THE AGITATOR. HI. 11. C0bb,............>G41Ur. All Busincg'(,ain< other Conhnanicaiionamiut be addressed to tlie Editor to fnsort attention. " 1 WELLBBOEOUGH, PA, T Imrsday fflotnla;, iaa ll> ISSV CPIRITUALISM.'-Pr»». 8. B- O Hfillun, Ediior of llm onurOiL Tii-g -umrii, will Lecture upon llie FACTS'AND PHI LOSOPHY OF SPIRITUALISM, In Uie Court House, commencing THURSDAY loth lost., ancf continuing . nightly the week. An opportunity is now offered this pabHc, (a listen to one. uf Uie ablest advocates o( Urn Spirit* nalhdic doctrine* Leciure icommencce at 7 o'clock. ADMISSION, ia l-a cents. WelUboro 1 ! Jan. 8,1857* '' L. P. Wiluston, Esq., will accept thanks for dxomcnls. Prof. Cbittas lectures tonightatthe Court House —Subject, The Facts and Philosophy of Spiritual- ism. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a quarter loaf ol lip-top corn bread,for Which tbe generous donor will please accept oar sincere thanks. The Message and an unusual ioflul of legal ad vertisements oblige us to defer much that would otherwise have appeared. The most important ar ticle laid over until next week, is another instalment of “Oar Village,” in the author's usual chatty style, and rosy with the hue of real life. These articles arc deservedly attracting much attention. The au thor puts a keen edge upon his good-humored thrusts ut the prevailing vices and follies in **our village." We bid him God speed with his Asmodeau labor?. Wc have received the Tribune Almanat for 3857. li coutuint a vast amount of political and stat'iKtical i.'formation, olwoys wanted, but seldom to be got ot. Here wc have it in a convenient form for reference and preservation, and costing but one shilling, Wc ahull have a quantity on hand and for sale at tins office in a few days. Wc are Informed by Mr. iso. N. Bachs, Hon Secretary of the Cosmopolitan Art Association for tins county, that the Annual Prawing will positive. )y take place on the 2dth inst. All subscriptions in be paid in to the Secretary by tbe 30th Inst., in order to compete for the prizes. By reference to me another column, it will be seeh' that the opportunity to secure a good Magazine, or a hue picture is now offered with additional induce ment*. , 93 secures Harper one year, and a share in the Distribution of Paintings and Statuary. So with the other $3 Magazines. Every subscriber receives the full value of his money in literature; Therefore no laps can be sustained. The Legislature convened on the 6th inst The democrats have nominated Forney for U. S. Senator. Should he be elected the prostitution of Pennsylva. nia will be utter and, almost hopeless. No news Jrom Harrisburg, or of the doings in Assembly, have yet reached us. 4 k Cameron will probably be the opposition candid ntt ugam»l I‘urncy. We say Cameron, but with out hoiie . Liter. J, L. Getz, of Berks, is chosen Speaker of ihc House, and Hon. D-Taggartol’ Norlhomber land. President of llio Senate. The first is a demo, oral and Lhc latter a Republican. No business of in tercsl has yet been transacted. We have been shown a private letter from Harris burg, staling that nine democrats refused to go into caucus, and will not support Forney. -}f this be the case, Cameron stands a fair chance to win. Buch anan sent up a special request to the M harmonious” iL-iuucracv to harmonise. The Buckalcw parly re luse to subside. We shall probably issue bciare the result can reach us. Oliapoatrida. Tlic Philadelphia Daily Newt seems to be sorely I exercised in regard to the growth and power of the I Republican parly. It cannot see that the Republic ans have made any progress, or that they have gain, ed any thing by the campaign just ended. It is not to be supposed that the Newt expresses its honest sentiments when it declares that it can see nn gain to tho Republican party in the struggle of 1856. A parly which in its first campaign is able to cast nearly a million and a half in an an aggregate of lour millions of voles, is, we apprehend, entitled to some little consideration. In eleven of the most en lightened Slates of the Union the Republican party is supreme. In Pennsylvania, it cas| about twice the number of votes cast by the party led by San. demon, Flanagan & Co, and ol which the Newt 's the me(ro)Kilitan organ. How much Republicanism has gained, depends upon whether the last fusion en terprise has satisfied certain leaders that to trust a Flllmorcitc is lo be betrayed. We presume that the last result of fusion in Pennsylvania will satisfy the most skeptical that the Republican parly can afford lo defer present success and rest the cause upon its merits, if success must be deferred by such policy. Cut in its suffrages alone does not lie the parly's greatest gain ; and yet, its numbers essentially con stitute (he elements ol power. The Slave Power has pul off its