Post Office itobbery—lftuicality and
Elopement of a married maul
For,some time past suspicion has rested in
the minds of the people residing in the vicini
ty of Richmond, 'in this County, that there
waszsomething rotten in the magagement of
the Post-Office atthat place. Several letters
that had been mailed there, containing mon
,ey, never reached itheir place of destination,
and others, that , did leach the persans to
whom they were addressed, bore evidences
of having been - *fled and re-sealed. Sever
al weeks ago, a young man by the name of
Smith, in the employ of the Post-Master, and
who some times had the charge of the mails,
flourished several 'sloo bills about the village
and as his wages I were not ,strffiefently high
to enable him to support his family and lay
• by money, he was at once suspected of being
the theif. These ,suspicions soon reached his
ears, when he made secret arrangements to
leave for a parts unknown."-, Telling his 'wife
he was obliged-to be absent for a day or.two
he went over to Plainfield township and in
. dueed a young girl, to whom he had been
paying his addresses for some time; - to run
away with him, and the pair left, it is thought,
for the West. We understand that Smith
wrote back from some point on the Pennsyl
vania Central Railroad, confessing that" ho
had robbed the mail, and saying that there
was
.no use in any one following him as he
could never be caught. It is to be hoped.
that the scoundrel will be disappointed in his
expectations and! that he will 'be captured
and punished as his villany deserves. The
young lady who eloped I with hint was of re
spectable family and bore a good reputation.
A GCeat Speech.
Hooper, of the. Montgomery (Ala.) Mail,
gives the following report of the greatest
speech ever ,• .
A fellow was indicted up in the old
Ninth, when Toni G-'--t . was solicitor, for
gainbling, 'to wit!: playing
. "short cards"' at
a certain locality ithown as Fro; LeVel. Col.
defended ',him, arid contended before
.a jury :that though the State's evidence
tended to show that his client with a bottle
of ,liquor in his Pocket, accompanied by the
crowd who it was shown, did actually play,
yet it never did with absolute certainty lo
cate him as one of the player. Said he by
way' of - peroration : .
"GentlemeA of ithe Jury : The witness has
told you that Peter Wyatts was: thar, and - a
plavin'—for he noticed his hand and it was a
full on Queens. -• . •
'l 4 Harry Snow ‘cias thar, and he was a play
in,''for he hilt two; little" par.
William Upson was than, and he played,
'cause witness noticed in particular that •be
bad nothin' but an ace.
"Bill Connor was•thar and he played, gen
tlemen, for he had_ the bully hand—four
high heeled 3acksi.
"But, gentlemen, when I came to ask him
about Abraham Pitkin—my client's • hand,
what did he say,' gentlemen Why, noth.
in', gentlemen, *except if Abe hilt any • hands
be clisseniembered What was in it. And now,
gentlemen of the !jury, because cliout
was seen going down to FrogLavel - with a
bottle of liquor in his pocket, and the witness
can't remember. if he hilt any hand at all,
when bully hands were out, and him the best
player .in the ctoWil—is that—l say, gentle
men of the jury; that any reason that my
client was guilty of the crime of Gambling?"
It is almost needless to say that the jury
saw the non sequitur and acquitted the _de
fendant.
• j -- Thenomination of Hon. Arnold Plum
mer is well received by the party in all parts
of the State. The Democratic Herald of But-
ler says: .
-4 ' It is With plea Sure that we raise the name
of the lion. ARNOLD PLUMMER, of Venango
county, t 134, antidicinto "far the.responsible
post of Canal Com Missioner. A more proper
selection could not have been made. The
hest men,.in these flays, should be sought out
to fill, -net, • only the - best offices, but all the
offices. And Ito* when there is great dan
ger of the people loosing entirely the control
of the public works, with little prospect of
Our State debt being materially reduced,. or
'out tares for State purposes" diminished, it
.was peculiarly proper that a man like Mi.
Plummer should be nominated. The posi
tion of affairs demands such men. We have
every assurance, from his character, that, un
der his management of the public works, eve
ry. dollar possible will be saved to the honest
tar-payers of the State." . •
BAnNrm's Lkst.—A correspondent of th
Philadelphia Ledger, writing from New York,
gives the following ns Barnnm's last. He
says :"
"An eminent plibli?hing house in Paris is
engaged in issuing a series' of the most
distinffuished female beauties .in the , world.
which when'completed, is to include ten of
the handsomest ladies in 'the. United States,
andthese Barnum has undertaken to en
gac
,
order to. stimulate competition, be offers
8500 ,in premiums, ranging from 81000
down to 8150, to be di , tributed; according
to the different degrees of beauty. Ladies ac=
cordingly are requested to send in their da
guerreotypes toithe Museum. None will be
receivediater than the 14th- of October. .
The judge of the "best looking are to ,be
the people at large." Each visitor is to mark
on a Slip of paper the particular number, cor
responding with that of his ahOice, and depos
it it in a.ballot boi at the door.. The result
is to be announced on the 15th of - Septem
ber. -
Single and married women alike may coin
pete, but none below "sweet ,sixteen" are -to
enter the lists.. $o limit to ancient maiden
hood is specified. 1- When the show in Public
is over, artists.areito be employe'd to paint
full sized portraits of the premium beauties.
great, - great is the humbug, and Barnum is
1 -
its profit. •
inf A clergyman, happenir to pass "a
boy' Weeping bitterly. halted antrasked" what
is the matter, my little fellow i"
The boy replied:
, “ Before, we could hardly get enough to
eat, of anything, and now; there's another one
come." -
" Hush thy mourning, and wipe off those
eves," said the elerg,yman, "and remember
that He never sends mouths without He sends
victuals to put in them." 8 0
".I know that," , said the y, " but then He
'sends all the 'mouths to, our house, an I the
victuals to your hia,u it
"John? said a master to his heatrap
prentiee, as he was about starting off on a
abort journey," you must occupy my placer,
while I am goatC
- "Thank you, 81r" demurelyreplied John
"but I'd rather seep with the boys."
