TIN biZeperOemi :ilq)tlblicqp. CIRCULATION, 2136. C. F. REAH (L: H. IL FRAZI.En. EDITORS P. E. LO . OMIS, C . O,KRESPOEDING EDITOR. 3101/TROOB. SIISQ. CO., PA. -Thursday; Janttary 27. 1559. Notice.—Mr. E. W. VniztEn is our trr.reling agent, authorized - to receive subscriptions, advertise ments, ae., and to collect moneys for the /iaTend rut Republican. - ! - • . - —•— Or As the Life-pclideilt lirpullircn h as now alinneh larger circulation than both the other papers published iii.SOAuebanna conk. ty, Ofleourse advertisers will perceive the greater benefit to:be derived frofif-advertis x • ing.in this paver. Mr" We'bre indebted to our Esepresenta tive,',S, B. - Chase, for a copy of the Pennsyl vania Ligislative 'Manual, and -for other 'fa- 13352 pair of horses; belonging to Mr. Orion Foster, of 'firidgf:water, took fright and ran *Way in Montro.e, during the fire laq Thursday night. One Of them was so min:it-injured .that be has since died. • atti ntinn of -Oir readers is called to the n . e.Wadverti'!zement of the Susquehanna county Nii,renal SettoOl, which appears in our - columns. this wet it. The ol'rnntinues to onlinues : pro;pe-under the, eM..:getie and skillftri man , ag,pmerk of Profi...sur Stoddard, by UllOll it • was . • . • V l 7 We. find little of interest in the pro- . eeedings (4 . the Pennsylvania Legislature du ring the - past week, and do rot think best to fill our. oolumns with uniinpirfaut details.— lAre shall endeavor, to keep on? readers in . Ihrmed of all important movements both in State and Nuticimil affairs: - • far The &nations made to Elder Boomer last week, amounted to $2lO, wnich we be-, lleve is the largest' donation, ever -given to any. clergyman in Montrose: . . • We observe 'that our friend, •Theo. dore Smith, had sold the Scranton Rcpubli ixin t"S F. A. McCartney, E.q: The new ed. itor is said to be talented and accomplished ; an 3 Mr. SMith.states in his valedidory that the paper is=to be a gold deal enlarged and improved. I s t Clll hardly be gotten up more neatly. than it has been, Ot made more inter esting and valuable without...llu Increase of size. . . We - wish the bevveditor_ a: prosperous ca reer. and friend Smith ditto—" wbere'er his lot be cast." - • - • • r4 The Semite Committee cxt Foreign Affairs :have voted to reliort Mr. Slidelrs "thirty millions for Cuba" , .I' lair. The cry of - fire" is becoming • alarmingly l)equenL in Montrose. On ..Thitrzi : dny evening last; it about' half past ten, a small barn belonging to Mr. Leonaid Settle, and near the house occupied by "Mrs. Feu - ;rote and the bark of Mr. Cuse;in which the last two fires recorded by us oceurred. Was discovered to be burning,' - and it was con - sumrd with remarkable rapidity. The fire I soon reached Across the alley to Lyons and Chandler's store—in which was. Bloomer], 21141, and in which the Its gister priming ot fir*.wasc berned_ in . 1854—which also'Coin• ,menee3 burning rapidly: It was impossible to save-the barn,which was Mostly destro3ied in a few minates ; and the efiliits of the fire tnen and citizits were directed to arresting the progress or the fire ifi the store. AS a fresh breeze :was blowing, `sad everything seemed to burriaistiostlike tinder, it was a desperate struggle. For morethan an hour it seemed•doubtful tebether "the fire would eonquer",or be eopluerenl ; but at length, the" pipemen of the the a _engine companies and •-• ighere having(in the midst of smoke ,and fire) entered the building through upper win down, and holes having - been cut through the plastering to"enable them to reach the heart of the fire, it was extinguished. :Inch more damage was done by thii•fire than by any previous ones in 3.iliintrwre this Winter.--' L; ores and Chandler's building, Which is very long, was nearly one third ideatrosed. Mr. Chandler,... :rho oectipied :the ftont _the bdikiing -ea s e store, (with Or. 6. Landon, elothing - merchant,) had-hi/ goods considera bly damaged " The damage to the building and to Mr. £handler'-s goods has been Esti mated at itloo-:--covereiti by insurance.--, M. De Witt, pr;the firm_ - of Lathrop and - •De Viitt, had'a quantity of furniture and household goods stored in the building,whieh ' were insured to-the , arnount of $509,, Mit he , • estimates his loss at 'bent double that—. . Cribb and Rogers, grocera, land in the base_ • mentone hundred, barrels of "flour and a quantity of salt and oats. The flour was in: lured by being. wet ; -but the damage is cov ered by insurance. There Were two schools I in the building, one taught by .1.1i4 Austin, and the other by Miss Dimotk. The books , in Miss Austin'eroom • welt mostly saved, I the inhere destroyed. Mr. Ca. - Ze's cow,which was in hhi barn when it burned, and escaped with only tiled fright, was also in this barn, and was considerably singed before - she was i - got out. - • „ It is rather remarkatne_tuat.so many„ fires occur in the seine part . o (" the town.. Tiinny _ • believe that the last two are the work of in ,. egndiaries.. But for the fire engines,' either of them would undoubtedly have,destroyed the - whole row nt buildings on -the east. side:.-of - Public AVedue, from Posta' store 'to Ter: bell'ar i tiotel. ; The fire *twines have paid for themselves many titnei over, and our citizens - generally sboild evert themselves to keep up the companies and to keep the . engines in "load working'order.: As there,iit a..gfeat . •4: of water in many parts of the town; it to bit Atuii Wine umber*miner , :vertte-ed. !MEI ; • • Ih looking Over the proceetiings . o fl f the meeting-of tile. .old-line- Whig" Demee- l o ehannivOunty - held -here last. 1 773(7 of Sas -u • •' ' • ' • JUDGES isragar,:READ. AHD M.- week, as printed in•ttliP.: Montrose Demoriat; BOWS ON TRE BENCH: ,',: .T. , . , . , . we perceive that thererlution a pp r ov i ng the • - - State policy - ofAloverrnir Packer is 'Omitted: . = Aloyrstesi,r, 3 Amtitriarn, 1840 7. • - The resoltition Was adopted by-, the Meeting. and the editor of the Democrat, Atha was,onei Cornmontrealth vs:Charles Lowrie. In- .j of the secretaries, must of course know it.