«. The Tioga County Agitator;
Mr M. H. COBB. „ ■
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McLean counties, [ffelltWo, Jan. li Igf" ‘
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DIJKIJfSOS HOUSE, i-. •
COES INS, N. Y. :i
)[ij. A. FIELD, Propr-.ttor.
GiUtSTS taken to and trona the Depo~ free
J ot cliaf ge- [Jan. 1. lg£s.]
PfiSSfSrtTAWIA, HOVSS;,''
CORNER OF MAIN STREET AND THE
Wollsboro. Pa. _
j BIGONY, ..,.Etonijfitpr.
THIS p- P n-- oeeb T^piu
uni re-farnished throughout, is now open -TO.the
f-nic &= & first-class boaso. [Jan. 1 I’, 18?ql]
" D. HART’S HOTEL. VI .
WELLSBORO, TIOQn CO. PEKlf'i.,
THE subscriber takes this method t 6 in- j)rm
his old friends and customers that he hi - re
sed the conduct of the old “ Crystal Foji “tain
Hotel." and will hereafter give it his entire attfj;' Jon.
Truckful for past favors, he solicits a renewal V :the
1 DAVID HA" )f.
WcUsboro, Nov. 4, 1883.-ly.
IZAAK WALTON HOESE'I"'
Gaines, Tioga County, Pa,
2 C. VERMILYEA iP’Jbpr' itor.
THIS is a new hotel located within eat ‘f ac
cess of the best fishing and banting groat jle In
Vanhorn Pennsylvania. No pain. will bo spaind for
* c sjcommodation of pleasure seekers and the trav
lUg public. [Jan. 1,18'<3.]
A; FOLBT,
Witches, Clocks, Jewelnr, jkc.,
repaired at old prices.' :
POST OFFICE -BUILDING,
KO. 5, UNION BLOCK. V ;
Wellsboro, May 20, 1863. ; a
j. EMEfty, 1 i;
ATTORNEY AT LAW AN# . "
• /
MXLrrAEY CLAIM ■A.OSJN - )C,
Has removed to the office on Avenue Street,'t, jit door
to Bigoney's. Jan. 4, 1B66 ; ’At*
H. W. Williams, Wji. II i SikiTir.
WILLIAMS A SMITH,'! t . ,
iTTOUKEYS AND COUNSELORS Ail RA W,
BOUNTY & PENSION AOIINAtY.
Main Street. WelUhoro, Pa. : ‘r
January i, 1865-Iy.
S. F. SHAXBLIN, “
BARBER & HAIR-DRESSER,
Shop One Door North op Costers’
Ladies’ Hair-Catting done in tho beat manner*; 1 *
Wcllsboro, Dec 7, 1864.
WESTERN EXCHANGE HiOllbL.
KNOXVILLE, BOROUGH, PA. i
THE undersigned having leased the above
for a term of years would respectfully -jnform
tto traveling public that he has put the first*
class order for the reception of guests and po- pains
will be spared in the accommodation of travelers and
ts far as the situation will allow, fa© will .keep *e first
clots Hotel, in all things, except prices, whicb will
be modciate. Please try us and judge for yodrseives.
Knoxville, Oct. 19, 1864-tf. J. H. MARGIN.
DRUGS dc nUEDICIIfESt
JO. S I'sJOK BLOCK, WELISBQRi ] PA'.
P. R. WILLIAE j,
BEGS leave to announce to the citizens * 1 Wells
boro and vicinity, that ho keeps cons; telly on
tend all kinds of • :
DRDGS AND MEDfCINEf3,<'
Chemicals, Varnish, Paints, Soaps, Pcrfutbeiy, Glass,
Brushes, Patty, Fancy Goods, Pure .Wines, J Jrandies,
Gins, and all* other kinks of liquors of -she best
quality. All kinds of ' < ft
PATENT MEDICINES '■*
r.-h as Jayne’s Expectorant, Alterative aid Pills;
-rer’i Sarsaparilla, Pills and Cherry Pectoral ; Helm
: ld’c Extract Buchu, Sarsaparilla and Ro#i Wash;
Mrs. Winslow’s Sothing Syrup; Wrightfs Pills;
Clark's and Cheeseman’a.Pills : Hall's Bin
der’s London Dock Gin; Herrick’s PilU Plas
i*rs; Brown’s Bronchial Troches, &c., &£. 5
May 25, 1864-ly. P. R. WILIHiIMS.
