From <h* Illinot. State .tournat. Fort Snelling Swindle Outdone. Halt of Fort Ripley —s7,ooo Acres, at Four Cents Per Acre. - Tho (iretcnt Administration is making itself famous or rather infamous by Us gross and barefaced swindles. The people have scarcely recovered from tho astounding in telligence of the fraudulent sale of Fort Snelling, when they ate again startled by the announcement that Fort Ripley .has also been made way with by the national'!bieves of Minnesota Territory. And what is worse, President Buchanan, instead of rebuking such transactions,.tolerates, encourages, and con cocts them. U r e have now definite intelli gence, fully confirming the rumor of last week, that the Fort Ripley reserve, consist ing of fifty-seven thousand acres, has been smuggled from the Government at the rate of FODR CENTS AN ACRF! —filiy-seven thousand acres of as good land as Minnesota holds, worth at the lowest estimate of culti vators of the soil fee dollars per acre , and for which the Government have re ceived one dollar and iwenly-fve cents per acre on the day of sale. In short, fif’J teven thousand acres of land have been do nated to knaves for $2,280, instead of being sold to farmers and acttlal occupants for 862.250 —ot instead of being made to bring into the Treasury its full worth, $285,000. We condense from a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune the following circumstan ces of this foul transaction, The Fort Ripley reservation is .situated in Todd county, on the Upper Mississippi. It was occupied, le gally or not, by fifty or sixty Democrats. They resided on the land, and intended to secure their claims like regular pre emption ists, or perhaps much in the wav Indian reservation sales are managed. These per sons formed a claim association, which met' • the / day before the sale, to adopt measures for securing their titles. Tho Government agents, or a few confederate scoundrels who were employed for that purpose, sent in n proposition to the claimants, that if they (claimants) would not bid on the lands, they (Mr. Buchanan’s agents) would cut off the whole tract, and guarantee the occupants their titles at one dollar per acre, or twenty five cents per acre less than they were ex pecting to pay. The sale came off duly and regularly, and the agents bid on the whole domain at no average of four cents per acre. Some of it, fot the fun of the thing, was run up to twenty-five cents! and a still greater portion at one cent per acre. The average was four cents. When, however, the sale was over, the scales dropped from the eyes of the settlers. They saw that these yf.iilhful servants of the peopfe had lied their homes away from them for nothing, and were now proposing to steal one dollat, or, more accu rately, ninety-six cents, for every acre of the purchase. But they allege in excuse for their blunder, that if they had not accepted these terms, the sharks would have run the land out of their reach. These agents are the same that sqltl Fort Snelling reserve, and the Lake Pepin Indian half-breed tract. They said that this sale would verify the statements o( the Demo, cratic journals throughout the country in extenuation of the Fort Snelling sale, that ■ wgy — T I w aoj jixaworvl ibo Fori SneMing’ lands brought more at pri vale sale than they would at public sale I What can be more barefaced and fraudulent than such a transaction 1 Well might the people demand the appointment of a police to select national thieves. The history of the country has no parallel to the frauds which are being perpetrated in that and other Territories by the appointees of the present Administration ; frauds, too, which are en couraged-and concocted directly under the eyes of the President. - Let the people mark them, and beep them in remembrance. The Micnnißßs op Fraud. —The Le complon Constitution provides for an entire new set of eieo'ion officers, to be appointed by Surveyor General Calhoun, and makes him the arbiter without appeal from all re turns, thus superceding Governor Walker entirely- The election officers will be as biller and unscrupulous partisans as Mr. Calhoun is himself. Why is Gov. Walker superceded ? Fur what other reason than that such returns ns those from McGee county and Oxford pre cinct,* rejected by him, may be received by Mr. Calhoun 1 Among the qualifications of voters pre scribed by this Constitution, that of a pre liminary residence, even for a single day, is not found. This is intended to render it easy to carry all the border counties by in vasions from Missouri. The apportionment of the Legislative dis tricts* is marked by the same features of unfairness which have distinguished all the previous apportionments made by the same authority. If this catalogue of frauds is practically