:v Elopement of a Cltf Counsellor with a Widow. As much of the world as is comprised within the purlieus of the Queen City of the West, was startled from its staid sense of pro* pnety on Saturday* by iheannouncemem that u well known citizen, and a member of the Council for the Thirteenth*Ward, had been playing the Don Juan, sod departed from the city m company with a lovelv and dashing widow, the mother of four children; while he, the gay Lothario, had also left behind a young wife nndWo'iinteresliog.pledges of her affection, wi'h a speedy prospect of another budding blossom to their union. The name of the erring City Father is Joseph Darr, Jr., one of the liveliest members of that uniform chamber of dullness, wherein municipal laws are enacted while the inamorata is a relict of the late Mr. Joseph Armstrong, and the daugh ter of Captain Summons, an old and respect ed citizen, and for many-years connected with the mail packet line between this city and Louisville. The parties are nearly connected, the wife of Darr being the sister of the late Mr. Arm strong, and consequently sister-in-law lo the woman who has stolen her husband.. We have heard it whispered (hat the course of marital felicity was somewhat ruffled a few rnon hs since, petween the modern Joseph and liis spouse, in consequence of some let ters haring fallen into the hands of the. latter, written lo her husband by the naughty wid ow, breathing of love and devotion, and hint- ing at— “Favors secret, sweet and precious.” ' whfch hnd passed between them, such as the ancient Joseph, of Poliphnr notoriety, would have flown from with terror. Be this as it may,it was discovered, on Saturday morning that the inconslam Benedict had appropriated nil the cash he could command, and, in com pany with a widow, who, it is said, had in her possession a large sum of money—re ports vary from 810,000? to 830,000* was “off to Baltimore,” as it is supposed, en route to Europe. Previous to leaving, he executed a deed be queathing some pecuniary interests, as well ns a liquor business in which he was engaged, to his descried wife, who however, as soon as n became certain that the elopement had ac tually taken place, sent despatches to the au thorities of the Eistern cities, with accurate .description of their persons, and orders for , his arrest. Whether this will he effected or not, remains to be seen, but the affair has caused a vivid sensation in this city, as well as f'Jewpnrl, where the widow resided, and w here she has left her four fatherless, and nowj motherless children. Her first born, for she has had five, was the child poisoned in the James Summons affair, and for which he, her brother, is condemned to pass the remain der of his life in the Stale prison. Darr was a staunch democrat, as might be inferred from his -being a member for. the “bloody thirteenthand his little peccadillo will be sadly felt by “diflqicrals” in Council, for the parlies were so nicely balanced that they had but »ie majority, so that Darr, al though his virtue was not as nicely balanced ns it might have been, nevertheless may be said to have eloped with the balance of power which had inclined to the party, who, since he has cm loose, will find themselves reduced to a tie. Sale of the inalu Line. On Saturday fast the Governor signed the Bill for the Sale of the Main Line. The fol lowing is the advertisement of sale: Notice is hereby given that by authority of an Act of the Genera! Assembly of Pennsyl vania, approved May 16,- 1857, entitled “An Act for the.sale of the Main Line of the Public Works'’ there will be exposed to Pub lic sale, at the Merchant’s Exchange, in the city of Philadelphia, on Thursday the 251 h day of June, 1857, at 7j o’clock, P. M., the whole Main Line of Public Works be tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg, consisting of ihe Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, the Alleghany Portage Railroad, including the new road to avoid the inclined planes, with ihe necessary and convenient width for the proper use of said Railroads, the Eastern division of the Pennsylvania Canal, from Co lumbia to the junction, the Juniata division of the Pennsylvania Canal, from the junction to the Extern terminus of the Alleghany Port age Railroad, and the Western division of the Pennsylvania Canal, from the Western ter minus of the Alleghany Portage Railroad to Pittsburg, and including also the right, title and interest of the Commonwealth in the Bridge over the Susquehanna at Duncan’s Island, together with Che same interest in the Surplus, Water power of said Canals, with the right to purchase and hold such lands as may be necessary to make the same available, and all the Reservoirs, Machinery, Locomo tive Cars, Trucks, Stationery Engines, Work Shops, Tools, Water Stations, Toll Housed, Offices, Slock and Materials, whatsoever and wheresoever thereunto belonging or held for the us.) of the some, and together all