i , i i •1= 1 first, “ Act to organize (he Territory of Nebras ka.” This aotcontained no repeal of the Mis souri Compromise] and it failed to become a law for'want ofc'iime. VSenator Atchison, of Missouri, on .the 3d March,'lBs3, made some, remarks qS this {bill, in which he ac knowledged thatfehadno hope of ever'seeing the . Missouri Compromise repealed. He said: ■ had’two,objections to this hill. One was, thqt tho, Indian title to that Territory-had not bijeo. extingnjsbed.'or at least but a very small portion of it had been. Another was the Mis souri CompromiseJ or, as it is commonly called, the -Slavery Restriction. It was my opinion at thatjime,—and-I'am- not now, very clear on that the, law. of Congress, when the State of Missouri was admitted into the Uoion, exulaing 'slavery from thW Territory of Louisiana north ,of 3$ dog. 30 min,, would be -enforced in that Territory unless it was special ly rescinded; rand,-: whether that law. was in .ac cordance , with, the Conatitut|dn of the United States or .not, it 'Would do,.its work, .and that wqrk would ,be to preclude! slaveholders from gmng ini.i that Territory. . _ Tsut when.! came to look into that »qnestion, I found fliat'there wag no, prospect, no hope, of 1 a repeal i’,f ..the Missouri excluding Slavery from tbavTerritoryNow, sir,. I am free to admjt .thltSat this moment, at this hour, and fur ell tiineip come,'should, oppose the organization orthe settlement of that Territory,, unless my eonstiiuqnts and (he constituents, of the. whith;,South,j of the,sla|e States of the Un ion, could go intOjitnpqri this same footing, with equal rights andl Iqual privijeges, carrying that species of property wdth| them as other people of this Union. Yes,.sir, X acknowledge that that would have, governed fine, but I have no. hope that", he resfriciion wfll ever he repealed. “ I have always been of pinion that the first great errorcommUtedi in tse political history of this c ontryi j whs (he Ordinance of 1787, rendering the Northwest Territory free territo ry. The next, great".error |Was the Missouri C..mpromi;-o. But they are ’poth irremediable. There is no’ remedy for ththd. Wo must sub . mit to them. I;am prepares! to do it. It is evident that the (Missouri Compromise cannot he repealed.,. So Jfac ns tlpv. question is con cerned, we might!as well asyjje to the admission of this asnjist year, or five or t -n years.— 'Cons Globe, & ssion 1852-53, page 1113. • ■ 3 - It : * No; 2.fj On the 4th day of January, 1854, Sir. Doug las, as Chairman, of the Cqpmittee :on Territo-, riuf, reported-tc»|tne Senah :his second biU for the organization-of The bill was accompanied report, prom which the fol lowing is an extriaot: - t i] “Your- Committee do 'hot feel themselves called upon to enter into th e discussion of (hose controverted questions. Tjiey involve the same grave issues which produced the agitation, the sectional strife apd the fearful struggle of 1850. As Congress deigned: it wise and prudent to re frain from decitgng the matters in controversy then, 'either by kerning d| repealing tho Mex ican daws. or by an act declaratory of the true i-oJout.of the of;the Constitution and the extent of the protection affordsd by it to slave proper tyrin the Territories, fo yohr Committee are notpropared nojfv to racopitnend a departure from the course pursued oi) that memorable oc casion. Eithep by affiimihg Tor repealing the eighth section pf the jllis|buri Act, or by any Act declaratory! of’ the rm lining of the Consti tution inire-pect tOjthelep vl points of dispute.” Senator Dixon, of Kenttjjsky, immediately in troduced an amendment. (3 the bill, declaring the Missouri Compromise'Uull and void. Sen ator Atchison, of Missouri', then the presiding officer of tho Senate,'threatened Mr. Douglas with a dispUcepent from Jjia position as Chair man of the Cp|imittee[onSTerritori9B, unless he ■ should accept 'Mr; Dixor 's amendment. Mr. Atchison tcU[ (he whole (tory in a speech de livered at Allison City, \ Catteas. on the 10th day of Septomjber. 1854, as follows in the Piirkville Luminary . “ Re [Atchison] thought the Missouri Com promise ought to be repealed ; he had pledged himsolf in his),public addresses to vote for no territorial organization that jwonld not virtually annul it; andfwith this feeling in his heart, he desired to ho tpe chairman of the Senate Com mittee on Territories when a bill was intro duced. ' i.’fr “.With this] object in, yjieW, he had a private interview wi(lf Mr. Douglaq, and informed him of-what be-ilasired—th(; Introduction of a hill for Nebraska|ike what |etiad promised to vote for, and would Ijkei'to be Chairman of the Committee on Territories, in order.to intro duce auefi a, pleasure; ap'd if ha could get that position., he Uonld immediately resign as Presi dent of tho Senate. Judge iDonglaa requested twenty-four, hours to conjdqr the matter, and if, at tho