i'rom the Newport (Ivy.) New?*, fjlttvc lu»urrccUoii> VVe letvrn from the Russelville Herald of Wednesday lasi, (by telegraph) lhal great excitement exists in (he neighborhood of Vol-' rcy and Oordcnsville. A negro, belonging lo one of the iron works of Tennessee, who knew something about their plan for liberty, died by torture of the lash ratherjtban tell of his brethren who Ilhnd 1 l hnd conversed with him on the subject of their freedom. He received 750 lashes at the hands of white savages, (too lazy to do their own work) before he ex pired. How the people of America can stand by and sec such atrocity committed in this professed land of liberty, and lhal, too, against a people whose only crime is thpt of seeking liberty, is more than we can understand. — Even Kentucky—how can the, liberty-loving people of this Slate stand it ? Will ihe .real producers and workingmen of Kentucky suf fer these man tortures lo go on unrebuked until they themselves fall a prey to these bar barians. and suffer subjugation by Ihe lash, and be bought and sold like the negro whom they now shoot, hang or whip to death for the crime of being known to possess an inde pendent spirit 1 luhe white working men suffer the black working men lo be thus trea ted, they must soon expect to share the same fate. The principle is the same. The while tyrant lhal sanctions a law to enslave black men ior the sake of gam would sanction a law to enslave (he whiles also for the same end. and then cut and slash, shoot, hang or whip lo death all who dared lo talk about freedom or self-government. The working clnssi s of ihe So -them Sta es are too thought less of their own doom. Man has enslaved his fellow-man ihe world over, and in all ages, wiihoul regard lo color, when be gol the power by law lo do so, and will do it here on this part of the globe, and in the preset ! age, if he gets the power. “ At Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky., yester day, ’’ savs The Herald of Wednesday last, “ a tree negro was hung, after being tried by the Vigilance Committee," and lhal “a num ber more are in jail, some of whom will be hung ' A while mnn was hung not long before this ior denouncing this inhumanity lo man, ana another whipped because his heart was moved with sympathy to witness the horrid iilmsc n; the negro, guilty of no crime but lliui n; a love of hberlv. Tins.. Fellow-Freemen, is a most horrid state of Dungs to exist in a free country. The black man is robbed of his labor by late, and the white man of his by dread ; and not n press in the whole South dare proclaim the (act (save The Newport News) lest some ivram would say, “ Slop my paper.” Both black and white, that labor for a living, are viewed ns animals of like caliber and low groveling nature, bv the wealthy man owner, oxer m that the cringing white man, who re duces his own wages and that of his neighbor, bv fondling around the slave master, is least respected And such as these are used to set on chase alter runaway negroes, to bring them back 10 work for nothing,'that while men mnv be compelled to beg for a job, and then, like the negro, gel only enough to feed and clothe them for it. Oh, sweet institution of Slavery' Oh, sweet barbarity 1 Sweet bruiiitiM and murder' Sweet wealth and Sweet learning and sweet igno rance Oh, sweet trifling humanity' i ou that dare speak out in Kentucky, let us hear vour voice! Speak over your own signatures like freemen, or ask for yourselves a rone (or the gallows ! The lime has come wnen we should know a skulking Tory from a painot of liberty ; and to know whether we must live bv acting'the tyrant, or die for imi tating a Washington, iKjvcrfv Huntingdon the Forger, —The trial of 1 lunungdon is the absorbing topic in New York a; nresent. His counsel concede the lact of ms guilt,—acknowledge everylhtng alleged in the indictment, —exaggerate to the greatest possible extent the criminal acts of their client, —and swell the amount of his forged paper to ihc incredible sum of Twen ty Millions of Dollars, —for the purgose of setting up ihe plea of —lnsanity ! The Ne\i York Times of Saturday in its report of the proceedings of the Courts in this case savs ■ “ The absence of any great excitement during the progress of the case thus far,, and Ihe comnaraiively brief period within which the whole evidence for the prosecution,'was compressed, had indeed a very general belief that ihe trial would pass quietly and stupidly to its close. The illusion was dispelled, how ever. when this morning the junior counsel lor the defendant proceeded to open his case and propound the theory on which an acquit tal was to be sought for at the hands of the jurv. The assemblage was electrified; and as the idea of the defence assumed sharp and consistency, the astonishment burst through the doors, spread all round the park, gather ing strength as