replied the old divine. “I prayed to |God as
oar common father. I acknowledged that ho
would do justice; that it was hard for tis, poor
mortals, to say who was right and who was
wrong on earth ; that the very best were sin
ners, and those deemed the worst by us might
be regarded the best by Him. I prayed for
Isaac. I prayed God to forgive him, if wron*--,
t > forgive the whites, if he was right; to for
give and bless all. I was choked with tears.
I caught hold of Isaac’s hand and pressed it
warmly, and received his warm pressure in re
turn, And with a joy I never experienced be
fore or since, I heard his earnest, solemn ‘Amen 1
as I closed.
“We stood together for some time in silence.
Isaac was deeply moved. I saw it by the work
ing of his frame, and the muscles of his face
and his eye. For the first time tear-drops stood
on his eyelids. But, stilling every emotion, he
began, as calmly as if he were going to rest;
“ ‘Master, I shall die in peace, and I give you
a dying man’s blessing. I shall see you no
more on earth. Give my love to old master
and mistress, and'— for a moment he faltered,
but with concentrated energy choked down in
stantly his deepest emotion as he continued,
more solemnly than I ever heard mortal speak
—‘and, master, if you love me—if you love
Jesus—lead ray wife and children as you have
led me—to heaven. God bless you forever,
master.’
“We parted. I saw him no more. I could
not see him hung, or pray for him, as requested
t» do by others in the last dying hour. I had
been with him long. For four hours we were
together in his narrow, noisome cell.! How in
delibly are the events which occurred in them
i*ipressed upon my memory! Oh! slavery—
slavery!"
The citizens outside awaited anxiously the
good minister’s egress from the jail, and, when
he appeared, crowded round him to know the
result. He looked like one jaded with a long
journey He was worn down. “It is useless—
it is useless—let him die in peace,” was all he
said; and, seeing that he was deeply moved,
and taking it for granted that he had been en
gaged in devotional exercises with the dying,
silence pervaded the group, and he was allowed
to depart in peace. And never in public or in
a mixed audience, would that minister refer to
Isaac, or the hours he spent with him!
No other effort to elicit information from the
leader was made, and none who promised him
help wore discovered through him.
Tho dealh-day came. A mighty crowd gath
ered to witness the sad event to which, in that
place, it was to be devoted; and the military,
with gleaming swords and Jjright bayonets,
stood under the gallows, to guard against es
cape or difficulty. Six “felons” were upon the
gallows—it could hold no more—and Isaac was
put on the list. “Be men,” said be, when one
of the number showed some timidity, “and die
like men. I’ll give you an example: then,
obey my brother.” That brother stood next
him. Isaac gazed intently upon the crowd—
some thought he was looking for his wife and
children—and then spoke his farewell to his
young masters. A few words passed between
him and his brother, when, saying audibly,
“I’ll die a freeman,” he sprung up as high as
he could, and fell heavily as the knotted rope
checked hmfall. Instantly his frame was con
vulsed, and, in its muscular action, his feet
reached the plank on which he had stood, look
ing as if he sought to regain it. His brother,
turning his face to his comrades, deliberately
put bis band upon bis side, and, leaning for
ward, hold the body clear with bis elbow, as he
said : “Let us die like him.”
The authorities perceived that the terrors of
the law would be lost, and none of “the good”
they anticipated be secured among the blacks,
especially, who filled up the miter circle of the
dense crowd, if this lofty heroism were wit
nessed. They proceeded rapidly with the exe
cution, and, in a few moments, Isaac and his
brother and their felon comrades were asleep
together.
Tho bodies of the blacks, after dangling in
the air the usual time, as if in mockery of
heaven and earth, were cut down, coffined, and
carted away to their burial-place. That was
an out-of-the-way old field, with a stagnant la
goon on three sides of it, and a barren sand
waste, covered, with a sparse growth of short
pines, on the other.
*■»*•»***
Of the plot, Isaac’s wife knew nothing. He
had evidently thought of his failure, and com
mitted no women, and as few married men as
lie could. He meant, let what might happen
to him, that his partners should suffer no harm.
This *was evident enough from ( lus conduct.
For, the first thing he did after lus arrest, was
to desire an interview with his master. That
was denied him. Not that the old gentleman
was cruel or angry—-for be loved Isaac—but
because, as he said, “lie could not stand it.”
