ter sections will be farmers, and not planters.
Itwas this view of the matter which aroused
the South to that pertinacious opposition which,
for the time being has been successful.
Mr. Grow’s amendment presents oneef those
issues which test the real composition of par
ties] and mark their character so that nobody
can mistake it. Mr. Crow’s amendment is, be
yond ail peradventnro, a genuine democratic
measure. It preserves the public domain for
the actual settler. It looks for the basis of the
Government to a yeomanry, and not a landed
aristocracy. It prefers the farmer to the plan
ter, the many to tho few, those who labor with
their own bands to oligarchs who subsist upon
the labors of others. Being thus a democratic
measure, it was supported by every member of
the Republican party, which is the only party
of-the present day which has anything demo
cratic about it.
,As the Taws now stand, the auction of the
public domain following close upon the comple
tion of the surveys, with occasional brief res
pites at the capricious discretion of the Presi
dent, there is only a small proportion of the
public lands which is taken by pre-emptors,
and as to that which is so taken, the pre-emp
tors, who are generally poor are obliged to bor
row money at enormous usury, to make their
entries, whereas, under Mr. Grow’s measure,
they will be allowed a sufficiently long terra to
accumulate the means of payment from their
crops. It is a great hardship upon the new set
tler, at the very time when the erection of his
bouse and the clearing and establishment of his
farm call for great outlays, to oblige him to pay
for liis land. lie rarely does it without borrow
ing, and such loans, in new countries, are at
rates incredibly high. It is said that Mr.
Grow’s measure would reduce the land revenues,
for tho present. So it would, hut it is better
that the Government should borrow money at
five per-cent per annunm, than that the pion
eers of the West should be obliged to borrow
money at five per cent per month. ,
Tliis measure of Mr. Grow’s will bo carried
finally, and before long. The South will op
pose it to the end, as a measure unpropitious to
the spread of Slavery, but the South is not able
to defeat it without Northern Allies, and these
allies in Congress are becoming small by de
grees and beautifully less. Their stronghold is
the Senate, but their power there is being sure
ly, although slowly undermined.
• In their prompt and unanimous support of
the policy of preserving the public domain for
the hardy settler, the Republicans have vindi
cated themselves from the false and odious im
putation of being a mere party of opposition.
With a distinct creed and object of their own
they have measures of their own, and this mea
sure in respect to the public lands, controling
the social and political features of more than
half the area of the Republic, is one of them.
They have made up the issue here, and they
will go to the country upon it. 1 They are not
dismayed by a first repulse, but will fight out
the battle to the last.
[From the Chicago Press and Tribune.]
Some days ago, when a bill regulating claims
to pre-emptions on the public lands was before
the house, Mr. Grow offered an amendment by
which no land was to be hereafter brought into
market until ten years after the return of the
original surveys. The object of the amend
ment was to give to the early settlers of our
Territories the first choice of land—to prevent
speculators from entering large bodies of the
public domain, thereby retarding the settlement
and development of the country, delaying the
construction of roads and bridges, and the es
tablishment of schools and churches. Those
and other evilsof a kindred nature growing out
of our present land, system are so notorious,
that the wonder is not that Mr. Grow's amende
nient was adopted by fifteen majority, as was
the fact, hot that it met with any opposition at
all. But although certain members did not
dare to put themselves upon record against the
naked proposition embraced in the amendment,
yet they defeated it in the end by voting down
the amended bill. The original was simply to
so amend the pre-emption law as to require
three months continuous residence to consti
tute avalid claim to pre-emption. This bill, as
amended by Mr. Grow, was defeated by the
following vote;
Yeas —9l. Lecompton Democrats, 7 ; Anti-
Lccoinpton do and Americans, 3; Republi
cans, 81.
Nats— 9s. Anti-Lccompton Democrats, 3 ;
Americans 7; Lecompton Democrats 85 ; —not
one Republican.
Western men will do well to study the above
record, with the view of ascertaining who are
and who are not their friends. We are proud
to point to the fact thot not a solitary Republi
can voted in the negative.
