A Fearful Tragedy. The English journals, received by the last mail, contain accounts of a shocking affair— involving the deaths of a wife and lour chil dren, by the hands of the husband and father, which occurred at a place called Lerwick, in Scotland : • . • The actor in the fearful tragedy was a Mr. Peter Williamson, who is described as a re spectable and prosperous merchant, a worthy neighbor, and, to all appearances, an affec tionate husband and a kind parent. On the day before the perpetration of the deed, Mr. Williamson transacted business wiih com mercial agen's from Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the orders he gave for the summer trade were accepted hy them without the least mis giving. In the evening of the day, he de clined an invitation to pass a convivial hour at an inn, preferring as he said, to spend his time with his wife and children. According. Iv, at. the close of bosiness, he returned 10 the circle of his family, and the family, it would appear, retired at the .usual hour to rest. The next morning, a shriek of terror brought the neighbors into the house to be hold the wreck of what a few hours before w.is a happy household. Of the husband, wife and four children, who had retired to rest, a son only survi ied, and he half dead, to tell of the frenzy of the father, and of the death snuggle from which he escaped. The local papers give the following details of the lrrt*£< dy ; His first victim was his wife. He hud ap paremly struck her a /earful blow wnh ihe Heaver, on ihe head, with the razor he in* flicied a frightful cut upon her throat. He went through the same horrifying process in the case of the daughter aa she still lay asleep. He next rushed up stairs to the apartment occupied by the three children. The elder boy was seized, numerous and se* nous ctrs were indicted on his head, either with the h.nciiei edge of the cleaver, or with the razor Wade, and with the latter ms'ru* ni*n( a fearful wound was made upon his throat ; but before the consummation of his intended file,he managed to release himself Irani his father's hands and made his escape down suits. Upon the youngest of ihe thiee —she '♦Seeping infant—the same el.iboiate muck was made ns in the case of the first two and stronger victims. With its head arnisfW, almost severed from the body, its death must hive been instantaneous. The hTininaiinji scene of the sickening tragedy was carried out in the other room on the name tloor in which these transactions look place. To this room the second son, John, h?d made his escape In his night dress. He could scarcely, however, have done more ihtn reach the apartment, when his father, fallowing .in hot pursuit, overtook him, and seizing him as he vainly attempted to elude his hold by leaping into an unoccupied bed, dragged him out by his superior strength. One or more stunning blows upon the skull soon served fo make him resistless, and by a deep razor cut on the throat he was in the next instant deprived of life as speedily as the innocents who had preceded him. Drop ping ihe mutilated corpse at his feel the in fatuated man next addressed himself to the destruction of fits own life. Remarkable Confession op a Murder. —The Athens (Gn.) papers furnish particu lars concerning the murder of Samuel Lan drum, about three miles from that city, on Thursday, the §th ult. One of the parlies implicated was Radford Crockett, who made off into Alabama on horseback, and was fol lowed to Talladega. On the meeting of the Court next morning a true bill was found against Crocker, and he was immediately placed before ihe bar. VV'hen ih** bill of in dictment was read by the Solicitor General, who asked the prisoner what he had to say toil—“ Are you guilty or not guilty?” he answered calmly and unreservedly, “I am guilty,” and requested that the Court would delay passing sentence upon him for a few as he wished to have bis father with him al ihn» solemn moment. Bull was* deeply He asked if the prison' r was aware of the consequences attending the confession ; and being informed that the pris oner was immovable in his resnlu ion, >he yielded to the request. Prisoner’s coUnst 1 having incmred ihv he desired to make a statement, and permission being granted Crockett briefly detailed the circumstances attending the murder—the object of which was plunder—fully implicating John Cobh, Jr., and Gabriel Jones in its commission. He also a-ked that the Court would give him the longest time possible in which to “prepare to mee> his G>wJ.