*“* (irXIY AGITATOR is published SomWi snd ma^ cd to/otscribon ,vi e price of pOtbAE PER (f® 5 * It is intended to notify every ill I* urn for which h ” iu “ P“ d ,hall 'LvH" »' IW op—“Tunt Odi," on the msr *Vjtl W 0 The paper will then be stopped be received. By this ar :<>Tcsn be brought in debt to the . .. £ ■, tic Official Paper of the County, ' i s m r: “ 'iny increasing circulation reach i iiup ! ‘.hborbood in the County. It is sent 1.. p os t Office within the county I ,• jnA'? ul l]it convenient post office may bo f* 9i, -V C ’ piipaA, . lt exceeding 5 lines, paper inclu **£■' ‘ : »S DIRECTORY. i v-a-REV & S- *■. WHSOS, i COIN3ELLOKS AT LAW, will , Court of Tioga, Pottor and McKean i J; Y iKD COUNSELLOR AT LAW r 1 c. 1*55. ir- fe vrE BXUO7IPSOK, JSsa'd counsellors at law Concur, Stenben Co. ■i is, isas—iy- OK " \V. WEBB.' HTCE wer Co^i^\ e °®lu bTfoundat hU tta bridge «» Main Street, i! Samuel Dickinson s. c. IT. P IBTT, I)E>TIST, OFFICE at his residence neat the Sa () Academy. AH l “ his line of business pr(;Ui^so> noi;sE CORXIXC, s. y. Proprietor. .; Uten to and from the Depot free of charge. lvania house. IVKLLSDOKO', PA. t D TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR. , '„jlv popul-ir lumas i> centrally located and piwlf w the jiatronttge ot the travelling public. TjIE BI CA 5T HO TEE. COKNIXG, N.Y., rBEEMAN, - - - - Proprietor. ' .)*-• 23 cte. Board, 75 eta. per day. e'ng, March 31, ISS‘J. (ly.) j. C. WHITTAKER, //varepet/n'e PhygUian and Surgeon. , lIKUXD. TIOGA CO., PENIPA. "'tikipatients in all parts of the County, orre ries fur treatment at bis house. [Juno 14,] H. O. COLE, unBER AXD HAIR-DRESSER . the rear of the Post Office. Everything in uhne will be done as well and promptly as it xdjse m the city saloons. Preparations for re- dandruff, and beautifying the hair, for sale ; Hair and whiskers dyed any color. Call and Tilhbore. Sept. 22, 1859. GAlff£S HOTEL. [C.YERMILYEA, PROPRIETOR. Gaines, Tioga County, Pa, hotel is located within easy access and hunting grounds in Northern Vtwirt will he spared for the accommodation ftfresV ft ers and the traveling pubUc. iduderspobt hotel ■ r DEnSPORT POTTER CO.. PENNA. I T. &hssmirc, - • Proprietor. •5 HOTEL is located within an hour's drive of as bead waters of the Allegheny, Genesee, and mien rivers. No efforts are spared to make :n-. Lr pleasure seekers during the trouting sca s: f.r the traveling public at all times. iv. JOHH B. SHAKESPEAB, TAILOR. Tin.V'r opt-ticd bis shop in the room over RyU-rts Tin Shop, respectfully informs the acTlTibbnro’ and vicinity, that he is prepared orders in his line ti! business with prompt er despatch t'u'fuij done on tkort notice, £:->ro, Oct-21, ISoS.—6m R.A TOILS 2 WATCHES! - Jul'jcr.fcer has got a fine aasortment of heavy r.va/.W LEVLU HVXTER-CASE Gold and Silver Watches, * t! will sell cheaper than ** dirt” on * Time/ i. e. '- Pieces’on a short (approved) credit. ■ wds of REPAIRING done promptly. If a ; ' T :k j.» not done to the satisfaction of the party no charge will bo made, appreciated and a contiuance of pafcron- solicited. ANDIE FOLEY. Wo, June 24, IS4S. fOBSISG HOOK STORE. •t. subscribers have removed to the large and , «S*otly fitted up Brick Store—four doors east Block. Corning—and will keep on hand a Pb'Ortoent of New Books, among which are Religious Standard Works, , • . HISTORICAL books, Vic; fiction, Poeticnl Work*, School Boole*, , , SHEET MUSIC, and Wall Paper, N. Y. Daily and " papers, all the Magazines at , Publishers prices. 5?«««ry cheap. ROBINSON k CO. StpL 24. ’a7. TERBEU, h corsixg, n. y. •Mesale and Retail Dealer, in 83 0-u A r Lead, Zinc , and Colored ,/j, '' llrunfic* Camphene attd Jlurttinej and (Hats, Pure Liquor, for inec, Artist, Paint, and Brushes, 7i alley -Irtic/e.j plavorimg Extracts, dtc,, *. , also, 4 p, , Ws °rtment of School Books— •aak Boi'ks, Staple and Face y n • Country Merchants dealing ■jL' e articles can be supplied at a small p r i ccs . [Sept. 22, 1857.] Si I STOVE li\D TIN SHOP! HOY’S DRUG STORE. ™ u buy Slopes, Tin, and Japanned ol t'--ha!j' the venal prices. l rSls OQ VeD ® tovo and Trim i>„ Till a »4 Hardware Ready p» y . Sin’d^e 11 * ODe , who wants anything in this lino 0 ? P r * ccs before purchasing elsewhere. *1? lace —tw° doors south of Farr’s Ho rUg Store * CALL AND SEE! DEMING-, fu ,!!;!