KTT' Tlie New York Herald on tlie Cincinnati Convention. The following is the pith of lha leading article in the N. Y. Herald of the 4th. " VVe know of nothing so full of warning to the people of this Union as the labors, the fuss and flummery, the disgusting exhibi tions of corruption and depravity, and the motley gathering o( the filthy birds of prey and carrion crows which attend the accouche ment, in those latter days, of one of the modern political monsters known as national c inventions. For example, the Cincinnati Convention assembled for the modest purpose of dicta ting to the Democracy of the Union their exclusive candidate for President of the United States, meets under the impressive auspices ol* pistols and bowie knives, bludg eons and terrorism, and is graced by the company of five hundred gamblers and black legs, and from three to four hundred women •of me town, gathered from the stews of our large cities, and all revelling together as in the festivities of a common jubilee. Such is the revolting spectacle now exhibited to on insulted, enlightened and intelligent people by the once venerable and high toned demo cratic party. In fact, this parly, so long pluming itself ns the party of the Union and the constitution, has fallen at length under the control of the nigger drivers of the South, as complete! y ns the broken fragments of both the old parlies of the North have sunk into the dirty schemes of the nigger worshipping demagogues ol this section. This Cincinnati Conference of the nigger drivers will of course, give us a high sound ing platform, full of windy abstractions and unmeaning rubbish, with which to gull the hondwtnt; the honest yeomanry of the coun try ; whereas, if the principles of this nig tiers drivers' convention weretruly expressed, they would be given in some such platform as the following, to wit : 1. Resolved, That niggers, pistols, bowie knives and bludgeons are the fundamental principles of the Democracy as reconstructed under the administration of our warlike hrankim I'ierce bv our dear friends, the Boulbern nigger driers. 2. Resolved, That the freedom of speech is liable to abuses even in the United States Senate ; abuses which can only be corrected hv the application of the gotta percha to the imbed head of the offending party as he sits in ins chair; am) tha! in thus beating on abolition Senator we are righteously vindica ting the true policy of the “ unterrified de mocracy 3. Resolved, Thai ihe killing of a con temptible Irish waner holding the position of a nn'-mr, lor neglect of dulv or impudence C f 1 to a democratic guest coming down to a late breakfast, is a proper warning (o*the whole insn race mat inev can no longer expect lo rule rough shoo over the democracy of the Unioi. 4. Resolvec. As (he co nslilution, as inter preted bv our Southern teachers, the nigger drivers has already established African siavcrv in nl me territories of the United vStates. that “ snnnlier sovereignty is a hum bug,that Irpnerui Lass is a humbug considera bly behind the age, and that all aboliuon or free S'ute sou.iiters should be expelled from &C.. cc. This, in whatever disguises of high sound ing verbiage me Cincinnati nigger drivers’ democratic platform may be written—this, wo dore sa>, will be us proper interpretation. ♦ > * ♦ ♦ * THE AGITATOR. M. H. COBB, ; : : ; EDITOR. All Bust ness, and ollier Communications must be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. li is n verv easy thing to make platforms. They are bul the traps set by cunning dema gogues in which to catch simple and credu lous noodles It matters little now what may be the verbiage of (tie cJemocratic platform— n matters little who may be democratic nomi nee, as lar as the policy of the party is con cornea. It has become 100 much degraded and demoraiizeo—too much the slavish tool of us nigger driving managers—lobe of any further practical benefit to the country ns n stano- The Cincinnati jugglers affect to believe that their nominee will be elected without an effort, \et there can be no doubt that a large majority of the American people are disgusted with the blunders and crimes of this Pierce administration—disgusted with the bloody ruffianism which it has infused into the demo cratic camp, and anxious to rebuke and drive out ol power both Northern nigger worship pers and Souihern nigger drivers. We do not include in this classification of nigger drivers me vasi body ol the honest, high mindea, conservative, Union-loving people of the South The nigger drivers are bul a small portion of the Southern people; bul they are the active secession jugglers, by whom the will of the great majority is suffo cated, and through whom their wishes and their principles are betrayed. A half dozen cunning demagogues may thus contrive to forestall, perven, caricature