Adjoining Counties. Potter —Stabbed. —A man named Church* ill was stabbed six times, during a drunken brawl at Cradlobaugh’e, near the Salt-Works, in thiaci untv, k during a brief absence of the proprietor, the thief burst ing open n side-door which was fastened by a latch-hulton, and passing to the front window took the watches off the hooks on which they were hanging. The thief was tracked- to the corner of-AVcst and Fourth streets, but the miow was falling so fast that the track was there lost: and notwithstanding a large number of our citizens spent the entire evening in a dili gent search for traces of the robber, none were found, and none have been found up to this date. Mr. UuucrwortU issued handbills tho next’ day, offering a reward of 50 dollars for the armt and conviction of the thief, and £oU for the return of the watches.— Journal. Bradford— P-mnfi l Accident.—On Friday last, several Republicans of Pike township were celebrating the election of Pennington to the Speakership. at 1-eßaysvilie, by firing ft cannon, and as (5. W. Brink, Esq., was pouring a charge into the gun. I which was in a perpendicular position) the powder exploded, severely injur ing him, and aUo, Asa Xiohols, J. K. Fletcher, and J(.hn Woodbury. They •were all badly burned about »bo face and neck, and entirely blinded, though, it is hoped, but temporarily. Thcv were immediately cared for, and are doing as well as could be expected. The injured per* sons all declare that had the sacrifice been nec essary to secure the election, the} would wil lingly have made the offering.—Jryiw. "William Waldron, of Smithficld town ship, a lad about 14\vcars of age, went out shooting squirrels on the 24th ult., acciden tally discharged his gun, the contents passing through his arm near the shoulder, breaking the bone, and inflicting a serious and danger ous wound. — An/us. Quite a largo audience assembled last Wednesday evening at the Hall of tho Alpha Kpsilon Society to bear a new dramatic opera tic poem recited by the author, Dr. John Mc- Intosh. The performance was a good one, and en chained the attention bf the assemblage through out, eliciting-frequent outbuivds of applause. The work is a production of much merit, ex hibiting requisite imagery of conception, and i a nice felicity of expression .in the author, which combined with the humorous descrip tions, imparts to it a most palatable “Tnm O’- ; tihanterish” flavor. We were too much ah- ‘ sorbed in the contemplation of the incidents of the narrative to make any critical observations on its rhythmical flow or metrical c instruction ; ' but apprehend from the praiso bcBtowed» r rom ■ nil sides that the “critics” will not he able, • with tho most zealous scrutiny, to find “even a ' flaw.” The intensity of some of tho delinea tions—for instance the “Tempest in the Nar rows”—-warf powerful, vigorous and graphic, ; exciting in the audience a soul elevating fueling. ] The speaker also read Burns famous Tam • o‘Shanter with great success. As a fmale, in response to the calls of his auditors, closcd’by . singing that melancholy, sweet and pathetical s.ung, “Highland Mary.” /Upon the whole, the evening was parsed pleasantly and all appeared well pleased with the manner in which the first literary entertain ment of the season was received.— Herald. \ We arc authorized to-say that the Doc tor will visit Wellsboro in a short time and favor our people with the entertainment described above. McKean —VTe clip the following items from the Citizen : -John Lyman of Roulette, Potter county, while in the woods getting out logs one day last week had five saw-logs roll over him, one after the other, His injuries were not so great at the time but that he got on a sled, and rode a ’ little piece, when ho fainted and feT to the ground where he was found by his friends. IVe learn also from a reliable source, that a man, name not known, on the Allegheny Portage, while passing along the road, was ►truck by a filling limb, which smashed his shoulder and broke his arm. Pennsylvania Goal Oil. Professor Sillimau has analyzed it and pro nounces it onfe of the best materials in exist anco for illuminating purposes. It is also said by many to bo an excellent lubricator. It has been tried with satisfactory results on buggy axles. When subjected to a high heat it yields pariffine in large quantities, and from that ma terial beautiful white candles are manufactured. It is, besides, unequaled as a liniment for man or beast. 7 It affords great relief in case of asthma.