>irvs s *v^
Terms of PnbUchtldn.
>mgg 'HSaAi COONTJ AGlli^GaU.published;
'•rtfr®*4«f s #W Morning, to subscribers;
SiWTwyreasonable pneeof r ,;, «i. ; ’, ;
, «■ qnb ' pdLLii, I?eb ' ;
titariaify »» lt VintendiiV-K notify etpry
JabWobef when the term- for which heaps paid shall
eipirtd, by the figuresoh the prinleS labeled the
L,jlniofaaeh paper. The p»per;wti| thenbe a tapped
jnjfj-a further ,remittance, be received. . By thiaar
,?n«iuent no man oin.be brought.in debt to the
P&f- ■ " ‘ , ft :a " ■
- jaa Agitator Is the. Official -Papef ej! the County,
jjlb » large'ind-ateidily increasing. reanh-
nmghbDrhoodinthe.Coun(*i!. Itis sent
Jißitj, bat whose' most-convenient -piytpffice may, be
*»9 Cprintyi ‘ ' , ’ * '
. jßsstuess'CMdb, not exceeding Slineaip'nperincln
-4U,'sS per,year. ■
CRWSTAI. ‘ TeV&TAmi 'hoTEL.
' DAVID Dboprieme,
fho undersigned begs leave to anno'dripe to his-old
ftiiktis and to the'public generally,’ tb|t Sfe has taken
jimMsion'bf-' the'old' statld kid ■ fitloiUtifeip' in IgoOd
iijle, and intiddsto keep it .as a Hotel.
'sq pains will be spared to traveling
mbUoV Good stabling and a good fioftlii/.olwa'ys ’on
jsnd. -Prices to suit the times.' • HAET.
lAS. LOWRET &;S. F.‘WJ|I.SOM T
i TTOR.SEYS & COUNSELLORS |/jv-LAW, will
A aUendthe.Court of TiogapPotUg aniMoKean
rounties. ' [Wellshoro, Peb. 1, 1853.] ?. it ■ . •
OI C RIK SOW > .
CO EKING, N.';T|| .
ih;. A. i..... , ‘i^roprietor.
Quests taken to and .from the Depot charge.
EMERY,
k TXOftNEY jvND CODNSELLQEiIAT LAW
Wellaboro, Tioga Co., Pa. inUfdevote his
time exclusively to the practice Of lOrp- tkbdlcctiona
made in thy of the Northern coqntlw iif Pennsyl
vania, i
TMawmvAifU
‘Corner 0/ Main Street and-the Avenue, Pa.
J, W. BIGONy,-PROPHIE^)|
This popular Hotel, having bean re-ift)'
firhiilied IhriiughoaVia How open to'lift*
firuxelaaa ioise. ■
IZAIK WALTOIf .-fIttCJSB,
B. C. VERIfIL YE A, PKChfili lE TOR
Gailtc», Tioga Countyy Pju:
THIS is a qew, hotel located within tXif access o
the'beat fishing and banting
pv. No pains will be spared for the
4 f pleasure seekers and the trarelidg put£K|
April 12, 1860. -- ~ . | .||
O. C.‘ C. ’ ■ r
BARBER iND HA I R EIIES'S B R.
riHOP in the rearof the P6st Office. EfoMything in
ij his line will be done ag well -mjd pr|«&t]y*a.Bit
u be done in the cllty saloons. -for. re
aring dandruff, and beautifying fhc h»fi| for sale
heap. and whiskers dyed any and
Sept.'22/1850, V »* f |.
THE CORJfISG JOVRMi'I,.
thorge W. Pratt, Editor and Pr fpriotor.
TS publish.d at Corning, Steuben Co., Kg}]!., at One
y Dollar and Fifty year, in The
Jyaraal is Republican in' politics, and circula
tion reaching into every part of Steuber^punty.—
desirous of extending their
adjoining counties'will find it an
firtiling medium- Address os above. . ’?.2j
WELESBORrt, HOT^t,
WKLCSBOROUGH, PA. f|; ,
I. s. TARR, P&J^UETOB.
[Formerly of (he Utiitcd Stalh
'Hiring leased this well fenbwn and popuhiefJloiise,
niirits the patronage orthe' public. attentive
ui ebliging‘Vaitcrs, together ,with- the
bsvlodgo of the business, ho hopes tg. mahegshe stay
;! those who stop with him both and
greeable, ‘ a *' ‘ ' 'Aif
['TTeUsboro, May 31 ; .18S0- • i- • ;5
.