— dictment, Conspiracy. Bentley tind, Little for Commonwetilth, -Jessups and Titrrell for I - The omission, therefore, could:not have been 1 Defence. accidental. But why • was it made? Are I come - Pickering, stoorn.-111i. Lowrie the-Democracy of Susquehanna Packer men, - come and,see me sometime in July last, ima •but.afraid to !lave the fact known at head, Nly_fici& in Lenox township, and skid he had (platters 1 • Or must we infer that Packer is m-warrant for me for stealing a horse, and too Democratic to suit them, while they can! iv anted m 4 to go with him into Luzersie Co. fully endorse that •"old Federalist," • James' As I did not know much About the law in Buchanan? Or was the resolution, contrary such matters, I went with him to Ilenry to orders brought down from Washingtonz= Manzo's. • After we had started, Mr. Lim_ -a mere mistake, which those WhO assume-to tie said he thought I had better settle the do the thinking and to prescribe the had of Matter, and I finally gave him nine dollars to the faithful, made haste to correct'' = ' settle. . What has Packer,-the man of their choice Cross•examintd.—Mr. Lowrie said the for Got'emor, done, that the customary rests 'warrant was for stealing a horse; and thought 1 lutionin approval of his official •course'sho:d I had better settle, while yet ih the hay-field. he euppressed ?:-." Wherein is he not ortho- James Brown did Da enure into the field dr ' xl ' 114'; sin cannot he ' iii favari l a hi g her with Mr. Lowrie, when he came with the 1 tariff, for there he agrees with the President, warrant. Mr. Brown claimed the horse as whom the meeting endorsed, We can come his. In reply I told him he had cheated me to no oilier conclusion than that the Gave!. out i'tf she horse. ... . nih's opposition to lecomptonism and- .the Atan.son Pickering, sworn.-1 was In the evreme pro4avery policy of the national hay-field with father - when Mr. Lowrie camp 1 adthinistration, constitutes hi-a offense,_•and' with thMwarrant. After he requested nrt , 1 that for this the voice of , the 'Democracy .of father to go with him, he (father) made Susquehanna —" as much rpm-Till" shir fr=',. preparations to e•oc•and while doing so, Mr. 1 a'' anyhodv"—in his fil"r , is stifled, %a" a Lowrie proposed to settle, and it was finally 1 false record of their proceedings spread be- adjusted for nine dolla'rs. Ile said the war "se the country. -, rant was for stealing a horse, and wanted fa ther shonid go with him into Lhzerne coun ty. and. I believe. S ... eaatt township. Nathaniel Pickering, strorn.--s-Mr. Lowrie took hue with a warrant, with my 'lather, some time in July lu'sf. Ile wanted me to g n with hum to Scott township, Luzerse Co. After I eat my dinner, I went as- far as Mr. 'Manzo's with him, (Lowrie) and ire told me we had better settle. told father finally settled the difficulty for-pine dollars. Cross-examined.-1 think it was the 10th of July that the horse i was brought from Scott township: only 's few days before we were taken with the 'warrant fur stealing the Whet:ler & Wilson's Sewing Ma- . chine has been in use for some tiinc in ;this town, and we. find many advocates 01 its claims .to superiority over all others. We have worn clothing sewed with one of these machines, "and.never had any more durable. We are satisfied that, while sewing with a forty-seamstress poWer, it does the work-as well as it can be . done by hand. J. P. W. Riley, of the firm of Rend & Co., is the agent in, Montrose, and those who d. sire to purcha.e, can see a machine, and spe cimens of its work, hi calling on him. .. Elias Pickering, sworn.-1 was in the woods a-peeling bark. Mr. Lowile • come with Henry Manzo, and said he had a war• rant for me for stealing a horse. After we had left the woods, Mr. Lowrie and Henry proposed .settlement s I heard tfoth -ft-7.w"" The Center!, is the name of a new I . M. 3 "° - aue about ,sett lement by anyone else -except natitinal newspaper of Politic", commerce, _in; Lowrie, Manzo, and father. ~ e t. finance. economy, oterature,--sctenee, and art, - Crtiss-exantilied.—l brought the horse from the publication of Which has been just eons Lezerne county. the Sunday before, I think. meneed at New York City, by-Thomas Me- Brown had nothing to say - about the settle- Elrath, 'Esq., Who -was formerly connected tnent that 1 beard'. , Kith Mr. Greeley in publishing the Tribene. Vlere -the warrant was read by the Court. The Century will not bet' the organ of - any sel for the Commonwealth, from which it pOlisical party. but proposes to discuss polit- i appeared that the warrant did not Originally 'cal. social, and other questions in an incl.: , I contain the first name of any particular Pick pendent manner. From the examination of i eiing. a single: windier, we have firmed a high opin- ' H. White, strarn.-1 was in E. Farnam's ion of its character. It is a large-sized Jouroloffice last July, when Mr. Lowrie came there. nal of eight imperial psgel., and is furnished I With the warrant. I think it did not state to sitvle subscribers for one year, free of what Pickering was mean!, bait lei, the first postage, for t-'2,50; two , subscribers, one 'tante a blank. - year, free of - postage, fs.4; to clergymen Of David Youngs, sworn.—l sit* thee war-. year, denominations, in advance, $l. Address rant at Mr. Callender's, in Scott. 'There-was Thomas MeEtraPi, No. 37 Park 'Hew, New :"no particular Pickering menticined in the York. . warrant, hut the first name wits left a blank. —____4..........----. • I Here the -Commonwealth rested, and the For the j;"i'rincilPin` . ." 6l ican• Defice - i proceeded with their testimony.] • *- :Susquehanna Borough Affairs. Nelson Callender, sworn.-1 am a Justice Sr6QtEnANSA DEPoT, Jan. '2l, '59. of the Peace of Scott township. At the MESSES. El4toTiti :—Enclosed 1; send you time the warrant W 139 made out for the Pick an article which lam well aware has no in- eringsi Mr. Brown did not know their first terest Whatever to the great majority of your names. 1 told the C o nstable, Mr. Lowrie, readers. You may have noticed an article that he could insert their names after he in the, -Northern l'ennsylvonian, entitled learned what they were, litter he arrived in e Our Borough," which was evidently aimed - Susquehanna county. Mr. Lowrie was not at the Secretary and Attorney of the Bona', used to doing laisines.s, and did not want to Council. 