead to 11,11 i|al “ 8tor » to the Haw Block opposite the; "tokinscn House. , 1 S. P. QUICK. -jffd'hg, Aug. 15,.1859. , 10,000 bbls. Pork For Sale. T „ iu ,Si " extraIHEAVY MESS PORK at *19,75 retail by the,pound at 10 cts., and wnr *'bMt‘ntOwn. , , ‘M. M. CONVERSE.- ts he 14 iB6O ; TIIK AiJITATOH SefcoteSrto tfje 2?ptt|isCon of ttie arts of iFm&om anß tfie Sju'caU of Mtttvttt* WHILE THEBE iSHAI/E BE A WRONG UNRIG HTBD, AN|> UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SIIALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE; voii. vn. , ! THE THEABtTBE-SEEHSfii ' {Tbe ballad, by Goerne, hat great truth imaginatively and gracefully expressed:} • ’ fMauy weary days i suffered,. ; . I ■ , SicVof heart and poor ol purse i ' Riches are the greatest.blessing; •i ' \ Poverty the deepesticnrse! . , ?TilJ at last to dig a treaaure, . ) y Forth I Went into the wood; | “ Fiend, my soul is thine forever,*' And I signed the scroll with blood. ; fThen 1 drew the mhgSo Birclee,; l * i Kindled the mysterious Art, Placed the herbs and bones in order, ; . Spoketho incantation dire. : < . And I sought the burial metal ■ With a spell of mickle might!:— I - Sought it as ray master taught me, Black and stormy was the night And I saw a light appearing [ ■ In the distance as a’slar ; I | When the midnight hour was tilling, { j Came it waxing from afar; I 1 Came it flashing-thick, and sudden, i ' As if fiery wine it were, 1 ‘ ' ' | Flowing from an open chalice J I I Which a beauteous boy did bear. ■ i And be wore a lustrous chaplet, ~ I And his eyes were full of thhoght, f And be stepped into tbe cirofe ; | With tbe radience that be brought, -And. be bade me tench the goblet; And I thought “Itcannot be( That this boy should !be the bearer Of.the demon’s gift to me." j “ Taste tbe draft of pure existence > Sparkling in this gjoldep urnj i And no more with baneful mngio , Shalt thou b'ithorwkrd return)': Do not sesk for treasures longer, Let thy future spell-words be— 1 Days of labor, nighbrof resting, _ So shall peace return to thee." 3HE - PACE AT TEE 'WXNDd'W. ' AN INTERESTIIjo STOHY. _ I It vas a woman’s face I saw asi I draw rein At Ct tbbert .Hall—a palei calm, almost p-oud face,.frith large Creole eyes and coal-black hair, -looped away from tbe checks in heavy and shi ning folds, I had seen many more |beautiful faces during my winters in New York and Washington—my summers at Cape May, New port, jand Nabant, and besides, 1 was expecting to mdet at the Hall a certain belle And heiress, a sistier-in-law of the frienjl who bad invited me to bi| borne. So I gave tjniy a passing glance at the pale stranger, and, dismounting, rang the (tell. A servant answered tbe summons, and, iconducting me into ) the library, w,ent to call pis master. In a few moments the door opened, and tbe lady, whom I had seen at the windlow came in, with two curly-beaded chil dren iclingiog about her.] She bade me good morning in a voice sweet jia.the thrill of a.lyfe /String, and said, with some embarrassment; “ |am sorry that Mr. and Mrs. Cuthburt are both lout riding.” . 1 ‘ “Ah I and so am I,’f was tbe answer, “ bull I suppose they will not be. long, for, though they did not expect me to-day, I wrote to thbm I should probably be here this week.” “’('hen you are Mi. Vincent?” : . ! “ Richard Vincent, at your service ; and now please introduce yourself.]’ j “-fi—l—l am”—she paused, wound one of the little girl’s ringlets abjout her ,fingor in her confusion, and begun again, “I am”—once more she hesitated, and I resumed— “ I have guessed it; you aro the governess!” She smiled, "but the color mounted to her very temples. ; “ Yoor and proud, 1 ” I soliloquized, “ how that blusi becomes her !” . At this moment we the tramp of hor ses’ feet, and saw Cuthbert and his beautiful wifeidashing up the broid avenue leading to the i|iansiun. The governess hastily left me, and I shortly after saw her talking to my friends on tae veranda. Their brief conference over, my host and hostess entered, and gave me the cordial welcome which is the characteristic of the South. When the greetings had been in terchanged, I turned to Cjuthhert, And said; “Pray, where is Mass Dupont, the charming sistep in-Jaw of whom yjm spoke?” He'and his wife exchanged significant glances, and I contjnued; “I am all impatience to see this paragon—don’t keep me jong in suspense 1” “ f -will not—you will moot at