THE PEOPLE', JOURNAL. 0 3011 N 8. IWN, • - _ C OUp E RS PO .1"' A., i5 - IQ$5 OP.__EFerin;ospect- of ItEiiiiaiiiace of oal ip ' :0144.1.' 11 E4 ;ci-eated coci&irablo the igli •f t itr;this - ,fx`nukty: ' • !ibto, • the efT?,r i t to fin d } coal in our couuty, successful • 15 0 ,:The eltiction Massachusetts piti.:".64ulfitii - in fiiickr 'off the Know biitSingi, but Cavi l .. lead Vo - twithstandiiig ! ,thelap;tr'league gayeialj'jts'influei;iii to . tin& ' •• ^ • Thu pew Stearn Grist gal of C;ed o orations a for days slice, to the great sells lafitiOn_ of ,all our,citi i zens. It is : not Jet cclroploteCl, only one yen. of stone f : hving in opet:ationi but be : ,is . turping out a v e ry fine , ayticlg bu ckwheat . . .Igr'The prices oral! kindkof grain ;keel up. .I:Yur farmers will bare no 'difftcgy exclianging 'ell their. Bur.' Rluiri4b4iice into cash -at retpunera= ling priee.' We' trust they will' be epOnriiged -to increase their activity , faretineoperations; for the prod ucts of the farm ire'Cirtain to keep up for yeAfs to Come. . . ar If thelndiana Inclerenctrxt ra ttily desires union. of theAnti-Ne furcps of this State, -ft will feafie to sgrnatize thoae who do rot, ilea! *now gothingism with its i eyee, sa " proscrißtire, dishonest, and cot- runt." abuse never converted tia any one . from the lIFT-Cti 41 . 11111 was and 5.;,4 never will. Better use arguments car We publish on the first page a ft l ftc?111:4 91 the anprisonraent and jnsl disctiarp of 13.4ntottr. Wths.- The Stin, t friiin which this .Account is' taken, is thp only Philadel phia paper which R erisesscs backbone F in t ough to do justice to Judge Kane t.32:ll;aspaTe Williamson . We cora, pen'd the prospecl.us of this pap - or to the attention of all our friends who :,vould like a Phid.adClphia weekly. Te i 9 pus?, OP It takes $15.50 in cash every eierk, to publish the People's Journal. "odd . fr i ends hear this fact in Oind, and use same exertion to fur *nish us with material aid l We have a large number of generous patrons :who hive; from the start, done their Mink tidy ; but just now we need a little more activity on the part of the liatroo If the paper. Since Addison 'Aver; was "taken sick, we have . been five to pip, eaph week, four or five dollars urn than we receive. A little more activity on the part of the friends of .the Journal, would )34 a ?top to this onerous tax on the purse of the Editor. i A : newly Val* lilifroad.. We -.are in last week's Journal, an o:,c,runt of the opening of pie itzip9T ant road. fror9 Bitisburg to Freeport, gpor; this eve* 4s a 4ct of real impori.anpe to I?lorthern Perinsyl:. 41Pgaand saPilara north Jyallpr L is angually sprit. from this county to Pittsburg ; and this amount would be doubled if the communica: Pion .weredirept, pertain, and uninter veil, Then we want a large amdunt iifiron, glass, and the housand articles manufactured from them, in return. 1n adcftion to our lumber, we can pupplthpittaburg market with pu iiidei it. 4 buckwheat . We therefore ipOir, upon the Alleg iy Valley Rail road as a very great improyeptent to this and - M'Kean counties; and re hope it will be pressed steadily for :Sward to completion: Way to yiev,; , astri, the At*liiettps4s oes of Pennsylvania ~This subject is ongaging.thp atten tion Ofthe 'liberal press, as it should. I:ho:Vrarren Arai? suggested a bash of union, which was endorsed hy O ft toittipipo4 ArFY37 .T 4 is !Tai t° faTor Native Aunelicariiim. a I"n:4 : active' :Tariff, and the restaratiott of the Mis. Open Compromise, We are surpr i sed that men of sense should dEatim of ~fornOng a union .of the Anti-Nebraska force!! on such a platform. We should like the advo cator of such a plan to tell us what ,adrantfgefhty iyoul#l- have, i fiver g y. ViOcanii • ste th ivould'thayo any. Ir f , iieve cant:l'6,64e t 6 u(iite on ; th Rijia . blAthpyatfeAn as aad l te'di in New York. Ohio, and Massachu. , we Cannot fiaitirl; and p isnr diality to ,the views of the Montrose .A . ol,speadt'nt .Reptiblica.4, which are summed up in,fir fplltffing para.: graph : . "We thinli;lh,SO,4hat in Pennsyl •vania, tia in mOit'o . ther States, the Re- - 'pdblicaulparty Should; for the present, make a. clean issue an the _Slavery question, and invite a cordial union of. all men Who agree with them on that iss.4e;" It is unfortunate thaftlie,Free Soil sentiment is not stranger is some . parts of the .State, and we may :lose there considerably.by not incorporat-: ,ing,, other principles . in