• The freedom.oT elections is liable lo ba irn paired by the intrusion of unlawful voles, or the exclusion of.iawful ones, by. improper in fluences, by violence, orby -fraud. But the people of the United Slates are themselves Ibe alLsufficient guardians of their own rights, and to suppose that they will not rem edy, in .due season, any such iocidenls of civil freedom ia to suppose them Ip have ceasedlo bo capable of self-government. The; President of the United States has not- power to .interpose in elections, to see to their freedom, id canvass their votes, or to pats upon their,legality in the Territories any mitre ilioo in the Stales. If be had speb power the Government might be republican in lawn, but it. would ben monarchy in fact; and if be had undertaken to exercise it in the case of Kansas, he would have: been justly subject to (he charge of usurpation,, and of violation of the dearest rights of. the people of the United Slates. v . -Unwise laws, equally with irregularities at elections, are, in periods of great excitement, the occasional incidents of even ihe freest and best political institutions. Out all experience demonstrates that in a country like ours, where the right of self-constitution exists in the completes! form, the attempt to remedy unwise legislation by resort to revolution, is totally out of place; inasmuch as existing legal institutions afford more prompt and effi cacious means for the redress of wrong. 1 confidently trust that now, when the peaceful condition of Kansas affords opportu nity for calm reflection and wise legislation, either the Legislative Assembly of the Terri tory, or Congress, will see - that no act shall remain on its statute-book violative of the provisions of the Constitution, or subversive of tho great objects for which that was or dained and established, and will lake allother necessary steps to assure to its inhabitants the enjoyment, without obstruction or abridg ment of all the constitutional rights, privile ges ant) immunities of citizens of the United S'nles, ns contemplated by the Organic Law of the Territory. FRANKLIN PIERCE. Washington , December, 2, 1866. ?rora the Squatter Sovereign, published at Atchison, K. T. Au». 22, 18S«. The Signs of the Time*. It is with feelings which we had feared we should never more enjoy, that we receive'the pews from Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Jer sey, New York, Illinois and Ohio, which be tokens that there is yet in the North patriots enough led, to master the demon fanaticism, which seemed about to destroy that glorious temple, cemented by the Wood 6f our revo lutionary sires. It is now certain that Mr. Bccuasas is elected President, and that Congress which goes into power with him, will be as sound and notional on the great question which has been shaking our very foundation stones, as any which has assem bled in Washington for years past. If the South will only rouse herself for one more effort, before another year shall have closed, Kansas will be admitted as a slave Stale into the Union, and the slavery question settled forever. Now is the lime for action ; while the freedom ahriekers have been! defeated at every point. Beaten at the ballot box, beaten in the “ tented-field,” driven in disgrace from our Territory, or else confined in prison wail ing their deserts for the crimes committed by them. Now when we shall have a President and Congress who are elected upon the ques tion of our right to admission with a slave State Constitution, should we frame one, can the South refuse to come up to meet the ene my once more ? Next winter or by spring at farthest, tho vote will bo taken for the election of members to a convention for forming a Stale Constitu tion. Wo hove now in the Territory between 60 and 70,000 people, and before the nexf. Congress assembles we shall 1 probably have double that number. AH we have to fear then, is, that the South will not feel the un importance there is for a great effort. Every Slate must arouse and do their utmost. So far we have been successful; but should we lose this election, all our efforts, all our sacri fices, all the privations we have endured, all the opprobiuSts heaped on us by our ene mies, will have been endured for nothing— •eld the South not only have lost the finest country for slave labor on the earth, but she would be the laughing stock for the world. One more effort then; strong, united,,deter mined, and the question will be settled to our satisfaction for ever, and pur wives and chil dren can sleep in peace; nol dreaming of a dismembered Union, civil war and its attend ant horrors. We think that once more “ the country is safe.” New Codntebpbit.