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lICK3A COUNTY AGITATOR la published
„ Wednesday Stoning, Bahaanhert,
HZ very WMonnhle ppeeM, S 1 . v /. , _ ,
J&-. ONE DOLLAR. ■ <
L .Tiber when the term foi : w&iih he haa paidehafl
ob .roirod,.by tile Sgures ( S tfeprinted label On,the
in of eatji. paper; :The J stopped;
, fa farther remittance [e gpeired. ■ By thie ar
cmcnt no hel Jitpght in dijbt to $«
Aortai-on is the Official I’aper of the County,
A . large and W»«h-n
n into o«ry naighbornoodifttetrOonnty. It' i» sent:
J* „/ pottage to anjf; sdbsarilgr 'withintbe: Bounty
Sg-ijt whose eonvonliht. post oigiceniaybe
I-inadjoinVngCounty. V Kt , '•
Business Cards, not exceeding?,lines, paper Inelu-
M, && t 7 V*T.< ■ Mrnul^llt-o;' sr- n_ :
iAS. lOWRCT
i HORNETS-i COUNtgS)
A attend the Cohr>of TCoj
JSties. [ffellsb.oro', Feb, 1.-
’ £Ti«. DAB'nS fJBKTIST,
■ly-i- /"~V FFICE ai h§ tesidenco near the
1 I Academjt work pertaining to
*UJ line of Mim<ss‘done promptly ana
f 22, 1858.]
granted.
SB ■■
cous in r.
HiJ. A. Field, k 4 Proprietor.
Quests taken to and front the Cfoot free.of charge.
- j. C. WHJTfIKBB,
■ ti'ai '.(tyd Surytott, -
ELKLAND, PfOA ;
■Will risit patients in 9? County, or te-
Jiyo - thorn for treatment at ;biEjbffiaa. ■ [June Id,] ;
. - j. Es'«inr,
Attorney and cSussellou at daw
Wellsboro, ,Tioga llo.JPa. Will devote b.«
time exclusively to tbo piactibe pf law. Collection.
Bide in any of tbe Noribetn counties of Ponn.yl
rania. ’ • - ■ .n0v21,60_
PEUSSIXVANIA HOUSE.
burner 0/ Main Street and the Welhbora, Pa,
j J.W. BIGCTNY, PROPRIETOR.
This popular Hotel, bavingßcon re-fitted end re
famished throughout, is how open to the public os «
first-class house. .f '
miK HOUSE,
S. C. V Bit MIL Yif A, PROPRIETOR.
Gained Ctottaty, Pa.
THIS is anew hotel locates within easy access o
the host fishing and WtntiWigrounds in Nortbert
pa. No pains will be spiked for .the > accommodaUor
of pleasure seekers and thb trSvWng public.
April 12, !MO. .
G. C. C. CfIQi^BELE,
BARBER AND Iff^lb-DRESSER.
SHOP in the rear of the Pojt Office. Everything iii
his line will bo done is fell and promptly os ip
an be done in the city salpons. ■-'Preparations for re
noring dandruff, and beau-tipyihg the hair, for sale
http. Hair and whiskers dyetbany color. Call and
ies. Wellsboro, 5ept..22,-185p.- . ■ I
TBE CORWIfiG JOURAAt.
George ,tff. Pratt, f fidiWani proprietor.
IS published at Corning ;StOU®in Co., N. Y., at One
Dollar and Fifty CenE i'pef ygar, in advance. The
Journal is Republican iip JpoVitiss, and basaoironlH
tioa reaching" into every; jiarL m Steuben County.—
Those desirous of extendi Igjbeir business into that
aad the adjoining conn tic Jwllififld it an excellent ad
vertising medium. Addi ss at above.
FURS! Ff Rijf FURS! '
FURS.— Thp anbscribi r.hki|jnat received a large
assortment of Furs | >r wear, consisting of
PITCH CAPES A- VIC WHINES, ~ < (
FRENCH SABli,CA£.ks eb YiqTORINES,
RIVER MINK CAPES A MOPES,
ROCK MARTIN** C.VpJSS & YICTORINES.
' These comprise a small quanjdty of the assortment.
Yhey-havo been bought at low prices and will be sold
at extremely few prices for cabm'at the New HntStore
in Cornidg,-N. T. j!. S. P. QUICK.
TOM tI.S liGl A ITS •
A CHOICE LOT of bfei&mportod Italian and
German •I 1 R t '
VIOLIN; SIfR*NGS.
Bass Viol strings, QujWr ftnnga, Tuning Forts
Bridees 4c., just rorelved and; fisr sale, at ,
_ - DRPQ STOREj,
!
PA. I
tS. TAHR,. lie- jU|* - PROPRIETOR.
( Formerly of lie 1 frm'jt|eitra!?ta<e« Hotel.) " |-
Haring leased' tills wel end popular Hdoso,
solicits'tha patronage of; »h«i pifijliCiv With attentive
>nd obliging waiters, tog tthornvitb: 'the Proprietor’s
knowledge of the business, hejlopeis.to t mnte the stay
of those who stop wi h hitp. both pleasant ar d
Sjresable. f Ss ■
fftlleboro. May SI, ISrjO; jijJS’ ■
PItTIR* PMaHO. •
TOILET GLASSES, fi>rtrl?i.s, Pictures, Certificates
Engravings, Needle- W&fe,‘ Ac.; Ac., framed in
tha ncacst plain,and ornamented Hilt.
