A SSJBXE3 07 , RUBES OASES. ■ Biith American and English social life are now exhibiting some jqn?er developments, some peculiar phases. They seem to he excrescences which spring from tlie robust and intensely ac tive forms of life which prevail in tbe two,coun tries, where of all othjprs there is by law and social freedom of individual action.' These curious social phenomena doubtless arise from the very naturefof things. There is such overwhelming energy!in the business circles of; both countries that rapfbid conditions of socidl life niust.foHowi Where all is rapidity and ve locity there-must nec|Bsarily be some unsound-; n"53. ; " j'l ’ . ! 1 ' The ease how west tioticed js that of Mrs. | Burcb t a relative of jhe distinguished Erastus| Corning, of New York, on trial for infidelity,; at Napiarvllle, Illinois, She seems, according! to a written paper put into the case, to have con-1 fessed her guilt, yet tpe evidence of disinteres ted and disconnected'! parties shows‘that the! confession as to time.fplfico and circumstances, is false and unfounded. It is still -upon trial. The case of Mra.-Eeardsley, in New York city, the daughter of| a clergyman, developes j the curious charge ofj having married a second! husband, living within three miles of the other t and succeeded in concealing the fact from botbj through a period of Several years. To the fact! of the marriage, atidj identity of person, and! long continued iilterct ijrse, the second husband] swore most though the jury did not] find her guilty jjpon' that point in the indict-j ment. S. ' ': The English ease i*| one of great , merit. A Miss Sheaden, Dorn in NewiYork.is now, after the lapse of sixty years, trying to prove that her mother wps properly married. Her coun sel, for some cause not explained during the prndencyof the case in the Probate Court of London, abandoned lifer case. According to the latest European advices, she has been success fully competing with .a cute hnd learned coun sel, both in' the preliminary, statement of the i ease andiin-ithe examination of witnesses, dur-| ing the firsttwo days of the trial, evincing the j possession of great l mental powers and high's accomplishments. ■lj - i We remember a similar instance in this coun try. At one time, whilst one of the numerous suits, brought by Mral Gen'. Edmund P. Gaines, was pendingin one of the New Orleans Courts, her counsel abandoned her cause after the jury; whs empanelled. Iphe immdiately took pos-| session of thp papers,! continued the cxaniina tibn of the witnessed Apoke tu t * ie Court and jury | and won the case ic/ihat Court, although, iflourj memory serves us fight, the decesion was re-1 versed in the Court) above.' i PENNSYLVANIA. The State of Pennsylvania has not formally] ind specially legislated at all againjst the Uni-( ted States fugitive slave law of 1850. though j there was an old of 1847 which pro-j hibited any. judj'e, justice of the peace, or al-j derman from tatmg Cognizances of the ‘case of? any fugitive'from la|)or, “ under a certain acti of Congress' passed t(n the 12th day of Febru-| ary, 1793.” During the last 1 session> of her| Legislature the Commissioners appointed toj revise'and amehd tlm Penal Laws of Pennsyl-j vania (John C. ;Knps, Edward King and David! Webster) madela report to the Legislature thatj they had completed their labors, and the result! was presented in the shape of a bill entitled* An act to consolidate, revise and amend the: Penal Laws ofr this Conlmonwealth.” That' report, on the tfiirty-lfirst dajr of Marchj^lSCO,; was. enacted info a jiw, and J by the ninety-Sftb-| section it is enacted as follows: ’ | ‘(•No Judge iof jalny of the Courts of this.; Commonwealth; nor! any Alderman or Justice) of the Peace off said Commonwealth, shall have? jurisdiction or take*) :ogpixance of the case off -any fugitive from labor from any of the United States or Territories Under any act of Congress,! nor shall pny sucii Judge; Alderman, or Jus-t tioe of the .Peace of this Commonwealth, issue or grant,any certificate or warrant of removal of any such fugitive from labor, under any act of'Congress ;‘and if any Alderman or Jusf tice of the Peace off this Commonwealth shall take oognisanefe or jurisdiction of fhe case of any such fugitive, or shall grant or issue any certificate' or warrant of removal, as aforesaid) then, and in eitherjease, fie shall be deemed guilty oif a misdemeanor in office, and shall, on conviction thereof. Tie sentenced to pay, at the discretion of the, Quart, any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, the pne-half to the party prosecuting for the same, and the other half tc| the use of this Commonwealth.” | The theory of this law, il will' be seen, is founded strictly on.tfie decision of the Supreme Court of thej United States in the Prigg case) and does hot interfere' with the functions o| the Commissioner (Appointed under the United States Jaw.