THA --- 1 1 pPLE'S JOURNAL JOIJIV S. 3LiNN EDITOR. I3C-11Ci ; . !1 I'3ILF, P.l ,J_..ff.... MORNING, APRIL 17, 1856 To iho Poople at Pov.p.r County I pnrsuance of a call by the proper arnPrity, fora Republican State Con ventinii to be bel,i in the City of Phil adeliild on Monday the 16th day of Juntilltexl, for the forruatiop of an glect rial . Ticket, and for the trausac ofsall business that may come be fore:said conyention„ notice is hereby giveift,iiat a Convention v.:ill he. held Ciort ll . ouse in Coudersport, our lisp 1; . ,14*(1ay of May next, for the pur ritse. of electing delegates to represent 1.14 c.,uttrity, in said State Convention, and al o in Ora National Nominating k.'onyention, to be held on the 17th of June next, at the same place. All who are opposed to the repeal of Op Missouri Compromise, to the ex tension of Slavery into the Territories, ;;;tid in favor of the admission of Kan pas as free State, are earnestly in:. Nitvcl ineet.in .Coudersport on said 31st day of May next, at 1 o'clock, P. N., for the above named purpose, add also to effect a more perfect organiza tion in our County, preparatory to the ensuing Presidential and State elec.. . • ISAAC BrNllol,i, ChairwanoithoCounty Elecutive Committee couderspurt, April 4th 1856. far " Though we are not capable of shining in learning or the police pits, pct every eno is capable of eN cel!ing in.senictbing," rir Connecticut speaks for Free- Roth . branches of the Legisla ture contaiq a majority of men opposed to pro,slarety PemocrEey, So thlat pliant, tool of the slave power, Isaac o.upoy; can retire to the shades of private life. What a good time the Warren Ledger, and its pro-slavery asseciutes must have looking at the disponifiture of their opponents ! We wig! them joy of theii occupation. -''the attentive reader }will see iu anothPr column the marriage notice of Hei.iy Lucien Bird and Miss pd. The newly married couple have our best ‘Vislies for their `futire usefulness Eel happiness. ;kfr f Bird is among our very hest young mon, and we judge ha' has chosen wisely and well. if se, life will hereafter have new cliarrits for Paeli of them. May they discharge all- its duties cheerfully, promptly, and hopefully. The printer's fee is gracefully ac knowlAged. rg'% Tliere is another excellent com munication from our untiring friend in this number of the Journal. Wo commend it to the'attention of all, especially to fast youug men, and the advocates of an unrestrainod traffic in intoxicating drinks. The Lycoming Gazette might find fiod for reflection iii titit.letter, gi'm The best of men may ileserve put!islinlent, but the worst may not de ivVve httppin9ss." • " They who naCkst. ' passionately hnr,ur pleasure, Beldomest arrive at - kV" There is a fine freshet in all the streams of the minty. The snow ries off so gradqally that we are not . likely to have water high enough to do any damage. or The average wages of female t.eache.ri in this county tho present elea*Lis. three dollars per week: and board. We Rote this as an improve =Mit ; and we trust the teachers will an'ai"schargp . theirdOS.ties as to deserve and:secure still bighei wages in 1857. Gir The next. tern} of the Couders port Academy will cnnsnrope on the geo day of May. If the ppople of Potter county have any desire to pat- Tonftie the best school opened in their . midst, .let them be well represented pn that ueeesio-t. Our friend Horton_of Cushing ' gives notice that his Gristmill is in good condition. See his advertise- Meta in another colurtm:. rr The Town Couniil- have, from time to : time passed excellent ordi nances fur the improvement of our Bot clue, which. havo.exertedea happy influence on the, comfort and pros perity of the town. But-there. is one serious evil to which the, city fathers do not seem to have directed their tendon. We velar to, the practice of smoking in the streets and stores, espe- Fiall'y in the. stores. It is too bad to have - dry goods establishments, where the ladies are expected to trade, filled p with a cloufl:of filthy tobaco smoke. If the proprietors - have not stamina enough to protect their rooms and their fi kmds from such pollutions, we trust the Town Council have. Let the neuisance be abated. TEE STATE TICKER, It is along time since we had the pleasure of supporting a State ticket so heartily and so confidently as we . do*the one put in nomination by the Union State Convention, which met at Harrisburg on the 21st of March. We have little doubt of ;he success of the entire ticket. \Ve are persontilly accpainted with two of the capdidates, and knoW of no other two men in the State more worthy of confidence. It will be . a proud day .for Pennsylvania ;When these men enter ep he duties of their office. . The unanimity with which this ticket is supported by the opposition press of the State, is most encouraging ; for union on such a ticket, and the strong anti-Nebraska platform- on which it stauds, must • be productive - ef the happiest