REVENUE STAMPS.*
JOHN M. PHELPS, Deputy Collector. Man
sfield, has just received a large lot Of itHpvenue
Stcrps, of all denominations, from one cent iip to $5.
Any person wishing St&np? can get them aliny office
•t Mansfield, or of AL BULLARD, Assistant Assessor,
nWtlliboro, Pa. * J. M. PHELPS.'
Mtnifield, May 2. 1864.
P. KEWCIX, ftCSTIgJfj
XAKSFIELQ, TIOGA
I- V f i ■ ‘
& prepared to operate in all the improvident in
the various departments of filling, •cXtnwjSlog, in
tsrung artificial dentures, «fcc. - c -’
il&nsfield, August 30, 1864-3 y. - '
COWAIfESqUE HOUSE.
THIS House which has been open for convenience
of the traveling public number of years,
Indy been newly furnished throughout stid fitted.
“? tn as good style as can be found in any country or
C; ’l Hotel. The Proprietor does not bespat? in gay
-1!i e that there will be no pains spared to add to the
comfort of big guests, and make it a home for.them.
Ibsbest of stabling for teams: and a good hostler
in 'attendance, all of which can ho found
C£e cast of Knoxville, Pa- ,
M. V. PURPLE, Proprietor.
Deerfield. May 25, 1864!-ly. - - .
WELLSBOBO hotel- "
{O-sruer Main Street and the Acenpg.)
Wellssoeo, Pa. ' V
. B. B. HOLIDAY, Proprietor. '
Om of the most popular Houses in tl ft .county,
i b ' 4 Hotel i? the priooipal Stage-house intfiteUsboro.
*’ t& S e Blftave daily as follows: .«*
Xioga. at 9'a. m.: For Troy, at 8 K m.; For
er sty Shore every Tuesday and Friday -jit 2 p.m.;
Ooadersport, every Tuesday and Friday? aty2 p. nj-
St ages Arrive —From Tioga, at 12 1-2 o’clock
From Troy, at,6 o’clock p. in.: Prom Jersey
Tuesday and Friday 11 ft- m,; FromCouders
?u**^.ay Friday II a. m.
v ‘ —*^ ra,n J r Cowden, the weH-known hcgtler,
‘ I be found on hand, *
Oct. 5, 1564-ly.~~ ‘ *1 7
HUGH YOUM^
bookseller . & stati^oner.
AND DEALER IK
Clocks, American, English, and Swiss
‘tches, Jewelry. Silver Plated Ware, -(Spectacles,
''° re Frames, Photographic Albnmfe, Stereoscopes,
t‘"f" :co P e s. Perfumery, Yankee Notions,’ Fishing
-He and Flies, and Fancy and Toilet Articles..
SCHOOL BOOKS of every in the
junty, constantly on hand and sent by mail or oth
tr»isc, to order.
S0 ' 5 > VmON SLOCK, WELLSBOBO, PA,
THE Afll
aehoteo to t|je mnmnim of ti)t mm of ffxttitm aft* tfte Spread of &raU&s Reform*
SHALL BE a WRONG (JNRIQHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY to MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE
VOL. XI.
CLOTHING! CLOTHING!
{One door below Harden's Store.)
W E R^ j ,°^ T a ni. V^i“ Well9boro a large
Stock of CLOTHING and
Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods,
Also, HATS 4 CAPS, and a great assortment of
LADIES’ CLOAKS,
roun din geo an try af
50 PER CEST. CHEAPER,
than any 'other establishment in tbia part of tbo
country* Our object is to rednco our
X WINTER £ FALL STOCK OF GOODS.
PRICES:
OVER COATS from $4 to $4O.
BUSINESS COATS from S 3 to $25.
PANTS from $2 to $lO.
VESTS from s2} to $B,
We bought our goods when .Gold was only 1.50
and we can afford tq sell onr goods cheap.
All -our Goods are manufactured under our own su
pervision and can not be surpassed in . quality and
durability.
We respectfully invite every one whoso interest is
to be economical, to examine our
STOCK And PRICES
before purchasing elsewhere.
HAST & AUERBACH,
of Syracuse, N. Y., and Blossburg, Pa.
Wellsboro, Dec. 34, 1864-tf.
