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KHOOTIOH 07 JACOB S. HAEDEN.
Rev. Jacob S. Harden, convicted of the mur
der of bis wife, was bungjat Belvidere, N. J.,
on Friday week. During the forenoon, one con
tinued stream of people residing far and near,
arrived in Belvidere and blocked up the street
in front of the jail. The out-building near the
jail yard was crowded with human beings, the
most of whom had a partial view of the gallows.
During the forenoon they attempted to get on
the wall of the prison, but were driven off by
the military, who preserved good order during
the day.
At nine o’clock Harden expressed a desire to
visit the scaffold, which was granted. He stood
for nearly five minutes upon the trap-door, per
fectly calm and composed, and made a close ex
amination of the gallows. After which, he was
conducted back to his cell.
About ten o’clock his spiritual advisers, the
Revs, Messrs. Day and Kirk, visited his cell,
whore they remained for an hour, during which
time they engaged in prayer, and singing. He
was then visited by his counsel, Messrs. Ship
man and Oepue, who bid him good-bye. To
the medical gentlemen he gave his autograph,
remarking at the time, “ I have suffered enough
of late, and will soon bo out of misery,” As
the hour arrived for the last act in the drama
to take place, the crowd was so large that it
was with great difficulty that they were kept
back. At twelve -o’clock the prison door was
thrown open, and those who had passes were
allowed to enter. The hour of one o’clock har
ing arrived. Sheriff Sweeny proceeded to the
-condemned and informed him that the time had
arrived,- and that he must now prepare for the
execution of the sentence. In the mean time
labout fifty persons had convened in the jail
yard, and about an equill number in the court
room, overlooking the scaffold.
At twenty-three minutes past 1 o’clock Har
den was led forth, accompanied by his spiritual
advisers, and ascended the platform. Harden
then knelt down and offered up a and
appeared to be deeply affected ; he then shook
bauds vyithi and kissed the sheriff and clergy
men an|d stepped upiTn the trap.
The cap was drawn over_his eyes, the noose
w-.s attached to the main pulley, and at twenty
five minutes to two o’clock, he was launched in
to eternity. The fall, which was four feet, didi
not break his heck. After hanging one minute
a partial contortion of the muscles was peroep-j
tible, and at twenty minutes of two there was
a slight pulsation. At fifteen minutes of two
■o'clock *ha was pronounced dead by Drs. Matti
son and Clark. The body was lowered down
and placed in a black walnut coffin, and deliv
ered over to Mr: F. Rose, who conveyed the
same to Harden’s parents. Harden, it is said,
made a full confession to his brother.
I»cvwell and Warner’s College, Binghamton.
This college, by tbe enterprise, energy and
ability of its Proprietors, has become one of
the fixed valuable institutions in
Binghamton.
Its Faccltt are unsurpassed in their ability
and fitness, (and in their zealous devotion to
their respective Departments.
Its course of commercial studies, as already
appears, cannot he excelled in its extent and
thoroughness, embracing all the branches of a
commercial education', necessary to make a fin
ished, practical business mam
Its location, in the centre of a village pre
eminent for its beauty, healthfulness, accessi
bility and general attractions, is unrivalled. -
In fine, its faciliticls, as a first-class Commer
cial College, are superior to those of any insti
tion of the kind, in the whole country.
Established on a sound nnd permanent basis,
surrounded with all the inducements which any
institution can present, it now invites the young
and industrious Farmer, the aspiring Clerk,
the afhhitioits Laborer, in any honest pursuit,
the “ gentleman of elegant leisure” to devote
a few months within its pleasant walls in lay
ing the foundations of that practical, every-day
education, without which a mingler in tbe
throng of human life, whatever may be his
other accomplishments or advantages, has but
little security, usefulness or real enjoyment.
The Proprietors of this College have just
procured for their graduating pupils, the most
elegant, comprehensive and tasteful Diploma
which we Have over seen.
It is a beautiful and finished engraving
which the business graduate will find not only
“ useful” but “ ornamental.”
At its head in the centre, is a life-like group
graphically representing Professors Lowell,
Warner and Rankin—Professor D., standing,
and in the act of presenting a Diploma to a
graduate, who is also standing. Professors IW.
and R. are in a sitting posture, witnessing the
ceremony. On either side are several appropri
ate figures, emblems and designs. The body
of the Diploma is engraved after the bold, dia
lect and beautiful Style of Penmanship so suc
cessfully taught in the College. But we do not
jprofess to describe the Diploma. We only
glance imperfectly at some of its prominent
features.