expiration of tKafcdime, he could not introduce pudh-a bill as he'fMr. Atchison] pro posed : whirl; would, at the same time, accord wifh'his own sehse of jastibo to the South, he would resign! as Chairman of tho Territorial Committee idjDemooratioicaucus, and exert his influence to get him [Atchison] appointed. .At the expiration of the given tiifle, Senator Doug las signified its intention; to introduce such a bill as had hiiSa spoken of.f'i 1 , No. &i‘ . Whether Agchison told (Be truth or not; it is a fact that 23d day of January, 1854, nineteen day 4 after he wds |‘ notpropared to re cura.nendto departure” from the Missouri pro hibition, Mr. Douglas’ brought in a new bill, dividing 1 Nebraska into tvtd Territories—Kan sas and Nebraska?—-and pealing the following terms: | ’ -(“ That the Cpnstitutiop, jand all the laws of the United Suites which are not locally inappli cable, shall haste the same;forco and effect witb ‘ in the said Territory of Nebraska (and Kansas] as elsewhere within- tho United States, except tho eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved- March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which being inconsistent with the principle of Non-Intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the Legislation of [B5O, commonly called the C.om = promise Meuspres, is hereby declared impera tive and void.” ,i , ■ j In Salem,Co., WJ-, on Friday, Sept. 28t!i, J&, Edward S. Tofcgm was married ».. n Miss Jd4W, at 3i o'clock morning. Miss Jones' wds-on her death bed, and wanted to bo married—Mr. Tatem ■ accordingly wa» sent for, and the ceremony was performed during the silent lifers of the night Mrs. Tatem then expressed bqrself perfectly happy, and died at noun tf(C same day. TILE AGITATOR. HPpH YOUNG, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR. j WELLSBOHODGH, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 24, 1860, i REPUBLICAN NATIONAL NOMINATIOSB. POE PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN or Illinois; j ' -FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,’ i i HANNIBAXi BLAJVHjIN* T .or mabte. 1 Electora-at,Large, ( ._. ■ j , ' Has.. James Pollock, | ; Has. Thquas M. Howe., ' . 1 Edwarf C. KnlgUt, is P.B.Peimimiin,, : 2 Robert P. King,' • U Ulysses Meronr, ■ ■ 8 Heliy Bnmm,. !- 1 15 George Brassier, A Robert M. Faust, 16 A. B. Sharp, ■ 5 SathanHilU, 17 Daniel O. Gahr, 6 John M. BtoomaU, ■ 18 Samnel CaMn, 7 James W. Puller, 19 Edgar Coajm, 8 Leri B. Smith, 20. Edgar McKenna, 9 Pnutcli W. Chaiat, ■ ■ . 21 J. M- Klrkpatrick, 10 David Jlumnia, jr_ ' 22 James Kerr, 11 David Taggart, 23 Richard P. Roberta, 12 Thotnaaß. Hull, 24 Henry Soother, 1 25 Robert' drier. ' jo*» Presidential Election—Noroinber 6, iB6O. 43$* On the first page trill he found the Anti- Slavefy Record of Stephen A. Douglas. Next week jwe will publish his Pro-Slavery Record. We a|t thsEepublican readers of the Agitator to hand this paper to their Democratic neigh- hors, j Wo publish,two articles from Forney’s Press', from which our, readers will be able to gleam some of the views j of the straight-out friends of Douglas. Let the real friends of Mr. Dongjas in'this county reflect before voting for Fnsiojn. ! 1 BgL. Onmreaders mnst not fail to peruse the artiefe in another column headed “ What Tioga Counity can-Do.” It contains much valuable inforjnatiou, and should stir up those of our Republican friends who are not already “ wide awake,” to do their utmost to swell the triumph in thp approaching election. J - ■ tSf The Tribune has the following item;— Galulba A. Grow is re-elected to Congress from the ‘4 Wilmot” District of Pennsylvania by the snugjmajority of 8,938. As there are hut a few more than Twenty Thousand voters in tho District, that seems pretty well. They must make it a round Ten Thousand for Lincoln. j ggg-The N. Y. Herald— the Pro-Slavery or gan of Fusion—says in its issue of the 19 th inst.: “ She [New York State] will vote for Lincoln, and if by a majority equallto the whole popula tion Cf Kansas [loo,ooo] it will not surprise us. There is no genuine fusion between the Breck inridge and the Douglas factions. The breach has vfidened between them, since these late elec tions!” i I stfjjv»Tha Wellsboro Democrat begins- to have p “ realizing sense” of the character of its can didate for the Presidency, We presume it meads to do its prettiest to elect the Little Gi ant and that it is sincere in that np-hill effort, notwithstanding - its support of the Cresson doulfle-headed-Breckinridge-or-DoHglas-whioh- everlyou -please ticket. We clip the closing 'sentence from a recent art|cle in that paper, (which has a rather ominous!import: , “jLetus take heed in time; let the people, forewarned by the evidences of coming trouble aroqnd them, come forward in mass to save the country from the disasters which menace it by the election of Stephen A. Douglas to the JPresi