PENNSYLVANIA. LEGISLATURE.
Tfte Liqnot Bill.
Ho'use of Repkebestatives, > ■
March 24. 1838. $
■ The House re-assembled at 2 o’clock, P.
M. and proceeded to the consideration of
H -use bill No 405, to regulate the sale of
spirituous, vinous, malt and firewall liquors.
The first section was read as follows :
Section 1. Be it enacted, fyc., That
applicants for brewery or distillery license
shall hereafter pay therefor the several
amounts fii(ed by the third section of an acl :
10 regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors,
approved March 31,1856: Provided , That
the -same, shall, on no case, be less than
en(y-fivß dollars, except in the case of per
siins . whose, annual sales are leas than one
thousand dollars, who shall pay fifteen dol
lars,; and the proviso in the section aforesaid,
so fata* it fixes the minimum rale of license
at fifiy dollars, is hereby repealed.
Mr Chase moved to amend the section by
striking out “twenty-five’’ dollars as the
minimum price of licenses, and insert in lieu'
thereof •“fifiy dollars.”
The question recurring on the amendment
ofiered by Mr. Chase, it was not agreed to,
by n vole of 25 to 56.
Mr. Chase said, The object of this law
was lo increase the sale of liquor, and hence
the consumplion, and was asked for by the
liquor manufacturing interests; that those
who advocated this bill would be cut by an
axe with a double edge; the friends of tem
perance would cut them, because they opened
wide the flooding gates of intemperance ; and
the hoiel interests would cut them, because
they brought along side the hotels competi
tors in (he traffic, that pay less for license,
have invested no capital, and will sell more
whiskey.
That if this bill was passed, little, low,
petty grog shops would spring up all over
our Stute, until they would become ns nu
merous and loathsome as the frogs of Egypt,
lie deprecated such a result, and hoped the
bill might not pass.
Mr. Kincaid said his constituents were in
terested in the repeal of the present law. He
had listened lo the gentleman from Susque
hanna (Mr. Chase) attentively, and thought
there was much good reason and not a little
nonsense in what he said. You cannot cor
rect the morals of mankind by legislation ;
011 experience had shown that. The gentle
man took three positions ; first, that it was
wrong lombnufaclure strong drink; second,
that wrong to sell it, and third, it was
wrong to use it. The gentleman was not a
good judge of this liquor question. He didn’t
use the article, while he (Mr. Kincaid,) did,
and was very fond of it, and therefore was a
competent judge. He (Mr. Chase,) reminded
him of the Jew who didn’t eat pork, and
thought every body who did was acting
damnably. From experience and observa
tion in this as well as in other States, he was
satisfied people would drink as long as liquor
was manufactured
Mr. Goepp said, The present law is a
dead letter. For every one seller of liquor
who pays for license there are twenty who
pay nothing. It is not diminished sales, but
simply diminished licensed sales, and substi
tuted an illegal traffic. The Stale Treasurer
calls upon us lo reform this evil. Under.the
proposed law there will be comparatively few
sellers without license, because under it all
can obtain license, and men do not violate
law from choice when they can enjoy the
like privileges under the sanction of law.
Mr. VVilltaton called upon the friends of
this bill, if it had any, to explain its provis
ions. This question was a very important
one. The bill demands in the 6th sectioin,
that a person to gel a license must be of gohd
morals and temperate habits. Ho objected
to this. He thought it bad enough that
drnnken and immoral men were engaged in
whiskey selling, but lo compel sober, moral
citizens to engage in it was infinitely worse.
Ho hoped when the House came lo consider
the 6th section, it would amend that part
of it. j
Mr. Chase moved to strike out the words,
“except persons whose annual sales shall ex
ceed one thousand dollars,” on which the
yeas and nays were taken, and it way lost.
Yeas—3B ; Nays—49.
Mr. Miller moved lo strike out fifteen dol
lars and insert twenty dollars in the ninth
line. Lost.
The question was then taken on the first
section, and it was adopted.
Yeas—6o; Nays—2B.
Mr. Imbrie moved lo amend, by striking
out “fifty dollars” in the eighth line, and in
sert “five dollars.” Not agreed to.
The second section was then adopted.
The third section beingunder consideration.
It was moved by Mr. Calhoun to amend,
so as to make (hose selling §lO,OOO worth,
pay §5OO instead of §4OO. it was debated
by Messrs. Calhoun, Yearsley and Rose.
Mr. VVilliston moved to adjourn.
The yeas and nays being called, it was
defeated.
Yeas—l 7; Nays—62.
The question recurring on the amendment
of Mr. Calhoun, which was discussed by
Messrs. Nill, Ebur and Willislon, when the
yeas and nays were taken, and the amend
ment lost.
