From 'Washington.
The Homestead Bilh
Correspondence of the Ni Y. Tribune',
Washington, Feb. 1, 1859,
No doubt, ere this The Tribune has publish
ed and criticised the rote in the -House to-day
on the Homestead' bill." A few facts and sug
gestions may be valueless,-though they be
repetitions.’* c ’ v ' - - -
A bill like that which has just passed, was
introduced by Mr. Grow in the last Congress,
but was not definitively acted upon. The pre
sent bill was introduced-by him early last Sess
ion, and referred to the Committee on Agricul
ture. Owing to the time absorbed by Leoomp
ton, nothing was done in regard to it, Mr.
Kelsey, from the Committee on Agriculture,
now reported the bill back to the House, and it
was referred to the Committee of the Whole.—
To-day the vote by which it was so referred was
reconsidered. This brought it directly before
the House. Grow and its active friends decided
that they‘would put it upon its passage. On
his demanding the previous question on its
third reading, a tumult arose, and a variety of
riTort were' made to coax, and wheedle and
drive Grow to yield the floor,'so as to get in
amendments and dilatory motions. But he
kept a steady hand upon the tiller, determined
that the measure should ride out the storm in
safety if possible. Before the demand for the
previous question was seconded, Hughes (who
is always on the wing in foul weather,) moved
to lay the bill on the table. The Yeas and Nays
silenced his croaking, by the significant vote of
77 to 113, It now being evident that a large
majority of the House was favorable to the
measure, the attempt to swamp it by imprac
ticable amendments, and side-motions, was re
mewed, Keitt, and Maynard of Tennessee, try
ing their skill at this line of attack. But,
Grow held on firmly ; the demand for the pre
v ions question was seconded ; the main ques
tion ordered, and the hill read a third time.—
Grow now demanded the previous question on
its final passage. Ere it was seconded, Hum
phrey Marshall endeavored to overwhelm it
with questions of order. But, the Speaker
rulpd against him—“a sufficient number up,
and “there is a second"—“the Veils . have it,
and the “main question is ordered; “and now, |
“Shall the “bill pass?” Barksdale demanded i
lira Yeas’and Nays; and this benign measure,
laden with blessings to the industrious poor, j
safely, triumphantly passed the ordeal ; Yeas
120, Nays 7G. The victory was made sure by
the stereotyped formula of moving to reconsid
er, and lay on the table. Nothing remained
but the adoption of the title of the bill, on
which Grow calfed the previous question.—
Wright, of Georgia (the slaveholder died hard 1),
proposed to fillibuster about the j title. It was
too late. The title, under the operation of the
previous question, was adopted, and the good
day’s work was done 1
This vitally Democratic measure received the
votes of 82 Republicans, S Auti-Lecompton
Democrats, and 30 Lccompton Democrats.—lt
encountered the Nays of 1 Republican (thank
heaven, only one ’). 2 Anti-Lecompton Demo
crats, GO Lccompton Democrats, and IS South
Americans.
The single Republican who voted agalust it
was Matthias 11. Nichols of Ohio. The two (
hostile Ami-Lecompton Democrats wore Sam- i
uel S. Marshall and Aaron Shaw, both of lUI- ■
nols. Neither of these three gentleman is re-'
turned to tho=nest House. The sixty Lecomp
tun Democrats are composed of fifty-sis slave-:
holders and four doughfaces, to wit: KugUsh,
Hughes and Niblack or Indiana, and Leidy of
Dcnnsyh ania. The slaveholders voted against
it because they despise free labor, and the
doughfaces, because they lore to servo slave
holders, The South Americans voted against
the bid because it allowed aliens, who had only
declared their intention to become citizens, to
paitioipate in its benefits.
The State of New-York voted thus :
I'-r th* U.(l— Andrews, Bart. Burroughs, C. ft. Coch-an.
,Vih>i OMiran, Corning. Dodd. l:< nton, Good* In, Granger.
ILiskiu. Hatch. Hn.ird. Kelsey. MacUy. Mailc-un. Morjwni
M Muiraj, Olm. Palmer. Parker. Pottle, Uussel. ?i>in
r.r. <l, Taj lor and Ward—lS Krpuhlicans. 1 auti-Lecomp
toii Demuirstt and S Lecomptonite?—m iking 27.
—Jh ;)j \ Bennett, Horace F. Cla? k. .luhu A. Pearing
Jtvl-oa W. r-herman. Daniel E. Sickles and John ThonipMju
The “sectional” phase of the vote is as fol-
lows
th* Blit— Members from Slav& Slates, 3; Members
from Kr»*f»-Sf.Ui“». 117.
