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over Dr. Itoy's drug store, on 'Tuesday ol enfieg, on or
eeforp the Full Moon, at 7 o'clock P.M.
'
t 1011 A CHAPTER, No. 194, R. A. M., oieet4 at the
11:01, on 'Thursday evening, on or heho e the Full
"%loon, at 7 o'clock P. M.
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1110001, at 7 o'clock P. 't.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
WILLIAM H. SMITH,
rTuRNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
in , uranco, Bounty and Pension Agency, Main
tut Wellabor°, Pa., Jan. 1, 18118.
WM, GARRETSON,
_O:FOIINEY AND COUNSELO.4 ATiLAW,
!iocir y Insurance Agent,,Moss
burg, Pa., over Caldwell's Store.
(IEO, W. MERRIC4C.,
I'IORNEY ANP C0111.1b111.1.0t AT LAW.
°file° wilh W. 11. Sualtil, Esct., 1%1°404 Street,
uppoaito Union .. l3lock, Wollbborcsi Pa.
July 15, 1858.
W. D. TEK.I.SELIt. at CO.,
110LESALE DRUGGISTS, and dealers in
Wall Paper, Koroseno Lamps, Window Glass,
l'erfamory, Paints and Oils, &,(3.,
Corning, N. X., Jan. 1, IS(B.—ly.
S. F. WiLsox
WILSON & 14111 LIES,
conNEvs b COUIgSELORS AT LAW,
First door from .13i0moy's, on the Avenuo)—
attend to business entrusted to their cure
ta the counties of 'Piogn and Potter.
Wollsboro, Jan. 1,, 1865.
JOHN I. DIXTCHELL
rfORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
Welkhoro, Tioga Co., Pa.
Claim Agent, Notary Public, and insurance
Igent : He will attend promptly to collection 01
o,”sions, Back Pay and Bonn ty. Ae Notary
01 1,110 ho Likud acknowlialgpmant ,
ud
❑cwlalers oaks, and will act as COmmit.: , ioner to
tostimouy. ~ , 7.7.,...5". 0 111ce over ltoy'a Drug Store,
.03 , daing Agitator 011ice.—Out. 30. 1:167
John W• Guernsey,
I Arip UrltlNSj LOIt AT LAW.
It returned to tilts coati t„) , ' a view of
(atiiiog it hi•a permanent re'sidonce, tiolleit, a
hare of public patronage:. All business en
tru-ted to his ear° will ho attontlect to pith
\.r.taptnes , and tidolify• Office 2(.1 door south
V.. 5. Fares hutel. Tioga Co., Pa.
pr. 21).*r.ii.-tf.
SOHN lit. SUALIKSPEARE,
•K.IPER AND TAILOR. Shop over .luhtt
i:owen's Store. Cutting, Fitting, and
H}aiti - ng tlonlyroiniltly and in best style.
' , i'..lb , bore, Va.. Jap; I , I t 54-1 y
GEOIitGE WAGN ,
-
. Shop firm duo north of 1.. .
Shop • Fitting, an it It Not ir
dorm" pminpily acid
‘lt.tisl..tro, Pa:, 3 an. 1, IStii3.—ly•
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t‘t Particular alteration paid to Ladies'
`tatr-c. Shampooing, D 3 dug, atm. Itraids,
attt :twit:lN: , on hand and innde to „or.
It. N. DultSBY
Ci• PUTNAM, ,
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Malay Saws.
hoga, Pa., Aug. 7, 1805, ly.
C. L. WILCOX,
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,OI,PV Nution:‘ . . 9ur az—urtniept i:; t ic
;04 priao•s kw. Store. If, Uuiuu Block.
vulloman.--laily 20 1F,11:-.. 1y
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1100 N 'l' V I' A
Uand Stabling, att.aellecl, and bus
•r always. in atten , laneo.
ti \V. .RAZLET'r, . .
I:,:rrrELL) Borough, Tiogo Co. Pa , E. ti
Proprietor. A tioei and 1 . . J 1110.111111:
t , ,111 , 1111g %Mil all the . DlOd'..ll it
V ,1 111(1 el , y drives 01 thebet.i
,:ioutols in Nortlicrii Con ye) ohcLi.
hi,ohoot Toms nodent le!
fiVALTON',
Gaines, Tioga County, Pa.
‘rE e. ERNI I ',YEA, l'noi.'n. I:
.0A hotel located %Obit' I,,try ILL
siting and hunting ground: ii. North-
r.l l'ollo,;Ivaoia.. No paiitq hill Lrapairrl
14 , 00miodation ul ple:osta; i‘rh. i litti
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HA RKNESS ,
BOOT AND SHOE MAK ERS,
' , .r 1, 4;14,,,,
rowil lotely occupied /y uj.
OUTS AND SHOES irf,3ll hid+ , inafi,
order and in tho best wanner.
REPAIRING of all kinds: ,lonoprumptl3 and
(jive uri a cull.
JOHN HA HEN SS,
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W elleboro, An. 2, WM
1888-Iy..
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A 11W 11E, I EON, STEEL. NAILS,
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ryu 11 a mo. 14. (..y i 14.1 Pltv.ter.
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J b St lil a . t' t.: yap fielder .) J Smith
Jared Davi, J F Zimmerman Cl, King
L 1, Smith. , . ';
N. B.—Plaster always on hand at the Mill.
Price $6 por ton. Nov. 4, 1888.
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Pleasant it was•in dayi gone by,
When life was young and fail
Upon eomo mosey bank to lie,
Beneath the summer's, cloudless sky,
And to hear the brooklet's sigh, •
Borne on the slumbrous air.
Methinks 1 hoar its mellow rhyme
Steal on the breeze to-night,
Where in my childhood's mountain clime,
liHened Co ) its silrer" , chime,
In the pl'easan't summin'
O'er pebbles-smooth and nhite.