results. THE ANTICS OF DBOWBING XEI? The Warren Ledger is responsible for ;he lolto%ying effort to grasp a straw The opponents of the demociatic• party are in a most pitiable condition. They are cut up into bitter and furi ous faction's, and in their utter despair of success agains l t. the Democracy, will fall to work to abuse and demolish each other. We . do not think that either the Republicans or Know-Noth ings proper, can hare any reasonable hope, at this time, of carryinir a single State in the Union. The Democrats can coolly. look on, rind be amused at their perpl4ities, As the above appeared since the New Hampshire election, we are afraid our friend of the Ledger stands in need of a straight jacket, After having carried the old Gran ito State, what may the Republicans not hope. to carry ? When Pierce . Democracy succeeds in carrying a single free State, the Ledger may take heart, but till then, we advise it to prepare its house for the day of judg ment. FATAL AFFRAY We learn with deep ,regret that an affray occurred at Wellsville N. Y. on Friday evening last, which resulted in the death of a young Van Buren— Martin, we believe he is called. • We shall not undertake to give the particulars, because we should do in justice to some one. most likely, in the attempt; for always on such occasions there are two sides each endeavoring to throw the blame on the other. • - This much however we are safe in saying. The Clinton house and Van .auteu's have each kept what is called a runner at the Depot, on the arrival of the.cars to induce those who may stop, to go to their respective houses. These runners have doubtless imbibed pretty freely and the rest' . - was heat ed and angry contests whicii for a month past have clearly indicatej a fight, The quarrel thtis engendered came to a head on Friday night last, in the death of young Van Buren who . was knocked on the head with a club by the runner from the Clinton House, and stabbed by some one as yet. unknown. The young man- from the Clinton House was immediately arrested ? and will be tried for murder. " This is a terrible calamity to all concerned in it, ' and even to the village of Wellsville. We trust it will put a stop to the runner nuisance, and be a warning to the afflicted, that they cannet violate one wholesome law Whiten; inducing the violation of others. TSB LIGHT OF SLAVERY Be r fotis consenting to the eitensiott pf slavery into Kansas. or .other free territory, it would be welt for the peo ple of the free States to understand how much they are tamed for the support of the peculiar institution, Those who would like to give this. subject a -thor ough investigation, are referred to-Mr. Olmsted's " Seaboard Slave States." The following paragraph from an able article in tbe Tribune, will show the fruitfulness of the theme : The North is often invited to mind her own business, and leave the South to manage hers: But unluckily, this is a little thing which the laWs of political economy—laws as fixed and inevitable as those of light and of gravitation—will not permit her to. do. The South cannot exist without the North. Every article that isconsurned there, from the cradle and . the pap spoon to the coffin and the grave -stone,. we have to furnish. 'The beds in which they lie, the chairs on -which they sit, the clothes they. wear, the hoes and the gins for their slaves, the very slave-whips which. form the -main spring of their social machine, we sup ply them with. Ai they want the things we have •to .sell, the laws of trade compel them to flow in certain "proportions into these channels. Only, here we have to enconnter another inscrutable law, the operation of which, in our blind haste to get gain, we are- apt to overlook i to wit, that a country cursed with so thriftless a sys',. tem of labor as Slavery, cannot, pro duce, in an average of • years, enough to pay for what it wants. Hence the periodical bankruptcies which square off accounts to the ruin of so many merchants and manufgeturers. Per haps there is no better test of the busi ness character and probable solvency of a section of country than its postage bills. If is not necessary to renal] the precise figures, but the last time we saw them footed up there was but one Slave State that paid its postage ! And that was Louisana, through the Northern merchants in New-Orleans. The Empire of Smith Carolina, as we remember it, fell short of paying what it costs to carry her mails by $7O-,000 ! These immense deficits we have to make good, and so as to all the Dona sareis and superfluities the South needs. We know men of large business wfio have adopted the inexorable. rule never to give credit South of Mason's & Dixon's . line..