“An .Excellent Mistress.” An intelligent lady of the City of Wash ingiun sends us the following: Last Sunday was an exceedingly hot day —mo hot, I thought, (or me to go to church ; and as I stood gazing out the window at the motionless leaves on the trees, I saw some dozen -slaves passing, men and women, In dian file, each with a basket on their head, 1 sent for one of them to come in and one of the men came up the steps, all dripping wi : h perspiriiion, and set down his basket of cherries on a seal under the kitchen window. He asked for some cold wa'er, and as he drained' the pitcher at a draught, I said to him, “Well, Dick, it is a pretty warm day. Sit here and rest you, and I will gel you something to eat. I want to talk with you a liule. How far have you come this morn ing 1” “’Bout fourteen mites. My wife and 1 got up and picked these cherries ’fore light this morning. VVe couldn’t pick ’em you see last night, wo was so tired. We had to work (ill daylight was gone.” “Well Dick, hive you a pretty kind master 1” “I haven’t got no matter, it’s a mistress; she’s an excel lent.ndslress.” I thought i would question him pretty closely and find what he consid ered an “excellent mistress,” so, I said— ‘•What makes her so good, Dick, is she bel ter than the rest of them V' “Oh, yes, mis sus, she never whips us, and lets us pick cherries and ihings to sell Sundays.” “What do you have to eat!” “Well, we has a half a herring for breakfast, a half a herring fur dinner, and none for supper, aad a peck of unsifted meal a week, only in case of drought, a half a peck, and drought comes pretty op en ; (hen we have a piece of pork, once in eight weeks, about the size of this (holding up half a slice of bread), and once in three days a half a pint of bonny clabber.” “Do you love it 7” “No, laws bless ye. but ’bilged meal someihing or perish.” “What allow ance do your children have; those 100 young lo work?” “Well, we has to divide with them; don’t often eat to my satisfaction on account of my children.” “1 suppose you never expect to be free 1” “No, not unless I gits disabled and can’t work, then, they’ll give me my liberty. A man told me not long ago, it wouldn’t be many years he thought, ’fore we’d all have our freedom ; been in my mind ever since, made me feel good. Well. 1 must go along and try to sell my cherries and git back before dark, or I don't know what they’d do with me ; the Lord bless ye,” and he reiifled his cherries and went on his toilsome way, and now do I know what con siitu'es an “Excellent Mistress.” A. Tribune. Tlic Whole Story. A young man named Jtfmes Powers was hanged al Washington, on the 261 h till., for murder. Just before mounting the scaffold he bade his brother farewell, and said : “Remember what I told you ; let the liquor alone.’’ The same counsel has gone forth from a thousand scaffolds in this country, says the Philadelphia Evening Journal , and i's echoes are heard in many a prison cell. We waste much breath and ink in specula ting upon the causes of crime and its extra ordinary increase of late years. But the confessions of the criminal tell the whole truth of the matter. It is rum that makes demons out of men of originally good im pulses ; it is rum that is filling our prisons, feeding the gallows, and diminishing the se curity of life and properly. Under its ac cursed influences, men who when sober, would die rather than commit a dishoncrt action, scruple not to perpetrate forgery, robbery and murder. Not many years have elapsed since a man of fine intellect and generous heart was sent to a cell in Moya mensing upon a charge of forgery. Not one of those who knew him intimately, be lieved that he was capable of such a crime. The evidence adduced against him proved that he had acted in a wild, crazy manner while consummating the deed. The fuel was, that intemperance protracted for months, had perverted his impulses and deranged his mind. It was a madness, and there was no method in it. . Rum has had the same effect upon hundreds of. others of less note. Of all the propositions for the prevention of crime, we are strongly persuaded that there is none of equal efficacy, with the simple edvice of young Powers—“ Let the liquor alone.” Albany, July 11,1858, This has been the hottest day of ihe sea» eon. The thermometer at 9 o’clock this morning marked 97°. At o’clock we had one of the most severe rain storms ever seen in this vicinity. The streets were flood ed for half an hour, so as to be impassable. The wind blew a gale, uprooting trees and shattering chimneys and awnings. In the country, a few miles from here, there was a terrific hail storm. Slones larger than hen’s eggs fell, doing considerable damage to the crops. Two miles below this city a vessel loaded with lumber was blown ashore. Lexington, Ky., July 10, 1858. City Marshal Beard was murdered by a man