Rojo Wood, Black Walnut, Gj4k,Slahogany, Ac, Per
sons leaving any article for ff’anjing, Oftß receive thjm
next day framed in any Style wish and, hung for
them. Specimens at ‘ ! M"® 1 , 1 .
, • , ,Kg'S BOOK^TOR&I
■E. B. M. D., ~
WOULD inform thctpa b W hat he l s permanently
located in Elklind ,s|'CTO,j'l?ioga Co.
u prepared by thirty yoats* to treatflll-dift
•wes of the eyes and' ‘on scientific
principles, and that he? cauSic.MrP without faiK that
drcadlul disease, called SC|iV*Uij;i’ Dance, {Chorva
■Snncii Viti,) and-wiU attend. other business in
<he hno of Physic and Surgiswrl ’ ■
Elkland Boro, Augaafl 8, ISoty* • ’ , 1
TIOGA j|b«H|i*ATO£, ’
GEORGE F. HUMIiHttCT has opened a now
Jcwely Store at ' Vt&|
Tioga Village,fTl«f|Si County, Pa.
he is prepared to do all kinds of Watch, Clock
and Jewelry repairing, '1 a u-auncr. All
wort warranted to.givo j f ,
Wo do not pretond tc'-Io better.than any Othpr
nan, but* we can do aageod'wcrk as can 'bo done if,
toe cities or elsewhere. yAlsiSwr ntches Plated.
--f 6eob|e f. Humphrey.
Tioga, Pa'., March 15, ISgOjKly.) ■_
SEVV hlt AfajtfCAF STORE.
THE Subscriber has,just isp|be<l in tbis place a new
Hat and Cap StorfeJwh|£eibc intends to
tire and keep on hand liod general assortment
Of }'| "
Paahioaablo Sil& Hats,
'oj raj own manufacture w®cU will bo spls ftfr bard
■times prices... ’ h- , ■
S y lL| pj A.TS
otdo to order on short notice, | , . ' '
Ibe Hats sold at thhuS tore are fitted .with a French
Confornmture, which u skes ihoin soft and easy to the
bead without the tron do. of your head to
break’tho hat, , Store Si tb«,HeW Block, opposite the
Dickinson House. T ; S. P. QUICK.
JWmg, Aag. 15,1&59. : . , .
j KinV HOTEL.
CEDAR RUN, RYCbMINO- COUNTY, JPA.
THIS house has been lately Refitted andopened for
the accommodation of the publifi; 'Located at a
central point; stages leaving every alternate day for
wegshoro and Jersey Shore, Connecting with cars on
thcTioga-E. It, north and S. i E. B. HToh the south.
This Honse is' situated on. thb Cedar-Bun (Jang Mill
popd—a safe - and convenient landing for rafts in the.
rafting season. r Good-posts* are,firmly set on the left
hank, and the beach is free from obstructions. II ov
'ng been practically engaged in |ho river business for.
■“byyears,wo feet confident, wo. can .anticipate. »ho
*OOlB and requirements of this trade, and will endear-,
•r to please. The table, bar, chambers and stqbles,
JP" always he attentively watched and well
Call and see, ns, and wqwiUpart with you sure to see
you agiiin, . D.' A. FISH; Prnpritiort
Ccfar.Ran.Foh. 16, ISGff,
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,/ . WHIIiE WAW. ?E i iWBO^G, A®D~ BNItL "MAN’S IUN" 3HAU. CEASE,- Jfodj
36 1 J«nd othorStASESoonitMtlyon - ,
When, arc wethe wisest? .When ere w* the Wit ?
When are wo the'nearest to nnrheayenly rest?'
Is it in the spring-time of, oar early jife,
When the .worldaround ns, is. with,beauty rife ?
Is it when exalting in oar perfect trust '
We forget that others.are, as we, but dost ?
When no.doubt can'chill us, and we'listen net
To the tales tell us of a changing lot.
.Ah I we all are happy in that early day.
But its blooming brightness passes fast away;
If we grow no wiser, trusting, loving thus,
In the day of trouble iwhaf shall comfort ns ?
When we find’ .“unstable”,written on ell bliss.
When dear lips are silenced by an icJy kiss,
When bright locks are faded, hearts gtow still and cold,
Where is our exulting—where the. dreams of old ?
When for change and coldness bitter tears are shed,
When the living pain ns deeper than- the dead,'
When ws lose, oar trusting;la oar fellow men,
We are atearner, wj«er—sue we ieKet then ?
f. WIWOII,
i.ORS AX LAW, will
, £ottorand
.
Who shall answer? Onward go thelrolling years,
.Fate will bring pnr portion, whether smiles or tears
In the life unending, in tbs home above.
Let tit hope that Witdom cCatpt the Aqn it of Love.
t .’Wellsboro, Pa. S.j SI TnoiIPSOS.