it expanded, until finally it ossumed the fullblown proportions of a posi tive assertion that Eluntingdon had been de clared “ Not guilty” on the ground of in- sanity Accidental Death. — Mr. Valentine Slier, a machinist by profession, and resident of our Boro, lost bis life while sporting a few days since, from the accidental discharge of his gun. He and a friend were out in pur suit of game ; it appears deceased was pas sing over some logs, when his foot slipped and ho fell, his gun striking on the hdmmcr of the lock with force sufficient,not only to dis charge the load, but to break off the hammer. The bait took effect in his throat, fracturing the lower jaw jn several places, passed through the posterior part of the mouth, the base of the brain, and dodged within the skull at the back of the head, bousing instant death. The deceased was a German by hirtn, and highly respected.— Pensylpanian , Susquehanna Depot. Keep in good humor. It is not great ca lamities that embitter existence; it is petty vexations, the small jealousies, the little dis appointments, the minor miseries, that moke the heart heavy and the temper sour. Don't let them. Anger is merely a pure waste of vitality. It is always disgraceful, except in some very rare cases, when it is kindled by wrong done to another; and even that noble rage seldom mends the matter. THE AGITATOR. M. B. Cobb, Editor. *,* All Business,and other Communicationsmust be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. WELLSBOROUGH. FA. Thursday morning, JTau. 1.1557. THE Annual Meeting of the Tioga County BI BLE SOCIETY will be on Tuesday, Jaa’y 6, in the Lecture Room of the Presbyterian Church, at 2 o'clock, P. M. JAS. I. JACKSON, Stc’y. No snow yet. Winter looks like a decayed gen leman—rather seedy. WOOD. —Those who engaged to pay for their papers in wood, will confer & great favor on us by delivering itfimraediately. The Carrier uf this paper will visit our Village patrons will) his annual address, 10-day. We hope be may meet vyilh a cordial reception on all hands. It must be remembered that the delivery of newspa pers by the Cartier is entirely gratuitous at 81 per year for subscriptions, with the exception of what he may receive from the sale of his Address. The practice in many places is, to charge 35 cents extra fqr papers left, at the doors of patrons by Carrier, - We prefer leaving the Carrier to the generosity of the public. Onr Carriers have had no cause of complaint for two years past. Wc present a pretty formidable array of origin* matter this week, outside and inside. There is an interesting letter from Minnesota, by an old rest, dent ot this county. Then u Frank** makes some good hits at the tendency of honors and emoluments toclawaway from workingmen. “Melanie” teach. C 3 Contentment in one short but sweet lesson; but can she teach us “lords** how to be contented under the pressure of pecuniary obligations when debtors won't pay up 7 “Anna” sends us another short lesson on the importance of spending time properly. “ Jennie” sends oil her friends a very pleasant New. Year Greeting. And “ Jcbosaphat” discourselb of “ Our Village” in a style which invites wit, humor, pathos and morality to a millennial love-fcasl. Friendly contributors, one and all—here’s a New Year greeting: May you have more sweet than bitter in your life-cups through this fleeting year I To Republicans. Wc arc at all times receiving subscriptions for the Daily, Semi-Weekly and Weekly Tribune and forming Clnbs for the same, by joining which, the two latter editions may be had at reduced prices. By reference to the Tribune's advertisement on third page, it will be seen that an effort is being made by the parly in power to proscribcslhe Drib, une and other influential Republican papers. No true Republican will permit this thing to be done in so far as his influence is concerned. Let us all aid in increasing the circulation of such papers as the Tribune and Pott, Shocking! Theodore Parker has “ been and done it I” Heterodoxy and orthodoxy are certainly running mad. No sooner docs one got into a scrape than in pops the other. Between them, they manage to keep the pro-slavcry democracy in a moral perspir alion, and the Free Press has its match to prevent the patients from “ catching their death o* cold.” Theodore Parker had the audacity to preach a sermon against our national sin on Thanksgiving Day. The Tunhhannock Democrat waxes indig. nonl thereat and measures out two columns of cen> sure (o the audacious preacher, in order to show him that the border-ruffian democracy of Pennsylvania ore down on such conduct. Theodore Parker must look to it, or some of our hunkers will frown him out of. society. VV« !'