contemptuous habit of speaking since Ihc November election, and at lust concludes that so large and respectable a party cannot be composed wholly of fanatics. It charitably presumes that the North is deceived—docs not understand the objects and aims of the enlightened South. The u enlight ened South” should understand that tbc-policy of Tyranny, whether it rules a plantation or an em pire, is in every age and clime tho same. Thus, when we seek lo know the aims of Slavery, we but refer to the history of the past and dwell upon the sad fate of Greece and Rome. Our school children are laught lo do this, and when they became citizens they remember the lesson and vole accordingly. Let Southern men take the Census of 1850 and the returns of the election of 1856 and study them in connection. They will ascertain that their can (lidale received his majorities in those sections where the benign influence of the Common School system lias not been felt. They will see that in New Eng. land, where but one in four hundred is found unable to read, Messrs. Buchanan and Fillmore did not re ceive even a respectable proportion ol the popular vole. They wil. find that in Uie enlightened South, where one white perton in every twelve is illiterate, both gentlemen referred to received an overwhelm, ing majority of the votes cast. They wilt find that the North counties of Pennsylvania and Illinois, where Fremont Reived . Overwhelming majorities! are proved by the Census to be the most enlightened portions of those Stales, aggregates considered. The parly has gained the reading and thinking masses, then, at l(osl, which is Something. That Southern editors should denounce the whole scheme of common school education is not to be wondered at Mental bondage must ever precede physical. The educated man at once recognizes Slavery as a grievous wrong and abhors iu He perceives that a general rnle, in considering human rights, applies to all sentient beings. He sees that Slavery is the consequence of Might's triumph over Right; and that the accidents of birth and color, per se, have no *; a fliore to do with «atatoof tad* Dial have (hote ori%wpi(lire.|«e llwe rore andersUndi Uat be ,b|fre«feinl_» by|»irtt»jof hi* acknowledged aWl'ity to defepd agilul tggrailoo, f „ *if la this consists the strength of the Republican or VgoVcramen’r by the gnvefne'd. The mariner is ensbled,.lo,shijij sunken reefs only bya knowledge of their position in IheWasto of water*. -So it is with the oititenr We bear that Slavery : i> a beneficentiinstitution to the black. Volume upon volume has bsen writ ten in vindication of tbe missionary influence op Slavery. Doe* any rational man'sdpppsethft tips “Missionary enterprise” would be sustained an lioUr wero if not profitable Id the" 350,000 'men win auperiutend .its operations T . Whete, then, is tbe trgbmchl for its beneficence f '• The removal of Shannon and •Lccomple must be considered as Republlcan tridmphs. The Slate elections Nortb. seived to strengthen the eyesight of Master Pierce, and the November election restored it to its natural vigor. The -men of Kansas owe the little respite Rom border.ruffian outrage they are now enjoying, to tin moral influence of the overwhelming vole cast by the Republican party.' Master Pierce was greatly surprised at the extent ol the disaffection at the North. Jeff Davis told him tlisl.it wouldn't be.mucb of a shower alter til—just a little rage of the elements of fanaticism. The child believed it and kept on sinning. He even de voted a good part of fail annual talk to tbe task of proving that the election of Buchanan was no en. dorseroenl of bis Administration. Wo can tell Mr. Pierce that he could not have received over 600 voles in Tioga county, bad be been in tin field. With principle (o vitalize and organization to di reel, the Republican parly must soon become invin cible In any force that can be arrayed against it. Its great need now is Organization. There mast be no presumption of strength without a perfect or ganization. Here in Tioga onr organization was not completed until near the close of the last cam paign. And yet the work was entered upon soon after the close of tbe campaign of 1855. It requires lime and labor to organize efficiently; it needs action —prompt, prudent, determined action, and not only immediate, but unremitting action, la begin now and continue until tbe morning of the 13th of Oct. oher, 1857. The age of miracles’has passed ; the success of the principles we all revere depends upon the vigilance of every one of us. We are ail work ers in the field. Nut a hand should be idle. Let the Clubs be revived with all despatch, remem bet ing that the result of the last battle was glorious becailsccvery man went to work. It will remain an imlesl riJcliUe monument of tbe labor of the free men of