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oar ” Fugitive
flie Slates of Monday evening comes to the
, ac of Mr. Secretary Cfass, in an elaborate
rtiiilc in defence of his doctrine relative to the
rights of naturalized citizens. It says that
■•whatever reputation Mr. BoUa may have
earned ns a stateman, has assuredly been ruin
ously damaged” by his New York letter on
that subject. Having thus summarily demol
ished Mr. Bolt’s reputation, the States pays its
respects to its cotemporaries throughout the
country by declaring, with characteristic mod
esty, that'“tbe amount of ignorance that has
manifested itself on this subject, as expressed
through the newspaper press, is positively
marvelous.”
It is fortunate that there is as least one lu
minary in the country capable of dispelling the
clouds of ignorance that obscure this subject;
and fortunate are the inhabitants of the Fed
eral city, in living within the radius of its light.
The States gives the following oracular expo
sition of the whole subject:
“In Prussia every male child is born a sol
dier. The King has a claim upon him for a
certain number of years of military duty, which
is just as valid as the claim of a Virginian to
n slave child for life is valid by the Constitution
of the Union.
If a male child quits his realm, at whatever
age, without having discharged his duty, he is
cier liable for its performance, cither person
ally or by a substitute, upon re-entering the
realm.
Xo obligations which he can take upon hina-
Bulf to another country, and no protection which
F'ioli country can extend to him, can impair
this claim, because it is of anterior existence.
For instance if a male slave of Virginia—
one of Mr. Butts’ for instance—were to escape
from bis owner, proceed to Prussia, there be
come a subject of the Crown, and subsequently
return to Virginia, is it likely that he would be
icnoied to Prussia upon the demand that he is
a Prussian Subject?
The notion is too absurd to be entertained by
a rational being. Old Virginia would surren
der her existence before she would surrender
him.
The cases are identical. So long as the slave
remained under the jurisdiction of Prussian
law, or out of the confines of the United States,
to long would his master be without a remedy
Ibr his wrohg, and so long as the Prussian, who
owes military service, remains in the United
States, or within the confines of Prussia and
the Germanic Confederation, so long is he se
cure from the exactions of the sovereign in
whose realm he was born.”
This is the doctrine of Mr. Cass, as illustra
ted by the Douglas organ. Upon this point, at
least the Buchanan and Douglas wings of the
party agree. It must be truly consoling to our
adopted fellow citizens to know that this Dem
ocratic Administration regards them as mere
“/it7thee slaiw.”
The doctrine is, that every subject of a for
eign, despotism is born a slave, and that-this
condiiiuji cannot be changed by anything he
cm d'j for himself, or that our Government can
do &r him, although it accepts his allegiance.
“Xo obligations which he can take upon him-
KCrlf to another country, and no protection which
such country can extend to him,” can make
him a free man, or even “impair the claim”
which his master has to his personal services,
in virtue of his having been born to slavery. —
True, lie may escape from slavery if he can,
and flee to this country, and here, in pursuance
of our laws, go through the idle ceremony of
renouncing his allegiance to his hereditary
master, and being declared a citizen of this
glorious llopublic. But be is only a “fugitive
slave,” after all. Our Government can afford
him no protection against the claim of his
former master, because it recognizes that claim
as “just as valid as the claim of a Virginian to
a slave child for life.” In fact his condition,
according to the Stales, is “identical” with that
of a “runaway nigger”—that is to say, he is
free just so long as be can keep out of the
clutches of his former master, and no longer.
If that master once gets his hand upon him,
our Government cannot interfere in his behalf,
notwithstanding it has accepted his allegiance
and made him a citizen.— Washington Republic.
The Wit or x Mischievous Belle, —The Pe
tersburg}! Express gets off the following in ref
erence to Ex-Senator Foote. It says: Hon.
Henry Stuart Foote, late Senator in Congress
from Mississippi, and afterwards a shining light
in California, is attracting considerable atten
tion in the South at this time. It seems he is
endeavoring to look young again, and has
conned a brown wig and dyed his hair and
moustache. List winter the Ex-Governor was
figuring about the parlors of the St. Charles
Hotel in Xew Orleans, in a flowing wig of dark
brown locks, and an enormous beard and mous
tache of the deepest jet, which would have
done honor to a grenadier of the French Impe
rial Guard.
As he passed the large mirrors he never
failed to cast an admiring look at'bis own re
flection, and not only smiled at himself, but
the cause of laughter in others who beheld
kim. One evening he joined a group of gen
tlemen who surrounded a young and charming
fielle, and soon addressed some remarks to her.
