ProW Ac Charleston Mercury, Tlic Ltcconiplon Cotlslilulion Re- JecteU. II appears now 10 be certain that the Le compton constitution* together with the land ordinance, is rejected by the people of Kansas nt the polls held last Monday. We suppose the controversy, whether the Lecompton con stitution was or was not submitted by the Conference bill to the vote of the people of Kansas,' now end. It could not be re jecicd if it was not submitted. It is rejected mid dead ; but the agitation which it has oc casioned istW dead with it. A new issue arises from its ashes ; Shall Kansas be ad mitted as a free State at the approaching Congress, despite the provisions of the Con ference act I The postponement of the ad. mission of Kansas into the Union until she obtains the population which a member of Congress represents, was to allow the South another chance to win this Territory. If the admission of Kansas is postponed, the beg. gaily and torrupl elements of population thrown into Kansas by the emigrant aid so cieties of the Northern States would in a short time disappear or be driven out of the Territory ; whilst the more sober and eoer getto pro-slavery population of the western couAlies of Missouri might enter it, and with tlto decline of excitement by time obtain the mastery in Kansas. Whether this result shall very probably be realized or not, this was ihe consideration offered to the Somh in the Conference act. It will now be taken tip at the North and become the leading sub ject of popular agitation. We cannot doubt the result before the people of the North. With such men as ihe Hon. Thomas Corwin, now a lender of the Black Republican parly in Ohio, Douglas in Illinois, and Forney in Pennsylvania, we look for nothing short of a pretty unanimous determination from that section of the Union to be shown by the coming elections, to force Kansas into the Union with a free Stale constitution at the approaching session of Congress, Bui what will Ihe Democraiic parly from ihe North in Congress, «hich supported the Conference bill, do? What will the administration— what will the South do, in the approaching session of Congress? Will the Democratic party stand true to its pledges, and will the South insist on their fulfilment? or will both give way, and defeat and surrender be again thn policy of 'ho Souih? The time was wli'Mi lo ask such quesiions would have been ron'idered to he as slanderous as it was in stilling. But tint time Js passed.for the South. That high spiiil which actuated our fathers to fight through a revolution for an abstract principle, we tear is gone. VVe have fallen tiro the policy of expediencies, and lo sub mit In spoliation and aggression is the part of a vaunted patriotism. Although experi cnce has shown us that by every concession wb have weakened the Democra'ic parly, strengthened abolitionism, and ripened sec tionalism'at the North—although the plainest dictates of reason show, it appears lo us, that this must be the case from the nature of things ; yet to yield our rights .is still the sa gacious policy of a vast portion of the people of the South. The Union does not deter the Northern people from aggressing upon us, but it deters us from resisting them ; it does not slay the fiend of abolition from seeking to seize Ihe government to overthrow the institution of slavery, but it deters us from seeking lo break from their hostile fra lernity. It is their mighty instrument for sectional agitation, and aggression, and con-' quest; yet we look to it as worthy of our highest affection and essential to our safety. Many have just proclaimed, after a fever ish agitation of five months in Congress, that a halcyon peace is brooding over us ! The Kansas issue is ended ! The South is tri umphant! All hail I let us go lo sleep! When lo! the hydra head of abolition ' springs up anew. Kansas is rejected from the Union—the South is defeated ; and with an anti-slavery constitution Kansas is lo be forced into the Union, despite the provisions of the Conference Act. Darkly the Presi denlial election looms up before us, shrouded in clouds and tempests. With the Demo cratic parly now divided in Illinois and almost all the Northern States where it makes any contest—with probably a still greater division at the next session of Congress, when the South sha(( insist upon the fulfilment of its faith in the Compromise act—what hope can there be of an issue in the Presidential elec tion favorable to the Democratic party or the South? jVill not Black Republicanism be installed to power in Washington # by the next Presidential election ; and thus that con summation take place which, throughout the South, has heretofore been regarded with great unanimity as the funeral knell of the Union I For our part we have, for some time past, looked to the