Fonrth ef Jnly anions tbe Slaves. £robi the Atflmfo (Georgia) Gazette. Cot. Scull permitted his negroes to hold a Pourih of-July carnival, to which we had the pleasure of an invitation. ', First, Big Nathan acting as Major-Gene tral, and Isham Ist lieutenant, they 'paraded fifty or sixty slaves, well fed, bright-eyed, light-stepping negroes, and in double file marched them to a sumptuously, prepared dinner, fine enough for’ the palate of an English epicure. Big Nathan, a fine-looking man, with excellent sense, was called upon for a speech, and he responded in genuine African eloquence. It was decidedly patri otic, and every word came welling from the heart in the earnestness and fervency of an untaught, unrestrained, overfull nature. He was particularly and peculiarly alive to his obligation to Mr. and Mrs. Scott for their uniform kindness to himself and his “(ellow servants”—to which sentiment there was a general response by all the gentlemen and ladies of color. The gentlemen bowed their heads, and the ladies made a “curlchy,” while the young “eboes’’ jumped up and fell down, turning over upon the grass and bat ting their eyes at each other in silent appro bation. 'The orator did not know much about politics, but he took a very bold position in favor of his master and the ladies of color, and the excellence of his corn crop. He asserted that hjs corn crop was so luxuriant and so like a forest, that even at midday the lightning bugs had to make light before they could see how to gel along, and that no man, not even an owl, could make headway with out a torch. He thought there was no earthly hope of harvesting bis crop of corn, unless the Colonel adopted the expedient of building a board shelter over his corn fields ; and as to making a potato-hill large enough tu hold that esculent root, was a most ridiculous idqa—the Alps and Andes were mounds in significant in comparison to the demand.— He further thought that his master’s planta talion was the genuine land of “Beulah,” and he was “exprised” that his master could think of “affording" it for sale. After deal ing some heavy blows at Abolitionism, he concluded with some original poetry, amid the clatter of dishes and gabble of voices. After dinner was over, Burrell, an invited guest, came forward at the solicitation of the crowd; and made a very sensible talk. We were pleased with his idea of Slavery. He thought he was much “better off" than either the free negroes or the poor while people of the Nonh. He was happier, had more and belter things to eat, &c., &o. Abraham succeeded him in pretty much the same style of Big Nathan. . All and in all, the occasion was one of rebuke to Abolitionism, and a practical com menl upon Southern Slavery, such as a whole book would fail to properly represent. Married Witiiout Knowing It, — A singular case of double marriage de veloped ilself in the Court of Quarter Ses sions yesterday. A girl named Sarah Franey, whose parents reside in Brownstoivn, a few miles above this city, applied through her attorney, for a discharge from custody, hav ing been held to answer a charge of aduhery, the origin of which was as follows : Miss Sarah alleges that she was betrothed to a young man named Smith, and that it was her determination to marry him, and nobody else. the “course of true love never did run smooth and one day in January last, Sarah accidentally encountered a man named Mulligan, with whom she had been acquaint ed and who pretended to entertain a very high regard for her. Mulligan prevailed upon her to lake a walk, and have a talk, etc. She consented, and they finally halted at the office of Alderman Wilson, in the Fifth Ward. Whether Sarah was bewitched or not, we 1 do not pretend to say ; but she alleges that while they stood in the office, the ’Squire read the marriage ceremony, and pronounced them man and wife! She had actually been married without knowing it! But Mulligan knew it very well, and requested his blushing bride to accompany him to the house of a friend, where they might enter upon that most happy period of life—the honey moon. She denied she bad been married—and in sisted' that if she had, it was “without her knowledge and consent”—and she fled from the sight of the astonished Mulligan. Smith, her betrothed, hearing of the cir cumstance, thought that h 4 had belter look to his laurels, and it was no time until Sarah Franey was metamorphosed into a member of the “Smith family.’’ She was wedded this time with her eyes open, and found no occasion to flee from her “secono” husband. Smith having got the advantage of Mulligan, (he latter determined upon having revenge, and a prosecution for adultery was instituted against Mrs. Mulligan alias Mrs. Smith.