A Foarlos•'Congressman*
' ' Tho Hon. Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois, was one
of the ablest members of the last Congress
from the Vest, as well as the most fearless in
•the expression of bis opinions. Just before
the close of the session, he delivered an able
speech upon the various political topics of the
day. : Alluding to the charge repeatedly made
against.him of assisting fugitive slaves \v|ien
they come to his door, he made use of the fol
lowing bold and defiant declaration :
•■ls it desired to call attention to this fact?
Proclaim it then upon the house-tops. Write
11 on every leaf • that trembles in the forest,
.make it blaze from the sun at high noon, and
shine forth in the milder radiance of every star
that "bedecks the firmament of God. jL.it it
echo through" all arches of heaven, and rever
berate and bellow along all tho Jeep gorges of
hell, where slave-catchers will be very likely to
hear ,it. Owen Lovejoy lives at Princeton,
Illinois, three qanrters of a mile cast of the
village, and he aids every fugitive that comes
to his door and asks it. Thou invisible demon
of Slavery, dost thou think to cross my humble
thresbhold, and. forbid me to give bread to the
hungry and shelter to the houseless, I bid
toc defiance in the xaue'of ay God!"
The same gentleman, in a recent speech in
the House of Representatives, thus describes a
party- whiclris nut so. strong in the country as
It once was:
“The Slavery Democracy prates and chatters
about ‘negro equality, * ‘Black Republicans/ and
‘nigger stealing,* to use its classic phrase and
improved orthography. It has, or affects to
have, a gteat horror of ‘‘niggers/ And any
one who advocates the principles of human
Freedom, as they were enunciated and laid
down in enduring forms by the Fathers of the
Republic, is a ‘woolly head/ and these same
Democrats have learned to speak of them with
a peculiar nasal twist. You would suppose
•that these gentlemen, whose olfactories are so
sensitive and acute, never saw a nigger, except
in a menagerie. And yet would you believe it I
the very first service rendered’ him on earth is.
performed by a nigger; as an infant hejdraws
the milk which makes his flesh and blood and
bones from the breast of a nigger; looks up in
her face and smiles, and calls her by the en
dearing name of ‘mammy/ and begs perhaps,
in piteous tones, fur the privilege of carrying
‘mammy* to the Territories; he is undressed
and put to bed by a nigger; and nestles dur
ing the slumbers of infancy in the bosom of a
nigger; he is washed, dressed and taken to
the table by a nigger : to eat food prepared by a
nigger ; he is led to and from school by a nig
ger; every service that childhood demands is
pei formed by a nigger, except that of chastise
ment, which from the absence of good man
ners in many cases, it is to be feared is not
performed at all. When down appears on his
lip, the loniorial service is performed by a nig
ger ; and when he reaches manhood, he invades
the nigger quarters, *0 place himself in the en
dearing relation of 'paternity to half niggers.—
Finally, if he should be ambitious, it may occur
that he will come to Congress to represent a
constituency, three-fifths of whom are niggers,
and talk about ‘Black Republicans, * ‘amalga
mation/ ‘nigger equality, * ‘nigger stealing/ and
tho offensive odor of niggerism.”
The trial of Daniel E. Sickles for thl murder
of'Key was to commence on Monday last. Up
to this time we have no intelligence from Wash
ington of the trial. The Albany correspondent
of the Utica Herald writes as follows:
“People still continue to talk about the mur
der at Washington. To the honor of
be it said, that public sentiment here denounces
the shooting down of Mr. Key as a cowardly
and brutal act. ‘‘Let him that is without sin
cast the first stone.” Said a friend yesterday
—one who has known Daniel E. Sickles almost
from boyhood—“ Something le&s than five years
ago, I knew a woman, young, beautiful and
confiding.’ She was a loved wife, and a happy
loving mother. Though occupying no exalted,
social position, she had a manly, upright hus
band, and a pleasant home. That w*>man be
came a reluctant victim to the seducer’s devil
ish arts. Her child to day is an aims bouse
‘boarder/ her husband a sot, and she a degraded
outcast.
‘Oh, it is pitiful!
In a whole city full,
Fi lends she bad none/
“Her seducer now comes before the world as
the avenger of outraged chastity. In the cell
where justice has placed him for a dastardly
murderer* he is ‘visited by the President/ and
‘receives expressions of sympathy/ from men
high in station, who have wives, and daughters,
«.nd homes. Oat upon such a state of society !”