consummated by the recognition of Congress of the Lecompton Constitution, (he while people of Kansas are slaves, whatever may he the condition of the negroes. There is no escape from it, short of an appeal to arms. Elmira Bank Bills have been looked upon with suspicion by some within the last few days on account of their having been thrown out by the Metropolitan Bank in New York. AH there is of this, is the fact that the Elmira Bank refuses to come into the araangemenl lately made for the redemption of the bills of Country Banks in New York. The Bank is as sound as ever and has been paying some of its alarmed depositors promptly on demand as usual. We will take any amount of the bills that may be offered us in exchange for our own bills for printing, and glad to get th em.-—Elmira Advertiser. PEXNSYtvAStA lbon Wokks.— The Great Western iron Rolling Mill, at Brady’s Bend, haa discharged, about 700 operatives. It has been engaged in making railroad iron largely, and the demand for that article having fallen off maierialty, it j a curtailing operations, to suit. The Pittsburg rolling mills are nearly all njnnmg half time, and the owhers are storing the product. They will be well prepared lor a brisk Spring* season, hut have been com pelled to forego; the Fall seaaon’s trade almost altogether. ' THE AGITATOR. M. ft. C«l>b,.;.-.f -Editor. WELLSBOROUGH, PA. Tlmrsflay morning, Bed. 10,1857. • f « All Business,and ollicrCommunlcalronsmuat be addressed to the Editor to insure attentions We cannot publish anonymous communications. Hon. G. A. Grow-will please accept our thanks for valuable documents. ■ - , v „The farmers hereabout hold their wheat at 10s andWlcr lias gone up to 20 cents. Pork is 7aBcls per pouooitndLbecf 4*5 all around—so wc ore in. formed. Miss Helen Coon, Assistant Teacher in. the. WelUboro Academy, will open a Select School in the! room over A. P. Cone's Law Office, Main-sl., on the 2fsl of December, instant. Miss C., is a lady of education and refinement and deserving of the con. fidcncc and support of the public. There is a very good attendance upon Court and" the people seem to be in good spirits in spite of the hard times. The weather at present is lovely-—Sep. tembcr.likc. The nights are just cool enough to in* duec refreshing sleep, and tlie days are just warm enough to make one apprehensive that 10-morrow may pome on the wings of a snow-storm. Large Gave. —Mr. G. W, Sears, of. ibis borough* recently killed a black Bear weighing 400 pounds, while stalking with dog and gun in the region of Babb's Creek. Jas. Locke, also of this place, has trapped six of these varmints within a few weeks. Wo learn that upwards of twenty bears have been shot, trapped and taken alive within the lour weeks just past, in this region. We arc unable to present our readers with any. very definite Kansas news. The breach between Douglas and Buchanan dues not heal as yet, but as to its bearing upon National politics nothing is dis closed to our comprehension. It is but a bid for the Presidency in 1860, at best, and may result in an undignified scramble of the Sbamocracy for the plunder—nothing more. Mr- 6. H- &rEnnius, oF Rochester, N. Y,, lector* ed at the Coart House Monday and Tuesday eve nings, to very good audiences. His subject on Mon. day evening was—•‘The True Reformer—lns Idea and his Mission.** On Tuesday evening—-“ The Evidences of Immortality.* 1 Wc were unavoidably detained from both lectures, but hear them spoken of in terms of high praise by many in attendance. Mr. able reasoper and an earnest la. borer in the behalf of Man. - ' subscribers lo the Tribune in the December Club, arc hereby notified that their subscriptions expire on the 13th iu#l. The Club is being renewed at this office, and it is hoped that all who wish lo join will hand in their names immedi ately, as we desire lo forward the money on or be fore the 14th instant. It is hardly necessary for uc to say that in no other way can one dollar be so profitably invested, or that no family should be with out this beat rurally newspaper. These facta are well known by our readers. Rejoicing In a happy release from 11 the Tombs,” (to the gloomy horrors of which one in daily com munication with the 41 devil” remorselessly consign ed us two weeks since,) refreshed and invigorated by a respite from the cares of business, contact with the outside world and heart-gladdened by a visit to home, friends and relatives after an age of absence, you for the ago. Wc feel-ten years younger lor the journey; the sun shines more brightly, and our purse is now not lighter than our heart—a very pleasant state of things, truly; for a light purse and a heavy heart agree no belter than an empty stomach and a lean larder. Give us your hands for a family shake J Our readers