° The Court and many in the audience were moved to tears at this touching appeal. AOer a few words of ad monition, ami tne assurance that the Conn would be as lenient ns possible under the cir cumstances the prisoner was remanded hack to jail. The Court room was denseK crowd, ed and the utmost order was observed throughout the entire proceedings. The Deficiency Biel. —We have expe rienced some delay in obtaining the iipm* which make up n Deficiency Bill asked fur so early hy ihe Atiinmisration. and huffetted by defeat a week since, though generously conceded and passed “as a special favor** on Ihe pari of a few of the republicans the day after that defeat. . The total asked for is 89,- 669,100, and we find that over eight millions of this is for the army and CJiah expedition. “Transportation of the army*’ is $5,490,- 000; supplies and incidental expenses of quartermas'er’s department sum up $968,- 000; purchase of horses $252,090, and sub sistence for troops $122,000. The Poslof fice Department requires $1,460,000, and the House of'Representatives, for fining up the new hall, probably, nearly forty-seven thousand dollars. Altogether this is a large bill of deficiencies to be called for during tho first two months of a new Congress, and its items deserve the sharp criticism they have received on all sides in the House. —North American, The Louisville Journal says : “The course of Senator Green of Missouri, is unquestion ably disapproved by a large majority of the people of that Slate. Re will disappear from tho public service as soon ns his constituents can get him out. Thenceforth he will be u lnrhlhh Greci." THE AGITATOR. in. H. Cobb, Editor & Publisher. WELLSBOEOUGH, PA. Thursday Morning, May 20,1858. •,* AH Business,and oUicrCommanicatlonsmusl be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. We cannot publish anonymous communications. i . Notice. THE members of the Republican Co. Committee are requested to meet at Wdlsßoro, on Tues day evening, June 8, next ensuing, for the transac tion of important business. VINE DE PUI. May 13, 1658 ' Chairman, . We publish the Trial List lor the Special Court to be held in July, in another place. . Mr. A. Foley has removed (o the Book & Jewelry Store lately occupied by A. Young. Mr. Chas. Fisher has opened a shop for the man ufacture of Tin ware, one door below iJ, S. Bailey’s Store, at the stand formerly occupied by Wilcox &. Sears. Roe has returned from New York with a deluge of Dry Goods and Groceries which lie offers to cus tomers at reasonable prices. Of course everybody will call and examine his stock. Our readers will observe (bat the { * Regulator Man” borrows a column to display his wares this week. lie certainly understands the science of ad vert tiling, and to know bow, where and when to ad. vertisc, is to succeed, in business. A frightful accident look place on the N. Y. Cen. tra! Railroad on Tuesday of lust week, by which eight persons were killed and upward of forty wounded. Two trains met on a bridge one side of which gave away and precipitated both trains into the creek beneath. Tlie Sixth Annual Pioneer Festival of Bradford. Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Luzerne, Schuyler, Steuben, Susquehanna, Tioga, Tompkins and Wyo ming counties, will be held at Montrose on the 2d day of June next ensuing. There will be an Ora lion and a Poem on the occasion. Late news from Salt Luke shows that the Mor mons arc determined to fight. We have not much respect for Brigham, but as compared with James Buchanan he is respectable. Wc are not parlicu lar which whips. Gog and Magog. We can assure our Mauch Chunk friend (hat no estimate of the size of his throat has been ventured upon by us. His‘devil* ought to know which cor. responds more nearly in size with our estimate, the heart, or the throat of our friend. Heaven forbid that it should be the throat! Just think of a throat capacious enough to swallow a river of lager ! The fabled consumption of beer in Valhalla dwindles in to insignificance compared therewith. Not the throat, brother, nut the throat! Friend Kuester, will take our best hat as a premi um for promptness and despatch. We own up cor nered. He has ‘got us.* Of course we accept the challenge and shall demand the 'highest prize if oh, —ah—yes—if agreeable, you know. We intend to pull that hospitable latch string, respected f—ah ! /riend, we intended to say, so keep a good look out. Never mind the rye and s!m n*l need any o* that kind o’ inspiration on the occasion. Here’s to the Journal , and to that “ consummation so de voutly to be wished.” Hurra for Newcastle 1 To Correspondents. —We ore unwillingly oblig ed to defer the publication of several communica tions and sketches until a more convenient season. The crowd of legal advertising is so greal, together with Job work, that we have no choice but to dis appoint our friends, at the same lime assuring them thdt their favors are appreciated- Bear with us. Dion. No. A few