in vain for him. And it seemed certain that
he could not have gone ashore.
The next day, I was talking with the Rev.
Mr. Goggles, not about the gambler but on
general topics. Of course his life as an iutln
erant, was full of interest to me. He told roe
how cheaply he lived and travelled from place to
place; that he was often hungry, and never
had over ten dollars at once.
“I have only five now,” and to verify his
statement he took from his pocket a half eagle.
I glanced at it. There was a hole in it with
a ring attached ! It was certainly the proper
erty of the young man from Cincinnati!,
“What is the ring for ?” 1 asked.
• This piece was given me by a woman in Ar
kansas, who was converted under my prea
ching.”
The liar, I had already made up my mind
that be was an imposter, in short that he was
the’ mysterious gambler. Before dinner time I
had an opportunity to whisper my views to the
Captain, and while we were at dinner, his gtale
room was searched. A large sum of money
was found there, and many of the gamblers
tools, as well as the dress the “unknown” had
worn.
“Parson can you swim ?” asked the captain
os the Reverend Mr. Goggles some upon the
boiler deck.
“A little,” he replied.
“You will have a chance to try ; I am going
to throw yon overboard.”
The captain took him by the collar, and ex
plained the matter to the astonished passen
gers, who were quite ready to assist in empty
ing his pockets, olnd throwing him overboard.
The money taken from him was paid over to
bis victims.
The last we saw of him ho was swiming vig
orously towards the shore, cursing the captain
with ns much zeal os he had used in praying
and exhorting.
The young man got his cherished coin and
1 trust learned a useful lesson.
Who did it ?—While the more unscrupulous
■of the democratic papers are endeavoring with
all their might to fasten on Mr. Grow and the
Republicans the responsibility of the defeat of
the Post Office hill, the Washington Star has
the candor to come out boldly and place the
blame on the right person. The Star very can
didly remarks ;
“Through the speech of Mr. Toombs, evi
dently delivered to kill time, nnd thus prevent
action of the Senate on the report of the Confe
rence Com mi l tee on the Post Office Appropria
tion bill until the session closed, that measure
has failed to become a law. It embraced appro
priations to the amount of an aggregate of $20,-
000,000; three millions to cover deficiencies,
and the balance for the cost of the service in
the fiscal year. The enactment of the bill in
some shape was a measure of as much vital ne
cessity to the operations of the government as
that of any other to be conceived of. Its fail
ure to become a law may make an extra session
imperatively necessary. In undertaking thus
to set his own judgment above and beyond that
of a majority of the Senate, to the point of pre
venting the Executive branch of the Govern
ment from paying out a dollar on account of
postal expenses, and thus destroying its postal
service, Mr. Toombs has assumed a respon
sibility which seems to us to embrace conclu
sive evidence that his impracticability as a leg
islator has rendered his official connection with
public affairs most disastrous to public interest.
The bill referred to was the only regular ap
propriation bill that did not become a law.”
The Philadelphia Ledger does not like this
plain talk, and dismisses the subject with the
remark that “whether the defeat is owing most
to Mr. Grow or Mr. Toombs is a matter of hut
little importance.” We suppose so—but had
the blame been attached to Mr. Grow instead
of Toombs, we have no doubt.the same journal
would have devoted an entire “neutral” col
umn, moralising on the wickedness of impeding
legislation. —Pittsburg Gazette.
How the Anti-Lecomptonites talk. —The
Philadelphia Press says:
The indifference of the people to the Conven
tion of the adherents of the General Adminis
tration, which assembled at Ilarrisbug on Wed
nesday last, was the result of a double feeling
of contempt for its managers, and a full fore
knowledge of its policy. Nobody expected de
cent, much less Democratic, action. The groat
body of the delegates did not come to reiterate
principles, but to earn wages. They did not
vote the wishes of the-people, but thanks to
their masters. They had mostly been elected
as office-holders, or by office-holders; and al
though they' might have averted defeat from a
great party hy some unexpected concession to
truth, they dared not to perform an act of mag
nanimity, which, while it would have won for
them the applause of a surprised and gratified
people, would have lost them in their places,
and the smiles of an Administration which now
stands a reeking infamy before the nation.