the right, tirle, -interest, claim and demands of the Com monsveahh'of Pennsylvania to all property, real, personal and mixed, belonging to, or used connection with the same by the Com moowealtfc, on the terms and conditions pre scribed by t&e euid Act of Assembly, copies of which may be obtained on application at, or letter addressed to ihe Office of ihe Secre tary of I lie Commonwealth at Harrisburg Pennsylvania. ' JAMES POLLOCK, ° Crocer*or of Pennsylvania , A Dear Shot. —During the last winter a farmer in the upper part of (he country wae sorely annoyed by the incursions of a neigh bor's cattle on his shocks of fodder. For ben ring from time to lime, he was at length thoroughly aroused one of those bleak, snowy days, with the announcement that had fallen dolefully on his ears half a dozen limes before —that Mr. ■■ ■ -*s cattle was eating up all his fodder. Without taking any thought, our incensed farmer seized his “rifle, powder and hall.’’ and made forthwith for his stacks of fodder. • Loading as he went, he fejt in his pocket for wadding, and without looking at the paper, down he rammed it. Having reached the spot he fired away, when all at once he felt some misgivings as to the char acter ol the wedding used. Subsequent ex amination proved that he had used a small roll of bank notes in his vest pocket of the value of $l5O. father a dear shot.—Fred ericksburg Ilerald. THE A GITATOR. -Editor. Id. U. C0bb,.... WELLSBOROtTGH, PA. TlumdaT Hovblbs, May 38. TSS7. *,* All Busmess,and otlicrComroßeicaiionsmust be addressed to llie Editor to insure attention. Republican Nominations..- Far Gmnrnor-,- DAYID WILMQT, Of Bradford County. For Canal Commissioner^ WILLIAM MILL WARD, Of PMtad'lpkia. For Supreme Judge r, JAMES YEECH, Of Fayelit County , JOSEPH J. LEWIS, Of Chester County. Gov. Pollock has appointed oar fellow townsman Mr. J. Alexander, one, of Ins Aids, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel We congratulate the Got* ernor npon this accession to his body-guard, and can assure him that the Colonpl will prove himself true blue should he ever be callejl into actipeservice. Wc don’t say that it made any difference, but the sweet-breathed, rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed truant lassie, -Mat, returned immediately upon the issue of our hst number, in which wc crossly chided live unac countable delay of Spring. Wc are having magnifi cent Spring weather. The hills are beautiful to louk upon and the woods are more gloriously array ed thau they can be again until touched by the frost of autumn. The opening leaves of the maples a\id birches, in contrast with the sober hemlock and soU emn pine, lead an inexpressibly beautiful aspect to the forest landscape. The airundulates with bird songs, the purple mists droop down to the hills like the curtains of “ Eve’s bright pavilion of gold.” and all the visible of the outer world is lovely be yond compare. This to be a fruitful season without doubt. Farm ers arc behind with their Spring work somewhat, yet ere this paragraph meets the eye of most read, ers, corn-planting will be generally finished and po tato-planting well advanced. , The subjoined “ pome” comes to us anonymously, but it is realty so insinivalin’ that we cannot afford to disappoint the author. We bow in all mceknkss to its implied censures of our meddling with the de. velopmenl of poetic genius: to the editur i think it is my callin in this world for to rite, and he what cannot see it must be verry short o’ site; yew think it is yewrc calliu to |be an editur, -and ij donl dispute it nor medie with it Snr. | ive ril sum for yewre paper But ycwve cast em alt away, or else yew hanl receved em on count of sum delay, if the fust, i think yew mist it to D warf yewre paper’s fame, fur i dident rite fur muncy nor for to git a name. But i ril becos'twras dewly, and tur the public'good, others wood like me far to rite and wood print all that i wood. -- ide like to have you print this . that fokes can hear it all, nor think no ritero all to blame and the printers not at all. There, Sir Unknown ! We’ve printed some of your thoughts, any way. Let us recommend to you a little more of the same kind of exercise-—you can beat that without much trouble. Victory, There is nothing more inspiring to the human mind than the promise of Success. Men will dare every danger, encounter difficulty and peril every minor interest to win the battle of Cir. cumstances. They may put every present joy behind them—willing to defer cveryjprescnt good for the one great good in the future. | There is nothing so dreaded as Defeat. Every energy is pressed intb action to avoid it. Every guard is set to give warning of the approach of Its Possibility. Every effort is directed so as to drive it back to the realm of shadows. Yet, there is nothing so little comprehended as ihe nature of a true victory; and when comprehend, cd, there is nothing so little attractive to the