1 'called on the editor and request- serve theavarrant `lv the priviteee of replying, which Yratareadi- Henri, Afanzo,sworn.-1 was hoeing corn lv granted. iltit itseems he has reconsider- some time last July, when Mr: Lowrie came ed the matter, and' now refuses, to publish a into the field 'end wishedime to t o with him reply. unless he can dictate its contents ;.- to Mr. Pickering; s, as he had a warrant for which eolopels.me to ask that as a fevor from the' Pickerings, and was not acquainted with [ you which tyres 'entitled to by right of Wet. them. At first I refused to go, as I was in a sole J. Heater. - But of this -I ought 'not te great hurry about my work, but finally, after . complain; as I believe very few sensible pen- earnest solicitations, I went with him, Alter ple ever take the trouble to lOok at his pa- the arrest was made, Mr. Pi:kering -effected per. Yours truly, A.4II.7SiIi:ELL a 'settlement by paying Mr. Brown five - dot ' traTOR OF - THE Ni r.nrero: Pteesvcvssist - 'lars and the cost of the Constable, Mr. Lon- Is:: - : -Sin :—ln your paper- of Dee. 30th, 1 tie. final an article headed " Our Borough," to Cross examined.—When Mr. Lowrie first which 1 wish briefly to reply,-, and let me sa y, mole into the field, lie inquired after Corbit that- notwith-tanding the nrtiele occupies a Piekering.and afterwards fir Elias Pickering. po-ition whi-ch might lead those unacquainted John Conrad, rworu.—l asked Mr. Pick with the circumstances to infer that it was erilig at one time if he knew where ;Brown editeriaL rut I have'llot the le:ast idea that it was, end he said he did not., neither did he emanated from the "Official" (or- oth'er) ettre, as he was a poor coot at the best. 1 brains" of the elicit.. Ni cane rage .who saw Mr. Pickering pay Mr. Lowrie nine' dol has resided itf the Borough less than six lure; fuur dollars for ,his trouble, and the months, and who titter. paid 8 - - tax, of ally remaini,ng five to go to Brown. . kind, in the Stare cf Pennsylvania; would Michael Belcher,' sworn.--1 heard Elias ti-rile.seett an artile. Pickering say that if it had not been for But io the subject. Passing over the iii- Henry Manzo the settlement never would teiligibl; grammatical, and elegant ittrodue- have been made. don, we ceme to the strange statement— Mir:dwell Manza, sworn.—l heard Mr. "Taken as it:teldy. the taxpayers Of the Bor. Pickering tell Mr. Lowrie that he - did not nigh of Susquehanna Depot are men that la- • know as he had done anything as rone, or bor from day to day to secure the wherewith anything more than his defy. And 1' also to sustain the physical economy and pay tax- heard him say that he did, not blame Mir. ,es for thit support of an incorporated Bor- Manzi), in the matter referred to. ouch. ! Nhav it is perfectly in accordance [Here the Commonwealth proceeded witlr with nature's Irises for these men : when their r e buttingstestimony.] - - that portion of, their, bard earned gains -- David Youngs, recalled.-1 heard Mr. din from their to - inquire what Callender ear that the writrant was only ills ~ . grasp. dtsposoitin is to be made of it.' I will not tended for the &Crest of one Pickering. i . • stop to criticise this _extract; or attempt to Nathaniel . Pickering, re called.—l heard explain what- is meant by the "Physical Mr. Callerider gdy that the warrant was in economy of Borough;' bat will -say the tended for but one of the Pickerings, instead 1 officers who manage the affairs -of the Bor- of two or three of thetfe - I .6 ti gli are all of them from the class referred After the above evidence was submitted 116 in the quotation; they areal! of them elect- to the Jury, the case was argued by Judge cd by the citizens of the Borough from .1 - es.up on the part of the clefenee, and brit. I among themselves; five of the six members B. Little for the Comtnonweidtb; and after of the Borough .Catuncil are laborers in the a brief charge of the Judge to . the Jury,•they Railroad Co's shop and ev i ry dollar's appro. retired to their room, and returned with - a priation from the Borough funds is not (lily 1 aerdict of "Not Guilty, and the County to I,with their consent but with their order. But I pity the costs." the writer intimates that these "City .Tatar- I, Commenwealth vs. Harvey Lynch. In ere'? tare in charge of and controlled ,by the ; dietment, Indecent Exposure of his Person. " Attorney.' It may make S. F. Smith, G. I Jessups and-Terrell - for - Commonwealth, Lit- Curtis, John Darting, Thomas Todd; Peter ide and McCollum for Defendant. . :Verdict., Tait, mid Wm. Iltiet, smile to think of being "Guilty.' . - , controlled by any one. And it may seem Commonwealth vs. E. B. Tingley. Indict- . strange to them to' be charged with such meat, Assault and Battery. . Newton and gross-negleet of duty. But they lire men too- . McCollum for Commonwealth, Chamberlin rwell known to require a defence from me.— fur Defendant. - ..... l I believe them to be men of, integrity and P. R. Tower, eworn.—On . the 21th of last I honor.; mid men who can pass, ver the side. 'August ; as I-was going across-Mr. Tingley's walks without perfortning any of ',into:dee- I lot, he met me and ordered me off from his I 1 lions freaks. ". It is• possible the writer of lot. .1-had two hoes in one hand, and a 'pick' thal article. cannot say as mach f himself.