From the PilUburgh Gazette.
TIJC Union of tile Oppoiition Kle-
menu.
in our lasi issue we promised to show how
the sincere opponents of slavery aggression
in the American ranks, and ihe Republicans,
can ad together in the nest Presideolial; con
test. We proceed now to redeem that prom
j.e.
There are two classes of Know Nothings
in the North. One class we will denomi
nate, for- the sake of precision, National
Americans, which includes the Hindoo pnny
in New York under the lead of Brooks, Bar
ker and the Albany Register, The other
class we will call Liberal Americans, which
is represented by Spooner, Ford and Gris
wold of Ohio, VVilmot of this State, and olher
leading men. This class embraces at least
three-lnurihs of ihe Americans in Western
end Northern Pennsylvania, in Ohio and
oilier western Slates, and in New England.
W e look unon the platform adopted at
Cincinnati, as the expression of the views of
the Northern National Americans. It is an
attempt to unite the Northern and Southern
Know Nothings into one National parly, and
like all such attempts it will fail of satisfying
any body. It cK.es not satisfy the Liberal
American's, because it retains the proscription
and secrecv of Ibo organization, and yields
the quest ton of opposition to more slave Slates,
unless they are formed out of territory from
which slavery was excluded by the Missouri
Compromise. It will not satisfy the South,
anil ihefe is not the slightest reason to sup
pose that 'I will be agreed to by the National
Convention. The National Know Nothings
of New York will go with the South in sup
port of the majority platform adopted at
Philadelphia. Thus this effort will be abor
tive and please nobody, except that class of
Northern men who are willing to go to the
•extreme point of conciliation for the sohe of
■the offices, and these will most probably be
found going with the South on any platform
it may adopt.
The minority platform presented at Cincin
nolt bv Mr. Spuoncr, represents the views
ami feel'ngs of the Liberal Americans. Ii
i.ppnses prosonniion on account of birih and
creed, and realhnns 1 lie principle declared
h\ me unanimous vote ol the Fathers of the
Republic, that ‘'Slavery or involuntary ser
vitude is inconsistent wilh the fundamental
principles of civil and religious liberty,” and
that therefore slavery should be excluded from
National' Temtory, and the just influence of
ihe-Naiion.il Government be exerted on the
side of freedom. It also recommends the
abolishment of secrecy, and a cordial co-op
eralion with all who are ready to unite wilh
them in defence of constitutional freedom
against unconstitutional aggression. This
platform presents a broad and fair ground of
concihaMon and co-operation, and we have
no hcstlalion tn saying (hat we are ready, as
n Republican, to act in (Concert (i hough noi
10 he merged.) with suchja liberalized Amer
ican party, in opposing ihe Democratic pro
slaverv Administration and organization, and
wo h ive no doubt that the Republican party
ns a whole would pan wilh us in such action.
Without nbandonina our organization, or
...Usn-L...,, , h . -r mreintn-cvi
plailorm. we could consislenlly and cordially
act with men who stand on such a platform,
and who make resistance to slavery exten
sion ihe paramount queslion.
More. then, is ground on which ihe true
opponents of the extension of Slavery can
cordially agree to act in.concerl in the Presi
dential contest, and in the elections which
precede i; We present it ns a peace meas
ure. The Americans of this country and
lliis region have avowed themselves to be op
posed to Ihe further extension of slavery in
the strongest language, and have declared
that lheir chief and parmount object was to
prevent such extension. Wo would fain be
lieve Itiai they generally acquiesce in the
platform of Mr, Spooner, which is the ex
pression of ihe Liberal Americans of Ohio.
If so, ihere is no difficulty in a cordial union
of action between them and the Republican
parly, each maintaining for the time being
their distinctive organization and principles.
W e see no rmde of union between the ele
ments of the opposition but this. Unless
Ibis is agreed to, there will undoubtedly be
three candidates in the field, and the Repub
lican pariv, embodying the real Anti-Nebras
ka sentiment 01 the country, will have no
reason to fear an appeal to the people.
Buttle in Asia— Russians Defeated
A telegraphic dispatch has been received
in Paris, announcing that Omer Pasha de
iealed the Russians on the slh of November.
Omer had lefi the Ingour, and taken the di
rection of Kuiais. The Russians were
20,000 strong, and suffered considerable loss.
The battle lasted five hours. Omer forced
the Ingour at four different points in face of
the enemy.
