Mr. Seward’s “Irrepressible Conflict.' 7
The declaration laid down by Mr. Seward,
in his Rochester speech, that there is such an
“irrepressible conflict” between the instituti
ons of slavery ’ and Free labor, that one or the
other must alternately prevail thoroughout the
Union, baa been denounced by Douglas and
others as a bloody and treasonable' heresy.—
Mr, Everett, however in his Inst oration on
Webster, intimates that Mr. Seward-ia bran
dishing borrowed thunder, and that the doc
trine in question had a much less heretical ori
gin. Mr, Everett says:
“fie [Mr, Webster] not only confidently an
ticipated what the lapse of seven years since his
decease has witnessed and is witnessing, that
the newly acquired and newly organised, terri
tories of the Union would grow up,into free
states; but, m common with all or nearly all
the. statesmen of the lust generation, he believed
that free labor t could ultimately prevail through
out ike country. He thought he saw that, in
the operation of the same causes, which have
produced this result in the middle and eastern
states, it was visibly taking place in the states
north of the cotton-growing region; and he
inclined to the opinion that there, also, under
the influence of physical and economical causes,
free labor would eventually be found most pro
ductive, and would therefore be ultimately es
tablished
Henry Clay’s “Opinion.”
The following passage from Mr. Clay’s great
speech before the Colonization Society in Jan
uary 18*27, w-nud seem to point him out as
the author of the “Irrepressible Conflict doc
trine” above referred to ;
“We are reproached with doing mischief by
the agitation of this question. The Society goes
iqto no house-bold to disturb its domestic tran
quility ; it addresses itself to no slaves, to wea
ken their obligations of obedience. It seeks to
affect ho man’s property. It neither has the
power nor will to affect the property of any one,
contrary to bis consent. The execution of its
schemes would augment, instead of diminish,
the value of the property left behind, The So
ciety, composed of free men, concerns itself
only with the free. Collateral consequences we
are not responsible for. It is not this Society
which has produced the great moral revolution
which the age exhibits. What would they,
who thus reproach us, have done! If they
would repress all tendencies toward Liberty and
ultimate emancipation, they must do more than
put down the benevolent efforts of this Society.
They must go lock to the era of our Liberty
am! Independence, and muzzle the cannon which
-luimlcr-it* annual joyous return. They must
ive u.e stave trade with all it train of atroci-
i They must suppress the workings of Brit
ish philanthropy, seeking to ameliorate the con
dition of the unfortunate West Indian slaves.
They must arrest the career, of South Ameri
can 'delhrcance from thraldom. They must
blow out the moral lights around us, nnd ex
tinguish that greatest torch uf all which Ameri
ca presents to a benighted world, pointing the
way to their rights, their liberties, and their
happiness. And when they have achieved all
these purposes, their work will be yet incom
plete. They must penetrate the human soul,
and eradicate the light of reason and the love
of liberty. Then, and not till then* when uni
versal darkness and dispair prevail, can yon
perpetuate slavery, and repress all sympathies
and. ?i' fomape w bjnevolent cfforu anjong^freo
race doomed to bondage/ 1
Senator Bigler.
The Senatorial term of William Bigler will
expire ou the -Uh of March, 1861, and the Leg
islature of ISO I will have to elect a successor
to him. JSo one will lament to hear that there
'I is nut the slightest chance of re-election. His
) doom was'sealed at the election of Tuesday last.
Before that election the faithful were appealed
to to vote with their whole strength for the
Democratic nominees, particularly the nomi
nees for State Senators, because two-thirds of
the Senate of the next Legislature will he in
the Lgislature that is to elect a United States
Senator. The mighty mind, the exalted char
acter, the lofty patriotism and the trauscendant
talents of Senator Bigler, were referred to, and
the election was to result in a Democratic vic
tory and an endorsement of his course.
Mark the result: Bui one Democratic cau
date for the Senate was elected. The whole
eleven districts were carried by the Opposition.
This, of itself, secures an Opposition majority
in the Senate of 1861; but at the election of
October, 1860, the Opposition will also carry
enough Senators to secure a still greater major
ity in the Legislature that is to choose a United
States Senator. The Senate of next winter
will consist of 22 Opposition and 11 Democrats.
Of this number 4 Opposition and 7 Democrats
go out at the end of tiie session, leaving the
number holding over for 18G1, 18 Opposition
and 4 Democrats. At the election of October,
IbdO, the Opposition will certainly carry 6 Sen
ators and may carry 7. So that the Senate of
1861 will probably be composed of 24 Opposi
tion and 9 Democrats—a snug majority of 15,
against any Democratic candidate for United
States Senator, and particularly against Wil
liam Bigler, in whose behalf such earnest ap
peals w» made in various districts this Fall.
