"T" Terms of
TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is published
Wednesday Morning, and mailed to subscribers
‘Hhl very reasonable pries of'
DOLLAR- PEE ANNUM,.jgaf
, -Mu in advance. It i« intended to notify every
/* f “ iber when the term, for which he has paid shall
by the figures on the printed label on the
r t> ro . e n „f ett ch paper. The paper will then be stopped
#“B* farther remittance be. received. By this ar
-00,1 ment no man can bo brought in debt to the
fjDg« *•' * .
Agitator is the Official Paper of the County,
•th a large and steadily increasing circulation reaoh
*' °n» every neighborhood in.the County. It is sent
postage to any subscriber within the .county
1 . • i/bnt whoso most convenient post office may bo
’adjoining County., . - ...
Bittiness Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, paper ificln
jeJ, $5 per year. "
'BUSINESS-DIRECTORY.
CBYSTAI. FOtikTAIN hStEL.
DAVID H AE,T,Phopiuetor.
The undersigned to announce to his old
1., n j s and to the public gdherally, that he has taken
of'the old stand |nnd fitted it up in good
ile'rn'd intends fo keepjt as; 4 Temperance Hotel.
J? nainVwill bo spared toJiccommodate the traveling
t.Hir ' "Good stabling and a good hostler always on
hand to suit tho.tgnes, .DAVID IlAp.
i,fc S. F. WILSON,
Attorneys * counsellors at law, win
attend the Court ofijTioga, Pottor and McKean
muntics. [Wellsboro’, Fef 1, 1853.]-
' q. H. DARXIir, -
\ J« Academy, All work pertaining to
his line of easiness done promptly and
[April 22, 1858.]
warranted.
DItRINSOS HOUSE .
00B.NI N ft , N. T.
Mu. A.'Fi’ei.d - ■ Proprietor.
Guests'taken to and from the Itepot free of charge
J; C. WHITTAKER,
Hydropathic Physician and Surgeon.
EIKLASD, TIOGA qo., PENNA.
TTill visit patients in all yarts of the County, orro
eire them [or treatment at his house. .[June 14,]
J. EMffRY,
' \ TTORNET AND AT EATV
A Weilsborq, Tioga P»,- -Will devote his
hits erolosivVly tnjt&o practice, of law. Collections
injilo in any of the 'Sortfern Counties of Pennsyl.
jT.ma- _ .I-, 1 JV ' nov2l,Go__!
. ipEXSSHVA|{IA ’ HOUSE. ■ ,
Cani'.r oj Main Street and ! ip Avenue, Wellshoro, Pa,
J, IV. BIGONl’,; IIOPRIETOR. i
i This popular Hotel, havi- been re-fitted and rej
!furnished throughout, is hp “open to the public as a
i first-class house. '
IZAAK WALTOJt HOUSE,
B. C. VERM IE YEyV, PROPRIETOR.
Gaines, Tioga County, Pa.
THIS is a new hotel located within easy access of
the bc-t fishing and howling grounds in Northern
Pi, Jio pains will bo spared for the accommodation
if pleasure seekers and the traveling, public.
.■ April 12, iB6O. \ ■. ‘ , ■ * ' .
C. C. C. CJ^PBELL,
I BARBER AMD fli IR-D R ESSER.
SHOP in-fhc roar of the Office. Everything ih
las line will be done ol* well and promptly as it
jan be dime in the city saloons. Preparations for re
: During dandruff, and b'eatffifying tbo hair, for sale
i heap. Hair and whiskers any color. Call and
jee. Wcllsboro, Sept. 22, *
'THE JOUKJS A L.
George W. Pratt, Editor and proprietor;
18 published at Corning, fleuben Co., N. Y., at One
Dollar and Fifty Cents; ief year, in-advanec. Tbio
l/uumalis Republican in and bas*a circula
tinn reaching into every ijjfcrl of Steuben County.-
Xhose desirous of extending tlioir business into that
and tjio adjoining*counties find it an excellent ad
rertising medium. Addrei { jas above.
WEMSBOI O HOTEL,
WELLSBORfoUGH, PA. , !
3. S. FATIH, - - - - PROPIUETOIt.
[Formerly of the Veiled States Bold.)
, * Having leaded tlii? well tjnown and popular House,
fohcjtJ?-the patronage of tf f s public. With attentive
inti obliging waiters, togM ter with the Proprietor's
knowledge of the business,the hopes to make’the stay
•of those who atop with},him both .pleasant and
[•agretable. f s '
! Wellsboro, May 31, 1560,'
" PICTURE FRAMING.
TOILET G LASSES, Pbrfraits, Pictures, Certificates
Engravings, Needle Work, Ac., Ac,, framed m
the .fleaest manner, in plain and ornamented Gill.
