8 of Publication.
roG \ couxty Agitator is published
{fl£ Ti Morning, and mailed to subscriber
"“IJon'able of
>tifl oSB DOLLAR PER ANffUJUgsT
adtnncc. It is intended to notify every
* when the'term for which ho has paid shall
red br the stamp —“Time Oct,” on the mar
iflst paper* The paper will then be stopped
rt*f father remittance bo received. By this ar
tf&*\ n 0 man can be brought in debt to the
n# 3e!l
nT on is the Official Paper of the County,
I* 1 ; fr C and steadily increasing circulation reach
s elerv neighborhood in the County. It is sent
to any Post Office within the county
, ivbo'c most convenient post office may bo
lining County.
Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper iuclu
\&*r T - : '
f'SIXESS DIRECTORY.
V".s tOWKEY & S. F. WILSOJf,
TtmiNF.VS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW, will
i 1 .(i C nd the Court of Tioga, Pottor and McKean
A , c * rWellshoro’, Feb. 1, 1853.]
(;CC»C-' L .
s B. BROOKS,
*mg\EYAND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
I U VK ELKUSD. TiOGA CO. PA.
He multitnJe of Counselors tliero is safety."— BOU
'■ bU. W. W WEBB.
„„ rrF over Cone’s Law Office, first door below
Tlrr’s Hotel. Kigbts be will bo found at his
Voce, first door above the bridge on Mam Street,
-a, Samuel Dickinson’s.
r . >. DAiITT, desxist,
„ - office at Ills residence near the
E|i|a (>' Academy. All work pertaining to
“85®““ hue of imanea
tainted.
' pIcKISSO* HO
c 0 1! X IX6. Y -
Proprietor.
toils taken to and free ° f cWgc
ft *w s EV AM IA HOUSE
' ItEUf BOllO’. PA.
I. D. TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR.
nrdcenedlv popular house h centrally located, and
««eltTo Hie patronage ot the travelling public.
\o.ts, Iv'S, ] . v -
HO TEE.
CORNING, N. Y..
s FREEMAN, - - - - Proprietor.
l •, °j Lodgings, 25 cts. Board, 75 cts. per dny.
|W “’' March 3171859. (ly.)
feroißg.
j, C. W HITTAKER,
JhnlrojHithxc Physician and Surgeon.
ELKLAIS'D, TIOGA CO.. PENNA.
■SHU visit patients in nil parts of the Countv, orrc
(Tcthem for trcutment at bis house. [June 14,]
H. O. COLE
HR BE It ASD HAIRDRESSER.
:n the rear of the Post Office. Everything in
S ins line mil be done ns well and promptly as it
the city saloons. Preparations) for re
..nn(r (iardraff. and beautifying the hair, for sale
Tjjp 0 Hair and whiskers dyed any color. - Call and
J, WeiUboro. Sopt. 22, 1859.
■ GAHES hotel.
3C VEHMIL YEA. PROPRIETOR.
Gaines, Tiog-a County, Pa.
flilS well kn->wn hotel is located within easy access
I J {cekt«i fishing and hunting grounds in North’rn
i pin; will be spared for the accommodation
Objure ackers and the traveling public.
is:o. _
the corxing journal.
gtorge W. Pratt, Editor and Proprietor.
T*pii!i*'ie.i at Corning. Steuben Co.. N. Y., nt One
[ [i.jHar nnd Fifty Cents per year, 5n advance. The
.-.Tciiis Republican in politics, and has a circula-
mt» every part of Steuben County.—
?, tdeiirnus of extending their business into that
adjoining counties will find it au excellent ad
c? medium. Address as above.
COIDERSPOttT HOTEL.
COIDLUSPORT POTTER CO.. PEN’N’A.
D. F. Glassmirc, - - Proprietor.
I til? HOTEL if located within an hour's drive of
*“• Lead wnters of the Allegheny, Genesee, and
mens. No efforts are spared to make
.i; xl fur i lca.'Urc sc.keis during the Iroutiug sea
q.s:l f.-r tho tra\ cling public at all times,
usi<s9. iv.
JOHN B, SHAKESPEAR,
TAILOR.
a'.VIXG opened bis shop in the room over
Win. Roberts Tin Shop, respectfully informs the
fifWJUb'.ro' and vicinity, that be is prepared
I‘Wjtc orders in his line of business with prompt*
suad dc-patch
Cutting tinvc on short notice.
/V.V'.iro. Oct. 21. ISSS.—Cm
WATCHES! WATCHES!