'Never marry forafortune. We over
heard a poor unfortunate get the following
sock-dolager, the other, from his better
-half:
days
" You good-for tithing fellow !" said she,
" what would you h ve been had I not mar
ried you ? Whose was the baking kiver,
whoss7tbe pig-trough, whose ,the frpag-pau,
aid the iron-kooped bucket, but :ulna, when
you married me?
• I -
.D,To,ttir. c r.,l ; -,g!' c! io,tr.lit.
. .
LARGEST CIRCULATION IN 19:MINERS P110,4',L
B. 11 CHASE' & J. B. Me.COLLUM, Emma&
ALV IN D AY, IPublisber.
Montrose, Thursday, July 20, 11155.
Wanted
A trusty Irish girl who can all kinds of
house work. Such an' one, find good
ui
wages and permanent emp l .oyment.Enq re
at this office.
"Both branches of the
Kinsaslegisla-
_
ture met at Westport on the 16th inst.. The
Governor and all the U. S. TerritOrial officers
were present. • I
L'a"'We haye received a third commnii
cation:or rather criticism on the Harford
exhibition, which we shall decline publishing,
because we think it of too personal and vin
dictive a character. The communication is
full of close bits, and is well, written, bat we
cannot give it a plaee - in our columns for , the
reason stated above. Basides,. t should; we
give the article referredlo, a place in our pa= 7
per, it would occasion innumerable, replies;
and, we are of opinion that, our readers would
not be materially benefitted byte discussion,
as the subject is oflittle interesko them.
Ifln another' place we copy - an article
from a California paper on Know-Nothing
t
Exposures, in which allusion is made } to the
exposure of Mr. Watson, of this connty. It
is an 'able article, and will pay a Careful
reading.
jfarllr."Ohed,ah Green,,,well ktiown in
this county, is "confident he has killed or
trightened away the wevil from three .acres
of wheat, belongl;ng to Mrs. Williaras," near
Auburn Corners, by firing five heavy rounds
from a gun around it. He says it wasralive)
with them when be did so, and in a day they
all disappeared. 'lf this be so' it is Worth
looking after; but we think thethun6r, for
a week fast, would give them general start
if anything like heavy explosions will do it.
Mark Thera!
The "(kirk lantern gentry ; " of Montrose are
chuckling- over the idea that the democrats
will not he able to control their County Gin
ventiort this Fall, for say these gentlemen,
" you can't keep the Know-Nothings out."—
We doubt not that a majority of these " wor
kers of iniquity" are sufficiently- depraved to
treacherously steal into the convention, pro
vided theyitan get an opportunity. But, we
are sutprifed that they should gloat over
their superior advantages in the line of ras
cality, and intimate, thus openly their inten
tion tp commit an act destitute of manlitiess
and indicative of the loyest depravity. Will
a party that boasts of its 'capacity to cheat
men out of their votes, be likely to look after
and protect the interests of the Protestant
church l • Will Nativism, 'or Protestantisin
be benefitted Materially by this cheating pro
cess It is evident that Know 7 Nothing,ism
educates its discijles into .a state of immoral
ify, else how. could they; unblushingly pro:
claim their deterMination, to steal into their
neighbor's lionso, and .rob him—not of his
hard carmings—*t. of his right to vote un
derstandingly, fdf , the principles: that are
dear to him! Tile miserable creature that
would crawl into a Convention a the party
he was secretly Sworn to 'oppose, and ; labor
for the_nomination of someone of his politi
cal associatesocould sink so low in the esti
mation of all hotie l st men that contempt could
never reach Min. But it is the duty and
should be the. aim of Democracy to'save
these politicalfrom the infamy in
to which they would voluntarily plunge, by
taking measures tb keep them out of the con
vention. This can be easily done, and we
urge upon our democratic friends, in the dif
ferent'townships, the necessity of, attending
the' delegate elections and' guarding against
all attempts at_fraild. Be vigilant in detect
ing, determined. in opOsing all efforts to
cheat the party 'ckit •of reliable democratic
delegata to its Convention. It is not enough
that a man has acted with the party at some
period ; lieniusthe known to adhere
to its cardinal principles, before he -is pertnit
ted to participate lin the election of its dele
gate-s. There are doubtless many who, not
withstanding the desertion of their party, will
at'empt to exercise a privilege at -the Dele
gate election-, that! belongs to the faithful and
- true-hearted alone. We isay to our demo
cratic friends " mark - then{Look out for
frauds!" .
44 in Union there is Strength.
We have watched with no little interest,
the rise and progress of n.now Nothingiszn
in this country.:We have tried to make our
selves familiar with the causes.of its growth
and des4lopment, and have from-time co time,
laid before our readers the opinions we hold
on the subject. `We 'are satisfied that the
'principles of the order, are odious to a vast
Majority of out citizens. In this community
they cannot be otherwise,, for , no intelligent
man can he found to openly And fearlessly
'defend them. The order obtained its preient
power, not through any meritsof its own, but
threugh the disorganization and 'want of
harmony in the democratic pitrey. In this
I corner of-the State, it has been the aim of the
opposition to keep its principles out of sight,
and by sailing under-false colors "to retain
its stolen power."' It is impossible for our
opponents to pursue this unmanly course lon
ger. They • Inive indorsed the prosCri ptive
platform of the Reading council ; they, have_
signified their determination 'to 'go into the
I contest, and fight to proscribe men for their
religious opinions, --to have "no Man vote
who was not born on our soll"—rto sustain the
doctrine of " taxation without representation."