The Smiths of Smithlville bad! fob a long time
been very much annoyed by .the "depredations
of some unknown individual, whose confused
ideas concerning the rights of property led to
th 6 frequent abstraction'of divers goods, and
chattels from tbe premises of t|ie said Smiths
in a furtive and mysterious manner. Bags of
wheat and oats vanished from the granary,jiork
from the cellar." and corn from the crib ; in one
night a sheep that had just Btjeri slaughtered
•coolly trotted away, and on another occasion
several 1 gallons of maple syrup evaporated in a
night time. Milking stools went off on three
legs, and Mr. Smith’s [best axb was found to
have “cut sticks.” L)og chainfe became rattle
snakes and crept off; iron wedges made splits
in the Smith property,; boots' walked awtvy,
and “jack” rode on tlio “ saw-horse"," '
Vain were all the Efforts ofj the alder and
younger Smith to discover the 'mystery of these
disappearances and to entrap! the offender- —
Despairing of bringing him" [to justice, the
Smiths found they coujd do ppjhipg more than
to fake measures to ensure the isafbty of their
'property. Accordjngljvthey built ft pew gra
nary, with strong walls, a narrpw grated win
dow and a heavy oaken'dqor, to which was at
tached a formidable padlock. jThe prison-like
portion of the Barn was sufficiently large to
allow the Smiths to lock up wjth the grain a
great deal of portable properly, such as was
moat likely to tempt the cupidity of thieves. - .
1 After the granary! was-finished, a month
went by, daring which .time jthe depredation
of the robber or robbers were , confined to »bo
orchard and. hen-roost, when late on Sunday
evening, the elder Smith, as he was sitting,
tipped against the kitchen wall, smoking his
pipe,.preparatory to retiring, bethought him
that be had neglected to lock his granary before
leaving the .barn. This was by po means a
singular circumstance, considering that the
granary was usually locked by the younger
Smith, who had that night gone a courting.”
.. ft was a moonlight evening, apd Mr, Smith,
on approaching tha barn was considerably
startled at e§oipg tho ljirgo doorman Certain
of having shut the'door, an hour previous, Mr.
Smith .thought of robbers. His spspipions were
confirmed when on a nearer approach, he plain
ly heard, a movement in -the- barn. Too cau
tious'to endanger his life by boldly attacking
the robber, he resolved to Watch his movements
and discover who he was,
Looking through,a crack on; the east side .of
tho barn, ue saw a dim, ghost,like figure glide
across the floor towards the granary. A happy
thought entered 3fr. Smith's brain.. Stealing
into the .barn, he crept silently along by the
pinw until near the granary, whsn^-clap !—he
shut the door, adjusted the padlock, turned the
key and was off as if fop his life.
It wos impossible, to saj; what made Mr.
Smith tremble so. It might have been thd
smothering cry of alarm whicji issued from the
granary walls ip a way fully calculated to awnf
ken suspicious fears. But Mr. Smith never
owned-ho was as white as a ghost, or as white
as they are supposed to be', ;
H What’s the matter?" cried Mrs. Smith.
“ I’ve caught the robber!” ejaculated Smith
in a breath. “He is locked up in the gran.ary
Give me my boots ]’’ ‘
“ Why—what—what are ypu going to do ?”
“Get-some help!, He?s a (desperate fellow,
and it will be dangerous ho meddle with bin
myself.” - r. •! .
It is impossible toMescribe the excitement o
Mr. and Mrs. Smith on that memorable occa
sinn. The latter took it uppn herself to loiu
the old musket while the husband went for tin
nearest neighbors. !
Mr. Smith exchanged his slippers for hi
boots, and ran first.to Deacon' Naffles house
where he expected tp find tbe younger Smith
who was conning the Despon’a daughter. H
was surprised to find the.bouse dark—as if.th
Naples had retired to rest and blown tha cat
die out. H.e knocked, however, furiously a
the occasion required. After some delay, Pei
con Naffles came down in! his night d'rcsi
stared at Mr. Smith in astonishment, (Mid.di
rounded his,business at-that lime of nighty
“ Caught the thief—locked! upin the granar
—where’s Increase ?’’ i
“IJa! -caught the thief!” cried Deaoo i
Naffles,, who, haying Ipst some property.os. we t.
as-his neighbor, was., interested in. the! intell •
eenca><Good enough j keep, him till morr -
jpg.” „ , '
‘‘ Twon’t do !” replied Mr. Smith, in an ea -
cited manner, ” He’s a desperate fallow
break out—lmust raise the.neigh hors wwhece s
.my son Jncrca.se ?” ,
j» Ob, Sally is siqkto night. so Jncrease-onl j
courted about an bopr, and wenthome.”
■ “ Went home,7’f ( .. j . f, ■
. Yes,” said tbe vDcaoQn, “ about half si
hour ago,”,
Tbqelder Smith clapped bis.hOnds to bis for -
bead, as if he bad been struck, by an idea it
.'dump,weighty .
” Gracious!” ha exclaimed, '
; “ What ?” Bskqd the_PeaQ6n>. ...