-- on my shoulder, and was going to work on 1 gut,u by, I ask,- these covert ins' Mations.and , the road, when Mr. Tingley. pitched on to I I half-formed charges of delinq yor wroth Ime : he: threw me down and hurt me quite f against my - self as Secretary `fir Attorney? I bad. I asked Mr. Moore—who was wit 1 Has this writer (who has the in: _rests of die me—whichtonunitted the assault? and he Borough so much.at heart) ail. foundation said Tingley did. ' • i fur them ? If let him spec - it. out ; the G. W. -Moore, sworn. —A 5.1 was 'going i truth should hay so, ' NoWO challenge i across Mr. Tingley's lot with lite.;:rower, on i him- to point out a single instance in which I the 24th of last Auguit, Mr. Tingley met I have unduly controlled,-or attempted to eon- us and oilfired Mr: Tower oft- . .Mr. Tower 'I troi, , lhe action of the Borough Officers, or te . , had two hoes at, he time in one band, and it, ,i the Appropriation Of the.first farthing by - me{ pick iti the other across hie afieulder. Mr. . of the funds belonging toA4e , Borough. , IlTingley pitched:on to Mr. .Tower and knock= =never have, and 1 trtisttnevei skill, shrink I ed him down ;- when be got'up his face was 1 from a . thorough investigation of my official considerable blond,9l and I should think he t acts, and the writer of that article 'bag my I.was hurt - quirt...6AL -,, - ; ,'' . - - { full and free consent to commence his mato!: I . .14 S. ..f.bulani,. sworn—On Tuesd t MIA Oierhau'ingof Bo ,. ' , ,„ . i rough matters, Iliffooll I morning, the 24th of ! August leet; as . 1 : Was }'as he'pressea. An open manly enemy I re: ' crossing Mr, Tingley's lot, Mr: TMglei, met i spaet but the Miserable coward' who I , ents-:_ltfri.Tower and ordered 'him ofC.• hfr. Tow; i his malice M tmenymous articles ,in the vil-- er had two hoes in bishandi and a' peck. ini I l o , .; pitier: , . porseetetlyzatters hiskenum is hisehoulder4',,--.11;, Tingley . ;limbed: - on , M handbills about the streets .I . .tles*.-. 2; , ,;-.. > hint, and threw. him down, and InOtlini iuile A. Busimuz. - bad: his face was . quite bloody:: riviiii .about A hill to .1.)oli: , 11 the Canal BoarA kis pat , sed built branches of the Pennsylva• nib LegiAaturv. and of cour,,e will receive the approval of tht. Governor. ;Repotted for the Rtpublieaft Court Proceedings.. BM rod off iti.the'thne of the suisaidt upon TowaPs— - [llerb theiCommonwealth rested, and the Counsel fu! the Pefenee withdrew the: plea of "Not Guilty," and entered the, plea of " Guilty," and offered evidence in mitigation of denotes, in_ reference to words spoken by Tower o prevlous to the assault, about Ting- ley's wife.] ;The Cour?sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of doilars,nnd costs of prosecution. Commonwealth vs.- William Mills., In dictment, Larceny: Franklin Fraser for COmmonn:ealth,•Newtbn and McCollum fur the Defence. • Julia Cronk, sworn.—Wm. Mills came to my house, in de-gaup' township, in October last, I think the Saturday-night before elec tion, and'stnyed all night that.night and near ly all day Sunday, and Sunday night. came here to town. early Monday morning, and returned home on Tuesday, election day. When I returned, I missed a pair of pants and an over coat. I -had reason to belieWe that the defendant, Mr. Mills, had stolen them the Sunday -nig,ht he stayed at my holt:se. I have since understood that Mills NIS been seen wearing the - pant's and coat.— , Mr. Mills has since told Me that he bought . _ the - pants of Almon Bawler; the. Sunday evening previous to the October election. ,IThe pants, being exhibited inleourt, were idlentilied by the witness to be those take]] trOtn,his house on the Sunday night before tire OctiMer election.] s k . The. pants and coat were worth about ten or twelve dollars. 11. Dunn, sworn.-1 traded pants with Mr, Mills, sometime during the month of Octo ber. • I think the pants I got of Mills are the same pants identified here by Mr. Cronk. Anson Dunn, sworn.--,1 saw Mr. Mills wearing.a pair of pants find nn overcoa!, about the last of October. I should say they were the same pants that have been produced here in Court. John Smith, sworn;--Mr. Mills „went by my house the next day after election with a light-colored overcoat on, which I should think was the one,stoleu from Mr. Cronk. Almon Hairley, sworn.-1 never sold n pair of pants to Mr. Mills in my: life. I nev- -er saw Mr. Mills previous to the Sunday be fore election, nor never have seen him since until to-day. The abov‘sevi . dence being submitted, and leiter a brief charge of the Judge to the Jury they retired to their -room and after, nearly tin_hour's deliberation they. returned with a verdict of " Guilty." - Corinnonaealth vs. William Matthews.— Indictment, Larceny. Franklin Fraser for :Commonwealth, F. B. Streeter for the Def. E. Simon; sworn.-1 was left In charge of my brother's business in a.grocery at Great Bend, on Saturday, Jen. Ist, 1859: I left the grocery about 9 o'clock in the evening. Early on the following morning the door of the grocery was found to be broken open, and one five dollar bill, on the Susquehanna Valley Bank, a one dollar bill, and one hund red pennies missed from the money- drawer. I was present when Mr. Matthews was exain ined. The money. four.d.upon his person, or, at least the bills, were upon the same banks as those which my brother lost. Lewis M. Wilmot; sworn. -1 am the Con . stable of Great Bend township. • 1 arrested Mr. Matthews, and found one five dollar bill on the Susquehanna Valley Bank, a one - dol lar bill, some seventy-odd pennies, and' a three-cent piece with him, all in his pants pocket. The above evidence being submitted to the Jury, the case was argued by F. B. Streeter fOr the Defence, and Franklin Fraser for the Commonwealth. After the Judge's charge to : the Jury, they retired for deliberation,and after sale forty-five minutes absence return -ed-with a verdict. of " Guilty."- • Comnionivealth vs. Reuben Blackman.-- B. S. Bent* for Commonwealth, and R.. 8. Little for the Defence. , This wds an action for :the obstruction of the highway in Lathrop township, by the above named defendant, Reuben Blackman. It appears la the evidence in this case that Mr. Blackman• elapsed the right of obstruct ing an old road ittasmuch as there had been a new road opened, upon _which the' pudic might travel, instead of the old road. It 'te ther appears that. the new road" was itlOre dt etiitous, but yet not so hilly as the old one. After the argument of the case by the Conn : sel, and the -Judge's charge, the Jury ten . dered a verdict for the Defendant. Ifiram Hibbard vs. Peter' Ilerktmer. Action, Slander. Bentley & Little for Plain tiff. W. and W. 11. Jessup fbr the Defence. William. Neale, sworn.