To this platform the Republicati is pledged '
and if it has sufficient courage to, adhere to
principles it was base enough to indorse, it
\will abandon its practice of misrepresenting
and falsifying, and battle boldly Icir the cause
it has hitherto sustained in a treacherous and
cowardly way.* Let every mati i 4 this cottn
ty understand the position - occupied by the
party, of which the ReproWican is the' organ,
and we' are •confidetit that the. democratic
party will come(ont of the struggle, this Fall ;
triumphant. What ive desire is to have the
Isstie understoisi by the. people. We want
Irio - dodgpig--no Misrepresentation.--no -falsi
fying. We state our 'position fairly and
frankly—we want otheri to; do the same.—
We . will not vote for principles that We dare
not adiocitte ; we defend those doctrines with
our pen that we mean to sustain with our
ballot: We believe that the issue is now
fairly made, and in sticti a way as not to be
easily, misunderstood. !The anti-republican
platform Of 'the State K.IN. Council is indors
ed by the opposition in this county, and is
denounced by the. Democracy as 'unconatitn
iional,desis3tio and dangerous. The; quest
, ion to be decided is "shall Know Nothing
ism prevail in, and disgrace Pennsylvania f"
An. "infidel, Gad-defying" combination of
'political scoundrels, armed with the narrow
spirit of nativism'and religious intolerance : is
the - foe, with which the lilarty4oving
and -honest-hearted citizens of thri Common
wealth are cal'ed upon to contend. This se
cret, political! organization, holding prin
ciples at war iwith the constitution, reason
and jt;stice, must bo met and vanquished.—.
It has been permitted to have its own way
long enough. "i One year ago the people wore
not fully awake to the importance of crush
ing the conspiracy. They were not so well
aemminted with its characterand objects as
now—they fliacied it might operate to puri
fy, pre-existing, political parties—they didjuot
realize the dangers that 'encompassed them.
The consequence' of this imperfect knowledge
'was the election of a K. N. GOvernor, and a
K.•N. Legislature. The latter succeeded in
making itself odious, and the former is cer
tainly not . er3,; popular; especially with the
friends of a. sound and healthy currency. Ile
has signed too many bills .incorporating new
banks, for his own good and that of the state,
whoSe best,interests it is hih duty to promote,
and whose constitution he is sworn to sustain.
In slew of the hated -proscriptive features of
'Know,Nothingism, the..unpopularity
.of the
acts of the last
,Legislature and the weak and
vascillating course of the present State ad:
ministration We can see nothing in: the way
'of in easy democratic victory. Let all who
are opposed to secrecy in politics and to the
creation'of'religioas tests unite for the over
throw of this corrupt, and demoralizing 'ord
er. "In union there strength." Let all,
whether Whigs, Democrats or Free Soilers,
who hate the treasonable' policy, that Know
Nothingism is seeking to. carry out, join
hands, and as anti-Know- Nothings, go forth
to battle; and to victory ! We must forget,
temporarily,at least, our past differences, with
an eye single to the' grand ptirporkt of rescuing
Our country from " the dominion-of the lodg
&' permit no remembrance
. Of "old_quariels"
'to disorganize and disqualify us foi• efficient
service in.thecoming canvas. The ',organi
zation of the .Democracy runt be perfect—
its Candidates must be known inveterate foes
of the conspiracy,.well qualified to . perform
the duties of the office for which they are nom
inated, and' of unexceptionable character.,-
It is the duty of the party to exercise great
care in the selection of
,itsi candidates—to
shoo upon its ticket good, . reliable men, so
that the voter who is desirous of opposing
with his ballot the principles'
,of the seeret,
oath-bound party, can have no'excuse for fail
ing to do
. so.. .
In this hastily written and desultory artiele
we have endeavored to point obit the iisue be
fore the people, and impress uPou the democ
racy the importance of forming an =excep
tionable ticket—one on which all the enemies
Of Know Nothing-ism can unite.
4.•
rirßelow we publish a letter of 0. B. Ty
ler, Esq., which we cut from a California paper.
Mr. Tiler is a'scm, of the Hon. M. C. Ty,ler,
of this place, and bkthe letter, our readers
*ill see that "be is a son of the sire,"—inher
iting a full share of Democratic blood.
Mr.,Tyler is in company with one of the
-ArstattOrnies in San Francisco, is active, ar
dent and laborious himself, and seems to
have in wait a brilliant and sucessful future.
tong may he wave. •
. THIRD WARD NOMINATIONB.-31r. 0.
Tyler, having declined the nomination for Al
derman in this Ward, Mr. B. •C. Bills Was
nominated in his. stead. The ticket will
therefore stand--Alderrnan, U. C. Bills ; 'As
sistant Alderman, G. W. Murray; Ward As
sessor, IL F. Williams, The following is a
copy of Mr. Tyler's resignation :
-San Francisco, May 25; 18.55.
To the Xominatiiig Committee of the
Ward—Gentlemen :—I Must decline the
honor
,you' propose in selecting me as a can
didate for the office of Alderman of this Ward.
My reasons for this course were fully stated
to you} Committee, who yesterday waited up.
on main relation to this, subject, and; as I
Suppose, were by "them considered satisfacto
ry. With many thanks ter the friendly. feel-'
tags Which proMpted-. this :manifestation on
your part, I will conclude by -saying that - 1
hate no politidal ambition beyond the -1" rank
anfile" of our • party, in which position I
have heretofore, and still propose, to work se
long as the enemies of Democracy are able to
invent new names and assume new disguises
under whiCh to attack us: .
:lin igentletneo, with respect., yotir obedi;
ent . ser6int. 0. 8.-TYLER.