■■ E. B. BENEDICT, !*.;».s•
r JJIiD inform the-public that he is r pry^in‘nor.tl
Ifcatod in Elkland Boro, Tioga Ci an
iiprepared by thirty years’ experience to'travail dig
of .the eyes and'their appendages on
piaciplas, and that he, can.cure wttflou(£«kn, tha
feudfnl disease, called St. Vitus’
ikuti Vitf.) and will attun'd to any other ftpfrinesa i
itllaeof Physic and Surgery. ’
Stkiftod Boro, August 8, 1860. * *
DENTISTRY.
' C. N. 'DARTT-fi
fWOCL!) respectfully say Jo the mt|fens of
I,’* Wcllsboro end vicinity, that he
P «*eo over WRIGHT’S FLOUR AJSj-EFEED
where ho will continue to do all Riftds of
|>»k in the line of DENTISTRY. ' ft
I Ifdlsboro, April 30, 1862. 1 1 ■
C OR’ N IN G . ||
VBOLESALE DRUG AND BOOK STORE.
*CGS AND MEDICINES, ' |,'
HINTS AND OILS,.
WINDOW GLASS,
KEROSINB OIL,
ALCOHOL, ;
VKP STATI
BOOKS AW
st wholesale-by ■' *. , 3LI
W. O. TERBEIL. |
Merchants supplied with those urSfbles at
new YORK PBIOEi '
Feb. 2M562. ,|- •
[ ' I’l l LLI *EUI . I
I*BS. M. wr SHEARMAN,
- —M ILLINEK, i|;
XBW FORK A f ND ELMlttjg,
•HIES attention to hfer assortment <jf ’ f’ '
tsew Spring Good^
Q 8 every doseription of ' ;
and American 2SUline}||f,
will sell at wholesale sad retail for
.Special Inducements | :
to MILLINERS. Goods sad Patterns fur
Small Advance
** KI W YORK COST. ' \ • >|' : C
fiooms 22 Bkeckcr Street, New Tork>J|}>
l 3" Water Street, Elmira, N<!y. ‘
T ’ Wj
WASTED! 'I
JJBOCSAKD BUSHELS TOJEAtI
m HOUSAND BUSHELS .corn;.;
0N E THOUSAND BUSHELS DATS i[
ONE THOUSAND RUSUfiLS R#!
* lltb tie will pay GASH!
WRJGHT & BAIErV.
j 1 lbe Ponnd, each or barrel, ’ ’ : .1 - -
Ire O-by the pound or ton, *I . .
««d.»r.^ BDyqaantuiM ' u -
1 Wright <t Bailey’s new Flour
ij*** l ? at oar Store. ' ' • £.
iCte 4 ‘ f elinre<3 FREE OF CHARGE wEio
FRED E. WRIGI#
Execnun^' Notice. . . M- .
, P> t! e4 t baring Tien
Stio, I «<>«abBDriber,Od the estate of Cl£M
township, deceased.:rfe-
l®, those, indab ted.to make inSpg-
i. 0 haring, claims,.to prewfit
anthehtiented for settlement. to ifS ,
P', May 1S; ige| I{Ai3lj BTOtsE,-£««^ ; ; •:
I'IIE AGITATOR
VOL. Yin.
SPUING AMD sumansit GOODS.
,; Jerome smith
■Saa now on hind a largo' and extensive stock of
, vUy goods,
HATS & CAPS.
BOOTS & SHOES, - .
' t GROCERIES, =
READY-MARE CLOTHING, •
HARDWARE, GLASSWARE " ,
, . WOODENWARE. Ac.,
which is undoubtedly the largest-assortment ever
brought into this county, and will be sold at prices
that must give entire satisfaction. And I would in
vite purchasers, generally; to cdll and examine any
assortment of ; •
Black and Figured Press Silks,
Worsted Goods, Mennoes,
Ladies* Cloth, Opera Flannels,
Long and Square Shawls,
f Black and Figured,Delaines,
and Qaesimercs, Ac., Ac.,
And in fact the best assortment of . -
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS
ever brought into this, county. I have also, a large
stock of
DOMESTIC GOODS,
CLOTHS & CASSIMERES,
SATINS. FULL CLOTH,
TWEEDS, A KENTUCKY.JEANS.-
Purchasers will find that the placejo buy good goods
■tad at low prices, is at the store of
JEROME SMITH.