our platform. But what we lose ,there may be more than idide in .otlier Sections. For examplia in Susquehanna County the Republican party as at present organ. fzed,. can cast something over .3000 votes. And in ease the Sham De- I mociacy nominate a Presidential Can didate on a pro-Slavery platform, tied be is opposed by but one candidate on an anti-Slavery platform, we should. undoubtedly gain a large accession of wavering Damocrats. But if we at tempt to ,incorporate other questions on which our Republicans .hold a variety OE o'pinione, we shall here lose in strength instead of gaining, So it is, we beliexe-, in most of the Northern and Western parts of the State?' MUTE EITRUGGLB3 Pierce Democracy has had ever) thing its own way in this Representa tive District so . long, that it grows desperate as it approaches its end. All manner of falsehoods have been put afloat by somebody in relation to the election in this county. We nail ed one.of them last week, but we learn from the Lock Haven Watch,- man and Jersey Shore Vedette, that there are others, The following par agraph from the last Vedette, shows at what straws drowning men will catch : "Democracy is making quite a fuss, and its champion, John B. Beck, is threatening to contest the election of Representatives because report says some fifty illegal votes were cast in Potter county. One story says the Yorkers helped kill Beck and ariother that the election was held contrary to law, that is at another place than that designated 137,tbe act of Assembly." We hardly need inform our Jersey Shore friend that there is no shadow of foundation for either of the above eitories. The . election in this county was held as the A.ct of Assembly di - rects, at every poll in the county ; and Ithe stories tha, have been set afloat are falsehoods manufactured by des perate men to hide their condemnation ;by the people. Mr. Beck will never go to Harrisburg again, if -he waits Until he can discover illegal voting in I • this county sufficient to save him. gar The (letter Democrat is a wel come addition to our exchange list. A great revolution has taken place in that county, and we have no doubt the Democrat has done its full share in the nbble work ; for the few numbers we have seen are edited with good taste, skill, and energy. The following ex tract from a communication in the last number, zyill interest our readers, as it shows. the happy influence exerted . by the apt or last session, tb restrain the sale of inttntieating drinks : "Ma. 131tovrzf :=-Although,l have not heretofore been the most zealous ad vocate of it Prohibitory Liquor Law, I mil noyr free to confess that after having-' witnessed the effects of the present law (falsely called the jug law) for the space of one brief mouth, and especially on the day of the late elec tion, I am for prohibition in, all its power. Why, sir, one circumstance alone on the evening of the election . (if I had no other reason) would he sufficient to cause, it seerris to me, any sensible man to btanci up for this great moral reform. The circumstance to which I refer, is the following : A man who has been a voter in this town ship for a number of years, was never known, I believe to go home from the election sober, and in fact sometimes could not get home at all without the assistance 'of some of his neighbors; but on the evening of the last election day he repaired to his home at an early hoar, a ratan instead of a brute. He met a neighbor on the way told him how many votes Were' yelled when he left, &c., &c.; a thing he would not have been able to dolor many years before. Now,' this is . a single case, and I have no Ocmht i just such aien are'to 6e foqu i d in every township ii our county ; arta if withholding from them Cheihtokiciiiing cup; preserves to them their reascit;and-to their 4rni lies a decent husband and fatkLef, iyhy not instead of trying to effect a repeal of the present law, go to work men—like philaithrepista, like Obis . - tians and secure an entire' prohibitory law." ==MM==ls=Z 17DERSPORT A he inter Term oethisAsiiiution,', will camence on Mondai;Mecember' 34;1under the charge oilteri Eitel Smithkeld -PBridtorciT Co., Pa., assisted by such - teachers as . the number of students, in Attendauce mayre• . Mr. Hehdrick hal' been engaged In" the business of teaching a large share Of-she time for fifteeh.years, mostly in Bainbridge, -Chenango Co., N. Y. He has acquired .an 'enviable reputa tion in , this profession, and we feel