Tioga county. It has added more to the county’s reputation for intelligence and integrity than all victories on its record. Vigil, ance can not only render it worthy tl)e reputation but add new laurels to her already fair fume. The Governor’s Message, the essential portions of which may be found in another place, is a well writ ten and somewhat interesting State paper. It re ports a redaction of the Slate indebtedness daring Hie past year in tbe snm of $366,158,97. This is rather encouraglnglo taxpayers. The North Branch Canal, commenced in 1836, is ao far completed that boats pass from terminus to terminus; but it is not in applcpie order yet. The sale of the Public Im provements is strongly recommended. Were this recommendation to be acted npon, we apprehend the taxpayers would be greatly bencfilted. So long os the Canal Board shall be tolerated, just so long will ihc millstone of a public debt hang upon the neck of poor Pennsylvania j just eo long will favor ites grow fat and individual enlyprise grow lean. Get the Public Works into private hands. The taxpayers do not intend to pay for Canals in these days of steam. But they must knuckle down and pay up, and when all is said and me Glorious Old Como»oo»vcatm will own a big, muddy ditch with a host of insignificant arm-, worth less than a fanul Commissioner’s stealings for a single term. Dear people, how mnch longer will you submit to the gouging process? Don’t grumble about lax- I alien while you vale to sustain such a colossal sha ving machine as the Canal Board of Pennsylvania, Charles Sumner has been elected U. S. Senator from AJassachusetls, to serve six years from the 4th of March next. There was little or no opposition. Rhode Island has elected a staunch Republican to represent her in the national Senate. Messrs. L. Johnson 4 Co., Type-Founders, Phila delphia, have just issued a magnificent number ol the Typographic Advertiter. Wo notice an edito rial broaching the subject of‘An Asylum for do. caycd Printers,' and which concludes with an offer ol $lOOO lo start the ball. The ideals both new and good, and the proposed donation of the its orig inators is in harmony with their known liberality. The Foundry of this firm, is noted for the excel fence and superiority of its Oype, as also for its ex lent—being tho largest, probably, in '.he country. The proprietors are obliging and liberal, and enli. lied lo the extensive patronage they receive. Neiotpaprr Record.— Lay 4, Brother, Philadcl' phia, have published a volume under the ajjyvc title containing, beside a complete list of the newspapers in America and Great Britain, much valuable and interesting statistical information, priceless to the craft. They will do well lo strike out from the list of Wellsboro’ papers, the Banner, Farm Journal and Mettenger, as well as the Eagle, and Advertiter. “ Love aflei Marriage," and 13 other choice Novel ette! by the late Mrt. Lee Healz, In one large duodecimo volume, neatly bound in Cloth and teat prepaid by mail on icceipt of $1,25. lira calumet paper covert, $1 T. B. Peterson, 102 Chestnut-sl., Philadelphia, will publish this work on the 30lh inst„ in his nsu. al elegant style. We have expressed a high appro cialion of Mrs. Hcntz as a writer, very often, in Ibis place, and can say nothing in addition that has not been said already. We cheerfully commeftd the book lo all who would read and grow better. Petereon'e Magazine for February is received in advance ol all competitors. The engravings are fine, patterns ditto, stories ditto. In short, we can furnish n to our subscribers for 91,35 We have received the January number of the Phrenological Journal , in a spick-and-span new dress. IWe areglad to see such an evidence of pros, pertly in this popular Journal of Mental science, it being the only journal tints devoted, in the world. We can furnish this Journal and the Agitator fur $1,50; Life JUustrated t the finest literary paper in the country, and our paper one year, for $3; or both Journals, Life, and the Agitator for $3. If y on will read, here's a chance to do so at a merely nominal price. Lewie Baker, who has been tried two or .three times for the murder of Bill Poole, in .Now York, nnd in whose case no jury hits \ et been able to ngree, hits been released from imprisonment under five thousand dollnis bail. Hon. Hannibal Hamlin has resigned his sent in the United States Senate, preparatory to his inauguration as Governor of Maine. J THE x.l 0 gj., CjftlJ MT A t G IT ATO B I Attract «(/Aover|ioi^ ral.the 6*calpe»r ending#lo*embeSo, I&s® the teceiiu-ailhe Tre«wry (inclujjfng the plance ip roe Treasury m 'he lirst||iy of«fi*mber,lBss. «tf #1,24*697 33)-#» 0 .been#.0,621,937..,04 i .The. lolfli .expenditures, for the same period, were #5,378,142_ 23. fL lapce ih theJT reash cy Oecembe£Tj’ 1850,' 