—A new counterfeit on the Bank of Geauga, Ohio, is in circula tion. The fraudulent note purports to be a two, and is thus described: It is probably from a genuine pluia of some bank and is well calculated lo deceive. Vignette, a man aad woman separated by an oval design in lathe work, on which is a heavy figure two. The right hand of the man rests on a plow, and the left hand with a very long forefinger, is intending to grasp a rake. The woiqbd holds a-distaff in her right hand and amilk pail to her (eft. On each aide of the vig nette is a figure two, scroll work with a Cu pid in tho body of the 3. The end. pieces are alike and consist of a figure two, die work and a fancy female head. The tail piece is a full rigged shift. Look out for counterfeit two dollar noted on the Bank'or Nonh-America, Seymour, Connecticut. Also, on the bank of North America, Providence, Rhode Island, of the same issue. They have a spread eagle,for vignettes with (ha portrait of Clay pa ihe lower right hand corner, god a figure of Jus. lice on (be left. The Lancaster Bank has closed its doors and suspended payment. Holders of the notes will.do well,to hold on.and not dispose of them at a sacrifice, as the asset%are tho't ample for the disbursement of outstanding notes. Gov, Pohlocx, on ihe ‘6th ult., signfed the following acts of the LegislatureAn Act relating to Banks, Saying, 'Trust and Insu rance Companies; an A<n allowing bills df eioeptipn end writs of errtir in critpinal ca'. sea; a supplement to the act regulating pfp ceedings in Courts of Justice and for other purposes, approved 6th May, 1844. X' "If THE ACgHjAlOt. *•* All Bosinesa,aud other Communications most be addressed to the Kditor to i mure attention. - - wb&sbqb(Wgh, pa. ;' ■ ■ Thursday moraine, Dec. 11.18 SC. Rev. A. A. : MA«»L*, tia»ihg been elected Libra, rian oC The Welleboro’ Library, reqaeiU the «tock. holders to return the books wliieb thuy now .hold. Office 2d door from (he Post Office. ( : j ■ MrrM.'H. Abbey, of Westfield, has our sincere thanks Tor the interest he manifests in the welfare of Thi Agitator. A few such friends would soon render a power press necessary to ■ supply our' edi tion.; The.matter, yf ythioh by write? deserves in vestigation. Tiro papers will bp .sent as proposed. Mr. R. M. Paarr has jusi rcceived a new aud-en- Urged stock of Groceries and Confectionery, which be offers to the trading public on reasonable terms. His Oyster Saloon.is open at all reasonable hoars. See his advertisement Winter is down upon this elevated region with n white Bear snap. Hot much snow yet, but plenty of ice and frost Young America glories in Hoi. land skates manufactured in the land of nutmegs. Young America is harmlessly engaged—let him slide. “Political Preaching.” We quota this capliou because there u very good reason for believing that it baa been, like Tom Benton's Boston speech,copyrighted; and because it is a frequent text dribbling from Die pens of Bor der-Ruffian editors in (be central, southern and east ern parts of this Slate. 1 The clergy must be s very obstinate class. Why, gentlemen of the cloth, how is it ? We con testify to the fact that yon have been commanded to cease troubling (lie political waters by these tripodial cen sors hundreds of times during the last two years! Yet you disobey daily. Indeed, ye mast bo a per verse people. It is beginning to be whispered that you don't know upon which side yonr bread is but tered ; that yob are walking nncOnccrnedly into the very jaws of starvation; and that you are meddling wilh concerns which,'tike pitch, will defile yon! A groat many people are now afflicted wilh the ague of astonishment in view of this clerical obsli. nacy. Some must waste away into melancholy shadows unless (he clergy come down. Many of these afflicted editors have spent years of time and acres of twaddle in crying down this obstinate class. Not for political offences, but because they were clergymen. Now it is all changed. The call ing is justnow discovered by these aguish editors to bo one of exceeding holiness and involving great responsibilities. We once had the pleasure of listening to a dis course from the pulpit devoted to the sinfulness of gsmbling. Its denunciations clove the moral atmos phere like bolts of lightning and fell upon guilty hearts to rive and sear (Item like unquenchable fire. Many a face overlapping faultless linen and unim peachable broadcloth, glowed with shame and writh ed in anger, and here and there one mote Indignant than others, arose and flung out of the church. Still the man with a white neckcloth kept on unabashed, and we detected a fearless gleam in his eye ss one of his best paying members went out. He looked intensely satisfied. These indignant individuals declared that they would never patronize that rascally minister again ; that they hired him to preach the Gospel, not tem perance and morality. They nurted their wrath. These indignant men were gamblers. They had debauched half the young men in the town; and they had bled more than one mother's heart in .!