innocent pleasures, find .gives to its subjects a
eommaod over their passions, and a disposition
habitually to control them. It acquaints them
with their duty, and enabled them, to find, its
highest pleasure in its discharge. They order
their pursuits land choose their employments
with, reference to their own advantage, it is
truer? but still,- a higher,.and the controlling
motive with .’them is, the! promotion of the best
good of the. which theyliye. ( In
■short, their supreme desire ip to cooperate with
the beneficent Creator ip advancing the pormar
nerit Interests of ,the while human family; in
themselves obeying, a misleading others to obey,
all.the laws, which Gutf[ has ordained for the
government and welhhsng of his creatures.
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. MHAIi CODE OF (PENNSYLVANIA.
The following sect ion d of the. Penal Code are
puhlishedby order of the House of Represen
tatives: ■, !j| , •
Spc. 95. If any person or persons shall, by
force or violence,tnk6 lin’d curry a way,or cause tj •.
be taken nr carried shall,by fraud orfalse
pretence, entice or cans to be enticed' or shall
attempt do to take, carrjr away or entice, any .
■ free negro nr mulatto frilm any part of this com
monwealth, to any place whatsoever out
t of this commonwealth! kvith a design a'nd in
tention of selling and disposing of, or of caus
ing tobe sold, or of keeping and detaining, or
' of oausing to bo kept nbd detained, such free
- negro or mulatto; as a slave or servant for life,
■ or for any terra whatsoever! every such person
■or persona-shall be guilty’of a misdemeanor,
■ and on conviction'therdof, shall be sentenced to
pay a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars;'
one-balf whereof shall H&’paid to the person or
persons who shall profecute for the same, and
the other half to thii(commonwealth, and to
undergo‘an imprisonme'ijt, by separate and soli
tary confinement 'at liibriy, -not exceeding twelve
years. If any / parson M persons shall hereaf- j
ter knowingly sell, trailfet or assign, or shall \
knowingly purchase, t|ie a transfer or assign- 1 j
ment of any free negreror mulatto; for the pur- :
pose of fraudulently Removing, exporting or-,
carrying such free negip or mulatto out of this
State, with-the desigrjhor intent, by fraud' or i
false pretences, of maklhg him or her a slave j
or servant for life, or fa}; any terra whatsoever,
every person so offend;jig shall be guilty ofia
misdemeanor, and bn i|onviction thereof, shall
be sentenced to pay aipne not exceeding two
thousand dollars, one-htilf whereof shall be paid
tc the person or persoris who shall prosecute' \
for the same, and the ot|yer half to this common
wealth, and at the djjjtpretion of-Urn court, fo
undergo an imprisonment, by separate or soli
tary confinement at laijlpr, not exceeding twelve
years. No-judge of jdie courts of, this com
- monwenltb, nor anyf] alderman or justice'
of the peace of saijil commonwealth, shall
..have jurisdiction or {ifite- cognisance of the
•tee of any from, labor, from any
..of the Doited States drj Territories, under any
. act of Congress; nor dhjill any such judge, al
. derman, or justice of peace of this common
wealth, issue or grant i;hy certificate or warrant
of removal of any fugitive, from labor,
under any act of ConsWess ; and if any alder
• man or justice of tiffi" peace of this common
' wealth shall take cogi|fiance or jurisdiction of
the caseof any such ftegitive, or shall grant or
Issue any certificate o| (warrant of removal as
aforesaid, then, and ilij either case, he shall bo
, deemed guilty of a' misdemeanor- in office, and
shall, on conviction [thereof, be sentenced to I
/' pay, at the discretion m‘ the court, any suffl not
r»xC»eding one thousand dollars, the one-half t >
1 the party prosecuting,; for the same; and the
Other half-to the useol tbis commonwealth. -If
any person or persons! claiming any negro or,
mulattOi-as a fugitive|from servitude or labor,
shall, under any pret|iice of authority whatso
ever, violently and tumultuously seize upon and
carry to any place, oi;||ttempt to seize and car
ry away in a tumultuous, and
unreasonable mannerifnnd so as tQ disturb or
endanger the . public |poace, any'negro or mu-1
latto, Within this commonwealth, eitherwith or;
without the intention A)f taking siicb negro,or;
‘mulatto before any district or circuit judge, the'
person or personasn oßiinding against the peace!
of this oommnnwealtt kliall be guilty of a mis-;
demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be|
' sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thou-.
Sand dollars, arid fqwker, to be imprisoned in]
the county jail, for [mi 1 period at tbe discretion!
of the court, not excelling three months.-i |
Sec. 96. All sales (jiat shall hereafter be!
made within this S&fte, of any fugitive from;
eerVice or labor,iwliolk the time of such sale!
shall-be within tffie limits of this State, shall!
be utterly null and ’Cjid; and if any person,j
under color or of any such sale or!
sales, shall seize, atr&t, or by intimidation, se-i
duotion or fraud, shall remove or- cause to be!
