Terms of publicaflon* TUE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR ia puV b'abed every Thursday Morning, and mailed lo sub scribers at tbe very reasonable price of One Dol* lae perannmn, invariaßy in advance ' It»intend ed lo notify every subscriber when tbe term for which be has paid shall have expired, by tbe stamp —“Time Oat,* 1 on the margin of the last paper. The paper will then be stopped until a further re mittance be received. By this arrangement no man can be brought in debt to the printer. The Agitator is the Official Paper of the Coon ty, with a large and steadily increasing circulation reaching into nearly every neighborhood in the County. It ia sent free of pottage to any Post office within the county limits, and to those living within the limits, but whose mosteonvenient posloffice may be in an adjoining County. Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper in* eluded, $4 per year. . For the Agitator, the spirit bride. I neveraaw my darling, We never chanced to meet, One gentle word 1 ne’er have heard. Yet know her voice is sweet. I’ve dreamed of her so often. I’ve thought of her so iong. From her my heart-will never part. To* her I’ll breathe my song. I know not if my dear one Is of this lower earth; Or, if to brighter realms of light £be owes her name and birth; But oft when sad and weary, Inclose my eyes to rest. My spirit bride comes lo ray side' 7 And makes my slumbers blest. Sometimes in happy dreamland, 1 clasp her hand in -mine. And tell her bow, to win her now, All else I would resign. And then she smiles upon me The happiest of men. But dawning day calls her away. And I’m alone again. Yet still I hope to meet her Before my race U rQn; Tbe Vows of sleep I then will keep. And claim tbe cherished one. Thus in the crowd I mingle With heart preoccupied, Intent to trace in each fair face The features of my bride. But, if. to disappointment T atill am doomed till death, A happier fate shall me await When 1 resign my breath; For in some happy'region Beyond the azure sky. We then shall meet in union sweet, My spirit love and I. Virginia. Sntmstlna Stutctj. From the Lancaster Examiner and Herald. A Northern. Nan’s Impressions of the South, One who has never been South, and whose notions and opinions are formed entirely from books and hearsay, would have bis ideas con siderably changed by a tour, however brief, through the seaboard slave Stales. So much is said about the slaves and their masters, the sugar plantations, cotton fields and rice swamps, (hat a large majority forget all about the country itself. Having had occasion to pass through some of these States a few weeks ago, a few observations concerning them may not prove uninteres'ing to Lancas ter 1 county men, particularly as of late years considerable emigration has been going in that direction, chiefly, however, to Maryland 1 " and Virginia.' The reason why Pennsylva nia* have not /bund their way further down stiff, becomes as clear as daylight, when one has once had a glimpse of the country. Maryland and' Virginia arc two quite re spectable Stales in an agricatlurat point of view. True, much of the soil, through the mismanagement and carelessness of the na tive farmers, has become unproductive and is “worn out,” but by northern farming and northern energy, can again be made-product ive to an extent that will pay the farmer handsomely for his labor; but this is not the case with those States lying still further South. Such as have traveled through the above men tioned States, must have remarked the large amount,of rocky and sfvampy land, which it is very probable will never be rendered pro ductive, the soil being poor in the first place, and the expense of reclaiming it in the second being so great as to prevent all idea of its being attempted. Things became ten times worse as soon as you get out of Virginia into North Carolina, which is the poorest and mean est-State, agriculturally, in the Union, South Carolina excepted, which in this respect bears off the palm from every country in the world. , Virginia, from having been the mother of Presidents and Statesmen, has condescended to be the mother of negroes, and the result of ■her prosperity is only too apparent. The wretched dwellings of the white population, and the still more miserable cabins ol the slaves, speak even louder than Governor Wise himself, of her miserable condition. An al. most endless succession of stunted pines lines the railroad from one end of the State to the other.*. A few other species of deciduous trees are sometimes seen, but it is very rarely that the oak or the hickory is found. North Caro lina is better off in her pine forests, for ,here the trees grow very often to an immense size, and form one of the chiqf sources of wealth to the people. So far as other limber is con cerned, she is quite as badly off as-Virginia. The country, too, is more uneven, and the soil seems much inferior, and in fact, from this point down to. New Orleans, the soil has an appearance that would be very uninviting to a Lancaster county farmer, resembling very much the ted, sandy appearance of that portion of Lancaster known as Muddy Creek, but is still less productive. ' There is not so much cotton raised in North Carolina as I supposed. The pine forests which cover almost the entire country furnish quite as reliable a source of wealth, and with much Jess trouble. 