. • . 1 . i .• .' . • • -, . , • n - , , • . , , . I VOL XIX - Yl - 11111L . , ",, l.&lj ! ,eallitatttr. : i -' It: LTSIII:I24EYritY W1:7 , !;1: SD AY ITT - . . V ~ . .N GELDER & BARNES 1 :. VAN nrr.,nr.n: I A. r..ii.x.iNrii. r7--TFr. , is :—£2,00 pct." nnnurn in advance. - —.--------------____ . ILATF I S OF ADTERTISENG : •.1 e. ;1 in 12 in. 3 in.l4 in. 1 '': in. lain 25 in. _ _I---1. 7 ._ ;.. ~, i 3l. O) 8' CO ;13 00 $4 Of/VG 00 $OOO $l4OO 1 2 •,, „,.5 150 300 400 500500 11 00 1.¢....Q0 . ',V.,1,4 - 2 00 '3 - 00 PM' roc. Trik la oo i,. %th 2 501 100 000 7 001 000 116 00 20 CO ,! x .:11, 400 CO O 0&31000i2002000 29 00 J.::.1.3 1 E. 00 8 00 12 00 13 00 15 00 26 00 0:...' 00 , '.. utLi! 9 03112 Or) 10 oo 20 oo 22 00 1 35 oo co oo 1 1 1 ,,, 0.1 ' 001 1 4 00'25 00 28 - 00 oapq,oo 00 100 00 are calculated by the luck I. a , ariil any less space is rated as a fu)l a,tvertisements must be paid for before in twn, el,ept on yearly contracts, when halfyearly n.n.is n advance will be required. \PlfeEs in the Editorial columns, on the rlge, 15 Gents per line each, insertion. for [ass tinul I;o7lcas in L0...el column, 10 cents per line it thal live lines ; and GO cents for a notice of flee 3 cr la:. . . j......scryfu of IT ATTITA.CIES and DM&TITS Inaerted ; but al ctaturay notices vr:a ba charged 10 cents tionCrs 50 per cent above regular rates. Erst:tr.ss CAr_ns 5 lines Cr less, $5,00 per year. Business Cards. C. H. Seymmir, TTOP.\ET ET LAW, Tioga pa 411 lonsMese en c: eccu vlll retolvo prompt attention.-- .Tm. 1.1. GCO. W. Merrick, TTORNEY AT I,l77.—Offico In Bowen & Cono's cor , _sea hall from Agitator Mice, 28 floor, •;,.....1,:boro, Pa.—Jan. 1. 1372. Mitchell a: Cameron, :TOMMY'S AT LAW, Clain and Insurance Agents. 1:6 - in It oy's oTer Van Order's liquor store, ellstoro, 1, 1812. William A. Stone, TrOIINIZY ,1T LAW, over C. B. Kelley's Dry Good W igh ' 4- .ere, rt Balloy'S Bleak on Alain street.. n't::sb6ro; Jen 1, 1872. Josiah Emery .1 C. D. Emery, 1770;=::; EY:3 AT LAW.—Office opposite Court House, No. i pp,r‘ty's Wlllirtmsport, Ps. All bUsiens inceir.tly attended to.—Jan.-1, /872. . J. C. Strang, TICTS 7 7i AT LAW & DISTRICT ATTORNEY.— N,:_ze, Pa.-Jan. 3.,'72, J. B. Niles, attend promptly to bus sees thinistO t,) car? in the comities or 'Doge. c.l :v th:?. Arcmie.—Wellaboro, Pa., Jr.°. W. Adams, Li A.l - ..I.'v. Mansfield, Tioga county, Pa. ttanlid to.—Jan. 1, 1572. C_ Joao. W. Guernsey, —.‘ll business. entrusted to him atcml.,l to.--Oftico Ist door south i'arrs Tl3ga, 'flogs county, Pa. ;.."" Armstrong I r3r•‘"E'iii AT LAV, \7ll_l.amsl i t, c , rt, Pa %;',l! it. Aay.Tr.o.No- I Wm. B. Smith, r.z.ulaty auel Ls:Balance Agent. ,2111,:it:i,;;:tf , ):13 Bent to the ab.: , ve titlareas will re , e Mteif.itn. .. I 1. 1, 1,37/ an Gelder et. - Barnes, vinfle, or Job Printing done on it:-11.n the 12 . ,.. , .5t manner. Office in Bow en .111x2, 21 racer.—,inn. 1, 1872. W. D. Terbell & Co., "Er.L.: - .:L . ,LIT. DRUGGIST, and ilcalers Wall Paper, Keys.l-;.11.3 !,amps, Winlo - ; GaE3, Perfumery, Paiute, —l-erring, N. Y. Jan. 1, 1872. D. Bacon, X. D., AND StiliGLON, 1 1st. Cmor c,st of Lausli t! Street. W/13 LAURA promptly to al! —Nvtliab.Pre, Jan. 3, - . A. M. Ingham, M. D., U1,10:01',11111E17, Oinee at 1i reeldenee on the do Jim. 1, 1572. W. W. Webb, M. D., 11 -- .91 - cr....N AND SURGEON.—Offic a—Opening out of oga 7 (....it!ee, Dra g :2toro.—xl onsboro, Seeley, Coats & Co., __23, Tloga Co., Pa.—Receive inoney cad aeU cligti on New Colit..ctions pmnantly NE, NZ: ,62r.r.L.Er, Os:rola. .. 1, 1872. DAvin _COA.TS, Ji1105:1-1.11e. NEE J. Parkhurst & Co., cry.