The Tioga County agitator. (Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pa.) 1865-1871, June 30, 1869, Image 1

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    JOBBING "DEPARTNEII1 1 1'.
Tt3 proprietors tole tucked th . e tnbliaLinl
with a now a varie, assortment of
30D AN) CARD !TYPE
AND FAST PRESSP,N;
and aro prepared to exceolt , oeall) and promptly
POSTERS, HANDBILLS, CIRCULARS, BILL
HEADS, CARDS, PAMPHLETS,
Deeds, Mortgages, Lenses, and a full assortment
of Constables' and Justices' flanks on hand.
People living nt a distance can &Tendon hay
ing their work done promptly and sent beck in
return mail.
MASONIC.
()Ssl LODGE, No. 317, A, Y. M., meets at their, Hall
aver Or. Itoy'e drug store, on Tuesday evening, on or
before the Fell Moon, et 7 o'clock
,
YOGA• enA nett, No. le4, It. A 4., M., nes*eat the
on Thursday °vetting, on Qr beter4 the Pull
' Sloou, Ht 7 o'clock I'. M.
COLINCI So. 31, R. kS. MASTERS, mepts fit
flue Hall, on third Friday of ench calendar
n) with, at 7 o'clock I'. M.
TV,Vi AG ITTON COMMANDEBY. No. 28, or KNIGHTS
T intrhAlt, and h e appendant orders, meet s at the
Hall, on the llrst 'ridny of each calendar month, at
7 o'clock P. )1.
BUSINESS DIRECTOR!,
WILLIAM 11. Slll UM,
TrOBNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
fc , uranco, Bounty and Pension Agency, Main
•-zint Wellsbaro,-Pa., Jan. 1, 168 ,
•
WIVI, GARIZETSOISI,
i'L'ORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
Notary Public and Insuraneo
,arg, Pa., over Caldwell's Store,
GEO. w. M)ERRICK,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AP LAVA
Ottlea with W. IL Smith, EAq., Main Street,
g pEosite \ Union Bleck, Welisbaro, Pa.
Jal-y 15,/1863.
W. D. TERBELL t% CO.,
51101.ESALE 1/11.13E1.018'28, and dealers in
Papef, liorosetio Lamps, IVindow Glass,
l'efiumery, Paints and Oils, ac.,
Corning, N. Y., Jan. 1, 18[03.-Iy.
J. F. WILSON
WILSON & 10IIL1 S,
f fOIINEYS 5 couNsELuns •AT LAW,
First door from Llgoney!s, on the Avenue)—
Will attend to business entrusted to their care
11;tlic eanntizs of Tiog,a and Potter. •
I;ellshore, Jau. 1, 180.
JOHN I. MITCHELL
t COUNEY AND COLIN6EbuIt Al LAW,
Tiogit Co., Pa.
Ctaiia Agent, I.4utttry _Public, and insurance
X,telit. Ile will attend prdaiptly to collection of
Nus'.ons, Back Pay and: I.Pounty. As Notary
l'ablic he takes acknowledivitnents of deeds, :WI
•Inisters orys, arid till tp. ;Lb Cow ini,%•:•ionur to
~Re te,thnuny. ,F. - 11 - 91lice 01:9r Ituy's Drug More,
Agitator Office.—Ort. 30.1307
Sohn W. Gucrnscv,
toRNEY ANT) COUNSELOR, AT LAW.
returned to this county wyli a view of
kadtfag it his permanent residence, evlicit:-
:Imre oh public patronage. Ail buslues , en
trusted to his cure will be attended to with
rataptneisatid fidelity. Office 2d dual south
E. S. cares hotel: r iog,a, Tina Co., Pa
-.apt. 24.'48.—ff,
JOHN B. SUAKSPLA RL,
.11.01i4 AND TAILOR. Shop o ve r .John B
);MVell ' S S torn.
~..;,'":11" Cutting, Pitting, an(
t':coairiag done pion - 101y and in hest
I,',..ikhoro, Pa.. Jaa. I, 1863-1 y
GEORGE WAGNER,!
kll,Oll. ::hop lint duo' north of L. A. Sean's
-Loc Ji.1 - D^Cutting, Fitt io a gepa ir
vrutuptty and %%cll.
, i, ikho - ”, Va., Jan. 1. 186S-IY.
.1014 V it. rNEzt, I
.i . u Lail. AN 1) eli,l' I El:, has ...poled : I t 5i,.. 1
.....1 . rat ton ,tree[, rear O t o.r,s .. Perli)', .1,4•4
:11,1), where he i, propn red to ingit,uhri tit o ga r
l•) order -111,tattli I manner
ti.lt•ii. lit 10.11 •iflt iriii
) 0 1;$ I.‘
Dr. G. IC. I..lxonips:rn
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li. 11 ,14to .:tt I' C.,;.111 . 1 .tut r
I 1 J 1 I v lone yea', •11 nty It II 1,114 r
•, I t field 8111/ 110 plaCtl , l',l,,,,eqwine.l nu
1., II in-Artie,: of ttnnii‘lan and ~ nrgery, iu Slit
. Person, It out It tli•nttion find good
.tt onto llor.i whon
p il h.f (hp Str.te ur to
, .11g ;2i , .11 So 4, Unton 'Blind., up
nikkot n. 31ny Viral-I,y.
Wm a Smith,
Petition, Ufflinty, nod En
v.xoxv[l,l.li, I'a.
Ilie
,h,“l.t.i.lre,s will receivt, ritillipt attcuti , 4l.
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Thos. D.Brydon
srItVEYOR intAFTSAMN.—Ciriiers left a
T,,wtisend 11,40,
pi."ll.pt
Jail. 13. INti7.-11.
a. E. .01,111 EV,
)1.1).E1t to ei.ucns,t . l;IV El.); V, Sll - Xilt
I'I,ITED ‘s' Alt E, Spnetnel,,, Violin String?,,
• , , Va. Wat.•laca3 and Jew.
illy repaired. Engraving dota• \ plairi
En , zll4ll and Gerrttilnt, I IFepliq
Hairdressing
.vor Willcox A; .11:ulcer's bture,
I.: ~P:uticulnr :atchtiort paid to Ladica'
:31youpoo.ti5, Dyeing, ute. Braids,
cltis, and xiviche, 4)11 handl:ocl ulnae to c.r-
it W, fwit;:-;BY
G. PUTATA IVI ,
ILL Wlt DI lIT--:‘,12 . ut0 tor oil the Inc
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PIiTROLLUDI LIOUSE,
11 tIEORG Pt t
• 110tdi t! ,, lldUetVli 411 the tytipetple
.1 lite tod lot nee, for tilt• outtnotlott..tt
pubite.—Now. 11, 1801 —13,.