MissiOss I A7nica.—Within twenty years,
about 0.6 hundred churches, numbering about
twelve. 'thousand converts, have been planted
.hlong the coasts of Africa. Many schools
also have been established, which are now
jn sucr•eisful - operation,. and hundreds of
natives have received;and are now receiving,
a Chrisrian education. And yet, previomly
to that Ijme, the whole . twenty-five millions
Of that section of . Africa were in a state of
, Oegradation. • • •
ILLEraTIMATE CIIILDREN.—The" last _Legis
lator!' passed the following iinportant section,
relati ug to the namnand right of illeg,tiemate
children to inherit the estate of their moth
er—and the mother to inherit the estate of
such a child:
SEC. 8. That Illegitimate children shall
take and be known by the name of their
mother, shall respectfully have capacity to
take or inherit from each other personal es
tate as net kin ; and real estate as heirs in
fee simple ; and' as respects said real or per
tonal estate so taken and inherited, to trans
mit the same acterding to the intestate laws
of this State.
Maim-Nothing Vsposares.
The tendency of the oaths and obligations
imposed upon , t who have been persuaded
to victimize the Ives by. joining the Know,
Nothing Society, i . of the most immoral char
acter. When of ns take upon themselves
extra judicial oats of 'a secret • nature, and
among these incolPorate an obligation which
forbids thein fromzlivulging the secret politi
cal doings of , tleir associates, even under
oath, as a .witne in court, it is palpably
s:1
treasonable Again. the laws of the country—
it 'is. building up spurious and bastard
government, wh 1 oaths. are blasphemy,
whose designs aip re bellions against the
public tribunals undii our Constitution. '
Mr. Littlejohn, in NA pUblic expose of the
insidious Know-Nothings.of New York, made
in his place in the Legislature of that State,
read from the Instiucter, their book of ritual,
as follows;
"Instructor—Mr 81641E1E118 :—The Order
which has now received you as members,
may, with all propriety, be .considered a se
cret organization. It i$ so secret, in fact,
that if - you were plaied before a legal tribu.
nal, and there. sworn ?o tell the truth, you
could not, for your livei, renal the name of
that band of brothers among whom your name
now' stands. enrolled; and farther than this,
when you retire from this meeting, you will
retire to your family and friends as ignorant
as when you came, so far as the name of this
Order is conceriiid."
It is worthYOtpublic notice that the oaths
divulged in Susquehanna county, Pennsylva
nia, and those published-. in the New York
Legislature by Littlejohn, and those in
the printed Instrucidr
. 14 San Francisco; a
copy of which .has.been furnished us, are all,
so completely . the same in every substatial
particular,
.that we are - driven .to conclude
that Whatever modification the presure from
without may have wrought in the wigwams,
'the original plan was one of - gross Intoler
ance and meanest proscription.
The following statement of Mr. Watson,
which is combated by 'some of the members
whO withdrew from the conclave, goes to
show that. either fear or shame must impel the
politiptans of this secret caucus to conceal
theirideritity with the Order, and thus they
impose an obligation upon them. which pro
hibits their acknowledging their Membership
in the political conspiracy.
"When in the anti-room I wits sworn to
always 'deny being a member of the Know-
Nothings, which I assented to on being t o ld
that I could do so safely, which would be ex
plained to me after having taken the second
oath or degree, in• the Council or Lodge-room,
1 was told that. the acme Of the Order was
"the Order of the Star Si,angled Banner ; "
and- that therefore I could deny being a
Know-Nothing, for that was itot the name of
the Order. 1 have heard -members of the
Church deny in the most solemn manner
that they belonged 'to tlie . Knoo,v-Nothings,
when I knew that they belonged
. .to our
Lod g."
Such a system' of. falsehoods which even
. overrides the vows of Christian men made at
the - altar, which overshadows the candor and
veracity, belonging to the amenities and
courtesies of life among gentlemen, and which
invades: the solemnity . and legal obligation of.
oaths in the judicial tribunals of our land,
ought to be branded everywhere as treasona
ble •in every sense in.wbich the social and
`political import of the word can have a bear
ing among Christian men and American citi
zens.
Again we Lace in the statement of Mr.
Watson below, the effect of this most liberal
and tolerant political conclave upon the free
suffrage of citizens. On.this point the Know-
Nothings have Made a
. wide-spread and Swet.;p
ing programme of their high pfeteiisions.—
The fmedrnis of the ballot-bvx Ita3 beet/ LIIVII
peculiar boast, and,; all the evils which could
iii ani. way trammel; hinder, molest, or dis
turbe the free voting of the people, weic to be
cured, at once and forever,-and at all haiards;
by these puer and patriotic - reforiners.. This
extract shows
_the
_servle
. prostration of the
sacred right of suffrage;-with which this pro
scriptive conclaie have stainad the very
name of freedam.
• 4 ' Tiu ELECTION,—I was not present when
the ticket was formed in the Lodge fur the
township officers. X few -evenings before
the election I went to Stillman
• Fuller and
asked him if I could vote for such . men on .
the ticket as I liked, and against those I did
not. like. He told me I could not,- that I
was bound to vote the whole ticket or stay
at home. The morning of the election he
came to my house and urged meto go to the.
election, saying that if . 1 did not want to
vote their ticket for "constable,he would fix it
so,..that I-would not be found out. I went to
the election. There I asked D. L. North if s I
Could vote for Edwin Summers and Alonzo
Williams for Justices of the Peace. He said
I could not, for Williams was not a KnoW-
Nothing. Another member, Andrew Banker,
told me I must not back out this time, for
We should get licked. He said finally he
would . gdand see if I could not vote 'for .