Our Fctcre. —The Pennsylvania Democracy
is like Milton’s young man waking from sleep
and shaking his invincible locks. All corrup
tion and impediments have been sloughed off—
all the crushing complicity tcilh rascality has
been removed, and we stand before the people
in the proud attitude of defenders of popular
rights and the union of the States. —Harrisburg
Union. j
This is from Buchanan’s organ at Harris
burg. Its coolness would be refreshing in
warmer weather. That a party which has just
endorsed the recking corruption and rascality
of the National administration should plume
itself upon its purity, must astonish even those
who are accustomed to political hrax»nnes«.—
It may be that, in shaking off the State admin
istration the party has got rid corrup
tion and rascality the party itself, ought to be
the best judge of that; but it dip so that it
might the more effectually hold up the hands
of the National administration and sustain
such villainies as those laid bare by the inves
tigating committees of the late Congress. The
next Congress will give us, doubtless, further
developments and of a more damning sort; and
“complicity with the rascality” of the Nation
al administration will be infinitely more “crush
ing” to the part}’for which the Union speaks
than its acknowledged “complicity” with the
“rascality” of the State administration.
The Somerset Whig remarks: The sea
son thus far has been very propitious for our
maple sugar manufacturers. More maple sugar
has been made the present season, at this date,
than in any previous one. We hear of several
farmers who have already made more than four
thousand pounds. There is no means of ex
actly ascertaining the amount of this article
annually produced in Somerset county, but we
think five hundred thousand pounds would fall
below the mark-—more than is manufactured
in any other county in the Union.
Will notno pomon in each Township in this
county froijfl U 9 an estimate of the Amount pro
duced, in this »#y #* arrive kt a correct
mxmv*s4 m
THE AGITATOR
HUGH YOUNG, Editor & Proprietor.
WELISBOROUGH ,P A.
Thursday Jlorulns, April 7, ’.19.
Pry vs. Pry.
Perhaps all of Oar readers may- have heard
or read of the Fry Divorce Case, which has
been dragging itself through our Legislature
for the last month or two; but we.suspect that
very few have had an opportunity and the
requisite amount of patience, to'read column
after column of the statements and counter
statements which have appeared from time to
time in tho daily papers. Let us state, then,
briefly, that Mr. .Horace B. Fry, wlio is repre
sented to be a very respectable broker in the city
of Philadelphia, fell in love .with, and marriel
Miss Emily L. Qrigg ti* e daughter of a retired
merchant The marriage took place in August
1858/and the parties started immediately to
West Point N. Y. on a wedding tour. 11 would
seem that their marriage' was not a happy one,
for in a few weeks after Uicir return to Phila
delphia, they separated.
Now this is ail of the affair which the public
would hare known anything about, had not
Mrs. Fry and her father Mr. Grigg, petitioned
the Legislature for a divorce. In this petition
the cause of the separation is fully set forth,
together with all those nice little details, which
go to feed and thereby keep alive the prurient cu
riosity of the public. She throws herself on her
knees before the grave and reverend seigniors
l who compose our Legislature, and plaintively
and piteously tells them, that her husband Mr.
Fry swore at her on various occasions, which
( in our opinion was very unchristian conduct to
;say the least of it;-how he treated her in the
! very first week of their honeymoon, with great
personal violence ; how he locked her up in a
room; how he swore at her for two hours at a
stretch ; how he threatened to shoot her. Other
acts of brutal treatment are referred to, and
when we think that this all occurred during
their honeymoon, we'are led to believe him to
be only a monster in human shape. But this
modern Blue Beard Romance is spoiled by the
response of the naughty Mr. Fry, made under
oath, in which he denies in lido the whole state
ment of Sirs. Fry, so that, whether her “life is
burdensome” to ber or not, the chances are,
that she will bo allowed to bear it awhile longer.
It appears from the statement of Mr. Fry
that bis wife, while at West Point, had been so
very indiscreet as to. (orm an acquaintance with
a cadet named 'Wagner, with whom she cor
responded after her return to Philadelphia.
This correspondence was intercepted by Mr.
Fry, and the letters at once disclosed to tho
trusting husband, the infidelity of tho wife,
whereupon they separated.
