Growth ia the Midst of tjPa v. Some of tie results of the Ha election, ■would' go far to confirm the truth Mr. Mad ison’s observation to Harriet Mar-meau that the United States was destined many things before thought impossible,'! It would eeenito be impossible that a'nation should grow in. number during the deeo' atfocs and ravages of a fierce civil war, a'nd yet if ws take -the total popular vote of 1864, in eocb states as we have beard from’ officially, and the total popular vote in the same states in ISOO, wo shall find reason to believe that in spite of the calamities of three fears of mor tal strife, they have actually grown Jp popula tion' Here is a short table of compara tive votes of iB6O and 1864,that we have had prepared from the official source r , 1864. > x 1860. 106,014- '- r 98.919 .66,850- ; 1 65,943 .55,741 - ’ 44,644 Maine New Hampshire. Vermont ..175,487 -b 109,175 ...’.22.085 »20,141 ....€6,076 . 76.C00 .“51.7 12 ' 675,150 !. 128,630 ' 121,125 ...498,103 ' 470,445 ..'...1C,924 •' ' 1C 239 .....72,0*0 - 92,502 ...347,750 V ,330.093 ....42,534 34,737 ...460,532-,' 442 447 ■ 276,143 Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut NewTork... New Jersey.'.. Pennsylvania ... De1aware..’......... Maryland.... A..... 111in0i5...... Minnesota .... Ohio Indiana ■We have heard bo .mu elf of t, e hundreds of thousands of lives that have born sacrificed in the prr-sontywr.r, so much" of th;> new-distrihuj tic-ns of its troubles, that it must strike us ns strange, ot least, that in ev ery State thus far reported, with'tile single ex ception of Maryland, there hart beep a very considerable increase m.llVt su.,Voge. 'A part of this increase is undoubtedly p wing to the greater excitement of the latar^political can vass, which drew out many voKre who did not before attend tiro polls. .It is’estimated by Flatisticaiis, that in ordinary titles about twen ty-five per cent of those entitled;,to vote in any community, refuse to use the phivetege. This percentage would suffice to account fur the increase to which wo refer,‘.l? wo had rea son ito suppose that it bad,all behn called out. but such'was not the rase ; a latge'number .of voters have refrained fr< m voting this year, ns in times past; a largej.nmbei'bejng engaged at remote points in the armyjLhave been unable to vote ; in some fetates soldiers in the field are not permitted to vote; and *thcre-has been more than the usual- proportion of sailors and marines in.our fleets whe-haVi ,no oportn nity of giving in their halfbtsgb-Cm'idering all these circumstances, then.lwcTliink we have n right to infer that the iticritis| noted in the popular vote is a proof of ’’Miosgrowth of cur population in the face of tho'ditfjputinn caused by the terrible hostilities in k-bjeh we are en gaged.-;!. _ . ,-t Petrolcunu. Seven years ago; Tenangfff county, Pennsyl vania, was regarded as one’Slf,-thepoorest,, as it is one of the smallest cooutitfs lu the Stale of Pennsylvania- More thijri one third of its entire surface could have beeb purchased for three dollars per acre, 'll? best improved farms would bring little if anything over thir ty dollars per acre, and its’entire industrial products did not exceed thrle hundred thou sand dollars. Choice nil binds sell now readi ly at from three*to. five thousand* dollars per acre, and they have been as high as forty five, thousand doHars per a,<re. The yield of oil from the county during'ih.o last year was over fifty millions of dot!irp ; or greater than’ the entire coal and iron hide of'the entire State of Pennsylvania, and ’should the present price of oil be sustained, : he produce will be Pearly eight millions of (cites the coming VOBT-- 1 That oil, as an article of commerce and ex portation, is to become of-tile first importance is very lts use's everywhere are daily multiplying, and the demand ibr it augmenting in the same proportion. ft. is rapidly displa cing other substances as a* lubricator. As an illuminator ontside of the cities and towns, where there is no gas, it http taken the place of everything else heretofortefnployed for that purpose. In time the saiue will he'true of Europe. Predictions are tV.iide that it will be extensively consumed ill'tfi.