FROM KANSAS. Curretyoudence of the Mlnouri Xtemoerat. Lawbesce, Jan. 14, 1858, The returns (or the election of the Le cornpion Constitution were opened yesterday by J. Calhoun, in presence of Gov. Denver, the President of the Council and Speaker of the Bouse. The votes for a Constitution with Slavery, as polled on 21st December, were 6,063 j Constitution with no Slavery, •678. Of these 1,017 were polled at Kickit poo, 1,366 at Oxford, 729 at Shawnee, 233 at Maysville, and 318 at Fort Scott, making 3,562 out of 6,639, from precincts contain ing not over 1,000 inhabitants. The vote against the Constitution on the 4th inst. has not yet been counted, although it will proba bly exceed 10,000, and would have reached 15,000 had there been sufficient time to notify the people fully of the election. Pnr State officers. Smith, Free-State, fot Governor, has 6,238, and Marshall, Pro- Slavery, 6,539. Member of Congres—Par-’ roll has 6,623, and Carr, Pro-Slavery, 6,568. The Legislature has, in Senate, Free-Smie, 13; Pro-Slavery, 0 ; in House, Free-State, 39, Pro-Slavery, 14. This, according to the returns in at the expiration of the eight days given for making returns. Mr. Calhoun says he shall not close the count now, but will re ceive any other returns that may be pre sented, so that no one can tell what the final result may be. The Territorial Legislature has ' provided a commission to examine the election frauds, and will provide for .another Constitutional Convention. The Topeka Legislature will enact a code to be used in case of emergen cies, but not to conflict with Territorial a». thority. If our people are cheated by Cal houn and we should be admitted into the Union un ’er the Lecomplon Constitution, war must inevitably result. Our people hate carried the election overwhelmingly and they will not be trifled with. It is not now the ultra Free-State men alone who are aroused, but the “national’’ Free-Siate Democrats, or what are now called the “Walker Demo, crats,” are ns indignant as the Abolitionists, with all the zeal of new converts. Tlie Debates iu Congress. , The editor of Harper’s Weekly of the 2d instant says : “The English have one ad vantage over us: they report their parlia mentary debates in full; we give bat a mea gre summary of ours. Hence, very few people in this country have any accurate notion of the speeches which Senator Douglas, for "instance, has delivered on the pending issue between himself and the Administration. It is a serious loss. These speeches deserve to be repotted’ in full.” The readers of the Globe, who may also have been readers of Harper’s Weekly, will lose confidence in the published lucubrations of an editor who speaks so confidently and so erroneously. It is not true that the English report their parliamentary debates in full; it is not true that we give but a meagre summary. The re ports of congressional proceedings are given with more verbal fullness than the debates of any other legislative body in the world. We have dispatched to the recluse editor—for recluse he necessarily must be—a copy of the Daily Globe which contains Judge Doug las’s speech, in which he gave utterance to his dissent from the Executive policy in rela tion to Kansas. That number of the Daily Globe was accompanied by six supplemental pages, and contained nearly sixty columns of debates in Congress, thirty-two columns of which were uttered in the Houses on the proceeding day. The editor is equally in error in his statement that very few people in this country have any accurate notion of Ibe; .speeches which Senator Douglas and others deliver. The speech which we have transmitted to the editor of Harper’s Weekly was published in the Globe the morning.afier y i:s delivery; on the day succeeding if was “ published in the New York Times, and sub sequently in many other newspapers in every section of the Union ; besides, upwards of one hundred thousand copies have been dis tributed in pamphlet form with the sanction of Judge Douglas himself, who admires the skill which produced it, and takes repea'ed occasions to say that it is the best specimen of reporting be ever saw. What, then, does the editor mean by “very few?” The speech has been read in every hamlet, aud has given intensity to thought among si all classes of citizens. Political circles alone may speculate on party policy, but this is a theme that stamps the historical character of the limes. Its importance is shown bv the ability brought both to the support and thtf refutation of Mr. Douglas, and if such speech es were not reported, we should concur with the Harpers in the lamentation, "it is a seri o'us loss.” ft would, indeed, be marvelous if the “journal of civilization” should be found to be the veritable “Tilletudlem Turkey- Cock and Daily Strutter,” andjlif the fledg ling Longbow, acting upon the advice of the publisher’s Lounger, should “Assume that, his sheet is the only source of news to every reader.” —Daily Globe. What a Fix !