greatly elated that our efficient Board of Trustees has secured the services of such a teacher: 'Mr. H: is a ripe scholar, an' :ardent lover of his pro fession, 'an accomplished' gentleman, and an energetic man. With him there is no .such word as fail. He comes to Coudersport for the purpose of making. it his permanent heine ; and in that respect he will hive claiins upon the patronage 'Of our citizens; which previous teachers in the Acad emy have not possessed, - Urider_these circumstances,, we feel the . tit'inest cOnfideticif that the Acade my, under Mr. HendriCk's charge, will give'entire satisfaction to all rea-, minable men, The friends of Educa tion in Potter county owe it to them selves, their children, and society, to give this institution an enthusiaiStie support. 'Our people VaVe manifested of late a great interest in common schools.. These cannot be improved without better - qualified teachers; and teachers of the 'proper qualififations cannot be furnished Without patron izing some Academy. Clearly it is for the interest _of our citizens to build up an institution of their own, where young men and women can complete their studies, and qualify themselves tor first class common school teachers. Mr. H. will build up an institution of this kind ; and therefore we expect the school will open on Monday, Dec. 8, with more students, and under more favorable prospects than ever before. We are warranted in coming to ,thi4 Conclu sion, from the indications all around us ; and therefore we ,say to •the friends of the Coudersport Acadeiny, if you will but make a . little effort in its behalf, we shall soon have a better, more prosperous school than was ever lorganized in the county. Let us see who are the real friends of Education in this community. A SLANT Ticaoc;:z.—The Trenton, N. J.. Gazette. records the pas:age. through that tow!' of a party tlf the slaves, under the following e mtvkahle circutn,tances : Two years ago a slave wornan, advanced iy years, the' mother of six children, who had all been sold from her when old enough to he traaful, overheard her ma..ter braining for the fele of her gl aud gaol, a boy fifteen years old, to:a wade:. This Lying the last of her family, 'she resolved M 3.1) permit it, and the stem, night fled with the buy. They travel led by night northward, guided by the north star, and. after lo:',g wanderir.g., reached Canada. There she hired . herself nun 'for wages, and two. m:niths ago, with the . result of her own and her boy's labors; returned to the South, where, conceal ing herself in the woods, she revealed her presence only to her friends, and thus collected seven _of her children and . grandchildren. They started northward, traveling only by night, and concealing themselves during the day. Before reaching Philadelphia, they were so Worn out with hunger and hardship, as to be obliged to seek the aid of friends.' These were found, and the whole party were then fed and clothed and forwarded safely to Canada, This woman is nearly sixty , -years of age, yet alone she has done all this. Wo should like to have some one of our fugitive slave bill men express an opinion on the above case. Do you rejoip.a at the escape of this woman, or not ? If you do, then why do you sustain the fugitive slave bill and ihe party that is upholding it? Truth well Expressed, We clip the following pungent but truthful paragraph fro'm the Pittsburg Gazette : "We will not, however, conceal the conviction' that is steadily forcing itself upon us, that the tone and temper of the various elements of opposition in : the State is not ,now' favorable to . a cordial union. There is,at the present; too much crimination and recrimina= Lion, too string an anxiety on the part of one branch to overreach the other, and too little disposition to vield.in the very questions which are the mat ters of controversy and difference. There must be a change in this respect toSnre-fpro,,kur petnbirT 921 r -t ; .; effecte t , . We Tefittkwaisurc( our-Tat:4mA friend, that if be aekan exatn4 pl4y)f ftteding tbc;path here-tarkil out. he will find a large number ready ,and aexious to,follow him. . r tirlptironx.: . .• . Cinitre:ry fo . ,ourhnEies and 'expecte._ tions, the Know_Nothings have carried their State ticket in the Empire State, by- a.inajoyity . of ii:orn five to ton sand. The same party having , Carried Maryland and. Massachusetts, we fear a union of the Anti-Nebraska forces - of the North, is seriously endtingered. ,There.is,-, however, a cheering Fide to this. Name., The Pierco,Denioc.. racy are, everywhere ,overiv4e4ned. The people repodiete,vvith scorn the 114th-breaking .party: The Liquor party.has.also ,heen signally defeated. The Legislatore :of N. Y. is about as follows : . . • Senate. • Assembly. Republicans . 