rebuffs, so far Irom discour aging a young man from pursuing the object of a noble ambition, should but incite him to new effort. The duty of life is binding upon all and he is a trai tor who refuses to lift the burden. The earnest man must expect to be buffeted. Will write you in a few days. The Tract Society on Common JTloi'ality. Ws trust every person hereabout, cither a mem ber of the American Tract Society, or in the habit of contributing to its support, will think at least twice bclorc adding his or her usual donalJop to its fund hereafter; and if each one will read the pro. ceedings of the annual Meeting of that Society, held in New York on Wednesday of last week, it is extremely probable that truly anli.slavery men and women will divert their charities from the channel which leads to the coffers of an ostensibly Christian Association, but really no more so than the Admin, islrution of James Buchanan is a Christian Admin, islralion. At its annual Meeting in 1857, the Society unan. imously adopted the following resolution; " Resolved, That the political aspects of Slavery lie enlerely without the proper sphere of this Soci ety, and cannot be discussed in its publications, but that those moral duties which grow out of the exis tunce ol Slavery, as well as those moral evils and vices which it is known to promote and which are condemned in Scripture and so much deplored by evangelical Chaisiuos, do, undoubtedly, fall within the province of this Society, and can and ought to be discussed in a fraterrial spirit. 1 * As litis resolution was adopted without objection it was supposed that the publication of tracts deal, ing with Slavery in its moral aspect were authorized and would be permitted. Accordingly, a prize es. say written by Mr. Chas. K. Whipple, of Boston, treating of the moral evils and vices of Slavery, was offered to the Society for publication, together with the means to defray (he expense of publishing with, out burden to the Society. After considerable shuf fling and delay, the Publishing Committee refused to permit the tract to issue under the auspices of the Society. Therefore, to relieve the Society from its awk ward position under that resolution, its Executive Committee, on Wednesday of last week, submitted a voluminous Report, full of the excellent logic us cribed to the serpent in his raid upon the simple, denizens of Eden, and having the effect to rescind the resolution above quoted. The venerable Dr Tyng opposed the acceptance of the Report in an able and earnest speech, and offered as an amend ment a resolution reaffirming that published above. Scarcely had he done so, when, with a tyranny of which Congress alone should .be guilty, some one moved the previous question, Judge Jessup arose amid great confusion and offered a resolution, sub. fctanlially the same as that submitted by Dr. Tyng, and advocated its adoption in a dignified argument. Amid the confusion which ensued at the close of ibis argument, the previous question was pul and earned, by which .the motion to accept the Report of the Executive Committee was brought before the Society. Dr. Bacon, of Now : Haven was received by un evangelical hisses as he arose to speak to the motion* but quietly assured tho noisy gentlemen that he would stand there until he obtained a hearing. Par- THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. tial order being restored, he. proceeded to say that should that resolution be abrogated, the Society stood in a position denying the Decalogue and the law of Christas re.announced in the Sermon on the Mount, and as affirming that the sins of fornication, adultery and maoselling no longer exist as out. growths of the peculiar institution; aud ii gentle, men thought to put down agitation in abrogating that resolution, they were mistaken. He was a life member of the Society, his children were life-mem bers, and be would agitate the question while Hie should be given him to do so ; and, dying, he would bequeath the battle to his children. Dr. B« tbune gql op to say that if the Society de sired to say anything against adultery it might do so without alluding to Slavery. (Oh 1) And it Dr. Bacon persisted in agitating he would resort to the law to stop it. Dr. Thompson, chief editor of the Independent , arose to inquire about a tract published by the Society, entitled “Sambo aud Tony,” in which the duty of slaves to their masters was duly set forth. He wanted to know if a trad setting j forth the duties of masters toward their slaves would be less Christian Ilian the one in hand. An evan gelical gentleman from South Carolina, gave it as ' his opinion that the man who should undertake to ' circulate such a tract in a slave Stale would do so i at his peril. “It’s