and outrage the fixed opinions of their party, of a whole Stale; and a hundred jugglers at Cincinnati may thus dictate the law, from the pressure'of cir cumstances, the two-thirds rule and the public plunder, to the bulk of ihe democratic party of the whole Union. Look, for instance, at the humiliation to which our iNew York hard and soli shells have stooped at Cincinnati for a place among the jugglers, in view of the prospect of a sop ol the spoils I Mr. Gaius Jenkins, formerly of Promplon in this county was a resident of Lawrence at the time of the sack and pillage. He had removed his wife and children ; but his sister was with him. ’ It is understood that he Ijas been indicted for treason. WELLSBORODGH, PA. Tbnndar Morning,*Jane 19,1890. Republican Nomination*. For President In 1890: Hon. SALMON F. CHASE, of Ohio. For Vice-President: Hon. IJAVID WILHOT, Of Penn’a, Republican Club No. I.— Middtebury. No slated'place of meeting. Preiidcnl —D. G.'Sle. vena; Vice President—Calvin Hammond; Treatu urer—J. B. Potter; Secretory—J. B. Niles. Republican Club No. 3.— Ropndiop. Meets Saturday evening of each week. President —Holman Morgan; Recording Secretary —D. D. Kelsey; Cor. Secretary— Charles Coolidge; Treas urer—George Read. Republican Clnb No. 3.— Stony Fork. Prrs't—W. J. Hoadley ; Vice—George Hildreth; Sec'y—k, H. Haslinge. Meet weekly at staled places. Republican Clnb No, 4. Shippen. Pres'l —Chas. ■ Herrington ; Sec’y —Wm. W, Me- Dougail. Meets every Friday evening. Republican Clnb No. s. —Charleston. Moots Wednesday evenings at Catlin Hollow and Darlt Settlement, alternately. President—James Kelly; Secretary —Lyman H. Poller: JVeosurer— Geo. Parkers We had the pleasure of attending a fine Republi can Meeting at the Gatlin Hollow Union Meeting House on Monday evening. The attendance was large and there was abundant evidence that the people are thoroughly aroused and eager lo protest against slavery at the ballot-box. At the close of the meeting a Club was organized, and adjourned lo meet at Dartl Settlement, Wednesday evening of next week. Wc made a flying visit to Towanda lasi week, and found it to be the best built town we have yet ecen in Northern Pennsylvania. There is an air of thrift and enterprise about it truly refreshing. We dropped in upon friend Parsons of the Argus % and found him slowed cosily away reading proof and ta king oceans of comfort. He is all right on Kansas, Brooks, Border Ruffianism and Buchanan. Brad* ford is good for 3000 majority against Buchanan. “By Authority.”---No. 7. It will Without doubt be gratifying to those pure and intelligent patriots who declare that the agita tion of 1 lie Slavery question is a modern thing, to learn that prior lo the Declaration of American In dependence, the first throe of the public pulse Free dom-ward, was incited by the presence of African slavery in our land. The “sickly sentiment, *’ as moderate abolitionism is called to-day, was then ex ceedingly prevalent in the slave districts, even. It cropped out in Virginia, in the Carolinas and in Georgia. It tinged public sentiment everywhere, and lent a color to the proceedings of all political assemblages. Treason, according to the latest in icrprclalions, throve rankly in the bosoms of the slaveholders themselves. And in evidence of this, we quote from “American Archives, 4th series, vol -1.” These sentiments were declared as early os 1774. At a meeting held in Culpepper county Vir ginia, it was resolved: “That the importation ef slaves and convict ser vanbs is injurious lo tins colony, as it obstructs the population of it with freemen and useful manufac turers, and that wc will not any such slave or The injurious influence of slave labor, which hod not at that time developed itself so disastrously to the vital interests of the country, still was apparent, and aroust-d the energies of the best men of the time lo the work of emancipation- We find there fore, that not only one, but ixotnlydltree counties of Virginia entered their protest against slavery at that period. The freemen of Surry county resolved : That, as the population of this colony with free men and useful manufacturers is greatly obstructed by the importation of slaves and servants, we will not purchase any such slaves or servants hereafter lo be imported. —Page 5'J3. What outrageous fanatics tho good folk of Surry were, even in 1774! Such a resolution offered in Surry county in this enlightened day, would banish ilc audacious originator from that ancient Common wealth, tarred and feathered gratia. Thus the sen ttmcnl of freedom has declined as the world has progressed ; and in that decline wo behold one of the certain and terrible effects of Slavery in the heart of a free country. At a meeting held in Fair lax county, and over the deliberations of which one Guoaot