Aqruu'f ifn. ImH '—Members from Slave States. CO; Members
Jrum Five State-' 7^
Tbc sectional and political features of this
vote, speak volumes. Let us look back a little
In 1852, a Homestead bill passed the
The affirmative votes came, in about
wars.
House,
equal proportions, from the' Free and Slave
, States. This bill was not acted upon in the
Senate. In 1854, the House again passed a
Homestead bill. The votes in its favor came
from both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line;
but the Northern preponderance was consider
ably greater than two years before. This bill
was rejected by the Senate. Since then five
years have passed. And five such years *. The
Missouri Compromise repeal, the Kansas con
spiracies, the sublime \ote of the Free States
in 1850, and the Lecompton struggle, h.-nc 1
dearly defined the conflict between Free La
bor and Slave Labor.
Here, then, is a measure eminently “demo
cratic”—a measure specially and almost ex
clusively beneficial to that class of men of
which the Democratic party claims to be large
ly composed—the laboring poor—and yet, that
section of the Union whence the party draws
its chief strength, which went almost in a sdid
body for Buchanan, and on which it relies fur
future success, votes in unbroken column against
it. And, why ? Because, the Southern “Dem
ocracy/ 1 so called, is hostile to the hard hand
and sweating brows of Free Labor. It sneers
at free laborers, free lands, schools, free
speech, free presses and free men. It is an aris
tocracy, and despises the poor man’s “quarter
section/’ It is an olig.nrcl}3*, and points deris
ively at the “homestead,” the humble cabin of
the backwoodsman. And yet. eighteen months
hence, the sixty “Democrats,” who’to-day hissed
their contemptuous nays at a measure for the
relief of fhe-industrious poor, with their aiders
and abettors, North and South, coax and cozen
these same'poor to'bcstow their votes upon “the
regular Democratic” candidate for the Presi
dency. Well, he will get some of them; for
fouls and dupes are about as plenty as rogues
and hypocrites. But, retribution is coming,—
Ere long the South will need to cry—
••Whip* for the backs
Chains for the heels,
- Hooks for the nostrils of Democracy
Before it spurns
- A« well its feels \,
Th* riaing of tbo Aristocracy I w
As Out _Tl,o Rev. Mr. Locke,
of l.uvj'voot.;* Las in liis possession a
<‘*kajpUi.-.ter,'- issued ip j \ rj t | )B Bauk of
J-itttUirgb. ter bui and yjLCfvyrtb com,. - it
fvOi.d uouie tavy cart, eg*;, Uy
■ wpoii of Uic Simon itru.u. tiu-wyW'.,
iuid it oou&du-’cti quite a c^iriyait yPiaiwjUi*
2- JiXu BtdlcUn
THE AGITATOR.
HUGH YOUNG, Editor & Proprietor.
WELLSBOROUGH, PA.
Thursday morning, Feb. 10, ISS9.
All Business and other Communications must be
to the Editor to receive attention.
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most influential and largest circulating News-papers in the
United States and the Canadas. They are authorized to con*
tract for us at our lowest rates.
THE ''CN&mDSD.”
The Washington Slates, the acknowledged
organ of Douglas and his followers, startled the
‘undivided Democracy' a few evenings since, by
asking the vsry pertinent question, “Have we
a Democratic party among us V* When we re
flect with what blind devotion the members of
that party worship at the footstool of. Slavery ;
when wo reflect how necessary the complete"
unity of that organization is to the perpetuation
and spread of the institution, we are surprised
at the temerity of this editor (Pryor of Virgin
ia) in discussing a question which will tend to
distract still more the already forlorn and dis
tracted Democracy.
In summing up the differences, he finds that
in the great issues now before the country there
is not oven an approach to unanimity, James
Buchanan disagrees with Cass on the doctrine
of Squatter Sovereignty, and of course this is
a symbol of difference among the Democracy
of the country. Indeed the Washington Union ,
Buchanan's organ copies and approves an arti
cle from the Richmond Enquirer which scouts
this popular sovereignty doctrine as a political
abstraction, and urges the South to demand
Congressional legislation for the protection of
slavery in the territories.
On the question of a Pacific Railroad, the
States finds the President differing with the
Secretary of War. Again he is found differing
with members of his cabinet on the question of
Internal Improvements; and with the Secretary
of the Treasury on that important question, the
Tariff. All these divisions and many others
not mentioned, are but indicative of similar di
visions among the masses of the Democracy.—• j
No wonder then that a leading editor of that '
° i
party should ask the question, “Have wo a
Democratic Party among usand we think no
one will be surprised that in view of all this,
the Stales should be “obliged to announce the
“deliberate conclusion that there is now no
“ Democratic party in existence.”