This beautiful Diploma is the workmanship
cf the experienced nnd celebrated Artist Wm.
Schucman. —Binghamton Republican.
Tm Consequences -op Playing Euchre
with a Young Lady. —A constable in Wil
liamsport, Indiana, while paying a. [visit to a
young lady living a few miles away, proposed
a game of euchre as the 'evening’s entertain
meat, which the young lady accepted. When
the cards were dealt, the young lady proposed
a “ flyer” of $5O, to which the constable de
murred. The young lady protested that she
would never play with a gentleman unless there
was some stake up, but the gent still demurred,
when, as a compromise, the lady proposed that
they should play, and if she beat him he should
marry her, which the gallant constable couldn’t
du otherwise than accept. At it'they went, and
the lady proved to be the winner. The consta
ble was invited to stay all night, and in the
morning they would proceed to the ’Squire’s
and be made lie plead pressing bu
■ioes, and 1 went away. She followed him to
hi* father’s qgd staid there three days without
seeing the young man, when a compromise was
effected by paying the disconsolate lady $250 to
&U the breach.
Shortly after the Battle of Princeton, a witty
Scotch farmer amused himself by writing a hu
morous ballad upon it, which so stung one of
the officers, who had behaved very badly on
. tbe occasion, that he sent the poet a challenge
to meet him at H—, for mortal combat. The
second found the farmer busy with his pitch
fork, to whom he delivered' the challenge of
tha redoubtable hero. The good humored far
mer, with ffi agricultural implement in his
band, coolly said; ‘‘Gang away back to Mr.
Smith, and tell him I bae nae time to come to
H-—, to give him satisfaction; but that if he:
likes to ooma-bers, I’ll Just do as he did, I’ll
yen away!”
THE AGITATOR.
HUGH YOUNG, EDIJOR & PRO^JRIETOR.
WEiiSßOßonea, pa.,
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1860,
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL NOMINATIONS-
FOR PRESIDENT,
ABKAHAM LINCOLN
OF ILLINOIS.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
HANNIBAL ; H AMT JIN,
OF MAINE,
REPUBLICAN STATE NOMINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ANDREW Gr. CURTIN,
OF CENTRE COUNTY.
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THhfl TWO demoObatio eactions.
Though tho Democratic party has been una
ble to agree in the selection of a Presidential
candidate, some sanguine persons appear to en
tertain hopes that a cooperation may be brought
about for defeating the Republican ticket, and
so devolving upon the House of Representatives,
or rather upon the Senate, the choice of a
President. Two schemes having this object in
view have been suggested, says the Tribune.—
One is, that in the' Northern States the whole
body of the Democrats should concentrate on
Douglas, while in the Southern States only the
Brecfkiuridgc ticket should be voted for. The
other is, that the Douglas rind Breckinridge
men, in all the States, should agree upon the
same ticket for Presidential electors, upon an
understanding that in voting this ticket the
preference of the voter shall also bo expressed
upon it, .and that the electors chosen shall di
vide their votes between Douglas and Breckin
ridge in the njumcricaj proportion of the prefer
ences indicated in the ballots.
But to these and all other plans of cooperation
between the two Democratic factions there exist
invincible obstacles. The same antagonism
that produced the original split operates with
undiminished force to prevent any reunion,
whether Complete or partial. If the desire of
defeating the Republicans had not been over
borne by a still stronger impulse of internal an
tipathy, the separation of the party into two
fragments, arrayad in hostility against each
other, never would have taken place. This in
ternal antipathy, wjiile it retains its Original
vigor, must be the dominating power in both
the fragments of the party. It is no longer the
first object with the respective adherants of
Douglas q'nd Breckinridge to defeat the Repub
licans. Family quarrels arc universally regar
ded as more bitter than any others, and the pen
ding controversy between the Douglas and
Breckinridge factions possesses all tha attributes
of a family quarrel. However much they may
bate the Republicans, they hate each other still
more. With them, the first question to’ bo de
cided is not the election of a President, but the
leadership of the Democratic party. This state
of the case is entirely fatal to the idea of giv
ing up the North to Douglas, and the South to
Breckinridge. That would leave the quarrel
exactly where it stands now. The Breckinridge
men would certainly never agree thus tp
strengthen and confirm that hold of Douglas
upon the Northern Democracy which made him
so powerful at Charleston and Baltimore, as to
drive them to the necessity of secession. Their
great object is and must be to extinguish the
political power of Dougins at the North; Es
pecially, it must be a grand point with them to
defeat him in his own State of Illinois. It Is to
his ascendency in that State, ns evinced by his
re-election to the United States that his
present polition is almost entirely due. Had he
been defeated on that occasion, either he would
have been obliged to remain in it only as tbe
humble retainer and convenient tool and servant
of that Southern faction which ho now so
proudly sets at defiance.