— it valuable as a remedy in scrofulous diseases. It cures consumption, and minor diseases, too numerous to mention. If all these things are so, great indeed, is the- setts atagonist, always hale and hearty, never discovery, and tremendous will be the effect appeared more vigorous and robuut than to-dav.' upon the oil market and the physical condition I. And when he “served" his defiant “notice" up of the world. Whales will no longer hi valu- jon the shriveled Southerner, stepping forward a able except for their bones. The manufacture I pace or two, and reminding him who the people of lard oil will be suspended, the value of lard I of the North were, and of their “bloody htrug i will consequently decline. Pork packers, can- gles" at Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Chippewa, Bun dle makers, etc., will make note of this. Then j dy's Bane and on the open deck of many a it will effectually use up tho;coal oil business, i ship in the Second War of Independence, and It is fortunate for the pork trade that these \ looking full in the face of the man-milliner startling and important announcements have | who had cast down this glove, told him that been made thus early in the season. If they < when the struggle he had invoked did come, fail to be warned,.and prepare for the storm j the Representatives of this people would prtn e that is u preaching, they will have nobody to j worthy of their constituencies, and if reluctant blame but themselves- The Petroleum or Hock jto enter into the-fight, would be equally reluc oil of Pennsylvania, if we can believe the re- jrtant to leave it till it was finished, and though ports, will take possession of the markets,— ; the last to into the conflict, would be the Ton cents per gallon will oover the expense o.f - last to go out of it with dishonor, and though pumping, barrelling, and transportation to New 1 glow to enter the field of combat would leave York where, f.>r the present, it is being refined, j victorious or baptize it with their blood when and the article ready for tho- consumption, will ■ Wilson was delivering this passage, with cool he sold at a very low figure compared with ! measured tones, and steady mien, and firm otlmr oilsf It will illuminate, lubricate, make | gesture, his finger pointing straight at the Car candle.-, and cure moat diseases from which hu-! olinian, and telling him in conclusion, as ho manity puffers. There will therefore, be but { slowly stepped back to his chair, “I say no little use hereafter for the whale, the hog or the i more ; I await the issue ; I bide my time 1" gravp digger. j The Chamber was as silent as the tomb. X3GU WELLSBOROUGH. PA. Tlmi sday Morning, Feb. 16,_1§60. S. M. PP.TTEMnu. & Co., 119 Nassau St., New York, and in State St., Boston, are tho Agent* for the Jj-.tator, and the .most influential and largest circulating Newspapers in tho United States and the Canadas. They aro authorized to con tract for ue at our lowest rates. terrible storm of wind was experi enced io New York on Thursday night last, doing great damage to buildings and shipping. The papers also contain accounts of its visit to other localities. The House of Delegates of the Mary land Legislature has passed resolutions with but one dissenting voice, censuring the Honora ble Henry Winter Davis for his vote in favor of Mr. Pennington for Speaker. trial of Andrew Stephens, one of tho Harper’s Ferry conspirators, has just been concluded at Charleston. The jury find him guilty of murder, treason, and conspiracy. He has nut vet received his sentence. £sT*The Territorial Legislature of Kansas passed the bill prohibiting Slavery in Kansas on theSAjJay of this month. If the Goiornur should veto ur&ddll, it will be passed neverthe less, as all but six members of the House \otcd for it. Democratic leaders in the Senate declare openly, if the House rejects the amend ment abolishing the pranking privilege, without passing a bill for the same object, which is al ready prepared, they will defeat the Post-Office appropriation again, as was done at last session. As the House will resent such dictation, this collision of views may lead to serious embar- rassment, JJ-sT'-The trial of llazlett has been concluded. Friday evening his counsel, Mr. Green, made an able defense, then the case was submitted to the Jury, when the Court adjourned. On Sat urday the Jury rendered a verdict of muidcr in the first degree. The prisoner received the announcement with the same indifference that has characterized his conduct throughout the trial. • Anlmtortvst Item to AVidows. —The Su- •prcxne Court of this State has recently given a decision which is of considerable interest and importance to widows. It is in regard to a wid -1 ow's claim under the Exemption law. We quote it from the Pittsburg Isyal Journal: j ‘‘The right of a widow to retain real or per sonal property of her deceased husband’s estate to tbo value of three hundred dollars, is