Williams, and soon 'he returned and said I
could not.. I then .starie4 out doers, and
he followed and told
.me if I did not vote
their ticket I. would leur4 myself. I went
home Without voting of all; supposing that if
I Voted against their ticke4 - I would be liable
for a prosecution. for perjury. In -coversation
with E. L. Beebe, previous to the election, he
urged,me to stand by theth, saying that if
they failed this time !hey 'were down. This
is substantially What occurred at the elec-.
tion.”
Of what value is a man's citizenship, with
what pride can he boast that he was born on
the soil of American liberty, if his dearest
rights can be held in the tyranical grasp of a
secret order like 'this What pride. can, a
man have left when be is' obliged to ask
permission of some Thug leader; to vote as•he
wishes, and obliged .to bow his head in
when that permission is refused? What .
spirit must animate the bosoms of men who
when told. they will hurt. themselves if they
refuse :this servile . allegiance to Thuggery,
go home stipped of their citizenship, robbed
"oftbeir birth-right, and humbled before their
neighbors, as the victims of a • power which
they are ashamed, and
_afraid to acknowlL
edge!
The truly patriotic tone—se American•like
and manly, in which Mr•. Watson strips off
and tramples under his feet the manacles
with which' the Know-Nothings have attempt
ed to fetter him; is worthy the conimendation
and thanks of his fellow-citizens throughout
our country.
"In making this public statement, I am
actuated hy a sense of duty to the pnblic. I
have, as I acknowledge, taken upon myself
solemn oaths in the Lodge, which this state
ment shows me to have violated. I have
done so because I did not feel willing to see
such agrevious wrong tolerated in communi
ty,—to see it flourish by my silence ani ap
probation. I took the oaths, but, they were
oaths to. do wrong, and surely it must be a
high' moral duty to break such oaths. For
this reason I do not conceive them binding.
Can an oath to tell falsehoods, and commit
other sins and crimes be more binding. than
'though taken to commit the higher crimes of
thdt, arson or murder! Icannot see that
they are or ought to be, and I therefore, vio
late them without compunctions of conscience,
because I do not believe them binding, and
because I believe the good of society requires
their exposure. . "I have exposed them truth
fully, and trust the public will receive some
benefit, and the cause of truth and honesty,
in politics as well as in other relations of so l
ciety, will be seved _arid promoted thereby.
Jamas WATSON." •
The exposure- which Mr: Watson made
.embraces the oaths, the signs.and pass _ -words,
and' the general machinery of the Know--
Nothing organization—and the motives with
which this development was made appears in
the je s t extract above. It was a motive of
solemn . duty to_bis - country. .It was an im
pulie of right which o'ermastered in hisho- .
soul all the false anol_pretened claims of the
secret politicians, whose outward professions,'
no matter bow fair and plausible, could not
conceal from him the corruption and evil de
signs upon:the country which reigned in the
inner. councilsof the wigwam.
Mr. Watson's example has been followed
by thousands who have- -been -like-hint en-.
trapped, and whose patriotism was too.st6d
fast.to tampered with by. Thuggery, and
Who have coma out manfully and maintained
their position as equals among. freemen—and
we believe that thousands upon thousands
who have been seduced in some .parts of
our country to place their liberty and citi
zenship in the hands of a few . cunning leaders
of this secret order,, will come out and pro
elaiM their disenthralment.
The moral obligations, the patriotic obliga
tions; the social and honorable -obligations
of American voter are all paramount to any
hatched up, secret, spurmit.., extrajudicial
bondS'whieh cunning politicians can invent
—and the general safety of the country,
aganst her enemies from without 'as well as
her insidious - and - ambitious traitors within,
demands of -every good citiien a free, open
discussion, and open beharidr in all
matters pertaining to the public affairs'of the
country. Secre_cy in- politics is hostile to the
genius and Spirit of a republican form of
government. '
The Harvest—Wheat and Rye—Oats
and Potatties-Splended Crops.-
For the past ten days our Fariners have
been actively engaged in cutting and gather
ing • their Wheat crops. Every man who
could work, took. the cradlein hand and went
to work. Providence has favored them with
good weather, a warm sun and cooling breezes.
have taken the trouble to make enquiry
in regard to the, condition and extent of the
crops and. it gives uspleasure to state-that ho
-better yield has been in this country in ten
years.. We,have before us several sp;mimens
.of early and late Wheat ,that werm biought
from different pat Of the country- -.and we
never saw bettef, any-where. ' The heads. are
full and heavy
. and the kernels round and
plump. Here and there the weevel has caus
ed some injury,..but to no great extent.. The
TLye looks tine:and- there is a super-abun : :
ante of it. • There is'at least one-third more
Oats and one-third niore Potatoes 'growing,
in this county, than were ever raised in.•nny
one previous year and the crops will be ha
mense :—The poor Laborer's and Meehan-
Who have hard work .to "make both ends
meet" since the spring sf 1854 tnny'now joy
sinw" there'sa wood time coining, boys."
• •oy
Easton Argus. •
Strange <tensity of an Insane, Wo-
man. -
Winrsiv, June 21, 1855.
There is a woman .in this town, wlk9 for the
past ten'years liar been insane. It is not
fully known what the cause was that led to
this peculiar state of her mind. About eigh
teen Years ago spa lost her husbaiid, but - since
that time she las performed the duties of her
household with as much :care as common—
cooks, washes, does alt the tiouNebuld work
without assistance or guidance. But unlike
most women, she spends no useless time in
doorS engaged on the nicer kinds of lace work,.
or even at the toilet. She has a work_ to dO,
and all her energies are given to it. As soon as
the dishes'are washed; furniture set order ;
She lights her pipe and starts fur the field.
About six rods from her house are two
small hills, which she isat . .work in leveling.