a free country, isn’t it? 1 * asked some miserable fanatic, evidently not quite born in to the kingdom preached by Bcthuncaud Ncbemiah Adams. “ We*d show him very soon whether U*s free down there!” retorted the Rev. gentleman from Carolina. A resolution was here offered by Prof, Crosby, to the effect that, ns it is not expedient for the Society to publish anything bearing upon the rc. lalionsof master and slave, the tract H Sambo and Tony” be slopped. Now, as the latter publication is favorable to slavery, this resolution was forthwith laid on the table—a genteel way of killing trouble some tilings ; and very soon thereafter the motion to adopt the Report was put and carried. Thus the American Tract Society has taken a step back ward, and, like the General Government, has gone over to the Black Power. But, in receding from its position iu 1857, it has inflicted a cruel slab upon the moral code of Christianity. Has U come to this—that the wholesale prostitution of wo man and Lite wicked disregard of the marriage con tract is a sin in the eye of the Church only when practiced in free society ? Turn it whichever way you will, such is the decision of this wickedly cor rupt organization known as the Tract Society. If such be a specimen of the evangelical Christianity sougiit to be promulgated by lint body, may Heav. cn save Lite land from any infliction. The false Christianity which sees ill to ignore the moral damnation of one-siath of the men and women of this Republic because il is not expedient to recognize .what it is too corrupt to condemn, cannot perhsh 100 soon. We understand this baj’C and cowardly sub serviency to the Oligarchy : Il is a naked question ofproselylism.of ecclesiastical power, to be obtained and held at any cost; to crucify Christianity as the priests of Judah crucified its groat Founder *, to wring the very life from the scarred body of genu ine Religion—this, this is the work to which the Tract Society, the sclf.l.iuded engine for the prnmul | gallon of evangelical Christianity lias set itself! When we saw in our exchanges, from week lo week during the winter just gone, notices of the great Revival, pervading almost every community, we secretly look heart, hoping that the scales might be removed from the eyes of ministers and people. Tlic very first public step of the Church since, re veals how much we hoped against hope. Every tree must he judged by its fruit. Was there ever so bitter fruit plucked from any good tree ? “Do ye gather grapes from thorns ? or figs from thistles V' Can Slavery find friends and apologists among the true followers of Him who came “to break the bonds of the Oppressor!” ? Let no man meet his neighbor with such a lie on his lips! lie who apol ogizes for the slaveowner and dealer, strikes hands with much more than a robber. The exiling organization known ns The Church, is nearing the land of pitfalls and yawning gulls. Its temporizing and voluntary complicity with the great sin of the age, combined, have driven thou sands afar from that fraternization which is so nee. essary to the progress of practical Christianity. To the religion of Christianity tve say Ll Godspeed I” but to the religion of the American Tract Society, —let it be hunted down and strangled, and the soon, er the belter. The Institute. —The Spring session of lire Tea chers’ Inslitule will commence on Monday next at 2 o’clock, afternoon. Wc understand that arrange ments have been made to provide places in families for female teachers, to some extent, but whether to the extent that may be rcqoired,or nut, docs not yet appear, Nolwilhslanding the good humored raillery of “ Suffering Mary ” we still think that there can be nothing very much wrong in providing for the comfort of such ladies as may attend It is not u matter of courtesy, simply, hut of duty; and as a matter ol justice we have urged and still urge it* It is hardly necessary to suy that no lady is bound to accept the freely proffered hospilahtyof our citizens. This is by no means a “free country,” yet free m such slight mailers. Wc have a proposition to submit to lire Teach ers and friends of Education of this county. It is this: We wilt devote one column of the Agitator to Educational articles to be contributed by teachers and others; rescrv ng to ourself only the, right to discriminate in the matter of the precedence, in point of imporlar.ee and interest, which all uilicies submitted shall Lake, Think of it. Later. We .ire directed to say that ample accom moditions for the ladies have been secured. Persons will be in readiness to receive them on tbeir arrival- ID" The election in Philadelphia, Bro. Cobb, we think will work far more benefit to Republicanism than a dozen years of defeat on a straight ticket would have done. Wc must work by degrees, re membering that the American Revolution was a work of time—taking stands from year to year, best adapted to do most good for the lime being. Nut as we would, but as we must , in many csses.