1 here witnessed the man per of malong rosin, turpentine and tar. An incision is made in the tree with an axe, about a loot from the ground, and a strip of the bark about three leel long is then taken off above 100 cut and extending down to it. The cut is shallow andcatches the liquid as it oozes out of the tree.’"The rosin is secreted in that portion of the tree from, which the bark has been taken. Each year.the bark is taken ofl a loot or two higher tip than the previous year, and this practice is continued until the ree dies, which is in about six or eight years ; afterwards the tree is cut down, and then twrnt m a conical shaped kilo, from which the tar is product. The amount of rosin taade m North Carolina is astonishing. I saw thousands of barrels lying along the road, watting to be sent to market. Much ie also made in South Core|ina, ( THE BefcoteD to tt)t 32*tenaCon of ttjr&rea of JfmfcotK atUjr t&e Spceafc of mefotm COBB, STURROCK & CO., YOL. 3. One that has never seena southern swamp, cannot have the slightest idea of what it is. The season in which.l saw them, being win ter, there was of course no vegetation, and my chances of observing them, all the better. The ground is covered with water, from six inches to- two feet deep, and out of these marshes, rise enormous trees, mostly pines. A most singular feature in these trees is, that about two or three feet from the water, the trunk suddenly enlarges lo three or four limes its usual girth; this, I suppose, arises from the soft, yielding nature of the soil, which renders it necessary for tbe tree to have a wider and consequently firmer base for its roots. ' The aspects of these swamps is oftentimes very peculiar. Through the truuks of the trees you can see for hundreds of yards, nothing but the shining water, at ibis season of the year, unrelieved by animal lifeof any kind. During the summer months, however,, they are the abode of almost every species of vermin. They account also for the sickness which prevails in so many parts of the South, during the warm weather.— Sometimes these marshes extend almost with out interruption, for a bundled miles; a per son begins lo think the South is nothing more or less than one interminable bog, and he is not veiy wrong. To one who has been accustomed lo see Conestoga teams ail his life, southern horses and southern teams present a very strong contrast. The bone yard would be deemed the filledt place for nearly every horse I saw after I left Washington. A more wretched, abject lot of beasts can be found no where, unless it bfe in Italy, which they say beats the world for sorry horses and mules. Oxen are more used in the South than horses, for the reason, 1 presume, that they are kept at less expense. lam confident, six good horses would eat up the entire produce of many of the plantations I saw; oxen therefore are preferable, both as a matter of economy and policy. Nothing surprised me more, than the small number of horned cattle, and of live slock generally, kept qn southern farms. Two or three cows, as many hogs, a couple of goals, half a dozen of barn fowls, and a few yoke of oxen, constituted the planter’s properly—his negroes excepted. In the matter of barns they are entirely destitute. Ido not now remember of having seen a single barn after leaving Richmond. The extreme meagreness of southern crops, renders out.buildings entirely unnecessary lo the planter. He would not know what to do with it, if he possesed one. A ricketty shed, a dozen feet long, answers every purpose, and costs nothing, 1 saw immense corn-fields in ail the the Slates down to ( Louisiana, but not a grain of corn. ’ I can’t imagine what be comes of it, unless used for the support of their negroes. I judge from the appearance of the stalk, that such ears of corn as we see in Lancaster county are altogether unknown. They plant their corn as we do, except that they never put more than one grain in a hill, it being found <bat one stalk is quite as much as one hill will grow. A perceptible change for the heller takes place in the character of the country, as soon as you get into Georgia. The soil looks bet ter ; the cotton and corn-fields show a more vigorous growth. Alabama is still belter than Georgia, and in some places the country looks quite respectable. The swamps still show themselves, however, and the entire Slate, if it has not the submerged look of the Caroli nas, is yet flat and uninteresting. It is any thing else than the place where a northern man, though be comes from the rocks of New. Hampshire, would desire to live. lam very confident that were twenty-five Lancaster county farmers, lo locate in any southern Slate, south of Virginia, before the close of the first 'year, twenty-four of them would