Batin this conclusion we humbly beg leave
to differ with the Stales. There is yet a Demo-1
cratic party, and it. is still strong enough to ac- .
coinplish its work—the only work to which it
has devoted itself for the last ten years—-name
ly, the extension of slavery. There is no divis
ion in the party, so far as we know, on the grand
schemes of annexation and mational plunder
proposed by the President in his message, sim
ply because the result of the measures proposed
would be to benefit Slavery. Neither is there
any division in the devotion of the entire party
north and soutli to the sentiment embodied in
the Dred Scott'decision which nationalizes Sla
very and makes Freedom sectional. Nor have
we heard a murmur against the sham Democrat
ic sentiment of Buchanan, that slavery, under
i the constitution exists as firmly in Kansas as in
i Georgia or South Carolina.
Two weeks ago the Democracy in Congress
was found voting almost without division against
a beneficent measure intended to protect the in
dustrious settler against the rapacious specula-
and vve predict that should any measure
come before Congress affecting in any degree
the laboring classes as against the aristocracy—
whether the aristocracy be based on money,
lands or “niggers’—the Democratic members
will be found arrayed with but little division
of sentiment against the former. In another
column will be found an account of the passage
by the House last Thursday, of Mr. Grow’s
Homestead Bill, with an analysis of the vote on
the same. If the vote in the Senate on that
Bill docs not make good the above prediction,
we will be much surprised.
The New Eldorado.
A friend writes to us desiring information in
regard to the newly discovered gold mines in
Kansas. As a matter of information and in
terest to our readers, we have taken pains to
collate from the correspondence of the daily pa
per;?, from files of the Kansas Herald oj' Free*
dom, and other sources, a brief history of the
mines, and the success of those who have been
there.
In IS3G a French trapper na&ed Carrier,
was lost from his party and waildered about
through the country at the base of jPike's Peak.
He found specimens of gold which he took to
New Mexico. A party was formed there and
came back with him, bathe was unable to find
the same streams, whereupon the Mexicans
tied him up and whipped him severely, suppos
ing that he did not wish to disclose the location
of the gold.
The existence of gold in that region was
again discovered by a party of emigrants on
their way to California in 1851. A proposal
was made to stop, but as some of the emigrants
had their-families along with them, and as there
Was nothing to afford the means of shelter and
subsistence, the party went on to California.—
On arriving, they reported their discovery and
wtote to their friends in Arkansas. The late
troubles in Kansas not only prevented further
search during their occurrence, but at their
close hundreds of desperadoes were left with
nothing to do but to look up some other field of
operation. The infamous Col. Titus who had
amused himself by burning houses, stealing
horses and plotting assassinations and forays,
went first to Nicaragua; thence back to Kan
sas where he found it had grown remarkably
hot in his absence, so hot that he finally went
with a.few- loafing ruffiaos-r-the. dregs .of Bu
ford’s cup of glory—to Arizona, **Spme went
to California, others to Mormondom. A party
! Dorn Arkansas remembering the story of the
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
emigrants of 1851, went ;to Pike’s Peak to ex
plore for gold and were successful.
Such is the history of the discovery—a dis
covery which must inevitably give all thaf ter
ritory—one, two, and perhaps three States—to
Free:Soil and Free tabor.
Pike’s Peakes the abrupt colossal’telminik,
tion of .the mountain' promontory which,
trading eastward from the Cordillera for nearly
one hundred miles sunders from one another
the sources of the south Platte and the Arkan
sas rivers. The altitude of' the Peak is 14,-
500 feet above the level of the sea. Cherry
Creek is a branch of the South'Platfe, and it is
in the .Cherry Creek Valley where most of the
gold is found. Pike’s Peak is - in' latitude 30°
the same latitude as St. Louis and San Francis
co, and the distance from each of these cities is
miles. In the Cherry Creek valley
are immense forests of yellow and white pine,
also cherry and cottonwood. Game is exceed
ingly abundant—black-tailed deer, red deer,
elk, antelope, mountain sheep, black bear <tc.,
being found in all portions of the country; and
so plenty is it that the meat has no value, as
will be seen from an extract from a letter below:
Mr. Wynkoop —a brother of the late Col.
Wynkoop of Poltsville—states in the Atchison
(K. T.) Champion, that he left the mines Dec.
ilth and returned by the South Platte route.—
Ho says the average yield of gold dust to the
panful is ten cents. He has returned to ask
the Legislature now at Lawrence for a charter
for a company, of which he is a member, to
construct a canal from one of the mountain
streams through the “dry diggings” for the pur
pose of supplying the miners with water. The
canal will cost one million of dollars, but be
says the dirt taken from it will pay for the
work.