aspiring portion ol mankind. True Victory, seen in its prop er light, would present to the eyes of most aspirants a not more faithful and. attractive picture than the ardent lover would find in the spectacle of the ob ject of his affection standing before the washlub in shilling calico, and who ensnared him in silks and satins. Men idealize everything. Victory may be glorious and it may be shameful. So defeat may be shameful, or glorious. All de pends upon kind. The nature of the victories most coveted bj r ambitious men is not wholly divine; hot on the contrary, they oftener retard the elevation of the race, since they are too generally the results of labors prosecuted for self-aggrandizement. When such labors ultimate in defeat, that defeat is glori ous. True victories are moral victories. True defeats arc moral defeats. There is no danger to a good cause from what men please to denominate “defeat’ because the Right carf never suffer moral defeat There is more danger to be apprehended from false victories than from any other quarter. The strength of any cause lies in the measure of the faiih repos ed in Eternal Justice by its advocates. Transient successes render men and parties self-sufficient cause them to put their trust in the sagacity of men rather than in the wisdom and justice of measures and the power of right principles. A man may be defeated a thousand times physically, yet, undis mayed, be morally invincible. So, yoke the jman who has tasted the sweets of Freedom, and he shall still be free—free morally and spiritually free. He still abhors tyranny and revels in the glory of that which he has been. He is not defeated because his judgment is unconvinced. He is not conquered, but waits opportunity to assume the character of which, before the world, he stands divested. The more quickly the Republican party accus toms itself to look at victory and defeat with that calm philosophy which consents to present reproach cheerfully, in view of the ultimate triumph of the Right over the Wrong, the more quickly will that triumph result. The advocates of just and human lung measures need never to compromise wiib the advocates of unjust and barbarous measures. Eve ry compromise with Wrong but makes its cradica. tion still more difficult. Wc have an example of the danger of such a policy in the compromise up on which the Union of these States was founded. The framers of the Constitution acceded to ihe de mands of a moneyed aristocracy for the sake of present peace—hoping against reasonable hope, that the monster would grow weaker the more it should be nourisll£d and strengthened by legal countenance. THE TIOGA COEKTY AGITATOit.- : Tli-whoWliwmnf of the Past itfig with vo(c« of solemn warning.'-Common agpnsi suofa& diweganl oPUs plainest^prccepts; imi it avalbd nothing, •* They compromised ior present peace, and hcqtiea thed “to Ureir'posterity anloiernc sine morat-and-polltical-war* They found Sbvery an evil which had become formidable Oon*domestic cation* The. best men of those Umea sagaciously concluded that then was the time to strangle the monster in its cradte- They were dfaer to do mor al tattle with tyranny. - Snclrwas*lhe counsel of Franklin, Mortis, Gcrrymnd Mfdisoa. But . then, as now, and as there will ever be, there were many with wliom present success was everything, and oh that altav theyrwero ready .to sacrifice everything but persona! honor. We past on judgment oa (heir action I bat the experience of mankind does not add weight to, and that t», that men may be great, good and wise, irfthe worid*» esteem, yet lack stamina to fight moral battles. A moral battle most go before every physical tri umph. Discipline measures the morale of an army because it renders men philosophical. Kb bailie can be won without discipline. It gives men confidence in themselves and in each other,and itleachcs them that unity.of action is indispensable to success. And thus military discipline arouses the moral cner. .gics, and renders them more efficient in the field. Before Freedom can achieve a permanent victory in this earth Its filends have a great moral field bat tle to win. Men must learn that place and power are not worth striving for—not worth a moment’s thought. They must learn to forget Self in remem bering man, to hbor for the love of the Right, and not to foster a hankering for the loaves and fishes. They must learn to forget the claims of individuals and of localities and ta give all their energies to the redemption of bruised, bleeding and suffering Hu manity. In plainer terms, the Republican masses must become philanthropists in soul as in profession. There are some in every community who wbuid peril the best of all causes by attracting the public mind from the great humanitary questions of the day in order to fix it upon questions of little moment to the people at large and no moral profit to any. body. Such persons are not to be despised or per secuted, but