'Therelwitd•birds warble in the•morn,
Amid their eulitudes,
And modest flowers it, banksaidorn,
Beyond the fields of golden corn,
Where the violets ore born,
Deep in the ferny woods.
I've heard, while musing there alone,
The uood-dos•e's plaintive wail;
And when the moruning bird had flown,
I lit-tened to the wind's low moan,
Hgbing. in an undertone,
Through all the fairy sale.
'ToaH there we built our tiny mill,
When woods were sunnuer•crooned;
Methinks I hoar its music still,
Under the pinc:s honettth the hill,"
Blending witik (he noisy' rill,
In one Ifurmeriions sound. •
Put EOll4O 'OIIU watched that Inhuming title,
Leap down in silver gleams,
Hays hinted by the way.—and died,
And now are ivith the glorified,
t • But thcir•uuau'ry's ::anetir4,
And lives imall my dreams.
And oft rindet that Fainted throng,
tht ;-ton-litintinntain tops;
For lien soar-nn pinions strong,
They t.enu jei fallow me along,
To the holy worfir,of song,
O'ur which ffo • Afidow 4/101,S.
A Terrible Adventure in Iceland
'Mount Heela, on the island olleeland
i, slightly under a mile in height. It
has three peaks a little elevated above
its body, and along its sides are limner-
(Juror:tiers, the seats Or former eillOlOllS.
The critter ()I' the principal peak'
about one hundred feet in depth. It is
entupo4o.l Chiefly of basalt• and lava,
hut slag', ?and, and ashes cover a great
part of its surface, and ob,inin,•l is a•
nynn; ils most remarkable produels.
There have been forty-three eruptions
Ninnht, lleefa reeordeil within the
lant I hulls:Ana of which have
teen :Thtlitatteints v. ith four
of mid our v, it h th(1:-ie
t)t both
The last, eruption be . gan l - 4
,elitenilier 2,
1713, anfl lasted until Ai)r . il i. Is; In. in,
the 23t1 of Iloveipher the tormit,pf lava,
tt+u 11111eS 1 . 11)111 the crater, wasa mile ill
‘thith,:iii(l nom forty to ft l , et; iu
Carl Steinman ecia Just pre
vious to tlti terrific ertiption, anti lout
=I
horrible death tliza veer befell an ;1(1-
• •
,ivi L, lisirtlitiv, iliObt
ON% i) IV - 01 (IS
(JO tUa next tnorliilig after toy ival
at thertnull village at the letit„ a the
vt.tenti.), I engaged a gedde, a ridtlifttl,
fellow, and :-at ottt I‘.l* vi , dt to
the 'rater,
Frotri the vely rind, It', If I
had 1 t t the et i uJiues and was etiftlilig
a iicw world, :o t•litirely (11(1 . i:rent Was
the y,
Nt. A. lq,1;11
A:; towaid the went.
oral' the. horror (if buriting .stt!tri you
(hid I lit peril, &marines§ and th2#,olgi Lion
until at length, its awfuluesg
I ecomes sublime; and, at length, \viten
you stautt on the Loptum-t point of this
ltumnitig vvoild of etioas, •oti instinct
ively raise . yout• heart to (loth, with a
:-fitultle'rot tenor, to t•: , :tore pal to the
gleat Unit you have left
behind Noll,
For i•ix mortal bows---three on horse .
haul: .alit three on foot.--1 hail beet
clambering upward front Lhe lower
world and now, among the clouds- and
mists that rolled around me, 1 stood in
a world of lava, mountain*, ice and
snow, the lava blade as ink, the snow
of dazzling whiteness—and not in all
the legitin the slightest Mush, shrub,
plant, or living creature except the
guide and myself.
As far as the eye could discern, when
the sweeping clouds alliirded a view,
was a suecession of hills, glisten
ing glaciers, snow-capped peaks, and
frozen streams—a world devoid or life,
the awful solitude of ilsell—filled with
gaping eaverns, terrine abysses and
rllgian eaves, which echoed only the
sullen rembrations of thunder or the
groanings of the troubled earth beneath.
So impressive w::4 this scene that 1
felt a . :ltrange chill creeping through
toe,- and I hitouted to break the horrible
stillness which was more awe-iuspir-
Mg than the thunders of a thousand
Niagaras. I frequently found myself
' imagining that 1 was dreaming, and I
I was only assured by pinehing my,
limbs or conversing with my guide.
Drawing toy blanket around me to
shelter the from the 'chiding atmos-
phere, and carefully puncturing the
ground with, my sharp pointed stick
before me, to n\ake sure of my foot
steps, I began to pick- my way over.,
piles and heaps of lava and pitfalls andl
patches of ice and snow, my guide keep
ing near me, and often warning nio.
When be inui"ined my footstePs were
leading me into danger.
Occasionally- Istruck the fraglUents of
lava that rolled down behind m e , aunt
as yet discovered no signs of the crater,
Odell, eighty years before, had vom
ited forth its tremendotis volume of
melted black sand. At length, how
ever, I reached the fall - 11111H,, and looked
down into a sort of basin, open at the
•loWer side, and having several deep
seams or .C111121M3 in . the centre, into
miiielt the melted snow 'or ice on its'
sides were running in small streams.
A repulsive odor, in the shape_ of
.
thin, slnolty vapor, came up, :unit fan,
eied .1. heard a distant rumbling noise
that sounded far down in the earth. .
I tamed to my guide, and was about
to speak, when 't
observed he was trent
hung and as pale as death.
" What's the matter?" I asked, "yot
scent. to be frightened."
" Oh, my Clod !" lie gasped,
g oin g to be nuetlier eruption."
"l tow do you know that? Have you
ever been here before?"