named Barker, while endeavoring to arrest him. A crowd collected and hung the murderer a few hours afterward. At Milford Mass., a boy at work in one of •the shoe shops in that place recently found in an old mail bag, which the proprietor of that shop bad purchased to work into shoes, a letter which hud been mailed at an office in Tennessee, and directed to another place In the same State, and which contained four fifty dollar bills, a twenty, a ten, a five and a three—in all 8238 ! This firm. has pur chased several thousand of these worn out mail bags, and several other letters have been found in them. Three men from over the Kingston Moun tain, says the Record of the Times , passed our office last Friday, bearing a large pine or hemlock bush between (hem, having a large swarm of bees clustering upon it.— They had carried it from near Bear Creek, on the Easton Turnpike, surrounded by a few leaves lo keep ofT the sun; and the swarm seemed contented with the ride, and quiet, notwithstanding the constant shaking from ihe motion of their benrort. It was a very curious sight. THE AGITATOR. M. 11. Cobb, Editor St Proprietor. WELLSBOROUGH, FA. Thursday Morning, July 15, ISSS. * t * All Business,and oUierCommonicationsmusl be addressed lo the Editor lo insure attention. We cannot publish anonymous communications. Republican Convention—Aug. 37. Delegate Elections- Bullard, Brothers come out with a new bill of fare this week. They offer fine inducements to pur. chasers. Try them. Judge Wilmot bolds a Special Court in Wellsboro, commencing Monday, 19th insl-,' and continuing two weeks. We hope to see many of oar Republi can friends during the time. We have a copy of the new Militia Law with the approval of the Governor attached. Those wishing (o train $9 worth a year can go-ahead now without fear ot a “ sell. 1 ’ It is a law,'friends. Were the Borough Fathers to set about harvest ing the bountiful crop of thistles in the streets, just now. bclore they go to seed, they would do a good thing. A delay o{ one week will cause mischief. The preliminary trial of Gen. Lane for the mur der of Col. Jenkins, has resulted in his acquittal. We suppose it may be considered legal to shoot a man for drawing water from his own well. It may do in Kansas. One of the best literary papers published, and the only really healthy aud unexceptionable family pa per devoted to literature which comes to us, may be found in Life Illustrated. It may be ordered of Smith &. Richards. Thts region was immensely benefilted by the co pious rains on Sonday and Monday. The plowed fields were parched and the roads were smotheringly hut and du»ty. The farmers have not yet commenced haying. We learn that grass is but pn average crop. Gov. Packer has ordered an. Encampment of In struction to be held at Williamsport on Tuesday f 7th of September, next ensuing. - It will continue during six days and i* intended to gather all the uniformed companies in the Stale. Pay, $1,50 per diem. Personal. —Mr. Frank A. Root, with whose or. casional letters from Kansas the readers of the Ag itator are familiar, is now in town on a visit. Mr. Root reports the existence of hard Limes in that ter. rilory, of the same nature as those which afflict the people hereabout. We have likewise received a vis it from Mr. Wm. M. Botler, formerly of Blossbnrg but late of Kansas. Both gentlemen look as if Kan sas climate and fare.had well agreed with them. “Sweet-Brier"— Welcome. There is poetry in yon. ; “ Frank.” —Yours came too late for insertion in this paper. The course taken by the Slate Conven. lion will have to govern us in publishing or with holding it. < We were not able to reach several communica tions which came to hand last week. u Gales-' Your chapter on “ Oxygen" is re ccived and shall receive early attention. The Better Day—Coming. To some the Coming Day is a season of Jobilce and Arcadian joys; to others it looms in the future a day of reckoning and wrath; and to others, still, there is no Coming Day revealed, or intelligently hoped for, but only a seemingly eternal Present. To some the signs of the times are always clo qucntoracles of impending change. To them the world of man is ever on the eve of a great revolution. They discern great disturbances in the gioral atmos phere and gravely foretell an impending earthquake whose convulsions are to obliterate existing mural and social landmarks and distinctions -and to up heave belter ones. These mental peculiarities are not capricious, but constitutional, inbred. Tbelr subjects are hopeful for Man, however visionary and extravagant—belter friends of humanity thaff either of the other classes named. One day, in which all these things shall be made plain to us all, we may find that the world has been on the brink of impending revolution ever since time began. We may find that lime is made up of inlerblcndcd