— ln March, 1854 or '5. I heerd.llerkimer say that he knew a man by the naine'llf Ilibbard, who had tak en railroad iron-and spikes from the D. L. AL W. R.. R.; and converted it into a log chain for his own u.e. Herkimer said Mb bard had stolen the spikes and iron, and he could prove it, and asked me' to. prosecute Mr. Hibbard. Bradford Wartroas,strorn.—l kept tav ern from 1854 until 1857 at Montrose De. pot, on the D. L. &W. R. 11, During that time I heard Herkimer say that. Ilibbard had taken railroad spikes; that he thought of prosecuting him for stealing them ; that he had taken nearly ti bushel basket full.. Gto. sworn.-1 moved on .to Herkimer's place four years ago last Spring, and lived there seven months. . I heard Mr. Herkimer tell times what a bad than Ilibbard was; that he brought . railroad spikes home in a basket from New Milford ; that he•had made a log chain from .the spikes. Henry.llarris, ttporn.—l heard Mr. Herk imer say—aboUt three years ago—that Ilib bard had stole.railroad spikes and irpn. think it was three years last Fall that be said it. . L. B. Ifinda, moorn. 7 -I heard Mr. Herk iiner speak several times of Mr. llibbard's having a log chain which he thought would not break very easy as it was made out of the best of railroad iron. I think wa&Jn the Spring of 1855. I beard Mr. Herkimer say that Ilibbard ought to be prosecuted for stealing, railroad iron. - Andrus Aldrich, smorn.--1 heard Herki mer say, soon after 'Hibbard moved..., away. that Hibbard had stole railroad iron, and that .if be had lived there four or five years he would have stolen everything he had. .1 Norris Aldrich, sworn.--1 heard Mr. Herkimer say, some time after Hibbard left the premises, that Hibbard had stole • rail road spikes and iron ; that if he had lived there two or three years, he would have sto len everything lie had. Geo. L. A dams, .sworn.—.l ht4rd Mr. lerkimer say that Mr. - Hibbard had 4tolen rai oad-irorr front the railroad between New Milford and Montrose Depot. Jeremiah Baldwin, sworn.—Mr. Ilibbard i 4 a farmer by oecupition. A tenant on shares. - Geo. - ,31.. Aldrich, re-called:l should think Mr. Herkimer ie worth two thousand dollars or more.. . - . . L. Made, re ealkd.—Peter lierkimer . is probably _vrortii some two, thousand dol lars. After the.above evidence .was inb mitred, and the argument of the Cnuniel, and the charge of the CpurCto tholury, they re tired for deliberation, and after a short ab. sencf3' rendered a verdict for the Plaintiff of ',llK.firatlwk.'s court, adjourned at four . . afterno* the 21st. • _ - O. C. ' From theThiylielphieS Sunday Transcript. ', • Dosiiii aid hie Petition. Sine° biairramph in,,lllirmis, Stephett.,A. Diraglas hal been traversing doleful, gent through a. so ies of ovations. "fp and his friends seam defernil* to keep him piitut,- needy . before the Oes'loLthe people. .They have eluteged their order And array of battle. A few months ago it was simply Douglas, Walker, Forney, Sze., fighting for a great principle, and defending themselves from a cram proscription. But the, great principle has been,vindicated ; Kansas is surrendered to freedom; and the 'proseriptive Adminis tration has been so overwhelmed with defeat that it is beneath contempt.. The Auti-Lb comptonites are fully _victorious. The ob ject, therefore, of their present movements, or rather the movements of their leaders, is not toaave a principle and a territory already saved, or to defend themselves from it whip ped and helplesci Administration. Their ob ject, on the other hand,' has become purely personal. They havebeen transformed from AntiLecotnptonites into Douglasites. Flush ed with an unprecedented triumph overli na tional Administration, they have been sedui• ed into the enterprise of making Douglas the next President, and of securing to themselves the Control of the Federal Government.— Will they succeed 1 The position of Douglas is very peculiar, ,and yet to the eopl observer it is very plain. It is to broad contrast with his former career. No man in this Union has hitherto been more consistently devoted, to the ideas and de mands of the slaveholding interest in the South. , He never filtered or boggled ; he swallowed with equal avidity even.the some: what nauseous doses which were forced down the throats of many obedient Democrats by the ultra fire-enters. These i,slamaoder gent ry made an idol of Dongls, He was the. embodiment of the filibust r .policy, of all tl that extreme element in he .South which would force the march of o r boundaries in that direction so is to inake more slave States. llis ehanipionshiplof the slave-hold ing interest culminated in his repeal of the Missouri Compromise, in Which , he stultified ,the Fathers of the i llepublie, the traditions of the Democratic party, and his own antece dents, in order-to open all the territories of the Union to the spread of , negro slavery.— He went, if possible, stilt, further ; for, in 1855 and 1856, when the ruthlessly oppress• ed and harried peciple of Kansas, with almost .nuantmous. voice, were appealing to the Gen eral Government and to the people of the United States for relief and justice, for the pr,ieikge of e:rereiiing sovereignty over their own domestic off - airs:no man so belied and slandered them, and mocked at their com plaints and miseries as Stephen A. Douglas. His report in favor of the Leciranpton Legis lature and its laws—both worse than the Le compton Constitution itself--is the blackest blot upon his,record. But.this Stephen A. Douglas, this advocate for extreme -slavery extension, this reviler of all his countrymen who cherished any sympathies for freedom or the North, at last paused in his downward career. Like a high mottled steed, he rear ed and threw his rider, and stopped still with wide-spread nostrils and flashing eye. The sudden mutation startled all the land. For the Lecompton Constitution was undoubted ly the logicaLomsequence of the very course ' and state of affairs,in Kansas which Douglai' had so vehemently* advocated. If the ".bo r gus" Legislature was to be sustained, if their " bogus" laws were- to be upheld, then Le ' compton was all right ; for it prang legiti mately,from such parentage.. But Douglas, bold and defiant as he is, shrunk from the feat iniquity. He Was Buckingham enough to inwrison the babe of Kansailliberty in the Tower, and to prcrelaim it bastard; but be shrunk from the dread crime of strangling it out right. Never did Senator Dcuglas appear to so much advantage fili in the Senate last winter. He rose to a dignity of lone and diction of which none had deemed him capable, but which comes to a' man naturally When he feels that he is right. He , was, by long„odds, the most poplar Man in the United States. his position was perfectly national, and yet it gratified the public conscience and moral sentiment of the whole people.' He went home to Illinois to sustain himself, and to ask for a re-election to the Senate.