’E. A XT. T. ANTHONY A CO.,
Manufacturers of Photo graphic Materials,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,'
501 BROADWAY, N. Y-
In addition to oar main basinets of Photographic
Materials, we are Headquarters for the following, viz :
Stereoscopes & Stereoscopic Views,
Of those we have an immense assortment, including
War Scenes, American and Foreign Cities and Land
scapes, Groups, Statuary, «fcc., Ac,- Also, Revolving
Stereoscopes, for public or private exhibition. Our
Catalogue will be gent to any address on receipt of
Stamp.' - -
f PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS.
Wc were the first to introduce these into tho United
States', and we manufacture immense quantities in
great varicty. ranging in price from 50 cents to $5O
each. Our ALBUMS have tho reputation of being
superior in beauty and durability to any ethers. They
will be sent by mail, *r£b, on receipt of price.
gSt* Fine Albums made to order.
CARD PHOTOGRAPHS
Our Catalogue now embraces over Five Thousand
different subjects (to which additions are continually
beiog made) of Portraits of Eminent Americans, Ac.,
vis: about
100 Major-Generals, 550 Statesmen,
200 Brig.-Generals, 130 Divines,
275 Colonels, 125 Authors,
100 LieuL-Colonels, 40 Artists,
250 Other Officers, 125 Stage, .
75 Navy Officers, 60 Prominent Women,
150 Prominent Foreign Portraits.
3,000 COPIES OF WORKS OF ART,
including reproductiona of the most celebrated En
gravings, Paintings. Statues, Ac. Catalogues sent on
receipt of Stamp. An order for One Dozen PIC
TURES from our Catalogue will be filled on the re-.,
celpt of $l.BO, and sent by mail, free.
Photographers and others ordering goods C. 0. If.
will please remit twenty-five per cent, of the amount
with their order.
E, & H. T. ANTHONY & CO.,
Manufacturers of Photographic Materials,
501 Broadway, New York,.
The prices and quality of our goods cannot
fail to satisfy. [Nov. IC, 1864-ly.]
WELLSBORO ACADEMY.—The second Term
of the present school year will begin
Monday, Dec. 13, 1864,
• Pupils are prepared for College, or for business
pursuits.
TUITION (for a term of 12 weeks).
Common English Branches 4 00.
Higher English Branches 5 00.
Languages 6 00.
Pupils designing to attend but half the term, will
be charged accordingly.
No deduction is made for absences, unless in cases
of protracted sickness. J. B. GRIER, *
Weilsboro, Dec. 7,1864-3 L Principal.
1 would inform my friends in
Ifl and around'Tioga boro'that I have opened-a
shop in the dwelling formerly occupied-by-Miss Ra
chel Prutsman. I will have new FALL STYLES of
millinery goods constantly on hand.'
BRAIDING & EMBROIDERY,
MACHINE SEWING
of all descriptions, dono on a first-class Grover & Ba
ker machine. Materials made up in the neatest
manner. MRS. J. P. UR£LL S
Tioga. Oct. 26, 1364-3t* '■
FARM FOR SALE.—The undersigned wishes to
dispose of his Farm in Covington township, ly
ing on Elk Run, about three miles from Covington
Boro; afid generally known as'the “ Wetherbee
Farm. ,> It contains about 93 acres, with about 60
acres improved.
The soil is of tho very best quality of upland and
the cleared portion is entirely free from stumps. It
is well wctfcrod and has good buildings. Those who
want to buy a good Form may find it to their advan
tageto pay this one a visit before they “settle down.”
Good warrantee deed given. For terms apply to H.
H. Potter, Middlebury Center, Pa., or to Levi Rook
well, Cherry Flatts, Pa. J. B. POTTER.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 30, 1864.
n I L l IJGR ¥.
BRAIDING & EMBROIDERY,
MACHINE SEWING,
DRESS & CLOAK-MAKING.
I would inform my .friends in and around Tioga
borough., that I have opened a shop in the dwelling
formerly occupied by Alias Rachel Prntamah. I will
have new FALL & WINTER STYLES of Millinery
Goods constantly on hand,
Tioga. Nov. 23, J 64-3t* MRS. J. P. URELL,
REVENUE STAMPS.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT. of Revenue Stamps
of all denominations, just received at the First
National Bank of.Wellsboro, in the Store bnHdxng
of C. & J. L- Robinson. Persons Wanting-Stamps are
request to call and get a supply, f
Wellsboro, May 25, 1864—tf. • i
PURE. GINGER, at ' r
v ; ROY’S Dayo.store
WELLSBOBO., TIOGA COUNTY, PA.. WEDNESDAY MOBNING, EEBBUABY 1, 1865.