01,244,795 42. Gxcludingthe balance in the Treasury on the first of December, 'lBss, ‘ihereceipi*, from ■all sources, were-#5, 378)340-83* - Theordi nary expenditures fujr Jjb p fßme peripd,. .»ere l •#4,110,144 :77, showing On excess of i‘e- i ceipts over-ordinary expenditures-of #365,- 095 50...... ■' 6 ~\ t ; i‘ * -1 "v ■' The extraordinary ■ piy merits’ fdf the same year, w,ere81,201,997 46, as follow, viz: To the completion. of the P.ortago. Railroad, and for the payment of debls previdualy con* .traded on the 'work, #181,894 11; to the North Branch extension #122,728 53; to re lay the soul hi rack oft he Columbia Railroad #207,000 00; for motive power to 1655, #118,049 42: to enlarge the Delaware Di vision ofthe Pennsylvania Canal #13;900 00; for general repairs in 1853—’54—’65, #63, 90S 11; to domestic creditors #l5l 63; to old claims on the Main Line, examined by the Commissioners, and paid under the Act of May, 22, 1850, #130,512 09 ; to the re demption of Loans #827,834 47 ; and Relief notes cancelled OO. The interest on the founded debt which fell due in February and August last, was then paid, and that which becomes due in Februa ry next, will be paid with equal promptness, out ot available means now in the treasury. The punctuality with which the interest on the public debt has been paid, and'the ability of the treasury to meet all legitimate de mands upon it, have inspired public confi dence in our securities, and contributed large ly to establish and sustain the credit of the Commonwealth. V., .- 1 The Commissioners of (he Sinking Fund report the sum of 9622,432 03 as due by the Treasury to that fund. This amount will bo applied to (he redemption of Relief notes now in circulation, and to the payment of the funded debt. The total debt, Dec. 1, 1835, was $4l 067 22. The same, Dec. 1, 1856, was $40,701,- 839 25. Showing a reduction 0f5369,158,- 97—for year ending Dec. 1,1856. The reduction ofthe public indebtedness for the year ending Nov. 30, 1855, was $630,- 602 02. Thus the public debt has been re duced over one million of dollars within the two last years. Besides this large appropri ations and payments for the completion of various public works. It will be seen that the revenues of the past year, exceeded the ordinary expenditures $1,265,095 56. The estimated receipts over expenditures for the current year will reach the sum of $1,500,- 000. With proper economy, the expenditures for the current year will not exceed $400,000 being $1,000,000 to be applied to the further reduction of the public debt. Assuming the public debt on the first day of December, 1856, to be in round numbers, forty millions five hundred thousand dollars, and that nl the end of each fiscal year one million dollars, with the accruing interests on former payments, will be paid, unerring cal culation will determine ue as ue fata indicated. Thus, before the expiration of the year 1879, Pennsylvania may stand redeemed from the oppression of her public debt, and her people be released from a taxa tion imposed to meet its accruing interest, and to maintain the faith and credit of the Com monwealth. These views are not utopian.— By practicing strict economy in all deport ments ofthe government —avoiding extrava gant expenditure—refusing to undertake any new schemes of internal improvement, nnJ ho'ding to a rigid accountability the receiving and disbursing agents of the State, their real ization may be anticipated with confidence. The total receipts at the Treasury, from the public works, for the year ending Nov. 30, 1856, Vrere $2,006,015 06, being an in crease over the revenues ofthe previous year of $63,638 95.’ Of this sum $1,013,589 16 were canal and bridge tolls, and $992,420 50 lolls of the Columbia and Portage Railroads, The aggregate expenditures for the same year were $1,943,896 82, being an increase over those of the previous year of $105,105- 64, the revenues exceeding the expenditures only @62,118 84. The increase of the revenues from these wotks would be encouraging, were it not for the fact that the expenditures have increased in a still greater proportion—the expenditures, ordinary and extraordinary, exhausting al most the entire revenue from this source. The system must be defective, or more cere nnd economy should be exercised in ha mann<>e ment. The receipts, at the' Treasury, from (he several divisions were as follows—viz: Main Line $1,229,272 86 Susquehanna, North Branch & West _ Branch,.... Delaware, Total Receipts,... * The extraordinary, payments during the year amounted to 8808,893 16 j ordinary expenditures $3,135,004 00; net revenue, (excluding extraordinary payments and for motive power) 8871,011 00, On the Main Line, the lolls received at the Treasury from the Columbia Road were 8991,076 sfi ; expenditures 8538,084 86; lolls on the Eastern