From the Bt, Louis Democrat, Jane 8.
Ttae General Lane and Jenkins
Affair.
The fact that Gaius Jenkins of Lawrence
was killed by James H. Lane on Friday lasi
haa already been reporiotf l)y the Telegraph.
The particulars of the horrible .affair, as we
learn from a gentleman who left the Terri
tory on Saturday morning, are as follows:
There was a dispute between Lana and
Jenkins concerning a valuable land claim,
lying in close proximity to Lawrence. This
dispute engendered a cordial hatred, which
extended to the private relations of the parlies.
Some weeks ago Lane’s family arrived in
Kansas, and Lane look them upon the con.
tested claim without having a legaj title to
the same —the suit concerning the title being
still before the proper tribunal. This action
on the part of Lane excited Jenkins, but
nothing passed between them till Friday, the
4th instant. On this day Jenkins informed
Lane that he intended drawing some water
from the well on the claim. Lane toid him
to refrain, but Jenkins paid no attention to
the caution and made his apearanee near the
claim during the day. He was provided wbh
a gun and an ax, and was accompanied by
three companions. As he approached he
laid down his gun and took up the ax to
knock the chain from the lock by which it
was fastened. As he stepped forward Lane
appeared in front of the house armed with a
loaded shot-gun. Jenkins gave a look of
defiance at his enemy, and in the next mo
ment fell 10 the earth—a corpse—having re
ceived an immense charge of buckshot in his
breast.
As Jenkins fell one of his friends fired
three limes at Gen. Lane, one ball missing
him, another grazing his forehead, and the
third burying itself in the calf of his leg,
bringing him to the ground. It was a har
rowing spectacle. The body of Mr. Jenkins
Was soon removed and Lane taken into cus
tody. Mrs, Jenkins was nearly crazed at
the fearful intelligence of the death of frer
husband. She is lying in a dangerous con
dition. Jenkins bore an excellent character,
and his loss will be deeply regretted.
It is proper to state that Gen. Lane claims
that he was fully justified in shooting down
his Adjutant General—for, strange as it may
seem, such Jenkins was—and asserts that
he can establish his justification before the
courts of his country.
The feeling against Lane was general
throughout the Territory.
Last reports indicate that there was some
talk of lynching Lane, but it is hardly proba
ble tl)al this will be done. Lane is at present
in close custody, and his trial will come off
al an early day,
Leavenworth, June 8, 1858.
The funeral of Gaius Jenkins, shot by
James H. Lane, took place at Lawrence on
Sunday, and was attended by an immense
crowd. There is a strong public feeling on
both sides.
Lane’s condition is both helpless and criti
cal. He has frequent attacks of spasms, with
symptoms of lockjaw. It is now thought
that amputation will be necessary to save
life.
The excitement in Linn County continues.
Gov. Denver, Gov. Robinson and others are
about to start to the scene of the difficulties,
to exort themselves to quiet (he troubles.
From Washington.
Special Dispatch to The N. T. Tribune.
Washington, June U, 1858,
Senator Gwin has challenged Senator Wil
son. He sent him a note by Mr. Fitch ol
Indiana, merely asking for a meeting outside
the District. Mr. Wilson replied by citing
to him his reply to Mr. Brooks, to the effect
that duelling was forbidden by the laws and
by the matured convictions of his whole life.
Mr. Seward and other Senators are striving
to arrange the difficulty, and will doubtless
succeed.
The following is a full and accurate ac
count of the language used in the debate last
night which gave rise to the challenge. Mr.
Wilson had made a speech in referenced the
expenditures of the Government of Califor
nia. Mr. Gwin, in reply, said that he had
beard a great deal of demagoguism in con
nection with the expenditures in California.
Mr. Wilson asked if he intended to apply the
word demagoguism to him. Mr. Gwin de
clined to explain or reply.
Mr. Wilson said : “The Senator declines
lo answer. Very well. I say 10 him lhai
demagoguism is belter than thieving. I had
rather be a demagogue than a thief.’’
Mr. Grwin inquired if the Senator meant
lo apply his language to him, or to the officers
of the revenue in California.
Mr. Wilson said that he had no explana
tions lo give the Senator from California.
Mr. Gwin then said : “If the Senator
means lo apply that term to me, he is a ca
lumniator and a coward.’’
The President called both gentlemen to
order, when Mr. Wilson remarked that what
the Senator from California said did not
change the record.