-~Lew. isburg Ctnomcle. The election in Philadelphia resulted in a victory over Uic Administration forces, which we truly ap preciate; but it cannot be called a victory over the bad principle of Mavery extension. After a thou sand such victories the people would not be a whit belter prepared to strike for the freedom of the pub lic domain—the grand stand-point to which the par ty must adhere or perish. We understand that the Revolution was a work ol degrees; but history in forms us that in their opposition to the Navigation Act the colonists did not forget to stoutly denv the right of Great Britain to alter or revoke their char ters ; and when England persisted in taxing them without permitting repre>enlalion, followed by the Stamp Act and the quartering of soldiers upon the citizens, not for a moment did they abate their oppo sition to Britain's first acts of tyranny. So we la* bor to keep the one great principle of hostility to slavery extension ever present with the parly ; nor can we recede from tins position. Minnesota is admitted, a member of the Union, at last. This is about all Congress has done worth mentioning daring two weeks. Oregon stands at the duor asking fellowship with the Church ofSutesi and will doubtless be admitted during the session. We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a'beau tiful “Specimen Book” from Messrs. L. Johnson & Co., Type and Stereotype Founders, 606 &ansom st.| Philadelphia. This Book is gotten op in supe rior style and would adorn any ccnler-lable. To the craft we can say nothing, perchance, of Messrs. Johnson & Co., that they do not already know. But having dealt with (heir House during three years, we cannot withhold a declaration of the high respect in which we hold them for straitforward dealing and unfailing courtesy and kindness- They justly occupy the first place among Type Founders in America, as they have worked their way up to that position by dint of unflagging industry and uni. form lair dealing; and thus il is that their House is familiarly known in every American Printing office and their type celebrated for beauty of finish and durability. While in Philadelphia we had the pleas ure of going over the establishment, chaperoned by n courteous member of the firm, and intend to work up the notes taken on that occasion into a descrip tive article at no distant day. The Press of Kansas is almost unanimous in its denudation of the English Juggle. The Leaven worth Times informs the authors of that plot that ■there is not land enough .n Kansas to bribe the peo ple into such a base submission. Il says the only right way is “ to vole Lecompton and its land bribe appendage into eternity, 11 and then to. encourage emigration. The Quindaro Chindowan says the people will trample the insulting profler in the dust and leave its troubled ghost to hauut its creators. We presume to say that the English juggle will bo rejected by a vote of ten to one. Would that convince some people that that Constitution never emanated from a Convention of the people of Kan sas ? The Administration knows this already, yet prostitutes its power to force the majority into the measures of a contemptible minority ! How long O, “ Men of soul and men of action 1” will you sit down tamely submissive to such manifest wrong I The June number of Godey opens with a finecn graving entitled “The First Step.” There are 28 original articles of a literary character, and a good display in the pattern department. The June number of Peterson's Magazine has a humorous engraving entitled “The Melody.” It has 21 literary contributions and is, altogether, one of the best numbers yet issued. Communications, Common Schools. There will be a Teachers Institute at WelUboro commencing Monday May 24th at 2 o'clock P. M. The Slate Sup’t. will be present Monday evening, Tuesday and Wednesday. I would like lu see each town ship in the county well represented- There are advantages in an association of this kind that cannot be found elsewhere. The school is the place for obtaining a knowledge of the branches to be taught, but the how to leach,” ihe true appreciation of the dignity and importance of the profession and (he zeal which gives success, are beat acquired by such an interchange of sentiment and com parison of views as takes place on occasions like this. Many of the teachers who attended our fast Insinule carried home with them a spirit and life which was the right arm of their winter’s success. Directors are now paying wanes in