IHE ?uWm>LT has got a fine assortment of heavy
K.\<;US}[ LLVKIt HUNTER-CASE
Gold and Silver Watcher,
'• - be w.il »ell cheaper than “ dirt" on * Time/ i. c.
•* T 1 ‘-1! ‘1 me Pieces' on a short (approved) credit.
*•’ '-indc nf KKPAIIUXG done promptly. If a
■' ' v rk u n«*t done to the satisfaction of the party
it. r.o charge will be made.
fi 1 * ir.or ••j-i>n.oiated and a contiuancc of patron
sir solicited. ANDIE FOLEY.
W’ C r..J uno 24. IS-IS.
HOME INDUSTRY.
THE >LIi>rKIHEH hating established a MAR
II lilt MANUFACTORY at the village of Tioga,
I r **“c2? it prepared to furnish
Homunents, Tomb-Stones, fee.,
NOIOST & ITALIAN HIAUBI.E
r‘-irt«pici(ully concit the patronage of this and ad-
~ T - r g agr r„i »tock on hand bo is now ready to ex~
•'ai.Mars with r.oatm* ! «, accuracy and dispatch.
I ••‘Vms dcl.vcred if doired.
JOHN BLAMPIED.
..-Co.. Pa.. Sept. 28. 1839.
IVM. TERBEIL,
I i rOHRIXG, X. Y. ' '
I Wholesale and Retail Dealer, in
I : ' 'hdi’tines, Lead, Zinc, and Colored
■ r..rn,.4. Brushes Camphenc and Burning
l,*‘ Sash, and Glam, Fare Liquors fur
I l‘t:-t,t Mrdtrinee, Artists Faints and Brashes,
I Fuicy Articles, Flavoring Extracts, etc.,
. ALSO,
funeral assortment of .School Books—
Blank Book*. Staple and Fancy
„ Stationary.
X' ac! ; Druggist! and Country Merchants dealing
Lv. l “-:irti.*les can be supplied at a small
I - Xtw ork prices. [Sept. 22, 1857.]
pSTOIfiMMSHOPT
Opposite Rors drcg store.
■- wu rq„ f, ln j gj orcS ' Ti nt and Japanned
1 ' lr ' : /''r one-half the nsital prices.
LV. - ted Ov eti Cook Stove and Tritn
/ r $15,00.
Tin and Hardware
Re ,„- lv p , iy _
is; * •«! one who wants anything in this line
h, kc ° r ‘ ur r ,r 'cc< before purchasing elsewhere.
r’* ,, T—*wo doors south of Farr’s llo
it’s i»rug Store. CALL AND SEE
~, H - ix DKmi N g,
»*’*' Il ß v announce to the people of Tioga County
*^CU J .r Pf« p-irr.l to fill all orders for Apple, Pear
'-'lurin''. Apricot. Evergreen and Deciduous
Currants UaxplKTries, Gooseberries,
v-v “ ' an.l rtra’whcrrivb of all now and approved vari*
of llvbrid, Perpetual and Sum
«n*r Ibivrt. Bourbon, Noisette, Tea,
Hlftl'n*' Hoses.
V Including all the finest new ra-
Li v . q A neties of Althea CalycantJms,
ILn\V // ,lir i u ‘ K Syringias. Viburnums, Wigiliaa &c.
Paconies. Dahlia*, Phloxes. Tulips,
c. Hyacinths, Narcissist Jonquils, Lil*
i/’* ‘'>wTrif. a ' u t,o b Strawlterrv. 4 doz. plants, $5.
•*•■'’m-r,. ' nibnc. Budding’or Pruning will be
• .. ‘“ 1, “ Adlr.^
j-. 1! V. DEMISE l*a,
THE AGITATOR
jjchoteiy to the mttnssi ow of the area oi iFreehom jitth the Spreah of healths iieform.
WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRXGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
YOL. YI.
From the New York Tribune,
THE "WORLD WOULD BE THE BETTER FOR IT,
by M. n. COBB.
If men cared less for wealth and fame
And less for battle-fields and glory ;
If writ in human hearts, a name
Seemed bettor than in song or story;
If men instead of nursing pride,
i Wonld learn to bate and to abhor it—
If more relied
On Love to guide,
The world would be the better for it.
If men dealt less in stocks and lands,
And more in bonds and deeds fraternal;
If Love's work had more willing hands
To link this world to the supernal;
If men stored up Love's oil and wine,
d And on bruised human hearts would pour it—
If “yours” and “mine”
Would once combine.
