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From Washington. 1
Great Ki;wi from Washington.
ADMINISTRATION DEFEATED.
Licconipton Rejected Again.
Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune,
Washington, April B—l 30 p. m,
Mr. Abbott hav just come in. Mr. Mont
gomery has'the floor, and will move to ad
here. The House is still on the Deficiency
bill.
2 p. asks unanimous con
sent to take up the Kansas bill, and it was
granted. He moves that the House adhere
to its amendment, and demands the previous
question.
Maynard moves to recede. The Speaker
declares the motion not in order. Tellers
are demanded on the previous motion, and
there was One Hundred and Eighteen in the
affirmative. The previous question is .sec
onded, and Clingman demands the Yeas and
Nays. !
Symptoms of filibustering appear, and Mr.
Stephens He hopes the question
will now be taken.
Mr, Clingman withdraws his demand for
Yens and Nays.
Mr. Clemens renews it, but only Cue mem
hers rise, apd the Yeas and Nays are not or
dered on taking the previous question.
On the! motion to 'adhere, the Yeas are
119, and the Nays, 111.
• The supporters of the Administration look
grave and ore obviously alarmed. There is
talk amopg them of backing down and pass
ing Mr. Crittenden’s amendment through the
Senate, after nil. The firmness of the House
nnd the cdmplexion of recent elections, cre
ate much dismay at the White House. Up
in the las moment the President felt confi
dent of success.
Illcalli of Col. Bcuton.
. Washington, April 10, 1858.
Col. fter/ton’s spirit look its flight gently
nnd tranquilly this morning at'about thirty
minutes past seven Ho was con
scious and on I it. Hd.was 76 years and 27
days old when he died.'.
SECOND DISPATCH,
The supposed time of Mr. Benlon’s death
was 7 : 35, though he glided off so gently
tlnii it miy have been a few minutes earlier.
Last evening, when Mr. Appleton called, he
was too exhausted to converse, merely
signifiedi “to-morrow.” At time's through
the night he was seized with spasmodic pains
of great violence, otherwise he rested gently..
Ills last connected words were about 2 this
mnrnin", when Jacob, his son-in-law, who
«n» silling up, asked how he felt, to which
he futility whispered, “Comfortable and con
tent.” |
Abouf 4 o’clock this morning, Jones an
other spn-in lnw, relieved Jacob, and in an
hour afterward his children and family were
at the bhdsidc till the final summons. A few
minutes! before his death the nurse applied ice
to his tips, which were consciously moved
fur the acceptable refreshment.
The [funeral service will be performed on
Monday, probably, when the body will be
conveyed to St. Louis for interment, with his
mother! wife and kindred.
His [sustenance for three weeks past was
hardly [sufficient for an infant, and it may be
that his life was prolonged by the effort of
the will only. His constitution was sound
in evetjv respect, and the disease which pre
cipitated his death was strictly local, being
of the rectum.
Washington, April 11,1855,
CoJ.; Benton's funeral services will be per
formed to-morrqw at 2 o’clock. The pal!-
bearers are Messrs, J. B. Floyd, Sam Hous
ton, Gen. Jessup, William H, Appleton, John
C. Hives, James B. Clay, W, W, Seaton, and
Jacobi Hall of Missouri, The body will be
immediately conveyed to St. Louis, accom
panied by his sons-in-law, Messrs. Jacob and
Jones] The youngest grandchild, son of Mr.
Jones, died early this morning. Thus age and
childhood go the long journey together.
Congress will probably adjourn out of re
spect jfor the occasion.
Mrl Buchanan called last evening to pay
a visit of condolence to the family, having
had h brief and gratifying interview with
Col. Benton ,on Friday afternoon, in which
the bjtter assured the President that he died
at pepcc with all the world. •
Col, Benton’s will was opened yesterday
to aspejiain if any wishes had been expressed
by hint regarding his funeral. None were
founo. It was drawn in September, just
beforje the surgical operation, which involved
the hazard of death, was performed. His
residence here is bequeathed to Mrs. Jones,
nnd jhis library to Cary Jones, as literary
legatee. The residue of the estate is distrib
uted (among their children. The executors
nr« blessrs. Willlian) Carey Jones, John C.
Fremont, and Richard Taylor Jacob, sons-
Montgomery Blair and Phillips Lee r
brother-in-law of Mr. Blair, as friends.