Washington presided—the same Washing ton whom wc all learned to reverence in our cradles —it was resolved : That it is the opinion of this meeting that, during our present difficulties and distress, no slaves ought to be imported into any of the British colonies on this continent; and we toko this opportunity of do. daring onr most earnest wishes to seo an entire slop put to sueli a wicked, cruel, and unnatural trade,— Pago 600. Washington presiding over an abolition meeting' and on Virginia soil I O, tell it not in the South, nor let tho sound reach Tammany Hal) 1 lest that great and good man’s ashes be exhumed end scatter ed to the avenging winds by some indignant Brooks, and his name become a reproach among the sham democratic trimmers. If doughfaces can swallow that resolution they inoy cease villifying such men as Garrison,Parker, Phillips and Fred. Douglass. The freeholders of Hanover county, in an address to John Symo and Patrick Henry, delegates, said— | Tho African irado for slaves we consider as most dangerous to virtue and the welfare of the country ; we therefore, most earnestly wish to see it totally . discouraged . —Page 616. The Patrick Henry of history consenting to act under such abolition instructions! Truly, those were degenerate days—when men in tho heart of The Old Dominion instructed (heir delegates to op pose the African trade for slaves; but we remember that Henry was ever an eloquent pleader for tho rights of man. Tho evidence multiplies as we pro ceed. The freemen of Princess Anne county in Convention assembled, resolved : That oar Burgesses be instructed to oppose the importation of slaves and convicts, as injurious to this colony, by preventing the population of it by freemen and useful manufacturers. —Page 641. The whole drift of tho testimony of that day is, that Slavery and enterprise and prosperity were in compatibilities, then and forever. No voice was heard in the public councils apologizing for slavery. And men had not then grown hardy enough to con tend that tho relation of master and slave was naU urul and inevitable; that the institution of slavery was divine in its origin and beneficent in its effects. No; there were patriots and philanthropists in those days—men of heart and legislators wills souls in (heir bosoms instead of their trousers 1 pockets. A General Convention was held in Virginia Au gust 1, 1774, continuing six days. By that Conven tion it was declared that, When Mr. Jenkins lived here he was a Douglas democrat. In Kansas he was a free slate man and captain of a military campany organized for the protection of Lawrence. What say his old friends and neighbors— ore they for having him hanged as a traitor ? Are they going to support Buchanan without demanding as an indispensable preliminary condition that he avow himself inflexibly op posed to the ruffian domination in Kansas? llonetdale Democrat. The Bumble Bees. —From the immense buzzing in the Democratic ranks since the nomination of Buchanan and Bheckew- Ridoe, we are inclined to dub them bumble These noiav animals hum much but hive no honey.— Pkila. Sun. “For the most trifling reasons, and sometimes for no conceivable reason at all, bis Majesty has reject ed laws of the most salutary tendency. Tho aMu lion of domestic slavery is the greatest object *f dl. THE TIQGrA COpffTY A,GITATOB. Pierce, Brooke, Border,Ruffianiem end every abom ination latticed tinder the name and patronage of the shany democratic parly, not in ao many Words, bat impliedly and without reservation. nre in those colonies where U wsiunhappily intro duced in their infant state. But previous to ls|,en franohisement of.iho slaves we hjye, ills to exclude ell JUrther imparUtjone from Yel out repealed <i«Uemiil» to eflejl thlk by jujojlibi tions, and by i mposing. duties wfiicK‘mighV,amount to b prohibition,, have been .hitherto doffo hip. Majesty'snegative; li.oa yjefernp%mjmmW ainaniagetim a fta/Jffritaa n»nt adt*ilage qf right* of hy thu INFAMOUS practice. Nay, the tingle inter [ position of an interested individual against a law, was scarcely ever known to fail of success, though in the opposite scale were placed the interests of a whole country. That this is so shameful an abuse of a power trusted with his Majesty for other pur poses, as, if not reformed, would call for some legal restrictions. —Paget 636 to 696. These extracts are as little flattering to the men of the Sooth in this day'as to the sagacity of the repealers of the Missouri Compromise, bolding as they unblushlngly do, that slavery goes legitimately wherever the flag goes. If that bo the true doctrine and scope of our organic law, then that flag is no more to be respected by any true friend of Man than the black flag of a pirate vessel. If Slavery be one of its mottoes, then it is a piratical flag, inviting