Ro*e Wood, Black' Wnlmit,Gak, Mahogany, Ac. Per
sons leasing any article for Training, can receive them
mtdjy framed in any stylo they wish and hung’for
them. Specimens at '{
1 SETH'S BOOK STORE.
E. B. BEBfEriICT, M.
TtrOULD mfunn the public that bels permanently
U located m Tioga Co. Pa., and
b prepared by thirty year&ifcxpßncnce to treat ail dis
- the eye? and? tbdfy 'aprS n dH£C* OD scientific
principle?, and that ho tfl’ii cure without foil, tbit
urudful di called if. Vitus’ Datice, {Chore. a
Sntti Pifi t ) and will aUeQtdt to any other business i|u
the line of Physic and. Surgery. [
Eikland Boro, August B{ 1860. - ■ j.
Tioga rUßClator. !
George f, Humphrey Las opened a new
Jewelj Store at 1-/ , i
Tioga Village, Tifga County, .Pa. i
■ W’uore be i? prepared to kinds of Watch, Cloojk
andiJewtilry repairing, in a-|jjorkmnnUke Ail
work warranted to give enttf|s satisfaction, . !
We do not pretend td do > better than any other
Elan, but wo can do as goot -work as can bo done ip
W cities or elsewhere. Als i. Watches Plated. }
GEO&GjB F. HUMPHREY..!
10 S a J Pa., March 15, I8ft). Uy.) - ]
new Bodtr, shoe. ; j
LEATHER &. FINDING SFORB
TEE undersigned, ljavin£ie»sed the store formerly
occupied by G. W. Wert, intends carrying-on a|i
'Rebranches of the shoe,anti feather trade. Comp*-
*- C! w, Jrkmcm are employedjin the Manufacturing Df-
P”|ment, and all \rork to be our own mi
nufntmro. _ Jfo ,
Also. al| Kintfs of y
, Ready made Boars and sho£s;
■°t»i|antly on hand. All kinds' of Leather and Shi -
ftlso constantly on hand an.d fer sale at loir
v r "jts fur cudi uf ready pay.
HIDES and PELTS taktn in exchange for Goods
.J B Mjhest market pricis JOS, RIBEEOLE.
Sept. 5* ISflOpt 1
; jW ATGH,|(|LOCK, J
undersigned, h ! ,ving purchased of An'-
~ , ®is Folev his inter! it in the Cluck, Watch and
4 , t 'y etr ? business, respectfe Jy invites the attention iff
QjPj*|s to his assortmcj ( t of goods, ip connection
AND STATf&NERY' BUSINESS. '
0 p -ill (lisrriptions for rale, and at prl
.{.'“"Bing from $10 1 td-flso. Con sell the new
4n j ric AN WATCHES, witb.heavy hunting cases,
l. >, <cai ‘ ~Hl> ’«di for the low sam of §3si Also will be
'Plonhana, GOLD WATCHES, ospicialfy for the
r on if-, CLOCKS, from’sl.2s to $75, will always be
,o ™<i on exhibition. 1_ ~ I
I ’IN CONNECTION WITH THE ABOVE,
WARpt 3ad “I 1 kindB rf SILVER AND PLAITED
j O J - 11.I 1 . t 0 s oit the purchaser, and marke'd with onty
A lar ktl ° n or namo * The above is alweya warranted,
irft *\u*^ 0 J’ ttnenl of wn tnhsguardp, keys, 4c., nnki
ii « B ICAN KNlVE^,'.silver butter knives, 4c.
il.] “ kinds of REPAIRING done by Andic Foley
rolli Stan , d - 1 W.’U. SMITH.:
’ ““boro; March 15, IS6I. I
i ( _ * . i
TilK AGITATOR
53cbotcO tt» tie SSjtrlcn»io« o i tiearea o£ #eeciouflm awiMlfc Sajeeal of ©raltlg Reform.
WHILE THERE g&ALL BE
Hl. til
| RED, WHITE AND BLUE. ~
o|i 'Columbia, the gem of the ocean,
The home of the brave and the freb,
T te home of each patriot’s devotion, -
lA world offers homage to thee. !
T ly mandated make heroes assemble,
When liberty's form .stands in view, '
Tiiy banners mah© tyranny tremble, ■:
When borne by the red, white and bine.
When borne by the red, white and blue,
Whemjaorne by the red, white and bjhbj
, Thy banners! make tyranny tremble,
When borne by the red, white and bine. .
Wheh war wagfed[ its wide desolation, |
And’threaten'd! our land, to deform, j
Tle ark then of freedom’s | foundation, j
Columbia rode safe through the stbria. I
"With her garland, of victory o’er her,
When so proudly she bore her bold crek,
TVith her flag proudly floating before her, ,
The boast of the red, white and bine. :
j 1 The boast of, &c.
lie wine cup, bring hither,'
jAnd fill you it up to the brim,
May the wreath they have won never wither;
[Nor the star of their'glory grow dint. :
7ice united sever,
to.ibeir colors so true,
id navy forever,
for the red, white and bine.