The President now distinctly disclaims all
intention of supporting the Crittenden Amend
ment, and says that he has been misrepre
sented. He only admitted the right of Con-
to pass that part of the Crittenden bill
which provides for the submission of Le
compton, but considers the other condition
with respect to a new Constitution in the
eveht of the rejection of Lecompton as un
constitutional. He asseverates thathe would
not sign the bill, if passed in that form.
Attempt to bobs the Town Hall.—
Oil] Friday last on entering the apartment in
the! Town Hall where the fire engine is kept
it was' discovered that an attempt had been
made to fire the building. "There were a
number of old benches in the room that were
removed from the hall when .it was fitted up
fori school purposes, and the incendiaries had
' made a fire with chips and shavings and piled
the benches over it. The fire burnt through
the floor, and how it went out is a mystery.
Some thing that the same persons who made
the fire put it out, while others think it went
for want of air. The latter explanation
would be more reasonable if the fire had not
bojrnt, through the floor. It will be seen by
nij advertisement that o reward of one hun
dred dollars is oflbred for information leading
to! the conviction of the ofibuders, —Jersey
Sit tire Vuleltc.
THE AGITATOR.
91. H. Cobb, Editor & Publisher.
WELLSBOROUGH, PA.
Thursday morning, April 15,1858.
»,* All Business,and otherCommunications!!!list
beaddressedto the Editorto insarealtention.
We cannot publish anonymous communications.
The Legislature will adjourn on the 22d 105t.,-
one week from to-day.
Connecticut Erect Connecticut elects the Re
publican State ticket by about 3000 majority. -The
Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. Hurra I
*' A Male Teacher 1 ’ is handed over to the tender
mercies of the women. If they cannot take the
heresy oat of him his case is hopeless.
Teachers are informed that examinations by the
County Superintendent will commence at 9AM.,
and not at the unseasonable hour of six, as the cap.
size of a figure made it last week.
Shocking Casualty. —A Miss Greiner, about 18
years of age, living in Delmar township, was shock
ingly burned in the afternoon of Thursday last.
She was engaged in making soap when her clothes
took fire and were literally burned off. It was thoH
site could not survive her injuries.
We call public attention to the advertisement of
Mr. J. Walbridge, relative to a Select School he is
to open in the old Academy building, on the 19(h
inst. Mr, W. is a fine scholar, has few equals as a
mathematician and possesses both the disposition
and ability to make the School eminently profitable
to Us patrons. Wc wish him all success.
Judge Wilmot's Defence before the Senate Judi
ciary Committee, against the cowardly charges pre
ferred against him by Elwell, Piolette & Co., is one
of the ablest papers on record. Ho leaves not so
much as a grease-spot of his defamers. We shall
endeavor to publish portions of the Defence next
week.
(EJ* The Lecompton men about this place are be
ginning to cave. One day they are Lecompton. the
next anli-Lecomplon and the next mum —according
as the wind blows, —Lockhaven Watchman*
“ Mum” is the order of the day with all onr Le
compton exchanges since (he big whip in Congress.
Whai is the matter ! Docs something hart you?
Have you been eating green persimmons? Hove
you got the measles, small-pox, sore mouth, or (he
ague ? Brethren, this silence is getting oppressive.
Speak, dead Lecompton! breathe a strain--
The hopes of our lumbermen “ went up like a
rocket 1 * Tuesday morning, under (he benign infia
ence of the intermittent rains which set in Saturday
night and continued through Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday forenoon. Wc have not learned whether
the rain amounts to a rafting Freshet, or not. If
not, some hopes will “comedown like a stick*'—
which catastrophe may opportune showers prevent.
This county lives on lumber; therefore an annual
Flood or two in Pine Creek aud the Cowanesque
are nearly as important as seeJ-timo and harvest
, “I, D. M ” or 11 J. D. M,” writes ns from Del
mar, asking— ** Can you tell me what a good ba/om,
44 eter will cost and how the mercury stands at the
“level of the sea; also how the heights of mono
“ tains can be ascertained by the barometer or by
“boiling water?**—To which we reply : Barome
ters cost from $3 loS3o—some more. The mercury
range* between 28 and 31 inches—as the atmos
phere is dry or moist—at the sea level. The rule is
—I inch rise for each 1000 foet of elevation—-we
think. At the sea level water boils at 212, and 1
deg. less for every 550 feet elevation. You should
have sent your Tull name. ’ *
Several matters.
