Between Mdsars Branch
and Grow,
The Hon. L. O’B. Branch has given to the
public the correspondence between himself and
the Hon. Galusba A. Grow, growing out of the
Into debate between them in the House of Rep
resentatives. In so doing, he prefaces the cor
respondence with a report of the colloquy be
tween them in which occurred the remarks of
Mr. Grow to which he took exceptions ; but be
prudently omits that portion of the prior debate
in which he impugned Mr. Grow’s motives for
opposing the Post-office appropriation at the
list session, in reply to which Mr. Grow made
the remarks by which he feels aggrieved.
Mr. Branch says:
Immediately after the occurrence, I addressed
to Mr. Grow, and handed to my friend Mr.
Winslow, a note of which the following is a
copy;
HR. BRANCH TO StE.' CROW.
Wasbikgtok Citv, Dec. 29, 1859.
Sir : Will you please name a time and place,
outside the District of Columbia, in which you
wili receive from me a communication in wri
ting ? Ij. O’B. BRAi'ca.
To the Hon. Galusha A. Grow.
On the copy of this note retained, is an in
dorsement by Sir. Winslow in these words :
‘•The note of which this is a copy was handed
to me by Mr. Branch, after the colloquy be
tween him and Mr. Grow. No opportunity oc
curred of delivering it without attracting undue
attention, until I met Mr. Grow at the Capitol
on Triday. Warren Winslow.”
During the evening I received from Mr. Grow,
through lion. It. E. Ecnton of New-York, a
reply, of which the following is a copy:
Washington Gitv, Dec. 30, ISod.
Sir : Your note of 28th just., was placed in
my hands by your friend. Gov, Winslow, at 12
o’clock to-day. I know of nothing that makes
it necessary for me to name a time and place,
outside the District of Columbia, to receive
from you a communication in writing. Your
note was, doubtless—as paining else had oc
curred between us—based upon remarks made
by me in debate in the House of Representa
tives, iu reply to your speech impugning tny
motives and the integrity of my acts as a legis
l\tor. On that occasion I used no language in
viol tfion of Parliamentary law, and none not
warranted by your, remarks thus impugning
my conduct. If your note is to be considered
of a hostile character, then I have this to reply:
Regarding duelling as at variance with the pre
cepts of the tViristiau religion and the senti
ments of a Christian people, and it being pro
hibited and declared a crime by the laws en
acted by the body of which we are members, I’
cannot recognize it as a justifiable mode of
settling difficulties among men, even in cases of
unwarranted provocation. But my personal
rights, and the freedom of debate guaranteed
by the Constitution, I shall defend when they
are assailed. Respectfully yodrs.
To the lion. L. O’B. Branch.
By those who are acquainted with the penal
code of this District, to whom my attention is
drawn by Mr, Grow in his letter, it will he
readily understood that no other course is left
me than to publish this narrative, and leave the
whole matter to the impartial judgment of
honorable men of all sections of the country.
L. O’B. Branch.
Ac American Member of Congress and bis
Daughter.
A Mississippi gentleman came to this State
Oo‘ s &BHs(|uto-®§'’ls "Louis, Among the
tivo or three dozen slaves he bought was a little
girl about nine years of age, whose complexion
was as fair as the average of white children.
.Site attracted some attention, and the jjurchaser
related her history. She was a child of a
handsome mulatto woman, and her father was
the lion. Mr. , Member of Congress from
this State. Her mother was not the slave of
Mr. , but owned by a neighbor, for I be
lieve it is the custom among the patriarche to
exchange civilities of this kind. A strange co
incidence happened in bringing her to this city.
She came with others down the river in a steam
boat with her master, and among the passen
gers was her father. He conversed with her
owner about her, and said he would have bought
her himself, were it not for his wife. I had this
information from tbo owner of the girl. The
girl was kept in a slave pen on Sixth street,
and was visited by numbers who had learned
her history. The purchaser was a very respect
able gentleman, who bought her for a nurse in
his family. Hut who cannot guess herdestiny ?
Here was a child of tender years, apparently
white, herding with a lot of common negroes,
torn from her mother, and doomed to a Mis
sissippi plantation, while her father in the au
gust Senate of the United States, declaims of
liberty. He stands eoolyby while bis own lin
eaments, is taken forcibly from her mother and
driven oft’ with a gang of slaves to a distant
land, among strangers, never again to know a
mother’s love or caress, but to be thenceforth
the victim of a tyrant’s lash or lusts. She is
the innocent profert and proof of his faithful
ness to solemn vows, and must be removed to a
safe distance. —Letter Jrom St. Louis.
