Pi /|* V. . - nsv MIBeQS&I,AJSrEOtTS ITEMS. 1 I. . . ...It, in’ that “ Doesticka 1 ’ (Mor timer M. Thompson, of the Tribune) i» ehiirtly to .be mftfrietffje. a daughter of Mrs. Pinny Pern Partnn. | the Champion of Englan4 in* tenii visiting this country in the spring, file trill.come ovor in the steamer leaving Liverpool on the 19th of%pril. So says’ the New York Day' Book. . \ ] ...One of tbif oldest citizens of Mahsljeld, Ohio, who hasjjone the State some service in ’ times past, promise* tho formation of a mili , Yary-company old men. Ha eays he wants teal old felhw&iilio can't ruii'. ■ | J- ’ s ' ~’X physician jn .Wisconsin being disturbed one night by afWrglar, and having no ball or •Hot forhis noiselessly loaded the wpap- An'with dry, hi >d pills,'and gave the intro iter a " pre«criptio.n’!|svhich he thinks will go fai. to ward curing th&rascal of a very bad ailment. ~, ...At a meeting of the people of Knox coilnty Tennessee, the father day, they resolved |hat they “ will nodealings with any Disunion* lit whatever,” inasmuch as they coneiderl all Disunionists ai' enemies and traitors to lieir dgsert|ng to be treated as suph|”— That’s the talk.. | ..'.The well f;nown hotel of Mr. Cozzani, at West Point, fco/Jether with the cottages and but-. . buildings, were entirely destroyed by fird on Friday last. The loss is estimated at ?100,000. The fire was csbsed by sparks from a kettfe of -burning coal ofr the roof, which a careless work man, who was ' r eaking repairs, left there while hi went to dither.' | ' ...The Charhgtpn, S.. C., Mercury, in untieing Mr. Lincoln’s at Indianapolis,'and inti mating that tbfptext Administration will, irfsist upon holding tl% Federal forts, says;—Linpoin is a eool man‘ an able man ; a man/nqi of ■srordl. bni of who says what ha means and means" he says; an earnest inan withal. ancl - | . . ■ ri’ * j ...Kit Carsoi);, |be famous hunter, guide and monntaineef, isllv|ing at Taos, New Mexicc, as Indian agent tcHhb Ute tribe of Indians; his talary amuuntayg $l5OO per annum. Ki; is Mot a wealthy pjfto : his property is estim; ted at about $6000(1 lie keeps fifty or sixty ’ oc ws, Are hundred hejid of sheep, and several horses and p'rnies. , Il]a married a Mexican lady, vith whom he lives nappily. / j.jAn enthusiastic patriot, while viewing Kafio’s Arctic jsjaporama the ocher evening, .at St. liouis, was ha overcome by a sight of the (tat tered flag whisUKane planted on the niost aorthrin pointsman ever reached, that he step ped forward, arfeed permission to take the flag, aad rererently it,’ pressed it to his heart. The electrified tiydienoe rose to their feet, |en dorsed the with three hearty cheers. | • ...A few gon||emen of New York city ls>ve presented tu Ml's. Lincoln an elegant coach, , made to order |ya celebrated manufacturer. — It is what is technically called a full-dress cojcb, with richly trimmed bammor-cloth depending - from the seat, and elaborately cajvoJ standard for tltk fodtman. < The steps are con cealed, and only • with the opening, of -l(he doors. Tbh lining is of crimson brocatelle, and.the ousbioCe find back are furnished with the latest in seat-spring. ■_ Alto gether it la a- luxuriously fitted up establish ment.. The eojj was $1,500. It was forwaided • to W Saturday week. j ...In no Stalin the Union ie there so little of .what' we ait ®ie North understand byptblic sentiment, as ijj Sooth Carolina. There ie no middle class, Cver talking, reading; thinking, acting—making and unmaking, and holding to' a strict. accountability those, who occupy po sitions of trusAnd power. The State, wit a its white populated of less than 300,000 sbuls, easting its 45,tg0 votes, is held and controlled by the aristocratic few. The form of State Gov ernment is eaentiallj monarchical. The people do not vote for Governor or any State officer. — Nsither do they have any direct voice in choos ing .Presidential .Electors, these things bfeing left to the Leg |jature, which is chosen ckery two years. are polities and public qaes tiorfs kept fr(imUhe people, who are seldom troubled to ttiijifcj pr permitted to act. i jThef workings of tlid’lobal system of the State '|n a large measure deprive the people of powe/Jand the effect in the|long run has-been to reader them indifferent! to great questions immediately affecting them. J Such a thing as submitting a qaestioa to tbe’j'ieople is hardly every kniwn. ' A Par An twerp had 200,000 inhabi tants and was tie mast commercial and broa perous city in fye world—2soo merchant! ves sel* arriving a year, bringing merdhan diia of the raids of 133 millions. When! the Northern provinces revolted they took popes •ion of the Sohsdt {built forts on the sided and sunk obstructions ip the channel, to proven t free navigation | in consequence of which jAnt , werp was ruined, and grass grew the warehouses of tgoso who had been- the greatest ,merchants in ipe world, and her population was reduced to ,60,000. The obstructions were removed, and after centuries, her commerce be gan to revive. Napoleon spent fifty millions ■of. franca in improving her harbor, and! she has now, perhajs, ninety thousand people.