propor tion to scholarship and efficiency in leaching. They add the maiks on ;he certificate and fix the price in proportion to Ihe amount. This warranis a teacher in spending lime and money to go in school and also lo aliend township and county Instiiuies. Any one who neglects either of these will doubtless be the loser by it. The Stale Sup’i. says, “ll is the duty of teachers to allend ihese Insli lutes, as it certainly will be lo their advan tage. Those who love (heir profession and lake a pride in the work of their schools, will need no prompting on (his subject. Those of an opposite character will soon find them selves supplanted by ‘live’ teachers who un derstand their business, and are willing lo keep up wiih the limes.” This all comes later than is desirable. Some teachers have commenced I heir schools. 1 ihmk however that such will not be losers if they close them, at leasi, on Tuesday and Wednesday. Many think nothing of closing school 10 go to a parly, celehralion or dunce. Why then he so penurious of lime when a cull is given for something of infinitely more importance than either of them? By all means dismiss school and come, rain or shine. Come one, come nil] Examination of Teachers. —There will he an exannnaiion of teachers at Wellsboro on Thursday, May 27, at 9 o’clock A. M. This is for three classes of persons : First, ihuse who, desiring to leach this season, have not had an opportunity lo be examined. Second, those who, having been rejected, de sire a new trial. Third, those who, having received certificates are not satisfied with their marking. A word to Ihe first class. 1 shall adhere strictly lo the decisionsoi Ihe Depariment in No. 356 of the' new school law. The Stale appropriation will he withheld from every disiiicl which pays an unlicensed teacher out of ihe public moneys. Teachers who live in another Siute or county should apprise them selves of the tune of ihe regular examina tions and be at iheir post if they think of teaching in this county. This is positively necessary, that we may save ourselves from the flood of teachers, who, not being able to gel schools at home, come here as a last resort. It is nonsense for any one to say they did noi think of leaching ni ihe time of ihe examination, if this'were received as a reasonable excuse one half of all the teachers in the county would have a like thinking about that lime. And a word lo the second and third class es. In granting certificates oue of two sys tems must be followed ; either to grant them to all, good or bad, or to grant them only lo such as come up to a given standard. The objection lo Ihe first plan is this, every one who gels a certificate, no mailer how poor, will also gel a school. To the second, there can he no reasonable objection, unless the siundaid of qualification be put too high or too low. The first method puis the .responsibility upon directors, the second upon The Super intendent. —- No mailer where the line is drawn for the rejection of teachers, il is evident that some will be very close lo il on one side and some on the other; while others will be exactly upon ii. What shall be done with these last? Evidently, circumstances foreign to the examination must turn the scale—such as age, tact, originalliy &c. Neither raising nor lowering the standard would obviate the difficulty, ff aoy are rejected,; it must occa sionally hhppeo, that of two,; nearly or qui.e equal in (qualification, one will be rejected and the other not. The .standard which I have adopted is positively too low, and yet it has rejected upwards of thirty, teachers this spring. Many have received certificates who will not again, unless they improve. lam unable to see how the examination could be changed so as to be a better lest of qualifica tion than it is. The teacher ;has the privilege of answering seventy fiv&orla ;hundred ques tions in writing at the time no one hears or knows what is said. There is no more to em barrass and perplex than in [he school room. Now if a teacher knows herself tobeincom petent, there will be some embarrassment and confusion, as there ought to! be. I think, however, it is folly to talk abo|ut “fright,” in a written examination. Teachers who have not stamina enough to lellj something near what they know in such a case had better go to school until they have, j If any com plain of inability to write (well, there is abundant opportunity for therri to show off in the oral exercise. ’ ! Bitter complaints come to from some who have been rejected. They bring flaming recommends and declareTheiij reputation for scholarship to be excellent in the vicini'y where they live. But onj looking at their written answers I find them saying that the City of Washington is in New Hampshire, Boston