' Prom the Herald Of Promo:
QUESTIONS.', 1
THE SMITHS;
And their Ad-venture with a Bobber.
" BT path; CBETTOS 1 . ’ ‘
. i si 1 ■:ii—mt? —rr;n —iy»i ~ i i, l! -'!in, u »i> i< ;
. “ I bdieve/’-gtammcaedthe elder Smith, “I
4—hare'locked I ‘ ' 1 .
“ Who f” ; .
- ;Increase I’l . ' •
“I’ll bet you hare-P’ cried the deacon, “I"
* heard him way he had to entry tha-bnggy
cushions into the' granary before hewent to
ted" | • ' ■■■■■,.■ ■
i “ Look here," ■whispered the elder ’ Smith,'
“I beg youneverto mention this—l—‘l—if if
should get out—” ’ . ; ‘ '
“Oh,l’ll keep'the secret 1” interrupted the
■ Deacon Jtrying to preserve becoming gravity.
“ The joke is safe, and : l advise you to hurry
home and let out Increase/' - ■ '
' The elder Smith turned on his heels and van
ished, feeling very weak, probably ! the effect of
the excitement he had undergone.!
Let ns now look in upon the younger Smith,
Who was actually shut up in the (granary. It
is now impossible to describe hisjrago on find
ing himself thus entrapped. After shouting
until be!was hoarse and nearly deaf, he closed
his teeth angrily and sat down on ja bag of meal
to await> the result. I ,
Increase bad not been long in this dark dun
geon before be heard a noise in the horn. Sup
posing it was the bid man, having discovered
his error, was coming to liberate' him, his an
ger evaporated, and be could not help hut laugh
ait the ludicrous mistake. ■ . j '
' Bat there was a mystery about the sound be
heard, which caused the’younger Smith to
doubt whether they were tpade jby hi* father,
at all. He listened. The key turned cautiously
in the lock. Slowly, stealthily tl e donrlnpened,
while Increase scarcely breathed. Somebody
entered noiselessly, ha touched- young Smith’s
shoulders as he passed, and begun to, explore
the further part of the dungeon.' Increase
dropped on his hands and knees, .and taking
advantage of the poise m’ade.hy the robber,
crept opt. Than to shut the door and lock it
was hot the work of a moment. Sorpebody
was locked up. ;
Listening a ffioptent and-hearing no sound,
Increase beepme firmly convinced that he had
committed .iio error, but caught a real thief,
and went immediately for ('assistance.
Shortly after, and. very muen ashamed of his
mistake, the elder Smith epeaked in the tharn
and approached the granary. It is, necessary
in this place to observe that the elder Smith
looked up,his own sop with the key which, he
had carried with him, and carelessly left it in
the lock on entering the - granary, and which
.the younger Smith carried away.
1 And r.ow elder Smith njadehaete to open the
door. ’ , '
“ Increase !” he called, puttinghis bead into
the granary.
* No sound answered. ’
J “Are you asleep? Ccme don't be playing
any trick with me.—it was all a mistake—for I
really took you to.be a rob—”
Mr, Smith's voice was stopped Jiy a violent
blow pn the mouth. Mr. Smith itv an instant
ptas tumbled down amidst ii wilderness’ of bar
rels, bags, rakes and shovels. Mr. Smith was
considerably stunned by the blow and the fall;
and when ho got upon bis again, the door
was closed and loekodt-Mr, Smith was a
prisoner, I leave the reader to imagine his
feelings. ' J
JieanwhUa.-Increase was raising forces to
assisi in taking the thief out of, the granary in
safety, Having first tcjld the 'Story to Mrs.
Smith, who was greatly aptoD|shed, he hastened
to alarm Joe Ferris, a, stout fellosv who Jived
in the woods pearl by, and- whq complained of
losing quite ns much property, ns tho Smiths.
Mrs. Ferris put her head out of the window,
and wanted to know what Increase wanted.—
The man- asked for Joe'. After stupe hesita
tion the woman replied, that-ther husband had
tile headache and could hot get up.
“ But wo have got the .robijer caught.”
“ Oh, hare you ?" siiid Mrjs, Ferris, in a fee
ble voice. How fortunate! But as my hus
band has the headache, I think you )iad betteji
keep the man till morning.” i
“ No—we’ll have him b
crease, and away he ran.
; Now if tho younger Smiti thought he was
regaling Mrs. Ferris with g ad : tidings he was
considerably in error. The truth is, ip closing
the window she. was pale as ieath. The reader
may guess the cause of her agitation whep I
inform him that there was id Joe Ferris sick
with the headache in tho house.
But Mrs. Ferris was a woman 6f energy and
decision. She caught up k hammer, threw a
shawl over her head, and l ift the house. She
was soop in,Mr. Smith’s birn, with her hand
on the granary door,
1 "Joseph,” she whispered,
j No reply.