| Charleston "as revolted, and with sunken vessels has obstiiicted her channel. When! the shafting sands .of her delta shall have cohered these sunken vessels, and she shall have|lost two-thirds ot her population and all her lorp ■msree, who will provide the millions necessary to restore, her trde 1 Will she be able to raise it by selling be stolen forts and arsenals to the S;,mthsrn'C>infederacy, subject to her seehertt right to steal them again ? A r . Y. Times. \ -> , > . "? K Patriot.— Maynard, of-Tcnnopeo, a( the close of before the Order of United Amoriearls in New York, on the E2d, read this letter from'' a Southern napd officer; I know not how more fitly to conclude limn by repeating-a jingle passage, which {has stirred up my owa heart, like the peal of s|nn . tinnal anthem: f* Should I command a sh|p—' Smthern man api—li — I tell you now land beforehand, thst- I will return her, with | the blessing of God..|p .the authorities of that gov ernment which honored and intrusted me Jrith her command, at|every risk and peril, if | cm t> deeids it, sworn in hand on my quarterdfeok. j I will tell you. mire than that—that ! will eland ; by the. old Stnrij and Stripes” whilst there is I A tingle star in tipi square union of it, whiejh' IJ think is a pretty Common sentiment amomg ali| of o». We have“too long revelled in thelde-1 licious pride of unfolding this glorious banner! in foreign at 8 o’clock, to the tuna of; the Siar-Spangleit Banner, with a full band of! music, to turn iiplii it now, in its day of pfril, j 'gnd strike It doa|g No, sir, I don’t do it.| 1 ; nraw G id I may Ep>. buried in its folds. _ I pve j oferj*ukr, «y» r J ttAr > every stripeof it” ; ■ THE AGITATOR. HUGH YOUNG, EDITOR i PKOPRIE fOB. - WDIASBOHODGH, PA., _ WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAR. 6, 1861. Js@*Th6 evening editions.of the Nevs York dailies of Monday, contain'but a meajjer ac count of the' Inauguration, but elate t let no disturbance was made-. Mr. Lincoln’s I langu ral Address, which we shall publisb next week, occupied about half an hour in delivery: The following are understood, to : be-the Cabinet ap pointments: ; Secretary of 5tat5.....,-......'.Wm.H. Seward, o' N. T. Secretary of Treasury ..Salmon P. Chase, (f Ohio. Sjeretary of War ......Simon Cameron, o ' Penn. Secretaiy of Navy ..i Montgomery Blair of Md. Secretary of Interior, ..Caleb B. Smith, of I mi. Postmaster General. ..G ideon Welles, of C onn. Attorney General [Edward Bates, of 2 o. THE KEMEDY. , , Political doctors without lumber hare kind ly suggested each bis own particular pi nacea for the healing of the present sickly coidition of the country.. Many of the remedies ire ex cellent, but the trouble is, that no one ol them meets with the: unanimous concurrence af the entire faculty. ; This being l the case, w i have ho hope that.ours, will be taken up and at opted ns the surest and safest remedy ; neverl heless we are nope the less convinced of its e Last week we took occasion to give a his the case and our diagnosis ; we will he ed, therefore; for.preecribiogiour cure. Metaphor Ttside, oar belief is that the best way to bring peace to our troubled country is to disseminate the Truth, and by tbis-niAne to undeceive those who have been made to Believe the infamous lies of Toombsand others, referred to in these columns last; week. This wort must be done by patriotic men ip the South, because the southern people cannot bear, will not repd the writings or speeches of/and would their present impressions, believe, Republican* from Northern states; and although it may seem dan gerous fur Southern-men to proclaim the truth, and would certainly subject them to the sneers snd taunts of biad men; it would in tbte end correct the evil iand restore the kindly relations which ought to exist between the two se|tionB. The people of the South have more sente and patriotism than! politicians give them credit for. Let them have; correct j information and they will generally decide fright. In suppnrt ef this opinion we will only refer to Tennessee. Senator Johnson- and the Union representatives from that State bad the; manhood to stem, the current of the ;popular [disunion delusion and apeak out like brave men for -the Union, and the people of that gallant State have sustained them by tremendous majorities, whilst in other Southern States patriotic ■ men who feared to oppose the torrent have been carried the maelstrom of treason. 