THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL S. MANN, . AVERY, Editors COUDERSPORT, PA.: THURSDAY - MORNING, DEC• 14, 1E54 Bear in mind the lecture of Bishop Potter at the Court House next 'Monday evening. a'Our friends will- find all kinds of school books and the latest publi cations at the Journal Book Store. E' e publish a very candid no tice of the President's Message on the first page, and must let that suf fice, fur the document is too long for. our columns. We are glad to learn that Amos Northro , late of Brookfield, Tioga county, Pa., has opened a Temperance House in Harrison Valley, this county, and we hope all our people who have occasion to travel in that direction will give Mr. Northrop a call at the Har rison. Valley House. The M'Kean Citizen is informed that a large number of the supporters of Daniel Ullman do claim }aim as in favor of the Maine Law—that "the Temperance cause in this place is tri umphing," through the energetic ac tion of the Good Templars and Sons of Temperance, and at the ballot-box, that though the reform county ticket was beat by villainy and falsehood, we gave a majority fur the Maine law, and for candidates who will see it enacted at the next se:-sion of the Legislature—that all the powder pro cured for that purpose was joyfully and thankfully used in celebrating the triumph of reform in 1 1 ‘ . nnsylvania. but that we gill cheerfully furnish powder for the Temperance men in Smethport at any time, when they ruunife:it life enough to burn it THE REPUBLICAN PARTY We publish in another column with lumina' pleasure, the proceedings of a mass meeting in Montrose, which met . on the 27th of November to organize the Republican party of that county. We recognize among the officers and speakers of this meeting., men of all parties , , and-men of the first rank for talent, integrity, and influence. We ask all honest men in this county to• read theso're.solutions, and then say if they are nut just and true. Are they not what'the times require ? Will the freemen of this county respond to these resolutions, and especially to this one? Peso:red, That I.ve earnestly solicit the friends of our principles who so fully tri mnpbed at the late election, to organize the Republican party in their several counties at as early a dvte as praciicalde. The wisdom of this course must b l e apparent to all, for %%ithout the prompt organization of the forces which have defeated the Nebraska authors into a new party, the late triumph *ill prove a • barren victory. This movement , starts well. The first meeting is held in the Wilmot District; it is opened and inaugurated by the invincible Davy himself, and it meets in the county seat of a county which always gave old-line, pro-slavery democracy a solid majority until the Republicans took hold of the work, and they swept all before than the first time trying. If ,thin fact does not teach our friends throughout the State the necessity of heeding the appeal of the Susquehanna Republicans, then we shall say they are given over to de struction. Friends of Freedom in Pennsylva nia, your brethren in the Wilmot Dis trict have already commenced the work of forming a party of Freedom that shall prevent the State from falling back under the control of the allies of Slavery. "Will you second this aus picious movement prOrnptly and ener getically, and so march for Ward to a glorious victory; or. shall we remain divided, and thus challenge and de-. servo &lat.? 127'"1f your concern for pleasing others arif,es from an innate benevo lence, it never fails of success; if froin a vanity to excel, its disappointment is no less certain. What we call an agreeable man, is he who is endowed with that natural bent to do acceptable I things from a delight he takes in them merely as such; and the affectation of that character is what constitutes a fop." The foundation of domestic happi nesi is f;tith in the virtue of woman. "THE MOST CONSERVATIVE We most cheerfully give place to "a defense of the Episcopal Church," ulthoUgh our correspondent fails to prove any error in our . statement. We take pleasure in inserting the article, as well on-the writer's account, as because we desire to do full justice to all. In reply . to this communica tion, we remark, that we had not the least idea of casting aspersions on the Episcopal Church. We found alead ing supporter of it making war on liberal clergymen because of their anti-slavery course, and giving the public, with strong marks of appro-' bation, the article from the Presby terian, containing, in cautious phraseol ogy, the' very sentiment which is com plained of, when put into honest Anglo- Saxon. We thought if the Church desired the publication of such .facts, it should have the full benefit of them ; hence our article. Bosides, we never before knew any one to claim -that the EpiscOpal Church had done anything for anti-slavery, or any other reform; and if it had, we suspect the writer of . the communication before us would have told us what the Church had done, instead of quoting the eulogium . of Rev. Albert Barnes, which-, though just and true, has no possible bearing on the issue in question. ' We beg to assure