Yeas—32 ; Nays—49.
Pending the consideration of the secl’on,
the subject was laid over on account of the
hour for adjournment.
Summakv or Conversions.— The Exam
iner of last week says : <
“Our revival summary for three weeks
past, though imperfect, of necessity, shows a
great advance. Over seventeen thousand
conversions are therein specified, and the in
gathering on probaiion and otherwise, report
od in our Methodist exchanges during the
same period, amounts, by our own count, to
over twenty thousand more.”
The summary specifies the following con
versions ; Mains, 411; New Hampshire,
S 3 ; Vermont, 304 ; Massachusetts, 2,574 ;
Rhode Island, 387 ; Connecticut, 795; New
York, 2,386 ; Pennsylvania, 1,746 ; New
Jersey, 697 ; Delaware, 40 ; District of Co
lumbia, 21; Maryland, 9; Ohio, 4,148; In
diana, 737 ; Illinois, 1,146; Michigan, 604 ;
Wisconsin, 465 ; lowa, 578 ; Minnesota,
3SB ; Missouri, 431; Kentucky, 498; Ten
nessee, 711; Virginia, 205 ; other States,
177 ; British Provinces, 387.
THE AGITATOR.
91. H. Cobb, Editor & Publisher.
WELLSBOROUGHj FA.
Thursday OTorninjr, Jtprlt 8; 1858.
" •,* Alt Business,and oth e r Cora muni cation
be addressed to the Editor to insure attention.
We cannot publish anonymous communications.
Hon. 6. A.. Grow will .please accept, thanks, for
documents.
Wood has a fine stock of Groceries just from the
City. - Call andjudge for yourself. See bU adver
tisement.'
Wc are obliged lo leave out a column of adver*
tisemenU this week, in order tdriuke room for im
portant news. Patrons will please'excuse.
* Monroe. 1 Judge Lonog was removed because
he violated the law of Massachusetts in holding a
commission under the General Government and one
under the Commonwealth, at the same time.
Messrs. Wilcox & Sears arc making a fine im
provement in the building attached to their Store, for*
merly occupied as a dwelling. When completed it
will be occupied as a Grocery and Provision Store,
by Bullard Brothers.
Wc are pleased to learn from the Sycamore (111.)
Republican , that our old friend, Mr. O. P. Bassett,
hus become Publisher of that sterling journal. Our
acquaintance with'Mr. B. was pleasant and profita.
Me, and we wish him abundant success.
We publish in another place certain proceedings
touching a bill now before our Legislature, which
bill proposes a free traffic in Rum. If our traffick
ing friends will feel any belter for it, we will stale
that it Is likely to pass. Wc are glad to see that
Mr. WilUston puts fumselt right on the record.
We learn that a son of Mr. Tiios. Martin, living
a little distance from this borough, had an arm bro*
ken in a wrestling match on Friday of last week*
If this should serve lo leach boys the risk lo life
and limb which all wrestlers incur, some good may
come out of it though dearly purchased.
Brother Jones, what in the name of stationary
things do you mean by that leader in the the Ve.
delie of last week ? Have you backslidden, or were
you dreaming ? We really thought that the day of
Fusion had gone by and that the mountain would
nevermore go to Mahomet. We know ol one small
boulder of that mountain which will never accom
pany the mountain to Mahomet again. 41 Return
ye, return ye,” &.c.
The Great Revival seems to continue with unaba
ted interest in the large cities. The New York re.
ligious papers of lasi week estimate the coaver-
Mons for the three preceding weeks at 37;000, Of
these 4,553 were in New England; 4,869 in the
Middle Stales; 2,135 in the Southern, an|3 7,76 G in
the' Western Slates. Nine of these conversions oc
earned in the District of Columbia! Only nine •
Well, is anybody disappointed ?
Grasshoppers. —Mr. Wm. A. Douglas, of Clymer
township, informs us that grasshoppers, in quite for
midable numbers, have made their appearance on
the Westfield Flats. They are generally from half
to three-fourths of an inch in length and quite vig
orous. The query seems to be ; u Where from V %
Is it a late brood, wintered over ? Or are they of
the same family of those that ravaged Minnesota
lust year—coming.from nobody-knew-wherc ? We
hope they may prove harmless.
Foul Play. —The body of a new-born infant was
discovered in the mill-pond of Mr. Samuel Phillips.
In Westfield township, on Wednesday of last week,
A gentleman, present at the Ending of the body, in
forms ns that there was a wound in the region of
the heart having the appearance of a stab from the
blade of a knife, or other pointed instrument A
Jury of inquest was empaneled by Justices Phillips
and Mallory, and a verdict rendered in accordance
with the above facts. Our informant could not say
that suspicion pointed to any party.