dinner!” Tae next moment the dressing ball ran", and the Boat led the way to! the guest chamber where he left me to mnki tny toilet. In those days I was not indifferent to my .personal ap pearance, and with the nSd of an attentive ser vant! I arrayed myself ini the roost elegant suit By wardrobe afforded, - “f-wonder if I shall bait the. heiress!" I qaeified, mentally, as I took a last survey in the min|of and descended to the dining ball. There, aeaij the table, sat Cuthiert and! his wife, the facej I had seen at the! window, and, not far front the governess, a.young lady with fair complexion, a blooming cheek, the sunniest of blue? eyes, and a profusion of goidon hair; I was |a connoisseur in la< ies’ dress at that pe riod!'and I took in at a glance her costly India muslin robe, with frills of Mechlin lace, the splendor of her bracelet;, eardrops, and neck lace! and the exquisitely wrought golden comb which looped up the rich tresses.; Why was it tbabjhy facelwandered -irom hereto the pale, calci governess, with hei bands of raven hair, great eloquent eyes," and a dress that fell about herlike a “Dunraist.” | “Blanche,” said my host, "[allow me to preaant, an old and va ued friend—Richard Vincent!” j • i , The blonde beauty colored, simpered, and with an inclination she i itended to be like that of Iprima donna to .an [applauding crowd, ac knowledged my bow.. j j “jMiss Marguerite. ’’ resumedCuthbert, “this is the guest we have beei expecting !” j . , She bowed .with -the [grace of a queep, and I asrpspectfully as if shehftd indeed been one, astsajd: :[J , I. -.5 “|W,e have bad tho ipkasure of meeting be fore Cnffabert 1” . )j, •- ‘ i • As I told you,” murmured tjbe governess, “ I [went dopra to tell blip you were absent.” lii ceremonies of dinjner now began, and as a e«at had been assigned me beiidejs-Blanche, I tried to play tbfl agreeable, but I often fodnd wanderinglto the pile, silent girl opposite. When the meal was ovdr and the lades bad left the room, we lingered at our .t 1 i I win|J f ■. •. s -.j .'.a j . f - imiSBOKO, TK)GA COLS " What do you think of my sister asked Cutlfbert.. ' • “ She ig very beautiful,,” 1 replied. “ arid hare you,fallen in love at first sight?” “If I have 1 shall not tellyou,” 1 exclaimed, and then we went on chatting in amerry strain. Wbi n we adjourned to the great, coo),'luxuri ous mrlor, I found Mrs.Cuthbert and her sis ter, sut the governess was walking to and fro on 4 le terrace, apparently absorbed in thought. The usual small-talk ensued, and at last, at my req,t eat, the heiress sat down at the piano, and plaj ed and gang with much skill. I bad ob serv >d a harp in the boudoir adjacent, ■ and begj ;ed her to sweep its strings for roe. “ 1 cannot,” she said ; “ but Miss Margner i an; I will call her,” and moving to the i low she exclaimed, imperiously: “ Come, guerite, we wish .you to play some airs on harp.” [ ; ’ , he governess hesitated a moment, and then ein and ‘took a seat at the harp. As she here I noticed for the first time the superb lortion of .her figure, the graceful poise of head on the stately neck. But I forgot |e when she smote the chords of the harp began lo sing, Was she an improvisatrice 7 ought she mast he, so fall.of soul was the lie she poured forth, and when she conolu- I asked Mrs. Cuthhert whose composition ite i 'win! Mai the *>• f Her Own,” she replied ;-" and aha never we what she is going to sing -when she com- iees." attered ho fulsome words of commeindaHon larguerito, but my eyes must have spoken lines of approval. bat night when I retired to rest my dreams e not hhanted by the heiress, bat by the t face I bad seen at the window—the face of wet p»ij TAn I | > £uerite,{the governess. * fhe J next! morning 1- was awake at an early hour, and glancing out, saw Marguerite gliding across the I4wn. I hastened to join her—her cheeks worle a rich glow, her dark, lustrous ey® were fill of light, her lip tremulous with smiles, her White apron was full of snowy blos soms, and ilhe had * wreathed a spray of jessa mine amid tjhe blackness of her hair. How we began to talk I scarcely know, but I was never so {entertained by any woman as by: her. I could touch upon no subject in literature or art!with which she was not familiar, and Ma’d nm|b de Staid might hafe coveted her conversa tional powers. On the dawn we separated, but when we met at breakfast in the presence of thaCutbbeifts and