•••*•■ Is it any wonder i i.ei they Would not sit under tho preaching of a man who conceived it to be his duty to preach against every kind of ein? Again, we listened to a sermon against ramsell ing. Three rumsetlers arose nod flung out of the house in great wrath. One man who had a tavern stand for rent, followed suit. Two sycophants fol lowed him. Glancing around, we saw that some two hundred respectable people kept their seals, in blissful ignorance of any wrongdoing of tho preach er. Upon another occasion wc listened to » discourse from the lips of a South Carolinian minister. He was a roan of more than ordinary ability, and hia text bad to do with a certain king who would in sist upon men making brick without either straw or pay. He depicted the wrongs of that people elo quently. He said nothing about the "institution” in a home sense, bnt. ho waa waited on by a com mittee the next morning and informed that, as they paid him for preaching the Gospel pnd not Abolition —be most pack I And this happened in a Free Stale! Again we beard a sermon denouncing the vice of lying, especially as practiced by jockeys and others who pride themselves on during “close bargains.” One horse jochoy and two cattle speculators were heard next day to denounce the preacher is a ‘ d—d upstart !“ No deputation of deacons waited on the offender, however. To preach the Gospel! . And what is it to do that 7 '‘Behold, I bring you glad tidings of gnat joy WHICH SHALL SI TO ALL VIOPLK 1 .” We may assume (hat these “glad the Gospel as given by tbs Master. Nowhere does he neglect to denounce evildoers. The scoffing Sad. ducee and the Self-righteous Pharisee were dealt with unsparingly by this Master Preacher. Wrong and Oppression were not ignored in his discourses. Be met denunciation and Calumny with a Godliki calmness, turning neither to life right nor lira left. No wrong under the sun escaped his condemnation. The Gospel makes no distinction between Individ, nal and national sins. Can wo read Ilia apostrophe to Jerusalem, sprinkled as the was with the blood of (lie prophets, and say that be was blind, to the sins of nations 7 Do we hear the denunciation of Bab ylon, Ninevab, : Sodom and Gomorrah, ftom prophet lips, and still prescribe rales for'those, .who preach to-day 7 Does the desolation of Idumea teseh no lesson? Does Judah, rent and scattered; Egypt, once so glorious, now forgotten among the nations— do nook of these teach tbe.greal ieuonof ; dnly 7 Example is a great preacher.:; He thatshansovil denooncca lt, hytXio dime token. _ Ha .that (offers wrong to exist without protest, in some sort approves iL It is.so. beneficently ordered .in the great.Elan that nonh may shut, thoir eyea and lipaand foldlheir hands and remain iq guiltless oblitioiutteu of.lbp wrong by man inflicted upon man .... r < A paper before us has a few' word* to say jn re, gard to a “political sermon” preached on ThaplgL giving Day, just over the moerptqin., The editor ev idently knows what it Is tqpimp for bis bread and batter.,. Bo baia fine conception of what consti tutes a Christian character.' Juki betr biip: “There are men among ns who itiß adhere to tho ancient delusion, that' churches aid deslgned and sh'odld fid dshd' exclusively iortheworkhip oftbe Crkalor.-and Whd under this antiquated, notion.Coq tribms largely pf their ftinrff for. the,, erection of phnrch buildings apd for the maintenance pf thr clergy. " '■ l3 rISE f •s ty b»pptned lhiV;Ulergyteat|jof Williamsport, dsrifto denuanqlukgiio politi(£| sin* in Day. Tbefplelhoricpniised gqnQmen indirtcfly reined tqJtMbe graph, got ap and went oat of cborch. They wen "men"who, actording’tb out ly Ip bqildfhppehessod »nd theh lLiris tfisl the snin of Christian duly'la fulfill, od—that they have thus' purchased an indulgence fat a lifetime. We fiaye read of this kind of.pfiria, tuns somewhere, and it strikes us that they once formed a sect under the name of "Pharisee*." We fememljer bow they) can trihotijd largely, W. .bnlid a gorgeous temple, andjiow they drove out the Great Preacher'&eeause'he did hot preach to suit them,' And how they often went a way'wroth and saying, “He hath a devil!’