From California avid'fft'car.ag’a Wefiave two weeks laternews from .Cali fornia by the arrival at New York* on the 15th Inal., of the steamship George Law,- with $1,250,000 in gold. The steamship Sierra Nevada left San Francisco on ,the 20th nit., for San Juan, with a large number of recruits for Gen. Walker. An attempt was made a few 'days previous to search this steamer at her dock. The Supreme. Court of California has pronounced the entire Slate debt unconstitutional except $300,000. '-The. Court recommends the adoption of the debt' by ilia Legislature, and that the*? question of repudiation bo submitted to the. people. . No transfer of stock has been made since the de cision. The people are opposed to repudia tion. Meetings have been called TncdoHie parts of the Stale to give expression to'the public opinion. At a meeting . held at San Francisco, a resolution was passed,,pledging the redemption of the debt by the people.' The amount was three millions of dollars. The Supreme Court also decided’ that $l,~ 500,000 scrip used by tho old corporation for street assessments,’ was also illegal. ■ Asuil was-also decided, brought by a purchaser of tlte city slip properly, for the recovery of money paid to the city, the s^le having since bren declared illegal. The decision Is, that although (he sale was illegal, and therefore the title remits to the city, yet the purchase money, must be recovered from the Land Commissioners who made the illegal sale.—r The amount in dispute is one million (wo hundred thousand Hollars. The Court has also decided that the City is not liable for three hundred and seventy five thousand dol lars for a lot purchased for (he county build ings. Tho Court has also sanctioned the seizure of the Prcmout Mariposa grant for taxes, and the estate will be sold unless the taxes nre paid. A battle was fought on the 21-u of November at Puget Sound, between the Northern Indians and the U. S. steamer Massachusetts. Twenty-seven Indians were killed and twenty-one wounded. The re mainder surrendered. Only one of the men belonging to the steamer was killed. The revolution in Peru is progressing. General Vivnnce, Ihe leader of (he movement, has iw‘cn received with enthusiasm at Arequiba. Several provinces have declared in.his favor. Anca was attacked November 24th by the insurgent steamers Lea and Apurinac. Busi ness was completely paralyzed. Advices have been received from San Juan del None to December 22d. Captain Stout had quarrelled with General Walker, and stopped running his bouts. .General Walker had seized for his own use all the steamers on the lake and river. -A letter from Gran-- nd'i, dated December Ist, states that the church of Guadeloupe was still held by the two hundred Yankees, who refused to sur render at' he summons of .General Belleaoi They were to be attacked immediately, pfter which the bulk of the allied army would proceed to co-operate against San Juan and Virgin Bay. The loss of the filibusters, since November 28th, is estimated at 300, and that of the allies but small. Private letters slate (hat the Indians of Omatepe had risen against Walker, and had killed fifteen filibusters.— General Walker, with ISO - men, had .at tempted In retake Granada, but had been re oulsed. The advices from Rivas, are to Deo, sth. General Walker had arrived within <>no league from Rivas, and was preparing to attack Gen. Cnnns, whohadsix hundred men, well supplied with provisions and munitions of war. A few skirmishes had taken place between the advanced guards. General Walker's men arc said to be badly off, and dying daily of dysentery. Two hundred men, hemmed in the church of Guadeloupe, were destitute of water and sublisting on horse flesh, but nevertheless obstitinalely re-' losing the quarter offered them by Belloso. Mr. Morse, the American Commissioner at Bogota, proceeded to Carlhagcna in the Brit ish steamer. A week or two ago we published a stale men of the number of applications for Banks to be made to Ibe Legislature at its present session. Bills to incorporate these various Banks have already been read in place. It is amusing to watch the course of the democra tic newspapers published in the neighbor hoods for which these institutions are intend ed. Be sure, they are in general opposed to Banks, believing them.to be a species of “ monster” whose special delight is swallow ing the poor and destitute; but then, (he Bank proposed for their particular locality is so urgently demanded by legitimate business interests, and will fall into hands so upright nod honorable, they cannot refrain from going for it. They all tell the same s'ory. Won derful I is it not 1 Now, we know, i( the democratic journals do nut, that some of these very Banks must, if chartered, inevita bly fall into the hands of crafty speculators and grasping monopolists, whose own opera tions would absorb two or three shell’institu tions as they are applying for.