John Scuddeb writes to the St. Louis Repub
lican from a new city named Auraria, under
date of Nov. 24th. The city is laid out at the
mouth of Cherry Greet, a branch of the South'
Platte, and already contains 150 cabins and
COO inhabitants. It is 30 miles from Pit e’s
Peat which is in sight. There are about 1200
miners in the Cherry Creek valley. Average
yield per day S 4; highest amount made-jmtine
day $lO. At the date of his letter flour was
being sold at $lO per 50 lb sack; bacon 25 cts
per lb; whiskey §1 per pint; and venison and
bear meat was given away.
Dr. Kavanagh writes to Santa Fe (N. M.)
Gazelle , that he has been seventy-five miles up
the valley of South Platte and found gold all
the way. The best result found was four dol
lars to the pan. The region abounds in the
best grazing and the climate is healthy.
The Topeka Tribum states that a Mr. Ed
wards had returned for a shingle machine and
the running gears for a saw mill, and that Mr.
Garvey was about to start with a printing press.
A Mr. Storm had killed fifteen deer in a Jay
and wrote to a friend to bring a stock of gro
ceries. Another town of fifty log bouses has
been named Denver City.
These extracts will serve to show the true
state of affairs in the new El Dorado. All ac
counts agree in representing the region as a
land of gold, and there can be little doubt that
that country contains immense treasures.
"We do not propose to comment upon the po
litical or commercial changes and interests
which these facts suggest, though we may do
so at soDJe future time. We have simply given
in a condensed form the gist of a vast amount
of correspondence with the authority. We
would say to young men who have good and
permanent employment, not to go off on a wild
goose chase after a fortune, as it might possibly
be found easier at home. To those who jjiave
do employment or who do not care to find any;
to those who spend their time in loafing in' bar
rooms and groceries; and to those who have
poor prospects before them, we say go—go by
all means, for while you have everything to
gain you cannot possibly lose anything- , When
you get there, be industrious,
voy’s paper, and if the gold should fail, in the
mines, you can find it in the harvest fields in
Autumn by using a hoe in the Spring.
To Advertising Agents.
We have received from an advertising agency
in New York, an advertisement consisting of
the first chapters of a new sensation «tory by
Ned Bunthne, now being published in a flash
paper of that city, called the Ifew York Mer
cury. The advertisement would fill about four
columns of the Agitator for which we are offered
about sixteen dollars. We have also received
from another agent in New York, the first
chapters of a new story by Mrs. Southworth,
now being published in the Ledger. We are
offered for this advertisement about thirty one
dollars, as it covers over five columns of our
paper. If these were asked to be published in
our advertising columns simply as .advertise
ments, we would, try and make room for them
and take the forty seven dollars; but we are
asked to present them on our first page as of
our own selection, without note or comment
editorially. We beg leave to say to the agen
cies aforesaid and to all others interested:
I. We publish the Agitator at the reasona
ble price of O.ne Dollar a year in advance, and
as we stand on the debit side of the account
with all our subscribers till their subscriptions
expire, it would be an outrage upon them to
beguile them into a dash yarn, and then refer
them to the New York Mercury or any other
flash paper for the balance. There may be
some hungry publishers who send their paper
to Tom, Dick, and Harry (and such publishers
will always be hungry) who count it a! “streak
of good luck” if Tom, Dick, and Hairy ever
pay up for their paper. In such cases the pub-'
Usher is nnd’er no obligations whatevetfto his
readers, aid he hjts a right to publish^tfhate'Hjr
he pleases. To this' class of publishers- wo
would direct the attentionof advertising-agents.
Send them your flash stories and your money j
they will be glad of-the latter, and subscribers
who do not pay the printer ought’ to ■'have
nothing to read but such advertisements.