— She was arrested, and not being able to give bail, was committed to prison. Her brother, a very industrious young man, hearing of her distress, deposited five hundred dollars as bail for her appearance, and she was released. The facts above staled were brought to light on an application from the counsel of the girl to have the bail re lieved and the money restored. The Court granted the motion, and appointed the clerk a commissioner to take bail in the case. The whole affair seems a good deal mixed, and other suits than that now pending will probably arise from it .—Pittsburg Chron icle, i Queer Divobcb Case—Alb Aboot a Baby's Name.—A suit for divorce is now pending in the Ohio courts between a man and his wife, who are said to have lived to gether very happily Tor a year, at the close of which a child was born, and became the cause of Ibe domestic difficulty that will end in their separation, the dissention being all about an innocent name given to an innocent infant. The wife intimated to the hasband that she would like to have the child called Athol. At this the liege lord objected, re membering one of her.‘‘flames” before mar risge—she urged ;he refused ; she wept; he grew obstinate, and said she need not hope to shake his resolution by her tears, he was marble when a principle was involved. She intimated that there was a remedy to which she would not object; he compre hended her meaning, and hence an applica tion for divorce. THE AGITATOR. UK. H. Cobb, Proprietor. WELLSBOROUGH, FA. Thursday morning, Aug. 5, ISSB. A! I Business, and other Communicalionsmuel beaddressedto the Editorlo insure attention. ■ We cannot publish anonymous communications. Republican Convention—Aug. 27, Relegate Elections..... .Ang. 21, The Atlantic Monthly fir August is a very at tractive number. It may be had at the counter of Smith Richards. We regret to learn that friend Cole* of the Wells, vllle Free Press , was among the sufferers by tbe destructive fire in that village on the oight of tbe 241 h ult Mr. G. B. Stebbins lectured in a very able man ner at the Court House, on Tuesday evening of last week, upon the Complicity of. the American Church with Slavery. He speaks at 4, P. M., in tbe some place, Sunday, next. Accident. —We learn that a young man named Reese, of Charleston, was Severely wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun while loading it, on Sunday, 25th ult. The charge entered the palm of the hand and came oat at the wrist. Looking in at Smith & Rickards’ the other day, we were shown a right convenient little article in the shape of a pocket ink-stand. It is the best thing of Its kind we have yet seen. We also saw some of that double Cream Laid Note Paper, as well as the leading Newspapers and Magazines of the day. We are requested to announce that all who feel an interest in the cause of popular education and de sire the re-establishment of the Mansfield Seminary, are requested to meet in Mass Convention at Mans field, at 10 A. M.« of Saturday, 14th inst. Rev. WV Hosmer, Dr. Goodwin and other speakers will be m attendance. Thistles. —We are informed that our allusions to the thistle crop around the Public Square, lasi week, were libelous touching that green and daisy decked spot. Col. Emery assures os Ibat he had the pleasure of grubbing out the last thistle thereabout, at least one day before the paper issued. We are rejoiced to bear that the unsightly crop is out of *ight. To Correspondents.— V. A. E. Shall have a place next week. Minnie, You guess the true reason why your former communication was not published. Tbe sketch sent is very pretty and shall have an early insertion. Edith. “The Slave Girl,** is not without genu ine merit, but it is not well sustained. You have done better and can do better. Try. Improvements. —Mr. A. P. Cone is potting np a fine, large dwelling on the Slate Road. We believe he intends it for rent. Mr. A. Folet is making preparations to build a pretty cottage dwelling at tbe lower end of Main-st. Mr. H. O. Cole is intending to build a few yards below the bridge, on the Tioga road. Up town, Mr, A. Growl is building a very neat doable cottage. It will be seen that our village is ‘going ahead, in defiance of hard times. Fatal Accident in Union‘Township.