—Honetdale Democrat. Who is John VV. Forney 1 He is the man who o Item pled to bribe a gentleman to gel an inebriate drunk, and while drunk to draw from him a boast of extreme favors granted to him by a lady, and then to appear in court and so testify to this drunken vaunt as to Mast the lady’s fame. The democrats all know this, and yet they make a great ado because threo honorable members of their party would not vole to make this same For. noy a Senator of the United Slates. This is the same Forney in whose behalf Mr. Buchanan was so greatly exercised in mind, that he refuses to be comforted.' It was indispensable to him that this Forney should he elected, in order that Pennsylvania might have a Senator in whom he could have im. plicit confidence I— Uonesdale Democrat. Republican Victories in Western Pennsylvania. i —Henry A. Weaver, was elected Mayor of Pittsburgh, on Tuesday of last week. The Republicans carried the ticket for Councilman in seven of the nine Wards. In Allegheny the “ Independent”- Republican candidate for Mayor, H. De Haven, was elected over the Regular Republican Arid the Pemocralic candidates. The Republican candidates for Council were all elected.- The whole Republican- tiokdt was elected in Dir ipinghao). A brother of Lord Clarendon haa been up. inted British Minister to this country. ’ r,i t.;' is. h* Cehb|. . WELLSBOaOUQH. PA, Tiiandar.llloiMiii( l .liuL 30.185?. Tarn Oat>-Uicu EsxMhs* a-Wood-Bee . ity♦-vv- V v - • ' \y t«•> . - —» to-day. A protracted meetjng is being held, at fk* Metho dist chnieh'to this tbwh. ‘ " 1 '" " " Those who wish to join the clubnow being got op for Iho.fVerily Tribune, at this office, sbonld ep. ter their natnea without further delay. The cold aeeaia>to hare-readied its 'lntensity on' 3soi ihsL/tbe mercury' indicating $2 degrees below zero. But this is not the'only cold region' south of the Arctic circle. ■ AfQOebec, the mercury we'Ut down to 30 : beldw Verb,'last Fri day. - Sodlh ofus'the cold is Very ihlense. A very pleasant chapter, of “..Reminiscences” by an akhond valued contributor, will. be found. on the first page of this paper. Anptber instalment of u Our Village” will be read with interest and pleas, ore by our village folk. Several new correspond eots will be heard next wyek., , That is an unmistakable don. It refreshes mem ory,teazels conscience and makes the bekrtosten der as boiled souse. A friend dropped inlo oar office a few days since, and handed to as a cap; of the oldest democratic (oo called) paper in Northern Pennsylvania. Thereto ,* an argument in this,” said be, u . that I wish you I would answer.” We took the paper,,and looking it over, discovered ■ labored .article, well seasoned with Scripture quotations, cited in evidence of the divine origin ,of Slavery. We returned the paper,; atjthe same time remarking that ail modern wrongs hod been justified in a like manner; and that such arguments wopld do little barn} tp suff. ered to have their run, We looked upon llw argu- ( inept as unmistakable evidence of the justice of oar oft repeated charge, that the democratic parly is become the faithful friend and active ally of the damnable insulation of Slavery. We ask no better evidence of the nature of the triumph of that parly in llie election of James Buchanan,than this at tempt on the part of. democrats to justify their sup port of the Cincinnati Platform by appealing to the Bible in evidence of the divine' origin of Slavery. If they do not intend lhas to declare the pulicy’of the party, what do they intend 7 Suchjargumenls remind us of an old sinner down East, who feared God and loved Mammon. Qo was appealed to, once on a time, to aid a .poor man vfho had the misfortune to lose his oijly cow, in purchas ing another. Ho heard the appellant through, and after bestowing a lew works of pity upon the un. fortunate one, said with great unction; “ I refer you to that solemn passage of Scriptn'r’where it says “ 'entry tub mutt ttani uponitt own bottom ” And tills reminds ns of another case, a worthy deacon, whose solemn face used to awe us yonng., sters of a Sunday. He had the misfortune to lose a fine, fat ox, and thought it a pity that So fine a beef should feed the crows when beef brought five cents a pound in market. So he skinned and dressed the ox and carried it to Hartford—about thirty miles distant—and sold it to the inhabitants thereof. Well, the facts leaked out and came to (he cars of the brethren. The deacon was “ hauled over the coale,” and severely catechized. The fact of (he sale of the suspicious beef was made to appear, and the deacon pleaded guilty to the sale ; ed that the sale wo* swptnral