■ removed from this Stitfe, any such fugitive thosij
-sold, or attempted to|]ie sold, the person so of->
fending shall forfeit stril pay the sum! of five!
-hundred dollars, o)»e«alf, thereof to the use ofj
this common wealth, ilpd, the other half to the
use of the party &uin| for the same. |
." " ip" -, ’ I
Oppression in Miabssippi.—The Secession-!
i«ts of South Garolinfiiand Mississippi are par-i
♦ o tlfir'y anxious toke|p the world from knowing!
some things that,are joingon in these
- Yesterday, a gentleman, formerly a member of*
ths Kentucky Legislature, stated that he wasj
just starting for Missasippi, to endeavor to re-i
lieve his brother in tj|at State. The brother!
bad written to him that a tax was imposed uponj
•very slave owner in tpe State of twelve dollars!
foreaah negro ; i that, Sinless the tax should be|
paid within a few dajfff the negrp property wasj
»o he oonfi-cated to S|ie-public use; that Bis|
n=gro tax amounted 500,. which he had no?
means whatever of paying; and that hundreds!
of slave proprietors ||e hurrying their slaves!
out of the State to escape intolerable oppros-i
lion. lie moreover’ w|ote that this was known!
to be only the beginning of a terrible system oE
taxation,-and added' thp expression of his per-l
fec| conviction thatihe people would not stand!
-it—that within thirty .Says they would rise up!
in their wrath and (Tiafr strength and crush op-!
pression and oppritsfors alike beneath theii?
feet. —Louisville Joiirml, Jan. 7. |
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Tub Battle or Morris Island. —One is re-'
lily disposed to forge| the serious aspect of the;
*lTair, in reading tbeJCharlestonian version o£|
-fh* firing into the tSlar of (he West, The
Courier gives a solemin account of what it calls
and describes the, heroic;
.eeurage of the men who manned the battery,
ftppn Morris’ Island, and fired - seventeen shots
4 ( in unarmed steamer. It is attempting td
create the-impression that a battle has heart
fooght, and that the South Carolinians have'
iron a signal victory., We may expect to hear
jooa that medals have been struck for the suri
Ti?|prs> and that a monument will be raised ta
'eommeaurate this great event in the South,
•ixuTmim war of indepepdince, _
THE AGITATOR. 1
ir-UUGFII YOUNG, EDITOR ,
I! WEMiSBOBQOGH, PA-,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 30, 1861
:■ £0“It is reported; that Mr., John Bigelow,|
having-said bis interest in TheEreniny Post,.
as about to become the proprietor of The World, ;
jind will conduct it as a Republican journal. . |
i, see by the Washington hews 'of
(Monday that tbe House passed,the Senate Bill
;for the admission of Kansas! which thus adds
(another star to-our flag—mating -the-thirty;
ifourtlv State of the Dniori, add tibe nineteenth
(Free State. .
j 80“ We beg to assure pur 1 Harrisburg enr
■ (respondent, that wo bake, np ckini to “ Mr.
[Armstrong from your {our) partJof the State.”
!\Ve are not proud of him. If he favors Ithe
(Crittenden Compromise, as ydu say ho does j his
(Republicanism and ours are of two different
!stripes. After we have fairly and, constitution
tally won tbe battle, we do no -gird-up to thejen i
i, -. i ih r ■ I—-
|emy all and more than we fought' for. Ajrtn;
(strong’s principles may suit-jii Halo’s Distinct,
Jljut the Republicans of the] AVilmot Distjricl
(Will never affiliate in any way. with men who ore
(hot only willing to give slavery bore than il
(ever asked before, but also toiprotect It by Con
Institutional amendment. No ; Sir, ArmstrCnj
(does not hail from OOr part of the State.
| -OUB“PEOTEST.|t ,
|! Wo have no fears whatever that the Crltten
jden Amendments to the Constitution, will mee
i ,
-with any favor from-the Representatives' it!
Congress of the people of the 1 Free North. By
these amendments, slavery is bought to b«inoli
jonly established and protected in all the terri!
jtary south of thirty-six degrees and.tliirty.mitp
rites which we now possess, but also in all ter
itUpry which we majr os a nation hereafter ac
jquire south,of that line. So obnoxious is ever
Ithe toleration o( slavery at all, to the whole
j oftalized world, that the idea of its-profectioh
by fundamental law is simply ridiculous jam
absurd. We believe that there is enough IpatS
and homanity left in the hearts of thi
people to prevent such an outrage upon all tha
is good in our institutions, and that sslf-preser
ration will urge men of all parties in the North,
against its consummation.- I Wa believe, ifurr
thermore, that if these-propositions were righU
lly understood, and the foolish idea that tneii
ladoption would give peace to the country calm
ly considered, that the sentinient of the North
would be solid against them. Just now; howr
°1 . *
'Over, there is a class 1 of men who (ire clamorou i
forpeace and, safety at any cost, who are urgf
ing Congress by petition andl otherwise to-pass
these resolutions, wbo hove .never for a singU
moment considered the nature of the amende
metrts, and who little drcami-of the troubles t ?
the country which would be sure to follow their
•adoption.