" Yes ; but I never saw •it look like
this. When 1 was here last these was
no hollow there, -but a level piece . of
slum and it . c."•
Indeed !" T exclaimed, with intense
interest; "and you judge-that fact to be
decisive, with regard to an eruption ?"
my master," said he in the
;great=est agony, "what else conid have
caused this change, ? There must be
lire hplow, or Altat has melted this
glacier? You see the ice is nearly gone,
and what is left is fast melting, and
will soon follow it."
observed at this point that my feet
had a sensation of warmth, and stoop
ing down found the ground quite hot.
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" inquired.
He shook his head.
"All wrong, there's trouble brewing
caster, as you live. You had better
cave."
I recalled the fact that the last crap-
lion of Becht occurred eighty years be-*
fore, long previous to the birth of my
guide, and consequently he could know
as'littlo of that'ns I .did. This foolish
thought prevented me from putting the
faith In his Words that I ought to have
done.
I There is no hurry," I replied ; "I
have been so long finding my way to
the top, that I am hardly disposed to
leave until I have seen more of the
volcano."
I observed his paleness and trembling
increase, if possible,
but I still felt a re
luctance to retreat so ignominiously,
after toiling so hard to make the sum
mit.
Ho stood a moment in silence, and
then ventured again :
" Let us go while there is time. lam
afraid to remain here. We may be
overwhelmed at any`- moment."
"Hold on," said I, sensible of a curi
ous fascination, such assometimes comes
over one when on the brink of the most
.appalling peril. "It iS-true the ice has
melted, but it has done so very gradual
ly. I have spent a great, deal of time
to reach Iceland, and when I started it
was with the resolve to seek Hecla."
" I 3 eaven knows I have seen too much
already," he replied ; "more than has
ever been seen before by living man."
" How do you know that?" I deman
ded, somewhat annoyed at the dogmati
cal manner of my guide.
"At least I think so.
" And I think you are mistaken. I
cannot consent to go back until I have
descended into this basin and looked
down into one of those chasms."
" Let me beseech you, do not. It will
be the death of you 1"
"If you are afraid, you can return,"
said I, with an unfeeling tone, for which
there was no jastitication.
"Oh, no, 'my master, I will not desert
you."
"All I ask, then, is that You will
merely wait for me?"
I had no right to ask even that, and
I considered the guide a simpleton be
(wise he heeded my request.
`I will wait,' he mplied, 'but remem
ber'when you go down that I kept,en
ire: ting you not to do so.'
`1 hold you blameless, whatever sho'd
occur, so liavt»lo apprehensions upon
that score.'
The crater was about twenty yards in
depth, with sides that slope se gradual
ly, that it could be descended without
difficulty if ordinary care was only ex
ercised-.
I first felt the lava, and found it wine
hot ; but not unpleasantly so, and us
ing my stick with great precaution, I
began to &cond. I observed the tem
perature the lava beneath my fect
constantly to increase, but I had thick
shoes, and I knew they would be un
harmed;
f notieed also, :t thick, sulphurous
odor, bet censidered this nothing un
useat , although it left a thick, tlimigree
ahle taste in my mouth, and ga v e an
unpleasant twinge to my olfactoris.
The rill of water made by the melt
hie, ico flowed hissing (him', and was
lost lo view in the dark ebasm, from
__
wide,/ came Puffs of but air, accomre' I arrived at my journey's cud le
Hied by a trembling of the groiliqV Ts ~... - -,- t k ---.-. ---------.-,- c._.' , . zi AI a v 110114 P ,I ,
•ne.ru...-, • , ‘1.1 4 ,(1-NrTtl-1 , '." roll 111 i a nu i sance--a nins.inue cl o t, or b s
sense of danger connected with it, held to myself', but to all the modest and
me theta) by a sort of magnetic fasten:l- 500t .. 1 „o„th,d Sojourner.;. This pest
tool, and I soon found myself strongly
was nothing more or less than a young
tempted to norke a fatal plunge into the lieutenant of art ill ery d ressed ill an
awful abyss. Convions that reason fre- agonizing uniform, with very bright
((trendy loses her power at such times, lank:its, anti with straps of gaudy im
-1 forced myself backward a few feet, hellishownt,
covering fully half of
but still remained fearfully near the either shoulder. They were the most
opening heedless of the front-tie entreat- “stunnirign pair of shoulder-straps I
les of my guide. ever saw. No carried a gold-headed
(living no heed, therefore, to this ear-,r cane and strutted awfully. He looked
nest eolieiLations I now determined, d n m
own o common people, and a treetet I
possible, tosountithe depth of the chasm the society of elaborately dressed ladies.
before me, and then proceed to examine He talked big of war and battles, and
the other. told the ladies stories of valorous decd'
For this purpose 1 pulled off a small and hair-breadth espa,,e..4.
piece of lava, and stepping to the very Two or three week:4 l ll:ld
passed
since
edge ui the chasm"' dropped lid nwi'
anti the lieutenant's arrival, anti more than
listened to the ]tallow reverberations,,one good man had left in utter disgust.
°
and I . went bouudine• froln side to sioe, pi le p oi n ni „ y ' s ta m. sti m e i eney an d
long after it was lost to the eye.
ar
, rogance were really painful.
