K iO rSe-fjS:- FROM KANSAS. The Election Frauds-—The ; Ponstitu ttonal Convention—Jones and Stan- TON. From the Springfield Republican; 29th. We have been favored’ with a call frbm rrtir friend, G. H. Bran»cott)b, who lefl.tgw renee, Krnwns, on Thursday lasl.the 220 d. The Oxford returns- are rejected as clearly invalid, fictitious'and sirtmlated. The whole county of. Johnson has novas many legal voters as me claimed at this one small pre cinct ; it was a physical impossibility that over 1,600 votes could have' been fatten viva tore and recorded- in a single day. The Governor ascertained on the spot that- not over thirty dr forty persons were actually present at the polls oh that day, and the peo ple of the place treated the magnitude of the returns made with derision or indignation. . Returns ,of 1,202 Pro-Slavery to ,24 Free-. Stale votes,from McGee County evidently had a similar origin with the Oxford fraud, nod will probably be rejected by.the nor. There are not fifty legal.voters in the county. As the returns now stand the Free- State men haye the Council oto 4, and the House, 24 to 15, and it is ascertained that several of the Prq-Slavery members ,owe their election to Missouri votes. The Legis lature will undoubtedly correct these mistakes. Judge Cato issued a mandamus on the 21st ■o compel the Governor and Secretary to give certificates of election to the Pro-Sluvety men claiming election by the Oxford fraud. The result of this effort had not transpired. The Bogus Constitutional Convention met el Lecompion op the 19th, but having no quorum on that and the following day, the members occupied their leisure by denounc ing the Governor for throwing out the Ox ford returns. Sheriff Jones, who claimed an ( led ion by those returns, called on the Sec-1 rotary and demanded bis certificate, and, on being refused, drew his bowie-knife upon the Secretary, but was pirevented from doing mischief. The Free-State men had a Mass Convention at Lecompion on the day when the Bogus Convention met, and passed reso lutions advising the members of the latter, since it had been demonstrated that they did not represent the people of Kansas, to dis solve and go home. It was doubtful what the Convention would do. The Border- Ruffian portion of them were for adopting a Pro-Slavery Constitution, without reference to the people, but the mote moderate men were hesitating as to what might be the best policy. They will probably be governed by ibe indications of opinion at the Souih. Mr. Brnnscomb represents business as very livelv at Lawrence, the streets thronged with vehicles, buildings going up rapidly, and evidences of thrift and enterprise visible on every hand. Eldridge’a hotel, a noble struc. litre 100 feel front with wings running back 150 feet, and four stories high, is approaching completion. With its furniture it will cost 570.000. Emigrants are pouring into that Territory, and it is thought by some that the emigialien this,Fall will exceed that of last Spring. . - T ——; —" J —luf. his bail being “straw,’' justice has taken its usual course in his case, as justice is under stood by the Ruffian Judges of Kansas. One of the election judges at Kickapbo refused id sign the returns, because the soldiers and Missourians voted. This is another hopeful *'8 n - ’ i A correspondent of the Boston Traveler says ; Sheriff Jones, who is on© of the great (on) elected, by the Oxford returns, went into Slan'oo’s office this morning and de manded bis certificate. Upon the refusal of that gentleman to give him, the valiant Sheriff raged, fumed, swore as terribly as •‘the army in Flanders,” and finally drew a bowie knife. Stanton was unarmed, or probably the bully would have met his desert. Jones was prevented from injuring Stanton by the by-slanders, bmboth parlies are very much excited and a collision seems' almost inevitable.” The Lawrence. Republican of (he 22d savs ; “The Constitutional Convention met Mon day and Tuesday without a quorum, and spent their time in unavailing denunciation ,of Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton for throwing out the Oxford returns. “Sheriff Jones called upon Stanton for his certificate, and, on being refused, drew his bowie-knife on the Secretary. Stanton it is said, now goes armed for bis own protection.” The report ol Gov. Walker’s removal threatened at first to “create a soul beneath ribs of death.” The 'Times muttered it - cipieol thunders, and the Express spoke as follows; “If the Administration of Mr. Buchanan has really ventured on such a course, it has much less ‘backbone’ chan most people have given it credit for. The Northern Democra cy is traditionally docile, and is in the habit Cf putting up with a good deal, without say. thg much but if they stand all this with a. P r ° test ’ lk "J ««* stand anything. That is all. 9 Oh, they will stand it—never fear that I John Van Bureq will make a speech justify’ tng and applauding it, if necessary. But there won’t be quite so many of them to “stand it" as formerly—that’s all! JV. Y. Tribune. From Minnesota onr latest bulletin is the following from the Timet (St. Pauli of the “4th inst. : “BEING OCT THE Gos TOE RaMSEY ! think we are safe in announcing ibis morning the election of Alexander Ramsey m „. ernor of 'l*® new State of Minnesota. , ' P ‘ oneer > please “lough— oot of the other wde of your mouth.’’ Have you heard from t terce and Davia Counties.” , ;: T a h LrV' and3 ’ Kamsey 10,299, Sib- L y ’ 6B7 - Ramsey’s majority, 6X2.” who has,e solved to cheat the Republicans of Minnesota out of thetr fatriy.won triumph, will make a clean job of it, but the difficulties in their wav are formidable.—,V. r. Tribune Y THE A&t At Oft. nr. 0. Cobb..-.... I; WELLSBOROnGHjPA. Tharsday nothin;, ttov. S, 1557. %»Ajiltakincsrf,indotherCdhimunicalibnfmusl be addressed lalbe Editor to insure attention. We cannot publM anonyfnrmt communications. Got . Pollock has' appomted' Thursday, the 26tfi inst. ss a day'bf Thanksgiving and Prayer.: We call attention to the new advertisement of C. O’. Etz, Tioga, in another place. He does not ap pear frightened' at the bird litnfs. Special Notice. —Owing, to the accumulation of Job*work on our hands during the last weeks of the campaign, no paper will be issued from this office next week > . XVe are obliged to stop in order to catch lip with our order* for Blanks, ct cetera, and to* straiten up things about the office generally. Selfishly speaking, we wish also to shake Hie dust of the battle from our garments and to get a breath of pure air outside the office. Therefore we pro pose to go and sit down tor a few days with those dear faces were the first upon which we opened our eyes in life’s morning, and which we have nut seen for an age of seven strangely chequered and event tut years. Wc desire to revisil'old haunts so famil iar to ua from infancy up to a ripe boyhood and around which so many endearing associations clus ter—our New England home—with its rugged gran ite setting, its precipitous mountsins, almost inac cessible to human feet. And, friends, if our (bet sbould’Hnger in those pleasant,old paths, so that out absence should grow into a few weeks, and the Ag itator'should come to you in the form of an “ extra,” once or twice, containing little but legal advertise ments —we ask yon if we have not earned the right to ask yoor indulgence in so much?—since we have given you 52 papers for every year that we have labored for you, always making up every lost week And so we propose to make up for lust weeks in (his matter. May we go ?, Auother. I,lonln the Path. Manifold and vexatious are the tribulations of the Sham.detmicM.cy. Great is the Diana of tlie OU* garchs, terrible is the frown of the ‘powers that be. Mr. Buchanan findk the responsibilities of exalt ed place folly equal to the honors- He made his present position the object of a llft.long ambition— deeming the sea of popular fay or smooth and storm less. He fmds ills stale barge uncomfortably loss, ing on a wrathful and threatening surge. Behind, all is storm-and-darkness, and before, are new dif ficulties and dangers, jagged rocks and threatening whirlpools. Poof man, indeed 1 The-humblest of the race of boot blacks extracts more genuine hap piness from one day of bis unpretending life, than Mr. Buchanan will be able to extract from his en tire term of office. Uneasy is the bead that wears a crown l M Slavery is a lion in the path of the Democracy. —the ceaseless agitation of the question, we should have said,'rather. For seven years the high-priests of the Oligarciiy'have been trying to legislate the subject into the politics of the country, yet, contin u.ally crying, “ Don’t agitate 1 don’t legislate 1”- They have succeeded in placing the institution so fairly before the people that it has thoroughly bro. ken the yoke of its parly in the North and West, and the prestige of its name—Us power—is passing away. compatriots little thought that its loose texture wo’d permit it to sfretch enough to cover other, not grea ter, hut less popular sins than Slavery. Indeed, the Douglas doctrine was set up with a lawyer-like sa gacity, to gain time, unthinking of the future uses to which it might be pul. The Salt Lake Saints were not slow to give in thejr adherence to the doc. trine of Popular Sovereignty, nut that they cared a fig for the use to which Douglas put it. but for the service it