have found their way home again, and no one would blame them. I hold it as almost im possible for a northern man to feel at home, or even to become reconciled to the routine of a southern-plantation, and the farmer who makes up his mind to try his fortune in'the South, would better consider the step he is about lo take. I should advise every man with such intentions, lo go any where rather than here. He can’t farm here with the limi ted means he could in one of the western states; everything is high, from bread up to niggers. I heard a man say yesterday, he could not buy a good'field hand in his part of the State for less than fifteen hundred dollars. New Orleans, Feb. 16, 1857. Mal-apeopcs. —lf there is anything calcu lated to take the starch out of a fellow, it is to enquire of a friend at his elbow, who that ugly, squint-eyed, red-haired woman is, and be answered, “that lady, sir, is my wife.”— It is an accident', the like of which has hap pened Ip many of us, butxjye have another which lately occurred in a car upon a Penn sylvania Railroad. One of our old “stub and twist” politicians, who was traversing a por tion of his old slumping ground in Pennsyl vania, fell into a very engrossing conversation with an old gentleman, a stranger, silling near him in the cars. \The talk ranged over subjects connected withhold limes in the Old Keystone State, and particularly the old Gov ernors, and their good and evil deeds. Our friend got rapidly posted, and was very much fascinated by the rich fund of information, the amiable manners, the happy mood, and the noble appearance of the venerable stran ger. Our “stub and twist” silver gray at last inquired, with much unction, “Weil, what has' become of that old humbug, Gov. Rit ner ?” “Well, air, it is perhaps time for me to inform you that I am no other person than Ex-Gov. Rimer himself.” Confused apolo gies followed, of course, and “stub and twist” dried up .about that lime. —Cleveland Plain dealer, WELLSBOEOUGH, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THUESMY MOENING, APEIL 9. 1857. The world is made up of trifles. The grand movements of great events and (he changes of empires are founded in causes, which woold be pronounced (rifles by the world. Yes, “trifles light as air” have led lo some of the most important discoveries we have. The fall of an apple gave Newton the clue to gravitation; the rising up of theTid of a tea kettle gave us our railroads, steamboats, ocean steamers, and a thousand other things; not to speak ofllte steam press, that combined, put the world centuries ahead in the myste ries of the universe and the purposes of God. To the observation of a flower dimly pic tured on a stone, we owe the philosophical researches in chemistry and light which ulti mately gave us the daguerreotype. To grasp A tiling impalpable, and hold It, was Once considet’ed a wild impossibility, Until Daguerre, with Heaven-aspiring might Captured a shadow with a ray of light, And chained it down tor ever. By a trifling loan of money-frorn the great actor Talma lo Napoleon, in a lime of need, the face of Europe was changed—(millions of men perished—thrones. were emptied—Wel lington was made a duke —Moscow was burnt, and France made a despotism at the present lime; for Napoleon was on the brink of sui cide—a nameless adventurer—when Talma gave him this'assistance. , The foundation of the Roman Empire was a cunning trick in an individual combat, or duel. American liberty and thirly-dne glori -ous Stales arose from a strong cup of tea the Bostonians tn ITTjjf A little piece of magnetized sflel led Ic/Xne discovery of a now world. The erection of a saw-mill in California ’changed the currency, of the world. The crossing of a little stream of water subverted the liberties of Rome and gave the name of Brutus immortality. The flying of a common paper kite by a printer gave us the magnetic telegraph. The eating of an apple in the garden of Eden, brought sin and death into the world ; the of a golden apple caused a ten^vears’ war and the fall of Troy. A delay of.five minutes saved the lives of Napoleon the First and his family from an “infernal machine” in the streets of Paris.— A delay of two minutes,once cost about filly lives on an American railroad. The expor tation of a few potatoes from America, by Sir Waller Raleigh, has saved the Irish nation, several limes, from starvation. :From a little acorn the great American forests have sprung. ‘•A pebble In the streamlet scant, , Has changed the course of many a river; A dew-drop on tbe baby plant. Has warped tbe giant oak forever.” It is impossible to enumerate, especially in a newspaper article, me almost numbariooe “trifles” that have produced numberless great events, and made numberless radical changes in the history and destiny of the wprld. — Suffice it lo say that “trifles” are not to be scoffed at. The world may learn great, and true, and valuable lessons from these same “trifles.” The fable of the lion who was re leased from his prison by a mouse, was writ ten by a great man—upon a less foundation than