- Tioga Cu., Pa. JOE L ItE,H rzr, •la 1, 72. Jour; PA.p.r.dunsT, C. L. YATTISON. Sablnsville Hotel, • PA., D. Churchill, I"ropritior.—This H r1:1 15 in gccd conditiou to accouLmoctnto the travel public La a wa.pc,rior nannuer.—Jan. 1, 1872. Petroliuni. House; TFIEI,I), PA., Ge:". Close, Proprtetor.—Good Etc •lnp•letion lor both man emit lyatat. Charges n,14 good Ltterttion giyon to. uects. • 1, Farmers' Temperance Hotel. ‘.`: :TONP.O::, Lasing purchased this house, 1‘..1..krc r.; iu tha past, strict:p un tern. far man Char t - Ns rmsror-able.—Ntlsllsboro, Pa., ME Ell 'nion Hotel. v.vN lie/1:Y, Wellsl,3ro, Pa.—This J I,zalel,l, ulad 114.3 -thD couven auci be:".st. CLarcea '"1?!-.1'*(04°4 - 5P ‘7l '!.UN ST. tr. AVI..."NtE wellsboro Pp rUNN rrol-r: ERE • ktlpt 4 It. B. Lig iday, ,to M/At it a ct d :‘rrirfromal clepart from this L In j attendance kj-Livery at• =MB t -1, 1::72.. IMIIMMIE t,'„ l'a.. Imuse Lnd .v. hind. On thefic, P. Work ,p;rL ' •with near by - . The 3~ a La:daf,o. A Food man .an the load iA IA 1:g built. s i , ..:.:.1.11!..1":"; inquire on flo pronts , :s, C. B. \%1111.1:1), 1111111 0141) -P T - 1:-'1:;. 1 : 7- :71AVAN IA HOUSE', lin £3 the TAwilsc - n3 Rol:lea - (mei .`•• • 311.:i. D. D. /1 - 0'....11.1ti, !Els been t. - • n.. 0 .1y rel.aio., I I,y -‘ 4 • I'? • ()'(')(_)1%1 N )11 , ~1„;11 , 1 y to , : - _01 , :,l1fAlt!) the el:1 friclltia of iy, - N. R. O'CONNOR. HOTL'_L. f , 1-• •-.^" . lrj P. conducted on strict tem. - fel 1 .-/•=r-;:e pncip:ea by the subaoriber, who li )! •. ~;::, ~,, r,,,s to oi.a'se th is Itottee 3 laca 4- : 7 ' - ‘::- :-..: t : the t - aveling public. 8.-... in g . v.cil aupplied !. 11,1 Etablfr - rocm, he will ot all timesen x-'7 ',-, 14.7 - c" v .7 comfort Per both - man and Wei% B. HALL. ' 4 =v IS, 1".•71-tf. Piatob.older - Johnson, pnonazrorts or.TFiE • T ELLSBORO MARBLE WORKS, wain Street opposite rOU rn 77 1:LISP.0110. iIOGA 6RINTiI; - PA. TOIMSTONMS, TAME TOPS, COUNTAS, A'r• ( 4 .%er 7.Ttiztilo 'work execute neatly, ana at res. !?ta-Jte rates. We also 11.trnieh to orcltcr, tlarble and Orvt.s, Fenian, ka I. 131"1, 'rouse and Lot for Bale. naG.zraigiled olTers for sale 11!_s Ilonse„..and_ Lot 11.• Or. strut, iu Elkland,Pa.,ita Ver9 linv Price. (yDnukins ono-half acre, end" under pea n. Tor terms. .to., apply to the subaeriber. rAiroaa. Pa., web. 21, IMI-11. 0. P. 11,1.710008. Asleep. My baby slerpe I A.ll;thviagit the droadibt night. 'White her Phrlil cries smote on oir.atkrinbir?glap. t In agony I prayed that Morning ligtit - 4aV , :q.._,A ) Might bring her rest. She has it—O, my tears Well may your bitter falling floods attest I bad no thought to crave eternal rest For her wlio sleeps. Turn back the sheet-0 darling baby face ! Each polished temple shaded by one c0i1.... Of flossy gold. Mow could such angel gat - I) s ' Ile only mortal ! Hush, poor heart I A glzr Must Us a Worn= ; and We mothers know FiONi oft Vat nnme'a synonymous with woe— 'Tits well, Cite sleeps. Put on her norvtlie tiny robe I wrought, Before thosecpyiegttlea;OrKlPthieell When everyMitUlle %eV ikaAvith thai; Tou aid God for His great gift. Now pure abd white. 'Unsullied by its stay. I yield it back, • The one sweet snow-drop in life's wintry track_ My child, who sleeps. length nch. Alt, fearful thought 1 Perhaps in coming yearau-messa4 - ; Sin might have touched that flower at my side With blasting breath—when e'en my bitterest tears Gould only fall to know it had not died, Sweet blossom! and been bound up in our dear Lord's sheaves, While Heaven's own dew still lingered on its Icasee, • -,•jatithisr t thafitef7ikf'eA '4:41 11.0 • • ••• • 464 God's ways are beat. Here, by this Little bed ' That holds the form whereon His seal is set, I, "who was once a mother," O'S: my dead As o'er my new-born babe, repeat it yet— A:4; Ile saw the future hidden from say eyes, And with a !ova eII tender end all wise, - Sent luarthis sleep, THE LAND OF PITCH, TAR AND TERPEN- BOREAB TILE Str/S : BOt+I:LTAI 7 I"..I.ILADDIE FOR LUMI3ERMEtifiIETLEgd MEN AND MONEY_.