mastery of the general govern ment by the abolitionists to be just as sure to take.place as any other event morally certain in the course of human affairs. The whole history of the country for the last twenty or thirty years points to (his result as inevitable in the usual course of things. The South could, ere the battle was fought and won, have broken up the deadly sequence of effect from cause which was rolling over her destinies; but she has failed to interpose for her protection, and now no mortal efforts within the Union, in our judgment, can ar rest the triumph of abolitionism in seizing the government. It may be propitiated and postponed, as the man pursued by wolves arrested their attacks by throwing one child after another out of his carriage—but the wolves overlook and devoured him at last. The Philadelphia banks have finally con eluded lo obey the law which requires them to take the bills of other banks of this State at par. Instead of paying them out again, they use them lo run the country institutions for specie. One day last week the Farmers and Mechanic’s Btnk presented 530,000 in notes at the Honesdale Bank fur redemption. The redemption was made. The object of this movement is to force the interior banks to keep a large proportion of their available means on deposit in city vaults. So far as the Honesdale Bank is concerned, we conjec ture the object will not be realized. The Bank here is not in a hurry to have its means locked up whenever it shall suit the necessi ties of the Philadelphia banks aggin to sus pend specie Dcm. THE AGITATOR.! HI. H. Cobb, Editor & Proprietor. WELLSBOROUGH, FA. Tiinrsday ilornln;, Sept. 16,1555. All Baseness,and otherCommnnlcationsaiust be addressed!© the Editorlo insure attention. We cannot publish anonymous communications. Republican Nominations. For Congress , GALUSHA A. GROW, of Susquehana, For Assembly, L. P. WILLI ST OW, of Wellshoro’. LEWIS HAIVLr, of Coudersport Sheriff. SIMEON I. POWER , of Lawrence. For Commissioner , L. D. SEELEY, of Brookfield. For Auditor , JAMES I JACKSON, of Delmar. ET Sec New Advertisements. Such as would like a bit of the veritable Atlantic Cable can purchase it at Smith & Richards 1 . It is estimated that about 4000 people assembled in this town to witness the Circus on Monday. The moral of the affan, as usual, was drunkenness and profanity—the latter ouUHeioding Herod. Mr. J. Rioerolle is building a large Tannery at the foot of Main-st., on the Cfiarleston road. The work is progressing under the direction of Mr.Cuß tis Culver. It is his maiden effort and reflects much credit upon his skill and ability. Burr. 11 There is no such name on our books. We do not advise you to edit a paper; that is, If you desire to enjoy the luxury of occasional aches and pains without furnishing a diagnosis of your ailments (o every other man yon meet. Grasshoppers. —These pests seem likely lo outdo the locusts in their ravages hereabout. Mr. Robert Campbell, of Delmar, informs us that he sowed II varieties of tnrneps Ibis season, and that tile grass, hoppers first stripped the leaves and arc now eating the root lie loses the entire crop. The Republicans and Americans did not effect a fusion at Syracuse last week. The Tribune thinks the lime is not come for a fraternal union of the twain. It thought differently two weeks ago; but defeat is a powerful sanitary agent, a grand correct ive. It is la bo a quadrangular fight in New York. Better than fusion. The Harmoniums. —This Troupe gavel two Con certs in the Court House, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of last week, lo full and appreciating hou ses. Tbeir songs are well selected and their execu tion chaste and artistic. They made a gmid im pression upon litis community, not more by their musical talent titan by their deportment. They re turn, by invitation, to give two entertainments si the Court House on the first and second nights of the Fair. Wc bespeak full houses for them. Fire. — lV». A. Douglas, Esq, of Clymcr, in forms us that a barn, containing 50 tuns of bay and a quantity of grain, the property of Mr. George 0. Bristol, of that township, was burned lo the ground on Thursday of last week. It was set on fire by twolitlle boys who were playing with matches. Mr, Bristol's loss is 51,.100. He had struggled on against wind and tide for years, and only to witness the destruction of bis available means in a single hour. Such are the vicissitudes of life, disciplinary no doubt, but hard to endure. The Comet. —A comet, appearing in brilliancy as a star of the 2d magnitude, Is now visible in the early evening about 5 degrees above the horizon in the northwestern heavens. It is about 10 deg. SVV of the Great Bear. The tail is variable, ranging from two to four degrees in length. It is doubtless the long