— He made an arduous, gallant, brilliant, and successful fight. He was opposed by an an tagonist of vast prayer, by a foeman worthy of his steel, and he goes back to Washington like a:conqueror, carrying his trophies with him. But in the Illinois campaign, the character. istic infirmities of his intellect and tempera ment led him to take n position in which de feat hereafter is inevitable. Mr. Douglas is n man -of powerful and brain.. -His mind is quick, acute, shreivd and strong: It is of coarse-grained and rugged strength. It combines the sprmg of the tiger with the grasp of the bulldog. He is not massive and logical like Webster; nor copious and -learned like Benton and Choate nor broad and philosophle like Seward. The intellect of Douglas is very practical. It always aims at immediate ends. Ile always writes and speaks-for present effect. He always argues: not for truth but for.victory, If he could al waftkeep cool inal self-possessed he would he an invincible Ajax in every contest. But the great misfortune of Mr. Douglas is that his passiOns are excissively strong, and he lacks moral sense and feeling. He is very' pugnacious and fiery; and in every contest his blood gets so hot that he loses all dignity, all candor. and all principle; and he becomes unfair, false, and vindictive. In _common with Daniel Webster he lacks a high -moral endowment.• He has no intense and over mastering Sympathy with Democracy against Aristocracy; with eqnality against privilege; with" liberty against shivery ; with truth ] against with the right against the wrong. lie despises philanthropy, and re gards compassion a weakness.. .He worships the Roman . godi,STasstorri and VICTORY, and finds no attraction at the shrine of Surfannio and PITY. • • It is no wonder, therefore, that in the very first movettients of his reaction from his no ble stand of last winter, Mr. Douglas should betray his inherent moral weakness. So he did in Illinois. antagonist, Lincoln, in the opening speech of the campaign, attempt. ed to show. as a historical' truth and philo sophic idea, that in course of time and events, all the States of the Union would become free or slave States. '- Lincoln's idea was, not that any party Should insist on this as a par ty principle, or that any State should Mit co-' erred Into any change of institutions; but simply and only that human bondage would, unless it was maintained by &constant spread, die out of itself in-the States _of this. Union. This innocent and -benign - was an axiom in the early days or the t Republic =wits distorted- by Douglas, in his reply to Lincoln, intostbe odious dogma that Lincoln's party intended.to coerce the Slave States in. to Mc Abolition of slavery. Douglas, 'of couise,lcnaw,better. He knew that LltMola mesntonly to ntter.ii philosophical fact ;riot to protriulge a new party Principle. .Yet he abuse to , take issue with Lincoln oft a sinful misrepresentation. The conseiiiientir was that Lincoln got him into chintecry, _ whipped, him in debite„, Douglas got . Mad,' became vulgar, resorted to hi* _old sling about abolition, ilientitei: the .gertbli. cat,r4l Wl* acffed:d e " t; a weikneta of his present position is; . . -• .... - ' ' [ s iciddi a , Beet - tut 'that he stands upon a platform whic h is" AF L lar Profelsot r s es o ther fish, fleshi e r fowl .: He refilseit . to 41s. emetics' works are Obtaining-Miite an eaten sent from the infamousi, and inhOman Dyed Scotidecision 'tinder an affectatien - Of defer- merits , . ..__. sive introduction in the', West, where. thetr, appear to bowellippreciated. From ence, to the - Authority ef the Supreme Court,_. and yet he verypogically - contends" that, in the report of the proteedihgs of a teachett full meordance with that decision, the people institute recently , held at Clinton, 'toe ; kali) of the territories have a right to' refuse or County, Illinois, we extract the following protect slavery. Now every tyro knows ;The •Comrnittie would earnestly ream that if the Dred Scott decision be sound law mend Stoddard's American Intellectual Arial then it is the duty of Congress and the terri- inetie, as the best work yet published; [and tories tO take-especial care to protect slave that it should be introduced' ithd theroUghly property. A patent inconsistency like this , i ,taught ,in ad our schools, and that every of Douglas will damn nny platform. There teacher should be conversant with all'the is a spill in its original !construction. Again. • principles and solutions gieln in it. Math he tries to exinciliate'the free coil sentiment emetics-is a sure science and we can arrive • by denouncing southern ultraism• and the re. at exact conclusions, and'every tithe @lke.- -vival-of the slave trade; Yet at the same time, Therefore; every teacher should be a thor lie offends the same. mighty eleMent by turn- ough. Mathemittician, so far.as Arithmetic is ing to the Soyth and indulging in the,pre- Concerned. And we consider that he is not cious gammon that the Derlaraticin of Inds- well calculated to teach 'written - Arithmetic pendence, whin it announced its great truths, until he understands mental *ell. - meant only White men, and by talking shout' Every teacher should be so &roughly the spread , of our territory. Can such Janus faced dodging succeed ? For be it observed, conversant in .written Arithmetic, that he .could teach any part of it without reference Lecompton is no longet a question. It is to a book. That he could write a new one dead and - huried. The real question is, shall if all others were destroyed, giving all neves slavery spread or stay where it is; Whoev- sary rules and the reason for them. er dodges this question_ is sure to be crushed He should, also r be well versed in Algd by the two sides of it. Douglas is trying•to bra, to be-n successful teacher in Arithmetic. dodge it, and to dodge the great American ' The_ ideas expressed. in the above report question which is also of the vastest import- was discussed at.lengtb, 'and the advantages mice, and to dodge the • protective issue.