The world would be the better for it.
If more would act the play of Life,
And fewer spoil it in rehearsal;
If Bigo,try would sheathe its knife
’Till Good became more universal;
If Custom, gray with ages grown,
Had fewer blind men to adore it—
If talent shone
In truth alone,
The world would be the better for it
If men were wise In little things—
Affecting less in all their dealings;
If hearts had fewer rusted strings
To isolate their kindly feelings ;
If men, when Wrong beats down the Right,
Would strike together and restore It —
' If Right, made Might
In every fight,
The world would be the better for it.
Whales and Whaling*.
BY AX OLD WHALEMAN
I have been in the business a long time. I
first went to sea when I was twelve years old,
and had command of a ship at twenty. I have
been round the world three times, and killed
three hundred whales. By that I don’t mean
that I first struck them all—by no means.—
That is with the Iron, as we call it, —what
you call the harpoon. I mean I have lanced so
many. VTe proceed in this manner:
When I used to go in a whaleboat I took five
men with me. I steered, and they all pulled
the oars, till we came near the whale. Then
the man next the bow peaks his oar, that is,
pulls it in, and lays it sticking up at the head
of the boat, at an angle of about fifty degrees,
to keep it from getting into the water in case
we have a swift run. lie then takes his iron,
and throws it into the whale, and runs to the
stern. The whale may sometimes be lying
asleep on the water, but he is almost always
awake, at least by tho time we come up with
him. He starts _off as soon as he feels the
iron, and sometimes sounds, or dives and swims
under water; but not very often, especially the
sperm whale. And after he has run awhile
he stops and hip “a flurry.” as we call it—he
shakes, all over, and struggles violently. Then
is the time to spear him. If you don't kill him
then, you probably never will. But you must
look,out for him, for he may strike your boat
with his tail, or “ride it”—that is, throw him
self right across it.
The killing is done with a lance about fifteen
feet long, with a sharp point, sometimes made
rounding at the end, but by some thought bet
when square. It should, however, be held with
the flat laid sideways, and not up and down, be
cause then if it hits a rib, it is more sure to
glance and go in right.
The best man I ever had with me was a
Shinnecook Indian, from the east end of Long
Island. He was with me seven years, and
rendered me important services in some cases
in which I thought any other man I ever knew
would have been unable to act quite in time,
or with; sufficient strength, coolness, and dex
terity.
One day I was out with him, and a whale
rode my boat; that is, he came up and threw
himself right across the middle of it, and of
course broke it in two, and instantly threw us
all into the sea. I believe he did it by acci
dent, coming upon us in that manner merely
because we happened to lie in his way. I re
covered myself, and got into the mates boat,
and helped to get in my boat’s crew. The
whale, in a few minutes, made his appearance
again ahead of us ; hut I did not observe him.
The boat was crowded, having two crews in;
and I was sitting, with a lance in my hand,
and the line which belonged to it about my
feet. Suddenly my Indian called to me;
“Look! lie’s coming!” and I saw the whale
swimming down right towards us, just ready, I
thought, to strike our bows with his head. I
had heard it said that if you prick a whale in
the nose, it will stop him immediately: as it
seems to take him right aback, and he will sud
denly stop and turn away. I determined to
try it, and struck him with my iron and
wounded him deeply; but he did not mind it
in the least. On! ho came, and the next thing 1
knew I Was deqp in the water; and going
deeper; and, what troubled me more than that,
I felt the rope round my ankles, and knew
when it tightened.! should be tied tight; for
one end was fastcneTto-the boat and the other
to the lance. I strove to clear-way the rope,
and got it off from one leg; but it took me long
to get the other free. However, I succeeded,
and then began to try to find out my position.
This, as I have nmarked, I ala-ays had pres
ence of mind enough to do ; and I can tell you
it is highly important. Other men generally
do not atop to lock, hut do what they first think
of, and so are as likely to jump into danger as
out of it. I never took much time, commonly
a single instant, a single turn of my eyes was
sufficient: and 10 it was in that case. I looked
above me and avw it was dark, and therefore
presumed I was under the whale. I then at
tempted to swim a little one side, but that
brought me against his fin, and then I “dove,”
knowing that Ihe fins of that kind of whale
were very broai, and extend down much lower
than the belly, so as to shut a man completely
in who once gets between them. When I had
swum- under tko fin I looked up again, and
then perceived that half a dozen other whales
were in company, and very near each other,
side by side, o( the surface of the sea above
me. i
I thought it Light he hazardous to rise among
them, as I sh uld have no way of avoiding
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA.J THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1859
them, and therefore waited a moment for them
to pass by. This they soon did, and I wasjglad
to be onco moro on the top of the water, where
I could breathe; for although I had been under
it mnch less time than it has taken me to jwrite
about it, I felt the want of air and found my
strength somewhat reduced. I got into the
boat and began to order the men to tbeirl pla
ces, intending to get all ready and pursue the
whales, and get one of them at least.