in Connecticut, Philadelphia in ‘Yorke Stait,’ Paris in Africa and Condon in Ireland. A people, who will not sustain the Sup’l., in the rejection of such teacherslor rather smat terers, ought to have lived in! the dark ages. Teachers, who on accouiil]of poor heil'b or other untoward circumstances, fail to do themselves justice on examination day, ought, instead of grumbling about unjust marking, to seek the earliest opportunity for a reexam ination under more favorablq circumstances. I hope all who desire a reexamination will feel free to present themselves forjlhat purpose on the 27th inst. N. L. REYNOLDS. I Tor Tlie Agitatcr. MiDDLEBURvj 14,1858. Rtn. Editor: 1 must confess to a mingled feeling of -vexation and r|dicule, to see ihe readiness with which’ your sympathies com. mingle wiih those of “A Teacher” in behalf of us poor down-trodden halftpaid half-starved beings known as female teachers. Really, do ihe gentlemen supposel us 100 poor to pav Ihe whole of twelve [ shillings 10 attend the Teacher’s Institute. U’fiyonlv think, the amount of what we wnuldj consume at our father’s table in that lime flight be counted at least one dollar. Subtract that from twelve shillings and what is ihe balance? Couldn't you lend us fifty cents, or if you want to be excessively generous you may give it to us rather slily, though you might not gain quite as much glory as by having the world see your name on a slip ofjpiper and 12 J sei opposite. 1 wonder ihoug i how much you. would giye, and how nbu:h “A Teacher" would bestow upon us i poor- girls. You wouldn’t be the ones tp fcircula'e the sub sciiplion, and call ihat youifpart, would you ? How much money have you both got ail put together? Are your pockets nearly bursting, and must you be generous 1. Why, there are “Foreign Missions” estpbjlUhed and your money might do some good m that way, that is if you have more than you know what to do with. I j For the Agitator. Or are you poor, and this proposition ema nates purely from a desjre to relieve our ne cessities. If this is so, do {please let us know it and we poor creatures,.jvdl try to get up a sum sufficient to make you both comfortable. Depend upon it, an ovbfruling Providence will not suffer such generosity on your part to go unrewarded. j Oh, it is well to “cast your bread upon 'he waters.” Our falheirs and brothers need no longer have an eye io the care of us, fur Mr. Agitator and “A Tot eher” are moving the minds of the people of Wellsboro com passionately towards us. Mow thankful we should be ! If you think you'wtll get enough subscribed to board us ail please make men tion in your paper. Do believe us ever thankful for your favors, j Much abused Mary. P. S.—Havn’t you, Mr. Edilor, got some counlry cousins who would like to aliend lhe Institute and are 100 Ipoor to pay. If so allow me to recommend them to your chari ties, and supply the places of some of us who might possibly have a (|e& shillings on hand. If the weather is not looj bad, nor the roads 100 muddy, and the funds can in any way be raised, you may expect j to see me at your Institute. [Half-paid Mary. P. P. S.—l wonder if! some of the grain, beef, hams, butter, cheese, honey, Arc., Arc., which the fathers of us poor creatures have in abundance at home Wouldn’t be acceptable to the people of U'elfslioro. I don’t know much about the worjdp but have always heard it said that village! people Were a good deal deprived of such' sort of lf you would like some of these things up there, you may let us know through the Agitator. Suffering Mary. [We beg lo assure our “suffering corres pondent that, individually, we hnve’nt much of this,world’s goods, altogether, and there-' fore object lo making !un exhibit. But since she is in for a bit ol fun;, we assure her that, if she chooses lo attend the Institute, some body shall pay her expenses.om of spite—if for no beiler reason. ! Since we don’t happen to have any country cousins, perhaps, Mary will act in that capacity, so that our purse may not suffer from ! plethora. Soberly, however, Mary doesjnot convince us. She only amuses. a teacher, is only half.paid after all. Asjto charily whoever heard of her objecting to attending balls, fetes, celebraUons, &ci, and all at the ex pense ol her troublesome male friends ? Eh ? Mary 1-r-Ed. Agilalori] '"-On the 13th inst., fat Blossburg* Pa, an operation for schirrhus cancer of thb breast was skillfully performed by Dr. H. d. Smyth of Covington, assisted by Drs. Buhks and Kilbourn of the same place—for |he lasi few months the disease progressed rapidly. The patient was under the influence of chloroform and was entirely unconscious of the opera 'ion- I T ‘ Com. Border-Kufliaii Murder at Scott. ot ' Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune, - A message has this moment reached from Fort Scon, giving the most distressing: account of the ouirages upon the Free-S,,* men. One was brought into the Fort oa 28th of April, and sentenced to be sbot.