waived entirely, when she neglects to demand an ap praisment. If an made, and she neglects to retain less than the value of three hundred dollars, she waives her claim to all which she neglects to retain. She has no right to a second' appraisment.” A personal difficulty happened after the adjournment of tho House on Friday, Fob. 10. As Mr. Hickman was returning home through the Capitol grounds he was overtaken by Mr. Kd monsun of .Virginia, who upon aproaching him called' cut, and drew back his hand to strike. Mr. Clingraan, who was accidentally passing, hastened up and seized his arm, when Mr. Edmonson struck at Hickman with his left h-uid, knocking off his hat, hut doing him n«* injury. The whole affair was instantaneous, and seemed to sv.rprhc Mr. Hickman. Mr. Breckinridge, who came up, took him away, t and the scene ended. The alleged provocation for this attack was an insulting reflection upon 1 Virginia, contained in a recent speech of Mr. Hickman, in v.hich he charged that seventeen ] men and a cow had frightened the State. A Sold Speech by a. Sold Mac. Senator Wilson* has endeared himself to every true Northern man by his recent reply to the ‘•bloody struggle” threats of Clingraan, ofNorth Caiolina, who, under the scathing rebuke which ho received, must feel himself dishonored before tho whole country. We are glad that so com. petent a person as the fearless Senator from Massachusetts has taken up the ghne so often hurled in the face of Northern men, during the deliberation of Congress. His reply will be a valuable auxiliary in the approaching compaign, as it contains a careful compilation of disunion sentiments from leading democratic politicians, and fastens upon the so-called democratic partv the crime of treason so firmly that no effort on the part of its politicians can obliterate the damaging record. In graphically describing the effect of this masterly speech on the various parties in the Senate, the Washington corres pondent of the N. V. Tribune eays : The reply of Wilson to Clingman’s invoca tion to a “bloody struggle” on the floor of Con gress, in the e\cnt of the success of the Repub licans in ISfiO, was terribly-severe. Clingraan was sitting directly across the main aislo from Wilson. The North Carolina Senator, never very robust, looks unusually withered and wan and woe-begono this winter. His Massachu- THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. From Washington, Editorial Correspondence of the Agitator. Washington', Fob. 9th, 18G0. Congress. There is a marked difference between Wash-; ington city as it was two months ago, and,as it is to-day, and the contrast is observable every where. In the Senate and in the House the members addressed themselves to rhetorical pyrotechnic displays for the edification of their own constituents and to the great amuse ment of the sensible and thinking portion of the entire nation ; while to-day thpy seem to be making an effort to do the nation's'busi ness. This goes on quite slowly as yet. The House has not yet completed its organization by the election of a Printer ; but Mr. Dofrees, the editor of the Indiana H/Aw is nominated by the Republicans and will probably bo elected next Monday, after which the House will go to work in earnest. Meantime the Senate is en gaged in delaying the Post Office appropriation Bill_l»y adding amendments,to it which will not be acceptable to the House, and which will be voted down when it goes back there. I* hear that amendments to increase the rates of post age from three to five cents and ten cents, and to abolish the franking privilege are to be added. The first of those amendments will certainly be -struck out in the House as it was lust year; and in view of the approaching campaign pos sibly the last may be negatived. The mail con tractors are still here and are quite clamorous, but they have transferred their attentions from the House to the Senate. In the House to-day Speaker Pennington an nounced the Committees. The M ays and Moans Committee is a strong one, being composed of Messrs. John Sherman, Thaddeus Stevens,' and Washburn of Maine, Republicans: Mr. Henry Winter Davis, American ; and Messrs. Mlllson, Morrill, and Crawford Democrats. The Speaker has given Mr. Grow the Chairmanship of the Committee on Territories, the same position assigned to him by Mr. Banks in the .