cycles oi change that unremitting change is the great law of growth, spiritual, moral and physical. This being true, the seers of im pending revolutions no longer appear in the charac ter of visionaries and extravagant men. Their per ceptions have touched the seal of the great law of Change whose impress is everywhere. But the rev elation is partial, and hence our seers tail in their oltcn predictions. The wiser class now begin to un derstand and to teach that natural changes are grad ual and unremitting; that there can be no period of rest in the divine economy, but that the mural rev olution of the universe is no less a condition of Us being than the annual revolution of the earth is es sential and undeviating. We have been led to these reflections by reason of the often remark of many valued friends to the ef* feet that the world, and especially this Republic, is about to become the scene of a politico-morul con vuUion, destructive of wrong and triumphant for Right. Believing in the findl victory of Truth over Error we do not doubt the /act of impending revo lution; but its progress will not be attended by any violent and general overthrow ot existing forms and institutions, social, or governmental. Permanent and healthy reforms are wrought out by impercept iblc degrees. Ills belter thus than otherwise; for every reform rests upon the mural status of nations, and that, in its turn, depends upon the discipline to which individuals have been subjected. It Is customary to hear the protracted Bufferings of our fathers daring the seven years* war of the Revolution, made the theme of pathetic dissertation. But had Banker Hill proved the Yorktqwn of the Revolution; had the war ended with that battle does any one believe that our present Constitution would have bad an existence 7 Reflect a moment; markiiow narrowly we escaped a hereditary mon archy as it was; how vague and general, how crude were the ideas entertoined of the best torm of gov eminent for the infant empire by the purest and best men of that day. We but just escaped a he reditary government; and bad lhe*independence of the United Colonies been acknowledged the day fol lowing the fight of Bunker Hill, lhare is ample rea son to believe that the Government of the mother country would have typed our own. It is a mistake to suppose that our fathers rebelled against the form of government under which they lived; they rebell ed against the tyranny and usurpation of an imbec ile ruler under the lead of a despotic ministry. It was no fault of the form of government that the col onies were oppressed. Much greater oppressions are tolerated under our institutions than those for which the colonics flung 65* the British yoke. But seven years of (ho discipline which elevates men's sonls as well as tries them, prepared those THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. patriots for a more liberal form of government than the world had then seen. That discipline, combin ing;poverly with disaster, was necessary to the im planting and sustaining of liberal insulations, such as we now boast, imperfect though they are. And itis-already paiofnHy evident that the active period ~ of the American- Revolution was too brief tor the 'preservation ol our liberties. That discipline was sot sufficiently prolonged for the good of this gene ration. Wo are like spendthrift heirs just come in to possession of a vest estate accumulated and pre served for us by the labor of others. ' As" we 'know nothing of its cost, so we know not how (o husband its precious increase. We are feckless and daring, mad with too great prosperity and rushing headlong to moral bankruptcy. Our rulers lead in this race to Rain. We have no great moral gniding-star, no abiding love of trae Liberty to lead us onward. Alas I it needs no prophet to foretell the end of this career 1 After moral bankruptcy there can be no greater fall for a free people. Already the moral aspect of measures is forbidden to be discussed un. der pain of Executive displeasure. We are a nation of moral cowards, plucky in words and dastards when the pineh comes. We bully Mexico, mutter threats at Spain, thunder at Brigham Young and duck our heads obsequiously at the roar of the Brit ish lion I We can crush Mexico and may bully her with impunity. We could add to our slavje territory by picking a quarrel with enervated Spain. We could minister to tha avarice of speculators by driv ing the Mormons from Utah. But we could not hazard a war with Great Britain without endanger* ing the interests of a handful of negro-drivers at ; the Soutli; therefore we shall put up with all man ner of insult from Great Britain. We know that a war with her would work the ruin of Slavery; and we know that the ruin of Slavery would be the ruin of the Democratic party; therefore if England in sults us we will swell with