--NTED----EVIG COTTON SPREADDIG EDISELF--_-(EGOED .k.ND FOUR-I-EGOED.EXODDS.--;-MOSi-OECI 1711.- LAOE3 AND SATISFIED 4.:CEESIOICIi'S-4.11F-: LAND FOE. NIMROD AND IZAAE 'WALTON. Editor agitator:—Perhaps you will, not take it amiss at receiving a Sidall bundle of C. S. A. notes—just issued and ready for circulation. They are plentiful here, and .only need picking up and setting down. ‘ Shivering' around ' ' burners; aren't you tired of stoking up the tires ? and has the eight of snow 1.31. its charms Then ,turn your envious eyes this way ; but as to turning hitherward your feet, that's,,, quit -another question.L4nleek Indeed, the printer!s motto, as the politician's, be : "half a leaf better than none." For, though Winter here lose much of his t bold-from and flaky aspect, he nevertheless has a toler ably searching way with him ; and is far from being the ramblike creature a frigid Pennite (from the northern bOrder)ls wont to imagine. True, the face of old Boreas is much modified arthis distance,, from his icy, home, and only occasionally.does ho put on his fleecy mantle, directly throwing it on' azain,—yet, many a .day, his moist touch pinches you blue, and his breath, telling of snowbanks recently visited, sets yoiiall in a. • quiver. Jan. 1, 1872 Wiptgrweather-in_ pastern North, Paroll-- na, and the came of Virginia, is as Nifty as the affections of the most nimble coquette, everything by turns and nothing long,—ln its vibrating, seesaw• mooch, not unlikel cowper's man : "fond of variety and studi ous of change s " To-day the heavens are bright, the air : I :?ali4tY ;•t(Friio - rrpw,, and yesterday's glolyillq go'nel,glirapi 4 er„ing, and, in its Btead-i7anyttaii,!frctria otepoll- ,ing rain, or ungentle ) 2ephyis; - to - a"chilling sleet that is crusting all out-doors. And so alternating "from grave to gay, from lively to severe," mercury hurries up and down -the scale, and the passing days are not long on the same leg. Now with coat thrown off for comfort, soon, for the same reason, you are piling the andirons high with wood ; from 'reading or writing out on the veranda, a sung corner is sought indoors. The per- , vading of the atmsplagro,',,and ti4e . quick, frequent, and constantly recurring "changes of base" in the temperature, tend to make the winter months in this latitude &hoe:ling even to a northener. Especially, when to this unsteady habit of the elements, is , added the practice of the people of allow. lug the doors of their houses, in all weath er?, to be allop or ajar -you are an uncoinfdfttible - - -betyten:tlinr: in . uncom ortab e octWeet. betwixt state of being too warm for a fire or' h c• rHit ruse color on the girl's head, the an overcoat and too cold without. , ducks backs, the shiny sides of the oak . le,c.es At one side of the village rose a Doubtless this is the ' Sunny South . ;nit hill clotted with juniper bushes, and Slil all patches of v,4 • itch are vouchsafed to fiine s ed atop w ith Oaks and beeches, among these passing. d a y s , an d as spee dil y snatched , Niiiii - h a proud castle hid all but its topmost away—mere glimpses, as fleeting as ange'.-, nr.