They are . about 12 feet high, and On the top
Contain nearly a qUarter ot:an acre.'' During
the past ten yearS all her leisure moments
have been thus occupied. Early in the morning
With her hoe and crowbar, Which are the only
tools she usesshe - . starts for the hill" tops,
and there works. until night. She carries the
titian stones to the - foot of the hill, rolls the
large ones, and the dirt hoes down. It . this
way she has lowere ! l one hill more than 6
feet, the other 41.
The work she has performed is said to be
more than • anv one man in this town could
have done in:the same time with the same
tools.- The stones also she has carried to the
foot of the bill would now ; require the labor
of five men and four oxen two months to re
move.' - NotWithstaudiug this immense and
continuous latoi, she
_enjoys at this time the
very best lealth.•
When in the house about her work, she is
perfectly rational, never destroys anything
and is guilty 'of no cunning tricks, such as
crazy people generally are. She uses her son's
wood to heat up large rocks, which she can
pot .remove without bi - 61king," then ponrs.wm:
ter upon them shelling them into small . .pie
ces to enable her to carry-them into the val
ley .
, Upon almost every subject of the day. she
expresses herself, having ideas peculiar to-her,
self alone. In Scripture she is well versed.-:
The word Sun is not properly spelled. She
contends it is .11Tue,hecause it, nourishes the
earth: The wonderful Aurora Borealis is the
Devil's fire; and'stars are the sparks that rise
up, when the devil stirs it. She has had oc
casional encounters with this personage while'
at her work on the hills. Once he attempt
ed to take her crowbar from her. It - was bad
ly bent in the struggle, and -her face scratch
ed,-but she over powered him.
She has grent.faith in charins, or *hat she
call power-stones. Her bed ,is accordingly
filled with these stones, Which she takes from
the hills, also the windows; corners and- vari
ous other parts of the house. She puts them
also aroundher -porn, which she plants upOr.
the hills, and which grows well and yields a-,
bundantly, tho Ugh all the soil is removed.----
These stones, she assures people, keep off the
witches, and. makes tile corn grow.—Bangor
Mercury, July 11.
Minnesota Towns•
. The two chief tows in . the territory 'of Min
nesota are as4:ertained by a local censusjust
taken to have the following populatiou :. St.
Paul, 5000, St. Antony, 2500. This is a hand
some increase over the last previOus..enume
ration' but the total falls short of the esti
mates made by the sanguine editors of that
relgon.
FORESTALLING BREADSTCFFS AT THE WEST.
—A 'farmer residing a shi'irt distance from
Dubuque, lowa, writes to his friends in Boston,
that the crops there are bounteous, and adds
that the former years he had to - drag his pro
duce to Dubuque
.to dispose of it, but that
now the purchaser comes to his door and
buys all that he has. He ends, also, that
other farmers in his neighborhood are accom
modated in a siniilar manner.
sgrA son of henry clay has made a
speech denouncing Know -Notbingistn. '
A. Democta* A broad on Know.
• •
Nothingsinf. :
We find in a Georgia paper the' following
extract . of. a letter kern "a distinguished.
Southern pelitician_na, residing in Brussels."
We have reason to believe the writer alluded
to is the Hon. J. 3. Seibles, Minister of the
United States to: Brussels, a democrat of fine
abi4ties, and Lien; Ctilonel lof rho Alabdma
battalion in the Mexican war • • •
littussm.s, May 23, 1855.
My Dieu Std :--Whither are you drifting .
in the United States • &ire!) , not into the ha
ven, or rather "not upon the breakers of Know-
Nothingism 1 If I'thought So Would blush
for our country and shudder for' the conse- .
quences. Of this midnight 64inclave, ray dear
Sir, I have snore horror :and loathing than
for any other, party or sect that has ever
sprung up in the United , States. First,
cause it is a secret political-Order, and .second
ly, because it is politically and religiously pro
scriptive, fort which, thereLis !no - excuse in our
free country—every man being at full liberty
to think, speak and publish 'what he pleases.
It is, too, in violation of the genius spirit and
actual letter of our CenstitUtion '
whichf pre
scribes liberty of religious belief and Wership .
to. all. I feel it, and hearts of Ettrope
all feel it, as a step backward in the ",Grand
Republic ;" and its cotnplete success in the
United States would- east More gleom over
the already stricken hearts!" of Republicans,
than any which lc ever happened since the
foundation of our Government.
• The question is frequently pressingly asked
me : " Can it`be possible. that. this last great
resting place for the oppressedthis last-hope
and stay of our stricken.hearts—this land to
which we could ever turn Our wearied footsteps
when chased and heeled 'front every other
country because we loved freedom—is this,
too, to he shut. against u 917, Can it he possible
that we have been chasin6 a - phantom ; that
liberty is impOssible, andthat man is born to
be a slave I" My. dear Sir, if you
,could ob
sCr-ve the sad and haggard ; 'countenances of
many of these noble forms that have addressed
me On that subject—see their eves swimming
in tears—sorrow and despair depicted upon
ever'y lineament of their countenances, you
would, like -mveslf; I: am Sure„ curse, froth
theinmoStycesses of your soul, this infamotis,
.hideous, and damnable Order, which is not
only: destined to AlisgrsCe our • country, and
justly; too, if it should succeed ; but which,
by its constant suecess r is to subvert our . in-.
sotutiens and liberties, and install the reign
of a proscripimn but little less (if any) mon
strous and detestable than th'at of the SpaniSh
Inquisition, thereby attaching to us, as boait
ed Uepublcans, an infamy from which I should
have little hope s that we could ever recover.,
; such loathing do I behold this Know 7
- No'bing party that I Should instantly lose
personal respect for the dearest friend 1 have
ou etirth, : upon learning that he -had :joined .
them. It is a party, the idea of which was
conceived in the infamouS littlenesS of a 'soul
incapablcof appreciating a gene,rous or rsag
nanamOus act, -and I fetil., alike incapable of
peiforming 0ne. , ,, Against . such - , a party I
Would war to the death—war as I would'
aoainst the Savage—war without quarter
and without pity; for if they succeed, it is.