The Dead Letter Office. —During n
single year, in addition to some $30,000 in
money returned to its lawful owners, there
have been found in the letters and restored,
drafts, checks and other valuable papers
amounting to three and a half millions of
dollars. In the greater number of instances
dead letters which have thus been returned to
the department, have failed to reach their
des'ination in due course by reason of mis
direction. This may doubtless be attributed
to the hurry in which the banks and large i
mercantile house close up their correspon
dence for the day. One bank sends a
letter covering paper amounting to thousands
of dollars—inside' the package is addressed
to Nashville, outside to New Orleans. An-
other heavy remittance is directed to Troy'
I New York, without any address whatever on
the inside. A third package was directed
on the outside to Louisville, Kentucky, the
inside direction to New Orleans.
A candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania
with an editorial friend, while slumping-their
district, week before last, got belated and
asked to stay alt night at a roadside cabin,
but the owner thought they looked so like
horse thieves that he told them to move on.
They ceme into W— toward morning.
THE AGITATOR.
SI. H. Cobb, Editor & Proprietor.
WELLSBOROUGHi FA.
Thursday morning, June IT, 1858.
%• All Business,and otherCommunicalioftsmust
be addressed to the Kditorto insure attention*
TVs cannot publish anonymous communications.
Congress adjourned on Monday at noon.
Csas. Fisacft advertises a slock of Tin, Copper
and Sheet-Iron Ware. Give him a call.
A man named Pickering was arrested on a charge
of passing counterfeit money and lodged in our jail
on Friday last.
1 Dj P. & Wm. Roberts advertise Kirby’s Combin
ed Reaper & Mower. Farmers will find it for their
interest to call at their Store and examine this labor
saving machine.
The citizens of Middlebnry are preparing to cel
ebrate the 3d of July in a very pleasant manner.
We incline to the belief that a little Sunday School
influence will improve the quality of modarn patri-
Success to the experiment!
R. W. Jackson has purchased the right of manu
facture and sale in Delmar, Wellsboro and Charles
ton of the patent Portable Farm Fence, now on ex
hibition in the Public Square. We refer farmers
to his advertisement, and finally, to the fence itself.
If it does not prove to be just what our farmers want
we shall be greatly mistaken.
Mr. Lewis Smith has furnished us with Ibe num
ber of rainy days since March 15, as follows:
Mar. 15 to Apr. 1, 2 days.
Apr. Ito May 1, 10 u
May Ito June 1, 15 •*
June 1 to u 16, 6 “
Total,
A drenching- rain set in on Friday night and con
tinued nearly 24 hours. This rain visited a great
extent of country.
We publish in another place t brief account of a
bloody affray between Gen, Lane and Gaius Jenkins
at Lawrence, Kansas, in which the latter was shot
dead. We have received a letter from one of the
actors in the affray, written under the sling of sud.
den and terrible bereavement, and therefore not
proper to be laid before our readers. We do not
feel warranted in saying more this week than that
we knew Mr. Jenkins os an honorable and high,
minded man, no less rigid in respecting the rights
of others than prompt in defence of his own ; a mao
whom to know intimately was to respect and love*
a brave man and as kind as brave; one of the truest
of the many patriots whose blood has sunk in the
soil of Kansas. He it was who supplied Lawrence
with munitions in one of the darkest hours of her
peril, and at (lie risk of his life ; and many a page
of the history of that Territory bears record of him
as among the foremost of those who sacrificed and
suffered for its redemption. Of the man by whose
hand he died we never had a very exalted opinion.
His recklessness has more than once imperiled the
good name of the Free State cause. Thai he was,
primarily, the aggressor In, this recent matter we
most assuredly believe.
Court Proceedings. —The subject of Licenses
occupied considerable attention last week. The
scope and intent of the new law were freely discuss
ed by leading counsel. Judge White held that
the new law does not destroy the discretionary pow
ers delegated to the Courts by the law of 1846 —hold-
ing that the act of 185 G, repealing the repealing act
of 1855, revived the act of 184 G—which act lodges
discretionary power with the Court. To the argu
ment of counsel that under the new law the Court
lias no right to receive evidence as to-lhe necessity
of a licensed house Judge W. decided adversely—
holding that, if it be shown that such* house is not
necesary to public accommodation, the Court may
reject. The matter was postponed until Monday of
the present week, when Mr. Emery came forward
with the objection that none of the applicants had
been assessed in the manner prescribed by the new
law. Upon ibis the Court pot the opplicalions over
to the adjourned Court in July.
There is % great variety of opinions touching the
new law, advanced by the Courts of the Common
wealth, but of all decisions which have come nnder
our notice. Judge While's seems the best. The new
law is supplementary to the law of 1856, repealing
such portions of the latter as may be inconsistent
with corresponding portions of the new law, and
only such. The act df 1856 provides (hat (heCourt
may grant licenses under certain circumstances; the
new law reads •*'shall grant. 11 &c., under certain
circumstances. The Court held that the discretion
of the Court docs not in any wise proceed from such
tech nicalities, nor can it be destroyed by them.