11. We do not propose to select, nor has our
predecessor ever selected any of the Haunted
tfen-House or the Skeleton-Hand-dripping-blood
class of stories for our’readers. We believe
fhat the influence of such stories upon the
young is positively pernicious. They teach,
false ideasof-life and its objects to the mind,
and awaken and enlist the .worst passions of the-
Heaft. They appeal to the marvellous, and de
pict, the unreal and the improbable; and-what
is the worst feature of this doss of stories, they
■ reach their culmination and conclusion in the
gratification- of, the. revenge—or some' worse
passion of their hero. These remarks are in
tended to apply to the Mercury only—the Ledger
stories being of a higher standard of ability
and morals—but. yre cannot publish the Ledger’s
advertisement for the reasons first stated. The
selections for . the Agitator shall he made, as
heretofore, with a view to the good of our sub
scribers, will be illustrative of the triumph of
morality, industry, and sobriety, over idleness
apathy and selfishness. As our subscribers are,
for the most part, those who earn their living
by honest toil, we shall select matter which
will blend instruction with amusement, exhibit
the actual condition of’the people—their diffi
culties, wants . and aspirations—and we shall
aim to show their sons and daughters, that life
land its real enjoyment do not- depend on their
success as “pirates of the gulf,” or “female
highwaymen,”
111. We would not pollute our reading col
umns with a story or even part of a story writ
ten by Xed Bcstlike as our selection, for one
hundred dollars. We have not read the in
stalment before us, but if his literature is as
corrupt and disgusting as the politi cs he ven
tilated in this and the adjoining district in 1856,
no money could purchase his way into our
paper. We believe the good people of Tioga
will sustain us, Justin proportion as we deserve
their confidence; but whether they do or not
we shall never lessen it by getting down to such
a debasement os this.
Characteristic— At a meeting of the New
fork Tammany Hail Democrats, lost week, «
series of resolutions was adopted, in one of
which .they express themselves in favor of
bringing Cuba into the Union for the sake of
“enlarging the area of freedom.” Bringing in
a slave territory out of which two more slave
States may, at convenience, he carved, and
adding at least seven hundred thousand to the
present slave population of the Union, is cer
tainly an original process of enlarging the area
of freedom! Nobody out of Tammany Hall
could ever have eliminated so brilliant an idea,
and the authors of it are entitled to a patent, or
a copyright for it. —Binghamton Standard.
We are surprised that the Standard has not
yet learned the Sham Democratic idea of Free
dom. In 1850, the Editor of a Democratic
paper in Potter County, got out a handbill,
headed “Buchanan, Breckenridge and Free
Kansas,” announcing Senator Bigler to speak
at a Mass Meeting of the “unwashed” at Ctra
dersport. By some means one of the hand
bills got to the United States Senate, and Big
ler was taken to task for it by las Southern
masters. Bigler “denied the soft impeachment”
of harboring the idea of Freedom in any shape.
Time was given for an explanation ; the Demo
cratic author of the handbill was written to ;
Bigler and the Union were in danger. The
answer reached Washington, and Bigler and
the Union were saved by the explanation, that
“Free Kansas” on the handbill, meant that the
people of Kansas were free to adopt Slai-ery if
they chose!
Eight Between Eleven Hundred Horses.
—Sonthy, in his History of the Peninsular
War, relates the following ; “Two of the Span
ish regiments which had been quartered in
Punan were cavalry, mounted on fine black
long-tailed Andalnsian horses. It was . impos
sible to bring off these horses—about 1100 in
number—and Romano was not a man who
could order them to be destroyed : he was fond
of horses himself, and knew- that every man
was attached to his beast, which had carried
him so far and so faithfully. Their bridles
were therefore taken off*, and they were turned
loose upon the beach. - A scene ensued such as
was never before witnessed, They became sen
sible that they were no longer under the res
traint of any human power.
A general conflict ensued, in which, retain
ing the discipline they had learned, they
charged each other in squdrons of ten or
twelve together, then closely engaged, striking
with their fore feet, and biting and tearing
each other with most ferocious rago, and tram
pling over those who were beaten down, till the
shore in the course of an hourwas strewn with
the dead and disabled. Part of them hud been
set free on rising ground at a distance. They
no sooner heard the roar of the battle, they
then came thundering down over the interme
diate hedges, and catching the contagious mad
ness; plunged into the fight with equal fury.—
Sublime as the scene was, it was too horrible
to be long contemplated, and Romano, in mercy,
gave orders to destroy them. But it was found
too dangerous to attempt this, and after the
last boat had quitted the beach, the few horses
that remained, were still engaged in the dread
ful work of mutual destruction.
On Thursday morning last, the Northern
Central Railroad train, was thrown from the
track, about two and a half miles above the
Muncy Station, by a broken rail, and a number
of the passengers were more or less bruised and
scratched. Judge Lyman, of Potter county,
was brought to this place soon after the acci
dent, and is still lying at the Union Hotel, un
able to travel, though he is improving. His in
juries are about the head and shoulders.—
Muncy Luminary.
A Slave named “Thomas Jefferson,” is ad
vertised in the Richmond (Va.) papers, as a
runaway. . He is 21 years old, and is described
as of- “rather a : grum countenance." So we
should think! Anybody with such a name
oughtto look grum until he cleared out. to
freedom.
Poor Mexico now has five Presidents, or at
least five men backed by military power, each
of whom thinks he alone can rescue her from
the gulf of ruin to which she is hastening.