Wellsboro, April 23, ISG2. 1
fra j and re
/Soblie-48 a
J. M. SMITH,
HAS removed to tie Now Store on
Jfaiket Street, Corning
first door east of Husgerford's ■ Bank, and directly
opposite the * 1 „
Dickinson House,
wl\cre he is now receis'ing, and will constantly keep
on hand a Full and
COMPLETE ASSORTMENT,
OF FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS,
.BOOTS- AND SHOES,
FAMILY GROCERIES; Ac,,
which will bo sold at the Lowest Prices for
1 Rcaily Pay Only.
He sells good Prints for, lOcta.
Morrimacs .• 12Jc.
Denims 12Jc.
Heavy Sheetings / 12$c.
Fine Bleached Muslin I2^c.
and other goods equally low.
TUe cititeas of TIOGA COUNTY
arc cordially invited to •
Give Him a Call
Coming, April 23, 1562.
Insurance Agency,
THE Insurance Company of North America hare
appointed the undersigned an agent for Tioga
County and vicinity. -
As the high character antf standing of this Com
party give the assurance of full protection to owners
of property against the hazard of fire, I'solicit with
confidence a liberal share of the business of the
county.. This Company was incorporated in 1794.
Its capital is $500,000, and its assets in 1561 ns per
statement' Ist Jnn. of that year was $1264,719 SI.
CHARLES PLATT Secretary.
ARTHUR G. COFFIN, President,
.Office of the ‘ Company 232 Walnut Street,
. Philadelphia,
Win.Bhcbicr,Central Agent,Bar*
rifrburg. Pa.
JOHN W. GUEBNSiey,
Asent for Tioga County, Pa.
April 9, ]M2.
SOME. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
N E JW" YORK;
C-A-F IIiAL, 51,000,000.
Home Fire InsuHmce Company
■ IX
NE W HA YEN, CONNE C TICUT;
CAPITA!, $200,000.
These Companieshavb, complied with the State law.
Applications for Insurance received by
■ ' CHARLES L. SIEMENS,
WelUboro Tioga County, Penna.
Wcllsboro, Jan. 15, I&G2,
l;
*>ET
War"! War for the Union!
THE anderaigned would respectfully inform his
old friends, buslomers, and the public generally,
that he has opened a
CABINET A.ND CHAIR SHOP
on Main Street, opposite H. IV. Dartt’s Wagon Shop,
where he intends to keep constantly on hand a gene
ral assortment 1 of ,
mad? of the best materials, and by tho best workmen.
Also Coffins made to order, and as ejeap as can be
•procured elsewhere, accompanied with a Hearse.
Also Chairs of every variety from (be BBS! down
to the CHEAPEST, to
, .Suit Purchasers.
.Also Turning of all kinds done to order and to suit
CUSTOMERS.
The -undersigned having had many years experi
ence,; both in France and in this country, feels confl
•denLtbat be cannot be excelled in either of the above
branches of mechanism—and further would recom
mend the public to
CALL AND EXAMINE
bis workmanship and prices before purchasing else
where. JACOB STICK I. IN.
WelLsboro, March 19, 1862,
Dentistry.
G. H. FIRMAN,
, Fotmerly of Elmira, New York.
A perfect master of DENTISTRY in all its branch
es, 1 wottld respectfully inform the citizens of
VTELLSBDit.O
and Surrounding country, that ho is now stopping at
; ' the PENNSYLVANIA HOTEL .
wbere he can bp found .between the hours of g o’clock
A. M., and 6 o'clock P. M., ready io.perform any.op
eration pertaining to hia art with skill, and allow pri
ces. , • ...
EXTRACTING done .mecntnieally, and attended
with very little pain.. i -
Exahixatioss of the Teeth, and consultations
.Free of Charge..
N. B.— All work warranted as represented.
Wellshero, April 30,1852.