HAZLETT'S' HO TIM,
100 A, 'rTOGA COITNTy PA.,
1 ,tabling..illached, and an attentive Logy
.11stay,.. , in offend:ince
ul W. II A Z f
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.pviet,tr. il new :matt eottlietedLutit-
Null all the motion) itni.rovestietite.
t h e best huiltillg, and 11;1,-
.t. Nurthen,
rem. woilcrate.
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Tioga County, Pa.
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AND :MOBS of all kiwi- , made to
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-John C. liorton,
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ioga County, Pa. Office over
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GROCERY AND RESTADRANT
Ono • alkAvt, .01 , 3 Moll Market,
\V EL LSBORO, PENN'S,
p ESP E 11 LY announces to tho trading
_Do poliliv I l‘lt , 11:1-. a aarir.ll,lo ro
cerie:‘, vOliir I Tcag, COliceS, Sa!_Tarr,
31olttsm,, , ,Slikti.e, awl all that oongitates
class Etoulc, ti . uitorA in every style at all ooa.
suaahlp hour 44,
Wollsboro, Jan. 2, 18117-If.
DHA I.FIN IN
II A R DM' IRON, NAILS,
J. JUIiN UN
cUTLERY,
cf WATER LT
IMpLEAI ENT,
parriage and Harness Trimmings,
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N. , Jaa. Ifi67-1s:
I.IEAR YE! HEAR VEt REAR YE
BA IZERLS, FIRKINS, CHURNS,
BUT rEit TUBS, &e ,
conhisintl3. "n band, and rat te or
dot
hi turc, 2.(1 .loor Roy's
\Veil,;,„ro (Jtnic 10, 1568.)
rip II E Boa - I'l Scales,: all. ordinary
IL heavv i Anil counter use, flay he
1.,,,nd at 'lie Ihrd ,‘ are :=tore of 'Win. ItobertF,
Wellsboro. Illew'SealeP are the Fairbanks pat-i
etd and have no .wperior anywhere. They ere
made in the beat Ayie and have taken the proof ,
Um at all the great exhibitienq. '
I have die ,ole
region. these Scales in this
WILLIAM
Propiit!tor
iVelkboro, Feb 12,
rry B sit ~erila.t.tko- rnops
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t's ) 1 01 . 1/:, /Pe:, r ivoi - tco Oft Milli
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13.--Ilaster always on hand at the Mill.—
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A writer, describing the meeting of the two
first locuppotiy !Railway, said
44 thai t ' Sfp )oconiotiyes Ipored.up until their pilots
rubbed together, ,syrnholie of tho friendly salute
of /heir respkkirc,ownpxs,,", but, ho did not 'hear,
or did ref.describe„
W/lAT , ENSISES SAID I
What was it tiro Engines said,
Pilots touching—knead to head
kikieink thertiingle truck,'
Half a world behind each back I
This is what the Engines said,
Unreported and unread! '
With a prefatory screech,
In a florid Western speech
• Said the Engine from the WEST :
.".1 am frozn Sidrrti"rt - erest
And, if altitude's a test; • ,
Why,l redtoli, confe:seed,
That I've done my level best."
Said the Engine from the EAST;
"They who work best talk the least,
'Sposo you whistle down your brakes;
What you've done is no great shakes ;
Pretty fair—but let our meeting
Be a different kind of greeting,
Let these folkS, with champagne stuffing,
Not their Eiigines y , do, the puffing.
• f r is 3, c;
•
Lqtem! Aitlahtio heats
-
Shores 6f- snow' mittatuntifer heats;
- Where the Indian Autumn skies
Paint the woods:with wampum dyes.t
Seeing all be looked upon—
Blessing all that ho has blest—
Nursing in my iron bre:lSt,
his vivifying •
All his clouds alma my crest;' -
And heroic ,
Every shadow Must.' retreat'.
•
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Said the Western Engine, "Phew !"
And a long, low wills!lo blow—
" Come nnw, really that's the oddest
Talk for ono so very modest—
You brag of your East! you do
"Why I bring the East to von!
All the Orient—all Cathay—
Find through mo the shortest way.
And the sun you follow here,
Ilisep-in my „ItemppYTere.
I?c`nlly= if orb-must - be'rtl e
Length, my friend, ain't longitude."
Said tho Union: "Don't : yelled, or
Pll run aver some Direclor.".
Said the Central: "I'm Pacific.
But when riled, Pm quite terrific.
Yet to-day, we shall not quarrel
Just to show these folks this ntoi
How two Enginer—in their vision—
Once have met without collision."
That is , what the Eughrt,
Cuteported and unread.
Ft Dion slightly through the nose,
With a whistlent the dose.
1 01tiOrtIlitivtou5 (gvatling.
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A RAILWAY REMINISCENCE.
" I say, Mr. Conductor, When will
the nest, express train go out to St.
Lonis?"
"Eleven o'eloclc and thirty mkntites,
ito,nighl, sir," was the , gentlemanly Pe
.plynm tlao rough inquityl
"I:leyen q!elock ?Ind thirty minutes.
Co to Teas! Why its ten this very
minute. I'll bet my hoots against a
jack- knife the morning express is
" sir, it has been gone half an
hour."
" Why in nature didn't you get here
sooner: Fourteen hours in Chicager is
enough to break a fellow all to smash.
Fourteen hours in Chienger pulling and
blowing! I've been told they licep
regular six liundp/d lit,ss,.:stean4 power
All. the time,a - ruuh . ing, : ko": blo:w:' thew
sel ves uP Nv h utf i p ttk-'l,l I's...pooh:as of
every traveler to ply the firemen and
engineers!
.Wal, 1 guess.l calk stand-it;
I've a llvellty_that!E3 neYei : fi&en
.broke;
I think ,that.N9ll'put tue - throngh. 1V by
didn't youllre up,,old brag—give your•
.
pld boss another peek of oats-'? I tell ye,
this fourteen hours will knock my cal
culations all 'into the middle of next
week."
1g on the situ
live,
gnexts. The
house,
Otto! tvitlmta
" Very sorry, sir;. We've done our
best, but as we are not clerks. of the
weather I hope you will •not lay. your
misfortunes to our aecOunt. Snow
drifts and the themorneter sixteen be
low zero are enemies we can't readily
overcome." •
;" That's so," said the first speaker,
with broad emphasis, and a good-na
tured, forgiving smile. "Fourteen hours
in Chicager.".