A remarkable divorce case is now before the
Pennsylvania Legislature. Horace B. Fry and
Emily L. Grigg, both of Philadelphia, were
married August 2, 1858, and on the same day
set out on a bridal tour to New York and West
Point. The lady (who is young and beautiful)
alleges that on the first day of their married
life, her husband swore at her, and exhibited
other evidences of a brutal, and ungovernable
temper, and continued to do so while they Jived
together. All this ho denies, and alleges that
the whole or chief difficulty arose from hor
falling desperately in love while at West Point,
with a young Cadet named 0. G. Wagner,
towards whom, though till then an entire
stranger, she exhibited such marked partiality
as to excite the notice and comments of stran
gers, and to induce her husband to hasten their
return to Philadelphia. In the meantime the
lady evinced great dislike for hor liege lord;
and, as she alleges, he was guilty of personal
violenoe towards her, pushing her out of her
chair, throwing chairs at her, &o. After their
return to Philadelphia, a letter from Wagner
to Mrs. Fry came into Mr. Fry’s hands, in
which letter the writer acknowledged the re
ceipt of a a previous letter from her, and of a
daguerreotype. Mr. Fry also intercepted a
letter from his wife to Mr. Wagner, in which
she spoke of her affection for him and hatred of'
her husband, of her wish to get a divorce so
that she could marry him, the persecutions she
suffered from her husband, and her desire to
escape from him. Some friends of Mr. Fry
proceeded to West Point and obtained from Mr.
Wagner Mrs. Fry’s letter and daguerreotype,
(on promising to deliver them to Mrs. Fry,) and
also obtained a promise from him that he would
hold no further correspondence with her. He
states, in a letter to Mrs. Fry’s father, that
nothing improper in any way ever passed be
tween Mrs. Fry and himself, while she was at
West Point.
The parties lived together HU about the 11th
of September, when she went home to her
father’s; and December 27th, she applied to
the Legislature for a divorce—Montrose Re
publican.
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THE LATE CONGRESS.
The.XXXVth Congress which ought to have
adjourned by Constitutional limitation on the
3d, prolonged its existence through a night ses
sion fill noon of the 4th inst., and then brought
its labors to a close.
Of the acts of this last session but very few,
if any, have contributed to the good of the
country or advanced in any manner the nation
al prosperity. The increase of revenue to meet
the demands of the government expenditures
and to fill a depleted treasury by a more liberal
Tariff Policy, although strenuously insisted up
on by the President and favored by nearly all
Republicans and the entire Peunsylvauia dele
gation, was finally defeated by the gyrations of
tho Slavitos on tho Committee of Ways and
Means, and by thewavering and trifling action
of Maolay of N. X. and Phillips of Pa., of
which they took advantage; and by this means
a Tariff Revision was defeated at this session.
The people of this State will see how little the
administration cares for their prosperity, and
how shallow were its pretensions, in urging
specific duties, which it made no * effort what
ever to secure. It' can lend the whole force
of patronage and of power to the enslavement
of Kansas by making it an administration mea
sure if demanded by the South ; but if a Nor
thern State demands protection for her home
manufactures, it favors it only by a show of
zeal, but without any action. Why? Because
in the judgment of Buchanan the securing of
one State to the Slave Power is of more impor
tance than the industrial Prosperity of a Free
State. What else ?
They succeeded in passing by the votes of a
few dough-faces from Pennsylvania (Al. White
among the rest) the Forty Million Loan Bill, a
debt which the next administration will have
to pay. Owing to the firmness of the House
and the parliamentary tact of the able Represen
tative from this district, the project of the Sen
ate to rose the rates of postage from three to
five cents was defeated. Mr. Grow took the
position, that this was a measure to raise Rev
enue which the Senate was forbidden by the
Constitution to originate, and in this position
he was backed by a vote of 117 to 76 and the
Bill was sent back to the Senate, where it died.
No appropriation for the Post Office was passed
so that an extra Session in June or July is in
evitable.
The admission of Oregon as a State of the
Union is the only measure of importance to the
country (if we except the Loan Bill above re
ferred to] which signalizes this Session. By
the vigilance of such Republicans as John
Sherman of Ohio and l)avid Ritchie much good
has been done in exposing the demoralization
and official corruption of Buchanan and the
satelites by whom he is surrounded. And we
believe that when Blair of St. Louis and Ryan
of Philadelphia go before the next Congress to
contest their seats, there will be such a “rattling
among the dry bones,” as shall startle the en
tire country, and bring into merited contempt
the hypocritical author of the Fort Duquesne
letter.