...The &b 1 ill was NO immense that It was at noun, on a cool, rainy day,
beard it, lor fully a minute, anti then taut i , , ,
the sound seemed rather to die out front over l i o l ' ( i l ° l l , E i r iN ° , : i i l i n a i r e r a i i N n e . d, plet‘pitnitig
up
i n i e s
distauce than to cease from the block horse, and ate his dinner, and then
having reached its destination. It was
tame down to see Inc. I asked him, in
a territie depth, and as I drew back he tot . se of conversation, if he had
with a shudder, a gust of sulphurous ,
tam 'the lieutenant. No—he bad not.
air puffed upward, followed immediate-
.Ithett gave him a little neeount of said
ly by a hteatOilte vapor, and a heavy, individual, with a description of his
hollow boom, as if a piece of ordnance oerso tr ,
had been discharged in the bowels of i , I know hint,' cr;ed O'Neil. ' He's
the mountain. By this time I had re- it sneak of Bancroft's battery—on the
gained my common sense, and became sick Ilist—never did a day's duty in
impressed with thb danger that hung camp or
on the field. ,
over me. I turned to fly,
when all at 'reward evening he walked up to the
once there came a uttibling crash, and hotel. O'Neil wore a common soldier's
the ground, heaving, and shaking and, blue overcoat—one that he had taken
rolling under me, began to crumble off to shed rain—a sloughed hat that had
into the dread abyss. seen service, and a pair of ponderous
I was thrown down, and on my hands
cavalry boots. Ile walked like tubple
and knees, praying to God for mercy, phant and scented almost as powerfol•
was sclratatiug over it and upward, to
As we, approached the hotel, the lienten
save myself from a most horrible fate, ant stood upon the broad piazza in
when - two blocks rolling together, company with a young lady, entirely'
caught my feet and legs between
,them, flanking the main entrance. Robinson,
and vilthout actually crushing held in his offhand, swingin way, ascended
them as if in a 'ice. Then came another the steps, and started to g,
push through
crash turd erumble,..the lava slid away the flanking party. The lieutenant
Irom behind me, and 1 was left, upon looked at him in astonishment, taking
the verge of the awful gulf, now widen- him for a
private
soldier. t.
ed to some fifteen or twenty feet, down , say, fedah I (let-out 0 1 t hi s ! H a i n t
into which I looked with horror-strained
you gut any manners? Don't ye know
eyes, only to see darkness and death
below, turd breathe the almost sufroca. r) ..,
bettertie than to trespass on are cow
puny of officers and ladies? Get out
Ling vapors that rushed up from. that.
seeMingly bottomless pit. ,
(to awound if you want to get into the
• .
Oh, the horrors of that awful realria
hotel'.
-, O'Neil ~„„e ~),,,, look at f h ‘s ~,„,5 1 ,„,.,
-lion
I W 1
hat. e " or tongue " il l 1 , ) , ° n r i t „ r , a y k then' it ‘ tivall ' c ' ed, ' t • l ' ml " t . o ‘ ok 1 ' 11;1 ' 1 '1 1;111 ' e
them? There, oNer the mouth °:- ---.'". collar of his coat and by the seat of his
and healed abyss, 1 was held suspen- pants ; lifted hint as though he had
ded, a helpless and conscious prisoner,
been a child, carried him Loan adjacent
to be hurled downward I ly the next great
throe of trembling nature. hitching post, and laid him carefully
' help! help! 1101)1 for the love of • down in a puddle of water. This done,
the battle-scarred veteran went into the
" ott, hel p I' I shrieked in the very ag-
ony of my despair. olliee ;lad nd threw o his overcoat. lie
• I
had just divested himself, of the wet
I looked up anti around to cateli sight f2,111111011t when the besmeared Heinen
of m y g uide ' li"ie, with a "' lnnen"- aid„ frantic and frathing„nshed in.
'ltle prudence 1 could but admit, in 'my
' Where's—wherd's—that con—=, '
dire extremity, had sought his own safe- 'ls it me, sir?' quietly asked O'Neil.
ty in flight. 'Eh ?—itlajor Robinson P.
I had nothing to rely upon but the
mercy of Heaven, and-I prayed to Clod 'At your service, sir, for anything
but to go wombat.'
Its I. had never prayed before, for a for
giveness of my sin's, that they might The lieutenant cowered, and shrank
away before the storm and smoke
not follow me to judgment.
stained uniform of his chief; and on
It savig-ht be a second, it might be a
, the next mornint , he was misslncr, he
minute, it might be: an hour, that 1
had hired a man 1 3 () drive him to Isrortii
.should have to undergo a living death;
but be the time long or short, I felt that (--. ',„ ° ,,T;', a .. 3',', Bur i n
~.., ..g_
~ t f l g n ' i l l i g,
_ l , i _ L ; and those
nit" presence saw
Otero was no escape from a doom which ; I V ' I ' i ' ( 1 ) " 1 :: 0 " . :! e t . tu "
ever now makes me grew pale and "
shudder when 1 think of it.
Above me, a clear, blue sky—beneatl
use a black and horrible abyss—arouse
me, vapors that made my brain grow
dizzy. Rumbling and hissing sounds
win - ned me that another convulsion
- might take place at any moment, and
another would Inc the last, of me. :Home
and friends 1 should never see again,
and my tomb would be the voleauie
eleela! , . -,
1 strove with the madness of despera
tion to disengage my anprisonedlimbs,
but I might as well have attempted to
move the mountain itself. Therel was
fixed and fastened for the terrible death
I was awa4ing. 0 God of Heaven!
what a fate? ,
All at once 1 heard a shout, and, look
ing around, I beheld with feeling&that
cannot be described, my faithful guide
hastening down the ta Ide s of the orator
"there's
1!EMEIIIMI
OM!!
to my relief. lie had fled in terror at
the first ominous demonstration, but
had nobly returned to save me if possfl
ble, by risking his life for mine.
Warned you; master,' said he as he
came up,' his 'eyes starting, and his
countenance expressive of commisera
tion and terror.