not only the just indignation of nations, but the con tempt and execration of every son of Revolutionary sires. And whatever may be the action of others, we soy it as fearlessly as earnestly, if that doctrine ran be sustained by any possible interpretation of the Constitution, we can find a hundred thousand mon who would sooner perish at the slake than fight under that flag. When the Constitution declares that the heritage of Slavery is coextensive with the heritage of Freedom, that moment is every patriot expatriated—a homeless exile under the skies and upon the soil of his native land. Like every instru ment, moral, religious and political, that has brought | down to mankind from heaven or past ages golden precepts, the Constitution has come to be trodden upon in spirit and worshipped in name. More men and women worship the Bible, than the Author of its truths; so, more politicians worship the parch, ment upon which the Constitution is written, than the piinciple of justice which generally pervades it. 1 Hundreds would deem it unpardonable sacrilege to p deface a page in the Bible, who spit upon its moral code every day of their lives; and so with the Con | stilution. It is not greater than He who made the rights it guaranties to every man under its jurisdic , tion - , We shall pursue the evidence next week. . , New Ponr.—Mr. S. B. Foot has on exhibition at Clearer'# Hotel, one of-Thatcher's Patent Lift and Force Pamps t which is justly attracting, the at ; .tenlion of our townspeople. If ia exceedingly sim ple in its construction and efficient in its operation. There is a lack of this kind of pnmp in this village which we hope to see supplied. Without the prop er appliances necessary in ease of fire, our property is exposed to gnat danger from that source every day. Mr. Fool’s Pomp will throw a stream of wa ter borixontally from .75 to 80 feet at Uie rats of 40 gallons per minute. With one of these pumps in every other well or cistern, the need of a fire engine would hardly be felt. We hope some enterprising man will purchase the right of this county, which is offered on reasonable terms.) Go and see the ‘ma chine.’ CELEBRATION.—A meeting will be held in the Court House, Thursday evening, June 19th, to devise means for the celebration of the coming 4th of July in an appropriate manner. By order of Many Cilixent. The North American Convention held in New- York on the 12tb instant, adopted resolutions rec ommending a conlerence with the Republican Con vention sitting at Philadelphia. For the Agitator. GOOD. At a meeting of (he boys at Manchester last Friday evening, SEV E N T Y-FI V E D 0 LL A R S were raised to aid the Kan sas party, and they ..ore ready to make the sum up to 8100. Let every town and vil lage do the same, and the work is done. 100 good men and true sire wailing logo. Let the Clubs imitate this noble example. To the Free Press of the United Slates. The blow struck at the freedom of the Press, by the destruction of the Free State newspapers in Kansas, must be regarded as aimed as its freedom everywhere in the Free Slates. If the Slave Power had as complete control in the Northern States as it has just now in Kansas, we may be sure that not a single press that has dared to denounce its plundering and bloody work would be spared. The Press is free in the North because it is surrounded by a rampart of free institutions. Both must stand or Tali together. It is, therefore, all important that the Press should be speedily restored in Kansas, and defended with other institutions of freedom. Be il remembered, that the platform adopted by the Buchananiles in the Cincinnati Convention) was framed and adopted before the nomination ' took place, and when the nomination of Pierce or Don glas was more than probable. That had cither of those renegades been nominated lie must have stood upon that platform, pledged to carry out Its abhor* rent principles. Buchanan stands on that platform, and is pledged to carry out its principles. He has already declared that— “ Being the representative of the great Democratic parly, and not eimply James Buchanan , / MUST SQUARE MY CONDUCT ACCORDING TO 7 HE PLATFORM OF THAT PARTY , and insert no new plank nor take one from if.” This statement was made on the 9th day of the present month in a speed) to the pbople of Lancas* ter. Is he not unequivocally pledged to sustain the repeal of the Missouri Compromise? You have his own words in evidence. And Arnold Douglas says that that platform embodies his principles. Does any reading man ask to know what are Douglas's principles ? Impressed with this view of the case, ihe conductors of the daily papers in the city of Chicago, who are opposed to mob rule, have, aAer consultation, resolved to lake the initia tive in restoring a free Press to Konsas, by reviving the Herald of Freedom, whose ed itor, G. W. Brown, Esq., is now imprisoned in Kansas, charged with High Treason.