Three cheers for, Ac. •
PLANT TjDEN-SOW grain -make
food plenty.
We have already urged the fact upon farmers
that a great crop of grain will be needed this
year for home consumption—that a gathering
array must be fed—that the number of men
usually employed in the production of food is
likely to be lessened, which twill ren
derlit imperative upon those who are left to till
thefeartb, to leave no land idle that Can be cill
tivaited; we don’t mean barely glanted, or
sowjn, and left to grow a crop of weeds, but cul
tivated, fertilized, and made to add to the great
stotje of food next Autumn, when it will be
walited to feed a great body of men in the
service of their.country, or who at least have
been, and have not been producing grain and
roots, and meat, fur their own sustenarfce
the Winter.
Itow is the time to prepare for this want.—
_Nojv is the time to sow oats, to plant potatoes,
to prepare for a great crop of Indian corn ; not
merely a great number of acres, but a, great
surplus of. grain of this roost sure of all food
producing plants.' >
Later than corn, another most valuable food
crab can be planted, which is both {(reductive
and, profitable. This is the common white
beans, which .grow very well upon land too
pcgjf to produce good corn. They should be
planted with a drilling machine in the furrow
of-Ja subsoil plow,- and bo cultivated with a
hotise-hoe, tp make the crop profitably.
ifext in order comes buckwheat, vyhich nan
be Liwn as late ns the 20th of Jpne.lthough it
is infer to sow i.t ten days earlier. If there is
_any spare land left from the other crops, do not
neglect to.put it in buckwheat, and d(m’t forget
thS the erop when ripe, nan he safety stored in
Btatk», and will keep ns well, or better, than
anj other grain. AVe mention this because We
hale known farmers to gauge their sowing by
their ability to cut and thresh at once, having
theiimpression that the crop could not be kept
in (he straw. 1 -
■ Millet is another late crop that should not be
neglected. It is very much grown at the West
as 51 hay crop, under they*name of Hungarian
grgss, and several other humbug names, ohe of
whjch is “Jupanese wheat,” under w|iil;h name
molt persistent efforts are made to swindle far
mers wilh some of thti varieties of millet—a
goJd and useful grain, for .Sumo purposes, and
pidfitable to grow under some circumstances,
but not valuable enough for farmers to afford
to fie swindled with a high price fur (jbe-seed.
Resides increasing the gram and grass crops
to (he greatest possible extent, do ru)t neglect
the! roof crop. Plant beets, carrots,j parsnips,
rutibagas, turnips—everything that| will help
to f reduce a greater abundance ofbuftly, cheese,
polk, beef and rhruttun. In-all probability all
will bo wanted, a| remunerating prices, in all
the quantity that the diminished hqlp of for
me -s.can possibly produce. " ,
A late number of the Homestead has a good
art do upon this subject of increasing the
cross, particularly directed to Connecticut far
mers, which says: ;
‘ Civil war is upon u», and it devolves hew
duties upon farmers, as well as upon' all other
cla ises in the community. True the .country is
fui of bread-stuffs* and provisions of; all kinds
are unusaaUy^abundiiht'and cheap. , Blit who
is t rise enough to tell what this war
shell assume, and how Jong the struggle will
cor tinue ? It is a war of the people, 1 of Anglo
Saboh people, resolute, dogged and; persistent,
to (he last degree. Multitudes of me a will be
drawn from tbe pursuits uf peace to the tented
fiell. Large armies will have to be] fed and
elo hed. Impiense numbers of 'hoifses will be
needed for them. Almost everything- that the
far ner produces will be in brisk Remand. Hay,
oati, flour, pork, beef, butter and
cbteae will be likely to advance in price if the
wa ■ is prolonged beyond the present Sutotner.
It is among the contingencies, that we are just
entering upon a conflict more bloody and pro
longed than that which gave birth to the nation.
It is the part of -patriotism as well as of private
interests to keep the country full of provisions.
■‘l Grain, especially, should be produced to the
fill: capacity of the farm, and the labor em
ployed. Fur grain, unlike roots and vegetables
ant, fruits., can easily be kept over a year with
out any loss in value ob price. Mow is the
time of oat-sowing, If a larger breadth can
not be given.to this, crop, at least a little more
ma >ure may be sown with tbe seeds, and the
pro duets be increased. If stable thahure is
exl austed r guano, poudrette, and 1 superphos
phate are still on hand, and these, when genu
ine. are pretty certain to return their cost in
grr in with a profit on the labor,"
’’hat is excellent adtice. If labor Is scarce,
ag-eat breadth cannot be planted, but what is
eat ■ be made more productive.