■»-* tear our tabors in this direction wiil be appreciated by the rash men who call them out. Of course we expect In retrieve the lost reputations oi those preachers who “ desecrate the pulpit” by prcacliing the Gospel as they understand it Of course Thcdooro Parker feels uncomfortable under the terrible lash of our North Branch contemporary, and of course ho will experience immediate relief when this article shall be published. It will be un derstood, then, that our efforts are incited by a char itable desire to relieve distress. The ire of our North Branch friend is provoked because Mr. Parker would treat Slavery as an acta, al wrong; whereas, that editor, in. accordance with the decisions of the shamocralic leaders, declares Slavery to be a fancied wrong. The rank and file can lake their cue from this declaration. Slavery it only an imaginary evil. Important Act. “ Don't you sec that the free blacks in Massachu setts arc, many of them, miserable and unhappy, “Mr. Parker?"—asks Tunkhannock. Mr. Parker will have to reply “ yes," to that. “ Then why do "you neglect the evils near homo for fancied evils “ south of Mason and Dixon’s line ?”—asks Tunk hannock. That will be a poser, i “ Don't you see that many of the poor whilefolks “in Wyoming are miserable add unhappy, Mr. “ Tunkhannock 7” —Mr. Parker might ask. Tunk hannock would doubtless reply affirmatively, “Then “ why, in the plenitude of your compassion, don’t “ you help to remove them from the actual miseries “of free society, south of Mason and Dixon’s line, “ where, thanks to the beneficent * institution," mis “cry has only an imaginary existence ?"—asks Mr. Parker. “ You are a political priest and an infidel,” —Tunkhannock might reply. Tunkhannock should pitch into ihc agents of the Missionary Society. Are there not heathen enough al home, without going to Burmah and to the islands of the Sea 7 Why, here is the great shamocracy ! During the campaign, the leaders bung out a ban ner on which was inscribed ; BUCHANAN AND BRECKINRIDGE. THE CONSTITUTION FOR EARTH I THE BIBLE FOR HEAVEN!! On tlio supposition, doubtless, that the misery on the hither side of Jordan is all imaginary. The Buccaneers know bolter from personal experience'. Such was one of the banners flung to the breezes during the late campaign by the snddcnly-grOwn pi ous slavcdemocracy. Jlev. Mr. Duane, Rector o( Grace Church, lloncsdale, alluded la (lie sentiment on that banner, in a sermon the Sunday following- Then slipped from the Icasli the 11 Slavo-hounds of Democracy." The pen of the Herald dripped with the blood of martyrs; the Herald thundered, paused and frowned. " Religion is in danger the editor, when ho gained his breath. " The min isterial robes will lie soiled; the holy Sabbath bus been desecrated I”—ho whined. “The pious chris. lian should withdraw the light of bis countenance from Grace Church I"—he pleaded. Mr. Ddanc “ still lives.” Our North Branch friend introduces the testimo ny of one Rnv. Mr. Barger, against •• political ser. moos.” We shall look at Mr. Barger through bis THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. own'apectacles, since be is so good os to lend them, He says he cannot preach against Sliver; because u let—There are no slaveholders in my congre gation. As a Methodist minister, 1 find Ibis requi sition in our discipline, with which I am hound to comply,—" AUeayt suit pour suhjccL to your oiidi. cnee," and as slavery docs not exist in my bounds I have nothing to do with it.” Very good,.sir. Just stick to your interpretation of that requisition and observe where you lodge. You will please make no allusion to either Mor monism or polygamy in your sermons; Premiui there arc neither Mormons or polygamists in your congregation. You will bo good enough to avoid all allusions to the degraded worshippers of Boodh and Fo; to the infanticides of the Ganges or to the horrible prac tices of Fetichism; Beciute, none of your congre gation are pagans or infanticides. You'will also avoid denouncing infidels and atlie ists, as it is not very probable that such form any considerable portion of your audience. Also, let the bones of Tom Paine rest hereafter. Thomas Paine docs not sit under your preaching. Likewise nev er preach against murdef, theft, or adultery; for, by "suiting your subject to your audience" they will understand that you estimate them as a pack of murderers, thieves and adulterers. Such is tits practical effect of your interpretation of the requi sllion quoted. How do you like it, Mr. Borgcr-7 His second reason is—" 1 don f l find the subject included in my commission. Tile command is— " preach the Oospel." Exactly. Now lei’s sec you preach “ glad tidings of great joy which shall bo to “ ALL people !