Since writing the above we learn that Mr. Emery
objected to the granting of applications lor license
where the regulations of (he new law touching as
sessmenu had not been complied with, last week,
and not on Monday, as slated above. Some were
objected to on the ground that the applications were
not filed the required time, and a few were granted*
“What has JacKaasr done lo merit the confidence
'• of his political opponents ?” asks ons friend of the
Vedette of the Potter Journal and Lock haven
Watchman . Now, wo have nothing to do with the
matter in dispute between these last named journals
and neighbor Jones; but the question opens up the
way to others that we have been on the point of
submitting for the consideration of our Lycoming
friend many limes during the two weeks just past.
The case stands thus : Allison While, who mis.
represents the Potter and Lycoming district in Con.
gress, descended into the lowest pit of shame in bis
advocacy of the Lecompton swindle. He went
boldly and squarely down to the dirty work which
the President prepared far the faithful and who that
has watched the course of the gentleman can say
that be ever once flinched, or wavered a line? On
the other hand, Mr. Jackman, a member of the Aa.
sembly from Lycoming district, did, last winter, at
all limes declare himself unalterably opposed to the
Kansas pylicy of the President, and right manfully
did he labor against the outrageous plot hatched out
against Wilmol. We have nothing whatever to do
with Mr. Jackman's motives, nor do we think our
neighbor, Jones, has aught to do with them, though
he does affect to impugn them. ’ The question is,—
u What has Jackman done lo.earn the confidence of
his political opponents ?"
The question surprises ns not a little. We were
not aware that either of the editors to whom it is
directed was politically opposed to Mr. Jackman.
We understand them to be fully committed to the
inti.Lecomplon issue “ pare and simple.” So, also
is Mr. Jackman; then how can they be his political
opponents? To us their support of Mr. Jackman
for the place now disgraced by Alison White is rig
idly consistent and far less reprehensible than their
eager advocacy of fusion with Side Door Sanderson
and Bnoher Swope. ,
It now becomes our privilege to put a few peril
nenl questions to the editor of the Vedette : What
has Forney dons that those who opposed him in ’54
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
*55, *56 tod *57 should now. put such implicit confi
dence in him ? He then held that Congress had no
power to check the spread of slavery into every cor
ner of the public domain—(hat the rights of Slavery
were co-extcnsive with the Freedom. -He
holda loand advocates that doctrine to-day. He en
dorses the decision of Judge Taney, by which the
last barrier .erected against the .encroachments of
slavery is destroyed and rights of the Slates are con.
temptuously trampled under the despotic heel of the
Genera! Government. Then what haa John W*
Forney done (hat the Vedette should so eagerly ac
cept the specious issue presented by him and Arnold
Douglas ?
And what has John P. Sanderson done that those
whom be betrayed in *56 and still again in *57, are
eager to place such implicit confidence in him t He
preferred Buchanan before Fremont In *56 and Pack
er to VVilmol in *57. He was eager for iusion in *57
and in the moment of its consummation addressed
himself to the task of betraying the allied forces
into the hands of Col. Forney. Substantially the
same farce was enacted in the Wilmot campaign.
Therefore, why should our Lycoming friend place
confidence in this John P. Sanderson ?
And what has Bucher Swope done to merit the
confidence of Republicans ? Is this not the Bacber
Swope who traveled the Stale last fall with tongue
dripping with filth and uncleanness toward Wilmot?
who reeked with calumniations of Republican prin
ciples? What has Swope done to merit this Mi
cawberJike burst of confidence on the part of good
Republicans?
This brings us to a few questions propounded by
the Lewisbutg Chronicle . “ Shall we divide and be
“ defeated, as we have been for three years past ?
“ or shall we unite nnd be victorious, as they did
** this Spring in Philadelphia, and as we did in 1848
M and in 1854 ? n nsksthat paper. We ask- the able
editors if they do not assume what is not true-in
their initial question ? Instead of dividing in the
last three campaigns did we not unite, and with the
very faction to which we are now orgzd to ally our*
selves? If d.vision came afterward it came hot
through the Republican party ; and if division and
defeat ensued upon that union, made preliminary to
three consecutive campaigns, it is not for the fusion*
ists of 1858 to fling it in the faces of those who then
stoutly resisted and still resist the npnatural union.
The fusion of 1854 was no more like that now pro*
posed than light is like darkness. That was anion
on the vital issue of Freedom for -the Territories.