The C .- at Washiagtou did nil they could
to aid the Sin 11.11 : ■ get his men elected in cer
tain districts: t. -•,> failure was total. But a
single Democrat a 1 - elected to the Senate, and
William Bigler wul have leave to retire perma
nently to private life, on the 4th of March, 1861,
going out in company with his friend and pro
tector, James Buchanan.— Phil. Bulletin.
Doubtless an- Honest Sermon. —The follow
ing is a funeral sermon lately preached in Ohio
by a Buckeye clergyman: “I have been begged,
importuned, and entreated to preach this 'ere
sermon, but I don't want to do it. I never did
like the man; I never knew nothing good of
him. He had horses, and he run them ; he had
cocks, and he fit them. I have heard he was
occasionally good at fires. The bearers will
please remove the body.”
The Western Penna. Fair, held at Pitts
burgh, September, 1859, awarded the first Pre
miums for best business and ornamental Wri
ting to tin- lion City Commercial Cdllege. This
is ti.’ th-i triumph at the Fairs of this City
over o' her Colleges. —Pittsburgh Gazette.
S-oittor Foote has presented to the United
S'at.'s Circuit and district Courts for the Dis
trict of Vermont and the members of the bar,
his entire law, Congressional and miscellaneous
library consisting of 8.000 volumes.
It is reported that Tiofcnor & Fields will be
the new publishers of the Atlantic Monthly,
which changes hands in consequence of the
failure of Philips Sampson 4 Co.
THE AGITATOR!
HUGH TOTING, Editor & Proprietor.
WELLSBORODGH, PA,
Tlimsday Wonting. Oct., 37, ’SO.
The •‘lnsurrection.”
la view of the triumph of the Republican
patty in every free State -where elections have
been held this Fall with the exception of Cali
fornia, and in view of the annihilation of Bu
chananism and Douglasism in every State north
of Mason and Dixon*, line, the late riot at Har-
Terry ;Virginia r —the particular, of which
we furnish below—was a god-send to the Mu
latto Democrats which they have not bad.before
and will hardly find again in a decade of years.
Already the leading papers of the Pro-Slavery
Democracy are trying to connect the “Insur
rection” so-called, with the Republican Party,
and the country presses are echoing the thun
der with ridiculous zeal.
Many of our readers will remember the name
of John Brown of Kansas notoriety—some
times called “Old Brown” and “Osawatomie
Brown”—who caused such terror to) the Pro-
Slavery Democratic Ruffians of Kansas in 1856.
During the troubles of that year, he moved to
Kansas with his sons, all peaceable and worthy
citizens, to find better homes in the Great West.
It is not necessary to recite the terrors the
house-burnings, the infamous and more than
infamous treatment to which all free. State set
tlers were subjected by lawless human blood
hounds from Missouri and the other States of
the South, backed by a weak and corrupt Ad
ministration atWasbington. Enough that John
Brown, hitherto an orderly and peaceable citi
zens was goaded to desperation by the inhuman
conduct of these demons in the shape of men.
Ills youngest son Frederick was taken and
foully murdered when riding unarmed to the
house of a neighbor; his son John was marched
over the prairies by pro-slavery United States
troops, with the “ball and chain” attached to
his arms, and with his ancles loaded with
shackles till his sufferings made him a maniac,
just because his fellow citizens had elected him
to the Topeka Free State Legislature. His own
sufferings of mind, body, and estate, added to
these, filled his mind with a hatred which made
him at last a monomaniac. From that time to
the present his life has been devoted to wreak
ing his vengeance upon those who heaped these
wrongs upon him. Last Spring he invaded
Missouri with a handful of men, liberated
eleven slave, and successfully piloted them to
the free shores of Canada. This is the last we
hear of him till he turns up at Harper’s Ferry
last week.
It seems that the resentment of this fanatical
old madman had extended not only to Missouri
ans whom he believed to be the author of bis
wrongs, but to all other slave-holders. lie be
lieved himself to be, and so stated to Governor
Wise, an instrument in the hands of God, to
punish slave holders everywhere : and bU m,e
-w oe iu uursc foe cmltns irom the captives
and let them go free. In order to do this on a
larger scale, he -rented a farm in Maryland
during the summer, situated about six miles
from Harper’s Ferry, where he concocted and
matured a plot, so poorly conceived and so
poorly executed ns to stamp him at once as a
lunatic. A wilder and more hopeless enter
prise than his never before entered into the
brain of nfan. The plan proposed for himself
and his twenty followers was to liberate and
arm the slaves in that part of the country and
to march with them by the safest route to Can
ada.