THE BACHS WOODSMAN AT SEA.
Among the crew of the “ Maxwell,” a mer
chant ship bound to San Francisco and the
Sandwich Islands, there was one of those tall,
quaint-looking, raw-boned individuals who gen
erally come under the denomination of back
woodsmen.
Here, then, on shipboard. Bill SHnga was de
ault>4b\ign* 4iji~^v»vgiq—ocvcv - tpimi' Aac' Ttipc®,'
blocks, and the many little intricacies that
pertain 10 a full-rigged merchantman. Hence
the many and serious blunders he made, both
below and.aloft, to the great indignation of
Captain Blake, and the amusement of the
foremost hands.
“Ob, yon infernal lubber V,’ the skipper
would roar out, shaking his fist at him. “ I'd
like to feel of that head of yoorn with a hand
spike'and see what it is made of.”
To which' Bill would sometimes reply in the
following style ;
“ Look here, Captain. I coaider myself a free
and civilized critter, and must be treated ac
cordin’; so don’t .you. go to folerin me up
with your-cusses-and sbakin’ your fists. I
never was used to it, and it won’t do me a
bit of goood, I can tell ye. As to feelin’ of
ray head with a handspeck, it wouldint convert
me nutber, for laying phreuogics aside, I reck
on you’d find it pnrty tuff, alter all."
Then in a towering rage, which only the col
lossal proportions and fearless eye of the back
woodsmaiTconld keep within bounds, the cap
tain would order him to take a hammer and
knock the rnst off the anchor's, or sweep the
decks with a broom which would be cheerful
ly performed by Bill without the slightest sus
picion that the captain was “hazinghim up,"
(over-working him.)-
Butin attempting to- “ haze” our powerful
shipmate it soon became evident that the cap
tain suffered more than hie intended victim, as
with his prodigons strength of body and qick
nese of movement the backwoodsman so easily
performed the multitude of tasks imposed unon
him that the eomma'oder was continually har
assed in his efforts to keep him busy.
“Catch mo taking such a lubber in my ship
again," the skipper would frequently .say, ad
dressing bis mate, Mr. Gumps, “he isn’t fit
for anything, and I can’t think, for the life ,qf
me what to put. him at next. But we must put
him to work somehow or other. Can’t' you
think'of nothing'?”
“ Send him aloft to tar down," said Gumps.
bo’ll spill- *t»e
tar on deck, and dirty the planks which we
made him scrub so clean yesterday."
“ All the I etler," said Gnmps, for wo can
make him scrub them over again, and there is
two nice little jobs you see—the tarrin’ and
the scrubhin’ —to say nothing of the chance
it pill give you to cuss him.
“ Glorious !” said the "captain. “ Gumps
yoa’re the man!”
I’m the man," replies Gumps, and taming
up m his heel, sings out:
. .‘f You Bill Slings, get « tar bucket, dnd tar
Gown thaTfore-rigging.”
“ Aye, aye, sir.”
“ And mind that you "don’t spill any of the
tar!” added the captain,winking at Gumps,
who winked hack agrin.
“ If it isn’t agin the bounds of human na
lur’ I won’t,” replied Bill, as he mounted, tar
bucket in hand. r r
Presently, as the captain and bis mate had
foreseen, the black drops began to descend in
little showers on the deck.
Then the former walked forward, and looking
up at Bill poured forth a torrent of curses—
laughing all the time in his sleeves, and turn
ing around to wink at his mate. Suddenly one
of those winks was stopped in the midst of its
career, by a drop of tar falling into his eye,
then ho swore in earnest.
Daring the whole of the next day and the
day following, Bill was kept steadily at work
scraping and Scouring the decks, which task,
when'-finished, was followed by another, de
vised after the same manner as tho foregoing,
Thus it was that the officers of the Maxwell
managed too keep poor Slings continually em
ployed at something while they unanimously
declared that he was good-for nothing.