Division, of Canal, from Columbia to the Junction, $119,738 30; ex penditures 853,048 50; receipts from the Junction to Pittsburg, including the Porta»e Railroad, $117,778 00; ordinary expendi tures $304,703 82. The total receipts on the Main Line were 01,229,272 86; aggre gate expenditures, (excluding $207,000°00 paid for relaying the south track of the Co lumbia Railroad, and $153,040 42 for motive power in 1855 and after December 1, 1866), were 8865,830, being an excess of revenue over ordinary expenditures of $343,437 21. The net revenue of the Delaware Pivjsion. at the Treasury was $264,095 40. The economy which nas characterized its manage ment is very praiseworthy, (is enlargement is not deemed advisable, unless demanded by overruling necessity. Its capacity is thought to be sufficient, if kept in repair, to meet the demands of trade. The Portage Railroad is not yet completed, Efery war more^f early reveals the impolicy monly a raised sectional jeal uljhe §|ie in uddertaking this work. flisies thMagiuiion of vexed ||he mirth of the Pdnti- pnid di|jfaoti|g quest'iMp, but, as a conse- lsr completed that loaded Kadyfs with fraud, vio boaiVjlasg throtfgh iir fenlire length—a oft-' ferice aWstrife, hsssiainedlts soil with blood, .lance.-of-04~mile8 > —-Tbis-wor k wss.com*- aod—by-a--*yst«ro-of- territorial- legislation, menogd in.lB3o—suspend in 184 j —re-, justly styled “ infamous” bps, made freedom stimedib !84$l'rtd Hhisbed 1860.< --V: '- y of; speecb InttW ti»-pjrnVa leltiny, and per* In relation to the . propriety and policy of Hied the great principles of liberty and equal the sale of the Main Line of our public im> r rights. If itye doctrine of “popular soy.er* pmverhehts,'rhy I 'opini 6tr has noi changed.— eigoly” is in goodf fairh fo btf applied Id that Every consitteration'of'public policy,-of-pres- ■ Territory—if-the' people thereof are-to-be pm andufutuief ruieresti; requires :i|ie separa-; left /'.pe;fucity.free to form apd rqgulate.their liort of the Siute fVorn the 'management ‘ and domestic institutions in their own why, sub* control of thenrworks. The expenditureson ject to the Constitution vf llre_Uniled States, M that portion of the> line, between (he Junction then the obstruction of .the great National and-Piiisburg,. largely -.exoeedihei revenues, highways to the Northern emigrant, the era* the excess avUrageing-annually not less the ploymenl- of National, forces, and the one hundred and fifty thausand dollars; and 'subversion of law and. justice alike by the causesareun conataoi operation that will.still [officials in Kansas and,Washington, to force more increase this deficiency.'. This eontin- Slavery upon an onwilling people, cannot ual drain upon the Treasury, to sustain a be 100 severely condemned, work,.so unproductive, should at once be Freedom is the great centre-truth of Arnerh checked. A sale ofthcMaio, Line, for a fair can Republicanism—the great law Of Ameri consideration, and upon terms just and liber- .can Nationality; .Slavery is the exception, al to the purchasers, is the proper remedy. It is locafand sectional i and its extension The rapid increase of. population, lha im- beyond the jurisdiction creating it, or to tbg parlance and value of our home and foreign free territories of the Union, was never de-> commerce, the constant development of the signed or contemplated by the. patriot found material wealth Of the State, tbe extent of our ers of the Republic. In accordance with manufacturing, mechanical and agricultural these sentiments, Pennsylvania true to the industry, the fact that the State is flooded by principles of the Act of 1780, which abol a depreciated currency introduced by private isbed Slavery within her territorial limits— bankers and brokers, might justify, under the truo to the great doctrines of the Ordinance restrictions and limitations indicated, a judi- of 1767, which dedicated to freedom the cious increase of banking capital within our North Western Territory of the Union— Commonwealth. This, whilst it would aid true lu National faith and National honor, the operations of trade, and supply the real -asks and expects, as due to her own citizens business wants of the people, would, at the who have in good faith settled in the Terri same time, remedy, to some extent, the evils lory of Kansas, and as due to the industry of a depreciated foreign and illegal currency, and energy of a free people, that Kansas From a small and comparalivetyjunimpor- should be free, lant incident of the State Department, the In this connection, end as consequent upon care and management of the public schools of tho Commonwealth, with their seventeen hundred districts—ten thousand directors— twelve thousand teachers, and over five hun dred thousand scholars, have become the most important and laborious branch