[We have no further details of this battle,
but presume the 20,000 Russians were part
of the armv of Circassia, and that the action
was fought at about the distance of sixty
miles from iho eastern seaboard of the Black
Sen.]
Latest accounts prior to the report of this
ba'lle staled that Omer had established him
self about thirty leagues in the interior, and
was preparing tn go into Win'er quarters.—
A Trebizond letter, of Nov. 1, mentions that
the Russians were then preparing to raise
the siege of Kars, and had already sent the
greater part of their baggage "to Alexandra
pol. It was also rumored, but doubtfully,
that they had evacuated Kuiais, and retired on
Tiflis. Omer expected to reach Kuiais about
the sth November. Letters of 291 h October
stated that there-were no Russian regular
troops in that direction, although 10,000
■Georgians were marching to oppose the Tur
kish advance. Gen. Williams has traced
out a new line of intrenchments at Kars.
Persia has been applied to by the Allies to
allow a passage through her territories for
ah-Anglo-Indian array to cooperate in Asiatic
Turkey.
One pound of gold may be drawn into a
Wire that would extend round the globe. So
ono good deed may be felt (hough all time,
and cast its influence into eternity. Though
done in the first flush of youth, it may gild
the last hours of a long life and form the
only bright spot in it.
THE AGITATOR.
M. H. COBB.: :;: EDITOR.
• • All Business,and olher Communications mos
be addressed lo.tbe Editor to iosare attention.
wellsborodgh, pa.
Tbnnday Morning, Pec. 6,1858.
Republican Nominations.
For President In 1856 :
Hon, SALMON F. CHASE, of Ohio.
For Vice-President s
Hon. DAVID WILMOT, of Fenn’a.
TO TUB REPUBLICAN PRESS,
Tho Republican Association of Washington city, I icing de
elnm-t of procuring as speedily an possible a complete list of
Ml papers advocating or favorable to tho HepulAiavt J\triy ,
fur publication, nml for the purpose of furwai-djng them deal
tabic political mfomint/cn and document#' from this Import
ant point during the next session of Congress and Presldcn
ilal campaign, earnestly request the editors of all such to
mall uh one number of their paper addressed to “ Fact* fur the
l\tspte Washington city. DANIEL R. OOOCLOB,
L, CLKPHANE,
Committee of Republican Asstidatlon.
The Mansfield Seminary is approaching comple
tion, as we learn from ihe Balance. The walls arc
up and the roof will soon be on. Wears glad to
see the enterprise going ahead and hope the people
will accord it a generous patronage.
The borough authorities arc prosecuting the work
of planking Main Slreel as rapidly as circumstan
ces will permit. The west side is already nearly
planked, and tho entire street will doubtless*be fin
ished before next June. This is already seen to be
a great improvement, and we hope it will be extend
ed into the cross streets in due time.
Closed. —Mr. P. P. Cleaver has closed Ids Hotel
in this place and retired to the shades of private life,
for a season. The traveling public will miss him
wo apprehend, os well as the bounteous cheer of his
table. Tho sale of tho personal property of (ho
Graves estate is the immediate cause of his closing
up. We wish him success in whatever business he
may embark.
Tho Agricultural Society's Annual Meeting was
held at the Court House on Monday evening. The
following are some of the officers for tho ensuing
year; President— Chester Rodinson; Rrc.Sec'y,,
G. D. Smith; Cor. Sec'y,, C. 11. Sevmodr ; fieat'r.
J. F. Donaldson. Voted to hold next Fair at Mans
field provided that place should furnish the most sub
scribers.
Our readers will doubtless pronounce the Utile po.
cm on the first page of this paper, enlilled, “The
Enchanted Island," a very beautiful poem. Wo
think it is one of the sweetest things ever written in
any language. We found it in the New. York Mir
ror, edited by one of the best judges of literature in
America. The choicest of fugitive pieces may ho
found in the Mirror; but the Colonel has been ini.
posed upon this once, certainly. A friend has put
in our hand the August No.of Harper fur 1861,
in the “Editor's Drawer” of which we find the po
em published under the title of “Long Ago.” C,
D. Stuart might have written that poem—wo think
he did. How is it 1
The Cemetery grounds are being quite pleasantly
laid out and bid fair to be as attractive as such pla
ces ore generally gloomy and repulsive. Let us
hope tho lot owners will set about planting trees and
flowers as soon as the proper season arrives. The
Puritanic, (or heathenish 7) frigid solemnity that
palls upon lljc sense as pne enli>r« on <Jil
ing-ground, is the chut reflex of n frigid, Pharisa
ical spirit. We often used lo wonder if the burying
grounds were not intended lo frighten people into be.
ing good, by rendering death as repulsive as a tree
less, flowerlcss, weedy and briery waste could make
it. Lot Death be stripped of Us imaginary terrors,
and thus inspire hope and lailli in tho bosoms of tho
little children, in tho place of that undefined dread
which 100 often embitters a miserable lifetime.