—Whither shall the admin istration turn? Not a year old, .and the Treasury which at the inauguration of Mr. Buchanan had twenty millions, is not only empty but has pledged its hopes to pay twenty millions more, the paper obligations being already in process of manufacture ! Not a year old and Utah in a stale of rebellion and Kansas burning with all the rage of civil war I Not a year old, and General Walker on its bands much in the same way as the elephant in the story ! “What will he do with it ?” is as important a question now with Mr. Buchanan touching Nicaragua as in Bui wer’s new story i The administration has discharged Walker;• that’s true! but what will come of the whole thing? What will they do with Paulding ? what with Chatnrd ? What’s to be done with this factious Doug las and bis friends 7 What’s to be done with (hat Lecomplon Constitution sent to Congress already with the slavery clause in ? No flinching, gentlemen ! But isn't it a “bad fix?" And all this load on the shoulders of Bigler and Buchanan! Were ever unhappy men so aadly treated I —Pittsburg Gazette. The Texas Legislature baa passed a bill which allow* free colored persona who desire it to select masters and become staves. Glo rious privilege. THE AGITATOR. H. Cobb, Editor Publisher. WELISBOHOUGH. FA. Tlmredar Morotos, Jan. og, tSSS. *«* All Business,and other Commanicationsmiui be addressed to the Rditor to insure attention. W» cannot publish anonymous communications . BOROUGH TICKET. “law AND ORDER,” Far Burgess—JOHN N. BAG HE. S DAVID STVRROCK, For Council } CHARLES SEARS. - For Constable—WlLLlAM ROBERTS. I W. W. WEBB, Seh’l Directors! WM. HARRISON, f THOMAS ALLEN. Judge of Flections— S, H. LANDIS. Inspectors •* Gko. Sears, A. CaowL. Poor-Masters —Wu. Bache, Crus. Osgood. Assessor —G. S. COOK. Assistants, —J. Ribebolie, &D. Sana. Auditor,—D. HART. Those desiring to join the February club tor thie Weekly Tribune should hand in jtheir names within eight days. Subscriptions $l. li When prafrssing ch ristiOils anfi men under bonds to appear at the next session ofllie Quarter Sessions to answer to the charge of illegal sale of liquor, work lovingly together in street and in caucus, who are the infidels I Ay, who! New Arrangement. —We learn that Messrs. F. Smith of Tioga, and C. L. Dieffenracber of the United Slates Hotel of this place, have purchased the Daily line of Stages running between Wcllsboro and Tioga. The United Slates Hotel will be the Stage House under the new arrangement which took effect on Monday. The new proprietors are young and enterprising men, and wilt doubtless take every pains to render the new arrangement popular with the traveling public. For the information of such as may be interested in onr progress, we make the fallowing exhibit of the run on our bank for the week ending Thursday January 28: New Subscriptions, 8 ■Subscriptions withdrawn, 2 Balance in favor of bank We make the balance “ 7," for the reason that one o( the individuals who stopped bis paper forgot to settle up. He will please consider tills his receipt in full. We ask the attention of our readers to the adver. tisement of Messrs. C. E. Todd & Co., 392 Broome Street, New York, which may be {bund on the 3d page of this paper. Those wishing to procure a fioe gold Pencil cannot do better than to send their orders to 393 Broome-sl. The plan of the enter prise is like that of the Cosmopolitan Art Associa tion, every one getting an equivalent for his monev, witli a chance in the gifts beside. Their Pencils are such as are usually retailed at $5. Read the advertisement. We are glad to be able to slate to the friends of good order everywhere, tbal the summary proceed ings recently had'against the dealers in medicated strychnine in this village, have resulted most bene ficially to the public peace and quiet. It is now pos sible to walk tlie entire length of Main-st, willioat meeting a drnukon man. This could not have been done ten days since, certainty more than once out of six limes. A little law well enforced is a most ex cellent tiling, and when enforced by the proper offi cers will be still better. The friends of good order will endeavor to elect such officers to-morrow. The ticket is made up of the rigiit stamp of men. The weather? Bless us I what can we say of this delightful summer in-winter weather 7 It is re markable, for everybody says so, and what every body says most be true. The sky is as mild and lamb-tike as in Jane, the a!r is sod and vernal and (he nights are hut Just cool enough for comfort. What does it mean 7 Did the almanac-makers make a mistake?