‘ Dn ? u n« to the people of Tioga County, ®'l all oniers for Apple, Pear, tT o *’ noot > Evergreen and Decidoocs V 2. i Cnrraut * Haspberriee,Gooseberries, ‘-iruwbcmes of all new and approred tarl of Hybrid, Perpetual and Sam h Moss, Bourbon, Kofeette, Tea, «Rri!i)T^ hmbl “ eEo -- Rnio... „ . rfctiee of Althea, Calycastbos, l\j\Upr>o • Synngiaa. Viburnums, Wigiliaa 4c. U Dahlias, Phloxes, Talips, dju. XatcLuis; Jonquil*, Lil* i.ij t^ u Budding or Pruning will be s tS. * a. r. dejiivg, Weiubero,r». THE AEITATOH Befrotcg to tf)t ZSvttnsion at tyt of ifmgom augtge SpreaU of Reform. WHILE THEBE SHALL BE A WRONG UNSIGHTED, AND UNTIL “HAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. VOL. VI. OYER THE RIVER. BY HAjfCY A. W. PRIEST, Over the river they beckon to me Loved ones who’ve crossed to the further side I The gleam of their snowy robes I see, But their voices are hashed in the rushing tide. There’s one with ringlets of sunny gold. And cyesthe reflection of heaven’s own blue* He crossed in twilight gray and cold, * And the pale mist hid him from mortal view. We saw not the angels who met him there: The gate of the city we could not see; Over the river, over the river, My brother stands waiting to welcome me! Over the river the boatman pale Corned another—the household pet; Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale— Darling illume I I see her yet She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands, And fearlessly entered the phantom bark j We watched it glide from the silver sands, . And all our sunshine grew strangely dark. We know she is safe on the further side. Where all tho ransomed and angels be; Over the river, the mystic river. My childhood’s idol Is waiting for me* For none return from those quiet shores. Who cross with the boatman cold and pale, We hear the dip of the golden oars, And catch a gleam of the snowy sail— Andlo! they have passed from ouryearnlng hearts; They cross the stream, and are gone for aye. We may not sunder the veil apart, That hides from oar vision the gates of day; We only know that their barks no more May sail with us o'er life's stormy sea; Yet somewhere, I know, on the unseen shore, They watch, and beckon, and wait for me. And I sit and think, when the sunset's gold Is flushing river and hilPand shore. I shall one day stand by the water cold. And list for the sound of the boatman's oar; X shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail; I shall hear the boat as it gains the strand; I shall pass from sight with the boatman pal® To the better shore of the spirit land; I shall know the loved who have gone before. And joyfully sweet will the meeting be, When over the river, the peaceful river. The Angel of Heath shall carry me. J —Springfield Republican. Anecdote of Caseins M. Clay. Notwithstanding the strong enmities which the slavery question ever engenders in the South, Mr. Clay's social qualities have made him al ways a favorite with the magnanimous portion of the slaveholders. On the Kentucky river, at the base of one of those immense ledges of per pendicular limestone, which give that stream the most sublime and picturesque scenery, where Fayette county joins Madison, (Mr. Clay's native county) flows one of the coldest and pur est streams of water in all the land. Here for many years parties of gentlemen from both counties have been in the habit of meeting in the most social and unreserved man ner and feasting upon what is called a “bur gout''—a kind of camp soup, made of flsh, turnips, red pepper, &c.—as much relished in the West as chowder in New England—with interludes of cigars, old Bourbon and anecdotes. On such occasions all come uninvited—high and low, rich and poor—and a general jollifica tion ensues. A few years since, on one of these occasions, the Vice President (John C. Breckinridge,) the Dudleys, Bruces, Hunters and other good fel lows being present, it was proposed to go in bathing, and for many hundred yards the river was splashing with good and bad swimmers, playing on each other all sorts of tricks. At length, in the midst of all the fun came the terrible cry “a man is drowning’” This was Mr. Willis, of Madison county, whose family had been the most bitter enemies of Clay.— The four or five men who were nearest him fled to the shore in great terror, and immediately •from twenty or more persona rose the cry— Clay—Clay—Clay 1 Mr. Clay was about fifty or sixty yards above, but immediately swam down the stream to where Willie had sunk— never to rise again of his own effort, and seiz ing him by the hair at arm’s length, swam, keeping the face of the nearly insensible man under water, towards the shore. He was called to on all sides to raise Willis’ head above water; but knowing that the life of both depended upon keeping the drowning man from seizing hold of the swimmer, ha proceeded calmly without answer till he placed his charge safely on land; then turning to his officious ad visers who had fled from the danger which they