On the 15th of March a majority of the Com
mittee on Divorces of the House of Representa
tives, reported a bill to annul the marriage
contract, alledging as reasons therefor, “that
the happiness of the parties, the interest of the
public, and the morals of society, will alike be
promoted by it.” these propositions, however
plausible they may appear in themselves, are
not backed by any arguments sufficiently strong
to convince any man of the justice of the law
proposed. With the “happiuessof the parties”
we take it, that the Legislature, as such, has
nothing to do. It is not the business of legis
-1 iters to interfere with, and fi x up the domestic
squabbles of their constituents. If Mrs. Fry
has met with the treatment from her husband,
which, as we believe, she falsely alleges, why
does she not appeal to a Court of Law fur that
redress of grievances guaranteed to everybody.
If tho allegations set forth in her petition can
ho proved to ho trpe, tho Courts will certainly
give her satisfaction in proportion to their
judgment of the wrong done to her ; but if they
arc false, then by what principle of right or
justice, of law or morality can the Legislature
bo guided in decreeing, a divorce ?
So far as the “interest of the public” is con
cerned, we think the public lias no intcrcst in
the matter whatever. The public can never he
henefitted by such exhibitions of human frailty,
as lias been brought io its gaze by this case.
Bnt we suspect that there is another “interest”
which may be promoted by it, and that is the
pecuniary interest of certain legislators, and
legal gentlemen connected with them. Indeed
Mr Willisto.n", our able representative, hinted
as much in a speech made before the House a
few days since, amotion being made to fix upon
a certain day to consider the case. It is some
satisfaction to know that we have a representa
tive there from this district, who will keep his
eye on this kind of legislation ; one who will,
we are confident, let no corruption or oven the
semblance of it, pass by unrehuked; one who
has done more during the present session, than
any other man, to prevent hasty and corrupt
action and to preserve the character and dig
nity of the House. The argument that the in
terest of tho public will be promoted by this
divorce is mere moonshine; and the idea that
such an argument should he presented without
any foundation in fact, is simply ridiculous,
and is a good reason why it should be opposed
by the more honest and sensible members.
The last argument presented in the preamble
to the act, is, that tho proposed divorce would
“promote tho morals of society.” Mr. J. Heron
Foster of Pittsburg, who submitted the minor
ity report opposing the divorce, shows at length,
■and with much ability, how false and lame, both
in premises and conclusions, this argument is.
With fhe facts before them, none of our readers
can fail to see the flimsy pretexts resorted to in
cases of desperate legislation like this. It ig
mortifying to know that members of standing,
not to say respectability, can be induced by
certain “appliances” to give their names, their
influence, and tho labor which should be exx
pended ill behalf of the public and general
weal to measures uf this kind. Wo trust for
the honor of our Statq that the Bill will bo de
feated.
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
The. “Harmonious” Democracy,
We gave our-opinion last week, based as we
iposed .**4ipon the nature of things,” that no
legates <from this County, would bo likely to
:nd'~tfac'~"A'nti-BucbanaTi Democratic State
tb oD.thc.
12th of April jnext. We supposed that, every
Democrat in the county would-’bo-*iWdy to
swallow anything proposed by the office holders
who lately assembled at the Capital to agree
upon principles and men. In this it seems we
were mistaken. - yijere ib-ohc man, ■ who, while
he avows his fidelity to the Democratic party,
does not acknowledge the of Mr.
James Buchanan. ■We copy for tho benefit of
our readers the following from Forney’s Phila
delphia of March 28th;
“Wellsbobo, Tioga County.
Will you plc&so placQ my name to the call for the
Convention ? I«m »*Democrat of the sect
X have always been and ever shall bo; bul I owe no
allegiance to the presenuNationnl Administration. Its
heresies I cannot support. -.lam loyal to the great
doctrine of popular sovereignty.
' 'Yours trulyi . .
ITexry Sherwood. 1 *
“Mr. Sherwood is present chairman of the Demo
cratic Standing Committee of Tioga County."
We rejoice that there is one democrat in the
County, who has the independence tp write
such a letter. Alas 1 \fe fear that Mr. Henry
Sherwood will “feel like one who treads alone 7 *
in his opposition to Buchanan in this county.
We sincerely hope so. We hope not another
man will bo found to agree with Mr. Sherwood.
■e> °
The Democracy do not need to bo divided in
this County. The party is small enough now
without divisions, lias Mr. Sherwood thought
fur a single moment of the boldness of this iiis
last move? Is he prepared to he called a
“traitor,” a “disunionist,” a “disorganizer,” a
“black republican” and an “abolitionist in dis
guise ?” Yet within the last year all these epi
thets (and many others not fit to appear in a
Republican paper) have been applied to Mr.
