tiffl VOLUME XVII. THE TIOGA I CORP AGITATOR 19 PUbLIIII4 ETERT wrbnlenLY nolonso BT VAN GE.I.IbER 8e ) MITCHELL. P. C. Tan Gehlei.. Jno. 1 . ! litcheU. ?ERE OP 803NRIPTION INYARIABLY IN ADVItiCE Subreription, (per year) RATES OE ACIVRTISING, Torlavri or 31.rriox ort LESS, 31.11 t! oNg S4uARE Sq'rs.... I 11n. I plus 4 Ins I 31104 I 6litot I 1 Yr 1 Square, ... I $l,OO I $2.00 I $2.50 I $5,00 I $7,00 I $12.00 Squares,. 2,00 I 3,00 1 _4,00.1 8,00 1'2;00 I 15,00 'Halt Col 110,02 j 15,00 I 17,00 30. 0 1 6 u , tX ) Otic-61 )2tcoo ii6;66 - 1 - 45 - , Wicro - ,o7)1 100,00 liG" Special Notices 15 coots per line; Editorial or Loral 20 coots, per Transiaut adv.:M.lsll3g MUST be pail ter in advance. ir-R-Juatlca lllsnks, Constable Blanks, Deeds, Juag went Notes, Marriage Certitleatea, .ic.;ori Land. BUSINESS CARDS 'Van Gelder At M itchell Book, Plain and ittnny Job Prinrs. All work promptly and neatly executed.— Le Jan. 1,, 1370. Smith ac Merrick, vttorneys, k Counselors at, Law. Insuranco, ;• Bounty and Pension Agency, Office on Main • Street, Wollsboro 'Pa, opposite Union Block. J'an. 1. 1870, W. 11. : 11ITIT. G eo. IS . Meaning. Seeley - , 'ales & C BANKERS, Knoxville, Titian, County, Pa.— Receive money on deposit, discount notes, and sell drafts on New York City. Collect ions promptly made.—Ace. 15, 1569-IYo Jno. W. Ad: ‘ ms ) Attorney' and Counselor at Lavi, Mansfield, Tioga county, Pa. Collections promptly attended to. Jin. 1,'1870. I. Mitchell, 1 Attorney and CounselOt : at Law, Claim, and In surance Agent. Office over Kresa' Drug Store, adjoining Agitator Office, Welisboro, Pa. Jan. 1,1870. ' Wlltpn & ales, Attorneys and Counselors at Law., Will attend promptly to business entrusted to their care in the counties of Tioga ana,Potter. Office on the Avenue. Jan. 1, 1370: . 3. F .W13.50x.) P . 13. NILES. John 'W. Guernsey, Attorney and Counselor at Le 4. An business entrusted to him will be promptly attended to: Vice 2d door outh . of Haziett's Hotel, Tioga, Tioga County, Pa.—Jan, VISTO. Um. B. Smith) Pension, Bounty and Insurance Agent. Com tonnleations sent to the above address will re ceive prompt attention. Terms moderate, Knoxville, Pa.--Jan.,l, 18i 0. John C. Horton, Attorney and' Counselor at Law, Tiogn, 0 (deo with C. U. Seymour, E. Easiness at• tended to with promptness:—Jan. I. IS7O. W. D. Terbell Ez Co., Wholesale Druggists, and dealers in,Wull Paper, Kerosene Lampe, Window Glass, Perfumery, Paints, Oils, dre., &e.—Corning, N. Y. Jan, I'7o. Dr. C. K. Thompson, Wellsbore, Pa., will attend to Prole,sional e.ills in the village of Welhiboro, and elsewhere.— Office and Heeidenee on State St., 2d dour to, right going, east.--Jan. I, 1870. D. Baconr3l. D., Vhytcieian and c;urgeot3. Will attend' prumptly all calls. Office on Craton lit Net, iu rahr of the Meat Market, Wellsbero.—Jan. 1, 1:170, E. S. Perkins, M. P., _ Respeotfully announces to tbo citizens nl* East Cnarleaton and vicinity, that be would be grate . 1 lel WI- their patronage. J. 11.1, ,1810. A. M. Ingham, 31. Hqmoecipattlig, Office at his llesidence on the Avenue--Jan, 1, 1870, George Wagi7Cr, TAilor. Shop first door north oCHoberts & Bail- Ly's Hada - are, Store. Cutting, l Fitting and Re pairing done pioreptly and o fllll.-Ji 4 ll. I, ISIO, John Etnor, Tailor and Cutter. bhop oppoAte Darted Car riage Shop, Main St., where ho is prepared tC, do work promptly and neat.—Jan. 1,187 a, Thomas D Dryden tiurveyor and Draftnntin , Or icrs lett at hi: room, Townsend Itonse, Weltsboro, Grill nice , with prompt attention.—Jen. I, 1670. H. E. Onley, Dealer in Clocks and Jewelry, silver and Plated Ware, Spectacles, Vielie Strings, Sc. Watch es and Jerre/ry neatly repaired. En2raving done in plain English and criaan.—.llu nsfield, Pa., Jan. 1, IS7O, .... ~ 1 Petroleum House, .. We.itileld, Pa., Geo. Ct.o.E, Proprietor. A nisv Hotel conducted on the rinciple of live and lot live, for tho accotornt dation of the public. Jan. I, 1870. 1---, Hazlett's Hotel, Tioga, Tioga County, Pa. Good stabling attach ed, and an attentive hostler airways in attend• anon. Heo.•W. Hazlett, Preik'r.—.fan, 1, 1870, 11111's ROA, Westfield Borough, Tioga Co , E. G. Hill, Proprietor. Anew and •commodious building with all the modern imprpvemente. Within easy driv . e of the best hunting and fishing Grounds in Northern Penn'a. Conveyance , furni..beds Terms moderato—Tan. 1, 11.470. Sutityr; Hotel, Tinge., Pa., E. M. Smith, Proprietor. , House in good condition to accommodate tEct traveling. pnbliel-n a superior manner.—Jan. I, IS7a. Keystone Uptel, Sabinsville, Tioga Co , Pa , J. B. Bonn, Prop'r t4ood entertainment for man and beast. Con vvient to the best fishing groufnels. Pnrtie ,i . !euramociated n - ith conveyances. Jan. I, '7O John Mclntosh, Dealer in Vermont and Itolinn atrble, manu facturer of Monuments.'Tomb•Stnnes, fie , cot ner Market and Ceshr Sts.. Corning, N. Y. AU orders promptly and ne,ttly , executed.' An ,irecr Van Dasen, Agont.—•lnn. 1,1 S V. Union Hotel, Miner Watkine, Proprietor. Tito tz.tvoling pub. will find this a con.fort..ble and c..a.voutont h)nsa to not, at. 00..1 ctablirsg, and an at tentivo hostler. Jan. 1, If.;U. 4 mmmial• M. M. SEARS, Pitornir•rein WHERE delicious lee Cream. Fr4.h c on . fectionary, all kinds of fl tilts la theft Season, a nice dish of Tea, Coffee, ur Gliveuiate anti Oysters in their aeason—Cllll be had at ;01 hours, Berced in - the best style_ Nest door he low oberts .t Bailey's Hardware St' 'e, street. Wellaboro, de"-, IS7O. • HARKNESS d RI LEY, BOOT ND SHOE MAK It S. OL•er Iribron st Van e, I ^ rvo7ilarsly occqpictl Settcy. BUOTS AND sitIOES of nit t.. order and in the host wanner. ti ciEPAIRING of all kinds 4.ot.eprgimptic—i nd , ;(“ , d. Give ac..