1 “ Joseph, it is me 5 are yon here ?” she added,
knocking atthe door. - _ ■
;■ JjCtjne out,”-said a vo!ce within,
r • Without any further delay, Mrs. Ferris hav
ing thrown the bnrn-dpor wide open, so that
she coald see tp perform 1 er.operations, com
menced hammering the padlock in a mast de
structive manner,
fjow Mr. Smith, who wan within, was exceed
ingly astonished at what Ve, heard! He cer
tainly wished to bo let out,: but ho had no desire,
| to’have the padlock smashed, without first try
ting-other'means..' Something like the truth
flashed upon his mind however, when he resei>'
ted that the person who wis breaking, the' lock
bad called him Joseph, and'that the voice was
remarkably JjJfe that of a woman's- With
great anxiety -of mind ha waited for the doorito
i open, • . ' j
\ At length the, lock jtvas .torn pway. and, JKs. 1
! Ferris: whispered:
t “Come quicks Joseph 1 There’s no time, to
iba;lostl They’ll be here.in a minute!
Sholcftugbt somebody by the arm, and some
! body followed her out in the moonlight. Then
be caifght hereby the atm,) and both stopped,
looking each other full in the face. ■ ,
Mril. Ferris screatped, turned paler than the
moonlight, and then l dropped her hammer.—
Mr. Smith was-scarcely less aStonished-j 'bnt
recoveringbimselfj he:said rather coolly, oon
eidering-tbeoccasion J .
" Yba aro out rather ; late to-night, 3Jrs,;Est
ri»; allow
.She 1 couldnot refuse hisnrmi.and-when -she)
yaW; t hat ho -wyispbn bifchftj W in- •
steadttfber own, She had riot the potter to say
awofcl 'or make the least resistance.-
The good lady’s feelings-bn being bron't be
fore Mrs. Smith, ean be more easily imagined
tbari described;-- In her fear and con fusion she
confessed some very 1 startling facts, and -with
tears in her eyes 'begged' her “ kind dear
friends" to be merciful and not expose her.—
Mrs. Smith recovered from her amazement, and
exclaimed, “ I never! I never ! I never I’* and
Mr. Smith, who was not the least exoited of the
three, indu!gediri T some sepsiblc rp
martii. ,
- Meanwhile Joe Ferris, who was the man that
had taken the younger Smith’s place in the gra
nary,-and gave it pp in tpm to thb elder Smith,
went home by o circuitous route, wondering by
what strapge accident be happened to ho caught,
and congratulated himself on bis escape; He
had teached his door; when hearing - his name
called by somebody in the road, h{f tprped
round and saw three men going by.
Joe Ferris, is this you ?” cried - the voice of
the younger Smith. “Gome on, if you are
rfifjdy. I've got Ililt Hodges and M r - Blakp,
aiid H think wa’ll be enough for that one thief,
but the more t(fe merrier, gp oopie on. J knew
■yon wopld go in for fup in spite of your head
ache.' 1 i ■ ,
Joe was as pouch in the ‘ dark pow as whep
he was locked pp in the granary < he cpnoloded
ft would bo best to put a bold face on theynatr
ter, and accompany Increase, and so he declar
ed himself ready, apd jumped over the fence. —'
At first he -was afraid of committing himself,
bpt the conversation by the way showing him,
as he thought, exactly how the ground lay, ha
ipugbed heartily at the queer manner in which
the theif was caught, and volunteered to be the
first.one to enter the granary where he was con
fined, at the same time chuckling, joyously at
the anticipation of the younger Smith’s dismay
on finding, instead-of the thief, his ovrp father
under, lock pod key. (
'With great glee the men proceededot once
to, the granary, when Increase, proposed leaving
his companions to go into the house for a, lan
tern, and see if his father had returned ; upon
which Joe Ferris laughed all to himself, and
advised the, younger Smith to bo sure and bring
the old mpn if he was anywhere to be found.
. “ IJallo i” cried |JiII Hodges, “ the granary
door is open, and the the thief hnahroken out,"
Increase came-hack filled with consternation,
arid Joe Ferris was np. less surprised, 1
The strange events of the night were invol
ved in a deeper mystery than ever ■when the el
der Smith, having'hpnrd of the. approach of In
crease and his companions, made fcia appear*
aheo with n light. !
•tHallo, neighbor!’' cried Joe Ferris, “what
is alb this hubbub about? Increase -ihaa been
telling us about thieves. ’’ ’
“ I declare, father,” said the younger {Smith,
“after you shut me up, I shut up a real thief,
and left hint in my place.”
“ I know it, yoiir mother told me,” replied
the old Smith, “ and when I came to let you
out——” . ' '
‘‘ Oh, I see it all!” groaned Increase, “he
got away.”
“ Yes, and shut me up!”
“ And how did you get opt ?”
“’lVhy, the -thief’s wife had the'Vipdpfss
to come and break the lock !” i
So saying, the elder 'Smjth held the lantern
up to the face of Ferris, wliQ turned ghastly,
white and trembled as if he hid- been in" an
ague'fit. , , .
-■ 'The whole affair'War now eiplained. to the
astonishment of everybody ip genital, and of Joe
Ferris in particular, who was too much aston
ished : to mate any resistance while Increase and
his companions were tying his hands behind
him. :
Ferris and his wife were accommodated with
lodgings in Mr. Smith's house that night; and
on the following day a search having'been in
stituted and all i arts of goods found on Joe’s
premises, they were, both committed to jail to
await their trial.