| production of gas, especially in towns remote. rom coni mines, as there will be a great saving.jn tbs difference of tbe cost of transportation-' Nor is it at all unlikely that it will he applied to generating steanjl in ocean navigation. There peed be no fear of tftc failure of the sup ply. Tbe extent of the oi,'bearing territory and the richness of the deposits, is such that it may be considered moxboistible. Since the original discovery in Pefipsylvania, oil has been found in. Western New York, Virginia and Ohio. Fine surface indications are also saijl to have been discoverd bn the Pacific coasti —Journal of Commerce'. ! . * What an Army Cotfps Requires. In the Army of the Potemne amarmy corps 0f30,000 infantry has about 700 wagons, drawn l.y 4,200 moles. Including (the horses of officer* and of artillery, about 7,fj10 animals hare to be provided for. On the I '.arch, it is calculated that eajjh wagon will occu 'y eighty feet; in bad roads much more : so that'! train of 700 wagons will cover 50,000 feet, or ,jvcr ten raiUs ; the ambulances will occupy aiflmt-a mile, and bat teries three mile= ; 20,000 troops nee J six miles to march in if they form fl'fe column; the total length of the. marching column of a corps is, therefore, ttcentyvuhs, without including the cattle herds and trains ci .bridge materials. Impatient critics of movements wonld often be more lenient were theyt to familiarise themselves with the details of the immense difficulty of organizing andbooving largeiraips and artillery John W. -Forset eor the Cabinet. —At a Jute meeting of Philadelphia, merchants action was taken in favor of JbaiflW. Forsey for the Cabinet, arid it is reportei iTrom 'VVnsbingtou that this movement is strongly supported, not •only by Pennsylvania influence, but'by prom inent gentlemen from other Slates. The De partment of the Interior'is mentioned as the position for which he is specially urged. Jud»e Usher, the preseut head of that Department will, ittseaid, be translated,to the vacancylof Judge of the hnited States District Court of Indians. Mr. Foritoy'e great familiarity with public affairs, hi* executive abilities and habits of industry, constitute,high aualifications for* seat in the President’*' Cabinet. His acquain lance with the polities of the country is i nt ;. mate and cf long standing, When Mr. Bn- ■Jr.' i ' chanan proved false to the Nation-, he -kept straight ahead, an able and consistent advocate of the principles of freedom and progress, lie has laborad long and faithfully, and'his servi ces have contributed not a little, to the civil triumph over treason, soon to he followed by the overthrow of the military power of- the re bellion. THE AGITATOR. Jf, H. COBB', EDITOR AKD PROPRIETOR WBtISSOROOGH, FEKSJ’A: WEDNESDAY, ; ; EBOM WASHINGTON, [Editorial Correstrondenco of The Agitator.] Washington, Dee. 16, 1864. Whep politicians take to romancing, it is pretty flood evidence that the old tricks 'and dodges lao longer serve to deceive the people. If I ajn not greatly mistaken, the country is about to be invited to witness a great spectacu lar drama, which, for convenience sake, may be named “ The-Magnanimous Assassin.” The stories of Paul Clifford, by Bulwer, and of Robin Hood, by Scott, are to,receive their in duction info the realm'of Fact through the new policy to be pursued by the Copperhead leaders in Congress. •There tras a time when the Democratic party was, emphatically the champion of labor.— There was a time when that party was the Poor man’s party in something higher and better than a Pickwickian sense. But that time is in the distant past. The faction which struts about in the cast-off clothes of the Dera cratic party, is neither the champion of labor, nor the advocate of. equal rights. It sports borrowed plumes, or, better, perhaps, it is the ass in the lion’s skin. It enters into political campaigns under the lead of men who, all their lives, have been pitting Capital against Labor in the most offensive sense; men who are, and have been for years, the agents of aristocratic Europe for the destruction of in America. In old times, the Democratic, party had no affiliation with aristocratic Europe. Its priests and prominent laymen dreaded nothing so much corrupting influence of British gold. But the men who now swagger about in the cast-off clothes of jthose sturdy democrats, so'far from dreading foreign influence, are am bitious of, distinction (purchased through alli ances with the aristocrats of the old world.