The Peculiarities of the female constitution
anil tile various trials to which the sox is sub
jected, demand an occasional recourse to stim
ulants. it is inportant, however, that these
shall he of a harmless nature, and at the same
time accomplish the desired end, Hostotter’s
Celebrated Stomach Bitters is the very article.
Its effects in all cases are most niagical. It
restores the tone of the digestive organs, in
fuses fresh vitality into the whole system, and
gives that cheerfulness to the temperament,
which is the most valuable of-feminine attract
ions. The proprietors feel flattered from the
fact that many of the most prominent medical
gentlemen in the Union have bestowed encomi
ums upon the Bitters, the virtues of which
they have frequently tested and acknowledged.
There are numerous counterfeits offered for
sale, all of which are destitute of merit, and
positively injurious to the system-
Xur to be Frightened. —Win. s. Demott, a
merchant of Indiana, was traveling in Ken
tucky, last week. When he reached Harods
hufg, he was suspected of being a negro steal
er, and was told that.he must leave at once,
or , submit to » coat of tar and feather a. His
reply was ihat he was not a negro stealer, and
would not leave until he got ready; and gave
the gentlemen notice that they would find it
dangerous work to lay a violent hand upon him.
Finding him a man not to be frightened, they
got a warsnl for him and put him in jail. He
employed H on/J, F. 8011, counsel. Nothing
being proved against him, he was released,
and left when he got through with his bus
inere.
THE AGITATOR.
HUGH TOWNfG, Eiitot 64 proprietor.
WEIiLSBOROUGH, PA. >
Thursday Jlornln;, Jan. 13,1860.
S. 31. PKimiu 4 Co., LIS -V£J.'wV. S(„ J.gwTotk, »nii 10
Statist., htv , toh,are the Ageijt-R for the Affita(dr t and the
west Sufluontial aod largest circulating Newspaper* Jn the
Cuifcd States 'Hid the Canadas, They are authorized to con
tract for ns at our lowest rates.
ITo publish elsewhere in our columns the
correspondence which passed' between Mr.
Branch, of North Carolina, and Mr. Grow.—
ITe are glad to be able to congratulate our read
ers that they ate represented in the National
Legislature by one capable of rising above the
barbarous bull-dogism of the duello, and who
has exhibited the moral courage to ignore its
practice in adjusting real or supposed injuries
arising out of social or legislative intercourse
among gentlemen. Duelling is a barberous
relic of a barberous age,—a practice which the
enlightened world contemns—a practice where
in the skill of the coward may triumph over
the courage of the bravest man—and every en
lightened country in the world unites in pro
nounciijg it a practice only of bullies and brag
garts who please to call themselves gentlemen.
Suppose Mr. Grow had accepted the challenge
of'fbis Southern buiiy and had killed him,
could we have honored him for the act 7 Not
at all. His warmest and best friends in the
North would have had to regard him as in one
sense » murderer. Suppose Mr. Grow bad been
victimized as was Broderick, could his friends
have said truthfully that he died in defense of
his honor or integrity as a man or as a legisla
tor ? Self-defence is a law of nature, and if
our worthy Representative should be compelled
in the preservation of his rights to become a
fool-killer to the extent of a dozen or more of
that kind of game, wo shall honor him for it.
But we do not think it will be necessary, for
wo believe the “honor” which seeks to assert
its dignity through the pistol-barrel, is, nowa
days, sufficiently satisfied with a column or
more of newspaper correspondence.
ITe ate not at all surprised that Mr. Branch ,
and the whole Democratic party with him should
impugn the motives of Mr. Grow in regard to
his action on the Post Office Bill at the close of
the last Congress, and we are not surprised
that that parly should attempt to saddle upon
him the responsibility of its ultimate defeat.—
In a reading community like ours, such misrep
resentations could not affect Mr. Grow in any
way; but in loss favored sections the opinion,
no doubt, prevails, that our Representative in
tended to defeat the appropriation, instead of the
Senate amendment which was in itself uncon
stitutional, and which was objectionable to the
whole people of the North, because it was in
tended to raise the rates of postage on letters
from three to five and ten cents, and to double
the postage on newspapers. The truth is that
Mr. Grow deserves the thanks of all northern
men of all parties for resisting and defeating
this tyranical measure by which Mr. Senator
Toombs and others sought to make the North
r,ir.f n -i - •- —— —j'cnaco lor carry
ing Southern mails. Should the house organ
ize this Winter, we trust Mr. Grow will take
occasion to show to the people of the country
the fact that the proposed Senate amendment
was an attempted aggression upon Northern
people, as well as a violation of the prerogatives
of the House and of the Constitution.