the supereiliious hleiress, I saw that the old governess look bad again come balk to her fair face, and she was more reticent, than ever. | My friend proposed a horseback excursion to a boiling spring in the neighbor hood. and When onr party assembled on the Veyanda, I noticed with thekeenest disappoint-': mfflit that the governess had been excluded. I rode at the bridle rein of the fair Blanche, woo looked very pretty in the blue habit, and with her velvet cap set coquettishly above her go|den tresfees, b; I found it an effort to inter- { estj myself 1 in the commonplace chit-chat. I felt a sense| of relief when we dismounted at tbi Hall, find as soon as I had led my partner inJbounded up the staircase. On the way to m| chamber I passed an open door, and through itlcnught a glimpse of Marguerite. The .two ehjldren were busy at their tasks, and she sat patiently correcting a sketch which one of them bad made.’ A portfolio lay beside her, which, j I doubted not, was filled with her own draw ings. She heard me step, and looking up, saw ml on the threshold. SWhatl” she exclaimed, “ have you returned oon T 1 did not; expect you for an hour or . I hope you have enjoyed yourself.” No, I have not. I was really ■disappointed bejsauso you did not gq." A. faint smile passed over her face. |‘ I—I," she murmured, “ you can’t under stand etiquette if you expect a governess is to befmade an equal.” •I felt the blood rush to my brow ns I •There are many false notions in society. I an sure Mrs. Cnthbert’e governess ie the equal of any one here, and as such T regard her.” iler face crimsoned, and for a time there was a i ilence, which I broke by’aaying: • •Is this the schoolroom ?” 11 Yes.” ■lt looks very cool and pleasant. May I Co ne in ' I suppose Mrs. Cutfabert would have no ob jei tion.” j jvvw.x... . !‘ I hopd not!” and with these words I mov ed to the table at which she was sitting. 1 Does that portfolio belong to you T” I in qt ired, laying my hand on the article in ques tic n. assent, and I resumed : “Shall I have the pleasure of examining its contents ?” “Certainly, sir.” • She was calm, grave, quiet, but when I drcw fo tb the pictures and began to expatiate,’ then ht r patience vanished. Her eyes lit, the pale cheek glowed, her lips—those mobile lips of be rs—parted, and she talked with the enlfliusi as n of girlhood. The sketches were indeed w mderful, and at last I said: 1 “It is'a shame for your genius for painting, to : drudge as a'governess.” Again thdt peculiar smile flitted over her fea tures as she murmured: ' “ The pot r must do what they can, not what they would.” At this moment we were interrupted by the cl ildren, acd I left her. In the afternoon I was lounging on a luxuri ous sofa in .he library, the door opened, and Marguerite appeared, but at sight of me she precipitately-retired. • “ Stay 1 stay!”- cried I, following her. ; *’ No, tin, I cannot—l did not dreamyou were h ire; I Was lonely, and came down for a book.” {•‘Comr and getit;” With some reluctance ) entered and took a splendidly bound dopy Tdssojfrom the'shelf. . I glanced at it and d: “ What, jdu you read Tasso f” ' ~ * • A little.” i ‘Then takeja seat beside me and we will id togdtber.', . ' She hesitated an instant, and then assented, e liquid Tuscan language sounded verybeaa il in Her accents, and the. spell with, which i governess bound me- deepened with every suing knoment. 4 robdflnvbreiin undone night!, gat in my IT, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 87, 1861. chamber, holding communication with my own heart. The face I had seen at the window on my arrival—the face that had seemed so calm and cold, bad since assumed ;every variety; of expression. I had come hither to.woo Blanche, I, had fallen in love with the governess.. Yes’,! I wajiin love at last—Marguerite-haunted all my sleeping and waking dreams. I- was mu sing thus when I heard a tap at the door, and Cuthbert entered. “Well, sir,” said he, “a penny Tor your thoughts.” “I am thinking/’Treplied, “how mysteri ous a thing love is.” - “ Yeu nre in lore, then ?