The Administration at Washington proceeds,
it would seem, upon the theory that it is not
victory, but ' victims, which the Democracy
requires, and, therefore, Messrs. Rowe and
Wright must take the chances of war. We
trust, if they shall choose to stand upon this
platform, they will announce the fact before the
■cars have started. Lotus have no more i tog
gling.
It becomes the good men of the Democratic
party, outraged and insulted by the recent Ad
ministration Convention at Harrisburg, to take
immediate steps to resist and rebuke that act
of insolence and oppression. And we have no
■doubt that this will be speedily done.
One night last week a married lady of De
troit, who had long suspected that her husband
was a regular attendant of a certain gambling
room, and was there spending the money whicli
she and her children were in pressing need of,
visited the room. Seated at a rough table she
described her husband in company with throe
companions in iniquity, who were struck dumb
with astonishment at the apparition. Taking
advantage of their trepidation, she seized two
or three piles of bank notes lying upon the ta
ble which she hastily examined, as if determin
ing the probable amount of the “pile,” and de
liberately made her exit without saying a word.
In consequence of the scarcity of great men
in the ranks of the Democracy, the decline of
Mr. Buchanan’s small powers, the death of
Mike Walsh, and the loss of other ffine Demo
crats by various accidents, political and phys
ical, the eye* of many have been turned to
wards Franklin Pierce, as a capital Democrat
ic candidate for tbo Presidency in 1860, lie
is still abroad, but was written to on the subject,
and a letter from him has just been published in
which he states that '‘under no possible cir
cumstances, * will bo consent to be a candidate.
U’bat will do for Pierce. Now how about John
Tyler I — BuUetm.
THE AGITATOR.
HUGH YOUNG, Editor & Proprietor.
WELLS BOROUGH. PA.
Thursday morning, march 31, ’39.
Amalgamation.
A few weeks since, a silly young girl in Sus
quehanna Connty, eloped with a mulatto to the
State of New York where they 1 were duly mar
ried. Immediately upon this fact becoming
known, the citizens of Harford, where the par
ties had lived, held an indignation meeting irre
spective of party, which resolutions were
passed, condemnatory of the amalgamation of
the white and black races. A Republican
acted as presiding officer. Some time ago the
newspapers contained an account of a similar
occurrence in the State of Michigan.
We have been much amused at the course of
the Mulatto-Democratic papers in relation to
these two cases. They have been continually
deprecating the agitation of the “nigger ques
tion,” and have flung their sneers at Republi
cans and asserted that the nigger was the basis
of the Republican party, and the source of all
its strength. Of course, these amalgamation
pases presented too good an opportunity to be
lost, to wax eloquent on the “nigger.” Every
Locofoco editor in the Northern States at once
exhibited the whites of his eyes in holy horror
and commented upon these cases as practical
illustrations of the principles of the Republi
can party. It is truly wonderful to sec how
dearly tiie Slavites love the ‘nigger question'
when through it they can appeal to the lowest
passions and prejudices of men, and how earn
estly they hate this same ‘nigger question,’
when it appeals to the noblest sentiments of
human nature and human sympathy. Their
whole stock in trade seems to be calumny,
falsehood, and misrepresentation.
In the South, amalgamation docs not seem to
be a crime. Every village exhibits in the differ
ent shades of color of its inhabitants, lamenta
ble evidence of this fact. Yet not a democratic
editor ever opens his head about that. There
niggers are chattels. Amalgamation—adulter
ous. amalgamation—is as common a crime there,
as petty larceny is at the North; and yet it
finds no rebuke from the virtuous guardians of
the public morals. And what is worse, not
only are editors silent on this question, hut
ministers also; and those who in the North
have the boldness to speak against slavery and
its attendant crimes are dubbed “political par
sons,” “preaching demagogues” and other op
probrious epithets. This slang is but the efflu
via of the slime in which these pro-slavery
crocodiles crawl. It hurts nobody, and serves
them for a sign by which they know each other.
We believe that the negro race is inferior in
tellectually and physically to the white race.