might be to them as a peculiar people. The Latter-Day Saints have also a peculiar institu tion, and one with which they do not wish to part. So. having determined to remove one lion from the path of Democracy, Mr. Douglas opened up a new path, untroubled by lions, as he supposed; but the event proves that the now avenue is guarded by a fiercer and more bloodthirsty lion than the other. If, as Douglas, Buchanan & Co., assert, the pen. pie of a Territory are sovereign, having the right to establish Just such peculiar institutions as they choose, provided they be not prohibited by the letter of the Constitution, then the people of Utah have the right to establish polygamy as their peculiar in. stitntion, and to be admitted as a Slate with a Con. Slitution recognizing polygamy. The Constitution of the United Slates provides, Sn the matter of the admission of new States, that Congress shall guar, aniee to each a Republican form of Government Now polygamy is quite as democratic as slavery, and not a whit more anomalous in a Republic Ilian slavery. Then, how is a democratic Congress to object to"the admission of Utah with her domulic institution, since it upholds the slave Stale with its domestic institution ? Again : If the slaveholder has the right to pass through Pennsylvania with hia chattels, or to stay here weeks as a guest, still holding his slaves, has not Brigham Young a like right to sit down in oor midst with his seventy wives for a like period of lime, nor yet he subject to prosecution for bigamy ? If Die laws of Virginia must be deferred to by the people of Pennsylvania, so the laws of Utah most be deferred to when occasion presents opportunity for the extension of like courtesy. There is no es cape from this. Of the twain—Polygamy and Slavery— Polyga. my is assuredly (cast objectionable. The choice of a husband it rests with woman. She may become first, second, or seventieth in a man’s affections, or die a maid—as she pleases. Not so with the poor slave woman: she roast marry whomsoever her owner chooses, with the terrible knowledge that her children may betaken from her arras and sold out of I b« sight.lorever. Or, she may be sold away from hu * baD< l of her choice and from her children. And the sUve.gi r l i 0 whom nature has given beauty of face or fornH-,i M flj r h „ ;_ 9he wij) haTe J birth! *° lh _i , °“ 8 ’ , b “ l P°'ygamy is spotless beside Ibe equally democratic institution— slavery Democracv " Ul ‘ aQ ° lhc , 1 1.1 0 which the! Democracy heedlessly plunged in it, ea„, cover up Ihe Nebraska-Xansas iniquity! I„ mg that Congress might legislate to prohiba u"!”’ tension of Slavery under Article I of Section 8 * r that portion of the Constitution defining the powers of Congress, the Democracy set up the argument that the section referred to doea not confer upon Congress the right to interfere with the domestic in stilatious of the people of a State or Territory. 7n short, that the people of a Territory may establish such domestic institutiona as they see fit, and that Congress has no power to do aught bill to guaranty to the young Slate a Republican form of govern ment. rlfiE SIO€Mr- O^U ' X U. '-The Cdß&kalion evefjppcr. j e privilcgw-l^worshiping ffßod according to of or her conscience i that isippder thif (Constitution, one may bclieyeiWhat one chooses, or disbelieve. Thus, the evangelical sects, as they areralled;bet!ev<frnfheso!embiaatfdn^FTheTna>r ..ria£e,covcnanl.at the hands cf their ordaioedaoinia tere; bf cefWHi c'ivil officers.'' aHse iff their congregations andpromiso, each to the other, to “lore,,honor .and cherish, to lhcend.V --T.hEae denominations declare polygamy to be abhorrent to flic Creator and incompatible with Christian faith and practice. , TlmMotmon, on dlte contrary, believes Polygamy to be ordained of God, and that a man’s harem shunld'be as targe as his means wilt permit. Ho believes in sneil a thing as spiritual wifehood-—it is a tenet of'fais creed. And who; we ask, wiU«ay that, under the demacratia inUrprtta iion'of the Constitution, that,tenet of Mormon faith shall he stricken'ont 7 - Congress having no right to interfere with the religioos.of jdoraestic.institutions of any State or Territory, the Mormon - can claim admission for Utah with her religious and domestic institutions, and the Democracy paurt oat its words or admit,her —as eh* is. .Late advices , from Utah very clearly show.that hjr people will not submit to .being governed by the Gentiles without a fierce struggle.'