—without preaching freedom to the bondman. You can’t keep your sudiepro awake, preaching each gospel as you speak of, Mr. Earger. His fourth reason should have been his first— Jfly people are as well acquainted with the subject “of slavery as I am.” Don’t doubt it in the least, as, bnt a few lines above this sentence, we find him declaring that he docs not recognise slavery as s moral evil. We apprehend that Mr. Barger may with justice say the same in respect to theology— “My people are as well acquainted with that sub ject as 1 am.” Holding Mr. Barger’s argument up in the most favorable light, it is puerile and unmanly. Really, it is not an argument, nor an apology for an argu ment. It is a few words based on pore selfishness. The doctrine carried out would permit tho children of this age to grow up in ignorance of the craft of Vice in altering tiic feet of men from the path of Virtue. And when the editor of the North Branch Democrat declares such arguments to be “ convinc ing," he leaves his readers in doubt whether lie in tends to be ironical or candid. Books. —The maker of a good book is a bcncfac lor of the race. A good -book is i preacher in the household. The father of a family can do no more laudable thing Ilian to furnish good books for that family. What is a good book ? A good book must be a teacher of good, a developer of the higher and no bler faculties of man. It instructs. When read, the reader must find him or herself bettered by the reading. Such is our idea ot a good book. Scolt cultivates the intellect solely; Dickens cul tivates tlie feelings, the sensibilities. The one in cites to brain labor; the other to heart labor. The one awakes ambition j the other unlocks the fount ains of love and pity. Scolt might have educated a world of scholars, but Dickens dcvclopes a race of men and women. Both arc profitable bookmakers but neither, alone, is sufficient to educate the per fect Man. A good library, in our view, must be formed wilh reference to the faculties to bo developed. We have looked over some private libraries in which the works seemed hewed from the same block. One, and the first to which we had free access, was, with the exception of Um» nr»u«w*“ omior, at that tune a discarded school book, devoted to Theology in general and Calvinism in particular. Yet this was deemed an excellent family Library. Next we ran afoul of a collection of unmitigated trash, the which sufficed for a lifetime. Then came a small, but well-selected collection, wilh Dickens, Shakspearc, Campbell, Kirko While, Scott, and oili er notables in the foreground. Then an opportunity for growing presented itself. Phillips, Sampson & Co., of Boston, publish as valuable works as any House in this country. All tho old English writers worth reading, appear in their Catalogue. We notice Prescott’s Historical Works, published by them in styles to suit the means of the masses, and which should form a part of every family library. History should occupy a liberal space in every homo library. The New Year is a fine lime to purchase stand, ard works. New Year feasts afford but a fleeting gratification, while a good book may educate a gen. e ration. Bro. Cole, of the Wellsoille Free Press, has Je. elated himself free and independent—of such as do expect the printer to furnish them wilh papers gra tis. Wo congratulate him on recovering his inde pendence, Had he concluded to go the whole fig ure, a year would have satisfied him that extreme measures are best in newspaper business. A man who has stood to his duty so long and faithfully os ho has done, deserves two thousand cash subscribers. He lias earned them; and a dozen active men in Allegany county could drum them up for him in a week. The editor of a paper should never be trip pled financially. He cannot write with the Sheriff at his elbow, he cannot think of himself and of his fellow-man at the same lime. But parties are as blind as bats and owls, launched upon the current of public sentiment, il is taken for granted that the editor’s canoe muet drift into the harbor of Compe tence, without the aid of oars or sails. It is a mis taken notion. The road to competence is a sleep up grade when trod by honest men. There is no short cut leading through fields of perennial flow ers for them. Perhaps it is well to enslave oncs’self that he may better comprehend the misery of servitude, and thus bctlcr plead the cause of humanity. But after quaffing the bitterness of that cup for four years, farther experience cannot be necessary to a mind of ordinary aptness. Few will forget the bonds of de pendence, though happily emancipated. We shall bear the scars to tbs grave, even should fate strike off the irons to-morrow. Whether our Wcllsville friend has felt the irons, or whether he has passed the ordeal unscathed, we cannot tell; but we wish him ns much prosperity as bis arduous labors de serve and as much happiness as he can bear, * On the night of the IBlh till., the barn of Mr David Jacobs, in Charleston township, together with a large quantity of grain and hay and two horses, was destroyed by fire. Circumstances led Mr. Ja cobs h> suspect foul play. The bones of but two horses were found, while three horsds were kept in the stable. This led to the conclusion that the in cendiary escaped on the missing horse. Pursuit was made and the villain arrested by A. 6. Elliot, Esq., by whom he was brought to this place last week and lodged in jail. The ’prisoner is a Peni tentiary bird, named Gregory, sent from Bradford county. He stoic a horse from Mr. Jacobs some few years ago, we understand. Ho confesses to the theft, but declares the burning to have been an acci dent. Says ho lighted a match to find a bridle and thought il pul out. GovzMoa.