-’ and all this they did because the Preacher dared to denounce sanctified evil 'do a temple built to worship God in! These men used logo out on (be atreet corners and prayi saying-* "Lord, we! thank thee (hat we are not as other men, “ eren as yonder publican!" Happy follows, were those Pharisees, baskingin the parhelia of self-right eoosnes*; and. when the Preacher .let- the beams of the true Son down npop the ftoien cloud, their light vanished, the cloud dissolved, No wonder they drove him out and crucified idm. These are warnings fo preachers. They, being interpreted, mean, "preach ail around'the truth, but don’t preach it.” Don’t disturb men's consciences, Don't preach shout any little .vice jtlul some plelho ffc pursed parishioner has a weakness for. This is the meaning of the warnings. Were wo a preacher such Christians should butter our bread willingly or not at alt. Wo last week received a visit Item Rev. A. H. Sbortleff, agent of the Kansas Aid Society. { He has just returned from a two months’ tqur in dial Terri, tory and his relation of facts corroborates those re ceived through public and private leltcr.writers. Mr. S. reports the Territory in a stale of compar ative quiet. Border Ruffian outrages having subsi ded into legal tyranny in the Court of Judge Le. compte. That worthy is now engaged in senten cing Free Stale men to the chain-gang for defend ing (heir lives and property from outrage and depre datlon at the bands of ruffians. He is reported as doing (his with all the nonchalance of a Jeffries, as if It were the most laudable business in the world. He likewise admits murderers to bail, if (hey chance to be Ruffians. How long will this people submit to this legalised tyranny 1 Mr. Bhurtleff addressed b large audience in the Court House daring his visit. He succeeded in raising upward of 9100 in this place, which goes to furnish food and raiment to our suffering friends in Kansas. Thonks to the librrtlily ot the givers. Mr. S. has much confidence in Gov. Geary, It is hoped (lilt that confidence is not misplaced. The hope that it is not rests not upon anything he lias yet done so much as upon the tone of the Ruffian journals, an article i>am the principal of which will be found in another column. Mr. S. wishes to raise a company of sturdy men to go with him to Kansas from this place, next March. Those who wish to settle in that beautiful country are now called npon to came forward and pul down their names. The names may be left at this office. , Tbo Message.—We publish the important part of Frank Fiorco's last composition, in another place. As U) quantity and quality, we are reminded of the retort of a Connecticut schoolmaster who “boarded around,” when on old lady said of her fare—“lt is good, what there is of it!" “There’s enough unless it's better!” retorted the pedagogue* Does anybody remember the rhymes— “ O, were you ne’er a schoolboy And did yon never train. And feel that swelling of the heart Yon ne’er will tad Tt— fc.t...rtaoie rrank mnst'have had those stirring lines running in his head when he wrote his Mess age. It will play the deuce with the race of petti foggers the land over. They will say, each to him self—“ Well, well; if the writer of that composition got to be President, so may I.” And so we gShall see every fifth-rate lawyer in the country trying to poll the Presidential chair down to him. The Message is simply and only a boyish plea in justification oi his wicked deeds. It sounds hollow, like a voice from the tomb. It is a new thing to hear a dead man plead his own cause, and still it is certain that Frank Pierce is defunct. It is ?vi dent that the document was written under a species of spiritual influence—of Custom House brand. Pettifogging of the baldlaco order; perversions of historical facts; assumptions without the half way genuineness of bastardy to rest upon; false conclusions without the merit of plausibility ; these are the distinctive features of the Message. It Is a politics! harangue, wordy, but not eloquent, and be fitting the man who rewards murderers, swindlers, cowards, pimps and scoundrels generally, with place. The reader will observe that the North is all to blame in the Kansas troubles—so Mr. Pierce says. . Congress convened an the Ist instant. After the usual preliminaries Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, pre. sented the credentials of J. W. Whitfield, delegate from Kansas,and moved that he he sworn in. Here« upon Mr. Gsow arose and objected, an tha ground that Whitfield was elected under the law of a bogus legislature, so decided by the last Congress, On a vote Mr. Whitfield was rejected by 104 to 97.' Mr* Glow then made an efibit to table the motion bat was unsuccessful. The Republicans stood up to their duty nobly. Especial praise is due to our member, Mr. Grow, for hit services on this occasion, ’ The freemen of (bis District may well be proud of their choice; for not withstanding the epithets bestowed upon him by the more abandoned of his dppofifents, he is attracting the respect and esteem of every friend of Freedom. There is no later Congressional news of general interest “ IMIU •Dorril.”