Indeed ! the oldest inhabitant cannot remember
such a delightful spring in his time! Such jolly,
good-humored days; such quiet, delicious evenings;
such a wide-spread inclination to succumb to the
Spring Fever and get as lazy as one can be and yet
breathe! Everybody and his dog may indulge this
lazy inclination except the printer. He must sleep
with one eye open, or the dragon of Want will sly
up and throttle him. Never mind. When we get
rich — when —mind that—we have planned a tre
mendous time. We shall open the ball by burying
our goose-quili pen and scissors with military honors.
Then we shall kick politics down stairs into the
street, lock the world out and take a good, ten-days*
snooze. The Vandal that disturbs that nap shall
rue it.
P. S. Haven't been disturbed by a dog since last
Wednesday night.
Why not tell the Trnthahont It ?
You —Congressmen, State legislators,Committees
on Resolutions in mulatto Conventions and editors
of pro-slavery newspapers—why do you never open
your mouths, or wag your pens, but out rolls a mon
strous lie about the Lecomplon rascality ? Were it*
not so common it would be passing strange. As it
is, wc do not wonder. The Kansas policy of the
Administration is an outrageous fnud from begin
ning to end, a solid lie from top to bottom ; it is ap
propriate, therefore, that its props and supports are
of tiie same mendacious order. We do not ask the
authors of these petty falsehoods to do so unfilial a
thing as to u tell the truth aud shame the devil!”
but for the sake of their souls, if they have souls,
they should begin to speak the truth erelong, lost
they “ die with a Ho on the lips.”
When Lceompton triumphed in the Senate two
weeks since, the Lecompton press, big and little, as
sured their readers that the Senate bad taken the
curse off that bill by stipulating that the people of
Kansas should be privileged to alter, amend, or abol
ish their Constitution whenever they should sec fit.
Now, the-Scnatc intended to do nothing of the kind,
and therefore did no such a thing. We propose to
show, from the record, what was the action of the
Senate on that occasion, and to show what the Le
complonitcs meant by the amendments to the bill as
it passed the Senate ; but preliminarily and in order
to a just understanding of the whole question, we
affirm what the friends of Lecomplon are trying to
conceal, that, the prime ground of opposition to the
Lecompton Constitution by Douglas and the Repub
licans, note, as ever, is, that that instrument teas not
framed by the PEOPLE of Kansas ; but, that it is
the work of a law defying and therefore a
highhanded outrage upon the rights and immunities
of the inhabitants of that Territory as well as a con
travention of the plainest precepts of the common
Constitution . Now be pleased to bear this in mind
while we bring forward the first amendment to the
bill as it passed the Senate:
•• Whereas, the people of the Territory of Kan
san, did by a Convention of delegates, called and as.
sembled at Lccompton on tho 4Ui of September ’56
form for themselves a Constitution ami State Gov
eminent, whicli said Convention having asked the
THE TIOGA-
admibsion of the Territory into the .Union, as a
Slate, on equal looting with the original States,**:&c.
It will be seen that the assumptions of thl*|am
endraent are in the facfc of the disgraceful facl-lhat
the Lecompton Convention waetiof,*in any-senar, a
Gonyenlion of. the .people of-Kansas. -lu~ proof of
this we need not summon Republican witnesses
Gov. Walker denounces that CooatitutioP‘.#aA base
fraud. Secretary Stanton so denounces iu Gov.
Wise and Col. Forney so denounce it. AntTiheae
men were never considered othOMhandrfhodojttfem.'
ocrats until they had denounced that hldeoos-Xe*
cqmplon farce as an unprecedented, outrage. Such,,
are. the Initial' grounds of oj>po4ition to-the Lecomji
ton bill, and such is the mendacity of thejiicn who
studiously conceal the facts from the people..
This brings us to the amendment E>y stipulation
of which, as some Lecomptonites .now say, the peo
ple of Kansas are permitted to alter dr~aboliah.lheir
Constitution at any time. Let ui see If there is not
a canning cat' concealed under this sprinkling of
(he Lecompton grist:
9 » •* Nothing in this act shall be construed to
abridge or infringe any right of the people asserted
in ike Constitution of Kansas, at all times, to alter,
reform or abolish their form of government in such
manner as they may think proper, Congress hereby
disclaiming any authority to intervene or declare
the construction of the Constitution ot any State,
except to see that it is Republican ■in form*’ &c.,
“ and nothing in this act shall be construed as an
assent to all -or to any of the propositions or claims
contained in the ordinance annexed to the Constitu
tion of the people of Kansas,** &c., &c.