— -We are indebted to a friend residing atCanton, for the par ticuUrs of an accident which happened in Union, on the 12th ult., and resulted in the death of a high ly respected young man named Freeman Loper on the 251 h ult. Our correspondent writes: “ A number of hands were engaged in felling ( trees at achopping.bee on the premises of William * Newell. It seems that Loper and two others had 'Mqdged a tree, and, to bring it down, felled another ‘ whiclTstruck Uie lodged tree in each a manner as 1 to swing the butt of the latter around with great 1 force, catching Loper’s leg between it and a bank * and breaking both bones just below the knee and 4 mangling the flesh badly. A physician was called 4 immediately and did the best he could with the 4 fracture; but it was soon found that the circnia -4 lalion was entirely stopped below the fracture and 1 the leg was amputated on the 251 h nit, by Dr. * Holmes, of Canton, assisted by Drs. Morse, Keys 1 and olliers. Tho patient died five hours after the »operation. u Young Loper was beloved by all who knew him. * We feel lo sympathise with the bereaved relatives 1 —the more deeply, from the faefthat a brother of ‘ the deceased met his death under very similar cir * cnmstances, about two years and a half ago; he * having a leg broken and afterward amputated.* 1 Tbe True Question. Anli-Lecompton was only a skillful feint, made by Douglas, Forney & Co., to attract public atten tion from their political crimes. Yet their appa rent detection has nut been without its use. It has brought the iniquities of the Democratic leaders in* lo full view and laid bare the mass of sickening cor ruption which lies at the heart of Government as now administered. It has shaken the confidence of thousands in the integrity of men in high places; taught them that great men arc not ncessarily hon est and that some men do not fully ripen into vil*. latny until they stand with one foot in the grave. It has dissipated the false and ridiculous idea that gray hairs are indicative of either integrity or wis. dom. It has taught thinking men' that the rapid strides toward ruin now being made by the Repub. lie, can be arrested by the united action ol the un corrupted masses. Leading politicians will never redeem the perishing liberties of this land. Trust them not. If we hope to redeem the country from its degra dation we must keep in view the cause of its degra dation. With the various manifestations of the ef fects of that cause, as workingmen, we have, direct ly, nothing to do. The breaking down of the bar rier to the universal spread of Slavery was the sig nal for a general and indignant uprising of the peo ple. The reaffirmation of the justice and right of that measure in the Cincinnati Platform, but added to the numbers of the rebellions host. No one de nied the nature of the question at issue, then. No one suspected that the aggressions of Slavery would be less subversive of common liberty at any time in the future than at that present time. All Republic ans agreed to make the fight upon the inviolability of free territory. It was right then, and\is, and ever will be right. Why ? Because political supremacy is the gage of battle as it must be the guerdon of the victor. It b o straggle for supremacy, not for spoils. The latter are incidental, gratuitous. What if Mr. Buchanan, to the hands of the South, does wield a tremendous patronage of fifty millions of money—that is not what the South craves, first and last. It aims at supremacy in the Senate independently of the&an sient alliance with northern doughfaces. That im mense patronage is dispensed, not in : the purchase of men, but of measures; Territorial aggrandize ment is the aim of the Oligarchy. It ia a Briareus THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. —reaching out for Kansas not only, but for Mexico, Central America and Cuba. And it does not reckon without its host. Once enact the Wilmot Proviso and place it be yond tbe possibility of repeal, idd there would end territorial acquisition. You would hear nor more spread eagle speeches about extending “ the area of Freedom” by. territorial aggrandizement. The Ol igarchs would not vole a dollar for the purchase 'of territory under such restrictions. Do they want Canada ? Not badly. They will counsel no fuss with Great Britain in order to acquire Canada. It lies too near the (forth Star. ' The true question and the only important question is: Shall Slavery attain to a numerical supremacy in the Senate of the United States ? Politically it is already supreme iu that body; but a few years will change all that and the South knows very well that its safety depends upon the increase of slave States. AH its energies will be given to this work, and the duty'of tbe Republican party is to meet the issue thus forced upon them, fairly. It is folly to wrangle about tariffs while the enemy ignore tbe question purposely. Tbe sham-democracy cannot be diverted from the work the South hoe chalked out for them. They are not going to hairsplitting about a tariff for protection to which revenue shall be incident, or a tariff for revenue, to which protec. tion shall be incident. Not they. They will first take care to establish the supremacy of their mas lets and then make a tariff favorable to their inter ests. Slavery tinkered up the present tariff. As it disburses the revenues, so it very properly attends to raising the funds. /This question must be fairly met. In what way ? As we met it in ’54 and in '56.