left to others, he said—‘‘Next time if you want his head raised above water raise it yourself!" The universal call for Clay in this emergency showed the great and unquestioned confidence which all who know him place in his quiet courage and magnanimity of soul; and the end proved that it was not misplaced. Willis and family became thenceforth his life friends. A plain old gentleman went with hie team to bring home his two sons, two young sprigs who soon expected to graduate. While returning, they stopped at a hotel in one of our country towns for dinner. The landlord, struck with the dashing appearance of the two young gen tlemen, made himself very officious, while he took the old man, from his homespun appear ance, to be nothing bnta driver, and asked them if they wished the driver to sit at the table with them. “Well Dick," said the younger aside to his brother, “as he is our father, and it’s his team, and he will bear the expense, I think we had better let him eat with us.”— “Yes I think so. too, under the circumstances,” he replied; “landlord, give him a place at the table. The eccentricities of John Randolph of Roa noke, were proverbial. Among the greatest ge niuses and ablest statesmen of the age in which he lived, he was peculiarly distinguished for his practical common sense and plainness of manner and dress. On a certain occasion he was a stage passenger in Virginia, and reclin ing on a lounge at a hotel, waiting for a change ■of teams. A dandily dressed young man ap peared. before a mitror, in the same room, and after some time spent in fixing his curly hair, and* adjusting the frippery of his wardrobe, Mr. Randolph partly raised himself, and inquired of him, “Is your stage ready sir ?” “Blast the stage.” retorted the dandy, “I have nothing to do with the stage!" “Oh, I thought you was the driver,” coolly apologized the interrogator. Love of children is always on indication of a genial nature, pure, unwoijn, and unselfish heart. WELLSBORO. TIOGA COUNTV, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 22, 1859. The Great Eastern. Correspoodonoo of the Boston Post. London, _ August 19.—The Great Eastern steamship is now an architectural, moving, liv ing, sailing, dashing, magdiSoent, splendid re ality. -Had she “existed” “When brave Achilles fonght the Trojons” she would have been immortalized in Homer’s verse, and Greek historians would have record ed an Eighth 'Wonder of the World. The Her cules, or rather the Vulcan of the “mighty marvel,” would have been Mr. John Seott Bus sel. In what way can a man describe the Great Eastern f You can't begin at one end of her; she is so large you cannot find the ends after getting on board, without a walk that reminds you of a stroll over a large- field. The upper deck is all one level plain, 692 feet in length, and 83 feet broad in the centre, containing al together about one acre. She is in ten water tight compartments, and the cabins for passen gers are like five immense hotels, each 80 feet by 60. The decks being 14 feet apart, a good portion of each cabin is separated by a centre floor, making two tiers or stories of rooms for sleeping cabins, each nearly 7 feet high. The ship has accommodations for 800 first class passengers, 1,500 second class, and 2,500 third class, or 4,800 in all. Used as a military trans port ship she will carry 10,000 soldiers. The crew will number at least 400. be al most impossible for the Great Eastern to fill and founder in consequence of a collision, running on a rock, or springing a leak. You might fire a ten inch solid shot through her at the water line, causing two compartments to fill with water, and at the same moment stave in her bow by striking a rock, and only three out of ten compartments filling, she could not sink. Straight across the ship, from the outer por tion of the paddle boxes, is 120 Ifeet. The pad-' die boxes are 56 feet in diameter, and the pad-i dies or floats 13 feet long. In the making thej ship consumed 60,000 superficial feet of wrought iron plates, and 2,000,000 wrought iron rivets,’ all driven and clinched while hot. The plates below the water line are 1J inch thick, and above the water Jof an inch. Aside from the ten water tight compartments, the entire ship up to three feet above the water line is built double ; a ship in a ship, the outer skin being two feet ten inches from the inner. She might be stove in from the outside and not affect a sin gle compartment of the ship, unless the barm extended to the inner skin. Her boats for the accommodation of passengers in time of dan ger, and in embarking and disembarking, are twenty in number, beside two screw steamers, suspended