The New York Tribune in an able editorial
review of the closing hours of Congress, pays
the following merited compliment to the gen
tleman who represents us at Washington:
“ And here, in closing, let us pay a tribute of
gratitude to two Members of this Congress for
their services at the late Session. Where so
many did well, it may seem invidious to speci
fy ; but we feel that no true Republican will
dispute the justice of our award to Senator
Wade of Ohio and Mr. Grow of Pennsylvania
of the highest honor. Mr. Wade has hitherto
evinced an intrepidity, an energy and a de
votedness rarely equaled and never excelled;
in our judgment, in his efforts for the Home
stead hill, for the Agricultural College bill, for
Retrenchment, for Human Freedom—in short,
for every good word and work—he this Session
has excelled even his own former services.—
The rights and interests of Free Labor have
seldom had a more clear-sighted and effective,
and never a more whole-souled, champion in
Congress than old Den. Wade. And Mr. Grow,
whom we have seldom praised, and neve great
ly admired, has this Session evinced a fertility
of resource, a command of parlimentary tac
tics, a promptitude in seizing an opportunity,
a wisdom in act and a brevity of speech, such
as have rarely been exhibited on that floor.—
The passage of the Homestead bill under Mr.
Grow’s leadership would of itself have sufficed
to confer honorable distinction ; a single mis
taken motion, a moment’s hesitation would have
enabled its adversaries to interpose debate and
delay, and thus haj:e endangered Us passage,.if
not ensured its defeat. So the Senate's attempt
to force the House to raise the Rates of Postage
was met by Mr. Grow in a manner and spirit
that at once decided the contest—decided it in
such a way that, should an Extra Session be
required, the responsibility will clearly rest on
Toombs, Mason and Pearce—all administration
men—who, on a point of mere will, insisted ow
defeating the Post Office Appropriation bill and
thus subjecting the public service to serious
embarrassment. We rejoice that Mr. Grow is
a meniberof the next House, where Pennsyt.
vania will make quite another figure than in
tfae-Isst, especially at its close.”
The Sickles Tragedy.
We published lust week the substance of a
telegraphic despatch announcing that Daniel E.
Sickles, a member of Congress from the city of
New York, had killed Phillip B, Key the Uni
ted States District Attorney for the city of
Washington. Many of our readers trill bare
read in the daily papers the details of this
shocking tragedy. The high position in life of
the parties so deeply affected has lent an in
terest to these fearful transactions even to the
publication of the most minute particulars con
nected with them, nnparalelled in the annals of
crime since the murder of Dr. Burdell two
years ago. The public interest in the Burdell
THE.TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOE.
murder was excited by the mysterious manner
in which the deed was accomplished, while in
this case, it is mainly doe, as> before stated, to
the high position of the parties and to the
open boldness and publicity of the assassins*
tion. - -
The facta of the case, briefly, are these: An
improper intimacy sprang up between'Mr. Key
and Mrs. Sickles. It was said that they rode
oat, attended balls and went to the opera to
gether. It was further alleged that they met
at a house of assiguation. An anonymous cor
respondent informed Sickles of this and he
thereupon devised means to ascertain the truth
or falsity of the rumors against his wife’s vir
tue. He found .enough to satisfy himself of
their truth and charged his wife with the ctjme.
At first she indignantly denied, and then in a
state of terror and despair admitted it. On
the strength of this confession. Sickles armed
himself, and the next day went out and shot
down the object of his revenge. Key stood
talking with a mutual friend, unarmed. Ho
lived bat a few minutes. Sickles gave himself
up.
■Whether the commission of a crime against
society and the honor of a household justifies
the injured party in the commission of a crime
far more henious; whether a person who be
lieves he has been injured by another, however
deeply, may take the law into his own hands
unmindful that it provides for the punishment
of every crime, and, upon an ex parte state
ment, ruthlessly slay the offender—whether we
are to live under the protection of law or to be
at the mercy of the passions of each other—
are questions which public sentiment must de
termine. And while all good citizens roust
deplore the cause of this cold blooded murder,
we believe few will be found, who, on calm re
flection, will justify or excuse the murderer.
We print elsewhere an article from the Inde
pendent, a religious newspaper, which reflects
our own views on this subject. Considering
that the moral character of Sickles has been
represented (with how much truth we do not
know) to be very bad, we think this article fair
and candid, and commend it to the attentive
perusal of our readers.