On the 17th inat.. Brown, accompanied by
sixteen white men and five negroes marched to
Harper’s Ferry a town containing gome two
|housand inhabitants, took possession of it
without bloodshed, entrenched jhimself in the
State Arsenal, and held it successfully for thirty
six hours. Now whatever of military glory this
may reflect upon the head of “Old Brown” and
his followers, we submit that it does not speak
well for the chivalry of the F. F. Vs. In fact
wo think it shows them up in rather a cowardly
light, and the long winded Governor of Vir
ginia thought so too, and told them so. It is
quite probable that the “insurgents” as they
call “Old Brown” and his men would have re
mained there till doomsday, if not captured by
a company of United States troops from Wash
ington. In the affray five of the rioters in
cluding a son of Old Brown were killed; one
named Cook escaped and the rest were made
prisoners. Brown himself received eight flesh
wounds, a fact that showed the desperation with
which he fought. Search was made at Brown’s
farm where a large number of pikes were
found ; also a number of pistols and rifles; also
a carpet bag containing a Constitution for a
secret society and a private letter from Gerrit
Smith, all of which has thrown the ohivalric
citizens of Maryland and Virginia and the Mu
latto Democracy qf the North, into a lever of
excitement. Old Brown is in the hands of the
Virginia authorities and in a few weeks will
be tried for murder, and doubtless hung. This
is the whole story.
—The Mulatto Democratic party at the North
will hail this story with all the eagerness of
hungry wolves. The leaders will seek to dis
tort, exaggerate and magnify this riot into a
stupendous plot on the part of the North against
thi South, They are even now trying to make
out that these twenty fanatics who have brought
destruction upon themselves by their madness,
are aided and set on by the Great Eepublican
Party. All such attempts will prove futile and
revert upon themselves. The Republican Party
has no such end in view as the forcible libera
tion of slaves. It simply seeks to prevent the
extension of the cursed institution into terri
tory now free. If any new instance were
needed to prove slavery a enrse, it is furnished
by the fact that twenty determined men can
take a slavery-ridden town like Harper’s Ferry
containing two thousand inhabitants, without
any assistance from any of the inhabitants of
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITfeTOIPP
the town, black or white. No: the members of
the Republican; Patty believe that J the surest
way to Universal Freedom is “not through in
surrections,-civiL-war, .and - bloodshed, but
“ through peace, discussion and the quiet diffu
sion" of sentiments of humanity anl justice;”
and we are no more responsible for the acts of
Brown than we are for the acts and words of
such men as Bully Brooks, or Tombs of Georgia,
who said he would yet call the roll c f his slaves
under the shadow of the Bunker dill Monu
ment.
Some weeks ago the Agitator gave its views
in brief on a very profound question previously
propounded and expatiated upon for its own
amusement by a paper published at Towandn,
Pa., yclept the Bradford Herald, viz : “Is Dem
ocracy a principle 1” In reply to| our article,
that paper ascended into the abstruse and—
didn’t come down. We retorted good natured
ly and did the editor the honor of conferring
upon him the honorary degree of Doctor, as
some compensation for his discovery of the
“Pangs of Danger” and a medical novelty in
regard to symptoms. This did bring him down
to the usual argument of lunk-heads—billings
gate.
Yet, after all, we are disposed to forgive
friend Chase (we hope he will excuse this fra
ternal greeting) for calling us a “ thing” and a
“monkey” (oh mi 1 you naughty man 1 how
could you?) presuming that the sweetness of
temper which gave rise to these epithets was
superinduced by the reading of thulate election
returns from Pennsylvania, lowa, Ohio, and the
other States which rebuked the political infamy
of that other Doctor, “J. B.” his roaster.
We are disposed to forgive George’s irrasci
bility for another reason. lie had just been
writing that article showing by the stern logic
of Arabic figures that the Republican party of
Bradford county had given only 2104 majority!
Ah, friend George, we think that is juite enough,
particularly ns the odd 4 without that 2100
would have been sufficient for all practical pur
poses.