Seeing ene of the crew in the stern sheets,
bending over the water, I ordered him to the
bows, and was surprised and a little vexed that
he did not obey me. I did not at first seA that
it was my Indian ; but I saw at the next glance
that he had a man by the hair, who wasHsunk
in the water. Going to help him pull him out,
I discovered,that he was a young man who had
shipped for the voyage for the benefit if his
health, and had a large circle of highly re
spectable relatives in the United States, to
whom his death would be a and calamity] lie
was a man of uncommon stature and frame,
and had gained so much flesh at sen that he
was almost unmanageable even in the water.
I attempted to assist my faithful Indian, but
found my grasp so much weakened by exhaus
tion that I despaired of getting hit* in ;o the
host, when I reflected that my crew_pa(| been
struggling with the waves as well as myself.
I then resolved to save the young man if possi
ble, and gave orders to row for the ship, which
we reached, dragging the young man aft:r us.
managing after a while to get his hear and
shoulders clear of the water, and aftenva: da to
pull him into the boat.
When we came alongside, they lowe red a
tackle-fall, and we hoisted him on board, where
many hours we spent in endeavors to restore
him. These were at last successful; an 1 the
boat which I had sent after the whales on reach
ing the vessel, returned with one of the bjst of
them, which they had taken.
It is thought by many persons that the most
dangerous thing that can happen to a man is
to be thrown into the air by the blow' of a
whale. I have not found it so, although I have
had frequent experience in that way. It is
certain that the strength of the animal is so
great that nothing can withstand its direct
force ; but a man may be thrown up vyith a
boat without being struck himself, and without
having his bones broken, or his skin torn by
the timbers ; and then he has nothing tjo fall
into but the sea. Now it always happened to
me to be anhurt, and I only got a ducking, and
was usually soon picked up by auotherjboat.
I have been thrown a distance of several! rods
through the air ; and put it all together, I sup
pose the entire distance that I have been
thrown by whales must be about a mile.—.V.
FI Ledger.
Where Old Clothes Go.
The writer of “Flemish Interiors/' has just
published a work in London in three volumes,
entitled “Realities of Paris Life.” As thq title
indicates, the work relates to matters fact
concerning the manners and institutions of the
gay capital. He describes the old clothes re
gion of Paris more in detail than most writers,
and furnishes the following information con
cerning the destination of the immense quanti
ties of cast off apparel collected in France:
Old ecclesiastical vestments are always] wel
come in Brazil, where priests are numerous,
and richer articles of this description are dis
posed of in Peru and Chili. All their old head
gear. and heaven knows what must be the
quantity, is forwarded to St. Domingo; the
blacks are exceedingly proud of a European
hat, especially a white one. They wear hem
with an independence of taste which rerdera
them exceedingly indulgent as to the form they
may have acquired. Of French practices,they
have only retained that of wearing hats, and it
is to be regretted that it never occurs to 1 hem
to make them, as do their former masters, a
medium for demonstrations of politeness. Per
haps they may acquire the custom one day. •
As for shoes and boots, they make the best
of their way to California, they are transmitted
by thousands of pairs to those auriferous re
gions where millionaires, it would seem, jhave
not shoes to their feet, unlike this hemisphere,
where those who go barefoot are usually any
thing! but millionaires. Apropos de hotte rwe
were once told that the difference between the
Emperor of Russia and a beggar wasj that
while the former issues manifestoes , the latter
manifests toes without his shoes. We recom
mend that this ingenious distinction he com
municated to the Californians with the next
cargo. Old shirts, it would seem, remai i at
tached to the soil, and whenever a soluti m of
continuity takes place in their component parts,
after an acquaintance with the crotchet]and
the hotte, they pass through the mill, to rpap
pcar —rejuvenated like the dry bones of (Eson
from Medea’s caldron—in the form of those el
egant albums which decorate the boudoir-tibles
of our"bellcs, or under the guise of a ros 2-col*
ored and perfumed billet presented to their
dainty fingers on a silver salver. Fortunately
| its various transmigrations are not revealed to
them!