. Their elders preach sermons which breathe nothing but war in defence of their rights. With the keys of the fast, nesses of the mountains in thtir hands, the Saints can make good their determination to defend them, selves against outside aggression if they choose to do so. . ;*■ vEdllor. When we undertook tho labors aod responsibili ties Incumbent upon the editor of a public journal, it was with a full knowledge that to suit everybody was an impossible thing to do. So we set out with the firm determination to suit ourself, and it others sbpuld be suited, very well; if not, very well. Nowi about three.weeks ago we put our paper to press before the returns from Ibis county packed os. That fact was slated and a proper apology for so doing given with it. We had no thought of of fending any one by the omission of the usual signs of rejoicifcg, least of all, our worthy friend of the fFayne County Herald, Yet this latter gentlemen took occasion to curry us down in his next paper, for certain sins of omission, and also to taunt us with being tt down in the mouth,*’ etc., etc. It so happened ihst in the next number of The Agitator we got out the big gun and had a right* jolly jollifi cation over the fifth glorious victory of the Repub licans of Tioga over tho Sham democracy, and this* by the way, was sent out before our friend’s strict ares, referred to, came to hand. “Now,” thcmghl wo, “ tho Agitator of this week will just suit the perverse humor of our friend.” And so we dismiss ed the subject. Well, the* jubilant number of the Agitator reached our querulous friend, and straitway he sits down and grumbles through u half-column article about the strange mortal who edits the Tioga Agitator, “ rejoicing over a defeat,” parading Wilmol’s ma jority in Tioga in large capitals, and divers bids of commistian, all and singular of which wo are bera ted for. And litis pen.and.ink castigation lies right before us just now. It affords fresh evidence of the fact—»it is impossible to please everybody.” Bat our friend undertakes to prove, by assertion, that the returns show a splendid Sham-democratic gain in the WUmot District on the vote for Buchan an; and here we shall show him that though he is considerable on assertion he is no great shakes on the simple rales of ArilhmUc< For instance, he says: rf^.%«Sai.sSfi , ggtuSiy W ai° mioished the opposition majority one thousand in that county.” As the best answer to such a reckless falsehood, we subjoin a few pertinent figures from the official returns of the voles for Fremont and Wilmot in this district: D , Fr ™?a t ' Bach. WUmot Packer Bradford, 6938 2314 5642 2082 Tioga, 4541 - 1386 3284 1193 Susquehanna, 3861 2548 3284 2419 T0ta1,.15340 6948 12210 5694 Fremont over WiJmol, 3 130 Buchanan over Packer. 554 Out friend will please note that by ibe returns Paeker loses over 500 on 6248 votes for Buchanon, and Wilmot loses opward of 3000 on 15,340 votes lor Fremont; and therefore that the Democracy lose about 1-11 and the Republicans about 1-6 on last fall’s vote ; and aa Fremont received more than twice as many voles in the Wilmot District as 80. chaoan, so, Wilmot’s loss on Fremont is about don. ble on Buchanan—numbers considered. Our friend will sec. therefore, that Democracy has toil ground in the Wilmot district since last Novem. I her; and that instead of diminishing the Republican , majority in Tioga 1000, it loses 200 votes on 1400 I lor Buchanan, or 1-7 of its whole vote last year Now what do you think of the one thousand demo. erotic gam in Tioga 7 Hadn’t you better gel Col burn’s Mental Arithmetic and brush np 7 But wo are not done with figures. Let us see how Wayne in '52 and Wayne in '57 compare with each other Pierce Packer Loss Wayne, (maj.) 1130 301 793 ..... Scott Wilmot Gain (Whole No. votes) 1232 1691 459 Oor friend can see where the diminished demo." cratic majority in Wayne is to be sought, namely in the increase ol Republican sentiment in those re* gions where the Herald circulates. But to the So ores; e * 1856. Fremont Bncbanatt 1857 Wilmot Packer (Stale) 147,510 230,710' | 146,136 188,187 Buchanan over Packer, 42 523 Fremont over Wilmot, 1 074 , i r , b “ S ’ our f " end wi " «« while Wilmot loses bat 1,074 on Fremont’s vole in the State, Packer loses 42,523 on Buchanan’s vote; and as Bncb anan had 83,200 over Fremont, and Packer only 42,751 over Wilmot, so, judging the Slate by our Blend’s rule in estimating the Democratic gain in Tioga county (!), we have the pleasure of announc mg to our Republican friends generally and to our Wayne f ri end particularly, that Wilmot not only holds wel! np to Fremont, but actually diminishes the Border Ruffian mojorily in the Slate, 40,449; —lor such is Packer’s loss on Buchanan’s majority. How docs your new method of computing gain and loss work, friend Bu rdsleo 7 Of conrse you won’t answer; you will preserve a masterly silence—aa you always do when you are confronted with filets and figures. Let oa look at “ Old Berks”: Itamont WUoot P«kr r 1,033 11272 *, 750 8,732 Here Packer loses 2.551 on Buchanan. vole, but Wilmot gain* 1,T38 on Fremont’ a vole! If that Of Rh* <tlorioua B aU * r 'e w in the brimstone corner democracy, then we are qd judge of glory. JT B 411 ‘hew Ihiiigg into consideration, we say - H“i*a for Republicanism! 