We beg to assure friend Chase, that though
we are an agitator, we are by no means nervous
or exciteablo. Neither does “tie least little
thing"—the Herald for example—“throw us in
to a tremor.” Physically we are twice as heavy
as Dr. Chase, probably; at least we are twice
as heavy as boys usually are. Wo are lymphat
ic in temperament, and make it a point to ap
peal to the reason and judgment of men in be
half of principles, rather than ;o excite their
basest passions and vilest prejudices against
persons, as the Herald man doet. We seldom
or never stoop to low personalities, and in all
discussions, we usually keep goo 1 natured our
self, and try to keep our opponent good natured
also. If he persist in being crabbed and sour,
we incontinently drop him, jus as we intend
to drop you, George, believing that no good can
result from an exchange of views with a man
Finally, George, if you will only keep good
natured we will agree to say nothing more
about them “pangs of danger.” Nor will we
call you “Dr.” any more. Be v rtuous, sweet
tempered and calm, and you will be happy.—
Good-bye Georgey!
Thanksgiving-, I
Governor Packer has publisher
thanksgiving proclamation:
[L. S.] Pennsylvania, ss:—ln the name and
by the authority of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania. William F. Packer, Governor of the
said Commonwealth.
fkoclamatios,
Fellow Citizens; —'The blessitgs vouchsafed
by a kind Providence through tie past year de
mand our grateful recognition and again call
for the sacrifice of thanlcsgivlr g and praise.
Under the protection of a Government that se
cures to all equal rights, we hav i pufsued, un
molested, the various arouatiots ofllife, with
more than usual prosperity. Ti e earth, under
the labors of the husbandman, 1 as yielded her
increase, and our barns and storehouses are
crowded with the fruits of the harvest. Wo
have not only been preserved from the ravages
of the pestilence, but the past has been a year
distinguished for health in our large cities and
throughout all our rural districts. Our homes
have been the abodes of tranquility, and bless
ings innumerable have clustered around our
domestic hearths. Our variouk schools and
seminaries of learning are diffusing throughout
our community a higher intelligence and im
parting to our youth noble aspirations. The
institutions of our holy religion] are well sus
tained ; and under its pure and genial influ
ence. the spirit of unity and lore, the earnest
of yet better days, is most happily developed.
To God, the great and the good, tke are indebted
for all, and to Him let praise he rendered.
With these sentiments, and jin accordance
with the known wishes of many of my fellow
citizens, I, William F. Packer, Governor of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!, do hereby ap
point Thursday,, the 24th dayj 'of November
next, as a day of general thanksgiving and
praise to Almighty God, and recommend to all
our people to lay aside, on thatjday, their cus
tomary worldly business, assemble in their re
spective places of worship, and unite in praising
God for Ills excellent greatness toward us, be
seeching His gracious goodness.
Given under my hand and the great seal of
the State, at Harrisburg, this fourteenth day of
October, A. D. 1859, and of the p onimonwealth
the eighty-fourth. WM. F. PACKER.
By the Governor: I
TFm. M. Heisteh, Sec’y of Commonwealth.
Why Broderick was Killed. —Col. Baker,
late the Republican candidate for Congress in
Calitbania, delivered an eloquent funeral ora
tion over the remains of Mr. B roderick, in the
course of which he said: "What was bis (Brod
erick’s) crime? The answer is in bis own
words: ‘They hate killed me because I was op
posed to the extension of Slavery and a corrupt
Administration.’ Fellow-citizens, they are re
markable words, uttered at a very remarkable
moment; they involve the history of his Sena
torial career, and of its sad and bloody termi
nation." |
A cannon ball fired by the |Chiness Peiho,
took a leg from every one of six men who were
standing in line on a British gdn-boat.
FROM THE P
' Letter from Kansas.
Political Meeting in Atchison—City Election
. Pole on the Wyandott Constitution—Late and
encouraging reports from the Mines, &c., &c.
1 Atchison, Kansas, Oct. 8, 1859.
Mk. Yobnu; If a short epistle from the
“Tar 'West,” still he of any interest to the
reader* of the Agitator, I will occupy a few
moments in penning a few facta which I base
lately witnessed in this city:
i On Monday evening last there was to he a
meeting in front of the Massosoit Honse in this
place, and tbo/. _Ewing, jr., and Got. Robinson
were to speak on the issues of the day. At
about 7 o’clock the meeting was organized by
electing Gen. S. C. Pomeroy, Chairman, when
Mr. Ewing came forward and commenced speak
ing. lie had not proceeded far before the Dem
ocracy commenced to cry him down, and yell
ing for Abell and Stringfellow, who have both
in years past made themselves notorious in the
history of Kansas. But Mr. Ewing kept on
speaking and spoke for three-quarters of on
hour, reviewing the of Kansas,
and urging, in the strongeslpeiimf, the adoption
of the Wyandott ConstitutiS&SKAfter retiring,
the Democrats commenced yelling for Abell,
which brought the venerable gentleman out.