Indies' cast off garments have a brisk sale
in Hindoostan. The fashions, to be sure, arc
somewhat antiquated ; “but par mi les avengles
les horgucs sont roie” and a cut whicn ap
peared four years ogo in Paris, is as elegant
with those who see it for the first time] as it
was with the Parisians then. Consequently,
the wives of a countless number of petty em
ployees in Madras and Calcutta eagerlyj com
pete for the first choice of this quandam f nery.
After all it is only an exchange; India sends
to Paris its old Cashmeres ; Paris sends to In
dia its old gowns. Wo are inclined tc ask,
“Why could not «ach rest content with its
own V* Jamaica and the Philippines arc insa
tiable in their demands for old French gloves
--cleaned and scented, of course. Will it bo be
lieved that 6,000,000 pairs are anually slipped
for these facile customers 7
“There is two ways of doing it,” said Pat to
himself, as he stood musing and waiting for a
job on the street corner. “If I save me »i,OOO,
I must lay up $2OO a year for twenty years, or
I can put away $2O a year for 200 years. Xow
which way will I do it?’^
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Code Duello.
Mk. Editor ; We are told that when those
bravpes in California had squared themselves to
shool each other, the solemn farce wag arrested
for a few minutes to read this preoions funeral
service, the code duello, to the blood thirsty
champions. Did you ever see that little bit of
a composition ? Do you know where it came
from ? If you understand all about this legem
honoris, please enlighten the public on the sub
ject. Before we challenge any man to shoot us,
or accept a challenge to stand still and be shot
at, we wish to know the conditions and the ne
cessity of facing murder music in.that way.—
We-are a little nervous and fear that without
some previous information our courage would
all get into our heels when we saw a man raise
bis pistol to fire into our breast. Somehow it
makes our muscles crawl and our blood chill to
think of being a party in such transactions.—
We have looked in vain for this famous code
among the laws of God and man. Whence
then did it originate ? Have some of those de
mons from the nether regions sent up a law
providing for the letting off of a little bile and
bad blood, by gentlemen, hravoes, men of honor !
who get so mad at each other they can’t hold
it? We suppose this ceremony must run about
as follows: “ Whereas you. man of honor, hove
charged me, man of honor, with being a liar,
or a coward, or dishonest, or have called me
soma other bad name, by which I have become
maddened and feel very much oppressed about
my heart, and must have some relief, therefore,
I challenge you to give me a good chance to
kill you, and for the sake of this privilege I’ll
give you the same chance to kill me if you dare.
AVhereupon the said challenged man feels his
honor very sensibly touched and goaded up to
a fight, and he drops a pretty littlo note to bis
friend saying I’ll be happy to meet you on the
honorable business you suggest, at such a place
and time, and the game shall be played with
rifles, or pistols, or knives, according to which
he has the most skill in. The preliminaries
having been agreed on, the seconds or abettors
of each party having been chosen, they “nur«o
their wrath to keep it warm” till the day arrives.
Then repairing to the ground, the distance is
paced, and the pistols are loaded, and the two
men of honor take their places on the marks,
facing each other, weapons in hand. Their
breasts are suitably bared for the bullet. Then
one of the seconds reads the code—“ You, each
one of you, pledge your word as men of honor,
that you'll stand there till the other has a good
chance to shoot you through the head or heart
or body somewhere ; that you wont dodge or
wince till the ’word is given, so that each can
have an equal chance to kill and bo killed. If
you get killed you solemnly promise again as a
man of honor that you’ll lie peaceably in the
grave, and not come back, a bloody ghost, to
haunt the rest of the life of your murderer,
and that all your bereaved relations and friends
and the rest of mankind shall not hiss and
scorn the survivor, but count us both men of
honor —both lions—one dead, the other living.
And if you are the murderer instead of the
murdered, then you promise to get all the peace
out of the rest of your life you can, and not go
skulking from society, and hiding in the gloomy
caverns of wild beasts and the graves of dead
men, but with brazen, impudent face go about
insulting men of honor till you get a chance to
shpot somebody else and be shot at in turn.