The next thing was to send for h»s young mas*
tir. lie came, and to him he said: “Massa
Thomas, I have sent for you to say, that my
wife docs cot know anything about the insur
rection, or any of roy action, I wanted to see
cld master to beg of him not to sell or separate
her and the children. I must got you to do
that. And, Massa Thomas, when yuur father
dies, I want you to promise that you will help
them.” The young man promised (and we re*
juice to say his word was kept,) and then Isaac,
the slave and the felorl, blessed him. Never
again, until near his last hour, when conversing
with his minister, did ho refer to his family,
and the only messngcrhe sent them was a torn
liible, with this sentence rudely writ down on
one of the leaves • “IVe shall Jive again, and
be together.” So deep was his affection for his
family, and so careful was he to ward off every
suspicion from them.
I met, last summer, the slaveholder—an in*
telligent and humane man—-who commanded
the military the day Isaac was hung.
I referred to the scene. He spoke of it as
one of the most moving that he had ever wit
nessed, and to my surprise, though very much
to my gratification, remarked :
. “I never knew what true heroism was until
I saw Isaac manifest it upon his seizure, trial
and death. 1 felt my inferiority to him in every
way, and I never think of him without ranking
him among the best and bravest men that ever
lived.”
The record below tells of his crime, and ho
will be remembered on earth as a felon; but the
record above will contain his virtues, and in
heaven the good will know and lore him—for
Isaac was a Max,
The Other Side of the Store.—Prestige
says that Jous H. Store, an editor in Minne
sota, was personally punished the other day for
a libel upon another njenjborof the profession.
There are two sides to every story and one of
John's lias been kicked. i
Mr. Grow stumped in Kew Hampshire the
last f oar days of the Campaign,
THE AGITATOR,
HUGH TODNG, Editor & Proprietor.
WELLSBOROUGH, FA.
Thursday Morning, March IT, ’59.
CORRUPTION.
In his inaugural address two years ago, Mr.
James Buchanan alluded to the unparalelled
financial condition of the nation, and with re
gret somewhat mingled with'joy, he remarked,
that in the history of our Government we had
never been before embarrassed by a surplus
treasury. In order to get rid of this embar
rassment be urged upon Congress the duty of
adding to the force of the Navy, and of extin
guishing the public-debt.
The nation was not long embarrassed by a
surplus in tho treasury. Less than one year
after the reading of his Inaugural Mr. Buchan
an saw the nation embarrassed in another
direction. In December of that year the Gov
ernment was on the verge of bankruptcy, and
Treasurj.notcs to the amount of twenty millions
of dollars was demanded to save it.
Ever since the fourth of March, 1857, the
whole policy of the Administration of Buchan
an has been with n view to exhaust the Treas
ury and to prevent the “embarrassment” of a
sufplus. The Utah war farce, the Thirty Mil
lion Bill for the acquisition of Cuba, and other
measures ostensibly of national interest, have
all been successful or unsuccessful efforts in the
same direction. Most of those the Representa
tives of the people at "Washington could watch
and guard against in Congress, but another
method of draining the treasury to prevent “the
embarrassment of a surplus” was adopted,
which the nation could not see, and which is
only dragged to the light through the medium
of Investigating Committees, and of this method
we now propose to speak.
The Report of Messrs. Sherman and Ritchie
on corruptions in the Naval Department, for
which our thanks are due to Senator Cameron,
is a searching and thorough exposure not only
of the way in which political cormorants are
gorged by tho President to secure power by
their aid, hut it also sljows how false-hearted
and hypocritical he was iu his Fort Duquesno
letter, in which he deplored the growing dispo
sition to political corruption in this country.
This letter was copied into the journals of
Europe and paraded before the millions there,
to show how corrupt were our Republican insti
tutions. How jubilant will tho oligarchs of
Europe feel at this exposh of the corruption of
the President himself! This Report shows
that contracts are awarded to the highest bid
ders if they are political favorites; that the
Secretary of the Navy awarded contracts to
his relatives although there were others who
underbid them thousands of dollars; that a
man named Plitt, received $lO,OOO for securing
a contract for supplying live oak atrthe most
exorbitant rales to a man who. contributed a
largo sum to aid in carrying Pennsylvania for
Buchanan in ISSG ; that the coal contract was
given'to.a man who allowed outside favorites to
do the busihcsSj Who charged exorbitant rates
and divided the profits among themselves, Bu
chanan being fully aware of this truly Shamo
cratio arrangement; that Jehu Glancy .Jones—
whom the President sent as Minister to Austria
to reward him for being ignored by tho honest
old- Dutchmen of Berks—while in Congress,
received five per cent on the contracts he re
ceived for others at the Navy Department, as a
reward for his influence ; and lastly .that a con
tract was awarded to Merrick <t Sons, of Phil
adelphia at an excess of 84,000 over the lowest
bidder for the purpose of influencing the elec
tion of Florence in whoso district this firm re
sides. It was managed in this’ way. Before
the Secretary of the Navy had passed upon any
of the bids, the following letter was sent by
Colonel IV, C. Patterson, of Philadelphia, to the
President;
' Philadelphia, September 13,1858.