You did,'•eried but
.forgivo me
and serve me, for 1 am perishing.' -
will save you if 1 eau, or perish
with you.,
•
The noble fellow instantly set to work
With his iron-pointed stick to break the
lava around my limbs; but had scarcely
n►ade any progress, when again the
earth tre►nbled, and the rocks parted,
one of them rolling down the chasm
with a dull, booming sound. I sprang
forward-1 seized a haild of the guide—
we both struggled desperately, and the
nest moment we had both fallen, locked
in each other's arms upon the verge of
the pit, and any moment might see us
both hurled to destruction.
quick ! quick !—there's not a mo
ment to be lost !' cried the guide. 'Up!
up! and run for your life P
staggered to my feet with a wild
cry of hope and fear, and half carried
by my faithful companion, hurried up
,the sloping sides of the crater.
As we reached the edge • above, the
ground shook with a heavy explosion,
and looking back, I saw, with a horror
which no pen can describe, the dark,
smoking pit, where we had so lately
stood. Without waiting to see more, I
turned and lied over the rough ground
as last as my bruised limbs would per
mit.
We reached our horses in safety, and
hurrying down the mountain, gave the
alarm to the villners, who joined us in
our flight across the country till a safe
distance was gain 'd.
A few days lattfr, when the mighty
and long extipet Heela was convulsing
the island, and pouring forth its tre
mendous vollime of melted lava, I was
far out upon the Alantic, upon my way
home, where I devoutly thanked (Awl
again and again that I had lived to tell
lily wonderful escape from a death in
its burning crater.
Settling a Swell
kN INCIDENT 01"111 I; 5',1 It
\V. Robinson was ono of the
best and bravest of all who fought dur
ing the war. Six feet and an inch in
his stockings ; broad, full and massive
of frame ; of perfect, form ; bronzed
almost to an Indian hue, from long ex
posure; he was not to he passol by un
observed. lie was a graduate of _Bow
khdil College, audalawyerhy•prolession.
h.: entered the service as a Captain of
the Fourth (mounted) Battery of Maine,.
and after long months of hard work
and severe lighting, during which
Banks, Sigel, Ikurnside and Ifooker,
learned to honor and prize him, he was
made chief of artillery with the rank
of major, and took command of the
artillery brigade of the Third Army
Corps. It was shortly all er Ibis that he
came home to old Oxford County on a
furlough. I met, him :IL Waterford,
while on my way to Conway, N. 11.,
and had a plenantehat with him ; and
by f:u• glee most pleasing thing he said
to mice was that, he should meet me at
A six-year old boy was asked by his
Randier to write a composition on the
subject of water, and the following is
the production : ' Water is good to
drink, to swim in, and to skate on when
frozen. When I WaS a little 6aby, the
nurse Used to Lathe me every Morning
in Walk'''. I have been told that the
injuns don't wash themselves but once,
in len ye:u•s. 1 wish' was an injun !'
Francis Egerton, Duke cf Bridge
water, never would let any one come
to him—he always would go to them :
For,' said he, 'if they come to me,
they may stay as long as they please. It
1 go to them 1. can stay as long as 1
please.'
—Au unnecessary Reform—Thu abo
lition of surfdom at Long Branch.
CONSTITUTION OF THE EARTH, &c.
NUMBER FIFTEEN
.To Sigma :---In order to intelligently
understand an argument, it is requisite
that terms made use of should be dis
tinctly defined and understood. Two
persons may enter into a disputation,
both in reality maintaing the same posi
tion though apparently diametrically
opposed to each other; this apparent op- 1
position springing from a misconcep
tion Of;terms used.
Now my theory is that the earth and
all the heavenly bodies belonging to
this system are living organizations,
each part of each having certain func
tims to perform, and all the parts and
functions of each operating harmon
\l
io ;sly together as a whole; and that)
lh's organization is analogous to, the' I
tn like, the organization of the animal
and vegetable body.
The definition of life, in man, in the
worm, the jelly-fish, the oyster, the
bird, the whale and the trout, is the
same, though- man is almost entirely
different from the worm, and the bird
from the whale, and each from each.
You \\*mild not say that the angle
worm, which lives in the earth, or the
maggot which is engendered in thelllth
of the cess-pool, or the lisp whose habi
tat is the wider, or the muscle which
never moves from the rock to which itt
is 'attached, is any less a living organ
ization than mini.
We have, too, the living animaleuhe
that float in the air, act as poison in
the blood and burrow in animal flesh, so
small as to be invisible to the nailed
eye, and yet we never think of denying
that they are living organizations.
We take a powerful microscope and
examine the water front. the stagnant
pool, and see in it an inialculie so small
that a million of them are contained in
a single drop. We turn our eye - from
them to the elephant, and never for a
moment doubt that both are living
organizations, though the tirst is almost
infinitely small, and the other, as coin
pitred with the first, almost infinitely
huge. .
Let us suppose that these small ani
nialeuhe are endowed with sight, hear
ing, .i.e., and also with the meulty of
comparing and reasoning, and let u.s
suppose that a race of them hi the
jungles of India located on the body of
zui elephant, are engaged in speculating
upon the nature of the body on which
they live, and upon the various similar
'homes whieh they see psi limning their
evolutions in the neighborhood. Would
their perceptions of the nature of the
eh:pliant on which they live, or of the
other elephants which they see abodt
them he any clearer than Man's concep
t den of the earth, or of the heavenly
Lo oil ieb xi liich lie sees r,:volving around
him ... I. imagine that their knowledge
of the eteruir of nature would, both
that of man and the•aninialenlie, be,
very much alilw, but that the latter
like man Nvould have but a faint, concep
tion of the vast. interior of universal
nature. .