Galcsua A. Grow
Tbo reports of the Secretaries of the various
Departments of Government are published.—
Our columns are too much crowded for any ex
tended abstracts. IVe may give these hereafter.
For the present we publish the following:
From the Report of the Secretary of the
Treasury we learn that the revenues for the
fiscal year, ending 30th of June, 1859, were
$88,090,“87, and the expenditures $83,751,511,
The receipts for the year 1860 are estimated
at $75,384,541, and the expenditures at $61,-
001,732.
From the Report of the Postmaster General
we glean the following facts; —Tho actual ex
penses of the Post-office service for the last
year has been $11,458,083. The liabilities of
the department arising from the failure of Con
gress to make the usual appropriations are $4,-
296,006 additional. The gross ‘revenue is $7,-
968,484, or nearly seven millions more than
the revenues, deducting $789,599 of special ap
propriations. The revenue is derived from the
following sources —Letter postage, $906,531;
registered letters, $25,052; stamps, $6,158,-
145; newspapers, $589,352; receipts of letter
carriers, 515T,037,30. The estimated expendi
ture tor 1860 is $14,871,547, or, including pay
ments authorized by Congress, $15.038,627.
Receipts, $10,222,634. Deficiency, $4,816,092.
The number of postage stamps sold was 192,-
201,020; envelopes, 30,280,300. The total
amount transportation of mails was 82,308,402
miles.
The Secretary of the Navy reports that the
appropriations for that service, last year, were
$14,608,364; expenditures, $14,059,267.
The Secretary of IVar suggests that the en
listment of the mounted corps, should be for
six months, the men required to furnish their
own horses. This, in a few years, would sup
ply the frontiers with a very largo number of
settlers, instructed and disciplined, with a per
sonal knowledge of the country and the haunts
of the savage. The cost of the army proper,
for its entire support, is $13,008,725.
The Legislature. —Both branches of the
Legislature met Wednesday, Jao. 4tb, and or
ganized at once. In the House Wm. C. A. Law
rence, Esq., was elected Speaker, having pre
viously received the unanimous nomination of
the Opposition caucus. Mr. Lawbbitcb has
been three times elected to the papular branch of
the Legislature, and twice eleeeted to the re
sponsible position of Speaker of that , body-
For Chief Clerk of the House, E. A. Baccji,
Mr. Grow.
The Departmental Reports.
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOE.
Esq., editor of the Mauch Chunk Gazette, the
only candidate, before the Opposition caucus,
was elected. Mr..was Assistant Clerk
last winter, and discharged, the duties of the j
office in a manner highly creditable to himself I
and satisfactory to tbelnembcrs.
In the Senate, Wm. M. Ebascjs, Esq., of the
Venango District, was elected Speaker. Rus
set Erbeit, Esq., of the Pittsburgh Gazette,
was elected Chief Clerk.
No Speaker has yet been elected—the ballots
resulting ns usual. The Democrats still persist
in the agitation of the slavery question. There
is no doubt however of the ultimate triumph of
Mr. Sherman. It is the determination of the
Republicans to stand by the stand they have
taken till the end, whenever it may be.
The Governor's Message,
The Annual Message of Gov, Packer, was
presented to tho Legislature of our State on
the 4th instant. It commences with congratu
lating the representatives of the people upon
the favorable condition of tho finances of the
State. The receipts for the fiscal year ending
■3oth of November last, amount to $3,820,350 14,
and tho expenditures to 53,879,054 81; in
which expenditures are included loans, &c.,
paid to the amount of §B-10,282, 69. Tho Gov
ernor says that during thirteen months the pub
lic debt has been reduced in amount §1,009,-
282 60, besides meeting all demands upon tho
Treasury.