What the sentence was, when convicted of
the crime charged against them- I have quite
forgotten ; but It is certain the good people of
Suiitbville were troubled no more with the mys
terious disappearance of their goods and chat
tels, and that the Smiths remember, with pecu
liar satisfaction, the manifold mistakes commit
ted on the night of pheip adventures ‘with the
robbers. ‘ “
night!” cried In-
A LBißSin Witness. —Witnesses'are often
exceedingly stupid, but we don’t know: whether
this witness ought to be culled stupid, or not.—
He was- before Baron Sfnrtin.. It was desired
to get from him an exact account of a certain
conversation, with the “says I” and ‘-‘says
he,;” but the counsel could nut-make him com
prehend tfie form in which he was tvanted to
jnake hie statement -So the cofirt took' him in
band.
V Now, my man, toll pg exactly what passed.”
“Yes, my lord, COrtainlJi, I said that |
would hive the pig.” '
, “ Well, what was-his answer J” '
“ He said he had been keeping tha pig. for
me, and-that be-——” .
“ No, no: be .did not say that—be Boil'd hot
have said it. Ho.;Spoke in the first person/ 1
“No I was the first person that spoke, my ford.
' “ 1 mean this—don’t bring in the .third pef
sotf—-repeat Interact words.” -
f-‘ There was no third person; my lurd ; only
(ne/' ’
. “ Look here, pay g°°d fellow ! he did not say
Aa had beep keeping the pig,; he.said-‘i'have
bt-en keeping; it."' , ,
3,1 1 assure you, my lord; therp .wps nn men
tion of your lordship’s name at all. We.are
or.two different atopies, my lord, ffliere was
no third person i and if anything-had been
said about-yoor lordship, I must have heard it,”
So. the court-had to give it up, though the
witness wasionly-.too ready tp toll all he saw.-
. Legos Piss.—Beat with yolks of.four eggs,
two tablespoonsful of melted butter, four of
white sugar, the juice and -grated rind of two
lemons. Put, into a rich paste ; and
Then.beflt the.whites to. a frotit, adding two ta
blespoonsful. of grated stygr •rsgread dp- -tbe
pies when rd-ono’;. put, them_in, Uio ; oven -jind
b iko again for three, minutes.. iThe nbovo is
for- two, jioft-. '
A DOTOH-FACTf UDITOE SKINNED.
■' The Rev, Geo. D. Greenlerif had the audacity,
in ops of fcia Zefmons, to, touch upon the moral
aspects of slavery; whereupon ■ the doughTace
editor of the-Locfc Haven Democrat denounced
him Ip the most disgraceful language. The
preacher defends himself in the following let
ter which we-dip from the JFafcAmcm, and
proves himself as belonging to the chnrch mili
tant. 'lt wiU repay perusal: . ' ■
Lock Havejt, March 2fl,"I861.
Mbi Editor — Sir : Haying-read, qp. article
in the last Clinton Democrat containing my
name, and evidently intended to disparaga rmy
'self and others in the public ipind, I'Wrote'and
sent the followingreply to that paper yesterday
morning, yrith a request for'its publication in
the. next issue, bat the office editor declined in
serting it, alleging as a reason the absence of
the publisher.' I am, therefore, compelled to
ask you to givgit a place in the Watchman, os,
I am a.strange? here, and intend leaving in a
few day*. ■ G. D. Gbkbnikaf.
“ POLITICAL PREACHING.”—RepIy,
H. L. Difvenbach, Esq.— Sir; In your lost
paper I noticed an editorial, which, in spirit,,
reminded me of the poet’s ideal, thus expressed:
•I A donnish roughness anil nnklndly, dose.
Unfriendly, stiff, and peevishly morose.”
nnd ip which ’you make against myself and
others, some very serious pud public
CHARGES,
You there affirm that “ Mr. Daniel M. Bar
ber,” and a. ’.‘Mr, |6reenleaf,".in particular,
and that the clergyman, generally, who depre
cate nnd reprobate American Slavery’, art asso
ciated with, and thus constitute, an “ infidel
priesthood"—that they are “howling in the
'train of the infidel gang”—that they arc “dis
.honest apd insane” in their “ ravings about'
Slavery"—that they are “showing a desire to,
get rid of tfielr proper professions in eichapge
for a plunge Into the hearing of
the cross is irksome unto them, andlhat they
-are hastening to exchange it fop a more con
genial employment’’—ftmt .they .“ipreach nig
gerism.and rehash- the stale libels of the New
York Tribune” —and'that they are “children
of the devil.” And'upon the Iwp persons
whose names yon go causelessly itljd unjustifia
bly bring before your readers, yotk especially
charge, besides,.that they, “ only last Sunday”
introduced thq “vile practice of preaching po
litical sermons, into this county.” Thu* yohr
■ “ Anger boils Op in your hot-lab’ring
until it passesfrom your malevolent pen, 'and
is sent abroad in your mischievous, pro-slavery
paper. Thi? much (pr your charges, sir; bow
to the , , , - . ■
DEFENCE.