Let, us suppose still further that one
of these imunaleuliti SllOlllll blalt the
theory that the elephant, 'was a body
emnposed of similar materials :is him
sell and his 1)11411er 11 . ,111111t1.10.11:e ; that
the elephant on V. liltth they tiro 3111111
nourish during, these.ephemeral exis
tence of a few days or hours, was not , h
mass of dead matter created by some
~....•. -1,-•.-, I-. (lie vSpeel:ll. benefit of
allillitliell1:12, bill a living organized be
ing analogous' to theniselve;s mid hiritt
nig :t part, of one stupendotili whole of
living existence whose law is eternal
lite and eternal change. What, a shout
~t derision, might we not imagine
would go up from these gaping LlM
puts, at, a theory so strange, co improb
able, and to them so ridiculous, because
to them so incomPreitensible 1
1,(4, us pursue this thought a little
furthpr. Huppose these almost infinite
ly small anunaleuhe should hear the
rumbling of the gases, engendered by
the chemical change:; going on within
the elephant, of the food taken into the
body ; Or li viler in the neighborhood of
some diseased' purtuberance, or boil,
upon the body of " their living world"
should listen to the low sounds produced
by the effervescing of the diseased tis
sues, or should see the oVerflow'of the
putrefying tutst- it burst volcano like
front its prison, and overwhelmed in
its liquid mass thousands - of their fel
low animaleulte, would they cOmp c
lient' this, to them, terrible convulsion,
or for a moment imagine that this ter
rible disastrous oveillow of pus, or hot
disintegrated tissue, bore any analogy
to operations going on within and upon
themselves.
1 make the above remarks to call the
attention of yourself and others to the
similarity of the relation between man
and the earth lie inhabits, to the rela
tion between the smallest living exis
tence and the largest living existence
tet the earth, and to the apparently an
alogpus positions they occupy ; though
tlleo':dilleitatee between man and the
earth is almost, immeasurably greater
than that between the smallest known
aniantlenhe and the largest animal of
the present or tiny fernier age. --
In your note of enquiry of .1 illy 14th,
ycitt ask me to explain " to which class
of diseases earthquakes and volcanoes
belong," and further "if the earth is
an organized living animal, do you
think it has had, or ever will have,
oth-pring? Is the moon a child of the
earth': Is the earth a child of the sun ?
Are all the planets of the solar system
brothers and sisters, having the same
common parent, the sun ? Is our sun
the child of some other sun or planet?"
I judge from the perusal of your
note that ;N:Oil ask liaise questions frolll a
sincere desire to learn fully what this
new theory is, and to, what it leads;
and further that you have something
more titan a mere vague notion that
the ordinary crude ideas of the struc
ture of the earth are somewhat errone
ous. Von have probably read the the
ories of Herschel and Laplace, have
been somewhat, familiar with works on
microscopic life and have been struck
with the wonderful similarity between
the theories of these two astronomers,
as to the formation of worlds and the
actual propagation of life among sonic
classes of the world,Of
1 cannot, however, afford to have you
attribute to me a theory 1 have not put
forth. liecause I have called a growing
vegetable a living organization, it does
not follow that a vegetable is an animal.
Thu whole living physical world is by
general consent divided into animal
and vegetable, and yet there are whole
classes I that appear topartake or the
naturekif both ; and asyou go down in
,the stale of nature, you limn classes that
science hardly knows whether to call
animal or vegetable.
Concede the doctrine that the whole
planetary system is made up of living
individual organizations, you need not
necessarily call them either animal or
vegetable, though they may partake,
as far as hie is emicerned, of Alio nature
of both. There may be a planetary
life as well as au animal and a vegeta
ble life.
1111 1 contend for is that (led has pur-
tined one plan throughout, in the crea
tionof matter. I flo not go back to the
Beginning. When that was, neither
you nor I know. All we lc.now about
it . is that in the beginning wits the be
-I,onning„, and we assume that the begin
ning was God. We cannot compre
Mend in our own coneolousnees a begin
=II
ning, for to eamprehend that we must
comprehend a period 146 re the begin
ning of all things, when •there was
nothing, and the mind cannot compre
hend nothing.
'We must, therefore, take all •things
as we find them. We can in a measure
comprehend the uniVerse as it is, but
can we comprehend why it is and. l whcaz
it lirst was.
low w e ilnd in 'all living nature, that
i 4 i i all nature recognized as having an
1
"org inized.. life, a system by which its
kind is continued. Vegetable and ani
mal lifelias a beginning and an ending
as far as the individual is concerned,
yet it makes itself perpetual as a class
or family by a system 'of propagation
widely different in afferent classes,
yet analogically alike. The seed from
the living produCes its representative,
and thus continues its kind, or as Moses
puts it in the first chapter of the Bible,
" 0 . 1183 and herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit whose
seed is in itself after his kind."
Such, being the leading principle by
which iVing nature is continued, the
questions which you ask as to the of
and origin Or parentngelof the
earth are very proper ones, bedause if
the earth is a single isolated being,
without origin or deseen tin analogy to
all acknowledged living nature, and
created by a single exertion of the Di
vine Will, ill accordance with no law
of nature, and to end its isolated exis
tence by being mechanically destroyed;
then we fail to make the first step in
the proof of its living organization.
As to .the other question about vol
canoes and earthquakes, it naturally re
sults that, if the earth and the heavenly
bodies are living organizations, then
they will be subject to the sante gener
al laws and the rattle irregulatities as
other I iving organizations.
I ant not sure Hint the term• Wm -
/mil is properly :Tidied Lu vc lbatioes
and earthquakes, or even to th appar
ent diseases or irregularities of animal
and vegetable life, any inure than it
would be if applied to the safety valve
of a steam engine. But °cliffs here
after. . J. E7gEl:l'.
Wel'shot°, l a. , August 23, IfG9
Letter ;Prom Wisconsin
Ctsll . l,),ltb IWe - id tlit• A g itator.