— They do not disdain to accept the money fur nished by the mortal enemies of this nation, to further political purposes which -involve the overthrow of its cherished institutions. The people kicked these fellows out of doors in October. They returned and asked for an explanation. The people kicked them into the gutter in reply, in November. Two hints uf that kind might be deemed unmistakable by the not particularly obtuse. But these leaders, not seeing themselves as others see them, and having long since parted with the finer sensi bilities, still fawn upop their executioners. — They are never weary of playing the aycophant to power. This- explains Itself. The people have exhibited power to crush them, like vipers, and they, the demagogues, from long habids of prostration at the feet of power, now prostrate themselves at the feet of the people. The first indication of the’ new policy of tbese'defeated leaders appears in the hill intro duced by Sunset Cos <fc Co., in the House on the second day of the session. It proposes to reduce the duty on tea, coffee, 4e.,50 as to put those luxuries within the reach of the poor.— They have a very lively affection fop the poor— these apologists for treason. But we submit that their effort to put tea and coffee within the reach of the poor would have come with a better grhee, and not so liable to misconstruction, from men who had not, for three years past, exerted every nerve and muscle, and exhausted every resource of their fertile brains, to com pass the total ruin of poor and rich alike. And further, it ought not to have' been the propo sition of men who made themselves conspicu ous last session in their endeavor to keep the tax on whiskey, beer, and tobacco, down to the lowest notch in the scale. No set of men ever fought n fiercer fight than they fought for dis tiller* and brewers. Yet they know, if they know enoiigh to oc cupy seats in the Congress oflhe United States, that both poverty and crime root in .grog- shops aqd beer saloons; tbe latter induct boys into beastly habits of intoxication, and the former finish (hem off. The conduct of these coffee and tea philan thropists remind ns of the old couplet— " When the devil got sick,the devil a monk wonld be; Eat when tbo devil got well, the devil a monk was he.” The philanthropy of these leaders is born of wholesome castigation, perhaps. But wo in cline to the notion that it is only another of the almost inexhaustible arts of as radical a set of hypocrites as ever cursed Jerusalem with their long prayers. “ They are now about to at tempt the role of the Magnanimous Assassin and the converted Highwayman. They will devote their attention to the interests of the “ dear, deluded people,” for the session. Per haps we shall have a short homily on the sin* fulness of swindling, by the Rev. Fernando Wood ; or a sermon on the wickedness of lot tery-gambling by the Rev, Ben. Wood ; or an exhortation to vigilance against the encroach ments of Popery, by the Rev. James Brooks; or an essay on public and private morality by" the Hon. S. S. Cox; or an ovation on the vir tues of Patriotism, by the celebrated Dan. Voorbees. No doubt we shall all be much edi fied by the conduct and, utterances of these new converts to decency this winter.' They have tried villainy, and villainy doea not go down with the people. They bare tried whole sale lying. That failed. They have put on airs, and set up for lovers of the Constitution THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOE. and the Onion. That didn't work. They now if go hack on themselves,’' and present them selves before the people as their.dear, devoted friends. We shall see hfitv tlial will work. M. H. C. Washington, Dec. 17, 1864. ' Happening into the House the other day, I noticed four Individuals who ate somewhat uo lotioas in current politics.- Pendleton was con ferring with Long, and evidently in earnest,— Fernando Wood was writing at his desk, speo taclis on nose, coat buttoned to the chin. and face as solemn ns the phiz of a discomfited owl. Sunset Cos wasrin spiightly Conversation with some one not notorious; and James Brooks was writing like Fernando, at his seat. Of all the defunct Copper leaders, Cox is most of a philosopher. He takes his defeat as a joke of the first water and contemplates re tiring from public life with apparent good humor. Not so with Pendleton. ,He looks, somewhat crest-fallen, though not positively sullen. He is a man cf polish and good man ners, and Lis sympathy with treason is not the offspring of deep convictions. In fact, Mr. Pendleton has no profound convictions. He is an aristocrat who knows that some are born with saddles on, and some are born to ride.