and therefore rigid; and taking the Bible, read that such kind of beef might be disposed of to." the stranger- and the al ien without the gales.” The assembled eiders wore dumbfounded! The deacon bad Warped Isis case beyond the jurisdiction of the church and was dis missed in silence. Yol none of his brethren look to selling suspicious beef thereafter on the strength of a permit given to a people some thousands of years ago, and who looked upon all Die other pco. pies of the earth as little better than.dogs. We are also reminded of the pious hucror which seized upon our democratic brethren when Ward Beecher and other celebrated divines presumed to preach against Slavery from the pulpit. “ Sacrilege ! “ Infidelity! Union of Church with Stale !" “ De “ filed ministerial robes! Pulpits desecrated ! the “Savior crucified anew!”—these cries went up from the white lips of our pious contemporaries with ail the hypocritical dissemblings of which they Were capable. We were not deceived. • What eared they for pulpits, for ministerial robes and for crucifixions ? Nothing. To show their hypocrisy tiiey fly to lire Bible for proof of the divinity of Slavery, in every conversation pf ten minutes duration. It becqmcs our duty to protest against this attempt to mix up politics and religion I Gentlemen, forbear ! Don’t bedrabblo the sacred pages with the mire of politics! Don’t crucify Moses and the prophets 1 Don’t pre sume to compare the Jewish theocracy with modern detpocracy—lest we come to despise the lessons to be learned from the one as fully os we do the de generate and wicked policy of the oilier. For one we decidedly prefer the stern Mosaic decrees to the whining manifestoes of a Fillmore and a Pierce. Thte latter are a disgrace to this age and insulting to this people; but the former wore adapted to the needs of Judah, and therefore right. Modern dem ocracy progresses crab-wise ; but the inauguration of the Christian. allows that thp Mosaic laws were no longer necessary in the civil direction pf human government The law of Moses had' served its purpose, and when Christ came it ceased to op erate —it was “ fulfilled." We do not purpose to consider whether the Mo saic law* tolerated or condemned Slavery. It is of no account cither .way. Prove that Moses permit ted the curse to exist under bis rale—is it any less a wrong far that? Moses permitted many tilings which oar statutes penally forbid. And our statutes so forbid because those forbidden things are not proper la bo done in this age. Moses permitted po lygamy—is it right, therefore 1 Look at your stat utes—they forbid it—is it right, or wrong? If right, purge your statutes'of the penalty affixed to its practice. It contravenes the social rules of Mo ses and worse than that, hurls David, Solomon and a host of and good men, Itom their thrones, and makes them the companions of moral felous! - We lake the bold ground that polygamy was not t social evil in those distant ages. Some necessity for practice then existed. The men of this age cannot determine the nature of that' necessity ; but the; do 'see that no such a necessity now exists— that Us practice 1 would be productive of social dis orders which would result in ihe extinction of vir lue. What islhe conclusion, then \ It is-.that (Ac necessities o/ entry age and, people, determine the characters/, Ue inttitulioae. Tha/no age or people U privileged to prescribe rules which ehail bind any other age or people. It matters Dot, then, though the venerable Lyitm ing Gazette should prove that the Moseie law coon- Tile following' is d' model dim: '' “ —January 29,1857. r : De*a 8m; Vou etae me ' ■ Indignantly, - Anthbrityi S" -^ 9avery. m prqs thaj Slavey is why, witti>o\ proving M machj f||by role, polygamy is right avongeg of blood,|itill recognised by, the Indiw, i* to bo insta ted byiedlightenwmen p-and tbui'we might-go’oi) enumerating until human nature would cry “ for. bear!” •" The o ilytrational light practice can bff viewed, is in its bearing and influ eocenipo a immediate objects and upon the race. In this light we iotik-npon Slavery and Polygamy— monsters. “lwinnsdat abirUi.” This age needs neither of them. No instance in which either has lienefilted its victims, can be cited ip mbderntiinps, >f, indeed there can be one found perUmiiig to any age. One degrades its victims to the brute level, and cheats,' manhjoudof ,oT*d, itioalefiaeinblancc. The other establishes a brothel in every homo and corrOpts'Uih gbhlle Vtresms of life at the fountain head. l£bdb'J>egddd l .