She returned a lopk of quiet surprise as if she
Aid not know him. “Why, Miss said
° ur venerable chameleon, “you don't seem to
know me.” “Ob, yes,” said she, apologetically,
“there is something quite familiar to me in
your voice, but really, 1 can't recall your name.”
name, Miss ,is Foote.” “Ah 1 now
I nnderderstard it.. I once knew Gov. Foote of
Mississippi, hue I did not know that he had a
* on as young as you are.” “Thank you, Miss.
I owe you one,” said the great orator, as he
turned away, for even his .self-possession was
proof against the wit of the mischievous
belle.
The “Benicia Boy” was lately assaulted By
a set of rowdies in Boston and Badly Burt by
shtog-shot wounds aßout the head, notwith
standing he struck out bravely with bis “right
•tad left.’’ So the manly art of “self defence,”
about which we hear so miioh bragging, don’t
amount to much in a row, where a man needs
11 the most.
THE AGITATOR
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Befcot*9 to ttie mpttnuion of tf)t atwa of JFm&om antf tftr Sgrtafr of ©caltfts a&cfoum.
, WHILE THEEB SHALL BE A WEONG UNEIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
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VOL. Y.
THE AGITATOR.
JJUGHYOUWG, Editor & IProprietor,
WELLSBOROUGH, PA.
Thursday Morning, July 14, ’59.
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Republican State Nominations.
AUDITOR, GENERAL:
THOMAS E. COCHRAN,
YORK COUNTY.
SURVEYOR GENERAL:
GEN. WILLIAM H. KEIM,
BERKS COUNTY.
A Hew Flank.
At a time when the sham Democratic press
of the country is trying to saddle the responsi
bility of some measure of Massachusetts State
politics which affects the rights of the natural
ized citizens of that State upon the Republicans
of the whole country, it is interesting to read
the letter of Mr. Lewis Cass, enunciating as it
does, a new doctrine with regard to the rights
acquired by citizens not born within the limits
of the United States. It is in vain that Mr.
Caleb Cushing and Senator Pugh come to the
rescue of the venerable Secretary of State, and
proffer their logic and rhetoric to explain that
which needs uo explanation. The doctrine re
mains as written by Mr. Cass, that no native of
the old world can have the absolute right of ex
patriation ; and as a corrollary deducible there
from, that no matter how long a native of Prus
sia, Franco or any other country may have been
a naturalized citizen of this country —no mat
ter how long be may have contributed to sup
port and been protected by this government—
he still owes military service to the country
from which he is a self-made exile, and this
government will not protect him against the
claims of his former lord and sovereign. Such
is the Democratic doctrine of to-day in contrast
with the doctrine enunciated by Mr. Marcy in
the case of Martin Kosta, that if a foreigner
bad even declared his intention to Become a ci
tizen of the United States, that act was sufficient
to entitle him to the protection of this govern
ment, no matter where he went.
When we remember that one of the causes
of lBl2 was the impressment into
the British American seamen under
the mediaeval doctrine of perpetual allegiance,
we are surprised that Mr. Cass and with him
.the Democratic party, that make all their capi
tal with the more ignorant Irish by their pro
fessed hatred of England, should adopt this En
glish doctrine and incorporate it into the Dem
ocratic creed. The phrase “progressive Democ
racy” is frequently used by the stump orators
of that stripe when addressing the people whoso
votes may happen to be needed at the time,
without much reference to its meaning. Wc
have often wondered wherein was the progress
which the phrase seems to imply, but every day
helps to unriddle the mystery. On all questions
which affect in any way the rights of man,
white or black, that party progresses—after the
manner of tbe crab. Here was a splendid op
portunity for the leaders of the Democracy to
have gotten up a furor over the rights of white
men--foreigners whom they profess to love so
much—but instead of that we have given to us
some old-time ideas of international law, and
tbe rights of a nation to the service of thoso
born on her soil, whether they live on that soil
or not.
We give in another part of this paper, an ar
ticle from the Washington Republic which il
lustrates, we fear but too' clearly, the spirit of
the Democratic press in regard to this doctrine.
From this it may be seen that adopted citizens
are regarded by this administration in the same
light as fugitive slaves , a fact which may tend
to open the eyes of some who adhere to the De
mocracy, because they are intoxicated with the
name.