‘ A little more manure and labor bestowed
upon the same fields we now tJultivatej will
givh us a full supply of corn for our own popu
lation. Tbia crop is greatly helped by concen
trated fertilizers, dropped in the bill with the
secil. Fanners who have tried, this are confi
det t'that it can be increased twenty jbushols to
the! acre b f this process. While we 'spread the
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WRONG, UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL "MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION-MUST CONTINUE.
ftO, TtOGA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY MOANING. MAY 15/ 1861.''
WELLSB
ird manure and compost, and plow in its usual,
e can drop, guano, superphosphate, bone dlist
■ poudrette.in the hill. There is manure
sough wasted dh alihost every fanp to add
■ores if not hundreds of bushels to the corn
■op.” ,
It is probable that although agricultural la
or may be scarce, there wilt be a Surplus of
uskilled labor which farmers may, in fact
lould employ. Laborers now employed in
any manufacturing establishnients are very
kely to be thrown out of.employment, and so
v ill be a great many sea-faring men engaged
in the" coasting trade;, AH these; of
r imaining idle, should at'once apply themselves
1 1 the cultivation of-, the land, and evfery farmer
ii in duty bound—duty to his country as well
a j fellow man—fo give such persons employ
ment; if not as hirelings, give them an oppor
tunity of growing something that will help
t icm in theirineed to a supply of food.
The Homestead's article has another very
s msible piece of advice which will apply to
s ime others beside Connecticut farmers. " Let
ii be rend and thought of:
“ We have one crop that might be dispensed
V ith altogether for, the present. Grain is bet-
ir than tobacco. In 1850 we produced in
iis State over a million and a quarter pounds
r tobacco-with very doubtful economy to the
reducer, and not much benefit to the public.
Te think all the grain that can be grown upon
iese acres will be needed before the year
omes round.”
" Tobacco has been considered our most
rofitable crop; whether it be so or not we will
ot discuss!; we have always held the contrary,
ad fully believe it; stil,l, under some, circum
ances on the very best managed farms per
aps it may be a little more profitable than
ly other. The question of profit is' complex,
iwever, and we should not reckon only the
rofits of a,single season, for obviously thus we
in come at no just decision. .Neither should
man whojhas a patriotic soul calculate only
is own profits. After years of peace in money
itting, we have grown selfish. Let us remem
er, however, that we are the State, and the
tate is its people. Let .then the man who in
ils crisis in our nation’s history would show
is loyalty, raise-food instead of poison. Less
ibacco will be of ne damage to the world,
more wheat Rfc onr own doors will be a great
Uesaing. Sow, then, corn or wheat on the-to
bacco land. Let this' word go-forth, and if
i , goes forth with a' will and becomes the
s aliment of the people, we should, even here
i i law-loving New-England, fear that the man'
vho, in spile of this sentiment, should plant
tie weed, would never gather his crop. There
ill be a good deal of wheat raised this year,
nd while our production is bo far behind onr
Dnsbmption there Cannot ’be too much. AV.e
nght all to do our best.”
Yes, do you best to provide for the worst, and
len if the worst does not come, and we And
trselves iri possesion of a surplus,, femomber
that," a store is no sore.”
i It would be a sore thing if in addition to the
ireness of war there should be such a scarcity
fdo'd thatjthose who go to Sght back Slavery
itn overrunning free soil would be in danger
not being full fed, or that their wives and
ildren left at homes,among us should suffer,
many did in the-v Tar of the first revolution.
It is the duty,-of those who take arms in their
nds to drive tack the foe, to provide against
> danger. Jtjs our duty, who stay at home,
provide against the,danger of short crops.—
short, to provide that they are' as abundant
industriblis labor, judiciously an J , ecunomi-
ally directed; can possibly effect., To do this
r e must begin now. vNow is the seed-time;
•t us alljlojour duty, and trust God, for the
arvest.
Brother farmers, we urge you fd plant corn,
'low dqep! tWahure well, and plant corn. .[t,
■ American) mothers,, wives and daughters of
tmerican soldiers, we urge you to plant corn.
j Whnt if every woman, who has the ability,
shall plant and tend one well-fertilized hill of
otarn-? I
( Who can imagine the vast addition nil the
golden cars! grown npmj these extra stalks
Would makb to the great national store ?
What if were all gathered in orie ..garner,
and added to the widows’ and orphans’ fund ?
j Think of this, mothers, wives, and daugh
ters 1 Think what you can do, with such a
trifling, oddiiion to your other labors as plant
ing one hill of corn. •
j “Only th'ee grains of corn, mother!” let
ejvere child cry, in all the month of May, and,
dlantit, and then follow the Scriptural injunc
tion, “Dig about and dung it,” until it grows
and bears fruit.