The pnblio debt on the Ist of December last
was §38,638.901 07, but tho State holds railroad
and canal bonds to the amount of §11,081,000,
which, being deducted, leaves the State debt
§27,397,901 07. The public debt is decreasing
at the rate of nearly a million of dollars per
annum, and this gratifying result is to he at
tributed to tin? sale of the public works.
Tho Snnbury and Erie Railroad is progress
ing satisfactorily, and will most probably be
completed within the current year.
The history of tho controversy with the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, concerning the
tonnage tax is recited, ami the opinion ex
pressed that the Supreme Court will confirm
tho decision of the Court of Common Pleas of
Dauphin county, in favor of the State.
Th c Common Sohools of the State are said
to he in an improving condition. The number
of pupils in ail the schools is 634,651, and tbo
whole expense of the system for tho year, §2,-
579,075 77. Tho number of pupils has in'-
creased nearly one-serentli since ISoi. The
Normal Schools are recommended to the at
tention of the Legislature, and addition .1 ap
propriations are suggested whenever the State
finances will warrant them.
The library of the State contains 22,000 vol
umes,-and is the largest State Library in tlie
Union, except that of the State of New York.
The Governor takes the ground that our
present Banking system is defective, and ex
presses bis determination to refuse his approval
of bills incorporating Banks, unless they be re
quired to give security far the redemption of
their notes. \
The present method of receiving, keeping
and disbursing the public money is unsafe, and
safeguards arc recommended. A number of
public institutions are commended to tbe care
of the Legislature. The editor of the Colonial
Records has completed an index of tbe whole
work. Class legislation is discouraged, and
the practice of sending a Jarwp nnmlw>p /»f WIJs
,i »»v uro close of the session, is
reproved. Twenty-three bills arc returned for
reconsideration.
The financial condition of the General Gov
ernment shows the necessity for increased rev*
enue, and the hope is expressed that duties will
be laid with a view to the protection of Indus
trial interests.
The early admission of Kansas will remove
from the National Legislature a cause of much
irritation. The principle of Popular Sover
eignty may be considered perpetually settled.
The Message closes with a reference to the
correspondence with. Gov. Wise concerning the
affair at Harper's Ferry, and the expression of
an earnest hope that harmony and friendly in
tercourse between the States may prevail, and
a recognition of the favor of the “Great Giver
of all Good."
The Message is a well written business docu
ment, and contains much that will interest the
people of our good old Commonwealth.
Corwis’s Lsst.— We take the following from
the Washington correspondence of the Phila
delphia Korih American ;
“Gov. Corwin, as everybody knows, is noted
for his genial hamor-and ready repartee. One
of bis good things has gained general currency
to-day, and deserves repetition.. When break
fasting at Brown's this morning, the conversa
tion turned upon the nomination of Gen. Scott
at the Union meeting in New York last night.
In reply to a question how it would he received,
a member from Alabama replied that the South
would regard Scott's nomination as worse than
Seward's. Corwin promptly replied, ‘I think
so too, he's a fighting man.' It is needless to
say that the member did not pursue the sub
ject."
A young man named Nicholson, living some
fifteen miles south of Lafayette, la., was frozen
to death last week in a fit of somnambulism.
He had gone to bed in his usual health, hut
was mi&sing io the morning, and it was found
ho had taken one of his father’s horses with
him. This was ou Sunday morning. Ho was
traced as far as possible immediately, but the
trail was at iastdost, and it was not till Monday
morning that he was found sitting in the snow,
still alive, but dying, with his horse quietly
standing near him. He died that night.
A Bold Max,—Cassius M, Clay announces
through the Louisville Journal, that on the 10th
of January he will, in the town of Frankfort,
Ky., vindicate the principles and aims of tho
Republican party against the assaults of Vice
President Breckcnridge and Govenor Magoffin,
and asks all the papers in favor of justice and
fair play to copy his card. Clay is a gallant
Kentuckian and fears nothing on earth. He
has long, boldly and nobly fought for freedom,
and even at the present time of excitement is
willing to heard the lion in 'his den.
John B. Gough is working ponders for the
temperance cause in audien
ces flock to hear him everywhere, and in Bel
fast alone, the whiskey metropolis of the North,
two thousand persons have signed the total ab
stinence pledge.
The daughter d? a late distinguished phys
ician' of Philadelphia has gone into a convent,
taken the veil, and given to the institution her
whule property, amounting' to $OO,OpU.