Now, Mr. Editoj, whatever be the reading of
this code duelio, which men of honor carry with
them it must amount to only this. "We wish to •
propose this substitute which we greatly prefer:
Bo it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the
Congress of the United States, and the same is
hereby enacted by the Legislatures of each
State and Territory of this country, that from
this time, henceforth, forever it shall be unlaw
ful for any person to challenge or accept a chal
lenge to fight a duel, or to act as a second, to
aid or abet such barbarous custom ; and
any person that does so challenge or accept of
a challenge, or encourage by his presence and
counsels any such desperadoes, shall forfeit any
civil office he may hold in the gift of the peo
ple of these United States, and never more he
eligible to any office whatever, civil or military,
in any town, ward borough, or state of this na
tion. For the justice of this enactment we give
the following reasons:
Ist. The man is a coward and therefore unfit
for any office. lie has not the moral courage
to bear abuse and crimination from his fellow
men without getting mad about it.
2d. He is an outlaw ; for however statesman
like he may go to work to legislate for the set
tlement of other's disputes and the vindication
of other men's veracity and honor, be will not
submit his own grievances to the tribunal he
erects for others, but too proud to surrender his
vengeance to courts human or divine, assuming
to be superior to other men, he rides over all
law to settle matters himself. The worst ban
dit can do no more.
3d. He is a murderer in the eyes of God and
man, and if the statea-prisoa felon forfeits eligi
bility to civil office how should it be with this
man? Why, there is more cool deliberation,
more malice prepense,’ more studied preparation
in a duellist than in nine-tenths of the murders
of the land. And there is really less provoca
tion also. 'Tis not sudden passion that has no
time to cool. But simply a contemptuous look,
a slight word, or some other wound given to
mere pride, which other men—men of common
sense—meet and laugh at a hundred times in
their lives. But your man of honor must get
mad and never get pleased again till he has
shot his wrath out of a pistol barrel. And he
forsooth is a gentleman. He has vindicated his
right forever to this title, par excellence, by
challenging and shooting a man. Go. ye cut
throats, scoundrels, disappointed politicians,
and abandoned poltroons, do likewise, and
henceforth ye are bloods, gentlemen, of
honor . 1 Benhadad.
An eminent spirit merchant in Dublin, an
nounces, in an Irish paper, that he has still a
small quantity of the whisky on hand which
was drank by George IV. when in Dublin.
0 J 3
Its History—Personal Incidents—Old Prawn's
Courage — What the Pro-Slavery papers say —
What the Hew York ‘‘Hews’’ thinks is in ‘‘bad
taste—Political Capital to be made out of
Brown—The Emigrant Aid Society—Opin
ions of the London "Tines” and Boston
“Bee’’~What Senator Mason says, &c. ;
For ths Agitator.
As the Harper’s Ferry Riot is still occupying
public attention, wo give the following inter
esting clippings from the public journals re
gard to it: |
Harper’s Ferrt and the Foots.
The old grannies are in ecstacies in tjie ex
pectation that they will make It the
world that the insurrection at Harper's Ferry
is Republicanism.lEvcry toothless crone among
them is out of doors flaunting her apron and
chattering to the four winds of heaven. Every
one of those conscientious fellows who defend
ed Atchison and Stringfellow, every mother’s
son of recreant maternity, every jabbering pop
pinjny, every brawling blackguard on the curb
stone, every apologist for distorted constitutions,
and subverted law, every adroit strategist to
whom the recurring victories of Republicans
have brought chill and unwelcome tidings,—
all these arc now abroad proclaiming that Re
publicanism has culminated in treason and re
volt at Harper’s Ferry. If we were to trust
their swollen and turbid lamentations, we should
suppose that hordes of sable bandits had des
cended from the shaggy sides of the Blue Ridge
and that -clouds of grim eons of Mars, all in
armor, had gathered from the Northern moun
tains to drench devoted Harper’s Ferry in blood.
Gov. "Wise proclaims, the clanking of arms is
heard in Baltimore, the President is on the
alert, troops are present from two sovereign
States and the District of Columbia, and on pa
per there are all the proportions of a great ser
vile war. What ij It all for ? What Spartacus,
or Gurabaldi, or incipient Toussaint is in the
field? Why it is Inobody—it is nothing—it is
bosh. It isn’t the army of Xerxes by a long
shot. It is nobody but Old John Brown, with
fifteen white men and five negroes ! And they
corner Old John in an engine house, get a lad
der for a battering ram, and butt at the doors
as the Romans did at the walls of Jerusalem.
They fall 1 Old John falls badly, and as he
thinks, mortally cut! Then the war is ended,
and the silver trumpet sounds eut the notes of
victory.- —Boston Allas and Bcc.