-t-JtoibfiaZ Intelligencer. ' | , Jefferson's Tij'Souy of the President’s Dutv in Case of ijSji session. —Though Jeffer-j eon’* is no longer a name to conjure devils with in some sections oft he United States, it is still regarded with and veneration by moat* of the readers of the 'Evening Post . They, will T be curious;- therefore, to read ‘the following 'opinion, given in of a crisis prej cisely like that which we are now weathering! In answer to some kuestion propounded to hinij by M. de MeUsnihk 1 (Jefferson’s Works, volj’ IX., pp. 291-2.) heitjsed the following striking language; . , f “ It has been oftoh said that the decisions of Congress are impotoht because the Confedera tion provides no, compulsory power. But wheh, two or more nlationgf enter into compact, it ia not usual for them Uisay what shall be done toj the party who infringes it. Decency forbids! this. ahd itda as unnecessary as iudecent, be i cause the right pf critnpulsion naturally resultd to the party, injured byj the breach. When any one State of the Airririuaii Union refuses obe-i dience to the confederation by which they have* bound themselves, thk rest have a natural right to compel them to ojiedience. Congress would probably exercise ■ lung patience before they! would recur to-forpei but if the case ultimately required it, they Would use that recurrence| Should this case ever arise, they will piobably coerce by a. naval: dcrCb, ns being more easyj less dangerous to'liberty and less likely to pro| duoe mach bloodshed-’; —Keening Post, ’ \ ft citizen of Chester county; Daniel Bamm wboyoted for Breckinridge in November, notified, a few daye sinbe, to leave Savannah! -Georgia, where he was on a visit. Daniel toolf the hint, and returned to bis borne. Wondet if he will support a fur President at a future period of hii | The totn) vote of Itlje State of Booth Caro? lino, Georgi-n FloriJrt, Alabama, pt. at thejate election *» n nt ov » r Z ( Wm They are the State* that dettrtto" wvii, ~ Pewiajlranla aloe* filled -476,71® rote*. ! I i ■. Ji \ V - -i f THE AGITATO HUGH TO PNG, EDITOR i PROPHIETOB-| WELZ.SBOEOOGH, PA., j. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 2, 186|. JB@T We print elsewhere an interesting letter from Springfield, the home of the President elect, to the Herald, detailing the particulars If the late visit of Hon. David Wilmot to that place, ’ | TfiS CdN&BESSiOH'AI, OOItIdITTEBSi The Senate and House Committees have nl)t been able to agree upon any settlement of tie Slavery question, nor is it probable that; tin y will be. . The House Committee :met on Thai s day, when Mr.! Rost’s proposition'of fldju t ment, for the extension of the Missouri Com proibise line to the Pacific —slavery south of it to he protected while in a territorial conditio a, but the States formed on either side to be _ ad- mitted into the Union with Or without slaver?, ns the people may determine—was rejected, tle Republioana ( and-Mr. Davis,, of Maryland, vi t log against it. -On Friday the amendment of Mr. Adams, of Mass., to the Constitution, pio hibiting Congress from passing any daw into r fering with slavery in the slave States, wis agreed to by nearly a unanimous vote, the dis sentients considering that the Constitution tl ready gives that security. - The proposition of Mr. Crittenden, to re-ip state the Missouri Compromise line, was roti d down by the Senate Committee on Saturdi y week, and on Friday last the several propnf i tiobs of Messrs. Bigler and Riq?, were rejected. The committee being unable Jo agree will so report to the Senate. THE PKOQHESB OF TBEASON. Last week has been one of great events n the history of our dountry. 1 It Is known to t II of onr readers that Itbe pauper State of Sou h Carolina—a State which has depended up: n the bounties of tlie General Government fir the support of her, would-be great men ever since she had an existence—has declared he> self out of the Union and set up on her own individual hook. Military companies paradfd the streets of Charleston only waiting for tl e order of the leading traitors to make an attack upon Fort Moultrie, which tfie traitor Bnohanam had taken care to have garrisoned by only|a handful of men, while forts Sumter and Pinck ney were left nngudrded with a yie.w donhtleis to their being taken possession of by the in surgent Carolinians. This Was the position |f things, when on Christmas night Major Ai doraon, fhe gallant lender of a gallant little band, left Fort Moultrie! after having spikatl its guns and took