[For tbe Bradford Reporter.]
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
MR. EDITOR : A writer in your paper who
appears to have seine private griefs relative to
the office of County Superintendent of Common
bcliools, has been indulging himself In a man
lier which may justify my asking you to pub
lish a reply.. With his personalities in speak
ing of the superintendent, I have nothing to
say or do—he is fully able to answer for him
self; but I will endeavor to show your readers
that his charges and insinuations against those
school directors who are in favor of general
education, are unjust, and indecorous. The
gentlemen who took part in fixing the salary
of the superintendent are the real friends of a
good system of education —for the rich and for
the poor ; and their standing in society, both
for integrity and intelligence, ought to shield
them from the sneering charges of ignorance,
resorted to by an arrogant and dictatorial news
paper scribbler. The chairman of the conven
tion is a man of education, and possesses talents
of a high order, and no one doubts his integri
ty. The secretaries are men who would do
credit to themselves in any county convention.
The chairman of the committee to draft reso
lutions is a Professor of education in high stand
ing, aud his character above reproach. Who
the " two others with him" were, your corre
spondent has not told us ; but I would think
well of them judging them by their company.
The gentleman who offered the resolution to
increase the superintendent's salary and advo
cated it, is geutleman who stands so far above
the attacks of petty scribblers, that it is not
necessary to notice the attacks on him. I
will only say that he possesses a strong natur
al mind, with a bold honesty of purpose which
makes him fearless and powerful in debate.—
The gentlenuiu who offered the resolution nam
ing the salary adopted, is one of the best read
lawyers in Northern Pennsylvania. A gentle
man of a tine mind, aud one who has the cour
age and disposition to do justice to friend or
foe. Those men are all ardent friends of edu
cation—they are actively engaged in the cause
—they are tax-payers of the county, and I ask
what right your correspondent has to make
charges or insinuations against them for exer
cising the right of acting as they thought pro
per and just ? Those men and their associates
who voted with them, were a clear and an hon
est majority of tlie convention, and no sensible
man doubts their legal right to do what thev
have douc.
The position of your correspondent is untena
ble from beginning to end. The state has ap
propriated $30,000 for tiie payment of county
superintendents, and no officer of government
can use one dollar of that sum for any other
purpose. The question then is, shall the Su
perintendent of Bradford couutv receive a com
pensation equal to, or in proportion to that of
the superintendent of other counties? You,
Mr. Editor, told your readers a few weeks since,
that Bradford county had more farms than any
other county in the state. In this statement
you were correct; but in the same paper your
correspondent argued that S3OO was enough
pay for traversing this large and populous
county. This was an absurdity. He thought
it could all be done in two hundred days—aud
two dollars fifty cents per day—quite a gener
ous compensation. Did this correspondent ever
hire a horse and travel the county ? I suppose
lie did not, or he would make no such assertion.
The wear and tear and expenses of two hun
dred days traveling would be more than $500;
but the necessary traveling of the superinten
dent cannot be performed in three hundred days;
and then the writing of the office and the cor
respondence lie must attend to occupies not on
ly his leisure hours by day, but runs far into
the night, depriving him of sleep. lam proud
to say that Bradford county requires more la
bor from the superintendent of common schools
than any county in the state ; and I am quite
willing that the officer, (let him be the present
incumbent or any other,) should be paid for
his services.
I will now notice tlio assertion of your cor
respondent relative to the proceedings of the
convention, and I rejoice that the chairman
had the good sense to attend to the business
the convention and not be led into confusion by
the attempts of those who acted as factionists.
It appears one of those offered a resolution to
make the salary ten fhousand dvlhrs. Would he
have voted for such a sum ? Would one mem
ber of that body have recorded such a vote ?
