Syaetto eftht Covodo Committu* Eeport.
Vhii report has been presented. It sets out
XritTi speaking of the embarrasmenta which at
teiidcd their labor*. The whole power of the
Executive was exercised to protect those who
disobeyed the sijmmons of the Speaker oF the
House, or refused to~lestify. They quote pre
cedents to show that they have felt at liberty to
investigate tho conduct of the President, or any
other officer of the government. • The country
will pause with astonishment over the shame
less record in regard to the Lecomptou consti
tution. />
The Committee examined the emphatic
pledges of the President to leave the people of
Kansas perfectly free in their institutions; the
deliberate violation of those pledges, and tho
attempt ■to disgrace the agents of the Adminis
tration who refused to violate them; the open
employment of money in the passage of the
Lecompton and English hills ; the admission of
the parties engaged in this work that they re
ceived enormous sums for the purpose, and
were paid by an agent of tho Administration ;
the offer to purchase newspaper editors; and
the proscription of Democrats of high standing
for their opposition. The testimony of Coh
Forney is not to be overlooked. It shows a
general willingness on the part of the President'
to subsidize the public press, and proves his de
termination .to buy all that could be bought and
to crush out all-honest men. Col. Forney was
offered the printing of the Post Office blanks,
worth at least $BO,OOO, as a condition that he
should, by nn editorial, disembarrass the Ad
ministration in its Kansas policy. There were
twenty-four Democratic members of the House
opposed to the Kansas policy at first, hut this
number dwindled down to twelve,'and enough
were found to carry the bill through the House.
It has already been supposed that the war in
Utah was gotten up for the purpose of fasten
ing slavery on Kansas.
The next point examined involved the abuses
in the Philadelphia Custom House. It was
found that improper combinations exists among
the federal officers with" n view to control pri
mary elections, and a corrupt and improper use
of the public money is made in the employment
of persons in the public service in violation of
the laws. From want of time, they were una
ble to investigate the management of the Poet
.ffice; but in the matter of executive printing
and binding, they found that the prices paid
were utterly disproportionate to the work done.
The committee also allude to the employment
t'f men to carry elections. In view of all the
facts and circumstances attending the investi
gation, from its inception to the present time,
there seems to be a marked propriety in closing
the report with a quotation -from a speech of
Mr. Ducfcacan in condemnation of corruptions.
Tm. Eight Wat. —A story has been travel
ing through the newspapers, in relation to an
ingot of gold that was recently forwarded to
Paris from San Francisco, and, sold for $2,075
but which afterwards proved to be nothing tut
Riguilded mass of lead. The swindle was per
petrated through the agency of Wells, Fargo
& Co’s Express, who, when the, leaden ingot
was returned to their office in San Francisco,
•et to work-to discover the swindler. He was
f Kind to be a fancy goods dealer named A.
Kollah and was let off upon the payment of the
amount of the ingot, $2,075 and $2,000 for ex
penses incurred. But the matter did not end
here, although the Government officers conclu
ded not prose6ute him, on account of a defect
in the law. When Kollah’s rascality become
known, his b%nkers immediately paid him the
balance, and declined to have any farther trans
actions with him. The insurance companies
aUo cancelled their policies upon his property,
and the man stands before the community a
convicted swindler, shunned by honorable men.
Tiiis is pretty sure and swiff, and we are not
sore that it is not as handsomely administered
as in any case that has recently come under
our notice. If the whole community would
unite to frown down wickedness of every kind,
instead of pursuing the perpetrators with a re
rengefulness that only stimulates their own, it
would not be long before there would-be an end
of all practices but those proceeding from the
best and purest intentions. A man would then
have tho readiest motive to be honest —self in
terest. -
Ax Intelligent Member or Congress.—
-Tom Florence is the* butt of the House. The
other day a motion tfas made to fix the salary
of mail agents at the: .maximum rate of $9OO.
• Mr, Florence: Da I 'tindersf&nd the proposi
tion to be to reduce the salary agents
to $9OO a year f f
Mr. Colfax: That-the maximum shall be
$9OO. 4
Mr. Florence: I have no objection to making
that the maximum ; but I am opposed to the re
duction of the salary of route agents below
$lOOO. [Great laughter.] I made a mistake.
A Member; Ad libitum. [Laughter.]
Mr. Florence: I meant the average sum ;
but “to err is human ; to forgive, divine.”—
[Renewed laughter.] lam opposed to fixing
the maximum at less than $lOOO. [Continued
merriment.] Mr. Chairman, I am . speaking
seriously. I know something of this subject.