1 Let all Souths i ) who feel and know that the- present troi the country has been fpmerited by the falsehoods, tell their people so, and wh( vinced of this, as they: are ieure to ba end, they can respect Northern people as: and equals. Then, and not till then,, n our humble opinion, can we live ( together as breth ren. Dntil the people _of: the slare-1 olding states shall be made to believe that the Jlepub- lioan party does not contemplate the ihterfe rfcnce in any manner with the least of their conatitutioha! all compromises, Conces sions, bargains and tiakeringe will be absolute ly futile. *! | la view of t icse facts and opinions, we pro* pose that the Republicans in Congress otter the following as i.,substitute for the Critienden Amendments tjo the Constitution, and suck to it till the last day of the session ; . | AMENDMENT. | ARTICLE XHI. ' ' Sec. 1. All bdoks, pamphlets, magazines, i pers, periodicals, phots, treatises, tracts, or sj inculcating any doctrines, theories, principle ions, facts or stiuistics, on moral, social, ecouot political science, which have io view the inorpl religious and political advancement of all cl fbe people,and v bicb have not in view the ov; of the government formed under this conai shall not be dec) ired incendiary in any state confederary, and shall pass freely through thi at the option of the owner* thereof, subject tc regulations and payments. Prodded, that n pamphlet, fc,, si all be addressed or delivered sons held to inveftuntary service or labor. Sec. 2. All classes of the people shall bo ta road: as a republican forsp of government, isl cessily, based.upon the intelligence of the gt^ And il any State of tins confederacy shall fuili vide a system of free schools, then the gonci ernmeut ehail, through Congress, Qpprppha(| sufficient to proVide fora system of-free get eucb State, under the direction of a Secretary lie Instruction, who shall bo, ex-officio, one President's advisers. Now we hiivn not the remotest idea ths propositions as these could or would pas grees; neverthsleas, we Ihibk they are ( reasonable, anc far more than the so Crittenden Amendments. i- Indeed the point of difference between- tb«m is, ti latter protect and perpetuate slavery, , ours would have the effect, jn a very few years, of opening the eyes of all thinking men jn the South, and particularly the non-slaveb tiding whites, to the (to them) disastrous policy of slavery extension. We want the people of Tioga county o un derstand, distiii ctly, that the> Crittenden Amend ments provide, first, that all territory heieafter acquired, from the line of 30° 30 / No 'tb, to 90° South latitude is to. be forever devo ed to slavery. And,"second, that property iri slaves shall be put in all respects lipon the sam > foot ing with every other species of propel Without referring to the infamous charai the first of these amendments, let 'ne loo' moment at thesecond. ; How long do yoii sup pose weald it be - before tbd South’would de mand that slaves should be {imported like any other property T and in case of the refusal of the North to let them dcKit, how long would it be before they would. again secede and appeal in their usual style to “the God of Justioe and of Battle*” to sustain theta in (bis de THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. mand for tbeir“ rights ?”’How long would it be before the -slaveholders would claim the right to pass loand fro through free states with their' ■lares ?" Not long. When th 6 slavery question closes, wa-want it closed-ferever, with no side door left open for demagogues like Douglas to. eraWl through with new demands; and Critten den’s Amendments, although they would satis fy the propaganda now, is full of trouble for the future. i . , 'PEOM HARHISBPBQ. Special Correspondenc* of TheAjjiUtfrr, ’ HABBiasiraa, Febi 26, 1861. The readers of Th* AoriATor, wilT bear me witness that 1 have tried to give them a correct view of affairs here; to state my facts and sen timents in such a way as to be at once intelli gible and interesting. But if I have been suc cessful heretofore, I must now fall. It is quite impossible for one of my limited powers to do the; “ Twenty-Second of February at Harris burg, ” justice. 1 Various circumstances com bined to make it the most imposing demonstra tion ever before made at the State Capital.. The assembling together of such a large num ber of volunteer military companies,—there were several thousand troops present,—the. meeting of the' State Democratic Convention bringing together its crowd .of followers, to gether with a well organized and quite impo sing civic parade,-and. interesting ceremo nies of "the day, all conspired to make our youthful city very lively. Added to all this was the arrival- of Mr. Lincoln, the President elect, at two o’clock in the afternoon, and then the people, or half of them, at least, acted as if they were crazy. The town was literally cov ered with the ; American flag—nearly every building being decorated with pne or more. A handsome bsriiage drawn by six white horses was in waiting'for Mr. Lincoln, having | taken bis seat in which, a procession was formed headed by a company of cavalry, and brought up in the roar by a very fine military escort- Arriving at the Jones House, Mr. Lincoln ap. peired on the balcony and was introduced to the people present, about five thou