And therefore let us brush up the old Ground on
the hill, so that if may no longer look so much like
a City of Desolation.
What IS an Abolitionist?
Once, and once only we stood by and saw a being
in God’s image, a max, sold at auction; put upas
iho last chattel on the estate of a rich man, and
knocked off like any other chattel—like a horse, or
a dog—to Iho highest bidder. The blood-money
was told down instanler, und the human chattel
passed into the hands of his new master us passive
ly as a brute.
The Idea of Slavery had never put on tho garb of
the Actual in our view, till then. Bred up to con
sider the negro tit only for a slate of servile depend
ence, and to despise above all other things that much
lalked-aboul but lillle.understood individual, the ab
olitionist, our eyes were sealed against the admis
sion of common evidence. An abolitionist was to
us a mythical member of tho body politic—a verita
ble Brobdinag of Fanaticism and Treason. 11c ex
isted in fancy as a n bloody-murdei” image, and we
glanced forward to the Yankee boy’s golden year—
the year when he assumes the freeman's high privi
lege—ns to a time when one more vole should be
recorded against Rum and Abolition.
Before that golden year came round, the little in
cident above related, occurred, and in the short space
of a month thereafter—a month of serious thought
and research —we came to look forward to a majori
ty as a lime when wo should bo privileged to poll a
vole against Ram and Slavery. Thus the vanity of
all previous calculations was made manifest, and wo
found, ourself propounding tho interesting self-cate
chlsm at tho bead of this article. “Them art one I’’
gruffly responded Hunkerism.
You who sneer at abolition! els; who speak of
them only to rcvilo; who think of tliem but ns a set
of ruthless fanatics—go to the slave market- On
this hand you shall see women and children huddled
together like sheep in the close pen of the shearer.
Some old and repulsive, others young, and almost as
fair as your own mother or sister. On that hand
you shall see men, in God’s image, strong, athletic
men; men with grey hair and bent shoulders—
crowded together, all gazing at you like so many or.
cn waiting in the cattle market of a great city.—
Should yon look more closely you shall see that some
of these women appear anxious and careworn; such
have a husband, a father, a mother, or. some little
ones in the group. Yoo shall see that those men
are not wholly unconcerned ; there are flashing eyes
and bosoms that heave with more than common emo
tion.
Non there is a stir in the crowd. That man in a
a jockey cap and coal and so business-like withal, is
the auctioneer. He docan't cry off old chairs and
tables and kitchen furniture, not he. Nothing less
than God's most perfect work—a reflex of himself,
will do for this man!s garrulous longue. He can
take in all the good points of a man or woman at a
glance. He can tell you just how much a professing
Christian, or a (black) Gospel minister is worth, to
a dollar. If he is pretty black and can exhort, or
preach pretty well, be is a great bargain. Let him
be eery pious and a preacher of submission to the
“powers that bo,” and he is invaluable. Thie trader
in men and women has learned that (be best Chris*
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
(iant make the beat Slaves* They are nop-reaiaUnts i
and though the great Founder of Christianity may
not have foretold that his disciples in Republican
America, in the middle of the Nineteenth Century,
should be put into the market and sold at prices ac
cording with the depth of their piety, such is the
fact.
■ Now you shall see this tall, wcU.formed, and real
ty’hoble-looking fellow disposed of* 'Just mark how
briskly tho "chattel" mounts the blpck as the auc
tioneer snaps his fingers. He has Been there before
and remembers the lesson. Yon observe that be is
only about three-fourths white,fastidious sir, so he
may be said to have not more than three-fourths of
a soul, mathematically speaking. See that elderly
gentleman in a while cravat, now examining the
"chattel” with the air 01 a connoisseur. You hare
seen a horse-jockey look in the mouth of the horse
he was ‘dickering 1 for—does this remind you of that?