Free Homes;
We give elsewhere some articles from the
prominent Republican journals of the country
indicative of the sentiment of the masses in re
lation to Mk. Gbow s great measure, the Home
stead Bill. We have looked in vain among our
Democratic exchanges to find even a word of
commendation of this truly democratic mea
sure. We have also looked in vain for a single
sentence against it. The Democratic papers of
the North, fearful of their Southern masters,
dare not by so much ns a sentence signify their
approval of it, nor dure they soya word against
it, lest in doing so they should stir up the peo
ple, who, they well know, heartily approve of
it. Thus these men are put in the pitiable po
sition of being gagged—self-gagged—by their
fear of the Slave Power on the one hand,
by their fear of the hearty sympathy for the mea
sure by the honest laboring adherents of their
party on the other hand. They therefore pre
-fer silence.
But it is not so with the Democratic leaders at
Washington. They openly combat the passage
of this measure, because as they wisely assume,
its passage would throw open the public domain
to thousands and tons of thousands of poor la
boring men who would gladly immigrate from
the more thickly settled parts of the country, if
they were only sure of securing a home with
out being at the mercy of the rich usurer or
speculator. It is known, too, that the inevitable
result of this immigration would be the secur
ing of every future State in the Great West to
Free Labor. No one need wonder that Toombs
in the Senate, who speaks for tho Buchanan
Democracy, should sneer at (the effort to secure
free homes for the “lacklanders” ,as he calls the
laboring northern citizens; nor is it to be won
dered at, that the Democratic senators should
dodge, and shirk, apd filibuster, and finally
kill by the costing vote of Breckenridge, this
beneficent measure. Slavery will be endanger
ed by it; —who cares for the “mud-sills?”
If anything were needed to defend the Re
publican party of this country from the charge
iof being a sectional party, based upon the sin
gle idea of hostility to the extension of slavery,
the earnestness with which the Republican pa
pers of tho whole country have advocated this
measure ought to be sufficient. It is customary
in the heat of political campaigns for the Loco
Foco leaders to assert that the Democratic' par
ty has originated all the great measures of the
country, and that it is par excellence the poor
man’s friend. We will he glad to hoar them
make these assertions once more. If they do
we believe the people will not forget the action
of that poor man’s party on this Homestead
Bill.
Tub Contagion or Example.— ln Chicago
there has lately been a Convention of blacklegs,
to revise Hoyle, reform tho laws of poker, and
we suppose also, to compare notes on the sub
ject of “stacking” cards and cheating roulette.
In New York, the “goniffs” (professional
thieves) have lately had a public hall, at which
male and female pick-pookets and pocket-book
staffers held up their heads and danced with
the unblushing faces of honest men and women.
Such examples are contagions.
In Ohio, the State Central Committe of slave
stealers have called a State Convention to hear
the reports of their agents upon the operation
of the G. G. R. R. I The burglars come next.
— Exchange.
id Georgia, the -‘first planters” have met and
issued a card defending piracy and kidnapping,
and asking for a “suspension of pablia opin
ion.”
Veet Likely Tbue.—The following impor
tant extract from a letter, dated Jacksonville,
Fla., Jan. 30, we find in an exchange:—“A
barque left here a few weeks ago for the coast
of Africa, to take in' a cargo of negroes for this
State and Georgia. A brig left port yesterday
to meet the vessel and transfer the cargo to the
brig at sea. The slaves will probably be lan
ded in Florida, tfs it is believed hers that the
slave trade has been reopened."
Giddings Testimonial Presented.
Gon-cflponaeDt of the N. Y. Evening Post.
WASHiNaiojf, Feb, 9, 1859.
The testimonial to Joshua R. biddings, now
completed, is on exhibition qt Messrs Galt k
Bro., the manufacturers, of this city. It con
sists-of a.solid aUvet tea set of six pieces, and
a highly ornamented waiter. The groundwork
of its style of ornament is what is technically
known as “engine turned,” a style highly pop
ular from its exceeding ehasteness and the ad
vantage it possesses over work entirely plain,
in not showing marks or scratches. This is re
lieved by engraved representations of the tea
plant, water lillics, &e. The handles and spouts
are beautifully wrought in scroll and leaf work,
and an each piece is an ornamented shield bear
ing the following inscription:
“Presented by One Hundred and Four Mem
bers of the Thirty-fifth Congress to Joshua
K. Giddixgs,, as a token of respect for his
moral worth and personal integrity.”