Of all the defeats ever suffered by the sham-dem
ocracy, either in field or in council, the Lecompton
defeat was the most utter and disheartening. The
entire party, with James Buchanan at Us head,
stands with bulging eyes and half-opened mouth, as
wc have seen delinquent schoolboys stand alter ma
king a flying visit over sundry low benches and to
•the purgatorial regions under the teacher's desk,
unexpectedly. The attitude of the Administration
press is ludicrous' in the extreme. Two weeks ago
each knew that Lecompton wonld pass; therefore
it was “ Lecompton and nothing but Lecompton !”
with one and all. The propositions of the anli-Le
complonilea were rejected with undisguised con
tempt. The Crittenden Amendment was indignant
ly kicked out of the Senate and as indignantly vo
ted against by every Administration member of the
House. The Lecompton press declared that noth
ing less than Greco's Lecompton bill, as it passed
the Senate, could satisfy the President, put down
agitation In Kansas and save the Union; the vole
on that bill was to be regarded as a test of Demo
cratic orthodoxy. The final vole showed that beL
"'crodoxy was in the ascendant and that Mr. Buchan
an, to use a slang term, is a 1 dead cock in lire pit. 1
Well, the news affected our Lecompton colempo
rarics ludicrously enough, yet variously. All struck
the altitude of a spanked schoolboy of size; but our
■-amiable Wayne County friend, always original in an
emergency, always at home in a light place, in this
as in other defeats bears off the prize. He refrains
from comment on the mutability of men and meas
ures, and says as plainly as silence can articulate*
11 Heads in and keep dry ; heads out, get wet I’* In
imitable old veteran! happy arc they who follow his
example, instead of trying to cover up the utter do
feat of the Administration by misrepresenting the
.nature of the difference in the principles of the two
bills—thus giving the lie to their previous declara
tions. Probably there cannot be found in any in
telligent community, six individuals, above the age
of sixteen years, who do not know that the Lecomp
ton bill as passed in the Senate and defeated in the
House, and the Crittenden bill, as passed in the
House and rejected by the Senate, ate diametrically
opposed to each other touching the identical points in
dispute.
Not less than 250 speeches have been made in
Congress, for and against the admission of Kansas
with the Lecompton Constitution; Now, is it prob
able that this struggle is all about tweedledum and
twcedludec ? No intelligent man believes anything
of the kind. The Administration set out to jorce
(lie Lecompton Constitution upon the people of Kan.
sas, declaring the Convention which framed it, legal
and the after submission of a single clause of that
instrument to a pretended vole of the people, all-suf
ficient. The anti-Lccomptonites denied that the
Lecompton Convention was, in any respect a legal
or popular assembly, or that the instrument framed
by that assembly proceeded from the people of Kan
sas ; they contended that the pretended submission
of the Slavery clause to a vote of the people was a
sham, and that Kansas ought not to he admitted with
a Constitution Known to be generally obnoxious to
a very large majority of the people there ; that that
Constitution ought to be submitted to a fair vote of
the qualified electors of. that Territory, prior to its
admission into the family of Slates, Thus the ar
gument may be stated, briefly.
Accordingly, we find that, while the Lecompton
bill provid;d for the admission of Kansas with the
THE TIOH ; A. aaUHTY AHITATOE.
Lecompton Constitution at it it, and con
suiting the wishes of. the people) the Crittenden bill
roskes the admission of Kansas contingent upon a
vote-for, or against the Lecompton fraud; that is to
say, the Constitution la senl back to the people for
their acceptance or rejection. If they accept it,
then the Presidentis to proclaim Kansas a member
of the Union; bnt if the people reject it, then they
are authorized to frame another Constitution which
a majority a hall approve, and present it at the next
session of Congress. We submit, therefore, that
the anti.Lecompton victory achieved- in the passage
of the Crittenden substitute by the House was a
thorough, Waterloo defeat of the Administration,
horse, fool and dragoons, together with all and sin
gular the candidates lor Executive favor who were
attracted to that aide of the house by the prestige of
a power supposed to rest with the party which holds
an immense patronage in the hollow of its hand.
The new Liquor Lew has caused a thrill
of joy to extend deep down into the hearts of such
of our citizens as have so long deplored the blind
ness of this community to its pecuniary interests'
We believe that no guns were fired in honor of this
latest Democratic victory, in this village, though we
suspect that a salvo of pocket pistol artillery was
continued through the two or three days and nights
following the receipt of the news of its passage.
We do not purpose to take op the new bill, sec
tion by section in this article, since we have made
an abstract of the same and publish it in another
place. But we do purpose to speak ol the causes
which have led to the repeal of the law of 1856 by
the law under consideration.