1 SeI h f:- a ( ,B^ t o^ h i a «l>te stand, a. follow.: 13 P 3ef oJer h m,d ra «i” Wi,mB *’ and Y A.GITATOJR. Attai9~A Woman Sboots * h..-- f-On Sunday night last, about eiglit o’cjook, ’■ ap Jonathan B. Andrews was walking from the depot across the railroad track towards rfieDeiaware Houserhe - was~meTßy "Mrs, Isaac ; H. the ; folds of her dress and discharged it's contents full in his face. 'The ball entered his upper lip,; knocked put/four,iteeth nod a portion of. lha jaw, and lodged .in, his palate. After firing the shot! Mrs., Wood turned ,and left. : Several- persons hekrd ihd shot ted- hastened to Andrew’s assistance and led him home. Physicians were sent for who extracted the ball, and dressed the w'ound. Hd lias a fair prospect of recovering, although'at one lime i't was thought : bis life was. endangered by excessive bleeding. The circumstances which'led to this mel ancholy Catastrophe' we are Credibly inform ed are these: 'About ay eat -ago Wood and Andrews were neighbors end the two families occasional associates;' A misunderstanding arose 'hetween them, and for some reason of other Andrews conceived very biller feelings towards the Wood family,—So much so that he made public the most revolting and infa mous stories derogatory to Mrs. Wood's I character' for chastity, boasting that he had I criminal intefcourse with, her. These stories j reached Mr. Wood’s ears, add' a personal encounter between'the two parties ensued,] which created much talk at the’time. An drews was soon discharged- from the place as employee on the Erie Railroad, and went to work under Mr. Mallory at the Bergen tunnel, and in his absence the matter was dropped from-public attention. A few days ago he returned, and recom menced publishing the charges against Mrs, Wood. He told several persons, in a light and boasting tone, that Mrs. Wood and him self bad once visited Hoboken together, and registered their names upon the books of the hotel as “Mr. J. B. Andrews and lady” re maining several hours in compafiy. He added details cencerning an alleged criminal intercourse between them of the most revolt ing character, such as few men would slain their lips with. These stories set afloat in the community soon reached the Woods. Irf the first in stance the reports had destioyed the happi ness of the family—driving away harmony and household love, and bringing grief, sus- plcion, anger, to brood around the hearth stone. Notwithstanding Mrs. Wood asserted heir innocence in the most solemn terms and the whole tenor of her previous life gave the lie to her accuser, there were some—as is always the case when a woman’s reputation is assailed—who had their doubts, suspicions, innuendoes, jeers. Goaded to desperation by grief, shame, and domestic troubles, and knowing that all human laws are powerless to inflict adequate^punishment on the wretch who defames a womanTsho-JSJok a loaded pistol from a drawer where her ally kept it, and started to seek out and airoy him who she deemed the author of all her misfortunes. After shooting Andrews she Went .to a neighbor’s bouseand told the people she had killed himstaled the provocations which She was not arrested'however until the next day. An examination was then had before Justice Stewart, who ordered her committed to prison lo await a trial. She went to Go shen yesterday, but will probably be released in ,a day or two on bail. Mr. Wood is well known all through this section, having been a conductor on ibe Erie Railroad for a number of years, and form erly occupied the same position on New Jersey Roads. Mrs. Wood is a native of Elizabethtown, N. J., of highly . respectable family. They have been rAarried some twenty, years, and ' have several. children. Never before this affair occurred, was her character for virtue sullied by, a breath of suspicion, but, on the contrary she bore as fair a fame aaany lady in the Community. We believe that her trial will elicit the facts concerning this melancholy affair nearly asgiven here. They will forma cose calling for reprehension of the assault upon "Andrews but appealing fo every generous and manly impulse in our nature for the , exercise of a large charity in behalf of a wAman incited to a desperate deed by grievous and unendu rable wrong. —Tri States Union. Vermont. —ln this Stale one person in fifty-three is vnahle to read or write. Vermont is the Black Republican Banner State. — Wayne Co. Herald. In 1850 the population of Vermont was 314,120. There were . 