I answer no. It was only intended to occupy
time, and trifle with the convention. Let such
meu talk about the want of knowledge in a
chairman. Their own charges will do him
credit. Again your correspondent grossly tells
your readers that resolutions were offered to
abolish the office of superintendent, to reduce
the number of school directors, fix their sala
ries, Ac. I did expect the gentleman charged
with offering such resolutions to come out in
your paper and deny .the charge ; but as he
did not do so, I presume he owns them. Did
those men believe that a county convention
have any such power ? 1 >id the mover of those
resolutions think he belonged to a legislative
body, who could act on them? I will not in
sult the mover or his aids by saying that they
believed their own assertions. I know they
would much rather be thought "cute tricksters"
than plain fools. Their resolutions were irrele
vant ; and with whatever abihty those resolu
tions were sustained by the mover, the public
I suppose will remember that he held a geod
office in this county for several years and per
formed the duties well. No one, I presume,
had any right to find fault ; but, no one ever
heard of this gentlemau being in favor of a
reduction of fees while he held office. The fees
of that officer were often paid by the poor,and
by tho3e who could Illy spare the money ; but
the officer's zeal in favor of reducing a salary I
did not then exist.
Your correspondent made an attempt to de
ceive your readers as to the notice or call of
the convention. This he knows is unjust. The
call was inserted in the county newspapers,and
I believe a circular sent to the chairman of
every school district in the county ; —and I
presume if there had been a full board the ma
jority in favor of the increase would have been
very large. If the coterie who exerted them
selves so much before, and at the convention,
couid not intimidate or control the members,
it is not likely that they would have succeeded
better with a larger number. They resorted
to the press—they resorted to fraud, to defeat
a majority of school directors in the perform
ance of their cTuty. It does not become such
men to talk about acts brought about "by
hook and by crook."
Those men are now reiterating that the sala
ry is paid out of the county school fund, while
they know that the Secretary of Common
Schools has under the seal of office given his
decision to the contrary ; and those men know
that his decision is the law until reversed by a
higher tribunal. N.
BCRLINCTON, August 14, 1855.
DOCGHFACEISM.—This expressive term is ap
j plied to a certain class of Nort hern men, who
while always expressing their opposition tosla
! very and its encroachments, yet always persis
i tentlv and most ingeniously oppose every mode
i whatever of political and practical action to
protect Northern rights. To the abolitionists
of the Garrisoniau school they say thatchattle
slavery is all wrong, and they are as much
opposed to it as anybody, but it is a local in
stitution with which we have nothiugtodo, and
cannot disturb it without destroying church and
and state. To the Freesoilers and Wilmot
proviso men, thev declared they were utterly
opposed to slavery being extended to the new
Territories, but it was necessary to pass the
proviso at the risk of southern excitement, for
slavery would not go to those territories in
any event. The Fugitive slave law they
admitted was very tyranacaland disgraceful to
the people of the Northern States, a great and
: cruel hardship, but the constitution required
the return of Fugitive Slaves, and the North
must yield, or endanger the Union.
Had you asked one of these pliant persons,
in the beginning of last year, if they would be
willing to give up the Missouri Compromise at
the demand of slave hokleis, they would have
been in liguant at the bare idea. " Give up the
Missouri Compromise ! Destroy that time
honored and sacred compact ! Let slavery ob
tain a foot-hold 011 our own soil of Nebraska, a
soil consecrated to freedom ! No indeed ! Let
the South try if she dares ; but she never will,
she has more sense ; but if she dares, we will
iicv; r yie'd to such ignominy and injustice !"
The South did try it, and she succeeded as she
always does, for she is united and in earnest,
and win re arc these valiant Doughfaces now ?
Have they acquired any manly courage, any
sense of their rights, and any resolute determi
nation to a-scrt them ? Not in the least. The
dough is more prominent that ever.