—glad of it—Blanche will be a happy woman." “,’Tis not Blanche!” I stammered ; “ ’tis not Blanche my heart has chosen—l love the governess!" “-The governess!” said Cuthhert; l |‘ sounds, roan, whs.t do you mean ?” , , j “I have to day ,laid my heart, haridj and for tune at her feet; if she accepts me, Isbell en vy nobody in the wide world.” j Cuthhert meditated awhile ere he ifesumed : “Too must be sincere; Vincent, or you would not marry Marguerite." “ Sincere ! Qnd knows I am 1” My host gazed at me and laughed Id merry laugh that rang loud add tong through the Hall. ‘iMy dear fellow,” be began, “you are the victim of a little ruse. My sister-in'-law' has had a mortal fear of falling a prey to somefor tunte hunter, and when you, on your arrival, mistook her for the governess, she could not re sist the temptation to carry out the impos'ture. In the bit of confab we had with her orf the veranda, she begged us not to undeceive you, and we humored her whim. She coaxed the cousin who was staying with us to act the part of the heiress, and as she had taught the chib dren during the absence of their French gov erness, they were not likely to betniy her se cret. Blanche Marguerite Dupont, dome here and confess ?” - 1 • “ Dear, dear Richard, I know I can trust you.” | ‘ Blanche is now my wife, and peepirig over my shoulder at my manuscript, she bids mo tell the world she has never repented the Stratagem that won my love. i "What! stay at home for that! squalling young one ? catch me to.” And the young mother threw on a bonnet and sbawlj and ham ming a gay air, sauntered out on the prome nade. One another bowed and smiled as she moved along, flushed, triumphant and beautiful. A young man met her just as she was passing asbon of a welKknown firm. “ Ah ! out again, Delia,” he said, 1 earnestly, “ Where is Charley ?!’ “With Uinnah, of course, Yori don’t ex pect me tn lie myself to him ?” she ijeturned. The young man’s face grew cloody. “ No,” he returned, with a half sigh ; “ hut I can’t bear to have him left with servants,” “Oh, well, I ran,” sshe said, andj with a ra diant smile left her husband hard at work and flitted out. “ Answer all his questions ? make myself a slave, as I should be obliged to? Oh!,no; can’t think of it. If I give him his breakfast and plenty of play things, I don’t believe in fussing over children—let them find outdliirigs as they grow up!” { “ There's Sic danger,” replied the dear old lady, casting a pitiful look upon the richly em broidered cloak her son's wife had bent over all day. “ unless the mother be constantly im parting the right kind of knowledge” “ Gh ! yon want to make him a piece of per fection like his father; well, I cad’t say I do. I don't like these faultless men. I See—now isn’t the contrast beautiful. Come here; Char ley, lovey, he shall hare the handsomest cloak to the whole city 1” I “A cigar! bless me what a boy, and only twelve. Are yon sure you saw him smoke it? ,Well, I dare .say it made him sick enough;— boys will be boys you know.” | “Yes, bat to think you should allow him to go tir tho theatre without my knowledge?” and tHe husband groaned, I “ Dear me 1 why what a fret you are in ; do let the child sec something of the rirorld.” “In joill my God, husband—not our boy 1” “ Yes, in jail for stealing.” "Not out boyl not our Charley ! No, it cannot bel Let met die—kill mo, but don’t tell me our Charley is a thief.” | The boy was sentenced to the Slate’s Prison and the mother carried to a lunatic asylum the next day, I 4NOGItAPHtr.—We once saw a young man ga zing at the *ry heavens, with a t in 1 and a.—. of pistols in the other. Wo endeavored to attract hia allOtion by .ing to a .ff in a paper we held in onrg®*, relating to »! young man in that J of country who had, left home in a' state of mental derangement. He dropped the f and pistols from his with the! “It is I of whom D read. , I left home h 4 my friends knew of my design [I had sO the J®“of a girl who refused to lislOS me, hut smiled be9ly on another. I —! —ed madly from the house uttering A wild ’ to the god of love, and without replying to the !? of my friends, came here with this fft <-r A — of pistols to pat n . 2 my xislOce. - My ease has bo || in this J.” , A farmer was sowing his ground, when one or two dandies canto riding along that way, and one them called to him with ah insolent air of dandyish triumph: “ Well, honest fellow, it is your - business to sow, but we reap the froits-of your labor.” To which the countryman meekly replied*. ” It is very likely you may, (or. \ am sowing bemp.