On the other hand, Douglas never would con
sent to yield up' the South, without a struggle,
to Breckinridge. That would be adding in
creased strength and weight to the very obsta
cle which stood in the way of his nomination
■at Charleston. His Northern ascendency is of
no use to him, except so far as it may enable
him to build up a party at the South, and to
triumph over those who seceded at Charleston
nnd Baltimore and nominated Breckinridge.
The objections are not less decisive against
the scheme of a common electoral ticket, to bo
voted for by both factions. Putting out of view
those practical difficulties in the way of such
,an arrangement, which would prove of the most
serious character,] neither party could on prin
ciple agree to it. It might answer very well
for those from whom the. proposition comes—
namely, the trimmers between the two factions,
who have no preference for either; bat on the
port of those who have made the quarrel it
would ho a humiliating concession.
Such would be the obstacles to the proposed
co-operation, even (provided the
choice of President could be transferred from
the People to Congress) both the factions stood
an equal chance. But that Is not by any means
the case. Douglas and his supporters, have
nothing to expect from any such transfer. They
have no strength in, either House. To agree to
any arrangement for throwing the election into
; Congress, would be little short of n surrender
at discretion 1 to the Breckinridge faction. Noth
ing could more surely tend to diminish the pop
ular vote thrown for Douglas. The boost that
he will carry the bulk of the Democracy, nnd
so secure an election by the people, however ab
surd, will not be without it* weight with a large
clasato whose support Douglas looks, and whose
confident ignorance may be presumed upon to
almost any extent. But if the campaign'is en
tered into merely to the basts of devolving the
election upon Congress, all hope of the election
of Douglas mast b*. abandoned, whiles‘chance
may still be claimed fur Breckinridge or Lane.
THE TIOGA
In this state of the case, great numbers of the
Democracy, who have a preference for being on
the winning side, would transfer their rotes
from Donglaa to Breckinridge and Lapo on the
strength pf this chance in their favor, as against
the admitted hopelessness of success on the
part of Douglas.
Whatever may be the case .with thejrank and
file, there cannot be a doubt that the great body
of the Democratic politicians on either_side
would prefer the election of the Republican
candidate to the triumph of that faction of their
own-party to which they aro opposed. - In the
latter case, they could only look forward to be
ing read out of the party as political heretics,
or to retaining a doubtful and hnmhlo position
in it by recantation and submission. If either of
the factions could, by any possibility, succeed
in securing the control of the Federal Govern
ment for the next four years, the rank and file
of the other faction, would, in all probability,
go over to the successful side, leaving the lea
ders to shift for themselves. On the other hand,
the election of Lincoln would give four years
longer during which the struggle for ascendan
cy in the party might he kept up.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
—Keenan arrived in New York last week
per steamer Vanderbilt.
—Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, is out
for Breckinridge and Lane.
—"Please exchange,” as the printer said
when ho offered his heart to a pretty girl.
—Cassius M. Clay is going over to Southern
Indiana, to stump for Lincoln and Hamlin.
—A patriotic insane man named Charles
Berry, hanged himself in Dakoto County, Minn.,
last week, by tying an American flag about his
neck.
—G. P. R. James, whose death at Venice
hag been announced, wroto.some seventy nov
els and romances. Ilia first success was in
Richelieu.
—Another mile trot between Flora Temple
and Patchen came off at Philadelphia on the 4th,
best three in five. Flora won in three straight
heats, time 2:22J 2:21J, 2 ;37A.
—During the three years of Mr. Buchanan’s
administration, the Department of the State
has issued about 13,000 passports to citizens
desiring to travel in foreign parts.
—ln Japan, boys become men at about flf*
teen years of age. They then receive a new
name and have their heads shaved. For every
advance in rank, the ndtne is changed for a now
one.