„ Eight ruffians look him to the timber drew lots to see who should commit the deej It fell on Brocken, when he him dead, for no offense but his The Dis'rict Court is broken up. j a( j Williams dares not have Free-State come here. The United States troops j (Ji[ the guerrillas nights, unknown to the officeri to scour the country. Seven have been cool victed of this offense. Nearly all the settlers have left the Li:!• Osage Valley, of all parties. Eight wag,, loads of Free-State settlers left in one con. pany last week, who tell the mo-st horrtb> tales pf their sufferings. Mapleron, the !e: . llement of the Vermont Colony, is neath deserted. Men are shot down in cold blood without provocation, and all the horror, c . - the Shannon war are now fell- by that d* traded neighborhood. Such is the reward of a garrison of troops, when they only ad the tyrant. Visa. Voice from Kansas. —The Herald cf Freedom of May 1 had heard ot the ma;; features of the English Compromise UH i Q Congress, and rakes occasion to say : “It is needless to say, that if that propov. (ion is passed, the Lecompton Constitute will be defeated by : the people, and then* are remanded back into our Territorial c$ duion. If lh« people have any chance in a oudiare the fraud, they. will do so, Tfo will never vote to accept' a Pro-Slavery Gar. ernment to be organized under the Lecoraj. lon Consiitulion—they willsooner hangeven man that attempts it/’ Women on a Strike. —The it appears, have been oh a strike in Johnj. town, as well as the men. On Tuesday 3,’ last week, as two German coal diggers, had not struck, were returning from tha* work, they were met by a buxom and pj? nacinus Welsh woman, who watched hercj ponunily when they were neap the and with a coup de main and an imprecaj:: which «e, dare not name, pushed both r them into the water, hdfels over head. Tbt. crawled out in frbighfv indignant framer mind, of course* hut there was no use S»*j/ ing that woman. - She was ready for ,’hea' In the other instance two wom**n—oner whose husbands had struck, and ! heo:he ; is had not —met. A wordy altercanon ending in blows. The sinker’s wife a shovel and dealt the other s-venl b'jiT that made her cry enough. Th» pj-« were finally separated.— Harrisburg Till graph. I j Co. Sup't, Old Documents.—We have been «ha»: hv Mr. JkNKS, a printer of (his city, a, 1 '; old deeds, dr twn many \ear- “dcre. Ir** deeds' were given for lands MiiM : ed;n;:* State of Pennsylvania, and although sow*, them were given nearly two bonded j-nj n«*o, they are in n perfect stale of p rawr ':f (mn. The first we notice, reads : denture made-lho Mxleenih Jay nf O-'D-c- f ihe fourth year of the reign of mirsovee;: Lord George, King of Great Dciiam, A” - and d»:ed 1723. Three others an* ta in the year 1682, deeded by Wm. Per: Joseph Hall and others. Two mve:? dated in the years 1739 and 1762 Ak three others, given in Ihe years 16*2,D and 1762, all bearing the promm'ni sp lure of Wm. Penn. These old dncinet no doubt are highly prized by their pref possessor, who has had them ever was seven years of age. —Chicago twpr __lj_ __ ' The New Liquor Bill pissed at the Kf session of the Legislature, as it becomes- 1 understood, is receiving ihe execration* public and ihe press every where, saver®' Ihe advocates of a free How of liquor class rap.dly diminishing in numbers. :■ law, as interpreted bv Judge Pearson,' charge at the opening of Conn, is a to the Co nmonweal h, and the lei’h' who enai ted it, opening wide the chuns' iniquity for the passage of all who de* : engage in the free dispensation of vice‘ immoralitv. A year or two of this baC will satisfy the pu(siic feet from the road. This occurred wk'- J train was in mminn, and but a few set"- after taking in wood and water. ing the road the wind took an upward twisting Ihe largest pines off by ihe rod its passage, and disappeared in the air. -M- A-R-R-I-E-D- In Tioga on tin, I'itii inst.. i.v JU-v. S- J. M'C’* * NATHAN' R. SHATI'EE and Mi„ JVLIA C MW'*, List of Letters Remaining in the Post Office at Wei- 0 Pa., Way 15ih, 1858 : Allen Charles B.; Blidin Mr.T.B’, Esq. Pairick, Breese Mr. George; Co? Gregory ; Doake Mr. C. B.; Franra Ford James Fsq.; Gull Jno. D.; “j 5 , Mr. Geo.; Jackson Mr. Nahma, 3 , Mrs. Abignl (or heirs); Kesler Mr ler Mrs. Mary, Moure Mrs Munin, _ Miss Mariah, Mosen J. K., M' pr '' Moore Mr. Hugh M. ; Navle Mrs. > J ', Olmstead Mr. Clement P- ; P 1 ’ 1163 ' ; Rumsey Joseph E., Roper Mih° n ton Roxana, Smith Miss Fla 1 ’ 1 ® p Mr. Brewer, Schutler William E'