It is therefore with feelings of sadness ,an 1
doep regret, that we are compelled by our sensi
of duty to refer to the weakness of spine mani
fested by-certain Republicans in,Congress nn i
in d'ur State Legislature with reference to these
and similar resolutions of a Union saving ehn|-
acter. We can assure Mr. James T. Hale iff
the National House of Representatives, | Mi.
Cameron, of the Senate, and Mr. Armstrong, <|f
the Legislature, and every other legislatorwhjb
holds the views of each or either of them on tile
subject of Compromise, that four-fifths of tlie
people of this county deplore their action; awl
protest against going on their knees to traitor,.
Look at the record of the men with whom ydii
propose to compromise. They distinctly-deny
that the election of-Me. Lincoln or the Repul j.
iioan territorial policy-,- or (he if
the Fugitive Stave Law, are reasons for sece ;-
sipn. Indeed, on the seventh and eight days i f
the sitting of the Secession Convention, i t
Charleston, in the course of the debate dn tl e
causes that induced South Carolina to take In r
present position, Mir. packer said : . j
- “ Itts do spasmodic effort that baa come sudden y
open us, but it bus been gradually culminating for a
long series of years/’
Mr. Inglis said : ‘
u Most of us bare bad sbiis subject under
tion for the last twenty years,” ’
Mr. Keitt said : ' 1
“ I have been engaged in this movement ever sic
Lentered political fife.” j
Mr. Khett said: I
It is nothing prodnced.by Mr. Lincoln’s elcctic
or the non-execution iof the fugittve’slave hiw.j It
£ matter which baa been gathering -head .for |tbir
years.” , \ j
And before this, in their discussions, Mesai
Rhett, Spratt, and lothers, declared their jopi
ion that the fugitive law is iulfconstitutiom
Judge Wither&Jn ian able speech, said it w
unconstitutional. i (
Mr. Keitt said; —p ■ ' '
“ I bave great dpnblsTnyself about the fugitive sla
law. The Constitution was at first* compact betne
tbe Slates; secon'Hly,jn treaty between sections,
was something murej than s compact between t
States. I believe,.therefore, that this law ought,
have keen left ter the Execution bf the various feints.
Now in view, of these'declarations, is it n
humiliating that Pennsylvania Republics:
should be found who are wiling to male cot
promises and concessions where r.one are hec
ed, and where none would even be effectual
restore the rebel states back to tbe Unioi
Messrs, Halo and Armstrong were elected Is
Fall on the issue of freedotn or slavery in t
territories. Will they now insult their cobst
uenta by compromising a part of the issue on
which ;tbe people so gallantly and gloriously
triumphed ? We trust that these men, inves
ted for tbe time being with the power to speak
for a large body of. people, will .not misrepre
sent their people,; just, .because a few of tbe
weakest of them have becomefrightcned at tie
threats of these Southern madmen. Let it be
their duty-os legislators, and let .it be the duly
of every mao to tea first whether we 'havejs
: I
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1 THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
government, and whether the laws of that gov
ernment are,to be enforced or set at naught,’
and then - wo will be better prepared to talk
calmly and' deliberately! -about- so important a
subject as making the protection of slayerv ji>
part of the fundamental law of this great na
tion. Meantime; we giye. dpe hotice that the
.Republicans of this county will new consent/
under any circumstances’to the adoption of the
Crittenden. Amendments -to the Constitution, as
they are nothing more nor nothing.lesB than the
•Democratic Breckinridge 1 Slave Code Platform,
of Baltimore in disguise; and if unhappily they:
sbould .be adopted through the weakness of Re
publicans, it will be against the earnest and
hearty protest of i every member of that party
in-Tiogacounty.; j !,
PHOM WASHINGTON.
Summary of the If evra of the Week,
[Specially prepared fur The Agitator.]
1 -“WAsmjfOTosrSaD. 17, IS6I,
TH#..SENATE BECOMES REPCIICUCAN
Monday, Jan. 21. —At half-past twelve to-day
■an episode of a singular character occurred in
the Senate. It was nothing loaf than the with
drawal of thfl disunion Senators from Alabama,
Mississippi, and. Florida. , Very neat speeches
were made by the retiring men. They were
opened -by Yulee, of Florida, a Hebrew with
Egyptian principles, and Mallory, his colleague,
followed as well as he could, being compelled
to “shedafew” just by way of giving pathos
to the comedy. When it is remembered that
this State, with about -one-half the population
of the Wilmot District,' has cost the Union
about sixty-five TlttHilions of dollars, and, (as
Etheridge, of Tennessee 1 remarked in his
speech) her inhabitants cannot protect them
selves from the alligators without the aid of
federal bayonets, the breadth of the farce of
her secession will he apparent to everybody.
