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, <m evening last. lie
was*stabbcd twice in tho back before he was
fully aware of his danger, hy a German whoso
name we have forgotten, and turning and cloa
ing with him fur a fight, was stabbed four times ,
more with a common jack-knife, each of tho
wounds being about three inches deep, but not
nny of them necessarily fatal. As the parties
will no doubt he brought here for trial at the
next Term of Court,'we forbear further remarks t
now .—Journal,
Buhglaky.— The Jewelry Store of R. J.
Buttcnvorth, in this village, was broken into on
Thursday evcrjjng of last week, and robbed of
fifty-three watches, valued in the aggregate at
$5OO. The watches had been left for repairs,
and some of them were very fine gold watches.
Tho rubbery was committed at du>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., -
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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. ■