expected comet of 1556, whose second ad vent was predicted to take place ten years since. We have seen no announcement of this visitor yet; but, in company with a friend, we have been watch ing it since Salnrday evening, at which lime wc first saw it. Fatal Accident! —Sorrowfully do we chronicle the brief particulars of a distressing casually, by which • Ida, eldest child of Mr. Andrew Growl, of tills borough, came tp her death lust Saturday. She led home on Friday in charge of some relatives re siding in Bradford county, and while descending a hill in Smilhfield, the horses became unmanageable and ran away, throwing the occupants from the car riage and injuring all more or less severely. Ida was taken up insensible, in 'which stale she lingered until Sunday morning when her gentle spirit look wing for the Belter Land. The body was brought to the suddenly bereaved and sorrowing parents on Monday. Ida was one of those quiet and womanly children whom to see is to love. She was a woman at the age of four years, quiet, unobtrusive, yet not averse to the innocent sports and pastimes of childhood. She is taken in the morning of her youth and beau ty, and tier vacant piace will wring the hearts in which her sweet face will never grow old; bullet the bereaved be comforted in the knowledge that she has escaped the possible ills, the bitter sorrows and the buffeting* of an existence chequered at the best. t( Divide and Conqncr.” This is the watch-word of the Buchanan party in this county—as, indeed, it is in every other county where that party is in a hopeless minority. We said 41 a hopehss minority that is the fuel. The friends of James Buchanan arc in a hopeless minority in this county. They hope to create di visions in the Republican ranks and thus inaugurate a movement to give (he county to Slavery in 1860. They do not expect to elect a single man on their ticket this fall; the leading men of that party have altogether too much penetration to harbor such vis ionary hopes. They hope lo create dissensions and jealousies in our midst, and that is the length and breadth of the matter at present. They cannot accomplish this without help from men in our ranks. They have inspected our forces, and out of 5000 men have induced two to lend them selves to the work of disorganization. Those two are probably guiltless of any design lo peril the in* tegrily of the Republican party or the cause of Free dom in becoming the instruments of James Buch anan; charity suggests that much in their behalf; but charily does not conceal from us the naked f-icl that, notwithstanding the Innocence and guileless, ness of these men, they are sacrificing themselves on the altar of James Buchanan's pleasure.. They are not offered up as martyrs to a great principle. They make no pretensions of that kind that wc know of. Their right to go over to Buchanan in fact, if not in spirit, is undisputed—Justus tbe right to shoot one a sclfi under certain circumstances, is undisputed; just as a noble Roman had a right to leap into the abyss that opened in the Forum (if he did) to appease the gods aud save Rome. We do THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOHr^ not quarrel with men who honestly differ with os in opinion. At the same time 1 , we judge men by their acts— counting every man a foe who operates against the cause dearest to every true friend of human rights. A brother would find no political favor at our hands except he stood actively and uncompromisingly op posed (o the present wicked Administration. H* he came up under the auspices of that power we should fight him with every wcappn known to honorable warfare ; if he scaled the defences of Freedom we should meet him there aad hurl him down, though the fall should render him a political cripple forever » and it we found him entangled as Jo&b found Ab salom, even as the great captain dealt with the rebel prince would we deal with that brother, la this life-ballle will) Slavery all who labor for its over throw are brothers; all who directly or indirectly sustain that hateful wrong, either by voice, vote, or example, are enemies, to be opposed wherever and whenever they solicit favor at the ballot-box. Republicans, they who strive for the emancipa tion of this unhappy land can listen to but one I watchword : “STAND FIRM AND CONQUER!