the X writer of this communication that there is no feeling in this community against the Episcol pal Church, and that there is the kindest of feeling toward her minister, whom all regard as a gentleman, a scholar, and a Christian. But if it is expected that the most prominent supporter of the conservative body can wage a vindictive war against liberal clergymen and their supporters without having his own craft some- 1 what damaged, we think the expecta tion is unreasonable, and will lead to disappointment. " Those who live in .glass houses" are foolhardy to com mence throwing stones •at other pee ple's windows. If, in warding off some of the blows aimed at the stand ing of a minister who makes an earn est effort to preach the ?Iliac Gospel, (sneeringly called preaching politics,) we,make them recoil and hit the head of him who aimed them, it is no fault of ours. EDITORS OF THR JOCRNAL : 7 —ln your paper of last week, you cast semo unfounded aspersions upon the Epis copal. Church. In commenting upon. an article which you copy from the Preshytrrian, you give your readers to understand that certain Congrega tionalists in New-England, who are dissatisfied with "political preaching" and the " prevalent desecration of the pulpit" in that region, are pro-slavery men. _Of this, however, you furnish no proof. You further carry the idea, that the Episcopal Church upholds and defends slavery, because certain Christians, who prefer to hear the Gospel preached rather than politics, arc likely to take refuge within her pale. The fault of your logic will be more apparent, if 'your assumptions arc thrown into syllogisms: All Christians who object to have the pulpit desecrated by political preach ing, are pro-slavery Christians : but some of the New-England Congrega tionalists object to this kind of preach-' ing ; therefore, they are -pro-slavery Christians ! Again :—All Churches, whose ministers preach the Gospel, instead of Anti-Nebraska baran'gues, are defenders of Slavery; but the ministers of the Episcopal Church preach the Gospel, and not politics ; therefore the Episcopal Church de fends Slavery ! You also speak of the Episcopal Church as "being too conservative to do any thing for anti-slavery, or any other reform," &c. Now, it may be quite true that the Episcopal Church has little to do with that kind of anti slavery of which the People's Journal is an organ ; but we shall take the liberty. to belieVe i until evidence is furnished to the -contrary, that she is quite as good a friend'to the slave, and is doing quite as much to meliorate his condition, as Yourselves. - As' to the other part of your impli cation, that the Episcopal Church is doing nothing forreform, , ,it is simply an unfounded assertion.' She long since earned the title of the Bulwark of the Reformation." We claim for her the credit of having done as much to make the world better, as any other body or society of men. • You speak of her as being too conservative ;, : but her conservatism is precisely of that I kind which is needed to restrain • the flood of folly, fanaticism, and infidelity which threatens to deluge'the land. . 1 We conclude by commending to your notice the following sentences from the pen of another Presbyterian,' the Rev. ALBERT BARNES : "We remember the services which the Episcopal Church has rendered to the cause of truth, and of the world's redemption; we remember the bright and ever-living lights of truth which her clergy and her illustrious lay men have in other times enkindled in the darkness of this world's history, and which : continue to pour their pure and steady lustre '. on the literature, the laws, and the customs of the Christian world; and we trust the day will .1 1 never come when our own bosoms; or the I, bosoms of - Christians in tiny denomination, will cease to beat with emotions of loft • thanksgiving to the God of grace, that lie has raised up so many gif, ed and holy men to meet the corruptions of the Papacy, and to breast the wickedpess'of the world. *- ' " With her dense, - solid org.,nization, with her uni:j of movement, wilt her power of main taining the position which she take, , , and with her mitten. ability to adVance the. cause of sacred :earning, and the love of order and of law, we desire to see her, like the Macedonian phalanx in the ancient army, attending or ! leading all other churches in the conquests of i redemption in an alienated world." i expect to see all the old parties over thrown, and yet it has been done; and in Massachusetts, new men and a new party .have the control of 'the State. It depends upon theniselves how long they shall remain in the ascendant. Upon one account, we confess, we are not sorry that the new party . has achieved this triumph. It has killed A REFORMER . I anti-Nebraska-ism and Abolitionism 1 stone dead. New-York th6.:w it into The Rev.'HCNRY WARD &retina , spasms, and Massachusetts has finished . has the largest -congregation of any . :i t . The "American Party' i , will now minister who preaches in or near the seek for power and place in the South as . well- as the North: This is abso-. city of New York, and he is exerting more influence than any other