ScUotrU to x&k Sjrtcitsiou of tfce area of if mOom anQ tie Spreadol f&tnltbg a&tfmrm.
THERE SHALL* BE A WEONG UNRIGHTBD, AND UNTIL OMAN'S INHUMANITY TO fi£AN"' SHALL AGITATION MUST CONTINUE*
L_.
VISITING CORNING,
Cabinet Ware,
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY JUKE U, 1862.
WE WERE ALU pbbfi TOGETHER; 1 '
. BT TTJI. FOSBACK.
Wo very poor together,, Mary j .
A wee email cot woe mine,
Two cowa elonewcre sll'qhodairy; '
In happy days leng ejoe.- ,
At mors,. it was so happy then
To trra3 tßampnnt joud moor;
At; ere, tq deep thee o’nce egain
When wo were very poor.
Oft the castle on the bill was .glowing
With many a window bright,
And many a cry etal enp was flowing
. With ruby wine By night;
But on the heath our little cot ’ '
. Sat bidden, dark and damp ;
Bql 1 wee happy with my lot, ~
’ For Mary was my lamp.
I hare gained the golden gear and sorrow;
I’ve a world of wealth 1 and vtoe.
But no eye awaits me <m the morrow
- Like the one I used to know.'
0 give me back my wee wife.
My small Cot on the moor,
For Joy has left me lona in life
Since wo were very poor 1
THE BEOKEH ENGAGEMENT.
It w-os a beautiful evening Jn the. dawn of
summer. forms were.sitting in close prox
imity to eife another by the window df a,twelve
thnusftbd dollar bouse—heavily mortgaged—in
the upper part of this city. TltChand of one
rested Joveingly on that ,of the other, and-the
arm of one described a. semi-circle round the
other's waist. It is, hartjly. necessary “to say
that they were lover’s, and that this was as far
as the young man could goin geometry. There
was no light in the room, but there was no oc
casion fot any, with her taper.waist and spark
ling eyes and his flaming words. This is a
sample of their small talk.
“Dearest Anna toll, oh tell me what I can
do to make myself more worthy of yonr love.
Bid me undertake' any mission you please, and
I will obey. Aye, even though it be—to cut
ray hair short—sacrifice my moustache —wear
large boots, or work for my living—speak, any
thing you may command me.”
“O George! calm yourself. Do not speak
in this terrible strain ; you 1 make me shudder.
—No, George, I love you for yourself alone.”
—Then placing her hand gently upon -his
brow, she murmured, “soft, my love, speak
soft, my own, and tell hie do you love me as
much as ever, and will l ever be the same to
you as I am now 7”
“Hear me swear?” cried the ardent youth,
dropping Upon his knees fur the first time ip
his life, but suddenly rising with a troubled
expression of countenance,.as something.put
him in mind of the tightness of his neither
apparel.
“0 Anna, there is not a coat adorns any tai
lor's window on Broadway, that has so high a
) lace in my affections as yourself!! You are to
mpwhat slander and gossip are to young church
members, or'funerals to manied women—my
life, my ambition, my hope, my all! A few
days more and we shall be united forever. I
can scarcely realize my happiness.”
The fair one blushed and nestled closer to
the vest pattern of the happy youth. So we
leave thetA.
It was a dark and gloomy night, two days
before the time appointed for tluinuptial cere
monies of the young pair. George bent his
way, full of joy, hope and and supper, to the
mansion of his beloved. He rang the bell and
was ushered into the parlor. Anna was not
there and after waiting a few moments, he re
solved to decend the stairs to the dining-room,
ostensibly to seek for her, but most probably
with visions? of spoons dancing through his
ever-teeming brain. With sthaltby steps he
approached the door and suddenly opened it,
when there burst upon his astonished gaze a
sight which froze the blood within his veins.
Upon the dining room table lay many dishes
and other articles of crockery. Before it, with
dishevelled hair and fuckcd-up gown stood
Anna, a huge carving knife in her hand, which
she was in the act of plunging—into a pan of
hot water.
'She had been caught in the act of doing
housework! With one loud shriek she fell to
the floor, while her distracted and bewildered
lover rushed from the house.