** We must march op to the work with an unbroken front. Personal considerations must be buried'be yond the hope of resurrection. The ministers of Wrong arc always active. They will leave no stone unturned, no means untried to distract and weaken our forces. We do not find fault with that party by any means; for if it can break our ranks it has an undoubted right to do so by all honorable means. If it can induce heretofore Republicans la aid in the work of disorganization, so much the belter (or Air. James Buchanan and his party in 1860. That par ty is but following in the footsteps of all minorities and who shall blame its leaders 7 If they can coax Republicans into an indirect endorsement of the Ad. ministration, the blame must rest with the men so wheedled. We shall take care that such us support that ticket shall do so with open eyes. Nor shall we presume to hold any terrors over those who in cline to scratch any name on the Republican ticket. We shall stale the case so fairly that none can find the shadow of an excuse for leaving the ranks, olh er than this : that personal influences have overmas tered the love of Freedom in their heails; and the men who would peril the cause for such slight rca* son, ore not* we suspect, very nuiherous In our ranks. We ask our friends to look at this matter, not as endangering the success of the ticket this (all, for no candid Republican fears ony such result; but us having an important bearing upon the vole of Tio. ga in iB6O. Ills fir this end that the Buchanan parly are laboring. They hope to breed feuds, local and personal, which shall develop into irrcconcila ble factions crc the country shall again be aroused into action for a Presidential campaign. Will you assist them 7 The following is the u Independent” Buchanan county ticket as it stands at present: ■ For Sheriff" —John W. Bailey, of Charleston. For Assrmbly —A.'J. Munroc, of Knoxville. Commissioner —Calvin Reynolds, of Sullivan. Mr. Munroc is a bolter from the Republican nom. inalion for Assembly. As he did not ask for the nomination in the Convention which nominated Mr. VVilliston, wc are led to infer that he has taken his present position in order to teach the Republican party that it cannot Ignore modest merit with im punity. Mr, Munroc is quite correct. It will not do to overlook merit* Conventions deserve such rebukes from such men ; he Is quite correct, because his former associates will know his exact value from this lime forth, Mr. Munroe was once elevated to the place be now covets by the merest accident, and his present posilioh reminds us of a little circum stance which came under our observation during early boyhood : It- chanced that some half-dozen boys and girls, including ourself were on the way to “ meeting” one fine Sunday morning, when one of the girls espied a little roll of paper lying in the sand. It turned out quite a prize—no less than three bank notcs/reprcscnling SI, each. A trifling waif, indeed, but a fortune in the eyes of children to whom a dime seemed as large as a dollar docs a t present; and each of the six went to bed that night j to dream of great rolls of banknotes lying scattered j along the road by the •* Sandy and notone of the \ number passed the lucky spot for a year thereafter | without a close scrutiny of every foot of the sands, I each expecting to find a three dollar prize. Vain j hopes! (Moral: Lightning seldom strikes twice I in the same place.) ! Mr. Reynolds, we have good reasons for believ- ! ing, has been put on the hunker ticket without his consent, lie too good a min to be sacri ficed for the furtherance of the shallow schemes of ihc Buclianecr democracy. Nor do we think he in* tends to do aught of the kind. Thb truth is, there is no such dissatisfaction icilh Republicans touching the ticket as is represented by the Buchanan party. From all quarters we hear this significant report: “ There are Jive democrats dissatisfied with the ticket for each Republican so minded.” It is so in VVellsboro, in Charleston, in Dclmar and in every corner of this region. We have conversed with many from those districts in which the greatest disaffection is alleged to exist; and have yet to find the man who will not support the Republican nominations. Correspondents. —We assure our friends in va rious parts of the county that their communications always give us pleasure, whether we chance to dis agree with them as to the importance of the infor mation imparted, or otherwise. One, who had not received the Agitator of last week at the dale of writing, resurrects the Beef Question and Mr. John W. Bailey’s claims to the Sheriffalty, as founded on the payment of increased prices for cattle this year, market value considered. We repeat—that is his concern, not, ours. He rows his own boat; if he has dealt more liberally with farmers this year than ordinarily, every man must be his own Judge as to the w Why.” We recognize wisdom in the remark made by a friend a day or two since, to the effect that, if Beef Bigler defeated Fremont, it is barely possible that the Beef Question may damage Mr. Power. We do not think Beef Bigler defeated Fremont. Another snys that Mr. Bailey is running as a Know-Nothing in Union township, and wants to know if he is a member of that Order. We know nothing whatever as to what Order Mr. Bailey be. longs to, outside the •* Independent Order of Lc complon,” of which he is a member in good stand ing. If he is rnnning as a Know-Nothing, we can not help it; it is no business of ours. Another says that Mr. Bailey’s friends advocate his election on the ground that he is a moneyed man whereas his opponent• is only a well-to-do farmer; and therefore people should vole for Mr. Bailey, be. cause he could lend distressed people money. We apprehend that Sheriffs think less of satisfying judg ments against Tom, Dick and Harry, os Sheriffs, than as candidates . We do not believe he author!