What reason do the Democratic leaders give
for this new doctrine with regard to the rights
of foreign-born citizens? The same reason
which they always have given when any infa
mous measure was to be adopted by the party,
namely, that it has always been the policy of
the government. Indeed some of the echoes of
the Washington organ, resort to the smallest
kind of logical shuffling to gull their readers
with, as for instance the Patriot and Union of
Harrisburg, which comes to the
such patriotic twaddle as this :
“Tbe.assumption that every man owes some
thing to the mother who bore him, and the soil
upon which he was born* is recognized by mu
nicipal and international law. To disregard
this recognized fact would be to go counter to
the uniform practice of this country, to uniform
international law, and would involve us in war
with all Christendom, It would be in total dis
regard of Washington and our political fathers,
who advised us to avoid all entangling alliances
or interference with foreign powers, for it would
make us a nation of propagandists, who are de
termined upon carrying our ideas of domestic
government by force of arms, into every coun
try with which we have relations. For this we
are not prepared, nor are we able to compel oth
er countries to adopt our views as to the allegi
ance which citizens respectively owe to the land
of their birth and the land of their adoption.”
It will be seen that such catch-phrases as
“entangling alliances,” the “early fathers” and
so forth, are always on hand to be used on oc
casion* like this, but how these fine phrases
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 14, 1859.
can be made to solve the great question of righjts,
is more than anybody but Democratic politicians
can tell. But in order to sliow that this new
doctrine of modern Democracy is in direct op
position to the practice of the government here
tofore, we copy a short chapter of history from
the X. Y. Express: |
“Francis Allibcrt, a native of ihe Department de
Var, in the, South of France, left there during the
drawing of the conscription in 1839, and was actually
drawn as a conscript, and was therefore an cckapc de
la conscription, lie arrived at New Orleans, made the
usual application for citizenship, and was duly natu
ralized in 1845. lie was successful in business in
Louisiana, and in July, 1852, nfterjan absence of near
ly fourteen years he returned to visit his family in his
native village; and under the vigilant police in France
he was arrested in twenty-four hours after his return.
He immediately wiotc to Mr, ilodgo, the nearest
American consul. The latter, that he might better at
tend to the case, immediately requested that Mr. Al
libert might bo brought to Marseilles, which request
was promptly acceded to by the General-in-Chief com.
mauding the military division. Hie was there brought
before the Tribunal de Guerre As au Insonmie, and
condemned. Mr. Allibert was willing to pay four
thousand francs for a substitute, bi t Mr. Hodge would
not allow him even to make the iffor, but obtained a
re-hearing of his c.iao, appeared 1 1 person before tbo
Tribunal dc Guerre, and pleaded tho case; akd after
two trials and a detention of six months Ac teas acA
uoiclcdged an American citizen', and order* enjuc from
the d/ in inter of IVW at Paris, dbeetiug his release. —
Mr. Hodge gave him u passport, vliich was vised by
the police, and with which he remained some weeks
with his family, tiaveled throng i Franco, and em
barked at Havre on his return to the United States.
“The correspondence nu file in the Department of
State gives the full dutuiU of the :ase. find Mr. Kver-
Secretary of Stale under Mr. Fillmore, o ( n the
od ISa'J, (the last day* lie was in office.)
wrote a complimentary letter to r. Hodge, lu which
he says.
‘•‘The Department was gratifii
Allibert, whose arrest and intprUf
mis, although a naturalized citizen (.
as mentioned in your communion
leased. This is undoubtedly due
elded stand maintained throughoi
versy in your official corresponds
ities on the subject.
“It is much to bo desired that fA
a precedent, as yon intimate, and i
ralized citizens t >J the United Stnt\
icithnuc dunjcr of urrrtt for mili<
event, a hurtful source of irritu
feeling will be ”
We ask our readers to remember that this
case occurred while the present acknowledged
chief of the American party was President of
the United States, and we aslt the attention of
adopted citizens particularly to the fact, that
the present administration, n its
empty professions of regard for the oppressed
foreigners who seek homes on our shores, is
nevertheless willing to ignore an important pre
cedent, in point of fact, altogether similar to
that of Le Clerk to whom G m. Cass addresses
his letter. i
The whole case may be staged in a few words.