‘l4th Con gress. Had Sherman been elected, Mr. Grow would ha\e been entitled by courtesy to the Chairmanship of the "Ways and Means, but would have declined it as he considers the Ter ritorial Committee of the first importance; and also because ho is thoroughly acquainted with everything pertaining’ to the latter, while he neicr served on the former even as one of a minority Hunky Winter Davis, the member from Baltimore, and the only slaveholder who voted is a gen tleman of commanding appearance and ability. He is forty years of age but looks much youn ger ; has a noble and manly bearing, good features' expressive of firmness, is said to be modest and retiring in his intercourse with others is a capital debater and is the leader of the South Americans in the House. TheAj«*r- Patriot and Clipper, three leading Oppo sition daily papers in Baltimore said ho did Just right in casting bis vole for Pennington. Go\. Hicks of Maryland sent his Secretary to congratulate him, and to offer his regrets that 1 all of the Southern Opposition members did hot follow luj> lend. Of course, on the other hand, •all the Democratic papers in Baltimore are down on Mr. Davis fur his vote. The Sun, which is the leading daily Democratic paper c-f Baltimore pays that he ought to bo drummed out of the State ; that at least the City Coun cils and the Slate Legislature ought to repudi ate by resolutions all affiliation with him. So that even in Maryland if the Democrats had the power, which happily they have not, they would punish every man who dared to act up to his own ideas of his duty to his country, if it so happened that such ideas were not pro slavery Democratic. But it is hinted that no man in the House will have the temerity to question Mr. Davis as to his vote for Penning ton, as in giving his reasons he would make a terrible onslaught upon the Southern Demo cratic party generally, and upon the party in Baltimore in particular. Tbe Admission of Kansas. A truly characteristic Democratic trick is to be playxl here tthen Kansas asks for. admis sion. It is well known that she is unalterably Republican by a large majority. Well, in order tii keep her out of the Union, and by this means liecp out her vote in the Presidential election ilext Fall, the Democrats are to move for the enlargement of her boundaries, so as to include the territory of Jefferson and also that portion of Nebraska which lies south of the Platte. This will send it back to the people for a new vote of ratification, and, if.ratified, a new Con stitutional Convention will have to bo called, and so the effort to admit her will be delayed till the next session of Congress. This is un doubtedly their programme, but it will not work. The Republicans in the House will now admit her as she comes, and leave to the Senate the responsibility of her rejection. Mr. Sena tor Bigler will oppose her admission, and as the mouth-piece of Buchanan, will plead the non-compliance of the people with the require ments of the English Bill, and that a census must first establish the existence of the neces sary population before a Convention can be /c -yalbj called to form a Constitution. Of course he will add new laurels to his Senatorial brow, aud the beef question will be with him, for the time, entirely But Kansas will “come in,” if Bigler can’t. The Presidential Question is disclosed here with a good deal of earnest ness un all .sides. In the Republican ranks Mr. Bates seems to hate the inside tru.'k at present, the West being favorable to him under the be lief that he can carry every border slave State except Virginia, But next to him Mr. Cam eron stands highest in public esteem, as Penn sylvania and New Jersey are considered the battle fields, and he can come off the victor in both of these States, Mr. Seward’s strength is in New England, and New York. Pennsylva nia will send a united Democratic delegation to Charleston for Buchanan, and he will take the nomination if he can get it,, Douglas stock is low in the North since Forney defined his po sition on the Douglas question in the Press as fallows : If Mr. Douglas should be nominated fur the Presidency on a popular sovereignty platform, and should avowedly accept that nom i ination on such a platform, and should declare | to the country that ho adhered to the principles j he proclaimed in the Lecompton contest, then Mr. Forney would support him, provided he he- Ucvtd that the platform teas established in good faith, and Mr. D. teas sincere in his avoicals. — If either of these contingencies fails, then throughout the coming Presidential struggle he will be found doing battle with the friends of the Constitution and the Union against the enemies of both. • 11. Y. FROM THE PEOPLE. For thu AgUatur. The Ladies and the Camps. What have ladies to do with ihe lumbering camps, where men ‘Tough hew -them as you may” arc supposed to bear universal sway, and the god of misrule and fun and hard- fare and hard wovk is supposed to preside ? What have ladies, delicate women, mama’s girls to do in such a place as that ? We shall sec, ‘•barge streams from little fountains flow, Tall oaks from