Dear Sir : I venture to suggest to you (ho impor
tance of a wartime? the contracts fur the machinery of
the sloop, now building at the navy yard nt this time,
and if it can be done without prejudice to tbo public
sereice, to Merrick & Sous. Theirs is the only cstuh
lUbmont in the first district which employs a large
number of mechanics ; at this timo 390; when in full
work, 450.
Tho managing partners (Mr. M., sr., being absentin
bad health,) are full of energy, straining every nerve
to keep their force during this depression, and, in so
far as I know, the only old whigs of any influence in
that district who are in favor of the rc-elcction of
Colonel Florence.
I know, from former experience, the value of that
Influence, and feel persuaded that it is the interest of
the democratic party to inoroaeo it
The first district will, I hepe, ba carried in any
ovgqt, and with that shop at work, full banded, two
weeks prior to (he election, tho remit would, I think,
bo planed beyond all doubt.
With much regpoct, Vf, C.
The President.
This letter was sent to the Secretary of the
Nary by the President with this endorsement:
‘‘The enclosed letter from Colonel Patterson, of
Philadelphia, is submitted to the attention of the See
retaryof thaSavy. J. B.”
The press of the whole country for the past
two weeks, has been filled with leaders and
communications showing up in the strongest
light, the moral and social corruption which
abounds at tho capital. Of this subject it is
not our purpose at present to speak. For the
honor of the country abroad, Washington onght
to bo purified, and the facts just elicited by tho
industry and fearlessness of Messrs. Sherman
and Ritchie will do much to show the rotten
ness o£| society morally, as well os politically.
If the atmosphere which surroujbds the White
House’ was as pure as it ought to be, an adul
terer would not be likely to be shot down for
his crimes, under its walls, nor tho slayer re
ceive the sympathy of its inmates. It is im
possible to be politically corrupt and to be at
tho same time morally and socially pure. In
the early history of the Government, no mur
ders nor assignations, nor adultery, nor bribery,
nor peculations, nor frauds disgraced Washing
ton society; nor were these crimes winked at
by the leaders of the times. The late tragedy,
after all may be in its effects upon society, the
best thing for Washington, which has occurred
for many years, let as hope so.
.THE -TIOGA COHSTY AGITATOR.
Senate. —-March 7. On moßijn of Mr. Sco
field “An actin’ regard to Collectors in Tioga
County" Was considered and pasted.
HotrsE.—March 7. Mr. Williston presented
a -petitiotf from members of the “bar of-Tioga
County foe the abolition of-the arbitration law :
by the enactment of a referee law.
Same day Mr. Williston offered the following
original resolution;
■ -Whereas, The Susquehanna river is a public
highway, and drains part-of the' territory of
New’ York And xchereas, There are several'
dams weross-tbe channel of eaid river-that im
pede and destroy much of the property descend
ing said river, and wholly obstruct shad and.
other fish in ascending, whereby not only the:
citizens of this Stale, but all the citizens of the
State of New York are greatly injured in their
rights; therefore,
Resolved, That the Judiciary, Committee he.
instructed to inquire into the right to keep np
and maintain said dams, and report to this
House, by bill or otherwise, as they may deem
proper.
Mr. Williston favored his resolution in some
remarks. j .
The resolution passed.
March 8. Mr. Williston read “An Act
amending the road laws of the county of Tio
ga.” (Referred to Committee on Roads and
Bridges.)
Mr. Williston moved to discharge the Com
mittee from the further consideration of the
bill just read by him ; which was agreed to.
The bill was ordered on the Private Calendar,
March 9, On motion of Mr. Scofield, House
bill No, 527, “A supplement to an act incorpo
rating ■ the Wellsboro and Tioga plank road
company” was considered and passed.
March 9. Mr. Willistok, leavebeinggiven,
read in place a bill authorizing the collecting of
taxes for support of the poor in Tioga county.
Also, petitions. ■ ,
Bgf* A bill is before the Legislature of this
State to make the office of State Treasurer elect
ive by the people. Also a Personal Liberty
BUI.
“Everett writes for tue N. Y. Ledger.”—
Mr. John A. Washington publishes in the Bal
timore Sun, the following advertisement, which
might bo used by Mr. Everett to good advan
tage as a text for his next contribution to the
N. Y. ledger:
“3500 Reward. —Ran away from my farm, near
/W Salem, in Fauquier County. Virginia, r£y negro
man. Joe. Joe is about iwcnty-oiro-'-yeara old,
!ivo feet ten or eleven inches high, and very dark, the'
not entirely black color. Bo liras a very plain, deep
scar on his throat —I think on his rightsidc. His ad
dress and manners are polite. lie was purchased a
short time since from .Mr John Richardson, near Ber
ryvillo, Clark County, Virginia, and Will probably go
cither in that direction or toward the Point of Rocks.