The true doctrine is, that if !a man be natural
ized ho is no lunger a foreigner in any sense of
the word. The nature of \merican institu
tions precludes the possibility of having for
eign citizens. True, the accident of birth re
mains, but that is all. Herein is the whole
case.
i Wc ought not to be surprised at this denial
by the Democrats of the inherent right of all
men to self-expatriation. It is not surprising
that a party which makes war on free men be
cause of the accident of col ir—as the Demo
cratic party did in Maryland % few weeks ago—
should make war on free men because of the
accident of birth. Practically the principle
involved is the same. American Democracy—
we use the term in its highest sense—should
teach that self-expatriation is a natural instead
of an acquired right, and that, eternal allegi
ance is behind the spirit of ttie age. But Dem
ocracy as interpreted by the modern fathers
takes queer flights, and this is certainly one of
them. Wo suggest that the new doctrine be
made one of the planks of the Charleston
Platform.
Mr. Douglas’s Position.
Every reflecting man knows, that our Amer
ican system of Conventions and Caucuses lias
degenerated into mere machinery, by which
intriguing politicians impose upon the country
incompetent candidates for offices of all grades,
from President down to pound-master. We
therefore laud the recent
Douglas, not for the politici
pounds, but for the scutin
pendenco that dictated and
a declaration of war agains
assumed infallibility of par
is a proclamation, by a disi
leader and presumptive can
dency, to an assemblage w!
tbority of determining hi
terms he will and will not t onsent to bo named
by them for that office. If it be regarded as an
attempt to dictate to a N ttional Convention,
our response is. that it is high time somebody,
with the prestige and pltck of Mr. Douglas,
taught our National Convention Mongers, that
principles can be enunciated, and leaders desig
nated, by others, quite as properly ns by them.
They have long enough dictated both creeds
and candidates to the people, prescribing, with
Procrustean precision, for whom they shall vote,
and what doctrines that tote shall represent.
We are glad to find that one distinguished
party chief has the courage to use plain lan
guage to the-three or four hundred political
hucksters, who, by and by, will be selected at
hap-hazard or by corrupt appliances to go to
Charleston, and there determine, by thimblo
rigging trickery, the destiny of one of the great
parties of the country, and perhaps of the
country itself, for the coming four years.
Our Caucus and Convention system, when
operating on a national theatre, is almost-as
baias a constitutional monarchy, with its acci
dents of birth. The responsible ministers of
the crown can be driver
pleasure of the people,
burg or a Baltimore Conv
all the leading statesmen
denly-discovers the peer:
place and power of some
Polk, or'Pierce, and the
party, with a wholesome fear of excommunica
tion and lose of pottage, ratify the discovery
with their votes, no subsequent disapprobation
of the people can rid the nation of the infliction.
Patronage and pay are assured unto the incu
bus, however grievous to be borne, for four
years.
This system renders politics and office-hold
ing such vulgar pursuits and occupations, that
the great body of first-class men of all pro
fessions and callings will have nothing to do
with them. With honorable exceptions, and
we are happy to say there are many such, it
crowds Congress after Congress with obscurity
and mediocrity, and fills our State Legislatures
and Executive departments with men who were
never heard of before they entered their halls,
and arc utterly forgotten as soon as they leave
them. And so it is with all the descending
grades of office till they reach the lowest place
in the gift of the smallest political municipality
in the land.
And, not content with dictating candidates,
and sentencing to the party guillotine those
who repudiate the dictators and their nominees,
these irresponsible conclaves prescribe the creed
of the party in respect to all questions past,
pending, and prospective. A mass of undi
gested verbiage, called a “platform,” usually
presented to the Convention just as every mem
ber is rushing for the door or the depot, and
which few understand and all soon forget, be
comes, henceforth, by virtue of such action,
the irrevocable creed of the party to which
every orator, editor and candidate, in the cxei
tingcanvass that follows, is required to conform
in thought, word and deed. Everybody knows
that creeds thus originating have no effect in
i':J to learn that M.
inment as an £n*ou
the United States,
.tions, hns been re
to the ilnu and de
nt the long contro
qce with the author-
producing identity of sentiment in the party;
win no totes to its candidates, while they repel
many; and usually fall within the scope of the
criticism that "Webster, with more wit than
wisdom, bestowed upon the Buffalo platform,
via: “That all which it contained that was true
“ was not original, and all that was original
“ was not truel”
t* case may serve as
that hereafter unfit*
its may visit France
lary service. Iu this
lion ami unfriendly
The period may come when the people will
select their candidates and adopt their creeds
without the interposition of a self-elected Con
vention or Caucus. In the meantime, the re
cent letter of Mr. Douglas points in the right
direction. — Xew York Tribune.
Last Friday evening a party of four gentle
men viz, Prof. Wise, the celebrated Aeronaut,
Prof. La Mountain, Mr. Wiu. Zlyde of the• St.