possession of Sumter, iHje etrongest fort in America. Of course the whole nation approves this act, as it was really an »«• of self-preservation! and as Buchanan and his Secretary of War disclaim any knowledge |f 4t, it was doubtless done by Major Andersi|n on his own responsibility. iSince then the ia- have taken possession of Moultrie and Pinckney and the palmetto Hag waves over tne forts which ought to have been protected by the Stars and Stripes. It Vyould be useless for us to try to disguise the fact that Buchamfn and his traitorous Cabinet have been not only secretly but openly conniving at the disunion movements of the South andih.ive.been strength ening that section and weakening the North [o far as the transfer pf arms and military stores can do so. Not long since five' hundred cases of muskets were shipped by order of the Gov ernment from the Arsenal qt Watervliet N. Y. to Savannah, and |a dispatch states, that tpe Governor of Georgia bad obtained leave frqm the Secretary of 'War for the absence of Cyl. Hardie to go to Europe to purchase arms Air that State. We hear also of An order on l|ie arsenal at Pittsburg for the transfer of seventy eight heavy guns to Galveston, Texas, and foray, six more to’Ship Island near the Balize. The fortifications at Gajveston will not be ready |to receive the guns fpr. three years yet, as they are only in the course of construction. Tho|ie are facts which noi one can easily misunder stand, nnd if they do not ipdicate the compli city of Buchanan, then we know not what they mean. i I We now come dtjwn to the events of the Inst few days. It is not enough* for the South Cai o lina-insurgents that their fling waves over too forts, the Post Office, Custom House and A r senal at Charleston but they have even tak in possession of a revenue cutter, and set atrlib erty the captain ofja slaver who had been con demned by one off their* Own judges. Every day adds more andj more to the coffiplicatio is of the case, and itpeems as; if the rebels wore courting a war of j bloodshed at the hands of the general government. In the Cabinet, Floyd, the Secretary of War asked that Major be remanded Ha to Fort Moultrie oti else withdrawn from So li ter entirely. After a long discussion, this was negatived and Mr) Floyd, who had been rcb bing tha Treasury of millions of dollars ns may be seen in on article elsewhere in these columns,'at once resigned. He will now 50 home probably, ami openly advocate the distin ion schemes, which! he has long used the powfcr of the government secretly to advance. Itiis quite possible that Major Anderson may be al lowed to remain undisturbed where he is. we wait anxiously for the action of Congress bn the special messagi withwhieh Buchanan pin poses to favor the pountry oh these and , otl|er questions.. Whatever that! action may be, |re trust that all true Republicans will sustmn their representivesi in their efforts to rest<|re peace to the country by their firmness in main- * taining the. rights of all sections; and In *’ maintaining the Constitution as it is, and en firauig the laws," jjf neoetsary to secure peace. j the tiqga county agitator. FBOM i WASHINGTON.' Summary.-df the Nows of the Week. [Specialty prepnretTfur The Agitator.] roar moblpkie e-vacbated. Thursday, JD'ee. £7 .—The intelligence of Ma jor Anderson'* sodden! removal from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter I produced a. profound impression here to-day,|imd is variously re-” garded according tii the feelings nod prejudices of the different sections, 1 1 - - His present position is impregnable against any force South Carolina can employ, and com mands Charleston',; the Ship channels,'and ail the forts in thebarbor. I {He acted without spe cific instructions from the War "Department," except to hold the forts and act on the defen sive, though it is known that Gen. Scoff favored this stop, when'reehforcejiiients were refused for Fort Moultrie, and perhaps may have intimated as much to the officer in command of the station. Major Anderson had [ {the right to make the transfer, though it Undoubtedly involves a deli cate responsibility tinder {present circumstances. The President will ho'urged to supersede him, but as the force has not teen augmented, which was the point raised by the nuthoritiesof South Carolina, he will hesitate before, venturing to rebuke this actl j . i A Cabinet meetirig wa this afternoon, i i j The Disunionists dendi conduct in the 1 strongest as exhibiting a: hostile n • the Administration; Th tate a crisis, bill others peace-preserver yetjdevis dersnn holds Fort Sumi collision In|ellijrence from-Chhrlestnn, to members of the Cabinet, spates that’.the populace have ciirtt seizeiftlie public