sheer nonsense to talk abhutthe liberty or inde
pendence 9f the United States, its ,:sunkwill ,
have set, and for myself I would rather it
should goilown in blood and in . carnage . than
in
. the quiet and. permanent possession of such
a party. - . .1 not use strong, language be.-
cause I write- privately. I Would that, every
man, acid woman and child that takes the
leastinterest in any pot , r sentiments of mine
could know them.; for; before .my God, I
would. sin k instantly into retirement, without
the possibility of ever being heard of again,
in preference to rising to , the highest honors
of the Republic by the slightest word of ap
probation or compromise with such an odious
concern. • I :rejoice - to see you - battleing
Against them, I fear . sphie of our friends , put
it off too long: The very seeds of the hydra
should have been crushed• out. in the begin
ning—they should not have been . allowed, to
hatch in testy decent community, particularly
in the South. I early saw that unscrupulous
Whig leaders would seize' upon it to beat. the
Democracy: OM- friends should have :been
early warned of the danger. ,
In Virginia we are making the fight gal
lantly and in the right spirit. -If we succeed
there, all will be well ; but if we do not, and the
gloriou.s.Old Dorniniohthe - land of :Wash
ington and Jefferson—must go under the
cloud . of 'proscription, we must hope that it
will be only temporally, . gird on our Armor„
go to- battle in good earvest, and stick the
:closer to and hug our colors the tighter as
they are the harder,pressed by the enemy.—
I never had more hope or confidence :in the
Democracy than now. , At the %North we
have been beaten and crushed, it is true, hut .
our coloriweie - kept flying, and our noble
brethren, purged traitors, and cowards, show
ed an undaunted front amid the general over
throw. Such soldiers will life to fight an
other •day—A refehlar -army of v .Democrats
around which will e6nttuilly rally the hon
est men of the masses, though they may
have beeneiMe deluded, and willgain battle
as Democracy alone knows how to wih.—
Let the Democracy only Stand firm. andAlm
-TED, and nothing is to be; feared from Know-
Nothings: .
TILE FAN/TICIS:Nt OF. ' KNOW-NOTHINOIgIi.
----Samuel A. Blliot—Who the Boston .Adv-er
tisci says is "himself a benefitcto i i . to the . col
lege, having - for ten years or mole discharged
with signal -ability and fidtlitY, the office of
treasurer, managing the investments of its
funds—all without.receiying one cent of com
pensation—And beingovithal - a gentleman of
education and culture,'distingiiislied an hon
orable in the- community. 'ln which he lives'
—has been refused_ the "degk;e OIL. L. D. by
the- board of overseers offfarviii4 College, be
caiii.e he voted for the fugitive\slave
With the exception of the Hon. George S.
Boutell and one or two others, the board iscom
posed of Know-Nothings: Thisis quite . Orta •
par with their doings -in .New' Hampslur&
where the Know-Nothings., are 'a "passing
liberty bill," and violating the independence
of the judiciary by removing judicial officers
because they hold opinions of their own on
the' political questions of. the day. . .•
•
Opening of the Illinois CRntrall
Railroad.
1317.1'FALO; July 19.—Tbe opening of the Ill
inois Central Railroad to Dubuque took place
'yesterday. Several thousand persons partici
pated in—the cereinoniesi:and speeches were
tnade.by Senators Douglas and Jones and
Gov. DOdge. •
Or An old lady, possessed of .a fine fortune,
and noted for her penchant for the use of figur
ative expressions, one (thy asierubled her grand
children,, when the following conversation took
place : . .
" My children," said the old lady, "1 sun the
root and you are the branches."
"Grandma" says One.
"What, my child r
"I was thinking how muell'better the braneheS
would flourish- if the root was under the ground."
JURY LISTS.
A List of Grand Jurors' drawn from tho pro
por wheol by tho Sheriff and Commissioners of
Susquehanna County ; April 24th, A. D., 1855, to
serve* August Sessions - A. D.; 1855. • -
Auburn. Job •Green i William White..
Apolacan—John Kimble, Alfred Wilson.
Bridgewater—J. W. Curtis, Abel Patrick.
• Brooklyn—Charles Kent. -
Choconut—Jaines.Kinney:
.• •
Diniock—A. A. Lane, ;John Young.
Franklin—Charles Green. - •
Harmony.lanivs Beason; Friend Burt,' W la.
P. Conklin, S. D: Doolittle, Harvey ifoldridge:
Montrose—D. P. Austin. • . • I
•
Lenox—Levi Phelp; James K. Utley., •
Middletown—Nelson Camp.
Rush—Nathaniel Hollis. . • I • -
Silver Lake--LawrendeGiblen.
Springvilltt—Benjamin Thomas. -
Thomson—Luther Aldrich.
.The foregoing, is atrue List of Grand Jorars
drawn as aforesaid. • -• ' . •
/By the Commissioners,
• , WM. A. CROSSMAN, CterJ. - •
'CoMmissioner's Office Montrose; .
•
April 24„A:11 1855:; ' •
A List of Traverse in rims drawn - from the pro.
per wheel by the Sheriff and Commissioners of
Susquehanna County,April 24th, A.- D. 1855. To
serve at, the August Term,lBss.—Firtsr•wiEr.
---
AuburnEzraAlger,Hvey Carter,DanielSee
ley. Daniel- Sterling. • - .
Bridgewater—ll. H. Dunmore. . •
Brbolilyn—William"Mellitian,Chnriee.k. Peri
go. - - • - -
Clifford—Ezra, Pain, D.J.' Thpnlas.