Louis Republican and another person left St.
Louis in the great balloon on a trial trip to the
Atlantic coast. This balloon was built at Troy
recently for the purpose of crossing the ocean
to Europe, and this trip was to test its capacity.
The balloon came down Saturday afternoon in
St. Lawrence Co. in the State of New York, a
distance of 1200 miles from the starting point,
having made the trip in twenty hours. The
Buffalo Express derives the following informa
tion from Mr. Hyde ong of the party.
‘•They left St. Louis at 7:20 P. M. Friday.
They immediately arosq to an altitude of about
two miles which was the highest point gained
daring the trip. Hero they found the easterly
current expected and sailed along at the rate
of about a mile per minute. The air was in
tensely cold and several extra garments failed
to prevent a constant shivering among them.
It became at laat insufferable, and Prof. Wise,
thinking to find the same current nearer the
earth, allowed the balloon to descend a few
hundred feet. Hero they were struck with a
current running north which, before they could
again ascend, carried them several degrees to
the northward, thus passing north of Buffalo,
when they intended passing this point much
farther south. At about 2 o’clock Saturday af
ternoon they were over Lake Ontario, when
Prof. Wise experimented in the different cur
rents in order to gain information.for his pro
jected Atlantic trip. This brought them in
contact with the gale which prevailed over this
portion of the country, and ere they could rise
above it, the balloon boat struck the water and
was dashed into a thousand pieces, the voya
gers being in the car above. Everything, coats,
boots, provision and hooks were thrown over
board in order to lighten the balloon, and it
soon rose about fifty feet and passed on to the
land in St. Lawrence Co. Here they were met
by a dense forest, and the grappling irons (very
large, weighing ten pounds) attached to ropes
fifty feet in length were thrown out. The bal
loon at that time was making two miles per
minute, and the irons seized large limbs of
trees, tearing thcm-,from the trunk, and giving
the track they mipie the appearance of one
caused by a whirlwind. At times the car up
set, and the balloonists clung to the ropes for
safety. At 4P.M. on Saturday the car caught
in a high tree, and the force of the wind swung
the balloon around the branches, tearing it into
shreds. The passengers were thro.wn out on
the ground near a small village, from whence
Mr. Hyde came to this city on his return to St.
Louis, and the rest of the party went to Albany.
i letter of Senator
id principles it pre
sent of wanly inde
] pervades it. It is
•t the tyranny and
y Conventions. It
l inguished political
ulidate for the Presi
] iich claims the au
i destiny, on what
The Albany Evening Journal tells us that
“There is one army which will never quit
Italy. It sleeps on its arms in an eternal biv
ouac. New recruits join at an average of a
thousand a day. They are picked men—the
bravest in botli armies, the foremost in every
battle. In twenty-seven thousand corpses —
poor fellows who sought an epaulet, and found
a grave. A thousand fell in the various early
skirmishes. A thousand marked the invasion
of Garibaldi. Nine hundred French and Sar
dinians perished at Montabello.—Two thousand
Austrians perished on the same field. Two
hundred Zouaves were killed at Palestro, As
many Sardinians died with them. Four hun
dred Austrians were drowned in the canal.
More than twenty thousand must have fallen
in the actions at Buffalora and Magenta.”
Retolutioxaby Soldiers. —On the 30lh of
June, 1858, there were the names of 253 Revo
lutionary soldiers on the rolls of the U. S.
Pension office. In the sis months following,
46 died, leaving Jan. 1,1859, only 207 survivors
of that long list of heroes who won our inde
pendence. On the first of January, 1860, how
few will be left to tell the tale of their sufferings
and their success.
from power at the
Jut, when a Harris
mtion, after ignoring
of the country, eud
ess qualifications fur
nnheard of Tyler or
rank and file of the
1209 Miles in a Balloon.
FROM THE PEOPLE.
For tlio Agitator.
Mount Vernon.
To the People of Tioga County ; Chosen as
Lady Manager of the Mount Vernon Ladies
Association of the Union, for Tioga Co. I ven
ture to appeal direetiy to the warm hearted and
patriotic people of our comparatively new Go.
for that assistance which, from my success thus
far, I'am justified in saying, need only be so
licited to obtain. Surely, we will not be dila
tory in lending our time, talents and purses to
promote so patriotic and noble a cause. We
will not allow others to carry off the palm,
while we stand idle spectators gazing as if we
did not like them to enjoy the full benefit of that
“inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pur
suit of happiness,” which was never more exten
sively acknowledged than at the present time.