As soon as he commenced speaking the Repub
licans were determined not to be bamboozled
in any such way and commenced calling at the
tops of their voices for Robinson, which com
pletely drowned the voice of the Speaker, when
be retired and Robinson "came forward and,
made quite a lengthy speech; in favor of the'
Constitution. It must be remembered that the
Democracy have held two meetings all alone,
a few evenings before, and in which not one
Republican interfered or spoke.
The joint political meeting between Hon.
Marcus J. Parrott and Judge Sanders W. John
ston was held at the ’aame place on the 27th
ult. Mr. Johnston being ‘fat nome” In Ohio,
his place was supplied by W. C. McDowell of
Leavenworth. The discussion lasted four hours
and Mr. McDowell was most effectually beaten.
The people of Kansas do not want a man from
Ohio to represent them in Congress, and one
too, who is in favor of re-opening the African
Slave Trade, as Mr. Johnston stated that Ac wo*
in his speech at Big Springs, and affidavits have
been produced from several responsible citizens
to that effect.
On the sth nit., the voters of this city were
called upon to elect a Mayor, Gen. Pomeroy’s
term having expired, and which office he has
held for the past two years, doing great credit
to himself and honor to the people of the cjty.
The Pro-Slavery men nominated Geo. 11. Fair
child, late of Tioga County, N. ¥., and the Re
publicans, John M. Price. Mr. Price engaged
the Atchison Brass Band to play for him on
this occasion, and pla-cards: “For Mayor, John
M. Price," were displayed in big letters on the
band wagon. AtTO o’clock a. m., P. T. Abell,
followed by a mob, chine up and tore off the
cards and informed the band they could not
play. He had given $lO for the purchase of
instruments to get the band started, and he was
not going to have his money used in any such
way. He and his whole party were “armed to
the teeth," and if they persisted they done it
at their peril. The Band was determined to
play notwithstanding the regent Abell had ad
vised them not to, but at the earnest request of
Af citizens cV V»oth parties,
they retired to their homes. A great many of
the pro-slavery men denounced this act, and
had they not previously voted they would have
cast their ballots for the Republican candidate.
Several strong pro-slavery men with whom I
am intimately acquainted, voted for Mr. Price
in consequence of this Border Ruffian move
ment on the part of Mr. Abell. By getting a
great many foreigners beastly drunk, and lead
ing them up to the polls in each ward several
times, they carried the day, and sent the news
off by telegraph, that Atchison City had gone
Democratic by 23 majority. In the evening
they held a meeting to have a genera] rejoicing
over their victory, and a more degraded and
beastly set of drunken men I never saw in my
life. G. 0. Chase, editor of the Union (the Na
tional - Demooratic-Pro-Slavery-Border-Ruffian
organ of this place, who came to Kansas-last
spring from Owego, N. ¥., and who voted for
Fremont in ’SG,) was so tight he could hardly
navigate. After several had spoken he came
forward and made a few remarks, congratula
ting the Democracy on their selecting so amia
ble a man for Mayor, and wound up by saying
the meeting had better adjourn and come in
and take ar “small private drink” and retire.
On last Tuesday the election was held in the
Territory to vote on the Wyandott Constitution,
Notwithstanding a great many illegal votes
were polled by the pro-slavery democracy, the
Constitution was carried by a majority of one
in this city, and nearly 200 in the County. So
far as beard from, the majority is about 4000,
and it is expected the entire vote in the Terri
tory will swell it to 6000. From present ap
pearances the Democrats will not carry a single
county in the Territory. Dr. Stringfellow says
he is going to Washington to oppose the ad
mission of Kansas under that instrument. He
has no objections to the apportionment, but is
afraid the people will elect a "nigger" Gov
ernor.
ijl the following
Kansas is not the “land of promise" as some
delight in calling it, but the land of eternal cor
ruption and confusion. It is hoped that these
times will not last much longer, for she will
most likely be admitted at the approaching ses
sion of Congress, a free and sovereign State,
when hundreds and thousands will flock in
from the East, and plant their fortunes on the
boundless prairies of the “Great American
Desert.” The day is not far-distant when this
is destined to be one of the most densely-popu
lated States in the Union, and that must soon
follow after her admission under the Free-State
Constitution framed at Wyandott.