dendi/.” '• The italics are ours. We do not share the fear* of our neighbor. We do not think Ste phen will be elected, and so we think that the disasters which menace the country will be happily avoided. BSP Among the many gratifying Republican victories of the late alection, none is more cheering to the friends of the Right than that gainted over the Mulatto Democracy of McKean I comity. Editor Oviatt, the indomitable apostle Jof disunion who labored so long and so anx j iously against such “ fearful odds” to establish the McKean Democrat upon a sound pecuniary bosife, has nothing left to Console him but the philosophical address - of; Dr. McCoy, delivered I last j winter before the E.; Plnribns.Unnm Club of Smetliport. And yet we fear that Dr. Me- Coyis political-and syntactical What Is It will afford- Oviatt but little comfort, inasmuch as our i>ld friend Wm. K. King (Rep.) is elected Treasurer, (Rep.) Sheriff, and W. A. Nichols, Esq. (Rep.) District Attorney. The “ odjla” are therefore far more “ fearful” than theyj were, but we trust Editor Oviatt will con tinue to “ struggle.” The majority for the en tire! [Republican ticket of McKean county is oveij three hundred. Before the State election nearly every Booh Foco paper in the State published mean personal attacks on Col. Cnrtin, charging that gentleman— among other wicked things—with shopting a Dutchman’s dog, and then twitting the [owner of being one of the “doable skulled Dnticb.” These rascally editors made Col. Curtin use oaths which nobody hut the lowest vagabond would, nse. But after all no decent Gorin an citizen seems to have believed them. Within the last few weeks every pro-slavery papjsr in this district published an extract, from a Venango sheet in which it was stated; that while Mr. Grow was speaking in Greensbnrg some fellow sat down on hia caat and broke his r bottle! We do not allude to this contemptible storly to contradict it. W.e cite ,it and the dog stony only to show the electioneering material the jPro-slaveryites have to resort to, in order to gain votes. They appeal to the prejudices and passions of men, instead; of appealing to their reason; and no mean personal attack of the character of those cited' have. ever failed to donfage tho party who used them, instead of the party they were .intended to damage.! THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. , f 'POTTER COUNTY POLITICS. f / SECOND ARTICLE. ! t ; 'lho article in the Agitator two weeks ago in-|rhieh we ventilated Potter County polities,, and-replied to the charge of deliberatefalse hoqd made by the Potter Journal against many of |nr,htet‘ ditiaeDB,,';soetna -to have ;stirred up-, thefwrath of tie conductors of that amiable sheet, and last week it came to us filled with the louiest and vilest of billingsgata which is doi|btlesa, intended ; as. a, reply'tdour plain statement of | the facts os regards the Represen tative question. .We can make allowances, of codrse, for ascertain 1 amount !of spleen conse qnqnt upon the defeat of its effort to ruin the paijly in Potter county, of which it claims'to ■ be.Jbqt of which it jia not the organ; but we oacjnbt overlook the fact that, having lost its own self respect andtherespect and .confidence of a majority of-tee Republican party of its own county, it is no longer entitled to the no tice of any respectable journal. We notice it to-aay only fbr the purpose of bringing it into still greater; contempt among those who, "in Potter county, wisely’disregarded its'teachings, and stood shoulder to shoulder in tee late con test for organization'and harmony. The article-in the Journal is sofull of false hoods that it' would! he difficult to crowd one mere into'tbe same amount of spaed. Its first bno is that we avoided the discussion of the Assembly question jtill. after f the late election beepuse we feared it might endanger the elect tioi of Messrs. Elliott and Strang. We never hac any fears of this kind. Messrs. Elliott Str mg were nominated by t m people of Tioga coo aty and not by tie politicians. The people rat: fled ‘ these nominations by nearly three thoisand majority in this county, and over thr :e hundred majority in Potter county. We did not notice the winnings of the Journal and its jlique, because we did not wish to endanger or ] ose to Coi. Curtin a single vote. I I;s second falsefaobd is that we indulged in “ b )ggy slang " against “several of the most woi thy and respectable citizens ” of that coun ty. It then adds in l its own high-toned style a per lon'al fling at oUrself which is too rich to wit ihold from our Readers: 1 30 idea of a man only seven years a voter and five Out jf the Democratic! ranks, preanming to brand as “ gi erriiiaa” men who have been fighting in the ranks of ] 'reedom sided long before this.yonng bog-trotter’s doits were off, is simply ridiculous—an insult to com non sense; and. siidply determines the