The man in the while cravat is looking to see if
those teeth can crack a peck of corn u week. Eve
ry Umb is scrutinized and every joint pinched and
twisted In order to detect any unsoundness that may
exist The lungs are tested 100, lest a gallopping
consumption should gallop off with a cool thousand.
Several purchasers examine the “chattel 1 * and find
him, in the language of the crier—“A sound, clean
limbed, healthy boy ; teeth good, lungs excellent,
kind, handy and a devout Methodist /” The white
cravat looks a little dingy at this. He is a minister
of that Gospel which the angels heralded as “Good
tidings of great joy which should be -to ALL peo
ple.** But ho is a Baptist minister, and don’t like
Armenian slaves. Ho will not, therefore, buy him;
so the "Methodist chattel” passes into the hands of
a less scrupulous parishioner.
Now he will put up some "fancy ware" —a yonng
g’irl—siy 16 years old, not more. She mounts the
block slowly and actually blushes! Strangely enough
for a negro, she has light brown hair, blue grey eyes,
and is almost as white as your own daughter. A
little sunbrowned, good sir, nothing more. Lift the
brown hair from the bare shoulders and you will sec
that tho skin is as fair as an infant’s. “Going to
s ell ura!” Certainly, sir! "Rat ehe is t chile!"
' Beg pardon, sir; her father is while, but her mother
in a slave, and the child inherits her mother’s for
tune, and is soon to inherit that mother’s fate. That
girl is not a field hand—she will wear fine clothes,
and jewelry enough to purchase half the wild land 1
lin Tioga county. She will have a fine house und
j carriage und servants of her own. The benevolent
looking gentleman yonder, in the black clothes, has
purchased her. Hu writes—“ Free: H.A. B
M. C.,* 1 on ills letters, and of course don’t pay the
• postage.
"He will make her his wife, then I" His wife 1
Bless your simple soul! Men of his rank do not
wed the daughters of slave-misttreeses!
Lest sonic squeamish Abolitionist should lifl up
his voice in denunciation of this apparent outrage,
wc can assure all, that far a father to sell his daugh
ter is not so great an outrage after all. The Cir.
cassian savages, who ere most devout heathens, have
practiced selling their daughters to the Ottomans,
extensively, in time past. Indeed, they realize very
consideraolo sums from the traffic. The father of
a dozen daughters there, must be deemed a fortun
ate man. Boys are nul so profitable there. The
same is true at the South. That boy just sold fot
31000. The girl sold for $3OOO. Now wasn’t that
a pretty little speculation otfa little girl 7 What do
you think of selling women, good friend 7
Reader, pardon this seeming lightness in speaking
of so grave a subject. Neither argument nor denun
ciation can do all the work- — »■> ®—l A, r, — l .‘r
uuuuv me perpetration or such outrages in the south
—the sale of children by unnatural parents —we can
assure them that wc have seen the documents and
speak from a knowledge of the fact. The sate of
individuals perfectly white, at the South, is by no
means of seldom occurrence.. A system of concu
binage exists, and always will exist in a slavcholding
community. A class of ignorant bigots at the
North, raise a terrible hue-and-cry if a while wom
an is married to a colored man; but of tho slave
holder who stocks his harem with yellow or sable
beauties, and sells his children, they have nothing to
say. He is truly a privileged member of communi
ty. We pity such hypocrisy and despise the hypo
crite. Amalgamation is just as much to be denoun
| ced at the South as at the North.
What is an abolitionist? Mr. Parrot of South
j Carolina, in a laic speech made in Kansas, said it
■ was one who wished to meddle with Slavery in the
| States where it is established. We do not seek to
| meddle with the institution in the Slates, except at
all times and in all proper places to denounce it as
a great, mocking lie, and a shame to America. We
j claim no right for Congress to abolish Slavery in
any Southern Slate. Let the South keep it and be
cursed. But when it is proposed to extend the curse
info free territory—into New-Mexico or into Ne
braska—it is the duty of every man firmly to resist
it, "peacahly if ho can, forcibly if be must." The
Wihnut Proviso is the one important measure upon
which the free North must insist. That, only can
send the monster of Slavery howling back to its den.
That, alone, can protect free soil from Uie blight of
Human Bondage.
This is Abolitionism j is there any fanaticism ab
out it ?