Could wo have witnessed the glorious triumph
of our Washington in the full flush of his vic
tory and see him self-possessed and calm while
thousands looked to him with feelings akin to
idolatry, then might we have realized the worth,
the nobility, the perfection of such a character;
but although that day and its hen: has past
away, still dear to every true Amer ican is the
name of Washington and we can “honor him
as never man was honored before” by erecting
to his memory a monument, not of marble of
costly structure but a far more magnificent one
—by purchasing his homestead and tomb.
“It is the nature of man to give utterance to
his profound attachments. And Washington is
in the hearts of the American people. They
love him. They love the ground on which ho
stood, the streams by which he walked, the
■ l skies on which he looked. They gather, the
fragments of his correspondence, the words
which tradition has handed down. They love
the questions which he contemplated and dis
cussed, the improvements which he planned,
the hills and vales on which he ever cast his
eye. But tongue can never tell how much they
prize the trees he planted with his own hand,
the lowliest shrub he ever watered, the floweret
which bloomed beneath his smile at early morn,
the vine which clustered round his weary head
at evening tide. And if these can be earned
by toil or bought by the sweat of brow or
weight of gold, (and for such as these how
paltry a sum is $200,000,) —if with them 1 can
also be obtained whatever remains of that grand
form which was ‘first in peace and first in war/
men will have these fur their own, and cleave
to them. There is ever a yearning in the soul
for something to remind it of the truly illustri
ous dead, especially when their virtues stand
well in the foreground of eternity.”
Xhejabjectof the Mount Vernon Association
although familiar to every child, it may be
proper to state and in doing we know of
nothing more perfect in simplicity yet eloquent
in language than wo find in the Appeal to the
people of Pennsylvania by our worthy Vice Re
- gent, Miss Lily L. Macalesder, viz.;
“The object of the Mount Vernon Associa
tion is to obtain by- voluntiry contributions a
sum necessary to purchase aiid hold forever two
hundred acres of the Mount Vernon estate, in
cluding the mansion where Washington dwelt
and died, his tomb, the garden and grounds
around them, and the landing at the Potoiqac
by which they are approached. To collect this
sum Vico Regents have been appointed in differ
ent States, with Lady Managers, associated
committees of ladies, and, advising committees
of gentlemen in the various counties, cities and
principal towns. Every person by whom $l,OO
is paid toward this fund becomes thereby a per
manent member of the Association, and is in
scribed as such in a Record which will be pre
served at Mount Vernon.”
We sometimes meet this objection, viz, that
‘•the price is ioo much," —perhaps it is too much
for a place upon which to raise corn ana pota
toes —too much as a price for a farm, but who
so dead to all the finer feelings of our nature
as to put his hands in his pockets and coldly
calculate the price of Washington's home—of
his decaying bones ? Tho price of a place like
Mount Vernon it is impossible to calculate and
parsimonious to say the least, must be the heart
that stoops to raise after a little thought such
an objection.
Give freely, give liberally and feel that you
are better men and women’ for so doing. Enter
heart and band into the matter and no doubt
you will feel the warm blood flow more abun
dantly, and your own spirits raised by the act.
And let us “faint not then in our endeavors.
It may be but elevating and purifying toils.—
False men cannot barm us, and the thoughtful
and brave will be on our side. The young men
will there. The patriots will be there. The
wise will be there. The believers in the suffi
ciency of God’s word as a revolution will be
there. The good will be there. The men and
officers of the United States army and navy
will be there. The strong-handed and bold
hearted of eiery honest calling will be there.
The statesmen that are such, the humble min
isters of Jesus, and all true lovers of our coun
try will be at our side to promote and maintain
our efforts/'
It is sometimes asked bow much has been
contributed? It is impossible to give the exact
amount, as every day adds more and more, but
upon the Ist of June there had been paid into
the Treasury SIoT.OOO —a sum which should
encourage all persons to add their dollar that
the remaining §43,000 be speedily raised.
Bradford has engaged in this praiseworthy
cause and will undoubtedlyj be nobly repre
sented. And once more let me ask your assist
ance, that Tioga Co. fail not in doing her part.
Wcllsboro, Pa. Lucy E. Moore.
Sarsaparilla —This tropical root has a rep
utation wide as the world, for curing one class!
of the disorders that afflict mankind—a rep-'
utation too which it deserves as the best anti
dote we possess for scrofulous complaints. But
to be brought into use, its virtues must be con
centrated and combined with other medicines
that increase its power. Some reliable com
pound of this character is much needed in the
community. —Read the advertisement of Dr.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla in our columns, and we
know it needs no encomium from us to give our
citizens confidence in what he offers. — Organ,
Sgracuse, X. I".