Col. Benton’s ‘properly at WashingtoH'is to
he sold at auction. His property is represented
as insufficient to pay his debts.
COMMUNICATIONS.,j
The Musical Festival at. Gray’s Talley.
Correspondence of the Agitator. ;
G cur’s V alley, Tioga CoiPa. 1
Jan’y. 31, 1859. J
Ms. You.yo: The Musical Festival duly ad
vertised in the Agitator , commenced in the
Baptist Church in this place at 10 o’clock A. M.,
Thursday, the 27th inst. The exercises were
commenced by an appropriate hymn, after
which, prayer was offered up by the Rev. M.
Rockwell. ' The day was spent in singing and
in making acquaintances and passfjd off very
pleasantly. The evening exercises were very
entertaining and the friends seemed to enjoy
themselves well. I
Friday, the exercises opened with] increased
interest, and the members of the Festival seemed
to vie with each other in bringing forth their
best pieces of music and in making jeach other
happy. In the evening, the exercises were, if
possible more entertaining, and as the interest
increased in the Festival as the tr
creased in numbers.
Saturday, the day opened -with the same
spirit of song, and the members,—judging from
their countenances beaming with tpe pleasures
of the soul—were in its full enjoyment. At 2
o’clock P. M., Dr. Webb of WellsWo enter
tained the audience with some pleading andjn
struetive remarks. Ho also gave a touching
account of the life and death of the late Prof.
I. B. Woodbury of New York, and!at the close
of his remarks he introduced a song composed
on the death of this great “benefactor of the
musical world, by Eev. A. A. Grayley of New
York which was sung with a pathos which will
long be remembered by those whojheardit per
formed. -
In the evening the exercises we:
form, and the members of the Fes,l
formed their parts with promptne
them exhibiting talent and acc
beyond our most sanguine expe
8 o’clock Dr. Webb was again
stand and responded in his usual
for a few minutes; whereupon
ing Resolutions were offered and
adopted:
Resolved, That we extend onr sincere thj
gor for hia zeal in conducting the Festival, |
Jfcsofrcd, That we recommend him to tht
nity as highly worthy of their patrooaj
schools and Festivals.
The following Resolution was <
L. Gray.
RtS'Ated. That we are highly gratified
Music have paid ns a visit at the Valley ; :
been entertaining we hare also been highl
After the passage of the Resolutions, Mr.
James Gray was called for, who cheerfully tOO,k
the stand and in a very happy manner congrat
ulated the members on their attainments in the
Science of Music. He urged -the youth to en
list and continue to make thi: i their
study, and while they were miking advance
ment in sacred music they would feel and enjoy
its refining and elevating influence upon their
souls—an influence which wou.d lead them In
the paths of Virtue and Peace. ]
It was good to listen to his remarks and to
see him on the stage,—his locks silvered with the
frosts of many winters, and hjs face beaming
with the pleasures of the soul. He retired
amid the cheers of warm friends. J
The Festival was soon closod and we have
every reason to believe that the se in attendance
from abroad, as well as the frier ds of music here
regarded it as an intellectual long to bej re
membered. ‘ L, G.
He Can Afford to be Liberal. —lt is cur
rently reported and believed that Dr. F. Coggs
well is on the high road to a splendid fottiine.
We learn from an authentic {source, that he is
now employing thirty operatives in manufac
turing one million boxes of his 3ledical Salt, to
meet the orders pouring in from his agents and
the public, since his liberal reduction in the
price. The Dr., it is said, has recently made
an improvement in the mode of preparing it,
by which its cost is greatly dininUhed—-anp we
commend him for his wisdorp iu reducing the
price, as he will doubtless reap anchor haijvest.
The acknowledgment and advice of Mr. Hood,
(referred to below) a gentleman of the highest
integrity and philanthropy, jafforp a sufficient
guarantee that this extraordinary medicine is
worthy of public confident. The following
sentiment from the Kingston (Canada) Adver
tiser, we readily endorse; —■ ' j
“When we recoiled the virulent opposition to,the in
troduction of -accination, and tlae fatuous manner in
which even the most eminent medical men shilt their
eyes to its wonderful life-saving operation, woj ought!
to be careful how we reject Dr. C'a New. Discovery."