Forney, by Buchanan journals." And again,
we would like to know what Mr. Sherwood
means by saying he is “loyal to the great prin
ciple of popular sovereignty." We hope he
does not mean to insinuate that the Buchanan
Democracy are disloyal to that doctrine and
that therefore he wanted to bo “counted out.”
Did the late Convention ignore this doctrine ?
Not at all. They passed a resolution appoving
it.
There is another little circumstance ■which
wc should like to see '‘cleared up," It seems
that a meeting of the Democratic Standing
Committee of tins county (over which Mr. Sher
wood presides,) was held in this Borough on
the 14th of February last. This Committee
elected delegates from this district to the lute
Convention. Both of the delegates from this
district voted against Packer—voted to endorse
Buchanan and Bigler—voted Cuba. Now we
would like to know, whether the delegates -were
or were not instructed so to vote ? If they were
instructed, then Mr. Sherwood ought not now
to turn against them and join the enemy, after
they ha vq faithfully carried out their instruc
tions. If they wore not instructed, but voted
what they, as honest men, believed to be the
sentiments of their constituents, then Mr. Sher
wood ought to resign at ouce, the Chairmanship
of the County Committee. We are not finding
fault with the course of Mr. Sherwood, and we
do not wish to be so understood. We merely
offer these thoughts as being likely to occur to
the Democrats of the County who take any in
terest in the acts of their leaders. For ourself
personally, we don't care who is the Chairman
of the Locofoco Standing Committee of the
County, or who is not; neither do we care to
winch faction of the “undivided" he belongs.
Bulj we submit that with his temerity and inde
pendence, Mr. Sherwood should link consist
ency. He can then have no fears of the “dead
falls" which the Administration minions will
he sure to lay in his way. i
jBSf The Columbia Republican is |ne of the
best exchanges we get. Itj enters upon its third
year with good prospects, and it certainly de
serves success. Dr. John, is an able writer and
aims to make the Republican the best country
paper in the State. In this aim wc will give
him a generous pull for superiority. There are
over six-thousand taxablea in Tioga county. If
one-third of them were subscribers to the Agi
tator, we could afford to enlarge the paper and
secure a greater variety of talent for its col
umns. A little effort on the part of our friends
ould affect this, to us, desirable end ; and until
wo secure 2000 subscribers and enlarge our
paper, wo shall keep cool and not boast any,
but let the paper as heretofore, speak for itself.
Dr. John has succeeded in engaging Mrs.
Lydia Jane Pierson (formerly a resident of this
county) to write a story for the Republican, It
is called “The Story of a Newspaper,” and
promises to be as good as any of the stories in
the Ledger or Mercury,
“Hints toward Physical Perfection, or
the Philosophy of Human Beauty; Showing
How to Acquire and Retain Bodily Symmetry,
Health, and vigor; Secure Long Life; and
Avoid the Infirmities and Deformities of Age.”
This is the title of a new work about to be
issued by Fowler and Wells of New York.
Coming as it does from a firm whose name pre
cludes the possibility of humbug, this book will
command the attention of every intelligent man
and woman, and will, we trust, awaken a deeper
interest in the physical development of the
race, than has yet been manifested. It is a
book intended for parents'and teachers, for
young men and women as a manual to guide
them in attaining those high qualitieiof physi
cal vigor and beauty sodesirable to all. It will
be illustrated by alarge number of engravings,
will be bound in muslin, and will be sent free
by mail for SI. Address d’owier & Wells, 308
Broadway, New York.
Harper fur April is n good number. Its
illustrations are unusually good. Harper and
the Agitator will be furnished to any subscriber
for |3 s year. For sale by Smith A Richards.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS <
; The Pittsburg Gazette says that Gon.
Cameron is beyond doubt the first choice of the
great Opprisitiorr party vt Pennsylvania, and
should the National Convention designate him
as the People’s standard-bearer, the vote of this
Commonwealth will.be cast in hit• favorr by n'
majority of tens of thousands.
lt is stated that when Mr. Stephens, <)f
Georgia; was asked why he retired from Cnh
gress.and pwjjlio life, he,said, fraijkjy that ‘.'lie
was o.n the .train, (the Democratic train,) acid
as. a smash up war certain, ho would- got off at
the first station.” What what will be the fata
of Poor Buchanan, who is on tho engine and
can’t get off.
The Davenport Gazette calls attention to
the coincidence that seventy-six members of the
House voted against the Homestead bill. . What
is still more remarkable, the seventy-six per
sons in favor of raising the rates of postage
were almost,identically tho very seventy-sis
men who voted against the homestead bill; and
of those seventy-sis, all were Administration
men.