That proposed, is nothing better than a demand that
the extension of Slavery be suffered to proceed in
such peacable manner as u the law directs.” In
our individual view, Republican principles do not
admit of such latiiudinous construction. They lay
down the docliinc that Slavery in a crime, and then
and therefore deny that a virtuous Government can
permit its extension over the Territories under -its
control; and when the leaders of vho parly abandon
that position the people will not follow.
If the July Convention shall place Us candidate
upon a strait out Republican platform, without any
shuffling, well and good. The manner ol the Call
matters little; its result matters much. That re*
*fcult will be a halting compromise—an effort to win
a victory for Right by yielding half of the field.
That has been tried twice 100 often already. If wc
desire to perpetuate liberty in this land we must
take a correct position and hold it.
Temporary success cannot repay the least aban
donment of the ground now occupied bv the party.
This anti.Lecoinpton isssuc is an ignis fatuis evolved
from the noisome damps of the slough of modern
Democracy, just now hovering over the treacherous
bog which swallowed up the leaders of that party
in 1854. That such is'to be the fate of those who
chase this anti Lecompton will-o’-the-wisp seems in
evitable. As it is put forward to conceal the living
question from the masses, so wc reject it uncondi
tionally as a leading issue. It bas none of the ele
ments of a leading question ; for what can it mat
ter to Freedom whether Slavery be propagated by
law, or in defiance of iaw ? It does not matter :
or, if it docs, the difference is all in favor ol propa
gation in defiance of law. If the contrary be held,
then proceed at once to legalize every crime known
to human statutes! Would murder be less than
murder though legalized ? No. Even so it is with
Slavery—it is made no worse by being propagated
in defiance of law. Let it defy all law, divine and
human—so much the belter. Lei it baptize its in
crease with blood and fire—still better. The more
hateful the wrong renders itself the belter will it be
for the people. We do not fear the tyrannical pol.
icy of James Buchanan, since the'masses arc there,
by enabled to see to what haven the Model Repub.
lie is drifting.
Beauties of the Fugitive Slave Law. Up
ward of twenty years o go, a cbaltc), called Philip
Crosse, thinking that, he bad as good right to him
self and lo ids services as the man who pretended
lo own him, guided by the north star, (bund refuge
in Wellsboro. Not many years since, Philip pur
chased a piece of land in Delmar, a few miles from
the borough, where, with his family, he lived op to
a few days since, universally respected by all who
knew him. But trouble came upon Philip; Death
entered his humble dwelling and bore away Ills
children, one by one. Then Sickness came and
went away, leaving his wife a raving maniac. His
cup was full.
Two weeks since it was thoughtadvisable to con
vey Mrs. Crosse lo the Asylum at Harrisburg. Phil
ip, we are told, had some misgivings about going so
far toward the land of bondage, being so ignorant as
to dread nothing so much as a return to that condi
tion which our democratic friends affect to consider
belter than freedom. But Philip overcame bis scru
ples, and, accompanied by Mr. Jas. Steele, started
lor Harrisburg with hip maniac wile. On the pack
et, ere disembarking at Port Trevorton, Philip sur.
mised that he had seen his old maaler among the
passengers and became greatly agitated. At his re
quest Mr. Steele accosted the object of Philip's ter.
for and, as we hear, ascertained that his fears were
unfounded—at least, in his, Steele’s, judgment; but
Philip was not pacified, and while the cars were
gelling under motion lo leave Port Trevorton, Philip
it said to have jumped from the moving train and to
have made for the woods. Be this as it may, no ti
dings have been gained of Philip up to this writing.;
The gentleman upon whom the unfortunate man's
suspicions rested proved to he the Superintendent ol
the road, bearing the name of his old master. This
gives us a reason for Philip’s Sight, but whither the
distressed man’s course lay is a mystery. Perhaps
lo Canada, and perhaps lo the bouse of the friendly
Quaker where lie found asylum ere he came among
us. The latter place is about 40 miles from Port
Trevorton. Inquiries are being made in that direc
tion.
This, men and brethren, is one of the beauties of
the Fugitive Slave Law, Is it not a perpetual ser
mon, comprehensible without note or comment ?
A Suspected Hoese Tbief. —ln the early after
noon of Sunday last, a stranger was observed passing
op Main-st, of this village with a horse and boggy
aud another home, led behind. ‘ Certain movements
ol the stranger begot suspicions in the minds of
the observers, end Messrs. Wilcox and Alexander
got into a boggy and followed, coming up with the
gentleman near the upper bridge. Their ostensible
business was to trade horses, or buggies, or both.
His manner growing somewhat perturbed under cer
tain pretty direct questions touching his title to .the
property, and to all of which he gave contradictory
answers, be was informed that they felt it best to
detain him until all doubts might be cleared op.