- Meet it at the bal lot-box, always, on !all occasions. “ Strike Down the Alues!” —said W iluot, in ’54. “Strike down the Allies!" say we to day, to-morrow and until ev. ery prop shall be taken away from lhe accursed sys tem. Thai is the way to meet the question. Pro scribe every man who advocates the cause of the South; .or who by bis silence apologizes for the ras calities of the shamocratic party. So may you strike down the allies. And the nefarious plots of the Black Power can be crushed out in no other way. We hold that, other things being equal, every candidate’s claim to the suffrages of Republican freemen depends upon the character of the platform upon which he stands. We have to do with a parly noted for drawing, the lines of party very arbitrarily. That is one of the secrets of its power. “ Fight the devil with fire,” is an old injunction and a good one. Therefore, if, we desire to defeat the Oligarchy we must meet pro scription with proscription and to organization op pose organization. Wo to the man or parly that neglects to entrench against the enemy ! Build the walls high and strong! Sat a watch upon them. Be vigilant, be sledfast, be true. Let us jealously guard and preserve the purity and integrity of our party organization so long as it remains true to free dom and progress ; and when it meditates treason to the interests of the masses, then we may shake the dust from our feet as we cross its lines forever. With hearts ablaze with such sentiments as these and firm in good resolutions, no victory can 100 much exalt, no temporary disaster seriously depress us. Republicans, this is a life.baltle. “There is no discharge in this war.” He that dies in harness shall be blest above all others in the consciousness of having acted up to his highest convictions of do. ty to his brother, man. Friends, are you ready for the question ? A. New Volume.— Our readers receive this week the first number of lfaeslh volume of The Agitator- II is customary fur editors to go before tbe curtain on such occasions, and lo make a little speech full of acknowledgments for past favors, hinting, by-the-by, 'that ‘ a continuance of the same*’ would not prove at all disagreeable. Please consider that already done by your humble servant. As to obligations, let them he mutual, or let them cease altogether. If we have received your dollars, you have received an equivalent in papers; or, it you have any misgiv ings as to the equivalent, by no means spend your money foolishly. That is fair, isn’t it 1 • Perhaps you would like to know how fortune has dealt by os during the years we have walked to gether ? Friends, we seldom complain of poverty, for it rocked our cradle aod has faithfully attended us from that day to this. Not that we feel proud of being bora poor and of bolding our own so remark ably well, for we have no such pride ; neither are we ashamed of it, for it is honest. We have accu. mulated a few crusts of experience but no perisha hie dollars; and we owe no man {nore than we can pay. We have no fault to find. As it is, our heart has some tender places; it might not have so re mained had life always flowed evenly with us—had wealth accrued to ns, for instance. So it is belter as it is, and heaven be praiscdMhat it's no worse. Were all prosperous there would be no poor people' to keep human sympathy alive. It is very well as it is. Then, as to labor—it is a great blessing. It prevents people from noticing aches and pains that might otherwise overcome them. Yes.it is very good to work for a living. So, there it is. Probably some of yon will be not a little astonished to learn that we haven’t even so mooli as begun to get rich, yet. You wonld’nl be at all surprised at it did you but know half as much' about some matters as we do. Let that go. Some will Winder’ how the cash system works. The Cash system works well—does all the work, in fact. There is no other system which can face down hard times and come out bright and vigorous. . Ay> it is the system of systems, and the lime is not fir distant when no paper will be published on credit And to show that the people agree with ns, we are gratified lo be able lo slate, that The Agitator enters upon its sth year with the largest list of subscribers ever owned by any paper in Tioga county, which list is steadily increasing from week lo week. The forms are making up and we must stop. Col. Fornkt says of the Unioji Platform, that it is not remarkable So much for what it doet say as it is for what it doet not say. He very plainly says that the' Republican prrly must abandon its' position ot hostility lo the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, or die. The Colonel is mistaken. The party will live and Sourish just so tongas it remains true to the principles enunciated in the Philadelphia Plat ;iorro. When it abandons them it dies. CT The People’s Conferees of Clearfield, Blair end Cambria, have nominated H. Bucher Swoopeas their candidate for Stale Senator.