The wastefbonoa of a single dinner, burned
jnd pulverized, will more than fertilize a hill
acorn. Thb waste, the sweepings, the slops,
he faces, ofja small family, mixed in a tub,
jnd CatefUlly applied as a liquid manure, would
fertilize a hundred hills of corn; aye, more,
rould add a hundred bushels to the crop. _
Then plant “ three grains nf corn.”. Dig the
nil deep andl mellow. Soak the seed to hasten
[s vegetatiorl. Keep the ground free, of weeds,
hid the surface loose, and moist and rich. Dig
h the early ihorning dew. Thera is no better
ptillzer. Ifj you plant the right kind, three
tains will produce sis ears, and each of lltesa
fill have a hundred grains.
Men, women, children—all who lota your
puntry —all Who have a single superficial foot
If the surface of that country—we ask you to
jlant one hill of corn. Thus yon can serve
bur country jin its hour of peril. Ton can,
fith vour {feeble bands alone, provide a surplus
F grain. Seeing your spirit;, your atrong-han-
Wd relatives Will be animated to renewed and
jreater exertion and each and all throughout
ill the onrn-growing region of States, onpollu
hd with Slavery will plant one more hill of
brn. v '
! "War Terms.—A casemate 5s a stone roof toi
t| fort, made snfficiently thick to resist the fbrce
(if cannon ba|lfi, and a casemate gnn is one
which is placed under a casemate. A barbette
aim is one which is placed on the top Of a forti
fication. An I embrasure is a hole or opening
through which guns are fired from fortifications,
ijioop holes are openings in walls to fire musk
etry throogh:j #
WHAT IS THE PBOBPECT ?
“Letlnot him that putteth oh the harness
boast as he that taketh it off.” In the begin
ning o{| all contests, J the habit of-disparaging
and contemptuously estimating the : adversary
to bo overcome, is an almost universal weakness
of Humanity. Unreasonable, immeasurable
confidence of success has ruined too many a
gnllantl leader'and righteous cause.- Lot us con
sider, then, with all possible impartiality, the
prospers of the Union cause in the struggle
now opening. _ , j . _
I. And, in the outset, let the fallyi.be utterly
hooted |of supposing that the rebels will not
tight. .They t rill, they mast fight, and that des
perately. A peaceful adjustment is a .sheer im
possibility, and has been from the hpur that the
iron hail was first rained,on the. walls of devo
ted Sumter. The men who planned, directed,
executed, and even those who in any manner
incited; that^ fiendish act,, are traitors to the
United | States,, and as such are instinctively
and irrepressibly nbborrodjby every loyal heart.
They have burned their,ships, and retreat is
henceforth impossible. Any peace that may
be made roust involve their signal triumph or
their utter humiliation. If there were no other
obstacles to a half-and-half settlement, the po
sition Ojf the Ar my and Navy officers whom
they have seduced from their loyalty-would be
insuperable. Hero are great numbers of sworn
defenders of the authority and flag of the'
Union, from Gen. Twiggs down, who have been
dyed in a treason so black jthat no Government
not utterly broken down could consent to over
look it.! Can the traitors agree to abandon
these officers, without support or profession, to
the cold charities of a frowning world? Could
the Government consent to their restoration to
the rank they have betrayed? If it could,
would loyal and faithful officers consent to serve
with and under them? The idea is utterly in
admissible.
11. Nor will it answer to depreciate the Mili
tary resources end efficiency of the rebels.—
Even cowards in-their position would fight des
perately, and they are no onwards. Most of
them have been trained from the cradle to con
sider personal bravery the very first requisite
of manjy chAracter, and skill in the use of arms
the first necessity of a gentleman. ■ The ride
and revolver have been their playthings from
boyhood, and the duel, nr some “difficulty” in
volving peril to life, are with them themes of
daily contemplation and frequent observation.
And. while we are confident that a majority of
the Southern People are ati heart Unionists to
day, we judge that seven-eighths of the fighting
force—the “Chivalry”— of the Slave' States- 1 —
the voilng. the daring, the ambitions-, the dos
peratc-i-have been drawn into the meshes of
the rebellion. They have many of the very
best of inur late Army officers, and theft soldiers
will at first be better led and handled than
ours. Such are the advantages with which they
will enter upon tbe contest, added to which it
must hi fought on ground -which .they know
thoroughly and we very ! imperfectly, in the
midst.of their resources ami at a distance from
ours, while the inhabitants of the seat
of war will eagerly give information to their
leaders!whero one jvill venture to give any to
ours, i i
111. But, on the' other hand, they fight to
divide and belittle the Republic, wbile we strug
gle to preserve and uphold its integrity. Our.
positioti in this war chimes with an intense
and pervading American instinct, while theirs
resists |and defies it. We icarrv the 1 oid 9ug,
with thirty-four stars emblazoned proudly there
on ; they flaunt a novel imitation which bears
but seven stars now, and, cannot have more
than fourteen. Every American long resident
in distant lands is heartily j wit h u«; so is every
Old-World republican; so ia t overy:nno who
hopes and prays that all North America shall
.ultimately constitute one great, glorious Repub
lic. The .value of this identity of our cause
with the spontaneous and fervid impulses of
“Young America” can hardly be, over-esti
mated.