To this he merely proposed, to proceed along the
Stale road toward Pine Creek, leisurely, while they
returned for a warrant A warrant was procured
and Messrs. C. L. Merrick and Chas. Dieffenbacber
started in pursuit They came up with the suspect,
ed thief about three miles from town in a bit of
woods, where be had halted to feed. He made no
objection to returning after hearing the warrant*
and his arrival in town under aneat attracted near
ly as great a crowd as a lusty dog-fight- He was
caged in Farr*s Hotel and a large crop of Young
America Immediately monopolized the windows.
When first interrogated he gave his name as
Goodseil; said that he lived at Canton, Bradford eo.
and that be could very soon establish title to the
property by people living there. Mr. Wm. Roberts*
formerly a resident of Canton, being called in, rec
ognized him as a fellow of doubtful reputation named
Thomas G. Erwin, or Irvin. It was finally agreed
that he should remain on parole until next morning
and if no more satisfactory reasons for his detention
should arise, then he should be suffered to depart in
peace. At three o'clock in the morning Erwin got
up, look one of the horses and set off 1 for Canton by
himfel/i leaving the other horse and the buggy be
hind. Being apprised of this move, Mr. Merrick,
accompanied by Mr. R. Farr, gave chase. When
descending into Covington they espied the fugitive
going out of the village on (he Troy road. He soon
discovered that he was pursued and pul his horse in
to a run. Seeing this, Merrick loosed his horse from
the buggy and gave chase for three.quarlers ot a
mile, when he found that the game had taken a
short cut to the woods, leaping four fences before he
abandoned the horse. The pursuers recovered the
horse but could not catch Erwin. A full descrip
tion of the property may be found in our advertising
columns.
©ommumcattons.
Common Schools.
The Schools were nearly all visited in the
Winter, and accurate statistics taken with
regard to their condition. It will be impossi
ble fur me to do this again this Summer. All
I can do, will be to visit a few Schools in
each township and have one or two days for
a leachers Brill. The people must not com
plain, for I devote my entire time lo the
Schools, and more than this, they cannot
ask. The new School Law can be had on
application by mail, or by catling at the P.
O. at Wellsboro, N, L. Reynolds,
Co. Sup!.
A Word from “Angle.”
We have just received the Agitator con
taining a full account of the proceedings of
our la»e Insiiuie in Wellsboro, and being a
member of that honorable body ourself, we
noticed with no liilfe pride a record of that
expression of our gratitude to the citizens of
that place, which (notwithstanding the de
murring of some of our leachers so incorri
gibly obtuse as to ask “Whai for t”) look the
form of a vole.
But Mr. Editor, this does not half express
our gratitude. We want to make “our bow 7 ’
ourself, and say “we are much obliged,”—-
also we would cordtaly invite the citizens of
said Borough, to be sure and call on us, if
ever ibey should come our way.
“Ample provisions’* will not only be
“made,** but they will be profusely and gra-;
tuitously distributed, and we will promise,
nay, we will be at the stage awaiting their
arrival—nnd the enthusiasm which prevailed
at the Borough when we “drove in” was
nothing in comparison with the tussle that
they may expect at Lawrenceville, “as to
who shall stay at whose house.”
Hon. Hickok, 100, must have been over
come with ihe kindly greeting which wel
comed us, and we dare venture to anticipate
him by returning a “little thank” in bis
behalf.
He didn’t deputize us lo do Ibis, but his
great heart must have been overwhelmed
with emotions of gratitude, which in the
mullifariousness of his official duties he may
have omitted to express.
But why these empty demonstrations!—
These promises, the sacredness of which the
people of Wellsboro may not be too well cal
culated lo appreciate?
Do not the good deeds, even iri silence
performed, come back upon Ihe benefiiclor
like the grateful exhalation of Ihe op’ning
flower, refreshed by the evening dew and
rewakened by the morning sun ? “
To their self-gralulalions, the noblest re
quital for generous deeds, we leave them.
We are certainly delighted in retrospecling
what we enjoyed at the Borough. ° We shall
ever remember the session as one of the
pleasantest weeks 6f our life. The teachers
ns our most pleasing acquaintances. The
Superintendents as two “very pretty men,”
and Wellsboro as the greenest place in the
world. Angie.