The moral nature of man, as well as bis religious
nature, is subject to periodical awakenings. These
moral revivals, like religious, rise, culminate, de
cline and are invariably succeeded by a season of
indifference, apathy, or moral stupor. Such has ev
er been the case, and such, we presume, will contin
ue to be, while man is born into the world. The
Temperance reform probably reached its culmina
tion in 1854-5, or thereabout. Since that lime we
have observed a marked, and in some localities, rap
id decline of interest and activity in the cause. In
tliis county the institutions of Temperance have
perished away. The Templars and (he Sons and
Daughters of Temperance—where arc they? The
organized resistance to organized wrong, so efficient
in *54-s—what has become of it ? Perished out of
the popular heart and therefore perished in form.
We say this sorrowfully, yet fully believing that it
is in harmony with the established laws of the mor
al universe. All past experience so leaches; the
signs of the times so teach ; and reason has driven
us to this conclusion. Two weeks since wc listen
ed to a discourse full of practical wisdom and bear*
ing somewhat upon this point. The speaker's locks
were heavy with the late frosts of Time, his hand
tremulous and his voice earnest with emotion. He
spoke ot the Millennial Day as yet in the Future,
and in opening op a path to that longed-for time, so
many Herculean labors were revealed, blocking that
path, that the stoutest heart might well tremble.
Ycl the picture was not overdrawn. It was truth
stripped of the guise she wears in the poet's dream.
Time is made up of innumerable cycles of change*
That the world progresses, in the grand average, wc
truly believe; but that the man or child now lives
who shall see the world so advanced as to be capa
ble of sustaining a permanent religious or moral
awakening wo do not believe. ' It is time to look
the truth in the face. That we have dreamed of a
Good Day Coming and fancied we saw the faint
streaks of its dawn, wc do not deny ; but that Day
streak reaches us through centuries of (i(Q£, per
chance. It is not to despair, but to labor and wait*
And because we all have thought the very next blow
would redeem the world, the enemy has out generated
us 9 and thus it happens that Ram has undone in a
single day a work which temperance men were ten
years in performing. Was the law of '55 enforced
by temperance men ? No. Was the law of ’56 en
forced ? No. The Legislature gives us stringent
laws and we all neglect to sec them enforced ! No,
wo have no word of blame for the present Legisla
ture. Our villages must again be converted into
Pandemoniums, our poor tax doubled and our jail
filled to overflowing before Temperance men will
awake. There is no help for it. The Destroyer is
at our doors ; and men will sit with hands folded
until the tears of wives and children flow in rivers*
This is the law of the moral universe. All obey it.
Temperance men of Tioga, is not this all true 1
The Tick: a R. R. Accident.— We are again un
der obligations to Mr- J. Dilustin for a copy of the
proceedings had at the Inquest on the body of Mr-
Forbes. From it we learn that the disaster cannot
be attributed to any defect in the condition of the
track, or to carelessness on the part of any parson
connected with the train; but, as stated last week,
the immediate cause of the accident was three spikes
placed on the crowning rail in a sharp curve, not,
however, by any malicious person, as presumed last
week, but by two thoughtless boys named Sliufclt,
living at Osceola and whose testimony wo give in
full below. , Mr. Conductor King testifies that the
track and engine were in good order, and that the
train was running at the rale of about 20 miles an
hour. Judge Lyman testifies that he found the do.
ceased under the foot board of the engine, his head
covered with ashes and the lower part of his body
submerged in hot Water. lie thinks the rate of
speed was not to exceed 15 miles an hour.
Statement of John Shiifcli. —I live in Osceola, Ti
oga county. Pa. My brother’s name is Henry. I
am going on 12 years old. My brother and myself
placed three spikes on the railroad track on Thurs.
day last, above Lindley, at the place where the cars
ran off. Henry said, “We will see if the cars will
“ I kitten them.” Wc put on the rail at the depot
a spike similar to the others, but smaller. The
point of the spike was turned toward Lawrenccviiic.
When the Constable came for me I was under the
bed. My brother-in-law, Mr. Brink, told me to hide
there. I told my sister what 1 had done and she
told me it was wrong to put spikes onthb track.
Statement of Henry Shvfell. —I live in Osceola,
Tioga county Pa., about II miles from Lindley, I
shall be 15 years old next September. I pul spikes
on the track on Thursday last at or near the place
whore the cars ran off. Nobody told me to put them
there. I pul the spikes on the track to see tile cars
ilatten them out. The track was on a curve. I got
tired of waiting for the cars and went down to the
depot and put a spike on the track there. I alsoput
some mnd-lurties on the track. I went to the place
to see if the spikes were Battened, but could not find
them. I felt some lor what I bad donc a whcn I saw
how bad the engineer had been hurt.