property in Charleston' to re taliate upon M«j. Anderson's 'movement, anti the consultation afitbe White House is upon this and other point's connected with the policy now to be pursued.' Mr. Buchanan vrillproba bly bd compelled to' confront the very issue be has been conspiring to avoid. THE GREAT pODBEET. We chronicled in this column last week the giant robbery of $870,000 from the Treasury by rmo of the ba.vlors for secession, Mr. God dard Bailey a South Cajrolinian. Russell his accomplice, hnaj been sent to jail in default of half a million dollars bail. The Tribune speak ing on this, subject saystj The history (if that era of our Government, to be known hereafter as the Age of Fraud, is yet to lie written. It is yet to be written be cause all the hideous facts in regard to it are undoubtedly yet to he revealed. When a new Administration, comes into power to sweep away the present incumbents of office, when accounts are to he made dp and balances paid over, thera can'ha no reasonable doubt that a disclosure of fraudulent official bankruptcy will be made unparalleled in the annals of any gov ernment that has had a written history. Some of these gigantic villainieis have been exposed from time to time in the jpublic journals, and, at this moment,' when the! attention.is directed to the latest fraud upon the Treasury, it is well to group them together, as the groundwork of the chapter is still to come. We do not include in this list the various measures of corruption resorted to in various parts of the country by the officeholders of the Administration, from the President down to navy-yard blacksmiths, to defeat and carry elections. It refers only to positive burglaries on thej United States Trea sury made by distinguished official *■ crncks •* men," to fill their Own hungry and capacious pockets. We, perhaps, omit even some of these, but the list is nevertheless bad enough : • fiamr. of SwiitdU, Fort Snelling Willett’* Point; New Bt'tifnrd Fort Site.. Utah Fl<>*«r Contract*...!. Ut4ih Corn Contract. Utnh Mule Sale El P.u*o Wagon Koud Fowler Defalcation..*. Godard Bailey's RotiberJ Total Two million, five hundred and forty-five thou sand dollars is certainly (i snug sum to be ab stracted from the Nationjal Treasury during a single Administration of jfour years; even if it should not be swollen —-as no doubt it must be —by further defalcation* 1 yet to be discovered. Nearly, the whole of it, if will be observed, has escaped through the 'War Department; and is it not a fair inference! tbait where the known de ficit is so large, there fnjiy still be larger de ficits not yet tnadb ptihlic? Revolution and civil war are convenient sponges, and bare wiped out, in other nabobs, many an ugly ac count) which it would bej inconvenient to ren der. Mr. Secretary Floyd, and Mr. Secretary Cobb too,, for that matter, may have had other motives than those’ wljiiih have their spring simply in Southern sectionalism for preventing the forts in the harbor: of Charleston from be ing put in a proper condition of defense. A collision between the Federal Government by the people of a Statd might possibly bring about such confusion, and disaster that the de linquencies of mehe civ 1 'Officers might not only be passed over unnoticed and unpunished, but might even he • tiJ iia(n unknown. s . ape tb ren ajn une.. TREASON' IN TUB WHITE DOUSE. Saturday. Dec. £9.--Tho revolutionists in Charleston have hoisted their flag nn the United States Custom House and Post-Office in that City, ami taken riiilitiijy possession ,nf Fort Moultrie and Qaslle Pi ntkney. wiiioh had been virtually evacuated hr |Maj. Anderson. This is an act of hostility th (be United States, whose property to a large amount, including many e.iniuui, is thus seized by its open enemies.— But Fort Sumpter still commands the harbor and the city, amj its strength may well “ laugh a siege to scoirn,”| so ( long ns the Palmetto Braves are its ijmly jassiiilants. So long as that fort is firmly held liy the, United States, South Carolina in a very practical souse is still in the Union. i , ] At this point, thp S'imth Carolina Commis sioners are admitted t>| a meeting of the Cab inet at the White Ilmlsp.iand the result of their joint deliberations is an assurance given hy the president to the insurgents that Fori Sumter shall be evacuated liy Muj. Anderson, and given up to their State, now .formally alienated from the Union! We apprehend that the order to this effect has already lielen given, and that the Federal Executive has thus openly proclaimed itself the accomplice ofi the avowed .traitors, their ally, theit convenience, their tool. In a few days—forlwe trust Major Anderson will obey no telegraphic dispatch