• 111. „runs LIAR 1i.1%; WM: 11 F. 11.. EY. Welltboro, on. 1, 1870.-13. E t R. Li KIMEALL, CIROCERY AND RETAIRIANT, 01:10 . door above the Meat Market, 1 WELLSBORO, PENN A , ESPECTFULLY announces to the tradier public that he bas a desirable stack of qr.,- (series, comprising, Teas, Coffees, Spices, Sugars, Molasses, ayrups, and all that constitutes a fit-sl ams stock. Oysters in- every style - at all sea. aonable hours. Welt•boro,,Taa, 1, 187O—t1. ,-- - i • 11 , . , 4 i 4 . . . , ..• 7 . . . , ... , . A .„_....: ~..,.,..,..„.....: .. ~...;,,,_..„......,,,,..._....,.,....„....•,„,.,.... :,...„4„.....„ 4:74. t i.74./.._ 11i.4.:1-.; t :.,: : .;;;;;: - .r...-: ......, , ,:-.i:,-, ; i • .._. . R ; . ... .. , „. . .. , .• .., ... .:„...,„. • ~:. ~.. .• , ~ _ ~ ...,.. ~, . ~ ~.. . .., , . .. Gl. . , , . :;• ~...,,:.,... „_,,,__.......,..,,•.....,:,•.............:,,,..„•,...„,..,.,....:,..... .... EZI2 GRUBB & BAEHR'S FIRST PREMIUM ELASTIC STITCH ---- MVAULY SEWING MACHINES, 594 RROADWAY NP.W YORK. Points of Excellence. Beauty and Elasticity ef -Stitch. Perfection and Simplicity of Machinery. Using both threads directly from the spoole. No fastening of E. earns by hand and no waste of thread. • Wide range of application without change of adjustment. The seam retains its beauty and firmness at• ter washing and ironing- . Betides tieing all hinds of, work done by other Sewing Machines ' them) Machines execute the most beautiful and permanent Embroider) , and ornamental work. - - I • „A/re-The highest Premiums at all tlio fairs and exhibitions of the United States arid Europe, have been awarded the (rove % T t Baker Sewing Machines, and the work donethem, wherever exhibited in competition. ":o"—The very highest prize,TUE CROSS OF Tim LEGION 110;10 was conferred on the representative' of the Grover & Baker Sewing Machines, at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867, thus attesting their great stipetior• ity over all other Sewing Machines 4 . J.tn. 1, 1870-tf. " CITY 11011 K BINDERY OM BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY, S Baldwin Streot, kSIGN OF THE BIG BOOK, 2D FLOOR,) ELMIRA, N. Y. OUR MOTTO 13:001) AS TUE BEST, CAEAP As TuuCIIEAPEST BLANK BOOKS Of every description, in all styles of Binding, and as love, for quality of Stock, as any Bindery in the State. Volumes of every description Bound in the host manner and in any style or dered. ALL KINDS OF GILT WORK' Executed in the best manner. Old Booksre bound and made good as new. ZIAL2)11110 COMPLETE YOUR SETS! I awn. prepared to furnish back numbers of all Roviewbor Alagazines published in tho United Stites or Great I t. in, — aglow price, BLANK BOOK & OTHER PAPER, Wall sizes and qualities, on band, ruled or plain. DILL HEAD PAPER., Of any quality or size, on band and cut up ready for panting. Also, BILL PAPER, and CARD 80.a1-ti) of all colors ii,raquality, in boards or eut to any size. STATIONERY, Cap, Letter, Note taper, Envelopes, r Pens, ei ells, &v. lam solo goal for Prof. SHEPARD'S .NU.N.,COUROSIVE STEEL PENS, oP vAsiops F zss, VW'. LADS its N 11 . 111-: NT IMS N, - Which I will warrant egoist to Golt! Pans. The tieEtin useat d:uo•nliktuke. The atove.tnek I will :tellatthe Lowest Itatee at all times, at a small ,a l lvanne on Now York prices, and is quantities ft., suit purchasers. All work and stock warrtintod as represented. I rospeotfully solicit atlutra of puhlic patron age. Orders by mail promptly attended to.— Address, LOUIS KIES, Advertiser Building, Fltuira, N . Y. WAVRER & LATHROP% liiIALEIN IN HA RI/WI: 1 111E, IRON, STEEL, NAILS, STOVE.B, TIN-.WARE, BELTING, SAWS, CUTLERY; WATER LIME., Al.llt ICU LTUIt AL IMPLEMENTS, Cari 4 iago and Harness Trimmings, HARNESSES, SADDLES, "cc. Corning, N. Y., Jun. 2, 1810-1.1 - • New Tobacco Store ! TIRE subscriber has fitted up the Store firs , door ear.t. Thqmas Harden's dry geode store !.,r the ruauutacture aLd rule of CIGAR S,(all grades), Fancy and Common SMOKING TOBACCd,Mickigan _Fine Cut CHEWING, and all kinds of PLUG TOBACCO, PIPES, and the Aoi cest Brand of CIGARS. Call and see for yourselves. JOHN W. PURSEL. Wellsboro, Jan. 1, 1870—tf. Jan.l, 8(10.-1y. _1 Area) Tannery. rp Ett tide raj gn ed has fitted up the old Fenn. _EY dry building, near the Brewery, Wellsbore, and to nos: prepared to turn out fine calf, kip, cowhide, and harness leather in the best man ner. Jlide9 tanned on shares. Cash paid for bides. Wellsh..sro, Jan. I, 1370 Great Improvement in Densistry :----4 i;ts , HAVING pnrebased the xelu iikk -', give right of Dr. Folsom' lin• ''SA proved patent Atmospheric entS) Plates for Tioga County. I now take pleasure in offering it to the public as the greaisst MS.- eovEtta - yet made in Mechanical Dentistry. By the uco of which, we can overcome any any and all difficulties which have heretofore baffled the of the ltita praetirai Dentist in the world. Plates constructed upon this plan re lic:tin perfectly firm under all circumstances or cnnditinn of the mouth, as no air, or particles of rood coo possibly get under them. Those haring .141 .tyles,'Gold or Rubber Plates, Can, at half tho east, have the Improvement applied to them anstrerir-g in every respect the same purpose as as a new sot. Perfect satisfaction guaranteed in every case. C. N. DA RTT Dentist. Jan. i, 1t.;t39. Thi is to certify that we are now using the kaput ed nental I'lares with_ perfect satisfaction. Wiring , ` l, / Atyle of plates for years w ith nil thetsoubles and i”, ,, ns•Ptiterics, , known in the use of Snell plates, ly recommend the itnpros. ed Plates as far +trt•^tr^r t t l it, thine tet ktinv• n. li. B. KIMBALL. (MIAS. WILLI A MS. ' TUE EMPORIUM. ___ 0 _:_ A NCW Store & Nemo - GOON One (10(4' Likox WOO , : ri3.slin,r's I)ruc; Sibre _n_ I svou STATE to tho-c whom It way coa eerTz. Om: jwst retartio ft 9ut the r2:13--Imutthr and eloFe n full awe , rt. rneut (.1 erROCEIES, PROVISIONS, FLOUR AND FEED, &C., &C jta,) prie.3 my TEAS;SUGAES AND SYRUPS. Before you Purchase. W. P. BIGONY Usboro, Jan. 4, 1810-tf. WU. U. MIMESES:4G, • • SAMUEL LIEN; Armstrong ek ' ATTORNEYS-AT-LA*, wILVIAISIBPORT, PENN'A. Aug. 4, 1869-ly. TIOGA BIM STORE, T. BORDEN koeps constantly on band Pato Drugs and Medicines, F Chamioals, Paints and Oils, Lamps, -. 