pitied, rather. They are usually such as have wrecked their political health In the u wild hunt for office/ I —political dyspeptics, who have hankered after the honors and emoluments of place until their disease has assumed a malignant type. Let them have free access to the light and nutritious food of unrestrained grumbling, and they will cure themselves if their disease They do not care a fig for the result of the great battle of Right, nor for the present or future success uf,principlcs. They adhere to parlies as barnacles adhere to a ship’s bottom—to be tolerated until (he craft shall be overhauled and the unsightly parasites scraped off. Republicans, we hare but one question to ask of ourselves, each and ai), and that is, u Are we con vinced of tiie righteousness of our principles and the justice of our cause?” If the answer be ‘Yes,* then we may not stop to inquire how soon we shall achieve the certain victory over Tyranny nor when. We have only to labor on the end, rich in the re warding approval of Conscience, bleat in the con scioosness of duly performed. We may not win to day, nor to-morrow; but wc cannot be defeated if ,we keep the end in view, but shall come out of eve ry trial purified and strengthened, and with a living faith in the Promise to “such as shall labor dili gently to the end.” In reply to our question, as to what he would da in a case like that now patent under the bogus ccn sus.taking in Kansas, the editor of the 'Wayne Co. Herald says: 14 Why, sir, we would go, or send our name to the census taker, and have it pul on the list, just as the Kansas law provides for such omissions—-just as we doin Pennsylvania now. When our Assessor leaves a voter's name off the list, he, or his friend, goes to the Assessor ten days before the election and has it pot on the list oflaxables.” Our friend seems to have forgotten several tilings in liis reply. We did not presume that an advocate of 11 submission to (he powers that be,” however nn just and oppressive those »* powers” may actually rebel; but we did think that he might in. advertently blurt out his disapprobation of the fraud* ulenl designs manifested in every measure of bis parly in Kansas and toward Kansas, from its recog. nilion of a bloodier than the Draconian code of laws, its sanction of systematized murder and arson, down to the removal of Gov. Geary for doing something for humanity to the criminal neglect of 'die interests of the Democratic party. And we therefore asked him what “he would think, and say, and do,” un der such circumstances. He has no word of disap probation for such manifest fraud and unfairness. That editor knows very well that we based our in quiry upon a state of affairs supposed to exist here as it exists in Kansas—in which the power of the ruling party should be usurped. Now, why doesn't he meet the question fairly and squarely?* Why doesn't he say that no just and equitable action Could be expected from an usurping power; and therefore that no man with ten grains of commog. sense would hunt up an assessor, or census-taker who made it a point to violate his official oath in the discharge of one of the plainest and simplest of all duties! Another thing —toe do denounce the outrageous misconduct of democratic officials in Kansas for po- Hlical effect; and jus?t as we denounce the miscon duct of the gambler and ithe libertine for moral ef fect. We believe that tile principles of the demo cratic parly are just as pernicious as those of the gambler and the libertine. And" we ' sdbmit lhat when the leaders of a parly dare not condemn the the perpetration ol the worst of crimes lest they damage the sordid interests of that parly, it is high lime tlmt-somchody should be found with moral en ergy enough (o denounce thosejeadersas accessories to crimes lo'which modem history furnishes no par allel. Some little time since we endeavored lo foreshad ow the probable future policy of the NalionaM)em ocracy in regard lo the negro race. We endeavor ed to allow, ancj/ still think that we succeeded in showing that the Democracy, to-be consistent with the decision of Lord Chief Justice Taney, would at once proceed lo recommend a sale of the free blacks of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of paying off Uie State indebtedness. Accordingly, wc arc not at all surprised lo find that the Democracy of Venango have met in Convention and among other matters adopted the following resolution by an unanimous vole: | 'Resolved, That the State Legislature be requir ed to inquire into the expediency ot liquidating the debt of the Stole by the *ale of all persons of color now residing in Pennsylvania.