—This latestwork of. Dickens has been issued from the prolific press of T. B. Pe terson,lo2 Chestnut st., Philadelphia, in .onh well printed octant volume. “Lillie. Dorrit n opens, up fresh. glimpse* of life,and. inculcate* the sweeties, seta ot Charity toward the, victims of adverse cir cumstances. Better than all, it shows how ic(upeas nrabiy brighter glows the virluoussoul after having drsined lho bitter oup qf Misfortune. This work lacks in some of Dickon’s finer points; but as on ex pose of the system,at the faultsof tyhjcfa it aims, it isadmitable. : Bont,by mail for!2s cents. . '' We have justglintdd at lberfiagnihcent Jannary No; trfGodeyVLady’s 6ook knd : ihust admit tfaat in tho way of a Lady’s Magakioe it atandwiwb ahetvea higher than ils dbtreSt -cdmpetilor. - » Some body has carried it off and we blame Utsm. It shbWs Bbl wo forget Ilia titloof the «ngnvlttj4lkf|hl bobk,' and miny othenbiugi men lionsble, 'WoWillfutnlah it and <he -Agitator I one year for $3. Commence Dow.soar to get the full year. ' . . </mi.-if. ■ , ..$» Juiuaiy'mimbef'of’l^ ua,very Mcellent'nil|iWi'.'We ate plcafed tonopea a finoengraylng, much above the ordinary merit, white its Ftsiubo £lile’’ 'jpurtspitihe ladid* tok T; : We will fiitnish [t and |6’i Agitator for s2#,' &Werlbe ttoW. ' ‘ ' * Ci&UlntX AGITATO#* -i -& £— rt . , ■ A 10 iBE fIBSIfAI IK THE HOUSE, Medal jcispatcb B. T. Tribune. ; f f ■'£ Dec. 1, 1856. '< 'TtrtTnew corapeneafioa law brought e-full .BtieodaoceJn the House. One hundred and ninety-three answered to the call, and the ag gregalß {jtttoeh&|%Af9|' the newly-elected members were sworn in, Whitfield,'confident in his strength, offered hit dredentiafaj' through Mr. Phelps of Mis souriv- Mr. Grow at onco raisedan.objection,, which,he abandoned, last.session;. the appciris’orHisfViends,' ogainst'w ddmibistrai-' tion of the oath upon tliapapers. presented. , Mr. Phelps contended that (the proceeding was usual, and not calculated to affect the material, issue, which would come up on the report from the Committee,', bp Election.— Campbell opd others Jnierppsed for p tempo: rary suspension, to allow the appointment of a committee to wait on the President, which was granted. Afterward Mr. Grow reviewed the Whole case,' showing the action of the House’ upon the. reporl.of the, Invesiigaiihg Cbminittee at the last session; the eaten! of the frauds com mitted, and the character of the invasion:from Missouri, concluding.by demonstrating that even if the lows of tlie Bogus Legislature were valid, Whitfield still only represented a con stituency, embodying oppression, and was not entitled to a seat. Hi? speech was well put in its positions, and attracted deep interest in the hall and galleries. Mr. Phelps) reply was characterized by the same special pleading which has hereto fore marked this discussion, without introduc ing any new or imposing arguments. At its close the house, unexpectedly ts itself, came to a vote, and.seven majority were recorded against Whitfield's admission. This result produced an electric effect on nil sides, none being prepared for such a demonstration. Mr. Washburn, of Maine, was brought in from a sick bed just as the vote was anou ne ed. , Messrs. Fuller, Broom, Whitney, Valk and Moore,, voted for Whitfield, and Scott, Harrison announced the same purpose on coming in too late. Bayard, Clarke, Haven, and Bull, went with the Republicans. Promptly, upon the result being promul gated, Mr. Grow moved to reconsider and lay that motion on the table, to clinch the nail effectually, but the Democracy, though stunned by the concen'ration and force of the Republican side, rallied, and then commenc ed a series of parlimenlary 'performances.— Motions to adjourn, motions to call the ffouse and other expedients'were employed, one another, to weary out the majority, and give time for new accessions to their strength. They began the day counting without their host, and would conclude it in the hope'of gaining reertforcements to-morrow. The Republicans stood their ground nobly, and conscious .of having gained a great tri umph thus far, an adjournment was carried, to reuew the struggle recruited to-morrow. Beloit, Wis. Nov. 24,1858. Rev. J. F, Calkins, Dear Sir : Believ ing that a few words about Wisconsin Schools would be favorably received by you, I pro pose to give a simple statement of their con dition, ns lar us I am familiar wiih them. At present every effort Eduqa-i •i 1 aaxfance dd u’da ii oflaTin lereBl s. A vig orous qnd determined resolution has been agreed upon to introduce a uniformity of school books into every school in the State, as soon as possible. For this object lam de voting every working moment. The Eclectic series, (decided to be of superior mem) are fast becoming the only text-books used in the schools of Southern Wisconsin and we hope before another year shall draw to a close, lo see them introduced throughout the entire Stale. I find the schools, as an aggre gate in a more healthy and prosperous condi tion than in either Pennsylvania, or New York 1 think lam justified in making the assertion; and when