this, there has been erected deathless poetry, wonderful tragedies, and many noble novels. Hold nothing in contempt; nothing con temptible ever came from the hands of the Almighty. The worlds which the microscope has revealed to us in the drop of water are as wonderful and mysterious as the bright and beautiful worlds brought to our eyes by the telescope. The loathsome caterpillar which we long to crush beneath our feet, will one day be a .beautiful creature, with rain bows for its wings. The little pool of dirty -water into which we have stepped, and upon which we pour out “vials of wrath” in maoy a deep.mutlerred anathema and malediction for having obscured the glory of our boots, will be woven into a bright and beautifully embroidered veil, on the miraculous sun, for the lace of the queen who trails her robe of light among the countless stars. The perusal and observance of a single .book, called the Bible, every leaf of the new. portion of which has had a sacred baptism in the blood of Je sus of Nazareth, will lead the soul—the only immortal thing in the universe, save its maker —out of the shadows and darkness of dust, and fit it for an audience, (yea, though it be the soul of a. beggar,) with the “King of Kings.”— N. O. Picayune. Tiie Mysteries of the Law. —ln Maine, at the tejan of the Supreme Court now being held al Portland, a bill of indictment was found by the Grand Jury against John S. Sprague for the crime of polygamy. The indictment charged that Sprague on the 11th of September, 1854, being then and there an unmarried man, was lawfully married to Emily M. Clark, and that afterwards, on the 4th of December, 1855, his first wife being still living, he married Rhoda S. Stewart, thereby committing the crime of polygamy. Sprague’s counsel staled to the Court that thet County Attorney was willing to admit, and that the defence could prove, that the alleged first marriage was not a legal one, Sprague at that lime being a married man and having a wife living. In fact, that ha had three wives, but as the indictment was based, upon the legality of the second marriage, which was not legal, it must therefore fail. And further, if ibe government attempted to prove that theirs! wife was living when Sprague married the third one he should object to such evidence, as there was no such allegia* lion in the indictment. This last position being sustained by the Court, the County At torney entered a not. pros., and thus Sprague, who was charged with having two wives got clear by having three, _ AGITATOR. “ TUB AGITATION OF THOUGHT IS THE BEGINNING Of WISDOM.” Trifles. A Slight Mistake. Jirif-Ward is a conductor on the eastern division of the New York Central Railrood, running daily between Ulica'and Albany.— Wardjias been in the employ of tbe Central Railroad Car a long period of years, and is one of the oldest conductors in the country. Invariably accommodating and polite, ha is particularly attentive to the ladies„and always manages to make himself a favorite with those of the fair sex who accompany the trains un der his direction. A short time since, when a train under his direction was on its way east from,Utica, one of those interesting incidents occurred on hoard the train', which adds lo the visible number of passengers, but scarcely ever in creases the profits of the trip. Ward, as soon as he discovered the condition of the lady, hustled about, and with the train running for ty miles an hour, fixed up a portion of the express car, and bad her conveyed thereto.— A physician, by the name of Beecher was on the train. His services were immediately put in requisition, and in a short lime Ward had the pleasure of announcing that “mother and babe were doing as well as could be ex pected under the circumstances.” The mother was a poor woman, and as soon as it became known, Ward went around with a hat, and in a short time a handsome purse was collected, and Jim with his counte nance absolutely filtering off happiness, look it in to the mother. After he-re-appeared the passengers proposed that the child should be named. No sooner said than . done. Jim went in and got the baby, with the consenfof the delighted mother, and brought it out, when it was proposed that it should be named “James Ward,” after Jim, and Beecher after the physician who had professionally attend ed the mother, ft was adopted by acclama tion, and amid general shout and approbation, the babe was named “James Ward Beech er ——.” Jim wiih a smile of ill-concealed delight, was lugging off his little namesake, when some of the ladies requested to see tbe ‘‘little baby.” It was passed from hand to hand among tbe ladies, all admiring the little but at the same time a general dispo sition to smile and stuff handkerchiefs in their moulhs, became manifest among the women. Jim wondered, but wondered in vain, what this sadden laughter meant, until the baby was handed to an old lady. She.had not.had it more than a minute, when she exclaimed : “Law, Suz!” ■ \ “Well, what's the matter?” said Jim, fear fully- , “Wav, it’s a Gal !” said the oldwopnan, handing