It is heedless to add that the engagement
along with several brittle cups, was '■broken on
the spot. Thus' were two fund and doting
hears irrevocably separated !
If my story, dear reader, will he the means
of persuading one young woman never under
any circumstances, to do any work about the
house, but always to let her mother "and the
other servants do it, my object is more'than
accomplished. Farewell !—New York Atlas
Cfin I help you ? Justsay the word. There
speaks the whole-souled, whole-hearted man—
the.-man whose very-shadow is worth more
than the body, soul and estate, personal anti
spiritual, of two-thirds ,of our human-race
bearing the name, ilow he lifts the desponding
spirit of bis brother. All day he bad met with
cold eyes, cold smiles, oold words, cold bows
and cold sympathy. Men fly him be'-ause they
bavo beard he was unfortunate,. I’ll lertd yob
ten thousand if you are worth fifty ; if you’re
unfortanate-rl’m very poor myself—-would help
you—could bare done so three days ago, ot
three hours ago—but positively haven't got
three cents, nor shan’t be in possession of. that
amount while, your misfortune lasts, l!
your old aunt dies, or your old uncle,.or in fact
anybody who may choose to leave you a for
tune, why just call upon, me; I’ll manage t<‘
have .a little change on baud.
But, look;! yonder comes a broad-shouldered,
frank-browfid man, -wbo meets bis poor-brothei
with a heavy slap on tbe 6huulder, aod oan J
help you ? Just say.the word. Don’t be afraid
.now j, wbat-syunr trouble? Out with.it, and
if ytm'.d like a little cash Just, say so} Don’i
be downcast; what if you have failed in yow
expectations .once twice or, thrice ! Ilavn’i
someiof our most successful merchants done
itbe same thing? made tb.o same'.mistakes?.
BT OIPSV.
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER 11,
Can I Help You 9
And where would they have beeniif they
fonnd friedds ? Gome', what do :you wont—
bow., much? He don’t claphis hands in his
pocket, with a styx-like frown that Bays as
l&inly as ff fie had bawled it outin ydnr ear,
no ebtrenojiieye. ■ He Is not eneofthose'dys
• peptic, cross-grained, duriey-, monied machines
that squeeze. a, sixpence Jill fr 3 squeals, and
reads’ a newspaper with a greedy, voracious
eagerness, for fear he shall'not get his two
6ehts worttHe lives for something else; that
man, that guio. His passport to Heaven is
written on his face, his religion On the hearts
of the downcast and sorrowing in the homes be
baa made, happy by his benevolence.
"Can I help you ?”
Write the words in golden letters, for they
are. only-beard on rore'dccasions. The sneer
the scorn, the doubt, the. refusal—they come
wjth dvery nightfall and suntisingi Niggards
grow- like mushrooms, bhtangela are scarce.
■Niggards cannever look beyond themselves —
their own comfort, their own convenience ; no
matter who starves next door, they scatter cur
s(j* in discouragements, and blight, over, God
only knows: how many, gentle hearts. They
never say, ‘jOan I help him ?” but “he’s down,
let’s kick him." -
. But the atjgelio ministry of those helpers to
hnoianity, mien who believe they were entrust
ed with power the gods ifiight envy, that they
might be used to some good purpose—what
shall we 'say to them ? how give them the
praise they Writ? Good, whole-souled, gen
erous man, the angels and God himself smiles
approval when with his beaming eyes,, and
hopeful words, you said to the dispirited bro
ther, “Can I pelp you 7"
the Nashville Union, May -17.}
Democratic .Address,
WHAT A SOUTHERN UNION PAPER THINKS OF IT,
We have bejen intending for some days to no
tice a very remarkable movement of certain
Democratic Congressmen, well known as allies
and ’sympathizers with Breckinridge, Cobb,
Floyd, and Humphrey Marshnll. A meeting
was held the other day by these old party hocks,
whose reputations are ns battered and soiled as
an old and addresses sent forth to the
United States.' This formidable pronunciation,
after circulating five or six weeks, got just four
teen signatures. ' n i
Unavoidable we presume, on pub
lic business, .prevented the names of Sowell
Cobb, Jefferson, Davis, Jesse D. Bright, Hum
phrey Marshall, Ouetavus A. Henry, Wigfall,
and Neiie Brown, from adding their lustre to
this newly-rising-galaxy of patriots. So much
for the authorship of. this address. And now
let us see what are its provisions. The,first
proposition is conceived in the very spirit of
selfish intolerenpe ns far removed from patriot
ism and genuine Democratic feeling its anything
that can be imagined.