• The stentorian voice, sounding like a
trumpet, had aroused every sleeper from
his elysian dreams into which' be had
fallen after his long, tedious, cold night's
travel. Every head was turned, and
every eye was fixed .011 the man who
had broken the silence. He was stand
ing by the stove warming his boots.
To have wto•nied his feet through such
a mass of cowhide and sole leather,
would have been a fourteen hours'
op
eiatioli;; • SIX feet four or live iirdies he
stood in ThoSe boots, with shoulders
(cast in at fur coat) that looked more
like bearing up the world than you
will Meet ordinarily in half a life time.
His head \Vebsterian, his shaggy hair
black as jet, his whiskers, to match,
his dark "'piercing' eye', and his - jaws
externally moVing, with a rousing quid
between them, :with a goodhumor, not
withstanding his seeming impatience,
attracted every one's attention.
"Fourteen hours in Chic:l(l'er, eh
\Val, I guess I can start' it if the rest of
you can ; if twenty dollars wou'C-carry
me through I'll borrow of my friend.
I've got the things that'll bring 'em
That's so."
And he thrust a hand a little less in
Size thnn•a"common snade down into
the cavernous depths of a broad striped,
flashy pail• of pants, and brought up
that great red hand as full as it could
hold of shining twenty dollar gold
pieces.
" Don't yer think I can stun' these
Chieagers fonone fourteen hours?" -
A nod of assent, from tliree or four',
and watnile of euriosi ty from the rest,
answered his question in the affirma
tive. .
"`You Must have been in hict, stran
ger." said an envious looking little man.
"You've more than your share of gold,!"
have, eh 't Well, I reckon not. I
came honestly by it. That's so. And
there's them living who can remember
this child when he went round the
Willi:ries trapping p'rarrie hens and the
like, to get him:a. Ilight.,'s lodging, or a
pair of shoes to keep the lIIIISSIISSaIIg
fruln bit tny' toes. Pye hung myself
more than one night in the timber, to
keep out of the way of the wild -Varmints:
Ilest,sleeping in the world, in the crotch
of, a trce-top ! Now I reckon you
wouldn't believe it, but I've gorie all
wittier without a shoe on my foot, timid
liVed ou wild game, when I could eateh
That's 50.."
• " Didn'fslunt your growth," said a
VOICC near. i
• "Not a bit of it. It brought me right
p, These ji'yarrles By 9 , tidgr fit
rholny: I thought sine' would
let, myself out -entirely; but - me - and
mother held a comps, and decided that.
as she was getting. old and blind- like,
it tuk trio long and cost too much to
sew up the legs of my: trousers, and so
I put a stop to it,.'and coneluded' • that
six foot live would do fir a feller that
couldn't, afford the luxury ofc . o wife to
- wki,
,L§ii6R9,-r-4.,-.;‘,T-uxg:.p.9;,18697
make his britches. It was only the
,loyenf my. ;mother that atopp d My
i
growth.- If ird-an idea 10f 'ai ewing
MaChine,. :there's, no ;telling , what I
in lat i) li t A i v . a e v 'd p b s ti b e, '') n ‘ ,
y geld pieces in
your poCket; yetrean . afford to get your
trousers made now. Why don't you
and your mother ltld another caucus
and seelwhat you c,'n do? If she should
let you expand yourself, you might sell
Ott 40 Barnum , Illake.A , fortune
'traveling with Tom Thumb,- 1 and take
the - Sold` woman Op] g.Y, ~ ' . - , ~
- '-',Strainger,''' Said ' the . rough great
inanYand ,lils - Wholalace loomed up
with anihigled'expresSion of pain and
pride, "Stranger, 1 spoke a word . here
I didn't mean to ; a slighfy word' like
about my, mother. , 1 I wouldgiye all the
gbld in My'Pecket j to bring her back
for one hour to look upon this country
as it now is.. She had. her cabin here
Whed.'ChiCagerWas nowhere"; 'here she
raised her boys,. she couldn ' t . give her
boys learning, but she taught us better
things than book Sean give—to lie hon
est, truthful . and industrious. She.
.taught me to :be faithful and true; 'to
stand by our friend and be generous
in_aur..enemy.---.lt's- hirty-years;-stran
geroinee we dug he gfave by, the lake
'side With our hands, and;Withnziany a
'tear an a sob turn T d ourselves away
from the cabin where we'd been rais
ed. The Indians ha killed our father
long before, and we'nothing to keep
1.
us—and so we went t )seek our fortunes.
My brother, he took down the St. Louis,
and married there, comers ; ' and I
just went where the wind blowed, and
when I had scraped money enough
together, I cum hack and bought a
fuw , acres of land areajnd my' mother's
old cabin, for the pia e where. I'd laid
her bones was sacred, like. Well, in
the course of time it tinned up right in
the middle of Chicager. I couldn't
stand that, I loved mother too Well to
let omnibuses rattle over her grave, so
I cum back about fifteen years ago and
moved her to to the i burying ground ;
w
and the I
agent
batik to ~ Texas, and
wrote to - 'an agent nqrwards to sell my
land. What cost a fy.w dollars to begin
on I sold for over 'forty thousand—if I'd
kept it till now, 'tvould have been
worth ten times that; that's so but I
got enough for't. I soon turned that
forty thousand into eighty thousand,
and ; that into twice as witch, and so on,
till I don't knoW or care what 'l'm
worth ; that's so. I work hard, am the
same rough custounell, remember every
day of my life what my mother taught
me, never to drink or light, wish I
didn't swear or chew ; but them's got
to be a sort of second natur' like, and
the only thing that troubles me 'is my
money—havnit got nb wife nor children
and I'm going to hunt, up my brother's
folks. If his boys is clever and indus
trious ain't ashamed of my big boots
and old-fashioned ways, and his gals is
young women, not holies; if they help
their mother, and doi 't put on morn'n
' two frocks a day, I'll make them rich
every one of them.
"Now, gentlemen, 'taint often I'm
led to tell-on myself i fler this fashion.
But these old places where I trapped
when I was a boy, in: de me feel like a
child : 4 ;am—rani I Jett hue telling these
youngsters about the changes and
changes a`fellow may meet iu Weil he
oh ly- t.r.19: ttrinidee t 141'10st:of himself.
`` But boYS," said hturning to a par
ty of young men: "1 here's hometning
ImAier ,- thn il
a -moer.. , •Cl-ct educatiOn.