indignation; if she per sists and looks ugly, we will collapse and call it a M misunderstanding.” We are not going to do any thing to endanger our Southern goods and chattels* If our Masters ask for room to spread their Mnstitu lion,’ and a few hundred millions of money will buy it, wc shall buy it; bat if money will not pur chase the land we will conqner it—at whatever cost. We backed down on •* fifty-four forty” because the disputed territory lay too fur north. We backed up and fought Mexico because Texas offered great in. ducements to the avarice of our plantation masters. We are a shrewd, a calculating people. But this slate of affairs cannot last forever, nor can it be bettered, permanently, by sadden change. The people must be educated up to that moral plane whereon the men of the Revolution stood after seven years* discipline. They must be lifted above the level of Expediency ; and when they become so ed ucated we shall find corruption in the minority as it now is in the majority; and we shall find the peo ple of Pennsylvania above fusion with traitors. Ang. 31. CT The Americans of *54 yet live, and though the Abolition faction, which always bitterly opposed us, now refuses to support a union movement, there are enough without their aid to give a quietus to the Buchanan faction,as it is now but a faction of the Buchanan parly of ’s6.— Phil. Daily News. The editor of the News is the Columbus of News paperdom. He has made some notable discoveries in his day. His discoveries, like Handy Andy’s wit, always come out in blunders. He discovered that Know.Nolhir.gism would “ pay,” sometime in 1855—somewhat later than most of his colcmpora ries. In ’54 he heard of the collapse of the United Slates Bank and the repeal of the tariff of ’42. In that eventful year he discovered the tomb of An drew Jackson, and thereafter held his peace touch, ing that illustrious man. In ’56 he discovered a magnificent “side-door” outlet in the- “Union” platform, through which the “Americans of ’54” were led to theslaughler-house of John W. Forney. In ’57 he discovered Isaac Hazelhurst and Bucher Swoope, and dragged them from obscurity into the subdued brilliance of his footlights. The same year he discovered that the Agitator was not “ orthodox” in matters of faith and belief, and hastened to an nounce to his readers that Davio Wilmot was no better than an infidel! As if Judge Wilmot kept our conscience, or we kept his ! But Columbus Sanderson needs only to see the shadow of a man’s coat-tail to comprehend his creed. Columbus has a handkerchief with the Shorter Catechism and the pathetic picture of the burning of John Rogers in. scribed thereon. He binds it about his head by night and with it wipes his nose by day. When he sees a sett of jackso rows he pens a fierce article on the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition. He crosses the street gingerly knowing that the Jesuits cross their foreheads and refuse meat on Fridays. All in all, the editor of the News is approached by but few editors of our acquaintance; but if he will come op lo Tioga we will take him over to Wayne and in. troduce him to our friend of the Herald. The VedeUe is assured that it was not expected to sec the force of our reasoning. We have long-un. derslood that peculiarity of human nature some times manifested in “convenient deafness/* but, as in our friend’s case, very often cropping out in the form of convenient blindness.” No man can be convinced against bis will and our friend occupies that position exactly. v The “ Union Convention” will have closed its la bors ere tins reaches our friend of the Vedeile t but we cannot forbear asking him what business Repub. licans have in that Convention ? Do they expect to control it? Should they succeed in controling its deliberations, do you suppose the Sanderson-Swope faction will abide by its decisions? If not, and it is folly to suppose acquiesce, then what have you gained ? And if Republicans do not con trol the Convention what have you lost 7 We can answer that: You will lose your self-respect. Oar friend thinks it our duly to lake hold and help to make the world better, instead of keeping aloof from it because it is so wicked. Ay, ay, sir; but you ask ns to aid in making the world worse in order to reform it. You ask us to attempt the ref. ormation of Sanderson and Bucher Swoope. You mlgb. as well ask us to go on a missionary enter prise to the infernal regions. Thank you,Jones, we can afford to stay nearer home. The Devil was a very good saint whilejbe was sick ; hot with re turning health he cast £ne garb of sanctity. If the Sanderson men follow hi; lead after the Convention adjourns, don’t grumble. In conclusion we beg to assure the Vedette the people o! Tioga will have no representatives in that Convention. Our freemen never strike their colors. O’Teach a child