Clay and Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, and Jeff.
Davis, of Mississippi, delivered valedictory
addresses, and withdrew after a general
shaking of hands, Mr. Hunter, of Virginia,
saw at once that there Was a Union majority in
the Senate and resigned his place as Chairman
of the Committee of Finance, the most impor
tant of the Committees in that body. As soon
as this little episode closed, Mr. Seward moved
to take up the special order, which was
HIE KANSAS BILL,
This hill was sacrific'd by an amcndmend c.f-’i
fered by Fitch, deigned to secure the single
life ofiice;of Jndge'.iof the 1 Supreme Bench to i
the Democracy by having him appointed bv
this, instead of the next Administration. ’lf l
Iverson, of Georgia, who claims to be out of the I
Union, had not voted, Kansas would have been
in the Uqiyn. The hill was passed, therefore,,
with this .objectionable amendment, and of
course bad to he pent back to the Ilonse for
its. concurrence. It was against, all precedent
to attach, to a bill jjf admission it provision for.
a Judicial district,! excepting ini the , case of
Minnesota. The fear on the part of the demo
crats was, that if thsi bill passed withoutsucb!
provision the Republicans would not by a sep
arate bill provide for a Judicial district, in or
der to prevent - Mr. Buchanan from appointing
Judge Pettit, now one of the present Territo
rial Judges, tu tbs Bench of the' Judicial Dis
trict Court.
This is tl e whole-secret cf the failure of Kan
sas to get into the Union to-day. The subject
will not receive the consideration of the House
until the report of the Committee of Thirty-
Three, commenced by Corwin to-day, is dis
posed of. | , • !
corwi.n’s speech.
The speech of Thomas 0 irwia, Chairman of
the Committee of Thirty-three, on the Report
offered by him to-duy, was the first of the
House Debate on the State of the Union. It
had many commendable points,- but was unsat
isfactory, ibeoause of its want of practicability.
He was followed by Millson, of Virginia, in an
able and impressive speech for the Union and
against secession. He argaed that the election
of Lincolti, nor any other act of the Republican
party was justification for a separation, and
that Virginia was able if she choose, to main
tain her rights in the Union ns she had always
done heretofore. Millson is a very inferior
looking mlan, and his head gives no phrenolo
gical assurances of his great and acknowledged
•ability its a clear headed-debated, and yet he is
known to Le.the ablest of the Virginia delega
tion.
THE HOUSE DEBATE.
Thnrsdvy, Jan. 24.—T1 e-debate continues op
the various propositions to bring peace to the
■country. As the members from five States have
withdrawn, the Democrat'® ide of the Chum
her begins to look quite thin. Speeches have
been made by Clemens, of Virgil.it, Etheridge,
Washburn, of Wisconsin, Bingham, Lavpjoy;
and Winslow, of N. 0. is now speaking. Every
speech made thus far, is for the Union, in any
event, compromise or no compromise. Love
joy’s speech expressed my own views more than
that of any other. He would make no compro
mises, nor did he believe that Mr. Lincoln
would advlicate any other principles than those
announced in the Chicago platform. He ad-
vised his Republican friends to stand firm, and
5 > let the disunion farce be played out. He would
y ! not vot for a bill, iif one- were introduced, to
. -j abolish slavery in the Southern States, because
3- there is nol such constitutional power, not be
) cause he djtd not want to see slavery abolished
'everywhere. As to-cutting off the extremes of
/• ! the Republican party, he wished gentlemen en-
I s I gaged in such work much joy. It would be
I like the play of Hamlet, with the character of
i Hamlet omitted. It was Lovcjoyish all overi
, e and no description of it can give iln idea of its
n • real eff-ct.j The speech of Etheridge was full
It of good things. Htj is a Tennessee Bell-Everatt
Whig. He showed by the strongest arguments
» that there |Was no reason whatever for the dis
j • union movement. 'Ho predicted that,' if the
central States should tie precipitated, into a
Southern Confederacy, ten years would not
elapse hofjire fearful slumbering l fires would
break out in flames of destruction. He appro*-
bended no ilaiigers; from the Republican rule;
He would vote fori the Crittenden compromise,
or the bordpr State! resolutions. Failing,to pro
cure he wisuld take the recommendations
of the select committee. He wonldappeal from
Congress td the people, and trust them to adjust
the present difficulties. He would Return. home
to resist tile wave of disunion'.' If the worst
comes to tile worst, and "he should be dragooned
to the fearful precipice, or made the unwilling
observer ofj bis country’s ruin,, he would wash
his hands of the shame and crime which would
attach to tllose who would overthrow American
liberty, and! convert the Republic into a despot
ism. He would cling to the American flag in
the dark hour, asa saint clings to his God.