Mr. Superintendent Shalluck states that the cn*
gine was in good order and the rails in place. He
also states that the boys told him they put the spikes
on the track to see them Battened out. The act was
evidently without other motive, but the terrible con
sequences should be a perpetual warning to all idle
boys to put not so much as a gravel-stone on the
rails.
The testimony was taken before Coroner Hatt,
of Corning.
Some of the leading city Lecompton papers con
tend that the Republican! endorsed the popular sov
ereignty doctrine in voting for the Crittenden bill
and in so doing concede the whole ground in dis
pute, We show the silliness of this dodge in'anoth
er place, but a few questions suggest themselves to
us which, being treated to tho reply direct,*will pul
(he thing to sleep.: First, then, if the Republicans’
cede the entire ground in dispute, in the Crittenden
hill, why did the Lecomptonites refuse to concur in
(be bill ns it went up to the Senate 7
And why did the' Lecompton members, to a man.
vote to reject the Crittenden bill in the House, at its
first presentation on the Ist ot April and ptill again
only a week later, after its rejection by the Senate 7
If the Crittenden bill concedes ell yon ask, and if
you are tired ol “ bleeding Kansas," why, in the
name of common sense, don't you concur in that
bill? What do you mean?
: Lecompton waa defeated in the House by the fol
lowing vote :
Jfaye, Ye as.
Republicans, 92. Democrats, 104
Democrats, 22 Americans,' 8
Americans, G i
ll2
These figures speak for themselves. How was
Lecompton defeated 7
The Sew Liquor Law.
(Passed the House, April ‘id, 1858.)
See. 1, repeals so much of Ihe law re
lating to brewers’ and distillers’ licences, as
fixes the minimum rate of license at $5O.
Sec. 2, repeals so much of Ihe law relat
ing to applicants for license to sell by the
quarl, &c., with merchandize, as fixes the
minimum rate of license at 850; and pro
vides that stich vendors shall hereafter pay
20 per cent less than now, not lo be less than
$25.
Sec. 3, divides inns and taverns into eight
classes, to pay license ranging from 8400
down to 815 ; provided that no license shall
be granted in any city or borough for a less
sum than 825. Yearly sales lo be assessed
as under the present law.
Sec. 4, provides that no eating-house shall
be licensed to sell anything but domestic
wines, malt and brewed liquors. All appli
cants to be rated according to the provisions
of an act lo create a sinking fund, and no li
cense to be gramled for a less sum than 810.
Sec. 5, provides that licensed vendors of
wines, malt or brewed liquors, with or with
out other wa'res, may sell in any quantity
not less than one quart, for one year from
dale of their license.
Sec. 6, provides that citizens of the United
Slates of good moral character} and temper
ate habits shall be licensed whenever the re
quirements ofthe law shall be complied with
by the applicant. The Court or board of li
censers to receive other evidence than that
presented by (he applicant.
Sec. 7, provides that no license to sell li
quors shall be transferable ; (hat no bar shall
be underlet by the person licensed (o sell
thereat. In cases of the death of the party,
the Court may grant the successor license.
Sec. 8, permits manufacturers of cider and
domestic wines to sell by the bottle or by the
gallon, not to be drank on the premises.—
Bottlers of ale, porter and beer, not engaged
in keeping an eating-house or place of amuse
ment, tavern or oyster saloon, may also sell
under this section.
Sec. 9, relates principally to theaters and
other places of amusement.
Sec. 10, provides that the petitions of ap
plicants for license need not embrace the cer
tificates of citizens, as now required, nor are
such applications to be published as hereto
fore ; but are to be filed with the clerk of the
Court of Quarter Sessions, and (he license
prayed for to be granted by the County
Treasurer; Bond to be approved by the Dis
trict Attorney and endorsed by the same and
the Treasurer.
Sec. H, recites penalties attached to sell
ing impure and adulterated liquors; first of
fence a fine of not less than 810 nor more
8100 and costs ; second ofience, not less than
825 nor more than 8100 and cosls; and in
case of any subsequent conviction the Court
may, at Us discretion, sentence ihe offender
to an imprisonment not exceeding three
months, license to be void and person inca.
pacitated from receiving a license for two
years thereafter.
Sec. 12, provides that no prosecutor or in
former shall receive any portion of Ihe fines
imposed. Constables to receive two dollars
for every case returned and followed by con
viction.
Sec. 18, provides that no person keeping
grocery or other store shall be licensed to sell
by h’ss measure than one quart. Constables
lo return all offenders.