aft of her paddle boxes, each 100 feet long and 70 tons burden—as large as the sea-going vessel that took me to Iceland in 1852. If the great ship should founder at sea, in a voyage round the world, the two steamers would! he large enough to take 500 of the crew and passengers on their way rejoicing, ready tc brave any weather and sea where any ship coulo live—the balance could settle a group of islands in the Pacific and raise up a nation that in hundred years could come back and dispute the sovereignty of the mother country. So much for her accommodations. She has six masts, two square rigged, like a line of bat tle ship, and the remainder schooner rigged; carrying in all 0500 square yards of canvas,—j- The mizzen mast is wood, the others hollow iron tubes. Mr. Brunei calculates a speed of 15 ti> 20 knots an hour, a rapidity of running that would send her round the world in sixty days, without being obliged to stop for coal, stores, food, or water ! She has ten anchors, which, with 800 fathoms of chain cable, weigh 158 tons. She has both screw and paddles; the screw being worked by two and the paddle by four engines, with a total actual power equal to 12,000 horses. The screw is 24 feet in diame ter, with four fans, and the shaft 150 feet long, made of wrought iron, and weighing sixty tons. The ship was designed by I. K. Brunei, arid built by John Scott Russel Esq. The screw engines are the largest ever manufactured for marine purposes, and made by Messrs. James Watt & Co., Soho works, Birmingham. The shaft of the screw was made by Messrs Mare & Co., of Blackwell. The paddle engines we|e made by Mr. Scott Russell, the builder of the ship. They are direct acting, with oscillating oylanders, each 18 feet long, and 6 feet 2 inches in diameter. The stroke is 14 feet. The cyl inders are cast iron, each one weighing 28 tons, or 02,820 pounds. Those engines stand 50 feet high, and are made on the disconnecting prin ciple, so that they can be used jointly or sepa rately, and both or either of the paddle wheels can be put in independent motion. The vessel will draw thirty feet of water when laden, and 20 feet only when light. There are ten boilers placed longitudinally along the centre of he ship, each boiler having ten furnaces, or 100 furnaces in all. Each boiler weighs 45 to ss, and they can he used entirely independent of each other. There are in all five funnels, each funnel acting for two boilers. There are sever al detached auxiliary engines on hoard of about ten horse power each, for pumping, raising and lowering the boats, coaling, taking out and put ting on board cargo and luggage, and furling the sails. The Latest Style. —Mary Jane, a city rant girl, thus pescribes the latest styli dress, to Martha Ann, her country cousin: As for the lo neca the loer it ia the n faahunble ya air, an the lea close yu ware more faahunbil yu aro drest.—Mias Goolra me a blu silk, ov hern, and I cut its neck and Suzin Simmons cut orf hern, and w< trax a grate deel of attenshun to our n< prominabin in the streets lyke uther lad and holding up our cloz, and the hyer ; bolds them, the taore yu air thot or. A carpenter who was always prognosticating evil to himself, was one day upon the roof of a fire story building, upon which hod fallen a rain. The roof being slippery, he lost bis foot ing, and os be was descending toward the eaves he exclaimed; “Just as 1 told you!” Catch ing however, in the tin spont be kicked off bis shoes, and regained a place of safety, from which be thns delivered himself: “1 knowfd it —thejre is a pair of shoes gone to thunder^” 1 I Bow We Are Governed. It is undoubtedly true, both that the country has been governed by Mr. Calhoun and his dis ciples, with a brief interval, ever since his accession to power under Mr. Tyler’s adminis tration, in 1842. and that the principles’ and policy of Mr. Calhoun, according to which the Government has been conducted during that time, are obnoxious to a great majority of the people. It follows, from this, that the rule of the minority has been substituted in our Gov ernment for that of the majority. It is impor tant to inquire how this great change has been effected. (The combination of the property-holders in be States in which Slavery exists, effected by working upon the cupidity, pride, and ambition, bf most of them, through the questions con nected with Slavery which have been made for pat purpose, is obviously the basis of this rev jution. j The property-holders, when combined, oan readily obtain political power at the outset of a .contest. As the individuals of this class are fur the most part interested in Slavery, it is not surprising