— He gravitates toward Jeff. Davis and Slavery simply because be is aristocratic. But Fernando’Wood being a gentleman by neither birth nor culture, takes his dismissal from service most sullenly. He looks like a man who hated most intensely. I should pick him out for a conspirator among a thousand.— He looks-most implacable. • The old-tiroo Oily Gnmtnon-ish smile has disappeared from his chalky face. He is a brooding member now. Last session he was a smiling member. But bis teeth are drawn, his claws blunted, his wings clipped. He is no longer ■ dangerous to the government, unless it be in secret. He has neither the confident daring of Vallandigbaro nor the finer culture of Pendleton. Cunning, crafty, subtle in his way, and holding consid erable sway over the riff-raff of New York, he may make us some trouble in the future. His sympathy with Jeff. Davis and treason arises from the operation of the laws of moral gravr tation. DEC. 21, 1864. In the Senate we are to have a lesson of pa tience and forbearance in enduring the inflic tion of Senator Davis. He is again on his feet and suffering fearfully from negro on the brain. His series of resolutions, presented on the 12th inst., stamp him as a man utterly beside him self, and therefore to be pitied. They ask for a Convention of the States; the wiping out of New England, and the States of Maryland and Delaware, by merging tbo former in each other, and the latter in one ; the recognition of Sla very now and forever ; the election of Presi dent and Vice President, one from the Save and tha other from the free States, alternately ; the absolute right of the wriflof habeas corpus under all circumstances; Chat no negro shall become a citizen of the United States. This is the gist of his grand, plea for pacifioating the Country. ' t Senator Davis is troubled with a short mem ory. He forgets that the people of the United States, by an overwhelming majority, on the Bth day of last November, decided the points raised by his resolutions, seriatim, and finally. He only elaborates the Chicago Platform and ■thrusts it forward in the United States Senate, lafter the people have rejected it in ioio. Does he understand that this is a government of ma jorities ? that the will of the people is (ho su preme low ? I fear not. He is groping in the murk and gloom created by Slavery. He has not yet been born into the great and marvelous light of true freedom. It is to be hoped that the Senate will suffer him and bis vagaries to drop outofjnind. He J displays the painful signs of dotage, and should be tolerated- rather than recogriized. Tho House on the 12th inst., passed the Na tional Bankrupt Law, which failed last session. How it will fare in the Senate it is not now possi ble to say. Its features I have not yet been able to discover, although they were quite familiar last session while the bill was pending. As soon as it is printed I will make a digest of its essential provisions and publish. Doubtless such a measure is required by every considera tion of justice and humanity. Whether this one "is just what the the case requires is more than I can promise. It will scarcely get through the Judiciary Committee of the Senate without some modifications. Both Houses are now fairly at work. Legis lation for the relief of individuals will not, it is to he hoped, bo indulged in to any consid erable extent. In fact, but little general legis lation is required f and Jhat required relates mostly to the finances. M. H, C. P, S.—l forgot to say that I saw James Wil kinson, of Middlehury, in Judiciary Square Hospital the other day. He has lost a leg, but is doing well, and will soon get his discharge. M. U. C. The President ok Religion.