Accompanying the service of silver is a walk
king cane, of rare and beautiful wood, moun
ted with a massive gold head, which bears a
similar inscription to that on the service. In
accordance with Mr. Gidding’s wishes, no cere
mony has been made in presenting the service.
It has simply been notified to him that there
are a “few articles” at Messrs Galt & Brother’s
awaiting his order. The whole cost of the tes
timonial was five hundred and twenty dollars.
“J. B.”
Hitherto the initials “J. B.” have been fa
mous in history as representing or rather sug
gesting the names of two personages of various,
but equal distinction. In reading this obser
vation, every thoughtful person will at once re
call Major J. Bagstock, familiarly described in
his own charming, off-hand conversation as
“Old Joe,” and Jack Bunsby, mariner and
practical philosopher. But now a new “J. B.”
rises upon the historical horizon, in the glowing
richness of whose effulgence both Bunsby and
Bagstock must pale their ineffectual fires. We
refer, of course, to the author of the note
effectively recommending that the United States
Treasury should pay $-t,OOO to a firm of ma
chinists in Philadelphia, ns the consideration
or employing 450 men to vote for the reelection
of Col. T. B. Florence to Congress—a little
businees arrangement which was fully detailed
in Messrs. Sherman andl Ritchie’s Report, pub
lished in The Trig one of last week. This note
is such a rare specimen of epistolary compo
sition that we repeat it here in full: /
“The Inclosed letter fronr Col. Patterson of Philadelphia,
is submitted to the attention of the Secretary of the Navy.
—After this, will anybody dispute that James
Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United
Stales, is the greatest of all the J. Bs. 7 And
is there not some temptation to inquire whether
the author of such a note, written under such
circumstances, is more a fool ora knave? Or
does he combine the characteristic of the two
in pretty equal proportions ?—A". T. Tribune.
The Skunk Trade.— We do not leant that
the new business of hunting skunks for their
skins, has prevailed to any great extent in Che
mung County this winter. A few of the boys
about Horsehcads, we learn, have recently en
gaged in hunting the “varmints” and have
brought in a few of their skins for sale. They
are purchased here by fur dealers at from forty
to sixty cents, according to quality, but so far
the supply has been moderate. The “sport"
seems to be all the rage, however, among the
Nirnrods of Ohio, where skunk skins have sold
us high ns §l,OO and §1,25. The Cleveland
papers state that vast quantities of this new
staple have been brought to that city for ship
ment to New York city, and that everybody
there is looking for the end of the for season
with closed nostrils and bated breath. The
very air of every furrier’s shop in that city, it
is further stated, proclaims, “warranted to stink
or no sale,” while the tenants over the tin
shops, where pedlars with return cargoes from
the country do congregate, are forced to desert
the premises.
We learn that the hides with dark colored
furs are preferred and command the highest
prices. Such has been the slaughter and the
demand in some localities north of us, that
“essence pedlars” have become very scarce.
Tho demand for this kind of “fur,” seems to
have emanated in Europe, by .the feminines,
where pretty much ail our fashions are derived,
and where the said “varmint” is not called by
the unclassical name of “skunk.” O, no, “not
by any manner of -means,” but is known by
the poetical name of the “Mountain Fisher.”
We prophecy that next winter new and beauti
ful furs will be all the rage among the ladies,
and that the “Mountain Fisher" will he the
most popular of them all. —Elmira Advertiser.
State Legislature.
Feb. 25. Mr. Williston, on leave, read in
his place and presented to the Chair “An Act
repealing certain supplements to the act to in
corporate the Wellsboro and Tioga Plank Bond
Company” which was taken up and passed and
sent to the Senate for concurrence.
March 1. Mr. Palmer, presented the me
morial of Edward Bayer in relation to his con
nection with this road, which, on motion, was
ordered to be printed in the Record.
March 4, Mr. W ili.iston, leave being given,
read in his place and presented to the Chair,
the petition of citizens of Tioga county, in
favor of a law taxing dogs in said county.
Also, a remonstrance against the same.
Also, a petition for a change in tho road laws
in said county.
Also, an Act relating to judgments and exe
cutions in Tioga county.
Also, the petition of members of the bqr of
Tioga county, in favor of a bill now pending in
the Senate, though the Record does not say
what bill is referred to.