“The present (administration was chosen by
a party, and in pll its civil ,acte and appoint
ments has recognized, and still does, its fealty
and'oblifiatiomi tn that party. There must and
will be an opposite m.”
Vallandighanil and his crowd want to con
tinue in Office, and got Ibeir old friends back
again, and for thia purpose “there must be op
position” to the present Administration. We
thought that, as the nation was struggling with
a mighty rebellion, it was the duty of all citi
zens, without seek nr party, to fly to the suppoit
of tbs officers who had been put incommand of
the laboring ship!of State, in order torescu her
passengers and stjve her precious cargos, “No,”
say the fourteen, “the first thing is to settle the
question as to what kind of a flag thoship must
carry. And next, we must have the officers.—
Nobody has confidence in us. We. were turned
out of office for bad conduct, but tbe ship shall i
perish unless we arc restored.”
But the tells a monstrous falsehood
when it says thatiin “all its civil acts and ap
pointments, the Administration has recognized
its fealty and obligations to party,” It is an |
impudent glaring lie. Whom did President
Lincoln offer to (appoint Secretary of War?
Joseph Holt, a Sohthern Democrat, who is in
deed worthy of thle name of Democrat. Whom
did ho appoint Secretary of war? Hon. E. M.
Stanton, another Uife-long Democrat. Whom
did he nominate ay Major. General of the U. S,
armies ? George' B. McClellan, another firm,
unwavering Democrat. What are General Du
mont, General Buell, and General Ilalleck ?
Democrats, nominated by President Lincoln,
and .confirmed by a Senate, overwhelmingly
Republican. The ,of the address to
make out the fantest shadow of a pretext for
the plot wera compleUgd tn insert a falsehood.
Had we space, we mould enumerate hundreds
of other appointments—Andrew Johnson, as
Governor of Tennessee, for example—who have
ever been warm political enemies to the Presi
dent. , But let us forbear. -
The next proposition ,U a most significant
one, .showing clearly that this address of the
fourteen is to tickle}the ears of Southern trai
tors.
“To begin the great work of restoration, the
ballot-box is to kill Abolition. The bitter wa
ters of Secession flowed first, and are fed still
, from the unclean, fountain of Abolitionism.—
That fountain mustlbe dried up. _
“In this great wilrk, we cordially invito the
co-operation 6f all men of every party who are
opposed to-the’ fell spirit of Abolitionism; and
who, in sincerity, dffrire the Constitution as it
is, ond.the Union as it was. i Let the dead paat
bury its dead. Rally, lovers of the Union, the
Constitution, and of Liberty, .to the standard
of the Democratic party, already in the field',
and confident of victory. That party is the
-natural and presistoat enemy of-Abolition." •
Look at,this attentively. What is the .first
duty of the people? j To .put Sown the rebell
ion, and restore the supremacy of the Federal
laws in the revolted States/ That is what we
bid thought.-- That is what the loyal men of
-Tennessee, .and Kentucky, and Missouri, .and
-Virginia and Maryland eay—Jpljnson, an( j
Campbell, and .Prentice, and John M. Botts,
and .Gamble, and others. 'Not one word does
this address say about putting down and crush 4
ing out the Southern conspiracy. It utters no
rebuke against the-rabe.ls. It deprecates, nei
ther bridge burning, our wire cutting,,nor guer
rilla marauding, nor destroying railroad care, ]
kvuv L~»>t utm. vwv v~--nx ~< —i rvw > Mtff-J
nor. any Confederate outrages. It .is os dumb
as the grave on-ithe horrors now sweeping over
devoted East Tennessee, the' home 'of martyrs
and patriots. , It condemns not’ the barbarity
.of the rebel Government towards oor gallant
■ prisoners. It has no condemnation of the in
famous conscription not norwittfering invective
to pour out like molten lava on the heads of
the rebels, who are burning cotton and sugar
crops, and desolating the South. Then it speaks
no cheering words of congratulation fiir our
gallant and heroic soldiers, who have loft their
farms, and shops, and pleasant firesides, to save
the Government, and keep etep.ta the sublime
music of the Union under the flag of the Re
public. '.lt does not.even.hint what every intel
ligent man knows to be the fact, that theprime
and moving cause, the fountain head and source
bf this rebellion, is a determination on the part
of Southern officeholders' and corrupt aristo
crats to destroy free government and build up
a monarchy or.ariatooraoy.on the ruins of Dem
ocratic institutions. .