that they should be combined by questions connected with that institution, and that they should thus far have dominated in the Southern States during the period in question. The enormous increase of public expenditure during this period points to the means by which they have been enabled to make that division in the North which is the other requisite to their ascendency. They have some natural al- Ilies at the North, as there are some there,, as I everywhere, who would support a class or aris tocratic government, from innate hostility to pupular government. But it is by the public money and office, and by the immense power exercised by the Departments over the business relations of the people—as, for example, the practically unlimited discretion exercised by the Department of the Interior over the land titles in the new States—which enables them to support a corps of mercenaries, distributed throughout the North, to maintain aparty name and organization, to dupe, multitudes, and to perpetrate the frauds on the ballot-boxes now systematically resorted to, to carry thej impor tant elections. This system of organized fraud was first put in operation in California, and so successfully that it is not believed that any election has in fact ever taken place in that State since 1850. It has been since applied in Pennsylvania, in Kansas, in St. Louis, in De troit, in New York, and in numerous other pier ces, even in Maine, among others. The public attention has been particularly attracted to the frauds in Kansas, which have been investigated by committees of Congress; and it has been seen with what effrontery, and utter disregard of appearances even, they were perpetrated by officers in the General Government; and that, so far from being rebuked or punished for it, their acts have been defended by the Adminis tion, which has thus demonstrated that these acts were approved, if not instigated, by the President. The frauds in Maine, which were investigated by the Legislature, were also the work of officers of the United States. The fraud by which the Pennsylvania election of October, 1855, was carried, which decided the Presidential election of that year, tvas judi cially proved in the contest made by Mr. Mann, the Republican candidate for District Attorney at that election. The evidence taken, and to be submitted to the next Congress, in relation to the elections in the other places named above, show similar proceedings. In short, the details are only what, it might be foreseen they must necessa rily be, where a party attempts to maintain it self in power against public sentiment. Fraud or force must be resorted to. ? It could also be foreseen that the money to pay the perpetrators of these abuses would in some form come from the Treasury, for the people always have to pay -for the appliances by which they are subjected. No one who compares the enormous expend iture made for Utah and Paragua expeditions, for the army and navy, for public buildings and vessels, or indeed, for every object, with the result obtained, and remembers that the men under whem all this apparent waste ia com mitted are not fools, can fail to see that tho ostensible are not the real objects of the expen diture. The primary object with the organization, both in its Congressional and Executive agents, is to supply the means to hold power in defiance of public opinion. Nor can it be expected that men in such positions will scruple -to evade the laws or regulations which are in the way of their devoting to such objects, large portions of money put into their hands. But the investi gations of various committees of the last Ilouse of Representatives, in reference to certain trans actions of the former Clerk of the Ilouse, of the Superintendent of Public Printing, of the Printer, of the War and Navy Departments, supply copious details of the system by which the public money passes into the hands of the disbursing agents of the organization. The re port of the Naval Investigating Committee, and the evidence accompanying it, is especially in structive, and shows how exclusively the Ex ecutive is occupied iq disbursing public money, in turning it to political account, and sec ondary the ostensible objects of appropriations are to the paramount object of maintaining possession of the Government. All the trans actions brought in review by the report and evi dence proves this; but the transactions with W. C. N. Swift, who advanced $lO,OOO to carry the Pennsylvania election above Teferred to, and was repaid in a purchase from him of refuse live-oak timber, will be sufficient to illustrate how the public money is applied to such pur