Dundaff 7 -Williarn Wilbur.. . • •
„Dimock—P; A. Stevens.
.• Forest Lake:—Milon Arichard,l3: G.,Weat.
FrankliA.l—Norman Mitchel, Benj'a Vance.
Great Bend John Colsten, Squire Munson. -
•
Harmony—Luther Barnes, David Lyons..l' •
• . Harford;—Seth NV: Thatcher.
Jessup—John '
Liberty—B. W. Bailey,..Tonathan Ross.
Lenox—WM.l). Gardner; Skinner Stephens.
Montrose-=S , h Mitchel. •
New Milfoid4llenry Dewitt, 'lsaac Stafford, ,
John H. Smith, I-Mrace Seymour. * • -
Springville—Franklin lirooks,,,,Williatnlfarkins,
D. C. Justin:'
Silver
Silver.Lnke—Wm. S. Davis, Timothy Murphy. ,
Susquehanna—R. H. McKune. -
The foregoing is a frue copy of the4List of •
Traverse Jurors drawn as aforesaid.
By the Conumnissioners:
WM. A. CROSSMAN, Clerk.
Corumissioner's offiee,hlpntrose, • .
, April 24, A. D. 1855. -
A List of Traverse , Jurors drawn from the
prOper wheel by the - Sherrff and - Cominissiimeri
of Susluchanna County, April 24th, A. D. 1855,
To serve at August Term, A. D. 18.55..SEcorin
WEEK. ,
Auburn—John Bridget, It. S. Davis.; •
Bridgewater—Corael Chamberlain, Richard Farr:
Brooklyn-L.T. - Ashley, A. K. Ge:re,Daniel ,
Torrey. '
_
Glittord—Thomas M. Don&
Fo'restrtake=G. A. Tilden. - - 4
Great Bend—Levi Munson,'
--
Gibson William .Piekerin,g, Wiiliatn. Roper,.
Raymond Sweet:
Irerriek—Abel Kent. , ~ - •
• Jackson-llorace . • Aldrich, Hirdirt Barnes;
Fronklin Bivant, Qbed Nye, GeOrge W. Tyler.
Robinson. . '
.Liberty.. 7 -Wm; M. Bailey. • •
Lenox--Wm. Hartley; Homphry-Marcey: - -
Lathrop--Cristoplie.r S. Perkins, .
Middletown . --E. P.,Biljinzs, James Sandersoq.
Oakland--J: K. Grimes, Morgan Shutts, .
Springville=-4ohn" Br9oks, H. H. Philifis
Park, Arad Wakelee. • •
Sasquehnjana-L,Robert Nichols.! •
Thomson:--M. J. Muinford. •
The .foreLloinr;•,is a true List of Trarersu Ju
rors drawn as uToresa id,'
, . . By the Commissioners.
\\ill:, A. CROSSMAN, Clerk.
Commission'er!soflT Montrose;
April 24, A. D. 11855. ••• . • ,
j`ii otice.
Montrose Firp Company No. 2 meet. on
Wednesday, A past 6 o'clock, Aug. Ist,
1855, P. M.4EngineOe.
I 'F. B. C4ANDLER, See'!y:
natPAXUP).
On the_ 22d inst. - by the Rev. Ja.B. McCrea- .
rY Mr. ROBEI I ITEMMET CURTIS, of Lodersyille,
and Miss Jtmiir Dutiois i of Great Bend.
`I. On the 28th ult., - by the Rev. Mr. Norton,
of New Jersey', E. N.-LOOMIS, M. D., of Hai'ford, and M - ISS LAUFt.i Scow of Ararat.
DEBO t
- In Ditnock, on the 20th inst., .Menr. AN.'
wife of- Isaac koip.an, resident of Lenox
township, in the 25th year of her age.
RegistOr's Notice.
Pc . Buc Notice is . hereby given
.to, all per
sons concerned in the following estates ! to
wit .
Estate of Alexander D. Harper, deed, tato of
Bridgewater township, John Foster and -C. S.
Gilbert, Executors. •
:Estate of James Newman, deed, late of Great ,
Bend t.lwnsliip, S. W. Truesdell . and Thomas
Mayes, Executors. ,
Estate of John Green, deed, late :Of Franklin.
township, William Green, Adm'r. .. •
Estate of Jerethiah T. BAu, dec'd, late of
Harmony township, G. L. Lefis, Adter.
Estate of John J. Whitman, deed; late :of:Her
"ck: township, Jacob Whitman, Adm'r. •
• at the accountants have settled their - accounts
in the Register's office in and for the 'county - of
‘Pusquehnana, and that the Same will be present
to the Judgei of the Orphani' Court of said
county, on Wednesday are 22d day of August
next for confirmation and all twance.
JAS..W. CHAPMAN, Register.
Montrose, July 23, J 855.
Arthur's Patent Self-Sealbv Cans,
For lireserring FreA Fruit, Tomatoes, etc, by
•
Hermetical Sealing. •
FriHESE Cans which are sealed by the house
keepers without the aid of a Caner, and
opened easily without injury . 4o the; Can, are rap. idly coming into .general use. _Full directions
for putting up fruit - accampSning the - Cans: and.
the work is so easily performed, •that by. their
use, ovepy family may have Fresh Fruit aad.To
matoes on their tables allwinter, at sumtner. pri
ces. • - -
PRICES.-t-Pint Cans, $2,00; Quart ,$2,50;
Half-Gallon, $3,50; Three tau rts,-$4,25 ; Gallons,
$6,00 per dozen.. The.differcht sizes nest, in
order .to secure evonomy transportaltiop.—
Country:Storekeepers will, find this . new article
-one of ready sale. Manufnetured and sold . by
ARTHUR; BURNHAM,* co.
No: 'GO South TENTH St. PHIL'A.
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