Times are rather tight all over the Territory,
but there is more business done in Atchison
than any place on the Missouri between here
and St. Louis, This being the starting point
for the Great Salt Lake Mail, and nearly all the
trains for Pike’s Peak, Utah, California and
Oregon, and located as it is, fourteen miles fur
ther west than any other town in Kansas on
the . “Big Muddy," nothing will prevent it from
becoming the largest city in the Territory.
The Railroad will be finished from St. Joseph
to this place next month, than there will be a
direct line all the way from the frontier to the
Atlantic seaboard.
The news from Pike’s Peak is encouraging.
The Express from Denver City yesterday,
brought $41,000 in dust from the Mines, and
still rich discoveries are being made daily.
The Missouri River is slowly rising, and this
seems to be the head of navigation at present
all the boats stopping hero and discharging
their freight and returning to St. Louis.
Yours, Ac., F. A. R.
first argument for the enlargement of the
htea of our vijlago is for-the convenience add,
economy of schools. ' Ef&ry child within wiftS
in one mile of Jthe centr£stone of this village*
'should be educated hare:; _
Ist. Economy requires it. It can be done
cheaper than in the little ephemeral schools that
have been supported in the immediate neigh
borhood. There, in little, uncomfortable huts,
from sis to sixteen scholars have been huddled
together, and a teacher capable of teaching full
three times the number has been employed term
after term. This is very bad economy. But
this ia not the worst of it. Hence we eay that
2d. Utility requires the enlargement of this
district for school purposes. By utility here we
mean the best education of oar children as well
as the cheapest. It is a settled question with
all education that, where it is practicable, schol
ars-should be arranged in different departments
according to their attainments. Any good teach
er will testify to us that he can teach sixty
scholars of about the same grade, better than
he can thirty of the usual grades found in a
common echqolag; It requires no experience in
fact, and hut very little reflection to see that a
class of beginners would he advanced much
faster in a room by themselves. A room prop
erly provided with pictures and a, b, o, plates,
and slates, paper and pencils; with shelves to
lay them aside when they want to sleep, and a
separate play ground when they need to play,
and a teacher just adapted to such little ones—
alike at home with the books, the drawings and
the plays. Children commencing in such a
school will not only learn much faster, but they
will not contract an early, and, too often, per
manent dislike to all school books, teachers, et
omne generis. The same principle holds good
with every advancing grade. The scholars will
advance much faster. If any one is disposed
to think this is all theory and wont work in
practice, we are happy to know that the means
are at hand to convince the most confirmed un
believer of the great utility and practicability
of the plan. Corning is not far off. Just visit
the Union School of that viliaagc, under the au
perintendance of Mr. Parker. Visit all the de
partments. Mr. Parker will be happy to tell
you of any friction in the machinery if there is
any. But if any man can spend one day in
such a school and not be convinced of its supe
rior advantages over any ungraded school,
where the scholars can not be placed in differ
ent departments, and have the full benefit of a
healthful competition and rivalship, and hopes
of advancement, we know not what ideas ho
can have of schools.
3d. A wise self respect requires this care for
our school.- If such a school is cheaper and
better, then a regard for our jpwn interests re-
quires ns to establish it. WtTshall never see
our public, or common schools elevated to the
position which will make them creditable to our
villages until some such provision is made. No
one who has been familiar with those schools
for the last ten years will pronounce them ade
quate to the wants, or creditable to the intelli
gence and public spirit of Wellsboro. It is mor
ally certain that these schools never can assume
the dignity or usefulness which all our citizens
have a right to expect of them, and without
which they will be hardly an apology—shunned
and deeefted by most of the families who do
the most pecuniarily to support them—until this
liberal' policy is adopted. With the present
concracieu DOIIIJU... ioo and hopes, the schools
roust continue to be hampered and crushed till
all their life is extinguished. *
4. Justice demands that the money raised for
school purposes, by an equal tax upon the prop
erty of the Boro, shall not be thrown away.—
We are fully persuaded that these schools may
assume the character- we here contemplate, so
that every man who pays his money to support
them, shall deem it both a benefit and an honor
to patronize them, instead of creating thereby
a kind of safety valve to let off, or receive that
material that is not wanted in the academy.—
Go to Corning, Geneva, Lyons, Oswego, the vil
lages of New England generally, and every
place where the children of all the inhabitants
are thus-gatbered under one experienced, suc
cessful teacher, with suitable helpers, and you
shall see that no infant school, select school, or
academy is conducted with better order, or more
wholesome discipline for the elevation of all
classes. There, more knowledge is imparted
and correct principles inculcated for the same
amount of money than in any other school we
have ever known.