— The Washing ton Chronicle says that on Thursday of last week two ladies from Tennessee came before the President, asking the release of their hus bands, held as prisoners of war on Johnson’s Island. They were put off until Friday, when they came again, and were again put off until Saturday. At each of the interviews one of the ladies urged that her husband was a relig ious man, and on Saturday, when the Presi dent ordered the rel ease of the prisoners, he said to this lady ; “ You say your husband is a religious man ; tell him when you meet him that 1 say I am net much of a judge of relig ion, but that, in my opinion, the religion that sets men to rebel and fight against their gov ernment, because, as they think, that govern ment does not sufficiently help some men to edit their bread in the sweat of other msiYs fa ces, is not the sort of religion upon which peo ple can get to heaven.” WAR NEWS, ,ER Oil SHERMAN'S A RMT. The correspondent of the American at An napolis telegraphs as follows: “ The steamship Varuna left Charleston Bar on the I4th inst, at 8 o’clock in the morning. The report had reached there by the Rebel flag of truce hoar that Sherman was in possession of Savannah after an eight hours’ fight, cap turing eleven thousand prisoners.” War Department, 1 Washinqton, Friday,’Deo. 16, 8.15 p. m. ) To Maj. Gen. Dix, New York; Official dispatches from Gen. Canby -have been received to day, showing the complete success of an expedition sent out by him from. Vicksburg to co-operate with Gen. Sherman's operations, and cut Hood’s communications with Mobile. Gen. Canby also reports the probable suc cess of another expedition from Baton Rouge, under command of Gen. Davidson, the details and object of which it is not proper now to disclose.*. When last heard from Davidson was reported as having caused quite a panic in Mobile, and to be devastating the country gen erally. Lieut. Col. Eurl, commanding a spe cial party, was severely wounded, and fell into the hands of the enemy at Fayette. Miss. The Richmond papers of to day confirm the rrportedjcapture 6f Bristol by an expedition supposedj to be under the command of Stone roan and Burbridge. Also the surprise and capture of Glade Springs depot, on Jhe railroad thirteen miles south of Abington, To. They also contain Gen- Hood’s official report of the battle of Franklin, in which he acknowb edges the loss of many gallant officers and brave men, among whom he enumerates Maj. Gen. Cleburne, Brig.-Gens.John Williams, Adams, Geiat, Strohl and Cranberry, killed ; Maj. Gen. ■John Brown, and Brig.-Gens. S. Carter, Mani gault, Quarles, Cockcrill -and Scott, wounded, and Brig.-Gens.Gordon taken prisoner. They also state that on Wednesday Gen. Sherman carried Fort McAllister commanding the entrance to'the Ogcechee River, by storm, and the capture of this position pats Sherman in communication with the Yankee fleet, and necessitates the re-enforcement of Savannah. FROM THOMAS’ ARMY. War Department, 1 Washington, Friday, Dec. 16, 1864. j Maj;-Gen. Dix: The Western telegraph lines are working very badly, on account of the snow storms, prevailing. The following unoffi cial dispatches have been received: a ,f u , “ Nashville Dec. 16, 1864. • “ Just returned from the battle-field. Bat tle severe and terrific. Our forces victorious.” A second dispatch of the same date says • “ Hood has fallen back, and is apparently doing his best to get away, while Thomas is pressing him with great vigor, frequently cap turing guns and men. Everything thus far is perfectly successful, and the prospect is fair to crush Hood’s army.” - There is notfaingsince my last dispatch from any other quarter.. Edwin M. Stanton, Sec’y. of War. What Smaccipatisn Will do for the South. The downfall of slavery will open the road to property for the poor laboring men. Sla very once abolished, the great landed estates, based upon and supported by slave labor will go to pieces, and the pieces will fall into the bauds of the poor - labo-ing man. Instead of the grand palatial mansion surrounded by miserable negro'-cabins, and instead of the wretched hovel inhabited by the poor white, we ; shall see neat, white cottages in the midst of small, but flourishing fields, and the interior of the cottage will he adorned, not with lh£ bowls knife and pistol, but with the book case, news paper, and every evidence of progressive civil-1 ization. This will go quickly as thought, for ' the Southern people will not be left to work j out that development alone. Thousands of j Nortben men, who but recently had been roam- ] ing-over the country with sword and bayonet, j and on that occasion had made the discovery of the truth, will invade