4 ,14. Stationery, Yankee Notions &a. 'EENCIti P TiONS CA DEP UFA Y COMPOUNDED. H. 11, BORDEN. Tioga, Jarl, 1, 18.70.-Iy. 1870._ .FOR SALE. . 1870. BY T. B. STONE, (formerly D. C. Wickham's Nursery) AT HIS NURSERY OF FRUIT AND OR NAMENTAL TREES, IN TIOGA 60,000 Apple Trees, ..10,000 Pear Trees. A gcod supply of PLUM, PEACH, 6TIERRY atid ORNAMENTAL TREES,& SHRUBBERY The Fruit trees aro composed of the choicest varieties, good, healthy, some of them largo and in bearing. Any one wishing to got a supply will do well to call and see my stock before pur chasing elsewhere. .X - 41- Delivered at thedepot, Wellabore, Mansfield, LaWreneecille and Blocs burg, free of charge. - All orderipromptly filled. Address, T. 13. STONE, Tinge, Pa, Tioga, Dec. 8, 18(19-1y0 PREPARE FOR WINTER! AND don't neglect to secure htaisigLO a first class H. W. DARTT, has on band the latest styles and will retake to order and warrant to suit. All kinds of REPAIRING done at the shortest no tice. Also, Iron Wok and Horse-Shoeing. Please call and examine and be convinced that bettor ivorkmanship or material is not fur nished elsewhere at mere reasonable prices. Main Street, Wells , boro, Pa. Nov. 24, 1869.-tf. 11. DATITT. Mrs. A. J. SOFIELD, is ag,' perior SEWING MAC UINE, the. WILLCOX & GIBBS, which everybody liken who tries it. It is a beau tiful Machine, never gets out of order with fair usage, sews rapidly and strung stitch, and is perlectly noiseless. gat-Machines rented by the week. Nov. 17, 1869-tf. Mrs. A J. SOFIELD. JEWELRY STORE: ANDREW roLrtv, (~... c. - -/-......; --‘,... ..... , Wll , l has h.n:r hoen : e,4.11. I- -:-..: 1 _•lished in the Jewelry bwi (4: l]:i ners in IVellAoro. has al-o it& t t. „. 1; . : c ::: : t rvas.s en FIllt), r011,..,ef. 4 , )j' ...* -- -1 01 „- 1 kinds and prices ..t .-_ _ AMERICAN WATCHES GOLD OR SILVER CLOCKS, JEWEL- Y.; GOLD CHAINS, KEYS. RINGS, PINS PENCILS, CASES, GOLD d ST EEL PENS, THIMBLES, SEWING MACHINES, With most other articles usually kept in such establishment, which is sidd low for Repairing done neatly, and protaptly,.and on !bort NOTICE. A. FOLEY. Janaary 5, 1870-Iy. . .M. A. DURIF WiCKHAM & FARR'S, WINETR DRESS, FANCY GOO DS, Can save a good percentage, ay sre trapgt room for tither WELLSBORO, PA.; WEDNESD R OR SLEIGH. Get the Be wELE.SI-30RO__ PA_ SPOONS, RAZORS, PLA TED WARE, &c., &c„ &c C A ,S . H. GREAT REDUCION IN PRICES, AT Tioga, Pa. All those wishing AND G 0 0 1111 =EI gotto' Corntr. The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell, The stiffened air exploring in the dawn, ' And making slow acquaintance with, the day, Delaying now upon his heavenward course,, In wreathed loiterings dallying with itsolt. With as uncertain purpose and slqw deed As its half-wakened master by tho hearth, Whose mind, still slum Wring, and sluggish tho'ta Have not yet swept into the onward current Of the new day ; and now it streams afar, Tho while tho chopper roes with step direct And mind intent to wield the early ax. First in the dusky dawn ho sends abroad His early scout, his emissary, smoke, Tho earliest, latest pilgrim from his roof, To feel the frosty air, inform the day, And, While he crouches still beside the hearth, Nor musters courage to unbar, the door, It has gone down the glen with the light wind, And o'er the plain unfurled its venturous wreath, Draped the treo tops, loitered upon the bill, And warmed tho pinions of the early bird ; And now, perchance, hjgh in the crispy air, Has caught sight of the day o'er the earth's edge, And greets its master's eye at his low dear, As some refulgent eland in the upper air. Vtiortitantous g i tading. MY MOTHER-IN-LAW AND I. " So you are going to marry John Wheeler, are you, Chat, and move riglit, into the house with the old folks?" said my uncle Peter, as he came in sudden ly one morning, long ago, and found me burled in, the pretty mysteries of lawns, and laces, and knots, and bows of ribbons', and the glow on my cheeks as red as the heart of the sweetest rose in the wreath of my white silk bonnet. '• Yes, I suppose so," said I; bending over the heap of dainty ruffling to hide my embarrisment. " Well, child, I give you joy of your future mother-in-law," said he, peep ing round soles to see' what my busy hands were doing; and Chatty, if you havn't a hard life before you no cite ever did have. I pity you—tht's s; my heart aches for you, little niqe ; and i t Ido believe that if that old ter agent does not treat you like a hymn being, I'll slip round into the grove ack of the cottage with my shot-gun, hunting quails, and I'll make a mistake and shoot her! ha! ha !" and that jolly old uncle, Peter Whittaker, leaned back in his chair and laughed right merrily. I laughed, too a minute, and then, growing serious, I said nt for that zu "Yon know, Uncle Peter, It is an old kiying that ' a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law are natural enemies.'• Now, do you really believe that there is a mother-in-law in this world whose Heart has not a tender place in it some whE which may be found—that she m • be touched tenderly, lovingly, if ie can only find the right key ?" " Well, I don't know, sis. I urn afraid Granny Wheeler is an exception.