minis- lutely necessary to carry out the prin t: ciple' upon winch it has been brought ter in the United States. \\ - hat is; into existence, and which .so large a i the secret of his success? His fear- number of American citizens declare less independence. - He says what- , must be -established in this country, Sectional strife will thus be stayed Byer be think= the occasion calls for— , • ! and destroyed. Abolitionism, as a in the pulpit or out of it. The follow party, cannot stand up in New-Eng ing notice of one of his late Lectures, land or the North, and hurl its :Math . taken from the Ha rerhill. Gazette, emas at the . slave States of this Union, shows how a great man, a' fearless• for the "American partyl will be I there to put it down, as it liras already minister, and a true patriot talks : put it down in Massachusetts and Ne w WArtn BEECIIETt gave. a lecture Yolk. Good men of every. party in before the Newburyport Lyceum, to as large every State, may well felicitate them an ambence as ever before assembled on such an occasion. His sub, eel was the '• Elements selves if this object, and this alone, is 01 Patriotism," and he proceeded to illustrate, accomplished by the new party. Here in his peculiar way, why we loved our coma- toibre, in its actions, it has been con try. He said it was because local taw/minds fined to cities and Stares, and must were strong in every breast ; the home of every one was dear to hint ; the pecu li ar , iu.. generally to the selection orcandi dates innuious of his native land; the bright spots most acceptable to them from other in her history, an& the religiims feeling, by patties; but hereafter it most be re which he thinks God loves his country as a it. it garded as a National party, inde favored land—these hound him to ' should-be the duty of all to inspire the young pendent of all other parties, and seek with this feeling. as a Tian of their education. i ing, the rule of the Nation., • All persons, too, should vote—clergyinan and all. lie did not call himself a Woman's Rights man; nor should he wish a wife, or sister, or-daughter of his, to speak in publid. If they had the gill he should N%i>ll them to use it.. 'But lie should ardently pray they might not have it. 'Yet It did believe Women ought to Vote, and one day would be allowed so to do; there would lie a time' when the. son would walk to the ballot-box on the arm 4 A truly splendid eulogiiim, and one which does credit to the candor and superiority to. prejudice of the el& rated mind that conceived it. A DEFEN r OER OF THE EPISCOPAL CIIOI2CII. of his mother, and virdenee, and nose, and rudeness, woldd Shrink hack abashed before such a spectacle. The presence of ‘V0311:111 would . retine the gathering of men met to discharge this most responsib:e of all duties. Ile thought we were ill t.o:ne danger from different cauzes he mentioned; though he was not dispo , ed to regard foreign influence as enough to justify great . fear;. lie thought those men who, front the little money received from parents—worthy coopers or tallow chlandlers—made foreign tours and came home with new ideas and empty heads, were much more to be dreaded. It was a tiiarkling, brilliant lecture, which no one should attempt to report. He spoke one hour and a half, and then said he would omit some, that he might em weary them; but at their urgent call continued to the leng:h of two hours; thhugh nothing but their watch es could hare made them believe. it. I wish the good people of Haverhill might listen to it. As a lyceum lecturer, lie has no superior in our country. DECLINE OF THE N. Y. TRIBUNE Pro-slavery men and presses are always assuring their followers that " abolition is dying away," and that anti-slavery papers are on the decline. Just now it is very natural that these croakers should look round fin• some comfort. The people have everywhere decided against them at the ballot-box, and if they can only figure up a loss to the Republican press, it will 'be some consolation. So the N. Y .Herald, which found a homestead bill for Kan sas and Nebraska that never was framed, is set to work to-figure up the desired falsehood. The N. Y. Tribune set a good example to all business men, by taking in sail when the hard . times came on; but that its receipts have decreased, or its circulation di minished, as the Herald asserts, is far from the truth, as the following exhibit fully shows : The regular issues of The Tribune on the 15th day of November in 1553 and 1b54 re spectively, compare as follows: No. Copies issued in '54. Do. in '53. Increase. Daily Tribune, 27,360 21,360 • 6,000 Semi-Weekly, 12,120 6,240 • 5,r , :'30 California, 6,400 4,4J80 2,320 Weekly, .112,800 61,200 51,600 Aggregate, 158,680 9'2,880 65,800 Our receipts from subscribers and sales from July 1 to NOV. 16,1854, compare with those of the same portion of last year, as follows: 54—5108,707 53.. $98,372 Increase ..$10,339 Increased Receipts for Advertising for the four months ending Nov. 1854, as compared with the same months of the preceding yea'', $4,86 . 