That "Irrepressible Conflict —For a year
and more, Democratic presses and speechifiers
vindictively assailed Mr. Seward as having
“first promulgated an irrepressible conflict be
tween free and slave labor.” Of course this
was very well, as long as that distinguished
Senator was the presumptive Republican nom
inee for the Presidency. But Chicago spoiled
all calculations of J these gentlemen, and forth
with they discovered that they were mistaken.
“Soward was not the man,” it was Lincoln they
“meant, nil the time.” Had John Bell been
nominated by the Republicans, the Looofocos
were equal even to that emergency; then
neither Seward nof’Xincoln would have been
held responsible; Bell himself would have
been “the author of the conflict I”
The Saw-Log Candidate. —As an offset to
Abraham Lincol’n rail-splitting feats, the De
entur (111.,) Magnet exhumes the following saw
log:
We bare recently seen a saw-log cut, thirty
years and three months since by Stephen A.
Douglas, when he attended a saw-mill
and Saturday and taught chool the balance of
the time. The log was somewhat decaved, yet
the heart was sound, and from it we obtained a
beautiful cane. The remainder of the-'log will
be sent to Baltimore fur inspection by the
Southern delegates.
The Postmaster General, in answering the
•all concerning Mr. Fowler’s defalcation, states
that Mr. F.’s accounts were never legally (set
tled during the whole term of the .present Ad
ministration, but .were adjusted by a ficticious
system, in flagrant the latte? -mid'
spirit efihs law. " ~
!THE AGITATOR.
HUGH YOUNG, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.
WEUSBOEOCGB, PA.,
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 18C0‘
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL NOMINATIONS.
TOR PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
OF ILLINOIS*
tOR VICE-PftESIbKNT,
HANNIBAL HAMLIN,
OF MAINE,
REPUBLICAN STATE NOMINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ANDREW G-. CURTIN,
OP CENTRE COUNTY.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Editorial Correspondence of the Agitator.
Washington, June 21, 1860-.
TttE COTODE COMMITTEE.
On Saturday last Mr. Train* from the House
Investigating Committee* of which Hon. John
Covodo is Chairman* submitted a majority re
port which we will lay before the tenders of the
Agitator just as soon ns we can find- space. —
At present we can only give an abstract. The
report sots out by reference to tho celebrated
protest of * k The Old Public Functionary,” as
“J. B M calls himself, in which ha denies the
power of the House to investigate his official
conduct or the conduct of any other of the
executive officers of the government. In regard
to the Leccmpton Constitution, the Committee
lays bare to the gaze df the world such a mass
of corruption ns will astonibh even the most in
credulous—corruption which even the most
shamless pro shivery democratic partisan dare
not defend. The pledges made by Buchanan
both before and after his election, and the
pledges of his cabinet members that the/pcpple
of Kansas should be left free and untrammeled
to form their own institutions in their Own way
are examined; and then the deliberate violation
of these pledges, and the attempt to convert
Kansas into a Slate Slate by violence, fraud
and force, is fully shown by the testimony of
Gov. K. J. Walker, and many others. They
show by the testimony of Mr. Wendell the
Public Printer, of Mr. Bean an editor, and of
Mr. Walker a correspondent, that money in
freely used by tho pious old
pretender, 'Buchanan, to carry through the
House the infamous English Bill, They show
that there were twenty-five Doraocrjits in the
House opposed to this infamous swindle, and
that under the manipulations of Buchanan, this
number was reduced down to twelve 1 They
prove that Mr, Forney was offered a job of
printing, worth $BO,OOO, if he would write one
editorial in his paper (The Press) % in favor of
the swindle : and that he (Forney) was offered
the Liverpool Consulate, the most lucrathe
office in the gift of the President, and $lO,OOO
a year beside.I*, 1 *, if he would agree to help cheat
the people of Kanias out of a Free Stale, all of
which offers were declined. Other newspapers
besides the Press were sought to be bought, and
there was n strong and persistent determination
to crush out all uho would not be subsidized.
The Committee also examined the abuses of
the Custom House Officers, and the officers of
the Navy. Yards in Philadelphia and New York,
and show by incontrovertible evidence that
large numbers, of men were uselessly and un
necessarily employed in those places for the
purpose of controlling tho primary and general
elections fur members of Congress. None were
employed unless their sentiments and preju
dices were strongly Democratic ; and hundreds
did nothing more than to go at the proper time
arid receive-their pay for work which was never
performed.
The reader must bear in mind that all of those
infamous transactions of the President and his
minions, are proved by many witnesses, the
Committee in no case depending upon the tes
timony of one. witness. The check-book*, also,
of several banking houses are also brouglitJ.n
as corroborative testimony as to the outlayiof
money. -
I close this of my letter with the remark
that in view of the “insufferable stench” fof
corruption bore proved and fastened upon “the
acknowledged head of the Democratic party,”
no wonder the People are rising in their might
to remove it. AnH Buchanan may well exclaim,
like Cardinal Wulsey on his death bed, “If I
hafl served my country and my God as I hare
served and the devil, I would not thus
have been left dishonored, despised, and detes
ted by all good citizens.”
On Tuesday last, on motion of Mr. Kelson, (S.
Am.) of Tennessee, 100,000 copies of the Report
was ordered to be printed for general distribu
tion.
A HOMESTEAD BILL
bat not Vie Ilomstead Bill of Mr. Gsow has
finally passed both houses.' Tho conferees ap
pointed by each house met on Tuesday morn
ing last, for tho twelfth time, and surprised
everybody by agreeing to a report. -The new
arrangement provides that all land subject to
private entry shall be open for homesteads at
twenty-five cents an acre. Farther, it provides
that one half the lands now surveyed—the sec
tions numbered odd —which have not yet been
offered at public sale, shall also be open for
homesteads at the same price. Preemptors now
on the public lands, are to have two years from
the passage of this 'act in whch to pay for their
lands, at one half the price, namely, sisty-two
and a half cents per acre. The new bill gives
a homestead at the above price to every person
over twenty-one years of age, whether they are
heads of families or not. These are the main
features of the bill, and the Republicans accep
ted it as a step in advance, with tho hope that
the time will cojne when they can perfect it by
-further-legislation. Let us be thankful for small
j'favors.
THE TIOGA 00UN T Y AG IT ATO E.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Congress will adjourn on Monday, the 25th
Inst., at noon. • Rvery body wants to get away
from here, a wish which is heartily shared by
tha undersigned.
Major John Schwartz, the honest old Repre
sentative from Berks County, died last night of
liver complaint. Ho was a Jackson Democrat
of the old school, and in the present Congress,
acted with the Republicans in conjunction with
Messrs, llickman and Hnskin. Ho leaves not
a single enemy in Washington, except the old
Tycoon “J. B.” whoso organ (the Comiilvtion )
has not ceased to villify him, till within a few
weeks past. There are fifty members of Con
gress, either of whom could have been spared
from its halls more than the kind-hearted and
noble-minded John Schwartz. Ho was about
sixty-eight years old.
I see the cheerful smile, and hear the kindly
words of our friend, M. H. Conn, every day.—
lie is on the editorial staff of the New York
Daily World, and at present represents the in
terests of that-paper in Washington. This new
candidate for public favor is creating quite a
sensation here, and thus far the supply has not
been equal to the demand. It is undoubtedly
the very best and cheapest newspaper in this
country.
Of the Baltimore Convention, I think it is
safe to use a quotation from Bonner’s Ledger,
as that this is all any one can say about it in its
present condition, viz : 1
“To be continued next tccek,”
Tue Nominees at Baltimore.—The Nation
al Democratic Convention has at length split
its party into two rival and intensely hostile
factions, and has nominated two antagonist
tickets, ns follows :—l. For President, Stephen*
A. Douglas, of Illinois; for Vice-President,
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of Alabama. 2. For
President, John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky;
for Vice-President, Gen. Joseph Lane, of Ore
gon. It is noteworthy that all these candidates
are taken from the Senate-chamber ; Mr. Breck
inridge presiding over the Senate as Vice-Presi
dent, while the other three are Senators. Mr.
Fritzpatrick, however, declines the honor of
running with Dduglas. Hershal V. Johnson,
of Georgia, has been subsituted, by the Demo
cratic National Committee. We have not space
this week, to give even a synopsis of the mean
derings of the Convention, but will speak of
the subject again.
Prom the* New York Tribune.
Tho Democratic Disruption.
‘‘All that’s bright must fade and political
parlies are especially subject to the general law
of mortality. Next to an annihilating defeat,
an overwhelming victory is to be dreaded by
those who have pinned their faith and their for
tunes to any political Organization. The sober
truth is that an old party is almost necessarily
more corrupt than a young one, especially if it
has been much in power. The venal, the vi
cious, the unprincipled, inevitably gravitate to
ward a party that has achieved a prestige of
even qualified invincibility; the ambitious
cherish it as their stepping-stone to power; the
vicious hope to secure some degree of impunity
fur their evil practices by clinging' to its gar
ments and bawling its praises. If it were pos
sible to disband and disperse every existing
party so often at least as every tenth year,
compelling an utter disuse thereafter, of its
name, its banners, its watchwords, its machin
ery, the cause of good’ government would im
measurably profit thereby. For, in the absence
of such dispersion, personal iniquity and judg
ment are superseded by inveterate partisan big
otry ; the more ignorant and stolid the citizen,
the surer and sJanchcr the partisan ; and while
ho who reads, observes, and thinks, will some
times hesitate, qnd halt, and dissent, the igno
ramus, once duly primed, is evermore “sound”
and “true blue,” Others may vote for or
against the Bank or the Tariff, the Wilmot
Proviso or : S!avery Extension; he “votes the
“regular ticket”—votes it every time, without a
murmur or. a scratch. Thus, hundreds of thou
sands vote for this party or that rather as a
matter of tradition or of habit than from any
intelligent, vital faith in the doctrines it pro
pounds, or the measures it upholds. Whatever
tends to break up this mill-horse round—to
throw the masses back upon their individual
perceptions and convictions—is thus a great
public good, tending to imbue our politics with
vital force, with earnestness and purpose, and
to increase the sum ©f popular knowledge and
capacity respecting public affairs. Hence we
rejoice at the usuo of the Democratic National
Convention.
* *
If the Democracy shall be utterly routed in
the contest befre us, they will owe their disas
ter to the foolish backing and filling of the
“Soft” managers in ourtitvte. Had Douglis
and Fitzpatrick been nominated promptly at
Charleston, and their friends thus enabled to
open the canvass, they would have run many
thousand better than they now will. To all
diserning eyes, it was as clear in April as now
that the fight between Squatter Sovereignty and
Slavery Protection was one that could not bo
compromised, but must be fought out. All the
determined Douglas men understood this and
acted accordingly. The New York managers
did not, would not understand it—thought they
could finally bring the two factions to unites lov
ingly on Horatio Seymour and a juggling plat
form, and po kept the party distracted and
fighting, throwing away two precious months,
and finally had to do just what they ought to
have done at first. The loss of those two
months involves a deficit of One Hundred Thou
sand Votes in tho Douglas poll next November.
Nominated in April, Douglas would probably
have carried Indiana, and closely contested the
entire north-west. Nominated the last of June,
at the heel of an intestine party feud of two
months* duration, wo reckon that he must fight
hnnl for the vote of a single Free State, oven
California. In tlie Slave States, we trust he
will boat the Fire-eaters; but the desperate
strife between them is likely to give Maryland,
Virginia, North Caroline, Kentucky, Tennessee,
-and perhaps Florida, to Bell and Everett. Del
aware is most likely to go for Lincoln ; Mis
souri is very uncertain; Texas threatens to
vote for Sam Huustotv; and what is there left ?
The probability to-day is that the two rival
Democratic tickets will not both receive fifty
electoral votes, unless their respective backers
can bargain with each other to give and take,
stup> f°r State, they are clearly beaten at the
start And if. they shall thus bargain, Doug
las must lose his precarious hold on thousands
in-all the Frea States. lie made a very dam
aging concession last week. In consenting to the
following addition to his Platform :
“■ffwolrai, That it Is in accordance with the Cincinnati plat
form, that during the existance of Territorial Governments
the munsnre of ro*l fiction, whatever it ra*y lie, Imposed by
tbe Federal Constitution on the power of the Tsrritorlal Leg
islature over the subject of the domestic relations, os the
same hns been of shall hereafter bo finally determined by the
Supoetnc Court of th 6 tJnlted States, should be respected by
all good citizens, and enforced with promptness aud fidelity
by every branch of-the general government.’*
This either means nothing at all, or it means
that “all good citizens” should unite in repro
bating and putting down any attempt at legis
lation in a territory to uphold the right of every
one who labors to the fruits of. his labor—of ev
ery rational, innocent human being to tbe own
ership of his own brain, bones and sinews. It
is in effect a surrender of Squatter Sovereignty
in favor of Supreme Court Sovereignty. Yet
this, while it weakens Douglas with those in
clined to support him, will not Win hint a vote
among those determined to oppose him. They
have hitherto dreaded him as an unsound and
dangerous politician ; they will now stigmatize
him as a trimmer and a hypocrite, who was
willing to distract and destroy his party for a
dogma, and now sacrifices that dogma to a des
perate hope of attaining the Presidency.
To the Republicans, the path of duty is now
plain. Our adversaries arc not about to give us
the election—far from it. Mr. Douglas and his
backers have staked their all on this struggle,
and they will prosecute the canvass with an en
ergy and desperation rarely, if ever,, before
known. Cutting loose from the expiring Ad
ministration, they will denounce without mea
sure its corruptions, its imbecility and its tyr
anny, and endeavor to make capital out of Us
universal unpopularty. We must not calculate
on the bolters’ ticket polling many votes in the
only States where those votes would help us ;-
but there arc hundreds* of thousands who have
hitherto voted whatever ticket was duly labeled
“ Democratic,” without hesitation and almost
without thought. Now, these men ici7£ think
—they cannot help it—and tens of thousands
of them will hear us with abated prejudice, and
will discover that our doctrinys and purposes
are not what they have supposed them. Wo
can carry every Free State but California, with
Delaware to balance her, if we only strive as
we ought to place our views and our standard
bearers fully and fairly before the whole Amer
ican People. This is our duty and our proper
work ; if we do it, we need not ask nor care
which of the BiUimore tickets is running best
in the Slave States, nor how many thousand
.votes can be polled for the bolters’ ticket in this
or that Free State. Let us show ourselves com
petent to govern tl o country by a systematic
effort to enlighten and convince it, and we shall
not merely carry the Election overwhelmingly,
but achieve an ascendency which no future co
alition of the beaten factions will be able to
overturn. - •
11. Y.
Kansas Correspondence,
Tkt Great li. li. Celebration—Three thousand (h'QS
~ aud itrea inert — A> rival if the Bln eh Jfa irk and Ei int
ern De!rtjati»n—liefreshinrj nhotcer —7,* | oU pchple in
proee*ni'j'i—The y{,li and youn-j ladies— Breaking
i/round on the Ji'nlrond*—The oration — epee-hes hy
invited Quests — Thje. Barbecue Dt'nnci—The U’nie
Sup2>er—The Ball, &c. '
Atchison City, K. T., June 17, 18(50. j'
To the Editor of the A'jitator. 1 ;
The great'Railroad Celebration which has for
a long time'been talked of, camo off on Wednesj
day, the 13th inst., and was one of the proudest
days that ever dawned upon this young city.—-
At daybreak a salute of one hundred guns was
fired, which aroused all tho people from their
quiet slumbers, and echoed far and wide over
the hills and prairies of Kansas and Missourij
The first thing that attracted my attention iri
the morning, was two large American flags
unfurled to the breeze, and waving from the
windows of Freedom's Champion office, and in
a few hours afterwards upwards of three thou
sand flags and streamers were floating in the
breeze from nearly every house top, , and
stretched across the streets. ' j
At 10 A. M. the steamer Black IfaicJ: arrived
from Kansas City, Mo., with several hundred
guests, and having on board the Leavenworth
Brass Band, And several of the most distin
guished citizens of Kansas. Half an hour af
terwards the shrill and piercing whistle of the
locomotive on the Atchison & St. Joseph Rail
road, informed us that the Eastern delegation
would soon be with us, and be our guests. -
Somo ten or a dozen cars were filled with people
from the eastern, northern, and western States,
with some of their most’diatinguished citizens.
It-was a beautiful sight to look across (jiie
turbid waters of the mighty Missouri, and be
hold the cars moving along its banks, fourteen
miles farther west than any other jrfacc on the
continent , except another east of the Pacific.]
The morning opened with a most beautiful
sky, and a cool and refreshing breeze blowing
from the North. But at nine o’clock dark
clouds began to move, the thunder roared, and
the lightning flashed. Soon tho rain began to
pour down and lasted full half an hour, which
made the roads very wet and muddy for awhile;
but it soon cleared off, and before noon every
thing was ns fine as could be wished for; and be
fore night tho roads were dry and dusty.
After several pieces of music from the Atchi
son, St. Joseph, and Leavenworth Brass Bands,
the lygo crowd assembled on Second street, in
from of the Massasoit House, and formed in
procession led by the Atchison Brass Band,,
and marched through Commercial St. to the
western outskirts of tho city. I would like to
give you a description of this procession, but it
was composed of some 0,000 or 7,000 people,
and in such a manner that it would be trespass
ing too much on your columns. I will merely
say that four large Government freight wagons
decorated in the finest style, each drawn by six
yoke of oxen trimmed with flags, one contain
ing thirty-four girls dressed in white represen
ting all the states of the Union, and the Terri
tory of Kansas ; tho others tilled with young
ladies, dressed in white, representing the coun
ties of Kansas. Behind the procession came a
large Government wagon drawn by twenty-nine
yoke of oxen, each wearing the American flag,
and was taken charge of by Mr 7 Irwin, one of
the Government contractors, who was riding
upon a mule, dressed in tho "Western prairie
costume, with pants made of buckskin, a red
shirt, boots nearly knee high, and a large revol
ver and bowio knife buckled around dang
ling by his side. i
After a few remarks by Col. P. T. Abell,.and
an eloquent speech from Gen. S. C. Pomeroy,
the President'presented Capt. E. Butcher, the
contractor of tho Railroads a spade, (at the
same time telling hinj to make good use of it.)
and after a few ceremonies, the breaking ground
on the Atchison and Pike’s Peak and Atchison
and Fort Union Railroads, commenced. After
running his spade into the ground two or three
times, and turning up the prairie sod, he re
signed it over to an Irishman who was in every
way far better qualified for such business.
After the ceremonies of breaking ground, the
procession marched to the south part of the city
where the oration was delivered by Gen; B. F.
Stringfellow, and several able and eloquent
speeches made by Geo. Austin ’ Blair, of Mich.
Capt. Prentiss, of Quincy, 111., Dr. Evans, of
Chicago, Judge Williams, of the Supreme
Court of Kansas, Hon. Henry Bachus, of De
troit, and others, when the President an
nounced that the Barbecue Dinner was ready ;
but so largo was the crowd that not one half of
them could get a sight of the first table. Some
seven thousand persons partook of the bounti
ful repast. Full ten thousand people were in
town, and the gathering was by far the largest
ever assembled on the soil of Kansas. * Our
citizens had a large euppl/of everything need
ed ; to give you an idea of the dinner, I will
say that six beeves were roasted, some twenty
hogs, fifty or sixty sheep,- pigs, lambs, more
than a hundred boiled haras, several thousand
loaves of bread, and sundry other things which
I have not time to mention. 1
The dinner over, the'- procession was again
formed and marched to the city, where they dis
persed to meet again at the Wine Supper in the
evening. It will bo needless to say that this
was largelyattended,speeches were made, toasts
given, and that a large'number went away in
rather high spirits.
At half-past eight the young folks assembled
at Porter’s Hall, which was decorated in the
most gorgeous style, )pid with hun
dreds of beautiful oil paintings,- flags and ban
ners, and a large bust bf Webster and Clay
were placed in the center. In going into the
hall the first thing that attracted the attention,
was the words, “Westward the Star of Empire
takes its way,” which were made out of green
oak leaves, and skilfullyjput together by the
hands of cur young lajlies. All night was
spent in “tripping the light fantastic toe,” and
at a late hour in the morning the company
broke up, and thus ended a joyous occasion and
as plesent a gathering was evef witnessed
west of the “Father of "Skaters.”
The Missouri is now up nearly full bank, and
still rising. I have neveir seen it so high since
I came here in the spring of ’57.
Trains are starting out for Salt Lake and the
great Plains every week,| loaded with Govern
ment stores. There are acres of wagons in town,
and to see a train start out With all the drivers
cracking their whips, forcibly reminds one of
the “Fourth of July.” The lashes of the whips
are made of buckskin, some ten or fifteen feet
long, and in the center measure full an inch
and a half in diameter, and the stock’some two
inches in diameter, and eight or ten feet in
length. To one who is used to these whips, he
can crack them as loud as a pistol; and cut the
blood out of an ox whenever he chooses.
I have written f.ir more than I intended when
I commenced this, and hope you, will excuse me
for trespassing so largely 1 on your columns.
Miscellaneous Items.
—There arc now eightjourhals In Missouri
that jupport Lincoln and< Hamlin.
r —Mr. Seward ha? glvQn a fireman who had
his shoulder dislocated bwfalling from his barn,
SlOO, and paid his doctors bill.
—One day last week there was shipped over
the Williamsport road vid Elmira to New York
City, five tons of butter, ip firkins and tubs.
—Tho now expedition jto the Arctic regions,
under Dr. Hays, will sail] in about two weeks—
the required sum of $50,000 having been raised.
—President Buchanan has signed the Over
land Telegrapli bill. It is therefore a law, and
proposals will soon be ouUbr building the line.
—Resolutions approving Senator Sumner's
course in the United States Senate hare passed
the Masiachusetts Legislature by a vote of 80
against 44. |
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—“The politicians hajvo thrown me over
board,” said a disappointed office seeker, “but
thank fortune, I have strength enough left to
swim to the other sid(h” ) aj
—Tho Daily T Visconsin, of- Milwaukie, has
come out in gallant stylej for the Republican
ticket. The UTVcowsm has for a long time been
the leading Democratic jOurnpl of Milwaukie.
—Oliver "Wendell Ilolrnjcs'says : “Our brains
are seventy year clocks.* * The angel of life
winds them up once for nfl, he closes the doors
aud gives the kdy into the hands of the angel
of resurrection.” |
—“Occasional,” of Forney’s Press, savs that
“Bigler in the most unfortunate and bungling
Senator filled a] seat, from Pennsyl
vania. All his political movements are awkward,
ignorant, and pertentiousl”
—The census takers finil great difficulty in
ascertaining the ages of girls" a large majority
of them being only sixteen. In one family in
an eastern State, there found to. be twelve
girls between ten and sixteen years of age.
—The steamship Great Eastern seems to have
some difficulty in getting 'from England. She
was expected in New York last week, but it is
ascertained from reliable ! quthority, by private
advices per Niagara, thatlshe was not to sail
till last Saturday. | •
—The New York Courts of Appeals, the high
est judicatory in the Sta;to,-has decided that
beers, including lager beer, are intoxicating
drinks. The Germans of) New York are indig
nant at this decision, because will have the
effect of shutting up theui beer shops on Sun
day. . |
—A “Yankee” oolporteir was hi r led to death
at Buchanan, Texas, a few weeks since, be
cause among his Bibles and standard religious
works were found a fewj copies of “Helper’s
Impending Crisis.” Thc.victim was stripped,
covered with tar, and set on fire. One more
human victim sacrificed to the Moloch of
slavery. j
—The St. Louis Democrat learns that Capt.
Simpson passed through that city en route for
Washington, with dispatches from Utah, con
taining propositions from Brigham Young to
sell the Mormon propertylat Salt Lake to the
United States, the saints fo remove to some
point on the Pacific either in the British
Possessions or the United: States.
—A young woman naiiiod Hannah Fisher,
residing in Madison, Wisconsin,'was insulted in
the depot by a young man named Williams. —
Hannah concluded that she could defend her
self, first broke a pitcher over the fellow’s bend,
and then procured a rawMiido. belabored him
until ho went down on Ini-knees and asked for
pardon. Of course the erbwd bapked the Ama
zon. !
—The N. Y. Chronicle says that, a young
girl, 18 years of age, was jstruek blinkl on the
81st ult. in the City of Baltimore, under sin
gular and awe-inspiring 'circumstances. She
had been accused by her aunt of falsehood,
which she positively denied, calling upon God
to strike her blind if she was noTtellr'
truth. In a moment after, a film u 5 tlls
gather oyer her eyes, destroying the si!? 0 ,0
leading her to confess her guilt. *nd :
—Last week, in one of the 'Western M . t
of this State, two prominent Democrats
publicans, both of whom had hetn deleft Re '
their National Conventions, happened 310
The latter asked the former what Blee * -
Charleston t “Why.” replied he, “sandy T “
deserts, niggers, homminy, and turkev b„’„ V 7
principally. What saw you at Chie,
quiried the Democrat. “Why, sir I saw ’ ’
the fairest lands my eyes ever beheld and”^ 01
homes of freemen." It was a synopsis 0 r ,?*
argument for Liberty over Slavery. * 1 “ a
-Hon. T. Corwin is. as most folks know . ■
man who has a dark complection. His ■l*
about his “mulatto” adventure mNewOrl J ° ia
which he tells at his own expense, is envied
by this one,- which we never before happened L
meet with Corwin was introduced, in
York, to a freshly arrived Englishman’ as’befo
an Ohioan. This term evidentalv nuzzled j„i, s
Bull; but in a moment jhis fae'e brfohte ne /
and he seized C. by the hand, expressed his
at making his acquaintance, and kindly inquired
“whether his tribe were at peace with n..
whites?” ttl(!
—ln the town of Onondaga, New York, nearly
all of the farm work da a snug farm is done by
females, two daughters of the proprietor. Re.
cqntly they had for an assistant, nearly all the
summer season, a female hired man. They
“plow and sow and reap and mow’’ almost
equal to men. They wear the Bloomef costifma
upon all occasions, whether at home or abroad
It is not an tinusual sight, in wet weather, to
see them about the premises, and even at the
neighbors, with their jaunty little hats on, and
the bottoms of their pants tucked into the’tops
of their tall boots, a la man-kind. It i 3 sa
that they can “finger the piano,” talk politics,
discuss the sciences, literature, A-c., equally as
well ns they can handle the pruning-ljook or
drive the plow.
—A somewhat carious cane was tried in the
Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne Co., a short
time since. The administrators of the estate of
Elisha Harris ha 1 offered his effects at public
sale. Among other things was an uncouth
block of wood, supposed by some to (is a part
of a cheese press, but the true character and
object was unknown. David M. Ilutma-.hef
bid it ofl' for fifteen cents; and laid it out against
the fence until night, when he carried it home.
Subsequently hd determined to gratify his curi
osity, and accordingly split the block open,
when he discovered a queer secret drawer,
opening by the pressure of a h ng rod, and con
taining bonds, notes and other matters, besides
about 52,500 in gold and silver coin. It had
long been conjectured that money and other
valuables were secreted somewhere about the
premises. An amicable suit was brought for
the contents of the block to test the question of
rightful ownership. Verdicj: for executors, $4,
500.
F. A. R.
NORMAL SCHOOL.
PROF.'S- JEWETT i lIARKISOX will open »
Xonnal Music School, in Wellsboro, Tioga t Co.,
I'a., commencing
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14th, 1860,
And continue in session Six Week?. Jt will be tbe ob
ject of tho Principals of this school to impart a thor
ough course of instruction to all wishing to qualify
themselves for teachers, either vocal or instrumental,
ns also to those who wish to make greater prikiciency
in music, either practical or theoretical, for their own
individual gratification or benefit.
The course of instruction will embrace tho of
playing the Piano Forte. Organ, Melodeon. Violin,
Violinctfllo, Guitar, and all instruments used in Or
chestras or Brass Bands. Singing in all" Its depart
ments, Thorough Bass, Harmony, and Composition.
Tuition, (payable in advance,) $lO OtJTfcllowing
students the privilege of pursuing any or all of the
above studies. ,
Board in private families can be secured on reason
able term®, by addressing Mr. H.P. Erwin, Wellsboro,
Pa., before the commencement of the school. Board
at Hotels may be obtained without the necessity of
special notice.
Should further information be desired, it can be bad
by sending for a circular to Dr. W. W. Webb, Wclls
boTo, Or communicating with Mr. 11. P. Erwin Wells
bnro, or Prof. R. Harrison, Friendship, Allegany Co.,
X. Y.
Wellsboro, June 2S, ISGO.
NEW GOOES AT
THE EMPIRE STORE,
NEW SYSTEM OT SELLING THEM!
J. BOWES & CO.,
-£re now receiving a largo and well selected assort
ment of
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING,
HATS & GAPS, BOOTS & - SHOES,
CROCKERY, HARDWARE, GROCERIES,
AC., AC., AC.,
Which they will sell
CHE'APER THAX EVER BEFORE OFFERED
TO THE TRADING COMMUNITY
They have come to the conclusion that it is for their
interest as well ns that of their customers, to
Sell Goods for Ready P»V(
as in that tray they can sell them at less profits than
can be done on long credit. Thankful for past favors,
we respectfully invite one and all to call and examine
our stock of goods and wo will try to convince you
that it is for your interest to buy at the Empire Store.
J. R. BOWEN,
M. BULLARD.
A. HOWLAND.
Wellsboro, June 2S, 1860.
TO THE SICK.
DR. JACKSOW
MAY BE CONSULTED AS FOLLOWS:
Corning, N. Y., Dickinson House, Tuesday. July 10.
Tioga, Pa., Goodrich House, Wednesday, July
WellsborO# Pa., Stag© House, Thursday, July 12.
Covington, Pa., Covington Hotel, Friday. July lo*
Blossburg, Pa., Hall’s Hotel, Saturday and Sunday*
July ]4 and 15.
Acldifcon, X. Y., Doolittle’s Hotel, Tuesday, JulyD-
Horncllsvillb, X. T., Chadaick House, Wednesday*
July IF. v
Alfred, X. Y., Stage House, Tuesday, July 24.
Andover, Xj Y. Eagle Hotel, Wednesday, July ‘y
Wellsville. X. Y., Van Burcn Hotel, Thursday, 2c*
Scio, X. Y., Exchange Hotel, Friday, July 27.
Belmont, X. Y., Tracy House, Saturday, July 25.
Angelica, X. Y„ Charles Hotel, Wednesday, A o ?*
Bollfont, X. Y.. Stage House, Thursday, Auff*»
Rushford, X*. Y.j Stage House, Friday, Aug 3.
Cuba, X. Y. f R. R. House, Sut. «fe Sun., Aug * s *
Clean, X. Y., Fobcs House, Monday, Aug. 6.
Ceres, X. Y„ House, Tuesday, A'ng 7.
Sraelbport, Pa., Bennett House, Thursday* Aug
IXVALIDS SHOULD MARK WELL THE TIME.
Those suffering from Chronic Diseases of any d ,s *
cription. may be assured that their cases will be treats
fairly and candidly, and they will not bo encourage
to take ray medicines without a corresponding pro 5 *
pect of success.
HAVING TOOI»S.
CAST STEEL, Silver Steel, and the Golden Tan
ner Sv-thca, Snaths, Bakes, scjtho stoncs.-gnna
stones, grain cradles, Ac., at , OSGOOD
| QQ PIECES VSLYBT RlBBO^jnst^riwrrf
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