—to their great benefit. It is too much to expect that wisdom like this should generally obtain where business is carried on as it is with us. But until it is, we must make up our minds to bear the cost of supporting our paupers at the South. TEE OLD LANDMAMICS The betrayers of freedom have al ways. accoinplishe c il their purposes with fair words on their lips: The first Napoleon overthrew the Republic of France while professing devotion. to it. His nephew repeated the orime and these men have several imitators in the Milted States. For instance the leaders 'vvho pro cured the repeal of the Missouri com promise did so tinder the guise of for popular sovereignty and devotion to democracy. Whereas; in fact, they set popular sovereignty at deaf ante in the repeal of that measure ; for nct ¢ congressional district in the free states, but was opposed to it, and the same men_trarnple on popular sove reignty now by upholding tbe acts of the Legislature imposeel oe Kansas by the Missourians, And the men who do this claim to be democrats! So did the Napoleons claim to be Republicans, until they had destroyed every , vestige of free dom. Was the claim of the • Na poleons ftny more impudent and tin founded than the pretense that Doug lass and Pierce are Democrats The I-Tarrisburg convention which nominated Timothy Ives for Surveyor General, adopted the following reso.: lutions Resolved, That in the repeal of the act known as the Missouri Compro mise act, and the passage of the act organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, free from unconstitu tional restrictions, the last Congress performed a work of patriotic sacrifice i t ; meeting the demands of sectional excitzment by unshaken adherance t o th e ilordamental law. 1 - Usolved, That we fully endorse the adrainisuation of President Pierce as national, faithful, and -efficient—fully &mil to all the important emergencies Which the - oauntry has had to encoun ter, and that he has worthily maintain ed her interests wad honor at home and abroad. ' Was a greater insult ever offered to the people of this state, than to tell them that the party 'which adopted these resolutions is democratic '1 le there any resemblance between the administration of Franklin Pierce and that of Thomas Jefferson 9 Were the pipuies who assembleciat 'Harrisburg, better judges of constitutional restric tions, than the full2-grown statesmen who drafted and preserited to the Ameripan people, the constitution as a bond cif - union 7 What" , are the old landmarks on this question ? For tunately these are so well defined that he who runs may read. The first National territory was.ac quiredin March, 1784, Within a month on the! 19th of April following, a com mittee of the old oontinental congress, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, with Messrs. Chase and Howell, reported a plan far the temporary government of the Territory; which provided among .other things, "that after the year 1800 there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in .any of the said states, otherwise than as the pun ishment of crimes wereof the patty shall have been convicted." Such was Mr. Jefferson's plan for agonizing Territories, even before the adoption Qf the constitution. It met with opposition at the south and was not adopted until 1737. Immediately after the adoption of the Constitution, as re-enacted, so that slavery restriction by act of Con gress, is as old as the government itself, and was established as the lead ing principle of the nation, under the championship of the author of the Declaration of Independence—one of the fathers of the Republic, and the founders of the Democratic party. We submit, therefore, that the above resolutions' which pronounce slavery restrictions unconstitutional and un democratic; are an insult to the people - 4f PonlasylvaPia, NEW POLITICAL ISSUES. .We must again call the attention of our readers to the fact that the friends of slavery Make larger demands on the people of the United States from year to year. One usurpation on their part, and one act of acquiescence on the part of the people, draws after it another usurpation and another sub- Mission. The more they obtain the more they ask, and the more boldly they - press their projects. The friends of freedom are. simply reduced to the defensive. Regions in which they thought their rights secure are invad ed ; ancient barriers of legislation erected against the progress of one of the worst despotisms are thrown down, and now the party which has posses sed itself of the federal administration denies the propriety of any restraints on the slave trade, We have a new issue introduced into our party con tests, and if Mr. Pierce's friends suc ceed in the neat election of President, we shall be called on to acquiesce in a law to make that farm of piracy le , gal. Sometime since, the southern party bralie ground on this question ; but it was reserved for the present moment, and for the eve of a Pasidential elec tion, to see the slave trade defended, applauped, and made a virtue by north ern men. In the administration organ in this city, a - daily print called the Day-Book, supported by the principal office-holders of the federal govern ment here, a series of