the baby to Jim. Then a yell of laughter; .the men broke om first, then the women, then .they hrnkfi etui together, until one universal scream filled the car. Several gentlemen threw iKoir hats and mufflers out of the windows, while others endeavored unsuccessfully, to “saw their legs off.” The, women blushed and screamed; the.men shouted and held their sides. In the midst of this storm of fun and laugh'er, Jim made his escape from the car with his female “Jim Ward Beecher,” and, for the rest of his trip, on the platform of the baggage car, ruminated on the sudden and mutations of human life. —Buffalo Rep. A Number of Politicians, all of whom were seeking offices under government, were scattered on the tavern porch talking, when an old toper, named D came up to them. Now, said D who is a person .who is very loquacious when “corned,” but exactly the opposite .vr hen sober. At the present time, being “light,” he said if the company had no objection he would tell (hem a story. They told him to “fire away,” whereupon he spoke as follows • “A certain king—don’t recollect hift name —bad a philosopher, upon whose julgment he always depended. Now it so happened that the king look it into his head to go hunting and. after summoning his nobles, and making all necessary preparations, he summoned his philosopher and asked him if it would ram. , The philosopher told him it would not, and he and his nobles departed.— While journeying along, they met a country man mounted on a jackass ; he advised them to return, ‘for,’ said he, ‘it will certainly rain.’ They smiled contemptuously upon him, and passed on. Before they'had gone, many miles, however, they had reason to regret not having taken the rustic’s adviceT as a heavy shower coming up" they were drenched to the skib. When they had returned to the palace, the King reprimanded the philosopher se verely for telling him that it would-.be clear when it was not. ‘I met a countryman,’ said he, ‘and he knows a great deal more than you, for he told me it would rain, whereas you told me it would not. The King then gave’the philosopher his walking paper, and sent for the countryman who made his appearance. ‘Tell me’ said the King, ‘how you knew it would rain.’ ‘I didn’t know said the rustic, my jackass told .me.’ And pray, did he tell,you?’ the King said in astonishment. ‘By pricking up his ears, yourmnjesty.’ The King now sent the countryman away ; procuring the jackass, he placed him in the office the philosopher had filled. ‘And here, observed D ■, looking very wise, ‘here is where the King made his mistake.’ ‘How so?’ inquired the auditors. ‘Why ever since that time,’ said D with a grin on his phiz, ‘every jackass wants an office.’ The wav to treat Bores. —There are two kinds of bores in the world—the rich and the poor. You can get rid of the latter by leading film five dollars. You can free yourself of the other by attempting to borrow twenty-five froirj him, Try it oq, PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS THE BACHELOR'S BURIAL. Two old maids at shot of day, A Bachelor’s carcass bore away. With wrinkled brow and matted hair. And heart that never. lb?ed the fair.. Bring briars, they groaned, bring weeds oqUowo, Bring rankest weeds of name unknown. Bring withered boughs from dreary wild, To strew the bier of Error’s child 1 j And make his grave where the lizards hide. Where nightshade strews the swamp creeps side Far out of, sight-—where genial spring Shall send no gentle birds to sing. His old jack-knife lay with him low, > To cut the siring of Cupid’s bow ; The gad house cat shall mew aroond, ' His lonely grave in grief profound. His bloodless lips to dnst; His old jack-knife shall waste with rust; He whom we hide from light of men, Will-never fright the babes again. For we have laid him from the light; Beneath the ground and out of sight; But this rude epitaph shall stand— “He who to no one gave his hand 1” SeUctJHisccllans. A New Continent The coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean have been, in part, measured, and are found to be of amazing extent, and a new continent is in process of formation. All the labor is ac complished by zoophytes—insects ; and if we wish to form some conception of the do ings, we have but to remember that the coral formations of the Pacific, occupy an area of four or five thousand miles, and to imagine what a picture the ocean would present were it suddenly drained. We should walk amid huge mounds which had been-cased and cap ped with (he stones these animals had secreted. Prodigious cones would the "ground, all towering to the same altitude, reflecting the light of the sun from (heii white with dazzling intensity. Here and there we should see a huge platform once a large island, whose peaks as they sank were clothed in coral, and then prolonged upwards until they rose before us like the columns of some huge temple which had been commenced by the Anakins of the antedeluvian world. Champollion has said of the Egyptian edi fices that they seem to have been designed by men fifty feet high. Here, wandering