• , The man whorls ignorant of this, is'ignorant
I of the speeches, addresses, resolutions and
■ newspapers of tHe Cotton Stales for the last
, twenty years. He is ignorant of the celebra
ted speech of “Hon. L.- ! W. Spratt, one of the
i leading men of South Carolina, who declared
that ‘'Slavery cannot share a Govcrni/icui with
the Democracy!” “Slavery having achieved
; one victory to escape'Democracy at the North,
must achieve Another io escape it at the South !”
Ho must bo ignorant of the declaration of Vice
President Stephens, as reported by the Sanan
nah Republican, that “Slavery” —not Democ
racy, mark ycov or the right of man to rule
himself—hut, "slavery is the chief corner-stone
of our Government. The ideas of the framers
of the old Federal Constitution were funda
mentally wrong,” In these declarations of the
rebellion, which we are obliged to cut short for
want of spacer—for they could bo extended in
definitely—we find the true cause of ih'is hell
ish rebellion. It was enmity to free Govern
ment. It was a determination on the part of
an aristocratic clique, not to submit to the peo
ple, and be controlled by'an “ignorant majori
ty,” as we heard John Orßrecfcinridge say, at
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in the summer of 1861,
As a further proof of this, the Democratic par
ty was hopelessly split at Baltimore, a year be
fore Lincoln came into power, and split by the
very men who issue this address. It is also to
be remarked that on the advent of Mr. Lincoln
to the Presidency, the House of Representa
tives, Senate, and Supreme Court, were in the
hands of the Democratic party. Why, then,
aid the cotton wing fly off and set up, a new
Confederacy ?-The Northern Douglas Democ
racy would not bo controlled by Urn insolent
Buchanan Democracy, and so a disruption took
place. But this address of the inglorious four
teen goe.s on to glorify the Buchanan-Ootton
Democracy in this grandiloquent manner:
“It is the only party capable of carrying on
a war; it is the only party which has ever con
ducted a war to a successful issue, the Only
party which.has done it without abuse of pow
er, without molestation to the rights of any
class of citizens, and with due regard to econo
my. All ibis has been done; "all this, if need
be, it is able tn be-done again. If success,
then, in a military point of view be required,
the Democratic party qlone Can command it.”
It then;proceeds to say that its restoration
(that is, of and company,) to power
is demanded .by the following consideration :
‘‘Economy and honesty fn the public expen- ,
ditu'res, now at the rate of four millions of dol
lars iv day; ’demand it.l’ ,
Sucb'qeonomy, for instance, ns that of Bu- ,
ohanan’s Secretary of War John B. Floyd, that, ;
paragon cf virtue, and such honesty as that of ,
Isbnm G. Harris. ;
“The rapid accumulation of an enormous
and permanent public debt, demand it—a pub
lic debt already-one thousand millions of dol
lars, and equal at the present rate in three
years, to England’s debt of a century and a
half in growth.”
It is a dreadful thing to go in debt, isn’t it,
tn save the nation 7 The war should be carried
on fur little or nothing. In fact, it would have
been better, as Buchanan thought, to have no
war at a)!. . Just let our Southern friends alone.
The “thousand million” story, is a big lie.
“Reducing wages, low prices, depression of
trade, decay of business, scarcity of work, and
impeding ruin on every side, demand it.”
Every body knows that the "reduced wages”
etc., are all the fault of Lincoln. The loss of
fat salaries by the Southern friends, also “de
mands it,” but the fourteen are quite too mod
est to say eo.