articles has ap peared, containing a systematic justi fication of the slave trade, .and a de nunciation of the laws by .which it is restrained and punished. We quote from its Saturday's issue a paragraph in which the administration doctrine pn this poinOs stated : Hln our article on Thursday, on this subject, we stated that modern civilization absolutely demanded the natural productions of the tropical and tropocold regions of this oontinent—,_ that their growth or cultivation abso, lutely requited the labor of the nen•ro, as that of the white man was physi cally inapplicable—that -without this negro labor a very large and the very finest portion of the continent would have remained an uninhabited and an uninhabitable wilderness—that not only. commerce, progress, the well be • ing of modern society, demanded these products, but the daily subsistence of millions depended, on their growth and cultivation, Furthermore, we stated that ;the three millions of ne groes now in our midst—the decen dants of those brought in by the slave trade, were, in comparison with any similar number of their race in Africa, in a condition of well-being so immeasur ably superior, that we had no terms or means to fully express it, and with these. undoubted and unmistakable facts before. us avo were inevitably forced to the conclusion that the cause of all . these , beneficent 'consequences must, from the nature and necessity of things, be in accord with them, and therefore the 4fricein, :lave trade was right." In theso terms is' the slave trade commended by those who speak for Mr. Pierce and his administration.— Eve. Post. The Slave Power very naturally concludes that if. the North will ac. pima La the repeal of tbe - Missouri Compromise; it will submit i to a revival of the African Slave trade ; and we have not a particle of doubt, 'that the leaders of Pierce democracy area in this county would yield even this. The people must repudiate the party that passed the Nebraska bill, or there is no depth - cifdegradatiOnto w'hieitits leaders will not sink. THEY DON'T KNOW WH4T TO DO WITN H"t St.--rEvery body. remembers the story of the man who bought an elephant at auction, because it was going cheap. After the animal was "knocked down" to him, and had paid the price, and taken him home, he be gan to be troubled as to what he would . de. with hini. He• could not himself carry him round as a show ; he could not get him boarded ; he had no place to keep him; he could find nobody who wanted to purchase him, and at last, hemould not give him away. It is in that position that the " Silver Grey" gentlemen and themselves who pro Cured the nomination of their lead er at Philadelphia. They have got their elephant• on hand, and they got him cheap enough; It was only .nec cessary to league with Slavery, that was all the price necessary to be . paid for him, .and that to them was a small sacrifice, in fact a mere nominal thing,. But the question is, what are they. to do with their elephant ? They first offered him to Massachusetts, but she will have nothing to do with him. They offered him to. Rhode Island, .hut she declines taking .him. Not a New•Engiand State will buy, hire, or board him—Pennsylvania or Ohio trill not take him ;* no Western State will have him, and there they are with their animal crying him in the market -,-Who wants an elephant ? Will some State answer 7 Who will buy him 1 Who hire him ? Who beard him 1 . Who take him as a gift 7—Al bany Register. . , . From the Indepnockmie (31o.) Dispatch . 21E040 IiMiED; Our city -was thrown into a state of excitement this morning by the ap pearance of a negro- man upon the streets with a drawn pistol in his hands with which he attempted to shoot sev eral men, The circumstances, as we learn them are about these; Thomas Smith, who owned the negro, had sold him to some one, and .had him in one' of the stores for the purpose of securing and lodging him in jail. The City 'Mar shal caught,hold of him for the -pur pose of securing him, but the negro got loose from him in the struggle and ran into the street, drawing at the same time a Deringer pistol, ‘hich he presented at all who attempted to arrest him. The Marshal followed after discharg ing several shots at him from a revolver, none of which took effect; then followed a long chase, in which quite a number prirsued some throe or four hundred yards, during which time several shots were fired by . dif ferent persons Dorn - the crowd. Mr. Smith, his owner, tried to stop him on horseback by riding him down ; but he took to the fence, and as he was climbing over, he received a shot from Mr. Smith's revolver. After this he ran some distance, when he was over taken, upon whic o presented his pistol . at Mr. Tyr , , a d fired, the ball e 1--- 1 passing directlyever . us head, grazing his hair. Thereupon several -persons rushed up to see him, when he pre sented another pistol, and defiantly bid them come on. He again ran on, when Mr. Chiles