1
WhY; boys, if I. had tiA much - learning
as money, I could he President in 1872,
just as c-a-s.y. Why I could , buy up
half the North and not miss it out of
my pile. But get learning; don't chaw
tobacco ; don't take no liquor.; don't
swear, and mind your mothers—that's
the advice of a real live Sucker ; and if
you mind what I say you may be men
some, day; {nod it ain't every feller that
wears a goatee and breeches that's a
mar. by a long ways.) , Follow out ,her
counsels; never Up a 'thing that, will
Make you ashamed to - meet her in hens
'en:-. Why, bOyS,. I iminter doimo a bad
.tl r il,ng Wit "I.hoara my floater' .reprovin 7
itip;.l. never done -a good thing- and
Made a good move bu J seemed to hoar
her say 'that's right, Jack,' and that
has been the beet ocall.l Nothing like
a mother—that's SO."1
fAll ; this had prism): wiilie waiting to
wood, just mit of .Chicago. The great
man was swelling with emotion, called
up by the dark 'shadows of the past; his
.bigrourfd frame heaved like 'a' billow
upon the ocean. Tears sprang to his
deep-set and earnest, eyes—they swelled
to tho brim—and smarm , around ask-
ing to be let fall to hls' 'mother's mem
ory—tributes to the past.
,But he
choked them down, and humming a
snatch of an old ballad he thrust his
hand down into his pocket I walked to
the end of the tar, pulled' the gigantic
collar of his shaggy - deat - up Around his
ears, buttoned it
,close aintleaned back
against the window in silence.
The cars rattled on. What a mind
was there—what a giantintelleet, sleep
ing buried awayfroin•llght and useful
ness by a rubbish of prejudice, habit
and custom—doing but half work, for
want of culture:-
A mute inglorious Milton, - or rathe?.‘
'Webster,' going about tho worl4 i3trtig
gling.witli his oWn soul, yet' bound by
the chains of ignorance which preclu
ded his doing but a moiety of good it
lay in his power to do. -
All the , way through the long tedious
Journey, he had ever beep on the watch
to do gbod, • He gave up his seat by the
fire to anlrishwoma 1 and her child,
and' took one further back; soon a
young girl seated herself by his side;
as the night hours wore on, and she
nodded wearily, he. rose, spread his
beautiful leopard skin; with its soft
rich lining, on the seat, made a pillow
of his carpet-bag, and insisted that ' she
should lie down and sleep. • • '
" What will you do?" said shenaively.
"Nover Mind me—l . can stand. up
and sleep like abuflido ; Prhused to it—
that's se ?"- _ .
,
A little boy pulled up from a sound . ',
nap to give place to incomers, was pac
ified and made happy'bY a handful of
chestnuts - and a - glowing bit of , candy
out of the big man's pocket.' Whehhe
left the ear•for refreshments he 'bought„
his hands full of pies, !and distributed
..thein among' the weary .group. A
mother and seven little children, the
eldest not „over ; typisp : , ypitirffi i Viose
husband` an d ' filth i er left flie"ctirs itt every
stopping place, add returned mord ;stu
pid 'and' beastly
.eaCh time, scolding. the
little tired, restleSs„ ones, with . thick
tongue, and glaring his furiousrea eyes"
upcm the poor, grievettvietimof a , ivife,
like a ti g er upon his prey, be - ennso she
did not•keep her, young ones stid . ;:
they would diSttirb dverytioay;t l No
bite or refresimicnts, n'o' e3thilarating
draft, no rest front that fat,ieross . baby,'
eatne'to her all the. night, .save when
the big man stretched out his great
hands.and took. the baby -for - an hour,'
and let'. hi at , *play with his.: splefi'did
watch, to keep print quiet. - • . ' • .
"I'll gi•ve'you a thoitsatrd" for ,hits,','
said he'as he handed him back to her
antis.
" You may have the;' whole lot for
that," answered . Wel father with • a
swine-like look. - ,-:..' i . ,—• , , , ,
" les' a bargain,"'said. the big man,
"providlii'llie - mother s Willin,"
' Indade, sir, it's n A one of them'
that could be bought for money," was,
the quiet determined response of the
mother's heart. •
How kiudiy he helped her off the
oars when at break of day they came to
their journey's end....
Thus at night ballad been attracting
thenttention ,Of 'the walking ones in
the cars.' . But his kindnesS and rough
politeness would soon have been for
gotten by the mass of the passengers,
had he not Stdinped it on our memories
Pith-his gold: • - ' - . • '
" I wonder what ho is?" and "where
'did 'he get it? What an interesting
eh , a . lie d t u e e r a 7 .' tion
would'stibil him."—
"What rich. furs !" 'Did you. notice
What .a splendid watch : ho .carriesl"
"Ho's some great, man inaog." •
.Sueliwere a few queries-that passed
fromlipto. lip.., But there Caine *no an
swer; for he, who alone could have an
swered, sat trenched in his fur coat
seeming uncenelotts of all but ilia own
deep thoughts. • -- '
".Chicagol" shouted the brakeman,
and in an instant all was confusion,
and our hero was lost in the crowd.
'Tie nextwe 'saw - of WM was at the
baggage-stand, looking' up a bandbox
for a.sweet-looking country girl, who
was 'going to learn the milliner's trade
in the'city. As we passed .to our car
riage, we discovered him again holding
au old man .by the . hand, while he
grasped, the shoulder of, the conductor
of another train with the other,. getting
I for the gray - haired ' Sire niforma
tion as to the. route lie should take to
get to "his darter's, who, lived near
.i.luscathie, lima."
" God bless him for his deeds!" was
our-earnest aspiration, as we whirled
around the corner. May his shadow
neva grow less, or the gold in his
pockets diminish; 'for in' his unnum
bered charities and mercies, dropped
unostentaneously here and there, he is
perhaps doing more good in his day and
generation than he who donates his
thousands to build charitable institutes
to give honor to his own name.
Oh,
how much the world needs, great
hearts that are able .to comprehend
little things—and yet how often it hap
pens that the learned, the wise add the
rich outgrow the every-day wa is of
humanity, and feeliniz within hem
selves the power toiniove mightily pass
by the humble dudies that would ake
a. thousand hearts leap for joy—and
push on, looking f r some great' wrong
to right, sonic great sorrow to be soothed,
some great work to be accomplished ;
and failing to find the great work, live
and die incarcerated in their own sel
-lishilesa and do nothing at all.