sand. The spkee in front of the hotel was completely blocked-up. Governor Curtin wel comed Mr. Lincoln to the capital of the State, with the assurance of the cordial feeling of the • people, who looked to him to restore nnrJity and goodfreling thnujghout the country. Biit if reconciliation shouldffail, they wouldbe ready and willing to aid, by men and money, in the maintenance of our glorious constitution. In conclusion, tie hoped the Lord would aid bis (Mr. Lincoln’s], efforts to sustain the glory of thi government and the perpetuity of the peo ple. Mr. Lincoln responded, returning his thanks fur the cordial expression of good will, and referring to the distractions of the country, | trusted that a resort to arms would never be come necessary. In his efforts to avert that calamity he must be sustained by tbs people. He brought an earnest heart to the work, and it should be no fault of bis if he failed. At the conclusion of bis remarks the procession re formed and Mr. Lincoln proceeded to the Capi tol, where he occupied a seat beside Governor Curtin in the House. /• icaoy. iry of trdon- But before reaching the Capitol let ui for a few minutes linger around the “Jones House” merely for the purposes of description It is a vejry fine brick building fronting on Market street, and is, perhaps,’ithe largest hotel in toWn. The proprietor, Sr. Wells Coverly, is a very clever man, but baa demonstrated to my own satisfaction, at least, tbst be “ can’t keep tavern” very well. On the present occasion the arrangements were absolutely bad. Indeed, some,of Mr. Lincoln's party did not even have rooms, and sonic were obliged to sleep two or three in- a bed. Some of the suite—the re porters for the newspapers,.and others, —got inko good quarters at ‘ Bocbler’g, Herr’s, and Omit’s ; but those who remained at Coverly’s wOre loud and deep in their expressions of vexa tion and disgust. Tbs reading room, the office, the saloons down stairs, ths lobbies and land ings—all were, jammed full of men ; and the entrance to Mr. Lincoln’s room was utterly im passable. At the dinner table half the people who sat down to eat, arose from the- table un satisfied ; not because there was not enough to eat, but because they were badly waited upon. Even down at tbo office there was the same want of attendance. If an unlucky traveler give bis coat to the “ boots” and took a check for it, he had to wait an hour or so before Mr. Boots could find it for him again. The young man who waits at the, clerk’s desk is entirely unfit for his duties. If he were asked a ques tion, the answer came as if. it were forced from him. However, large and charitable allowance must be made for the fact that a live President was in the House as its guest, and common folks like newspaper reporters were at oonsid eiable of a discount. So milch for the first class hotel at Harrisburg. But to return to the President. At the Capitol, Mr. Lincoln was welcomed by Mr. Speaker Palmer on the part of the Sen ate, and by Mr. Speaker Davis on the part of the House. Both speeches were short and well conceived. Mr. Lincoln made a reply of about fi re minutes in length, and in my opinion this was the most eloquent speech be bag made since he left Springfield. At its close, Mr. Palmer proceeded to deliver his oration on “ Washing tv n.” I have not time here to criticise this production. It was well delivered and made a deep impression upon the audience, none of whom listened to it with more attention than’ Mr. Lincoln himself. T During the afternoon Mr. Lincoln received a few friends at,his room but bn account of the fatigue ho retired early; while Mrs. Lincoln, on account of fatigue and the want of accem niodatibns, together with th.e uproar, confusion, skid noise, refused to bold Iber usual reception f< r the ladies. From dark until midnight a ; d runken, noisy crowd perambulated the streets, wild made night hideous. jAfter nine o’clock a 1 this was lost on Old Abe who had quietly em b irked on a special train to Washington via Philadelphia, dn account of despatches received but an hour before from Mr. Seward and Qen. Stott, the exact purport of which has not coins to light at this date. I will venture to guess, h twever, that as the reception at Baltimore was td he a purely .Republican one, that a riot was anticipated which the President did well to. ajroid. A telegraphic dispatch reached Mrs. Lincoln on Saturday morning that her husband had reached Washington safely at six o’clock that morning, whereupon the' Presidential suite took up their line of march on the North Cen tral at nine and reached Wasblogton tbat same evening. | My letter is {already so long that I cannot venture upon amove minute account of the va rious scenes of the day. I would like to tell you some of the inside politics of die past few days, but if.l did so, before you could’ get it into type, tbe plans, schemes, and combinations will have h men ible in (basest p con gin the friends aght to of ne v'orned. to pro « 