Rates of Advertising.
Advertisements will be charged $1 per square of 24
lines, one or three insertions, and 25 cents for. every
subsequent insertion. Advertisements of less than 14
lines considered as a square. The subjoined rates will
bo charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly ad*
Tertisements:
Square,
2 do.
i column, - - 6,00 8,00 10,00
i - do. - 10,00 15,00 20.00
Column, • - * 10,00 30,00 40,00
Advertisements not having the number of insertion,
desired marked upon them, will be published until or
dered out and charged accordingly.
Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads and all
kinds of Jobbing done In countiy establishments, ex
ecuted neatly and promptly. Justices', Constables',
and township BLANKS: Notes, Bonds, Deeds, Mort
gages, Declarations and other Blanks, constantly on
hand, or printed to order.
NO. 50.
AHORSE AND BUGGY for sale cheap. Inquire at this
office.
SANi'ORDS celebrated Ha; and Straw Forks at
OSGOOD’S
RHODE ISLAND LIME -for white washing mh he M all
seasons of the year at Roy’s Drag Store.
SOME MOKE of those Glove Kid Gaiters, and a
new assortment of Cloth Gaiters just received and
on hand for sale cheap for cosh by
I WILL SELL FLOUR of the best quality os cheap
as it can be sold In Tioga County for the next four
weeks. r C. L. WILCOX.
SUNDAY SCHOOL BOOKS.—A freajp supply of
Sunday School Cooks has just been received at
the Bingham Office. (July 7, 1839.)
FOUND.— On the morning of the fifth of July in
Wellaboro, a common SILVER WATCH. The
loses may find U at the shop of Andie Foley, Jeweller,
Wellsboro, by proving property and paying all neces
sary charges on the same.
Deltnar, July 14, '59
To Bridge Builders.
TVTO Bridges to be repaired: One just below B loss
burg. It is to be a king-post bridge; the abut
ments are already built and the old sides will be used ;
span 75 feet. Bids will be received up to 13 o’clock
M,, on the 23d init, the dav of letting, when farther
particulars will be "given.
. Another bridge at the mouth of Lamb’s Creek across
Tioga River, 3 miles below Mansfield, and will be let
on the same day as the one at Bloss at 4 o’clock p. m.
jSJpec(/ica<ion«.—Two spacos of 79 feet each, tiro
sticks for each space whole length 12 inches square,
and each of these spaces to be subdivided by two sup
porting sills for fehort sleepers to rest upon—said sills
to be 14 by 16 inches IS fectlongof white oak, and
three short stringers for each subdivided spaoe—to be
of hemlock 10 by 12 inches and about 23 feet long.—
The sides of the old bridge being of the short king
post style set on piles and coverecfeAr'e considered good.
The plank to bo 3 inches thick, of sound hemlock.—
Further particulars on the day of letting.
July 14, 1539, ~ ~
Death to all Vermin.
IT IS TRULY WONDERFUL WITH WHAT CERTAINTY
Rats, Roaches, Mice, Moles, Grouud Mice, Bed-Bugs, Ants,
Moths Mosquitos, Fleas, Insects on animals, In short every
species of vermin ate utterly destroyed by
“Costar’s” Eat, -Roach, dc., Exterminator,
“ Costar’s'’ Bed-Bug Exterminator.
"■Costar’s” Electric Powder for Insects, Etc.
[The only infallible remedies known.]
J- C. COYER, (Ed. “Herald*’) Lancaster, Wis. “Wo highly
recommend the Exter. More grain and provisions are de
stroyed annually in Grant county by •vermin, than would
pay* for tons of this. Knt Killer and Insect Exter., yet a
hundroth part of the value of such property laid oat in
Costar's Extr., would «ave all from'loss.”
W. CURTIS, (Druggist) Oaklj.na, lil. “We received the box
—cure Blakcsly, St. Louis—-it gives great satisfaction
wherevor tried—is a “dead shot*’ and no mistake.”
OsBORN k PARSONS, Tafton, Wis. “Your Rat, Roach Extr.
i» all It gives universal satisfaction.”
GEORGE ROSE (Druggist) CardingUn. 0. ‘T hare been
selling your Extr. Irr the last year, and have not known it
to fitil in a single instance.”