Sec’s. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. 19, 20, 21, re
late to the cities of Philadelphia and Carbon
dale and to Allegheny county.
Sec. 22 repeals all acis or parts of acts
conflicting with or supplied by Ihe provisions
of ibis act. No license granied under, the
law of 1856 to be invalidated by this.
Sec. 23, provides that licenses may be
granted under this act at the first term of the
proper Court after its passage, or -at any
special or adjourned Court held within three
months hereafter.
Williamsport, April 7, 1856. — A very
destructive, fire broke out about half-past
three this morning, which entirely consumed
the large brick building of Ralph Elliott,
occupied as store rooms by J. H. Fulmer and
E. V. V. Higgins. A house of R. Paries,
occupied by H. Connell was also consumed.
Elliott’s loss is estimated at 814,000, of
which 85,000 is covered by insurance. Ful
mer’s loss 818,000, insured for 813,000.
Higgins, loss four lo 85000. Faries’ loss
81000. The property of Updegraff & Win
egarden and of Jacobs was saved by the
utmost exertions. Joseph Wondefly and
George Gold, who slept over the store, barely
escaped—they were taken out by means of a
ladder. Fulmer’s store was the largest in
the town. The whole loss is estimated at
840,000 of which over one-half is covered
by insurance. There are suspicions that the
fire was caused intentionally.
Williamsport, April 8,1858. — A .young
man by the name of Henry Bitzey was
burned lo death in a boat which took fire,
last night, at Monloursville. He had been
asleep in the cabin, and his body, was burned
to a crisp.
Out of the 700,000 Jews in (he Uniled
States, only one is registered in Iho census
as a farmer. -This is interpreted as one of
the evidences of the singular isolation of the
Jews, as prophesied in Amos ix, 9—“ For,
10, 1 will command, and will sift the house of
Israel among all nations; like as corn is sifted
in a sieve, yet shall nut the least grain fall
upon the eanb.”
eommunicattonff.
Teacher*’ Wage*.
Mr. Editor ; Not long since I saw in
your paper an article on the- “pexualization
of teachers’ wages,” and ihe authoress com
plained bitterly that such was ihe slate of
things in this couniy. .Bui there are good
and equitable reasons for this; seeming dis
parity in leacbers’ wages. Quid pro quo, is
a maxim the justice of which! none deny ;
and from this point I would reason. 1 would
ask, what has been the education of the fe
male for the-last fifty years?] What-is the
programme of studies narked out for her in
all our academies and high schools ? Is it
not made up of those branched which come
under the head of ornamental? Is she re
quired to pursue the mazy labyrinths of math
ematics, and comprehend their; profound cal
culations ? or, is she asked’ to thread the
winding way of philosophy and ot metaphys
ics ? Seldom, or never ! In j mental as in
physical labor, the lighter and Jeasier portion
only has been given her to perform. Again,
quid pro quo : Can Ihe farmer afford to pay
as much for the neatly embroidered spread
that covers his table as for jtlje plough that
loads that table with the necessaries of life ?
Not by any means! Can Ihq parent afford
lo pay for that instruction which adorns, and
renders his son inert and effeminate, as for
that which awakens him lo the stern realities
of life, and makes him powerful lo do bailie
with a heartless and unfeeling; world ?
As has been the education pf the teacher,
so will be his ability to teach. Mark, Ido
□ol argue that woman is unable to under
stand the more profound sciences; but Ido
sov she has not acquainted herself with them.
We have a Newton, but where is ihe Newto
na ? There is none! Again/ there is a spir
it abroad in our country,- denominated—
“young America,” which all |( Bdmit should be
subdued. Does woman seek] the' schools in
which this spirit eminently abounds? No!
she turns them over lo her brother —him of
the “sterner sex;” for she fears that all her
boasted powers of kindness will fail, and Ihe
rebellious scholar be more rebellious still.—
Cnee more ; in the winter season (the sea.son
in which our schools are jullesl) it is,too
much for woman to wade through snow and
slush, and to buffet the storm king in his fu
rious northern blast, for the distance of from
one lo two miles and prepare her house for
the teception of her scholars by nine o’clock
in the morning. She can npt endure it, nor
do we ask it of her; but is it not a deduction
from her wages ? We think jit is. Will some
sister teacher enlighten us?l
A Male Teacher.
j j For the Agitator.
A Good Suggestion to farmers.