Never has the meanness of doughfaccism
been more evident than in its opposition to the
Republican movement, which it stigmatizes with
the name of Abolitionism. The Republican
party proposes to lay aside every issue connect
ed with the question of Slavery but the question
of its extension into national territory. It
does not assail Slavery in any of its so-called
vested rights. It does not molest it any state,
or in any of its conditions. It is not even a
question of Slavery as regards the slave them
selves. It is, in fact, an assertion of the rights
of the free citizens of the Northern States to
certain territories awarded to them by compact
and prescription. If slaveholders are to possess
these fair territories then Northern men are
shut out, unless they will consent either to lie
come slaveholders, or the serfs of slaveholders.
There is no other alternative, except the entire
abandonment of territories which were theirs
by every claim of justice and right.
For the assertion of Northern rights, and for
endeavoring to preserve the government of the
nation from coming under the complete control
of theslaveholdingpower, Northern doughfaces
denounce it as Abolition, a one-idea party, and
predict that it it succeeds it will destroy the
I nion ! This is the old story the Union is in
danger ; the lovers of the Union must come to
the rescue to put down the Republicans, or the
country will be ruined !
And what do these Union-savers propose in
the emergency ? Submission! Nothing in the
world but submission. If the South wants
Kansas as a slave State she must have it, or
she will upset the Union, which if we may
believe these doughfaces, is so weak and
rickctty that nothing can save it but submiss
ion, submission, SUBMISSION 1 —Pittsburg Gazette.
BP??* Mr. Huston, the only Free-Soil member
in the Missouri-Kansas Legislature, lias got
sick of bad company and resigned. He says
that several members of the so-called Legis
lature are not and never were residents in the
Terrirory, but are still living in Missouri, and
adds that these and other facts of atrocious
illegality "caused me, mortified and disgusted
"at the assumption of my countrymen, to
"retire from a position which I could no
" longer retain with credit or honor to myself,
"orjustice to my constituents." And thus
Lot Hod from Sodom.
GOVERNORSHIP OF K ANS.YS.—The lion. John
L. Dawson passed through Pittsburgh on
Thursday, on his way home, after several weeks
absence, and stated to his friends, unqualifiedly,
his purpose to decline the tendered appointment
as Governor of Kansas. The Pittsburgh Post
says :
1 lis appointment, which was entirely unso
licited and unexpected, was first made known
to him while travelling homeward. Highly as
we know the compliment to be held, yet Mr.
Dawson has no wish to change his citizenship.
He intends to stick to the flag of our good old
Commonwealth, and will not exchange it for
that of any other State or Territory. He
therefore declines the appointment.
FATAL AFFRAY IN MISSISSIPPI. —The Jackson
Mercury regrets to learn that a serious affray
occurred about ten miles from that city, in the
county of Rankin, on Wednesday last,"in which
a Mr. Anderson was shot down by one Collins
and expired. The brother of the murdered
man, it is stated, beiug out on a hunting
excursion, chanced to arrive on the ground
and immediately shot Mr. Collins, who was not
at last accounts exoeeted to recover.
fSratforb Ucportnv
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
We publish in another column, a call for a
Republican State Convention, to be held in
the city of Pittsburg:, on the sth of September,
signed by a number of persons, formerly iden
tified with the different parties lately existing
in this State. The object as set forth, is to
effect a union of the voters of this Common
wealth opposed to the aggressions of Slavery.
We hail this as a movement in the right di
rection. There is in Pennsylvania a large ma
jority of her voters opposed to the Kansas-
Nebraska bill and the outrages which are the
legitimate consequence of the Repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. Some expedient should
be resorted to to give expression to the senti
ments and feelings of her people. We need an
organization and a platform upon which all the
friends of Freedom, regardless of former party
names,can stand in common,and not by division
suffer the voice of Pennsylvania to be stifled
or her sentiments misrepresented. The Repub
lican movement has already been inaugurated
in many of the Northern States, with cheering
prospects of success. The people are no loug
er to be blindly subservient to the behests of
party leaders, but are casting off the trammels
of party, and speaking as becomes intelligent
Freemen.
They arc not satisfied with being the adjuncts
and tools of slavery, and indirectly aiding the
plans of STRING FELLOW and ATCHISON The
times imperatively demand such a movement
as is promised by this Republican Convention.