\ln due course of time, the ship arrived at
San Francisco, where she remained two weeks,
and was then ready to. sail for the Sandwich
Islands. ,An addition had now been made to
our number in the person of a traveling show
man, together with three wild animals, consist
ing of a leopard, tiger and a wildcat, which
he carried with him and was anxious to dis
play to the good people of Honolulu,
As there was no other convenient place fop
the cakes in which the animals were confined,
they hod been confined'as far' aft as possible,
and securely lashed down to prevent their be
ing washed overboard in a gale of wind. The
aspect of each of the prisoners with the brist-
Kng hair, glaring eyes and shiny rows of teeth,
was savage enough. It was the opinion of
Bill Slings which be frankly expressed to the
showman, that they-, didn't have more than
half enough to eat. *
And I’d warn ye stranger,’ he added, point-1-
ing toward the cages, “ to keep a good lookout
on thousand, fix up those doors a little, else the
critters will be breaking loose some o’ these
fine days and creating a mighty rumpus. Them
doors ain’t set in as they ought to be 'specially
the one-where the catamount is.
. But the showman gave Bill a contemputous
glance, saying, “ that he knew what he was
about, and that Bill needn’t concern himself.”
Three days out From San Francisco, we
•were overtaken by a violent gale of wind which
caused oa to etow away every rag with the ex
ception of the close reefed top sail and top gal
lant sail. Rolling and pitching violently among
the heavy seas, the ship’s motion greatly dis
composed the showman’s annimals and made
them unusually furious. They dashed, them
selves against th» bars of their cages, gnashing
their teeth and uttering savage growls, which
mingled strangely with the wild (howling of
thegaleand the roaring of the ocean. As night
J&istellang.
BY - ROBERT STiRBtJCK.
TATOR.
set ia they grew worse, until the noise they
made became perfectly demonaioal. By this
time]the gale had somewhat abated, bat the
clouds had turned to a pitchy blackness and a
heavj thunderstorm was now raging around ns.
The light, save relieved by flashes of lightning,
was «ne of intense gloom, and what with the
creaking of the ship’s timbers, the loud, sharp
crashes of the thunder, the roaring of the still
turbulent sea, the dying shrieks of the gale
and the howling of these three wild animals,
we might have indulged in the fancy that we
captain, as tSe"rain
descended in toraents “ get the buckets and
hang them up to catch water.”
With hie usal alacrity, the backwoodsman
was obeying the command, when an unexpect
ed roll of the vessel caused the captain to lose
his balance and. slip—his head coming in con
tact with one of the buckets that Bill was in
the act of raising. Withont'pausing to reflect
that the fault of the Occident lay with hinself,
the skipper in a fit of ungovernable passion,
lifted his foot and dealt enr shipmate a furious
kick in the side, but the'next moment he found
himself lying in the lee-scupper, to which place
he hacl been sent by a powerful blow from the
fist of one on whom he had so unjustly vented
his anger. Picking himself up he roared ont
in a voice hoarse with rage:
‘‘Mutiny ! mutiny 1 Officers, seize that man.
Pound him—-kick him—trample him under
foot.
But, grasping a hatchet lying under the
carpenters’ bench, the backwoodsman; placing
his back against the rail, and vowed that he
would cleave the skull of the first man who at
tempted to lay hands oh him. Perceiving that
his officers did.not dare to make the assault, the
captain despatched his son, a lad of fourteen„to
bring him up the double barrelled gun that was
lying, ready loaded, in the state-room. The'
boy obeyed, and returning soon placed the
weapon in his father’s hands. Pointing it' at
the head of Bill Slings, the skipper {oared out.
“Give np that hatchet, and surrender, or you
are a dead man.
At that critical moment a crash was beard in
the after part of the vessel, and the next mo
ment a wild cry of terror came from the lips of
the captain's sob, as he sprang into the main
rigging and began speedily to ascend, pursued
by the catamount, which had at last succeeded
in bursting open the door of her cage. All this
had occurred so suddenly, that the boy and his
partner hod disappeared in the darkness aloft
ere the captain could recover his presence of
mind. Armed wirn such weapons as were
nearest at hand, a few of the men bad already
loapo/4 fata tljtJ Tlggltlg »ua eytx’oatrrg- Aig,
the ratlines as fast as their encumbered hands
would aebrit.
' “0, Qcd 1 my son—my son—save him I cried
the excifed parent, as a sudden flash of light
ning revtyled to his sight the form of his boy
in the tormost shrouds, with the fierce animal a
few feet felow him. It was plainly evident
that the mtamount would reach her prey ere the
men conn succeed in attacking her, as the sail
ors had pot got near the top.