The Michigan Legislature has “put its foot
into it” by voting six hundred and fifty acres
of land to Mrs. Rogers, because she produced
little Kogefses at one and the same time.
It has set a precedent which may cost the State
thousands of acres of land. The Detroit Free
Press says that Mr. Job Burnhap, of Sumpter,
Wayne county, has applied to the legislature
to divide its favor. His papers set forth that
Mrs. Bujnap “has given birth to nine children
at four births, three of whom were bom ten
months after marriagethat he is a poor man,
therefore, prays for a donation of land as in
the case of Mrs. Rogers.
TpE Oldest Couple in Vermont is said to be
living in, Hardwick, the old gentlemen being 97 ,-
and his.wife 99, the two having lived together
in wedlock for 79 years. The old lady says
she can now do. more housework in a day than
half the girls in town, and her works prove it.
The Washington Tragedy#
1 From tho New York Independent#
• The elements of wickedness that ate gathered
and combined in the City of Washington dur
ing the ’Winter) and that are allowed free ac
cess to, and. operation within, whatever calls
itself “society" there, are, undoubtedly, on
paralled on this continent elsewhere. A great
number of men, from different parts of the
country, most of them with no strong or control
ling sense of moral obligations or religions res
ponsibilities, without even the ordinary social
and family ties which elsewhere surround them
to put restraint upon their conduct while there,
are convened each session by the meeting of
Congress. With them come also j great num
bers of men who live by their wits, as political
managers, as speculators interested in Govern
ment contracts, as lobby agents, petitioners for
Congressional favors, Ac.—who tjnd it for their
interest, as it is in addition for tbq gratification
of their own depraved appetites, ’to minister to
the passions and lusts of those by i whose favor
they live. Meantime, there is no paramount
and permanent public sentiment to put its
constraints upon the action of any one. Such
a thing is indeed an impossibility in a city
whose population is aggregated qoj loosely, and
held together for so short a time ; and there
fore os long as men keep within! the - palpable
limits of the law, or do not grossly and outra
geously overstep these, they may do pretty
much what they will. I j
Gambling-houses, drinking-saloons, and man
ifold filthy or fashionable resorts\;of licentious
indulgence, are therefore universally understood
and admitted to exist at Washington. The
! hotels are frequented, the Winter! through, by
j male and female adventurers and sharpers, from
1 all parts of the country ; and a more absolute
. mixing up of maidenly women and|courtezans,
I of decent men and profligate scanips, of every
I degree, and under every outward disguise, can
! hardly be imagined, than is presented on al
most any day in the dining or snjjpar-rooms of
one of these great and crowded caravanserais.
The very atmosphere, too, full of pojitieal ex
citement, of party intrigues, of schemes for
plunder, of maneuvering and diplomacy, in
which these swarms of people live-!—the rumors
that are starting around them all | the time of
this or that successful strobe on the part of
some Presidential aspirant, of this or lhat com
bination or stratagem, which is destined to af
fect the next elections most seriously—all this
absorption and stimulation of the mind by
merejpoUtical interests, and by successful or
unsuccessful management and chicane, tends
directly and powerfully to looseness of] morals.
The social state of a town cannot but be ex
cessively unhealthy where commerce or useful
industry hardly exists, at least among! the in
fluential classes; and where, at a fiishionablo
“soiree” or “reception,” a young bride fresh
from the country may sit next to a woman bla
zing with jewels, who has the reputation of
having been the Aspasia to more than One pop
ular Pericles ; or where a man of tastes as yet
untutored in wickedness—at least|in its] grosser
and more defiant forms—is engirt byja circle
of genteel scoundrels, some of them in Con
gress and more of them out of it, who know
how to utter the vilest sentiments in forms the
most sugary, and who do the very vilest deeds
with an easy sparkle and dash of manlier that
makes them look like innocent reqreatiolv. '
It is not at all surprising that amid [such a
social state as this, so constituted] and charac
terized, even such an outrage as that committed
by Brooks upon Sumner, for example,.'should
have passed comparatively without reproba
tion ; and it is not in the least degree Surpri
sing that such tragedies as that which isjbriefly
chronicled in our columns this week—and of
which our readers will doubtless have read else
where more detailed accounts—should ioccas
ionally occur. Similar occasions to thatiwhich
brought about the sudden and bloody death of
Key, do undoubtedly nut unfrequentlyljarise;
and though in the large majority of cases those
who are specially touched by these, fqr the
sake of all the interests involvedy of family,
reputation, pride, the future, seelc other! more
silent forms of redress, there will. be ; cases
when only the utter and instant destruction of
the life of the betrayer will satisfy tho form us
thirst for vengeance. We do hot justify Mr.