[For the Trave Icr.] ; J- 1
To Tire Public.— Editor* of tic 7'racdler, Will yonl
allow me through your columns jto make an announce- ’
ment which I trust will interest the community] espec-j
ially the invalid portion. It is made at tbesuggestion
of my venerable and judicious friend, the Iloni. Chas.l
Hood of this city. Having proved the unequal cffica-[
cy of my Antiphlogistic Salt, in| subduing a painful?
and chronic inflammatory disease in his own-jpersonj
he kindly hinted to me his belief that “its high costj
deters thousands from using it, jvere its price refluced.’l
Although in the constant receipt of orders by mail
and express from ray agents ana the public atijts presi’
cut price, yet, having made an important improvement
in my Chemical Apparatus for) manufacturing it, by
which its cost is materially lessened, I am resolved to
put it within the reach of all—even the poorest of
poor. My agents arc now authorized to sell il at the
following reduced rates:—Acute package,?!; and
Chronic do., $2,50. They will pend it (post paid) to
any address withm their respective limits. Invalids
in those States and countries yet without agents, can
obtain it of me, through the pc st office, Box 322, Bosj
ton, Mass., and at my new office, Xo. 2, Cherry, corner
Washington street, from 10 to 12 and 3 to 5. , !Mycon‘-
centrated Salt, (a scruple equaling a drachm) is.fqr
foreign countries and dlstan places,-where postage
runs high. ' f
Descriptive circulars * ent grade, by enclosing
a stamp to pay postage. | 1 *j.
Seriocs Accidext. —On Friday of last week,
Judge Jessup, with his [nephew, Mr. H. C.
Hodgson, left this place carriage jfor Chr
bondale. On reaching the Martin Creek hill,
west of Oakley’s Depot, the breast strip to one
of the horses broke, when he commenced kick
ing and both ran with fearful violence down'
the hill and became entirely unmanageable.
They succeeded in getting one of the horses'
into the ditch on the upper side, but upon com
ing to a gulley cutting (through the!* hill,-the
horses sprang back into Ithe road, and the. car
riage was dashed on the stones on the opposite
side, throwing Judge J. and his nephew upon
the ground under the i carriage, which was
turned completely upon the forward end.—
Judge Jessup struck upon his headj inflicting
a severe bruiie ; his collar bone was dislocated,
and he was also severely injured in I the right
side. Providentially his nephew esdaped with
a slight bruise upon his head. I (
The Judge was enabled, with some difficulty,
to Be brought home on Saturday, and we; are
happy to learn is now quite comfortable, though
it may be some weeks before he will be able to
be about again. —Monirysc Republican. .
Three hundred and eighty counterfeiters were
arrested in New York City during the year
1858. - if
i letter From Harrisburg.
Correspondence of the hotter Journal.
; Harrisburg, January 27,1859
I presume that yon and the readers of yrmr
Journal are well '‘posted” in regard to the
doings of the wise ones” here at the Capita]
as the daily papers give true, full and accurate
r sports ;of the “changing acts” that occupy
each day the assembled wisdom's attention.-!
Tou hate seen from these, that as is usual in
all Legislative bodies, there are soma “would
he great men" whose importance is much greater
ill the eyes of “I” than—but I must not iu the
lisast reflect, for men, or wonld-bemen there are
ever here who have not the fear of “legisiatira
dignity before them,” that do nse canes and
whips ;to holster up their consequence, for
proof of this, see the record of Judge Pearson’s
Court, of a few days since. Well then, spea
king fairly, although the members, of this Leg.
islative body are not all or them as great men
as they think they are, yet as a whole, it is i a
intelligence superior to that of the two past
sessions —so say those who should be capable
of judging—and as taken collectively intelli
gence 5s more “mature,” its age is much less,
(than that of the few years past. There most
be twenty-five members whose age is not jet
thirty! and but few whose lives have passed the
meridian; and as might be expected, there is
some l“warm blood” that “fires” quickly and
with |‘hot baste" and cools hut with eihaoj.
tion. | ‘Tis said that “age and wisdom” make
“dignity.” That may be so—or was in days
long past—but now, age and dignity make Uj
appearance of wisdom.
The Speaker of the House, Wm C. A. Lav.
rence, is without doubt the youngest man that
has ever presided over the Pennsylvania Leg.
islature ; yet young as he is and as much dis
satisfaction as was felt by a large number of
the members, yet with a little care on his part
he Will mate a popular presiding officer. Ho
has one of the necessary requisites of a good.
Speaker, developed in an extraordinary degree,
thatj of promptness. He never hesitates, and
althpugh I believe him sometimes wrong—
which, can be remedied by the House—yet it
is better to decide promptly and wrong, than to
hesitate. Hesitancy in an officer who is presi
ding over a large body of men, is a failing that
will lead to confusion, at least.
dlenoe in-
;e in concert
stival all per
ils ; many of
c omplishment
.stations. At
tailed to the
1 happy style
i the follow
unanlmouslyi
inks to Prof. Ha 1
e singing comma;
[e ia conducting
The legislation thus far has been of 3 local
and private nature, and it will constitute the
principal part of the business to be transacted.