- zca his friends to make promises; if he does, he is possessed of less discretion than we had given him credit ibr. Another says that & minister, of the Methodist persuasion, has been advocating Mr. Bailey’s claims on the ground of bis. being a ’ Republican. Well, that may go down with some people. The minister who represented Mr. Bailey as being other than a modern democrat of the deepest dye, should be po litely requested to preach from a certain text In the Apocalypse. Mr. Bailey always supports the pro. slavery ticket and is a Postmaster to boot. That is proof enough of his orthodoxy. Hon. G. A. Grow.— Tliis'gcnllcmon is again the unanimous choice of the Republicans of ibis Dis trict as their Representative in Congress. He has ably filled that post for four consecutive terms and has won honorable distinction as a champion of Freedom, fidelity to business and readiness in debate*. That he has won the confidence and respect of his constituents, his re-nomination is a sufficient guar antee. Amid the clamor got up by the enemies of the cause we advocate, touching M the rights of Tioga county,"—we have remained a silent listener; part ly because we had no desire to aid our enemies in creating divisions in our ranks, and partly because we bad confidence enough in the inleliigence'of the people of Tioga county to believe they would insist upon a recognition of their rights whenever it should become a matter of principle so to do. We consider it our duly to refrain from meddling with caucuses and other preliminary meetings in which the claims of candidates are examined by the people-leaving them to decide for themselves whom they will honor and whom they will not. Our democratic friends care nothing for the “ rights of Tioga county ;** it is their intention to break in upon the ranks of the parly, and tills is one of the wires which they will maneuver. We come up to the support of Mr. Grow cheer fully, yet not more cheerfully than will the masses in October. We shall labor (or him earnestly, for the reason that he has stood firmly for Freedom in the hour of its great trial, faithful when others fal tered and slunk away. He has proved hirnsell the workingman’s friend, ally and advocate, in bis per sistent effort to secure the public lands from the in satiable lust of speculators, and for this be deserves and should receive, not only the vole, but the grati tude of every laboring man. Narrow Escape. —Mr. R. P. Bottles, of Mans field, in this county, called on us one day last week, s-iying that he had a humiliating confession to make, of which vve might make such use as we might think proper. As it contains a moral of sterling value, we give it very nearly in his own words ; said he: “ I have resided in this county nineteen years, and during that lime have never taken a county pa. per. Twelve years ago, or thereabout, 1 lost 810 on the sale of 20 bushels of wheat—selling it for $l, when the market value was 81,50. Hud I taken a paper this would not have happened; and this loss would have paid ten years* subscription to a paper. About a year ago, a piece ol properly was advertis ed at Sheriff’s sale, against which, 1 held liens am ounling to $2OO. Friday evening next preceding' Tuesday, the duy ol sale, a neighbor called to ask if 1 were aware the properly was advertised. This was the first intimation of the fact to me; and by strenuous efforts I succeeded 5n raising funds suffi cient to secure my claim, just in rime. This came of not taking my home paper. If it is not too late to mend, I am determined to avoid these losses in future. Here is the dollar—send me The Agitator. 1 * Wc assure Mr. Buttles that, while a hundred men have erred as deeply as himself, scarcely one has sufficient moral courage to so frankly and fully con* fesa his error and reform as he has done. To such we say—“ Go yc, and do likewise I” The October No, of Godcy’s Magazine lias some exceedingly fine representations of the Miracles, on steel. If it were possible, we should, say that the present number outshone all its predecessors. It can be hud of Smith & Richards. meeting; of Congressional Con- ferecs. At a meeting of the Con r erees of ihe 14th Congressional District, held at Towanda, Sept. 7. 