‘ers fium the lower world.On the other 'visits and only a little less rare. Whatever ride stood a church on a tree strew 11, grave wealth of beams he may have in store for . ~,,,,, bunk It ~,,4 a sma ll (imm i i; the the fervent summer-time, clearly the Bun ip.l-, , ban z.. ei wall 4 welt . nev, • and yet unfinished; np spendthrift now—keeping- shady durit,z the fresh clean stline wore a rosy flush in clqudy w eather. I, I the evenue; sunlight; there was a hum of This old North State is the land of the voices yround she building; masons were Fine, and, consequently, of tar, turpentine, packing up their tools and leaving \work for and rosin. Pine forests are on either hand, the night Presently they came, laughing and stretching away in the distance as faa-- an d chattering, into th i :,. Ivillage some came t the eye can reach ; pine,,pine, pine, 1 . % tli to , rest on the seat beneath the oak and hail _very few stragglers of any' , other Soi , t-el, ( , ( L t ih' e o kr incji sight tempting to the lumberman, and li Li h „ 'Mli, g.ffer, how goes the world with he is already beginning 'to improve. All . , ott .,- along the coast, and for many miles back. in ' the interior, the country is one continuous One or two he•ran to help the girl with the bucket; a couple, who had walked to flat, no hint of a hill—necessitating, on the _, el ulikin. as I . arltp_.tim v;_vii,,pinted Part qi PP..fIIPACSI iltil.Qo..deal,of ditrthing: i-,7" 1 No cultivated field but requires to i tnere,tuic one iwent straight to a cottage be i facia , * the church At an open window of thrown up in ridges in such manner as to form a sort of checkerboard of ditches : , that house a poor thin little face was look thosei lug, out at the sweet country scene; a white surrounding the plat qmite deep, the kitte; sady„,old,,,m sadly young, with hol others shallow, Owing to 4.he'. Irri • Y11404 1 .,101t, thouglitklieNseind two thin hands piring surface of the land-lhe 'Maas run 1 to prop it up. When the workman came evenly on and on,, no tugging up hill, no i to that window (which was nothing more holding back; simplifying by half the liar- i than a square hole with shutters) a smile tiess gear—even tugs are wholly dispensed , came over • his hard coutltenanr Eta.. 119 40a with-miilt4a Pl. easyk.ifisiKing-4 1 1e-twD . tmA ers*ad:etitigafiA re; csiaiz.oi tai-, wheeled 41, is the universal ‘carrralf : in' pale face, who smiled back in his turn very use here, and is attached to the mule cr ox I sweetly. Inside the cottage, one could see by a short strap securing the ends of the ' that this face, which was as delicate as a 1 is thins to the haute or yoke. ....,.. g;q43 l. Wm:lgettto trA W,Jethaps fourteen - ....,...., ....,...., , While here and theie a-ehow:ie• life - • . rears thi, - burercioke - d Lmcf stunted in growth, manifest, the general appearance is one of , who was half lying, half kneeling on a dilapidation. Fences out of repair, end• in I wooden bench, with both elbows propped many cases gone altogether; buildings neg- :on the window sill. Otte could see-this, in. lected and badly battered in their battle , deed, though but faintly, on oomins.gut 4,, , 'Avid' trfa - -V'n WeiTaide Nature is reoccu• i the pure outdoor air, for chimneys were as pying large tracts of land once reclaimed to i yet only knxuries for monasteries and great cultivation. Instanoos of this relapse are ' men's houses; and the smoke from the cot- J. V. BACITELDEII r. 'h. JOIC:SToN% v .V.iftai&a; 'NA" ,it/n. , I :id.; ~41.. c, ,-41,1r.i1l i: , ;. , ;..: , : I - -.- ..=1:1. , x) , .v,' , 11'..c. i • . : ---- ',"- •: . , , I . a •, ' , . . . • . , , .. 1 , . I, ' It< '<- - 3 . iy‘'' • ,4 / . ‘ , l f . Z i, /z •'-, .. //- - - is , ` / ,C., ,t , , Z., ~, . ' , t ._ . , . .._ .. _. . . . . ~.i . _,......r._.:::_,,,..,..:,4.