—or, Rip Van Winkle tike, did we all fall asleep last September and sleep over the long and dreary winter 7 > Or has the continent slid down a few degrees, leaving the North where the South ought to be? ' All through central and southern Pennsylvania the farmers are plowing and pursuing their usual spring work, planting excepted. Whether this un usually mild winter portends a rear of unusual fruit-' fulness, or just the reverse, is the subject of much speculation. To-Moaaow the qualified electors of Ibis borough will decide what kind of men shall administer its affairs.fur the next twelvemonth, whether they shall he men who will be insUntin the dischargeof tbeiv official duties, with a jealous regard for the peac<| and well-being of the place, or men who will aequi| esec in, and wink at. barefaced and defiant infract tiona ol law and good order. The issue is plain and unmistakable: Shall the laws be enforced ? There arc two parties in the field, not political, but social. One Insists that the laws shall be en forced by the proper officers; the other defies law and tramples on the public peace. A few weeks ago certain friends of good order determined to put down the illegal sale of liquor in this village. The transgressors assumed ad attitude of Hostility, pub licly boasting that they would do this, that and the other offensive thing, if not permitted to pursue un. disturbed (heir evil ways. It is in opposition to these men, their aids, abettors, apologists and the ticket they offer for the suffrages of the citizens ut this borough, that the ticket at the head of this column was nominated and is presented for the support of every friend of good order. In the call for the caucus in which this ticket was nominated, all friends of law nod good order were urgently solicited to meet at the Court House on Friday evening 22d inst., to make up a ticket for borough officers. A goodly number of the more ac tive temperance men did so meet, and made up the ticket herewith presented. It follows, therefore, that whoever is found upon the Ram ticket, chooses to be found there, in opposition to the friends of good order, and openly and boldly. Ifi as we are told, the present Burgess leads the Rum ticket, he elects to stand there and must be counted among the ene mies of good order. Bnt we do.not believe he elects to occupy that bad eminence. We prefer to consid er our informant at fault, rather than believe Mr. Osgood would knowingly occupy a position so utter ly incompatible with Ciiristian duly.,? Vie also team that the law.defying opposition has decided upon a mixed ticket, that is, putting some of the law and order candidates lor the minor offices upon their ticket. We thank them for that frank acknowledgment, of their weakness, assuring them however, that our party does not solicit their votes in the election of any candidate. We wish to see the lines drawn distinctly, and if if defeat come oat of it, let it come! We are prepared for cither vic tory, or defeat. If the friends of good order go to the polls with stiff backbones, the opposition wilt be Waterlooed. If they dodge the ordeal, then tempo rary defeat to our cause ensues. Friends, which do you choose 7 . THE TIOGA COUNTY AG IT AT OU. .The great strife is for Burgess,' Council and Con stable. These officers are guardians of the peace and good order of the community, and we shall find that the opposition \«UI not vote Tor one of the law end-order candidates Tor peace officers. Why 7 be cause.fi-om (be-beginning, the tnen-tnost- active in getting up the opposition ticket.hare resisted the en forcement of the law, or denounced -those most ac tive in enforcing the law. What doe* this prose 7 It proses that they bare selected candidates for peace officers who, os they believe, will be conven iently blind to transgressions -of the liqtiorTawor, who, when (bey see (lie bottle set out, will turn tbelr backs until (he drams are drank and paid lorWe would like tn bear a short sermon from some pulpit in Weilsboro, upon that kind of sin—jost one ser mon. Friends, yon can make to-morrow s day of de feat or of triumph, jost as you please. If yon do yonr duty, if you come out and rote, the day is yours. As for ns, neither victory nor defeat will decrease or increase our duties. .We shall still keep a scourge for lawbreakers and shall apply it without “ fear, favor or affection,” of, or for any man, and this, not from malice, which we bear toward no mortal, but because it it right. Amalganiatlonists. Although the loudest revilers of Abolitionists as being “amalgamalionisls" and everything else that is adjudged disreputable by their class, (he advo cates of property in man are tuemselvds cohviclcd of, (be crime of amalgamation in the ” first degree 1 ' by the Census Report of 1850. By that report we learn that (be whole -number of inulattoes in the Free States at (hat time was 56,593. This seemed a large number, indeed; hot on turning