Now this amendment means Just nothing at all of
what is claimed for it. In the Constitution of Kan
sas, proper, roe can find no provision for amending
or altering it. The right of the people to “to alter,
reform or abolish of government** is sla
ted in the BUI of Rights; but in these slippery limes
it would have been safer to hav<? incorporated that
in form, among the provisions of the Constitution,
specifying koto the instrument might be amended,
altered or abolished ; but h is a significant fact, that,
the only provision for altering that instrument is
found in the ordinance annexed and to which refer
ence is had in the above amendment. And this pro*
vision specifies how the Constitution may be amend
ed after the year 1864 i
But laying these significant facts on the shelf for
a season—what does that amendment amount to in
its most liberal interpretation 7 Nothing; for, do
you see—-the bill, as it passed the Senate, does not
annul that section in the schedule which virtually
forbids the alteration, reform or abolition of the Le
complon fraud, but only disclaims the right of Con
gress cither to deny or assent to any of the proposi'
Hons therein contained. Thus, Congress leaves the
Constitution and its schedule just where it found
them —disclaiming any authority to interfere with
their infamous provisions. Nor do we pause bore.
There is further and abundant evidence that these
amendments meant nothing; for the substitute of
Mr. Crittenden, which provided for a direct vote of
the people of Kansas upon the Lecompton fraud,
** ay, or no,** now ; and if “ay,’* that the President
should, by proclamation, declare Kansas a member
of the Union—(his substitute was voted down by the
Lccouiptonites in the Senate I showing that the ad
vocates of that measure did not intend to empower
the people of that Territory to choose their own do
mestic institutions.
Bat still further to destroy the varnish so liberally
spread upon the above quoted amendments by the
sneaking apologists for wickedness in high places,
we present the following resolution, offered by Mr.
English, as a basis upon which Lecomplon and an.
ti.Lecompton could unite, and so prevent
a threatened disruption of the party :
Resolved, That the admission of Kansas is upon
the fundamental condition that the people now have,
and may at all times exercise, the right of altering,
amending, or changing their Constitution at pleasure.
The tiecomplonitca rejected this resolution with
scorn. Yet this was offered in a Committee com
posed of ten anti-Lecompton and ten Lecomptan
democrats, constituted for the express purpose of
harmonizing the vote of the sadly distracted Dem
ocracy. The Lecomptonitcs voted the proposition
down. Farther comment is surely unnecessary, so
we leave the case with our readers.
■Fatal Accident on the Tioga R. R.—A sad ac
cident occurred on tho Tioga, Railroad, Thursday
after noon, Ist inst., near Lindley, by which the En
gineer, Mr. Jno. Forbes, was so severely injured
that he died the night following. We are informed
that the engine was thrown from the track by three
spikes, placed upon the outside rail in a sharp curve,
by some evil-minded person. The engine capsized,
pinioning Mr. F. beneath it in such a manner that
be was roasted alive. He was extricated immedi
ately and lived and retained his senses, though suff
ering excruciating pain, until about 2 o’clock, Fri
day morning. Mr. J. Dilli&tin, Depot Agent at
Tioga, obligingly writes us touching the matter, as
follows:
M Our lamented friend died at the house of Dea.
Middlebrook, Lindleylown, Friday morning at two
o’clock, aged 31. He was a native of Scotland and
had been in the employ of the Tioga R. R. Co., as
engineer on the Passenger Train, between five and
six years; and by his gentlemanly demeanor had
won the respect and esteem of all with whom he
was associated. He “was a member of the Baptist
Church at Corning and gave the most satisfactory
evidence of his fitness to meet ins God, during eight
hours of agony.”
The deceased leaves a family to mourn his loss.
The fireman was slightly scalded.
Dr. Gleason’s Lecture at (he Court House last
Thursday evening, was exceedingly well attended
and listened to with marked attention throughout..
Subject: The Pains and Pleasures of Physical Life
The Doctor commenced with the proposition that
all our senses are but so many avenues through
which, art, science and nature minister to our phys
ical pleasure. All are born with a certain amount
of physical capital, consisting of brain and muscle.
Some are born poor in the one and rich in the other,
or poor, or rich in both. The amount of this capi
tal measures the owner’s capacity for enjoyment
aud suffering. Properly invested, its income is
Pleasure, otherwise. Pain accrues. Thus, our prac
lical wisdom principally comes through experience.
We contain within ourselves the sufficient capital to
produce just so much pleasure us wc have capacity
to receive—Man being an epitome of the universe;
yet thousands squander their physical capital and
reap the bitter fruits of their indiscretion in dyspep.
sia, debility, delirium tremens, headaches and heart
aches.