Congress assembled on Monday, but not much be
side caucusing has been done yet. There will be a
close strife for Speaker of the House, but the anti
administration men have a large majority and must
succeed if they unite. The coming session will be
the stormiest the country ever saw. First, the con.
test between Reeder and Whitfield— both claiming
scats as delegates from Kansas. This matter will
determine who has backbone and who has nothing
but gristle. Reeder was elected by the citizens of
Kansas. Whitfield, by tbo rowdies of Missouri
Whitfield was elected on a day fixed by a Legists
turo composed of Missourians. Reeder was elected
on a day fixed by the citizens of Konsas, and recoiv
ed a much larger vole than Whitfield did. There
seems (o be but one side tol the matter. If Whit
field should be admitted over Reeder, it will be a tri
nmph of a ruffian mob over the people of Kansas.
This Congressional district is for Reeder, first, last
and forever. Its representative will not disappoint
his constituents, who look fo| a stiff backbone in his
action in the matter.
Secondly—Tlie Free State men of Konsaa will
present themselves with a free constitution, asking
admission for Kansas into the Union. The atten
tion of the whole country will be drawn upon Con
gress during the pendency of this matter. There
will be such a contest as there never was in those
halls before. The result is beyond human ken.
Those who wish to keep posted op inCongress
ional doings, can do so by joining the club for the
weekly Tribune now being formed at Ibis office.
Only a dollar a year. Mr. Greeley will bo the Wash
ington correspondent during the winter.
We are pleased to acknowledge the receipt of the
Monthly RainbotS, edited by Dr. Chapman, Philadel
phia. This ia the December number. We took
a little pains to teat the Precalculations in the No
vember number, and found them strikingly correct.
But wo apprehend that t|ie great utility of the Doc.
tor's discovery lies in the precision with whtfcli peri-
ods unfavorable to health ere predetermined. In
this view the utility is unmistakable. Send a dollar
to Campbell & Co., Philadelphia, and get the Rain
bow a year. You will never regret it.
The January number of Peterson's Magazine is
already hero. Altogether is a splendid number.
Almost as large as the 63 Magazines, fine engrav
tags, colored ‘Fashion Plate, excellent tales and
sketches by the best authors—and for $2.
POIM UIT FUR THE AGITATOR UNDER
DBKUN BUNKUMS COW HOUSE BY PUR.
FESUR SODGER.
Hail, unsqumchablle fierce natur \
How.you leak this orpliul rnornio!
Mubby like enuf the plug is
Got knocked out of your mity cistern!
Ennywuy youre dredful kareless,
With your sprinklin appyralus —
With yunr dew let down by hogsheads—
With your zephyrs grone runlanker
•Ounly wild and hurricanous I v
Youro o.h elrong as 40 engines,
O sublimely rallilul natur, ,
Youre sum pnukins on a shower-bath
Youre a tempest in a teapot 1
(Sikes bc7. that last line is perfectly original.)
Still, o. natur, dont you «ce that
Youre a-duin sum little dammig—
Don I you sue the crick’s a risiu—
Fillin up chock lull and runnm
Over dekun Bunkum’s gurding—
Over the garding whar the kubbidg—
Kuhidge, many, York and drum bed.
Bloomed and grew up there together,
Dreamin not of this here deluge,
But together bavin visliuns
Of the Uabbige’s Walhalla —
Of a vast and shaddery barrel
Where all kabbige—hi and lo ones
Sleep at last in common picket!
Natur! cease thy fruitless weepin,
For my gentle, gentle Dolly—-
Golden Iress.ed lender-hearted —
Teeth of pearl and lips like cherries—
Charming cretur —Dolly June ;
Like an angle sits a milkin—
Spite of all your useless cryin—
Dolly milkelh in (he ram !
So be careful of your water
As it wets my Dolly Jane.
PollyioogviUr, November 1855.
A Confidence Man. —Some three months
since a young man calling himself Edward
or Edwin S. Tyler, came lo this village nmJ
opened a Select School. He was evidently
“hurt! up,” presenting a forlorn nppearance,
as Ihough just escaped from ihe Poor-House,
mid ns he staled that Ids trunks had been
lost or stolen, he excited the pity of those
whose pmronnge he su'icited. He exhibited
real or forged papers of recommendation, to
iho effect that he had been n member of the
State Normal School, and had nlso passed
two years at Union College. His School
was composed mostly of small children, to
the number of lorly or fifty, and he engaged
as an Assistant Tea-her a young lady of this
village. The Term was-to close to-day.—
On Wednesday afternoon he gave his As
sistant, bills against the parents of his pu
pils, to the amount of nearly thiny dollars,
and left town the same evening. Yesterday
an effort was made lo collect said hills, when
it was found that ho had previously received
his pay therein, in every instance, us is be
lieved from receipts shown and statements
made.