We have abandoned, mainly, the hopes we
had sometimes fondly cherished of seeing the
educational machinery of this Boro, all united
under one head; the academy and common
schools uniting to form an eclectic board of ed
ucation. But our convictions are strong as ever
that this is the true course. We firmly believe
that a convention of twelve of the best teachers
in the State would so decide. Oar academy
would thereby assume the dignified proportions
of such an institution, worthy the renown of
its ancient and most palmy days. The provis
ions for foreign scholars would be much more
satisfactory than they can be under the present
policy. All apparent or real antagonism exist
ing between the two schools would cease, and
the primary departments, while answering the
ends of a common school much better than they
are now attained, would at the same time be
constant feeders for the academic department.
And farther, we are persuaded that even now
the Directors could have their scholars taught
in the academy, by an amicable arrangement
with the Trustees and Principal of the latter
institution, better and cheaper than they can
teach them in the present building.
But this merging of the two schools is a dif
ferent question. Though well worthy the re
flection of the friends of education among us,
it is not essential to the school argument for the
enlargement of our Boro. We dismiss it for
the present, and only add that the bright hopes
we have foreshadowed for our common school
in this Bpro, can never be realized as they should
be until our incorporation is thrown around the
population, that, in the nature of the case,
should be educated here, J. F. C.
w A ™rSl. s ? oro ' on the 22d Sep l -, by J- Emerv Esq.,
Mr JOSEPH HOWARD to Miss CAROLINE KNAPP
both of Chatham.
At the residence of the bride's parents in Huntsville
Pa,, Oct. 19, by Elder W. B. France, Mr. S. B. LLOYD
of Nelson and Miss L. S. Sigler of the above place.
bj John Pnrkhurst Esq., Mr.
of Boro and Miss
MARIETTA L. QBE of Westfield.
In Gaines, Oot. 10, by B. V. Oedeo. Bso Mr
MILVEA. 8 REXFORD t 0 Mias ALWILDA^VER-
, DIED
mL lebnry w ct 13tb > Mra - Maria worden,
vriffrof Thomas Worden, in the SSlh year of her ago
and l f d - h ?, r3olf 40 the Siviour in early life,
and was faithful in Hu service until death. Her de
parture from Hus life was tranquil and joyous.
r For the Agitator.
Wellsboro—It* Boundaries.
MARE IE D
Anew book. v ~^
AND ONE THAT IS DESTINED
TO BE RANKED El>
AS THE BEST BOOK OP THE tn.
m READY. S SE Aao.'f,
.iRANSDATED PROM THE rajm.*
MEMOIRS
ROBERT HOUDIN
Ambaetttdor, * J
Author,
Conjurer,
Wizard,
Magician,
Necromancer,
Sorcerer,
. Enchanter,
Written by himsulf. ° f
Edited by Dr. R. SHELTON MACKENZIv
With a copious index. * “■
This book is full of interesting end entcrtsin'
ecdotes, of the interrierrs of the Great Wiraid* 1*
the moat distinguished personages of the vnan j l *
and gives descriptions of the manner of perfom
many of his moat curious tricks and transfonnJ? l
Bound' in one sadumo, 12m0., Cloth. 445
Price §l,OO. p '^'
And upon receipt of 21 cents additional for
a copy of the Book and a handsome present
from 25 coats to $lOO,OO will be sent to any r«r» W
the country. *
From the Editor a Preface.
A man may not only “tahe his own life," b?
his Autobiography, withont committing/./,,
may carry himself into future time by prciiucV**
book which the world will not willingly let die tv*
is what the great Kobert-Hondin, thegrcaiestirJif 1 *
what is called conjuring; has lately done h fterv
markable book Confidences d’un Prestvjiteur,
translation of which is here presented to the Actr.aa
reading public, The work has had the
in Europe, from its lively style as well as the
information it contains, historical and
On the practice and principles of
the other details, mental as well as machanical, wedeh
unite to make perfect the exhibition of White AU*.
the antipodes of what our forefather* knew, penewrf
and punished as the Black Art.
From the Wcetmiuater Pei'iev,
“Without any sarcastic intention. we might ihj*
that the Conjurer was really a man of 1 greater ability
than many a successful author. On the whole we nj
recommend these Memoirs of Robert-lloudhu u
pleasant reading.”