I presume hot fp nnswer-Jor the gentleman
whom ynn'cduplo with me, in your article/ I
can speak-only for myself and my cause. For
thyself L have this 1 much to say: II did not
"last Sunday,” nor did I ever, preach what,/
call a “political sermon.” I did, it is true, on
Sunday evening last, spent of Slavery, as a
great National and moral evil—as a sin against l
humanity, the scriptures and their Author.—
But, sir, I did not treat the question in its " po
litical” aspect nor tendencies; nor did t de
yotc many remarks.to the subject in any of its
various characters.! In view of the facts, there
fore, in so far ns I; am concerned, I can only
regard yotir staterrient as wholly unwarranta
ble, and,as designed to injure; ah Unoffending
stranger. Buti 'nf this, the community will
form its own judgment. In respect to
ET CAUSE,
I wish to offer a few remarks. I know, indeed,
as does every American, citizen, that Slavery
has h political character, I know, too, that it
has often been the subject ,of State -Legisla
tion, and of StatOjiftnd Federal adjudication;
but, sir, I have yetjto, learn that when a social,
moral, or religiousi .question, is, in any way,
legislated or adjudicated upon by the civil‘gov?
ernment, it then crises to ba of a social, moral
or religious character. And I have, also, yet
to learn that such motion constitutes a feghl or
scriptural bar to this public reprobation of what
is,per se, morally dr religiously wrong; wheth
er by "ministers (of. the Gospel,” or any one
else; and, if it dobs not, what right hive you
to seek to prevent |the free utterance of Men’s
sentiments thereon;?
With your Southern opinion of this institu
tion, it is,, perhaps, not surprising that you
should characterize my remarks as “ political”
—that you should,anathematize any man Who
should-dare deny the divine right of American
Slavery; and,' likejyour Southern confriers-, ad
vise the coercive extermination of the.
.The fact is,your notions and your counsel tally
admirably with the theology and the Christianity
of the system. But, sir, permit Me to suggest
that you would bdjmuob better prepared to do
yourself credit, aa!a “puplio journalist,” were
yoq to more thoroughly acquaint yourself with
the teal cbaracferi’of Slavery, in all ita bear
ings—were you to defer a little more compla
cently to the hnrtcSt convictions of your equally
well informed countrymen— attd were you to
manifest aliule More regard for the civil and
religions rights- bt the lohble American people.
However, what may he your ideas of the mor
ality, iit Scriptural idea of Southern Slavery, I
risk hoiking when I astept tHat I with all my
heart,i “believe” such “ hngPo Slavery sinful;”
not hypothetically. ,so bht aeihonsiraiiiely so.—
Boh a few words, in pissing, about the sig
nificance qt
, , . FOCR ABTICLE.
■ When you denounce our phssing allusion to
and condemnation of slavery, in the “ pulpit,’t
as “ political preaching”—“ an abolition ti
rade” it simply shows that you are ignorant
or dishonest-ignorant, in that you dp hot know
the truth.of that hbout which yop write; or
dishonest in stating what you know to he. un
true. When you jetioUnce as yoU do,; with an
evidently bitter spirit, those,who differ from
you on this subject, itis evident that you are
despotic in your, fepling»-{ and, when you ad
vise to a pDpujar Coercion of tbs '- ministers pf
.the,Gospel" ton hwHlh.surrendef, ot. their -ity
alienable.rights, andto n.mobooratio ; euppress.-
ion.of their, religions sentiment j apd counsel
to mdieUitorial Ihtorferencu -fijja.-and:
Ciitfafp) dccUr.atiin of the will of Oc3, as yon
iato ffooe;'it problaimdjon an enemy |i
can liberty.’ ’ Bnt I -will qoUte noiysomh ijf
- V , TODR STATEMENTS AKD COpSSSL, j, \ '■
" Oor church people have heretofore [borne
an unspotted oharoctepfordevmio(tvtotha cmita
-they profess to reverodotv and. we : hope thov
will now vindicate,-that character py COMPEL
LING their preachers to desigtfrom faakin#
political speeches in the puZ/nt”?—political jn ■
your sense, of course—“ or else drive them out
of the country.” Allow me to giro these hinfs
a brief ' ’' • ' •
SETISIF,
, Verily, sir, yott are a . most consuteht: and
amiable “public journalist:" you are ip great
wrath when, the executive of lyoUf bountry
talks about protecting p.ab]ic property hnden
. forcing federal law, and denounce itas coercion,
as declaration of war; bot,wben an jambas
sador.of the King of kings dares to dnwhat He
believes to be a duty to himself, his (dsuntry
and his God, yon are not slow to advise coercion
even to extermination, and to urge that the pro
cess begin “now.” “ Alas, sir, for odr coun
try, when'your counsel shall prevail.! . Ales.' 1
for the purity of religion and for the Ijoncr of
our nation, when• the “Ministers of the Gos
pel” shall have been reduced to lyour standard.