Friend Cobb ; As I hedrd no little com
plaint about cows shrinking their milk when
the feed began lo gel dry, last season, I tho’t
it might not be out of placebo tell my broth
er farmers a bit of my in
growing corn fodder. ;['
I took half an acre of sward ground, turn
ed it down and prepared iitfin the same way
we prepare ground for a jerop of corn, i
then marked it in drills thirty inches apart
and sowed fifteen or twenijl grains of corn to
the foot, along these drills.! It came up fine
ly. I ran the plow twice to the row and
dressed it a little with (he hoe to keep the
weeds and grass under. In ibis way I got a
very heavy crop of fodder!
Now for the result of my experiment: 1
had eleven cows. Thejk? began lo shrink
their milk in the last days of July, so that
my cheese fell off about Jiia: lbs. in weight
per day. 1 then began lo cut and feed the
eleven cows two good armfuls of the green
corn fodder once a day. In a very few days
the shrinkage was entirely overcome and the
cheese was brought up to its full weight in
the best of the season and held there two
months. Thus, I got six lbs. of cheese per
day from two armfuls of corn fodder, which
at ten cents per pound amounts to 60 cents
per day for 60 days, which gives a total of
$36 00. This, I think' is a sum worth sav
ing, I had much morelcltrn than my cows
could eat, and, as considerable of it eared,
found it very profitable to feed to my hogs.
I calculate that my cheese would have fallen |
off ten lbs., at least, but for this fodder. In |
my opinion, one half acre of sowed or drilled
corn is worth more than six acres of the very
best pasture. T j
I give these facts for the consideration of
my brother farmers, and; assure them that
should they act upon jlhjese blots they will
never have cause to regret the experiment.
Delmar, April 1823. M Wm. Fbancis. -
[Note. —We print the above communica-!
lion from Mr. Francis wfth great pleasure.—
Mr. F. is well known- in; this community as
a candid, thorough-going man, and his testi
mony is entitled to great weight. U'e can
but think the hints be throws outare very val
uable, and if acted upon|the coming season,
we shall be able to present the testimony of
many others in behalf lof the profits of corn
fodder lo dairymen. Oiir columns are open
to any and all farraers|who may have a woid
to give their brother farmers; and we hope
they will not withold any facts touching the
different modes of treating their lands in the
production of the’{various crops.— Ed. As
itafor.] j [ *
What Does it Mean?— The Freeman's
Journal , of New York, the organ of Arch
bishop Hughes, whicli v|armly advocated Mr.
Buchanan’s pleclion, indicates that It is turn
ing away from the President. It says, at
any rate, as follows :■ j
“We at the North; vyho-believe in all the
great ideas—both njiemories and hopes—
which cluster around (he Union, rejoiced in
the success, not of Wines, nor of persons,
but of principles, as nobly established in the
iriumph of James Bu'chanan ; we had no
misgivings of his fidelity to the doctrines
which bis election emhjodied. But the Pres
ident has disappointed the hopes of his
friends. He has gone over to his enemies—
he has rent the Democratic parly in twain.
Extremes have met, and the Administration
steering wildly, has missed Scylla and dashed
upon Charybdis. We defeated the sectional
candidate, but we are bursed with a sectional
Administration—the first in our history. It
is encouraging to remember that it was not a
sectional Administration (hat was elected.''
Rockawav, L.T.—Thr revival which hu
been for soma time in progress, has had SUt t
an influence upon the community that th er ,
are not more than half a dozen adult
in the place who have not become member
of churches. Among those who have beej
recently converted are 300 fishermen. '
In Rutland, Vi,, one hundred persona hj,,
professed • religion in the Rev. Dr. Aiken’,
church, and, at the close of a recent meg,
ing, from sixty to seventy inquirers
for special religious conversation and pra» r
The Southern Presbyterian stales tlj/t S J
the second daily Union prayer meeting hejj
in Charleston, S. C., the large Circular
Church was filled.
for the Agitator.
The St. Louis Presbyterian speaks
crowded meetings of a similar chancier ig
that city.
In New-Lebanon, Ind.,the greater part of
the students of the Male and Female Acade.
my have been converted. In JacksonuiUj
there have been two hundred conversions.
In connection with one church in
lowa, a hundred conversions are reported.
The revival in Cleveland, Ohio, .continue,
with unabated enthusiasm. Something hh
a thousand persons, of both sexes and all
ages, have been converted within the p®.
few weeks. j.
In the Female Seminary at Oxford, Ohio,l
the daughter of the Holyoke Seminary, fonjl
young ladies have recently professed conrerl
sion. When the term closed, last stsk.f
more than two-thirds of all who comments*
the year non-professors, left rejoicing •>'
Christian hope.