which; may reach him through the hands of the insurgents—the best of the fnrlje in Charleston harbor will have been betrayed into the handshf the insurgents, who, would then have without coat or risk advantage* which »U their power would i nr it have secured them. And this process, thus Infamously begun, will.probably bo as infa mously prosecuted, until every fortress and ar mory in the Slave States shall have been be ; tirayed into the hands of the revolutionists, by 1 -the-very-man-of all-men who was- under the j : strongeat obligations to'preserve them. In the face of such recreancy, the’"treason of Arnold becomes insignificant and almost excusable. The pretext for this base surrender is a fear to provoke,-or a'wish to allay excitement that is, the excitement.of .tbs. 'Secessionists at the sight of-the United States flag still Seating in their harbor. If the" miserable old man does not, by ‘this course, provoke far more excite ment than.he,allays, we. will own that we have misapprehended the American People. ‘ ' Official information has been received ip Wash ington that Holland lias made arrangements for emancipation of tho.slaves in all the Dutch Colonies, on the principle of English emanci pation, making compensation to the masters.— This i« regarded ns important news, in view of the" political, events stirring around us. The policy of all Europe seems to be favoring the abolition of slavery. held on the subject Me. Yors'O; I cannot say I have much fault to find with your correspondent, Cato, but I think in calculating the value of. the South to the : Union, be has overlooked some very impor tant considerations. In purchasing. Louisiana, our Government did not look alone, or princi pally to the money value of the purchase.— There were higher considerations than the moner her ports might bring the Government in the form of revenue. It was not our policy tc permit a Foreign Power to bold or share with us the shore and mouth of the most important river on the continent, and so be placed in a position to be "able to throw obstructions in the way of the commerce of the great North-west. At that early day, even, Mr. Jefferson had some faint foresight of what the territory washed by the waters of the Mississippi was to be. It is tree it cost some twenty-five millions, but it should be remembered” that that purchase e.n -1 braces not only Louisiana, Arkansas and Mis souri, but also lowa, Minnesota and Oregon add all the territories west to the Pacific be tween the British Possessions on the North and California on the South! The part of the pur chase devoted Wfredom is by far greater than ‘ that devoted to slavery. It is true that all the settled part of that purchase and, all that it was supposed would be settled for an indefinite time ahead, was devoted to the “ peculiarinstitu! tion,” and in the treaty of purchase it was stipu lated for the protection of slavery. Yet the fact cannot be ignored that as many free States ns slave, arc already carved out of this pur chase. and that we have in prospect not less than' five more to be admitted in a very short time. So thus I think the account in relation to the Louisiana purchase is at least balanced, even if freedom has not got the best of the bar gairt. Then comes Florida. Well. Cato may put that all down on the debit side to slavery, if he chooses; hut yet national policy demanded that we should not permit a Foreign Power to hold this strip of land between Georgia and Ala bama on the North and the Gulf of Mexico on the S )uth. Cato can see very, clearly the state reasons that demanded the purchase. 1 think, however, that the purchase is, on the whole, against slavery when rightfully considered, for wo can now sweep the whole Golf shore with our vessels and oppose an effectual barrier against , the ingress of foreign slaves, which could not have been done had Florida continued a foreign slave colony ns she was at the time of the purchase. Then there is Texas. Mje got that not ex actly by purchase, but by [annexation, though it probably cost more than it would have cost,' had wo bought it in an honest manner, instead of getting fillihnaters to steal it for us and then annexing it. But let us look a little at this Texas matter. Cato has probably heard of the story of Joseph and his brethren—may be he has read it—if he has probably be remember* what Joseph said to'his brethren on a certain occasion: “Ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good,- to bring In pass as it is this day, to save many people alive.” The Mexican War, Cato says, “coat Upwards of two hundred millions of dollars and was the result of the annexation-of Texas.” But what was the resylt of the Mexican War? The acquisi tion