With a strong and determined expression of
Northern sentiments, and a candidate known
to be consistent and upright, Pennsylvania will
not be behind her sister states in rebuking the
aggressive and intolerant spirit of slavery-pro
pagandism, which now threatens to "crush
out" every sentiment of freedom.
DOWN WITH THE DOUGII-FACES!
Yes, down with the dough-faces ! That is
exactly what we mean. The South brags that
she has no traitors in her midst. The North,
unfortunately, has a prolific crop of this class.
They may be known by their hypocritical and
zealous professions of regard for the Constitu
tion, as if any one would do violence to that
sacred instrument. They see no encroachments
upon the Constitution in the continued efforts
of the slaveholders to extend the accursed in
stitution ; but, when the North would bring
the government back to the principles of our
forefathers, they cry out that the Constitution
is assailed ! Such men can be found in almost
every County in the North. They arc persons
of enlarged and liberal views, very unselfish
and patriotic ! as is manifested by their always
desiring to do their country some service in a
good fat office and never refusing when called
to perform its arduous duties—and draw the
pay. They are always Boohoos, too, and will
tell you a lugubrious tale of the dangers that
beset the Uuion, unless the slaveholders are
allowed to have their own way. They are al
ways predicting a speedy dissolution of the
Uuion, it the North shows the slightest degree
of independence. They are anatomically known
as men without backbone—or afflicted with
some verterbral affection, which makes it im
possible to stand up erect—and they are con
stantly engaged in bending and cringing and
fawning to the Power which controls our leg
islation and which dispenses offices and patron
age. They may be further known by declaim
ing most eloquently against sectional parties,
and particularly denouncing any attempt to
consolidate popular opinion in the North.—
They are profoundly ignorant of the state of
parties at the South, they can see no sectional
movements in that direction, but when an ef
fort is made to show that there is a North—
Boohoo! how dcprecatingly indignant and
terribly frightened becomes your Northern
dough-face ! Sectional parties at once become
fraught with great danger to the Union.—
Boohoo 1 the South wilt dissolve the Union if
the North interferes to prevent the consumma
tion of her plans !
Such men are an incubus upon the North.
They cling to the wheels of her progress. If
they had lived in the time of our Revolution,
they would have boohooed about the awful
fuss made for a three cent tax on a pound of
tea. They would have endeavored to check
the feeling of liberty and independence mani
fested in the colonies, and denounced the zeal
ous and true men of that day, as one-idea-men
fanatics. They have no conception of princi
ple—of acting without reference to some in
terested purpose. Their goal is office—their
expected reward, patrouage. There is but one
way of reaching such a class—and that is by
making dough-facism unprofitable. When it
won't pay to be a dough-face, the race will be
come extinct. The North owes it as a solemn
duty to herself and to the best interests of the
country—to the cause of political morality, to
put the sea! of condemnation upon every dough
face. Whether in National, State or County
matters, if a man presents himself for your
suffrages who is not true to the North, Down
with him ! Show him that you have no respect
for those who have no respect for you. Learn
hira that the only way to secure the support of
the North is to be true to the Constitution,
true to the precepts of our fathers, true to the
cause of Freedom. An independent, upright,
Northern man should always be supported—a
dough-face taught that the North will no long
er encourage traitors.
" UNION FOR THE SAKE OF THE UNION!"
8&r We find in the last Argus, the pro
ceedings of the " Whig County Committee,"
and as part of the action of said committee, ap
pear the following resolutions :
The Whig County Committee in Convention assembled.
Resolved, FIRSTLY—That in comparison with the great
issue before the country, the minor questions of party are
unimportant, and therefore should not he allowed to pre
judice those paramount interests of Freedom which are
involved in that issue.
SECONDLY—That the rights of the North can only be
secured from the encroachments of Slavery, by muting
the Northern strength upon firm and decided grounds
against the further extension of Southern institutions.
