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be received. By this ar
:<>Tcsn be brought in debt to the
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£ ■, 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 ’
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»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
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