R. WRIGHT, (Druggist) Troy, 0. “I hare sold oat all the
Rat, Roach, &c. Ext. The Rat Killer is In great demand.’*
“ 415“ Principal Depot, -HO Broadway, New York.
All wholesale Druggists in New York are Agent*.
Wholesale Agents in all the laoge cities.
J£if~ Druggists and Dealers everywhere sell them.
A*-10 Ood boxes sold per week in New York alone.
Alt'" 1!! Beware!! lof spurious imitations. Examine each
Box- Bottle or Flask, and take nothing but “Crstar’s.”
1.00 Boxes can he sent by mail, (sufficient to destroy
the vermin on any premises.)
, $-,00 sample packages (1 doz.) by Express to Dealer*.
’ -*4£s*i'jr Agencies send for Circular, Terms, Ac.
Wholesale Agents for Penna.
Philadelphia, Pa.— T. W. Dyott & Sods, Robert Shoemaker
k Co.
Pittsburg. Po.—T». L. Fahnestock k Co.
gold alMj by JOHN A. UOV, Wellsboro, Pa,
Jaly 14,1339, 3m.
' 34:0,00
Ptt3*a for a full course in the Iron City College, the
largest, most extensively patronized and best organ*
ized Commercial School in tho United States.
357 Students Altendiug Daily,
March, 1559.
Usual time to complete a full course, from 6 to 10
weeks. Every Student, upon graduating, is guaran
teed to bo competent to manage the Books of any
business, and qualified to earn a salary of from
$5OO to $lOOO.
Students enter at any time —No Vacation— Review
at pleasure.
51 PREMIUMS FOR BEST PEXMAK
SHIP AWARDED iV 1858.
fi&b" Minister’s Sons received at half price.
For Circulars and Specimens of Writing, inclose two
letter stamps, and address F. W. JENKINS,
Pittsburg, Pa.
April li, 59-Sept 23, *SS, ly.
THE undersigned, appointed an Auditor to distrib
ute the moneys arising from the sale of properly
of I. K. Merrick by the Sheriff of Tioga County for
Johnson now for the use of B. P, Beardley,, will at
tend to the duties of said appointment on Saturday
the 30th day of July at 1 o’clock p. m., at the office of
H. W. Williams, in Wcllsboro, when and where all
persons having an interest in said fond must attend or
be forever debarred from claiming any part of the
same. THOS. ALLEN, Auditor.
Wellsboro, Pa., July 7, 1859.
DEERFIELD WOOLEN FACTORY.
WOOL WANTED,
TO MANUFACTURE ON SHARES, BY THE
YARD, OR IN -EXCHANGE FOR CLOTHS,
SHAWLS, STOCKING YARN, <£-«. &c.
“ITTOOL Curding and Cloth Dressing done on short
Y> notice and ou as good terms as at any other
place. All kinds of produce taken in payment for
work or Goods. J. SCHOFIELD.
Deerfield, June 9th, 1539.
SPIRITUALISM.
A new and Interesting book—entitled
MYSTIC HOURS—Or the Experience of Dr,
R. A. Redman as a SjiCntual Medium,
IS now in press and will soon be offered to the read*
log public of Tioga County. This book will par
ticularly interest those who have never witnessed, and
are firm unbelievers In Spiritual phenomena, as it U
an unvarnished, truthful representation, of facts.
June 9, 1569, 4L
Estray Cattle*
CAME upon the premise^of the subscriber, on the
Murah Farm, on or about the last of May, FIVB
TWO YEAR OLDS —2 red heifers, one brindle bdiffer,
one line-backed heifer, ana one red steer. The owner
is requested to come and pay charges and take them
away, or they will be sold according to law.
Delmar, July 7,1559. JOHN PIERSON;.
Fair Wai'iiiii;;! East Call!!
ALL persons indebted to the late sheriff, JOHN
MATHERS, are requested to call upon the un
dersigned, at the Prothonotary’s Office, and settle up
immediately, or they will be sued, without regard to
personality or favor. VM. T. MATHERS,
Wellsboro, June 30, 1859. Agent.
KNIVES! KHIVEB! MlfESt
POCKET, Pen, Pruning and Budding Knives of the
best American manufacture and warranted, a|
June. 16, j FOLE'TS*
3 months. 6 months. 12 months.
$2,50 $4,50 $6,00
4,005, 6,00 8,00
C. L. WILCOX.
CECIL A. DEANE.
D. G. STEVENS,")
JOHN JAMES, V Covu
L. D. SEELEY, j
Aiidltoi’s Notice*.