Sickles in his act- .It was simply! a summary,
(sanguinary, relentless street-murder, commit
ted of course under the greatest I possible pro
vocation, He has made himself i obnoxious to
tho laws of the country, to the judgment of his
1 countrymen, to the searching and terrific in
i quistion of his conscience,! which , can never
j shake off or really wipe out this stain of bipod ;
: above all, to God, whose judgment draws nigh
;er every hour. If his own life hqs been, as is
freely intimated, an impure and, this should
and will weigh heavily against him in the! op
inion and feeling of all just men, whether it
j does so in Courts or not. And the punishment
j that comes from a ruined home, from a blighted
j career, from the sense of being pilloried before
I the eyes of the country as a man. whose wife
proved faithless to him—tills he never can es
cape ; we see not that he can hope ever to Out
live it; and we cannot indeed wish that he
should. | ■(
But, while we speak thus of him the slayer,
we have only a lesson of admonition- to draw,
hardly one of regret, from the death oflthp
slain. If a man of the age and position of Mr.
Key, with children around him and the memory
of their deceased mother to detain him, per
tainly, one would think, from such forms ofisin
—if he uses hie powers and avails himseff of
the opportunities afforded by the ! unsuspicious
friendship of another, to carry the blight and
contamination of lust into a Household other
wise happy and then, as it is said, eiven
boasts of his success in the criminal amour
he ought to expect to be shot like a dbg wHen
eror he is discovered. It is well for such pol
ished scoundrels to understand that a sudden
bullet through their brains may be the barrier
to a further pursuit of such genteel but dim
rung crime. The old fashion was for a man
whose family had been invaded in jthis way tp
“call out” the traitorous debauchee who had
injured him and expose himself to the other’s
bullet. We have nothing to say in favor of the
mode of summary assassination I adopted iby
Mr. Sickles, except lhat in tho direction of ab
stract justice it seems to us at leasj; a largo qnd
useful advance on this former method. The
Christian way of dealing with such offenos were
of course, a different one from cither. | But one
would almost as soon think of applying that rule
to a menagerie of wild apes, as to a crowd! of
dainty treacherous and profligate blackguards
ns gathers naturally at Washington. f
“J. B."
Moving Slowly.— At Savannah, the Grikd
Jury has found true bills against Captain Cor
ne and three of his men of the yacht Wander
er, who are now in jail. We do not believe that
they will ever be convicted; and liftboy should
be, the President will pardon them to please
the advocates of the slave trade, j 1
March 3d, ot the residence of g, ma
Esq., near this Borough, by Bov. A. A, u
COBB, Esq., late editor of the Tiona
and Miss BETSEY D. BIXBY.
Ifoiice
IS hereby given to the citizens of
and all others interested, that alta.^' 1
said township most be presented to tfcT?
previous to the Auditor’s meeting for tt,,
otherwise they will not be paid, ° mr
JAS. STEELE 1
’ WM. ENGLISH t ®s>
Oelmar, March 18, 1559, Sm. f
lost and Found
A BOUT the first of December last p;„ .
mine strayed awny or were otherwimi
were whiter-one of them a bock. Any r
which will lead to their recovery will be
ceived.
ALSO—About the same time four jW.
my enclosure. The owner will please com.'? 5
prove property, pay charges and take Hem i* 4 *
Charleston, March 10, '59. JOHN
Auditor’s WoticcT
THE auditor appointed by the OrpW.,
and for the County of Tioga, to manta*’
and distribute the - fond arisingVponi the «i!
real estate of B. H. Chapman, dcrfd, late
township- in said Comity (soid by order
phan's Court,) will hear the parties imercjfc? 1 *
same at the School House near Betemaoi?
called the HubZander School House, in
ship, on Wednesday the 6th day of Xpril ntj*
o'clock P. M., when affd where all penwaw?
claims against said estate are required to he
and make proof of the same or be debarred
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JOHN W. GUERNSEY, Ada ,
IVellsboro, March 4th, 1859. * w *
WEtLSBOKO’ AClBE^p
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