While the Pro-Slavery Democratic newspa
pers of the North are turning this lamentable
affair over and examining it from all sides
in a heartless nndjvain attempt to make capital
out of it against | the Republican Party, the
Southern papers are looking the matter fairly
and squarely in thp face. We clip the follow
from an article in' the Wheeling Intelligencer
the leading paper in Western Virginia:
“Slowly, but certainly, they (the slaves) are
acquiring more of the characteristics of the
white races and losing those of the African.—
Look at the brightened complexion of the race
in all our southern cities and towns. In Charles
ton, South Carolina, for instance, the mixed
element immeasurably predominates over that
of the black, and is, we believe, equal to if not
greater than the white population. Look at
Richmond, Lynchburg, Petersburg, Norfolk
and other places in our State. Wo ought to
look these things all : n the face now. They
have an important practical bearing on our so
cial condition. When we hear men and papers
either openly advocating or covertly winking at
a revival of the odious slave trade, it is time
that public attention was called to these things.
It is useless to rail at wicked and reckless abo
litionists. like Brown, who in’their blind fanat
icism think—if they think or care at all—that
they are doing God-service when they teach and
aid slaves to rise against their masters. There
will always be such men. They are to be ex
pected when we think of the vast amount of
opinion, religious and non-rcligious, which ex
ists throughout a great country like ours on the
moral and political aspects of a national ques
tion like that of slavery. Likewise it is all
useless and idle to expect that men having i
minds to think —minds which must think—and |
tougues which are free to speak, will ever stop ■
having opinions them upon either
the justice or the expedience of slavery in the
abstijnet. Our security lies in advancing, not
in retreating. Wo must look to the future of
the two rates. We must go back and read up
the opinions of the fathers of the republic ns to
the probable issue of slavery in this country, —
We must know that the best men of that era
busied themselves not only with conjectures ns
to what were to be its results, but also with j
ways and means by which they might be able j
to provide against these very insurrections.— 1
Mr. Jefferson, we should remember, up to his
dying hour never ceased to express his appre
hension and to suggest his plans for exemption.
The possible contingency of a great San Do
mingo rebellion, he declared, was to him con
tinually “like a fire bell in the night.” He
“trembled,” he said, “to think of it.” And-it
was because that he so well knew the peculiar
conditions which invested the negro race, both
naturally and artificially in this country, that
he dwelt so earnestly on his plan fur a Central
American colonization of the race. Something
of this sort has got to be done. For look at it:
We have now nearly four millions of these
serfs among us. They are increasing in’a ra
tio wholly unknown to the white Not
only this, bur, as we said, they are imbibing
the energies and taking on the color of the su
perior race. They now range all the way up
the scale from the jet black to the offspring of
quadroons. Does' anybody flatter himself that
the usually sullen and sulken mulatto has no
xnorcr ambition, no more energy of mind, than
the African proper? Do not the facts show
that they have ? The fact that the cross of two
antagonistic bloods makes them short lived, as
a class, has demonstrated to physiologists that
they are the worst class of inhabitants a coun
try can have. Nearly all the poisoning cases
that have created so much alarm in the South
have occurred at the hands of mulatluc?. Mr?.
NO. 14,
The Harper’s Ferry Slot.
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desired marked upon thorn, itillba pnblkhcd until or
dered out and charged accorJingiyL 3 •/
Handbills, Bill-Head*] Letter-liehSslA all
kmds of Jobbing done in connuir ex
ecuted neatly and promptly, /nstices’, CaSstables'j >
and other BLANKS constantly on band. 1
Stowe did well to make the dcspefdfa Casscy,
in “Uncle Tom,” a She was ngt an
exaggerated type. And.it is notorious that not
only Legree, but that thousinds of dtjier men
in the South, readily pay a'premium
high strung creatures as Cassey, for they min
ister more voluptuously and enticingly to their
carnal and mental lusts than the dronish black
g‘ lrl - /'< I r k
“But we cannot pursue lift subject
to-day. It is one that needs tHorc statistics anti
more time for proper elaboration thnywe can
bring to it now. We are greatly as
indeed we have been for some time back, that
it will ere long elicit attention from our more
experienced and sagacious public men. And
although it has more than its usual force and
interest just at this time, yet it is none the less
an everyday and permanent subject, calling fur
our constant attention.”
IN BAD TASTE.