— Phil. News. The “People’s Conferees,” couldn’t have done worse. Was that the price 1 Dog cheap 1 * We can’t say that the Philadelphia Daily Newt deserves much blame lor putting the very worst con struction passible upon wbat we sometimes choose to say. If it can be comforted thereby, let it pro ceed. But when it pretends to quote as ours senti ments which we never expressed, as it did a few days ago, possibly it may be a little wrong. Cer tainly we never said that Americans ought not to rule America ; Aid possibly wa may have said that no be disfranchised on accoqnt of his birth-place. At all events we say so now. As to “ who bolts ?" we answer.—the Newt. Its article, which we reviewed last week, attacking the integ rity ol the. Republican .party, was calculated lo cn- gender a bad state of feeling between the u high contracting parties.” We would respectfully sng gest to the editor that, to step from a Union Conven tion and fling brickbats at the majority party,-is not good manners, not to say indiscreet. But he evi dently considers himself privileged to say what he pleases, and to cry “treaaon”-when one in no way roixed’np with the Convention'reviews its proceed, togs. The Netss can interpret our language to suit its purposes. All we have to say, is, that the party it assumes tu lead is unfortunate in its choice of an organ. A good story is told of the venerable Abo lition Congressman, Hon. Joshua R. Gid dings. Tho correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, present at the Republican State Nominating Convention, at Columbus, Ohio, on the 13tb, says: “He was sitting in the Neil House, sur rounded by a coterie of friends. A book pedler who had been busily perambulating the corridors, importuning gentlemen to pur chase ‘valuable publications,’ wormed his way into the circle, approaching Mr. G., handed him a small linen-covered book which he recommended as ‘one of the most thrilling works on Slavery extant, price only one dollar.’ The venerable Joshua • glanced at him inquiringly evidently suspecting a ‘sell but perceiving Ihe aincerily of the chap, he maintained his composure, and, opening the volume, read, ‘The Exiles of Florida— ahem!’ ‘yes, sir,’ interposed the pedler, quickly, ‘a first-rate work, written by the celebrated Joshua Giddings, the great Aposlle of Anti-Slavery. It’s immensely popular, sir, only one dollar.’ By this time the crowd discovered the joke, and burst into a hearty laugh. The pedler looked foolish and con fused, and made a snatch at his book, as if he had suddenly discovered Something, and was about to subside, when the venerable gentleman, with that kindness for which he is distinguished, requested him to stop a min ute, and taking ‘only one dollar’ from his pocket, paid for the volume. The pedler hasn’t been seen since.” A Babe is the Woods. —The Philadel phia Ledger relates a curious incident con nected with a Pic-Nic at Fairview. A gen tleman and his wife, aunt and child aged three months, were among the pleasure seekers. The wife was taken sick, and the child was given in charge of the aunt. W hen the car-whistle sounded for the party to return, the aunt placed the sleeping infant upon the ground, spreading her talma under it, while she went to a distant part of the grove to procure her bonnet. Returning by a different route she missed the child, but supposed she had property retraced her steps, and that the baby had been taken by its parents. So thinking she got on the train, taking a car distant from that in which the parents were seated, and all returned to Phil adelphia. On arriving in the city, the fact that the child was not a passenger at all, was disclosed to the mutual consternation of the parlies. The baby was well taken care of,' however ; for rt dog belonging to a gentleman living near the grove, found the sleeping in fant, and his barking and extraordinary gam bols about it, attracted the attention of its master to it, who took the child home, and it wasf tenderly cared for by the ladies. But at midnight, a loud knocking at the door aroused the household, and the anxious father—who had immediately taken a horse and drived back to the grove in search of his lost heir, — joyfully reclaimed the babe. Deßiviere Not a New Hero. —lt would seem that the hero of the latest New. York scandal case is not unknown lo former (lime in lhat line in ihis country. The