Tyler was apparently about twenty-one
nap— tall and Quite slim—liuhj
complexion, and the ruoiments ol a beard
were visible upon his lip and chin. The
scoundrel will doubtless impose upon some
other community, nnd we give him the bene
fit of a gratuitous notice. He formerly lived
in Meriden, Ct., nnd also in Warren, Pa. —
He looked like a “greeny,” but it is beyond
dispute that he had -‘cut his eye-teeth,” in
acquiring a knowledge of rascality.— Corn
ing Journal.
Shocking Homicide. —Our ci'y was Ihe
scene on Monday night of a must distressing
afTruy, resulting in ihn ioss of life; ihe the par
ncularsof which, ns fur as we can learn them,
areas follows: Several persons nmong whom
wrs a man named Dorsn, on of the day po
liece of the Sixth ward, applied fur admission
lo a bouse of bad repule silutled on ibe north
east corner of John and Eight streets, about
2 o’clock A. M. They were refused admis
sion and thereupon became boisterous, and fi
nally made an attack upon the houe with bri
cks and stones. A young man named Lucius
Coffin, who was asleep in the house at Ihe
time, was arroused by tde dislurb mce and
went lo ihe frounl windows, and requesied Ihe
parties not to make a disturbance, Doran told
him that he knew him, and asked him lo
come down. Ceffin partially dressed himself
and went down into the street, and commen
ced a conversation with Doran, when Doran
according (o the testimony at the. inquest,
twice knocked him down. As he rose from
the second fall, Coffin drew a pisiol and pro
duced almost instantaneous death. The noise
arroused ihe meighborhood, and previous 10
the silling of the corner’s jury the general
mpression was that Doran had been cruelly,
imnrderd. Since the testimony at the inquest
however, public sentiment seems lo have un
dergone a decided chanae, and the opinion is
now general that Coffin will surrender him
self lo Ihe authorities. Doran leavs a wife
and two children lo lament his untimely end.
Being a day watchman ho was noton duly at
the iime. [Cincinati Gazette, Oct, 10.
llonesoale, Wayne Co., Pa. )
October 27ih, 1855. $
Editor Tri-States Union :
Dear Sir :—I notice in the Tri-Slales
Union of ihe 25.-h inst., a paragraph under
the head of the “Oldest Engineer,” as fol
lows—
“Nathaniol Cummings, who runs the ac
commodation train between W.aukegun and
Chicago, [II., is said to be the oldest engineer
in the United States,' having driven the first
locomotive placed oa a railroad in this coun
try.”
Without any disposition to detract from
the'well-earned fame and reputation of Mr.
Cummings, 1 will stale, for current informa
tion, that “the first locomotive placed on a
.railroad in this country,” was the “Stone
bridge Lion,” imported from England, and
arrived at Honesdale on the 4th day of July,
1829, which was placed upon the Carbon
dale Railroad, of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Co., by Horatio Allen, Esq., Civil
Engineer, and now a proprietor of the Nov.
elly Works, in the city of New York, and
run by him from (he borough of Honesdale.
Very Truly Yours,
K. F. LORp.
Kansas Free 'Slate Convention.