—The papers in the Northern Tier of counties of this State, have, generally,declared their preferences for Judge VV'iuiaT, as the Republican candidate for Governor. We find it to be the ruling sentiment among Republicans in litis county, ao tar as we have been able to get at it. The Montrose Republican, in speaking of the matter, says: “ Probably there is no man in the Stale who has done more fur the Republican cause, or is better qualified for the office, than David VVilmot. He possesses great strength here in the North. Tito frantic efforts of the Sham-Democracy for the last two years to injure him,have resulted in their com plete discomfiture, having only served to strengthen the confidence of the people in his wisdom and pa triolism. The great Republican majorities in this Congressional District at the late elections, are not only on evidence bf the firm hold that the principles of Freedom have upon the popular heart wherever they are well understood, but may also bo consider ed a full endorsement of the politiaal course of Judge Wilmot as well as of Mr. Grow." Give us David Wilmot as a Gubernatorial can didate, and Tioga will give him a majority of 3500. The District can give him 13,000. Wayne can give him 500—that is, if the Shamucrats do as liberally as they did in November. The nomination should bo made with reference to the permanent unanimity of the Northern Tier. | I ©ommutUcnttonfl. OUR VILLAGE. In a little niche in the Alleghenies, in the north of Pennsylvania, is Our Village.— | Not far from it, rise the head waters of the Alleghany, the Genessee and the North and ! West branches of tho Susquehanna. From our hills we send forth refreshing streams, intermingling with ’waters less pure, into Chesapeake Bay, and into the gulf of St. Lawrence, and Mexico. We are therefore, a high people, and in one sense, more highly favoured than some of our lowland neighbors, and ns fur ns our women arc concerned we are better favoured. We are surrounded on all sides by hills, (hough on one of the high est hills on the continent, having a few out lets and avenues out and in, or rather passes, through which gentle streams murmur and sunlight streams in upon us in our solitude. We'are not however a very solitary people, for we have stores and shops and taverns and groceries and oyster saloons, with and with out the “ special trimmings” where the raws are eat and paid for, or won and eat just as the taste nr skill-or moral sense of the eater may dictate ; and where the stews are served up in the same way, often “ sarr’d off” for, and not unfrequently carried down to the living tomb of all dead oysters on beer. We have a Court House too, for be it known, we are a Shire town, so called, we suppose, because rogues offen come into it from sheer necessity, and not from choice ; correspond ing offices on each side of this palace of jus tice; three meeting houses, or to speak in a certain vernacular, a church, a meeting house and a methndist chapel, and let us see, quite n number of law offices. We three doctors, clever of their kith, who won’t kill unless the interests of science or human ity require, and a grava digger. We have, had, are about to have an Academy, it is in a kind of transition stale now ; just going off, or coming on ; wants doctoring, at all events, so has gone down to the Drugstore to be near the medicine chest. We are thus particular in the I eginning, for like the “ Devil on two sticks,” we are rather an observing being, and intend in these papers to be specially particular about a great many thioas. and "-om io gei our Durgner citizens interested in our talk. We have, too, a most' beautiful Green; that is, ns Pythagoras used to say, we have the figure in the marble, though a most un sightly block, and it only requires the skill of the artist to bring it out to perfection. Our Green, it is true, is in the block, yet we think it will be hewed out in the spring. We wo’d suggest by the way to all artists to begin on the outside to hew, and not in the middle, as our Green artists did last summer, though, doubtless, another summer they will not be so green. We almost forgot one institution, a peculiar institution—we have a printing office; a newspaper to agitate ,the public