3. . TEE KNOWNOTEWS ARDFILAVERY._ Notwithstanding the Anti Slavery action of the EnOyy-Nothings in all the States except New-Ylzk,.we. find the Southern papers expect control this party, just as oey - have ; . the old parties. We'are not aware that they have any reason to make these pre= tensions ; but we. think such articles as the following, from the St. Louis Intelligencer, should induce `the Re publicans of the free States to watch this new party pretty closely. If it is to be a pro-slavery party, then it will have a short life. " Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty" Politicians -looked with wonder at the returns of the election in Massa chusetts, as told by the telegraph, yes terday. Snch a revolution, so.unlooked for and Unaccountable, has completely non-plussed every body. Those who had to take some note of what was going on in that State, were somewhat prepared for a large vote' foi. the Know-Nothings, but they' did not Law and Freedom in Indiana The Ilawrseille Eagle (Kentucky, Npv. 23d) containsithe I,,llOwing fIOMMITTED.—There u as committed to Vit he Jail of Breckenridge County, on the iith day of August, I 554, a negro'inen, calling him-cif Jtvboii Mayo. He was tuldin up in Indiana, about 90 miles • below Louisville. Ile states that he' is free, but has no free papers; he says, also, that he is from Man:. Chester. Virginia, and that he was born free and left there in 184.'3. NV hen. first.committed he said ilia: he belonged to a man lining in Campbell county, Ky., by the tiame of Wm. ('arr, living about 2.1) miles from Covington. Said negro is f a dark copper color, about -5 feet inches eigh—weighs.abput 175 or ISO -pounds—has the mark of a 1i,41 on his left side—about :30 years old. The owner, if any, will please conic forward, prove property, pay charges, or lie will be dealt with as the low directs. . J. 11..KEEAN, lailor of Breckenridge Co., K.) Ilere is a free inan, arrested in the Free State of Indiana, on suspicion that he is somebody's tpurty, fir " lee has no free papers." — 1 - le says he was born free in Virginia, and is right fully free now, and nobody appears to confute this claim ; • yet somehow be has been arrested and carried by force out of Indiana into Kentucky, where he is advertised in order. that some one may-be induced to get up and substantiate a claim to him ; but if that attempt fails, - as it probably will, then he will be "'dealt with as the lain directs" - —that is, •having failed to prove him a slave, his kidnappers will make him one, by 'him to pay the cost of arresting, confining,. and .advertising him under an unfounded suspicion that he was a slave Who. says this is n't a land of libei'- ty ?—N Tdbonr. Who says all agitationof, such deli cate facts is not out of place ? Let the pulpit be blind to such outrages as the above, and the press silent in rela tion to them, for -fear spine sensitive conservative should leave the church, and our over-tasked Union-savers should be unable to hold the States together. . Ear '! It is certain, a great part of what we call good or ill fortune, rises out of right or • wrong measures or schemes of life. When . I hear a man complain of being unfortunate in all his undertakings, I shrewdly suspect him for a very weak man in his affairs. In. conformity with this way of think ing, Cardinal Richelieu used to say, that unfortunate and imprudent were but two words for the. same thing." We commend the above to our farm ing friends thus early in the winter, for unless some of them are very prudent in taking care' of their stock, they will lose some of it before spring, and will then complain of "being un fortunate. rirri Our latest advices.from Kansas, are not very favorable. We Understand that some 9f the company - which• left this plaCe a few weeks ago have re turned,'lind that others would gladly do likewise if they were in,possession of the means necessary to enable them to-- return . . ' A correspondent of the ' gthmedut Reporter; who has • been traveling in the territory, gives it as his opinion that Kansas will be a slave State, in spite of all, the eflbrts that are being made to the contrary. The slaveholding inhabitants of the South are Making great exertions to bring about this result. We earnestly hope that such may not be the case, but the future looks . dark for Kansas.—Con neautrille Courier. • •We commend the above to those old line, anti-Nebraska democrats of 'this county who were induced to stick to the party by the false pretense that. there was no danger of Slavery going into Kansas, and therefore no necessity ' for making their votes tell against the . I extension of Slavery. The election being over, we trust the people are prepared to look at the faets - as they exist. There is but one way to save Kansas from the blight and curse of Slavery,—and that is for a majority of the people in everyfree State to unite and form . a party of Freedom, withr No MORE SLAVE STATES for its 'first principle. The full9wing, from the Cleveland Leader, will more fully explain the danger in Kansas, and the necessity for the action of Freemen : THE FIRST G UN—KANSAS.