little acorns grow," or as Shakspeare expresses it: “There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.’' The worthy Treasurer of the Ladies’ Aid l Society of the Presbyterian Church was j sing to the owner of one of these lumber camps, s who had followed hia wife into one of the hi- ! weekly meetings of tins society, the prosperity 1 that had attended their auspicious beginning. L When he was told how much they had raised at j the largest evening collection, true to his Yan- ! kco instincts, he .stuck up his nose, saying “If you'll come out to the camp the boys will raise you twice as much as that.” “A word to the wise is sufficient.” She took the hint and took him up in»tuntcr. The next day she set the ball rolling, put a ilea in some of the young men's ears, and for day or two tins watch ,woid was whispered among the knowing ones, j “Ho for Colujn’s camp, fur Colton’s camp next i Wednesday/’ Of course the men had to hitch up, for who ever knew the women to abandon a good project when they start. So Wednesday morning the Bth inst., you might have been i thirteen teams loaded with girls and boys beaded \ fin* Pine Creek. 'Twas a delightful day and af- ( ter the first mile, delightful sleighing. Past : teams and slow teams, pleasure sleighs and bobs, bells on the horses and belles in the eut terfc, on they go—up the hill, down the hill, through the field, over the ice, in the woods— look out for brush, look out fur that slide. Jam, plunge, goes the sleigh, down go the seats, up : goes the shout, men and women are all mixed and shook together. But just fore and alf, this way and that way through the crystalled hushes; see that team plunging down there, and that.one diml/mg there, and another going off yonder. Who are all these? Are there other companies and other roads among these hills? No, those are our teams. See, there’s Julc, and dontyou hear Frank, and there comes Sam’s sleigh. What kind of a zig-zag, up-and down road is this? Slush again goes the sleigh ; there, somebotty is turned over, all spilt out in the snow. Gather up the whole ones and come on I There is the camp at hist I See the smoke; j look at the rcd-jacketa sunning themselves! — ■ Don’t you smell the beans? Chet’s horse the first one on the tpot. No quicker at the door and unloaded than men are at the buckle?, and “Walk right in, please, wo’li take care the hordes.” And now for an hour and a half they keep pouring in, each arrival greeted with hearty cheers and sundry snov.-balls, till the large camp was literally alive with as happy a company as cvc*r met together. The fildlc had been forgotten, but it was declared that the minister and boss had brought each a Jug. Look at the camp. It is a Tillage in embryo. Stalls enough for more teams in the barn ; black smith shop down there where Prank raises tire wind, and a tinker shop up there, and a spring house iu the rear. But the camp proper, with its office, now usurped by the ladies’ thing*: the ample fire-place and burning Lg-heap in it: the mysterious pile of ashes iu the corner, called the bean-hole, witli the pot of pork and beans iu it; the mammoth cooking-stove at the other end t*f the camp, with smoking te i-kettlo and coffee-pots, and hot rolls ; the well filled larder, with barrels of pork, beef, molasses, Hour, and firkins of butter; nut-cakes and cards of gin ger-bread plump 12 x 24 ; two large boiled hams; —what a time the folks did have eating all these fixings. The rod-jackets had fallen in love with our girls till they began to eat. Then visions of famine and pestilence rose, before them, and they gave up all ideas of marrying till they got out of the camp. We bad scarcely dispatched the bountiful dinner, till it was an nounced that Mr. Roberts invited the Society and the friends to meet at the Tioga camp next day and “all t£kc tea.” Then the men smoked, the women talked, lab played with the baby “Tom,-” till he took cold, sneezed, turned black and choked to death. A vote of thanks was given to the red-shirts, teams were huche’d-up, women packed in and three cheers for Colton’s camp and three cheers back again made the forest ring. Now we go down the mountain, another tack home. Away for Stowell’e nond, and Stowell's log road, out on Middle Ridge and so homo. Bm the steep, the precipice, the dugway creeping along the rocky cliffs I How fearful! Tlow dizzy the height! How near the verge. One miss-step, one stum ble and we take the fatal leap. We dreamed last night of that fearful gorge, and screamed ourselves awake as we saw one load tumbling oft'—falling down, on rocks and tree-tops, down, down, till they seemed no bigger than the little black stones on the ice-crags far below us. But till safe home, with memories of good