1 gov* > a sum' : ools in if Pub of the t such t Con ust as called i mam iat the whilst ter of for a been so much changed as to be entirely unrec*. pgnizable by the plotters of them, and unin-’ telligible toothers. If Cameron's nose shall be 1 disjointed.by Old Abe ibis week, there will go; up to greet the morning air two distinct howls from two distinct classes of political seekers,; _one .of.anguish, .despair, and.extreroe. disappointment, and one of unmitigated pleas ure. Such is political difo. , Bttt little legislation of importance has been accomplished for the past week. The twin swindles will doubtless pass the Senate to morrow, as Mr. McOlure is the,leader for them. An appropriation of $30,000 for the' relief of the sufferers from famihe in Kansas will proba bly pass this week, and will be about the most sensible legislation which the present Legisla ture will have accomplished. t Snodgrass. FROM WASHINGTON, Summary of the News of the Week. [Specially prepared for The Agitator.] Washington, Feb. Sd, 1801, PEACE CONGRESS PROPOSITIONS. We reprint below the propositions of amend-, ing the Constitution, as finally agreed upon by the Peace Congress :. - Sec. 1. In all, the . present territory of the United States north of the parallel of 30° 30' of north latitude, involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, is prohibited. In all the present territory south of that line, the status of persons held to service or labor, as it now ex ists, shall not be changed. Nor shall any law be passed by Congress or the Territorial Legis lature'to hinder or prevent the taking of such persons from any of the States of this Union to said Territory, nor impair the rights arising from said relation. But the same shall be sub ject to judicial cognizance ih the Federal courts, ■Recording to the course of the-common law.— When any .Territory, north or south of said line, with such boundary as Congress may pres cribe, shall contain a population equal that re quired for a member of Congress, it shall, if its form of government be republican, be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the. original States,, with or without involuntary ser vitude, as the Constitution of snob State may provide. ; Sec. 2. No territory shall be accqnired by the United States,, except by discovery and for naval and commercial stations, depots, and transit routes, without the concurrence bf a majority of all the Senators from the States which allow involuntary servitude, and a ma jority of all the Senators from States which prohibit that relation; nor shall territory be acquired by treaty, unless the votes of, a ma jority of tb.e Senators from-each class of States hereinbefore mentioned be cast as a part of the two-thirds majority, necessary to the ratifica tion of such treaty. . Sec. 3. Neither the Constitution, nor any amendment thereto, shall bs construed to give Congress power to regulate, abolish, or con trol, within any State or Territory of the United States, the relation established or recognised by the laws thereof, .touching persons bound to labor or involuntary service in the District of Columbia, without the consent of Maryland And without the consent of the owners, or mak ing the owners, who do not consentjust compen sation ; nor the power to interfere with or pro hibit representatives and others from bringing with them to the city of Washington, retaining and taking away, persons so f bound to labor or service; nor the power to interfere with or abolish involuntary service in places under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States with in those States and Territories where th<( same is established or recognised ; nor the power to prohibit the removal or transportation of per sons held to lobor or involuntary service in any State or Territory of the United Slates ,to any other State or Territory thereof where it is es tablished or recognized by law or usage ; and. the right, during transportation by sea or river, of touching at ports, shores, and landings, and of landing in case of distress, but not for sale or traffic, shall exist; nor shall Congress have power to authorize any higher rate-of taxation on persons held to labor or service than on laud. The bringing into the District of Columbia of persons held to labor or service for sale, or plac ing them in depots to be afterwards transferred to other places for sale as merchandise, is pro hibited, and the right of transit through any State or Territory against Us dissent is prohib ited. Sec. 4. The third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constituion shall not be construed to prevent any of the States, by appropriate legislation and through the action of their judicial and ministerial offi cers, from enforcing the delivery of fugitives from labor to the persons to whom such service or labor is due. Sec. 5. The foreign slave trade is hereby forever prohibited, and it shall be tbe duty of Congress to pass laws to prevent the