—Hon. 11. V. Johnson, the Douglas candi
date for the Vice-Presidency, was hung in effigy
last week, in Macon, Oa., and otherwise grossly
insulted. He has recently been Governor of
the State.
—The hay crop is generally secured id good
condition, and, with the exception of a few
cases of midge or weevil, the wheat crop is
almost vritliout a blemish, and will be-unu
sually abundant.
—The Japanese brought eighty tons of bag
gage with theth. It is said that they carefully
preserved all the newspapers which described
their visit. If this is so, they took' back more
than eighty tons of luggage.
—When the tornado struck Camanche, four
men were playing cards in one of the buildings
totally destroyed. All four were killed with
the cards in their hands. What an awful war
ning to Sabbath-breakers 1
—There is not a single paper in the State of
Connecticut which supports Douglas I The in
dications are that the Little Giant will not be
able to secure a single electoral vote in the Un
ion ! What a formidable candidate 1
—A candidate for Congress, out West, sums
up his edicaiion as follows: “I never went to
school but three times in my life, and that was
to night school. Two nights the teacher,elid’t
come, and t’other night} I had no candle.”
—lt is not a little remarkable that there is a
town in Middlesex county, Mass., another in
Grafton county, N. 11. another in Prescott
county, Maine, and still another in Addison
county, Vt., where every legal voter is a Lin
coln man.
—When James Buchanan retires, March 4,
18G1, the national debt will not be less than
§100,000,000. The expenses of the present
Administration, in time of profound peace,.arc
greater by double than of Mr. Fillmore’s, who
paid the debt incurred by the Mexican war.
—Yankees know how and whore to turn a
ready penny. At the Boston fireworks, on
July 4th, a man was present with a wagon
load of three-legged pine stools, which he sold
readily for twenty-five cents a piece. In Now
York, last ‘‘Fourth,” what a God-send this load
would have been. They would have used them
for combing each other’s heads with admira
ble effect.
—The Cincinnati Commercial says the
health of Stephen A. Douglas is completely
broken up, and that he has lost the greater
part of his property. This, ,then, is the only
possible ground of accountingjffor his desperate
greed for an empty nomination. Now or never,
while he has a host of warm friends and admi
rers of his money. Sink or swim, it is his only
chance, and he can lose nothing by ftie des
pairing effort.
—Quite an ingeniously-constructed chair has
been presented to Mr. Lincoln. It is composed
of thirty-three States and Kansas, the names of
which are inscribed upon the several pieces re
spectively. The two main posts of the chair
are Hickory and Ash, in commemoration of the
“ Old Hero” of Tennessee, and the “ Sag 6 of
Ashland” of Kentucky. Kansas, with hetj af
flictions, is represented by a limb of Weeping
Willow ; and in a similar manner appropriately
throughout the whole.
—ln a conversation between Cushing and
Col. Parker, author of Beminisences of Bufus
Choate, Cushing said;
“ Abraham Lincoln is a much abler man
than is generally supposed, even in his own
party. In his canvas with Douglas, he beat
him in argument, beat him in law, beat him in
wit; and the published debates of that canvass
with sustain thin assertion."
When Caleb Cushing, the President of both
the Democratic National Conventions, volunta
rily renders to Mr. Lincoln the honor which is
so justly due him, we think the little men of
the party who have been charging Lincoln with
being a weak, and illiterate man,, ought to’hide
their feces in shame for their .contemptible
meanness. ’
COUNTY AGITATOR.
FRO M THS PEOPLE
Meeting of |the County Medical Society.
Editor Agitator;
Pursuant to the call published June 6th, sev
eral doctors of the county assembled at the of
fice of Dr. N.'Packer, in Wellsboro, June 20th,
and adopted a and By-Laws and
Code of Ethics as adopted by the American
Medical Convention, held at Philadelphia, in
June, 1848. The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year i
President —Dr. R. 11. Archer, Wellsboro.
Yice-Prceident —Dr. Elliott, Mansfield.
Recording Secretary —Dr, D. Bacon, Tioga.
Corresponding Secretary —Dr. N. Packer, Wellsboro.
Trcaeurer —Dr. O. W. Gibson, Wellsboro,
Ceneore —Drs. 01 W. Gibson, Elliott, K. Packer.