have been served with three half-sheet numbers. Well, they were first-rate half-sheets— worth two cents each, certainly. Wo promised pat rons short commons before leaving and were bound to make our word good. The young men In the of. fico needed a little rest as well as we; and then Uio office was overrun with Jnb work, which is the strawberries and cream of the business. Of course none but a savage will say that printers should put off strawberries and cream and take the pork and potatoes of (he business instead. Of course not. Dog Noble Brooks. Wo publish in another column under the head of “ Kansas—What is Submission 7”—an article from the N. Y. Express of the 3d inst. Tho Express is a Know Nothing sheet, having an unmitigated hor. ror of foreigners in general and of Jesuits in par. licnlar—at least, so it professes. But whoever ex amines that article carefully, cannot fail Ip delect a Jesuitical mode of reasoning which cnrld not have been bettered by Orestes A. Brownson, or 1 John, Archbishop of New York. But llie reasoning is not only Jesuitical ; it is in utter disregard of patent historical facts and opin ions of eminent jurists. Thus, flic article itself is as flagrant an outrage us the evil it complains of. The subjoined extract will explain more distinctly (ban we can do, the length and breadth of Human Right and Justice as estimated by the high.priesl of the Know Nothings: “ Now, scll.governme'nt means, not African gov ernment, but American government,—that is, the government of while men over while men. Negroes are but incidents and accidents of our institutions. Tie Federal Government ignored them in name and in substance and created a government exclusively for white men.- Self-government, then, means the government of white men by while men. Slavery is not an institution of general, only of partial exis tence,—but while men's government, and the right of wit rto men to self .govern themselves everywhere in every Slate of our Union, is." Now, the foregoing argument would be very just in some respects were it not deduced from false premises, namely, that “ the Federal Government “ ignored negroes in name and in substance and u created a government exclusively for while men.” It mast be remembered that this government exist ed prior to lire foaming and adoption of the Federal Constitution; and it is declared in the Constitution that the citizens of the several Stales under the ar ticles of Confederation, should bo considered cili sens of the United States. Now, if it be shown that negroos were recognised n citizens in the «e». eral States under (he Confederation, then the ape cions' pretences of Mr. Brasilia Brooks will appear in all their hideousness. This we elinll show upon unimpeachable authority. ,In reference to the question—“ Were negroes citizens in «ny 0 f the States qf tbs Confederation 7" Judge Curtis, of. the U. S. Supreme Court, in his Dred Scott Case Opinion, said: “Of-this there can be. no doubt. At the time of the ratification of the Arliclea of Confederation, all foeo native-born inhabitants of the States of New. Hampshire, Massachusetts New York, New Jeraev and North Carotins, though descended from Africa'n flirts, were not only citizens, of those States, hut poch of them as had the other oeeessary qualificn lions, possessed the franchise of electors on equal terms with other citizens." * THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. Judge Curtis farther cites the Opinion of Judge Gaston of the Supreme Court of North Carolina* as to the status of free negroes in lhalSUte. We give a brief extract—enough' to put Ihemnlter in a clear light; the skeptical can see the balance of Judge - Gaston VOptntoQ'fis^ited-by Judge Oortis, bycaffc mg upon as. S&ys Judge. Gaston,: _ “Slaves, TmmnmiUed here; became freemen, and therefore, if born within North Carolina, arc citi zens of North Carolina, and all free persons boro within the Slate are-born citizens of the Slate. -The Constitution extended the elective franchise to cv cry freeman who had arrived at the age of twenty .onCi&nd paid a public tax; audit is a matter of un. iversal notoriety, that, under it, free person?, without regard to colors claimed,and exercised liie Jranchi.sc until it was taken from free men of color a few years since by our amended Constitution.” Thus,'U appears that the Federal Governmentdid not ignore the negro, but, on the contrary, that the elective franchise was enjoyed by free men equally, without distinction of color, even In North Caroli na, under the present Constitution. Therefore the framers of the Constitution meant by men/, a government by the people without regard to color, and not “exclusively lor white men,” os the Cxfress jcsuiticalty argues. Apart from documentary evidence, we