We believe that thejamalgamation of the races
would lead to the degeneracy of both. We do
not believe in the social equality of the negro
with the white man. But wo believe black
men have rights—inalienable rights—which
white men are bound to respect; namely, the
right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi
ness; the right of suffrage when taxed. We
believe that the Bred Scott decision is the most
I infamous doctrine known to modern civiliza
tion ; repulsive to the spirit of liberty which
pervades the people, and shameful to us as a
nation.
For the benefit of the Locofoco falsifiers,
and for the benefit of those whom they seek
to deceive, we will state what the aims of the
Republican party arc;
We aim fur a General Reform in Government
Expenditures, and the introduction of strict
economy into all the Departments.
We believe in non-interferehce with Slavery
where it now exists as a Statij Institution, and
non-extension of it into Territories now free.
To prevent the further extension of Slavery, we
aim at an entire reform in the present whole
sale system of squandering the Public Domain.
We propose to give it in limited quantities to
actual settlers, and we believe that the adoption
of this policy would practically exclude Slavery
from nil the Territories not already cursed with
its presence; would add immeasurably to the
independence and prosperity of coming genera
tions, by securing to them, in perpetuity, Free
Somes to Free Men, and the blessings of uni
versal free education.
We believe in the election of Post Masters
by the people, thereby taking out of the hands
of the One Man Power, a tremendous engine
of despotism, and the greatest source of politi
cal corruption which now exists in this country.
These are the principal doctrines and aims of
the Republicans,—doctrines which, the whole
thinking and honest masses of the people can
have faith in—doctrines which only a few years
. ago, were professed and cherished by the Dem
ocrats themselves, but which are now thrown
aside and ignored, as dangerous to the country,
and as leading to disunion, abolition and amal
gamation. I
But it is too late. The people are not so ig
norant as Democratic leaders take them to be.
T. ey are growing wiser every day. and it is very
evident that every effort made by these dema
gogues by lies and misrepresentations to place
the Republicans in a false position, but serves
to show the weakness of their cause, and to fos
ter the growing contempt for it already shown
by the people everywhere in the North.
We give in another place the sequel to the
Susquehanna amalgamation cage, which wo
hope our Locofoco exchanges will copy for the
edification of their readers.
A Free Fight,
The spectacle of a great and harmonious
party becoming rent in pieces by internal quar
rels is certainly very funny. It not only fur
nishes amusement to thos.e who belong to the
different factions, bpt it is particularly funny to
outsiders. For weeks before the late “Office
Holders’ Convention” as Forney calls it, the
Democratic papers, fearing a still wider breach
in the pjirty than then existed, counselled con-
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
cilliation, but ns'it now seems, to little purpose.
An administration which spurned the control
of the Federal Executive, could not, must not
be endorsed as Democratic. Buchanan, mam
aged the 16th of March Convention just os
effectually as if he had been present himself.
The Convention was filled and managed by his
flunkies, and as this fact is known everywhere,
no one was surprised to hear that Gov. Packer
was repudiated by a vote iof more than two
thirds of the Covention. 1
But there were men hovering around the
outskirts of the party, watching in the name
of the people, this feast of the cormorants. It
is of no use to say that the resolutions read at the
late Convention expressed the views of no con
siderable portion of the party calling itself Dem
ocratic. Everybody knows better than that.
True, it may be, that in this part of the coun
try, Democrats swallow without any questions,
any kind of a dose which the leaders may pre
scribe. ■* Here there are no half way democrats.
All who have the conscience to remain in the
party, surrounded as they are, by intelligence
and free schools, are ready for any dose in the
name of Democracy. There will, therefore, be
no delegates from this, district at the Demo
cratic State Convention No. 2, which is called
for April 12. Here is the call from the Press
The Democratic citizens of Pennsylvania are invited
to assemble in State Convention at Harrisburg, on
Wednesday, the 12th day of April, 1859, to consult
upon the propriety of adopting measures to vindicate
the name, fame, - and principles of the Democratic
party, outraged and insulted by a Convention assem
bled at the State Capitol on the 16th of March.