among these strange monuments,-we might" fancy that beings one hundred ya'rds in stature had been planting the pillars of a collossal city they had never lived to complete. The build ers were worms, and the quarry whence they dug their masonry, the crystal wave. In the event of this vast extent of coral reef being upheaved, where’ or -whence will the waters of the Pacific recede? Either the western shores of the American continent and away to the base of the Rocky Mountains will be submerged, or the shores of opposite Asia, for innumerable ages the cradle of man’s de'- velopmenl and civilization will sink into,the great abyss; and the ships of the inhabitants of’ this . globe—when it adds ten. thousand years to its age—will sail over .and find no soundings where millions to day’loil in unre sisting servitude, and where cities from gor geous cupolas and storied palaces fling back the rays of the rising and declining sun. Relics op Feudal Days. —The dustom of uncovering the head and/taking hat, or even simply touching it is a relih.of the old disarming—the removing of‘the helmet to indicate that the parly thus exposed’him self to the mercy of an enemy. To lake off the glove was in like manner to uugaumlet the hand, the mere removal constituting an offer of friendship. Even now it is considered uncivil to shake hands with the glove on.— Shaking hands was formerly a token of truce; in which each of the parlies took hold each of the other’s weapon hand, to malfe sure against treachery. It was also a token of good; will. A, Frenchman, a prisoner in England, once made a most ingenious use of this custom.— Having been “put up” against a negro boxer, and knowing nothing of boxing, fte availed himself of the shaking of hands encounter, to crush the negro's hand in his iron grip. It is said ihtjt a few years since, a brutal fellow in Connecticut crushed a friend’s hand in like manner, though he did it in sport. The bow at is said, which is now a mark ot politeness, is hut the offer of the neck to the stroke of an adversary, while the conrtesy peculiar- to the ladies is the form of going on the knees to sue for. thatmercy, which in earlier ages, was difficult to geti The hair pins wofn by ladies are reduced poignards. In some parts of Sicily they are still worn of such a size as to be converiihle into weapons. The ear rings were anciently badges of sla very, and were soldered so that they could not be removed from the ear. Their farm indicated the owner of the slave. May is contideted an unforlunate marrying momh. A down-east editor says that a git I was asked, not long since to unite herself by the silken lie to a young man, who named May in bis proposals. The lady tenderly hinied that May was an unlucky month r or marrying. “Well, make it June then,” hon estly replied the swain, anxious to accommo date. The damsel paused a moment, hesita ted, cast down her eyes, and said with a beau tiful blush, “Wouldn't April do as well ?” A Child’s Co.ui>bo3iise. —A clergyman who had been staying for some lime at the house, of a friend of ours, on going a>vay called to him-little Eddy, the five-year old son of the host, and asked what he should give him for a present- Eddy, who had great respect for the “doth,” thought it was his duty to suggest something of a religious na ture; so he answered hesitatingly: "I—I—I think I should like a Testament, and I knou> j should like a squirt gnu!’’ , 7 jftaies ~ Advertisements will bofcfi'irged $1 per square or fourteen for one, or three Insertions, and 25 cents for subsequent Insertion. All advertise ments of Jcsjb than fourteen lines considered as a squat e. The following rales will be charged fop Quarterly, HalAYesrl/ and Yearly advertising:*-* - 3 months. 6 months. 12 mo’s 1 Square, (14 lines,) - $2 50 $4 50 $6 00 2 Squ*res,- <• ~ . 4 OO £OO 8 0& i column, • • - - 10 00 15 00 20 00 1 column 18 00 30 00 40 00 All advertisements not having the number of in* sertiooa marked upon them, will be kept in until or dered out. aqd charged accordingly. ; Posters, Handbills, Bill,and Letter Heads,and all kinds dr Jobbing done in country establishments, executed neatly and promptly. Justices*, Coasts, bles* and other BLANKS, constantly on hand and printed to order. , NO. 37. * •• Prom the Richmond, (Vo.) Enquirer, The Intension of Slavery the pol- The ascendency of the anti-slavery senti ment in (he North, and the increasing pre ponderance of (he Tree-soil States in the con. federacy, are circumstances of very great moment to'the people of the South. In con templating our absoiutejnferiority in point of political power ; and especially in anticipa ting the widening gap between the two sec tions, which the more' rapid development of the North‘discloses to our vision, it-is quite natural that the friend of the South should ht first incline to a despondent view of the future. But this glbomy feeling will scan give place to a more rational and manly resolution—to a just appreciation of our resources, and a determination to maintain our equality of power at any nnu every hazard. .The