One hundred dollars will be paid for him if taken in
Virginia, the District of Columbia, or on the Potomac
'River, Two hundred dollars if taken in Maryland,
and one half of what ho will sell for in Alexandria, if
taken elsewhere. In any event to be secured and de
livered to me, in the County Jail of Alexandria, Va.,
before the reward is paid.
Joj/y A. IVAsnt.vcro.T.
Mount Vernon , Vo.', Jan. 14, 1859. jls-2w*
Republican Victory.
The late election in New Hampshire has re
sulted in the election of Goodwin (Repub.) for
Governor by over 3000 majority. The Repub
licans have also elected by handsome majorities,
all three Congressmen, XT6 Representatives and
12 Senators.
BOT" The Great Republic Monthly for March
is received. It presents a flashy appearance,
and is filled in great part with weak and pur
poseless literature. Its wood engravings are
usually good, and that is about all the good we
can say of it. For sale by Smith & Richards.
Of the same character is the "Bed, While
and Blue ” a new sonsatlon-stOry paper in Phil
adelphia.
We find on our table a new paper “The Penn
sylvania State Journal” published in Philadel
phia. Its initial number ys a good one. It
proposes to occupy a limited field and occupy
that thoroughly. It intends to devote itself to
the interests of our State and to make itself
worthy to be read in and welcome to every
Pennsylvania family.
B®* Those who desire a cheap edition of
Sir Walter Sootts novels may have an opportu
nity to procure them now. Messrs. T. B. Pe
terson & Brothers of Philadelphia have com
menced the publication of these works from
the orginai Edinburg edition. They will be
completed in 26 large octavo volumes—one be
ing published every week—and will bo sent by
mail free of postage to any address for the low
price of 25 cents per volume or So for the 20.
B@“ God eg for April is freighted with good
things for the ladies. There are sixty four en
gravings in this number, among which are
twelve full length figures of fashions. “Miss
Slimmers’ Window,” is as good as many of the
“Bedott papers.” For sale by Smith & Rich
ards,
Mr. Grow- has represented the people of the
Fourteenth Congressional District in Congress
for the last eight years. He is a striking in
stance of the wisdom of keeping the same man
in legislative service for successive terms. He
is a man of decided ability, a fluent speaker, a
vigorous debater, prompt in action, as Kertt
can testify, and fertile in resource. Experience
ce, added to excellent native capacity, has made
him an accomplished parliamentarian. There
are a number of men in the last Congress his
equals in intellect, but it is no disparagement
to them to say that few if any could have os
skillfully engineered through the House the
Homestead Bill or brought the Postage ques
tion- to as ready a test. The fact is' Northern
men are too often taken out of Congress just ns
they are becoming most nseful. The new mem
ber is shy. He is somewhat daunted by the
bold tone of his Southern opponents. Ho is
constantly liable to be tripped up in his igno
rance of parliamentary' tactics. He is therefore
necessarily hesitating in his action because not
sure of his ground. Give him experience ; ho
becomes familiar with the mode of-transacting
business and with the details of parliamentary
law. He learns to estimate Southern bluster at
its true value, and each day of kig career be
comes more valuable to his country and more
creditable to himself. Mr. Grow has plufck of
a high order, os well os brains. He has hon
esty os well as experience. Straight forward,
affable, attentive to his business, familar alike
with the needs of the country and its resources,
ho is a representative of which the Fourteenth
I Congressional District may well be proud.—
Sertznim Republican.
'‘September 15, 1853,
State Legislature.
Galusha A Grow.
UN IC AT 1 0 K£, _
i>‘ Action t
Mft^Yonitc; With your permission I propose
to say a'few words to the freemen of Tioga, ns
.regards .ifflf necessity. joLaction- in. kcj.plng.the.
true spirit alive inpur ranks and the danger of
too long reposing npoh'tlic memory AE past vie-;
toriesr It needs no argument to prove that, in
any department of life, in order to insure sue-,
cess, earnest, efficient action is necessary. No
.sane man in these days, expects to accomplish
anything worthy-of-a man without girlng.it
his best efforts.* -This principle is* universally
recognized .by-all practical .men... Everything
which pecuniarily affects them—whatever con
cerns them in a moral, social or intellectual
point of view—they enter upon with a will
which knows no defeat • and why should, that
which affects our political welfare deserve less
attention ? In my judgment, our political rights
are among the first which -should receive our
attention, and that it is among the first duties
of the American citizen to be intelligently in
formed upon the various questions which are
presented before him—the wrongs which he is
called upon to redress—the issues to decide
through the medium of the ballot-box.