TUIRDLV—That we do therefore earnestly recommend
to the several Committees of Vigilance, above named, that
they use their utmost influence to secure delegates to the
coming County Convention, who will sacrifice party
names and minor considerations, to effect an union of
Northern forces upon one common platform of Freedom.
The masses of this County, are sound upon
the great question which is now agitating the
country. By the masses, we mean the great
majority of the voting population of the Coun
ty. This is owing iu a great measure to two
causes. Firstly, to the intelligence and occu
pation of our inhabitants ; and secondly, that
we are entirely removed from the reach of go
vernmental patronage and corruption. The
sturdy and industrious yeomanry who fell our
forests and cultivate our soil, care nothing for
the blandishments of political patronage. They
are removed from the sphere of its corrupting
influence. The anathemas of Administrations
are equally unheeded, and they are content that
those who have such a desire, should enjoy the
offices. Consequently there is nothing mer
cenary in their action. They arc ready to
speak their sentiments oil all occasions, and
fearlessly to do their duty at the ballot-box.
This has been demonstrated on numberless oc
casions.
A period has now arrived, which demands
most imperatively the united action of the
Freemen of the North. National faith is dis
regarded, compromises violated and set aside,
armed ruffians are organized to invade soil con
secrated to Freedom ; the ballot-box is assail
ed, the rights of actual settlers ruthlessly and
brutally invaded—bowie-knives and revolvers
and rifles overawe the residents of the Territo
ry, because ATCHISON and STRINGFELLOW are
determined that slavery shall be extended into
Kansas. How are these disgraceful proceed
ings regarded in the South ? Does her vaun
ted chivalry and patriotism rebuke such unlaw
ful conduct? Certainly not—but on the con
trary, applauds and encourages the acts of the
armed invaders of the soil the South by her own
acts forever consecrated to freedom. No ex
pression of reprobation has been heard from
the South. But she demands the removal of
REEDER, because lie has been an obstacle in
the way of consummating their nefarious
schemes.
It is in vain to look for justice or fairness in
the South, where slavery is concerned. The
few who would lie disposed to be patriotic and
national, have not the courage to lift up their
voices against the demands and the schemes of
the Nullifiers. The intolerant and arrogant
spirit induced by the institution itself, over
rides and tramples down all liberality and con
servatism. There is no middle course. The
counsels of the wise founders of our free insti
tutions are swept aside, and the most abomina
ble heresies proclaimed, in regard to the pecu
liar institution. To these doctrines every one
must unreservedly subscribe who would not be
placed uuder the ban of the slave-holding in
terest.
Does any one affect to believe that there are
any political considerations in the South, aside
from the interests of slavery? If there issuch
a person, he is either deceiving himself, or at
tempting to deceive others. Party land-marks
are obliterated at the South—party organiza
tion and party names only recognized as they
become peculiarly serviceable to the purpose of
the slavery-propagandists. The South to-day,
would be willing to support GERMT SMITH or
SALMON P. CHASE, if they would renounce their
present opinions and give in their adhesion up
on the only question which enters into consid
eration in the political action of the slaveocra
cy. They are not frightened by mere party
names ; they affiliate with celerity either with
Democrat or Whig, only asking for evidences
of complete subserviency to the slavery-interest.
Indeed, they had a narrow escape from Knovv-
Nothingism— and it was only because they were
not satisfied that it was thoroughly " National,"
that it did not sweep the South like an ava
lanche.
While the South thus sinks all minor ques
tions, and repudiates all party names and at
tachments, consulting her own interests, the
North is wasting her strength, by clinging to
defunct issues and obsolete ideas. We are so
in love with old parties that we are hogging
skeletons, and trying to persuade ourselves that
they have form and substance and are endowed
with life and animation. To-be-sure, occasion
ally the dry bones give forth such a rattling,
as might convince any one that their vitality
was dead and gone. What then, is the plain
duty of Northern freemen? Is it to be divid
ed ou account of the past —to allow the ghosts
of defnnct issues to interpose and prevent har
monious action ? No,
" I-et the dead part bury Ita dead I
" A't— '.a ;he Jir'a? prefer.;.''