hold that this Government was -established for the protection I of all who live under it, black or while. And wc contend that the 5,000.000 of Africans in this land j have as much right to assist in governing them selves as any 5,000,000 of white people in the land. Certainly, anti-slavery men arc everywhere charged with ignoring the interests of the 25,000,000 whiles In their solicitude for the live millions of blacks; but this.is not true. Anti-slavery men, in remem bf ring the white race, do not forget the fewer Afri cans. They also understand that there is a commu nity of interests which includes all degrees and col ors under this Government, and that a blow struck, at the rights and liberties of one man or woman, 1 white, or black, is a blow struck at the rights and liberties of every man and woman on American soil. These negroes did not lose their liberties under the Conslilotion,nor were colored citizens deprived of (he elective franchise by that instrument. The several Slates found it convenient to disfranchise them at one lime or another; but they did not Jose their citizenship thereby, so long as the generation on the soil in 1787, lasted- It was held by the Southern Courts that while the negro was a chattel as a slave, he became a person, nl the moment of his manumission. Admitting this, it follows that in the very moment be becomes a person he becomes possessed of the political rights of persons and is entitled to all the privileges and immunities oi a citizen. A government by the people is a government by the whole people; anything less cannot be properly designated as a popular government. To deprive an American citizen' of his franchises is to recede from (he (roe .democratic standard. To say that a man shall not be admitted to a political equality with his fcllow.mcn because he is not socially and intellectually equal, is to decree that every man shall be born a genius and with the polish of a Chesterfield under penally of disfranchisement; and to ibis narrow point is the mutter in hand now dwindled down. As to the philanthropy of the men who make nsc ot such Jesuitical reasoning we have an abundance of incrcdulitv. They arc men through whose veins the blood courses with an Arctic chill. They are reptilemen, delighting never so much as when phi losophising upon the misfortunes of other and bet ter people. The Pittsburg Post propose* a Convention of Sl)am democratic editors of this Slate, to come off not think that any good will come ont of it. We are glad lo be able to agree with cmr Tunkhannock friend for once, and may say that it any good aho’d come out of a Convention of Mulatto-democratic ed itors, it would be as wonderful as making a whistle of a. pig’s tail. They might get together and try the experiment. In the meantime we trust our friend will not get in a pet as is his want when 1 we endeavor to agree with him. Fernando Wood ia beaten. His defeat is not a Republican triumph, however, but the result of a fusion of the respectable of all parties against the Dead Rabbit order; or, as an intelligent democrat remarked to us on the afternoon of the day of the day of the election— u It was a contest between Vir tue and Vice, and Virtue is the victor by a paltry two thousand I” This was a just statement of the facts, doubtless. Congress commenced its session on Tuesday. The Republican caucus was held on Monday, but the result of its deliberations have not reached us at present writing. It is thought that cither Mr. Grow, Mr. Blair of Missouri, or Washburn of Me., will bo Us nominee for Speaker. See Washington news in another place. The Atlantic Monthly, Phillips, Sampson Sc Co., Boston. The December number of this new Mag azino is overflowing with jewel-thoughts of the best intellects in the country. It has already reached a circulation of 25,000. [Wc commend the inquiry contained in tho fol lowing letter to the consideration of Our subscribers in Charleston township. The letter was addressed to Mr. John Bailey, P. M.,of Charleston. — Ed. Ag.] Georgetown, Ky., Nov. 1857. Sir ; Many years ago ihere resided in your town n colored man by the name of Jacob Free—who was respected and owned some property, a farm I think. His wife ac companied a family by the name of Monlier to this plnce, for her health, and died, leaving their lillle child, a girl named Charlotte, to iheoareof her white friends (ill such time she could ,be conveyed back lo her father. No such chance occurred. Years passed away, Ihe child has grown (o womanhood, and feeling a great desire lo know something of her father, has embraced lha first oppor tunity lhal has offered itself to her of having a letter written, hoping by your kindness she may ii he is living obtain some knowledge of her father so that she can write to him. Charlotte is an. intelligent and clever woman, and maintains, herself respectably and her two children by h er needle. Her oldest child is n very smart boy of four years, who would be n source of pride and pleasure to his .relatives if alive. You will ’Sir confer a great favor on Charlotte and her white friends if you wil] be so kind as to make some enquiries as to the person in question, and at as early a lime as possible let me have any information you may acquire. . lam respectfully, CAROLINE BANG?. The Democratic' paper in Columbiana county, Ohio, has a long article upon.what the incoming Legislature should do. 