Peoria (fit.) Transcript says : “We are assured by n gentleman who has recently returned from Neiv-York, where he saw Captain Deßiviere, the impudent and indefatigable foreigner of large pretensions who has lately distinguished himself by run ning away from Mobile with the wife and daughter of a wealthy lawyer, that he is the identical Signor Don P. L. de Moreto, who turned the heads of all the Chicago belles a year ago, bought a thousand-dollat horse with borrowed money, got up a magnificent excursion to Hyde Park, which was patron ized by the wives of a distinguished Senator and a well-known Chicago lawyer, and finally becoming suspected, vamosed for parts un known, leaving behind a large number of anx ious creditors, broken-hearted young misses with mortified and disappointed mammal, an astonished city, half a dozen happy local newspaper reporters, and two trunks filled with dirty linen and cravats.” Clippings from Prentice.— A Democrat ic editor in Kentucky charges that the Amer ican papers are getting less and less decent. The fact is they paint truly the features of the Sag-Nichl parly, and that party is get ting uglier and uglier. “A plague on ihis lookingglass !" exclaimed a forlorn old maid, looking glasses are a thousand times meaner than they were twenty years ago ! We have mentioned the passage of a bill through the Senale, near the close of the late session, lo raise the postage on letters from three to five and ten cents. We have seen tbe ayes and noes. Every Senator who voted for dear postage is a Democrat. Many of the Democrats are anxious that Buchanan and Douglas should bury the hatchet Douglas doesn’t mean to bury it un less he bury Old Buck with it. Correapoadeuce of the N. Y. Tribune. Washington, Aug. X, 1858, A prominent Western politician is about to make a full and clear expose of the secret appliances and inducements employed by Mr. Buchanan and his agents to carry the English Kansas bill. He knows whereof he affirms, and will place not only the Adminis tration but its Congressional converts from anti-Lecomptonisrn, especially the Ohio gen tlemen, in a most unenviable light. Ido not think he can now be silenced-—-it is too late. More anon. Argus. The Hon. G. A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, has been attending commencement at Sche nectady. A large crowd, who appreciate his noble political position, called him out of his hotel on Wednesday evening. He spoke from the balcony, briefly bul eloquently.— Tribune. OFFICIAL REPORT OP THE LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATING CO3I- JIITTE ON THE AFFAIBS OF BANKS . OF. THE COMMONWEALTH, j To his Excellency,. Wm. Fj Packer, Gov ernor of the State of Pennsylvania: The committee, appointed by a resolution of the House of Representatives, to investi gate ihe manner of organization, and the present condition of certain, banks of this Commonwealth, therein named, respectfully submit the following report: t - From the mass of detail, in the form of parol evidence, and exhibits and ext rads from the books, papers and documents of the sev eral institutions, all of which is submitted to your Excellency, the following general facts are drawn. Effort has been made to con dense as much as possible, in] order to place the substance of the investigation within reach of tbe press generally, and through them, before the eyes of the people of the State at large. It will be remembered that these banka were .incorporated at the session of 1857, and, hence, in tlieir infancy, it could not reasonably be expected that they would display so gross corruption as that which has characterized many of their aged relatives in our State. Yet | the supposition was erroneous —for never, perhaps, in tbe history of financial institutions of this Com monwealth, was so comprehensive a scheme for plunder devised, and so nearly executed. To demonstrate this, let facts be adduced of these corporations. The bank exhibiting the earliest signs of vitality is the TIOGA COUNTY BANK. Books were opened for subscript ion on the 22d day of June, A. D. 1857, from which lime to August 6lb,' 1857, stock was taken as follows : i. June 22d to August’6th, 1857, 168 shares August 6th, 1857, - j- 1040 “ Omitting all irregularities jin the subscrip tion for the 168 shares, the validity of some of which is evidently questionable—from the fact that from its uncertainty it would bind neither the principal nor theiagent—we pass to the main body of the same, where we find it is done as follows : I SAMR. BT ’WHOM TAKES. -BESIBZSCE, VO. Elizabeth Russel, Wells D. WalbriJge, attorney, uot known, 30. .Clara T. Griffin, ** 1 | “ 30. Sarah E. McDonald, “ ’ | “ 30. Mary A Schwendeman “ . I ’ a 30. Sarah Crano M “ 30. Cvntha L’ilot© “ , | • 30. '*-» M ♦Griffith** :j « J/r8 Margaret c , _ > 30. Caroline S. Tabor “ \ u 150. Lydia R. Walbridgc, <c > “ 80. Wells D.'Walbridgo, self, • Unffalo, 200. £dwanl E. Thayer, “ \ do. 200. J. Porter Bruwley, “ Mjcadville, Pa. 200, Of which amount of ICI4O shares sub scribed upon same day and: first instalment paid in, according to subscription book, no mention is made by lellerp- patent of 150 shares taken in name of Garbline S. Tabor. The letters patent, djawn tindouhledly from the return of the commissioners, s'ale that the number of shares taken was 1069 ; of this number, if twenty.five dollars per share was paid in, the amount would be'1|i26,725 as the capital stock of the bank. This amount, however, is reduced.somewhat, prob ably owing to the expenses ‘incidental to or ganization. ■ j At the time of the organization, there was paid, according ro the evidence of the Cash ier who was one of the commissioners, by them to the bank $27,310. | Of this amount in coin was $22,000, the balance being in 7 ’ k O bank notes of "State of Pennsylvania. The cashier slates the organization took place upon the 31st day of October, 1857. This was Saturday, whence board of direct ors was formed, but no election of officers held. The books were opened by one of the Thayers and the first fuur[enfries made in the discount book were made by them ; these discounts amount lo the sum of $20,155. The parties to whom the notes were thus discounted, either reside in( Buffalo, or their residence is unknown to the officers of the bank. ’ Subsequently officers of the Bank were se lected, and Mr. G. P. Steers, of Buffalo, as Teller. Ho stales lhat uponjhis taking charge of the Bank, there remained of the coin, but $15,647. Leaving a deficit[of $6,373, which amount must have been upon a dis count, or used in redeeming the notes paid out upon the discounts of the stockholders— which is but another napiej for the same thing. j The Teller states that the whole amount of discounts at present is j $69,034 55 Of which amount were,- Foreign, - $54,0(61 33 Domestic, - - 14,973 17 569,034 55 A list of ihe leading discounts sines (he or ganization of the Bank is herewith submitted : Drawer, Residence, Endorser, Residence, Amount, D P Nelson, unknown, C C McDonald, Buffalo, $5OOO 00 “ « *• ; • “ 500000 II P Thayer, Buffalo. Mecch,l unknown, 5877 50 W Meed), unknown, H P Thayer. Buffalo, 5077 50 R\V Rathhone, « CC McDonald, “ 500000 « “ “ }. • « 500001 R W Russel, Buffalo, WDWalbdidso “ 5000 00 Wm Brown, unknown, C C McDonald, “ 5000 00 WMeech, unknown} JVantJmycr, “ 8500 00 W Meech, * K S A N| Thayer, W M'eech, E S i N- Thayer, E S s i N’lrhaver, “ 6077 50 KTGraint, nnkn'n 800005 Gnnthe? & Stevens, Bnf. 7500 00 0 0 McDonald, Buffalo, 5000 00 LII Prajt, “ 1100 00 II P Thayer, Buffalo, W Meech, Buffalo, U P Thayer, Buffalo,' ! M Burton, Sandusky L II Pratt, Buffalo, WBWalbridgo, * Burton, Sandusky, Mating a total of - - ! -* . 89,06638 Of which amount the Teller states has bein paid, 35U*> 00 Leaving outstanding, - In this connection is '-submitted the ledger balance, as sworn to by the Teller up to June 34th, 1858, showing the present condition ol the affairs of the bank, as-the same appeared upon the books. I LIABILITIES. Capital Slock, 827,410 00 Bank notes, 94,000 00 Profit and loss, 2,240 00 Individual credit, 3,936 54 Ca rpenter & Vermilye, 199 53 R. F. Raby, 294 73 Thompson & Bro., . 530 04 i 8128,520 26 ASSETS.) Loss and expense, 84,654 58 Cash, " 3,556 13 ' Office notes, 50,875 00 Bills discounted, 69,034 55 Sundry banks, 150 00 John S. Dye, 850 00 I' 8128,520 26 j The Teller stales that the item of c k. notes counted as assets of the bank, bilfal of the bank on hand—redeemed otherwise ; that he was heretofore a resii? of Buffalo; is acquainted with Wells D, ft 7 bridge, R. W. Russel, W. Meech, D. C.'bJ; ton/the Thayers, Pratts and knows nothing about their means of abi'iii, that Lydia R. Walbridge is the wife of D Walbridge ; does not know H. Margaret G. Carr, Harriet M. White, Mj/S tha T. Carson, Alice E. Ganson, AllisonG t . 1 son, Jeannie T. Stebbins, or Harriett [VI That the Thayers and others, at divers have taken the bills of the bank, and dew? I ted in New York or elsewhere an eqjjil amount of specie or funds subject to the or I der of the bank ; that this has been doc el '| the amount of rising 826,000, which annum? could not appear upon the discount book, 1 The President, T. L. Baldwin, Esq,, so j 3 Cashier, J. W Guernsey, Esq., aregen&l men of integrity and respectability, p erMjJ § highly esteemed by their neighbors and tij citizens of their vicinity; but as sane art! exempt from the frailties ofhumaiu'ty, were strangely infected by the financial e-,'. I demic that broke out about that time; batsd timely action, complete