He went on to say that there are many grades of
capacity for enjoyment, subject to various conditions
and accidents. One is born in the mine, a thousand
feet from the sunlight—no light but dull, flickering
lamplight. Another wakes into conscious life amid
the soft splendors of the Palais Royal, surrounded
with all that can imbue the young soul with a love
of the beautiful. So, between the child of the pit
and the child of the palace, there ore many degrees
of capacity for enjoyment, all outflowing from the
laws of Condition. Thus teaching that mortals in
crease their capacities for physical enjoyment in
proportion as they becoma purified of grossness, in
obedience to the beneficent laws of our being. The
“ hurrying" propensity of the American people was
admirably hit off by the Doctor. We are,” said
he, “ like a colony of rats in a garret with a cal lot
CO-UMY AGITATOR.
loose in'its midst. 'We bolt our prayers, our bqsi
•oesa-and our pudding.**
We had prepared a*'more detailed report ol tills
excellent discourse, but have cut it down to. this
meager notice for want - of space. Its suggestions
were-tfoly-profitable and- well put*- -If-the- lecture
had any fault it was that of ornateness; and that is
a /null easily -forgiven. • .The Doctor Is « plain, no
.pretending man. exceedingly agreeable and largely
possessed of those powers of adaptation which hare
helped him to raise the'Establishment in his charge
io its present high state of popularity and prosperity.-
•JUBILEE
EECDMPTOjV DEFEATED!
The Administration wiped ont!!
THE BUCHANEERS SENT UP SALT
RIVER TO NURSE LECOSIPTON!
We are privileged io record one of (be most sig
nal victories over a wicked measure and a corrupt
Administration, ever won in Congress. The House
took up the Senate Bill admitting Kansas with the
Lecompton fraud, on Thursday lasi, and rejected it
by 112 to 120 votes! The Anti-Lecompton forces
then brought forward the Crittenden Bill as a sub
stitute and passed it by'a vote-of 112 to 120—being
the same as that crushing the Lecompton Senate bill.
■Rejoice with ns—Kansas is saved! The Adminis-,
(ration has received a blow from which it cannot re
cover! It is not possible that the House can recede
one step from its present position. Republicans, let
us thank God and take courage !
We subjoin the first section of the Anti-Leeomp*
ton bill'as it passed the House. The Senate has re
fused to concur, and it is possible that Kansas may
not be admitted this session. Belter so than with
Lecompton.
. . Section 1. Be it enacted, dc., That the State of Kansas be,
and id hereby admitted into the Union on an equal footing
with the original States in all respects whatever; but Inas
much as it id greatly disputed whether the Constitution
framed at Lecompton on the 7th day of November Inst, and
now pending before Congress, was fairiy made, or expressed
the will of the people of Kansas, this admission of her into
the Union ns a State is here declared to bo upon this funda
.mental condition precedent, namely : That the said consti
tutional instrument shall be first submitted to a vote of the
people of Kansas, and assented to by them, or a majority of
the voters, at an election to be held for that purpose; uud as
soon as such assent be given, and duly made known by
a majority of the Commissioners herein 'appointed to the
President of the United States, he shall announce the same
by-proclamation, and thereafter, and without any farther
proceedings on the part of Congress, the admission of the
wiid State of Kansts into the Union upon an equal footing
with the original States, in all respects whatever, shall be
complete and absolute. At the said election the voting shall
be by ballot, and by Indorsing on bis ballot, as each voter
may please, *‘tbr the Constitution,” or ‘‘against the Constitu
tion.” Should the said Constitution be rejected at tho said
election by a majority of votes being cast against it, then,
and in that event, the inhabitants of said Territory are here
by nutimii/ed and empowered to form for themselves a Con
stitution and Stato Government by tho ilamo of the State of
Kau.->as, nccoidmg to the Federal Constitution, and to that
end may elect delegates to a Convention as hereinafter pro
vided.
The Defeat ol Lecomptsn,
A correspondent of the Tribune gives the
following graphic account of the defeat of
Lecomplon in the House :
“The Speaker’s nerves or his temper were
evidently out of order. He rapped with un
common vehemence, in his'efforts to subdue
the buzz in the House. “Gentlemen will
come to order ! Gentlemen will lake their
seals ! Conversation is too loud in the Hall 1
The Chair will call gentlemen by their names
if they do not take their seats!’’ Still the
buzz continued. Groups gathered around
Stephens, and around Montgomery, Grow,
Gilmer and other leading men. Again the
Speaker rapped and chided his unruly flock.
Nothing could keep down the excitement.
Some ordinary business was hurried over
until the hour.of 1 arrived, the hour for ta
king up the Lecomplon question. All eyes
were turned to' the centre of the hall, to the
seal of Stephens, who was already on his
feel, looking at a distance like one of the
pages a little taller than his fellows. He
paused a moment as Col. Harris of Illinois,
his deathly pale, corpse-like countenance
looking still whiter and more ghastly from
the blackness of his beard and hair, was
brought into the hall and [ilaced reclining in
his seat, a striking spectacle of energy and
resolution triumphant over disease and suf
fering.