level of his cha: acter, ‘ I T 'ow although wa are not in the habit of da, see iding into cesspools to throw dirt with black gm rds, we desire to correct the falsehoods con taii ted in the: above i moree.au. We never cast a votl for the so-called Democracy, as the Journal weß knows; t and even if we did, we cannot for j the life of ns see why our statement of facts twe weeks ago should be an insult to the com mo i sense of anybody save the publisher of the Joi mal, and his sfense is admitted by his best friends, to be of the very commonest kind. W< said nothjngjn pur _paper against Mr. Le: vis Mann's political integrity. We believe hit i to be an earnest and faithful believer in tha principles of our party. > But ho made a great mistake in permitting the ’ disorganizes to use, his name after be had once withdrawn it, las a'condidate against the regular nomina tions of the party., The “guerrilla” epithet wtfe applied unjustly by the Journal to one of our candidates, and we only sent it back where it belonged. We propose to prove by the Jotmal’s own confession that Mr. Mann was a juerrilla.” That paper says •. Ir. Mann was not ran with the remotest hope of election, nor at his own instance or desire; he was ply ran to enable tha Republicans of Potter to ihold their assent from the action of the Tioga jinty Convention and its ratification committee, b county committed deemed this action dne to the publicans of this county, bnt did not make any et (to securo votes for Mr. Mann this year, (leaving b the option of the voters,) because greater issues Jo at stake. Now if Mir. Mann was run “to enable tee publicans of Potter to withhold their assent |m the action of the Tioga Connty Conven |i” why didn't they do it ? Why did Mr. ,nn receive the Democratic vote of the conn and nothing else? If with the herculean iris of-the County Committee, aided by the '.mal the people refused to withhold their as it to our nominations, what was wrong? 3n’t the Journal and its clique count without jir host? Che County Committee printed and distribu- Mr. Mann’s name with the names of the or candidates, and refused to print and disr jute the names of Messrs. Elliott and Strang regular nominees. And yet we are coolly 1 in the above extract, that no effort was mdde to seoiiure votes for Mr. Mann! If a man becomes a candidate against the regular nomi- ty eff Jo: sei Di thi nations of his own party, with'no hopes of an eh ction for himself but with’ the hope that his ru aning will defeat the regular nominees by th 'owing the election into the hands of a third pc rty, we should dnhcsitatingly pronounce him “a >olter or “ guerrilla.” This is Mr. Mann’s cafee exactly, exceptthat he “ was not run at hi 3 own instance cjr desire” but at the instance m d desire of bis “friends,” who, doubtless, w shed to immolate him upon the altar of “ in d( pendent action” so that he will be out of the wiy of .their petty ambitions-for all future ti ae. The rote for Representatives in the several to : unships of Potter county furnishes material fr im which we coi.ld “ point amoral and adorn a ale” if time andspace would Alow. Was not the spectacle of Friday at Mount ’iraon suggestive of some curious thoughts?, i ie embryo King of Great Britain, surrounded ij British noblemen, stood uncovered and rev rtmtially before the. tomb of “Mr- Washing 6b, commander c f the rebels.” If some seer timid have predicted to George 111. the scene 4 write ajiont, suys the New York Bay Booh, l|s Majesty would have foamed at the month, 'tings do get turned upside down byMonsieur 'ino.' P’ROiJMC THB PEOPLE. —.- Wiiat Tioga ,County can Do. ■ Mr. Young ( According to\the recent census; oui> coimty contains 31.121. inhabitants. Al» lowing one vote to every four and a half inhabi tants; whichis adhir, though perhaps'a low es timate, our county would have 6,916 voters.. AttheSOctpher, election 'we.cist 5,478 .votes, being 1,438 less than a full vote. Of the votes cast, Curtin received 4,147 and Foster being a majority for Curtin of 2,816. According to this proportion on a fall,, rote, as above,-the Republicans would receive 5,23,4 and the united Democracy 1,681, heing J a publican majority of. 3,554. In the Districts that have been fully canvassed it is proper to say that it has been found .that there is full one voter in every four,and four-tenths inhabitants. This would addTs7 more to the voters. I The table below, prepared with considerable labor andcare, shows the number of inhabi tants in each election district, the number of voters on the basis of one to,, every four and a' half inhabitants, the votes given in each elec tion district at the October election, the num ber of voters, who were absent from the polk— the majorities—and the majorities that will be given on a full vote at the Presidential election, taking-the October majorities as the basis of calculation. a* 'I tSj W fe! r I s-f ® p *§ s<| • < a $ & 2 <* *, a x o ■ • s 3 1,3. a .