rides, good dinners and good escapes which wc will not fail to tell each other should we meet in the years long coming. Well “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” and Roberts’ camp—booked ‘‘The Tioga Camp— down under the “hog’s back” was just that thing the next (last Thursday) evening. Every thing had been done by the boys of the camp to make the company welcome and cheerful. — Spanning the wall back of the long table we read iu the arched inscription of evergreens: “Welcome to our Mite.” It was decidedly the most blustering night of the season, yet sixty gentlemen and ladies, just thirty of each found the way down to this camp. The men of both camps were of course stran gers to our company, but we saw several of them whispering to our girls, and the girls seemed much pleased about something. There were just twelve men in the last camp, the teams having been discharged from both camps a few days before, because the jobs were completed. Thus ou this last evaning there were three ta hies full of twenty-four each, and when we were all done there was bread, butter, ham, beef, tea, coffeo and cake enough to all appearance for another just such a visit. Music, (from “that fiddle and thing” as the Elder styled the violin and banjo), the shows, llochestcr knockings, and charades, drove the dyspepsia and the blues into fits. At the- close of this evening the fol lowing resolutions were passed by acclamation; Mcnolreil, That the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Pres byterian Church, Wollshoro, do hereby express our sense of the pleasure and honor conferred upon us by Mr. Colton of the Sinppen camp, and Mr. Roberts of tho Tioga camp, in inviting us to meet in their estab lishments.. JicxolceJ, That while wo have not been convinced that the world can ge.t along without woman, wo have been happy to learn that ft house can be kept neatly, and a table can be bountifully spread with well pre pared food without'hor aid. Jlvsolved, That for the invitations with which we , have been favored, the kind, courteous and hospitable I manner with which wo have been received, the nnex • j pectediy liberal donations that have come to ourtreas- ; ury from the hard-working tenants of these we j desire them to accept our hearty thanks and earnest | hope also that while they so generously aid the ladies, j some noble ladies will ore long aid each of them to a [ happy homo of their own, and re-desire to assure them all, bosses, cooks and bands, that though comparilively strangers to us, we shall ever retain a grateful memory of those visits and never cease to pray for your pros- , perky hero and forever. The Treasurer informs us that the receipts of these two meetings alone amount to between forty and fifty dollars, nearly all of which comes from tho workmen in the camps. Three cheers for the Tioga camp made the shantee ring, and we came homo to bless tho;lumbering camps. It was resolved that the above resolutions, with iv-brief account of these rides to the lum bering camps be published in the Co. papers. The brief account has grown to the present di -meoslons, and still the most important item to -the majority of your readers is omitted, viz., the logs, pine trees, and lumbering interests of this section generally, by which so much mon ey is circulated among us. But this is enough at present by J A MEMBER OF THE LADIES* AID SOCIETY < | For the Agitator. Weather in 1859. . The average temperature for the year just closed (1859) by observations taken three times a day viz, at G o'clock A. M., I*2 M., and at 9 P, M., is 47°. The morning -observation* is -102-12°; Noon 571-12°; Evening 447-12°. The warmest day in the year was the 28th of June, the average being 88*°. 'The coldest day in the year, and the coldest .on record in this country was Jan. 10, 18-30, the average being 12below zero. There were 97 days that snowed or rained although many of those only a little. January had G stormy days—average tem perature 25j°. Feb. 8 stormy dava, average temp. 29 J° Mch. 12 - “ ' “ “ 3V»g° April 7 ; “ “ “ “ 43 j° May S “ “ » “ Gl° June In *' •* “ “ GOH° July 6 *' “ “ “ 00i° Ang. 4 *| “ “ “ GB° Sept. H ‘1 “ “ GO 3 Oct. (i li “ '• “ 45° Nov. 7 , “ *• l * 41 £° Pee. 10 “ 20° TiogaASGO. h K. T. Bentlhv. i For the Agitator. Mansfield and Richmond Republican Club. Ed. Agitator A Republican Club was or ganized'at this place on Saturday last. The meeting was largely attended aud the right spirit manifested. The following are the officers elect. VmiJent —Mart King. 1 Vice Presidents —J. N. Bixby, Seth Clark, N* Cretan/ —S. B. Elliott. Treasurer —W.,B. Jeriel. Exmilive Committee —S. B. Elliott, A. Bixbr, W. C. Ripley, Henry Allen, Lyman Beach, jr. Mansfield, Feb! ISih, 1800. From