— This they consider is due no less to the out raged dignity of the Press throughout the North than as a matter of justice to the peo ple of Kansas. The destruction of the pres ses at Lawrence touches the honor of the whole fraternity so nearly, that it has been considered best to confine the work of res toration to the Press alone. We are not much obliged to one self-styled doc tor, Wesley Grindlo who has favored ns with a little virtues of his celebrated cure for Consumption and many most miraculous cures wrought upon divers persons thereby. Considering the many certain remedies for the terrible scourge, already before Ibe afflicted public, we don't think Dr. Grindle stands much of a chance for immortality. Brsndelh's Pills should have taught Tff. Grindle the lesson of discretion. Those mysterious pellets annihilated disease and banished death from the fold of human ity—unless the advertisements lied'. Even catnep lea was superseded in the nursery by the omnipres ent pills; and old ladies eschewed (?) “ynrbs,” and took to pill boxes. One old I.idy avus remonstrated with for taking the pellets. Said the remonstrant, “I wouldn't lake a dose of Brundelh if I kntu) it would kill me I" “Lame!" retimed the old lady a little hastily, “/ would '." In order that this plan may be effectually and immediately carried out, the conductors ■ 1 - - A_.l M-t ! J-:il -L: after consulting Hugh Young, Esq., of Law rence, the agent of G. W. Brown, Esq., have resolved themselves into a Central Commit lee lo receive subscriptions from the Press, in such sums as the donors may feel able to give. A correct account will be kept of these sums, and when the necessary amount is raised lo purchase another press, &c., the list will be duly published. In the meantime, Mr. Young will present the matter to the consideration of the leading journals m the East. We entertain no doubl of a generous res ponse to this call. A press and olher mate rials ought to be purchased and stoned under ihe proper guard for Kansas immediately.— We feel confident that it will be done. We are not obliged to Dr. Grindle for his pam. phlel, for two reasons, to wit: We had two cents postage to pay on it; and second, we utterly abom inate fashionable poisons in the guise of medicines. They are curses to the human family, slaying ten thousand where one is saved. Donations sent by mail or otherwise lo either of the following : Wright, Medill ii Co., Tribune, John Wentworth, Democrat , Schneider & Hoefegan, Slaats Zetung, Scripts, Bross & Skfaiis, Dem. Press, R. L. & C. L. Wilson, Journal. Chicago, HI., June 5, 1856. We did not have the pleasure of being present at the democratic meeting last Tuesday evening week, in the Court House, but we gather all necessary in formation of the proceedings from those who were present. Newspapers friendly to the cause throughout the North will please publish this address. The Republican meeting held the evening previ ous, adjourned to meet in the Court House on Tucs. day evening. Meantime, the notices for a demo cratic meeting for that evening had been posted, and when the audience bad assembled, it was staled that the Republicans had concluded to pul over their meeting to the succeeding evening, the better to ac commodate their democratic friends, who organized and proceeded. Later from California. New Orleans, Wednesday June 11, 1856. The steamship Daniel Webster has arrived at this port, with! San Francisco dales to the 25th of May and San Juan dales lo the Bih inst. Great excitement existed in San Francisco in consequence of a man named Casey hav iug shot James King, editor of the Bulletin, in the street. Casey was immediately arrest ed and confined in jail. The shooting of King occurred on the 13th ult., and on the 16th he died. l On Ihe announcement of his death the feelings of the community became aroused to the highest pitch. The old Vigilance Com mittee called a meeting and placards of an in fiamalory nature were posted, calling on the citizens to take the law into their own hands; and on the 18(h three thousand citizens, com pletely organized in divisions and companies, armed with muskets, marched by three streets from the Committee Rooms and took posses sion of the jail. Thence they look Casey, together with the gambler Cora, the murderer of Gen. Richard, son, and carried them lo the Committee Rooms, where they remained strongly guard ed upon the sailing of the steamer. It was supposed that they would be hung. The whole city was draped in mourning for Ihe denth of King, who was most highly esteemed. Casey was formerly an inmate of the Sing Sing Prison, and it was a statement to this effect in the Bulletin that caused Ihe diffi culty. The Committed is