This rough man's nature seemed the
nature oil the little child. His quick
eye saw v t a glance; his great heart
warmed Ind his hand executed his
little wo4. of charity—so mail that
one wont(
expect to see them slip be
tween his giant fingers unaccomplished
—yet they were done. The "angel over
the right shoulder" will have a longer
column to his account of deeds well
done,' than all the rest of the passengers
of that ei owd car on that long, tedious,
stormy night in January, 1808.—Apple-
Ws Guidq. - , • . .
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Judge S. gave his son a thousand dol
liti'zi, telling; him to go to college and
graduate. The son returned at the end
of the Freshman year without a dollar
and with several ugly habits. About
the close Of the vacation, the Judge said
to his 8011, " well, William, are you go
ing to college this year?"
" Have no money, lather."
"But 1 gave you a thousand dollars
to graduate on."
It's all gone, father."
" Very well, my son ; it was all I
could give you. You can't stay here;
you must now pay your own way in
the world."
A pew light broke.in upon the vision
of the-astonished young man. - He ac•
commodated himself to the situation ;
left home, made his way to college,
graduated at the head of his class,
studied law, became Governor of the
State of New York, entered the Cabinet
of the United States, and has made a
record for himself that will not soon
die, being none other than William H.
Seward.
" I want no' more money," said a
gentlemn; the other day, ivho had re
tired from business, on the application
of a friend to join In what, promised to
be ft profitable investment. In answer
to a look of surprise, he continued: "
have three sons ; I gave them all a class
ical education. One became a merch
ant, another a lawyer a thirdi a'physi
cian. I gave them ail a fair start, and
they have bolnelfmne to live bn
The doctor had no patients, the lawyer
no clients, and the merchant no custo
mers. !They say to me, `Father, it's no
use fur us to work ; you have plenty,
and we will have more than we can
spend ; why should we be slaves of
business?' 'Why; now, should I want
more mon l ey , ? What I have has made
my sons Useless to themselves, useless
to society and to the world. Had they
been compelled, as - I was, to start out
in life on I nothing., and paddle their
own canoe, they might have been a
credit to themselves and to me, instead
of being, as they are now, a disgrace to
my family name.'
The more a thriftless child is helped,
the more he looks for it, and the more
he has to be helped ever after. As it is
in the moral world, so it is in the phys
ical as pertaining to the health of our
bodies, and' millions die prematurely
from not recognizing this principle, in
reference to bodily habits and functions.
The more nature is helped, the more:
she has to be helped. If a stimulus is
taken at a given hour, every day, it will ;
not be a week •be'ore there will be felt
a want of that stimulus about the regu
lar hour, and a very decided bodily dis 7
comfort follows if the artificial want i$
not satisfied. In this way millions are
made abject slaves for life to the use of
'tobacco, tea, coffee, spirits, and opium.
Unhealthful indulgence come upon us
in the same way. If one goes to sleep
to-day at any hour, arid is not specially
busy to-morrow,..he'will feel inclined to
take a nap, and soon he cannot do with
out it With any convenience.
If, in medicine, a tonic is taken for a
'few days, to increase 'the appetite, or
digestion, the system seemS to look for
it; and all tonics contain alcohol, mul
titudes hecorhe,l inn etredt drunkards be
fore they are aware'Of it. If any med
icine is taken to regulate the digestion,
that inedieine soon becomes necessary
to that regulation, and the man is
doomed to make an apothecary's shop
of himself for the remainder of his life.
If the nostrils are dry and you snuff
water up into them for this or any oth
er cause, ;nature soon ceases ,to prepare
the:proper lubrietint„'atid
habit is soon formed, which sometimes
driv y s the disease down into the lungs.
ft the hair is greased to _make it look
glossy for a specifie'oneliSion, in short
time it must be repeated. The grease
runs down to the roots of the hair, or
scalp, and carries with it the dust which
is always falling on the head, soon fortu
ing a cement which closes the pores of
the Scalp, prevent's the healthful flow
of lite fluids which are intended to keep
each healthful; pliant', add "soft—leaves
it become to dry,' harsh impeifeetly, -
nourished,' dead. ' The tons of- beautitut
hair now worn, grew on the heads of
the young girls or Normandy, :whoiceep
theirthair eoVerell with a handkerchief,
and by no possibility ever allow any
thing to be put on it, not even water,—
It le vigorous health, with some cousti
t►itional aid, which gives them their
wealth of hair, requiring no dressing
whatever. We destroy by straining
it against its' natural dii'ectio curling
it, frizzling it, and ke7!.ping a bed of
grease and dust ardund its roots which
impedes the; flow of natura nourish
ment to it, causes it to ie an d fall out
before 'our daughters hays reached
womanhood, and too o ten before they.
have left their teens.
In the preservation of our
us rely more on nature ; takol
and if that does not do, cousu
sician ; but, instead of taking
for ,every . little, trifling thin ;
you into health, throw natn
own resources; and let her hel
And for your; children',-let t
however much money you ha
will pass to them only when
shown' that they_can'help the
4. can paddle their own canoe.
Journal of Health.
A PHANTOM IN
We passed thrOugh Be,
with everything hummi,
was the 'Warren, Captal
were bound for the nortl
ing expedition.
I was aloft serving th
the main-topsail-yard, w iere .
come jammed against th mast
far ithead of me, looming up 11
centre of an ice -floe, I s w sot
huge and black. ' 1 ,
.1 at once notified the adtai a, who,
with spyglass in hand, mOu.itec aloft.
"It is some kind of a craft, which
has been tove and capsized 'in the
Ice !!' said 1 e.
Then he gave orders to loWer the
quarter-boat, which, soon k after ; with a
good crew, kvas speeding along 1 toward
the object.
I was one of the crew; having been
called down to take my thwart ; and I
at once proclaimed my opinion that the
craft was the bark Winchester, la vessel
which we had spoken during
I ¢t gale a
few days before.
Having expressed my oi
of the boat's crew, an ok
that he, too, thought as I
no trace of the vessel's I
discovered, her stern-boar
ripped off by the wave at
The main-yard was ix
on our return, and we pr L
course. • • !
Next morning we were ob
tack. Thera was a thickifog-Le
the same huge floe of ice we 1
on the day before, ahead of U.
came round. • I
I was looking toward, it e
endeavoring to make otic the
wreck, wheti n far up the' air, f
the ice, I beheld the figure of a k
faintly discernible through a ligi
There it was, apparently floatins
through the air, wafted by the f
I wits about pointing it out
messinates, when, to Inv 6bagri
cloud rolled over the ar.ige al,
coaled it. Soon our knightheath
sail-yard, fore rigging, forkopsa
every available part of the ship
was crowded with blue-ktekets, r
ously gazed toward the spc t I ha
ed out.
