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. THE AGITATOR. HUGH YOUNG, Editor & Proprietor. WELLSBOROUGH, PA. Tlmrsda}' Ittornlaff, Udarclt 10, ’SO. S. M. Pcttexqill & Co., 119 Nassau St., New York, and 10 State St., Boston, are tlie Agent* for the Agitator, and the most Influential and largest circulating Newspapers in the United States and the Canadas. They arc authorized to con tract for us at our lowest rates. 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 ing in for a’share of such assets, or fund. JOHN W. GUERNSEY, Ada , IVellsboro, March 4th, 1859. * w * WEtLSBOKO’ AClBE^p Wellsboro', Tioga County, Peasv Luther H, Burlingame, A* 8.«.. Mrs. FRANCES A. MAYNARD, 1 , Miss ELIZA J. BEACH, \ The Spring Term will commence on 8, and close on Friday, May 20. 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