that there is harm in every, thing, however innocent, and as soon as he discovers the cheat he will see no sin in anything . That's the reason deacon’s sons seldom turn oat well, and preachers' daughters are married through a window. —Truth in a NxU-ShelL Every reflecting person knows that the Dumber of unqualified wrongs is not great. Most evils are boro of the abuse of tilings in their Datura and use good. The children of many beside preachers and deacons are not. taught the difference between the use and abase of things. Dancing is one of the mo?t healthful of pastimes, rightly indulged; it has become one of the most hcallh.destroyiog pleasures, as indulged in modern times. There is no belter or more manly exercise than bowling on a ten-pin alley ; yel you cannot tbave a public bowling saloon without a drinking and belting accompaniamenl! When children are forbidden to indulge in these and kindred.amusemenfs. their use and abuse should be full; explained. But we are aware that man; per sons cannot distinguish' between the use and abuse of things. The; disposer, organic evil in every thing under the sun: Even Man, the highest man!, testation of Deit; in creation, is utter); devoid of .good b; nature. It is plain enough that the sons and daughters of such parents as often turn out ill as otherwise. They.soon find that there are not a few very good people under the sun. It is best to bd truthful with children. ®crmmtmicatcons. Wtaat la Republicanism ? In these perilous limes, when party organi zations are distracted and man; becoming dis integrated, it becomes Republicans to look carefully to their landmarks, to see that no false lights allure the. Republican craft from its straightforward course, and lo keep steady and (rusty men at the helm, who shall guide on the ship in its exalted mission lo the port of its destination—the port of success and of public safely. Repuolicans should be very careful that no compromise be made of which they may afterwards repent. The triumph of such an alliance would be more barren than absolute defeat. , Ought Republicans to compromise principles with those who have voluntarily forsaken their cause in the sup port of ours? No sir? The simple act of their leaving their party to join us, should in spire us with new confidence in the righteous ness of our cause, and teach us to esteem it the more highly. It would be the height of folly to sacrifice our principles for the pur pose of exalting those who have rendered us timely, though but temporary assistance.— The Douglas men indeed, upon the Lecump. ton issue, changed their tactics from the Ad ministration to that of our own. So far, that was a virtual acknowledgment of the superi ority of our pplipy over thsirs. Shall we, then, set aside those principles which dictated (hat policy, and adopt others, widely different, in order to please the Douglas men ? Would they respect us the more highly for such a course? No! Depend upon it, they would despise us for it. But fusion is advocated as an act of gratitude lo the Douglas party. — Should we not rather express our gratitude for their assistance by welcoming them to a parly whose principles in this respect they have so warmly espoused as being superior to their own ; and not by sacrificing those principles which have given us success, and which we have so longnnd ardentlvcherished. But the Philadelphia convention is urged as an apology for fusion. Let us examine, and see how far (he circumstances attending that movement justify the conclusion. The call for the Philadelphia convention, was address ed “to men of all parlies notwithstanding pas? political differences, who were in favor of “ restoring the government lo the principles “ of Washington and Jefferson.” Now the spirit of this address is both right and consis tent, and yel it clearly contemplates a fusion. Indeed, “men of ait parlies” were invited lo participates the movement, but only “such “ as were in favor of restoring the govern “ ment lo the principles of Washington and “ Jefferson.” Here the course of the party is plainly indicated. Its foundation is fixed upon a firm basis, and upon no other could it possibly stand. The call was not addressed lo all who were opposed lo the present, past, or any other administration ; for there might he men just as wrong in principle as the Ad ministration itself, and yel honestly opposed 10 it. A fusion with such would secure noth ing, and would not be right. But the call be ing addressed “to such” and such only “as 11 were in favor of restoring the government “ lo the principles of Washington and Jeffer “ son.” No “entangling alliances” were lo be made, nor were any made. There are many wrong ways, but there is but one way (hat is emphatically right; and that for Re publicans is the one marked out in the Phila delphia platform. Among the leading prin