‘..._,,Ai.,..._._,..,,...,.,„ , ' .. 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' f - .4,4 1,, , ..I . . —,..- 2 ,..... .z.-..-....-,........,Mi L , ......,t*::: "4.. , IL • . -., a. i, e •i. . rs. .., .. ...: , . • I VV,'. jilt, - ,:'3•5.1 .'- , 7,, CI a '.. il: , F ',. •.f . 11±A...,, . t "",...., -. 94 4.1 11_,,Wa ve r Jr -. .• • . i' a lit ... ~. i -14- 'a 1+: - . • 01-) i,, , ,1 1i7.91, .:,:it 7 2 :1117 . 047;:c. 1 51: ',1`...'1117t1J. 41' 1 1 ~." ' .."- --- - i ...--,.... — --. _, _ • —Tae Chicago Journal - The Life ortitir — B e f ofesYP4 l44, 4 Tieirecliiikeitg . igl wvg l ipflsma 7 / Tim , wfth tiltof learEel Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fall•; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness, risen from hell; Sirength, without Lands to smite; Love, thatronCLu.rea fora breath; Night, the shador of Light, 4,:f281.1*-11 - I . e shadow 6t dinth. I •• ` d 14:ghf l als',Sook in hand', t` I I k*?{Dia the etoi t4ita, inotsulle Of From under the drift of years; And froth and drift of the sea, And dust of the laboring earth; And bodies of _thinglotp 1-;. in the houses of death and birth; And wrought with weeping and laughter, And fashioned with loathing and lose, With life before and after, And death beneath and &bogs, ..... For a day arty That his strength might endure for a span With travail and heavy sorrow, The holy spirit of man. TINE. • A Lettr - frifm - hlifrth Carolina NWT . .4. ..1 by no means, the exception. &Wender ti),! and not attack iipon; the Orighnit'Artinai tt seenvink the practice now as it has be n ; „ f o r ttfanytnr:;. No sooner is a field left Q, f itself than the pine takes 'possession. i i til : l curious sight to see : corn rows plainly visi t I Me running, through gloomy forests, when, ; it is scarcely an exaggeration to say, thtic. ,pines iv e;glity to a hundred feet high aTe, ..'strilitn i f e. a' thick as ever the corn hilN i l did. , i i The farms are of the old plantation pat tern, -ieldom lets than a thousand acres 1 with occasionally one several times that, - ' & . tl.l.te4tig Lu9pviisippikretTind on eitlldr, betweecL' boundary lines, neighbors are not annoying-f• ly near. Some of the whiloin plantationsi that used to run smoothly in ante•belluth.` days, are being broken up to pay otT 'ilitlating debts : many are offered for sal4.'. The war and its consequence.; threw thei l r' management out of the old ruts, and the, owners find it ditlicult to conform to the al , tered condition of things. ! • 111 4iSr 3ST e g sYlt ll4 ein gC t e • c fming 111 1 1 : 41' s. in ikstein ine -t ' have), is superft - eitil in every phase—the merest skimming; not alone indifferently irc;ikr, but wrteliedly miserable. Fields are cropped season after season, and next too', nothing returned to thenti.S,tock.. ; gosisrurt-, cared for. Cattle, sheep, and hogs forage ,at large.. a7L. Winter,- over • the-.ftelds • and throighihe woods, and conic out 'in the Spring wa*i.pg Atitonit'i of,;r6 c i al tliiiifPruicipal crops raised in this section were corn, oats, and wheat.. Cotton, heretofore but little culti vatcd,. proves to be well adapted to the soil and 'Cliimate, and year by year more and more acres are given up 'to this - old time King. Though a growing favorite he will not eßeedily_ he ambitious Co. clftim4witli his iluSkY retinue) ahilnliefieanc tfW lerril lorieg i•X,early very verfeirofFruit itgrivea ell : !tlke nkple, tOetla, tearU firape strtwberry,b, though as yet failing to rei ceive the attention they merit. Big stories are told of a native grape, the Scupernong, l single ying,,s,)3l4l.elkigc,gltid to spread over 4