to the stat istics of Virginia we were not a little surprised to learn that her mulatto population exceeded 78,000! thus exhibiting a .surplus oi 33,000 and upward, over and above the entire mulatto population of the sixteen free States. (We do not include political mulatloes in this estimate.) Add to (his, 33,000 for Louisiana, 30,000 for Mississippi, and 33,000 for Kentucky, round numbers, and the preponderance in favor of the South is overwhelming. Massachu setts, most decried for the Abolition tendencies of her people, has a mulatto population of 2,340 — against a white population of 985,460. Virginia lias a while population of 894,800, with a mulatto population of 76,430, greater than Massachusetts, New York, with a white population of 3.000,000 and upward, numbers 8,139 mutailoes. New Hamp shire, with a population of 377,457, has 184 inulat toes. Illinois, with a population of 846,000, has 3,506 mulatloes—and so on, to the end of the chap ter. " What do these facts show ? Not that Anti-Slavery men are advocates of amalgamation, but quite the contrary. They exhibit the gratifying fact that the charge of amalgamation lies at tlfe door of the pe culiar institution and is one of the natural and in* evitable tendencies of the system. We call it a gratifying fact, because it affords a new evidence that all wrongs tend to sclftdcstroction. It is wise* ly ordered that oppressions of all kinds shall stab their authors and thus slab themselves. That Amalgamation is inimical to the perpetuity of slavery, cannot he successfully gainsaid. Look down the vista of centuries to the time when the Norman yoke chafed the necks of our Saxon ances tors. See bow intermarriage was interdicted by a mutual pride; and mark how the subjugated Saxon princes resisted all alliance with the oppressor. So long as this exclusiveness was successfully main* lamed the Saxon found no respite from his bonds; but no sooner did intercommunication partially ob literate the barrier of caste Ilian llic oppressed be* gan to grow into an independence. To that end is Southern amalgamation hastening Slavery, not swiftly, but certainly. No white race cai; be held long in bonds upon American soil. Put one drop of Anglo-Saxon blood into the veins of the slave and one link is struck from his fetters. Educate the slave and you | make him free, for the system is built upon ignor* ante, Energize him with Saxon blood and he be#f comes his own educator. From all the information we have been -able to gain upon this head, it seems that a very large pro. portion of fugitives from a careless and happy lives under kind masters-,” arc not “pure and unadulter ated Africans," but oftener sons and daughters uf the chivalry. Not a few apologists for Slavery ex. tract many grains of comfort from Ibis fact, assum* ing that the unadulterated negro is not fit to be free• and therefore never will be. This is begging the question. Because our ancestors were decorated with iron collars and other badges of servitude by their masters, and because thousands died with (heir collars on, it did not follow that they were not fit to be free, nor that they were nut through their posterity to rule a hemisphere. None of us would feel greatly to respect a man who should .cut off the legs of his children and deduce from thefr helpless, ness an argument unfavorable to (heir natural abil ity (o walk. Yet such is the nature of the arga* mcnl of the slaveholder and his apologist to dispoa sees the negro of bis rghls of u Liberty and the pursuit of happiness."' We by no means deal e tiie destruction of Slave* ry through amalgamation; but it Will assuredly come thorough that channel unless superseded by a more summary method. If left to amalgamation its death mast be violent, because it wilt die amid the flame and smoke of servile war. That must be the end of the institution if the measures of the par. ty in power for its perpetuation shall prevail. So much ia the vindication of anti.glavery men from the grossly unjust charge of advocating sma]. gamatioo principles. The exact nature of the aplil between Douglas and Buchanan seems not to be fully understood by very many, or to be understood ss being of greater magnitude and importance than it actually is among political events. That there is a wide difference of opinion discoverable in the anuual Message and iq Douglas’s Speech, touching the meaning of Popular Sovereignty, cannot be denied; but the difference ends there—there being no difference in principle. Mr. Buchanan's view was taken with an eye to Southern favor; that of Mr. Douglas was taken with an eye to Northern favor. Both are intensely self ish and one is as intensely shrewd as the other is in tensely silly. James Buchanan is as certainly doomed to (be fate of Franklin Pierce as the latter is to everlasting infamy. There is no