Another flash of lightning, and the sharp
crash ofjthe captain’s rifle, hastily pointed in
the dire tion of the beast rang out upon the
gale, mipgled with the.terrific crash of thunder
which tors' forth simultaneously with the re
port. tut he looked in vain for the animal,
and pr ediving that be had missed his mark,
uttered a lery of suqh heart-rending anguish
that no withstanding the late quarrel they had,
the nolle heart of Bill Slings thrilled with pity
as be llsened to him.
Havug discharged but one barrel of the in
strument, another yet remained loaded, and the
captain felt that the next shot'would decide the
tate of his son, for it was plain that ere he could
have tine to reload after his second fire the boy
must he torn to pieces by the savage beast, if
indeedthis had not already taken place.
Elevating his piece, be anxiously waited for
another flash, but when that flash came be did
not fire. He had seen his son clinging to the
top gallant yard arm far up aloft while the cat
amount was but a few paces from him making
frantic efforts to extricate one of her hind legs
from a rope in which it had become entangled.
So close to each other Were the animal and her
prey, that the anxious father had not dared to
discharge his piece, held moreover by hands
which shook with excitement lest the shot
should strike his boy instead of the animal for
which it was intended.
“ Cap’n," said Bill Slings, at this juncture,
“ you just give me th at rifle of yourn trad [I will
fix the critter, in no time, lam an old hand at
the business, and could hit the varmint if he
war twice as high. Them paws of yourn shake
so. it’s no wonder yon could not fetch the cat
amount.”’
There was something in the behaviour of the
backwoodsman calculated to inspire confidence
at once, and the captain allowed him to take
the weapon from his hands. He was fearfully
excited, and his whole frame shook like an as
pen.
Bill bad scarcely elevated his piece when
another flash of lightning illuminated the ship,
and a wild exclamation of anguish burst from
the captain’s lips as he beheld the ferocious
beast disengage herself from the rope and make
a spring towards the boy. But the exclama
tion was almost drowned in the report of the
rifle discharged by the backwoodsman at the
same moment. Then a wild piercing cry went
up amid the storm, a cry like that of a tinman
being, and something dark waa seen ns it de-'
scended through the gloom, and fell with a
Ibud splash into the sea.
The captain’s face grew pale as death—so
pale we could see it flash oat distinctly through
the darkness.
“ That cry,” he gasped, laying hia hand on
Bill’s shoulder," was human, 0 God 1
Wretch, wretch, you have killed my son 1" Bill
did not answer.
With outstretched neck he jfazed steadily
upwards as though he would pierce the gloom
which shrouded the yards from sight.
Has this shot struck the beast or the cap
tain’s son ?” was the .question shouted to the
men aloft. The wind; howled,the thunder
crashed, the seas roared and the ship’s timbers
creaked dismally, but there came no answer.
The suspense was fearful. The captain groan
ed, and then staggered against the rail while
Bill’s face grew as white as a sheet. We could
bear bis big heart thumping against bis bosom.
The question was'repeated a second time.
“ All right 1” frbm the lips of the men aloft.
“ All right, father. I’m safe 1” from the
lips of the boy, and a few minntes afterwards
he leaped to the deck, and was clasped to the
neck of his parent. Having thus vented the
first gush of joyous feeling, the captain stepped
up to Bill and clasping him by the hand, said;
&s& your iorgiv^ne*fslui - ati' tuctuTjiad-jjctoetor
evry harsh word that I have uttered against yon,
for every needless task that has been imposed on
yon through my instrumentality. I have said
that yon were good for nothing. I declare to all
hands that you are the best man in the ship,
and from this moment a truer friend to yon
than Capt. Bloks does not exist
The Captain kept his word, and as the result
of kind treatment, before the end of the voyage
a better seaman- than the noble-hearted Bill
Slings never walked the deck of a ship.
Future Prospects For Mechanics.
When the war shall have ceased, this coun
try will present a scene of industry unprece
dented in history. War always devastates and
destroys, and in the old countries of tho world
•where slower methods and no system are em
ployed, it takes generations to repair the dam
age of a great conflict. On some of the older
baltlefields of the Kevolntion, the marks of
earthwrrka are still plainly vlssible.
But in future, when the present struggle is
decided, our mechanics will have opportunities
to display their energy and skill to the utmost.