it again with sword and plough, and machinery and capital, and know ledge, apd a spirit of progressive improvement. These invaders will be peaceable neighbors of I the invaded, and each one will work for the) other in working for himself, and all will bel one people. Thus the southern people will be re-‘ organized and regenerated by the emancipation' of a large majority also from the rule of a pow erful few. Then the acrimony of the rebellion will be blotfted out and they will no longer have time to think of tho differences of the unfortunate past, for they will have to think of the problems of a busy present and a hopeful future. The First Vetekan Army Corps.— By the beginning of January Gen. Hancock is likely to have an army corps unsurpassed in strength and value. The War Department ordered that the Ist Veteran Army Corps should consist of twenty thousand men, and that none.should be accepted except those who had served honora bly not less than two years ; limited enlistments from December I tq January 1, the term of service to one year, and offered a bounty of three hundred dollars to each volunteer payable when he is mustered in. The popularity of such a corps will be immense; veterans who would be reluctant to enlist in new regiments will eagerly join the rally of their old comrades and proudly serve under tho gallant and dis tinguished Hancock. It will be the Old Guard of the Union army-revery man an accomplished soldier, baptised in battle, knowing his duty and able to do it, and'thc whole force self-reliant experienced, and in earnest. General Hancock will call around him the best fighting material of the North, the veterans who, having already fought so well for the Union, want to be in at the death of the Rebellion.. It is not surpris ing that the rate of enlistments in the Old Guard already promises to fill the ranks by the end of the month. Abonthix hundred and fity men daily will complete the organization. Philadelphia Press. t Among the ingenious eontrijbutions lo the J Sailors’ Pair in Boston, by the ’ State Prison.) couvicts, is a email house, so contrived that | upon opening the door a figure of Jeff. Davis 1 suspended to a gibbet comes up through I a J chimney, and from the other chimney a blalck man comes np to look at him. I A letter from a traveler in the new oil ret gions of Pennsylvania soya —“We were pad died across the creek by an oil prince, aged fifteen, heir to a million, costless and hatless, and with but one suspender to keep his cour age and his- trousers up.” The RiHel Butcher Forrest has been warded fur hiscrimes. The misters he serves huvß raised him to the rank of Lieutenant-Gen eral in the Confederate Armies. In doing this they have brought additional infamy on them selves without succeeding in whitewashing him. Starting in life as a-slave trader, Forrest has passed logically .through all those varieties of iniquity which prove hhn a true friend to the South, and has ended in teaching, high rebel military command. His elevation is an attempt to exalt mnrderand confer dignity upon rapine, and we accordingly have the spectacle of a Lieutenant-General who has placed himself, by bis own acts, beyond the pale of civilized war, and who would be shot like' a wild beast, should he fall intu Fe'deral hands.— Boston Transcipi. Army Losses. —Mr. E. B. Ellioit, of Washing ton, has prepared an account of the proportion of deaths in the Union armies, covering the first fifteen months of the war. It seemjs that five have died from accident and disease, where two have died from the armsLof the enemy. The mortality from ail causes Jlias been about seven, per cent, per year. This is less than our losses in the Mexican war—one half less than that of the British in Spain—and one third] less than their loss in the Crimea. Yet our battles' have been among the most frequent and sanguinary of any recorded in history. One great cause of this favorable state of 1 affairs, is the aid of the Christian and Sanitary Commissions and kindred efforts to prevent and to cure disease. Timely precautions, and timely preparations have saved many thou sands of lives. Just .before the presidential election, the democrats of this country so far outraged pub lic decency as to parade a coffin in their pro cession, and afterwards to bnry it with an effi gy of Mr. Lincolti in it. During the parade the stone-boat containing the coffin broke down, as a sort of intimation to the degraded rag amuffins surrounding it, that they were misbe having themselves, and that their expectation would not be realized. They did not take the hint. Such fellows are always slow at taking hints, unless given at the a brogan. Do they see now that Lincoln is not the dead man, and does not stand in need of burial —and that somebody else does ?