'Among the reforms which it advooales is ‘‘the total abolition of the public sehoolsvalem.” FroniTVaslilnglon. ** To ffio Associated Pros*. *. * • f .Washington, Friday, Dec. 4,1857. . TiW'Conatiuition-framed by ihe lecent Kan sas is. watro.ljL.BP-- provid by Senator Bigler and other, promi nem Alfboggh Senator' has freely expressed himself against the Le cbmp’on movement, ihe opinion is current thnl’he Wi|l not place, himself in" direct antag onism-to the-Administration. . Tha appearances,ate that the House will effect an-organization on Monday without trouble. The..cooteat is, particularly warm for Postmaster, Doorkeeper, and Printer. It is* now conttjmplaied lb send the Presi dent's Message in advance only to New York, Philadelphia and :Richmond. A decision in the mailer will probably ,be arrived at to iporrow. , .i It is understood that the Republican caucus will be held at 10 o'clock on Monday morn-, iag. Mr. Grow of Pennsylvania, Mr. Blair of Missouri, or Mr. Washburn of Maine will probably receive the nomination for Speaker. The present intention is to make no other nominations. [TUf'patch to the N. Y. Express.] Senator Douglass to-day again lakes just as strong ground as Gov. Walker against the Lecomptpn Convention, and pronounces their acts as an utier violation of the Kansas and Nebraska bill. He has pledged himself to resist the one-sided views of tho Convention, and stand or fall, he will not falter in his po sition. The -President has heard this from Walker’s own lips, and In addition has the Assurance that Kansas would flow with, blood if an attempt should be made to force merely ihe Slavery'cause upon the people, and to prevent a vote upon the Constitution as a whole. - r. Gov, Richardson of Illinois, the M. C,, who piloted the Kansas and Nebraska bill through the House, has just come in, and is equally explicit wi h Douglas and Walker in denouncing Ihe acts of ihe. Locompton Con* -vention. • Should the President not. yield, there will be such a struggle in Washington as has not been seen for years, and it is believed that he will before Monday abandon all intention to sustain the one idea in the new Constitution. " Mr. Stanton has not written to the Presi dent, withdrawing his resignation, as stated in the Tribune, Letters from Kansas received hero repre sent almost nine-tenths of the people of all parlies ns against the Lecompton Constitu tion, including slaveholders, Free State men and others. Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1857. The Democratic caucus was held in the hall of the House of Representatives, and was organized by the election of George VV. Jones of Tennessee as Chairman ; Mr. llufiin of North Carolina and Mr. Phillips of Penn sylvania as Secretaries. One hundred and fourteen members were present. Mr ps of Missouri, having previously wilh , proposed Col. Orr for Speaker, who manimously nominated. -./File Republican members held a caucus in the room of the Committee of Commerce. passed unanimously reassor.ing ihc doettines of the Philadelphia platform, when, without transacting further business, n motion was carried to adjourn until Monday morning at 9i a’clock. A nomination for Speaker will then he made. The Hon. G. A. Grow of Pennsylvania is the most prominent candi date talked of, and it is believed will get the nomination. Many of the Republicans are in favor of making straight nominations for other offices. Some oppose if. Col. Forney is here, and is very decided in his condemnation of the Lecompton Con stitulion. Senotor Douglas aiso expresses himself very freely to Ihe same purport. From the Han Francisco Herald, Nov. sth. Summary of the Fortnight’s News. | State. —Ths most important items of j news from California, by the steamer Golden , Gale is the display -before the public of a 1. large amount of evidence, going to show lhal | the one hundred and eighteen immi grants, massacred in lha southern part of: Utah, while on their way to California—news ; of which occurrence was sent from here by | ihe last mail—were murdered by Mormons. ! Mr. George Powers arrived days since nt Los Angelos, from Salt Like, and reports ; having heard