— of mental Arithmetic, when taught as above, What with all his dodging, he wilt find him- recommended and a practical illustration' of self on'ilie shelf before lung. • ' 'the superiority of Stoddard's system given lie is trying to maintain his status as a by Mr.- Jones drilling the whole class. of Democrat. He can't do it in his present po- teachers, in the presence of the County Com sition, for he has lost the confidence of die ex- missioner, and the board of examiners, who Creme slaveholding interest. „Ile can only all witheiut opposition agreed that the ideas, do what the Vnn Burens and the " barn burn- of the shove report were correct, and that, [ ers" did—crab back into a subordinate and Stoddard's American Intellectual Arithmetic. ['suspected position. He denounces the Re. - should be introduced and thoroughly taught 'publicans and their leaders i mnd so they oP - in all the schools of the County. . pose 'him as much as ever. He is without Ai there were many present who Nadi not any great party to back him. The democ- betoreLattended, a review .was given of the racy will not break ,up their organization or previous exercises, the reports read, etc.— modify their position to please him; the op- When the Teachers were formed in a class position will not -haul down their flag to hoist and thoroughly drilled in mental Arithmetic and its advantages, as taught upon the plan before'recommended forcibly presented by Mr. Jones.[ • A thorough review of Stoddard's Mental Arithmetic given, and universal expression of all the teachers that they would' adopt it in their schools; All present were satisfied of the superiority of this plan' for teaching Matlielhatics, and many_ who were before prejudiced against Mental Arithmette, .saw that they had been ignorant of its merits. All this is proven by his recent. progress through the country. A year' ago; here in Philadelphia, the people turned- out to hail him., All classes and parties cheered him at the Girard House_ Americans and cans vied with Democrats in hurrahs for Douglas. few days ago he was received with no welcoming crowds of peciple without party distinction. The good natured City Councils and Mayor gave him Independence Hall, simply becmise no one is afraidof him, and all liked to take a fling at Buchanan.— But the procession which escorted him 'was a' small, meagre aff.Air. His ovation hero was nothing but a funny little attempt got up by Forney, and 'his squad of Douglasitea. The great body of the 'Democracy and of the ap. position held aloof. REVIVAL OF TOR AFRICAN SLAVE TRAM- A. new demand of the South upon their yield ing brethren of the North is now being made —the removal of the interdiction, of the Afri can Slave trade. As it Is alwayn successful in its demands, We suppose it will succeed in, due time in this. True; the South is not unanimous in this claim—neither was it for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Let them talk in the style following; .from the Georgia Citizen, abd they will find numbers of.northern doughfaecs who will appreciate their arguments.- le speaking of the recent landing of negroes from Africa in that State it says: - " This is only the "beginning of the , end," i and we hate not a word to say n condemna tion of an act, that.will practically nullify an, uuconstitutionallaw against the. sotitliand her, institutions. On the contret:), „we that the people of Georgia have the inaliena ble right to impbrt laborers from Africa, or anywhere else, and that ttll true southerners will be willing to. have them zunuoled into the country, if the odious restrictions on the part of the federal government against free trade in this species of property are not re moved." Ma. ,pOI.7OLAS WILL 00 ; BEFORE. THE CHARLESTON " CONVENTION.—The Chicago Times, the home organ of Mr. Douglas. and which always speaks by authority, says Mr. Douglas will not ask a nomination at the hands of the Charleston Convention. If in that body his friends should present his name,and be be nominated,he will not feel-at liberty to decline it ; if his friends should not present his name, then the-nominee of the Convention , will receive his support.' The use of his name by any men, or body of men, as a candidate for the Presidency, or any oth er office, independent. of and hostile to the nominations of the democratic pinny, is alto gether unauthorized by Mr. Dauglas, will never receive his sanction, and is wholly re pugnant to his wishes and desires. We say this much with a full knowledge of its truth, and knowing that we express in this particu lar his own sentiments. - riff - Mr. Grow_ yesterday moved to bring his proposition to allow Actual Settlers ten years' pre-emption in the purchase of sol i-sot'lie Lands hereafter put in market before they shall be open, to speCulstora—such is the substance and effect of his measure-4e fore the House in such manner theta direct vote upon it can hardly be evaded. We' trust every friend of the Actusl Settlers, and. of a just and beneficent policy with regard.to the Public Lands, will tako'care to be pres ent, when this proposition is . to be sustained or rejected. If it is to be. voted down, let the country lee by whom. But we have strrng hopes that it is destined to prevail.- 1 ' Tribune, January 20th'. Itar In the United States House of Rep. resentatives, pn Wednesday of last week the Consular and Diplomatic .bill being under, discussion - 411r. Lovejoy, of Illinois, moved to strike out." all the appropriations fur 11 salaries of ministers and cumatissioners, ex cept that of the Minister to Spain." This - proposition was defeated by .a majority of only twelve. This-toes locik al if some Of our Representatives were beginning to see the absurdity of paying-large salaries to po• Jitical favorites ► u enable them to mimic the popinjays who dance attendance at the courts' of foreign monarchs.