disagreement between Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Donglaa about the protection afforded Slav ery by the Federal Both agree that Slavery exists everywhere within the jurisdiction of the General Government in virtue of that instru ment. This is the most dangerous doctrine of the time, overturning, as it most assuredly does, all pre. vious renderings of the rights of Stales under that instrument. Mr. Douglas abides by the Cincinnati' Fiatlbrm and the Dred Scott Decision; and so long os be so abides, he must be considered hostile to Re publican principles as enunciated In the Phlladel phia Platform. There is no reason to suppose (hat Douglas will be read oat of the Proslavery party, or if read out, (bat he wilt become an ally of Republicanism. He would, with Forney’s aid,endeavor lb create a party in the North which should hold the balance of power among political parlies in 1860. The Pattern Department of Godky’s February number is peculiarly brilliant, as also the literary porlion._ Godey is presenting some veryJiqe engra vings to his subscribers nowadays. We can furn ish the Lady’t Book to our subscriberajor $2. Gov. Packer’s Inangnrai. The new of Pennsylvania in his Inaugural Address calls particular alien- Homo that provision of the State Constitution; in- relation to the Governor’* share in the' business of legislation. The Constitution -provides with respect to bills, orders,- resolu tions and voles to be submitted to the Cover nor. that if he-approve be shall sign, “but if he shall not approve be shall return,” &c. TWs power of disapproval, the Governor thinha, is amoag-the most important duties of the Executive, and is constantly becoming more and’ more so, “from .the operation of obvious and natural causes.” According to Id's interpretation of the Constitution, it is the Governor’s deaf and binding duty to return for reconsideration and the lest of a two-thirds vole every bill, order, or resolution which does riot receive the decided, assent of his conscience and judgment. With respect to bills sent to the Governor just at the close of the session, be announces his intention of either signing, them within ten days, or of holding them over to be re turned with objections to the next Legisla ture. As to the banking system, he advises an extension of the specie basis, the suppression of small notes, thorough return’s of their fre quent publication’, security for issues both in State or United States bonds, and liability of stockholders in a shape to be readily enforced, and a power of superintendence and inter ference’vested in some public officer; in fact the New-York and New-Englqn.d system. He also favors a State Sub-Treasury, but apprehends difficulties, In ihe way of Us es tablishment far greater than those pf the Gen* era! Government was called upon to sur mount in establishing their Sub*Treasury. He also appears to entertain some doubts about (he feasibility ef excluding Ihe small notes of other States, "even by the most stringent enactments.” The Governor intends to do Jiis best to carry out the policy of reducing the public debt embodied in a recent amendment of tne Constitution. But for this purpose, in view ofVhe inopportune reduction of the three mill tax, and the probable curtailment of other revenues from business embarrassments, great economy will be necessary. The laws of the Stale in relation to corpo rations are greatly lacking in consistency, and need, ns the Governor thinks, a thorough revisal. He lias no hostility against corpo rations for objects beyond the power of indi : vidual means.or skill, but the policy of their creation has been.pushed, he thinks, too far, and has led to speculations which have con-, tribuied to the existing financial embarrass ment. The inaugural concludes wi'h a disquisi tion on Kansas, including a decided expres sion of opinion in favor of the right of the inhabitants not merely to a full and fair op portunity to participate in the election of Delegates to form a Stale Constitution, hut of their unqualified right also to vole upon that (Constitution after it is framed. — New York Tribune. ■ Inlcrcrtins from Dial). [From the St. Louis Intelligencer, January 14.] Col. lohnston look command of ihe army on the 3d of November, a day or two after which Sibley tents were issued; to the great comfort of the men, who by dint of care ore enabled to keep warm, although the thermom e er bad been for some ten day s of December been at 20 degrees below zero. On the 6'h Col. Johnston stgrted for Salt Lake City, the train stretching out fifteen miles. On the slh three hundred head of cattle were run off by the Mormons, who also took a number of mules belonging to the Government. The death of between two and three thousand oxen, and the majority of the horses, render ed movements slow, and it was not until