W. W. Webb, M. D., was appointed to deliv
er on Address before the Society at its next
semi-annual session, which will bo held in Mans
field, Wednesday, December 19th, at I P. M.
Believing that an elevated standard of the
Medical Profession is essential for the welfare
of its members and the masses, and a deeper
interest therein is to be promoted only by
sustaining a Medical Association in the county,
in the name of tho Tioga County Medical So
ciety, the doctors in all parts of the county
are cordially invited tt> attend its next session,
and come in readiness to assist in and coope
rate with every effort which may be put forth
to promote tho honor and usefulness of our com
mon calling. ! D. BACON, M. D., Sec’tj.
Tioga, Pa., July 5, 1860.
Republican Meeting at Stoiy Eork,
Editor Agitator ;
A large an& interesting Republican meeting
was' held at Stony Fork, last evening. It
organized by- selecting William F. Robinson
Chairman. S. B. Elliott, Esq., of Mansfield,
was called upon, and responded in a brief but
telling manner. 'The meeting was also ably ad
dressed by Messrs. Donaldson, Webb and Hart.
The right spirit is being manifested here. The
Rebublicans are alive to the interests of the par
ty, and I trust other places in the County will
follow the' example so enthusiastically set by
our small village. Let meetings be held in every
town in the County, at least once a week, and
let them be commenced at once. There are
plenty of speakers, who, for the good of the
cause, would gladly accept invitations for such
meetings.
The meeting at Stony Fork adjourned to
meet in one week at the Church. Judge Hum
phrey will be present and address the citizens.
Let him have a good hearing. TToRk.
Stony Fork, July 18, -1860.
Eepublican Meeting at ManailelcL
Ediior Agitator:
The Republicans of this vicinity met at the
M. E, Church in Mansfield, on Saturday eve
ning last, and listened to an address by lion.
A. Humphrey, of Tioga. The attendance Was
good, considering the short notice which had
been given. The address was all that could be
desired—a straight-forward argumentative dis
course, abounding with reason and good com
mon sense. An adjourned meeting is to be held
in two weeks. Let the people throughout the
county organize and prepare for the work.—
What has become of the County Republican
Club? Yours, <te.,
June 5, 1800.
Istohmatios WAjrfßD.—'James Davenport,
son of John Davenport, left his father’s house
in Davenport, Delaware county, N. Y., on
Sunday, the27lh of May last, at 10 o’clock A.
M. Since that time nothing has been heard of
him, although diligent search has been made.
Charlotte river has been examined—deep places
have been raked, the woods and all other places
where it is supposed he may have gone have
been carefully examined, but no traces have
been discovered of the direction he has taken.
Said Janies is 16 years of ago, large of his age,
long arms, large hands and feet, blue eyes,
light brown hair, about 5 feet 6 inches high,
stoops n little when walking, and has a fair
complexion for a person that "has always
worked at farming. Wore when ho left a
br.iwn homemade cloth'coat, striped pants, dark
worsted vest, palm leaf hat. thick boots, one of
which was patched on the side—all the clothing
a good deal worn. Any information of Said
James Davenport, addressed to John Davenporf,
Delaware county, N, Y., will be gratefully
received by his parents, brothers and sisters.
—Editors throughout the State and adjoin
ing counties of the State of Pennsylvania are
requested to copy, i
Buchasan’s Speech. —The Old Public Func
tionary has done what several of the Presi
dents of the United States have cashiered their
subordinates for doing; he has been intermed
dling with the political elections. On Monday
evening, of last week, he appeared before a
meeting held in Washington by the friends of
Breckinridge and Lane, and made a speech in
favor of that division of the Democratic party
which has put forward these men as its candi
dates for the Presidency and Yice-Presidency.
The'burden of Mr. Buchanan’s speech was
the equality of the States. He affirms that the
States have each an equal right to 1 the territo
ries, and that the emigrants from the slave
slates who settle there should be allowed the
same rights which are enjoyed by thbso from
the free states. Having stated this doctrine
half a dozen times over, Mr. Buchanan at
tempts to apply it to the case of a slaveholder
taking his negroes to Kansas or Nebraska or
New Mexico by the same right that a New
England settler would take his cow, and con
cludes with the air of a man who is satisfied
that ho has gained the victory..