“Mr. Speaker!” The shrill, familiar tones
penetrated at once the remotest corners of
the hall, and felt upon thousands of expectant
ears.
“The gentleman from Georgia,” respond
ed the Speaker. Mr. Stephens proceeded to
move that the Senate Kansas bill be taken
up. It was accordingly read a first lime.
The second reading was proposed. Mr.
Giddings, in a moment, was on his feet, say
ing, “I object.” This fairly opened the ball.
The vole was taken on the question. Shall
the Senate bill be rejected I It was decided
in the negative by a vote of 95 Yeas to 137
Nays. All the Republicans and three Doug
las Democrats (Harris of Illinois, Hickman
of Pennsylvania, and one other) voted in the
affirmative. The bill was read a second time,
Stephens, wh» had the floor, then said that
he understood that the opponents of the bill
had a substitute to offer. He had intended
to speak, but would give way to allow the
substitute to be offered. Mr. Montgomery of
Pennsylvania offered the substitute—the Crit
tenden amendment with some modifications
which had been made at the suggestion of
the Republicnns. Gen. Quitman of Missis
sippi then offered as an amendment to the
substitute, the original bill, divested of Pugh's
amendment. Ths was voted down—Yeas
72, Nays 160. The question was then taken
on Montgomery’s motion. It was carried—•
Yeas 120, Nays 112. The crowded galleries
burst into loud applause. Mr. Keilt rose,
shaking his head with rage, and moved that
the galleries be cleared, but was finally mol
lified, and the offense was suffered to pass
with a rebuke from the Speaker. The bill
was .put upon its final passage, and passed
by the same vole—-a majority of eight
against Lecompton. The House immediately
adjourned. The defeat of the Administration
was enough for one day ; for the nerves of
both friends and foes.
Jail Delivery. —JOn the evening o( Fri
day last four prisoners, named Thos. Alger,
from Jasper, in for assault and battery, James
Bowne, from Hornelsville, for attempt to
commit a rape, Austin Quick, for forgery,
Charles Miller, for horse stealing, made a
rush upon tbe turnkey as he was descending
into the prisoner’s department to look them
in their cells for the night, knocked him
down and effected their escape by passing
through the family dining room, out of a side
door into the yard east of the jail, and from
thence into the street. The alarm was im
mediately given, and a chase ensued which
ended in the capture of Quick and Miller.
The other two have not been caught.—Steu
ben Far. A Jr.
©ommtmteatconsf.
■ \ forjTho Agitator.
Common School*.
- Examination* will take place as follows,
Brookfield, Plank School..Hu|H3s>- April 13
Clymer, Sabinsvilie “j' j “14
JSIk, Caines & f ' _| • '
Shippeo, Furmanlown “ i I “ 15
Chatham, Treat' “ij “16
Osceola, “| ( • “ I 7
House 1 - ■"""
Delmar, Deane “■ J, ■“ -20
Charleston, Dartt Settlement, t ■* “ 21
Mlddlebury, Potler . 22
Nelsop, Beecher’s Island f - “ 26
Jackson, Miller Town “ “ 27
Rutland, Roseville r , “J “ 28
Sullivan, Gray’* Valley “ 1 “■ ,29
Ward, Mclntosh . “ SO
Union, . , Swamp “j j May 1
Liberty, filbckhouae “j , “ 3
Bloss, j 4
Covington, j -5
Mansfield, [ i , 6
Tioga, _ F j \
Lawrenceville, j) j 8
Examinations commence at 6 o'clock.—
Teachers who are lardy will be obliged to
meet at some other place for examination.—
None admitted after 10 o’clock. The Suo’t
has not yet failed to meet a single appoint
ment during the year; but it; has often re
quired a ride of twenty miles, in the worst
traveling, before 9 o’clock in thej morning.
Teachers who have only five or six miles
to come, give up in despair. Such chicken
hearted ones had better not assume the re
sponsibility of managing twenty or thirty
wild boys in the school room. | There will
not be any private examinations; Teachers
who refuse-to come forward atillie advertised
time and place, must forego the. pleasure of
teaching the coming summer. I There are
some who, conscious of their inpompetency,
wilfully slay away from examination, but
still make application for schools, and I am
sorry to say, find Directors foolish enough to
employ them. Some townships [have miser
able schools, and will continue jto have, till
they abandon the miserable policy of hiring
these out cast teachers. Several of these
teachers have been obliged to) obtain their
winter’s wages by rate bill, and [more will be
in the same condition the coming season.—
Read No. 356 of the new school law. Teach
ers will please be prepared with [pen, ink and
paper, as usual. All persons [interested in
schools are invited to attend these examina
tions. I I -
Supt. Hickock will visit the [county some
time in May. As soon as wej ajre advised of
the exact date we will fix thej time for the
County Institute. The report of the visita
tion of the winter schools is idelayed on ac
count of the pressure of other business.