*d IsUhootbet-i' -Where one exists there will the other bofoniid. MSlavirfy 'und Polygamyr7now,and.fnrever,ose anoutoivisisUt!” Polygamy exists; every where at the South; the gradual ijtdlng out of the. black, race there is in coo trorerliblp evidence fif that fact. Every plantation is a moral pest-house, in the rank yapors.of.vrhich, the tender germ of virtue withers and perishes ut terly away. There, polygamy enriches tllo pocket while it sensualizes the soul; and thus offers a,pre mium on. a soul-degrading custom. Let us have fewer Scripture arguments.in bolster ing up wrongs, and more for advancing the world of Man in all that elevates and ennobles him. yjj ■- J Such ttvisling and squirming, mob wriggling and higgling [as aac-h'anker.fcionds are going through wilheverlhe election .of Simon Cameron„is inn high-degroe edifying and amnsing. The three re cvtsanl democrats who, broke (hroagli tbp restraint* of parly jnorder (a ypte fonaitnsa, who,compared with lbs moral outlaw, Forney,ia,an angftl.aL. light, are terribly denounced, , The Penmyltaniaa, con troled by, Forney, lashes itself Into » pprffol fnry o( denunciatory wrath. The. blessed Union, which is warranted, to .stand firm under ordinary shocks, most tunable now. , Forney, a twin pillar of State wUb.lhc, venerable Platform, has been knocked from under thq imposing | structure. .Re was Hie Rock upon which the democratic church was built. Tim Unlop must bp saved again. Wake api.McMuilin, Chivalry Brooks, Carolina Butler arid magnanimous Keitt! Awake! Atchinson, ,Strjngfcllow, Titus Beef! Bigler, Cupt. laaiali Ryndefs FranyPicrce and Air. Thomas ETyer! Arouse 1 , classical Everett, magniloquent Choate, Side-door Sanderson, Millard Fillmore, and' last but,not least in this glorious com. pany—Dog Noble Brooks, up and St the empty hole once more! And aWake, y<j little follows, who' do up the echoing, “ Prolong the howl!” until the bills of the “ rural districts” “ Profound obeisance make,” for the Union is |n danger! The great high.priest of the Border-Ruffian Democracy is impaled on a “ sharp stick I", Briefly, Mr. Forney tried to get fleeted Unilcd Stales 1 Senator and slipped up, severely. Jack Frost made his mark thus at Lawrence, K. T.,an the.7th inst: , ".Thermometer fight degrees, below zero.” If Coffee can stand that, —there may be slavery in Greenland. —Elmira EtpMte. ' ' Jack Frost made his murk ihus, at l Baltimore,' Maryland, on the 2Sd that: “ Mercury six degrees below zero at 7o’clock this morning." If 90,368 staves ban stand that in Maryland, they can stand it in Kansas. We do not presume that Ufa “local" bf the Re public aimcdat anythin; more than a paragraph to “ jnstiry" a short column, in the above. Still, many lake (he tyni. W .0 —oaienKTiin mat tvilhre'tfolerminos by physical barriers tlie bounds or slave territory; And though the most extensive slave region lies within the samo parallels as Kan sas, these still - argue that Nature has. forbidden that slavery should enter tjiat Territory. Were such to tarn to the ,roap of Europe, they would nbservo that the Russian Empire, in great part, lips farther north thin Kansas ; and yet slavery is there universal. It is an inhospitable clime—in the capital city, the mercury often sinks to 40 deg., below zero. Yet its soil is tilled and its nobles are fed by eeri-labor. We puspccl that Nature did not contemplate the necessities of Slavery in shaping her economy. We further suspect that Slavery never did and ncv. er can exist lung in an enlightened community. It exists in Russia, where not more than 1 in 1000 jn. dividuals is educated. It exists in the South, where lin every 12 adult whites is unable to read. It is carried to u b'gh stale of perfection in Africa, where the Night bf the Intellect is almost unbroken. • Ignorance and avarice determine the bounds 6( Slavery, and not cliltlalel Ohio, with -as lino a soil and almost as lino a climate as Maryland, still can never bepomo slave territory while her Educational system endures. Avarice is not a universal vice. It can have no grotVtb in a well cultivated mind. Congress is .doing little except quarreling about salaries, bills for the relief of somebody, charges of bribery and corruption, etc. There is absolutely no news uf the least importance to be gleaned from the Glebe, the official organ of that august body. Mr Grqw, from the Territorial Committee, on the 19th instant, succeeded in getting three day set apart for the consideration of Territorial business, after facing down a striall army of objectors. Mr. Giddinus fell senseless at the close of his speech in the House on Saturday, 17lh Inst. Ho is not yet recovered. From Harrisburg, rye have no important ihlclli. gence as yet No election of Stale Treasurer had taken place at last advices. A number of the mem. herd are away from their posts and storm-staid. We are indebted to one of the bretlircn,(or sister?) of the “ mystic (un)lio” (we guess) for tho following . NOTICE EXTRAORDINARY ! Notice is, hereby GivEN.n,at in eon,id. erution