the 17lh that a distance of thirty miles was made. Salt is short, and vegetables ate wanting, while the oxen are being butchered as fast as convenience will allow. On the 27th a hun dred bushels of vegetables were brought into the camp, and turned over to the hospital de partment. On the 19th November, Col. Cook caught up with the main army, with six companies of the 2d dragoons. He had lost nearly all, his horses, and those that were left him were unfit for serviced Gov, Gumming and his wife came up with him, as did also the mail. Mrs. C. had her foot frozen while crossing the mountains, and still suffers considerable from it, but is. otherwise well. Governor Gumming is also well and hearty. There are three other ladies in camp. They are all as comfortable as circumstances will al low. Col. Cook left the mnio body on the !26ta for Henry’s Fork for grazing bis horses.— Captain Marcy left the main body on the 27'h of November lo procure salt, horses, mules and cattle. All the party are reponed to be well. The doctors not being paid by the number of pa th nis under treatment, have easy times. The main body is miles above where Smith’s Fork empties into Green river, being about two miles above Fort Bridger, which is on the same stream. Kensas. —The last advices from Kansas announces that the Free Slate men have car ried all before them. The Lecompion Con stitution was on the 4th of January complete ly crushed out, at least so far as popular will in the Territory is concerned. The Lfgisla lure is largely Free State, and it would ap pear the Stale officers .also. We shall see now what Congtess will do. Mr. Buchanan is committed to the Lecompion Constitution, on ihe vole of the'2lst, and he must either use his influence lo force it through ,Congress, or back straight oul. In arty event he is badly off, indeed, his condition may be said lo be fully expressed by the following well knowo lines : “You can and you can’t You will and you won’t '• You’ll be —if you do, Yoo’ll be —■ —l- if you don’t,” : —DntlyNetus. ©ommimctstfon a. MB. Eniftfß : Several articles .having ap peared in'yd'ur paper pro et con upon the sub ject of-“-NormaJ Schoola’ ! and the ‘‘Proposi tion” of the Mansfield Classical Seminary, you will perhaps permit me to say a few things in. the form of two or three articles which I may from time to time present to your read ers 1 . „ ; - The first thing to -be considered in my opinion is whether a semioery.ofthe grade and character of that proposed at [Mansfield is-necessary in our Conntyy but I do not sup pose be presumptuous tossy"that ar gument is unnecessary to prove [(His. I be lieve it is generally conceded, and we will consider that' an’ admitted fact. ■ We cannot do-justice to the pressing wants df the youth of our County without one, 'I ; My next inquiry would be where in the county should the seminary be located, as it is certain it cannot be in every Village or township, therefore the inquiry»jvhat village shall be favored with the location! In con sidering any question so general, in its char acter, one where the masses are tofbe the re cipients instead ol the few, we should divest ourselves of selfish motives and[ look to the general good ,* this question should be deci ded upoo;-and when decided alii should join heartily in its support. Let n’sj then as citi zens of . Tioga county (and not merely as those of Mansfield, Weilsboro, Tioga, Knox ville or-Liberty) look for a moment at the claims of dur Mansfield neighbors for the location of this seminary, and if upon inves tigation it justly belongs to them, then let all the county say amen, and help build and sup port ft, | ! It is I believe conceded on all 1 sides and by all parties, that the citizens ref Mansfield originated the plan for a seminary which should be under the patronage of the East Genesee Conference of the M. E.t Church, to be located in this county, they |nd doubt in tending it should be located there, and upon their making their plans knotynj Weilsboro heard of their action and were [seized with a spirit of commendable- emulation, made a similar proposition, and both Mansfield and Weilsboro simultaneously petitioned said Con ference for their patronage, each claiming or asking the Conference to locale at their res pective place, ft was finally agreed between the accredited,representatives of;both Mans field and Weilsboro, that they; would select from ihe members of the Conference five commissioners , who should be empowered by (he Conference to visit both places and con sider the claims of each, theiri advantages and disadvantages, and then agree and decide where said seminary should be located. Accordingly (be commissioners were se lected and appointed, and after several meet ings, the claims of each place having been presented and urged with a good degree of zeal, said