Who denies that the states have an equal
right to the.territories ? If there be any set of
men who hold that the citizens or one state
have rights in the territories which are denied
to the citizens of other states, it is Mr. Bu
chanan and'those who agree with him in main
taining the right of the slaveholder to take, bis
negroes to the territories and hold them there as
property. - ‘i
Death op Goodyear.— This gentleman, ,so
well known as being inventor of the art 1 of
vulcanizing India-rubber, died at his''residence
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City, on
the Ist inst. His disease is said to have or
iginated in the severe privations ha endured
and the anxiety he Buffered while trying to in
troduce bis invention to the public.
A MEAN CANDIDATE.
The programme of the Administration Dem
ocrats, and one which they hope to accomplish,
is the defeat of Lincoln before the people by
.withdrawing one or two Northern States from
bis-snpport, with the view to the election of a
President by Congr.ess. It is expected, in that
event, that the House will be unable to make a
choice, and that the Administration party, who
are in a majority In the Senate, will thereupon
elect Gen, Jo. Lane, the candidate of the disu
nionists on the Breckinridge ticket, for Vice
President, who by the provisions of the Con
stitution will become tho President of tho Uni
ted States. To! show what kind of a man Jo.
Lane is, who is to be thus honored, we take the
following extract from a speech delivered by
him at the Breckinridge Ratification Meeting,
in Philadelphia, last Monday night week.—
Here is the passage reported verbatim;
“ A voice—How did Lincoln- vote at the
time of the Mexican war 7
General Lane—l’ll tell yon. While your
humble servant was having his arm almost
shattered to pieces, and while other good sol-,
diers of this State were battling in defence of
your country’s honor, our friend Lincoln was
over in Washington voting against supplies for
the army. [Laughter.] I didn’t say “friend”
did I ? I’ll take that. back; for it was you I
alluded to, when I said friends—for you are
not only friends, but you are patriots, and you
are law-abiding, good citizens, that I am proud
to meet—that I am proud to meet—that I am
delighted to have this opportunity to see and
to speak to; and if it was any other occasion
than this—if 1 wasn’t on the ticket with that
gallant, noble, and 'generous, gifted man,
Breckinridge—l would say much more in bis
favor.” _
To show up this deliberate lie, uttered by
this would-be President, we need only copy the
following extract from a speech delivered by
Senator Douglas, in the Illinois Senatorial
canvass of 1858, wherein he makes this candid
admission:
“ I never charged him with votitig against
the supplies in my life, because I knew he teas
not in Congress when they were voted: The war
was commenced on the I3th day of May, 1846,
and on that day we appropriated in Congress
ten millions of dollars and fifty thousand men
to prosecute it. During the same session we
voted more men and more money,- so that by
the time Mr. Lincoln entered Congress, we had
enough men and enough money to carry on the
war, and had no occasion to vote for any more.”
This clears Lincoln of the false charge Lane
has trumped up against him, and unless Lane
does not rend the current literature of the day,
and especiallythat relative to the national pol
itics, he could not be ignorant that what he was
saying was unfounded. The man that would
stoop to utter so deliberate a falsehood is un
worthy of the support of any honest man of
any party—the nigger-driving not
excepted.— li. <£• S. Journal. :^T
u
“CAPITAL SHOULD OWN LABOR!'
Is not this a hard saying ? Is it in harmony
with the spirit of the age.? Whether Would “la
boring men’’cheer or hiss such a sentiment?
Is it true or false? Does it belong to the creed
of a republic or of a Despotism ?
It was uttered by a man professing Democ
racy, and every Democrat in the land is, to-day,
asked to vole for him. Ills name is UERSCHEL
V. JOIINSON, the Douglas candidate for Vice
President! The heresy is embodied in a speech
made by him in Philadelphia (as we learn from
the Pittsburg Journal) on the lith day of Sep
tember, 1856, and is as follows :
•‘Wo believe CAPITAL SHOULD OWJf
LABOR; is there any doubt that there must
be a laboring class everywhere ? In all conn
tries and under every form of social organiza
tion there must be a laboring class—a class of
men who get their living by the sweat of their
brow: and then there must be another class
that controls and directs the capital of the
country.’’
There have been a great many ahminable
things said by tlie advocates of Slavery. God
and humanity have been alike insulted by them.