of that De partment, The increaaed and increasing busi ness of the system, has been mol by a cor responding increase of eeal, labor and effici ency in the officers to whom the law has committed its general direction and supervi sion. They should be sustained by wise and generous legislation. The magnitude and importance of the system, in its political, so cial, and mural relations to the present and future ofthe people, require-that this should be done. The guardianship of the mind of the State, shdtild occupy a distinct and prom inent place among the noble institutions of the Commonwealth. It should receive the efficient aid and encouragement of the gov- ernment, and be sustained by a virtuous and intelligent people, if the revenue and treas ures of the State—her public improvements —her lands and the titles—require and de- serve tho marked distinctive care of the gov- ernment, how much more should her'mental and intellectual treasures, richer than gold— the social and moral improvement of her peo ple, more valuable than canals and railways the titles of her youth to (he boundless fields of knowledge, higher than any -of earth or aught growing out of its ownership, claim aif honorable position, and receive a care and aid COmmeaSUratfi Wlltk ihvli- grmlar value end usefulness. The County Snperiniendency, wherever it has been committed to faithful and efficient men, has fully vindicated the wisdom and policy of that measure. It is slowly, but sure ly, removing the prejudices and gaining the confidence of the people. Whatever defects time and experience may develop, in this or any other branch of the system, should bo promptly corrected. Or educational, charitable and reformatory institutions have strong claims upon the boun tyofthe people, and 1 cordially commend them to your care and liberality. The Stale Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg, and the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, and other kindred purposes ot Pitts- burg, are noble charities, and deserve the aid and encouragement of the State. The annual reports of these institutions wili be laid be fore you, and Hill exhib in detail their opera tions during the past year. The House of Refuge in Philadelphia, and the Western House of Refuge near Pittsburg, are institutions of great excellence, results clearly establish the wisdom ofthe poli- cy that founded and sustains them. ' They ought not to be neglected ; nor should Ihe aid of the Commonwealth be withheld from them. The Blind” and the “Deaftnd Dumb Asylums” at Philadelphia; and “the Penn- sylvania training school for idiotic and feeble minded children" are institutions that appeal, in silence and sorrow, to the best and purest feelings of the heart, and ask your sympathy and aid. They should receive a generous share of the benefactions of the Stale. Agriculture, in its varied departments, is the great interest of the Commonwealth. It . 426.830 51 . 349,922 29 is the basis alike of financial and commercial success, and of State and national prosperity. An interest so important should be fostered . .2,006,015 66 by the Slate, and honored by all classes of society, should cheerfully contribute. In a former communica'ion I recommended the establish- ment of an Agricultural bureau, in connec- tion with some one of the Stale Departments, to give efficiency to the collection and diffu sion of useful knowledge on this subject, and to encourage scientific and practical agricul ture. Science, with wondrous energy, has aided the husbandman in his honorable voca- tion, and proffers still more help. should nerve his arm and cheer him onward in this, the fust and noblest pursuit of man. This subject, in connection with an appropri ation to the “ Farmers High School of Penn sylvania”—an Institution destined to be an honor to the Commonwealth—-is recommend- ed to your favorable consideration. The reform of the naturalization laws— the prevention, by the National Government, of the importation of foreign criminals and paupers, and a mdre careful, rigid and per- sonal examination, by our courts, of all per* sons coming before them as applicants for ad mission to the rights of citizenship, would, to some extent, correct existing abuses, and re lieve the ballot-box from the pressure of cor rupting and dangerous influences. The reckless repeal of the Missouri Com. To its promotion and success all imz'st the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, ref erence to a proposition made by some of the leading Southern journals, and more recently sanctioned by high official authority in a sis ter Stole, (o re-open lha African slave trade, will not be deemed improper. That such a traffic, declared to be Piracy, apd execrated by the civilized world—so crowded with hor rorain every stage of its pursuit—so revoll ' ing to every sentiment of humanity—every impulse of pure and noble feeling, should be advocated or approved* in this nineteenth century, with apparent sincerity, and urged as a measure of political economy and of justice and equality to the Souihern States of the Union, are facts that find their only ex planation and apology in a wild enthusiasm, or a still wilder fanaticism that overwhelms alike the reason and the conscience. The wisdom and humanity of a proposition so startling and monstrous, must seek their par- alleland illustration in ihe dungeons of the Inquisition, or in the hold of the slave ship, amid the horrors of the “ middle passage." Equally repulsive to the intelligent and virtu- ous sentiment of the South as well as the North, it should receive the indignant rebuke of every lover of his country —of every friend of justice and humanity. The history o I the world and of crime does not reveal a traffic more inhuman—an atrocity more horrible.— Against a proposition so abhorrent, and against the principles jt involves, as the rep resentatives of a free people, and in their name, you should enter their unanimous and emphatic protest. The union of the Stales, which consliluies us one people, should i>e dear to you—'a every American citizen. In the heal and excitement of political contests—in the whirl of sectional and conflicting interests—amid the surging of human passions, harsh and discordant voices may hie Aeard, threatening its integrity and denouncing its doom; hut in the calm “ sober second thought” of a patriotic and virtuous peojile, will be found its security end defense. Founded in wisdom, and cherished by the intense affection of pure and devoted patriotism, it will stand, safe and undisturbed, amid the insane rage or political demagoguism, and the fitful howling of fran tic fanaticism; and when it falls—if fall it must—it will be when liberty and truth, pat riotism and virtue, have perished. Pennsyl vania tolerates no sentiments of disunion she knows not the word. Disunion I“ Ms an after-thought—a monstrous wish—unborn till virtue dies.” The Union and the Consti tution—the safe-guard and bond of American Nationality—will bo revered and defended by every American Freeman who cherishes the principles and honors the memory of the il lustrious founders of the Republic. JAMES POLLOCK. Executive Chamber, i Harrisburg, Jan. 6, 1857. $ .Judge Wilmol, This gentelman has won for himself a proud position in the Republican pary of this Staie. Id former years, when he acted with the Democratic organization that party re posed especial confidence in him. They felt that there was a latent power—a power to dare much and to accomplish much—in that strong, manly form, and close, hard.set head —Hence, the old, corrupt spoilsmen feared him, and the younger and purer portion of the Democracy Recognized him as a fit em bodiment of theifTresher and be fer impulses. When in 1847, he offered bis celebrated proviso to the “ Three Million” Bill, he was involuntarily hailed from all sides as a man of talent and of who could rise above parly tiammels, and espouse and maintain boldly a great principle. Heat once attracted the at tention of the people of this Stole and the Nation. Since that lime, although persecu ted and calumniated by the Somh and the doughfaces of his own party, he has not only maintained his previous reputation, but he has risen to be, and is now recognized as one of the leading men of the country. The Republican party of Pennsylvania owe to him a most unbounded debt of grati tude—a debt which it will not only gladly recognize, but discharge fully, at some future day, when it shall have risen to that strength which will one day cover it with victory. The most eminent positions within ha gift will assuredly be conferred upon him. The man who, by his personal influence, could bring such powerful aid to the support of freedom in the North ns he has done, must needs be proclaimed a chivalrous and gallant spirit. He deserves the name whieh the Republicans of Philadelphia have conferred on him, “The L'on of the North !” The State The day is even now at Innd, when the W,- t 1 Ea«l will be •stbonmghly.indoctrmited win, iabafonhedpb.ikfeWidn of slavery juhpr, ur tjmNortb aiij ,Wepti bavealreadyJbeem When it shall come, Judge Wilmol will deserve, as be win ireeeive tbe thanks of gerierous women and Ibravej men v as ibeiuccjMsfuf pioneer in tbit great cause. Andifheabouid be elevated to high power, as lie will be, they will fat the satisfaction growing out of the fact, that his intellectual abilities ’ fit him to fill with honor"any post to which h* may be called, —‘Pkila. Timtt. Obituary. At a special meeting of the Tioga County Bible Society, held on Monday, the 15hh day of January, iniL, pursuant to call, the following preamble and