Revivals are in progress very general!-
throughout Wisconsin, and particularly in V
Methodist Churches.
One of the. pastors of Hartford, Con;
says that within the last four or five weeb
more than one thousand persons have calls
on him to converse on the subject of religioj 1
This reminds one of Whitfield's wcel
London, when he received a thousand lean
from persons anxious about their souls.
In Haverhill, Mass., the daily pray*,
meeting crowds one of the churches.
profound has been the impression of in
spirit, that in some instances half the asj®
bly have been observed silently weepup
Some of the most hardened men in the pin
have been recently renewed. One of &
pastors recently, went the rounds of his pr. :
ish, and found not a single house in wtaf
there were not either inquiring souls or it|~
lievers wrought to the inteosest solicitude M
the irreligious.
A gentleman from Ohio lately slated, tit
by adding his personal observations to ilh
of a friend, he could say, that from Oua
City, Nebraska, to Washington, there mi:
line of prayer-meetings along the cii
length of the road; so that whenever
Christian traveler stopped to spend the era
ing, he could find a crowded prayer-roeer
across the entire breadth of our vast Sf
public. |
A- Sensible Bill. —The following hi
bill to commute the death penalty, tepcrs
to the Pennsylvania House of Represent
lives, from the Judiciary Committee. I;
thought it will pass both Houses of the !«
islature :
Section 1. Be it enacted <S;c, ft
when in any caseef conviction and sen'!;
for murder in the first degree, fads c
come to the knowledge of the C-:r~
which raise a reasonable doubt as totief
of the person convicted, but not suEteS:
his judgment to justify an absolute jarft
it shall be lawful for him to common*
penally of death for that of imprisonmast
the State penitentiary of the proper fc
there to be kept in solitary confinerKn
labor during the natural life of said ccaro
and fed, clothed and treated as provide::
the act entitled “A further supplements:
act entitled ‘An act to reform the penalir
of this Commonwealth,’” approved the:*
ty-third day of April, Anno Domini I
thousand eight hundred and twenty-o®
The bill for the sale of the State owii
the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Comps
has passed the Pennsylvania House ol b
resenlatives.
-W-A-R-RI-ED-
In Cherry Flatts, April 6th, by the Rev.l~S*
FRANCIS KELLEY of Mansfield, to Miss NA.VCV B-&
of Cherry Flatts.
At the same ft me and plow by the same. Mr.
ELLIOTT, to MUs JULIA A. MACUMBER, both • '
Flatts.
In the Dartt Settlement Meeting House, April W' x .
same, Mr. JEREMIAH DOCESTADBR, to Mw Ji ‘
BEXTLEY, both of Charleston,
Donation to the Widow au
Fatherless.—The friends of the wi«*
the fatherless arc earnestly invited to all# f
nation visit at the house of Andrew Br**
Charleston, for the benefit of Widow £&
Ritter, on Saturday the 241 h inst.
was suddenly bereaved last winter,
without means to fight the battle of life
self and two young children. “It is me**
cd to give than to receive.* 1 By request;
friends and neighbors. [April 15, ’SS.
Notice to School Teacher*
THE School Directors of Delmar town:
meet at the Dean* School House on
20lh lost.,to contract with teachers forth*'
Schools. ROBT. CAMPBELL
Delmar, April 15,1858,
Letters testementarv for*.
granted to the bndersigned on the ini*'
testament of JOHN CORZATT, Isle
dec'd., all persons indebted to said estate ire
cd to make immediate payment, and
claims against the same to present them to
O. B. WELLS (;■
GATES BIRD !
Jaeksop, April 15,1858 61.
Sbcrlffs Sale.
BY virtue of b writ of Fieri Facias I
to public sale at the Court House m ,
on Saturday, the Blh day of May,
P. M., the following real estate, to wiU >
A lot of land in Rutland township* w •
follows: Beginning at a Beech tree a l .*
corner in the north boundary of the on.
rant from the Commonwealth of Fcnosj
Barbara Vaughn, No. 285, thence south
east, one hundred and three perches to * P
thence north 60| degrees cast, eighty- *7
to a sugar tree corner, thence north 2?
one hundred and three and a half
corner in the warrant line aforesaid*
60J degrees west along the warrant
three perches to the place of begin
53 4-10 adres more or less, with ah°“
proved, frame house and barn and 0
ings and an apple orchard thereon,
the property of James Phalen with
W. Guernsey terro tenant. micnS,-'
JOHN MATU eb ’
Wcllshoro, April 15,1855.
fhe Revival.
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