of, the extreme cold weather and tho almost innumerable cases of want and wo arising therefrom, it is proposed that a meeting of “ Old Bachelors" be culled for the purpose oforganising a “Society for the relief of those-wanling Relief’ 1 A meeting will therefore be field this week at B ome unmentionable place, between the hours when otvla first hoot end the crowing of the cock. Any old Bachelor pul of town, can enquire of nnr old Bachelor in town, and receive all necessary inform allow in regard to tfio purposes and dosigni of the Society. Doors open to none' but those having the mark of Time stamped in their foreheads. Old Bachelors' Noble brothers! Monument* ol Self-Denial! To the rescue of the distressed! “.Obi or Do you he»r that, you miserable, good.for.nonghl. rnsty-fusty-fodey fraternity 7 ,F*ca the music. Latest Nicaraguan news places Wdlker in s' pre carious ccndiiion. It is desirable that ho bo kept in that condition until a hempen coljar can be pro cured for him. ' • -•' _ The important European,news Is that the difficnl. tie* between PrfisSiaand Switzerland have been dm. icably adjusted, The Archbishdpof Paris had been assassinated by a man named Verged. Admiral Seymour bombarded Cihton, China, In November, for some trifling canto. There is'no olller important news. T } O G4-„COUffTY A.GITAT i :,f- For The A\ v ' Opr tlllasc. sdmewhaL. digressed in last numbers or “ Our Village an bill WiofappWd y£gionfr wh6re wgljav a peep at life ns it passes fnva nous’ andpainledone dr Two scenes'as neat as, memory r would . permit,—ibad trui some tiavebeen ready, to exclaim wiib . "fth trod some power the giftle gioo* / : w . y ’We slopped, we believe, Inourfiril ber just over against that wonderful ins -r-tltOiToat-Office, orrather—we went: tangent from that point, omlwehad j i forej if we reoollted.right been speakiti'g seal of all the sciences, the! Academy hill. •!' We could never.’rightly say.'wl institution' Was* placed/on suchaiblet unlest.it .wasbo symbnlize tlieHillof S or perhaps to keep' the children front drowned*, in- the swamprtimt. used to < the silo of ihe Bingham bod office ar B.’s dwelling,. That wasn-wise* prec to bh sure,-in. the early selllemerS, of o* age when childrenweie scarce, but the might hntje put a fence around the frog and built the'Academy, nearer the oe the town and in a less bleak and inhos region. Our Secretary suggests that “it h love ofdisptay that perched it up who the people in those early times wan show-off.” i As likely as not. Bui we are to have a new Acadcm [t will certainty go ahead note. The I hayo had .a meeting and talked about yes, iwo understand, have drawn up rotigh, theiplan of a subscription pape wili .get it copied’soonl and when lha done, it-will be referred to a building c tee, andtAen there isiio knowing « hat done. Wo would suggest that the fol inscription be placed on the front doo new bbilding, when it shall have been fi altering the orthography, as a muUer o ip suit the improvements of that ac age. , , . "-We.md and met, rcaotvod and talked Jl q'er f Then mot, resolved and talked anil mot once r liongjonrshtulpaaaed; wemetamlUlkodandtl wtmi new, wo canH tell Jiovr, molved—the worl Should the trustees, however, prefer inscription they might find a very appi one on soma old Fi. Fa. in the Prot ry’s office, which came into, the £ hands too late to bo executed ; but their taste run . Dutch-wise, we would recommend them to. old Dicdrich K nicker bqcker, the oldest inhabitant ol Slee ly Hol low, who, we have.no doubt, would ecter ful ly into their feelings on the occasion, and furnish an inscription most singularly appro priate. ****** Taking' up ilio other day, an old manu script book ol the records of Tioga county, wo found (he following entry. •“ At a meeting of the Commissioners of Tioga county, held dt the Meeting Itouie in Wfcllsbbrough'in said county, it is agreed that their future meetings for the purpose of trans acting the public business, shall be held at this place. Resolved , That John Norris Esquire be appointed Clerk to the Commissioners of this Wauftij**—* ——* Resolved, That Samuel ‘VV. Morris E«J. bo appointed Treasurer (br Tioga county, and that he be required to keep (he Treasury for said county, in the town of Welles- borough. Sighed the 20th day of Oct. 1808. NATHAN NILES, ) CALEB BOYER, A Com'ers. ' - IRA KILBURN. ) Wo were in rather a melancholy mood be fore wo read it, and this only served to add to the gloom already 100 deep for comfort.