To resist tho high-handed attempt of the Federal
Administration to dictate political creeds to the people;
To protest against the war of a consolidated Federal
despotism upon Slate' sovereigniy and State rights;
To reassert the great principle of Popular Sover
eignty and non-intervention as well in tbc Territories
as in the States—non-inlci-vention by Congress with
slavery in the Territories, and non-intervention by the
Federal Executive with tho franchises of the people
of tho States;
To re-endorso tho old-fashioned creed of the Demo
cratic party, repudiated and trampled under foot by
men claiming to represent the party;
And, finally, to proclaim our unfaltering confidence
in William F. Packer, Governor of Pennsylvania, who
has been assailed and proscribed because ho refused
at the bidding of Federal dictation, to betray the trust,-
desert tho principles, and falsify tho pledges of the
Union States Rights Democracy. 1
This call is signed by such Democrats as Gen.
•Jackman, AV. A. Stokes, A. J. Swartz, Isaac
Hugus, John Hickman, G. AV. Ncbinger, J. AV.
Forney, G. AV. Pearce, J. B. Montgomery, and
some fifty others from all parts of the State,
embracing the most active and influential men
of the parly.
Thus “the fight goes bravely on," and for a
month or two, Kepublicans will have fine times
of it in watching tho fun.
It is a matter of considerable interest to see
how easily it is for the Buchancers to discover
and to attribute motives to the Packer faction,
too ridiculous in themselves to be entertained
for a moment by dispassionate lookers on. Thus
the office holders charge the Forncyitcs with
playing into tho hands of the Republicans so
as to secure the support of the latter to John
C. Knox for the office of Governor in 1860.
In the same way, just because Packer asserts
bis independence of the dynasty of “J. B." the
office holders say he is figuring to succeed Mr.
Bigler in the U. S. Senate ! All the difference
between tho belligerents which we can see now
at this stage of tho fight is, that tho Forneyitcs
have a good deni of pluck and the Buchaneers
a good deal of bluster. AVe will try to keep
our readers “booked” as to how things go on
and advise tho belligerents to keep cool.
Grow for President.
Ifc may or may not be pleasing to Mr. Grow,
to know that the notorious Bennett of the New
York Herald suggests his name as a candidate
for the Presidency. Mr Grow does not aspire
to the office named for him at present, and if
he did, nothing could hurt his prospects more
with the respectable portion of the people of
the North, than the commendations of such an
unmitigated scoundrel as this same Bennett.
AVe give below the paragraph alluded to, simply
to show how Grow is regarded by the enemies
of Republicanism, as the Herald is the ac
knowledged organ of Buchananism in New
York:
“Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, an
out-and-out Black Republican, has at last done
something which may overshadow the laurels
of Wm. H. Seward us a Presidential aspirant;
for to Mr. Grow' belongs the glory of defeating
the Post Office bill upon that constitutional
revenue point raised against the Senate, upon
that Senate amendment increasing the letter
postage from three to five cents. Thus, with
the aid of Senator Broderick, Mr. Grow has
retained to the people their three cent letter
postage. Let Seward look to his Rochester
manifesto, or Grow may grow to strong for him.
Should Mr. Grow' be nominated as the cheap
postage Republican candidate for President,
Davy Broderick, by all means, should be placed
on the same ticket for Vice President. Let
justice bo done to every man.”
The First Response. —The first election after
the nomination of a Democratic State ticket,
in which political lines were drawn, was held
yesterday in the city of Reading. The Reading
Gazelie, published hy ex-Speakcr Getz— the
organ of Jehu Joxes— sums up the result as
follows:
“We giro below the complete returns of the
annual election for City Officers, held yesterday.
It will be seen that the Opposition have made
a clean sweep. Bexxeville Keiii, Esq., is
re-elected Mayor, by 94-1 majority, and the
other Opposition candidates, with .scarcely an
exception, are elected by majorities sufficiently
large ‘for practical purposes.’ The Democrats
have one Inspector in each Ward, which they
couldn’t well help electing, considering that
two were to be elected, and only one voted for.
They have also elected Mr. Ccxxxus, as Asses
sor, in North-East Ward, and a School Director
here and there, where they had no opposition.