mind; and it has been hinted that another village has one here too. We will endeavor to find it out and if we don’t forget it, will speak ofil. Our Post-Office is an institution also. It is pleasant to go in there about one o’clock, while the mail, the daily mail, yes we have a daily mail, is being opened; to the anxious faces; the joyous smile as a letter pops into the right box; the deep anxiety, and gloomy doggedness that settles on the countenance of now and then one, as the wicket opens, while his box is empty. The post-office is a great institution. It carries about more joy and more sorrow ; more fun and frolick; more love and hale; more (reason and roguishness, than all the other in stitutions of the world. It isn’t Pandora’s box exactly, but it is a great box, at all events. Did not you"see that young girl go into the post-office just" now ? Did you see her as she came out ? There was a tear in her eye, as she went pensively down a back street to escape observation. “ Why don't he write?” My dear girl, he has for gotten you. He don’t intend to write. He’ll marry a western hco if r girl, and you—well you are foolish to care for him. Let him go. You can find a lover that won’t go west to get rid of an engagement. There goes another girl in. She’s out again. _ How she trips it down the street.— > Did you see that letter she hid in her bosom? There is something in her bosom besides that letter; there is joy there; “He’s written, I knew he would.” There goes a middle aged woman to the post-office; she asks as she has done for nearly every day for the last six mon’hs, for a letter. It don’t come. “ He must be dead. He would have written. He would’nt have forgotten his poor mother.” My dear woman, be is not dead, I saw biro not long ago. He wps in an oyster saloon, I saw him playing for oysters and beer. I saw him again play ing for money, I saw him with the brandy bottle, then at the Zoo table, then ot poke; then at vingt-un ; and 1 saw him reel to the door penilesa, and as he went out into the dark night, I hoard him repeat that holy name “ Mother,” that sacred word stayed hia hand as it was filled against his own life, but it did’nl save him. He went beck next night I mother, your son ig lost, you will be childless soon, and should you go to visit his solitary grave, place at his head a tombstone, and en- grave on il—•“ He died of disease contracted at an oyster saloon.” There is another mother coming from tho post-office. She has a letter from her son.— Shots reading it. Let us catch the sentences as she reads—“ doing well”—“ twenty dol lars a month to begin with”—“ don’t gamble” —“ don’t go to oyster saloon’s”— got a good preacher’’—“ Sunday school”—“ going to be a teacher"—“ wish I was a Christian.” Pon my soul the woman is crying—and laughing too hark! “Thank thee oh my God, that'my son is preserved from the oys ter saloon !” My dear madam, what’of the oyster saloon ? Oysters are good, “ but cost ly” said she with a sneer “cooked with pasteboatd and brandy.” Take them raw then, said we. Raw I and she repeated it again “ raw I what a dish seasoned with pepper, salt and “canal water I” my dear sir I would not give a snap for that young man who takes raw oysters and beer.” Mr. Editor, 1 don’t know exactly what I have written, but 1 am near the bottom of my page, and here it is. lam a kind of wandering Jew, not the one, that so much is saidabout, but - a good deal'younger; and I’m evetywhere about, and know ail that’s going on ; and thought as I passed along round I might as well give *0 sketch of matters and things for winter amusement; and if you’ll print, I’ll have my secretary write down my thoughts for the good of the dear gentiles. Yours truly, Dec. 24,1856. JEHOSAPHAT. Happy Ifcw Year. A happy New Year lo all. My heart gushes and overflows with love and respect to all the inhabitants of this lovely little Vill age. Here in this quiet place among the mountains, removed far from the hurry, bustle | and noise of my native city, 1 feel much hap-1 pier; a spring ol good, pure and joyous feel-1 ings have welled up in my heart, never lelt i before* lam only a frail child of earth, yet i I have a great heart with strength and vigor ;| though exposed to many temptations, my I soul has grown and strengthened mightily. — i God has given it life for a good purpose. It was not born merely lo die, but lo love and be beloved ; and new opportunities for retreiv ing and redeeming mispent moments; for j healing the wounds my imprudence has caus ed; to be kind to the fallen and neglected ; to make them feel there is still pity and sym pathy for their fallen and unhappy situation. We should not despise them ; they have fall en, and we may fall. Instead ol crushing, we should endeavor to lighten the burden of sin and suffering. God grant all may be happy in this New Year. Let us all he kind