6,189 adults who could not read or write, or one it) about every ffty-two of the population. Of the illiterate adults 51 were native blacks,'6l6 native whites, and 5,634 foreigners. Of this mass of ignorant foreigners that disgrace Vermont «e will bet a dozen big apples that nine tenths are locofocos. If they were sent bach to Ireland the locofocos would not have a cor poral’s guard in the Slate. In 1850 the population of Pennsylvania was 2,311,786. There were 76,272 adults who could neither read or write, or one in about enery thirty of the population. Of this mass of itinerate persons 9.229 were native blacks, 41,939 native whiles, and 24,989 for signers. Of this ignorant horde, Ihree-quar tersat least, voted for Mr. Buchanan last year, and for Mr. Packer this. Vermont jißs never been locofoco. All its adult native! inhabitants can write but 667, and those doubtless belong to the army that believe “edufoation wars againstidemocracy. Pennsylvania has been underialmost un broken locofoco rule. The result is that 60,- 512 of its adult native inhabitants cam nei ther read or write. To the shame of Penn sylvania, and of the dominant parly therein, be it spoken, there are nearly three illiterate natives in the State for every illiterate for eigner. Only in Stales where the iocoTocos have almost constantly been uppermost, is such a condition of facts to be found. Mr. Packer’s entire majority was rolled up by men who could not read the tickets they vbted. In view of this triumph of stolid ig. porance Ihe Herald would have the big gun brought out, and deliver its salvo*.—Hones dale Democrat. r? ST ■ “ o«0; i j Tor The Agitator • street Education, i “Once,” said a condemned criminal, “I had a'tiatppy'hoTire. a tender nroThßTVhnfit wqs the etfeet that ruined roe? - In the street ■Mcarned fo lie and swear. W drink and steal.” - A volume of waroingis in these few words, and .no. one who has ten the mulli'ude of 6oys in the large town's, who spend their lime To and'around The' miserable grog shops that abound,' hced/ wonder at ihe coaslariily in creasing number of dissolute men j and even "iii a village like ours’fße’number ofTads who are training id this way for 1 a degraded man hood, is most painful to'contemplata' Bo parents realize the great responsibility restirig upon them when they employ such teachbrs for theirchtldren ssthestreet affords, for there are gathered nightly--the profane, the impure and the 'vicious—(hose l who de fight in making the.young and lovely like fo j themselves. As the mother folds her infant [ son to her bosom, think you that she deems him less pore and precious than hisjbaby sis ter 1 Most surely not, and yet how 'soon does she allow- him to go forth fo mingle wjth those whose only influence is to defile imagine if you can your gentle daughters spending their evenings in rhe streets as do jfohr sons.— Well may you shrink with terror, but still you tolerate, if not encourage associations from whose corrupting influence your boys may never recover. * •' (' I Look at that miserable man! You turn from him with disgust—yon hasten on that your ears may no longer catch the sound of his filthy and profane language !■■ 'While you are astonished that in this civilized and Christ ian village, there could be found men- base enough to furnish the liquid poisOn that makes him what be isi Can you realize, ph, fond and doting parent] that this disgusting creature was once an innocent child, as lovely as the sweet boy at your side, who you fondly (rust will be the joy snd comfort of your declining years ? Can you realize'that base-associates have-taught the lessons be has learned so well—that in the streets mere sown the seeds that are now bringing forth this temble fruit.'! j * We have no wish to make the’ responsibili ties of mothers greater than they are already, but we would earnestly desire ip assist them to realize the importance of the frost in tbeir hands, and to remind them if they would' faithfully fulfil that trust of the! necessity of maintaining their authority over their young children. If they weakly yield to the boy of six years-of age, or even less, they have no right to hope that as be grows older, he will obey more readily. Implicit, unques tioning obedience, is the first and most impor tant lesson a child should learn: We always pity the weak mother, who vainly attempts to enforce her commands, and lean only com pel submission by the threat of the father's displeasure. She is throwing her own.:rigbt . ful authority