poses, how the laws and regulations are evajefed to do so, and how gentlemen, even of the high standing of Mr. Booock, are obliged to excase and defend these flagrant abuses by the moral duress to which they subject themselves by ad-; hering to tho organization. He is, however, unable to disguise the real chaaacter of the transaction, although he doe? not stats the facts with the fulness or clearness with which Mr. Sherman presents them. Yet, that no one may say that the facta are overstated here, wo w* tract Mr, Bocock’s whole statement o* tbe&aos- ore the giv orf i at- action from the Beport, at page 30. He says; “The Secretary .declined, [to purchase the timber,] on the ground tbothehad no power to purchase without having j first advertised for proposals, in order that the tvants of the Gov ernment might be supplied by the lowest bona fide bidder in fair compotidn.. “The Secretary had power to procure timber by open purchase if needed for immediate use. Such is the plain language of the law. (See Brightly’s Digest, 191, section 7.) And so the law is understood by the Navy Department, as proved by John Lenthall, chief of the bureau of construction, equipment, and repairs. About three thousand feet of Bigler’s timber in the Kittery yard, and probably as much at the Gosport yard, had been used and paid for by open purchase, being needed for immediate nse; and this circumstance was urged by Bigler as a reason for the purchase|of his entire stock. But the Secretary did not consider the exigency of the public service required the immediate purchase and delivery of a large quantity of live-oak timber. This is. obvious, for the rea sons : “1. That he refused to purchase, although the stock of Biglei; was offered at the moderate price of $l.lO per foot; I and Swift said that would establish the price, and he would have to take the same for hlsj (See Bigler’s testi mony.) j “4. The unusual clause in the published pro posals to bidders, ‘reserving the right to de • dine making any contract for a purchase and ‘ delivery at any navy yolrd, if he should then ‘ deem it unnecessary or.disadvantageous to the 1 public service.’ “3. The Secretary instructed Mr. Lenthall, as he understood, to specify, in the advertise ment for the timber, the earliest time at which it could be cut and delivered; and he specified the first of February, 1859, as the earliest day practicable. Of course, (the Secretary knew it would take several months to cut and deliver it. “4. But little of it has been used since the delivery of it on contract, as hereafter stated. Mr. Lenthall, chief of the bureau of construc tion, equipment, and repairs, testifies as fol lows : j ! “ ‘I think that timber pf that description was ‘needed; not the whole of it; probably we • could have done with much less than was ‘ called for. But I think it was for the interest ‘of the service to have!got that description of ‘ timber, and I think we wanted it then. “ ‘Question. At that[time ? ■ “ ‘Answer. Yea, sir; a portion of it.’ “They got a portion of it as already noticed. They must have gotten all or nearly all then needed, for it is proved j but little of the timber referred to has been used since it wOs delivered under the contract. According to tho testi mony of 8.. F. Delano, naval constructor at Brooklyn, about one-foiurth of- the quantity de livered then, say six tjhousand feet, has been used. Samuel T. Hartt, naval constructor at Gosport, proves that about three hundred feet have been used at that (yard. “Francis Grier, naval constructor in tho Phil adelphia yard, proves Ithere was a little of it used on sloop No. 1, in the Philadelphia yard, and that some was used on the Griffith ship, but leaves the quantity indefinite. lie also, says, if the matter had| been referred to him, he would not, as a matter of official duty, have recommended the purchase of Swift's timber, and it was not necessary to purchase It to carry on the business of the yard. "Proposals for timber were prepared by Mr. Lenthall, under the directions of the Secretary. When submitted to him, he did not approve of the time fixed for the delivery, which was tho Ist of February, 1859, and changed it, making half deliverable on the Ist of September, 1858, (about twenty days after the contracts were completed,) and the remaining half on the Ist of February, 1859. j “Swift and Bigler seemed to have entertained no doubt they had tlie contracts within their grasp, as they had the timber already in all the yards except Warrington ; and to prevent com petion between them in bidding, Swift agreed, if he got the contracts, to purchase all of Big ler’s timber nt the same rate for which