The speech of Clemens, Democrat,-from Vir-
saijd to bo the greatest ever delivered
on the subject of disunion. H 6 looks at-it
frocf-every stand point and the way he pitches |
into the traitors is aTcaiitinn. One hundred ■
thousand copies of it .was St once subscribed
fur, sevpnr v-livA thousand"of them in the South,’
showing the estimation in which it is hcld by
members. He is still suffering from a wound
received-in a duel witb -O. Jennings Wise, bod
of the Governo'r of that natae. ._ ’
miscellaneous items, :
The Senate will take up and pass the Morrill
Turiff.Bili, this or.ne.xt week. . ~ „
Notwithstanding war and .rumors of war
eveiy hour,' the people hero seem to bo enjoy
ing themselves as well as ever,. Receptions,
and Balls, and Concerts, Smithsonian Lectures,
and the Theatre, are the order of the day, or
rather the evening. ‘ .
The weather for two weeks past has been un
usually fine, and the galleries in both Houses
of Congress have been full to overflowing with
the beauty and so much of the'chivalry as have
not yet .seceded.'
It is believed hefe that if Maryland does not
call a Convention there will lie no disturbance
here on the 4th of March. The object of the
traitors is to drag her along with them if they
can. If civil war comes,, Maryland and Vir
ginia will he the battle-ground and they are be
ginning Ho find it out. ' H. r.
NBOM HABKISBUEG.
Special Correspondence Of The Agttatrce
llAnniSßfnc, Jan. 23, 1861.
I proposed in my last to describe the doings
of the inauguration, but if I did so with satis
faction to myself, I should have to occupy more
space than would be agreeable to you or your
readers. Enough that it was like all of its'pre
deeessors, full of ’‘the pomp and circumstances
of- year,” without any .of its horrors. There
weri four or five brass-bands, and fourteen
different military organizations—none-of them
from your section of the Slate. Of' course the
parade would have been tine if the streets, had
been even tolerable,but they were miserably bad.
Pickpockets! if they could have been mustered
into a company, they would have made a re
spectable appearance as to numbers. One of
the rascals picked mij pocket of a jack-knife
worth a quarter, a plug of tobacco, and a copy,
of the McKean Democrat. If he will only read
the latter and chew the tobacco, both at the.
•same time, he will'most likely puke himself to
death, as either one of them is enough to sick
en toe. The hotels are crowded, and the land
lords niiisf have made a nice thing; of it. The
Grand Inauguration Ball in Brant’s Hall was a
very tine affair. { wits there with my girl, and
I have rot yet recovered. I didn’t want to go,
hutVie'did, and—that settled it. The Ball
Committee was composed of‘l4 Hohorables, 13
Gent'ndfi, 2 Majors, 14 Colonels, 3 Captains,
and Iff Esquires. Tickets, $2. Having these
fact- before you, if yon can’t Imagine the bril
liancy of the occasion, it is because you are de
void of fancy entirely. ,
Gov. Curtin wrote a letter last week to Gov.
H-cks, of Maryland, Jn which he compliment
e I-him upon the position he had taken, ta*pre-.
vent Maryland from going with’ the disunion.
States, and offering, in.u kind of semi-official
way, the aid of Pennsylvania in ahy emergen
cy to preserve the Union and the supremacy of
th; Laws. This was very proper, and the gen,-
teiiien selected to carry the letter,were all true
mm. Guv. Hicks received them kindly but in
formally, and reciprocated the feeungs and sen
timents of the letter; Since then, 'our Legisla
ture, bylresolution, has indorsed his course.
The legislation of the past week has been
barren of results. Several members wished to'
make themselves famous by new rafethodsof sa
ving the Union, in the shape of resolutions.—
Mr. Armstrong, from your part of ({he State, in
troduced resolutions emb idying the snhgtanoeof
the Crittenden resolutions now before Congress.
He made a powerful speech in support of them
on M nday, but i: was no use. True, a num
b*rkf Republicans were willing tu go for them
—as many ns twenty-four--—but the resolutions
of Mr. Smith, an abstract uf which I gave you
in my last, passed (he House last might by a
strict party vote. .So Pennsylvania makes no,
compromises whatever, so far, and I don’t
think she will.