lo each other. In such a place as this, all should be as one family. Be kind to all, and our hearts Will be light and joyous. Jam truly happy here, 'be dear little Churches with their plain appearance, All my heart with devotion. The free and pure air ex pands my soul, and it flows out in gratitude and love to God. So grand and sublime are the works of nalure all around us, that all man’s work’s sink into insignificance. All truly noble men, worship God, for he is love. In a few short years we will all have passed away. May we all be prepared 10 die, that when th; soul escapes from us prison—for ’tis truly said that the soul is a prisoner which always kills its keeper when it makes its escape—we will hope and strive till faith crowns us with the wreath of eternal bliss and gain life eternal. To you all my dear friends a happy New Year. JENNIE. From the Honcsdalo DoinocmL Proclamation. To the Clergy of Wayne Co. Pa. ; Reverend Sirs: The ever-shifting cur rent of public events demands that the De mocracy again address you in regard to your duties. As,the opportunity is not offered on the stump, this method is adapted. Another subject is to he entered upon the list of ihose topics which we prohibit the min istry from introducing into their pulpits. We allude to the African Slave Trade. The subject of re-opening this trade has been broached by its late Governor to the glorious and chivalric Stale of South Caroli na, which recently cast an unanimous vote for Buchanan and Breckenndge. The ques tion has also been discussed in the Southern Commercial Convention, whether African flesh and blood would be a proper article of commerce and its propriety sustained by the delegates from the unswerving democratic Stale of Texas, South Carolina and, Alabama. Nay, further, there has been a vote in the House of Representatives at Washington upon it, and forty-eight democrats have voted against a resolution declaring “ that this House regard all suggestions or propositions of every kind, by whomsoever made, for a i revival of the slave-trade, as shocking to the | moral sentiments of the enlightened portion { of mankind.” i The question, therefore, of the African slave-lrade has become a political one, and you are hereby warned, Revcrned Sirs, to ab stain from the slightest allusion to it in the | pulpit. If any ol you should so far overstep your duties as preachers of righteousness, as to touch upon this topic, you will come under the condemnation of our invincible parly. It is possible that the question to which we al ludemay still be a moral question, and, con sidered as such, be not out of place in the pulpit; but since it has assumed a political bearing, of course, it must not be bandied. So beware! The faithful have been instruc ted, (if any minister shall announce Exodus 21st chapter and 10th verse, as a text,) to take their hats and leave the temple of God so disgracefully desecrated by political allu sions. By order of the Democratic Executive Committee. Jeffebson VVoodbuo , Chairman. The Huntingdon Journal will please un derstand us correctly. We say, positively, that Fillmore editors from the valley of the Juniata were in the pay of Forney during the late campaign. The only difference between two of them-was this; Jones of the Tyrone Era was more. fortunate in fobbing a few of Forney’s gold'dollars than Barr of the Hun tingdon American. Forney’s check did not cover all of Barr’s expenses. He said he would be down on him for it. Let him tell the whole truth, and make a glean breast of the sale. —Blair Co. Whig. Travel between this place and Kansas Citv is mostly suspended. Our business is all done at Leavenworth. There has not been any taxes laid on lots in this city up to present dales. The titles to lots are the aamo as a year ago. C 91,. Titus.—Before Col. Titus left Kan sas, he offered to liberate an'y Free Slate prisoner who would join his command, and go with him to Central America. One man accepted his offer, so far as to promise to meet him, on l the 10th of next month, at St. Louis, Titus then look him from th&guard, and gave him his liberty. Three hundred Free State prisoners at Le. compton, have all either escaped, or been ac. quilted, save fifteen who are sentenced at Le. compton. The latter, we have no doubt. Gov. Gbart will cheerfully pardon, when asked to do so, which we hope will be the case soon. Capital in Lawrence.—Every house in Lawrence, public and private, is overrun with strangers who have recently entered (he Ter ritory. Most of them have come with the view of permanent settlement,and are search ing for claims, and buying up city property. A greater amount of capital is now represent ed in Lawrence, than has been at any former period. The future of Kansas was never so cheering as at present. Will They Vote.