XiCt us be thankful for small favors 1 The vote
polled was vere small, owing to the stormy
weather hut a full vote would probably have
produced the same result—only more so. The
Democrats went into the contest with a pre
sentiment that they would be beaten, and so
they are!”
And such will be the result at the Ostober
election. The Democrats admit on all sides
that they go into the contest with the full
knowledge that they will be beaten badly.
State Legislature.
- March 12. In the proceedings of the House
under this date we find the following;
Mr. JACKSON moved that.the House pro
ceed to the consideration of House bill No.
605, “An Act extending the general manufac
turing lows for the manufacture of leather to
the county of Sullivanwhich was agreed to ;
whereupon said bill was taken up and passed.
On motion of Messrs. PATTERSON, WIL
COX, WILLISTON and MANN, the counties
of Juniata, M’Kean, Tioga and Potter were
embraced within the provisions of the above
act.
Mr. WILLISTON called up bill No. 784,
“An Act relative to the collection of poor tax
on unseated lands in the county of Tioga
which was considered and passed, and was
sent to the Senate for concurrence.
Messrs. MANN and HOTTENSTINB amend
ed the above bill, by making the provisions of
the act apply to the counties of Potter and
Northumberland,
Monday, March 14, 1859.
The Personal Liberty Bill being before the
House,'
Mr. Wiixiston, giving wide scope to the ar
gument, considered the slavery question in its
various lights, reviewing the responsibilities of
the people of the country and the Common
wealth.
Mr. Rose moved that the committee rise, re
port progress and ask leave to sit again.
The motion was withdrawn in order to allow
Mr. Zoller to make some'remarks.
Mr. Zoller said he endorsed the sentiments
which had been expressed by his colleague, (Mr.
Irish,) and partially agreed with the views of
tho gentleman from Tioga, (Mr. AVilliston.) —
He had made the motion to adjourn, in the early
part of the evening, in order that the subject
might ho postponed for a few days. In the
main, he should vote for the bill before the
House, if he found nothing objectionable in it,
and if he heard more discussion upon it.
Mr. Bose renewed his motion.
AVhich was agreed to.
On the question,
“AVhen shall the committee have leave to sit
again ?”
Leave was given for it to sit on this evening
two weeks.
AVilliston on “Fixings.”
March 15. —Mr. AValborn, on leave, from the
Committee on Railroads, reported, with amend
ments, the act to authorize tho Germantown
passenger railway company, jointly to lay a
single track on Fourth and Eighth Streets, city
of Philadelphia.
Mr. Lawrence, (of AVashington,) moved that
the rules be suspended, and the House proceed
ed to the consideration of the above hill; which
was agreed to.
Said bill was then taken np, and the title be
ing under consideration.
Mr AVilliston wished to make some remarks
before the vote upon the final passage of the
bill. The claims of the two contesting parties,
the Germantown and Green and Coates, were
not unfamiliar to the House, and heretofore
their names bad been uqed separately—never
in conjunction, as in the present bill. Hereto
fore! they bad come into the Legislature, like
the bristling lion and the tiger, diametrically
opposed. To-day however, they entered like
the Siamese twins.
In itself this was a trifling question, and had
perhaps derived its original importance from
the fact that the incidentals attached to it were
of more account than the subject itself.
He had been startled in the early part of the
session, upon returning to Harrisburg after a
temporary absence, to find that a blaze of ex
citement had sprung up within a week. He
had asked what was the matter, and could re
ceive no reply, except the ominous words “Ger
mantown” and “Green and Coates.” At last
he had ascertained tho truth, which simply was
that two rival corporations had, by some inex
plicable moans, turned the Legislature upside
down. T
Mr. Gritmax wished to inquire whether the
gentleman, when he had heard of Germantown
and Grren and Coates, had heard of any allu
sions made to the underground railway.
Mr. Wjllustox said that he had, because he
belonged to that corporation, and there was
rarely an occasion when he went home that he
did not, in one way or another, help operate
that railroad.