° 2. s " :i j ?? rt § i r » « : ; 5 <* 2 s I DISTRICTS. ,1; : :o S, 3 j § - 1 : j •«2 Sj ‘I- 1 : a : .1 iafl : ,: :g. : ,5> S - : - : {: j,» : .g) ? : ~ Bloas 880 195 ~131 6l -59 SS Brookfield ;963 201 146 '55 -82 *ll4 Chatham 1687 375 246’ 120 72f 110 Charleston. c..*.. 2012 448 380 08 294 351 Covington 869 193- 167 20 45 53 Clymer..... J.J.. 1054 234 154 80 128 197 Delmar 2329 518 406 112 282 304 Deerfield 679 150 128 22 60 59 •Elk, 79 17 15 2 15 17 ElHand.Boro 312- 70 70 ... 52 52 Farmington 1161 246 186 60 90 120 Gaines 437 97 79 18 41 61 Jackson 1825 339 238 101 38 .65 Knoxville 313 70 62 8 40 46 Lawrence ~..1037 231 178 63 96 125’ tawrenceville 515 114 107 7 63 68 Liberty 1642 365 265 100 7 11 Morris 440 98 74 24 60 67 Mainsburg ... ,114 25 24 1 10 11 MiddlObnry 1567 349 285 64 167 207 Mansfield 352 78 75 3 45 47 Nelson ■ 517 115' 84 31 44 61 Osceola 1446 -112 82 20 70 -88 Richmond 1345 299 280 . 19| 152 165 Rutland 1155 257 220 37 56 66 Shippen-. 247 55 40 15 28 39 Sullivan 1771 393 302 91 168 222 Tioga 1085 241 203 38 117 139 Tioga Boro 443 98 84 14 62 73 Union 1320 294 233 61 177 228 ■Wellsboro : 809 180 185 ..... 101 99 Westfield i 1135 252-1 182 70 132 183 2833(3576 Covington Boro*.. ...I > 317 f 70 j 59j HI 5( 6 Ward*..., j 663 J 147 [ IOSj 30 j 121 16 31121 6916 5478 1438 2816 3554 Calling the majority 3,500, it would leave at least 224 voters at.home, saying nothing about the many changes favorable to the Republicans that will have taken plnoe-between the October and November elections.-. Republicans of Tioga county, make the ma jority in your county 3,500 and you will be the Banneir County of the State. Instead of per mitting two hundred and twenty-four voters to absent themselves. from the polls on the 6th of November, see that every man votes who is fa vorable to free labor, free speech and honesty., in the administration of oar Government. ' WeUsboro, Oct. 2Std, 1860. J, E. l Erastus Brooks at Addison, Editor of the Aqitatoe— Dear Sir; Permit me to notice, through your columns, the kind of warfare which the enemies of Republicanism seek to wage in the great political contest; not that the question at issue has not been faith fully presented toi your readers, bnt rather to call the attention of the discriminating, to the cunningly devised fallacies to which unscrupu lous politicians resort'. On the evening of the 4th Inst, at Addison, I had the opportunity of hearing the Hon. Eras tus Brooks, of New York. “Do men light a candle and put it under a bushel f" else why was this luminary placed in so prominent a po sition? Perhaps I am irreverent, but don’t lot the gods know it, and overlook my digres sions. This modern “Peter” (the hermit,) took bis first position as a sort of prologue, that the Democratic party had a right to act without being questioned—a license which seemed available to him throughout the dis course. His next rather broad position was, that “no one who had ever been a Democrat, could consistently be a Republican any longer.” In demonstrating this he came to the conclu sion that the principles of the Republican par ty are hostile'to Jeffersonian Democracy; and to corroborate the statement, read an extract from onto of Lincoln's letters, criticising, some act of’Jefferson’s.- How logical; because. “ Honest Old Abe ” discredited some motive of a once prominent Democrat, he has alienated bis political associates from their most cher ished precepts. Then let all who would see the fallacy of such arguments, compare the Chicago platform, fully endorsed by our candi dates, with the Ordinance of 1784,, written by Jefferson himself. Again he said, “let every Republican present answer to himself, how he can consistently support for Vice President, a man who opposed the homestead bilL” In con nection with this, let it be remembered thoit on the 6th of March last, G. A. Grow of Pa., re ported a Bill to the Honse, liberally providing a home for the laboring class of community. On the 12th of that month it passed the House of Representatives, yeas 115, nays 65—not one Republican voting against it. In the Senate, Johnson (Dam.) moved to amend by striking cut the right of pre-emptors, also to charge 25 cents per acre for all lands disposed of in this manner. Mr. Wade (Rep.) .then moved a res toration of the original bill, which was sup ported by Hamlin and all ■ other Republicans present. The motion of Wade, Of course, was lost, in a Democratic Senate, and.that of John son taken up; Mr. Hamlin and others voting against it, for the very good reason that 1 if passed, it would cheat the people out of their just claims, set forth in Grow’s bill. As now amended, it was returned to the House where it was promptly negatived, for the above given reasons. After the fruitless attempts of several conference committees to adjust the matter, the Senate modified their restrictions oh the origi nal bill, and it pdSsed.both Houses, Mr.'Hiim lih again, voting for it. Thus we find Hamlin a firm advocate of the Homestead- policy, vo ting and acting throughout with the-Republi can patty. ■ Yet Mr. Brooks read/an extract from his (Hamlin’s) remarks against the mere ♦These districts gave Democratic majorities. 