— When f lived on the Downing farm, Juiutog Lic l / 4 .7.zr - a :s ilTla saw her equal ; she thought no one knew anything but herself. My wife couldn't get along with her, and you know Sofie's way is kind, and gentle, and forbearing - . I felt sometimes as, though it would be a real satisfaction to make mouths at her and go yeh ! yeh ! She used to make me feel very ugly, spiteful, and devilish, as though I would enjoy calling her hard names. Oh, she had au eye like an old Norway rat-so sharp, and bright, and cunning." " Why, that's energy, Uncle Peter," said I, beginning to feel that I must stand up for John's mother. "Fiddlesticks!" said he, shutting his tobacco box with a click, slipping it in to his pocket, amt rising to leave. " Well, Uncle," said 1, "as Mrs. John Wheeler jr., we'll be good friends, won't we ? and u'll come and see Chatty, and she'll visit you; and if she should make any discoveries, she'll tell you.' " Yes," he replied, sighing; " and if you find out really that Granny Wheel er has a drop of human blood' in her veins. Jet me be advised orit." Forewarned, forearmed. Do you think, reader, there was a cloud no big ger than a dove's wing even in my beautiful summer sky'? I thought one little minute, seriously, my hands out.: spread midway in the air between my heap of foamy laces and my fore head; and something-perhaps the good angel who had 'never deserted me for an hour—something made me say, with a brave smile whose twinkle I found in my eyes, "It will be just as I make-just as I will it Then those grand old words came i surging up •to me, full of hope and strength, an anthem of exultation : "Unto thyself be true, • And it must follow, as the night the clay, ,Thou eanEt net then be false to any man," The wedding.was a quiet affair; we were married by the gray-haired old pastor who had handled me on his knee in babyhood, and whose raven locks I. had pulled to my heart's content—into whose sharp black eyes I had thrust my baby thumbs, and whose pockets I had often searched to find something good for little girls. Of all the minis ters I had known, he alone was the one to officiate on this importaht occasion. We moved into the same house with John's parents, and I tried to take the place of a daughter. Of cprse I did not find everything as I wo Id like to have it, but I made due all, wance for the manner in which wo shad been brougt up. Alother treated to kindly enough, but as though I had no judg ment, and could hardly be trusted alone with anything that required care or thought. It seemed that she regarded me as a child, to be looked after and made comfortable. Sometimes, if I felt ready to cry out, I would say, "For his dear sake," dry up my tears and make myself happy. Little trials, that hukt like the little thorns of the thistle, inet me every day, but I had shod mi. feet in anticipationof them. I tric li not to draw any coinparison between my two homes but they would come up to me. One of the adornments with which Mother Wheeler beautified the walls of 1 her room was a cat and kittens cut out of black cloth and pinned on a white beckgronnd. I grew very tired of the, round-headed cats, and cautiously sug gested their removal. but her "0, no, I like to see them?" silenced me. I did want the snow-white window cur tains to h,e made so long that they would just touch the floor, but she wanted them made long enough to reach only to the window-sills; and starched so stiffly they rattled like paper. . Over the mirror in our sitting room were long sprays of asparagus dropp- SMOKE IN WECTER. TIIOREAI7. .y_7 , At9it-z;.i . IX6 pEintuA.RX ~ .3 ' -1870.. ing, that' in the tvi , liiatt looked like 'fiiintlst; while the finest gilt and bion z a tall-feathers of slaughtered chlekenh'interinlOgled 'Willi 'the deli cate green; The 'side-saddle, with the crimson Plush 'seat and bright, bramy fixltigs;'always hung, in the best bed reoni,,find in the night its dith outline would look like the horned head of a buffalo. It - Was not for me, John's yoUng wife, Chatty, to say that its time-honored place Should be vacated, and that lit could hang in a closet or in the attic, out of sight.' erreat &inches of dried herbs hung from the ceiling in the kitchen, while the 'very choicest and most aromatic depended from the walls of the sitting room. Piles of bedclothes reared them selves up like things of life from the different and conspicuous corners of the rooms. All this, that shocked my ideas of good taste, pleased • and - gratified poor mother, who had been accustomed to these regulations all her life. John wanted to break in upon] her rules, but I could not endure tho !thought of the innovation—of setting aside her good old way, and taking; as it were, her wbrk - from her hands, just as though she had Outlived her usefulness. It would have been cruel and thoughtless, 'and would have given her a fatal wound:' She 'had keen a great deal of trouble, and had bro i ught up a large family who were marfled and living in homes of their own. Death had taken from her two lovely babies, tirere just beginning to prattle ; and "ono son, a young man, had met an awful death by being dragged more thatia mile over a new road with his foot in the stirrup. Her husband had been security for a neighbor in the first year of, her wedded lire, and had the debt to pay. • Half , of the sum she paid, little by little, with butter, cheese, dried4ruit, and berries, that she gath ered Wlth her nursing baby lying in the shade near her. • Often, while toiling thus, the dis honest rased whose debts she was sac rificinglerself to pay, wonld dash past her, clean and soft-handed, and stately and proud in hii glittering carriage. 0, could I, an interloper, come into her home and mark out new duties, and crowd against the wall this crowned old heroine! . 