I say it, I speak 'with all due deference id the Stale lo which your efforts are directed,and also of New' York, my own native Stale.' Our teachers are mostly from ihe East, although Wiscon sin is doing nobly in the cause of education, she will soon produce, teachers pecqliarM her system qf instruction! Union Graded Schools conducted under an admirable system can be seen in almost every village where (here is a population sufficient lo warrant' one. The School buildings are generally superiorin'ap pearance anti roominess, to those of New York, and more pleasantly and tastefully ar ranged. fn selecting ihe grounds for’a school house, every endeavor is made to select that spot, yielding the greatest attractions. Sipne is principally ,osed in.l heir construction. The Cily of Beloit has two" large Union Graded Schoojs; one Female Seminary, and a Col lege either of which would be an ornament and dp. honor to any State of our Union.— The City of Janesville is not behind in her devotion to the cause of popular education. Tbe.gepiusof enthusiasm that manifests itself in the diffusion of useful knowledge also per vades every department of Wisconsin enter prise, These are simply tpy opinions written with a running pen, and you must take therp for what they are wqrih, Very lespecifully yours, ■ ...;; ' IB,A s; SMITH. t( . [We are permitted lo publish llie foyegoing by the person to whopt. it is addressed. Ed.j , ItS"Own agree With the 'poga Agitator iftai the Republican party must island upon its own merits in' the cam paign of 1860, , A.clean ticket must' be par hopp f ,npd no nmrb,. treating with p fbctloja that pormits lfie S and (o jigsd into the jays < bi‘.(fefe|t. The,,.grea|. which Me send enough. and sl,f .(bj if aj; pit rfyl and .is <*6,006, a, majoriiy.cf iho .ppopje tctlZ rally .round. Lei us jifivetnb fusionwiih/our ene mies, 'blit a itrdighl' ticlceK—Slair Co. LpltersTrbnrthh SoulhfbCol. ' FueSonT, witnin the past - foar'monltis/have been re peatedly intercepted sod-broken-open. ■ One PoatyQaWtferr in Virginia even Went si) farasto reftise' td' rrfailsr 'lelfer addressed b fyw Virgin ia'lady to MrsV PBEMowr-, Whbisa relative ~tW P<Sitma»terdeciarlng'tharnb feliefWith Ihat addrcst UpbnTt’cbtifd be mailed at his office, And he kept his word.- -ir r~* : l* I ;Anothcr Got. Wise. £ Rn&Konn, Vf., Oct. 22,1856. 3 Deai* Sijjt j—l asaOfb you that it would 'give mb roorA pfeasurtNhan it could afford my friends in New York,jo gojo city and address the Democracy upon tneissues 'oTlhtJ.pOtjdiqg; and'l perilous can vass. But my official duties compel me to decline speaking anywhere which will require a day’s absence. ; F urn now Jabor- Jog..under .a aeyere.cold and cough, which, for the present, would prevent me fromspettk ■itjg and 1 don’t know when my lungs .wilL.be in a stats . to alloyv .jnejo address a large mass, such as usually collects,in your mammoth metroplis of trade. r ' '1 have fought the good fight in the Geld which 1 fell to my pari of the action, and I trust in God.that, by the example of the Virginia Democracy ever, faithful, never defeated, ihe parlies of the country will be purified, and the country itself will be saved. Pennsylva nia and Indiana' have come into lipb. .Will hoi NeW'Vork resume the sceptre of empire,' and use il to save and hot destroy 1 Will she 11 muzzle the ox that (readeth out corn 1 Will she to like the' fool in the mob of Hogarth, who, in his frenzy, forgot that he was sawing, between himself and the post? Will she not see that ifthe ‘sign’falls she must fall with it—that if the tjnion of these Stales falls, the fall of New York will bo the gieatest of all the States? 1 1 tell you that Virginia has armories for otiefbundred thous hnd men in twenty-fourjhonrs by the watch; and I tell you that she has men enough' to take'up arms rather than to subjected to Black Republicanism. I tell you (hat if mere forms are depended upon to subdue her, and lo destroy her civil and religions liberty, her Slate equality and-sovereignly, and her fed eral guarantees in ihe Union, that she will cut her bright way through them I I tell you that the first flash of resistance will make an ir resistable revolution, and the first law of rev olution is to break (he bonds which bind to oppression, I tell you whatever be the result of this election, we must have peace in earn est or wHt in earnest. Yours truly, Henrt A. Wise. fior. Oearyr a Second Jackson. We have just learned that our Governor is endeavoring to ape the immortal “ Old Hero,” by ordering the arrest of a man whom Judge Lecompte had released on bail, the Governor thinking that the Judge had not acted rightly in (he case. We presume Ihe next move will to arrest and imprison the Judge, should he release the prisoner under the write of habeas corpus , still more lo personate, or rather to ape