There is no reason why the independent and
honest portion of Northern voters should not
act and vote in unison. There is not a ques
tion nor a shade of principle which should sep
arate theni. They arc united in sentiment up
on the only question which has life. They may
be exhorted about departed questions—they
may be invoked to sustain dead parties—but
obeying the demands of their principles, and
the convictions of their judgments the voters
will deposit their ballots in a manner most like
ly to advance their principles. The slogan of
parties lias lost its power—the defunct carcass
of partisanship cannot be galvanized into exis
tence though interested demagogues and otlice
seekers may strive to their utmost. The issues
which once arrayed community in antagonism,
have passed away, or are forever settled ; no
thing remains but the names which distinguish
ed the advocates of differeut views, unless it be
a horde of greedy place-seekers who look upon
the organizations as their only hope for office.
The action of the Whig Committee, is not
only liberal, but it is timely and appropriate.
It is the only course left for Northern Free
men, unless we are willing quietly to submit to
the outrages and aggressions of the minions of
slavery—or what is worse, by disagreement
and division here, to permit their schemes to be
carried out. There is a moral, political and
numerical power in the North, sufficient to
bring the Government back to the original de
sign of its fouuders, carefully observing all the
guarantees and compromises of the Constitu
tion, and sacredly respecting the rights of our
Southern brethren—but emphatically and sol
emnly determining that Slavery shall not be
the ruling and dominant power in the govern
ment —controlling its administrative, legislative
and judicial branches. Such power, if once
exerted, would accomplish all that the patriot
could desire. When it is once known that
there is a North, the South will quietly submit
to the advantages guarantied to her by the
Constitution—the security of her peculiar pro
perty, and not be seeking by constant encroach
ments on free territory to extend its area.
But to effect this, the North must be united.
She must not fritter away her strength upon
abstract questions which have no practical bear
ing upon the preseut. Shall we pursue the
spectres of departed issues, rather than embrace
those which have life, vitality and importance ?
Shall we permit ourselves like vassals, to be
driven, at the beck of leaders, into contests at
which the mind and heart revolt ? Are we
not Freemen, loving our Country, and desiring
her prosperity ? If so, how shall we best ac
complish the object of our desire ? Certainly
not by being tickled by old party names, by
being divided, and thus shorn of our strength,
while Slavery, compact and active, continues
to wield her influence and monopolize the go
vernment, bending everything to its propaga
tion and perpetuation.
The North is like GULLIVER in the toils of
the Lilliputians. Giant as she is, she is bound
down by a thousand bonds, which though con
j tcmptihle singly, in the aggregate are sufficient
to render her powerless. She has slept so
long, than the minions of Slavery have fasten
ed her down, hand and foot. Her interests are
wide-spread, and her antagonism to the aggres
sions of slavery, has not that pecuniary inter
est, which makes the slave-power so effective.
We cavil and carp about minor questions, while
we have a common object in view. We cling
to party, until from very offcusiveness we arc
i obliged to cut loose from the dead carcass.—
We permit the "glorious recollections of the
past," to obscure the threatening darkness of
| the future. God grant that a common plat
form may soon hold all who are for conceding
the constitutional rights of the South, but op
posed to the extension of slavery, and to its
political aggressions. That day shall be a
proud one for the United Status, which wit
nesses an united North, and a determined ex
pression which shall say to Slavery, so far
shalt thou go and no further ! This is in the
power of the North, if she will only put forth
the strength she possesses.