to the winds, and preparing for TiefseULand for her home, years of discom fort, ond wOTse lhan discomfort for the.cbild himself, unless, aVfaTely. happens, the father’s faithfulness and care atone for the tency of the mother. t - Let us make our homes pleasant to our mem are all weave them. Let fathers mbre frequently in the long evenings throw aside the all-engrossihg newspaper: and enter into the employments and amusements of their off. spring, and endeavor to create in them such a taste for pure and rational enjoyments as shall render them less liable to contract those evil habits, which it is sometimes the painful labor of a .lifetime to overcome. We hate not intended in these remarks to undervalue the father’s authority in the home circle, but as it is so much,the custom of the men of the country to make /matters ofbusi. ness paramount to alt other considerations, of necessity, children are ‘almost entirely guided and moulded by (ha mother’s hand— and if (rue, as sometimes hsserled, that “the character is formedat twelve,years of age,” it may be her impress that! they bear through lime and through eternity, and we greatly de. sire to see the childhood elf boys guarded with the same watchful care that is exercised for girls. 1 I . It would be well for parents, well for man: kind generally, to remedbev that in the eter oal world, there is not, as .th| this, one stand ard of purity for the dile.aod another for the female. Ot» Humphrey. Common Softools. The Tioga County Teachers Institute will be held at Wellsboro, commencing Tuesday Nov. 17 at 9 o’clock A. M.j and continue un tdFnday evening. Hotel keepers, Fellows, Smith and Hart, and also some private fami lies have consented to make liberal deduc tions in the price of board, so there need b e no excuse in this direction on ihe purl of Teachers. . i It is expected lhat those from a distance will come on Monday. Call at ihe Court .House and a Committee will give further di rections if necessary. The lecturers from abroad are intended chieflj for the evening exercises. The Institute will be thrown into the hands of ihe Teachersjof the County,— If they have the talent andfinferes* they ivil make it successful. I shall think the teach er who absents him or berSelf as wanting in interest, unless they have a good excuse.— The teachers who attend will have a great advantage over those who do not attend ; for they will learn the roannerl-in which I shall conduct the examinations of their schools. Opposite the word “teaching” in the cent ficates there will be no mark found, I shall reserve this till I have visited the school, or witnessed your tact and improvement at the Institute. Of two teachers who were equal before the Institute, the one who attends ft must of course have the belter marking , All teachers who have not heretofore been examined will he expecledito be present early °n Thursday for that purpose., The friends of education are earnestly invited to attend School directors who have not yet secured thetr teachers will then find an admirable op portunity for that purpose. ■ N. L. Revnoids, Co. Sup The only way to cure a boy of staying out at nights is, to break his legs, or else gel the calico be runs with IP do the housework. The So/Ulhcrn Prc*« on INr. Bu - -t , chanan’s tetter. , The; Madison, VVis. State Jgvrnal, says i ’■ Mr, Buchanan’s recent letter ’ God* necticut ' clergyman gives great satisfaction at the South. Its ultra pro-slaveryisih is commended-. and extolled by the pressi The following is-a fair specimen of the comments of the Southern press on the subject, and deserves', to be carefully read.- It is dot the’ doctrine of Franklin,, or Washington, or Jefferson, or Madison, pe Clay, or Webster,- bin it is the doctrine of Douglas, Pierce, Bu chanan, Stringfellow, and Jeff. ® av * s : _ “Slavery is not sectional, but national. If exists practically in Kansas, and theoretically m Nebraska, Oregon, Minnesota and New Mexico, ' No right thinking man can ques tion Ibis fact; In order to destroy'its national existence in Territories, the people thereof in the settlement'of the.. terms with their State Constitution roust exclude it by a.clause introduced, for that' purpose,', The tight, therefore, claimed by tbe South exists In hi nationality—-eu,,tight which the Noithern Free Soil Democracy ai this moment deny and oppose with,all their might. We have to- say that so valuable is South ern Slavery in i#jlf, so wholesome and salu tary in an industrial and social point of view, and so conservative: of sound Democracy,-we believe it3.defente,ils propagation and extension should be t&gaffir; ed as an essential '.part of the Demoeraiiei creed in all sections. We spurn the , idea* that it is sections!,' ' r .