Synopsi* of the President’s Message,
“The opening of tho Message compares the
excitement arising out of the Harper’s Perry
business to tho volcanic fires which burn them
selves out by their own violence, and the ashes ,
of which help to- enrich—tho-fortility of the
land. Tho slavery agitation will have its day,
and will then die out, like the thousand issues
which preceded it. Tho events at Harper’s
Perry will cause tho people to pause and reflect
upon the perils to our institutions arising from
each acts and with reflection will come the cure
of the mischief,—The true principle of control
over slavery having been established by the
Supreme has settled down into
peace, and new territories will hereafter come
into the Union without all the political agita
tion which attended the admission of that Ter
ritory.—All lawful means are actively employed
against the African slave trade, and . the evils
of re-opening it are pointed ont. —Mr. Ward’s
conduct in China in respecting the customs of
tho government and people, meets with the ap
probation of tho President. —Paraguay, in a
friendly spirit acceded to the demands of the
United States, and new treaties of friendship
and commerce have been entered into.—Our re
lations with all the governments of Europe are
friendly, except with Spain, which government
yet neglects to settle the just claims against
her, and no reasonable prospect of settling
the claims exists iu the President’s opinion,
unless the negotiations embrace the acquisition
of Cuba.—The Clayton and Bulwer treaty diffi
culty, it is believed will be settled in good time.
—The San Juan dispute has been placed by
Gen. Scott in a position that both governments
can continue their correspondence without any
from the -hasty action of subordinates.
—Tho trouble we have with Mexico is referred
■jo, and the recommendation renewed that au-
thority bo given to establish military posts
across tho Mexican line in Sonora and Chihua
, hua, as a protection to Americans and Mexi
cans against Indian incursions.—A treaty with
Nicaragua, ratified by that government, will
be laid before the United States Senate. Tbe
recommendation that tho President be autho
rized to employ the naval force for the protec
tion of the Isthmus travel, is again earnestly
urged, with the additional recommendation that
the authority be extended to be used against
Mexican and South American governments dis
posed to lawless seizure of American property.
The peaceful termination of the Paraguayan
expedition is citod ns an illustration that the
power would not bo abused.—The necessity of
providing fur the claims -of the contractors for
carrying the*mails is referred to, and the atten
tion of Congress called to the danger of leaving
the government without the necessary appro
priations for carrying on the several depart
ments,—-In connection with this subject, he
recommends the passage of a law requiring the
Congressional representation to be filled before
the 4th of March in each year of odd number,
so that Congress can bo summoned »t any pe
riod'when Us service are required. Under the
present arrangement, summoning Congress to
gether at the close of one term would leave a
number of the States unrepresented. Tho Pa
cific Railroad is recommended and reason given
why it is required as a measure of public policy.
The attention of Congress is also called to the
duty of reducing the expenditures of govern
ment to the lowest possible standard consistent
with public interests. Prom the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, it is doubtful, if for
the present and succeeding year, tho revenue
will bo sufficient to meet all the expenrtUu*oo
and a duty on imports ; a recommended in pref
erence to a resort to Joans.”
Aveh'a American Almanac fbr ISSS is now
ready for delivery gratis at all the drug stores,
who are happy to supply all that call for them.
Every family should have and keep this book.
It is worth having. Comprising much general
information of great value; it gives the best
instruction for the euro of prevalent complaints,
that we can get anywhere. Its aneedbtes alone
are worth a bushel of wheat, and its medical
advice is sometimes worth to the sick, the
wheat’s weight in gold. Many of the naedical
almanacs are trash, but this is solid mefal. Its
calculations are made purposely for this lati
tude and arc therefore correct. Cali and get
an Ayer’s Almanac, and when got, keep it.
The Philadelphia Ledger mentions a singu
lar fact in connection with recent coal oil
discoveries in Pennsylvania. Jn many places
Lathe Valley of Oil Creek the ground is cov
ered with pits, hundreds and thousands of them,
evidently dug for the. purpose of gathering oil,
and at a period so remote that trees 250 years
old are growing over them. The query is, by
whom were these pits dug, and" fur what pur
pose was the oil gathered? -
Per. Alexander Clark, Editor of the School
Visitor, says : “We have had ample opportu
nities to know that the entire faculty of the
Iran City College is composed of competent and
faithful instructors, that‘every inducement an
nounced in the widely diffused advertisements
of this institution, is promptly carried out, in
the course of study and disciplino by which
this college has won its present reputation."