The Convehiion of'Delegates which re
cently assembled at Topeka, Kansas Terri
tory, to form ia State Constitution and ask
far admission as one of the sovereign States
of this Confederacy, concluded its work on
the raorning.of the 11 ■ h Jnst. The Consti
tution, as a whole, has not yet come to hand,
but the extended reports of our special cor
respondent (the conclusiottof which will be
found in another part of this morning’s Trib
une) give a good idea of its general and
more important features. The question of
paramount interest, as our readers are well
aware, was that of Slavery ; and we regret
to say that the action of (he Convention on
this subject was not exactly what the friends
of impartial Freedom had a right to expect
from a body of men elected for the avowed
purpose of forming a Free State. After
adopting a Bill of Rights, which declares
that “Slavery shall not exist in this State,’’
the Convention not only recognize the exist
ence of Slavery in the Territory, but permit
its continuance till the 4 of July, 1857, thus
exhibiting a striking disregard for the “self
evident” Truth proclaimed by n very respect
able body of men on the 4th of July, 1770
and a lender solicitude for the interests of the
“Border Ruffians,” which the circumstances
of the case seem hardly to have demanded
at their hands. However, we shall heartily
rejoice to see Kansas a Free Stale after July,
1857, if it cannot be made so before. It is
very clear however, that the battle for Free
dom is yet to be fought ihertr. Atchison,
S'ringfellow & Co. will require a deal of very
close watching. The facts appear 'o be that
concern has not been without us representa
tives in the Free S ate Convention, prominent
among whom was the presiding officer of the
body, Col. Jakes H. Lane, who proposed
to continue Slavery five years, just lo con
vince iho Quwie-knife and Revolver party
that the Free Slate Convention was not com
posed of a band uf Fanatics. Magnanimous
Lane!
An attempt on the part of Col. Lane and
olitcrs like him lo induce the Convention to
indorse the Squatter Sovereignty of the Knn
sas-Ncbrnskn bill, under the pressure ol
promises of reward nnd threats of political
anttif ibition, came very near succeeding, and
at one time, in a thin house' actually received
a majority of the voles; but by the celcr
■ mined stand taken by Mr. Robinson and
other friends of Freedom the vole was recon
sidered and the dodge effectually killed.
Among the provisions of the Constitution
as finally adopted is one fixing the bounda
ries of the State in accordance with those
laid down in the Kansns-Nebraska Dill, ex-
tending west to the summit of the Rocky
Mountains. Married women ore to be se
cured in their right of individual properly
obtained either before or after marriage, and
an equal right in the control and education of
the children. In prosecutions for Libel the
tnt'h may be given in cvidince and ,-nall be
deemed a justification, V State University
nnd Normal Schools shall be established.—
The civilized nnd fiicmllv Indians may be
come citizens of Ihe State. Judges are to I--'
ejected bv Ihe T-— c 1" Tom ka IS 10 be the
Capual temporarily, nil :he Legislature shall
determine a sue for a permanent location of
the Stale buildings.
’1 he con-tiiutiun is lo be submitted lo a di-
reel vote of the People fur niiilii’niiun on the
15th of December nex', an.l if adopted an
election for Governor, Lu ui, Governor, Sec
retary of Stale, T readier, Auditor, Judge
of Ihe Supreme Court, Auorney-General,
and members of the General Assembly, is 'o
be held on I lie Ihird Tuesday in January,
185 G.—A, T, Tribune.
Tub Dickinson Horse, at Corning, A.
Field proprietor, lias ihe jusi reputation of
being one of ihe best conducted Hotels m ihe
Slale. ll is situated in ihe cculi'o of Ihe
business part of ihe village, is a large, aim
lasiefuily finished brick building ana fur
nished throughout with nil the comforts and
conveniences of ihe best cry hotels, uis
always n Iron! In ihe hungry iruvelcr lo <ei
down to one of Maj. Fiklu s meals, for he
is sure to hive spread before him ail ihe
“good things’’ (m season) ihi l his appeli'e
miy crave—and dished up, 100, in ibe or-S'
relishable style. -At n'gbl a well furnished
room, n good bed, and clean sheets, uiv,tc
him, unliesila'ingly, (o yield himself up lo
“balmy sleep” and “pleasant dreams. VVho
ever slops over night at the Dickinson, am)
has fensled himself at its well spiead tables
and what is equally us important, Ins be
come acquainted will) us ‘ prince of good
fellows,” ihe landlord—will leave it with re
gret, and be sure to slop there again and
again, ns often ns he may vis‘l Corning.—
We advise all our citizens visaing that vil
lage, to hook ihe.mselvcs al the Dickinson, if
they want lo be well taken care of, gel good
living, and have ihe most aiieinve of land
lords, and politest of servants, io caler lo all
their reasonable demands. —Elmira Adver
tiser,
Arrest of Counterfeiters,
Two Thousand Dollars found upon their Persons !
Last evening two strangers named Will
iam F. Stoddard and J. W, Lee, were arrest
ed for passing counterfeit or spurious money.