We now were running t o poi ts free,
under whole topsails an top *allant
sails, so that we made go )d pro 'Tess.—
la a, quarter of an hour tl e fog cleared
whet) there again, sure enou 11, bore
about a point ofr our lee bow, where
fore orders were given to the arter
master to keel-off. He obeyed, i.nd we
went booming swif ly along, with the
cold spray and little splinters ofi . ice fly
ing around our bovs like showers of
diamonds, Away Nye went, iri chase,
as it were, of the mirage, which seemed
slowly to - recede from us as we bowled
along.
One old tar—a sheet anchor 1 man—
rolled his quid antlshook his head sol
emnly.
" That, ere's a sprite," he growled.—
" I've heard of them things afore, and
I knoW that no good will come of our
chasing it."
Just as he' spoke, the girl's form,
growing fainter and fainter every nio•
went, suddenly vanished.
The sheet-anchorman shook Ii
as much as to say, " You see 1
the right," then went, about h
11055.
Meanwhile, the ship had app
within a, quarter of a mile of t
when, the fog again clearing,
the mystical figure, still seen
maintain its position in the air.
The captain ordered the main pal
backed and the cutter lowered.
" Lads,',' said he, addressing his men,
when they were mustered aft, there's
a woman somewhere in distresS—prob
ably floating ,on a cake of ice.: We'll
have a hard pull, I doubt not, to get to
her, but what is hardship if it he the
means of our saving a life ! Who'll
vol lw Leer ?'' _ _
A dozen mcnouysclf among them,
at once stepped forward, touchmg their
caps. The cutter was manned, and
away she went, cracking along through
the ice.
The pull was a hard one sure enough.
The men tugged at tit* oars until the
breath seemed, nearly Worked out of
.them when, in spite of the cold weath
er, great drops of sweat rolled down
their faces. I ,
Meanwhile, every time we threw a
glance over our shoulders there was the
mirage still, as Car off as lever, moving
along through the air.
" Pull ahead !" our caps
claim, cheerily: " One a
And that olio more stroke was gives
ever and over's:thousand times, bring
ing us no nearer than before.
Crack ! crack ! crack !---thug! thug!
thug! went the ponderous oars, until
our heads swain with our exertions, and
the gold band round the captain's cap
looked like tryellow, glittering snake.
We had not proceeded much further
when the mirage disappeared, the gale
pounced upon us, screaming like a
thousonddevils. The bergs were toss
ed all round us, and a sloven boat
seemed in prospect. The hugelasses
kept grating *against our vessel no w jai
-1
standing" the exertions of ,three men,
who, with ' boat hooks, endeavoring to
keep them at bay.
Meanwhile, "Pull, pull
: head,
was the order. For hOUrSWC c
tied on ; then, the sun. having
)
down, we settled upon an ieeber t
oral hundred feet in diameter, an)
our cutter upon it.
Ni g ht closed round uS darkness
every.vhere. The Wind still howled
with fury, and on all Sides we. beard
:the inee.sant thunder and crush of the
:bergs striking against each other. it
was bitter cold, and, to keep ourselves
warm, we Ai•ere.,obliged constantly to
exercise.
Suddenly, tone of the mencslt
pointing through the gloom - , al
lowing the direction of his gla
beheld a light:, apparently t4evers
distant. • )
" We must get at it," e..elaim
captain, " for it probably s son
connected with the girl w saw.
' His proposal' tray received
Cheer. 'We were glad of the °PP'
ty for exercise.. We got the eutti
the water, and, manning ler, a'.
.went:
'-"The bergs had now sepal.)
by. being very careful, we i
keep from being sloven.
On we went, for at least
when the light bore directly ahead,
scarcely a qUarter of a mile oft
" Light 0!" shouted the captain ;
" who's there ?"
No response. The question was re
peated. 'No better result.
" Strange !" said the captain.
As he spoke, the light went out.
"Foul play !" he exclaimed. " Pull
ahead, lads ! '
A minute after, the, boat grated on
a rough beach. We saw the outlines of
receding figures) •
" Follow me, men," wag the captain's
order..
health let
lime first,
lit a phy
medicine
g to help
I re on her
1p herself.
hem feel,
9 13, that it
1 hey sel v p e av !
- I
. I—Hatt's
Soon we were upon the fugitives—
tierce-look ing fellows, evidently Rus
sian deserters, with a girl eaPtive with
them. ,
They dropped their burden and made
oft; uttering but brief resistance as we
dashed among them. The boat's lan
tern then was lighted. The girl prov
ed beautiful, but very pale, cold, and
terror stricken.
In a fow words, she stated that sh
was the daughter of the captain of th
Winch ester,.‘vrecked in the ice. \Vhe
the craft way going down, the boat',
two in number, were owered. ,One
was swamped and stoven in the ice, the
whole crew perishing ; the other boat,
in which was the captain and his daugh
ter, net being capable of. reaching them
in Uwe.
150
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ur ship
‘e. We
survoy-
Mi
g:
1331 t
1 ou
foo
•ope on
bad be-
I, when,
lom the
iething
The caPtain proceeded ashore. He,
with his crew, were attacked by the
fieree land pirates, robbed and slain.—
The • girl hid herself in a rock ; came
out on this day, nearly frozen. ; saw the
surveying cratt, and stood watching it,
intending to signal it when it should
come near enough for its crew to see
her,
" Poor child ?" said the 'captain.—
" Thanks to' the mirage, we saw you
long ago. That was why wo lowered
our boat..."
"'Thank heaven, you came 'just in
time !" exclaimed Mary Williams—this
was her name " for those shore barba
rians, seeing Me, pursued and captured
me, a short Limo since."
The girl was taken to our ship the
next morning, when the captain's wife
bestowed upon her every kind atten
tion,
BM to one
In, said
I though
ould be
ng been
tar,
did, a
lain()
i d hay
lid ice
:aced
liceede,
:Subsequently, she married one , of the
ship's lieu Mints—a line young fellow
of twenty-five, who thiarks the good
Providence, which, by means of a ini
riage, ptioduced him a wife.