Published by GEORGE Q. EVAN?,
No. 429 Chestnut St., Philadelphia,
*lO whom all orders should be addressed.
Application Tor Divorce.
To Jonah Ji. Smith: You are hereby notified that
Emily B. Smith, your wife, has applied to theCoar.sf
Common Pleas of Tioga County, for a divorce fo*
the’bonds of matrimony, and that,the said Coen bare
appointed Monday, the sth day of December cer., it
2 o’clock p. m. of said day for hearing the said Ea£j
B. Smith in the premises, at which time and place jji
can appear If you taxnk proper.
S. I. POWFR, Sherif.
Sheriff’s Office. Wellshoro, Oct. 27, I?jy.
Application lor Divorce.
To Laura Ann Mack : You are hereby r.otrned that
Harrison Mack, your husband, has applied t<? the Cut
of Common Pleas of Tioga county, far a divorce ’ra
the bonds of matrimony, and that the said Court hart
appointed Monday, 'the sth day of December ten it
2 o'clock p. m., of said day for hearing the said
riaon Mack in the premises, at which time and cli*
you can attend if you think proper.
S. I. POWER, .'Jim/.
Sheriff’s Wellshoro, Oct. 27, 1559.
Application for Divorce.
To Julia Green: You are hereby notified that Jioa
Green, your husband, has applied to the Courtof Com
mon Pleas of Tioga county, for a divorce from tht
bonds of matrimony, and that the said Court h&vt ap
pointed Monday, the sth day of December next at 2
p. m. of said day for hearing the said James Greta la
the premises, at which time and place you eta attend
if you think proper. S.-I. POWER, Shenf.
Sheriff’s Office, WelUboro, Oct. 27. ISp'J.
Application lor Divorce.
T» Sll* » QiutcktrnLu*lt: You arebereby notified that
Tobias T. Quackenbush, your husband, ha? applied l»
the Court of Common Pleas of Tioga county, for a di
vorce from tho bond? of matrimony, and that the said
Court have appointed Monday, the sth day of Decem
ber next, at 2 o’clock p. ro. of said day for bearing lie
said Tobias T. Quackenbush in the premises, at wiki
time and place you can attend if tou think proper.
S. I. POWER, Skenf.
Sheriff's Office, Wellsboro, Oct. 27. ISO?.
F. W. KKIS£,
SADDLE AXD HARNESS MAKER,
■WBLLSBORO pa.
TAKES this method of informing the dthttief
Tiogn, and of the County generally, that hiltf
established himself at Tioga, where he will macehe
turo nnd keep on hand for sale a good stock of
Saddles. Bridles, Heavy Harness. Carriage Harswi
off all kinds *tc. Also Ilames, Halters, Whips. Xra«*r
Collars Ac. All work warranted.
Repairing done on short notice.
Tioga, Sept. 1,1559. —1 y.
Dissolution. —The &rm of roMbsoq a co. u
this day dissolved, the subscriber baneg pw
chased the interest of Mr. B. N. Paynt, in theiwd
firm. The octfcrsigned will conlSnne the buinea**
the tame stand. All persons indebted to the Ulefina
will please Drake payment as soon as conremest.
Corning, Oct. Ist. B. B. ROBINSOIv^
Stolen*
ON the night of Sept. 30, at the Hotel of Dirtt
Hart, a BLACK LION SKIN OTEKCOAl
stamped “First Quality.” Liniag bine, shb s
little black and white; velvet cuffs lined witbrea---
Any person giving me any information. or returans*
said C 1 at to me will be liberallv rewarded.
HIRAM 11, NICKED 05 '
Eos Charleston. Oct. 20. _
NEW“MILLIKERY’SHOE
V/fISS I'.-U'U.'S’A SMITH lia. added w J ‘i*
It I Stock lately purchased from Mr?. •ißlr.h*- -•
a fresh assortment, direct from the City. ■’* *
Bonnets, Ribbons and F^9 ,, ' c^, '
Silks, Laces, Velvets &c,
Plain and Colored Straw and Black BocneWf^**
I>res?es, Fancy Goods. Eic.
From her knowledge of. and experience m fk'koJi
ness she believes herself able to give satisfocuoc
who may favor her with their custom. Thepetre e
of the Ladies of Wcllsuoro and vicinity rcspcc
solicited. , .
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Full particulars given in Catalogues, whic
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Valuable Gifts, worth from fifty cts. to%
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