1:4od helping me, I said in my heart,3 will truly be a daughter unto you. I could spe that my music was some thing new that she did not like—that! her lip would; curl a little, when she!' would touch my magazines and books of poetry ; so • most heartily did I ping,. sweet "old ChUrch music, and when I would lay Pilgrim's Progress or a vol ume of sermons, good, old well-red books,On mine, as though intimating a preference. It was a little thing, but, Monier undert:tood it, and her eye 4, would follow me, in a long questioning look; s 'much as to say, " I wonder if you really do love me, Chatty," sound ing there very distinctly. a full . border or frill all around. the face. All the pride she had seemed to center in her faultlessly neat, but old time caps. Her hair was abundant, and quite brown and pretty, but, it• was al ways covered out of sight. My friends, when they would visit me, would say, "If I were you Pd soon have those great, scary-looking, boozy caps i tribe stove, they are so abominably old-fashioned." , My thoughts wont(' fly with electrical speed away back to the time when that poor old mother was young and vigo rous, and bravely bearing the trials and sorrows that had fallen to her lot; when her heart was wrung with anguish over the death-beds of her beloved children, and the dark graves closed over the dear dead faces, taken suddenly away from her bosom, and oh ! she would be so dear to me, and I would he so ready and willing to defend her that her very faults almost seemed virtues. : I liked to show mother oil' to the best adi•antage; and sometimes, when my visitors would be dressing and re-dress ing their scant adornment of hair, and resorting to deceptive means in making much hair out of a little, I would say,. 'Now sit down and rest, mother, and let me comb and brush you." Then I would unroll and loosen her wealth of brown hair, all down her back and shoulders, and its waves, and ripples, and glossiness Would bring forth the most envious and enthusiastic exclama tions Of delight and wonder from the admiring visitors. - Onetnorning early, a neighbor came in very angry, saying that our horses had been in his corn-field all night, and if the like ever happened again he'd shoot every one of them. His an ger was contagious, and mother retorted, "Fix your old fences, thou !" The man said somethlng in the same and she replied in a like manner, and the little fire of auger was blazing up into a flame. I - had not caught the infection at all, and coming into the kitchen at thatmoment, I said, "Ileigho t good neighbors, this will never do. Poor mother is not well this morning, and she flashes up like powder. You have reason to be provoked at our hor ses, but I know you will never have cause again ; and now don't let a little thing like this make you angy with us ; you'ie too good 4 neighor to lose so I. ) easily—worth more than 11 the horses in town. Don't, mind oor mother's hasty words; you know' if you were sick, or your wife and babies, she'd be to as much trouble as though it was her own family, and cornepittring over with her herbs, and roots, and poultices, and---'l "Oh, I know it, Chatty, and I know I have been a little too fast, that's so. I should have waited till I was calm,. but I came right hero from the field as fast and as mad as I could come. You musn't mind me, Mrs. Wheeler," said ill the um, with eyes that wanted to cry as h 4 stood there, so ashamed and em jorriissed that he'd turned his hat inside , out a half-dozen times, and twisted the j rim into all sorts of shapes. - "Why, bless you, Nathan, I'm not a bit Mad." said mother, reaching out i her hand : "but you took me so by sur- , prise, l i just said the first thing that I thought of. I take lire just like dry tow ; but I couldn't hold spite at ye, if ye shot every critter on the farm."' Just then the men came in front bun ling the horses, and made apologies and I said he should be well paid for all dam ages, etc.; but Nathan wentottblushing and saying he wouldn't take a cent ; .he } was ashamed of himself, and that his wife had his breakfast waiting for him ; and away he ran with hie hat crammed down on his head with the cotton-lin ing on the outside.. .This little incident .showed that Mother was a kind' hearted, reasonable woman, anci . l begait,to think tay.uncle Peter Whittaker was himself to blame that he did pot lincl,hera good, 4 ?bilging neighbor. I often had hard work . to keep myself under proper restraint. dwelling uponday my mind had been dwelling upon my school days, and I felt in a mood for writing. In the afternoon I dressed up freshly, in my newest white dress, and went away up stairs where I could be undisturbed. I had written two verses, and was deep in the enjoy ment of the coming poem, "The M ad ow Path," when I heard a great c 9a. motion, and squabbling, and fiutte frig among the geese, and, going down stairs, the cause was apparent. Mother met me at the gate in such' outlandish attire that I did not know her. She wore a dingy old flannel dress, her neck bundled up with a cot ton shawl, and a handkerchief tied around her head, so as to cover her ears and hair. She said the geese were all at home now, and she was afraid of rain, and thought we had better pick them that afternoon. I could write verses only when the poetical mood was npon me, and I did not know when that would be again ; and I was so sorely disap pointed I cried. She saw my red eyes, and, divining the reason, said, "Oh, you'll havEl to drop a good many of your fine lady ways if you make a farmer's wife !" So I dressed up, after the fashion of women who pick geese, and worried through as long an afternoon as I ever lived. My head ached, and my poor