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.
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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.”
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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.
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