1858, present, G. F. Mason and M. C. Mercur, of Bradford county, and D. R, LatiiroP and S. A. Woodruff, of Susque hanna county. On motion, Col. G. F. Mason was called to the chair, and D. R, Lathrop appointed Secretary. On motion of M. C. Mercur, the follow ing resolution* were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That in accordance with the unanimously expressed wish of the Counties we represent we present to the freemen of ihe I4th Congressional District for re-election, our present distinguished Congressman Hon v GALUSHA A. GROW. . • Resolved , That his past able and fearless course, merits the support of every voter in ibis district. Resolved, That we boldly unfurl our ban ner to the breeze, inscribed—no extension of Slavery into Territories once free, and for the revision of the present inadequate tariff, sufficient to raise the money necessary for the expenses of government, discriminating so as to give ample protection to all the great industrial interests of our Slate and Nation. Resolved , That the wickedness and imbe cility of the National Administration as evinced in its Kansas policy, and the unpar ale I led extravagance and conception in the collection and disbursement of public monies merits and will receive the unqualified con demnation of the freemen of this district. G. F. MASON, Prest. D. R. Latiirop, Secretary. We the undersigned Congressional Con ferees on Ihe part of Tioga Co, being unable to meet the Conferees of the district at To wanda on the 7ih insl., do hereby approve the proceedings of said Conference and fully concur in its action. G. W. Stanton. Vine De Poi. Attempt at Murder and Robbery.— We learn, says the Bmghamlon Republican, from a reliable source that a man by the name of Mayo was recently reluming from Lanesboro, having in his possession aboul $/20, and arriving wilhin sight of home, he was knocked down, and robbed of the whole amount. The villains then threw him over the fence where he remained insen sible for some time, but finally succeeded in crawling to a house near by. We learn that the physicians in attendance pronounce him out of danger. The perpetrators of this outrage are not known. Farm Lands for Sale 25 Miles From Philadelphia by Railroad in the State of New Jersey. Soil among (he best for Agricultural purposes, being a good loam soil, with a clay bottom. The land is a large tract, divided into small farms, and hundred from all parts of-the country are now settling and building. The crops can be seen growing. Terms from $l5 to $2O per acre, payable within four years by instalment. To visit the place Leave Vino St. Wharf at Phiia. at 7$ A M. by Railroad for Hammonlon, or address R. J. Byrnes, by letter. See full advertisement in another column. Horrible Corn ty Pa. —The Valley Spirit sfrya.: On Sun day evening last, two brothers, himed David and Daniel Funk, who reside on-a- fprm about one mile from the town of Waynesboro’, in this county, perpetrated a deliberate and cold-blooded murder on a man; by the name of John Osburn, a shoemaker by trade. It appears, according to the rumor t s which have reached this place, that Osburn, who is an old man and a cripple, resided as a tenant on Funk’s /arm, and was in ihe hdbil of oblain ing (he water used in his family ; irom a spring near the residence of the Funk s. At this spring there is a spring-house! from which several articles, such as are usually found in places of the kind, had been purloined. The Funks blamed Osburn and his sons for com mitting the thefts, and forbade; him or them to visit the spring, although allowing his wife and daughters to do so. On Sunday morn ing, Ihe old man Osburn visaed the spring as usual. The Funks ordered him off but he refused to go unlit he obtained water. They then to shoolj him, but the gun would not go off after snapped at him several times. The Funks, anticipating Osburn’s re*urn to the spring] made prepara tions for his reception. They jdrew the load out of the gun and, reloaded itlafresh with a of buckshot. In the evening, about 4 o’clock, Osburn returned to the spring And the Funks salliedjout to attack him. Dave struck him a seveije blow on the head with a stone, and Dan j the younger brother, fired the contents of the gun into his side a little above the hip.) } Osburn died during the night from the | effects of the wound received. Some formyl or fifty shot penetrated his side and hip.i *The blow re ceived on his head it is also!thought would would have been sufficient loj cause death. Osburn leaves a wife and several children. The Funks are both married- men. They were arrested at Waynesboto* on Monday and brought to this place. ah|d! committed to jail to await their trial at the next term of our Court. | |T Where to Operate. —gentleman, noted for his humor, traveling in a stage coach in New England, in;company with severaUclergvmen, the conversation turned upon (he “nigger queslion. '* One of Ihe clergymen inveighed strongly against the Abolitionis's for agitating the subject in the Northern Stales, where no S ajvery is lolera-' ted. “if Garrison wants to attack the evil,” said he, “why does he not gpjwhere he can make some impression upori it—where it exists 1 Why does he squirt! His little engine at a fire which is blazing a: thousand miles off?’’ The reverend gentlernan chuckled heartily at this sally, and looked around with a triumphant air lo the numerous gentleman, as he sat in silence upon the [front seat, and asked him “what he thought about “You 0601)61060,” said he* “appear ~to be clergymen. Y’our business! s to do bailie against sin, and io oveithrow Satan’s king dom. Now, if that is your bbject, why do you slay among decent, Christian people! W(iv, in the devil’s name,' don't you go to hell T’ ‘ i I A most daring and wicked robbery, as we learn from the Bradford Argus was commit ted a few miles above that'place, on Monday afternoon last. A shanty sifuated near the Sugar Creek Aqueduct, and 1 owned by an Irishman named Kangley. waslentered during the afternoon, in the absened of Mr. K., by two men v disguised and masked. There was no one in the shanty at the time except Mrs. K., who is qui'e old,and a smpll boy. After strangling the woman, gagging and lying the boy, they proceeded to search the premises, expecting no doubt, to findja considerable amount of money, which Kangley was known to have had a few days before'.. Fortunately, however, he bad deposited the most of it in the Banking House of Laportd, Mason & Co., so that the villains only got Sl2 75, in money. A certificate of deposit of &130, and a note of S6O, which they also took, will be of no value to them. { A man named Oziah Ferguson, has been arrested on suspi cion of being one of the robbers, but at the time we go to press, has not {rad a hearing. A Desperate Gang of thieves, counter feiters, house-burners and plunderers has b p en broken up in our neighboring village of Wellsville, N. Y. Eight of them have been arrested and confined in thje Allegany Co. jail. Their names are David C. Way, Reu ben M. and John W. Garrisnjn, Jay B. Luth er, Hiram Conderman, WhiJr. Powell, Am erica Havar and Thompson Richardson the last named being charged with setting fire to the village of Westfield recently. Two oth ers named Smith Wood anti James Powell, escaped. John W. Garrison turned State’s evidence—both of the name belong in West field, Tioga Co. Pa., where|Powe)l and Ha var were arrested after a desperate encounter. Richardson was arrested near Ellisburg. in this county, where he was pecreled six feet under a hay mow. —Potter 'Journal , The editor of the Savannkh News thinks that Cassius M. Ciay is doling a vast injury to the South, and advises'lhat he'bo driven across Mason and Dixon’s) line.*. Well we shall not object to his being thus driven,'but surely the Savannah editor piusl see that it would be unmanly for a molj to turn out for the driving of a single man.! If that gallant and fiery Georgian will qnly come and tackle “Cash Clay” single-handed, we assure him there shall not be the slightest inetefer ence to prevent his driving the offender across the line and whipping him all the way to Boston. Alay we announce when the little affair will come off?—Xo«, Jour . Too True.—The Recorder of Chicago, 111., in charging the grand jury recently said :—“During the past five years that 1 have held this court it has been my unpleas ant duly to try and sentence to the state prison several hundred persons ; and I am sorry to say that while it is an easy matter to find jurors who are ready and willing to punish poor offenders without position” or friends, it is with great difficulty lhat jurors can be found who gppreciiale the, fad that one bad man of position add wealth can do more harm than one hundred poorlmen can, "ho are in the humble walks of life.” ' ©u* ©omason&ence. Letter from Potter County. ' Cocdbbspobt, Pa. Sepi. 4th, 1855 Fbiend Cobb: In an editorial in the tutor of the 2d inst., I notice that you spS of Lewis Mann, Esq., the nominee of p o[ ter County for Representative, as haiin “abandoned the democratic party when that parly abandoned Its principles.” Please a[ low me to say to the Republicans of that Mr. Mann never was identified with the democratic party, and never professed to lieve in democratic principles. On the con, trary, he was an ardent admirer and zealoy supporter of Henry Clay, and was alw S tj an advocate of the leading measures of ifo, great statesman. The Potter Journal in M , ticing his nomination speaks of him as f o |, lows: “Lewis Mann, Esq., the candidate [ ot Assembly, is well known as a merchant ii this place, and his popularity as a citizen a beyond all question. In 1844 he was a egg. didate for Assembly in this district, then con. prising (he counties of Lycoming, Clinton and Potter. He was run by the Whigs, ajj was beat by but 1500 voles—the usual Detj. ocratic majority in the district being 3000- and which gave the democratic State ticks a-majority of 2300 at the same election 1- The democratic majority in the Boro wji some 40 voles, and he had a small majoriu, In 1848 he was a Whig candidate for the Wisconsin Legislature in a democratic da trict, and after .canvassing the district wrs his opponent, the result was a -tie vote;t second election was held, when he decline] canvassing the district again-, and was beaten by about 30 votes. We give the aboveonlj in evidence of his popularity—his election being now morally certain. He is a first rals parliamentarian, conversant with the varied interests of the County and Stale, and n “every inch a man”. ” We have a “ Northern Democrat"here with southern principles. The adramaira. tion has started an organ here to kelp a. elect Allison White—the man whodidnot pay the printer for his tickets the lasi time he was a candidate and has not paid him yet, and who voted for Lecompton against it* wishes of nine-tenths of people in l,s district. There arc not fifty men in ife county who will vote for him, if they knei the facts. I think I am justified in savin; that of 2000 voters in this county not fifty <of them approve of Buchanan's course m the Kansas question. Potteb. ©omimmtcatCona, At a meeting of the citizens of Richmond and arfioining townships on Grove Island, J. was called to the chair, Mr.A. M. Spencer Free President, and Albert Sher wood and R. P. Buttles Secretary. The meeting was first addressed by V. A. Elliott, of Charleston, in an able manner, and followed by Prof. D. P. Lindsley (Teach er of the Academic School in Mansfield; whose remarks were able and filling to the occasion. The closing speech was com menced by N. F. Handy, Esq., but beforefe had closed the audience were happdr sur prised by the appearance of S. B. E-holt, Esq., from the People’s College (now in course of construction at Havanna, X. V.) who after great exertion had succeeded in reaching the meeting before its close,and was warmly greeted at the stand, where fce addressed the meeting in an able and inter esting manner. After intermission the meeting was agata .called to order, and Mr. I. R Spencer called to the stand, who made some able and inter- remarks upon ihe subject of Common Schools. He was followed by Daniel Clats, in a few words much to the purpose. Wm. G. Ripley was next called to® stand, and spoke much to ihe gratification® 1 the friends of the M. C. Seminary, and followed by-Hon. D. L. Sherwood, in s® l2 eloquent and practical remarks suited to the occasion. R, P. Buttles ) g A. Sherwood j Mansfield, Sept. 4, 1858. Qualifications for a Member of Co* cress.—lst. He should be a man of go®i moral characier, without that he will have ® moral power, no mailer how lof y his aiuu ments, how great his lalents or overwhelm' ing his eloquence. 2d. He should be a man of superior in®' led ; in a word, he should represent >* brains as well as the politics of his A fool or a mediocre man even, is notf” 1 legislate for thousands of constituents. 3d. He should he a man of literary ®’* and cultilre. An uneducated man come a laughing stock in Congress, aniU'to poor Foley, if he speaks, the mercilesscn'id will sneer at him, and if he writes, his lers will be “mucilated.” 4 h. He should be a man of pluck, like Grow will defend himself when assaults and without acting the part of a bully, doh.s duly faithful Iy at all hazards. “A curse l3 all cowards I say.” , sth. He should be a man chosen byl people, and not thrust upon them by. tricks* fraud. - . 6th. He should be a man who has do pfc sonal habits to stand between him nnd duty to his constiiuenls. A fast m ao ’ drunkard, an extortioner are not proper® to go to Congress. , 7lh. He should be a man unincumb-" with debt. It is dangerous lor men in ds go where they may be templed with brit® 5, Bth. He should be personally popular. —G. W, Bungay's Independent, Then and Now.—Six months agoi [ interesting to know who supported ana opposed Lecompton. tc Now. it is interesting and import lo know who support, and who oppose L® toniles. . y Lecompton is not before the the Lecomptonites are. Lecompton “ a 3. w disposed of. The Lecomplooites rem® be disposed of. . . .j c > The great measure of the Admin® f is a bygone. The Administration i |se living and present reality. sha The question now is, who sup? o Administration, and who opposes it ington Republic. For the Agiua:
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