basis of our power und prosperity is incomparably more stable than that of the North. -Gommerce and manufactures- con stitute the| wealth of the NoVih; but com merce and; manufactures are things of man’s creation, and like all the other works of hu nfan. contrivance, are of brief and uncertain deration, j There is not a more striking les son in history than that which attests the in stability of the factitious prosperity of empires built upon;a basis of human enterprise and They rest upon an accidental combination of circumstances, and are pecu liarly exposed to the vicissitudes of fortune. Any -deterioration in the character of the people, any change in the commercial .or po litical relations of the world, brings their un subs'anltaf power to the earth. From Tyre in the agefof Solomon, down to the Holland of but; own limes, history recounts innumer able instances of their fleeting grandeur.—. Like the century' plant they burst suddenly into bloom, for a momenf'enchant the world ! with their ;bbauty, and then vanish among lha things of a by-gone age. Very different is the fate of nations who build upon' (he impregnable basis of agricul tural prosperity. They draw support from the inexhaustable bosom .of nature; and though their political system, and the suprem acy of their power be not exempt from the of human affairs, yet they never suffer those sudden and total eclipses which extinguish!the glory of commercial empires. The anti-slavery States of the confederacy, (we mean,to exclude the conservative com munities of the Northwest) are preeminently skilful in the mechanical arts, and incompar ably successful in commercial enterprise, but their power is factitious and must perish with the circumstances which create it. The acci dents of peace and war, of rivalry, of an un projiitious government policy, of the corrup tion and decay which bloated wealth always engenders in a comrrmnity, may at any men! dethrone them from their supremacy and reduce them to destitute dependencies.— As they hav-e no monopoly of the balufal capabililjes and the human faculties essential to success I in manufactures, so they are equally liable to be cut off from this special source of their wealth. Their prosperity and their power' rest upon an unstable basis. TlieSouth is emphatically, if not exclusive, ly, a'n agricultural country, and its people exhibit the sterling virtues of their character istic pursuit. While they till he soil, the effeminate refinements of a corrupt civiliza tion will never expose them to the chance of subjugation! Neither w||| their wealth take wings and! fly away. The. “Wingless Viclo-- ry” of'the ancient Greek sculpture is an apt symbol of the stability ol their power. So far from being exposed to a ruinous rivalry in the supply of cotton, the danger is that their utmost capabilities of production will not be equal to the growing demand. BesiJes,,- the South produces tobacco and other tropical articles in sulficienl measure to make the commerce ot the world dependant upon its supply. It possesses an abundant territory. Its resources are; ofahe most various charad ter, and are susceptible at infinite develop ment. Its energies are now directed with unexampled earnestness of purpose to its \ wonderful.manufacturing facilities and its pe culiar advantages for the establishment of an immense commercial interest. Within iTs ' own grasp the South holds all the elements;’ of a solid and permanent prosperity. Noth ing is wanting to the completeness of its re sources—nothing tails peffeiffrrrdependence. The only dangler which ihe has rea son to apprehend, is, that in consequence of an accidental combination of, circumstances, it may lose its equality of (political power in tl|e confederacy, be reduced to a sort of cjc. pendence upon the North, and, by an iniqui tous policy, of legislation, be despoiled of its advantages and restricted in its development. It is, then; of the last consequence to the wel fare of the South, that it maintain its equality of power ip ihe Union, so ns to protect its. rigpls, and prevent any unjust discrimination against its interests in the action of the Feds, ral Government. But this result can be ac complished in only one way ; and, that is bg insisting on the legitimate expansion of the institutions of the Soutfff^W e must keep a self-protecting power in our own hands, and to that end must demand eqbalily of repre sentation in the Senate. Let the people of the South, as ihe last expedient for the preser. vation of the Union, rally upon Ihe principle of -an extension of the pro-slavery power pari jpassu with the aggrandizement of the power of the anti-slavery States. It is our r i„|,t .under the constitution, and our right outside of the constitmion'in virtue of the necessities,of self-protection. Liberaied from Ihe illegal restrictions and unjust operation of the Federal Government, and left free in the development of its splendid resources and the expansion; of i‘s vigorous institutions; the iDoUUeal, » icy of tile Sonth.
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