The New York Act cs, a Pro-Slavery Pcmo
cratic sheet, seems to feel bad because thn
Southern papers will not help them make cap- [
ital by falsifying tho facts. Here is what the
Xeics says to the Richmond (Va.) Whig : '
“The Richmond Whig is disposed to make
light of the disastrous and incendiary outbreak
at Harper’s Ferry, and laughs at the prepara
tions made to put it down. It flippantly speaks
of the “war,” which it thinks will be put an
end to “In the course of the week';” and of th<*
“soldiers” (as it quotes the term) \U>rv left
Richmond for the scene of tumult and murder
ous disorder it sneeringly says:
“They took leave of their wives and little
ones last night amid much weeping hncl wail
ing, nut expecting ever to see them more I It
was a heart-rending scene, to be sure. We en
deavored to procuie a lock of the hair of sev
eraj of the ‘soldiers/ as a memento of them,
in case they should fight, bleed and die in the
service of their country ; but they were too
much afflicted by the parting scene to pay any
attention to our request. We expect to see half
of the ‘soldiers' back at least. But good fo r- -
tuno to them all.”
Now this, to say the least. Is in rr.iserablT
bad taste, coming from the quarter it docs. It
is not excelled in cold-hearted indifference and
malevolence by the Evening Post, Tn'huneoT
Independent of this city, and is in full harmony
with the tone of the more malignant of tho Re
publican press of the North.— Xeic Tnrk Xew,
( Democratic .)
SUFFERINGS or BROWN IN KANSAS.
The history of the provoking~cnuscs of John
Brown's Kansas career are thus stated by the
Cloavoland Herald:
“John Brown had a son, E. P. Brown, who,
near Easton that winter (05-6,) was taken pris
oner by the Missouri ruffians and confined in a
store. Then it wag an express visited Fort
Leavenworth, and begged that United States
troops might go to the spot and save Brown
from being murdered. That was refused, and
refused too in compliance with positive orders
from "Washington. What followed? Captain
E. P. Brown was helpless and alone in the
power of ibe pro-slavery men : that hand of
ruffians struck him, and he rose to his feet and
asked to be permitted to fight the best man
among them—he would fight for his life—but
the cowards dared not give him that chance.
Brown then dared any two or three of them to
fight him. but the cowards would not comply
with that request. - *
“Then the fiends in human shape rushed
upon the unarmed, defenceless Brown, and
actually hacked him to pieces with their hatch
ets. A slaveholder, named Gibson, dealt the
fatal blow, burying a hatchet in the side of
Brown’s head, splitting Ins skull for inches and
scattering his brains. Brown fell, and his ene
mies jumped upon him : while dying. Brown
cried out, “Don’t kill me—l am dying/' and
one of the pro-shivery wretches —since then
rewarded with a commission as United S*atcs
Marshal—stooped over the prostrate m:tn and
spit tobacco Juice in his eyes.
“Thus died Captain E. P. Brown—a Fror-
State martyr—the son of John Brown—known
as Ossawntomie Brown.
“From that time forward the old man devoted
himself to warfare upon slavery. He became
the lending free-state partisan in the Kansas
trubles. lie was the' terror of the Missouri
frontier/'
OLD CROWN’S COURAGE,
The following is from the Baltimore £>-
change a Pro-Slavery paper:
“Colonel Washington, who was a keen ob
server of Captain Brown during the events of
Monday and Tuesday, expresses the highest
admiration of the cool, calm courage of the in
surgent leader, and of his humanity. Ur roM
us that he heard Captain Brown give explicit
orders to his men, not to injur?, if possible, any
woman, and only to aim at those who carried
gun*.
“Captain Brown'd coolness and courage in
spired his men with a like contempt of danger,
aqd their conduct and conversations were
marked by a remarkable calmness.
“Watson Brown, the younger son of “0-*?n
watomie,” and who was desperately wr-mulcd
by the Martinsburg men (he has since died) on
Monday forenoon, suffered intensely on Mon
day night, several times requesting his com
radesj to dash out his brains with their guns,
and thus to relieve his sufferings. On Ttiecday
morning his agony had apparently become un
endurable, and seizing a pistol, he was about
to bhuot himself in the head, when his father,
staying bis hand, calmly told him that the time
had not yet arrived for such a deed as thnt—fo
endure a little longer, and he might die as be
fitted a man: v|e saw and spoke with this
young man a few minutes after the assault,
and could not divest our heart of something
akin to pity for him.
“lie feelingly inquired whether his father
was alive, and on being answered in the affirm
ative looked his thankfulness. He was informed
of the death of his brother in the assault, but
exhibited no emotiou at this anouncemenr.”
GOVERNOR WISE ON BROWN’S BEHAVIoR
In remarks at Richmond, in returning
ii’oui Harper T erry. > ._>nior U itt spoke uf
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