the Old Hero. But seriously, this is really the climax to everything perpetrated by the knave Reeder or the fool Shannon. In a time of profound peace—for which Gov. Geary has ordered a day of general thanksgiving—a Governor to trample under foot the edicts of the highest judicial officer in the land, and call upon the military to execute what he conceives to be justice, is certainly the most supremely stupid piece of high-handed outrage —we won't dig nify it by the name of tyranny—that has yet beep enacted in Kansas. The man must surely be insane An abler lawyer, or more honest man than Judge Le comple does nql j.iyp j().tiiisTftfrilory...and aoveruOTG"wiU" find, we opine, that he does not lack the nerve to discharge his duty against any, wheather they be in low places, or highly dignified. We are very much surprised lo see that the Leavenworth Journal thinks the President will justify the Governor in this outrage.— President Pierce is 100 good a lawyer for|ihat. This is a beautiful commentary upon the Governor’s first text —" That (he laws must be obeyed.” Ifhe can set the decisions of the Court at defiance, surely every one else may do the same. President Pierce must surely have appointed all our Governors on Friday, lo have been so very, unlucky.— Squatter Sovereign, Nov. 32. Literary Intelligence.—“ The Recol lections of a Lifetime,” by S. G. Goodrich, describing (he authentic history of the veri table Peter Parley, is announced for Speedy publication by Miller, Orton|& Mulligan.— The.wort, comprises the personal- leminis cencies of the author for upward of half a century, together .'with an account of numer ous public events which have happened da ting his life time, end of which he has been a witness or a participator. ■ Mr, Goodrich has,had a remarkable and interesting-career. As an author or editor, he haa-publisbed no less than one hundred and seventy, volumes, tho-sales of which amount to the. enormous number of seven millions of copies. He was O:private soidler in.the war of 1912, with England. He. was a close observer of the proceedings of (he Hartford Convention, and was personally acquainted .with moat of its members. He has crossed Atlantic six teen limes, and was a witness of the French Revolution, of, 1848, and of thecoup d’etat of Louis Napoleon. With the variety,of an ecdote, incident, and description introduced in this work, by such a master of pleasant nanative style as Peter Parley, it cannot;fail to .present great.and various attractions.—iV, ■Y. Tribune, Oct. 25th, AS Itx'tb Without Tasks.— The Stale ■of Texes is id'an a most enviable condition in regard to her finances. She is the. envy of the country. Her Comptroller, in' a re cent report presents the following flattering' picture of her condition: “ The State is •blit bf' debt, with a .surplus of over a million of ddllars ‘in the treasury—permanent 6 perisebf school fond 'of leirmil lions bfdol lets j |att nnapprdpriale public domain estimated at onohubded -millions oF’acres, which, if judi oiOusly usedj Wdtild subserve all the purposes ■of iniernal iraftrovbnjents- required by ’the Slate, and a tax lighter, lhan is-'imposed onj •anyfetfcer people, and : Which iif adequate to nll the Wants of lhe Government." ’ The agJ grecaie aniount of taxable' prepertyis 1 Very nearly being an increase ol 822,500-000 over l the previous year. - ■ v HEAyy BnHQXABx Yenk.-^ burglary to the amount of $40,d00 was com jilted on Messrs. Schuller it Hurd, 34 Broat 8, /® el N - Y- bn, Saturday night. Tbb'bur gUfa yreie discovered IWpaeTvdnt girls who Were aroused 6y'tye i] ifevds ‘end who advised theipdlite'.' The officers facov&ed the goods and' arre&ted fiVe. burglars, whp locked up waiting examination. ?y - f-f. :• n■J c ■ , lf -ThS • T 11 we expected little from the last dying :dh andconfession of President ’“Pierce, ikvetiotbeen disappointed. ItisMof ik sophistries, unmeaning generalities and sulous worthy a stomp ■Cb before am’election, to say uotbingof a lie document emanating (hurt the Presi fonder the requirements of tbo Constitu -1 If any lone; hen the courage to read it, im do so,' but not by our advice; Jtrsiil ime sadly misspent. ; There was not a ip speaker of the smallest cSlibre one in since, who could not have given a more prehensive argument than Ibis message ainsi The fact is Mr. Piebob ’ finds no made a great mistake in trying toout> sgogue Judge Douglas in subservience ib South’, and being.ashamed to ackoow« e that he. was duped, tries to braaeoit dppei wish weal ridip publi dent tionl The country understands the whole i terahd will laugh at the untoward efforts he Presidents disembarrass himself. Be eludes by saying that he ahali prepan orrender tbe Executive trust to (tissue* jor, and retire to private, life, with seats* ots of profound gratitude tolbe good-ProV nce"—and to this alii the people. will r* md “ Amen!”