Does the farmer attend to tbc affairs which
appertain to his farm during two or three months
of the" year and the remainder of the time give
them no heed whatever? . Docs the merchant,
lawyer, or physician, measure tape, plead law,
or attend to the “ills which flesh-is heir to” for
a brief season and then abandon their various
callings to the keeping of others f Then why
should any man who believes in the doctrines,
taught by bis early fathers—who believes in
the religion of the Declaration of lodepencence
—who believes that that sacred instrument.is
not merely a siring of glittering generalities—
mere rhetorichal flourishes and-political abstrac
tions—-who upholds the Right and condemns
the Wrong—l say why should any.man who
believes and feels these things give them heed
only during some political campaign? I would
not convey the idea that one should be fanatical
in politics, that he should be constantly obtrud
ing his opinions upon jthe attention of others
by no means. But I would have every man
alive to a true sense of his responsibility to the
various duties which he owes to himself, to his
country, and to those who are to come after
him; and in my opinion, the greatest safeguard
to human liberty is an intelligent, thinking po
litical people. Tins is troo of every represent
ative government. The relation which the citi
zen of these United States and the citizen of
monarchial Europe sustains to their respective
governments are very different. Practical!y r ifc
matters not to the subject of any of the great
aristocratic nations of the East, whether he
takes an interest in the affairs of his country
or not. There all power is vested in the crowned |
heads and the titled nobility. . All power ema
nates from them. The hard-working man, who
is nature's true nobleman, is but the passive re
cipient of. whatever his rulers in the plentitude
of their power ace fit to give him, lie is taxed
to support a government in which he, in fact, j
has no part nor lot. He fights that his sover
eign may boast of victories. He labors tlmt |
another may revel in luxury. lie is poor that |
another may be rich ; while nothing short of a
revolution can change the tendency of fais gov
ernment. But such, thank Heaven 1 is not the
condition of a citizen of our common country.
Here we find the order of things completely re
versed. Hero all power emanates from the
people. They are 'the only true sovereigns.—
They rule their rule>s. They have but to com
mand, and every officer from his excellency, the
President, to the Overseer of the'Poor, must
obey their mandate, and all this is in perfect
harmony with existing laws, and are m conso
nance with the spirit of oor institutions.
Considering these things—considering that
the voters of to-day are giving shape to the fu
ture policy of our government, is it not import
ant that every man should fully understand the
responsibilities which by virtue of his position
devolve upon lum? Can he fully know the
value of his vote and be in ignorance of the va
rious political questions which are at the bar
of public opinion of his country ? Hence if wo
would preserve in purity the liberties of this
people—if we would preserve in purity those
great and glorious principles which we have re
ceived from our constitutional fathers, and then
transmit them to coming generations free from
the hands of modern Goths and Vandals, is it
not, honest reader, the duty of you and I, the
duty of each and every one of us to conduct
ourselves in such a manner that this glorious
event may be secured ? And .if such duties de
volve upon us, can we truly and faithfully per
form them by once a year, for a brief season,
giving finis subject a passing notice ? Let us
then be preparing for the great struggle which
will soo(n be upon us I In 1856 we went forth
to battle with ourforees undisciplined, and with
out previous organization. Our men were not
thoroughly united, and shall we witness the
same state of affairs in 1800 ? Or rather, shall
we not now begin marshaling our forces for the
coming contest? In time of peace shall we not
prepare for war 7 Shall we again pat off every
thing to the eleventh hour ? Shall wc again en
ter upon a Presidential campaign with no con
cert of action? Republicans of Tioga, in con
clusion, shall wc be behind our neighbors in
the struggle for free “lands for the landless vs,
niggers for the niggerless T” Where shall the
first Republican Club be organized ?
Middlebury. Pra>*K.
<■ a For the Agitator.
Have wc a Musical Critic among us ? .
The oft-repeated question, “Have we a Bour
bon among us?” dwindles into-.insignificance
by the aide of the more important question at
the head of this communication. I think in a
musical community such a thing—.excuse me
Mr, Editor—such a person is necessary and a
real benefit to singers, and I think we have ev
idence that wo have, at least, an aspirant after
critical honors among us. As evidence I find
the following critique in the IVeJlsboro Demo
crat of March 2d:
"There were among tho members of tho Convention
several exoolicnt singers, and when opportunity offered,
they acquitted themselves creditably. A few cultiva
ted voices however, could not be expected to conceal
the defects or prevent the discords frequent in all the
piece* executed by the class."