( forward
',I on our
iged to
nk, and
ad seen
as we
At the conblusion of my namitive o
ruestly,
.apsized
r above
voman,
ht mist.
along
reeze.
to my
a Mg'
d con
, spirit
il-yard,
in fact,
11 anxi
point-
the rescue of the fugitive SlaVes, and
their final escape into Canada; I partly
promised an amount of the litigation
which followed as a conseqUenee.
am nut certain that it will be worth
printing ; but, the editor must take
the responSihility.
%in matters of such importance and
notoriety, it takes more than' one tribu
nal to decide. We were first summoned
before the venerable
MRS. G4UNDY.
It was, on our part, mere common
place prudence, to avoid diseusSion, and
allow ,pti blic °pi n ion to settle itself with
out ilivestigation. Discussion might
discover testimony against us, and pre
vent the memory of witnesses from
growing misty and unreliable. Any
statement on our part might, have un
forscen applications, or be mispuder
stood or distorted to our prejtfdice. (Mr
adversaries forced us to abandon this
policy, so far as newspapers were con
cerned. The Wellsborough Phenix,
gave an editorial account of the atlair,
which, from our poin t of view, appeared
to be one-sided and malignant. It was
interlarded with 1. magisteri4l lecture
upon " law auc order," and legal
rights ; which, i our judgment, be
trayed hardness f heart) rather than
moral principle. iMany of our friends
expressed a belief,' that it was inspired
by a contingent interest in the recapture
of the slaves and in the damage -to be
recovered for their rescue ; and I have
reason to believe that such is the opin
ion of some of our old inhabitants, at
the present time. It is LuS7 duty today,
that after careful inquiry and consider
ation of all the racts, I came to a differ
ent conclusion.' The editor was a man
of cold teniperament;and very natural
ly took a judicial view of the case; ex
cluding all considerations of humanity,
as against sheer leg,al rights. Such men
are plenty at this day, and the great
wonder is, that many of their are pass
ably good, and professed believers in
the Gulden lulu ahtf Idl other rules of
christian morality. Such men wore
excusable forty years ago. The higher
law had nut been courageously formu
lated !Or that generation. The friends
of the slave obeyed its dictates for their
own righteous satisfaction, rather than
s head,
*as in
,s busi-
'•onelled
le floe,
ye saw
ling to
in the spirit, of conscious serFice. [Sec
" Parable Of the sheep and the goats."]
Their work was necessarily indepen
dent of public opinion. It was a pri
vate contest with a great overshadowing
interest which controlled the Oracles;
no wonder that some good people dis
approved. Can we have the same
charity for " good then,"l who, under
present, caret/instances, resist till efforts
to legalize justice and human rights! 11
they are not hypocrites, they are maid
tile not to be expounded until the final
judgment day.
This article in the P/icnix gave occas
ion to another in The:Northern /3cm/ter,
published at Tioga;of Which I. WU'S ed
itor. 'Without naming the parties im
plicated, it gave a true history of the
atlair, with a commentary on the de
portment of Messrs. Boyd and Freaner,
and made liberal use of such terms as
" liberty, equal , rights, inalienable
rights" &c. i\ty present opinion is;
that in literary merit, it was nut above
liar, but, the reading public was not
ptiii - ercritical ; and so far as 1 could
.arn, the article was relished and ap
'civet' very generally. It was copied
in siiine other papers; which was nut
the luck of that in the Phenix.:i It had
the advantage which an appkil to first
principles, wrahist a barbarous legality)
must alwaysnve in a free community.
Copies of tlii iltimicr. were sent to
Hagerstown, and kindled a "lire in the
rear " of the slave hunters : for, be it
known, there were many citizens there
who were glad that the chase after the
fugitives halt conic to nought; and a
still greater numher, whO Were disposed
to make fun at the
,crestfallen pursuers.
At our May Bessiowi when the Attorney
of Boyd aped Premier moved , their' dis
charge, be was so rash us to complain
bitterly qf our impudence in sending
the " dirty little paper " to the incigh
borhi..
i mt' 01 his clients.
'
About the same time, a e mimuniert
tioh appeared in the Lyeoin rig Gazette
(atiWilliainspifil) wine) con d have had
no pa rpo:,e, hut to iwi ;a u he public
ephtiou against t.;e. , it.7•lAin ailed that
th e
,iwo ple at Tioga county were ignor
ant outside barbarians, and predicted
that they would he " confounded by
the Verdict of an honest jury ;"-,refer
ring to their recent verdict to the ma l e
of somebody vs. Petrikin and others.
Thu _Banner rejoined in severe •terms,
charging that ( the article vas intended
to corrupt theliountain of justice ; and
imputing/the authorship to the Attor
ney of )hhuyd thud FreallOri prophesied
that hy_k business in tile county of Tioga
would soon terminate. ilp to that tune
this/g,entleinan had a respectable prae
ti eat our bar ; but that next .May
din w quid ex
,ore St, •oke 1"
!"still
ntin
gone
.r, BOY
j drew
outing,
fol
ice, we
! miles
d the
owlutt
vitli a
rtuni-
SIME
ay We
t o that,
eel to
pited, a
I ''Ull trl
two
ours
NO. 26.
(For ttie Agitator)}
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
18,00 1 200
Ono Col
Spiacial Notices 15 cents per E
Local 20 cents per line. .
Term, I think, was the lasi heaVer at
tended.
I make this statement fro of memory ;
for I have not read either o' the articles
referred to within the last IhirtY years.
The communication in he Gazette
answered the purpose for w ich it was
published. In Lycoming ounty, " and
especially in Williamsport, there was a
general preadjudication of ur'eause, a
prevalent desire for our efeat, and a
belief that defense on our rt, was out
of the question. A few w eke before
the term at which the trig s were ex
pected to come on, I din dat Hall's
Hotel lin Williamsport. The guests
werec mostly residents of that place,
and these slave rescue cas a were the
subject of conversation. Not being
knocyn as a party concerne , I listened
in silence. They—the re idents—ex
pressed au undoubting bel of that the
defendants would "get swi hed," and
and that they " richly d served it."
At length two lumberme , Pyre and
Eeley, from the neighborh od of Bath,
N. Y - 4 " mixed in, when a - trialogue
took place, in substance as allows :
Eeley—Where do the de endants re
side ?
Citizen—Up in 'Toga con
he hemlocks.
Pyre—Well, they'll not '
ed "—you'll see.. We know
about them. They live o
kliere ; and they'll show yot
Iwo, that slave hunters never
Eeley—There's another p
have to dispose of first.
Citizen—NVho's that?
Eeley—The Devil.