*' - ?.. KEABUTO BOYS. A BRIEF HISTORY IS FOUR CHAPTERS. CHATTER rr CHAPTER 11, CHAPTER 111, CHAPTER IV, A SKETCH OF HAKpISBUEG. Spacial dorrapondence of Tbs AgiUtiit ] HaßßtSßtme,' Feb. 18, IS6T. When the unlucky founder of Harrisburg was tied to that tree on the. banks of the Sus quehanna, of which tree there remains only a stump to mark its historical character, he little dreamed that from his “ grocery”' there would a city arise, not exactly ad Jove sprang from the brain of Minerva/panpplied and equipped for war, but rising through long years of pa tient industry and bold enterprise until it would become the political centre of a great and pros perous commonwealth. For forty years Harris burg was an insignificant borough, with no business beyond that of supplying, the-farmer with bis cloth and leather, and- the. farmer’s wife with 1 calico and groceries. Yet I csn well remember that even while; reposing in the dull ‘business monotony of an inland borough, there was an air of comfort and! hospitality hovering around it which at once captivated a stranger and bid him welcome to its good cheer, genial joys, and more than generous entertainment. Since 1840, no borough in the State has im proved more; and since 1850 it! has expanded and grown to proportions! as mulch as any city with like advantages in |the Onion. In 1850 the borough contained 3,468 males, and 3,456 females ; rooking a total of 6,921 i white inhabi tants. Since then this population has more than doubled itself. 1 - 1 ■ The great feature, however, of Harrisburg, is the growth, extension; and improvement of the borough Is well as the city, and of these it is my present purpose pore particularly to speak. Twenty years ago the arrival of a train of cars was,announced byl-the.birking of dogs, and the screaming of women forjtheir children. Now the..shrill whistle iof the locomotive'is constantly heard day andj night! Those living who remember the old depot wjith its quaint amf dingy office, its solitary “ porter” dozing on its portals while the fat and lazy omnibus telm waited for “ the trijin” vvith the patience becoming the ancient reputation of their spe cies—Those (old inhabitants can (best appreciate the change in the neighborhood of the old de pot.,, Where only one op two 1 trains arrived and departed ih°en, one hundred pass and repass now. The Lebanon Valley, the! Northern Cen tral, the Cumberland Valley, the Susquehanna and Dauphin, and the | Lykins Valley Rail Roads all centre and Ijave a terminus here. Besides these termini it i|i also a Division Depot for the Pennsylvania Railroad. This Company ■ are erecting and have already in operation a large number of machinri shops in the north eastern portion of the iity, connected with a “Round House” for the accommodation of one hundred locomotives. You can judge from these facts of the travel and transportation from, to, and through j Harrisburg •, yon can also form gome estimate of the revenue required to sustain such a depot, and the benefit which I its circulation bestowal on the community at large. The necessity for large numbers of workmen has produced the, reasonable demand for increased accommodations for these work men and their families. | As a consequence the city has expanded. What was formerly gra zing ground has now become marts of trade. Old haunts of pleasure have been converted into business localities op value and importance, while the rural districts 1 have beep invadedlby the opening of new streets and avenues, the' erection of commodious dwellings, the construc tion of elegant and extensive public buildings, halls, churches, schools j and hotel*. The Old and the New School PrcßbyterianCburches are -among the noblest structures of the kind in the State, and when completed, the new Bap tist Church will rank—among the most attrac tive, in point of architectural design, harmony, and finish. In this connection I would-be_ blind to the triumphs of enterprise, if I did not specially allude to Brqndlls Hall, erected by John Brandt. As a private investment it has no superior west of Philadelphia for extent and magnificence, andi will stand as a fitting monument for as useful a citizen, aid as gener ous a man, as ever trod] the green banks of the Susquehanna. ; - In rioticing the growth and improvement of .boroughs and cities, such as Harrisburg, ope cannot help asking, What influence is it which produces such mighty results ? We notice that wherever we travel in j the east, the north, and the west, labor and enterprise are achieving the grandest triumphs. Let me inform you, then, what influence is at work in these sections ; It is the influence of education on free labor—the former elevating and refining the latter. These combined form the great influence which is continually at work improving territories, cre ating states, and beautifying cur towns and cities. | Snodgrass. Newspaper reporters should not drink.