he con tracted with the Government. Swift bid to furnish the timber at ; Bigler nominally bid at a much higher rate, in order that the con tract might be awarded to Swift. It turned out, there were several other bidders, though they knew it would be impossible for them to deliver anyltimber on tho Ist of September. They be lieved the Secretary would grant them an ex tension of time, and doubtless, under that be lief, bid in good faith. Swift was underbid for every yard, and the contracts were awarded to the lowest bidders: Buxom & Lawrence, at Kittery, Charleston, and Brooklyn; Samuel £. Grice, at Philadelphia and Gosport; and Coates, Degraw & Be ech, at Warrington. Bux ton & Lawrence failed to execute their contract within ton days allowed them. The other suc cessful bidders executed their contracts as re quired. Samuel B. Grice delivered only 1,400 feet of timber at Philadelphia within the tiraej stipulated for the first delivery, Coates, Graw & Beech, did hot deliver any at Warring ton. They each applied to the Secretary for an extension of time, yjbich be declined to grant; and on or before thejlTth of September the con tracts were all annulled, and a contract made with W. C. N. Swift to supply all the several yards, at the same rates at which the contracts were first awarded, ranging from $1,09 to $1,17 per cubic foot, and being an average of $1,12. “Tho usual time: allowed contracts for live oak U one and two years; because, unlike other timber it is rarely kept on hand by lumbermen, and generally has to be cut hear the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, after the contracts are made; and being esteemed more valuable when cut between the Ist of November and Ist of March, one winter! season at least is allowed for that purpose, j “Having shown the Secretary did not deem this timber necessary for immediate use, it may be here remarked that he could not, and did not under the first contracts,^or. under that with Swift, expect half of the timber to be delivered on the Ist of September, or hear that time.— Every one knew it Was physicaUy'impossible to deliver any portion! of it at Warrington (Pen sacola) by that time, or for months afterwards. "None of the contractors, for that yard hod Rates of Advertising. Adwrtiaemfoti wUlta charged $1 p«r iqumre of It Unw, one or three insertions, and 26 cents for ererj subsequent insertion. Advertisements of fees than It lines considered as a square. Tbesubjoined rates will be charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly ad* vertuemeats: Square, • 2 do. d do. £ column, - | do. Column, • Advertisements not having the number of insertion desired marked open them, will be published until or dered out and charged accordingly. Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads aadal| kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments, ex ecuted neatly and promptly. Justices', Constables', and other BLANKS constantly on band. NO. 8. any timber there, or near there. Each of them had to cut it from the foreit before he could de* liver it. The yellow fever was prevailing along the Qulf coasts with great fatality, and no one would have exposed himself to the danger by cutting timber during its prevalence. Without this obstacle, it was impossible to have cut and delivered the timber by th« time specified, ot even to have placed a force in the forest, where it might be cut between the execution of the first contract and the Ist of September. “It appears that Coates, DeQraw it Beach, the first contractors for the Warrington yard, were making reasonable exertions to furnish the timber. There is no sufficient reason for believing they would not have furnished it ma soon as Swift. In fact, it. appears. he has not yet complied with his contract at that yard, and has delivered but a small portion of the timber. Beach, of the firm of Coates, Degraw & Beach, testifies that they had mode arrangements by which they would have been able to deliver it all by the Ist of February. And whether that be so or not, there is nothing shown to justify the belief that they would not have furnished it as soon as Swift. The inquiry at once arises, -why was their contract annulled, ana a new one made with Swift ? If it was the desire of the Secretary from the first to give the contract to Swift and Bigler, or either of them, an an swer is furnished. “It is. however, proper to state in this con nection, that the Secretary, in the month of De cember last, annulled Swift's contract for the Warrington yard, on account of his failure to deliver the timber; but orders hare since been given by the chief of the bureau of yards and docks to the