** Col. in favor of the resolution. He supposed the proposition might be startling to some! but thought it feasible and consistent with the decision of Judge Taney. His remarks were listen ed to with profound attention. Probably the colored people will be glad to bear that tire Legislature has adjourned /or a few months, and their season of probation is extended a brief span. The democracy have but to secure a legisla ture like that just dispersed, with Mr. Packer as Governor* and this novel plan fur liquidating the State dqhiraiy futword. Xel the Dbmoc- T9.qyrat«s' the cryrS* Puckei and liquidation. 11 Wc fear l&iseif might possibly object to a refunding of lbejfStale's own, } TlieJßej>ul>llcan_Couniy Stand ~l ligXohiranfeeTlor ‘ parpbses'bcreinafTe>“tb ;Ue appointed--the following Con*-. hniUecvof-▼lgtfance, for lire rctarectrve'clcotida dts tricls, viz: * Blue —Wm. Buller, J. James, Margin Stratton. BrooUfield —1. Plank, Wm.SSmmoris,l>. D, Seeley Chatham— Ransler Tolea, T, W..Slatk, Moses Lee. Charleston—h. Ritter, Lyman Poller, W B Vanhorn. Co»inglon— Hiram 2lmels* H. Kilborn, H. Jaqutsh. Jo Boro I —S S Packard, L B Smith. Ira Patchin. Clyour—H K Hill, A A -Amsbry, Clark Beach. Deerfield —E S Seeley, E. Bowen, Newton Buckley. Delmar —C. Royce, J I-Jackson, Chaunccy Austin. Elk —John Maynard, Lorain Wclmore. Elkland —M W Stall, G H Baxter, James Beebe. Boro*— L Culver, D B Shoff; Jno A Hammond. FarmingVn —Jos Peters, Rhodes Hall, Renben Cloos. Gaints—Vl C Vermllyea, D K Marsh, A K Furman. Jactaon—Clark Stilwell, VVp? Garrison, H L Miller. Knoxville— J GoodspeeJ, Augustus Alba,V. Case. Lawrence —M S Baldwin, J Guiles, C Blanchard. Boro* — DrVDa rl i ng, Chas Stanton, Jas. Kinsey. Liberty —R Peter Brion, Michael Shcffer. Morris— John Puffy, W W Babb, H S Archer. Mtddleh'y-y&'G Stevens, J B Niles, D C Chase. Mantfield-iA J Ross, H Allen, Jno A Holden, Osceola— Bosard, Morgan Seely, James Tubbs. R*tla»d—}oe\ Rose, Jno Vannes?, Chas Sherman. Richmond— .l R Spencer, J C Johnson, Geo Madge. Shippen— Wm Dimock, E W Grinnell,G Seagecs, Sullivan- P Parkhurst, H B Card, Lafayette Gray. Tioga-E T Bentley, A E Niles, Vine De Pni. Union- R V Vanhosen, Thoe Larabee, N Palmer. WrWsfeoro-Wmßobefts,!* I Nichols, J F Donaldson M*Naughlon,CGoodspecd,C Phillips Ward~W ra MTnlosh, A Kaiffkn," Erastas Kieff. Tite Committee have thus early commenced pre liminary preparations for the campaign, because it is highly important that the campaign should be vigorously prosecuted to the end. They believe that the Republicans of Tioga thoroughly understand the issue upon which this campaign is to be made, as also the bearing which victory, or defeat will have upon the progress of Freedom! and believing this, they content themselves with simply urging upon their fcllow-Republicans the necessity of vigilance, and action, instant, and constant to the end. Republicans \ By your votes last November, you raised Tioga to her proud position as the Banner County of standard-bearer in lire conflict of Right. We need not say that to re cede from Uial high position would show to our brethren elsewhere that we had failed in vigilance and activity ; or tiiat it would be hailed by our op ponents as an impeachment of the integrity of Die masses; for this would be the inevitable consequence of such a recession. But, knowing Hie intelligence of this community, and that the masses have pledg ed.their uncompromising hostility to Wrong and Oppression upon the altar of Conscience, toe do not fear that Tioga will retreat an inch; but confidently and with reason expect , that she will handsomely in crease her already overwhelming majority for Free Jom, The Slate Convention has given us one of the no blest and best of Freedom's champions for a stand ard bearer— Wilmot —whose name is familiarly and often spoken in every Irceman’s household; who is dear to every Republican heart because of his long and unwavering adherence to the principles in the support of which we rally, and to whom, more than to any other public man, do tbc triends of Freedom look for the redemption of Pennsylvania. The Con vention did its duly—let us do ours. The Committee urgently recommend the Com mittees of Vigilance to enter at once into the work of organization. It would bo well to revive the Clubs which rendered such efficient service last year. It is important that an early meeting of each Club be hod, for the purpose of raising a small fund for the purchase of documents tor gratuitous distribu tion ; and further, to sub-district each election dis trict and appoint canvassers to procure correct and politically classified .lists of all voters, and such as may become voters, In each district, to be returned to the Club for future use and reference. Tftts is a very important matter, and the CwraUlee trust <1 way uoths. rxeglsei^d, M. H. Cobb, Chairman . j J. B. Potter, Jons Dickinson, C. H. Setmocr, Robert Cassbier, Ambrose Barker, J. Tbrbb. - . Tiie Bogus Lam. The assertion so frequently made that the Bogus Legislature of Kansas has repealed its obnoxious'and bloody “laws,” enacted at the former Session, is false. A single one of those acts —that imposing a political test-oath on voters —was repealed, with one section only (the twelfth) of “An act to punish offenses against ‘Slave Property’—the sec lion which punishes as a felon ‘any free per. son’ who shall ‘by speaking or by writing, assert or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in this Territory,’ or who shall circulate any paper or pamphlet assert ing that same. Twelve other sections of that same atrocious act are unrepealed and in force to-day, so far as the enacting body can give them force—among .others, these: “Sec. 11, If any person print, write, in- Iroduce into, publish or circulate, or cause to he brought into, primed, written, published or circuited, or shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, printing publishing or circu. lating within this Territory, any book, paper, pamphlet, magazine, handbill or circular, con taining any statements, arguments, opinions, sentiment, doctrine, advice or inuendo, cal culated to produce a disorderly, dangerous, or rebellious disaffection among the slaves in this Territory, or to induce such slaves to escape from the service of their masters’, or to resist their authority, he shall be guilty of felony, and be punished by imprisonment at labor for a term of not less than five years.” “Sec. 13. No person who is conscien tiously opposed to holding slaves, or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this Ter ritory, shall sit as a juror on the trial of any of the sections of this act.” Scores of such enactments remain, and new ones of like lyranical and partisan character were added at the late session. And yet thousands of well-meaning citizens have been made to believe that the despotic partisan acts of that Legislature, intended to uphold Slavery, have all been repealed. —Pittsburg Gazette. \ The N.‘o. Bella, in an article on the ar rest of a suspected slaver at that port, thinks it "strange that this officious Federal Govern ment of ours persists in harassing American commerce with Africa, in respect to the lat ter’s staple article of traffic.” The .Della evidently labors uuder the idea that ours is a free-irado system, while, on the contrary, the legislation of the country is the’mosl protect ive possible. It encourages the domestic pro duction of niggers by absolute prohibition of the foreign article, and the planters of Lou isiana and Mississippi have for slaves four times as much as if they were allowed to buy them in the cheapest market, accord ing to the dictates of "a sound political econ omy.” _ This is an inconsistent world.— N. Y, Tribune. A paper is to be started in Indiana, with the attractive title .of “The Culchcr Knife.” ? l £MsUourt l« be Free. ■. It seems tof-be reduced to a certainty that ;>n earlaf and" unexpected fruit of the Kansas excitement .will be to-precipitate the triumph, of emancipation in Missouri. Recent events TiaVe directed special attention to that| State ; and her great natural resources, and[ almost boundless extent of fertile and unimproved lands, have allured a vast number [of emi grants from Illinois, lowa, Indiana and Wis consin, each of these Stales having,contribu ted largely to the population of Missouri ibis spring-; -The late emancipation- movement has greatly accelerated this emigralion, and the information which has been so widely spread by, the friends of free .labor, in regard to the small number of slaves in that Stale and the limited’space occupied by slave tabor, has bad its natural influence. It appears that the entire slave population is about one hundred thousand, against a while population of eight hundred at|d fifteen thousand. That Slavery decreases wherever it comes! in con tact with the immigration of white laborers is demonstrated’ hy a recent Stale census, which proves that since the census of 1830 the white population of the Stale has increased' thirty seven per cent., while the nurnber of slaves has increased but fifteen perjeem. in the same time. The high prices which ne groes command in the cotton-growing States operate at the same moment to promote the results we are noticing; and as the extreme value of Cotton bids fair to be maintE ined for a long time to come, the migratory moveijnent of the blacks must continue, in accordance with the inevitable laws of trade, and will go an increasing until it completely drains those more Northern Slave Stales in which other labor can readily be substituted. A prime field hand will now command in the Cotton Slhtes from 81,5000 to 83,000, which at the legal rate of interest (10 per cent., in Missou ri, and the cost of clothing and risk of keep ing, is equivalent to 830 per month and board—a price for labor that would call to Missouri such an army of foreign laborers as would speedily cause her wilderness to blos som. At present the hardy men lof lowa and Illinois, who understand the position and prospects of Slavery in Missouri, tire those who are availing themselves of her cheap land and favored climate—the immense east ern emigration to those Stales enabling