The body of a gentleman—indigenous
was washed ashore a short time since from the
Mississippi. In his pockets wore found: ‘.‘one
dueling pistol; one bowie-knife, one speech of
Jefferson Davis; one speech of Senator Toombs;
one copy of the JTississippian, edited by Barks
dale ; three copies of the President’s Lecomp
ton Message ; a photographic representation of
an alligator devouring an eagle—supposed to be
the province of Mississippi in the act of exter
minating the “stars and stripes.”
A mepe encouraging feeling seems to be
springing up on the Pacific coast, relative to
the Fraser riVer mines, and letter writers now
express the that a great yield of gold
will yet bo obtained from them. The gold is
finer and more evenly distributed than in Cali
fornia, and lienee there is an absence of those
“big strikes” which have given eclat to the
California El Dorado, but tbe precious metal
really abounds. A correspondent of tho San
Francisco Bulletin, remarks: “I do not be
lieve that for the next few years any mines
known will afford more gold to the man than
these same mysterious mines.”
—~ A Daily Religious Newspaper. —The
N. Y. Churchman makes the following an
nouncement: It is reported in newspaper cir
cles, that an enterprise is in progress for the
establishment in New York, of a daily paper,
to be conducted on strictly religious principles.
It is to be started we hear, with a capital 5150,-
000, and is to he edited by James R. Spaul
ding, Esq., a gentleman of ability and experi
ence, at present and for several years past con
nected with the Courier cb Enquirer , and the
Rev. Dr. McCimtock, an eminent Methodist
clergyman, well known for his contributions to
the leading periodicals of that denomination.
Ex-Governor Robinson, of Kansas, was
assaulted in the streets of Lawrence, K. T., a
few days since, by Martin F.. Conway, who hit
the Governor on the head with a cudgel. The
Governor writes a letter to the Herald of Free
dom, in which he tells how he retorted: “I
seized him as soon as I could overtake hirr,
and wasaboutapplyingasmaUdoseof asphyxia
to his wind apparatus which Is an excellent rem
edy for certain kinds of Imania, when his
brother interfered and released him ; Mr. C.
then, for the first time, spoke, and I found, to
my surprise, that this free use of his cudgel
was only intended as an answer to my letter."
-The successful culture of Oats depends
in a groat measure upon its-early sowing. If
the wcat her permit?, the crops should be al
waysin the ground by the first of April, or at
the furthest the first week in April. An im
portant consideration is bright, heavy seed,
which should be obtained, when convenient,
from fi distance, and not too far South from a
locality. Oats, like most other grains, and in
deed vegetables, should be changed often.—
After the second or third year, at most, if cul
tivated, nearly everything in the vegetable
kingdom will deteriorate, unmistakably show
, ing the necessity of frequent interchange with
the productions of other localities or latitudes.
Gomauivicn Telecp'aph.
The Agusla (Ga,) Chronicle says that
Emancipation is “the certain result to which
the reopening of the slave trade will lead —as
certain as day follows night ” —because in course
of time Slavery will become unprofitable, and
more and more so in the rqtio of the fecundity
of the slaves, let alone importation. There
being no more territory to send the surplus to,
the evil will increase until emancipation be
comes a necessity. Such is the Chronicle's
reasoning, according to which it is plain that,
be the slave-trade reopened or not, the question
of emancipation is merely a question of time.
Is the Chronicle ready to agree to the conclusion
implied in its premises ? j
About a week ago a domestic, named
Elleu Vaughn, employed at the Union House,
had her ears perforated for the purpose of
wearing ' The operation was perfor
med in the usual manner, with the usual results
at the time. On the second day after the pierc
ing, her ear commenced swelling, and she left
employment and went home. The third day
the swelling and inflammation increased rapid
ly, when she became deaf, blind and speech
less ; eryaipilas set in, and for three days the
unfortunate suffered terribly, when death re
leased her.— Troy Budget, March 25.
Both houses of the Pennsylvania Legist
lature have agreed to adjourn sine die on the
14th of April.
An exchange says that when Mr. Douglas
was recently asked to consent to stand as a
candidate for nomination, at the Charleston
Convention, he declined, and said :
"The Opposition are sure to succeed in {he
next Presidential election." This bitter confes
sion, of the ablest man in the Democratic ranks,
gives us, in a few words the cleanest idea of
the. complete demoralization of the Adminis
tration. Its power of evil is, comparatively
speaking at an end.