IV. The pshpia.of the .loyal Slates are far
more unanimous and hearty ih the striiggle fur
the Union than are the people of the Slave
States in seeking its disqifcmberment. We
know that there arc individuals .in these Stales
whose hearts are with Jeff. Davß^Co,: hut
they are a very inconsiderable fraetitTrrof the
whole “ while in the Southjtho unerring test of
the Ballot, while voting was still measurably
free, proves the Union still strong in the affec
tions of millions'. Virginia, North Carolina,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and even Ar
kansas! have voted since Lincoln’s election that
they would not he dragged out of the Union ;
and, though that vote has in roost instances
been practically circumvented by the conspira
tors, the record still stands.! Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisnfna, were carried by the Se
cessionists through a desperate struggle; in
Louisiana, the Unionists claim to have east a
.majority of the popular vote, ns also in Ala
bama ;!while thousands were bullied into vo
ting Secession tickets by the cry, “ You have
repeatedly, explicitly, resolved that you would
secede if a Republican were chosen President:
now stand up to that resolve or confess your
selves liars 1” Thousands vbted-tbus in order
to frighten the Free States into concessions
which would give them an excuse for remain
ing in' the Union ; they nevpr really pieant to
break out of it.'. Poll the whole American
people to-day; and we ate confident that two
thirds of them wdiild vote jo have the Union
preserved. It is ii)ipossihle| that this prepon
derance should not be felt in. the’ pending
struggle. f
V. The people of the loyhi States arb-more
intelligent, ingenious, inventive, mechanical,
than the mass of those who will be brought in
to the field against them. From any Northern
brigade, you may at the same time clioose (he
fit men'to rebuild" a btofcep, bridge, to repair
and tun 5 railroad, and to scale and fight a ship
of war! leaving tjib brigade still effective for the
field. s‘his is not true to a like extent of any
other brigade in the world, certainly not of any
that obeys the orders of Jeff, Davis. And it can
not fail to telUon the fortunes of a campaign.
VI. The preponderance of wealth, and cred
it, and industrial efficiency, is greatly oh the
side of the loyal States. W.-ir is a costly game,
and every year’s improvements ih projectiles
ind gunnery renders it more so. ,Tba Idngekt
purse heals the sharpest sword, when they are
found on opposite sides. We command the
seas; we arc (it home in the gold mines; we
can beat the rebels ten to one in casting can
non,' in, rifling thUskets; in making cartridges.
We have the sympathies of the civilized world,
and, can.borrow millions abroad where the reb
els would be refused thousands. We have no
servile class that needs watching, and no shad
ow of dread ofji a dre in the rear.” We excel
in growing fond, and digging coal, and work
ing iron and steel, in mining copper, weaving
cloth, and making wares ; and if we, were cut
off from all foreign trade for twenty years, we
should come out the, richer and stronger for the
stricture. -We depend on the staple like. Cbt
ton that must be exported in order to be reap
ized. In short, we go into the contest as a well"
appointed army would engage one composed of
artillery alone.
VII. Finally, the armies of the Union are
and long will be composed of Volunteers only,
or men whose hearts arc in the work, while the
rebels have already been compelled to resort
extensively to drafting or to bullying men into
their service. Fort; Sumter was invested by
military compelled to serve, many of whom de
tested the rebellion and its authors. In every
seceded State, men are constrained to enlist un- :
der penalty of being robbed and hunted out- as
“ Abolitionists”—that is, Unionists, As the
•T ’
contest proceeds, and the monstrous lies con
cerning President Lincoln, Gen. Scott;'the
North, the Black Republicans, invasion, subjtl
gallon, &., wherewith the South has been
crazed, shall be gradually exposed by the
Inarch of events, it must be that thousands of
those thus driven in to the rebel ranks, being
disabused, will escape from their vassalage Or
rciuse to raise fratricidal hands against the de
fenders of the Union,
• Such, hastily stated, are our reasons for be
lieving that, with wisdom and energy at head
quarters, the Union will be uphold and the re
bellion crushed out,. That this end will be at
tained through perils, sacrifices, discourage
ments, disaters even;.we know ; hut it will se
cure a noble heritage of peace and prosperity
to our country and our odildron. Through the
Ked Sea, not around it, lies the appointed' way
to ihe'Laud of Promise, and it will ba steadfast
ly trhijden by a brave and loyal people.-^-A’i l’i
ibuhe. M
LIES;
A cause that is based upon lies can no more
live and flourish than a house-can stand whose
foundation is on the sand. • The truth of this
scripture Sir. Jefferson Davis \vill live to wit
ness, and possibly may testify thereto in a more
conspicuous manner than be would wish.—
This 'Southern Confederacy is certainly based
upon falsehood in morals and statecraft, and if,
as seems probable, it- has no other chance for a
sliflrt-lile existence than the active promulga
tion of lies, it must come to a-speedy end and at
no distant peiiod. lie must be a wise and a wary
man, and a man of many resources, who can
deceive a lellyw creature to ills mortal Hurt;
that wisdom has not yet been given to man
which can cozen and cheat a nation out of its
existence.
It is not pleasant to usjhns to speak of any
fellow-creature, nut even Mr. Jeff. Davis ; hut
then, as, we know, to apply to him another „
Scriptural phrase, that •• he is a liar, and the !
truth is not in him,” and that thousands of
lives and millions.of treasure are to be sacri
ficed to the ambition of him And his follows,
we do nut care to stop to ehooso our phrcV—i ’
or to minee them if wo did. This gigantic re-,
ts'ollion, of which he is the head, was conceived
in Slavery, begbt in fraud, and feeds and grotys j
fttt on I
,If any one thihg has been made mr.ro mani
fest than another throughout this Secession
b’osoess, it is thatjhe leaders net iit/sl the
I'eople. The question of a separate Confed
eracy has never yet been submitted to them
either as a whole people or as soparate-Stato
sovereignties, and never will be, simply because
the leaders do not dare. It'is very true, and
we,hasten to do them the justice jo acknowl
edge it, if there were no re.isun for fear, they
would still bo prevented, by that haughty con
tempt they fecHoj alLw ho are not of their own
class, from consulting Cither the wishes or the
opinions of the petrpie in relation to the mutter.
But .as; aftet/oiU,"”' mud-sills” are quite as
necessary and liseful.in their way as the more
ornamental parts of the architecture of human
society, it is' the fear of the expression of- their
wishes and opinions that has. barred the sub
mission of the 4 ue bt'on of Secession to their
votes. yC ,
iNor is this, the only way in which they show
their fear lest the truth should be known. The
newspapers,of the [South atb full of lies, and
common rumor more than justifies its ancient
reputation, for not even by an accident does if
blunder upon the truth. A censorship of the
press, or that sense of honor known even among
thieves, forbids Southern journals’, and the' fevT
Southern persons who have the intelligenpe or
the ability to take a.Northern newspaper, to
promulgate the intelligence from the North.—
An equally strict surveillance is exercised over
all correspondence. Prudent merchants of Xew-
Olleans, and, we presume, of other places, who
wish to avoid suspicion, and to insure a chance
of the transmission of their letters, send them
unsealed, well aware that no seal is regarded
except to secure the destruction of a lettep as a
safe alternative, when time fails in the exami
nation of n large mail. A Southern gentle*
man, who left a South-Western city a week
ago, is shucked and amazed tit the state of
things at the" North. “We know notbing-of
jit at the South,” be declares;, “it is all studi
| odsly kept frond us!” “ Great God! wo are
1 lost,!’.’ exelaitiiis another, when he sees the un-.
expected unanimity and activity of the North,
which in bis section also they are not permitted
to hear of. Further north, where it is still so
I distorted and so mixed With Ijes, as to answer
! the same purpose'.- A gentleman from Virginia,
' not mot more than sixty miles .from Norfolk,
informed us a few days since that the two posi
tive statements'implicitly relied on.in that sec
tion arc, that Gen. Scott has resigned, and lies
iu chains at Washington, and that the only
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NO. 41*
way the North - dan, raise. any troops is by
throwing opdnjall her jails 1 . | ■-
- And this is,nbt accident; is is a system. The
truth will.be fatal to the cause of Secession.
Let the-South pnpe know that the North is A
unit—that it has rallied as one man to; the de
fense of liberty and our time-honored govern
ment ; r th»t Jthey have been deceived most
grossly by th|«ir,oivh, leaders,* most cruelly by
the protoiseayfjNorthern traitors in and out of
office, and N|)iajb.ern,,newspapers equally vile,
and- the fear Jplli lie traitorsjs, that the people,
hitherto, inaftire or only unsympathetic, will
rite in {heii'l-strehgth and crush treason and
traitors tpgebherl , ti I -
On this theory the otherwise inexplicable at
tempt to conceal the slaughter at Fort Moultrie
his ft purpose, .and the gigantic lie of Mr. Jeff.
Davis, that EptjtSumter.was taken without the
Joss of a sin ala Hb, is, like the other almost in
numerable I.ioslj iifnia last message, simply iti
accordance wit|i a eopsistant plan. If there is
such a thingtjaSiJiistorieal evidjsuco of a fact, it
may be conal[dirpd .proved that the number of
lives lost at Fort Moultrie, was several hundred.