’Adjutant-General Wilson haq made bis Re
port, and as anything relating to the military de
fenses of: the State will be read with interest at
this timet, ] copy a portion of it :
“ The Whole number of organized volunteer
companies in the State is 470, averaging about
forty men to a company, making an aggregate
of about 19,000. uniformed volunteers, The en
tire military force of the. State is, about three
hundred and jifty-Jire thousand men, capable of
military duty. The arms of the State are all
in the possession of the volunteer companies,
and comprise 12,800 muskets, &c., 4,706 rifles,
Ac., 2.809 cavalry swords and sabres, 3,147 pis
tols, &e.,j 69 pieces of ordnance, being six
pound bronze cannon. There are about 575
tints, abnjut half worn, in the arsenal at Harris
burg. Of the above, there are about 2,500
muskets of the new model, 1,200 improved ri
fles, and fit out 500 excellent cavalry swords.—
The balance of the arms are unfit for active
service in the field, being mostly the heavy, old
flint-locks, which, in using, are as .likely to in
jure the possessor as any one else. . The sixty
nine piecds-of ordnaticSe are-in good condition,
with the exception of their carriages, many pf
which need repair, and others ought to be en
tirely repJaced. Thus it will be seen that the
volunteer) of the State have really but 4,200 ef
fective smlnll arms, leaving an actual deficit for
them plode of 14,800 arms. This is truly a
lamentable exhibit. ,
“ No arms are furnished to the militia in th.e
first instance, by the State itself. All that are
now issued to the militia fi;om this office are
furnished by the United States to Pennsylvania,
in-common with the other States and territories
of the Confederacy. By the’ act of Congress
of 1808 (which was amendei) by the apt of
1855) the,sum of $200,000 is annually appro
priated to the purchase of arms to he distribu
ted among the States and territories, in propor
tion, by the original not,, to the respective num
ber of their militia, and afterwards by the
amendment thereto,,in proportion to their re
spective representation in Congress. By this
inode of distribution, new States from year to
year being added to the Confederacy, and the
'sum appropriated remaining the same, the quota
due to Pennsylvania is lessened every year.
For instance in 1847, the quota furnished our
State was 2,085 muskets, while’the quota fur
nished in 1857 was 1,233 muskets, showing a
diminntimji in ten years of 825 muskets. Un
less Congress enlarges the appropriation, Penn
sylvania must soon look to her own resources
in arming her citizens.
“Thesmall quota of arms received from the
General Government,- totally inadequate to the
wants of tte volunteers, has rendered the office
of Adjutant General nn unpleasant one, and by
no means d sinecure. It has been surrounded
with difficulties and annoyances Ujatuo officer
[ could obyiate.; I trust the menacing attitude |
of a.portion of odr countrymen will induce the .
Legislature to arm the iHititia and prepare for
any 'emergency. The militia of Pennsylvania I
■wiil ever'be fonnd'ready tumnreb in deleftce of
the Constitution, the .Laws. and the'Dnion; or
protect-qur countrymen from insurrection."j
. It will; be seen that the last paragraph is con
ceived iti the spirit of Mr. Elliott’s resolution,
and I hope to be able to inform yon - booh tpat;
the Legislature has adopted the suggestion put
in italics. _ I ,
" AmongfHe mlnqrTtefhs,! maynjention tbat
“ PeteWeav'er,” the great Philadelphia skater,
is here showing the folks “ how to do’it’’ on Jtbe
canal Basin. ThT Legislature" are’cbnsifipruig
an aot to incorporate the “ Weaver Skating
Club/’a-lllenry D. Moore, of Philadelphia, jhas
been elected State, Treasurer for both terms.
He is said to be well qualified to fill the pldce;
—Governor Curtin was'called home on Sunday
by the suSden .death of his niother-in-lowj. —
George McKee, convicted,of highway robbery’
in Allegheny county last March, was pardoned
out of the Penitentiary by Gov, Packer just I be
fore his time expired.—The question, Will
Cameron be in the Cabinet? is still agitated
in inside political circles. McClure’and Com
panyjbink that speech.of his, off ring to sacri
fice principle for peace, in the Senate day be- ■
fote yesterday, lays him on the shelf. It is
quite, probable it may.—Wm. W. Hays has
been ‘appointed Chief Clerk in the State [De
partment.—l- was standing in the doorj of ,
“Oinjt’a” the other day, when your menu
Mr. Strang, passed by on his way up to
Capital. '“ I’ll bet the oysters,” said a r
“thut he (pointing nt Stra
standing by me, _
is n Dutch member from Berks!” Quite a ci
pliment to Berks county, or to Strang, wai
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
„.Lola Montez (Mrs. Gilbert) died in N
York; last week.
...The arsenal seized at Charleston contah
munitions of war valued, according to the Pn
dent, at half a million of dollars.
...Offers of men and money to defend
property of the Union, continue to be made,
great abundance, in all the Free States.
... Southern travel has fallen off rapidly, a
the principal lines south of Washington h,
determined tq run but one train daily.
...The Nebraska Legislature has passed
act abolishing Slavery in that. Territory, o
the Governor’s veto, by. an almost unanim
vote.
, ...The Charleston post master admits t
Major Anderson’s letters have been open!
but excuses the felony on the ground that ol
the public letters were thus violated 1
...It was reported last week that John C. 1
:mont, and Ex-Gov. Weller of California
James W. Nekmitb/thenew U. S. Senator f
Oregon, were on their way to Washington.
....The snake has been quite appropriately
opted as the device on the secession bam
It is the shape which the devil took to ca
the loss of Paradise to. our race.— Prentice.
...Mr. Lincoln is expected to start for Wu
ington on the 14th of February, and will i
ceed by the way of Indianapolis, Clevelai
Buffalo, Albany. Harisburg and' Baltimore
the fedetal capital.