— We could not help looking out doors lo sefe if the old Meeting House stood there still. How ludicrous the contrast I The buck door of a law office occupies about the place of the from door of the old Meeting House, and the rest of the site is occupied by a dow-yard! The’Otd Log meeting house has passed away. John Norris, Judge Morris, Nathan Niles, Caleb Boyer and Judge Killburn, mentioned above, are slumbeting with the dead ; and the square which was dedicated to religious purposes by Ihe proprietors, when our beautiful village was laid out, is now occupied by a' Tnverh, two stores, three barns, two cow yards, five law offices, a pig pen, a chicken coop and a smoke house I “ So goes the world and we can’t help it,” exclaimed our little Secretary. “My dear girl, be could have helped it, and we ought lo have helped it, and it is a shame that we didn’t help it.” Now there was that whole Square, so des ecrated as aforesaid, solemnly dedicated to meetinghouses, and so recorded in llienffico for recording deeds, in Tioga county, in Book 3, page last, and Ihe proprietors had no more right to sell that Square, except for meeting house purposes, than they had to sell your lot or mine, ifwe had any; and the purchasers of the lots got no moro title by ifie'sale than you would get if the man in moon sho’d sell you a water lot in Jupiter, Well, we are not going lo make a fuss about it, i Tho title is good now by the statute of limitation, and the owners have the right to place upon them what they please, provi ded i.t is not a whiskey Jug with bad liquor in it, for vulgar drinkers. We only refer to it to show bow the beauty and symmetry of our town has'been grossly marred by, the love of Almighty dollar I How beatiful wo’d our three meeting houses. have looked, one on each corner, and one in the middle, facing the Green. ” My dear sir,", exclaims Minehaha, “ you are slightly mistaken. In looking among sqme old manuscripts in an old garret pot long since, I came across a manuscript histo ry of Tioga county, which I suspect to be the yeryj history which soma body fins been talking of publishing for a long lime. In (hat 1 find tfie following version of the matter which.) suspect is nearer the truth. It reads as follows: .“In jB6B lhe Deed in 'accordance with contract was mads to (be Commissioners of Tjpga county, for the, one half of the original plot of Wellsboro, the part conveyed lying south west of the centre,post, the proprietors of the land retaining (he balance, being the -sV**-srr - J fart oojlh east of tlje centre post. See Rec ord 6oofc‘ l, page 1; g&j also at the end of Iftat'deejlia plan of W ellsboro in which the square squietirpes denominated the Meeting Tlouse iquarefc not marked as such, hut laid out] into Jots, .feeing.. the . Green. This pjot was made by the Commissioners, and the prignMv vender, (.Benjamin W. Morris.— In 1815 the Commissioners filed a new plot made by themselves alone, in which that square is laid- down as the' 1 Meeting- Hodve square. - See Record Book 3, last page.- It was then understood that the Commissioners werdto convey Id Mr. M., the owner‘of the .square, lota of equal value,and ia that event, Mr. Id. was to ratify what .they by their plot had; done. The Cdrotnjssioners. refused or neglected (o do this. Perhaps .they or. their successors., became, suddenly penny-wise, or perhaps.a little, jealousy .crept In, and they (eared that by sp doing 'they, might benefit Wellsboro, at the expense of. the county at large. . It is enough to say it was not done. Alterwnrds tjie north east .half' of the. square was, sold, leaving the south west half still the .ipeeting house .lot' with the old log meeting house upon it.- ~ ~ In 1625 B, W. Morris died, expecting some arrangement would be made to' perfect the original intention ) and it was frequently pro posed afterwards by Judge M., that he wo’d give one half, if the people of Wellsboro wo’d give the other half. The people were not in those times exceedingly bigoted in favor of meeting houses, and indeed the replacing the old log meeting house by somlhing more cost ly, was little expected,.because the people had hitjc to do with. They never made more than a spasmodic effort toward helpingslong Judge M.’s project, and in 1630, the lot was sold to a private individual, who owns it yet, But yet for years the Commissioners and others sold their lots with this meeting house inducement, and the people bought under that impression,”— Yol. 1, page 93 <s-c. “ Well, Miss Impertinepce does not that sustain all I Jiavo said andjmore too ? What, dp you know of |aw and land titles, and vint age Idts. You may good j'udge of vill age beaux, bu\ don’t talk to rpe about law ! I fell you it was a shame (p permit that square to be used for any other purpose than for churches, meeting houses and chapels. Suppose wc had one now on every corner, wouldn’t it look glorious.” i jltaior,' hekwo i have Fancy y rtakeq ) liases,' to life t that Burns. as (be e it is,, ling to r soon. rusiees it, and in the r, and i job is ommit oont be lowing ' of the dished, course vanced tore. on began, hi done.’