fully organized through out the Stale. It is said they have raised 8?5,000 to carry out their measures, and that they intend to drive out ail the gamblers from Ihe State. Franc Smith, Esq., a sprightly little pro-slavery man from Bradford, treated the meeting to a picas ant, peregrinalive, pro-slavery peroration, in which Judge Wilmot was hanged, drawn and quartered in the speaker's most approved style, as a traitor and domagogua in particular, and aa a very great rascal in general. At this stage, a lusty three tunes three for Wilhot went up from a crowd of outsid ers, which performance acted after the manner of R douche upon the somewhat excited gentleman Irom Bradford. Mr. Smith succeeded in fascinating bis audience so that they forgot to cheer him, and so ho sat down in ominous science, J. W. Rton, Esq., earnestly endeavored lo prove that the democratic party is the goose that laid the golden egg, end that popular sovereignty is the egg. We understand that he succeeded in striking his audience dumb, and sat dawn like bis illnslrious but Ices bulky predecessor. H. Sherwood, Esq ,, last addressed the remaining audience, (the gentlemen preceding him having re. duced its numbers alarmingly,) and declared his in. tention to stick to the democratic parly through evil and good report, which being done into the beraacn. lar meanelh—‘go it blind.’ He stated that Buchan, an commenced public service in the war of 1812. Referring to the recoid we find that this is tra* in. somuch as that ho was a violent Federalist and bit ter opposer of that War from first to last j of which fact we bold in oar possession incontrovertible donee and which shall be made public in good ate. There were not present at any time, probably,' more Ilian two dozen who sympathized with the views of the speakers. The audience generally had come to attend the adjourned Republican Meet ing. There was not a spark of enthusiasm, nol ens attempt to applaud. Strong pro.alavery>Adminlrtn> tint resolutions wore adopted, endorsing Flank Tub American State Council of Wiscon sin, has thrown Fillmore overboard, and recommended Speaker Banks for (be Presi dency, For the Agitator. Common Schools. INDBPEItDENT DISTRICTS. Camp^Sectißg. Mb. Editor Will you please lo i oKrt the following notice in your paper. By the permission of Divine Providence . camp-meeting will be held near Harris™ valley, in ihff town of Harrison, Potter Co Pa., comnjencing Wednesday, July 2d,at 10 o’clock, A. M. Harrison valley is about 12 miles from Knoxville, Tioga Co., p a> w| ,l which it will be connected during meeting by a daily stage. “ The supplement to law provides for the establishment of independent districts, regardless of town at .borough.lines. A dis satisfaction not uofrequently arises in the lo cation of a particular school-house, respect ing the doings of the board ol Directors, a suspicion that they do not have as good schools, or as much money as they ought to have,and hence the inhabitants of that lo cality petition the Court for an independent district. On this subject we desire lo call the attention of the Directors of Tioga county. A letter just received from the department of Schools at Harrisburg has the following lan guage : “It most unquestionably was not the design of the s(h, 0(h and 7(h sections of the supplement to the school law, to set off the most populous and wealthy portions of a town ship into independent districts, such a policy would be subversive of the objects of that en actment, an outrage upon the remaining por tions of the township and destructive to the Common School system. VV henever such an attempt is made, it should be met by the most resolute and determined remonstrance by the other portions of the township, to the Court before which the proceedings are pending.” We respectfully also refer directors and all the friends of education lo decision No. 4., in the April No. of the School Journal. This journal comes to every board of School Directors in the State and is accessible to all teachers and citizens. Wo hope ihey will read it. In that decision, as also in an edi torial article on the same page, this question is fully presented, and our opinion so frequent • ly reiterated in conventions, lectures and com munications through the papers, that the vert) particular carte of the Schools of this county is that they are too many, 100 near each other, and too small, is confirmed. If Directors and the citizens allow the districts to be sliced up into petty schools, the more favored localities turning their backs upon the more sparsely settled portions of the town ship, the effect will be ruinous upon the whole system. This question is also discussed by the Hon. Thos. H. Burrows in the May No. of the School Journal, pages 322-23. There the effects of carving a single school out