the older settlers to dispose of their improved farms at Jiigh prices. Thus the ttyo forces of cheap lands and dear negroes are solving a political problem, under the operation of a natural, or if you please, a higher, lajw, which is both inflexible and irresisiible.p-iV. Y. Courier and Enquirer. i Tiic San for the Wilmot Cant-- paign, 1857. From and alter the first of June we shall issue fifty thousand extra oopiesof our weekly paper, for the successor the election of David Wilmot and the whole Slate Ticket. , We want the friends of the cause through out the Stale to sustain us in this e iterprise. We want the press throughout the State to second it. We want them to announce and recommend it to their readers. '* Let-clubs be formed In .every borough, township and county, and let the pames be sent in at as early a dale as possible!, so that our'mail hook may be at once made up, and no one who may wish to have it fa|r present or future reference shall fail to receive a full file. ' { Fifty thousand copies weekly, of a paper of forty columns, devo’cd to the'[cause of sound Pennsylvania doctrines, to the repudia tion of all ullraism, and to the support of (he position on the subject of Slavery and Slavery extension, taken by those wljo oppose the principles of the National Adminis tration, and the Cincinnati Platform cannot fail to exercise a beneficial and salutary in fluence on the prospects of the Wilmol State ticket. Each issue will contain forty columns, and will be furnished at the rale, for the cimnnign, of fifty cents, or of five dollars to clubs of twenty subscribers, or one dollar pur-annum for pur present weekly. Danville. Pa„ Tuesday, Way 12. Alleged Wife Poisoning. —A horrible case of supposed wife poisoning has just been reve'aled at this place, caused by the death, under suspicious circumstances, of Mrs. Cath arine Ann Clark, on Saturday last. It having been ascertained that her husband,! puddler, named. William Clark, had purchased on several occasions previously, both arsenic and strychnine, in order as he alleged, to poison rats, and her sudden death soon after, a sus picion of fotil play was Sreated. Clark was 1 arrested and a Coroner’s jury summoned to investigate the cause of her death. A post mortem examination was also held by three eminent physicians of Danville, the result of whose investigations have not yet been made public; although, it is asserted, the physi cians agree that her death was caused by arsenic. They artfnow analyzing the con tents of her stomach. The husband of a Mrs. Twiggs died about three weeks since, under similar circumstan ces, and for certain reasons suspicion rests upon her as being and accomplice of Clarke’s. She has been arrested. The body of Mr. Twiggs will probably be.disinlerred this even ing for medical examination. The public excitement is intense to ascer tain the result of the analyzation o: the con tents of the stomach of the deceased. No verdict has yet been rendered by the Coro net’s jury. [ VVhat it Costs Sometimes Tq Repeat “Heaksajt.” —Last week, in Canandaigua, a case was brought before Judge S thong for adjudication, which involved the question as to whether the retailing of scandal, [is ajfinea ble offence. It was an action for - slander, brought against Mr. Edwin A. Sohth, of East Bloomfield, by Miss Sophia I-’ixtEir, of the'Same town. It appeared that t|ie defend ant had circulated a report to the effect that Miss Pixlev, white connected witbja Concert Company known as the “Ampbions,” had been in the habit of occupying a{ bed with her brother? The only defence w{as that he qualified the statement, by saying that he did not know except by information received from sources which he named, whether U was true or not. The jury returned a! verdict of 52,j00 forthe plaintiff. Vazettc. MrsTESiocs Disappearance. —'Charles Lefferls, & native of Buck* county, Pa., ha* disappeared in a mysterious manner, and has occasioned, we understand, considerable anxi.' etjy. Mr. L. has for a number of years past resided below Philadelphia, where by hi« iq. dustry he has accumulated a snug little for. tune. He not long since- purchased a' farm of 58 acres in Hilltowa township, far $4,300, pf which sum he had paid $5OO, The latest known of him was on the morning of the 23d of March last, when he left the house of his brother, Garret C. LefTerts, residing near Ninth and Franklin Avenue, Philadelphia. He had then with him between $3OOO and $4OOO, ta make Cull payment on hi* (arm, and said ho would lake the Northern Penn* sylvania Railroad to get ttere. Since then bis relations and friends have not been able to get the least trace of hint. He is a single mao, of undoubted character,_ 38 years, I about 5 feet 10 inches high, weighs about 1185 pounds, dark hair and whiskers. A libe. ral reward will be paid for bis recovery, or I for‘ any information respecting him, by hia -1 brother, Simon LefTerts, or Thomas Ir dell, Postmaster, Horsham, Montgomery, county. Pa. The money in the possession- of Mr, LefTerts when be disappeared, consisted of $2OOO in soles on the Bank of Delaware county in $5OO and $lOO each—the remain, dcr is supposed to have been mostly in gold. [Editors of newspapers abroad, would confer a favor on the family by publishing the above particulars.]