* s Latin opriate lunota herifTs should “ Hump! We’ve got more meeting-houses now than are filled, and more ministers than are supported decently.’” “.’You don’t mean to say lhat I don’t go to church, and con(ribp)e my share I’tor if you do, nil I have to say is that ” “ Hadn’t you better slop,” said Minehaha smilingly, “and write your name JEHOSOPHAT." Mr. Buchanan, the gossips lell us will write his inaugural with an eagle quill, not plucked by man from the wing, but the free gift of our national bird. It appears lhat Senator Shown, of Mississippi, was pro claiming Iho certain election of Mr. Buchan an, when a feather dropped at his feet from the wing of an eagle lhat was (lying over. The gentleman preserved the qu ill and had it forwarded to Mr. Buchanan. I } It is a great pity to spoil so romantic a story, but as this is a prosaic age, and we iittve to do with' matter of foci people, we ven lure to give, on good authority, the following versmn of the manner in which this particu lar eagle's feather was actually procured, and the keen and sarcastic remark its proposed use elicit from a Republican Senator. Senator Brown was visiting a friend itl the neighborhood of Wasliinglon, who has in a cage a fine bald eagle. While this friend was exhibiting it lo his guest, the imprisoned bird dropped from his wing a feather whrcn Sena tor Brown picked up, exclaiming he would forward it as a proseotto Mr. Buchanatl. On his return lo Washington, he met Mr|Sew. ard, and, after relating the incident, tola him he intended lo aerfd this feather from an eagle’s wing to itie President gleet, that he might appropriately make use of it in wri ting his inaugural address. “Humph!” re sponded Seward quietly, in' his dry way— “An Eagle —a caged Eagle; a Slave Eagle!” What a world of meaning is couched in those few but significant word?; and how completely they destroy all the romance con cerning the Eagle’s Feather. —Harrisburg Telegraph. A Novel Law Suit Ghowinc out of THE MaRHIAGB OP A WoMAN TO UEB SoN in-Law.—Quite a strange and novel case was decided by our Court of Appeals a few days ago. The lacts are these ; Ellen Bell, the appelant, married Samuel Bell, her son in-law. Samuel died, leaving Ellen his widow, and several children by the daughter of Ellen. The hell's of Samuel refused to assign dower lo Ellen whereupon she brought soil against the heirs in the Trimble Circuit Court. Judge Pryor, then presiding, thought the marriage was prohibited by the statutes of 1798, and therefore void, and he dismissed the suit of Ellen. Prom this decision Ellen appealed. The Court of Appeals held, first that the marriage between a woman and her son-in-law was not prohibited by ihe act of J 798; second, that if the act did prohibit the marriage, still, under Ihe provisions of the act, the marriage was only voidable, and the wife was entitled to the dower unless sentence of divorce was declared ; ancl,-further, that the sentence of divorce could not be declared after the death of one of the parties, where, upon they reverse (he decision of Judge Pryor, and say that Ellen, the mother-in-law wife, must have dower. [Louisville Journal, A Whole Family to be Homo. —The five pegroes—a grandmother, and mother and three * sons, (the eldest 19 and the youngest 12,) who killed their master, the late George Green, in Prince William coun ty, Va., on Christmas night lasi, wero fully convicted on Tuesday night lasi after a trial of two days. They ate sentenced to be hung in thirty days after the date of their conviction. Kentucky Babies^-iTAe Louisville Courier says that a few nights.since an Irish woman gave birth to a child on a steamboat at the levee, which was not only perfectly developed and well formed but it actually had two teeth. A modern Richard and pre cious infant. A Noble Pen. Tioga Conaty Bible Society, unmu, mitiinrr* Bibles on band at last anniversary— yaine Bibbies bo't doting the year Total Bibles,. <• BiUet sold daring, they ear, fl deposi tory. WO 51 Bibles (old by. colporteur.... ... 35 66 •*, given iw»y....,..; 34 85 “ now on band..... ! 183 14 304 16 aBB comcro. By membership........ .128 00 By nle st depository ......' 60 51 By sates by colporteur. 