The States laid waste by the tramp of contend
ing armies mast be made to bloom an aw, and
be ploughed, not with fire and sword, but by
the sturdy teeth of some machine. . The mills
which are now silent, or used only as the refu
ges for sharpshooters, must grind or saw again
in the future; and the steam engines which are
rusted and bent out of shape be repaired'. The
water wheels must be adjusted so that they
whirl vigorously with their loads. There are
factories razed to the ground which must be
again raised, and the thousands of spindles
which now rest idly in their frames, mnst fly
in a short time as swiftly as of old;
So of the steamers which furrowed the sea,
but are now a wreck, or sunk, or otherwise lost
to the commerce of the world—they must be
replaced-. Down the slanting ways to the sea
the new keels shall glide while the sunburnt
carpenters and the engineers watch their craft,
baptism with pride. ThuTaimraasonau'reach
out their arms again ; they shall face the pra
ries, they shall stretch away to the illimitable
West. Many roads are now broken and des
troyed that- will have to be surveyed, and
here the professional man will claim his share
with the artisan. The locomotives that have ■
been destroyed by hundreds, wilt require to be
reproduced with all the celerity onr shops are
capable of.
Substantial rewards seem, nay are certain in
the future for those who are now laboring to re
store, not to destroy the Government. Mechan
ics, more than any other class in the commun
ity, have a direct interest in its maintenance,
and should be the last—as we believe they are
—to encourage its enemies in war. Self inter
est, if not patriotism, should be ah incentive to
put forth every effort to restore tranquility and
peace. —Scientific American.
The American People. —Do they gay this
people is a congeries of the most promiscuous
elements, gatherd as the discontented from aH
lands? I confess the collection. But in this
very discontent with all other lands,,! discern,
also, the most remarkable testimonies of a
homogeneous character and purpose.- They
are the fruit of all lands. They are the scum,
if men choose to call them so, of ail lands, con
ceding in that very illustration, that they are
rising, volatile, progressive elements of all peo
ple, which the grinding of oppression has ex
pressed, and the boilling of revolution, has
disengaged. They are not the crude, dead,
neutralized, conservative sentiment and mass
which remains behind when the work of prep
aration has been complete. They are the peo
ple of all lands, who have cherished aspirations
of all freedom, and who could not endure the
bondage of oppression—who have so loved the
form of liberty and so conceived the attractions
ofits priceless worth that they haVebeen willing
to surrender all hereditary ties, and bravo the
storms of ocean, and ail the wearyings of gain
ing a new abode, that, though their lives might
he consumed in the perilous undertaking, their
children,at least, might be free and independent.
The very poorest of them had a perception of
banian elevation, demonstrated in the very
choice and hazard which they thus adopt, that
the highest despot or richest nabob whom they
left behind had no power to conceive,—[Dr.
Tyng. :
Moral Courage. —Young man, would you
become morally strong? Would you grow up
perfectly competent to resist .every foe to your
happiness, every enemy which may dispute
your progress in the way of noble manhood?
Would you fit yourself for usefulness in this
world, and for happiness in the nest? Then
listen to the feeblest voice of conscience, oall-f
ing you to duty and to right. There is no
more certain method of cultivating and promo
ting moral strength by heeding continually that
light which “ lighteth ever man which cometh
into the world.” When specious temptation
is presented before yon, when there is thrown
over it the witching gaze of fashion and show,
do you not hear that gentle and precious voice
bidding you look away and shun that specious
temptation ? That voice is soft as the whisper
of angels, and kind as the melting tenderness
of a mothers pure love. You cannot disregard
it but of your imminent peril. Every time you
listen with attention your ear becomes keener
to heat, and yonr strength more competent to
resist temptation. It will soon become easy to
do right. The charm of temptation would lose
its power over yon. —[Morning Star,
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I think your readers, says the Annapolis cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press, will find
in the following somothis/g touching, exhibit
ing, ns it does,.all the deep intensity of a mo
ther's lore.
There is a grandeur in the conduct of this
poor lone mother, whose lore has made her
mad, who yearns for one her poor faded eyes
will never sea again.
More than a year ago her son, a member of
a Connecticut regiment, was taken prisoner and
-confined in.. Aadarsonville. I
changed. His mother. In Conn'eofiqut. hearing'
of it, and believing that ha was among ms
number, left her desolated home and came to
Camp Parole, which is situated two miles from
Annapolis, to seek her treasure among the boat
loads landed on the Severn. She waited, wea
rily waited, day after day, for the coming of
her boy; but, though many came, he was not
among them. “Hope deferred maketh tha
heaat sick,” and so it was with her. Broken,
hearted with constantly recurring disappoint
ments, her mind, already shaken by grief, at
last gave way. Ever since, more than six
months, she has been stopping in this city—
how or where I know not.