— Lan. Repub. Death from Poison Used in the Manu facture of Brahdy.—Ai about 11 o’clock Thursday morning, a clerk in the employ of Mr. Wright, liquor manufacturer, at Bramp ton, leu the store for the purpose of manu facturing n quantity of brandy from raw spirits. He took with him a preparation used for this'purpose—by some called essence of wine, and by others essence of brandy. The preparation was placed on the table in the warehouse? and the deceased (Mr. Mor ris) after preparing a portion of the liquor, returned to the store, and took a glass of ale with some friends from Toronto. He had scarcely returned to his former oc cupation more than five minutes before the porter ran into the store in great alarm, ex claiming, “Mr.'Morris has been tasting the essence of brandy,and it,has killed him.”—. On those, present running to the spot,, it was found that the report was too true; thesuf. ferer had inadvertently lasted a few drops of the drug, which is nearly allied to prussic acid, and instant death was the consequence, of the unhappy mistake. An inquest was held in the afternoon ; but the verdict of the jury was not given at the time the cars left Brampton. Mr. Morris was a very well edu cated young man of highly respectable famiy in Gloucestershire, England. Men Always Fit for Freedom.—There is only one cure forahe evils which newly, acquired fteedom produces, and that cure is freedom! When a prisoner leaves bis cell, he cannot hear the light of day ; he is unable to discriminate colors, or to recognize faces; but the remedy is not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and, bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bond age, but let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men learn to reason ; the' extreme violence of opinion subsides ; hostile theories correct each other ; the scattered elements of truth cease to con flict, and’ begin to coalesce; and at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos. Many politicians of our timeare in the habi l of laying it down as a self-evi dent proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. Ther maxim is worthy of the foot in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had iearned.to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may, indeed, wait forever !— T, B. Macaulay. Admissions and Predictions. — A cor* respondent of a Milwaukee paper, calling himself a ‘‘Free Democrat,” (probably an office holder,) writes from Kansas, making the following statements, which we must admit to be true, as it cannot be expected that the writer intended to damage his own party? First—That four-fifths of the Free Slats men of Kansas are Republicans. Second—That there are a few feeble Free State Democrats, like himself; but unable to effect anything against the "National Demo crats,” who are Pro-Slavery. Third—That this Pro Slavery "party will send their most talented men to the Conven tion, and will frame a Slave Constitution containing a clause prohibiting any amend ment, except by nine-tenths of the voters of the State, until the year 1900. Fourth—That Congress will admit the Stale with such a Constitution, as a Slavs Stale, as a party and Admioislralion.rn easure * The source from whence this testimony is derived gives it an importance which does not attach to all statements oi a similar char acter.—Elmira Advertiser. Sace of an Irishman in Kektockv. — A white man was advertised la be sold in Cov ington, Ky., on Saturday, by the Sheriff. His name is Hughes, and his crime, vagrancy, He-isan Irishman, and his servitude is to last five months. The Alabama Journal thinks the Dred’Scott decision should go a step further and place men of foreign birth in the same status with the negroes. This pror ceeding_would suit that print exactly. The editor of the Statesman, we believe, is a Kea> tuckian. What has he to say about ihisprot ceeding in his native Slate! We were not aware before that selling Irishmen was one of its Mpccul'nr instijtutiaps,” —Qhia Stale Journal. \ There is a negro named Grey, now living in Chicago, who holds a passport under the hand of the Secretary of Slate, broad seal attached, which declares that he is a cilizee of the Uoiied Stales, and guarantees hirn protection. Mr. G. also holds a certificate of commendation, made in 1835, which is signed by James Buchanan, who therein stales that “Mr. Grey js a citizen of the United States. In view of the recent decision of the Supreme fcqurt, the question arises how and by wb al Uaw colored men have ceased to be citizens since ! \ /
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