many Mormons threaten to kill Gentiles passing through their country. He met n mixed parly of Mormons and Indians going toward a Mormon settlement frqm Ihe scene of the massacre, and they had in pos session bundles of clothing and other articles, apparently the spoil of the murdered ; and tho whole party appeared to be on very friendly terms with one another, and to be in high spirits. This Mr. Powers also stales that in Sun Bernadino he heard Captain Hunt, a man of authority among the Mor mons there, say he was glad for Ihe massacre, and believe the hand of the Lord was in it, whether it was done by the whites or red skins. P. M. Warn, of Genesee county New York, who came through about the same time with Mr. Powers, believe also, from numerous facts observed by them, that the Mormons are guilty, of the bloody crime. Messrs. Abbot and Fine, (wo gentlemen who have lately been at San Andres, from the Humboldt'river, report great hostility on the part of the Mormons towards (He immigrants coming to California by the South Pass; and great friendship with the Indiana, who bad made attacks on immigrants. Both Mr. Abbott and Mr, Finn know of cases where trains were attacked In the Mormon country, by Indians led on by numerous white men,, supposed, to be Mormons. Mr. Abbott says five hundred immigrants have. been, kilted this year on the.road between Salt Lake arid California by Indians and Mormons, but this estimate is certainly very much exaggerated. - There was a little.brush-of a fight between the-settlers at Honey Lake—a valley; cast of the main divide of (he Sierra Nevada, in lattitude 39 degrees north—and the Indians, but peace has-been restored. ■ The newspapers contain reports of the dia covery of a coal vein in Sonoma county, near Patalumaj hut wo attach no-importance to (he report. Kansu »~What Is Submission ? Submission to ihe people of the right to frame their dWn institutions—a Democratic principle—meant when in 1860, under the -Prti more-Admin istratioorit' waa-iftcotporateff in ihe.California, NewMeJicoandUtah Bill, Seif Government.- The Pierce Adminis (ration, in 1854, rc-enacfed the principle.— Mr. Buchanan committed himself,'in his In augural, in his instructions to Goy. ,Walker, and in his very-excellent letter to 1 the New Haven divine and literacy gentlemen. ‘ Now, self-government means, notfAfrican government,-bm American government—that is, the government of white men oyer white men. Negroes are but incidents and acci dents ofour institutions. The Federal Gov. ernment ignored them in name, and in sub stance, and created a government exclusively for while men. Self-government, then, means the government of while men by white men! Slavery is not an institution of general, only of partial existence —but while rain’s govern, ment, and the right of while men io self‘gov ern themselves everywhere in every Stole of our Union, is. - X Apply these acknowledged principles to Kansas. A constitution is made there, though of legal, yet of spurious origin. 1 It lakes from the white people of Kansas ; all white rights of self-government, and leaves them only to act upon blacks, upon African gov ernment —upon the isolated and tively very unimportant qoeslidn-r— whether (hey shall hold the few blacks in Kansas as slaves or not. In short, all Ihe self-govern ment rights of white people are ignored—all taken from the while people—and the only thing left them is to act upon the rights of the blacks. It is not true, ns said, (hat the white people can, right off, amend- and alter this constitution, if they don’t like it—while it is true, that the constitution , fprbids any amendment until “after the year 1864,” and then only to be initiated by a two-jthirds vole of the Legislature of the new St^te! Thus until “after 1864,” self-government begins not in Kansas! - : } Now, a quibble, a cheat, or a fraud, is at tempted to excuse and disguise the robbery of Ihe people of Kansas, of self ■government. — “Slavery,” it is said, is tlie oolyjibing the peo ple of Kansas care about, and, therefore, it is the only issue that should be (eft to them. Csre they not for ibis stipulaliqn, that the Constitution to be imposed upon;' them shall not be touched till “after 1864(J’| Care ihey not for thus being tied up in their right to al ter and amend their own fundamental laws, in their own way 1 j j We pronounce this a fraud upon the Dem ocratic and. Republican principle; of self-gov ernment—because withholding from Ihe peo. pie the right to act upon all llieit; institutions, and substituting, in lieu thereof, only one “in slitulion,” and that not concerning their own white race, is a quibble, a cheat,; and a fraud. Southern gentlemen,- who are above quibbles and meannesses, must scorn thisjsort of trick ery, just as we scorn