But by none of them has ever anything more
offensive been avowed than is here boldly and
unblushingly proclaimed by this candidate of
the Democracy for the high office of Vice Pres
ident of the United States,
■Mansfield,
To "own labor ” is to own laborers. By “the
class of men who get their living by the sweat
of their brow,” is not meant negroes merely ;
any more than than that by the “class that
controls and directs the capital of the country,”
is meant owners of negroes. It is a general
phrase, embodying all who labor for iheir bread
—while and black alike.
In the opinion of this Douglas Democrat, the
man who owns a Cotton Factory should own
the men, women and children who attend the
looms and spindles. In Ilerschel V. Johnson’s
opinion, the man who owns a Machine Shop or
Furnace, should own the Machinists and Moul
ders whose labor contributes to his wealth. In
the opiriion of the man whom the Douglasites
support for Vice' President, whoever has capital
enough to employ laborers should own them,
whether those who labor are Cotton Pickers,
Farmers, Engine Builders, Moulders, Carpen
ters, Masons, Blacksmiths, Hatters, Shoema
kers, Brewers, Hod-Carriers or Printers. He
makes no distinction. All laborers should be
owned by those who are rich enough to employ
labor 1 •
White Men! What do you think of the
demagogue who utters such a doctrine, or of
the party who seeks to honor him fur it ? It
was uttered, wo repeat, by Herschel V. Johnson,
and the Democratic party is laboring to make
him Yice President of the United States 1 Will
yon vote for him ? Do you think, as he does,
that the man who is poor should bo the pur
chased slave of the man who is rich ? Is it
your opinion—you who “get your living by the
sweat of your brow”—that “Capital should
own labor V’ Whatever may ho your opinion
of Negro Slavery, do yon think White men
should be made Slaves ?— Alb. Journal.
The Candidates for Governor. —A few
days ago, both the 'candidates for Governor of
this State were in this city, stopping at the Gi
rard House, and both were seen sitting side by
side upon the same sofa, indulging in the most
friendly conversation. They were not seen ac
tually to kiss, but we have not the least doubt
they took a drink out of the same bottle 1—
Both gentlemen received numerous visitors- du
ring their stay, and no one unacquainted with
their respective positions would suppose them
to he opposing candidates for the same office.
It is a high compliment to both gentlemen,
when we say that throughout the canvass nei
ther will either utter or assent to a disrespect
ful word concerning the other. This is as it
should be, and shows that the millenium is ap
proaching.— Germantown Telegraph.
TH* OREQOS
Thep result of this election is ~,,.l
every member of the Kepnblican *»
gratification affords a' peculiarly ke?' Til! *
ment to us at this time. Gen. Lan
cession candidate for the Tice p re V° e St
one of the party upon whom the >•
heaviest. "Delusion" Smith is a ] so °* B
permitted to retire into private, life cef °%
more a "delusion" to men. ’ sa “ to
But the most important lesson tanehtv
a glorious result is, that the new Stat , ! “ c!l
admitted, or those to come in hereafte • d?
longer serve as sheet-anchors, a 8 *' ll »°
the “Slave Power.” One of the stm 7 '”’ ’’ to
porters which the South has had, i n sn f
aiona upon the doctrines of the fat!,., M a BB ,( s
vitality and strength of the Consti'hiHr,° a
has found in the Senators from the noi. c’
■Whenever there has been any donah f^ -
required, any eating of dirt been aecL,!"!! 1 ®
most abject submission demanded this i
Senators have gone doWn into abtsmal a ° f
datlon "lower than the lowest deep’” Wh
any blow was to be-struck at freedom an”"
sault to be made upon the sacred con/mw
of >the past, they were always readyT/ otf
to the last of slavery propagandist/ P ““
, Look at rhe record of Weller and O X _
California ; of the two Dodges, father nnJ ' “
of Jones, of Iowa; of Walkei of Wi“ dSM:
of Dice, of Minnesota; of both the 1
the case under discussion. What act is th. "*
in the whole catalogue of insidious or onen'l't’
tack upon liberty, with which the history
Congressional legislation for the last ten rear,
abounds, to which they did not lend an active
hearty, nay, eager support ? The only vennta’
tion they acquired was that which sprang f ro m
the ready commendation which the South ear
to their treason to huipan rights and Northern
progress. v
The new States have, one after another re
pudiated them and their baseness, until
Dodges and Joneses, the Wellers and Casses
have disappeared, or will soon disappear, forerl
er, beneath the uprisen waves of pn'blic indie
nation. .Even California, bad Broderick‘not
been murdered/ would have wheeled into line
with the great army of freedom, during the
present contest. At least it would have sent to
the Senate men who were true to the Cowtito.