Congress on Saturday disposed of all the
Appropriation bills, except the Post-Office,
Light-House and Indian bills. Concerning
the amendments of the Senate to the first,
by which the franking privilege was abolished
and postage raised to five cents, two con
ferfences were had in vain. The Naval bill,
as finally passed, provides for the construc
tion of seven sloops of war. The Ocean
Service bill allows Mr. Collins his suspended
pay, but does not allow him lo change the
terminus of the line toj Southampton. The
new loan authorized is for twenty millions at
five per cent. The President sent in a mes
sage stating that the Treasury was sadly out
at elbows, and that further appropriations
would probably be needed. The exact
amount required it would take till. Monday lo
ascertain ; the session should therefore be
prolonged. No action was taken on the
matter, but unless both houses grant an ex
.tension, it is understood (hat an extra session
will at once be catted. The Senate crowned
the day’s work by giving Messrs. Bright and
Filch seats as Senators from Indiana,— N.
Y. Tribune, June 14. ‘
A man named Lewis refused (p pay one
of the plank road Companies in Ohio his- toll,
amounting to one cent, for which he was
sued and fined five dollars. He appealed
from Ihe decision of the magistrate, and has
carried the case- from one court lo another,
until the costa amount to over eight hundred
dollars.
Xbe Republican Co. Committee
met pursuant to call at WeDsboro, Jane 8,1859.
On motion, VICTOR CASE was elected Chair
man, and J. B. IfILES, Secretary.
- Then were appointed the following
COMMITTEES OF VIGILANCE.
Blast —l. M, Bodine, Jno. James, Win. Butler.
Brookfield— John G. Holmes P- W. Nobles, John
Waklee.
Chatham —J. D. VanDosen, R» Morse, Lucien Beach
Charleston— Morgan Hart, H. D. Calkinga, Chas.
Coolidge.
Covington— T. B. GoodenoW, T. S. Marvin, D. S.
Irelan. i I
*• Boro I —L- B. Smith, Ira Patcben, S S Packard.
Clymer —A. A. Arosbry, Henry Steele, C. W, Beach.
Deerfield —H. E. Potter, Emmer Bowen, George
Gilbert. •
Delmar— Silas Johnson, C. Cbas.Copcstick,
EUdand Boro—Beni. Dorraocc, Joel Parkburst, R.
T. Wood.
Elk— D, Buggies, John Maynard, Ethan Strait.
Farmington —A B Wright, Robert Cassbier, J, E.
Peters.
Gaines—J. S. Watrous, H. Crofnt, H C Vermilyea.
Knoxville—N. Comstock, Giles Roberts,!. P Biles.
Lawrence— S. Power Jr., Joseph .'Guiles, Charles
Blanchard. ' •
LatoreneevUle—F. D, Wells, J. Kinsey, J C Beeroan.
Liberty— G. R. Sheffer, R C Cot, C W Farnsworth.
Middlebury— E J Stevens, G D Keeney, J B Poller.
Mansfield— J. A, Holden, Henry Allen, A . Bixby.
Kelson —Isaac Losey, G. W. Phelps, James Beebe.
Osceola—James Tubbs, Allen Seeley, Jos. Weaver.
Rutland —Joel Rose, Lafayette Backer, Seeley Frost.
Richmond —W C Ripley, Geo. Mudge, L Gaylord.
Shippen— J. Dickinson, Lewis Holmes, E. Seagers.
Sullivan —Lafayette Gray, P. W. Doud, B. Monroe.
Tioga—Geo DePui, E. T. Bentley, John Dailey
Union—J. Whitehead, John Erwin, G. Foster.
Wellshoro— P C. Hoig, J. Riberolte, J. L. Robinson.
Westfield —Ambrose Cloose, J. King Jr„ Charlton
Phillips.
Ward —A. S. KnifHn, Win. Mclntosh, D. Comfort
Jackson— o. B. Wellr, Hector L. Miller, C.Slilwell.
On motion it was voted that the County Conven
tion meet at Wellsboro, on FRIDAY, the 27th day
of August next Delegate meetings to be held the
Saturday previous at the usual place of holding elec
tions—one wcek*s notice of the time and place of
holding said meetings to be given-by the Committee
of Vigilance in each Election District,
On motion the following Resolution was adopted:
Resolvedy That we have increased confidence in
the principles enunciated in the Philadelphia Plat
form, and firmly believe that a strict adherence to
those principles is the only safetylfor Freedom , and
therefore the true policy of the Republican parly.
The following was read and adopted:
Addreu to the Republican* of Tioga Co.
Tho undersigned, members or the Repub
lican County Committee, inj presenting the
foregoing Committees of Vigilance, respect
fully, but earnestly upon you the neces
sity of an early, complete ; and etfeclive or
ganization. ' ;
For the Agitator.
The principles embodied in the Philadel
phia Platform are as old as itself.—
They have formed the bulwark of all Re
publics that have ever lived, and they, to-day,
underlie-our own free institutions. Freedom
can only be perpetuated by (heir recognition.