N. L. Revnoids, Co. Sup't.
The annual meeting of the Tioga County
Bible Society was held at the Ctiurl House on
Thursday evening, March SO, pursuant to
adjournment. The following report of the
doings of the Society for the yeSr ending
Dec. 24, 1857, was submitted: and ordered to
be printed,: j
Bibles on hand at last anniversary $lB3 13
Sold during the year at depository 36 6*2
44 44 by colporter i'J 20 94
Given away
Remaining on hand
Cash Collected.
By sales at depository
44 by colporter
By donations
Cash Paid ,
Paid colporter $lO 44
Incidentals 7 11
Paid to Parent Society 56 82
$74 37
Number of families visited 4uring tho year, 239
“ “ destitute of Bible
or Testament, and supplied by exporter 32
No. of families having no member able to
read , [ 3
No. of families refusing the Bible at a gift . 1
Per cent of families destitute |of theißlble in
every one hundred visited | | I3£
H. W. WILLIAMS, Ste’y,
The following it the Board of Officers elected for
the current year: 1 1
President, Wm. Bachc; Pice President, Jno. F.
Donaldson; Secretary, H. W. Williams ; Treasurer ,
Robt Roy; Executive Com., Rev. !a. A. Marple,
Rev. J. F. Calkins, John Gray. 1 !
Democracy in Pennsylvania—Du
ty of Republicans,
Whatever may have been the hopes’of the
professed anii-Lecompton Democrats of this
State, however much they may [have boasted
of their determination to resist the most
odious measure of the National Administra
tion, and tenaciously as they liave clung to.
an organization which is now directly oppo
sed to every principle which its name would
seem to indicate, they must now either desert
their parly, its men and its measures, or
aland convicted of a servility [which would
put to-the blush the lowest menial that ever
fawned to power or bared the back to the
tyrant’s lash. Democracy is how defined to
be Lecomplonism; Lecomptonism is Democ
racy. »Those who support Lecomptonism
are Democrats; those who refuse-to support
Lecomptonism are no Democrats; This is
in accordance with the manifesto of James
IV, and in conformity to the avowed policy
of the party as promulgated jby tho parly
masters at the recent Harrisburg Convention.
It is said that James IV, sufnamed Buchan
an, has assured his southern keepers, that in
the event of the dissolution of the Union,
Pennsylvania would join a southern confed
eracy. The spirit of the Hatiisburg Plat
form would indicate that he has correctly cal
culated on the slavishness, at,;least, of that
portion of the citizens of the [old Keystone
who cast their voles for him atfthe last Presi
dential election. He knows wjiaf kind of an
estimate to place upon his followers just as
well as a cotton planter knbivs how far be
can depend upon the obedience! of bis human
chattels. 1 |
The nominee for Supreme Bench, W m . A.
Porter, previous to the Convention, was pro
fessedly opposed to the Leconitplon swindle.
He had to sign away his manhood and pledge
his support to that measure ofiinfarpy before
he could receive a nomination. Wesley
Frost, the candidate for Canal Commissioner,
did not have to make any sacrifices for pat-
ly’s sake. He was an open, avowed >upp otu
Br of Lecomplon —“sound on the goose ll j n
Border Ruffian parlance. That Porter » a ,
made to' be ‘‘u?ed upland the Frost melted
in the heal of the campaign, or we are no
prophet.
We admire the boldness with which Mr.
porney has spoken against Lecomptonism'
but while he supportacandidales who endorse
that' wrong we can only regard him as a par.
fy to the crime, '‘‘Principles, not men,” wag
once the motto of the Democracy ; men with,
put regard to principles,” is the motto of the
Forney Democracy. The Harrisburg H tr ,
aid, the organ of Gov. Packer, is professedly
anti-Lecompton, but also sustains the nomi.
nees. The - Brownsville Time* repudiates
the platform but hoists the ticket promising
to take it down in the event tint as ami-Le.
compton Democratic Slate Ticket be aemi.
Dated. The Courage of these anti-Lecemp.
ton Democrats is fast oozing out at their &q.
ger’s ends. They profess to abhor the trea
son while they embrace the traitors who la.
bor fof its consummation. This is in perfect
keeping with the convenient code of morals
which obtains with modern sham Democracy,
In the war of Independence such men would
have professed hatred to the policy of the
mother country,' but would have deemed ir
loyal and proper to sustain George HI. A*
least this is the moral of their position. It
is hardly worth the effort to show up the ab
surdity of the position occupied by the For
ney Democracy. Col. Forney, and the op
ponents of Lecomptonism, certainly are
aware that every vote given for Porter and'
Frost is a vote in favor of Lecomptonism,.
and will be so considered by the Administra
tion and by the entire country. No other
construction is tenable.