...The Postmaster-General baa witten to'(
ernor Pickens that unless Major Anderson
his command are permitted free access t)
from the Charleston Post office, the mail ser
to that city will be cutoff.
....There are but seven States In the Unioi
which the post office receipts exceed the
penditures.- They, are Massachusetts, Rh
Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New A
Delewnre and Pennsylvania.
~’.7The Journal des Dehats,' the most infli
tial paper in France, says of the proposed Sm
ern Confederacy; “ Let it pursue its own w
hut once more must it be pronounced that f l
is not a corner upon earth where if will find s
pathy and assistance.” ’
...Kentucky wishes.to see her ohivnjrio.f
Major Anderson, sustained) Four-fifths of
the map within her borders capable of bear
arms would gladly volunteer to protect hin
atlnctcd at Fort Sumter by the enemies of
Union. —Louisville Journal.
...Rev. Peter Cartwright,the senerahle,
quent and eccentric Methodist pioneer preaol
lectured in New York, to a much phased
dience, last week. At the close he said, “
as he was, he was ready to shoulder his nun
again, and fight for the Union if necessary.
...The foreign ministers at ’Washington
requested the Government tq inform
whether clearances of vessels issued by I
Carolina will be. recognize 1 as.’.sufficient,
whether foreign vessels cmtld-propcrly pav
ties to South officials. It is u’n
stood that the answer was in the negative.
....Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi—!
sign Nations by theirown claim—vote to i
tinue the U. S. Mails, and other little coni
iences,*at our own expense, just as though n
ing bad happened. Having committed It
way robbery by stealing our arsenals, &0., t
don’t object to any little presentwe| oboes
bestow I .
...The latest mention of the' G dden State i
make white dogs'useful. Your S
Franciscan seizes up his white our, and wi '
stencil plate“and - blacking, inscribes his h
ness card upon each side of the wretched pi
and sends him. forth a.quadrepcdai Income t
advertiser—a <%erntype ofthe fast-people
a fast country, in a fast age. It is recko
that a lively dog will he worth at least five H
lars atjay, or equal to one-fourth of a coin
in a njgtvspnper.
~.Parson Brownlow’s paper, of the last win
contains the following item : A fellow recen
passed through Roane county, talking disiirli
talk, and cutting up considerably, ns we ht
been told. The Union men laid hold of Wi
and hung him with a grape vine, and so chat
him that he had like not to have recovered.
They made him take an oath to support !(
Constitution and fight for the General Qovi
ment, as well as to talk in the future on i
side of the Union. This we believe to be I
lira* case ofthe season of hanging for tread
...There has been .not a little diversity
practice in spelling the name of the Port r
occupied by Major Anderson. ■ The pnpers ;
about equally divided on the question.
Spark’s Correspondence of the Revolution,
Marshall’s- Life of Washington, In Ramsn
South Carolina, in Gordon’s History of In
dependence, in Lee’s History ofthe War in
Southern Department, and in the edition
Webster’s wqrkvihe “p” is used; imt in
| .United jstatea Statutes atT,arge, in the^^*
, ican Altmanae', and ib Lhssingfg Field Book ,
tbei Revolution’, the “Jp” is omitted; and ,l'
'Authority of the latter work 'seems to settle ftV
questiob, for thereihjWe fiodjin ftntcgrani
General Sumter, in which the “ p” does not of
cur. The General probably knew how to sJoJ
hid owri name,, and consequently we say u s„
ter without the “p."
| ...The late Judge Storey thus describes ft
f-iH of liberty in Greece. There is a lesson fl
iB6O ig the words: f
| f* Thh-Old World has already revealed to n.
its] unsealed books, the beginning and end S
Jail its own-raaryeHous struggles to the cnn w .,
liberty] ' Greece, loyely
[scholars and the nurse of arms/ where* 'siito
Republics in fair procession chanted.the praiu.
of libeijty and the gods, where and what is B ij e ,
For twjo thousand years the oppressor bjj
bound her to the earth.- Her arts are no mors.
The Injt sad relics of her temples'are but the
barracks of a ruthless soldiery ; the fragment,
of her yolnmns and her palaces are in the dnjj.
yet beautiful in ruin, She fell not when tie
mighty] were upon her. Her sons were unitjj
at [Thermopylae and Marathon, and the tideof
bet- triumph rolled back upon the’ Hellespont.
She was eonqured by her own factions, gj,,
fell by [the band of her own people.