15 41 Know Nothinge' 1 9 30" Dern.(Hard and Soft) V 46 Ti) hear from • 1 .11 Allegany and Cattaraugus have done nobly, which ' : ia doubtless owing; iri good part, to the gallant inanner in which the 'Free Preu and Journal conducted the campaign.' The elec tion. of R. White to the Senate; from the Cattaraugus district, is a great tri umph, and we beg to congratulite the editor of the Olean. Journal on the brilliant triumph which has crowned his efforts. For the Journal MORAL COURAGE. • What is it? It is a.vrillingnesi and a fixed determination : to suppress moral evil ; and 'moral evil is 'every thing contrary to - the gospel of our Lord and Savior, and deleterious to the happiness and welthre of mankind. Hence so few take a decided stand against Intemperance, Slavery, and Sabbath-breaking, Upon the last of these I wish to make a few remarks, and especially upon . .the worst feature of it, which is hounding deer - on . Sun days. This is frequent in our county, and. sometimes to the annoyanee of: religious meetings, as I once witness ed. When the baying of thebminds is heard upon the hills, men, women, and children; mount the fences, climb - the higheit stumps, eager to catch the first glimpse of the deer as he emerges from the forest. Soon the poor crea ture seen, pantiogfin.. breath, like the hunted fugitive from the land of manae , -s and Bowie-knives. He pinn ! ges into the ‘v.tter with the instinctive idea of safety ;' but the'rifle seals his fate. Then ri discharge of guns, and a hallociing; bring together the diTer out comAanirnt. of liens in wait, who, with the spectatlrs; oftentimes make t'a large companY. The deer, although I cut in small pieces, hardly siiftces tg 1 , give each a sniall bit. . JuA look at, this faint picture, friendq, and tell me of a greater and more usi•le,ts ae:ecration of the Lord's day, And anything that will more re tat d the settlement of our county , by Men of moral courage. This is done frequently by foreigners Whoa take the liberty to do as they please in Potter. Sometimes hunters go into other townships, as did those - from Cush ingville wbq lately set their dogs 'out on Pine Creek, and when on their way home, were repfored by an in dividual living in Pike township. They•turned the reproof into ridicule, then fired their guns, and went off with a shout. • • • Is there no remedy 1 Is there not a man of moral courage, who with righteous indignation will rise up and put in force the strong arm . of the law 1 believe if an example were made of one of these reckless barba rians, the rest would be discomfited ; and I am sure if another, instance of the kind falls . under my obseryation, the trial will be male. Will not our fear less, faithful JeNrnol which possesses so large - a share of moral courage, speak ? If it be not afraid to measure swords with King Alcohol, nor to raise a banner against . the encroachments of the slave oligarchy, will it fail to espouse oar cause, and help us enjoy the privileges of ;he Sabbath Swollen, Npv. 4, 1855, CirWe do not,..see that it requires any great amount of moral courage to rebuke such gross violations of a wAvelerate law, 1711mm:eta defecrOs ; foi eiery d' iz !is 4 4 -'' 07114980 to such 11:67, - ., 'SO . 0)i/ 0 witneilithe violatioh 4 lanii - iare';:ibe --„, ,• : i_ ,,, ,,, . k - . 1 1 .f 4. very ii*.i to protlecuto.;:tne via atimis ; and if they do-no[;' b feeri k haVe - iftr figlt to call on others to do it. , P.Assldat . tintei63oliqi RELEASE: One of the most memorable acts of judicial opiires'4on,. one of the •Wifist • glaring instances of - the wresting:nf trienlaw.to .purposes ;of injustice :and tyranny, was condo : 4d on -Saturday by the, release of Passmore Williamson on the'order•of the same judge who flung 'him into prison:: • - lithe incarceration of this-innocent man. against:all law-and every, shadow of justice, proves that even under demecratie system the privite is not secure against arbitrary power and violent malice on the ban of mag istrates, his release.. equally demon strates.that under such ,a system the, force of public opinion is sure at last to right the utmost wrong, and to bumble the most bold and reckless conteinner of.JUstice and Adel duty. the 9th of August Passmore Williamson was brought before Judge Kane by virtue of a writ of habeas corpus, cona.rianding him to .