As I was Opel) it school-boy in your
town and have many pleasant recol
leetions thereof, and many acquaintan
ee); Whonl t have not heard of in sixteen
t•Ncept, through your valuable
paper, awl litany of them have not
heard front me, I thought 1 would pen
a few lines' for your paper, not. only to
let my friends know my whereabouts,
hut also live them a history of this
,part of the not 11-west. ,Sixteen years
ago I livol in the Court House and was
what the people tailed " turnkey." I
also attended school at the Wellshoro'
Academy Wiled 1 tosford was prin
cipal. There l travelled up " the hill
of science," perhaps slow, but did learn
untethiu ; not. ill se'lool, then at
the Court _House, for I rt member once
letting a colored individual out of his
cell to empty a pail of ashes. 1 - le
emptied a of iedies into Illy
taco and eye)-. , , and then ran for dear life,
hid, niter all that, did not get- away.---,-
Well, I think this is history - enough of
myself in NVeilshoro, and Malan who
knew toe then \V - 111 reliteldber MC by
the above.
lived ill ilidittllft ten yearS
to Ist Mill ell, lit which time I came to
i , consin and !sought a farm, where I
now reside. I purchased a farm of 100
sties, acre; unproved, and this year
my oft profits therefrom tall sprint;
1 crops) will not fall short of •.: , 800, with
common prices for farm products.
ant a little moro than two hundred
miles not thrwcst from Chicago. The
country for many miles around me is
nearly level, except occasionally tt low
blutr or small lake.' The most of the
laud is tiptop farming land—like all
other countries some Nair tAselhats:—
Thei e ale t housands or neres about here
that have been cropped from twelve to
seventeen years, With lit) !dandle. Or
any kind of fertilizer, and yet produce
good erev. The staple productions are
wheat, rye, oats, corn, buckwheat, po
tatoes, turnips and rutaltagas. \Ve are
now in the middle ()I' harveA, which is
rattier late this year._ •
We.have had a verb - cola, wet season
up to the time of the eclipse.
Yours, OUT WEST.
Plainfield, - Wis. Aug. MG9,
Foun'on FivE T ItouF3A - Nn Nos.—Mr.
S., or Kentneky, bo the story. goes, is
the ov, 1101 . or, a huge farm, and lisps.—
Once on a tithe his overseer told him he
blooded some hogs on 1 110 place.
. ' Very well,' SityB Nlr. S., go and buy
ror - io . live how th and pigth, right
awar, and h i lt them on the farm.'
Tia, marlt..custred to obey, and
that without questi I ning, asked :
1
' Shall I to be the money to pita:base.
with '."
No, thin. Theylall know me. Aenk
Amu heic—Pll pay tor them or give
you the inOney to pay for then] when
you gc:l. 110111. 1
The oVertzCer twat his way, and• iii
two weeks rettirned, When the follow
ing conversation look place :
Well, Mr. S., I can't get that many
1 have ridden all over the. coun
-6ry;all ahoul, and can kitty but between
eight or nine hundred:
Eight or nine hundred what?'
Eight or nine hundred pigs.'
' Eight Or nine hundred pigth ? Who
. .
told you to buy that malty pigth? Are
you a fool?'
You told me to buy thein, two weeks
since. 1 have tried to do it.'
Eight or it hie hundred pigth? -I
never told you any thuth thing.'
' Ito( you did—you told toe to go and
my four or livt? thou;,;and
didn,ll do no thuth thing. I told
•on to go and buy four or live thows
old their little pigth, and you have
lour it, I thonld
A, farmer in ) a remote district of the
Yorkshire wolk luPt country rector
who had been two years absent on trav
el. ' btr. hector,' said the farmer.
you've been to the Iloly I,a„nd, I hear.'
' I have, John, and got safe back, you'
sec," Well,' said John, often thou't
like to hear about that spot. It's a.
tine country, I say.' Well,' said the
rector, I saw Lebanon, and Jerusalem,
and the Twelve Palm Trees, anti the
\yells or water in the Great Desert ; and
we went across the Jordan, and went
up Monnt•—" Exeuao tuc interruptitt .
you, Mr. 'Rector. ' - ;aid the fartger ;
but, if it be a testion, Itua W aS
turnips lookin' der
Cellars that :t f .,1 with insects
be prON ith
which to k e ep arijok' fwid. These
t a ta t ..., mo od, In IJe :o-oni•crl fteiptently.
up on ! t win 4reen leave 4 a sage, or
tain:y, s od ~ . .„pr. i gs Of soul horn wood
s h m od he replit`ki With fresh ones
when dry'. The legi4 of these table..
should he :-et, in pans of watch.; to be
kept tilled during - the summer ; this
water and the leaves will be the de
struction of red emmets, black ants,
and sometimes huge vermin. Keeping
wood in the eellar (Men brings inseek.
there.
Amy dog that runs up
to every one he sees, and wags himself
all over,
Il
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NO. 36.
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JOBBING DEPARTDIEIVT.
Thoproprietorehavestookodthoootabliehme
with a now a vario assortment
JOB AND CARD TYPE
AND EAST TRESSES,
and aro prepared to execute neatlyand promptly
POSTERS, HANDBILLS; CIRCULARS, BILL.
HEADS, CARDS, PAMPHLETS, &0., &o.
Deeds, Mortgages, Leases, and a full assortment
of Constables' sod Justices' Blanks on hand.
People living at a distance oan dopondon hav
ing Moir work Bono promptly and sent book In
return mail. 4
Fall Brook Mines.
We extract from th 9 Corning Journal
the following notes of a trip of the Ed
itor, Dr. Pratt, with a company, to the
Fall Brook mines. It will repay the
reader:
We reached Fall Brook at a quarter
past eleven, and stopped at the spacioug
Hotel, which is kept In an excellent
manner by Mrs. Phillips, formerly of
Rathbonevillo. Mr. James Heron, the
Manager of the Coal Property, gavetho
party a cordial greeting, -and devoted
his
.entire time to promqte
. the enjoy
ment of all.