'These were the 'first wordc ,
,
agement I had yet heardi-
Attorneys had suggested a '
cease of the defendants,'_' - a
possible . .defense ; .but here
dent hint, that our "guardi
would overmaster that of
saries. in spite of sober re
pleasant to hear.
One of the rescued Slaves
by Henry Freaner, and t
k, \ Whim Harry, both citize
land. Each claimant bro
several suits for the pena
hundred dollars, provided
of Congress, passed Feb. 1
the rescue of a fugitive
the " claimant, his agent or
The defendants were, Almaf
Samuel Hunt, of Mansfield
Uarretson, H. B. Graves a
Gorden, of Tioga; Dr. 0. T.
Wellsborough ; John Bartle ,
sepli McCormick and Auso
of Lawrence ; making, in a
cases. Soon after the com
of these suits, McCormick w
as before stated ; and by s
arrangement, proceeding -
Barnes were Suspended. \\
Ellis, J. B. Anthony and
were retaiped a. counsel for
1 ing defendants.
Before issue was joined, 1,
left these parts rather sudde
with him, as we suppoSed, I
which for obvous.reason, wi
cl i
plead, until we Ina it uu 1
trol. ' Therefore, the several
made up on other grounds
tiffs innocently believing t)..
ord expressed our whole def
Our pleas were Ist Not g
2ndly, That the 'rescue, if
any, was made from th e
the county of- Tioga, and n
plaintiff; his agent or Alto
replication traversed these p
tug them to be tried, as quest,
by the jury.
Having occasion to visit
nessee - in April 1831 ; on
called onl Mr. McCormick,
dence, near Jeffersonville, F
row his release. He said i
with his father-in-law, nea
and gave me an order for it
Baker, his agent, who re
Lawrenceville. Our trials w
ted to come on about the tim
get to Williamsport. , We did
to go to trial without the role
tunately for us, the plaintiff's
and were not ready. They th
defendants wete ready; so al.
teen causes Were adjourned at
costs.
Baker `vas anti-slavery
and seemed as much iuteresi ,
as if he had ! been our absolu
all costs and damages to be
After a tedious search, he fol
lease among McCormick's
his late residence on the Cowi
I think it was at the sum
of the U. S. District Court
Judge Irwin, at \Villiamspor
that parties met for the last t
louts.. One of the cases aga
uel Hunt was taken up ; the
maiming as at. first. Alter a
tile amount of testimony ha
in by the plaintiti:s' counsel;
in conversation (iit subst
place between him and the
Court---What will you do
ease'? I Your evidence has s
ted the defendants' special p 1
counsel=—May it please yo
that plea is nothing. The
Tioga County was, in contem
law,.tin agent of the plaintiff.
Court—Well, Mr. 3,
thought so, you ought to haVe
tice thereof, by a demurrer.
Counsel—Please the Court,
demurrer now. •
court—You can do so if yot
best ; but if you do, you will
mercy of the defendants in
cases, as to the, costs of this
the Court will Presume, and t
word for it, that, knowing t i
safe on this special issue, us 11
stands, they did not come Or
the general issue; and farther
payment of the cost of the te ,
a just penalty for insincerity
log.
The counsel for the defends
that if the pleadings • were
they, were not ready for tri
after about three hours discus
cases were all continued, at I
expense.
On the same day the plaint
their demurrer ; trod the do
filed anew plea, founded on th
aforesaid. This. " last feather 1
camel's blick."' Before anot .
carne round, all the suits NVCr;
tillUCd ; and some of the ditto
know,fea Glory to God, 'for s.
t irlivecance. I
Was that last a valid plea?
doubt it, nor Mr. Ellis, not; MI
much; but Mr. Anthony liad
dente in it, unless he changed 1
after our th•st eensultation.
most certain, that it scared
plaintiffs. I have been credit
formed, that supposing MeCor
had custody 01 the release, t
quested • him, for a considers
hand it oker to them ; and tha i
them it lit/is too late, as . the de
had stolen it from some de
w hero he had left it. This s
have:taken place after ourlast
before the s tits were discontinu
In ' , Austice to the Hon. Sam
Moms it shouki be recorded:
thgh he was not implicated
rescue, he stood by us like a br
the end. I think he attended 6
I
each term .where our eases wet.:
ed to be tried, and retained on(
counsel, at his own expense.
Anson Phinney and Dr. 0. T.
whose agency in the rescue cot
ily be proven, did not I belie
any measures of defense ; but ti
gitator,
ing at $2
lAGZEDEP.
3E113.
134oratz
Xqs. Year
67,001212,00
12,001 18,00
50,801 64,00
60,00 1 00100
30,00
el •Editorial or
ty, among
getiwitoh
othing
I w, up
is trick or
thought of.
L usty -you'll
! of encour-
Ine of our
' timely tie
the only
vas a Cptiti-
LI genius"
our adver
j ou, It -was
as claimed
'e other by
s of Mary-
F ght nine
i cy of tive
y the Act
1793, for,
lave lirom
• ttordey."
Allen and
; NV illiam
,a d Graves
Bundy, of
, Jr., Jo-
Phinney,
eighteen
eneement
released,
Le private
_ against
illiain Cox
11is Lewis
he remain-
leCortniek
ly taking
is release ;
dared not
er our con
issues were
the plain
!at the ree
l- nse.
illy; and,
there was
Sheriff of
t from the
ney. The
ens, leav
ons of fact
rest Tsu
i way, I
It y
his resi
t., to bor
, was left
Elmira;
is Abishai
,hied neafi
I -re expect-1_
,e bhould
not wish.
e. For
ot Beared
"ought the'
the four-
lil
y nature,
ed for us,
. e bail for
reoogpred.
114 the re
papers, at
neque.
er Tenn
held - by
• , in 1832,
imo ns lit-
Lust Sam
issues re
eousidera-
been put
he folio% -
nee) too
;eurt.
with th s
übstunti
I r honor,
:heriff of
.lation of
, if you
„riven uo-
'IL Me a
think it
be at, the
11 these,
erm ; for
ke their
ley were
he record
!.pared on
ore, the
,m, is put
liu pied-
tits said,
mended, h
'xi. And,
ion, the
filed
enclauts!
release
roke the
er term
diseou-
I &tuts, .1
; great a
[ did not
Lewis,
io contl
is mind
t is M
oil the
bly in
ink still
ley, re
ion, tc
he told
endants
oSitory
ems to
len, and
i d.
el W.
That;
in' the
o ther, to
iouit at,
texpeet7
°I of our
undy,
Id eas
t e , take
ey were