34 14 ToUl received 122 65 CitH T*l» OCT. Tppsid colporteur Tor canvassing two townships,.. $34 06 Freight, loss, damage, dec 12 00 Paid on debt for books, 86 59 Families visited by colporteur “ not having a copy of Bible or Testament in their boose, and snp. plied by donations of society Per cent, of families destitute ol copy of the Bible in every hundred.... During the past year an effort was made to canvass the whole county thoroughly, ana convey the Bible lo every house within its borders. Two persons were engaged to act as colporteurs, who were lo visit every house, find out the extent of destitutio'n, and where they found persons too poor, or’unwilling to purchase a copy of the Bible, to donate a copy to them. This work, so important, and commending itself so strongly to the moral sense of society, was undertaken with the confident hope that the moral and religious sentiment of our coun ty would sustain the society, not only by ns sympathies, but with that 11 material ail’* so indispensable to the work. Two townships were canvassed, and the re sults given in the above statement, show the urgent importance of its completion. Oat ol 367 families visited, 53, or about 13i per cent, were destitute of the Word of God. These were supplied, and supplied mainly by done lions; other destitute families, in other loca lions, as they have been discovered, have bees supplied-in the same manner.. To complete the canvass of the county n the work which should by all means be ac complished this year. Tbs result of the efforts already made, show still more plainly me im portance of it, and exhibit an amount of desti tution which seems almost incredible. Will the churches of this county engage m this work I Will they sustain the society mils efforts by liberal contributions to its funds I These are questions which admit of, little doubt. Let contributions be taken up inevery. church in the county, and the amount for warded to the speiety, and (lie work will go on. In several churches eonlributions were taken up on the IBth insl. in all others tbal are willing to aid in this enterprise let collec tions' be taken up on the first Sabbath in Feb ruary,! and the amount so raised forwarctedat once to the society. In such a cause it seems as though no other greater appeal could be made to the Christian public than (bat whicti a mere presentation of the object, and its ne cessity,"as shown by the figures given above, furnishes; and upon that appeal the society relies, confident that its efforts will be fully and cheerfully sustained. The officers of the Society for the present year, are, Hon. JONAH BREWSTER, President, vice George McLeod dec’d. Robert Roy, Treasurer. H. VV. VVjllians, Sec'ry. Rev. J. P. Calkins, 1 “ A. A. Marple, \ Exec. Com. “ W. A. Brownson, j A Testimonial of Esteem. —We nones at the store of Messrs. Cook & Still well a massive silver pitcher and two goblets, pre pared for the operatives in the Glass Works of Howes, Didama & Co., Covington, Tioga Co. Pa., to be presented to the senior propri etor of that establishment. The pitcher is an elegant specimen of chased work, and bears the following inscription: Presented to Thrmaa G. Ilowet, M. D., By the men in bis employ, 4s a testimonial of tbeir high regard For bis noble and generous conduct . In all bis intercourse with them) January 6th, 1657. The goblets*are of ihe same material ana made in (he same Style 10 match the pneher. The presentation 4»ill take place on the Anni versary of the Battle of New prleans, ana will no doubt be an agreeable affair to lbs donors and the recipient. The establishment over which Dr. Howes presides is an exten sive one, and well known throughout the country. — Phila. Paper. Buchanan and Cameron, —The Hart ford Press says; “ tn 1845, when Mr. Buchanan resigned the office of Senator to go into Polk’s Cabin et, the Democrats, who had a decided ~ma. jority in the Legislature, nominated in caucus George VV. Woodward as his successor ; out on going into ballot the Legislature elected Simon Cameron the Whigs and a portion ot the Democrats uniting on that gentleman, it was well understood at that lime that Mr- Buchanan had thrown his influence against Woodward, who was a rising young man that he did not care to see elected to so promi nent o position. Cameron, who is by trade a printer, and who fbr some years published a paper at Harrisburg, was considered a shrewd tactician and manager, and had been serviceable on more than one occasion td Mr. Buchanan, and had received even earlier fa vors than that of-Senalorship in return. During his Senatorial terra, Cameron sus tained himself with credit, and the friendship between him and the Secretary of Stale con tinued uoWokeo, until Cameron favored lit® election of Gen. Cass. This, of course, was unpardonable offense, and the two became alienated, and the estrangement has conno ued to grow greater. In the late canvass, Cameron supported Col. Fremont.” The Somerset (Ky.) Democrat says ih 9t a child was born at that place last wees, which had but one leg and one arm. The hand contains (bur well-developed fingers- - no thumb—and the foot but two toes. There are no bones in (he neck or head save a small part of the cranium. No eyes, mouth, » r nose is visible. *30.73 213 « 1304 16 423 65 397
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