We have placed particular stress upon the
course of lhe anii-Lecompton Democracy,
(or the reason that an attempt is being made
by certain high contracting parties to indues
Republicans to abandon their organization
during the campaign and join in forming an
anti-Lecompton Ticket. The men who ask
us to do this are not honest in their profes
sions. They bate Republicanism more than
they hate Lecomptonism, and for this reason,
if no other, we should shun any affiliation or
coalition with them. If they would rather
endorse what they admit to be a swindling
usurpation than act with us in the support of
Republican Freedom let them do so, but it is
the duty of Republicans to keep their organi
zation pure and free from the contamination
of men who hold their prejudices dearer than
principles. We must go into the contest re
lying solely on the integrity of the people,
the purity of our principles, and the justice
of our cause, and if we are successful there
will be no mistake as to the nalnre of the tri
umph, or the sentiment of the people, and if
defeated we will not have the memory of any
doubtful bargains to regret. The coming
contest is to decide something more than the
Lecompton question—it will, in all probabili
ty, decide whether Pennsylvania is to be a
Slave State or a Free State, in future. The
Republican Parly is in its very nature oppo
sed to Lecomptonism. No new party or con
glomeration of parties can be more so.—
Why then should we be asked to change
front, or bargain with men who at the worst
are only foes and at best will be secret ene
mies or cool friends 1 The time for experi
menting and bargaining has gone by. Those
who are not for Freedom are against it, and
should be forced to declare themselves. If
Lecomptonism is too bad for them, let them
oppose it manfully. If Republicanism is too
good for them, then they must not undertake
to dictate the policy of our party or the terms
of opposition. —Erie Constitution.
'Fdr tho Agitator.
: } 450
| 121 07
. ! $lB3 19
$36 63
1 ! 20 94
j 6 62
$74 37
In Congress yesterday, the Senate voted to
non-concur in the house amendment to the
Kansas bill. Mr. Green made the motion,
which was advocated by Mr. Bigler, who had
the effrontery to say that a provision by
which a Constitution is submitted to the peo
ple who aye to live under it, is a violation of
the principles of popular sovereignty. He
was followed by Mr. Douglas, who turned
the tables'upon the Laeomptonites, urging
them to vote for the bill as it came from the
House, in order to “put a stop to the Kansaa
agitation, and give peace to the country."—
Mr. Pugh observed that he should vote with
his Southern friends, inasmuch as his instruc
tions did not cover this precise case. He ad
ded that it was futile to submit the Constitu
tion to the people, because the Free State
men, being in the majority would vote it
down. The question was then taken and de
cided in the affirmative, by 32 Yeas to 23
Nays, there being several absentees. The
Senate then adjourned to Monday.— N. Y.
Tribune , April 3d.
FRESH ARRIVAL OF
GROCERIES & PROVISIONS,
WOOD’S GROCERY.
Opposite Hoy's Building.
THE Subscriber has just received a new and
well assorted stock of
Groceries.& Provisions, Pork, Dried Beef, Salt
Fish, Mackerel, Floor, Dried Fruits, Cut
rants. Primes, Raisins, Dates, Figs,
Oranges, Lemons, and Pickles.
SUGARS of alt grades and prices to suit, Teas*
Spices, Tobacco, Snuff, and NUTS of all kinds.
Also, New Orleans Molasses and refined Syrups,
and all articles usually kept in a country Grocery,
as cheap (or cheaper) as can be found in Tioga Co.
Those wishing to purchase will do well to call
and examine bis slock before purchasing elsewhere*
Wellsboro, April 8, 1858. H. 1 WOOD.
Wellsboro Select School.
WelUhoro, Tioga bounty, Pa.
J. W ALDRIDGE Teachtr.
The Term will commence Monday, April 13th,
and will continue twelve weeks. Arrangements aco
being made to have the school in the Academy
building.
RATES OF TUITION .
Juvenile Department,
Common English Branches,
Philosophy, Chemistry. Mental and Moral
Philosophy, 3 W
Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Survey
ing, Latin and Greek 4 00
The design of the school is to furnish facilities for
those desiring it, to continue their Academic course
of study. No exertion will be spued to render the
exercises interesting and instructive. The mathe
matical classes will be subjected to a complete drill-
A Surveying class will be formed, and field exerci
ses will be laken-daily with the- compass, therefore
those wishing to pursue a mathematical course c«n
be accommodated, Board nan be procured at ph'
Vale houses at reasonable rates.
Wcllsboro, April 8,1858.
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