It is generally-conceded, in political circles,
that Douglas and Hunter have come to an un
derstanding, by which the latter is to have the
honor of being defeated by the opposition in
1800—the former awaiting the chances of 1864,
This opinion receives additional strength from
the fact, that the last three candidates of the
Democracy have been taken from the North,
making the next due to the South.
The States, formerly a strong Douglas paper,
is evidently under the control of Hunter, will;
a kindly feeling towards Douglas, and the ed?
itor is a Virginian of the Hunter school. The
•silence of Hunter, during the recent popular
sovereignty debate in the Senate is also con
sidered uminious of the aspirations of the chair
man of the Committee on Finance.—lPosA Re
public, ' . .
FROM THE PEOPLE
To the School Directors of Charleston.
You have been, chosento. fill a-xeiy;import
ant, os well ns n very responsible office. You
will* no doubt,-find-it n difficult, if nofair im
possible task to giro satisfaction to all, as the
Opinions nod tastes of those-whom you serve
are so various and conflicting. The overbear
ing, the penurious, the heedless or the ignorant
have no right to accept of the office of School
Director. Wo arc successful hi having nien in
our town - who aro capable, and p'illjng'to per
form the arduous duties of this important of
fice. I see in the -present board, men capable
of examining and ascertaining 'the qualifica
tions of teachers. This 1 consider an indispen
sable qualification in a School Director.; with
out it flow can Justice bo done tbe teachers?—
True, the Superintendent’s certificate is a gaide,
yet few will presume that it is infallible. Jus
tice, os, welt ns the spirit of the School law,
plainly teach that teachers should be paid in
the proportion of their qualifications to perform
the duties of their profession. I see there also,
men noted as architects—men wiio can plan,
build, and appreciate a comfortable and com
modious house—even a school house. This is
nlsu an important qualification. It is a want of
this that causes the withered countenances—
the siukly pallor of our scholars. Tam inclined
to believe that the unwholesome air which they
are obliged to breathe, with the unnatural posi
tion in which they are obliged to sit from day
to day, causes more sickness' among our youth,
than all else combined. Thus, while we pre
tend to be tfieir friends, we are their worst ene
mies. We try to give them an education; but
take in exchange the ruddy, healthy flush from
their cheeks—their very constitutions and their
life.
Many of the School houses in our township,
and in others are mere shells—poorer by far
than many of our stables; and yet to these mis
erable and neglected hovels we send our own
children, and oblige them to sit and study
through the long days. The Culver School
house, in my neighborhood, is one of this kind.
It is far too small, and built without any regard
to comfort or convenience. The desks being
ail of a height, and very low, the larger schol
ars are obliged to bend over in an unnatural
and unhealthy posture to obtain any uso of
them. Then there is no means for ventilation.
It is warmed, or at least the children try to
warm it, with an old, antiquated stove, which
is without a door or a leg to stand upon.
I would beg leave of the Directors to recom
mend stone buildings wherever they may erect
new ones. I have conversed' upon the subject
with a master builder; and he says that it will
cost no more to with stone than wood, ex
cept perhaps the hauling of the stone; and they
might be hauled by the people of the district,
with little or no extra cost. I would cheerfully
agree to haul my share free. The School houses
in my native country (Wales) were built of
stone. They would last from generation to
generation. I think the “Yankee £mys” would
be less apt to jack-knife such buildings. They
are mure durable, cost less to keep them in re
pair, and are warmer-'in winter and cooler in
summer.
I trust the School Directors will give this
matter of School accommodation their early
and earnest attention. Money judiciously laid
out for this purpose, I consider a profitable in
vestment. I think our “Common School Sys
tem,“(like fanning, pays in proportion to the
liberality with which it is carried on.
, Yours respectfully,
D. G. EnHMiIDS.
Charleston, March 18, 1850.
From the lloncsdalc Democrat.