of the interior of a township and forming it into an independent district is presented in its true light. The motive for doing it would dissolve the bands of society and reduce it to Us ori ginal elements, leaving each man and woman to take care of one person only, while the Those who wish to secure tents will write to the subscriber at Westfield, Tiom Co., Pa., or to the Rev. B. C. Brown at the same place. world takes the back track of civilization. This might seem pleasant to a few, but the bitter fruits would, sooner or later, appear to all. Let the same selfishness prevail in refer ence to every other department of civil or national interests, and no form of government could exist compatible with the general good. We are persuaded therefore thaldf the friends of education will study this subject carefully, they will see that independent districts are an anomaly in our system, an exception to the general rule, to be tolerated only as an evil, gradually to disappear with the progress ol public opinion in favor of a general system of education by State authority. Could the - r c laxation for School purposes, be realised, and the necessity uf these enormous local taxes in our rural towns be dispensed with j then all complaints and all desires for independent districts would soon subside. But the truth is that so long as the towns in this county are many of them obli ged to levy a school tax of ten mills on the dollar, and a building lax of ten mills more for erecting school bouses, while the more, wealthy portions of the Slate can support better schools with one-fifih and even one temh of that tax. These towns and hese newer counties in the Slate have all a power- fill inducement to ask a separation from the school system of the Stale entirely. But we abide by imr allegiance, bearing our burdens for the present, hoping for an equalization of N. B. No huckster stands or shoos will be allowed within the limits prescribed bv law. WM. ARMSTRONG. taxes for school purposes throughout the Stale, and claiming the privilege of asking this as the just, the great , the noble ilium, Pennsylvania will yet do for the education of her children. The highest limit of school taxes has been a question of.doubt by many boards m Directors. By examining the 30lh and 33J sections of the school law, and also Ihe 25ih decision, page 58th, it will be seen that the highest tax that can be assessed for school purposes is twenty-six mills, viz. thirteen mills each. A letter from the department just re ceived confirms this opinion. J. F. CALKINS, Co. Sup't. Celebration. Brookfield June oth 1856, LATER FROM KANSAS. The people of Middlebury will celebrate the coming 4lh of July, in the beautiful' grove near A. C. Cole’s, about four miles from Tioga. The morning will be ushered in by Ihe firing of cannon, under the direction of Messrs John Gleason, Lem. Spalding, B. Starke* and P. Gleason. The several Superintendents and Teachers of Sabbath Schools are requested to convene with those under their charge at the Ham mond School house, at 9 o'clock A. M., where a procession will be formed and conducted to the grove by Cnpl. N. Thompson, Marshal of the day. The Company will there be or ganized by the President, D. G. Stevens, who will be assisted through the day by the following Committees: Committee of Arrangement. —Messrs. C. Hammond, Wm. A. Stevens, Watson Dun ham, A. Adams, A. C. Cole, C. L. Force, E. J. Stevens, E. Mitchell, J. B. Niles. Committee of Order. —Messrs. D. Holi day, Esq., W. Daily, Esq., L. Carpenter, H. A. Stevens, Albert Westbrook, P. M’Cluhe, H. Wood, O. Stebdihs, John Starkey. The exercises of the forenoon will be prayer by Rev. S. J. M’Colough of Tioga, and two addresses to the Sabbath Schools by Rev. Geo. Barker of Tioga and Rev. H. B. Turk. Dinner will then be served up in (he grove. At 1 o’clock the Declaration of Indepen dence will be rend by J. B. Pottbh, followed by an Oration from J, B. Cassodv, and a patriotic Address from L. P. Williston of Wellaboro.’ Suitable music and the tiring of cannon will accompany (ho various exerci ses. The public are respectfully invited to attend. By order of the Committee', BATTLE OF PALJITHI. AN EXPEDITION—GUERRILLA PARTIES —THE TROOPS—A SHARP GOVERNOR. Prom Th® N. T. Tribune. Lawbekcb, K. T., Tuesday, June 3.1856. A field engagement has at last been fought, and, although on a comparatively small scale, exhibiting all the horrors of a bailie. Five Pro-Slavery men are wounded, three of them, at least, mortally. The Pro-Slavery men were completely routed. Twenty-one nris oners were taken, including *‘H. C. P„” esq., conespondenl of The Missouri Republican. who was acting as an officer with them. Several fled, including Coleman, the murder er of Dow, who was of the party.