met him and bid him stop, upon which he raised hi' pistol to fire, when he received a shot from Mr. Chiles' revolver, which felled him instantly.. His arms . wore then taken which consisted of two single-barreled pistols, a large bowieand pocket-knife when he was placed upon a horse and brought to Dr. Twyman's office l. He hreatheehis last before reaching the office. . He received one shot in the thigh, and one passed through his lungs in the direction of the heart, ,He was a negro of a desperate character, and had successfully resis ted two attempts to take him prior to .this, It is to be hoped that this will prove a timely warning to others who may bo inclined to rebel, For the Journal. arm FROM EASTSIISTPHFISLDI Ma.. EDITOR : C. P. was one, of the most loved 'of my youthful associates. His form was one of rare perfection. He had beautiful blue eyes, rose-red cheeks and lips, and a head of light, sil ky, auburn hair.' 'He was the oldest of a number of brothers, htit 'be bad two sisters both older than himself.-- Through the influence of these, C. was introduced to the scenes of the "Ball Room" at an early age. 'Ere he had Attained his eighteenth year, he had become expert in "Tripping the light fantastic toe," and seemed to regard himselfes at least, cqua/ti an n_whose society he mingled. His Father; at this time, was wealthy and indulgent; and as a fashionable " Spree"was of . frequent recurrence, C. became a " EUt young man." He speht money fast, drove fast horses, and grew old enough to get married fait ; so that when he had lived about a score of years, coin ing across a fast little girl of sixteen summers, he made love to her fisat and gained her hand and heart there with, if heart she had, That is they were marriedja4t. About the time of this last. event, I left those dear remembered scenes and did not return to reside there again until a dozen years Were fled; Meanwhile, C's father had purchased a farm fur him some fifty miles distant, to which C. and his young bride had removed. Here for a number of years .he was employed in the sober work of tilling the soil; but npt_being satisfied to. let well enough alone"• he ex.- changed his farm far a 'ravens Prop.. erty. Here for some time. "lie 'toad inbialitall, Repeating o'er.liti friendly call What will you_ have. I'll IMITG yOLtall:' and was enjoying the uneirfrable rep- - tation common 'X) • ram-sellers, when. lv L An arrest is made. - Two . young men are overtaken by the proper offs-- cars, and two valuable horses are re turned to their owners. The youth full appearance-of the lads as . well at their general ignorance leads to the' suspicion that they . are not doing business on their ow:n -'look." They are questioned, reminstrated with,. and finally persuaded to confess that they are in the employ of a• company: of which C. P. is a' leading member.. Suffice it to say, that ha, with others,. was tried, found guilty, and. sent to , Auburn State Pilsen - fur a term oE years. . A few refloctions on ibis case 1 A man may be licensed by law , to do a work destructive of the health. the morals, and the happiness of whole families, and yet be caught and im prisoned for stealing horses. 2 It is not clear from the foregoing, that a higher value is placed on horses than there is on the peace and well being of society ? When will it be time to class Rum-sellers with horse theives an& treat them accordingly? 4 Would it not be ai catsistent for some, men to petition our courts fur license to steal horses, as it is for oth erii to ask license tosell "liquid death? And should not the former - be con sidered' as honorable men a 3 the lat• ter 1 R. L. STILWELL. April 3d. 19.56. 143ar . r1cZt. In Montgomery county, Stub of Maryland, April 7th, 185 G, by the Res. Mr. Wentworth L. Childs of Georgetown, D. C.. Mr. Heim' LIIDIEN BIRD of Potter Co. Pa.., to.Nliiis BETH ZELYINA ELD, of Montgonoerl County Aforesaid. HURRAH ! HURRAH! TnE Water has come at last, and . all who Wish to have their grinding done in th• • VERY BEST OF ORDER, • just bring your grain to the Cushingville Grist Mill and. there you will find J. M Hor- ton, giving entire satisfaction to all. You who doubt give him a call, and you'll not be sorry. . N. B. Wheat and Buckwheat floured .fer market, on the shortest notice. Vushingville, April 12th, 1856. /Micah J. N. Haskins f In the Court of Com VS. won Pleas of Potter George Nelson County May Term Icis3 . i‘o 71. he undersigned having been appointed by the_Court, Auditor' to distribute the money arising from the sale on esecutto.us of the rted estate of the Defendant in the above entitled tee , will attend tiS the duties of hi e appoint metit at the Pruihonutary'..l lu the .Dero .of 'Coudersport; it the 17th day - of May"b46; at one n'clock.P. M. where ait persons interest- ed., may. attend if itteythinkproper. 1% D. TILER, . Auditor. • TC. A!•r'a Ch•rq Pocsral, and Pi 2.401 •/ • R•IL ' -
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers