Crop Prospect*.
Thu Clermont (0.) Courier ’says t There are
various conflicting opinions in regard to the
yield of wheat in this vioihity. On bottom
lands, and tome of the flat lands, the prospect
is pretty fair; bnt there are many fields that
it is thought will not pay for harvesting. The
hard freezing in the winter, and the dry
weather in March, have left many fields com
pletely bare in spots. This is more especially
the case on the little knolls and “points,” as
they are exposed to wind and weather. The
drilled wheat baa stood the drouth and freezing
much better than that sown broadcast; but still
it has not entirely escaped.
We hare never seen a better prospect for
fruit in this county than the present—with the
exception of. the peach crop. The trees are
remarkably full of blossoms—so full that if
two-thirds of them should produce apples, there
will be great danger of the trees breaking down
with their loads. The prosphet of cherries and
pears is equaly fine. As for peaches, we un
derstand that they are all killed in Clermont,
except ip the southern part of the county, near
the river, where a partial crop may be expected.
The Hillsborough (0.) News says: The pros
pects of the growing wheat crop'in this county,
‘as far as we can learn, are encouraging at this
time. The frequent and copious mips of the
. last three or four weeks have entirefy changed
the appearance of the fields, and where a month
ago the prospect was most gloomy, there is now
a fair promise of a good crop. “Croaking”
j has almost ceased, and we trust the present an
ticipations of a bountiful harvest will he real
ized.
, Fruits of all kinds except peaches and cher
ries, bids fair to be abundant this year. The
appio trees are heavy laden with blossoms, and
in some Ipcalities even peaches will be plenty.
Currants, stranfiierries and other small fruits,
give promise also of unusual abundance and
fine quality.
The Dubuque Herald of the 21st says: It is
too early to say anything very defin
| i:dy about tba growing wheat crop, especially
in the section where it is mostly of the spring
variety. There are some pieces of winter
wheat sown in this reigon, all of which appear
well at the present time, so far as wo have
observed or heard.
The spring wheat, of which a large breadth
has been sown this season, has had to encoun
ter an extraordinary dry season. This crop is
badly in need of rain. The seed which was
plowed down or well harrowed in, has produced
a healthy looking growth, but that which was
not so well covered with earth, has not yet
sprouted, owing to the want of rain.
A correspondent near the center of lowa,
writes to us that in his vicinity there has been
an unusual breadth of wheat sown and is com
ing up'beautifully. A good deal of rain has
fallen there recently, at least enough fir the
crop. Our correspondent thinks that unless
wheat brings a good price next fall, farmers
will lose money, even if the wheat turns out
well, in consequence of the expenses they hare
incurred.
Our own conclusions are, that if the season
is favorable and the wheat crop throughout the
country turns out as it now promises, we will
have a return of better times ere long.
The Peoria Transcript says : If any portion
of our Western country can brag of glorious
prospects for the coming* harvest it is the
country around Peoria. Wheat, oats and all
other spring crops, look like painting—and
as for the hay prospect, it is magnificent.
If the present appearances are only half ful
filled, Illinois will come out of the long kinks
with flying colors—the short ones have long
eince disappeared.
A passenger on the ‘Vanderbilt, who wit
nessed the fight, gives the following account
of tho closing scenes ;
“On the last call of time, Heenan came up
promptly, and the referee left. Sayers was not
up to the time, but was sitting on the knee of
his second. Heenan, after waiting for him,
walked up to him, with his second behind him,
and said ; ‘Give me this fight 1’ To this there
was no reply. ‘Give me this fight, I say l’| re
peated Heenan; but still there was no reply,
and the sponge was not thrown up. Heenan
then drew back and slapped Sayers in the face
with the palm of his hand, knocking him down,
when out siders rushed in and ended the fight.”
Tho same passenger states that when the
English rushed in to break up the fight, Mr,
Wilkes called upon the Americans to see fair
play, whereupon the later rushed in and
cleared the ring of the English in a moment,
striking from the shoulder.
There are various rumors afloat, among oth
ers that Morrissey, who had heavy bets on Say
ers, was the first man to break through the
ring.
Fomo one to two thousand persons, according
to Bell’s Life in London, witnessed the fight—
among them, tolerably disguised, several of the
nobility, members of Parliament, all grades of
the people, from the aristocracy down, includ
ing a few of the clerical order 1
"Woman Cowhides a Man—She is Aebes-
TEn. —The St Louis Republican of May 2d thus
states doings of an offended Amazon : Yester
day Mrs. Catharine Wansganz sent her little
girl out with her doll, which wss % a very fine
one, to play on the sidewalk. While she was
playing there Morris Garragam, who resides at
No. 309 South Fourth street, came along with
his little child, and asked Mrs' Wansganz’s
daughter to let his little girl play with her
doll a while, "which she did. While his girl
was playing with it she let it drop on the pave
ntsnt, breaking its head to pieces. Mrs. Wans
ganz asked Mr. Garagam if he would not pay
for it. He said he would, but upon hearing the
price (S 2 50) declined. It seemes be then took
special pains to ridicule her about asking $2 50
for the doll. Mrs. Wansganz stood those taunts
for somo time, but at last getting desperate
she went away and procured a cowhide. Then
returning,she asked if he did not intend to pay
for the broken doll. Upon receiving a reply in
the negative, she laid on his back the cowhide
with all her might. He went to Justice Allen
and got a warrant for her arrest, and she was
yesterday fined $1 and costs, in all mounting to
$l2 85. It was quite an amusing scene in the
Court room to see how she pleaded her own
case, and addressed the jury in an eloquent
manner.
iHPOfiTANT Chance.— The Iron City College
has removed to the splended balls in the new
College Building, corner of Penn and St. Clair
streets, opposite the St. Clair Hotel. Prof. J.
C. Smith, A. M. for the past three years the
principal teacher in the College, is now asso
ciate-principal and proprietor with F. W. Jen
kins in the Institution, and Mr. A. Cowley is
engaged os the permanent teacher of penman
ship. The College now occupies the largest
end best rooms in the city. —Pittsburg Chron.
THE AGITATOR.
HUGH YOUNG,” EDITOR i PROPRIETOR.
WELLSBOROOGH, FA.,
THURSDAY MORNING. MAY -10, 1860.
REPUBLICAN STATE NOMINATION.
FOB GOVERNOR,
ANDREW G-. CURTIN,
OP CENTRE COUNTY.
From Washington.
Editorial Correspondence of the Agitator.
Washington, May 4, 1860.
Slavoceatic “Harmony.”
Up to the date of our last letter, the friends
of Douglas in the Charleston Democratic Con
vention had every reasonable hope not only that
their man would be the nominee but that bo
would be placed on a platform not obnoxious
to Northern Democrats:—that, in short, the
candidate and platform would unite nil factions
of the Democracy in the “bonds of harmony.”
As late as Saturday these hopes were still en
tertained, but clouds were gathering in the
Southern sky which betokened a storm.' On
Monday of the second week the storm broke,
and the old hulk of Sham Democracy is now
being tossed upon the merciless breakers of
sectionalism. A majority of the Committee on
Principles recommended a Platform containing
planks obnoxious to the Northern Democracy ;
and the latter reported a creed quite obnoxious
to the South. The Northern Platform, {which
Heaven knows was cringing and dirt-eating
and dough-face enough to satisfy any reasona
ble demands of!slavery) was finally adopted,
to the great disghst of the South; whereupon,
to show their, contempt for those who had al
ways heretofore licked the dust off their boots,
but who now for the first time refused obedi
ence, nine States withdrew and sot up a Con
vention on their own account. This occurred
last Tuesday. Tennessee, Maryland and Vir
ginia threatened to follow the seceding Gulf
States unless the Convention would compromise
matters by eating a little more dirt, which was
agreed to in the adoption of the jTennessce Reso
lution. This doctrine is, that no rights of
property in slaves can be impaired by the leg
islation of Congress or by any Territorial Leg
islature. It will be at once seen that this is
entirely inconsistent with Douglas’s doctrine of
squatter sovereignty. It does not go to the
extent of the majority platform wished for by
the seceders, which would. mate protection to
slavery in the territories and elsewhere the
imperative duty of all branches of the govern
ment. So of the Convention
which was left (one-fourth only having seceded)
commenced balloting for a candidate. On the
first ballot, Mr. Douglas received 145 votes,
Hunter, 42; Guthrie, 37 ; Johnson, 12; Dick
insQn, 7 ; Lane, 6 ; and Jeff. Davis, I—in all
250. A resolution had already passed that
202 votes or two-thirds of ajl the electoral votes
was necessary to d choice. On the Fifty-Seventh
ballot—the last which was taken—Mr. Douglas
had 152 votes, Hunter, 16 ; Guthrie, 66 ; Dick
inson, 2; and tho rest scattering. Finally, on
Thursday, May 3d, after a session of ten days,
The Convention adjourned, without making any
nomination, to meet at Baltimore, on the 18th
June next; and tho seceders following their
pious example adjourned to meet at Richmond
on the same day. Sueh, in brief, is the history
of the most extraordinary Convention which
ever gathered together in this country for po
litical purposes.
In 1856, the Republican party then in its
infancy, was called a sectional party, because
it affirmed that Freedom was more desirable
than Slavery. In 1860, the Republican party
is a groat National party, while Democracy is
shivered to atoms by sectionalism 1
The Fight,
I did not before suppose that a fight between
two brutalized*men in England would have at
tracted so much of public interest as the late
encounter between Heenan and Sayers for the
Championship of the Prize Ring. Yet during
the past week nothing else, or hut little else
has been talked about.. True, the politicians and
others directly interested have given Charles
ton and its National Convention a good deal of
attention and concern; but the fight—“the in
ternational mill’’—overshadowed that, and it
seemed for a time to have been left entirely to
the wire-pullers. The sympathy of the crowd
was with Heenan', though there was some ap
prehension that he would come off second best.
But when the news came that Heenan was vic
torious although not formally declared the
victor, and that he had been cheated out of the
triumph by the foul play of an English mob,
there was no end to the exultation- over the re
sult, ant} no end to the indignation at the back
ers of the Champion for trying to save their
money in this way. No other solution can bo
given of their conduct than that they saw their
champion was going to be whipped in about
three minutes, more time. Heenan was treated
Anfairly from the time he landed in England
m the last round of tho fight. He was hunted
from county to county by policemen, bound
over to keep the peace (which was right enough
if the bonds had been largo enough and Sayers
bound also,) and belittled by the sporting press.
For two hours and sir minutes, and through
thirty-seven rounds, these men struggled with
each other, each trying to commit murder upon
the other in the shortest possible period of time
and in the most scientific manner. These two
men had no cause of quarrel with each other;
there was no spite or bad. blood between them.
{Vet to gratify the vitiated tastes of a few scoun
drelly lords and other aristocratie nabobs;
and to gratify the passions of a class of society
which society coaid very well dispense with in
any country known as “the fancy,”—a class
which is, in fact, a disgusting old seed wart
upon the body politic—these two men meet and
maul each other into masses of mince meat.
What can he said of the Christianity and civil j
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
zation of the country where such a spectacle
is permitted ? IVo shall have something to say 1
on this subject on-a future occasion.
Congress.
The absentees at Charleston not having re
turned, the House did not enter into the trans
action of business, but continued to debate the
great questions now before the people of the'
country. Mr. Moore of Alabama made the
only speech this session against the tariff bill,
debouncing it as a Black Republican measure,
to tho great annoyance of old Toa Florence,
who wants tho people of Pennsylvania to be
lieve that protection to home industry is a
Democratic measure. Mr. Allay of Massachu
setts showed up slavery as an agricultural
curse, by comparing the resources of several
States where tho two systems of labor obtain.
Mr. Wade of Ohio, (a brother of tho Senator.)
defended his indorsement of the Helper Book,
and did not, like Sherman, excuse himself on
the ground that ho did not know what was in
it. But the great speech of the week was that
of John Hickman of Pennsylvania. He looked
much better in health than jthe last time he
spoke. He stood among the Republicans and
addressed himself to the Democratic side. It
was a speech of great power and eloquence on
the subject of Southern Aggressions. As soon
ns he commenced speaking men of all parties
gathered around him to hear him more dis
tinctly. Several Senators came, in the word
having gone out that he was speaking to the
House. He reviewed tho history of sectional
ism, and said that it had been nursed and ani
mated until it has become the fruitful parent of
all our afflictions. It is not the sectionalism of
the North but of tho South—not springing from
the few who understand tho Constitution in all
its bearings, but from the many, who, feeling
their weakness, have united for strength—a
sectionalism not created in tho atmosphere
which cools the laborious brow, but in the fetid
air of rice swamps and cotton fields—a section
alism now mild- and persuasive, now fierce and
persistent. He wished to impress this’truth
on the public mind, namely, that it is the de
termination of the South to extend rather than
to reduce the limits of slavery. This arrays
the different parts of the country in hostility,
and in this connection he spoke of the cringing
and dirt eating Buchanan in contrast with the
manly and inflexible Jackson. The North will
endeavor not to dissolve the Union themselves,
and they were fast forming the determination
to prevent others from dissolving it. As ho
said this he threw a glance of scorn at the
Democratic side where sat Gartrell of Georgia
and Singleton of Mississippi, Keitt and others
who had threatened to send us all to general
and eternal smash, jf the pro-slavery party get
beaten nest Fall. He spoke of the humiliating
concessions to the South in the compromise of
1850, including tho Fugitive Slave Law which
cempels men to leave their fields and workshops
to run after tho panting negro while wo are del
nied equality in the Union. The present Ex
ecutive—-James Buchanan—has not rendered
, himself more notorious by his partiality than
he has by the disgusting subserviency of his
rule. His deception ns a candidate was equaled
only by his cynical demeanor to his true friends,
lie (“J. 11-”) and his followers had abandoned
tho popular sovereignty doctrine of 1856 be
cause it foiled to give Kansas to Slavery.—
Those who opposed the President’s demands
had been branded with treason and trodden
down under tho iron hoel of a fierce, petty and
malignant tyranny. Certain members of the
33-1 Congress had sowed the seeds the fruit of
which has been now reaped at Charleston. In
all the bloody history of Kansas the people
found the President could be as false as any
other roan. He spoke of the absurdity of the
South in-'their efforts to preserve tho territory
they now possess, but to acquire Mexico, Cuba,
and Central America, as they say, for an outlet
to their surplus labor. The South want and
strive for unlimited slavery extension and the
subjugation of the North. They would fire
this Capitol, but the North had the ability and
power to save both it and them. In conclusion
he said, he proved the accuser guilty, and sec
tionalism the accusation. I hope this speech
will be placed in the hands of every intelligent
democrat in the country.
Five New Territories.
I spoke in my last letter of the proposed an
nihilation of Utah by the House Committce]On
Territories. Through the kindness of Mr. Grow,
the Chairman, I am enabled to give the bounda
ries of those proposed, which will be better un
derstood if the reader has before him a map of
the United States. Arizona includes all that
portion of territory obtained from Mexico east
of the Colorado and its northerly affluent (Vir
gin river) and west of the 103 th meridian. Its
southern boundary will be the Mexican border,
and its northern the parallel of 36° 30 7 , separa-
ting it from Utah. Arizona will thus form a
block nearly square, including most of New
Mexico west of the Rooky Mountains, and con
taining nearly two hundred thousand square
miles.
Nevada wifi comprise all that part of Utah
west of the 114th meridian, besides a small tri
angle between Tirgin river and the California
state line, and a narrow strip of what was for
merly Oregon territory (now Washington) be
tween the eastern border of that state and
Green river. It will thus contain about 175,-
000 square miles, and include the now famous
IVasheo Mineral region. '
Idaho, signifying “Gem of the Mountains,”
is the name proposed for the Pike’s Peak terri
tory. Its eastern boundary will be the 102 d
meridian ; its western Green river; its southern
the 37th, and its northern the 43d parallel of
latitude. The Kocky Mountains will form a
sort of back-bpne, passing nearly along its
centre. Its extent will bo about 150,000 square j
miles. By thus clipping the wings of Utah on j
both the east and west sides, the latter will be j
left with scarcely one-foorth of its present ex-
tent. A narrow atrip east of Green river will
be added to Nebraska.
-Dacotah will include all the territory west of
Minnesota, lying between the 46th parallel on
the north, and the Missouri river on
with its tributary, the Niobrarah, and thence
the 43d parallel to the 105 d meridian,' which
will bo its western limit. The Missouri river
will thus divide it into two sections, nearly
equal in extent. The territory will contain
135,000 square miles.
The remaining country lying between Ne
braska, Dacotah, the Rooky Mountains and the
British Possessions, is-to be called Chippewa,
making an area of 130,000 square miles.
Republicanism South.
I mentioned in my letter last week that the'
Republicans of the State of Maryland were
about to hold a Convention to elect delegates to
Chicago. They met in Rechabite Hall, in the
city of Baltimore, on Thursday last, about thir
ty delegates being in attendance. Montgomery
Blair (Son of F. P. Blair, Sen’r.) was elected
President, and addressed the Convention in a
neat speech, explaining Republican principles
and congratulating the people upon the increase
in the number ot delegates. While speaking,
the Hall began to be filled up with “Plug Ug-
Hes” and other rowdies and blackguards who
are always' anxious to volunteer into the service
of the Slave drivers, who frequently interrupted
the speaker. A row theif took place between
the rowdies and the police, none of the Repub
licans “mixing in’’ though all were amply pre
pared to defend themselves. The business Com
mittees were all appointed before the row had
begun. When the rioters prevented the further
transaction of business, the delegates retired to
the office of one of the delegates, a banker
named Coale where the following delegates
were chosen: At large —F. P. Blair, Sen’r. of
Silver Springs, Judge Marshal, Dr. Wise and
Dr. Harris of Baltimore. Two delegates were
elected from each of the six Congressional Dis
tricts in the State, making sixteen in all.
A resolution was adopted recommending the
delegation in the National Convention to cast
the vote as a unit; and another resolution was
adopted instructing the delegation to advocate
the passage of a resolution, as a part of the
platform of the Republican party, forming the
Jeffersonian plan of colonizing the free negroes
to some neighboring country, where, under the
protection of tho United States, they may es
tablish a free and independent government.
The following persons were elected as a State
Executive Committee :—William E. Coale, Dr.
George E, Wise, E. Smith, John H. Gould, of
Baltimore city ; Chas. L. Armor, of Fredrick,
and Wm. P. Ewing, of Cecil.
A resolution of thanks was passed to the po
lice board, for their offer of protection, and to
Marsfial Herring and the police for the protec
tion afforded during the morning session ; after
which the Convention adjourned.
It-is creditable to the newspapers of Balti
more, that not of them justified the ruffian
ly proceedings 'of the rowdies. Indeed they
all denounce this attempt to stifle free speech
in unmeasured terms. Even the Sun, the Dem
ocratic organ, while it is shocked at the idea that
there are Republicans in Maryland, takes occa
sion to say of the riot, among other things, as
follows: “The lawless demonstration in open
day, by which a flagrant branch of the peace
was committed, and citizens in the exercise of
their tights, brutally assailed and driven from
their hall of assembly, is but an added item to
the long catalogue of similar atrocities which
have so seriously compromised the reputation
of our city. But it is one committed in defi
ance of better order and condition of society,
and is not likely to pass without signal punish- 1
ment.”
Intelligent men know very well that persecu
tion is the most effective mode of propagating
truth or error. Every good citizen of Balti
more, however obnoxious may be the principles
of the Republican party to him politically, will
sympathize personally with his fellow-men law
lessly and violently assailed in the exercise of
undoubted rights.
Surely the time is at hand when these things
shall cease—cease by the strong arm of author
ity and the withering rebuke of the offended
laws.” H. Y.
SSy* The venerable George Griffin, LL. D.,
died in New York on Sunday last, aged S 3
years.
BSf Me. L. Johnson, the eminent Type Foun
der of Philadelphia, died of paralysis in that city
on Thursday last. In the death of Mr. J. the
“Art” loses one of its most useful members,
and the type founders one who has done more
for the promotion of their trade than any living
man.
The Chicago Herald utters the following
howl over the Charleston proceedings. Pity its
sorrows:
“We confess that we have but little heart to
detail the sad scenes that are being presented in
the Charleston Convention. Wo can only say
that our fondest hopes are being blighted, and
that in all human probability, before we reach
another issue, the only organized link that now
binds the Union together, will be severed for
ever.” I
We are glad to state that at Inst accounts the
Union was in excellent condition," and doing as
well as could be expected. , |
A Connecticut paper has a paragraph 1 which
gives one a carious idea of the Yankee integri
ty prevalent there. It appears that al “poor
but honest” man was offered $l5 for his vote,
at the recent election, but the bribe was spurned.
No sooner did this strange selfdenial come to
the knowledge of the man’s friends than they
„sent him a barrel of flour, 100 pounds of meal,
a bushel of rye, with perhaps some otherjthings,
with the additional assurance that he or his will
never know want while there beats a heart that
honors noble deeds among bis townsmen." Such
demonstrative admiration is suspicious.
FROM THE-PEOPLE.
‘ For tho Agitator.
Teachers’ Institute.
Union Academy, April 27, 1860,
As the coming sessionbf the Tioga County
Teachers’.lnstitute is to be held at this place,
commencing May 15th, we have only to say to
all who contemplate attending that ample ac
commodations will be made by the Committee
of Arrangements, for the comfort and conven
ience of teachers and friends from a distance.
Board can be obtained at reasonable rates,
and at convenient places.
It is not yet definitely settled who will be
our foreign aid, —but whatever assistance may
be obtained, let the teachers themselves not come
with the idea of being merely passive specta
tors. Let this be emphatically a working ses
sion. Let us have such a representation of
teaching talent as is seldom seen in Tioga
County.
We would be especially gratified to greet as
many of our patrons from our own, and sur
rounding townships as can make it convenient
to be with us. Come and let us reason to
gether. A. R. W IGUTMAN.
An Extensive Saw Mill.
The following, in relation to a saw mill at
Bell Ewart, C. W., we copy from the Barrie
Advance. A. J. Fisk, the manager of the im
mense establishment, was formerly from this
county, and is known 1 as one of those active,
energetic men, trho will succeed wherever
placed: 1
We confess we are not a little indebted to
American enterprise in the development of our
resoursea, and especially along the line of the
Northern Railroad. ' The manufacture of lum
ber at Bell Ewart has been carried on very exten
sively for years palst at the mill of Messrs. Sage
& Grant, (gentleman whose bed quarters are at
New York) under the efficient management of
Mr. A. J. Fisk, from Tioga, Pa., to
are indebted for the subjoined statement .of
business done for the year ending March, 1860.
The facilities possessed by Messrs. Sago & Grant
for supplying the foreign market, render their
business entirely independent of local trade,
they do not pretend to cultivate.
The lumber is conveyed directly to the Railroad
wharf in Toronto, from thence shipped by sail
ing vesse's to Oswego, and again by rail to Al
bany. It will thus joe seen that the forests of
Lake Simcoe are brought into requisition in the
large cities of New York and contiguous States,
and to a considerable extent in the metropolitan
city itself. In the article of lumber alone, the
consumption by our near neighbors is almost in
definite : and taking into consideration the al
ways increasing demand, and the unlimited re
sources of our northern country, the facilities
for transportation by water and rail, the trade as
yet is but commenced, and must in a few years
assume important dimensions. It is astonish
ing to witness how much of business and indus
try such an establishment as that of Messrs.
Sage & Grant creates; the employees make a
considerable community in themselves, and
when controlled by such order and system as is
practiced! at Bell Ewart, cannot fail to make
the impress that all good settlers do. The re
sults for a year foot up thirteen millions, iico
hundred and twenty r five thousand, four hundred
and sixteen feet of lumber, or an average of
ffiy thousand, two hundred and eighty-six feet
a day—-the number of running days being only
263. Here is the statement:—
Statement showing number of days the Mill run,
how many in each month, and the amount of lam
ber cut:—-
UO. OF FT. CUT.
From 26tb March to April 30, 1350,
run 31 days, - 1,595,583
Month of May, 1359,!MUl run 22 days, 1,125.053
" Juno , “ 25 “ 1,403,713
“ July “ 24 “ 1,307,874
“ August ' “ 25 “ 1,351.335
“ ■ Sept. ; “ 26 “ 1.489,372
" Oct. ■ “ 25 “ 1,355,878
“ Nov. !■“ 25 “ 1,123,052
" Dec. ; “ 3 " 90,954
“ Jon. 1860,’’ " 23 “ 1,053,995
“ February . “ 25 " 951.553
“ March ' “ 9 « 363,654
Rct. Jacob S. Barden, the Wife Poisoner.
This unhappy man, who poisoned his wife
some time ago, was a few days since declared
guilty of the crime. Appended are the re
marks of the Judge, whose duty it was to pro
nounce the doom of the convicted man. When
the order was issued to place him at the bar he
came into court leaning upon the arm of the
Sheriff, looking pale and haggard. After he
was called by name he'stood up to hear the
sentence of the court, which is as follows:
“Jacob S. Harden, I am about to proceed to
the discharge of the most solemn duty which
a mortal can be called to perform. This trial,
which for the last two weeks has been the ob
ject of so much interest is closed. The humane
maxim of the law that you were to be consid
ered innocent until you were proven guiltv, no
longer applies to you. A jury of your peers,
selected by yourself, of unprejudiced, intelli
gent, conscientious men, after a full investiga
tion of your case in all its length and breadth,
after hearing all the arguments of your coun
sel, pressed upon them with untiring energy,
with an eloquence rarely equalled, with a pa
thos which drew tears from the stoutest heart,
and with a force and power which could
not have failed; to break the chain of the
evidence of your guilt, had it not have been of
adamantine strength, have proved that there
was no doubt of your guilt, that the evidence
could not be true and you be guiltless of the
agony and blood of your wife : that she was
foully murdered by you in a manner almost
too horrible for conception.
“With the verdict of that jury, it is almost
needless to say, this Court is entirely satisfied.
It could have been no other without a disregard
of the duties which they owe to the society of
which they are members, without disregarding
their oaths. If human testimony can demon
strate the perpetration -of a murmer.it has
demonstrated that you are perpetrator of
this. Have yon anything to say why sentence
of death should not be pronounced against you ?
If you have now is the time to say it.
The Court here paused for an answer. The
prisoner deliberately raised his head and said:
“I have nothing to say on that subject. I refer
you. to my counsel.” Mr. Shipman arose in
his place and said: “I hare nothing to say,
may it please your honor.”
The Judge resumed: “It remains for me to
pronounce the sentence of the Court, which is
hereby by the Court considered and adjudged,
that you, Jacob S. Harden, for the felony and
murder in the first degree of Hannah Louise
Harden, of which you have been convicted, in
manner and form as charged in the indictment,
be taken to the jail of this county of Warren,
whence you have been brought, andTw"
ly kept until Thursday, the 28th dav Jf
next and that on that day, between th.
of 10 o’clock in the forenoon and 3 o’do v
the afternoon within the prison of the „ m
of Warren, where you shall ho confined a-* 1
an enclosed yard of said priabn. or with’ 111
enclosure erected for that purpose adio -0 -* 1 *
such prison, at the discretion of the !&■»*
yon be hanged by the neck until you be <£/
and may God have mercy on your soul ” oW °'
After the sentence was Concluded thenr
er sat down and wept. His counsel ah, 1 ® 11 .*
many others, were bathed in tears. ‘ w< *
jy£ERCANTILB APPI
BROOKFIELD.
Clear. Tax
T B. Oridley, M*ch’d 14 $7(00
Wm v SimmonB “ 14 700
BLOS3.
Oulick iTaylor Mcli’dl2 12 50
Charles Evans “ 14 700
DC&MCamfield** 14 700
D 0 Beddos,Groceries 14 700
Stephen Buwon “ 14 700
John O’Haliaa “ 14 700
CHARLESTON.
J W Elliott, M’ch’d 14 700
Nelson Whitney w 14 700
CHATHAM.
Sydney Beach,M’ch’d 14 7 CO
John Short, Groc’ft 14 700
James Wiley, u 14 700
CLYMER.
J 0 Thompson,M’ch’d 14 700
Beach & Kushmore 14 700
Wm. 0 Bristol u 14 700
COVINOTOK.
T C Howe*. M’cb’d • 14 7 00
N Rockwell, Groc’a, 14 700
COVINQTOK BORO*.
Packard ABeu’tt Mer 14 700
T Putnam & son, “ 14 700
G F Baker, Groc’a, 14 *7 00
S lioagland, “ 14 700
DEERFIELD.
W B Rich, M’ch’d, U 700
J Stoddard, “ 14 700
DBLMAB. HOOA.
lIS Hastings, Mer. 34 700 A * c . Q Hnnjpbej,
SS Packard, “ 14 700 K l‘ onrl “| Mll >. UToo
ELKLAND HOIiO’. f . U J 00
J 4 J O P'khnrst,Mer,l3 10 00 riS, 11 * d ' ll 7 «
F D Loveland -U7 00 SL \ „ “ 74 7 00
J Atherton, Oroc’s, 14 700 pg J x .“’A? ll4 »MOO
L Davenport, Floor- tnSvLn . 74 7 »
ing Mill, U 700 74 !j»
GAINES. dly 4 Alferd, 'lf 100I 00
S X Billings, Mer. U 700 H H Borden, Dmn u JSS
JACKSON. A Humphry, . 1“
H Miller, Mer. 14 700 USIO , ' ™
O E Wells, <• 14 700 John Irvin, jlsr"
7 00 '
John Shieves, “ 14 700 D s Mngee,Tiff m
KNOXVILLE BORO’. ii-Mrrr*f« U 1000
J Goodspeed, Mer. 14 700 > f eu> -
A* J Dearman, “ 14 700 q ?!!£ T w
Henry SeciJ, “ 14 700 n ■■ If 7 ®
L-D Reynolds, “ 14 700 fiflT _ 74 7 CO
Victor Case, “ 14 700 C 1 “ b ’ Groc '. 74 700
Stuff* & Mirium “ 14 700 wellsborq’.
C Goldsmith. Groc’s 14 700 C 4 J L Hob’s'n, Mer. 12 1250
J Morgan, Fl'rmg M. 14 700 Harden, 44 12 13 w
LIBERTY. J U'Bowen & Co. ‘ I 2 12M
Wt*rlineAMiUer,Mer. 14 700 jLA. Ko S “ 13 10 00
Srbnng i* No.*bor, “ 14 7 00, , Otgood, “ 12 1250
JGAlbock. « 14 700 M M Converse * “ U TOO
JHartsock, « 34 7 ool H,Wrel M Lafldi, «
Janie* Merrill, “ 14 700 ‘ 14 700
B Seelcnmu, “14700 5 „ ”^ cox r Groc'g, U TOO
Geo. Sheffer, Groc'g, 14 700 9 Bullard,. u 14 700
‘ MANSFIELD boro'. Rpbertsi Richards 1 * U 7CO
Boss 4 Williams,Mer. 12 12 SO ‘| 4 7 ™
DC Holden ■■ IS 10 00 i * ?Sl. ® ra <\ 14 7 “
D H Spurr, -147 00 iru Js ’ u
C WhesWt, Drugs, !4 700 «l“
Keyes 4 Wells, M’er. 14 700 S iS
SULLIVAN. E E Robinson, 800kj,14 7CO
P Packhurst, Mer. 14 700 Jacob Sticklej, Gra. 14 700
• Kotice is hereby given that an appeal will be held
sit the Commissioners’ office in Wellaboro', onthelSta
day of June next, and at my office in Westfield until
the 36th day of June next, at which time and place
all persons aggrieved by tho foregoing appraismeni
will be heard and such abatements madeas are deemed
proper and just; and all persons failing to appeal at
said times and places, will be barred from mskingaiiy
defeucii before me. D. T. GARDNER, j
MTellsboro, May 10, 1860. Mercantile App'r
is hereby given, that the following named
ll persons have filed their petitions in the office
of the Clerk of the Court of Quarter sessions of Tioga
county, for licenses to keep public',houses in their-*e-
Fpective townships and boroughs, and that they will
be heard on Wednesday, the 6th'day of June next, at
2 o’clock P. M. ,
Rufus Farr, E. S. Farr, Joseph -W. Bigony, Wells*
boro.
W. Y. Campbell, Morris.*
L. D. Dimock, Brookfield.
Gatos Bird. Jackson.
Benj. R. Hall, Daniel Blosx.*
Charles H. Rexfurd, Knoxville.
H. C. Vermilyea, Gainos.
J. H. Woodruff, Liberty.*
Morris Kelsey, Middlebury.
May 10, 1860. ___
Calvin Baxter and George H.'
Baxter vs. Betsey Baxter, widow of -
Ira Bailor, dec'J and Aaron Bax- Io lh , ol pW
ter, Abbey Eliza Alby, Sally Aman- . f A Tio .
da Taft, Calvin Baxter, George H. p nnt _
Baxter, Charlotte P. Hoyt, Susan *
13,225,116
Bottom and Ira C. Baxter,
Heirs at laio of Ira Baxter, deed. J
Writ of Partitio.w.—police is hereby given to the
above parties, that, by virtue of the above mentioned
writ of partition, an inquest will be held and taken
upon the premises described in the petition, situated
in the township of Kelson, Tioga County, Pa-, con
sisting of two tracts of land, the first of wbfch ti
bounded and described as follows, to-wjt: On the
north by lands in possession of Albert Fowler and
wife; on the east by lands in possession of Joseph M.
White, Luke B. Maynard and Enoch Blackwell; on
the south by the mill-race of Enoch Blackwell; on
the west by lands in possession of Arteroas Locey sod
John A- Smith*—containing about ninety acres of land,
with a dwelling house, a frame barn, &c., upon it.
Also—Another l.t of land in said Nelsontownehip,
and bounded on the north by the Kew York State
on the east by lands in the possession of Mor
gan Seely; on the south by land in the possession of
Joseph S. Bottom and others; and on the west by
lands in the possession of John Ratbtyjoe—contain
ing about fifty acres, with allowance; —which two
tracks of land were the property of said Ira Baxter,
at his decease. On Monday, the 11th day of June,
1860, at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose o
making partition at valuation and appraisement o
the said real estate, as in tho said writ required, *
which time and place said parties can attend it
think proper. (40:3} S. I. POWER, Sh a-
Notice to contractors— . ,
Sealed proposals will be received np to tfl*
day of May for the building of a new County
The plans and specifications will be in the
sioners'.Office, for inspection, from the 7th ot J
up to the day of letting. Per Order oj C&*
April 27, 1860. J
Application in divorce.- , . ;s .i
To Furman Lucae: You are hereby n .
that Marinda D. Lucas, your wife, by her next
Cornelius C. Daggett, has applied to the Court o
mon Pleas of Tioga County for a divorce iro _
bonds of matrimony, and that the said Court
pointed Monday, the 4th day of June nex,
o'clock P. M., for hearing the said Marinda •
in the premises, at which time and place y oD
pear if you think proper. *rrvn
April 23, 1360, Wellsboro’, > S. I.
Sheriff's Office. J
APPUCATIOK W DIVOK cE -
To Paul N. Herrington: > p „ -jjloil,
You are hereby notified that Snsan C.
by her next friend John Little, has apP ll jj yor ce
Court of Common Fleas of Tioga Countycourt
from the bonds of matrimony, and that the s {at
have appointed Monday, the 4th day of ‘n.mßtf oo
2 o’clock P.M., for bearing the said S us * n C#D *p
in the premises, at which time and
pear if you think proper. POWER.
April 23, 1860. Wellsboro', I S * L PU sheriff.
Sheriff’s Office. I «
WALI. PAPER
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WAL .VwJIP«I« r
Latest styles and largest assortment f* jjj, the
over btoaght in Wetlsbor4* In cotrnooti .. , _ Call
above tfaa ba found Window Shades of
soon at I *• E.
Wellsboro, April sth, 1860.
TJWENING Edition of thTcXx^xS^^ W
booK 6TOBS.
fos"^
John Fox, Hir. ?“•
H Smith, * J*
a K Bruodage, Floor- 1 ,0t
iogMl, M .
UiWRESCEViu,.
Stanton 4 Geer, Mer. 12 f>«
John mil, “ u
John-on 4 Bena.Oro. 12 -S
LC Griswold. . I'fi
W O Miller, Drag, ti -iS
C Farthorst,
J Ad„m, B^ t , 4sh , (U v
" $ Furnitore,U Tfo
CFord,Flooring M. u jS
lawrencs.
Tnbba, Ransom 4 Co.,
Merchandise, 14
MIDDLEBCRT
Ben’tti • andall.Msr.u j/y,
John Riddingtoo, “ u 7 S
E Sherwood, *u I®
VB Holliday. Groe's U {g
HELSOX.
Seelcj 4 Ingg. Met. U 7 OH
“ 4'Kfi u 14 T ftft
D C Phelps, u '«
OCEOLA.
P Crandal 4 Co. Mer. 13 10 oo
H C Bosworth, “ 14 - ...
H 4 J Tobba, ■■ u
B 4 J Tobbi, Flooring 1
MUI - U 7 00
H 700