Too Good to be Lost.-— A Democrat who
owns a lead mine at Shullaburg, Wisconsin,
was a candidate for the Legislature at the late
election. On election day, ho hired 53 Repub
licans to work in his mine; after he had got
them all 130 feet below the surface, the ladder
was drawn up to have some new rounds put in
it, and he neglected to return it till the polls
were closed, which resulted in his election by
52 majority.
When Gov. Soward entered his gateway, and
was standing within it, all the clergymen of the
various denominations in Auburn, waiting to
welcome him home, he lost the power of speech.
He entered his house in silence. Among the
very many pleasing incidents in his reception,
was an evening visit of congratulation from
thirty little girls.
The editor of the Eldorado (Texas) Times
has a child named Kansas. The editor of the
Wcdawee (Ala.) Mercury says ho would be
afraid to call a child Kansas for fear it would
have no constitution “Never despair.”
■Washington Irving leaves a large fortune to
be divided amongst his ! nephews and nieces.
For the last eight or ten years he has probably
received from his books alone an annual aver
age income of s2o^ooo.
Mexico has had fifty-sis presidents since the
establishment of the, Republic in 1522. That's
about one for each eight months.
M.-S. Wilkinson, of Blue Earth Co., ha-shecn
elected Canted States Senator from Minnesota,
malrbied
At the residence of the bride's father, by the Rev.
T. S. Sbeardown, Jlr. JOHN E. FAULKNER of
Mansfield and Miss iM- A, Mitchell, daughter of Wm.
H. Mitchell'Esq., ofiMitohell’s Creek, Tioga Co. Pa.
[Accompanying the above notice was a box of fine
"Bride’s Cako," for] which kind remembrance - o‘f our
sorrowful lot in tbo midst of their happiness, the prin
ters return the earnest wish that they may live a thou
sand years, and tbit their path in life may bo a
happy one.] i
In Westfield Jan.i Ist, by Charlton Phillips Esq.,
W. F. LAMB of Mansfield Pa, and- Miss FRANCES
A. EASTMAN of Westfield Pa.
In Tioga Jan. 4th, ISOO, by Rev. R. L. Stilwell,
Mr. S. M. QEER anil Miss JOSEPUISE SWEAT-
Land, both of Tioga Pa.
Donation Visit.
A DONATION VISIT will be held at the Presby.
terian Parsonage in this place on Thursday, 19th
inst., afternoon and evening. A general invitation is
extended. j L
Donation Visit.
A DONATION VISIT will be held at tho houso of
Win. Coolidgo in Delmar, on Tuesday tho 17th
inst., afternoon and evening for tho benefit of Rev,
Francis Strang. Tickets, 50 cents.
LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the Post Office
at Wellsboro, Qaarter ending Dec. 31, 1859.
Ashiy J. D. j Hogoboom E. A.
Bachh’ng Wm. Henry; (for-Hopkins Peter.
eign.) t Jacobs Z. Jr.
Bates Miss Mary A. I Kelley H.
Buckley Ruthan j Loomis W. W.
Berry M, i Lines Miss Mary A 2
Cotton Mr. C. W. 4 Ostrander J A.
Clark Rev. W. K- Phelps Frank
Coles James S. I Richer L. W.
Colburn M. C. 2 ’ Rigby John
Davis Wm. S. Seymour J. 3.
Davis William Swaucy Mrs. Hannah
Dnffey James Stanchfietd Waiter F.
Ebright Miss Eliza Sorter Miss, Sally
Ellis Jane . Sebring & Narber
Frisbee O. A Son Spencer Theodore
Farm Journal f Tmrasend A. N.
French Reuben i Wilcox B. C.
Parrel Miss Bache] 3 i Young Mrs. Funny J.
How Nathan t
Persons calling fori any of tho above letters will
please say they are advertised. |
Jan. 12. ’ I. D. RICHARDS, P. M. \
SHERIFF’S SAUB.
ET virtue of a writjof vend. cx. issued out of the
Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county and
to mo directed will bd exposed to public sale at tbo
Court House in Towanida Boro; Bradford Co-,. Pa., oa
Thursday the 2d day of February, A. D. 1800, at 1
o'clock p. m., tbe following piece or parcel of land sit
uate partly in Wells! township Bradford county and
partly in Jackson township Tioga county Pa., bound
ed as follows : On the | north by lands of MT. Gifford
and Scabury French, j east by lands of Edward D.