Tins, however, was not to the point. The
excitement from the first outbreak secihed to in
crease, and men w'ho had enlisted under honest
motives, became more deeply interested. Such
expressions were at length heard as “that’s our
roan. ‘He's fixed on Green and Coates.’' ~
“That’s one of our party; nothing can move
him ; lie’s on Germantown."
Now, he did not exactly know what fixed
meant. 1
It was a well-settled maxim that men should
not only be honest, but should seem to bo hon
est, and avoid even the appearance of evil do
ing. Now, it would be impossible for the mem
bers in the House to vote in favor of the bill
without being liable to the charge of being
“fixed.”
And in this matter the third House had ta
ken the most especial interest. At different
times it was apparent that there was a Ukeli
hoop of one of the bills coming up for consid
eration, and on such occasions the lobby mem
bers had rushed it with force, like a parcel of
hounds led by a burly two hundred and fifty
pound captain of the hunt.
The Chairman said that it was not proper to
allude to members by name. •
Mr. W ii.listox replied that he had not done so.
From these things, which he had just narra
ted, it was evident that if a bill should pass,
connecting these two heretofore rival companies,
the House would incur a Just suspicion of seem
ing false.
To avoid this he appealed to the members
personally 'and as legislators of the great State
of Pennsylvania to refuse the bill, and not even
to appear to he corrupted by outside influences.
If this hill was to pass he feared that they
would justly incur the suspicion of having been
influenced by unfair means. The character of
the Legislature should not be trifled with.
If the city of Philadelphia needed a road in
the streets named in the bill, he would join in
the formation of a bill fifteen lines in length,
which would bestow upon the councils the right
to grant the privilege. lie had already sug
gested this, and had been met by the answer,
apparently half serious, that “the Legislature
was cheaper than the local government.’’
God forbid that such an imputation should
rest upon the Legislature), of which be bod here
tofore considered it an honor to be a member.
We learn that the Bill repealing the supple
ment to the Tioga and Wellsboro Plank Road
Act has received the approval of the Governor,
and is now a law.
The Legislature has agreed to adjourn on the
12th of April.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Messrs. Grow, Greeley, Burlingame and
other eminent speakers, are busy in Connecticut.
Kev. Dr. Ide showed some “eight dollar
brandy,” at a temperance meeting in Spring
field, Mass., on Wednesday, the 9th, -which
■was manufactured at a'cost of only ten cents
per gallon.
The Cattaraugus Freeman states that
two children were poisoned in Ellicottville by
eating the root of the Cicuta or the “poison
hemlock.” (Jne was saved with great difficul
ty, but the other, a daughter of Wm. Baily
died soon after.
De Santy, the Great Mysterious, pre
serves his character to the last. It is now an
nounced that he has “gone home.” But where
that home is no one knows, nor by what means
he went thither. There is something appalling
in the simple announcement, “Be Sauty gone
home!" What shall we do hereafter for “un
intelligible currents V’
The remains of Ira J. Thurston, the
teronaut who met his deathy by his unfortunate'
ascension from Adrian on thh IGth of Septem
ber last, were accidentally found on Sunday
evening last, about ten miles northwest of Tole
do and abont ten miles from the place of his
second ascent. The remains were brought to
Adrian and fully identified,
Mr. Sickles is in jail at Washington
awaiting his trial for assassinating Key. It
will take place early in April. Mrs. Sickles
has returned to New Tork, and will reside in a
house at Bloomingdale, the use of which is
granted to her by Mr. Sickles, as long as she
remains under her father’s protection.—Her
little daughter will, for the present, remain
with her.
The Legislature of New Jersey, on the
17th lust. elected Jonn C. Ten Eyck, United
States Senator for six years from the 4th of
March, inst., in place of Wm. Wright, Dem.,
whose term then expired. Mr. Tex Eyck was"
a warm supporter of Fremont and Dayton,
and is an unwavering Republican. The vote
was for Ten Eyck, 42; Broom, Dem., 34;
Stockton, American, 2.
This makes the twenty-fourth Republican
United States Senator.