importa tion of slaves, coolies, or persons held to service of labor, into the United States-and the Terri tories, from places beyond the limits thereof. Sec. 6. The first, third, and fifth sections, to gether with this section sis of these amend ments, and the third paragraph of the second section of the first article of the Constitution, and the third paragraph of the second section of tbe fourth article thereof shall not be amend ed or abolished without the csnsent of all the States. , See. 7. Congress shall provide by law that the United States shall pay to the owner the -full value of hii fugitives-from labor, in all Cases where the marshal or other officer whose duty it wsB to arrest such fugitive was prevent ted from so doing by violence or intimidation from mobs or riotous assemblages, or when, af ter arrest, such fugitive was rescued by like yiolence or intimidation, arid the owner thereby jprevented and obstructed iri the pursuit of his for the recovery of such fugitive. Con gress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges arid im munities of the several States. i The Press informs us that Hon. David "Wil mot, of Pennsylvania, offered the following as a substitute for the 7th section (as above) on Saturday last, and made a powerful. speech in its support: “ And. Congress shall further provide by law, that the United States shall.make full compen sation to a citizen of any State,, who, in any other State, shall suffer, by'.reason of violence or intimidation from mobs and riotous assem blies, in his person or property, or in the dep rivation, by violence, of his .rights secured by this Constitution.” Thursday, Feb. 28th, —The Conference yes terday adopted the modified Guthrie plan of adjustment.. The vote stood.nine to eight, New York, Kansas, Indiana and Missouri not voting. The Conference ordered that engrossed copies of the adjustment be sent to both houses of Congress, and then adjourned sine die. The Senate appointed Messrs. .Crittenden, Bigler, SWard, Thompson and Trumbull a special •committee on the Peace Conference adjustment, with instructions to report at one o’cl&elc tb-day. The 1 committed were engaged oh the subject last night, and will, it» supposed, rsport a bill by whioh the plan fill Be snbmitted to the peo-: pla, thpra being .no-prospect o£ its-ebtaiaing a two-thirds rote in either house of' Congretls. Friday, March lsf.—in Congress yesterday, the Senate, shortly after assembling, consented that Mr. Crittenden, from the Select Commit tee on the proposition adopted by the Peace Congress,'should Submit a report. He there upon offered ii, report, recommending the adop tion of tbp proposition referred to, Mr. Sew ard, in behalf of himself and Mr. Trumbull, the minority of the select committee, submitted a joint resolution, invitihgthe several States to take into consideration the propriety of calling a convention for proposing amendments to the constitution, and. to express their will on the subject to Congress. Mr. Doolittle stated! that he should, at the proper time, offer a proviso to the first section of the proposition of the Peace Congress, affirming that no. State shall I have power to secede frbm the Union, |and that the constitution shall he the supreme law of the land. The Senate then proceeded to the con sideration of other business. At one o!clock the Senate, by a vbte of 26 against 23, took up the proposition of-i the Peace Congress. After some discussion the subject was laid over, and made the special order for half-past twelve o'clock to-day. The House yesterday recon sidered the vote whereby the amendment of Mr. Corwin to the constitution was rejected. The vote to reconsider; stood 128 yeas to 65 nays. The propositionprovides “ that no amendment shall be made to the constitution which will au thorize-op give Cot gross power to or in terfere, within ary State, with the : domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or servitude by the laws of said State." ’ The question was taken and Ihe amendment was adopted—yeas 133, naysj 65. Saturday, 2d. —ln Congress yesterday the Senate took up the report of the committee on the proposition of the Peace Congress, and a general debate ensued upon the merits of the questions involved In the House the report of the Committee of Thirty-three on the crisis was taken up. The clause peoviding for 1 the admis sion of New~ Mexico into the Union, with or without slavery, as her people mayelect.was laid on the table by k vote of 114 to 71. The amendment to theiact for the rendition of fu gitive slaves was passed—92 to 85. i The amend ment to tho act for the rendition! of fugitives from justice was rejected by a vote of 47 to 162. A motion was msjde to suspend the rules in order to take up the proposition of the {Peace Congress. On talcing a vote the* motion was rejected by a vote of 92 to 66—two-thirds hot voting for.the, motion. { 1 ~ig torn.., i Monday, 4 ln. —On Saturday tha new tariff bill, recently passed by