That there were in tho class several excellent
singers who acquitted themselves creditably, is
acknowledged fay others than’our critic. Dis
cords and defects there were in some not aU the
pieces sung by*the class; but will our critic
consider that the class was composed of mem
bers from different parts of the County, mostly
strangers to each other, knowing scarcely any
thing about the science of music, much less the
practical part of it; but all gathered together
for the purpose of learning. Many of us did
not get there until the second, and some not till
the last day of the Convention, and could not
in reason be expected to sing broken and diffi
cult music—difficult both in time and tone
without "defect or discord." But a* there is no
way to learn such or any other music except by
practice,, and as we leflbbr-homea and business
and went over bad roads with no other, object
in view, but to learn, it was.'hardly to bo expect
cd that wo should sing as well as the aetropol-
judging fromJiis ar
ticle in the Democrat, the critic has been m the
habit of rS&eqip'g to.' ) 1
We do not believe the rest of the audience
who so generously cheered us on by their pres
ence.and quarters expected this. A just criti
cism I consider a great benefit to a class of sing
ers ; ljut to be just it must come from a man
well versed in the science of me sic.. Now I
submit that it was an aqt of injustice anJ.inib
erality in subjecting those to criticism who make
no pretensions to be good, or even common
singers, but are using the best advantages they
have to become such. If gCod cultivated voices
sing out of time or tone,'criticise them sharply,
it will do them good; but to drag a learner—a
new beginner—before the public, and criticise
his faults before 'lie has had a reasonable time
to overcome them, is unjust, and will in most
cases have a contrary tendency.
Again, the Democrat says :
Fur the Agitator.
“It rany be our dislike to the choruses and some of
the other performances is the fault of our taste more
than the character of the music.”
We wish this point could be definitely settled,
for if it is the music which is at fault, then Mr.
I. B. Woodbury has shown bad taste and we
do not wish to follow him: but if it should be
or could be that the taste of our critic is in fault,
then we will continue to try to learn to sing
Mr. "Woodbury’s music at the risk of offending
on future foccaslons the cultivated ear of this
censor. |
The “other performances” were a very hap
py speech from Rev. J. F. Calkins and a few
parting words from Prof. Fox. If he did not
like them, why not criticize' them ? These are
both public men. This would have been more
manly than to characterize their remarks as
“other performances,” leaving those that were
not at the concert to guess what the “other per
formances” were. On'E or ran Learners.
Tioga, March 9th, 1859-
Examinations will tako place as follows:
Brookfield, (Plank School House,) April 4 ,
Westfield, “ 5
Glymer, (Sahinsrille,) “ 6
Gaines, (Furmantown,) “ 7
Middlebury, (Potter School House,) “ 8
Chatham, (Treat School House,) " 9
Mansfield, “ 11
Covington, “ 12
Blosa, “ 13
Blockhouse, I " 14
Union, (Swamp School House,) " 15
Gray’s Valley, “ 16
Roseville, “ 18
Jackson, (Diiggetts Mills,) „ “ 19 _
Tioga, ' “ 20
luwrenoeville, . " 21
Beechers Island, “22
Farmington, (Hotisei School House,) “ 25
Dartt Settlement, “20
Wellsboto, ; “27
Union Academy, i “ 29
Osceola, d “ 30
Examinations Commence St 9 o’clock. Jlone
admitted after 10 o’clock. One half of all the
teachers who took schools during the past win
ter previous to their examination, were found
wholly incompetent, were rejected and lost their
wages. J refer to this to show the character of
those teachers who refuse or neglect to come
forward to the regular examinations.
Both teachers and directors loose hy any
such erosion of a good and wholesome law, and
I hope the number who try to repeat this ex
periment during the coming season, will be
few. Under the old system there were a large
number of ‘‘itinerating teachers” who would
palm themselves off on one district, and faffing
there would the next season, go to another and
thus would teach for years ; a damage to every
school and a nuisance to every community.
This sort of thing is, not to be tolerated.
Any teacher failing in the spelling book at
these examinations will be considered incompe
tent to teach a summer school. To pronounce
spelling lesson's well is an indispensible quali
fication. Much of the time will he devoted to
ascertaining the teachev’s ability in this respect.
Teachers will please provide themselves with
pen, ink, and paper as usual.
Ail persons'ho ceres led ; n education are in
vited to attend these examinations.
The Secretary of the Board of Directors is
especially requested to bo present and to bring
with him the Monthly Reports of teachers for
the current year. fv. L. Bevxoi.ds,
Co.- Sup’t,
A gentleman hands us the following letter
which throws some' light on a dark subject.
The writer was formerly a resident ofhthia
Borough :
Ge.veseo, 1r.r,., March 7, 1859.
Friexu CnatsTEXAT; Dear Sir f I wrote tn
yon last week, but as there has been a change
in the minds of the people here about Pike’s
Peak I thought I would write to you again.
