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, usiLT 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. WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY, * V . Bates^f^Svertlsi^Vv^ Adverttaewrats will bo charged $1 peifts3*r< lines, qdqMt 'three and efety subsequent insertion. o^c c jy?wt* iO lines cousitfSMd square. Xiicsn hjoivrdVaJjß eif B be charged fdt Qiarterly, HHlf-SSTeprly and Veafly ad- t Tertiscmenta :\ JhGl 1 ; A * 1 ' \3 ShsTHsXfVffiiTHSy, 12^1i«JT»»( Square, - 1\ >SSJO . ‘54,50-/ Sg.OH V 2 do. -• \ Jpjio ' r y 6,30 *,O» 3 do. . iyCO ’ f B.Jo . lO.fle I column, - . , B,DJ* L. 9.50 , \ I?,M i i do. . *M,O W ’ " ! SO,Oa•» • 30.00 * Column, - - 25,00 00 %i, «* 6 W Advertisements not baying 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 % t A 4