- The Free-State men, 1 learn, got some iweniv-five horses, several of which had (ormertv been stolen from Free Slate men. Eight Sharp's rifles were also recovered, and some twenty or thirty Colt’s revolvers, bowie knives. dec., and arms and ammanitionjof all kinds fell into the hands of the victorious parly, together with wagons, tents, provisions and a great many articles taken in ihd sack of Lawrence have been found among their baggage. The Free-State party had two men-woun ded. There is also a Free-State men who is mortally wounded, but he was shot bv his friends. He had been in the'camp of the enemy as a prisoner, and with two other Free. State men, who were also prisoners, tie was placed by the Pro-Slavery men in the front of the engagement without arms. " lew neither learn this man’s name, nor the names of any of the other men killed or wounded. These particulars I learned direct" from the spot last night. The aitack :ommencert in the aflernoon and was of short duration. The Pro- Slavery men formed part of :he armed bands that have been gathering for the last few days down toward Hickory Point, Bull Creek, Palmyra, and Osawatta mie. Some of these are companies iusi -jo from Missouri, more of them being on me way ; a part of them are the Buford men and Carolinians. There has been in en campment of 130 men on Bull OieeK for two days back ; ihe Pro-Slavery cnmoamms in the affair were pan of ihese. ?he free- State men, a guerilla party, mostly of vourns, made the aitack, and when -t was made me parlies were nearly equal; ".tie Free-Stale men m ihe neighborhood immediately bur ned In. The engagement was soon over, but before mghi there was nearly 200 Free-State I 1 men armed and on the spot. j It look place between Bull Creek and Pal myra, on the breaks of the prairie, "be spot is some fifteen miles distant. Vhal they propose doing with their prisoners, I do nm know ; but so far as bodily harm is con cerned they are safe enough. Their camp II was wnhin a mile of ihe Pro-Slavery camp I on Bull Creek last night. "he Missourians j have been coming in and joining ihe camp oi I ihe Alabamians, Georgians and Carolinians, I and are preparing to wage war on me Free- I Slate people there. They have already oeen I committing outrages on Free-State seiners, j and are there in military force without even the omnipotence of a United Stales Marshal 1 ! ! proclamation, or in that frightfully cgm ( “ law and order” capacity, a ShernTs or I Marshal’s posse ; and the battle is merniv me I first fruits of the civil strife so deeply pro voked. We may expect lo hear more irom 1 that quarter, although many of ihe Free j Slam men who had hurried lo Ihe spot, went to iheir h ones last evening. ■ An ExPRoiTLdN. — On Sunday anernoon I a man named Slorrs came mio u-twrence. j telling that ihe Georgians had macned us I house, and ihrealened lo desirov n. , ,ew i neighbors were in me house, wun nis who and hvo young children. The Georgians had stepped out of rifle shot from ihe nouse, and Mr. Slorrs hurried into Lawrence lor assistance. Almost immediately a volunteer ! company of forty-six men in all started for j the spot; eight of them being a mile, or morb, behind the rest, and taking a different road. Before the first party arrived :he Georgians who had been ihreatenmg ne j house retired, and went up (he VVakerusa io a camp, of which ihey were a portion ; ih/> camp is said to have upward of one hundred men in it. In the mean lime the party of eight came across a parly of live Georgians near the crossing of the VVakerusa, and look them prisoners. They had with them j camp-wagon and ihree yoke of oxen. They were brought up to ihe house of Mr. Slorrs, where thd whole company had assembled.— The leader of these Georgians, a Capt. Jen nigan of Georgia, one of Buford’s ■ men, evinced some, anxiety, and asked one or two what Free-State people did with prisoners, in a tone that showed Ute did not look upon the matter as a joke. These prisoners were, on deliberation, set at liberty, with their goods, including a fine horse the Captain had, which some of tjbe boys suspected had been stolen, a double-barreled shot gun, a fancy rifle that the Captain said was a family piece, an orn amental sword which the Captain said had been given him aa a present by somebody in Si. Louis, as his company come up the river. In fact they got all of their own property back, even their arms. They denied having been at the sack of Lawrence, or having been with those who had attacked Storrs's house. They said they had merely stopped at the camp ! of these Georgians, on their way down from One-Hundred-an-Ten to Franklin. It was very evident that they lied in all this. Two kegs of gunpowder were taken from them, tiyo Sharp’s rifles l(iat flad been stolen, and <poft|}9 b;eedvlonding rifles viih bay*
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