4 JiV* J shadow of Johnson’s, and, said it was a speech against the free-home policy. Confidentially ossarihg his heitrers that he voted against the bftl, h6'asks “ who can consistently 'support the Repnbikarr-irominee#?’’—All wiHreadily see the absurdity of such_ reasoningsjmlmed offonly to deceive the less reading class 'of community.. Whether they shallmeet the ends of-liis foul purposes, l rest with the working people to decide.. Let those who talk of con sistency not be the ones who have made so many graceless gyrations’as Erastus Brooks. - He-next governs “ special-fits” on the tariff question, and candesoended to inform ns that in Pehn, the people were led into' the' belief that Lincoln favors the -protective policy, while his.true position as represented mother states, is against it. My first .thoughts instinctively wdrh “ the ignorance of an injury is better than ■ the knowledge of ittherefors-doti’t pot-yonr self out of the Way • at all to enlighten ok— There is an article in the Republican platform, sufficiently explicit for our instructions. After making a number of statements equally false ahd unphiloaophical, this intellectual pugilist came to the conclusion that we, the people of the North, are responsible for the miseries of the slave; that agitation has-only led him into more Territories, and bound bis chains still tighter. To prove this he remarked, “ when I first went South it was quite common to see groups of slaved assembled for religions in structions.” What an enchanted tradition. Oh triumphant charity, mercy was well nigh outdone, and philanthropy strove^to. keep pace. Ah then you did see, with rapture, nien who exact the lives and services of fellow’ men, tell ing them there is a God; think you, they imag ined him a relative, of their masters ? But yon say that this is not the case now, and yet tell us not to agitate; not to stay the aggressions of the accursed institution. You tell that we are miserable, blind fanatics and do worse than to thwart our own purpose. But how, I ask, came so .many of the original slave states now free ? Was it not agitation, and is it not upon agitation that rests our weal or woe as a nation. Then why so much deception ? or have yon re belled against all truth and justice, that you . now seek to avert them. J In oonelusipn, when we see men of; acknowl edged political prominence advocate their cause, only perverting record, and wilfully misrepre senting the {frincipies and aims of their oppo nents, we may not only discredit their acts, but question their motives. Corrupt, indeed, must .be the party that can not candidly cause for the decision of amending people ; des perate their circumstances, when compelled to rake-frora filthy sloughs of their intellects, the most libelous perversions. Solos. Osceola, Oct. 13 ih, 1860. POEHET OIT THE CEESSOH - PTTSIOIT, [From the Philadelphia Pieas.] The editor of The Volunteer, a paper pub lished at Carlisle, in this State, of which places he is the postmaster,, flies into, a passioji over: the straight Douglas electoral ticket, and indul ges himself as follows: “It is the most shameless attempt to hetiby the Democracy, and give the State to the Oppo sition, we have ever known. The men engaged in this business are nnderthe direction of John W, Forney, editor of The Tress, and know what they are about. Let any one look Over -the col umns of Press, and he will soon see what Forney is driving at. Every day its broad pa ges are filled with the speeches of Black Re publican orators. Forney is a Lincoln man, and is doing more for the cause of Black Re publicanism than any other Republican editor in the State. His affected gratification when Douglas and Foster were nominated, it was well known, was all a sham—a mean attempt at deception. Ho desired the confidence of these distinguished men for Si short time, that he might betray them with a kiss. He is de termined, if possible, to defeat the Democratic party, and he believes he can accomplish this by. running a bogus electoral ticket in fbis State. If Democrats -can bo caught by this bait,' and any considerate number be induced to support the bogus ticket, then, indeed, the State' is lost, and ‘Old Abe’ 'will, in all proba bility, be the next President.” We. can make allowances for the difficulties under which any honest man must labor, who attempts to condnct a Democratic newspaper while holding an office under the present cor rupt Administration of the General Govern- His interest is always in conflict with his judgment—his, pocket with his