ADVANCE PAYMENTS FOR NEWSPAPERS. —The
following stray paragraph, which we cut from
an exchange, contains much sense. The
experience we have had of the system of
advance payments, has satisfied us that it is the
only true system, and that county papers must
ultimately all adopt it:—" No subscriber worth
retaining, will object to the pay-in-advance
system. Those who wanted to hear Jenny
Lind sing had to pay in advance ; and what
where her divinest strains compared with those
which flow from the editorial pen ? You can't
take your scut in a rickety mail-coach, or fly
frorn-the-track rail-road car, without paying in
advance for the risk of being killed. If you
would hear a concert, or literary lecture, or see
Tom Thumb or the Siamese Twins, you must
plank down your twenty live, or fifty, or one
hundred cents, before you pass the threshold.
Nay, if any one has so little regard for his own
character as to want to read Barnnm's Auto
biography, he must pay for it. And yet men
hesitate and cavil about paying for a paper
furnished at a price on the very brink and
utmost verge of prime cost."
Ifea?- We publish, this week, two communi
cations on the subject of County Superinten
dent. We shall also next week give place to
an answer from Mr. GUYER upon the same sub
ject.
We shall not apologize to our readers for
the space we have allowed to this discussion.
We believe it will be of great benefit to the
common school cause, by directing attention
to the matter, and particularly to the workings
of the present law. If it cannot stand the test
of popular scrutiny, it should fall; if it can, let
it stand.
Call for a Republican State Convention,
At a larj;e aud spirited meeting of perwmsof all i, art;*
and froin ten different counties of this Common*** 1.1
held in the City or Heading, on Wednesday, AutniKtMl!"
1865, the foll-iwinjj Preamble and Resolutions were una '
wotuly adopted, viz : m "
WHBBKAS, The recent action of Congress, by the RER I
of the restriction against Slavery in the Territory aft!
United States contained in the act for the admin**,., .
Missouri, coupled as that repeal has been with nrevh
and subsequent measures having a direct tendency t,
tend the institution of Slavery, and involve the , ,
the Free States directly and actively in its support V
brought the question of Slavery home to every titiy*,, f
the Free States as a question involving National h, „
and personal Liberty : Therefore, honor
Retoired, That we do hereby call upon all our fell, *
citizens of Pennsylvania, without formerparty distinct!
to meet iu general .Mass Convention, in the City of PITTS'
BURG, on Wednesday, the Oth day of September next u!
organize a REPUBLICAN PARTV whose object shall let
place all branches of government actively on the side r
Liberty. '
Reiotve.d. That the newspapers throughout the Stan,
be requested to publish the foregoing. *
Reiolvnl, That the names and Post Office address of
the persons taking part in the proceedings of this rniet
ing be hereto appended, so far as the Secretary mr i
able to obtain them. * -'*
A. L. Pennock, Upper Darby, Delaware connty.
George Atcheson, Burnside, Clearfield <1,,.
Setli l.ukens, Kulpville, Montgomery do.
J. F. Tobias. M. 1)., l'uttstown, do do
Edward Wells, do do do
John Titlow, do do do.
Jacob Kline, do do do.
Jerome Titlow, do do do'
David Wells, do do do!
Joseph Ncide, do do do!
Samuel Wells, do do do.
A. H. Rosenheim, Philadelphia,
Wm. B. Thomas, do.
John O'Ncil, do.
Prof. C. D. Cleveland, do.
Rev. Anson Rood, do.
Edward Lewis, do.
A. Johnston. Reading, Berks couuty.
Rev. F. K. Hehuhoid do.
F. K. Hickman do.
Thos. P. Smith, Leesport.do.
John Williamson. Huntingdon, Huntingdon oountv
Caleb P. Jones, Valley Forge, Chester county.
John Thomas, Kimberton, do,
John Duer, West Vincent, do.
Caleb Pierce, Erciklown. . do.
Lewis Marshal), West Chester, do.
Wm. Wright, York Sulphur Springs. Adams county.
Jos. Gibbons, M. 1).. Enterprise, Lancaster county.
Day Wood, Peter's Creek, do
J. Edward Barnes, Tamaqua, Schuylkill connty.
Wm. Donelson do do.