Roberts and John Sarong, south by lands of. Orr
Smith and Charles Shinor (lato Joseph Sturdevant)
and west by land of liawrence L.Ameigh and others
containing 170 acres more or less, about fifty acres im
proved a plank house, brained barn and an orchard of
fruit trees thereon. j *
Seized and taken in execution at the suit of J. R.
Ingcrsoll, John C. Miller and Francis Baring who sur
vived Richard iVillingjvs. John Serrinc.
I THUS. M. WOODRUFF, She”#,
Sheriff’ Office, Tuwanda, Bradford 1
Co„ Pa., Doc. SCj, 1859.- |
In the matter ofl State of Pennsylvania. Tioga
the Estate of John ]• Cc|., s.«. In tho Orphan's Court
Corzait dc'cd. J for said county.
PROCEEDINGS IX PARTITION.
And notr to-wit, l2, ISSO, tbo Inquest ordered,
in this case having made an appraisement of the real
estate of tho said dcceclent, (to wit, $1765,G7.) The
Court on motion of Johh VT. Guorcnsey, Att’y for T.
L. Baldwin representing the interest of one of tho
heirs, gtant a rule heirs at law of said Dece
dent to come into on tho first Monday of February
next, at tho Court House in Wcllgboro, in the county
aforesaid, at 2 o'clock pi to., of said thvy, to accept or
refuse said estate in pursuances of the act of Assembly
in such case made and provided, of which said rule all
persons interested will piloase t’ako notice.
By the Court, TV. D. BAILEE Clerk.
Dec. 12 !So9. i 1
Auditor's Notice.
THE undersigned, appointed an Auditor to distrib
ute tho moneys timing from tho sale of the real
estate of Monroe & Goldsmith by tho Sheriff of Tioga
County, wherein Arbuclde and Moor© were plaintiff's,
will attend to the duties iof said appointment on Wed
nesday the Ist Jay of February next at I o’clock jt m.
of said day at my office ip IVcllsboro, when and whore
all persons having an interest in said fnnd must atumd
or be forever debarred f)-om claiming any part ofi the
same. HENRY SHERWOOD, Audity.
W’ylUboro Jau’y 9 th, I'Suft.
Administrators Notice*.
LETTERS of Administration having been granted
to the undersigned an the c£ face of Jacob Duryca,
l;Uo of Pelmar, dec’d., al| persons indebted to said'es
tate are requested to Joqk© immediate payment, and
‘those having claims agaihs* the fame to present them
U> KIIiAM KIMli ALL, I , , ,
SILAS JOII-XAOX, ) Admr s
Deltear, Jan. 12, 1859. }
NOTICE. — Kbeuezer G. _ femftb of Westfield town
ship has applied to the County Court of Tioga
Co., pa., to keep an ion or tavern in said township’.—-
A hearing upon hi* application will bo had at Feb’y
Sessions next, 'and license grouted unless sufficient
cauao be shown to the contrary.
L F; DONALDSON, frothy.
Jan. 12, 1859. }
tOst
LOST by the on or about the middle of
December 1859. a Depimr Road Order, signed by
James Steele and Wm. English Supvr's, No. 61, doted
August 13, for 317,00. Any person returning the
above order will bo liberally rewarded,
Jan. 12, 1359. U* \ x ROBT. ENGLISH.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTlCE.—Letters of Ad
ministration bavin? been granted to the under
signed ob tho estate of SIIiAS A. TREMAIN, late of
Dclmaf dec’d., all persons indebted to said catato are
requested to make immediate payment, and those hav
ing claims against tho gamd to present them to
ELIZABETH H. TREMALV, Admr x.
D. A. FISH, Admr.
.. Jan. 5, ISCO, j
UNION AjCAUEMY.
THIS Institution is pleasantly located in tho Cow
anesque Valley, one mile below Knoxville Pa.
BOARD OF.I^STBTjCTIO^.
A. B. Wrt-Hrauy, A, 8., - - Priv^.ul.
Mrs. Jas. "VYuihtmax - I- Preceptress.
Miss. P, A. J. Co.voveb, Vice-Preceptress, and
Teacher of Ornamental Branches.
Miss C. Jtf. Bottuv, Teacher of InstrumeotaTmusic.