The circumstances as near as can be ascer
tained, are ns follows : Stoddard arrived on
Thursday and Lee on yesterday ; these gents
passed several bills upon our citizens on the
Easton and mher Banks. Lee was arrested
at the instance of J. L. Mussina, who had
suffered by his depredations. While in the
act of passing another counterfeit upon J. W.
Swartz, the arrest was made by constable
Barelay between 9 and 10 o’clock, and some
8300.00 was found upon his person. Stod
dard having been seen in his company, was
traced to the Eagle Hotel and arrested by
High Constable Kemp and Constable Barclay;
and upon searching him, between 81,800 and
82.000 was found upon his person. Some
important disclosures have transpired in con
nexion with the arrests, which it is deemed
best to keep secret at present for the public
good. The parties are from the north.—
Williamsport Press.
At the'general election, in 1853, the total
vole cast in California, was 76,434. Al Ihe
Congressional eleclion in 1854, it amounted
to 81,933, and at the recent election, it
ran up to 97,054. This is a very rapid in
crease.
Sensible,
The Easton Argus, a Democratic paper
published at Easton, Pennsylvania, under the
head of “nonsense,” says:
“We no'ice that an effort is made in con'
tain quarters to construe the late Democratic
triumph in Pennsylvania into an endorsemel
of the present National Adrrflnisiration, h
must requiro a peculiar pair of spectacles to
see any such meaning in the result, and we
pronounce it pure, unadulterated nonsense.
In this section of the State, where the largest
majorities were given for the Democratic can.
didales, no one thought of Mr. Pierce or his
Administration, and on one cared the snap of
a finger about either. The victory might
with as much reason be claimed as an cp.
dorsement of the course of Louis Nepoleon.
It was Know-Nolbingismand the abominable
“Jug Law” that disgusted the people app
swelled the Democratic vote, it was »
knowledge of the fact that the Democratic
party is and always has been opposed to
isms of every sort and grade—to fanaticism
and tyrannical laws of every shade— that
caused the great mass of the people to flock
to its standard. It is all stuff for anv editor
to undertake to prove anv thing else.”
JIiRKIRD.
By Rev. S, J. M’Cullough, on the stb, nit-, Mr. DANIEL
WATTS nml Mlm. HARRIOT P, GOODRICH, all of
T ) ALM OF A THOUSAND FLOWERS... ,b r
j) the removal of Tun, Freckles, Pimples and nil
diseases of the skin, at R, ROY’S.
Truth is stranger than Fiction;!
WE must savthalG. VV. Taylor is
from 1 lie Manufacturers, the best and cheat),
eel lot of PIANOS & MELODEONS, ever otTered
in this county. He can furnish as £ood instrument!
and at as fair prices as City dealers. Callalibt
Book Store. Weilsboro', December 6, 1855.
Ad niinistrator’s Notice,
WHEREAS, Lettern of Administration having
Ibis day (Nov, 2j, l85o.) been granted to
(he undersigned on the Estate of Henry Cornn.
late of Chatham lap, dec’d,all persons having churn
against said esiale arc requoAed lo present ihcra
without delay, and all those indebted (o the «arne. to
make immediate EDDY HOWLAND,
ELIAS M CURRAN,
Admr't.
SALLY CVRR AN.
.idm'r.
Chatham, Dec. Ij, 1855.
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described, is boiler done than the account or die
literary parly of Mrs. Leo Hunter in the “Pickwick
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only pity him. lli-» case is hopeless. The book a
warranted a Mire cure lor all kinds of hypo and .1
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was a gifted creature, the wife of a clergyman, and
is now, alas, dead. Hers was the keenest powers 01
satire —her drollery is inimitable. The preface n
delightfully written by Alice B. Neal.”
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surdity of envy, detraction and mulch-making, am
other prominent sins, urc hit with great point anfl
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respects is much the more ludicrous and mirth-pro
voking two. She is made the medium of Ike
most humordus sketches of Yankee character, which
it is impossible to read without laughing irometk*
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Tho Publisher lakes the liberty of adding the ' of '
lowing. On page 31 of UlO book tho Widow write*
oa follows:
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I think ’(would bo a sip;
The inconsolable widow of Deacon Bedotl
j Dont intend to git married agin."
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the following lines to him :
“Prissiln tho fair, and Shadrach the «iso,
Have united their fortunes In ,lho tendorest of ties;
And being mutually joined In tho matrimonial connection,
Ua>e bid adoo to their previous affliction.”
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