— Here is a story handed in by one of the craft, which’ shows in very strong colors the manner in which'things become distorted by viewing them through the.botujm of a tumbler: “ Yesterday morning, about 4 o’clock P. M.; a man with a heal in the hole of his stocking,' committed arsenic by Swallowing a dose of su icide. The verdict of] the inquest returned; a jury that the deceased came to the facts in-ac cordanee with his death. He leaves a Miild and six small wives to lament' the end of bis untimely loss. In death we are in the didst of life.”-’ * . ' What is fashion ? Dinner at midnight and headache in the morning. What is idleness? Working yellow ihmmtains on' a pink subsoil— —of a blue-tailed dogin aky-oolored convnltiuns. What is joy? To countyour money and find it overrun a hundred dollars. What is knowl edge? To he away from home when people come to borrow booka|and umbrellas. What is contentment!- To aft-in the bouse nnd see other people stupk in ihe mud. In dtheewords to be better, off than your neighbor. ~ ■ Tnx Baby's NasieX" My dear, what shall be the name of our baby ?” said Mr. Smith to Mrs. Smith the other day. “ Why huz. I've settled on Peter.” i ■ “ I never knew a dan with the simple name of Peter that could earn hia aal j’’ " Welij will Call him S.tU fulcr.” . Rates of Advertising. Be charged-?I lines, one or three insertions, and 26 cents for era# BubsequentinseHion. 'Advertisements of less than If lines considered asn square.' The subjoined rst/iH. WO be charged far Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yeariy sis rertisoiuenls; % ~ _ , - j • . v :i't 3 JSOVTHS. 6 KOKTHS. 12 UOW&tt $4,50 - - JQ,Ofl - |5,00' 8,59 ; S,OO Square, - | - 2 do. * column, - #,50 i' do. .ip, 00’. 20,00. - SO,Of, Column, . , - . 23,00 3s,bo‘ . Advertisements not having the number of insertion® desired marked upon;them, will be'publlsfaednzntil a* dered out and -charged accordingly. , ■*.' ' '' Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads and kH kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments, as# eouted neatly and promptly. Justices'; ConsUUf’f, and other BLANKS constantly on hand. - : i NO. SO. MUSIC IN THE MAMMOTH CAVE, " Were yon ever in the Mammoth Cave? It is, with all its wonders,'the most Qod forsaken, > dreary!; gloomy spot mortal ever entered. Yet there is some strange mystic power in the place to transfigure; the weakest, most wretched mu sic into harmony fit for the celestial spheres. “ After poking about in the bowels of the earth for three or. four hours, visitors to the cave arrive at Echo river, where they embark on a disgustingly muddy scow, or if the party is large enough two or three wretched boats ara brought into requisition. The women are all dressed in fancifully colored bloomer dresses and with the uplifted lanterns, present a strange and wierd appearance as the boat is pushed from the shore, and floats down into the black gloom, the lights reflecting themselves, on the surface of the| deadly) still water, and lighting up with strange etfeet the arch of rock overhead. When they are fairly out of sight we enter the other boat, and ourscl res push out into the dark stream. Dark, awfu ly dark, it is. The dark river of death finds oii earth no pfiAre vivid,par allel than this! i You know, in fbeifirst picture of Cole’s Voynjgc of Life, the gloomy -river of the past from which floats out -into life and light the little boat of a baby voyager. . The stream' issues from a,dark,"rooky cavern, mys terious and unknown. Such-a stream is this on which we are embarked. ' Silent-and gloomy, dark and mysterious, it serves as a type'of the past and the) future; of tjieJ past-mystery whence all ligljit evolves. Of the insflrutablefa ture whither all life tsnds. - ’ L “ The fealih| The boats sink and tbb perpe side offers no voyager might sometimes so avoid it, and a visible, rises tl which you glide cold' ns the n sound but the t a cricket along! to plunge op ai fore returning I of life—no sou by ourselves, “ Hark! the; shade of music, some wanderin creases. It bei harmony, > treo