it—and wefbelieve thou sands of them will’ look upon if in the light we do, as a mean, miserable Iprece of trick ery, scarcely worthy even, of|a faro table, much less of being made pare of a funda mental law of a Stale. | j Thompson’s Bank Nole Reporler of the l»t .1 — u<~><s.outite rnfnK, wntci* m*-- dicales to Ihe public that Tliotaosoh, & Co. do not buy its bills at atiy rale of dis. couni. The tendency is to [discredit the Bank. Hence we deem an explanation suit able. ( ' l«* John Thompson, at (he limeW his failure ~- I 1 and for some years previous,;was buying (he bills of the Honesdale Bank' at half of one per cent discount, underran jarrangemem, which was that he should deliver the hills in packages to the Merchants Exchange Bank, receiving one-eighth of one pet- cent for his services. | j When Thompson, Morse Co., took up the business of John Thompson, after liis failure, they wrote to ibe Hq'nesdale Bank, soliciting a continuance with! item of the ar rangement which had existed with him.— This request was granted, and ihey proceeded to act under it. ' | | Shortly afterwards the Philadelphia banks suspended, and most Pennsylvania bills fell to five of six per cenl discount Thompson, Morse & Go., in violation of (he arrangement, took the same discount on Honesdale bills as any other hills of this State, and instead of presenting them at the Merchant’s Exchange Bank, sold them at one per cent, to one of the two other brokers who did not fly from their engagement. The President and Vice Pres'dent of the Honesdalej Sank called on Thompson-, Morse & Co., and remonstrated with them. All the they got was an intimation that if the Bahkpwould furnish them $lOOO, without inlerest.jto use in their business, they would go back io the arrange menu This offer was declined. In a little lime it became so well known that the Honesdale Bank wasimaintaining its regular J redemption that the; holders o° its bills in the city would not sutynit to the high rale of discount which Thompson, Morse & Co. had been demanding. 1 Then that firm wrote to the bank, asking a renewal of the old arrangement, which was;ddcidedly refused. Upon receiving this refusal! they sent up by express a package of bills, demanding specie for them, which ihey did notjget. As a lasi effort to force (he Bank into! measures they have starred it, going as far ,as they dare to cast suspicion upon its circulation. From (his statement of facts the publio will be able to draw the proper. inferences,— Honesdale ’Democrat . Improved A new Telegraphic Machine,jtisTinvenied after many years of invesligaiioii and labor, by Mr. Edmund F. Barnes of Nbw York, is now in actual and successful operation between distant points. ' The peculiarities of this new patent are several, l’Whicb may bs named the following ; Ist.; It requires no skill to use it, nod-any one ! can operate with it on the first trial correctly and satisfactorily 2d. It writes in alphabetical characters,’ though worked by a singlp-pejeon with ease and rapidity. 3d. The maohihery is very simple and very strong, abd ! not at all liable to get out of order. 4lb. , -It is not deranged* by thunder storms, but hah be worked with equal fidelity in all weathers.. slh. Being very simple, it is very inexpensive. ■Fronrtho N. T. Express, ■ On the morning of the 22d inst., the most fatal and heartrending affray took place ever witnessed in this county. It appears that while Dr. C. S, Swan and his partner, Dr. . G.-C.' Webb, were dining at Col. B. K. Rod. gers in this place, and with them their friend. Dr. G. W. Burney, Dr. Swan was informed of some one at the gate who wished to sea him. He, according to request, went oat to see what was wanting ; the balance of the company, Drs. Webb and Burney, accompa nying him. When arriving at the gate, they found on horseback, Isaac Felsenthrall and Mr. Hutchins. Mr. H. rode close to iho fence and handed Dr. Swan a letter from Mr. Travis, Professor and President of tho Fe male Institute at Searcy. The character of the letter proved none other than friendly. While Dr. Swan was engaged in reading, some words look place between Felsenthrall and Dr. W., when Felsenthrall gave Dr. VV. the lie, and, jumping down from his horse, made a move as if to draw a weapon, when Dr, Swan and Burney jumped between them, saying “Gentlemen, no weapons,” when- Fel senthrall declared he “had no' weapons, and d—n him he was going to fight Dr. W., and fight him a fair fight." They then came to gether, Dr. W„ having but a small walking cane, which he held in his left hand.and was about to drop it, when he discovered Felsen thrall drawing a pistol from the sleeve of; his coat. The proximity was then so close ho saw his otily chance was to strike with the cane, (that he Was about to throw