Commissioners decided- four~to one in favor of Mansfield. While; Ibis subject was being agitated the people Of? the County had become aroused upon the subject of loca tion, and petitions were forw'arded to these Commissioners and no less than nineteen out of the twenty-nine townshipsj a|nd boroughs expressed their preference forj Mansfield and asked that the seminary might be located there. The citizens from Bradford Co. and also many from ihe southern poiftion of N. Y. (bordering upon our County), sent their peti tions asking that their wishes! might be con sidered, as-they expected to become pairons of the school—all playing (or ihe locational Mansfield, and I wodld J enquire was it not right that the voice of an interested people should be hear d upon this subjebt ? This schoof was not located by the citizens of Mansfield but by a board pffCommission ers from an adjoining State, who were influ. enced by the voice of the people who were to patronize if. j ■ -These facts are in my mind| sufficient to determine the location of this seminary, and but for the of “Tax payer” to be of the “Boro” I would not have referred tolhem. “Tax payer" makes the serious charge that the seminary is “sectional,” that it is to be a “melhodist schooland to mept this charge from the “Boro” I would sayithat the charac ter of this school has been known from the beginning to be the same as wqs proposed by Wellsboro when they anticipated the location there. “It makes a difference whose ax is ground.” j 1 But it is not “sectional,” the church ex pressly forbids a sectional irtile to govern, even in the appointment of Teachers. So far from being considered keclional, all de nominations known in our,County have cotj. tribuied to the building fund,!and four de nominations (and two of no denomination) are represented in Ihe board of Trustees. Does this look sectional ? ! I Other objections will be noticed in our next ! j Tvoga. A Novel Method of Robbery. —As a Mr. Luther Smith, of Frankfort, Canada West was driving through j Toronto to his house lately, he overlook a [respectable look ing gentleman wearily plodding along ihe road on toot, regaling himseff with a small package of figs. As Mr. Smith drove up, Ihe pedestrian politely desired to know if he could ride. The former, ah accommodating man, was happy lo assist a traveler, and the stranger mounted into the carriage. As they rode along, chatting agreeably together, the stranger proffered Mr. Smith some figs, which, he accepted. The first was delicious, but the second tasted very bitter, andi Mr. Smith was lain to meet it from his raatitb, Beyond this second fig he remembered! nothing, until he. found himself at home, with his family ad ministering restoratives to him. It seems that his horse had come up to the house and slopped. The family came! out and found Mr. S silting on his seal, in a lethargic state and entirely unconscious. They at first sup. posed him to be intoxicated, although he had always been known as a temperate man, but it soon appeared that he had been robbed of four hundred and filly dollars, while under the effect of some drug in which the figs were undoubtedly steeped. Ever since, Mr. esmuh has suffered ill health, antfhas partial-’ ly lost the use of his lower limbs. Opium frequently produces paralylis, and a powerful preparation of that drug was probably used in this case. . , For The Agitate; Fbiend Cobb : The Election on the 4ih j passed off, and, nothing more than was ei. ; ; 'peeled, gross frauds were . perpetrated all ; along the Missouri border. . Notwithstanding S these, I dare say the Free State patty has 5 triumphed, and elected all the Stale officers | under the Lecompton Constitution, for it has a majority of 154 in this (Leavenworth) county, where 900 illegal votes were polled. Kickapoo, that miserable dilapidated town, rolled up over 800 pro-slavery majority, and besides, several. hundred Missourians voted at Delaware City. In the precinct at Lawrence, over 700 rotes weto cast against the Lecompton swia. die, and only two for it. • Smith, the Free Stale candidate for Gov. only received 258 votes. At Oxford over 1000 votes were polled (or again taken from the Cincinnati directory) for the Pro-slavery. party. Johnson county gave, outside the Oxford vote, about 20Q Free State majority, for State officers. Doniphan county, which went Free State in October last was invaded by Missourians this time and has gone pro-slavery. At Shawnee, in Johnson county, a distur. bance was kicked up by the notorious Col. Ti'uS) who assaulted the landlord and knocked him down because be refused to tell how bo voted. The Free State boys of Leavenworth city had a'grand jubilee a few days since in cele brating over a brass cannon which they took from the Kickapoo Rangers. This cannoa was stolen by the border ruffians, and used in