Gen. Line has issued an address to the peo
ple of Kansas in which he gires an account of
the killing of Gaius Jenkins. He declares that
when he received notice of the coming of Jen
kins into his enclosure, he earnestly dissuaded
him ; that when the entrance was made hk was
fired at three times before he returned the fire;
that when he did he only used shot; and he
“appeals to Almighty God for the truth” of his
statement, that he nad no intention of killing
Jenkins, hut expected to knock him down and
disable him. He reiterates his determination
of remaining in private life, and referring to
the charges brought against him by his enemies,
says : “So long as it affords those indulging
in them either pleasure or profit, let them howl;
until their very throats crack. My history is
before the people of Kansas, and to their judg
ment will I cheerfully submit.” .
f lhe fact that his history is before the people
of Kansas constitutes the reason fur his being
“in private life.” No efforts of his, however
sophistical or vehement, will avail to remove
the weight of odium under which he rests.—
The misrepresentations in which he now indul
ges will do him no good. He would not have
ventured upon them butforthoknowledge that
the family of Jenkins had nearly all left the
Territory. It was in evidence on the trial that
only three shots were fired in all, and that the
first of these was the fatal one by which lane
killed Jenkins. The last words Jenkins ever
uttered, as Lane was pointing the gun at him,
were, “Lane, you,i know your duty.” These
words will sound |n his cars so long as ho lives,
and wherever his Jot may bo cast.
He has gone behind a cloud of darkness
which he never can efface.
Bad Law, Bad Morals, and Bad Logic.—
Some of our cotemporarics are advancing the
theory that a man, in certain cases, has a moral
right to be his own avenger. This is all wrong.
No human being has any such right conferred,
by any law, human or divine. It is justifia
ble to take life only to preserve life ; in other
words, to kill the assassin who seeks to kill
you. But this is self-defence. It is not re
venge. fhou shalt not kill,” —remember, is
equally binding with “Thou shalt not commit
adultery. Hence the folly, and wickedness,
and bad logic, of violating the Sixth Command
ment, simply in order to repair or revenge a
breach of the seventh,— Exchange.
WELLSBORO’ ACADEMY.
| Wcllsboro', Tioga County, Poona*
Luther. E. Burlingame, A. B.; - . Principal.
Mas. FRANCES A. MAYNARD, ) , .
Miss ELIZA J. BEACH, j dwttene.
The Spring Term will commence on Tuesday, March
S, and close on Friday, May 20. The Sutnmer Term
will commence on Tuesday, May 31, and close on Fri
u*iy, Aug. 12.
Tuition.
Juvenile Department, .... ..
Common English Branohe ’ a?n
Higher English Branches. ... . S
Language*, riJJ
Drawing, (extra) . ... . . '
, By order of- Trustees,'
w ii v J ‘ F ‘ DONALDSON, PrtiX
ivollsboro, March 10,-1859.
GROCERIES —The place to bay Groceries of all
*md» cheap, la at HOB h SMITH'S*
For the Agitator.
ways depend upon getting a
GOOD SUPPLY op
FLOUR, FEED, 111 in
AT WHOLESALE OR 1
Tpo be Sold very Cheap for Caih o nUt
Lumbermen and tho*e wishing to porciu/’
article will do well by calling on me
where. F. K. IVP.S?
Wellsboro, April 7tb, 1850.
NEW EM! SEW Flip
SEARS & WOOF,
Have bought out the entire stock of C. L W3~.
are now prepared to furnish
CUSTOM BOOTS AND Sfte
FEATHER, FINDINGS. PEGU Vjm
THREAD , BINDINGS,
FITTING-SILK, SHOE-KNIT
AWLS, FITTING-THREAD
Etc., Etc.. Etc., Etc.,
CHEAP FOR CASH!
Repairing done in a workmanlike maaaer )C jj
work warranted. ’ '
Boot «fc Shoe Department
fore, be under the direct supervision of CbZ
Sears, whose long experience in the
presumed, without vanity, to qualify him fo;
good satisfaction to those who may favonu
ders.
We will also pay the highest cash prices ft*
HIDES, SKINS & FURS.
A Hew Slock of Groceries
AS GOOD AS THE BEST.\ AXD
AS CHEAT AS THE CHEAPEN
"Wc intcnTl to keep our assortment of Groceriesh*
and to sell them on as favorable terms as woes
tide can be bought in tho County.
Stand, the same as formerly occupied by C. L. TFj
cox, third door below J. R. Bowea.
Wellaboro, April 7, *59. C. W. SEARS
11. IL WOOD.
LIST of Letters remaining in the Post Oartu
Wellsboro Pa., Quarter ending March
Buber J. ; Mnllins Timothy
Burbank Miss Sophia McKeil Mrs. Cath&rici
Borden Ben Loebar Miss W. Vihia
Brothers Roscnfcltl Lee Daniel
Baloney Charles Kimball John
Butler Simon _ Jenninga Miss Elia
Campbell Samuel Jackson C. M.
Chapen Reuben llamtnnnd Scab D.