- rgr The Pension. Bill is as good its deft for this session. Ihe.lWashington Un iont or the sth inst., has a strong article against it; and, as the Unionle,supposed to reflect the views of the Administration on this as on other subjects, the Senate, which is strongly Administration, may be aci= down as opposed to the bill gar Mr. Nelson J. Gates, formerly a school teacher in this county, and Principal of the Normal School at Prompton,,lnta re ceived the appointment ;of." Principal of the Whitestune School at Fluithing, L. I. .at a salary of (1,000 .a year. The School has a daily.attendance of about-375.pupils; and .Iffi. Gates is supported by eight assistants.— itonesdak lientocral. - - • - . 0174%. woman made applicetion to Jus tice ilsriehnsn, a - divorce, on the ground that her husbaini wits a cen foindid,thei.: The magistrati:infornied her thekWthist. were held to he a - valid sostioh to bar ihe rniirrio4 *mien itrthw - city 4 4 14 /kik . 4 04 :entitlorlis. ijrudihnordel POSITION OF THE Jots 21 THE PAPAL STATES.—The following letter, for the au thenticity of. which -we (the - Jewish Chronicle) can vouch, has been placed at our disposal-63- a much - respected co-foligionist:—".My dear friend—l fear that I cannot do anything hero in behalf of the Mortara case, because, as I learn;the Pope is very indignant at the pub lications made by the, public press on this subject, and thinks the Jews are the authors. Though, no steps appear to be taken (openly) by the Papal government against the Jews, nevertheless, there is,..indirectly, plainly dis cernible, the commencement of a very severe system of. prosecution. Tile recent search (1f J ewish houses for Christian servants are 9xecutd suddenly, and the fines were knpos d without any justification, or witness, or opportunity for defence. I know the . Pope has given positive orders that the restrictions on tins point shall be carried out .with the greatest rigor. A young man, an Israelite, who has been lately exam ined:as a physician. and who passed his ex amination, and wits found fully-competent to receive a license to practice his -profession, has been refused the 'license limply on na runt of hie religiort, nor could he oven`pro cure permission to act in . the capacity of an assistant in an apothecary's shop: In sever al towns in the provinces, your brethren cannot stop at all; whether for business'-or otherwise,- withciut being subject to fine or imprisonment. Indeed,nny good friend, per secutions against the Israelites in the domin ions of .the Pope aro again rearing their 'heads, I regret to say, to the infamy . of the Latin Church, and to the disgrace and shame of the age in which we live. When will the so-called Christian nations act for themselves, Sand with, or against others in accordance with their high pretensions?—London Times. SUARP.—Some time ago, a firm of distil lers in Pittsburg, sett the Preirident of the United States a small cask of their best "rye;" and in' the gratefulness of his heart, the Pres ident returned thanks, saying, among other things, "sour rye whiskey excels in mild ness and fine flavor any spirits I ever drank." This solid compliment was precisely what the aforeshid distillers were fishing for; and - they forthwith headed their, liquor advertise ments in' he public journals with the certifi• rate of the President of the linited States ! The result is, that the "J. B. Brand," as it is called, has become wonderfully popular, and the cunning distillers are rapidly .filliag their pockets! This is altdost as great mis hap fur J. B. 11.4 his Duquesne letter. But great men have their weak points.—Getman• - town Telegraph.. - INPRITEDENTED SUCCESS.—We are glad to learn that the Atlantic Monthly is meet., ing with great favor from all sources. The' , the publishers printed nearly thirty thousand copies of the January netnber i this large sup ply was entirely exhausted on the very day of publication, thus compelling many new subset ibers and - Others to walk a few dayi be. fore obtaining a copy., The pnblishers,have - another edition of several thousand in press, which will be ready in a few days, and with their present facilities they will be able to supply the demand, however large it may be. Their subscriptions, received by mail• alone from all parks of the country, have - averaged more than one hundred a day, for some time e Ipast.—Boston Traveller. WllO MADE Tar SLAVE TRADE PMACS ? We hear much of the "infismous law" utak- Mg the slave trade piracy, and some seem to regard it as a'special enactment of the Staten in order to' opprets arid degrade the S6uth. What will such peeple,say when 'they come to learn that, the severe statutes of Congress on this subject-. were >of ðers origin, Introduced , by Southern Represents tiies, and voted for generally, if not unani mously, by Southern members? Such_is the fact. If anybody to be blamed in this platter, 11. F t, are the . partie.s. So tar from its being a -Nortliern 'movement, we have an tberity for saying 'that. the Northern mem bers of Congress araMow , willing to strike out the term " piracy",from the act and sub stitute a milder' punishment for the death penalty. - • We' see it stated by an , intelligent Wash ington correspondeM,wlan has access to the records, that, the present, lair. declaring the slava trade piracy', and,punishlng the violat ors, elite provisions with, daub, was intro . duped by . Cbarlea-F. Mercer; . I . k RePresenta tte from theSiate of Virginia, and that no opposition was 'made to its' pii,ssage by ,t Southern members of that day. Let us, th, cease ,theCtlnjust ouniplaint against what we are 41:4149M 4 4 to bear termed a "Northern aggression."--Aveunsak .Repabikaa. AN A*ll4.lltte* &rept Ifts:--The ed i"Oirof the Artie* Depocreka &dud"' istiltakoPAPer- 'glutei:Lai Cleveland, gays his' 41404 Mt -purify the Dessecestie pm* El U
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