arms were bitten over with blue spots, and I was so tired and low-spirited that I could hardly keep from crying •right before John. Some time in the night I was awa kened by a low, moaning sound coming from mother's room. I threw a shawl over my showiders and softly drew near her bed, when I heard her sup pressed cries of pain. I said, "Are you sick, mother ?" "Oh, is that you, Chatty ?" she f re plied, with h sense of rellefin her ton s; "don't let me disturb you—you are ti tied and need your sleep. Oh, my body nd liMbs are all cramped and cold, ut maybe I'll get warm pretty soon nd feel better. Go to your bed and do'nt let me disturb you." I laid my hand on her forehead and it was cold and clammy, and big drops of sweat stood upon it. 1: soon heated water and made tea's, and had her wrapped in warm flannels, and before half au hour she was comfortable. As she became easy' she closed her eyes, and was sinking into restless slumber when I touched my lips in blessing upon her forehead. ` ( Oh, Chatty, child of mine," she said, crying right out. "I've never been half good enough to you. I should not have taken you , from_ your writing today; yuu you fell into such cruel hands." I slid my arm around her neck and gathered her to my bosom, and cried over the dear old broken-down mother the woman of many sorrows, stricken when in full leaf and blossom with a blight that would have been death to any one less brave, noble and true; I crept into the bed beside her, and just as she was sinking into a sweet and pain less sleep, her tremulous voice said, "Chatty, don't ever tell it, but it is the truth, never did one of my daughters Qin° to me in answer to my moans of distress when t was siel: at night. Why was it? Didn't they love mo as much as you do?" I soothed her by saying I had always been the little nurse and doctor al, home, and n►y car was twer open t, catch any ct•y of pain. It eaimed ber, and she rested until morning. Little things like this drew us togeth er, and soon we beeatue warmly attached to each other•. Oh, we had pleasant times together—ray mother-in : law and When wee baby Charley came to me, the litho pink and white flower, his grandmother opened her arms to him as though he was a greet blessing sent ,Mere from heaven. He touched her heart and filled it with a• joy she had nev - er knpwn before. The foun tains of my own soul were opened, and life assumed -new realities and new beauties, and a sweet song of newness broke from my lips and flooded my soul. Crowned with motherhood, I waltzed with feet ointed, and the glory of the stars seemed to gather about my brows. From the time that mother was at tacked with sickness in the night, she seemed to fail, and to grow more and more lovely as she gradually faded from earth. She would •sit for hours and play with the baby, and laugh at his funny little ways, and think he looked just like her babies, who had lain under the dasies for twenty years. It is very pleasant to die thus- 1 111:e a light growing dimmer and dimmer, like the slunset tint fading from the hill-tops into a soft twilight gray—creeping into the dimness of darkness gradually. The last summer we lived together we had not much work to do, and I look back now to that May, and June, and October, as I would remember a song, or poem, or a book - read by the seaside, or something that gave me a sweet pleasure and left me beautiful memories. After she;w•as confined to her bed, she would lie and watch me, and follow my footsteps with a tender, loving gaze— eyes full of the light of love, and often ~ h e would shy to me: "Oh, Chatty, you are my‘liesrehild ! I know I have been stern and cold, but you have always been the same dutiful daughter. You have" overlooked . my faults, and you have kept back the unkind reply many a time when I was unjust to you. Yon n ave heipe‘t to make rhea better woman Hum l NV:r, for all thi-, `•ou know, I bless and )pve 'your' Oh, how much better it was f o r rue tit: that T * had yielded my will and wishes to hers in the few years of ply, married life, and treated her respect fully, too, in the appointments of her own household ! What to me was the praise or blan,e of my butterfly friends now, it) eomparb-on to the good will and earne,t love of my husband's moth- 1121 i;efitre mother flied I was her nurse f o r veven weeks he would have no other. I gave her medicine, and atten d& to her wants, taking rest as hest I could. I ebuld not have endured much longer ; I 'Was worn and pale, and thin 61e time as te I Were &earn.' and felt all MEI One morning 7 sat in -the m o ckin g . chair beside tier; John held the baby as he sat on the other si l de of the bed. Her hand was in mine—her little blue veined, wasted hand, on which was a ring, the gift of a brother, who had died far away from his home. She said in a low voice, looking fond- ly upon me: "Cbatty,_you are so tired ; but you will not have mother to care for to-night. I wish you would take off this ring and` put t it on your own 1 hand, and wear it for my sake. When ever you looked at it, ,remember what I have hften' told you lately-40w dear you are to me—how much I leve you." Belpre noon of that day the strange e. I k silence of death came stealing over her face. I togetherhaitt i meant.twa was kl.o 17 1 e n e d h i n a g d so grown life from - me to part with her, and with a cry I fell back faintly. Dying as she was, she heard the fall, and turned her head to look, and died with her last long gaze fixed, oh, so tenderly anti lovingly ! upon me. And this is my testimony—the record of one mother-in-law; and I tell it, be lieving it may do good, and perhaps be a light and a lamp to the feet of those who may have and hold in their hearts to dd unto others as they would have others' do unto them. MASHY. Mr. Hasby . Receives a Letter from His Old- Friend Deacon Pogram—The Frightful .Demoralization at the Cor ners. [FROII TUE TOLEDO BLADS] 6erii WA ED, NOO YOUK, Jan, 10, 1870.