Clark Leujuel, or heirs Parry B. A.
Chapman David or heirs Reabson Joseph
Doughtery John Rixf>>nl Simon or hc!rt
Davenport Yancy St>»one Wiiiium
Daggett Seth Smith Jnhn or Darid
English B. E. Mrs. Sharp Isaac
Marvin Miss Emily Sly i Daggett
Morgan Mrs. M. P. Wallace I). B. 4
Mitehell W. Washburn McKeaaj
Moore 3liss Charlotte Young John
Persons calling for any of the above letaa?
please say they tiro advertised.
April 7, 1809. I. D. RICHARDS, P.M.
LIST of letters remaining in the PonQSail
Tioga, quarter ending March 31, 13j3.
Anllck David ' Lewis Evan
Adams Mrs. Catherine 2 M (.-Cornel Jas. 11.
Aldrich Joseph
Barker TVm.
B.'lden M.- Rickey Isrne!
Brink Mrs. F. J. Reynolds Beojaoia
Brydea Thos. 25. Rees David
Bentley Ephrailn J. Sherwood J. G.
Burt Olive Shine Kate
Cownhoren Ref. J. G- Sly B.
Cook Mrs. AUcd Schoonover Cbriikpic
Darling John Sherman John
Davies June Steele John B.
Ferry Emery P. Sactor Hiram
Ford Miss Adelin* Spaulding Wm. IF.
Gregory 0. S. Smith Lucian M.
Gilman Rev. J. B. T«duck James P*
Gray Chas. Tubo John
Ilacnger Jacob Tcffb Adclbert
Uognncamp DanL "Williams Mrs. M.t
Danner J. N. Williams Mrs. Mir?**
Hoadley Wm. Wilson Miss Fieri
Jones Alfred ‘ _ Warren E. IF.
Jackson C. M. Wilton John
Kingsbury J. L. Wells Rev. E. B.
Knapp Eli Van Xante Wa.
Lent Phillip Yager Jabe H
Persons calling for any of the above
please jay they are advertised. v
April 7, 3859. W. T. ERELL ? -
FARREI, HERRIS6» tIS
J’A T£XT CIIAVriOX SAFE.
LATE FIRE AT DUBCQCE, lOW-
Gents : I am requested by Mr. T. A. C.
this place, to say to you that on the mom G ? 1 '
4th inst., about 3 o’clock, his store
entire stock of goods was destroyed. Xhe he.
so suddenly intense that none of the s^ 13 c 3“
sibly be saved; but fortunately bisbw**
which wore in one of your Champs s,l,e *
preserved perfectly. And well they foQ
Champion, for during the whole won 3?' 3, Q u
was one incessant pouring of flam® dirw * ILtrg
Safe which contained them. And still U P° ,vj
it, the inside was found to he scarsty
the outside was most severely scorched-^
Herring’s Patent Champion Fire j
Safes, with HALL’S'PATENT j
LOCKS, afford the greatest security a ?F w .
world. Also Sideboard and Parlor
workmanship and finish, fur plate fe ]fes
FARKEL, HERRING & CO- have rem*
34 Walnut SL» to their new store, h°- i
St., (Jayne’s Hall,) where the largest as*
Safes in the vforld can bo found r!)
FARREL, HERRIN * wj.
629 Chestnut Street, (Jaynes
March 17, 3859.
H. TV*. Jexkixs,
J\*ew Drug s° r( '
TtlE UNDERSIGNED takes pleasnrt j
dog to the citizens of Wellsboroanar
ho has just opened a new Drug Store in
OSGOOD'S BUIIDISG,
whore he has a complete assortment of
Drugs & Medicine 5 )
which he will sell cheap for cash. . 9(f^
Our Stock of Drugs is complete, embrace
article ever called f° r * T -rC
PATENT MEDICI^
J.iyue's, Ayre's, Helmboid's. McL-ine
other popular Medicines, together wll c ,t, nJ r!.i i
f.am, Cqd Liver Oil. Wolf’s Aromatic
CHOICE WIVES ASJ> ll( * 1
for Medicinal and Sacramental uses.
jratms K
of the best quality.
FUrorrng Extracts, Spices* PepP er '
Soda,' Candles, Soap. Bonj ,D 5. . .
. Camphene, Turpentine. AlwW c#*
And aa indumorable variety of aru
Please call at the NEW
WeUsbore, Hareb 10, 1819.
‘S “MilJ,,,
Phtlps S. W.W,
Pendleton E.