Congress; receired the signature of Mr. Buob'anan. The new tariff goes into effect the first day of April next;, but the last section ofj the bill provides that “all goods, wares and merchandise actually on ship board and bound-to the United States, within fifteen days after the passage of this act, and all goods, wares and merchandise: in deposit in warehouse 'or public store on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be subject to pay such duties as, provided_by law before and at the ,time of the passage of this act; and all goods in warehouse at the time this act takes feffect, on which the duties ate lessened by itd provisions, may be withdrawn on payment of’the' duties herein provided.” EDTJCATIOITA L-Vn. [Compiled for The Agitator.] EDUCATION INCREASES THE PRODUCTIVENESS OF LABOR. In our former communication);, we have at tempted to collate;such facts and arguments as would verify the proposition that Education dissipates the evils of Ignorance. We propose now to discuss the equally tenable proposition that Education increases the productiveness of Labor. ' i The desirableness of education' is manifest, view it in,what light we may, aild whether as affecting individuals or communities. The aphorism given to the world by Lord Bacon, —that knowledge is power,—has be come a proverb. ITho converse in equally true, —that Ignorance jis weakness. If c it be asked why the labor of a man is more valuable than the same aipount of physical effort put forth by a brute, Jthe ready answer is, it is be cause man combines intelligence with his labor. A single yoke of oxen will do more in one day at plowing than forty men ; yet the oxen may be had for fifty cents a day, while each of the men can earn a dollar. Physical exertion in this case, combined with ordinary skill is eigh ty times more valuable than the same amount of brute force, ithe strength of the ox is of no account without some one to guide and ap ply it, while thej power of man is guided by intelligence within. It is-rhtelligence and not mere muscle that commands high price. As strange as it mayj seem to some, it is neverthe less true, that in [proportion' as man’s intelli gence increases, is his labor more valuable. A small compensation is the reward of mere physi cal power, while,! in the language of the time •honored maxim, i" The best educated are al ways the best paid.” The labor of an ignorant ‘’Hibernian,” is scarcely more valuable to one of our farmers in his ordinary vocation than the same amount! of brute force• but the servi ces of an intelligent, skillful person, are a hun dred fold more productive. Let us illustrate, for it is desirable that every person who reads these communications, should do so-with the fullest conviction! that mental culture is of the highest importance even in the ordinary-de partments of hqman industry. It is, indeed, hardly loss important for the man of business, the farmer, or the mechanic, than for statesmen, legislators, and members of the so-called learned professions. j It is said an intelligent farmer once having a piece of greensvjard to break up, and having three work-horses, determined to employ them all at the same time on his plow. He hence, possessing somej mechanical skill, himself con structed a three-horse whipple-tree, by means of wbieh he advantageousjy combined the strength 1 of his horses. ■ A less intelligent neighbor, pleased with the novel appearance of three horses working abreast, resolved to try the ex periment himself. But not possessing the skill requisite to construct such a whipple-tree, he waited till -his better informed and more expert neighbor was- through with his, and then bor rowing it, tried j the experiment with his own team. Early ope morning, and full of expec tatidn, aided by his .two sons and a hired man, he harnessed hie thrife. horses to the plow. But one of them, for the first time, refused to.draw. After several fruitless attempts \to make the team work as first harnessed, the relative posi tion of the -horses was changed, when, lo 1 al though (hit horse would draw as formerly, one ofthh others would not. By and b change was|inade, and.the third horn refhsed to draw. The farmer coild .’ stand it, ; nor. his sons, Cor bis hired threej horses, for the first time, w e r< in turn- And, what was most surpu would all work in either of "two pL in the third,l none of them would dt» honest farmer thought the age o f. l bad not yet passed. After the ftai of half a day, bo gave up the ur disgust, and, carrying the whippfo. told the story of his unsuccessful and experiment.-:. " And hoy? did.yon harness the hoi jnqnired the fton farmer. “ Why, one at the short end at the iong.end,;where there is the -’ for them, to be sure 1" was the franl • The jpower at the short end, it neec said, should be twice that at the 1 ( whereas he had it reversed. One he against two with a double purchase, would have to draw twice as much i them, or four jtimes as, much as one The fictlenesfc of the horses, then, being the result of witchcraft, as he to believe, was chargeable solely to ranee- of their hardly more, intelligent A knowledge of the first principles chanicsj or, itrthe absence of this, ar degree ;of actve,, available commc would teach the proper use of such a tree. For wanjt of this knowledge, tl sufferedj much chagrin, lost the tim. men, and did great injury to his leant.