“ When aations ars.ta perish 1b their tint,
’Tis is the church the leprosy begins,’*
and never perhaps,; has the world had ia more
-striking illustration of. this sentiment tpan the
Southern States furnish us at this mompht.flot
rnpted by-slaveholding, and abettors inf the de*
nominations inevitably incident—ftoni the na
ture of man,—upon alaveholdtng; the phUrches
in, the Southern States are deepening and
spreading the “ leprosy” which will ns certainly
distroy this nation as that there is a Cfod who
death, righteously,- except the moral ctW be.
cradioatitnii ffho cupidity of the membership
.and the sypopbanoj orthe ministry, have pro--
duced precisely that state of religions dictation;
and sUrvileuoa which you-recommend here.—
No minister there dare* to preacii an jilMiarifl’l-'
aied Gospel. He does not ptonohnoe of alaveryr
.that it is a positive, contravention of God's law,
and that His precepts are superceded by stats
enactments, as you and they know they ire• add
you- would inaugorate here just that Condition
of the phristian Churches .which so Upitersalljr
prevails In the Cotton, states.- •’.!’) [; : - -
. t envy you no^«sir r yoarsentsdpmtii-, foelingl,.
position nor ifiSijonco, No, slrjl they lure, not
.such as. .Shy American citizen need tu fstave, in
order to. a respectable, public, considerptiun, or
usefulness. No,,ihdeed:l btitj pity you, as a
ipan vrhosa_ devotion to the molock-slhvery,—-
bos shut him oUt from the common brotherhood
of his. race; and misanthroprized-thn. Whole,
current ofJjja being. You ialkl'it is tijue, as,if
‘‘tenloUsly Affected’,’ for the Cause of Christ, but
you counsri-as wonldita bltter-ostandihost de
termined. enemy. You profess to deprecate
“ the abominable excitement which has already
dissolved .the Union," and charge that “excite
ment”, .upon, those whom you hall thds “infidel
priesthood-,” while you justify; and stand iden
iifed With, the every, persons, .who, niore than
all,others, hate, Created and iperpetupted it.—
You, "protest againstthe: dosocratidn of the
pulpit, but ynaadci-sc that the otseupknts of the
pUlpit ho held interrorem of the popular dissent,
and they Urge to an utter " deeeCrntfOn” of ths
ministerial nffiee, Yon are tery iujdignant at
certain ideal” fanaticisms hatched in New Eng
land, 11 hut greatly sympathising with the real
“ fanAlicism hatched” and nourished in the
Southern sfotest- You profess to bo “willing
to believe that- the (Gospel- aye
called of Godto prtrtoh. tlisjwonh’’| but too de
mand that their hearers shall not suffer them to
preach; God’s word only in so far as it may
please , them. You declare that “he who
preaches what he doesnot .understand is both a
charlatan and an emphmcj a voluntary pro
moter of error:and falsehood,’'’ aWd yfet you pro
nounce, by implication, that American slavery
is sustained “ by sacred authority!an intima
tion contradicted by facts!. In p'oncllisioft, yon
declare t “No man can name a pfeachor-pulitio
ian,”—that is, one who preaches on slavery,
pro or con, for so your words imply—“ of this
day and generation, who is believed by bis «c
-quaihtanooi io he an honest nranj” And thus
you 'Compliment Hot. Yandjyke, and ill his
northern and southern pro-slay Cry pUipit ron
frieres, not less than Ail the ministers Who arc
not Silent nn that mammoth drime, and thn*
contra stimUlum. cottas”, and Trill do Wcli to fore
bear. . Vours-, respectfully,
. i Geq. j). OncEstSW.
Me. Editors—According - to tha S'htis'loa
just issued from jour office 2,-j31,000 yards of "
cotton Cloth are made in this city per week, or
1,409 miles, 1,160 yards, whidh is 234 miles,
yards in a day-. The working time being
11 holirs a day, this is 2i'iiiilcs|(s3o 10-lt yard's
in ati.hour. The distance from Lowell to Bos
ton is 26 miles, and to niako GQ miles of Cloth,'
it takes 1 hour, 13 minutes and 24 seconds.—
This is almost precisely the time in which the
accommodation train goes from Lowell to Bos
ton, and we have the remarkjiblc coincidence
that cotton cloth is made in the L iweli mills at
just the same rate that the passenger train goes
from Lowell-to Boston.—“ Sliideni,” in LoirtU
( Mass .) Journal. j- . ,
GosTEßSATiok.— The art of jjonvemti.irr
the finest of fine arte; it is nojt the! art'of jaw
ing much; but of raying ■rtefi. 'ti ers are
preaching men who talk> but listen not, or who
speechify in private; or gossiping men, who
think little and are never at 11-, and yet they
are not eonvehable men. The read art of- ».i,l
Versation, consists not only in expressing ym>
own- .thoUghts freely, but byjdrawihg put by
encouragement the thoughts ipf others. You
trill nOver.be liked for long talking by anybody ;
biit ypli are sure to be liked If!'by your talking’
you encourage and stimulate‘ others to think
and talk in response' to your t ioiights-
J&n has most courage; vtOrtah has roost pa
tience; here is, therefo#ejth'?sttblimerJealntei
Butthe CihrUtian has- neetl of both, conrageto
both. ' ...i-.,!, 1.-i'i ' '
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