After dinner Mr. H., provided con
veyances for the Ladies, to carry them ,
to the mouth of one of the mines, called
Drift No.;l 3. They had previously pre- _
pared, for the trip into the mines, by
discarding hoops and putting on water
proofs. A train of small cars filled
with straw, each car seating two per
sonst 3 was in readiness. Miner's lamps
were lighted and distributed among the
gentlemen, who were thus compelled to
exercise extreme caution, lest the,straw
and dry goods of the respective cars
should be accidentally ignited.
With a yell from the driver the mule
that furnished the motive power sped
into the darkness. The excavation is
generally about live feet high by eight
broad.. The walls are of coal, and the
roof of slate. (`The vein of coal ranges
from three to fkve feet in thickness, and
the slide rock tibove is therefore blasted
away to ensure sufficient height for the
mules.
After proceeding about 1,500 yards,
over four-fifths of a mile, the, train
halted. We were at the end_ of that
route. , Near by, the miners wore at
work with the, pick, lying on their
sides, cutting away the base of the coal
to the depth of perhaps two feet. Oc
casionally there is a fall of coal upon
the toiling miner, whose limbs or life
ay thus be sacrided. After thiS ex
teavation a hole is drilled
diagonally,iE:
to the coal, at the seam, close to thelh
cumbent rock. This is filled with
powder, and then the charge is explo
ded by a slow 'Match, the explosion
throwing down a huge mass of coal,
and the concussion reverberating thro'-
out the caverns of the mine. As one
was ready for applying the match, our
party With invited to remain, but for
prudential reasons were requested to
step into an intersecting " street" to
avoid the missiles. The workmen hid
behind the supporting posts of the roof,
and the charge was fired, and from the
report and the fall of the coal, one
might easily haNie imagined, the roof
falling in to imprison him a hundred
feet beloW the surface.
We had omitted to mention that on
our inward journey, in order doubtless
to propitate the ruiners, and prevent all
contrasts of complexion, Supt. Gorton
drew his hand over the drizzling roof-
ing, and smeared the face of the lady
in the next ear. She pluckily followed
suit, and soon the faces of all the party
were sooty, or deusely striped with
coal-dust. It looked as though indis
criminate kissing had been in order.
In returning we tact several trains at ,
passing places, and halted at a crossing
to allow another to- plunge into the
cavernous depths of, the mine. The
boys who drove these trarbs looked like
imps of darkuesS,' and as they yelled at
the mules or thus recognized each oth
er, the lamps shedding a sickly light,
the deep darkness in the distance, the
roar of the blasting, the rattle of the
cars, the rush of the train as we sped
onward, all seemed to indicate that we
had reached, by a short cut, the pre
cincts of the mythological pandemo
nium, and were thus doomed to wander
itydelluitely through its unknown
depths.
light of day soon shone in the
distance like a star of hope, and then
we emerged into the broad and beauti
ful world. The transition from the
coolness of the mine to the open air
was such that we looked around expec-
Ling - to see the huge tire that is kept
burning to secu re the proper ventilation
of the mine.
Fall Brook contains a population of
about two thousand five hundred. The
dwellings are mostly neat and comforta
ble. In two or three locations there
are regular streets laid out. A church
hap been recently built. We had not
time to visit it, nor to go about the
"settlement." Neither could we visit
the spacious store of which Mr. C. L
Halsey has long had charge, where a
couple intending to be married can be
fitted , out at an hour's notice with
house-keeping efreels, even to cradles,
and where air sort's of goods, wares, and
merchandise are. kept for sale.
There are now about 30(1 miners em
ployed at Fall Brook. They work
abOut eight hours daily and their earn
ings are large. Fifteen years ago this
was lan entire wilderness, but the em
inent sagacity and business enterprise
of Hon. John Magee, deceased, devel
oped its resources and planted there a
tlonrishing village. He was very ably
seconded in this by the late Duncan S.
Magee. This Coal proper,ty is worth
many millions of dollars,land it is a
fact that when lion. John Magee began,
the work of exploring the tract for coal,
lie was past• sixty years of age, a time
when most men wish to retire from ac
tive Pursuits, instead of assuming the
immense burden involved in the work
of pushing forward such au important
enterprise.
"'There is no accounting for taste."
We chew tobacco, the Hindoos
and the Patagonians guano. Our chil
dren delight in candy, the Africans in
salt, while the Esquiinsux leap for a
bit of tallow candle. To us turtles are
a savory dish ; the French revel on
frogs and snails; other savageii og
snakes.
- —On a tombstone. at Atlantic city is
the following inscription :
"Here lies below a tailor dead,
His name was Edward Prim, .
lie cabbaged buckram, silk and thread,
Till Satan cabbaged him."
Josh Billings divides the human race
into three classes i- ' Those who think
it ie so, those who think it ifiti't so, and
those who don't care a,d—n whether
it is so or nor' Of 'these classes the
last is the most objectionable.
To regard to wonian's rights, - Rev.
lney Smith remarked, many years
ago, that the dear creatures had the
power in their control, for' they had
only to be all of one mind, and the
human race would be wiped away like
al old sum in multiplication on a slate.
A bachelor remarking that a hot flat
iron was good to I:eep the feet warm iu
winter, Was answered by a blooming
young lady, that as very great improve
ment had (lb:covered on that in
-
vention.
' Papa,' saLi Mr, ilrown'a youngest
son the other day can I go to the
circus No, my ' bey, alleetionately
replied 11r. Brown?; you are a good
boy I will take Au to see your
grantt
mother's gravo•sothe
A lot no one covets-11 lot in the cem
etery.
QUACK-a doctor whose science lays
in his bill.