- - Yesterday I received the followin letter from that old saint in trowsers, Deekin Elkana Pogratn. It was delayed a long time ez the Deekin directed it to "Rev." Petroleum V. Nasby. The letter carriers hedn't any idee that there wuz a man in the 6th ward who hed any title to that prefix. But I finally got it. I need not say that after readin it - I closed my bar and hung crape onto the door. Oh the demoral izashnn \ uv this cussid age! But' it wuz # comfort to hear from him. "Ez in \yak:r i ffle° ansereth to face, so the heart tiv man to man." The text shood read, in Kentucy at least, "F.?. &c., but I take no liberties with sk ri ptu re. This is the Deek in's epistle CONFEDRIT X ROADS, Kg., Dee, 2, 1809.—.111/ dear Fricnd,—l avale my self uv the presence UV a young man from lnjeany who kin rite, to inform you ez to the 'condishun uv things in your old home. Things is bad, here and is rapidly groWing wuis. Sence you left us it seems to.tue 'as tho kaos lied come again, and diet confooshen wuz bein wnss con fouti)cled. Tho first families hew lost their grip; niggers and abli-tinists.liev come in and hey taken controle, and confedrit X Roads is no : longer a place in wick a gentle man-of refinement and kulture kin de cently live. "llnant. 6.. a -....... e. .N.,...-b.kca. lll4, tzie,b - r. and that unmitigated pest, Pollock, 'is hi partnership, at least, Joe is Selling goods for Pollock, and his store is the resort uv all uv their dais furl miles around. The old settleig have nothin whatever to do with c 04,, we wuz dis posed to paternlze etn, but when Pol lock refoosed to let g6ods ‘vich we lied 1 boughtgo out of the store till heywtiz paid for, and the next mink ti ve credit to niggers, we indignantly deNined to deel with him. - 'flint indignity vs,•• woodent submit to. Wo iiiiloo,--;t two ynpratilltS t'rorn Louisville to start. Liz nis here, Wit they didn't:stay long) They gave credit, and their trade wuz eon , :kently brisk, hut they hed diflicul tyTh tenooin tiler stock. When one ov cm presented his hill to me, I told himindignantly that of that wuz the, 5v 3, , :• he perposed to do bizness he mite t-z \Tell (:IW-e. "Why," said 1, "I mite EiZ we'll deel with Pollnett." •He re mark(. implently, thatlaiwished I hed dell with Pollock, and flung his::ielf out of ilny ire: ( - nee. Merchants are, as a ela-g disgirstitigly mersenary. . r;;Lscom h rt!a t4 - .11. s to clue out, • and leave us. lie hez alrently mortgag,is all our lands to its full valyoo, rand sense the oflises are all in the hands of men' who don't drink liker at ail, , sez there ain't no moaey within his reach and he can't carry us much lon ger. He sighs for the good old times under .Mhnson's administration, When all the Mo t ripy reeeevea by the postmas ter, the Collector and assess:or, poured into his drawer. He is morose and gloomy,Tand waters his likker fearfully, I anus, hey to take five or six drinks before I ei:perieneed any sensashtin. But these thimrs is not the worst or most giobmy uv the signs uv the times. There's rooin ailed uv us. The chivalry uv the Corners 'lel' lost all spirit. Only last week there wNiz a tempranz lect4 urer advertised to Make a speech in the hall over roliock's store. "Shea this be; permitted".'! askt Bascom indignantly, briugin' his fist down onto the bar till the glasses rattled. "Never I"shoutid Isaker, Gavitt and others in the bar-room, who, scentid drinks abed! Bascom sot out the bottles. Wo all took sin hin' end rusht toomulchu4ly to the hail. Too remember . with what egernis we fotmerley mobbed obnoxyus speekers? We wtrzn't at all ever that We only run a rod or two; our pace,got down to a slow walk afore we reedit the spot, and we got into the ball we meekly sot down and listened to the heretiklc cuss, and went awaywith out heavin a stun at him. When Bas com reproached us for our lack: of Spirit, I told him that wuz, no yoose. Alen eouldent — inob anybody on such likker as he furnisht. It won't do 'to diloot w h en , von nev sieb biznis on hand. But thnt wnz nnt k the most alarmitil sign tiv the degonentey uv onr people. w i t hi n a ni,onth, t Methodist preach er.; hey in7ld forth in this villn , 4e, and neither t;:-...cm wet c hung or shot !-- - whm, kin thc.re be where such thiwn,neent,' An,; wnt ~,two us , ou r 0 141\ lends attemied their meetins, m and it l itt Orly 11,c y quit - eontin'to -Bas e/7)111's and I noti , t their ehildren yester duy with :51hoes on. Baseom sighed ez he zeed it. ' • , " mystery tome," he sez. "Whai Is a my-ltery ?' sez,El. Why, so low: ez them men stayed with me all day, they hadn't no money to spend—nOw that they don't come no more, they have money, but they waste it on shoes and I don't get it. Why didn't narher make men capable uv wor hin all day and drirdzin all trite?" Their ain't no change in me or mine, ceptin, that my house is 'somewhat smeller. At the beginning uv the win- -NUMBER, 8. ter wain= compelled to yoose oar kitch ftt. for firewood, ez me and Jethro, my oldest son, cooden't pmcoor the labor to cut the winter's fuel. The niggers won't work for tis; Next Winter I spore the aettin room will go, then the wing which we yooso for a spare; - bed-room will - follow; and of I am not gone hentz by that time, I. don't know wat we shalt do - for more. The coil uv fate is Mania about me. -The niggers up towards Garrettstown are akkoomUlattn - property rapidly, and they pay their taxes promptly, but what good is that to Bascom The offishis is all abolitionists and that money is diverted into other than le gitmate channels. The vandals hey macadmized a mile uv road between the Corners and Garretstovim, and built a bridge over the run. Kin you blame Bascom for wanting to leave here ? I hey heard of yoor success and am glad uv it. Wood that I coed glt into sutbin uv the sort! Wood my fate waZ di*erent. But we can't all keep grn sery. I shel step - here and when all the people is got? e I shel go down.