principles— his official obligations with his duties to bis readers. ■ No man in the State has been more generously indulged by the people around him than the very Mr. Bratton who conducts the Carlisle Volunteer. In order to allow him -to retain his office, theyTiave charitably submitted to his support of the Worst acts'of Mr. Bu chanan and his Cabinet—to his championship -of the miserable Abl, who betrayed his princi ples on the Lecoropton question, fur what is generally supposed to have been a considera tion —and even to his attacks upon independent men who would not follow his example. Bratton has indepd labored to propitiate their good opinion by apologizing in private to those whom he had publicly assailed, and by confidentially sneering at and denouncing -the very acta which,, in his newspaper,- he seemed sincerely to 1 Among those who have been favored with his professions of friendship is the editor of Press. Incli nation and old -associations led us .to believe these professions, and induced us to pass over his humiliating subserviency to the tyrants at Washington. In days gone by it was bur pleasure to serve him, and in later times to plead in his behalf-to those who objected to his libels and tils inconsistencies. The above extract, however, displays not only hia utter want of gratitude, but hia utter want of truth. If there is a man in the State who knows the nature of the editor of The Press —who can judge of his sincerity, and who has gone fur ther than others to approve the policy upon which this journal is conducted—it is this same Bratton. He knows that ..“Forney”, is not-a “Lincoln man.” He knows that' Forney is earnestly and ardently the friend of Stephen A. Douglas; and he knows, too, “that every daythe broad pages of The Press are not filled with speeches of Black Republican orators.” Here, now, are three patent and distinct false hoods—patent to ell men, and known to be such to him who utters it. The Press is a news paper. It has its opinions, and its convictions, which, while deliberately, and daily publishing, do not prevent it from giving, the widest circu lation to the. opinions and convictions of others. Current events, .personal -oc, political, areiool .lected carefully, and reported to *ita thousands of readers. | But the editor is no more respon sible for the speeches he-prints, than he is for his advertisements> Mr. Bratton, like the rest of his school, con ceals the truth, in order to assist the wrong. While denouncing the straight Douglas elec- 'toral ticket, and calling upon the friend* of Douglas' to vote .- for the-; enemies of Douglas l on .the Fusion ticket, ha is .dishonest enough to : refose; to state .that the-straight Douglas elec toral ticket not only meets-the .warm approval of Stephen A.-Donglas^'but'was- absolutely appointed "at;'his-, earnesi’veqoefjt. .Will this man Bratton; say' that Donglas is for Lincoln because Douglas is -for ,the straight ticket? What else does Bratton meanly hide from his readers, in order to make'good his'abuseof The Tress ? - Only that in the Southern States the men who pray for the election of the fusion ticket ; in. Pennsylvania boldly strike-every Douglas man from their electoral tickets, on the ground that no Donglas man can be a-De mocrat.. Nor does he tell the honest -Democracy of Cumberland county that he is asking them to-support an electoral ticket composed'of. men,, the majority of whom are not only trying to break down the regular organization and nomi nations of the party, but -ere committed to a candidate/orjthe Presidency who 'is controlled by the 'enemies of {he Union. Nor does he tell them that, blaming The Frees and its ed itor for assisting to elect Lincoln, such a result is the assured consequeiiceoftbe revolutionary course of Breckinridge and bis supporters. If Breckinridge were"not-, in the field, Douglas would be elected in November, : , Mr. Bratton flies the flag of Douglas and Johnson from bis mast-head; but his colors, like his statements, are false. The pirate who" goes forth to Wage and to .burn, to rob and to murder, nnfurls the flag of some civilized na tion in order more effectnally to accomplish his fiendish-purposes; and so with the post-? master of the-Carlisle Volunteer, The name of Douglas printed at the head of its columns is a decoy anjd a cheat. Directly below it ha prints the fusion electoral ticket, which Donglas has himselMenounced, and which, like a maga zine in the Corsair’s hold, whenever the time comes, will be\ used to destroy the very cause to which this Yolknieer professes attachment. This is the man, and this is the newspaper that at tempts to arrajign The Press for disorganiza tion, and to hold its editor accountable for the probable election of Abraham Lincoln. Let Mr. Bratton, all of his class, receive the 'bounties of the Administration,but let him not still further outrage the honest