Charles Vaughn do do.
Charles Miles, do do.
And many others whose names could not be obtained
CHARLES D. CLEVELAND, President.
CALEB P. JONES, Secretary.
The " T'uga Agitator " raises at its mast
head the following ticket :
For President in 1556 :
HON. SALMON P. CHASE, OE OHIO.
For Vice President:
IION. DAVID WILMOT, UP PENNSYLVANIA.
111 regard to its candidates the Agitator
says :
" We raise the name of SALMON P. CHASE
and DAVIII WII.MOT, for President and Vice-
President in IHs<>, at our inast-head this week,
and cannot but think tiie selection the best
that can be made. Both are staunch and true
friends of Free Speech. Free Soil and Free
Men, and neither would permit the South to
rule the Union. Their election would carry
dismay and destruction to the center of the
Slave Junta, and extort doleful groans and
lamentations from the failing ranks of the
doughfaces. Huzza for CHASE & WII.MOT !"
THE SUSQUEHANNA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
opens on Wednesday next, 22d inst., as we are
glad to learn with a prospect of a greatly
increased number of pupils. The services of
Mrs. IIOYT from Wilkes Barre, have been
secured in the primary depatiuent—and frim
her well-established reputation iu that depart
ment hitherto, we augur the most desirable
results in that branch of the Institution.
HON. HORACE WILI.ISTON died at his resi
dence in Athens, on Tuesday morning last, in
the 74th year of age. M. W. was one of the
oldest members of the bar of the County, and
presided over the Courts of this District for
some years. He occupied a high position as a
lawyer, and enjoyed the respect and esteem of
those who knew him, as an upright aud honest
man.
IcST" The President lias appointed WILSON"
SHANNON, of Ohio, Governor of Kansas, and
lie has accepted the post. Mr. S. was former
ly Governor and U. S. Senator from that
State.
SPALDING A ROGERS' Consolidated Circuses,
will give an exhibition at this place, on Satur
day, 25th inst.—for a particular account of
which, refer to advertisement in another co
lumn.
W AVERI.Y BANK. —Arrangements have been
made to establish a Bank, at the thriving
village of Waverly, with a capital of SIOO,OOO.
The stock we understand, has been taken,
JOHN C. ADAMS, Esq. of this place, is to be the
President.
[From the Luzerne Union.J
A CARD.—S. S. WINCHESTER, ESQ :—Seeiinr
the recent letter of Judge Avery, in the
Luzerne Union, I respectfully ask leave in your
columns to say :
That I have written a private letter to Mr
Strope's family : That the obitnarv of Sebas
tian St rope, published by me in 1805. shall,
with great pleasure, be sent to thein—that if
they think it useful to publish my letter they
are at liberty to do so ; and with compliment*
to J u dire Avery I have no special reply to mat®
to his late publication.
CHARLES MINER.
August 3, 1855.
SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT.— AIbany. a*
day, Aug. 13, 1855.—As the express train on
the Boston Railroad was passing the depot at
Chatham this afternoon, a Mr. IV Tafft
Charleston, S. C., and a person named IJrccker
of Albany, were sitting with their arms out of
the car window and the current of air raised
by the passage of the train blew open theside
door of a freight oar, standing at the depot,
breaking the arm of Mr. Breeker and cutting
the left arm of Mr. Tafft clean off between the
shoulder and elbow, the part cut off fallinsr on
the track. Mr. Tafft is now at the Del® vaD
House in this city.
MF.N DROWNED BELOW NIAGARA FAILS.—
Buffalo, Morulay, Aug. 13,1855. —At Niagara
Falls yesterday, five men got into a skiff neat
the suspension bridge. Unfortunately one ot
their oars broke, and they could not m&na#
the boat, and were carried down the stream
into the whirlpool, where the boat upset an
was broken to pieces. All the nieu wtr
drowned. Their uaraes have not been ascc
tained.