— Thank Heaven,. ,he time is. not far off. Yoor friend. BiarAluat Porntaar. - P. B.—Ef you coed send me a two gallon jug uv likker which hes life in to it I should alluz remember it grate fully. After Basconi's wattered stuff it Wood be a gleam uv .sunlite after a long and tejus site. L. P. I laid down the old man's letter af fected to teers. Water in the whiskey. Children with shose, while old men laCk sustenance Macadamized roads I Bridges! -Methodist Preachers Tem perance lecturers! Abilishnism, there is thy - work Thank, Sevin, I am ,ankered where none uv these , things kin be. I shel send the old man his fug. It will pui, him out of his misery quicker, and smooth his pathway to the toom. Besides when he is gone wat T owe him is settled. PETROLEI73I V. N.ABBY, (wick wuz Poliitmaster. THE MICROSCOPE The 'first satisfactory/ults in photo graphing microscopic ob jects, were at tained, in this country,' and not long since. tinder the auspices of the Sur gical Bdreau of otir Army, at Washing ton, the art has been carried to an ama zing perfection, and a collection of pho tographs made, principally relating to surgical anatomy - , which cannot be parr allelecl in the world. Many attempts had been made in England, but the first specimens of these American _pic tures which were' sent over showed that the true secret had been reached, and excited unbohnded,ndmiration, as well as astonishment inscieutific circles.— -1 It would be difficult, itadtd, to conceive of pictures more perfect their defini tion of the minutest ine.t4ugs known ,to microscopy. The sucCesitchorking out of the problem is ro be credited to several skillful experimen teraito whom - science will give the liotior clue. The tirst lenses and apparatus by which the rczult -Wits reached, were devised by Mr. Wales, of this city, Who has been well known to microscopists for the perfec tion of his instruments. It is now pretty well understood by the public, that a beam of light carripe, _ three kinds Ofrays—ifinlight rays, the • actinic rays, and the heat rays. The actinic rays are - those which act chemi cally on various sensitive surfaces and. produce pictures ; these. wilt pass thro' hlue media, which arrest light ; while - again light will pass through a yellow medium, but the chemical rays will not. Photographers, therefore, are fond of blue glass and blue shades in the sitting rooms, while their dark rooms have yel low glass only. In Microscopic pho= ' tography, where every slightest inter feience must be prevented, to secure perfection, a blue medium became a first necessity, which was most skill fully secured. Then again,. the actinic rays come to a focits at a different point from the rest of the beam, and this sug gested the necessity of a new form of lens. To attain. the end, after it had been thought of, required an elabbrate mathematical calculation, great inge nuity, and a practical skill, which will be the more appreciated if we remem ber that the lens is itself almost a mi- ' croscopie object. But it was done, and the new device has produced wonders in micro-photography. It is found, also, thail a microscope thus constrected for using the actinic rays, atone gives to the eye a more de- ."; tined picture, a fact which deems to in dicate that the clemical reaction of light on the retina ifiust have much to, do-with vision. One observer, hoWev :er, 'using a lens of this kind, came hear destroying his eyesight. Whether this was due tol. peculiar effect of actinism, or only to an improper straining of his eyes, which would have brought the same penalty VII any case, retnainstobe proved by ferther rash experiments in eyes.—Chris. Union. "My young friend," said 4 gentle man on horseback, one day to a lad who was standing near a well, " will y udo me the favOr to draw a pain of wa r for my horse, as I I find it rather dilli lt to get off." , Instead of giving a gruff replk, as many a boy would do; the boy drew the water and gave it to the horse. His manner was so pleasant and cheerful, that the stranger, delighted with his spirit, asked his name and, residence, and then, after thanking hini, rode ou. The good natured lad thought no more of this act of civility l until some months Inater he received a letter from the gen lernan, offering him a clerkship, in his tore. The offer was accepted., The ad prospered, and finally becam? chief agistrate of a large city. . Thus you see that a little act of civil ity to a stranger wv tilt) first round in the ladder by which that boy climbed to honor and wealth. 'Now I do not say that civility will al ways lead to such honor; but T do sny that its possessor will al wayA be ral , :ed in the opinion of others, and h i 1,;...“vn sel i'-respect. Be civil, therefore, I,“y, and girls. Civilpy i s an orname nt y,e should all posse=s. She did," ..".od and .as never -seen again, for she -vas burled, lit the trees grow. "The the ground whero cold ground':" 7:tid the child, shudder ing again. " the warm ground," returned " where the ugly little seeds are turned into beautiful flowers, an d where g ood p t „lfde turn into angels and fly away to lieaveil--Dieketta. "Why don't you ask yfiuraweetheart to marry you ?" asked her." "What did , she say?" "Oh, I've got the refusal of her." II IM
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