—A friend, writing as from Boston, nquires whether the Free State settlers of Kansas would vote for a member of Congress, or take any action, towards forming n rtfew Slate Constitution, if Congress would empower them to act in the premises. Most certainly they would. The people of Kansas have only refused to vole under the bogus laws. We cannot and will not rec ! ognize them. We had no voice m 'heir en j actment. They were imposed upon us bv a | body foreign to our soil, who sought our en ; slavemenl. To vole under laws of their en- I actment, is to surrender the whole question. I Arrest of Free State Men.— The Gov- I ernor, some three weeks ago, sent a couple of companies of United States Cavalry to (he south-eastern portion of the Territory, to as sisl in restoring order and confidence in hat j vicinity. A few days afterwards, they were I followed by E. Hoagland, U. S. Commission j er, and J. A. W. Jones, as Deputy IJ, j. 1 Marshall. In the vicinity of Middle Creen ( and Pottawatamie Creek, many complaints j were made before the Commissioner, seven arrests, and the following individuals veia committed for trial, viz : James Townstev. William Partridge, Henry Kilburn, >ViUiam Kilburn and Samuel W. Kilburn. All Free Stale men of course. For The Agitator'. The Kitburns are peaceful farmers, ,ivmj on ihe Pottawatamie Creek, twelve miles above Ossawatomie. Their buildings ma their hay and wheal slacks were burnt bvifie Ruffians, now, they are suspicious persons, and must be arrested. We are disgusiea with this one-sided business, ,'s it possible, that in all these excitements, no Pro>Slaverv man has committed any crime worlhv of ar rest and trial ? Two or three hundred Free Stale men have been arrested, and most oi them severely punished before trial, whether guilty or not. But one Pro-Slavery man has been arrested, and he is out on bail; .1 our opponents expect to make capital out such conduct they mistake the men they ire dealing with. —Herald of Freedom. The Telegraph to JBnrope. The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph has become a fixed fact. The discussions of the British Chambers of Commerce on it are given m another column. The line has been sounded and surveyed. The bed has been cnosen whereon to lay the Wire; the Mechanics* hired to forge it; the Ships spoken lor tutor it, and the day set for them to sad. Two vessels, each carrying half of it, meet on May 31st in mid-ocean. The ends are linked, and one sets sail lor America, the other for Ireland. The cable runs out over board at the rale of 10 miles an hour. When one ship reaches Galway and the other Cape Race, iho work is done : It will cost a million ana a quarter 01 dol lars. Liverpool subscribes a quarter or million, Manchester a hundred thousand; New York, London, Birmingham and Bos ton, will raise the rest. So settled an atfair do the Stock hioders seem 10 consider K r ihat they are .jbeginning to discuss what dividends they will') pay next year, and bow much they will charge for “ ten words” from New York to London I Submarine telegraphs muinply fast. There is a wire from Dover to Calais under me British Channel. There is a wire from Ostqnd to Dover under the German Ocean. Dublin and Liverpool are connected bv a wire under the Irish Sea. Vienna and Sevastopol are linked by a wire under an arm of the Black Sea. lonian isles are next year to be wired fast lo Greece. Algeria is to be fastened lo France, Malia. lo England, and Egjipl :o Constantinople! The London Telegrapa Operator in 1858 will hold in his hand wires running to the four quarters of the Globe, as easily as a Coachman gathers up the reins of a Four in-hnnd ! — Aid. Jour, Printers’ Festival at Elmira,— The members of iho “ craft” in Elmira have per fected arrangement for a Festival at that vil lage in commemoration of the anniversary of Franklin's birthday on Friday, the 16ih of January next. An address will be deliv ered on the occasion by a distinguished .mem ber of the “ craft,” and an original poefh will bo read by Flobus B. Plimpton, Esq. present Editor of the Chemung County Republican, —a grand supper, with toasts, speeches, &c, —“ a feast of reason and it flow of soul”- will be an entenaining portion of the nro gramme of festivities. In the evening, those who feel “light-footed" will “join m a jo vial dance" at Holden’s Hall. We are au thorized to extend a general invitation to an in this vicinity, who desire to attend. — Wells ville Free Press. By the last foreign arrival we have intelli gence of the death of the celebrated Doctor Pusey, the most famous theological writer ot the present century. He 'was the originator of the Anglican or Puseyite party >n tbs Church of England, and, though his earty associates, Dr. Newman, and a vast numoct of his disciples, have gone over to Papacy. Doctor Pusey remained in the Sngitsi' Church. Kansas Items.
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