ciples of that platform, are, Ist. A faithful adherence to the constitution and the union ; 2d. The equality of the Stales, and an un qualified acknowledgment of their rights; 3d. The non-exlension of slavery ; 4th. The exclusive jurisdiction of Congress over the Territories of the United S ates. No con vention calling itself Republican has nny""au thority lo adopt a platform materially differ ent from this, before the assembling of the next National Republican convention. That convention contemplated no tirade upon any party farther than they stood opposed lo the principles above enunciated. How different the fusion then, from the one now contempla ted in the Slate of Pennsylvania. Then, the fusion (if it may be so termed) was for the tesloration of patriotic, long-tried principles; now, enmity against a single measure, or rather, hatred for a single man is the only argument adduced in favor of it. How wide ly different the circumstances which then combined to render fusion necessary, from those which now surround us. Then, the Government was in the hands of a parly . which had become corrupt by ils long con . tinuance. The confidence of the people had been abused by ils outrageous conduct. Offi ces of public trust were in the hands of am bilious, unscrupulous demagogues, who were strongly disposed to tyranny. The peace measures of 1820 had been fudelv set aside, and already the people were suffering from ihe hostile agilalion which the repeal of these measures re-opened. The people of our western Territories were bleeding under the tyrannical policy of the Administration, and the parly in power had avowed its determina tion of making them bleed still more. Their constitutional rights were disregarded by government officials, and anarchy and con tusion” prevailed. Amid these Bark and troubled scenes of American politics, a party was demanded for Ihe restoration of tepubli can principles, and for the suppression of ' these many evilsi Hence originated the par ly, calling itself with much propriety “Repub lican.” A noble work has it done in the cause of universal freedom. Though beaten in ils first attempt to regain possession of the Government, it has yet succeeded in thwart ing ihe passage of the Lecompton constitu tion—a constitution originated in defiance of all law, and urged upon Congress in opposi tion to the clearly expressed will of the peo ple; an instrument baptized in the lowesLsink of political iniquity; stuffed;with every ,pesli lent drug of infamy and corruption, and a fit consummation of the many frkuds, outrages, and high handed villainies perpetrated upon the virgin soil of Kansats. And now having become a strong national patty wears urged lo compromise principles, and; fuse with those who but a short time ago fought us the most bitterly, and all for the sake of obtaining the spoils' of victory, to be shared with our ene mies. Republicans, the cause in which you are engaged is a good one.| Your prospecls were never brighter than nojvi Yog hare al ready faced the enemy, and vanquished them upon their own ground. 4 you now upon the eve of a final -victory, abandon your cause, raise the flagof'lruce, and sur render the weapons which constitute your chief defence, by treacherously bartering away those principles which -have proved so effective in silencing the enemies of your country ? fs this the part pffwise men enga ged in a warfare for right?. The clankipg chains of three millions of Islaves, and the unavenged blood of vour countrymen upon the far-off plains of Kansas, (bunder an eter nal negative. Then rally around the Phila delphia platform! Unfurl | the true Republi can banner lo the breeze, [with its motto : “JVb more slave Slates /” shining upon every fold, and glittering- uponj every ribbon.— Your platform is broad and strong enough to hold all who wish to join [the Republican ranks. It is sleadfast and sure enough lo up hold and protect the Constitution and the Union from the attacks of their assailants, and upon it you can sweep tdown the ranks of the slave Democracy With all its abomin able isms, and shame ils cringing supporters by evincing a good degree] of ■patriot-ism. Cherry Flails. Vi A. Elliott. for the Agitator. d For the Agitator. Mb. Cobb; I am very sprry that in this hot weather one of our citizens should have been ihe means of creating any undue excite ment, and I am sure Judjjei Grier could not have maliciously intended to raise a fever heat at a season when repose is so much needed. It cannot now de jhelped however, and the only way for our good friends and democrats to do who were ‘sdearnesily urged to take office, is ,to consume jihemselves with the reflection, that though pome of their plans were defeated, they were pot defeated by the machinations of any Simon-pure Lecompton ites. That class of animajs never mUs the scent. Our friends, who were offered, « f-c., perhaps begin even now to suspect that devo lion to Lecompton, does not-in all the ramifi cations of the Government;, command suc cess ; and that the league Iso ardently and devotedly entered into at a late political, I had almost said judicial gathering, to crush out the influence of a highi.Siale officer, or “compel him to lake the pack track,” may not lead to expected results. The late at tempt to crush out lllinois might be an intimation to the , shrewd .ones of the league to take the back, track themselves.