Harrisburg. Currcbpondcucojiof Iho Agitator. Pa., Feb. ?, ISGO. 11 i*gu Young, 1 Esq. : On Friday afternoon of last week, 3lr. Bell introduced into the Senate sundiw resolutions calculated to excite “a more fraternal feeling between the various States,” in fine, one of the agencies which should more effectually aid in the preservation of the Union, now said by senaationista to be so greatly en dangered. Especially is it recommended that the State of Virginia be propitiated, and it is resolved that the effectual method is for the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, “to invite the members of the “ general Assembly of. Virginia to make a visit “ to this Capital, as the honored guests of this *‘ Assembly, at such time as they sec fit.” The resolutions were referred to the Committee on Finance, and though not averse to hospitality, ■we still think that Democratic generosity might find nobler ends' for incurring such a bill of expanse. For the benefit of the farmers of your county, your correspondent takes notice of an Act passed deciding that the standard weight of clover seed shall hereafter be sixty pounds to the bushel. The Secretary of the Commonwealth, Wra. M. lleister, has sent in a communication to the Speaker of the House, estimating the expenses of the Executive and State Departments for the ensuing year at $8,350. This may bp an item of interest to any curious on the subject. Several petitions have been presented from j various parts of the State, praying for “a gen- i eral banking daw.” The proposition was intro- j duced into the] Senate by Mr. Smith, of Phila- | delphia, but it. is generally believed that the | bill will not be passed. The following gentle- j men compose the special Committee: Messrs. I Strong, Byrne, Williston, Green, Dunlap, Press ley, Mann, Butler, and Frazer. Much interest is attached also to a bill-ex empting from sale or execution the homestead of a householder/having a family. It exempts from levy a house of the value of $l,OOO in ad dition to what isiiow exempt by the act of 9th April, 1840. A legislative ptaycr meeting has been estab lished in the North Committee room of the Capitol building at half past eight in the morn ing. Mr. Cannon an accomplished reporter for the j Daily Telegraph originated the idea, and the members of both Houses have, many of them, been in constant attendance. The cler gymen from town, Messrs. Hayes, Miles, De witt, and o hers, have taken nn active interest in this movement, and it has been much more successful than .its friends had anticipated. An exhibition was given last evening before the Legislature by the pupils of the Pennsylva nia Institution for the instruction of the*Blmd. The object is to show the members the results of their appropriations for the benefit of this un fortunate class ; and they are certainly highly gratifying. The fact that they can, unaided by sight, rccciic au education which fits them uut only for obtaining their own , UDD( J. ' niahes them also with ample means f bot ness, is quite enough to appeal to the ' sympathies of the members of o u r 4 g ' ne ‘'°=i Many of the pupils are very S ne musici 5 their proficiency in reading the raised | o M in slate and globe, exercises, and ; n tions of difficult mathematical j0int;,,., 53 * 11315 - remarkable. n vetj At the close of the exercises Gov p was called for and presented with ah i e: brush, of their manufacture, which h I"' 5 ?® 5 with remarks appropriated to the Very many beautiful fancy articles '"l'." ited, and all reflected great credit „ ' sllt ' Principal and Teachers, who are so their efforts for the good of this noble tion. - lr - s ' : k- The Republicans of Harrisburc re-rir,,) cordially the news of Col. Forney’s eW, 00 ® 1 Clerk. His firm opposition to tlie Ad*m M tion has won him many sincere mirers. " Miss D. L. Dix, with whose life dev good, your readers aro doubtles famiV V spending a few days in town, I s Lola Montez lectured here on Momiar e ing to a crowded house. ' B. h B c'^ Tvr tfie .u.jav The Cost of Emancipation, Mk. You.nu ; In my last I made an estimate the cost of emancipation in Kentucky ta'- - ' as a basis the price of farms in Ohio’' p.*, now look at Virginia, taking the price ~f fjj”! in Pennsylvania as a basi*. 3 Virginia has a milder climate l , as fertile land as valuable minerals, and equally good or ter commercial and market facilities as sylvania, and the reason that her farm ha*- are placed at a leas valuation than lands of Pennsylvania must be found in thl.,, ture of her labor. Virginia has an area of 30,205,280 so. In 1850 there -were 20,1-12,311 acres ofV' i area reduced to farming purposes, of sshich V>". 