Last September there were twelve men selected
from this County to go to Cherry Creek to pros
pect, and to see what the chances were there.
Six of the party were old California miners.—
I will give their statement as I got it from two
of the party: ■
They got there and commenced mining the
first day of October, nnd mined up to the first
of February-foor months. They divided their
party and hired eight men, making twenty in
all, yet, though they had everything they want
ed to mine with, with all their hard labor they
could not makc enough to pay their hired labor;
and the best mines were not paying above SI
per day to the man. I-then asked what were
the chances for supplying provisions nnd farm
ing. They say the market is over-supplied with
provisions—many selling at less than cost.—
There is not much chance for farming, as the
land is poor and chiefly taken up by specula
tors. The}' say they met 1500 teams on their
way (half of them owned by speculators) load
ed with provisions; 300 had their families with
them—going at farming.
They say there are men hired to write nnd
circulate these large stories to induce people to
go there, and that some men whom I met on
the ears are hired by speculators who live on
Cherry Creek to go around- from place to place
and from office to office and advertise these large
storms. I have heard a great many more dis
couraging stories than I have time to write now
There are over two hundred men in this county
who were ready to go as soon as the roads were
passable who have backed out. I think ns it
stands now we had better not go. If we can
not do anythmg there we had better stay away.
I don t think I shall go at present. I will write
to y°u m a few weeks again. Write to me at
thi3j>lace. Respectfully jours.
For tho Agitator.
Common Schools.
Pita’s Feat.
.Habslsos Pabksajt.
About those Thiett
ington correspondent of the Jf. y y
on elaborated and plausible argument
for an explanation of the
through Congress the thirty millions MB*v
the Times editorially states os foU OWa .
“An impulse stronger and more i ratnßj .
than the remote suggestions of political' ,
tion now appears to account for the Co
ional agitation. The bill granting
dent control of the thirty millions of He
money is a measure of speculation not It .
tics. The funds thus placed at the
of the Chief Magistrate who now standi
his .Nsyr York organ confesses, ' “almost *
looking about him in vain for a part T 0t ‘ 1
be used, not towards the purchase of Got i 4
simply to set on foot a grand scheme for bo -J*
up Spanish bonds in Europe at their B
depreciation, and raising their market tak>?
forcing the Spanish government to parti, 4
in full or surrender Cuba as an equiv a i eat _., 5a
r The Kansas Legislature has passed w
providing for an election on the fourth
in March, to decide for or against holding
convention to form a State Constitution,
decision' be favorable, an election for fittj
gates to the said convention will be held o»i.
first Tuesday in June. The convention rj
meet on the first Tuesday in July, at
dotte city. The constitution framed bj’fij,
convention shall be submitted to the vote
people on the first Tuesday in October, ft.
officers under this constitution shall be
on the first Tuesday in December.
FARREI, HERRIWG^S
- PATENT CHAMPION SAFE,
LATE PI3IE AT BUBCQCE, lOWA,
Dubuque, Jan. 7,135)
Gents: lam requested by 3lr. T. A. C.
this place, to say-to you that on the morning
4th inst., about 3 o’clock, his store took fire, aad-v,
entire stock of goods was destroyed. The heat
so suddenly intense tbs& none of the goods could
sibly be saved; but fortunately his boobs and
which wero in one of your Champion Safes jre.ijs
preserved perfectly. And well they may be
Champion, for duriirg’ the whole conflagration
was one incessant pouring of flame directly upontj.
Safe which contained them. And still upon opes;;,
it, the inside was fouad to be scarcely warm,
the outside was most severely scorched. Youwtnj
N. A-. McCLCBE.' 1
Herring's Patent Champion Fire and Burgbr-IW
Safes, with HALL'S -PATENT POlVHi’f! PfiOOf
LOCKS, afford the greatest security ef any in ;;j
world. Also Sideboard and Parlor Safes, ofglegut
workmanship and Anion, for plate Ac.
FARREL, HERRING A CO., hare rumored from
34 Walnut SL, to their new store, No. dig Chesty;
St., (Jayne's Hall.) where the largest assortment
Safes in the world can bo found
FARREL, HERRING & CO.,
C 29 Chestnut Street, (Jayne’s Hall)
Alarch 17, I S 3 9. PMla'Mphti.
PETERSONS’ CHEAP AND COMPLETE EDITION 0?
The Waverley Novels;
BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, CART.
The works of an author like Srott cann.it be too exlev
lively diffused. No one can rise from a perusal of hu m
tings without having been instructed as ircll'as
The cause of religion, virtue, and morality finds an airocm
on every page. It has been well observed byaa alilemi
eloquent American critic, that **Jf ever wnterdeserved tu>
verbal citizenship, it was Sir Walter Scott. I7e w<u ths Pr.
of Nature, the delineator of his hpi ctes ia every clim»ta mi
on every soil; so that wherever his work* were’kao«rfl,tien
was In* to be regarded as a native anil a denizm.’’