One General Act has passed and received the
signature of the Governor, which will, or rather
has, undoubtedly received the hearty approba
tion of your intelligent readers. That abofah
ing the offices of Canal Commissioner and State
Engineer.
There was a great pressure in and around
ahjout the Capitol prior to the election of Stats
Treasurer. It might astonish you and year
numerous readers to know the amount of pat
riotism that was here assembled, for the good
of this great Commonwealth, during the time
that intervened between the meeting of the
Legislature and the Convention which decided
Sered by Mi|
diat the friends <pf
Iml white wo Hare
y entertained. J
who should be the keeper of the keys of the
fiinds for the sjext twelve months, until you un
derstand that while the amount fired by lavas
the compensation of this office is seventeen
hundred dollars, that somehow the idea is
quite extensively held that in fact, the oSeeis
worth sir times as many thousands, Ido no;
say that this belief accounts for the anxious
desire that so many men have to serve their
country, but I think it may give rise to aprov-
able suspicion. Did it create any unpleasant
Sensations with the voters of your county thr
their late Senator was not the successful and
fortunate candidate?
[ Mr. Park Benjamin delivered his Lecture on
!“Fashion” a week ago. The Hall of the House
jwas crowded, and the fashion was present
heard his logic, with humor, sarcasm, truth, as
he dealt forth his blows at this altar at 'which
|we all more or less worship—but did it, will it
|(the Lecture) lessen the votaries who worship
[at this shrine to the number of one? Health,
happiness—all will be sacrificed to thii
j controlling Power, let who will or may preaca.
1 I saw your Member this morning. lieu a
good health and excellent spirits.
Williay If- Prescott, the Historian,
last Thursday, of paralysis. lie was boran
Salem, Mass., in 1796, and grduated at Har
vard in 1811. Before he left the college
cidental blow deprived himLof the sight of oM
eye, which soon was followed, through orer-n&
by the blindness of the other. In spite of d**
calamities he devoted himself to literary rtf 1
suits. Two years were ’passed in Euro?* 1
travel, when he returned to devote binrf®*
History of .the lieigns of Ferdinand and I»*
bella. He was occupied with it ten years, a- 1
it was published in 183& Its success
plete, and raised him to a front rank
historians. It was almost immediately 'vio
lated into French, German, Spanish andh
His Conquest of Mexico, published in
raised his fame, and to this, in IS4T, he *
the Conquest of Peru, his latest work. F l -"*
the Second has been left unfinished.
Donation Visit.
THE friends of Kev. S. A.
ed to attend a Donation Party at jC - ! ]
Charles Coolidge, Charleston, on'the .ifM- 001
evening of "Wednesday, Feb. 16„ 1559.
Feb. 10, 1559. * Per order of
AEEXTIX'ES ! VALENTINES I
Call at SMITH i KICIU^,
ALEXTIX’ES ! VALEXTIX'EsTFeb. I*.
Call at SMITH A RICHAW-,.
YALEftTIX'ES! VALENTINES 1 FA 1 *' - ;'
Call at SMITH A RICHAB^
Administrator’s Notice-
LEXTERS of Administration bavin?
to the undersigned on the estate o*
BUCKBEE, late of Tioga Connty, dccM,
indebted to said estate are required to
payment and those haring claims as* l *”; 1
will present them to D. S. BVCKRLBi *
Feb. 10, ISSO. (6t*>
Administrator’* police.
LETTERS of Administration bavin?
to the undersigned on the estate ol
BODGE, late of Sullivan township, dee d.>
indebted to said estate are required tomak«
payment, and those having claims again!
will present them for settlement to , ; n v.
CALVIN REYNOLD*
Elk Run, Feb. 10, 1859, fit
UNION ACADEJIV
A. R, WIGHXMAN, A. 8., PriMip* l
J. S. WIGHTMAN, IWeaptrt
I, G. HOYT, & a ‘ her ; '&>
THE Spring Term of this Institution m*
March Ist, 1859*
EXPENSES PER TERM*
Tuition in Primary Branches, • “ , 3*J
Common English, - - - - '
Higher English,, - ,
Languages,
Board, - - - * ' , 1*
Room for those boarding thorns**™ 1 1»?
Fuel, - - - - * '•iVortO'.ij
Lessons on Melodeon and Piano wit
Instrument, .
Acoommodations furnished f° r _7?. r Pn**'?*
board themselves, “ E. B, T*K*>
Deerfield, Feb. 10, 1859.