—T e re ports arc, that en. Whit field is elected delegate to Congress from Kansas. We are not - surprised at the result. He is an extremist—all ultra on the pro-slavery side. Arkansas and. Mis souri would secure his election. They poured votes into the tenitory by lunlred:::, and tints the firSt triumph for slavefy. We as - k . the reader, in this con nection, to preserve carefully Senator Atchison's speech, or the synopsis of, it given by his organ., the -Platte-Ar gus: It tells the whole story. Spec- . ulators and slaveholders, partisans of the Oligarchs, and the Oligarchs them selves, have combined to drench the soil of Kansas with the sweat of the Slave. They have combined to do it by force and fraud, and in all the first: steps will succeed. , • Whether the last step will be as Successful', will depend upon the fact • whether we. live a North. If there be one, Kansas never will become a slave State. Indeed, the Ihrce and fluid just employed under the name of Squatter Sovereignty can only help to build up a North which shall he as resolute, as true, in all that relates to Freedom -or Free Soil. Cgr The Cayuga Chi,'" is giving the Temperance and Anti-Slavery Men of New York who went for -Ull man, a Most unmerciful but deserved thrashing. We hope the fire will be kept up, till the recreants show works meet for repettance. Here is One of the Chief s effective shots,: The Temperance K. N 's and the morq than earthly pure anti-slavery men of the North Assembly District. ought to decide who has ; the honor of electing a rum, pro-slavery member to the Legislature. The debates would be interesting. Send theni to this paper'for publication: - CHINESE TESTIMONY NOT In the Supreme Court of Califinilia, a conviction lbr murder has been set aside on the ground that it was pro cured by the testimony of Chinese witnesses. The ruling of the Court was that Chinese are not competent to give testimony against whites !—Phi/. North American. There is the legitimate influence of slavery. Great country If the Prohibition men poll within 50,009 dune half of the vote of the State, - we will call ourselves defeated, - and let them have their If otherwise, let them hold their Peace about-it forever.—Lancaster Express Repuhtion; June 10, 185 The full vote of the State, for Gov ern 4, was 371,000 of one-half of which is 185,000. The vote for' a Prohibitory Law was 158,312. Dif ference 27,158. In favor of the Pro: hibition men,' on 'UNKLE YoKE's' proposition, 22,812! 'Let them have their Law'—gucss we'll take, friend Jacob!—Lanca.strr . Express. LECTURE Notice is hereby given that a lecture will be delivered at the Court House before the Literary Society of Coudersport, en Saturday evening, the' 16th inst., by Rt. Rev. ALoszo POTTER, D. D., 1.. L. D., Bishop of the Dio cese of Pennsylvania. The rare culture and high intellectual attainments of the speaker are such as to warrant us in promising a high degree of satisfaction and profit to every in telligent 'listener. Doors open at 61 I'. 31. Single Tickets, 25 cts. Family do., 50 cts.— to be obtained at the Beek Stores of T. B. Tyler and Mrs. 31. W. Mann. By order of the Committee on Lectures. H. J. OL3ISTED, Coy. Sec'y. SECRET OP THE SIICCESS•OF THE rtiolo, NOTHINGS The old fogy politicians-of both of the old parties, seem to be astounded at the success of the Know-Notbin4 party in the recent elections. We du not think it so much of a matvel. I n the first place, there is a very natural feeling of aversion in the minds of naturalhorn American citizens, against the. clanism of emigrants from other countries, and especially from Ireland and Germany, who forget to leave their old nationalities at home, when they transplant themselves to Ameri can soil. But, there is another cause " which operates still more• powerfully. to swell the -ranks of the Know_ Nothings, and that is, the despotism and degradation of the old party. or , ganizations. In- almost every State in the Union, these orianizations; both Whig and democratic, have de-. generated into mere central cabals, who control their respective parties, dictating their nominations - , which are gotten:liy selected from their own subservientiools, and then the masses of the voters arc whipped into the traces, and driven to the polls under the \whip and spur of regular nomina tions, to sustain the decree of the cabals: As things are now managed, there is no -individual freedom o f opinion and action. All is coerced and controlled by the cabals ; and they are composed to() oft'en of the ilest wretches and miscreants Of the patty whom they assume to represcnt. The ctutscquence is, that boa &red; and thousands of the honest voter , of the country, are sick and diso,u , ted - with such degrading party despOti-m, and long to lid thentselves subjec tion to it. The itinow-Nothing ormin ization Miers them such an opportu nity.; and they embrace - it: And in this may be perceived one of the ine , t prominent train-es of the rise and rapid t.p read .of Km-,w-Nothingiz,m. - - We perceive that some of the whip papers fear; and some of the Picic, Tapers expect, that the Know-Neth ings in this State, will cast - their hal-. Once in the approaching election in favor :if the administration. We ap prehend no sti;4l re,ult. The leaders of that sineillar political movement, will commit no such political