Democracy, who, for years, have tolerated his mercenary conduct, by attempting with wanton impunity, to drive them ' into an. endorsement of the ve nalities and treacheries of which he has so long been the [shameless apologist." i Dr Hostetler's Bitters have "received the warmest encomiums from the press and people thronght the union. As aCvalnOblek tonic for the cure of Dyspepsia, Flatulence, (Constipa tion and general nervous debility J it cannot he approached. Every day new cases of its great effect are -chroinieled through our public jour nals. There is nothing equal to the enjoyment, hi that which' the afflicted experience when using this valuable specific. Its mild tone, its sup vigorous action upon a disordered stomach, and the cleansing of the entire human, body, should recommend it to all classes of our com munity. All that will be necessary to convince the skeptical of its healthy effects, is to purchase a bottle and be convinced. Sold/ by druggists and 'dealers generally, everywhere, j | See advertisement in another .column. A IMPLICATION IN DIVORCE.—To Almi ra Hall.—You are hereby notified that Henry Hall, roar husband, -has applied to the Coart of Com mon Pleas of Tioga county for la divorce from the bonds of matrimony, and that th'oj said Court have ap pointed Monday, the 3d day of December, at 2 o’clock P. M., for hearing the said Hcnfy Hall In the premi ses, at which time and place-yon can appear if you think proper. | S. L TOWER, Sh’fiL ' October 24, 1860w4. ' ' Application in divorce.—To e. s. Marsh, You aro hereby Notified that Tolly Marsh, by her next friend James Marsh, has applied to the Court of Common-Pleas, of Tioga county for a divorce from thej bonds of matrimony, and that the said Court have- appointed Monday, the 34 day of De cember, at 2 o'clock P. M., for hearing ttte'skid Polly Marsh in the promises, at which time and place you can appear rf you think proper; Oct 24, S. L POWER,, Sh'fi-^, A PPLICATJION IN DIVORCE; —To Kath-. ** erine Kiff. You are hereby notified that Kraa tus Kiff, your husband, has applied to the* Court of Common Pleas, of Tioga county for al divorce from, the bonds of matrimony, and that the skid Court have appointed the 3d day of December, at 2 o'clock P. M., jfpr dicariUg the said Erastua Kiff, ,at which time andinlice iyou can append if you think proper. ■; \~ [ f 'S. L‘ POWER, Sh’ff. Oct. 24, 1860w4. ‘ : Administrators notice.—Letters of Administration haying been granted to the sub scribers, on. the estate of James A. Wilson, fate of Delmar township, decM, notice ishereby given to those indebted to said estate Jto make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them properly au thenticated for settlement to the subscribers, in Del mar. P. C. HOIG; 1 . . , ANDREW BARTLS, j Aam rS ■ October.24’. 3s6ow6* ' ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTlCE:—Letters of Administration having been granted to*the sub scriber, on the estate of Henry Decay, late of Clymer township, deo’4 r notice is hereby given to those in debted to said estate to make immediate payment, and those having claims, to present them prpperly authen ticated for settlement to tho subscriber.in CVymcr. Qct.,24, 1860., JOB REXFORD, Adm’r. STRAYED] OR STOLEIV-Erom the sob scriber, onjthe night of Wednesday, Sept. 26th, A LIGHT RED COW, about sis years with largo, well sbapjed horns, and large bag. No peculiar marks remembered. Any Information ia regard to said cow will bej gratefully.received by tbo subscriber, and all reasonable charges paid. J . PHOEBE MOORE. - Charleston, Oct 24,1860w3. “VTOTJCE lb’ TEACHERS.—The School Di- Al rectors of Dolmar District will meet at the Deane school house on Saturday, the 3d of November next, sc 10 o'clock* A M., for tho purpose of contracting with teachers ft r the winter schools. By order of the Board. GBO. HILDRETH, Delmar, Oct. 24, 1860w2 . ; » Secretary* TVTOTICE.—■ To ike Stockholders of Tioga “ County Siiuk: The annual electioneer Directors will bo held on ;he third Monday of November at their Banking Housd, Dated 22d Oct. 1860. 4t-12 B. C. WICKHAM, Pres’t. WESTFIELD SELECT SCHOOL. 0. jjl. STEBBINS, Teacher. The TTinter'[Term begins November 2Tth, 1860. I TUITION: Primary Branches...... $2 50 Common English ; 3 00 Higher Branches. J.~.. 3 50 Board and rooms in private families furnished at very low prieds. A good hall has been procured for the winter term. No pains will bo spared to make > x this school cqukl to any in the county, O. M. STEBBINS. 12w4 Westfield;, Tioga Co,, Pa. Veterinary Surgeon, THE undersigned bogs to inform to people of Tioga County, that ho has located himself -at Tioga. Borough for the cure of all diseases known to Horses, in thasborlest time. Satisfaction given or no charge made. - ■ ffll. HO UK, Tioga, Fa ■ Refers to 1 J, G. Mercorcau, Abram Shappoo and Itaac ; • , 3mU
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