-produce' the bodies Jane. Johnson and her twe sons, alleged• slaves of4ohn H. Wheeler., freed by the act of their master, and taken from the latter's keeping by the will of Jane' herself, who left him as soon as she was in- - foi•med by Mr. Williamson that she had the legal right to do so. .To this writ Mr. Williamson. made return that the persons_ required were not in his custody. ; and that accordingly be could not produce them. For making this return, Mr. Williamson was shut up in Moyanaensing . prison on the 27th of July, on the ground that it was a false return, and as such • contemptu -ous toward the court. Since that time Mr. Williamson and his friends have been incessantly en gaged in endeavors to extricate him from Obi unjust and illegal confine ment. As a matter of course, they first applied to the courts of Pennsyl vania,- whose manifest and primary duty it is protect the liberty • of her. citizens against arbitrary and tyran-' nous violence, from. whatsoever quar ter. The chiefjuStice pusillanimously refused to interfere; and then with great.eitpense and delay they resorted to the full bench of justices, who again after long waiting, gave their notori ous decision in favor of Judge Kane and his right -to shut up men in jail without either law or right. Meanwhile the universal indignation of the countr3r, -expressed through every conceivable channel, bad not only branded this unjust judge with a stamp from which his reputation can never recover, but had been. felt by him as a burden too great to be but ne. Private suggestions were given that any reasonable pretext would he adop ted for the release of . .Mr: Wiliamson; accordin;.;;y Jane Johnson's petition was presented, but truc as all its state ments.paipably.were, and jut: as were all its dernands, it was rather too strong to be allowed. At the same tiine,* htwaver, the court took occa siOtt to open the door 'for a different arrangement. Other proceedings were had; till finslly.httlge K r.re proposed I that Mr. Williamson himself should appe.ir told take immedilte steps I;ir his liiv,ratifm. Hereupon, willing to adopt every means that should not compromise the, truth or surrender a twine' pie, Mr. Williamson petition :!(.1 .for leave to appear b.l.fore the court and purge himself of that contempt be causeof which he was imprisoned. When this petition was presented, the district, attorney contended that the word "legally" should be inserted so as to make Mr. Williamson admit that he was legally incarcerated, which of course,. he would never have done. But so desirous was Judge Kane of extricating hiinself from the detestable position in which be stood, that be overruled the proposal and allowed the petition to pats as it was. Then Mr. Williamson was to +answer why he had not. prOduced the bodies of Jane Johnson, and her children• as re quired by the original writ. To this interrogatory his reply . now . was simply " Because it was impossible." Here again the district attorney sought to go further and compel hira to an swer whether he would have produced them had it been possible, but this the judge also excluded, and upon this answer released the •prisoner.• .-The case then stands thus : Mr. Williamson was adjudged guilty of contempt of court, and was even de.. dared by•tbe judge to be guilty of per jury, because he had made oath that Jane Johnson and her sons were not in his custody, Wherefore ne.could not . produce them. Atter being held in prison for con tempt for the period of three months aaci - cmaa week, lie is at last allowed 143 amend his former answer by - making oath simply that he did not produce those persons " Because it was impos sible to' do so t '? .