—Honesdale Republic. In Cambria, Somerset, and the adjoining counties of Pennsylvania, a good quality of tar is manufactured from the knots of the pitch pine. The manufacture of this substitute for North Carolina tar. It is caried on extensively and has already, it is stated, considerably depreciated the price of the latter article. The tar thus produced, answers nearly all the requisites as a substitute for the original article. The Union men of Calais, Me., being preven ted from getting their Presidential tickety by the Postmaster, went to work on election day after 3 o’clock and wrote the ballots complete, and carried the town for Lincoln by forty ma jority. •It will be remember! that Mrs. Rase Green how, the female rebel, who' has attracted so much attention during ths war, was lately drowned. A Richmond paper says that her drowning was caused by her having six hun dred pounds sterling, in gold, tied to bar person. New Flour and Provision Store. (CHARLES VANVALKENRURG wishes to in j form the citizens of Wcilsboro and the surround ing country that be has recently started a new FLOUR AND PROVISION STORE, in the building formerly known a a 4< Osgood’s Store,” where he may be found at all times ready to walton all customers who may favor himwitba call, and sell them the choicest kinds of FLOUR, MEAL, BOCK WHEAT, PORK, Ac , at as reasonable rates as any firm in this place. 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Clubbing with “ OUR YOUNG FOLKS.’’—The “ Atlantic" and " Our Young Folks” will be far. nishoii to one address for Five Dollars per year, ' TICKNOB i FIELDS, Publishers, Boston. “TO BOWEN’S!” SEEING a big crowd on Main Suret, T llitlT , ing toward a common center, somebody asked Where Are You Going? The answer was " r fo Bowen's, Wo. I, Union Block!’’ To loot at that splendid stock of NEW FAU £ WINTER CORDS I uit Jirrmog frvm New York. ■ J “ VERY SENSIBLE PEOPLE,^ thought I to myself; yon know who bnys a t»b gain, and sells so as to give the purchaser a bar T too. * nill Therefore if jonwant anything in thaline of DRY GOODS, LADIES’ GOODS, READY MADE CLOTHING BOOTS, SHOES. * s ' GO TO BOWEN’S, and if vou want HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE, WOODEN-WARE, and groceries. at prices 70a can afford to pny OO TO BOWENS If yon have Cash, or Butter, or Ch-as#,©* Q ra | 0 to exchange for this 1 SPLEXDID STOCK OF GOODS, bring them along, and 70a will get ' Satisfactory Bargains; and if yon come once, you will bo sure to come twice —yea, thrice, or half-a dozen limes. Don’t forget the place : NO. I, UNION BLOCK, ■Wellaboro, Nov. 1, 1364. JOHN R. BOWEN The peculiar taint or infec 'ion which we cal! Scant -la lurks in the const,tu ions of multitudes of men, i either produces or u iroduced by an enfeeble;! .•itiateil state of the blood, wherein that llmd becomoi incompetent to sustain the vital forces in their vigorous ictiom and leave; the svs :cni to fall into disorder tnd decay. ThcscroMon; :ontainination is. variouslr mused by mercurial dis ease, low living, disordered digestion from un healthy food, impure air. filth and filthy habits, the depressing vices, and. above ell, by the vcr.;- real infection. Whatever be its origin, it is hered itary in tile constitution, descending “ rrom,pnrcr.;s to children unto the third and fourth generation: ’ indeed, it seems to be the rod of Him who says, ■ I will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon their children.” The diseases it originates take various names, according to the organs it attacks. In the lungs, Scrofula produces. tubercles, and finally Consumption; in the glands, swellings which sup purate and become ulcerous sores; in the stomach and derangements which produce indi gestion, dyspepsia, and liver complaints; on the skin, eruptive and cutaneous affections. These, ..all having the same origin, require the same rem edy, viz., purification and invigoratmn of the blood. Purify the blood, and these dangerous dis tempers leave yon. With feeble, foul, or corrupted blood, you cannot have health; with that ‘-Tite of the flesh” healthy, you cannot hkve scrofulous disease. . 