of'California and'all the territory between California and Texas. California alone has more than paid aIP the cost of the Mexican War. I suppose Cato will say that California was acquired in order to make it a slave state so'as to balance Oregon and AVashington and keep up the equilibrium between slavery and freedom on the Pacific.. Exactly. But then you know, there was a higher powpr and though the slave power might mean it for evilj the Higher Power meant it for good. j Suppose we had not bought Louisiana, nor conquered California, m>r annexed Texas, we should now have only fourteen free.states and twelve slave states with no chance of expansion in favor of freedom. Now we have eighteen free states and slavery fifteen, and in less than five years we shall have four or five more, with chance of almost indefinite expansion. And all this by the purchase of Louisiana, the an nexation of Texas and the conquest qf Califor nia. Docs not Cato see how all those thing are working for freedom ; and does be not see too a sure indication freedom-ward in this manifest overruling by a Higher Power? AA’hat.did Joseph do ? Did he hate his brethren for their intended evil ? He spoke kindly to them and gave them com and wine and nil. mce Major Anderson’s terms, and r regard it inimus otTfhe part of ?y say it will precipi lelieve it is the be«t ed. While Major An ter, there will be no Amount. .....$400,000 150.000 BO,OOO 160.000 270,000 240.000 200,000 175.000 870,000 .§2,545,000 This is not till that these annexations and pun-liases are doing, and tins cotton raising at the South. C.ito Complains that the South does not import and thus pay duties for the support of Government. She has a duty, or rather destiny to work out. The world has round out that she must' hate cotton. The South is both the experimental and the propaga ting garden. She is teaching the world the mission of cotton. She is calling attention to its culture. She is raising up cotton growers to go out—when the proper time comes and God permits the explosion,— Africa as pion eers in civilization and instructors in cotton raising in God's natural cotton fields. American cotton is creating cotton-wants and civilization is ransacking the world for cotton fields; and she has found them, ton, in the natural homes of the Southern slave and the disabilities even in freedom under which the black man labors among the whites is begin ning to colonize tho.Yaraba country and east-" em and western and Central Africa. When the time comes the South will be compelled to seqd put by ship loads her cotton growers to colonize still farther the cotton fields of .Africa. Dues not Cato see how all things are tending that way, and that all the moves of Southern FKOM THE PEOPLE. Beply to “Cato.” slaveholders are- necessarily, moves' towards; emancipation ? Come it must and come it will., All truth and progress are the result of con flicting forces. "The irrepressible conflict is as apparent as the sun in the heavens. When it, will culminate no-one oan-tell. • * j Dec. 31, 1860. Yours truly, Se.veca, : The Tioga County Medical Society. 4, The Members of the Tioga County Medical Society met ia Bailey’s Hall, at Mansfield, on Wednesday tho 19tli ultimo- |. ' e ,pr br ' absf The President being absentt, ig v >- called to order by Dr. C. V. Elliott, Vicei Presi dent. After the osua'lrootineof business was transacted, the subject of “Diphtheria” wis discussed by Drs. Davison, A. Robins, Jr., vVebb, and E. S. Robins. The remarks of Dp. A. Robins, distinguishing diphtheria front; croup, and o'lher cynancheae,' did great credit to the speaker, and were pleasing and instruc tive to the members present. That discussion alone, we hope,-will be a sufficient incentive to I the Medical Faculty, of this coonty, to prepare j more fully for the approach of that most fatal I and maglignant scourge which has been Dis king its ravages In, the Eastern States and Vir- I ginia, and has*recently made its appearance in this and the'adjoining counties. Dr. N. Packeii | Censor, of the Third District of Pennsylvania was. appointed a delegate to the State Society! which holds its session in Pittsburg in | June nest. Dr. A. Robins, Jr., of Mainsburg, wai “appointed to read an Essay before the Society at its nest annual Session, in the Village of Ti oga, the 3d AVedneadas in June, nnd.Dr- Elliot) was appointed to deliver a public addrss at the same place in the evening. Provisions were made for a Clinic at each Session, where patients present themselves, recommended by a mem ber of the Society, shall be examined and pre scribed for, free of charge. ,1 In the*evening, 1 Dr. Webb deliverd a lecture upon the *• Science of Medicine,” to a full and appreciative