commandant of this yard, to re ceive timber offered under the contract since it was annulled. “Some facts appear, teaching this matter, to which it is deemed proper to refer. Swift and Bigler had previously been reasonably good contractors fur live-oak timber, and seem to have had more favors than other contractors, in allowing the timber to remain in the yards; a favor which perhaps they deserved. Swift waa an ardent friend of the present Administration, and had expended his money freely—more than $lO,OO0 —to aid the election of Mr. Buchanan. It was known to the Secretary that he bad bean liberal, as proved by George Plitt, and it was natural be should have a kind regard for him. “There is a striking agreement between th« timber for which the proposals were advertised, and Swift and Bigler’s timber in the yards.— This may have'been accidental; and Lentbali testifies that the description of the timber in the proposals was not made by the Secretary, but by himself. He also says, he had in bis possession, at the same time. Swift’s letter, and knew what kind of timber he bad, but did not pay any attention to his timber in drawing up the advertisement. “The first contracts were annulled; and the contract with Swift entered into with remark able promptness, the two acts seeming to hare been performed at one and the same moment. “The strong confidence of Swift, at all times, as well after the letting as before, that he would finally get the contract; his prompt declaration that the contracts of his under bidders would be annulled, and he would take their place; his quietly remaining in Washington till after tba Ist of September, and in the meantime writing to Bigler, to assure him that their agreement about the timber of the latter would be carried out, are circumstances, the significance of which cannot be overlooked in this connection. “For what reason was the Ist of September fired for the delivery of half the timber! The Secretary knew Swift and Bigler bad it then in all the yards except Warrington, and no other person in the country had it. Bigler te»- tifies as follows : “ ‘After 1 got my contracts filled, I wont to 1 the Secretary of the Navy, to get him to buy *my timber upon open purchase. He gave, as a ‘reason for not buying it upon open purchase, ‘ that it was against the law to buy timber upoq ‘ open purchase except for immediate use. Mr. ‘ Swift went to him on the same score, that ha ‘ had timber over, which be wished to sell to ‘ the Government. This induced the Secretary, ‘ I suppose, to make this advertisement to cover ‘ about the amount of timber that we had.— ‘ There was nobody else in the business who ‘jcould supply the amount and kinds of timber ‘called for, and we did noti suppose there would ‘be any opposition to us; and when the advar ‘ tiaement came out, I was very much surprised ‘ that it was in that shape ; for it was in a very * bad shape fur me, as 1 had only about enough * timber to fill out the call for two of the yards; ‘ This was bad for me in this way: for instance, ‘ if I put in bids for all the yards, I might gel Pensacola or Fhitadelphia, where I had no ‘ timber; and then I would be obliged to move ‘ it from another yard, at great expense and ‘trouble. This induced me to make the ar ‘rangemant with Mr. Swift, to avoid the ex ‘ pense of removing my timber from one yard' ‘ to another. “ ‘Question. Did the Secretary intimate that ‘he had any purpose in preparing' thi» adver ‘ tisoment to cover the timber of yourself and ‘ Mr. Swift ? “ ‘Answer. I understood him that it was bis ‘ calculation that it would just about cover the ‘ amount. ‘“Question. "When was that? “ ‘Answer. During the last summer. “ ‘Question. Before the advertisement came ‘ out? “ ‘Answer. Yes, sir. “ ‘Question. Who made that statement to ‘ you? “ ‘Answer. The Secretary of the Navy him self. He said he did not think be had author ity to buy my timber; he did not wish to do anything about it but what would be entirely straight; and be did not feel* authorized to make a purchase of this timber without adver tising ; and then, if we put in for it—ho know ing that we were the only persons that had 1 the timber—at a higher price than they thought was a fair price, that he would not take it at any rate; mind you, I had already offered my timber to the Government.’ “The same witness fvrther! testifies, as fol lows : “ ‘Question. Tfas it not understood between ‘ you aad. Jlr. Swift, and live-oak dealer* gese^v S hojtths. . 6 Jtoaras. 13 xomu • *5,00 *5,50 *6,00 5.00 4,50 8,00 7.00 8,50 10,00 . 8.00 0,50 22,50 15.00 20,00 30,00 25.00 35,00 50,00
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