When the yeas andmays were called on
the resolution of Mr. LAMBERTox/emlorsiDg the
course of Gov. Packer, the first ‘'no” on Abe
resolution was that of one Henry L. Acker—*
a man pardoned by Gov. Packer of a serious
offence , for which he had been convicted and
imprisoned in Schuylkill county. Of this man
it may well he said;—
“Ingratitude, thou marble hearted fiend,
More hideous, when thou showest thee in a friend,
. Than the sea monster."
The act, passed by the legislature of
Michigan, providing for the trial of criminals
by information, goes into effect next month.—
It is a virtual abolition of grand juries. The
prisoners are examined by a / justice of the
Peace; and their case then goes before the
criminal court for trial on the information fur
nished by the justice. It is discretionary with
the judge whether he will call a grand Jury.—
This plan has its advantages. It is not often
that a grand jury fails to find a bill against a
person who has been committed on the exami
nation before ajustice.
Slavery in Cuba exists in a mitigated
form. The slave can buy himself, or an un
divided portion of himself, whenever he de
mands it, making a tender of his money. If
he acquires a fractional independence, he be
comes entitled to a proportionate share of his
time and earnings. If his master maltreats
him, he is allowed a certain number of days in
each year to find a new purchaser. lie can
have his children legally declared free by pay
ing twenty five dollars in court, at the birth of
each. Negroes in Cuba have rights which the
white men are bound to respect.
—— A Gentleman in North Chester Ver
mont, two or three weeks since, offered as a
prize a copy of Webster’s Unabridged Diction
ary to the one of the scholars in all the public
schools in town who should “spell all the others
down.” Seven schools were accordingly repre
sented, and about a dozen teachers and a large
crowd of spectators were present when the trial
took place on the 2dth ult. But one trial was
to be had on a word and the unfortunate who
missed must take his or her seat. Eighty schol
ars contested for the honor and the prize, and
after five hours trial, five pupils remained stand
ing, and the enthusiastic audience soon raised
the needful to purchase each a copy of the great
“Unabridged.” ;
Says Life Illustrated: New York city
allows her people to choose their food, provided
they choose such as everybody else eats.—
They are ‘free agents,' acting under prescribed
rules. A citizen has been arrested and brought
up to answer to a charge of dressing and ea
ting horse flesh ! Is any in this vast city held
to answer for eating swine’s flesh, that fiilth
iest of stuff—scrofulous, measly, carrion-fed ?-
Never. Is any forbidden to eat pastry, can
dies, cakes, and other pernicious compounds,
which are ruining the bodies of myriads ? Are
minerals, stones, brickbats, lime, salt, and h'j
pophosphiles contraband? Sumptuary laws
would be wholesome; but who should make
them ? Poor, hoodwinked Justice 1 who shall
balance thy scales ?
A Charge, like Chickens, coming homo to
Koost.
A correspondent at Kirkwood, N. Y., writes
to the Broome Republican as follows;
‘•I hare had my attention called to an article
in the Binghamton Democrat, taken from the
Montrose Democrat of February 2-ith, giving a
history of the marriage of a ‘nigger’ to a white
woman, in IXarford Susquehanna county. Pa.,
whichj after saying that there could not Joe a
minister found in Harford that would marry
them, uses the following language: ‘Of course
none would be n party to so black a crime,
whereupon the parties went to New Milford and
other places, in search of some bein» who had
not decency enough to deter him from lending
himself to so degrading an act. And on the
next day a Justice of the Peace of Kirkwood,
Y,, consented to give legal sanction to an
alliance forbidden alike by God and man.’
“From some words used in the article refer
red to, such as ‘negro equality,' ‘amalgama
tion,’ the Bogus Democracy take up the cry of
‘Black Republicanism, ’ amalgamation,’ &o.
Now for the information o‘f the Democracy, we
would say that the Justice referred to is’the
Democratic Justice, just endorsed by the De
mocracy of Conklin, and last fall elected Justice
of Sessions of the County of Broonje, Horatio.
N. Benjamin, who not only boasted of having
married them, but in addition to the usual fee,
of having bad the pleasure of kissing the bride
—or, as he termed it, ‘putljng on the seal!’
This is the true history. Comments unnecess
ary.”
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