audience, and was acknowledged by all present to be an intellectual treal, in which the people of Mansfield desire often to indulge. The hospitality with which the mem bers of the society were received, and the deci ded interest manifested by the people of Mane field, for the good of the Medical Profession, is truly worthy of The. Society adjourned to meet a Tioga, on Wednesday, June 19, 1861. D. BicoK, Secretary. LINCOLN'S' CABINET. [Correspondence of the New York Herald.] Spbin'gfield, Deo. 24, 1860. i “About two weeks ago I took occasion to state in a letter to tbe Herald, that invitations had been sent out from here to divers political emi nences to repair hither for Jhe purpose of both counselling with the President elect on i the present condition of public affairs and receiv ing offers of seats in tbe Cabinet. This an nouncement is now being rapidly verified. A week since Mr, Edward Bates made his aji pearance and was tendered lira Secretaryship of the Interior: Last Thursday Thurlow Weed loomed up, to return with , the authority to sound certain New York gentlemen as to their willingness to serve, and to-day David Wihnot, of Proviso renown, made bis'advent, to become the recipient of the flattering offers of a place among Mr. Lincoln’s constitutional advisers. It is evident that in view of the, location,in Springfield of the fountain bead.of federal pat ronage, any political personage that undertakes the Journey of this place lenders himself liable to the imputation of tuft-bunting, and hence it may well be presumed that no gentleman n£ character and.self-respect is likely to come. hgre unless invited loido so by the President elect. From this reason alone, the jusp'jnforencp can be drawn that Mr. Wilmot came here at t|is special invitation of Mr.-Lincoln. ’ 1 But there is additional evidence of the cor rectness of this presumption. As soon gs Mr. Lincoln had been apprised of Mr. Wiimot’s jlr arrival on the early'morning .train he repaired to the St. Nicholas Hotel, where the expected visitor had taken rooms, and welcomed the dis tinguished Pennsylvanian in the heartiest man ner. The two at once retired to a private apartment, in which they remained until noon, when Mr. Lincoln returned to his residence for dinner. At two o’clock another conferenfce commenced, and’lasted until four, at whiib hour Mr. Lincoln re-appeared In the public re ception room at the State-House. 1 That during the interview a proposition was made to Mr. Wilmot to accept a position in (h< Cabinet is looked upon as a Jail accomjtli hy all the friends of the President elect. L lt U likewise added by them that, as in the of Mr. Bates, no definite place was offered, ,but that the views of Mr. Wilmot as to what ap peared most adapted to him were ascertained, with the mutual understanding of an ultim!ats agreement at-a later date. i Rumor connects Mr. Wilmot both with tho Secretaryship of State and that of the Navy. I would not be surprised if he should befound the holder of the most important poriefetiillt under the incoming administration. ! The selection of Mr. Wilmot gives general satisfaction among the supporter* of Mr. Lin coln in this latitude. It is looked upon asinii earnest of the Territorial policy to be pursued by the Republican regime. It is construed ipt > an nnmistakenhle indication of the firm adhe rence of the republican President to' the Clhi cage platform, and of his unshaken faith jintbo soundness of its most prominent plank, viz ; the right of Congress to legislate prohibitorily on thje subject of slavery in the Territories. : Mif. Wilmot, it will be remembered, df «he most .active supporters of Mr. Liricolh’ii claims to the Republican nomination timing the Pennsylvania delegation to the Chicago Convention. 1 ] He appears to be in excellent health, ainc well conditioned to bear the onerous duties of t. Cabinet officer. lid will take the Chicago Train at half-p is ; six pi’m., anfi return immediately to his home in spite of this violent snow that has prevailed here for some days and rendered railroad travl eling on the Western prairies a rather comfort less undertaking. | •'[ | It is asserted, with some show of likelihood] that ,Mr. Wilmot was determined upon as the representative in the Cabinet of the Republican banner. State because of his having been for ■ some time off the political Stnge r and of hia consequent relative independence from the hu merous rival cliques and factions that are squabbling for, the spoils under the.guidance of ambjtious leaders. : : i 4 Simultaneously with Mr, WUroot Colonel D. Baker, the newly clewed Senator from Ore gon, arrived in tills, his oldTioiae, his first visit since bis emigration to the Pacific coast, some ten-years ago, “Ned," as he was familiarly called hereabouts in former days, was most cordially greeted by his old friend, the Presi dent elect, and a host of relatives and acquain tances, His visit is of a purely private char wtw. He came to see a sister, married in this I 11 ' ' i ■ i . ■; place, hie mother and a brother, both of whew live a short distance from here. His officio duties not'allowing any protracted absence fto ß Washington, bis relatives, Will all meet here, where be will, remain over the holidays A public dinner In bis honor has been spot,.’ of to-day.”- ‘ • JUSTICE TANEY 'ON THE" CEISIJ i We have nothing very recent from the ven erable chief-justice to submit, but some || since, when counsel for a Rev. Jacob Grower il who-was.tried in the Frederick County Court! S Maryland, for preaching a sermon in which I, set forth the evils of slavery and the doties ef masters, Mr.-Tancy made use.of the followin, language in his defence, Which resembles ten mucn the sort of language that. President Lin. coin .held at the Cooper Institute, except th# it is a little stronger and more incendiary; ■ntt, he' meetini was “ Mr. Gruber did quote the language of oar great act of. National independence, and in. stated on the principles'contained in that ten. I ernted instrument. He did rebuke those rnaj. 1 ; lers who, in the exercise of power, are deaf ( 8 1 j the calls of humanity, qnd be warned them of | ithe evils they might bring upon themselves.-.!' He did speak, in. abhorrence of those who lit. I by trading in human flesh, and enrich then, f selves, by tearing the Husband from the trif, | the infant from the bosom of the mother—l this was the head and front of hie offending. | So far is be from being the object'of pouiji,. | ,ment in any form of proceedings, that we I prepared to maintain the tame principles, and | to use, if necessary, the same language here in i; the temple of justice and-in- the preseoceofsi ihosei 'who., are the ministers of the )w. i. bard! necessity, indeed, compels us to mine t!he evil of slavery for a time. It was impost | upon [us by another natiou while we were ju ill n state of colonial 'vassalage. It cannot It 1 easily or suddenly removed; yef while it con-1 tinuesitiaa blot on our national character, | and every real lover' of freedom confidently 1 Hopes; that it will be,effectually, though it mast | hie gradually, wiped away and earnestly loobi for the means by which this necessary object 1 may .be- best obtained. And until it shall he I accomplished—until the time shall come wheal we cab point without a-blusb io. : the language I held in the Declaration of Independence, every i part of humanity will seek to lighten the! galling chain of slavery, and better to thect-p most of his power, the wretched cenditios of a the slave.',' « Ills Work Finished. —lf there be an arctr traitor alive, that man is Howell Cobb, For nearly! four years he has borne a violent oath iiiron |his conscience. For four years he ha b?en meanly plotting to sap the foundations of ti is Government. For four years he has-Jivei a lie; ihe has been a swindler, a derhand conspirator,' a Judas. An open etieaj miiy he ajnan of honor, but every, creature oa j earth despises a traitor and expects to see him fiWd a! traitor's doom, I J puling the whole of his -term, Howell Colb I has toiled to bankrupt the treasury of the Unl-| ted States, to stab the credit of the Govermneo: % and so to break up the resources of the Cnioa, i aS to make the war of dismemberment an easy 3 task for his follow traitors. Now that his work I is: finished, he leaves his post/as Guy Fswb I would have sneaked off from the vicinity of the | British Parliament House after having fired the | train. Let him go. History will place his set* g where a calm world can judge them, and hij | reward will be meet unto his deeds. — Phikdd-2 phia Bulletin, . . : k The South Carolina dommissioners; appoic ted to I 'treat with the Government for the ear- 'j render of the Government property at Charlei iton, nre in Washington, and-instead of th»| president having employed a couple of stout | “.gentlemen of color” to kick the rebel raacali | fijom jhis presence, when they presented them-1 selves, they were 1 admitted to a .Cabinet meet- S ing oh Friday la^f! Here Iheyhad the impn-1 denes to declare that unless the Government | troops were withdrawn from Charleston harbor,-I they Would return home and prepare for the | worst ! And it is feared the President’s coor-'g age has failed him so much, that he is in faror | df complying with their demands ! At -all ! events it was. thought he would communicste | their) demands tp Congress Monday. 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