battering down the walls of the Free State Hotel in Lawrence. At Delaware Ferry on the Kaw River, one of the judges of Election was shot and the other bad fled to Missouri. The one that was shot attempted to resist a U. S. Marshal while arresting him. All the judges along the border, and those at Lawrence have been arresied. At Leavenworth City on the day of the Election, Calhoun was in his room at the Planter’s House and guarded against the Free Stale boys by two companies of U. S. Soldiers and several pieces of artillery. It is now reported that he has fled to Illinois. The Election returns come in slow and it will be a long time ere the official result is received. F. A. Root. Negeo Shot by a Boy at Abbevvxlle Mill. —On Saturday afternoon one of the most unprovoked murders almost unequalled in the annals of crime, and may be regarded as the most outrageous act that has occurred in this county for—the past three ,days. A young negro probably about 19 years of age was found in Abbeyville Mill, about two miles north 'vest of this city, by a son of Mr. la c b S. Kauffman, the proprietor of the Mill, unable to account for the appearance of the negro there was about to seize the gun when the miller fortunately sprang forward and wrested the gun from his hands. During this lime the negro appeared unmoved; but the boy, not thus to be thwarted ran forward and catching him by the throat, with a deter mined and desperate effort, he threw him through the window into the waters benealh, but upon looking out what was his surprise to see the body, calmly floating along the creek, without a struggle; as the negro was on his back the frightened boy seemed to see his eyes turning reproachfully upon him. As the tavern is only a short distance from the Mill, several persons, who accidentally were looking out of the bar-room window, saw the body of the negro-take a flying leap into the creek. Alarmed at this, they rushed along the bank, and seizing the body finally drew it out. The boy \pjoice.d that they had succeeded in rescuing the body ; hut what was his surprise to see them laughing and shouting. He seized the negro; but now that his fear had left him, he was compelled to join in with the rest; for behold! the op gro was not a negro, but only a representa tion of one. It seems a party of practical jokers had connived together Ip pfay a joke npon some “greeny,’’ and for' that purpose they had taken some old clothes and stuffed them with straw. A black false face »is procured, and that with a negro wig, the whole surmounted with an old hat, made a very respectable head. After having placed the image, the joke ended as above given.— The joke did not end here, but several more persons were victimized in the same manner. This unaccountably got spread in this city and caused great excitement. Quite a num ber of persons went out to the Mill to see the murderer and his'victim. On the 33d inst., at the bouse of the bride’s hither, hr the Rev. J, P. Calkins. Mr. 11. N. WILLIAMS of Woodhull, X. V., end Miss LUCY A. AUSTIN of Wellsboro, On the 27th Inst, at Sc. Punt's Church, Wellsboro Penna, by the Her, 5- B. DAtarstTtE assisted by the Kev. A. A* Masme, Her, BOBSKF B. PEET of Montrose Pa. and MW JULIA A. DICKINSON of Wadsworth, Ohio. „ In Charleston on tlio 31st insb, by James Kellkt Es'i, 4 * Bis residence, Mr. WILLIAM HENRY, and Mrs. DESDE MONA PALMER, both of Delmar. ALL persons arc cautioned against purchasing a note gif* en by the subscribers to N. Roots, for the sum of twenty By® dollars, bearing date Ifellaboro, Jan, 16,18A8. due fit* mouths from date, ns we baro receired no raJao therefor, 323 shall not pay it unless compelled to do so by law. 3 BASSETT ELIPHAZ FIELD_ TTellsbom, Jan. 23, 1858. SJEflrr FREE TO AST ADDRESS. G-. G-. EVANS, Bookseller, Publisher, and Originator of the Gifl Book Enterprise. HAS just Issued a new and complete catalogue of W* Books, coinpriains * large and varied assortment^ *** kinds of literature. . $5OO worth of Gifts will be given with every $lOOO worth of boobs sold. . A gift worth from 35 ct«, to |lOO, will be delivered each book at the lime of sale. Orders from the country promptly filled and the Goods w f warded by express or mall on the same day the order te j*' coined. A complete catalogue sent tree. Address, G. G. BTi>*S , 459 Cboathot St, Philadelphia. Jan. 38,1858. PHOSPHORUS, —Beside* the carious props*?/ which this chemical has at giring light ia to 3 'dark, it is also remarkable for its power to destroy life. It ia a deadly poison. Persons who wish destroy rata and mice can do so more safety by / mg Phosphorus than with any other poison. An* supply ofthe Phosphorus Rat Paste for sale at R°? Drug Store. - Price 35 cents. QdiSuaho, K. T., Jan. 12,185g_ jagy -M-A-R-R-I-E-D' Notice.
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