— Phila. Sun, Striking Sennas at a Gam« Table— The Spirits on Gaming. —As a company of pur fast young men were busy over the card table, a few evenings since, a singular noise attracted their attention. It wasof so unusual a nature that they immediately pegao to look about for its cause. It was repeated in another direction. Something more than cu tiosity was excited, and playing was a lis ps nded. Immedaiely one of the company dropped into what the spiritualists call a tnnce, and proceeded to titter, as if from his father, a homily against gambling and its as* sejeiale vices. This was followed by an ad* monition purporting to come from a deceased sister of one of the company, couched in such a jsisterly feeling, that the whole group were irresistibly moved to tears. There was no more card playing that night. None of (hose present were 1 relievers in spiritual manifesta tions, and the scene was unexpected to all.— Whether it wps indeed spiritual, or is capable of somq other solution, is a question. It was told at, a religious meeting, on Sunday, and we have no doubt that it occurred subslan ti illy as we here repeat it. —Springfield Re publican, Nov. 10. | Tebbifio Gale at Louisville. —The Louisville Courier, of Saturday, says ; i Yesterday afternoon our city was swept by a| high wind, that, for a few. moments, was almost equal to a tornado. It came from tbe south east, unrooting several houses, blowing down a few walls, tearing away awnings, and Sweeping every moveable thing from its path ijn a twinkling. The mercury in tbe barom eter bad fallea to a lower point lhat n had peached at any time during tbe season, a sure indication of rainy and stormy weather.— Many buildings were unroofed, and consider able damage dona to properly, i The Jeffersonville ferry boats were unable to leave tbe Indiana shore, and did not make a trip until ta'e in the evening. The wind was blowing directly across tbe river, and a fleet of empty flat-boats, at the upper landing, W ore loro from iheir fastenings and swept to (he other side of the river, in an incredible short space of time. The telegraph wires were prostrated in all directions by the high wind, sad werecetved no despatches last night. 1 1 Pity *ns ’tis Rake.—We lately stated that a gentleman who died in Botetourt coun ty i Va., a few months ago, devised his entire property, estimated at 910,000, to one of bis sisters, and after his death that she destroyed his will, and divided his properly equally be tween a brother, sister and herself. This rare dnd noble exhibition of the unselfishness of a sister’s love is not unique. We know of one lovely parallel, and the New York Mirror iays a similar case occurred a short lime iince in New Haven. A gentleman died there leaving his estate amounting to several hundred thousand dollars, to a married daugh ter, and cutting off his sons with a trifling jsum. The daughter, with, the full concur rence of her husband, destroyed her , father’s will, as in the above case, end divided her in heritafice with her brothers, Teserving to her self only one equal share. Legally, the property was hers, but not kd morally / shb could keep it only ’by wronging her brothers 1 Such instances of right ttlumphing over sel fishness are indeed rate; and therefore the more deserving of praise v Publi'c appro ba it on 6f one’s own conscience cannot fail to attend conduct so rtflgnehimons.— Sun. ' M-A-B- R-I-E-I»- In Weilsbprn', Bth iiut., Mr.THOMAB B. BRV DEN and Mias BBJUEAH E. STRAIT, by bWa. A« Harpies 1 • __— . eyeryreader \V I «hSl^ C n !!? ,lc *- : i howllwtfacnH!nt ‘iMcripHr* of Mr. JPrl£ ~ bOBKRT B£AttBrPsUfab<r, ; . . . 18 ,t SlrMt,'N«„ Tort, '..-Ho 1,. I l or Haosail ; HJ E shallstart for Ktqraa ypiU)»pplh«n. com. 15 < IBS7 ' ttom Benw«’» aXI. BufiUo. ThoW goingWeat will find H‘ greatly to lhe ,r .dvantage to locals in Kansas. : .lt> rbo,t beautiful country od the continent. land only tl 2i icrffand We will take alt who desire lo Bnflklo to Learonwbr lll, -ftr tei Address * A ; H. Ai d .Speiety,Watkins, Jl./g.-, , • ! ' Atd’For Kuniiu, THpSEiwboidMireito dohlribofo to lbs relief of . '7® can send tbeir; contri- aaw tahci lhUl «iyy dollar will be appropriated to lbs Sttfliring eCUlera ihtre. All win I be iakbowlfidged in iho Agitator," ' A« Hi SHDRTLEPP .1 -i i Agtflt of tht Ji. Y x ggiuatMd Sttiity, CAME into the.enelosure of the inbecriber on or aboatthe 20th of .Norember, a red yearling heifer. The owner cap hare her by praying prop- Orly andpaying charges. CHAONCY FERRY ■EaptCharleston,December 11,1856. , , •HESS of» yoons moo pbw &*d.' Ai'ltU the bn* 1/picture bir JhaodauJicd of iUm» itiQeb 'aoiibt; will be relieved and bappioeta conferred if it can t* left at the Presbyterian Parsonage', Wcllsboro’*
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