-l Only the other day a joarhat » Hlinoia armounced itself in favorof the te-eatabhslr mem of-Slavery in that State. Givens enough slaves, abolish the unjust and ene cfual law a against the African Stave trade,, put anf end to the present unhealthy central.' izio<» tendency of the slavehbldership in lhaj Sotrth, and give every mdustrious and thrifty ; white man a chance to- become profitably a slaveholder, and we wiß not only triumph amly maintain Slavery, where it is, but it will be seen to flow, like living, refreshing,, and fertilizing waters, into all oar unoccu pied Territorifi and break over the bounda ries of many of present Free Slates, regardless of the silly doctrines about cli malic limits and international laws. Give us the conditions, and we vouch for the re. salts.”' Man Lost—Found Dead is the. Woods. 4*On Tuesday of last week, Mr. Gabriel Barnes of Oswayo- township, in this county, started out hunting. Not returning that night, his friends felt anxious, but did not ex ert themselves to discover, his whereabouts until the next morning, when they began to inquire among the neighbors to team whether any one had seen him. Nothing was heard of him all that day and night, and on Thurs day morning a few of the neighbors started out in search of- him, bat did not find him. A general rally _was made on Friday morn ing, and about 200 men spent all daj in searching for him on the various courses he was_ thought to have taken,, but were unsuc cessful. An arrangement was made fur the next day, and the company .were separating, when a few persons who-waded iheOswaya few rods sooth of Mr. Robbie* Greel ■ ~~ —- * - * * c ——■ J- tkn ()d*A body of Mr. Barnes about fifteen rods from the creek, lying upon and without any appearance of a struggle or wound.— His gun was about four rods behind the body, one barrel of it discharged, and the cap on the other tube exploded. It also had the ap. pearance of, having been, used as a support in wading the creek. Mr. Barnes had waded-the creek, al a well known ford for footmen a! the mouth of Post Hollow, and was going directly towards Mr. Robbins Brown’s house, about miles be-‘ low Millport, and was within 60 or 70 rods from the house when discovered. Mrs. E. L. Graves heard the tepbrt of a gun and a-mao hallo about nine o’clock oir Tuesday night, and called the allemion'of her husband, (they being in bed) to the fact; but he told her it was the Hands of Burdick’s saw mill, a short off ft is supposed to have been Mr. Barnes in distress.- ... It is supposed that Mr; B. being much ex hausted by a hard day’s travel, was chilled by the water, bis strength gave way and he died od Tuesday night. He was buried on Saturday. He leaves a large family and cir cle of friends to mourn bis loss. —Potter Journal. , _ For the Agitator, The Progress of Slavery in the United • Statesßy Gegrge M. Weston, 12 m0., pp, SOI. Washington, D. C. Published by the Author. 1857, It is not often that a volume front VVnsb ington brings to us such a wealth of thought and diction, so compact and pointed,.as we find in this volume, the character of which is indicated by its title. Of the seventeen ebap (ers of this book, (he last contemplates the relations of the Island of Cuba to the United States, and to the slave question, in the paragraphs of this Chapter, alike the friends of free labor and the propagandists of Slave ry will find wisdom and instruction, seeing that ( it is not in every aspect of the question lhar fhe latter class will - find food for hope and zeal. The previous chapters contemplate the institution of Slavery in the United States, historically -and prospectively, and every page is full'of fact and thought, arranged in masierfy combinations, and set throughout in strong and nervous English, yet with dis passionate rhetoric, showing the author pos sessed of a cool and steady as well as a well stored and comprehensive intellect. We can do no better than to submit extracts em bracing such segments of the writer’s circle of argumentation as can be best appreciated apart from the context. This work, of which the extern of our ex tracts forbids further notice 10-day, will be a text-book and magazine of suggestions and facts, in the great struggle- between Freedom and Slavery-extension on this continent. It is the production of a scholarly and states manlike mind, and" addressed to men of thought; its mission wilt be to move the mind of the country, tilt discussion of the topic to which it is devoted shall be foreclosed by beneficent action and just legislation. —?' ew York Evening Post. r ‘Ty Sew Publication.
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