wildness, fluttei tions, swelling arched roof al from one direct; a higher note or voice rising abo syren singjmore eler—never did leiburg chant r unwary boatma Rhino. , “ Suddenly a turn of!the boat brings you op posite a break in the perpendicular rocky shore; and perched upon.a mass of broken rock, you see a party of four negroes playing upon vio line nn,d a cornet. There are the syrens, > these the Lurlines of Echo ri or. Out on the earth’s surface their music w juld te merely quaint and odd; but here, in tle Mammoth Care, it is wierd and unearthly, ' “Floating away, out of sight of the aborpi minstrels—who are, in fact, the barber, boot black, or waiter from tl e hotel at the. month of the care—their masio resumes its supernatural tunes and effect, and so until we land at the op posite shore of the dark piver, it haunts the ear with its peculiar harmc ny, while ever after it forms the most vivid re niniscence of a visit to the Mammoth Cave.” SEI>ECTIOKS I*OI A NEWSPAPER, Most people think tl e select ion'ofe uitabln matter for a newspaper is the easiest part of the business. How j great in error. It is by all means the most difficult To look over & hun dred of exchange paper; every week from which to select enough j for on e, especially wbea the question is not what shill but what shaft not be selected, is no easy task. If every person who reads 1 a newspap tr could edit it we would beak less complaint. Not ut frequently it is the ©ash that an editor looks over hia exchange papers for something interostii g, and caa absolutely find nothing. Every pi peris drier than a con tribution box, yet Some King must-be had—lire paper must come out w lb something in. it v ;yid he does the best bp caa. To an editor who b what he selects, the wri easiest part of the; lot thinks the paper prime and if there is ne thing i mnst be slopped, it is gi so many suhscriheraas many tastes he baa tt something smart, anoth One likes aheodotes, fm wonders why a nan of his paper. 1 Som 'thing editor is a dull fjol. l j all, yon see the poor fel died. And yet to ninet do these things nc what pleases this man, bat they ins suit him it is goo An editor jot slinved week, and offered , (ho d refused, t>eeau-e, said you' is an editor J “ Wi neber charge.editors nu erality wilt ruin you.’* .make it dp off.de gemi. - Ad mycntiyia rat.us.jiliioh, hf Jays is , fastens upon tlia j»oim loading ta.the tjmpamj oyer the snorer enures, jl first impressing,’ finds % and of course, reforms! A" 9 young lady oui putting on iiira. ! t I Mo 8,00 do. vlo” ; of sec down i ndiculi ledge rarity is not very groat.— almost to the water’aedge, ar slippery rook on bn which a slili-wrecked ; . f . _ T find a t* low tm ;ain so e rockj Ip ig tbj arow of ripplinj ;! the sti end flasl to its w iad,.no Imporary footing. Abore', it yon must crouch to high as to be scarcely jroof, while the water in jrty feet in depth andas : a corpse. .There is-no I made by the boat; not i oreless stream, not a .fish I a moment in the air’to” ■ itery home—no symptom motion, save that -made ound! Far off a delicate' t as to seem the ghost of . But by degrees it in* ejia'a i so fail g echc tear and defined.. Rich with strange sensnona Dines bling ring around the rocky projee in waves of harmony to the ore. |fow it appears to corns on, now from another.- Anon strain |s heard, like some clear re a mighty chorus. Never did ; magic] songs to listening trav tbo mysterious maiden of Lut lore entrancing melody to,the i who i loots along the moonlit of is the least care about ting ha has is tha or. Every subsetihvf 1 for bis own benefit, i it that saifa him it tod for nothing. Just iin editor may hate, en ; consult. One wants i« something sound.— and frolic, and'anolher sense will put such in argumentative, and the Lnd, eo between them ow gotsroughly ban j’-nine out of a hundred They *hoald|teB"ct that may not please the next >t if the paper does not iothing.— Eiehahne, Mur. i man, i sist tbf i sd for 1 1 in a barber’s shop, last arkey 15 dime, which he he, “ I understand dat lit whatnf ilt “Vfa 05n \‘ f "But snob lib “ Oh, nebav mindj'we k'" i . r ■ jhaa produced an appa ll cure fur snoring. Ho b , a gfttta pcroha tulia fm of the ear. . Wben |he hitpself roosivca, the ,ow disagroptbla it is, West is chnrged with : o she refused to go to a ■> s',so ;!(£«' \sr ; ’it,.*'
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