300,135 acres were improved and taj'iir',; acres unimproved ; and the average price farms per acre was $8,20. Pennsylvania has an area of 29,41*hftm n Crc , In 1850 there were 14,018,347 acres of area reduced to farm purposes, of which > 02’■ - 010 acres were improved, and the average pr.es of farms per acre was $27,32. The difference of value per acre botweeruhs farms of Virginia and Pennsylvania U the:?, fore $lO 00, making in the agsrtgaty on all the farms of Virginia, $498,403,047 \ \ Did not involuntary servitude exist in Vir ginia can any one doubt that the price of firms per acre in that State would be cecal to the price in Pennsylvania? I'presurae the candid man acquainted with both State* v. ill admit that it will be near enough to it fur all the r-ricu cal purposes of this argument. Let us see what it would cost Virginian emancipate her slaves and nuke her soil free. In 1850, she had 472,528 These a; at average price of sonO each, would amount t, $283,510,800 or $214,940,247 lead duo the ag gregate increase in the price of firms which emancipation would bring about. But the same remark, applies to Virginian to Kentucky, I mean in case only the north ern tier of slave States passed eamiicipatioa laws. She would make emancipation grade**!, and without any prohibition of selling to the southern market. The consequence would be that Virginia would realize by these sales at 1 least half the value of her slave population, which added to the amount of ibo in land would make up the round sum of ?35tv u l/i4T. I am speaking of emancipation as a money measure only. I have nothing to say now of its moral, religious, humanitarian or political phases. 1 will speak of some of them here after. Let me put what I have saH abo;c into the form of a proposition. 1 will give Virginia S6no apiece fur all her slaves, taking the number a-* reported by t!is census of I*so, t!)0 price to be payable aa ft: as it goes in the rise of firms in that State du ring the next ten year?, Virginia not to be res ponsible for any rx*»e above the price in Penn sylvania—provided Virginia immediately n:ier the purchase shall pass compulsory emancipa tion laws, immediate in thoir operation, fr c? all my slaves by law and render shuery fercur after illegal in the State and bind her=ou tn pay me in bonds of the State at 5 per cent, redeem able in the year 1000. I will ab-o bind to give to each slave, when fieed, ti gratuity ot $4OO as a start in the world of freedom, giving security for the performance cf the above prop oaition in accordance with its term*. In tho operation 1,-should make at least the nice little sum of $25,935,0-17 and Virginia in the rise of lands not reduced to firm purposes at least the same amount. 0- hJiERi. MARR I K P In Delmar, Feb. 1-ith. bv the Fit'. A. V - ’Mr. CHAS. JACKSON and M;*a U*«V E. .MO'-'ia In Oaceoln, on tho 6th in?t.,:bv A. K. l>«’^r»rd.i * Mr. L. C. LEWIS of Addwon'N. V aud tAlu ' ARINE NEWMAN of Osocola. Feb ?tb. at thy house of O Sliernun. t.ie Mr. Af^riN-FLANDERS of n-r-.-U. sai CLARA A. SMITH, of Woodhull, N- - DIED itMIRV Tn Richmond ou the 12ih in«t. Mr*. AL.it* PRATT, wife of ROBERT PfiATf, aged IS In Covington Baro f on tbeSih inst. "f cnnsumpt- n » -Mrs. SALLIE 8., wife of H., M. Gurotiu., - _ The Tioga County Musical Association WILL lIOLO ITS ANNUAL. COSVEXTI 0> .it Tioga Village, cjvnneuchiy _ The Convention will bo under tbe circef'-L «-i * 1.. M. FOX, —to continue four da\e. w;ta r^e\e sious each day. A concert will bo given on t-* ning of the last day. . lM ] rer . Arrangements have been niado by sons in attendance can procure, board at toe \ ije . 50 cents a day. Also board ia private faun***-** sired. , ; ~n.;t3i2 jiQ* Tickets admitting a gentleman, or 5 “*• i; j and lady, to all the privileges of the Convea the Concert, $1 UO, Ladies 50 cent.'. Single admission to each session, 10 cent:- SingleJadmission to Concert* 26 cents. COM. OF ARRANGEMENT'- Tioga.— ll. E. Smith, E. X. BcntKv. AVf.lls»bouo. —11. P, ErWjin. r Covisuio.v. —H. M. (ieronlds. Pblm.vu. —Wm. V. Horton. iMiddi.kbi'ky.— l). fi. Stevens. |Blossbi:»g.—Peter Camoroh. Scli.ivav.—lt. T. Baker. Lawkcscbvili.e. —N. B. Kinzie. i OaCUui.a. —Isaac Hoyt. • FARM FOR SALE THE Subscriber offers for sale at ? Io * farm situated in Bclraar township- rfi l 3 one hundred and fifty acre:, with seventy- 'J' a good stale of improvement, with a largo ‘ u f upon it; u conveuient“hou.»e: two S° oti ? nUi iity °‘ l choics fruit; with good fences, and a "’ >0 f ?j, c timber and wood upon it. The quality °. , 5 f rv m tb° excellent, and the distance is only two 011 *• , p U bh J village o£ ’Wellsboro, situated upon s highway. ~ This farm can bo bought a .j, e sub* Apply to Henry Sherwood in }\ e !*/v° r ?\r rfill.V, scriber in riiarleslcu ;i.hIA I\b. 10. I .-00. ■