THE WAYERLY NOVELS—WILL CO3IPRI3B.
Ivivnftoe. Qucrit? D^rwruyt
Rob Roy. St; Well.
Guy Mannering. Red Gauntlet.
The Antiquary. The Lorrotfied.
OM Mortality. The Talisman,
i Heart of MiJ-Lotlnan Wyo.htock.
Brtde’of Lammerraoor. The Highland Wide*.
"Waverley. ’ - Two Drovers.
Kehiiworrh, Aunt if trgnret'r.Vimr,
The pirate. Tape?tried Chamber.
The DLvck Dwarf. TUe-L-urJ"*. Jock.
A. Legend of Montrose The Fair Maid of Perth.
The Monastery. Anne of Geierstem.
Tfte AfjfcuC.. Count Hobert o( I’ura*
TUe Fortuny of Nigel ' C.iMlc Dbngoroo*.
Pevenl of tho Peak. The Soldier"' Daughter.
Glossary for the North.
And tho whol* of the above will be published wajht
2G volumes. and will bo famished complete and
low price of
25- CENTS FOR EACH NOVEL.
TfiSMS OF SUBSCRIPTION TO THE 26 VOLCiZi
One complete sett, 26 volume** in all, will bo seat w«a*«*
to any place in the United States, free of postage.
DOLLARS.
Two Copies of each Novel, or two complete setts, mitatS
volume"* fn all, will be sent to any place m th# Csud
States, free of postage, for NINE DOLLAPtS.
Address sH orders to the Publisher?,
T. B- PETERSON k BR0TITO&
N'o. 306 Chestnut Street, PhiUdelpU
March If. 1S&.
Notice
IS hereby grten to the citizens of Delmar towciia
and all others interested, that all accounts
Saul township mnyt 5e presented to the Sapervjtf
prcvroiM to tins Auditor’s Hreeting for tho current l&t
otherwise they will not bo paid.
JA£. STEELE, {
WM. E XQLISII, ) J ‘
Delmar, Mafch 10, ISSO, sm. .
tost and Found.
ABOUT tho first of December last Fire She*? 1 *
mine strayed away or were otherwise lost. i-7
were white—one of them a buck. Any infrns Jt “*
which will lead to their" recovery will bo tbaokfuJ/f*'
ceivcd.
ALSO—About tho same time four sheep
tny enclosure. The owner will please come for
prove property, pay charge* aod take them 3^ i7 -
Charleston, March IU, ’ 59. JOHS LEj'L
WELISBORO’ AC.4DCW*
Wollsboro', Tioga County,
Lntfior R. Bnrliag-ame, A. B.; - •
Mrs. FRANCES A. MA^NAKD, I
Miss ELIZA J, BEACH, I
The Spring Term will commence o"
S, and close on Fridnrj*, May Ths Sumaicr
will comtnenco on Tuesday, May 3l,andclo»3 oc** r
day, Aug. 12. • )
TnKioif. j»
Juvenile Department, . - ■ . - •
Courmori English Branches, • • • • jtfj
Higher English Branches, - •- - * ;*,
Language*, . , . - * - ' S
Drawing, (extra) * *
By order of Trn-*^ e ,
J. T. DONALDSON P** u
TVellsboro, March 10,1359.
J% m etc Drug
THE UNDERSIGNED takes pleasure i““'S
cing to tho citizens of WellsbproandficiniJ
he has just opened a new Drug Store in
OSGOOD’S
whore he has a complete assortment of
Drugs & Medicines,
which ho will sell cheap for cash.
Our Stock of Drugs is complete, embracinS eT
article ever called for.
PATENT MEDICINES,j
Jayne’s, Ayre's, H&mbold’s, Mcßanc's. Brs°| - t.
other popular Medicines, together with ” ular i,
sam. Cod Liver, Oil, Wolf's Aromatic Schoapsi
CHOICE WINES AND llQl'Ofo
for Medicinal and Sacramental uses.
faults ®IW*
of tho best quality.
Flavoring Extracts, Spices, Pepper, J-- *
Soda, Caadlos, Soap, Burning * lul 1
Campheno, Turpentine, Alcohol.
And an innumerable variety of article}
°’V Pleas# call at the NEW DRUG
P. R. WILLIAMS, s,
Wellsboro, March 10; 1359. _ ,
CAMPIIENE A BURNING FUUID,**
Drug Store. . P. R.
%
SODA SALERATUS and Crewe T^, 1 ?
Drug Store. P. H. WXtLIA—'