tion and freedom*
The fate of Lane and Smith will serve as fin.
ger-boards and guide-posts to all who mav com*
as Senators from States to be admitted hereaf
ter. Kansas, Nebraska, Deeotah, and their un- :
born sisters, will send only those who, reared
in the twist of free labor, know its blessings
and will seek to extend and multiply them;
men who have the moral conrage and the in
tellectual force to prevent the legal diffusion ol
chains, stripes, and lashes, over the virgin ter
ritqry of the magnificent and glorious North
west.—City Journal. i
What the Lecomptox Bill Cost.— The tcs-,
timony before tlie Covode Committee at Wash
ington shows that it has cost the government
nearly a million of dollars to pass the Lecomp
ton bill. During the examination of Wendell,
clerks to the amount of $925,000 were produced
by him and left with the Committee. Most of
them are dated during tfie contest on the Le
compton bill. They aro payable to no particu
lar individual. Curious combinations of letters
are inserted at the usual place for the name of
the payee. Mr. "Wendell refused to give any
explanations of these mysterious marks. Some
of the checks are payable to Senators, others to
members of the House of Representatives.—
Whether these payments were made to secure
the passage of the Lecompton bill, or for other
corrupt purposes, Wendell refuses to disclose;
but the other testimony, by the
Committee leaves bat little doubt that this im
mense sum was used by Wendell, under the di
rection of the Administration, in buying the
passage of the most odious law everienactcd
in this country. That’s the way the money
goes. Wendell never had that much money of
his own, and docs not pretend that it was his
own. His very refusal to testify for what pur
pose it was used shows that it was not used for
any honest purpose.-
A Correspondent of the Winona (Minnesota)
Republican writes that Mr. A. L. Jenks of that
place, who is prospecting in one of those monnd?
which are so common in that country, recently
discovered at the depths of five or sir feet, the
remains of seven or eight people of very large
size. One thigh bone measured three feet ia
length. The under jaw was one inch wider
than that of any other man in this city. He
also found clam shells, pieces of ivory or bone
rings, pieces of kettles made of earth and
coarse sand. There were at the neck of one of
these skeletons, teeth two inches in length by
one and a-half to three-fourths of an inch in
diameter, with holes drilled into the sides, and
the end polished, with a crease around it. Al
so, an arrow, five inches Ipng by one and a half
wide, stuck through the back, near the back
bone ; and one about eight inches long, stuck
into the left breast. Also, the blade of a cop
per hatchet, one and a half inches wide at the
edge, and two inches long. This hatchet was
found stuck in the skull of the same skeleton.
The mound is some 200 feet above' the surface
of the Mississippi, and is composed of clay, im
mediately above the remains, two feet thick;
then comes a layer of black loam ; then anoth
er layer of clay sjx inches thick, all so closely
packed that it was with difficulty that it could
he penetrated. There are some four or five dif
ferent layers of earth above the remains. There
is no such clay found elsewhere in the vicinity.
Mr. Douglas, in his letter of acceptance, saj* •
"The peace of the country and the perpetuity
of the Union havo been put in jeopardy by a
tempts to interfere with and control the domes
tic affairs of the people in the Territories, throug
the agency of the Federal Government.” * 0
gave that Federal Government, now 50 obnoi
ions to Mr. D., the power to interfere Xort 0
thirty-sis thirty ? Who.hut Stephen A. *yy
las ? _ Had he not procured .the repeal < 0
“Missouri Compromise," the Federal G
ment could not have made attempts jn.e^an
with and control the domestic affairs 0
sas. Stephen, your tricks are played out.
own party turn from you in disgust, ihe
of your power is broken, and you nl ® on
gibbet of popular indignation. The j* e P
cans, who you have so bitterly reviled in
days of your prosperity, will deal more SJ _
with you than those “ who wept when
sighed.” —-City Journal* —■
couarxr coimissio^eb.
TTe arc authorised to announce the nam® °f" ,-m for
HARDING, of Liberty Township, as a cand‘o J; _
the office of County Commissioner, subject to
cision of the Republican Connty C onvention, _
REMOVAL..
Dr.- SHEARER, Homeopnlhio
moved Uj offlee »nd-residenco from the Lnitou
Hotel to second house below ffart s Hotel,
July 12, 1560,