Daring all this time she comes to the office
of Dr. Vanderkieft, the surgeon in charge, to
ascertain whether any boat loads of released
prisoners have arrived.
When the last detachment came in the seemed
overjoyed, and went from skeleton to skeleton,
skanning them eagerly and anxiously. Bat
her son was not there, and each day she went
wearily back to her home. The kind-hearted
surgeon, although he knows and he has told
her many times that her son had Ken official
ly reported as dead, still answers her every
day the aame momentuous “ No 1” She comes
always provided with a shirt, a pair of drawers,
pantaloons, boots and cap, and when informed
that her son has not yet arrived, goes down the
graveled path across the lawn to the very end
of the long wharf. There she stands looking
over the broad waters of the Chesapeake for
fully an hour. Clad ever in the same neat
dresa and closely fitting bonnet, she gazes wist
fully, longingly, out over the blue waste, as if
her very eagerness would hasten on the bark
'she imagines bears back to her her child. But
her tear swollen eyes at last grow dim her
strength fails and with the k empty void aching
in her breast, oh bow agonizingly she slowly
turns to depart. The son she shall meet, poor,
crazed, broken-hearted mother, never, never
this side the hither shore.
The time was when bojs were considered of
but trifling acconnt npon the farm. They an
swered to run on errands and to do the light
chores about the house and barn. To keep
them ont of mischief when not attending school
they possibly did some service astride the
horse to mark out the corn ground and culti
vate the com and potatoes. But if amhifious
♦o join the men in the field or elsewhere, they
were equipped with the most worthless, oast
aside tools, such as rusty hoes, dull, worn ont
scythes, old fashioned forks, used up shovels,
doll axes; battered hammers, unfiled saws, and
so on, through the whole catalogue of farm
implements. They grew weary using them,
and so would men have done accomplishing on
ly the same amount of labor. It would not
be strange if suck treatment firall planted dis
satisfaction in the heart of many a farmer’s
boy, which finally ripened it into utter disgust,
the seeking of employment behind the counter
of the village store, or, perhaps in something
less honorable, which in the end resulted in in
iquity and ruin.
But now boys upon the farm ara the equal
of men of those days. By the aid of the new
class implements they are equivalent to several
men with the best of the old implements.—
Boys have indeed wonderfully increased in
importance in these last few years, and nothing
is too good for the brave, willing, ambitions
little fellows. And they most richly deserve
their newly gained importance. Two and one.
half millions of men taken from the industrial
pursuits of life for the purposes of war—more
than one-half of these direct from the farming
population, and yet an increased number of
acres in cultivation and an increased yield in
agricultural productions, save where the vicis
situdes of seasons or the ravages ,of insects
have interfered. How could this have been
accomplished without the aid of the noble
boys who have remained at home ? Their
works have been scarcely less creditable or im
portant than that of those older “ boys in blua'*
that have labored in those other fields where
the harvest is the harvest of death.
We have faith in the farm boys of this day
and generation. The nation owes them its
sincere gratitude. They are deserving of a&
the benefits that shall result to them from the
new industrial schools that are about being
established. The early life is a preparatory
school that will teach them to appreciate the
benefits and blessings that the agricultural
colleges are intended to dispense. Honor, en
courage and care for the boys of the farm.—
Frame Farmer.
How to Prevent Wet Feet. — A writer in
the Mechanics Magazine, who says he has had
three pair of boots last him six years to come,
tells us bow he treats them. I pat a pound
each of tallow and rosin in a poll on the fire';
when melted and mixed apply it hot to the
boot with a painter’s brash until the soul and
upper will soak no more. If it is desirable
that the boots should immediately take a polish,
dissolve an ounce of wax in a teaspoonfull
of turpentine and lampblack. A day or two
after the boots have been treated with the' rosin
and tallow, rub over them this wax and tur
pentine, hut not before the fire. Thus the ex
terior will have a coat of wax alone and shine
like a mirror. Tallow and : |raase become rant
cid and rot the stitching and leather, but the
rosin gives it an antiseptic quality which pre
serves the whole.
War is a washerwoman like grief? Because
she wirings men’s besoms.
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