- A gentleman of respectability gives lei case, that occurred under his immec serration; | Hi? neighbor had a yoke one of Which vas large, strong, and ' One day, as thu neighbor was passing dence of the g( ntleman, the latter re an him, “You halve one very fine lookii “Yes,” replies the. neighbor, with satisfaction, “find a 'bonny- fellow he He can tarry the long end of the yoke 'fat under it.” Here, again, the weaker to tax his stre ngth,doubly on account advantage'i wbi :h the ignorance of hi masted had unintentionally given to hit or yoke-fellow. A’fan sesaea a laborer of any kind, *1 Ige'of the merest elerai iccustomed to think ar inly, work more advar int he can do more wc asier, too, than his neii al though of The correctness ofti ttisfactorily proved at iding timber, in movii , and in almost ever} (arm or among men, ei ■The ignorant man wi - zoning after 'help to d< icnlt Job, than it will requi le to do it alone. '-.This is trui id in all of the mechanic ai i practical and available edi nr, and you enable-him to (1 Setter work, than his less ii . following is a striking practical teacher employed : build him a barn. The day u raised, the teacher disoove to be turned a few inches i, to rabge properly with olin lile'thej mechanics went in ' 1 1 pjrocujre what they regnrdi ! Ipj the teacher, who was famii . s com! illations of the lever, i.lbne, and before their return,' t riking llnstrations might be cii i cation increases the product id wider and more extended inmoteilt influence, man is end : menta inder tribute. The/wib by its mysterious power, an hie m: ichinery for various pic it skill of the. untutored savage to construct a rude canoe whi pable m plying upon our rint mr inland seas, and which ci by human' muscles; t: erects a magnificent is , and, spreading bis cat 11 by the mariner’s compai irn seas in safety. To n: . darned in the science aid i he contends successful!; and makes headway i n he depends upon the f power. Yes, education e ix thh gentle breese ty ■ wily laden, up an inclined dies, against the curresl H. C. Joe peir, or knowle: sod is i n not< team, 1 do it e physic pacity, :y!‘be s • 1 ih lo plowing : e on a i; sea. - science, i tigate, cr with his self, and superior mental c: ment mi illustrate ingß, in work,doi land or a more tim pored di skillful 01 pentrj, a crease thi the labor work, am associate. iq n tion, A chanioß ti frame ira it needed foundatio ings. W reet'ions t cessaryhi the varioi the work equallj si But edi of labor i: By its bm lay the ele the wind, to propel The utmo hies him barely ca: coasting p propelled educated) floating the brees traverse fention h navigatij only man palace, >e,aide< unkno' ns he a in, that d tide in wh< wind at both, evi for his ri motive enjto t lip, hei d» of : river. man evi proud s tbousan mighty it lONS IN THE U. &[S evolution which establish|| pf the United States' there (EL) Since) indeper been tej of the ’ recent the r< idenoe specific attempts to defy the aaih| ederaljGovernment, previous to thfj in'aujgurated in South Carolaftf now in progress: The first was in 1772, and was a cci of the officers of the Federal army to date the thirteen States into one, and' supreme power on "Washington. The second was in 1787, called “ Sh: surreition,”sn Massachusetts. The third was in 1794, popular!; “ The Whiskey Insurrection of Penn»j The fourth instance twas in 1811, Hartford Convention Federalist^. - The fifth, jon which the different s( the Onion came into collision, was in der, the administration of President and occurred on the question of the of Missouri iinlo the-Union. The eixti was a collision between thi lature of Georgia end the Federal Govi in regard to certain bonds given by to the Creek Indians. The seventh was in 1820, with the Cb in Georgia,, The eighth was the memorable Ordinance of South Carolina, in 1832. Tho ninth was in 1842, and occured' Island between the “ Suffrage Associati the State authorities. The tenth was in 1856, on the p sl Mormons, who resisted the Federal a ot God grant that our glorious Union ®' delivered from present peril unhannW' South has grievances, -we adroit, buttW all bo remedied within the Union. Surt 1 ing has yet transpired to justify the 1 Stales, before any rule of sound mot*' 1 test, of,wise policy, in abandoning an o ' l ernment ns nor Constitution affords. I married. In Covingtch, Pet, 20th, by Rev. R- A- ', SIDNEY A. HOAGLAND to .Min AW GILLETT, both of Covington; \ ■ -- - ' DIS3p, Id Osceola, Feb. 19, 1861, ot.-Conjnmp* l B. BUCKLETf, *gei 27 yeiri.
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