Ire have thejtestidiony of four different persons,
differing in their opportunities for observation,
to the same Siicl, of whicii .they, were all eya
#ithbssbs.. . Jf.jkny doubt could be thrown upon
the stateoien| M :tho.,twp German soldiers, not
because thejOnSny not he.trustworthy; put be
cause they are'unknown,-or upon that] of the
gentleman published yesterday, because his
name which we were not at liberty to give,. was
not objection cannot be made to the
testithoriy of Capt. Corson, a well-known citi
zen of Statet) |sland. And now, to the testi
mony of all-.ljhwie, comes the singularly
orative evidence of Mr.
who was at chi'head of the mailing department
of the Charleston Mercnry all last winter', and
Who during ihose eventfol Sumter, days wa.s a£
his post. It will be remembered that one of the
other witnesses stated that the shot which did I
the most execution was the shot first fired; this |
first bulleiin : pulled down immediately from I
the Mercury’. ; Ward, and which announced the
killing of tp r kj men by a single shot J was ear
ly in the dri|. j [Perhaps at that moment was
conceived tn|e potion of concealment lest the
effect upon.tlie Southern mind generally, as well
as upon the soldery kept hack in reserve!
sliould be disastrous.. Therefore Lieut. Rhett.J
who was wounded by this early shot that killed]
so many, wni not hurt at all, except] but by ii
slight tumble < tier a gun-carriage. So the sotj
dier whom Mr jThb.mpson overheard epepk of
irigfitful wont, located it not at tbjint -Cnni]
mings, wherli Je came from, but at Bert Mpnfi
trie.- We only yesterday asked Capt. Du bled ay
if any of his shot entered the embrasures at
Moultrie, and we have his positive
that they entered them and tore them, away]
though .what ijhey may have done witfiin, ha
of- course die wit know. Me alsp 1 ave Capt]
Doubleday’s; asisjurance that,.after (be agreo-l
mentto evajfuWe, great, numbers of snrgeona
and clergym irjlwere brought to them. Mas it
because thait min experience bod been so tern-)
hie that they wished to extend to their dying!
and mutilated the aid of science and the com
forts of religion ? Why should Senttpr "Wig
fall have braked, that' perilous passage' across
-the harbor, wi ,5i shot and shell falling thick
around him exclaiming, when he ’reached
Sumter, ‘ Iw 3wd’a sake, can there not be' a-
Stop put to pbiki"' A.stop to what?' "howaste
of powder alnil brill, which hurt nobody, hilt
whicb might have hurt Wtgfalf -in that foolish
passage,—foolish, that is", with no other motive
than this? | ‘-Ik-
( -IW a moment last thatlresta in
tao better 9 ~fTribuns.
. the Agitator.
;s[, -r- AND' HA VE GOOD POIiK. —■
'dg land that will produce corn,
can raise good peas which are' more valuable
than corn, and may be fed as' follow? Two
barrels are more convenient than one tor the
peas heed soaking twenty-four hours' - to malfe
them tehdet. The plan generally adopted is
this ;,put ns mjiny-in a barrel as will last one
ilay, with 'the mijk and other slops usually
saved for swill, and prepare morn
ing. lings fed on peas will not eat corn after
wards until starved to it?. _
■’ iVr.sT no;
Farmers liav
■fra know i| farmer who to®: the premium on
hogs for two 3ithree gears', fihese hogs were
fed on peas. | ij 0. Hollis.
- ...The wir jijiE Dotchme-N
Fight.— When the Berks County and other in
terior troops were qn their way, toward Camp
Curtin, the officers had a. Conference over thn
news of the taking of Fort Sumter, and the fact’
thatj after thifly-six hours,’ ,cannonading, no
life was lost. jOrie honest Butch' officer conld
pot understand |hpw this could ho done; hut
another matter posted in. modern warfare
assured him tSajb Jit was all owing to, the aston
ishing improvements in modern Science, which
had made the art of war so perfect thafforts
might bo battered down, and cities bombarded,
and yet not a single individual be killed. Thn
honest Butch teon, of Mars listened attentive'?
and in surpriiejjait such remarkable results
Suddenly His faW reddened, and with a blow of
his fist upon Big .table’, which sounded .like, the
discharge of.ri (Hllumbiad, ha exclaimed, “ Ben,
by tarn, dey had getter not prmg town-’ our
Duchmans, for dey are so dam sbtnpid mid
science, dat doy could not go into a fight mitout
killing someppty.’
Patriotic ’ s
to summon re :i
ment, thp foil o
The chairmai tiotified the meeting that sub
scriptions be Received, when a liitlo boy
promptly come forwntd and said, “This isfi-nni
Stephen Decatur* sir,” It proved to bo a check
for $lOO. The father stood by and proved to,
bo blind. He is an officer of the navy who
lost his sigh tan ' the service, and, a nephew of
Commodore Decatur of the last war. Ulna
cheers were given which, made the holla ringl-
Five thousand dollars were immediately sob
scribed for the regiment, which js to leave this
week... -One‘hundred young ladies werelnakin<f
garments for the mchl j
cjoEXT.— At the Boston meeting
jilts for Fletcher Webstoi’s rcgi-
Ving.teiling incident oooitfred •_