The cherished policy of [ the early fathers
will never be carried out while Human Right
is an exile from our national halls—while
tyranny, outrage and oppression occupy the
places once dedicated lo truth, justice and hu
manity. As you love right|and hate wrong,
you are called upon to 1 use every proper
means lo secure the prostration of the Slave
Oligarchy. j -
Shall we argue that American Slavery is
a great wrong—that it purses both the en
slaved and the enslaver—hiat it exists only
by virtue of the highwayman’s plea that
“might makes right”? Shall we slop to
prove ihal a slave is a man ? When the cat
tie upon your hills, the fowls of the air and
the dogs of the street fail' to distinguish him
from I her brute, will we ar'gue Ihe manhood of
the slave. Shall we prove (he Southron’s
“pel institution” to be an injury to himself?
In answer lo this we have only to point lo
the worn-oul fields of Virginia, the dilopida
ted plantations of Georgia nnd the sterile
wastes of the Carolines. ; In every light we
may choose lo view it, slavery stands before
us a giant wrong—an anomaly in a free rep
resentative nation. ft. isja| great moral, so
cial and political evil, ft hot only bio's out
the intellect of the not only makes
it a criminal offence to leach him lo write his
name—not only reduces lo merchandize a
human being, and places him upon his mas
ter’s ledger as properly—mot only severs the
nearest and dearest ties, but it destroys the
morals and amor ■patriae of the sfave dealer.
But it is not only a wrong T done to the en
slaved black, but it robs the free while work,
ing man of the worth of ibis just rights, ft
degrades labor. It brings ihe work of your
hands into a humiliating competition with him
who owns his property. Shall Gov. Ham
mond go unrebuked, when) he characterizes
us who have hard hands arid sun-burnt coun
tenances as the “mud sills” of (he north 7
Shall our public domain i be kept for free
homes for free men, or shsfll your sons when
they go forth to the bailie I of life, be robbed
of Ihetr present position and be obliged lo as.
some the rank and file of [the southern non
slaveholding whites ? These are home ques
tions. They affect all. ; [
In 1856 we unfurled jour banners to the
breeze, on which we inscribed as our motto,
by which we should slarjd|or fall, “No more
slave States,’’ Non-intervention by Congress
with slavery where it noth exists by virtue
of positive local law, but \its prohibition in
all of our public domain .i Such, fellow ci
tizens, was the avowed object and mission of
ihe Republican party. |True, we were de
feated. Right has not always triumphed
since lime began. Every;parl and parcel of
Ihe federal government was turned into a
mighty electioneering ma'chine, and eighty
millions of public patronage did the repl.
But are you willing ip abandon the'glori
ous cause of your fathers because of a few
temporary defeats ? Shall we sit idly by and
see the liberties of our common country sub
verted ? Shall we behold the doctrine put
forth that slavery is national and freedom
sectional—that wrong I is the rule and right
the exception ? Shall we see all the powers
of the nation prostrated td-give life and vigor
to human slavery, and | not raise our, puny
arms lo arrest its blighting progress, which
mildews whatever it touches?
Did our fathers of’76 abandon their strug
gle for Right—the result of which we now
enjoy, because they were driven from place
to place—often bare-fpoted and starving, with
(he promise of pardon [staring them in their
faces if they would opliy : return to Iheirplle
gtance? Shall we not [imitate their noble,ex
ample , Let us once j more gird on our ar
mor more lightly! It is’better lo die in the
arms of defeat in a good cause than to con
tinually triumph at the iutler destruction of
For Th? Agitator.
persona) liberty. We want no
t'rioiSi no summer soldiers. Ours is s
gle for great and immortal principles
crushed to earth by the iron bee) of J
We recognize not the claims of party,
is a work for measures, not men. l n p o t,’
our creed is that life, liberty and ihep 0 J t *l
of happiness are the birthrights of e»e f j Cl
man being.; and that any government
deprives any person within its limits,
of no crime, of either of these inalienjC C
rights, is despotic and unjust. a< •;
Once more let us “up and at them!” (p,
enemies are already active, and may « e
profit by their vigilance? In '56 Tiog S
the banner county —none like her spoke ej -
in such thunder tones for free homes and
free men. And shall we by sleeping npei l
past victories, lose our already gained
Every man should work as though our eta* ;
depended upon his individual efforts ! Ifsaeji
be your course, Tioga will continue to be ( :l
beacon light to cheer the struggler withleg^
ized wrong and long continued outrage qj, ■
ward. Labor and wait. :
Victor Case "j \
J. B. Niles I d ,t
L.D. Seeley
H. B. Card I Standln S Coa,;
Jwo, N. Bacije J f
Slate Convention.