resolutions were read and nnanimonsly adopted: Wuaus, It baa pleaaed God in the diapeoaation of hia all-wise but inscrutable Providence tu remove Mr. Geo. McLeod, Ptesident'of the Tioga County Bible Society, from earth In a moat sodden manner; and but a single day after bis election to that office t therefore. RtuHttd, That in this melancholy itroke, we rec ognize the band of Him whose ways are not as oor ways, and who, in bis mysterious dealings withmen, “ doeth all things well." 9d, Tint in the death of oor late Preaident tbia Society baa lost one of itr moat alocere friend*, and efficient office™, and our village and county one of its beat citizens and liocereat sympathisers in every good word and work. Hia interest In' everything tending to secure the social or moral well-being of thp community in Which be lived was manifested by tbe rigid snd unswerving manner in which be It. bored for every good work, regardless alike of popu lar frowns or smiles. 3d, That we tendet to his afflicted fan»Ht and friends our sincere sympathy, tttating that they will draw that consolation from (he remembrance of bis example and the God whom beloved, which we feel so poorly qualified to lender. H. W. WILLIAMS, *e*W. J. F. DONALDSON, Prest, Fro itn{. THE Friends of Rev. A. A. Maarcx are re. spectfolly invited to attend a Donation risit at the Episcopal Parsonage, on Thursday evening Jan. 22. 1857. * Presbyterian church.—urftii farther notice, the services in this Church will com. mence one hoar earlier, to wit—Sabbath School a 1, and preaching at 2, P. M. NOTICE is hereby given, that an application has Wen made to the Coqrt of Common Pleas of Tioga County, for the Incorporation of the THE FIRST SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, in Charleston, for religions purposes, which will be granted at tbejnext Term of said Court, if no sufficient objection be mads thereto. J. F. DONALDSON, ProVy. Wellsboro, Jan- 8.1857 Wellsboro* Library company, NOTICE is hereby that an application has been made to the Court of Common Pleas of Tioga County, for the Incorporation of the WELLS. BORO LIBRARY COMPANY, for literary, and scientific purposes, which will be granted at the next Term ofsaid Court, if no sufficient objection be made thereto. J F. DONALDSON, Prot'v. Wellsboro, Dec. 21, 1856, EEOIUTBItS NirrrCK— Notice . hereby ytve'n, tfmt rbe Executors,aridGuardian's ou .hefoltowinjnamedcM'alu have sett let! their accouats. and that the some will be p*-e-«n -led to the Orphan’* Court ofTio~u Co.nuy, ou Monday, ibe 9th day of February, IS-Vt, fbi al'owauce ami coufirmaiiun. tlr: The account of Lewi* Walker, Gnaadtao of Lucy Fpom, minor child orSmmu-l Krwt, dt*c*d. Tl»e account of Eddy ilowlnud, Executoi of the estate of Anna Carr, dec’d. The a *cou*it of James Kelly, &ocu»or of the es.ate of Robert Burley, i!ec'u. it.n.boio Jen. li ISM. List of Jams, February Term, 1851. GRARO JURORS. Eddy Howland, J. 8. Davenport, D. K Marsh. R. W. House, Henry Crippen, Butler Smith, E. T Bentley. E. I. Stevens, Daniel Brian, C. H. Place; L. N.'Rutty, Enos Slosson, John Anil, Simeon flab cock, Alexander Harris, A. C. Cole. Asa Hailed. Isa.ah Harding, 6. B. Owlet, Richard Lonnshurr, Aaron Dodge, Joel Culver, A. G. Ray, Joel Rose. TRAVCIW* JURORS. Joseph Hubbell, Rnluf Deryea, L. S, Ogden, Syl. vester Davy, Lucius Barlow, Edwin VP. Crane, Or. son Pemberton, Thomas Barber, Calvin Hammond, Thomas Allen, John Lewis, Morris Seely, Christo-' plier Stehoonuver, C. L. Beach, George Hildreth, Avery Gillelt, 8. W. Reynolds, B. M. Bailee, John Pierson, P. M, Coon, Benoni Short, John Fletcher, Zena Atkins, Hiram Hodge,Samuel Sykes, L. B. Shives, S. P. Moore, S. W. Denting, R/H. Do'nd! Tilton Crittenden, Merrick HurHmrt. Joseph Ronsei N. A. EHiotuJ. Slosson,-Jesse Doan,-Philip Damr'. 8. V. Beeman; Thomas Peak, Jefferson Prutpnsn; Nathan Comstock, 8 L. Parmentier, Henry Brown, D. S. Mackey, Peter M. Cloose, J, B. Cadworth, Charles Tales, Joseph Yonkcn, B. J. Rew. . secotro week. •P. S. Clerk, William B. Rich, Obadiah Inscho, Charles Edsall, (Allen T. Webster. Frederick Bodine, A. C. Jewell, Thomas Windsor, W. W. Babb, Hiram Campbell, Samuel Morgan, Jambs Steele, Ira Baker; A. J. Ross, R. Christenat, Alanson Palmer, Robert Campbell, A. C. Balch, Andre# RitteV, Hiram Mer rill, Charles Baldwin, 1. H. Corwin, U. S. Diffen. baclier, Thomas Reynolds, Richard Marks, Samuel Griunell, Jonathan Stokes, George Dorrance, B. B. Smith, A. D. Cole, M. S. Baldwin, John A. Holden, Peter Cameron, Jr. Benjamin Cure, John Dailer, R. P. H. McAllister/ Trial List, February Term 1857, D. A. Parke tb K. D. Honey Jm. Do Hey r* L. U. Reed et el B terlr k Trowbridge t S j. Pn( Sman e t a j W. MWdangh et el tb Oneraser A Whitman Van Bureu 4 Churchill tb IJ. StoweH et al Pclcg Feck th X. Young J. D. Hall tb J. Sherwood R. &