The Spring Term of this Institution will commence
February 28, 3860. |
Expuxses per Term—Tuition from $3 to $5.
Ornamental Branches, exfra.
Board. $1 75. All excepting bed and lights, $2.
Fuel (not prepared) SI 50|; prepared $2 25.
Room rent, $1 60. All bills to bo paid in advance
or secured by note. I
No deductions for absence except in case of pro
tracted illness, or in Icavinglto teacb.
. Those wishing to board themselves will find here
accommodations for tho purpose. <0
It will bo well for those who intend coming tho
Spring term to secure rooms isoon by applying to Mr.
0. M. Stebbins, who has charge of-the buildings. All
students are earnestly requested to bo present at the
opening of the term, os classes are formed then and
permanent arrangements made.
For further particulars address 0. M. Stebbixs, or
A. It. VTighthas, Principal, Jvnoxville, Pa,
January 4, ;
Great Bprgains
TO BE 9IADE.
YOU will fioa WRIGHT in JI. Bollard & Co’s old
Store, where be is selling
FLOUR, I
FEED, ’
j 51&4L,
BRAbi Ac., cheaper than at any other place in to wn.
TO UHBl;B!)IEA.
I can furnish Lumbermen, with Flour at a figure to
suit tho times. Feed for almost nothing and all ac
cordingly. j
Will pay cash for Out!., five ond Corn.
„ , , FRED. K. WRIGHT,
n clLboro, Doc. 8, ISj'J. I
I
|salahahdehS
!i 304 Chestnut Sti^
■fIKOTHSB Ttaoatf^^
t Setti. 2q ..
To the President qf the Pcnn*yhauia j„ r '
Sordefy :—The subscribers, your committee m
the contents of a Salamander Safe of Evans aS* 5,
after being exposed to a strong fire on the lahr
for eight hours, respectfully represent
, That after seven cords of oak wood ,
pine had been consumed aroijnd the Safest* **
ed in the presence of the committee, and ihe U ° ?
taken out, a little warmed, but not even scoreiw* 1
Several Silver Medals heretofore received i
manufacturers, and a large quantity „f 1
were in the Safe, and came out encirely acini? 5
The experiment satisfied us of the J'Jfr
of this kind to protect contents from any fa? t.
they may be exposed. w
The Committee award a Diploma and Sllre, v ,
Geo. W. w«,£f*
Jonx W.
J. P. RDTBZBroM
Alpbed S,
STILL ANOTHER.
TTif*Kis6tOHi Del., Sept, 17, 1853.—Mean r
and TTatsoo, Philadelphia.
Geutlevxen : The Salamander- Fire-Ptooj
your manufacture, purchased by .os from yonr j
Ferris A Garrett, of our city, som L e nine
was severely tried by burglars l&stSalordartiH
and although they bad a sledge hammer, eoldeni iJ
drill, and gunpowder, they did not succeed in
the Safe. The lock being one of Hall’s Patent p*
der-proof,” tjiey could not get the ponder into it w
drilled a hole .in the lower panel and forced in al*/
charge, which was ignited, and although the do© r ,v
side and out, showed the explosion not to have beta
small one, it was not forced open. TV© suppose thl
were the greater part of the night at work oa it, w
aro much gratified at the result of the attempt t o
it, and if tho above facts are of aay service,
at liberty to use them. Yours, truly, ’
HAYNARI) 4 JOXES.
'—ANOTHER TRIUMPH.
GREAT FXREI-
Knoxyili.e, Te>*kssee, March 13th,
Evans it Watson, Philadelphia:
Gentlemen: It affords me great pleasure ta ; 3T !r
you that the Salamander Safe* which I vwhWdij'
you in February, 1858, proved to be wfiat you
mended H —a sure protection from lire, "yjy
house together with several others, was burned to tb<
ground in .March last. Tbo Safe fell through into tin
cellar, and was exposed to intense beat hr six oi
eight hours, and when it was taken from the ruins m-i
opened, all its contents were found to be in a perf«{
state, the books and papers not being tojvnd in il 9
least. 1 can cheerfully recommend your Safes to the
community, believing as I do, that they are as asjx
fire-proof as it is possible for any Safe to la made.
THOMAS J- POWKii.
‘ A largo assortment of the above rAFES al
ways on hand, at 304 Chestnut street.
Fourth at. Philadelphia* Pec. 22, 1559.
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