Hon. Lemuel Todd has, withdrawn hiscj l
for a Slate Couvention and acquiesced io|
call signed by J. R. Flanigan and others jy
a Convention on the 14th of July,
call it appears is also approved by Wm.
Thomas, Chairman of (he Republican Str|
committee, and by H. Bucher Swope, cha3
mao of the Side Door straight Fillmore Kbsil
Nothing committee. Fur one we enter
protest in advance against any affiliate!
coalition, union or fusion with- such polity:
renegades and traitors as Swope and Flu;
gap. Thrice have the freemen of the Sns|
struck, hands with them and thrice have I-;,f
been betrayed. If they honestly desire j'
union of all the opponents of the admmita.S
lion in the present campaign they ought,
view of the past, to have the prudence Sol.
keep'their names from any published ciirt
The Republicans can set it down asattaE
lablished fact that the Sanderson-Flaniji;!;
Swope faction will never keep faith la is,
political arrangement. They are partus
guerrilas unfit for association with meat;
are governed by honest motives in poliia
action. They have cheated us in three as
paigns, and it remains to be seen wheat
Republicans will allow themselves again;
bo gulled by such tricksters. VVeare »tlhj
to unite with all honest opponents of the a'
tension of Slavery, and co-operate to ore.
throw the present National Adtninisinict
but dre are not willing to join hands or’ I=s
- leaders who makeasho*:
frien(£|fatp only to betray. The leading pc...
ticiansf-may make what arrangemeni is;
please in this matter, but if they in any hi
ignore the cardinal principles of Republic:
ism, or if| they expunge from our
mono of “No more Slave Stales,’’ they
deserve and receive defeat. VV'e marcs"
the battle under no mongrel flag. Die;* ,
find thousands of staunch and true freraa
in the North and West who will repodis.e .
any evasive, unmeaning platform, aomv'e
who the candidates are. We warn theE*-
publicans to beware of the scheme.—&t j
Constitution.
SaS^Bebeavemest.—ll is with falj
or heartfelt regret that we announce a
deaih, by drowning, of a son of E. B. Caro
bell, Esq. The circumstances of the m
which are peculiarly painful, are as lollm
On Saturday-evening about nine o'cicaf
Mrs. Campbell, in company with two t>;
dren, was passing over the bridge, at PtH :
Mills, from the store to the house. It w
not dark at the time, though probably a
very light in the bridge. When the) ini?
part of the way over, Mrs. C. heard thei'
stumble and as she turned around she to
he was missing, and the same instant n
heard a splash in the water. She imoieflii;
raised an alarm but nothing could be lousn
the lost boy. Search was kep up all nl , r
and early Sunday morning a messes,’
brought the sad news to town, and a
of our citizens went out to engage ia sei**-
The banks of the creek were lined with? s !
pie all day. Guns were fired and e ,! (|
expedient was adopted that could be tWr*|
of to recover the body but without saccsj
The search svas continued all day on
the Mills being allowed to lay idle Ibtan
purpose, but at the present time of
(Wednesday morning) his body has not_br*?
found. A reward of fifty dollars is otieH
for the finding of the body, or for inform**;
leading to its recovery. —Jersey Shcr.
detle. \
A violent storm passed over this secw !; ;
the county on Friday night. We leanttij
at Hughesville a stable was blown
new house just inclosed belonging to Mt-fe -
Lyon, was moved from i's foundation **
the top of the chimneys of the Distllent*; ;
Mr. Lyon,aud of Hill & Ball, wereblov**
breaking through the roofs and floors o<' :
building and doing more or less injury t* ;
contents; and many fences were also **
flat by the storms. At Lairdsville, a
belonging to Mr. Thomas was entirely *'-J
roofed, and we believe some other ih®< 'j
was done at that place.— Muncy |
Behind the Age.—Mr. Leonard re o * i
successful balloon ascension fro™ • * i
gomery Ala., last week. He stales i bat
“up,’’ and but a short distance from lh o t %
ital, ha was shot at three limes by a
rifle, in the hands of some one who P r ;
look the serial navigator for a monster
bat,” and no doubt a descendant of it l6 f :
family which ran out to stop the j
pressure steamboat that they saw goin”
the river mistaking it for a runaway o1 * i |
A Wretched End.—An inquest -a
in New Orleans on the 28th olti® o
of lha body of James Dowling, -I
years, who, it appears from the |
died from the effects of drink. He”* |
a bet with a companion that he woU s a
sixteen glasses of liquor in a g' ven -1
lime —to lake the drinks in rapid -j
Hu took sixteen glasses of gin, woo |j
went and laid down and died. 3