— “Offers” made by political wire-pullers are not always tantamount lo; offers made by the appointing power ; and wipei-pullers, too, may sometimes mistake the sentiments of men, who, lo judge from the pasf, they suppose to be of their own way of thinking, and so un fortunately urge inappropriate arguments. — But let that pass. It is trply unfortunate that a Black Republican shou(d-have received an appointment through the influence of a Dem ocratic Judiciary, but thp misfortune is em phatically the misfortune 'of the person ap pointed. Perhaps Judge Grier may have thought it lime, no longetf to appoint Com missioners who lake it for granted that be cause a'man is black hej should be sent into' slavery, and consequently reverse the rule of evidence, and require him to prove himself a freeman, instead of requjring the claimant to prove him a slave. Spme past decisions would certainly indicate lo a kind hearted man, that there might pel a change for Ihe belter in the materials heretofore made use of. The modesty of relationship will preclude your correspondent from saying anything in favor of the appointment for the Democratic district, which was so patriotically refused by so many distinguished democrats of Brad ford, Tioga'and Poller, but the appointments in Lycoming and Centrelate a guarantee that from those counties no man will be sent into slavery unless beyond the possibility of doubl proved to be n fugitive, j Perhaps some one who reads this may, rernqmber the remark made not three weeks ago ',by a distinguished Judge that he “was sick] of those political hacks who stood ready jtd transcend every rule of evidence, to subserve party ends.”— Even at hour a man may repent. In looking over the past; one might almost be willing !o sacrifice himself to popular od'. um by standing as a judge between the, un just claimant and the poor]hunted negro, but the thought that sometimes his judicial duty might require a cerlificaie|of slavery, would be a reflection so bitter, that few, I fear, would be willing to endure that for the pleasure the former position might givq to one of the dis tinguished men to whom ihe office is said to have been tendered by the politicians, who do not any longer govern evien the democratic party, I think the cause of the negro might' be safely intrusted, but whether any one of them would be willing loi stand in the gap I cannot say. I can only |say that whence popular, politician who run for Sheriff a sec ond time with such eminent success on the Sinamahoning, is appointed, all the colored population had better leave for Canada, guil ty or not guilty. There is an opening now for another appointment, and I presume, no one will again commit the' political indiscre tion of bringing forward it black Republican. The lime is short; there are not a great many offices left to bestow ; the expectants are many, and I hope no one not of the right stripe will stand in the-way of any of the faithful, or maliciously jlrip up the heels of anxious expectation, j i By-the-bye, I- am tequested to enquire, who it was that tendered the office to so many patriotic recusants? at yihat time it was ten dered? and who had the hardihood to vouch for the Buchananism of the appointee?— Whether the subject of the fugitive slave law was mentioned at all ? I Whether it is custo mary to enquire in opemcourt into the poli tics of an appointee to a.' judicial office? or whether this is not left lo basement story pol iticians? Most respectfully yours, Incident at Elizabeth, I i Last evening, about nine o’clock, a fu, I sprighily boy, about aix years old,sn n J| Mr. Burns, was missing. His parent, ~J the immediate neighbors searched for k'i until a late hour.. The bell of our bouse was then runs, the village aroosJl and the remainder of the night spent unavailing search of a neighboring where it was thought he had been tra c 2 - At eaily dawn the alarm was again sounfe 5 aod the inhabitants met at the i and resolved to prosecute the search, j," : that all business should be suspended V l ' ; the child was fouud. A party of active, energetic miners volj. leered to search some old, deep shafts, which the children were known to freque a , while, the balance were detailed to exa c > the vicinity around. A windlass and rspi was procured, and a bold, active miner descended, at much peril, a deep at the bottom of which was some ten r'i fifteen feet of water. An iron rod was cured, and the bottom searched without 6a-.