• . :With regard to the, essential identity hetween these two =meta - , comment is needleaa. • Had this eclatantact of repentance and submission been sooner made, A CITIZEN, tiet -K .tulgane might hares fou n d, z , ~. t spyrie mope- of regaining sor nst4r.fthose relict of public w4oh may possibly have.renni him after his conduct itythee affair'; but now it comes too j; is trio evidently enforced by preme power of public ;pi which even the most obster audacious ofrenderAnust sone ( ter how. flit the ill effect el .ter . is _not confined to .itzdg Milne. ~ frt .. , bat deeply a i le d public confidence iti - thc . la tuna of justtee :in general, and efficacy of our laws to, secur e sacred right. To h e a jud ge , a title of respect, but at the must soon become the co n ' People talk sometimes of radt destructives who, sap the foul of society and undermine the public morals; but a judge li does more at ,a single blow the social fabric and retard 1 gress of a people than the vier vate criminals in half a, center In any other northern city , adelpbia such an outrage as that whitli for - mcire that the quarter of a ye ar , Mr. Williamson has been the victim, would have provoked public distur. bance. Certainly there was never al occasion in which a revulutioo ari remedy would have seemed more tru;; justifiable. But the result, as it now stands, puts those in the right who hold- ands that violence should never be eat. ployed even for a right end. Passmors Williamson comes from his prison at the peacefel fiat of public .opinion released by the justice of his cause and by the voluntary submission of flis tyrant who immured him. . KLICUI/1 L3MLLS COLLEGE. The beautiful and capacious' Will ing just completed in the village of Elmira, for a Female College, was inaugurated during the late State Fair. The venerable Dr. Benton of Frey, made the first speech. Brief address. es were delivered on the — o — c - casion by Rev. Allen Steele of New-York, and Rev. Dr. S. H. Cox of Owego.. The following extract from Dr. Beman's speech evinces a wholesome progres sive feeling : - "But I am glad that you have taken • the name of l3ollege ; that it fur noth- ing else than, to remove that fastidious distinction, which neither God nor man, nor the structure of the human mind, warrants the founders of literary institutions to monopolize for the young rian, while the girl and young woman must go to schoo'. Such institutions,. embracing as this shall, in their course of study, the , liberal branches of science and literature ; the useful ald the or n mental ; shall be the strong and bright link in the golden chain of in telligence and piety which shall hand our country to the high destiny which God has decreed for her own future ; while the same chain thrown around the heart of the nations, shall draw thew tooTtlier, in th. bonds of a holy,. I Chri ttian brut er;iooti."— Nerthera Chiistian Adrothle. TII3 EVIV)P4AN Dettocatcr tv 7110- TtoNr.--An appeal tai rikently been male to the Re:Mikan party in Eu rope, by limeq; - .11. Al.szzon and LEintr It , a,LtN, announcing that — by the 1 . 41111 f Seri l itnpol the War is irreroverhble and indefinitely prolonged—it bring inapossil.lc for itu:,ia to treLt aft -, ..1 a defe;,t, isitheut si into ti:ird rate position, alit' it I,,iAg int posiiriln for the allies, in th•r face of public o pinion, to offer peace on leis onerwis conaitions. They call upon the ,Eu ropean- democracy now to unite against their enemies and 'act, prnoluioaing liberty and fraternal association for iladelphia Sun. CHARLES SUMNER made a forcible and eloquent speech in defense of the Republican party, in Faneoil Hall, on the 2d inst. In his exordium, he thus alluded to his recent tour in the slave states, and to what fell under his per sohal observation : "It has been my fortune latterly to see slavery face to face in its own home, In the slave States ; and I take this early opportunity to offer my testimony to the open barbarism which -it sane , tious. 1 have seen a humati being knocked off at auction on the steps of the Court-House, and, as the rale went on, compelled to upen his mouth and show his teeth, like a horse ; I have been detained in a stage-coach, that our driver might, in the phra.ie of the. country, 'help lick a nigger;' and I have been constrained, at a public table, to witness the revolting spectacle' of a poor slaie, yet a child, almost fell ed to the floor by a bloW on the head from a clenched 'fist. Such incidents were nut calculated to shake my erigi• mil convictions. The distant slave holder who, in generous solicitude for that Truth which Makes for Freedom, feared that, like 11. Doctot of Divinity, 1 irlzht,.under the influence of person al kiudness, be hastily swayed from these convictions, may be assured that I saw nothing to . change them in one tittle, but to confirm them, while ,! was entirely satisfied that here in Massachu setts, where all read, fhe true charac ter of slavery - is better knawn than in the slave States themselves, whose ignorance and .prejudice close the avenues of knovvledge."
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