prostration soil have ensued; They are now of opinion tbi> they are slowly recovering, and anticipated speedy convalescence. With complete ra. toration they hope for a goad name, tarmYnt! as slightly as possible, even though the; should be shorn of a portion of their worldh goods. Of Ihe nature and character of ilj business of the bank they are ignorant,- They know nothing of the residence, stand, ing, or ability of the outside stockholder debtors of the bank. The Cashier beings' the commissioners, is aware of the fact ti{ W. D. Walbridge and two of the Thayen. paid upon the subscription for themself Lydia R. Walbridge, Elizabeth S. R osa i Clara F. Griffith, Sarah E. McDonald, S-m'i Crane, Mary A. Schwendeman, Cymha Hole, Margaret M. Giifßn, and j, p or ( f , Brawley, and he knows of no money taken from the bank except a regular fc Count, or ordinary business transactions; ife; the plates of the' bank were ordered by Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Walbridge, in August,'j; Si-rned, P. C. GRITMAN, ) R. P. MILLER, s Com, OLIVER EVANS, ) [The affairs of the Crawford County ad Shamokin Banks being in a condition sin. lar to those of the Tioga County Bank.n append the following digest of their afisia which we find in the North American- Ed. Ag.] “The same parlies appear to have beenibe operators in the new bank of Crawford cos* ly.j To this concern, 1536 shares of sled were subscribed, of which 1210 werebyta Buffalo gang, and the rest by J. Porter Bar. ley;, as one of the same party, except awt forty-four shares. This subscription nt pajd in Tioga county bank notes being chla ly Ithe §20,155 discounted at the orginizaita oE that concern, except about §5OO paid it specie. The bank has a circulation of *3l,■ 05j|5 against §3,796 84 in gold and silver, and us discounts reach §127,917 50, of which $63,800 had been to parlies out of tte State. The Teller stales that he and the President at the same lime the engraving ol a plales for both this and the Tioga Cotttlj Bank. iThe Thayers again figure as the para taking the stock of the new Shamokin Bui, of which the whole subscription wasloS shares, while they and their associates toot 1520 shares. One of the Thayers setud (or all the stock subscribed by persons not®- siding in Shamokin, and paid no moneys' cept §7OOO in gold and $28,000 in nolesi the Tioga and Crawford counties’ banks- Immediately upon the organization of a bank, the hooks show that §41,015 M a discounts were granted to J. Jackson,ofbtt York city, and Underhill & Lockhart, 000 being in one item to Jackson. The » dorsers of these notes nre J. W. Dates and R. R. Underhill, while the Teller at i bank is Robert Underhill. The circuit® amounts to §26,460 and the cash to $3372® The cashier, David A. Robinson, font®! oft Buffalo, explains that the money pt'l l as capital stock of the bank. A pet* 1 named Street, on pretence of being a raffl* mdans, who. intended subscribing 810,0M 1 the slock pf the bank, was entrusted §20,000 to arrange a system of excbt~3 with the banks of western Pennsylvania,- stqpd of which he appropriated the monif' hii own uses, but was afterwards arrest and compelled to disgorge. J. Jackson,** figures as a principal operator in this W* l alleged himself to be worth 19,400, "i**® investigation turns out to be moonshine 1 R. Robinson was another of the wire-’ 11 ' 1 ' ers in this institution, and appears at l * parly to whom the discounted transferred on check. About $2OOO ot; ! bills of the Shamokin Bank were obutf from it by Robinson, and used to pay ’hest 1 instalment of a subscription of slock by** in the McKean County Bank. Ho* money was procuted does not appear, W l . was not by discount, as it was to be tew* to the bank. « 8500 00 « 5233 88 Among the persons acting with ers, and belonging to the Buffalo party® these banks, were VV. Meech, several Ganson, C. H. Payne, and M. C These appear again in the slock subscPr to the Bank of Phcenixville, which ha $53,91138 organization taken place, would ha' ei 1200 shares taken by Buffalo and vio 198 to Phcenixville, Some of these sab s lions to the amount of 1000 shares » 51 ken for others by parlies who only powers of attorney to subscribe 500 5 They altered the figures at the lime » scribing. The first payment on t“ B ' was made in notes of the Tioga which was objected to by the comm' and an investigation ensued, ending ■ subscriptions being declared bogus, an drawn, A startling revelation is made by l mitlee relative to the bank nolBr f^ , , ts Proof seems to have been afforded of these publications are regular sheets, which quote banks in g°° • j standing according as the conductor 5 Letters and circulars are describe sent to banks, requiring imtncdw
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