{ ing the child. The windlass was rented to another shaft. A brave, strong miner;., scended eighty-four feci, when, behold, then lay the object of his search. He took t in his arms, gave the signal, and in a n-„ mem they were safely landed at rbe top,~ The afflicted father seizes bis child in kj arms, and tears of joy burst from his over flowing heart. He was quickly convey,; home to the fond embrace of an overjoy mother. His injuries.il is thought by his physician, are not serious. It is almost incredible i a child should fall into a shaft eighty-!;.- feet deep, aud not be instantly killed. TV 1 was a drift connecting another shaft, wj afforded good air. —Galena {III.) Advertise, June 19. Singular Freak of liishtnii; While the thunder storm was ragmj.rj Friday, the 11th inst., Ihe house occupiedq C. Even, editor of the Warheits Fmu in Zieglersville, Montgomery County, *=, struck by lightning in the following extra.;.-. dinary manner: In Ihe afternoon a tear storm swept over the village, accomptEie; by the most vivid flashes of lightning ag terrific crashes of thunder. At abj;t o’clock, a fiery ball of the electric lered the chimney of the house occupied';; Mr. E., and descended into the kitchen al~ the stovepipe through two floors, without-;, juring the latter in the least; arriving a'.s termination of the stovepipe, it jumped.; Ihe stove, tore into splinters the floor bet-s at several places, and went through ali inch thick ijoist into the cellar—Mrs. Et-g who was silling in the kitchen at the ie in company with her two children and .'h Bigler, (residing in the same house,) n deafened by the stroke, without sustain:; any other injury ; her little daughter s:,:; beside her on (he floor, had her clones at several places, without the mtnu'es' r;;n otherwise; and Mrs. Bigler was s'eici: the side, where blue marks are -’.l.' ta ble, and fell speechless -to the tier, h the Warheits Freund priming cme,sOT.; twenty paces distant, a.cornpo-ior »s thrown senseless on the floor, and air-- printer in the establishment had his “ft; torn from his hand, and him=elf raised "a the floor, at the same time. The ntost»“ derful part of the affair ‘is the miratf s escape of the inmates of the house serious or permanent injury, and the sr: amount of damage done lo the tui.r; The lighlping did not even blacken the work of the building. Removal of President Monroe';-! Mains. —President Monroe’s remains vet removed from the City Hall, New \ori.t| 11 o’clock, on Saturday, and procerftV under military escort to the Richmond f where they were formally delivered lo u Virginia committee by John Cochrans, 1 -' ■ made an eloquent speech, to which 0. nings Wise, (son of the governor and e: - - of the Enquirer, in behalf of Ihe Virgm-t:'- responded in appropriate terms. At thee * ofjlhese ceremonies the committee tool” session of the remains and the m l ,' l escort proceeded lo the Ericsson, in *' ■ boat they are 10 proceed to Virgin! i boats sailed at 2 o’ clock under salutes ir - the forts in the harbor, the Cunard stein 5 ghd various o’her steamers along the ys The Jamestown arrived at Norfolk the remains of ex-President Monroe on S day, ihe 4th. Minute guns were fired, placed at half mast, and all the usual fi* monies gone through with there. Disgraceful Defeat. —Dispa'cte * ceived by the War Department confirm disastrous news from Oregon relative'.! defeat of Col. Steptoc’s command ■ Indians. The affair took place at the f'_ Crossing of the Snake River, about f miles above its junoiion with the Co 1 -®-' and occured while the troop were in ike' of the river. Three officer*” fifty men were killed—two of the ° :r ' being Capt Winders and Lieut. G-" : - Two howitzers belohgiog to the convH were captured by the Indians, togetl> erl J a great number of pack animals, It 5! ’ us tbal Col. Steploe should be court mar' This .is the most disastrous defeat ih ef v lars have met from the Indians in |s: ' years. The defeat was doubtless t l' e ”, ,of one of two causes—rashness or 373 ‘ pluck. The case should be enquired 1 !" It is believed that the youngest g/ 3 jjT of,any American College was William lard Moore, who graduated at College, in 1804, at the age,of twelve He was a brilliant youth, the pet of a |ss ,, and of the college. At his gradtw look a part with two of his oldest c j in a Hebrew dialogue. (And like al . ful prodigies, he was never , ;lf man—never heard of, probably, a |ie ing college.,) Frank P. Blair, Jr *has bran reno" lo congress by the Republicans j® Louis Congressional district. * 3J { the third nomination for the three parlies have put op separate c The election will doubtless be a very one. Cassics,
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