1 Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is compounded from the most effectual antidotes that medical science has disc over.. J for this afflict ing distemper, and lor the cure of the disorders it entails. That it is far superioi to any other remedy yet devised, is known Ifyi all who have , given it a trial. That it docs combine virtues truly extraordinary in their effect upon this class of complaints, is indisputably proven hy tiie jreat multitude of publicly known and remarkable; Ui., it has made of the following diseases 'King's Evil, or Glandular Swellings, Tumors, Erup tions, Pimples, Blotches and Sores, Erysipelas, Hose or St. Anthony’s Fire, Silt Bheum, Seal! Head, Coughs from tuberculous deposits in the lungs. White Swellings, Debility, Dropsy, Heuralgia, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Syphilis and Syphilitic Infections, Mercurial Diseases, Female Weaknesses, and, indeed, the whole series of complaints that arise from impurity of the blood Jlinnte reports of individual casts may be limni in Ayer’s American Almanac, which is furnish-.! to the druggists for gratuitous distribution, wherein may be learned the direttions for its use. and some of the remarkable cures which it lias made when all other remedies had failed to afford relief. Tho,a cases are purposely taken from all sections of the country, in order that every reader may have a.- cess to some one who can speak to him of its bene fits from personal experience. Scrofula depresses' the vital energies, and thus leaves its victims lar more subject to disease and its fatal results than arc healthy constitutions. Hence it tends to shorten, and does greatly shorten, the average duration of human life. The vast importance of these con siderations has icd us to spend years in perfecting a remedy which is adequate to its cure. This we now offer to the public under the name of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, although it is composed of ingre dients, some of which exceed the best of Mit parilla in alterative power. By its aid you may protect yourself from the suffering and danger of these disorders-. Purge out the foul corruptions that rot and fester in the blood, purge out the chases of disease, and vigorous health will follow By its peculiar virtues this remedy stimulates the vital functions, and thus expels the distemper* which lurk within the system or burst out on any part of it. Wo know the public have been deceived b many ct|mpounds of Sarsaparilla, that promi=.i much and did nothing; but they will neither i-o deceived nor disappointed in this. Its virtues has-.- been proven by abundant trial, and there remains no question of it; surpassing excellence for the cure of the afflicting diseases it is intended v> reach. Although under the same name, it is a very different medicine from any Other winch has been before the people, and is fan more effectual than any other which has ever been available :i them. -A.'STBH.’S CHERRY PECTORAL. The World’s Great Remedy for CotigQm Colds, Incipient Consumption, and for the relief of Consumptive patients in advanced sta ges of the disease. This has been so long nsethand so unirert.ill; known, that wo need do no more than ns tare <■- public that its quality is kept up to die he-t it c ' ‘ lias been, and that it may lo relied on to it' rJ “ has ever done. Prepared by Dr: .1 i’. Aver d ( l} • P.acticvl mid Axthd.-nt rh-~ •' I.ovrdl. 31 Sold by all Jfruggists every where, and 1 >' Sold by J. A. Roy and P. R. Williams, Wc!lil»« Dr. H. H. Borden, Tioga ; S. S. Packard. Ccrmgt" C. V. Elliott. Mansfield,; S. X. Billings, Gaines; »" by Dealers everywhere. [Nor. 23, ISdi-ly-l BAUOAISS FOP. CASH /—Eiamino and F 1 *-* the Stock of Goods now offered for sale ty AMBROSE CLOSE, beforo making yonr purchases. His stock comF n * LADIES’ DRESS GOODS! Shawls, Balmorals, Hoop Skirts, Cloth), Ca?d“S rii ' Flannels and DRY GOODS, generally. Also, Groceries, Crockery, Jf»rda»r s Boots and Shoes. . , s - X am also prepared to cut and make all kiaili men and boys’ CLOTHING TO ORDER. Westfield, Nor. 16, ’fi-t-Ct® AMBROSE CLOSE.
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