1.. A [revolting case of barbarity baa been
brought to light near Willksbarre, p,,.
old man named Isaac Bisbing, living in
'vicinity, quarrelled with his son Andrew, aa( j
jin la fit of rage he seized a gun and.sho’t tbi
[boy in the back, from the effect of which \li s
fetired he .cannot recover. It seems that fte
old man was a perfect demon, and some nf- bi,
acts of barbarity towardshia wife and children
would have shamed,the jvildest savage. H,
fnuld frequently hang the younger children op
mhe seek until life was almost extinct, and
at rithe: ■ times he would hold their heads under
ibe, water until they struggled in, the agonies of
death.. One of the boys fled to tho house of a
tfeighbt v one day, badly burnt, and stated that
hid father bad thrown a read hot poker in to
the bed in which the children slept, jnst to see
iha frol o’tbay would have gelting oatd At an
btner time he nearly drowned bis wife by
homing dier head in a crock of butter-milk.—
It won! i be a just retribution if this man should
codie to the gallows; and he'bids fair to end
hisl care er on the scaffold.
SSODGBAS!
paldi, being now at” Caprera, liter
thout money—-for be never, drew any
ring his campaign in Sicily and:Naples
be, England arid Italy are about getting
tonal subscriptions to raise sufficient
to insure him a respectable and settled
for the remainder of his life. ■ _
;nat
ney
ome
lat
id;
ily
: aTion in Pennsylvania, —The annual
if the Superintendent of Common Schoolj
teylvanu for the year ending June 4tb,
hows that there were then in the State
schools, containing 8171 male and 4832
teachers, 314,667 male and -264,249 fe
iholaraj the average attendance t;eiiig
.. ’ The number of schools required ii
d the number of"scholars learning Get
-6753.
e.—J-The editor of the Schoharie (X.-.T.)
| thlinks the Federal Government repre-
Ihe locomotive, and South Carolina the
the following story;
n George Stephenson, the celebrated
engineer, had completed his model of«
itive. he presented himself before thi
i, Parlimept, and asked for the attention
opart of that body. The grave
sneering at his invention,.and said; “So
ive made a carriage to runonlj by steam,
|ou?” ‘'Yes, my Lords.” “And you
your carriage to run oh parallel rails, in
; can’t get off, do you?” “Yes, mj
” | “-Well-now Mr. Stephenson, let ui
jou how.absure your claim is. . Sup
p hen your carriage in running upon
■ tils at the rate of twenty or thirty milei
or, (if you are extravagant enough to
i ippnse such a- thing possible), a cor
get in its way. You can’t turn out for
' hat then ?” “ Then ’twill he bad for
r, my Lards.”
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. WE A Government?— T/tai is now th
al question before the American people.
»fc a question whether^we are willing, nor
teh we are willing, to concede. As {be
ork TTor&fsays, tl the resoluteness which'
rth is now displaying proceeds from aa'
Jier different feeling, it comes not from
it,of liberality, but from a sense that the.
t of a portion of,the South has raised
e of immeasurably more moment than
ieh preceded—an issue upon which they
morally impossible to yield a hair’i
i. Uno longer a question whether
that measure shall be carried out—
r 0- principle RhajJ_ he applied qr a guar
urnished in this or tjhat form— hui whdhr
mvernmeat itselj shall* or shall not
vernment is threatened; its authority i 3 :"
the most desperate expedients' have
.esprted to for its des&uction. This is
-sONj And it is because the'North cred
it treason tliat its attitude is so
ir people are in no mood to make terms with
tUor:i. [ AVhile they would cheerfully do much
reassure the loyal portion of the South, and
its confidence, they have no proffer for
QJse whp deny and spurn their to
hair oulntry. They feel that when it has coran
:p this id is high time that the question should
be ,Bettle4 once for ail, whether this government
is a th be respected and obeyed or not—
w lethor |t is a reality, or a miserable shanv ,x
, ' —' a
i CLASSICAL SEMINAR!,
i; jEfICANSPICU), TfOGA CO,, PA
I The 1 Vinter Term of this Institution trill como®***
Pu and close March 15, IB6U
p. WEL|DMAN.
.Mrs. H.;P. R, Wiildman Preceptress
- Miss JS.jA. Chase.,.?v. . Music Teacher*
Mr. C. A. Assistant.
}|r, 5ticknev'........ v ... ......Penmanship,’
T" I ' EXPENSES.
Tuition (Primary) ptjrLTerm...; $2 5j
Common English. d
Hightr English and Languages. C
Mush, Piano or Melodcon..i,r..... v . ®
Board it prirate_fumHie?, froiftiSl 50 to— 2 C®
Room.rsnt, per term... ...C.,.;., I Jjj,
Fuel, per term 1 5®
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Incidentals,.per term,....
If a class' of ten'can be obtained, leahas in Mi®*
will bo given at six dullors per term. We hope W •
this reduction of tuition to place this important bran'"
tsiibiD reach of many who do. not feel able to atajj
themselre? of it under present prices. No pains
be either by Teracheta or Trustees/ to an o "
brery aijrintnge that can bo had in the'best School -
of the country. Our -Teachers are experienced w “
successful Educators. : i»
i Tuition 'payable one'half »t the
the term, and the remainder at the middle or * s * L *n/
tofily arranged. For farther 'particulars address to
Principal. Rev. N. FELLOWS, fret b
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