down) to save his life. He struck with his stick, but it being too late to produce the desired effect, Drl S. sprang to_ seize the pistol, but, alas! too late; he had shot Dr. W. in the left re gion of the abdomen, depositing two balls in the muscles of the right hip near the surface. Dr. W. fell mortally, wounded. Dr. S. immediately commenced the dress ing of his wounds, while Dr. B. followed the black hearted assnssian, who tan to the house of R. K. Rogers, and seized a gun (that had been loaded with buckshot foi a deer drive,) to defy the friends of Dr. W. whom he had just shot, when Col. Rogers wrested the gun from him. Felsenthrall then ran to the hoists that Hutchins rode when they came, and mounting it, commenced making his escape, when Dr. Burney immediately appeared with the same gun, handing it to Dr. VV., saying, “You are now armed.” Dr. W. said,“l am disabled; be has killed roe; use it for me. Shoot him —and don’t, for heaven’s sake, let him escape—see, he is doing it." Dr. B. leveled the gun and fired. The murderer bad rode but a hundred yards at full speed from tho place of the affray, when three of the shot passed through his head andjl&dy, killing him instantly. Many of the peopJe'of the town hastened to the place of the affray. Many of the Searcy people came down ; great excitement prevailed. Some said they would be avenged, that they wbuld take up arms and march against West Point for letting the Des Arc and Memphis boys kill their Dutchman (Fel senthrall.) Others remarked that it was a noble act on the part of Dr. J. VV. Burney, and that he did no more than any true-hearted man would have done under the circumstan ces, and that (hey knew it was premeditated ■nn'ttie'parroT'Felscnlhrall to have a difficulty with Dr. W., and look this method to bring it about. Fugitive Slave Case at A.v.v Arbor, Michigan. —We are informed that several detectives, among whom we have only the names of officers Sprague and VVilcoxsor, took a supply of small arms, handcuffs, &c., and went to Ann Arbor /or the purpose of catching a couple of fugive slaves, who were at work near by. They had arranged for an amicable partition of the reward. They had “a dead sure thing of it,” .but unfortunately they were so well pleased with the ingenuity of their arrangements that they told their business to several of the citizens of Ann Arbor. The negroes were informed of wbst was going on by a messenger sent to the farm-house where they were working, and they immediately “laid dqwn the shovel and the hoe,” got aboard the cars on the Under ground Railroad, and are now safe ip Canada. The detectives heard of what (fad taken place, and offered §5OO in gold to any one who would catch the two black boys.—De troit Tribune, Ist. Apples. —-The New York Journal of Commerce says : “Newtown pippins, which were in such high favor last year for export, are almost ao entire lai’ure, so that the num ber be shipped this season will be insig nificant. Such as are sent out, are in small lots, mostly designed as gifts. The value of last year’s exportations of this choice fruit was not less than $lOO,OOO. Mr. Gilmartin, the largo fruiterer in Front street, alone sent out 85000 worth. The market price is quoted at s7aB per bbl,, packed for shipment, and Ssa6 per ‘ bbl. as they runi The cjop in Western New York is fair, but in other por tions of the State. and .through the country generally both quantity and quality are in ferior. The wholesale price. is §3 per bbl. It is-conjectured that for several years to come, Ibe principal reliance must be on Wes tern New York, as the orchards elsewhere have greatly deteriorated from age and yield sparingly.” Another Split.—Splits are becoming common in the Presbyterian body. La#* week the Synod of Missouri, consisting of four Presbyteries and 57 churches, held its annual session in and after a long discussion on slavery, resolved to-form itself into an independent body. It refuses fellow ship with the New School body, on account" of its action at Cleveland last summer, and declares it cannot go with the Richmond con vention. It determines to remain nn inde pendent synod, ■** until the Providence of God shall seem to make clear the way of duty. By this action the Presbyterian church in the United States is therefore divided into four distinct organizations—the Old School, the New School, the Southern School and lbs Missouri School. appears to have been some conflict of opinion in the meeting, but the final decision waa arrived at harmo niously. Among'the distinguished gentlemen present was tbs Rev. Thomas A. Mills, who has taken a - prominent part in the slavery discussions of the Church, fatal Affray lb Arhanjai, West Point, Arkansas, Nov, 25,1857,
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