We bare our own opinion as to the rebel ori
gin of this damnable attempt. The Southern
rebel-leaders are atthebottmn of it. Nothing
is more, certain than this to our minds. The
chiefs of the rebellion see that their work is
about to prove a disastrous failure, and so they
send word to'this effect tb their Northern allies:
"Give us two or three tree States to vote for
our men, and we will bring back the Cotton
States in solid phalanx, and bold the offices to
gether as before.” This is certainly the pro
gramme. Will the p'oplo see it performed ? "
Fellow citizens, all you who love your conn
try, by whatever name you have been known
in the past,.let us frown down all such misera
bly selfish plots of partisans os this which we
have been reviewing, and, casting asidlall old
party lies, unite together on the broad platform
of the Union. A.way with partisan watchwords
nnd names, at an hour' when the nation is
struggling for life. Ourdcar mother country
is in peril, let ns fly to her rescue. Ltd us all
be true’ Dfiion men, true democrats, true re?
publicans - not in a. partizan, but in a national
sense. .We close this article with a quotation
.from the last letter written by the hold, patriot
ic, and lamented Douglas. Let it be traced in
letters of gold over every dour in the land ;
* I know of no mede in .which a loyal citizen
may so well demonstrate ids devotion to his
country, as by sustaining the flag, the Consti
tution, and the Union, under allcirdumatances,
and under every Administration, regardless of
party polities, against all -assailants at home arid
abroad."
j .Nobio words! Lot them bo the motto of ev- It is impossi
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NO. 46.
FEOM: TEE BUCK-TAILS..
. .. House Landio, Va.,l ■
June 10, 1862. ‘ J
Fbiesk Agitator.— Woare now on board
the Steamer; South 'America, on the Paonmn
key River, near the White House, on our way
to join the general army before Richmond,
It will no doubt surprise -the readers of the
Agitator, to learn that McCall’s division is nil
longer in .Gen. McDowell's Corps, but has been
transferred to McClellan's ‘command. Such,
however, is the fact, and so short was the time
between foe order to be ready to leave, and the
order to march, that I was obliged to leave an
unfinished 1 letter, to your readers, and strike
my tent, sling my knapsack,'and s tart for'the
wharf. Last Sunday noon, wo received orders
to be ready to move at a moment’s notice, ami -
about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, word came to
march to the boat, which was then eleven miles
below Fredericksburg. The night was a lovely
one, and I never saw our men in better Spirits/ '
for they were all anxious to be to bo in-thi
great battle of'Richmond, which will no doubt,
decide tbisjrebellion. '. ■ ;
Our walk of eleven miles’Hbat night, by tha
lightof the moon, was through arioh forming
country. >V e slept from midnight till daylight,- ~
on the bank of the'riverain the grass. The
pioneers were busy all Bight i fixing a wharf,
and at daylight, we ware ready to embark. We -
left the landing -at 9 o’clock, and anchored
about sunset for 1 the night, paving sailed 90
miles, down one of the finest rivers I ever saw.-
This beautiful river winds its way tbrongh a
good farming country! or one that might be
grand, if it !was settled by the working Yan
kee nation. There are a few jgrand location*
situated on the banks of the river, and suround
ed with a splendid shade; they are also
surrounded with something which spoils the
beauty, and casts a gloom over the whole plan
tion, and that is a village of little huts, where
tha chained spns and daughters of Ham are
dragging out a life of ignorance - and misery; i
We met with no wolcon«i cheers from the white
class of people, but it was astonishing to see
the swarms of (slaves'which congregated along,
the banks- at every plantation] to wave their
hands, and try [to express their feelings of joyi
at the sight of [Union soldiers, jin many cases,
there would frqm,7s to 100 women, children,
and old men, cbme down ,in a company, many"
them tottering with age, and waive their canep;
shout and dance with joy, -until we were out of
sight. Every plantation is a ijttle-world byi
itself, where a family can live a retired life, and,
work, and execute their own laws,-school their
own children, and thrash their .own slaves,,
without being protested by-their neighbors, for
the most of them are so far separated from each
other that if aman should visit iis next neigh
bor, he would wlant a haversack and three days’
rations, or starve on the way. !
The day was a beautiful one, and a finer trip
no one could ask for. Our boat is large, and.
and not half as badly packed as many, others •
on the river. This morning, we started at day -
light amid a dreadful storm, ;and sailed down,
the bay and up York River, tb Wept Point, their
up the Paumunky to this place. We halted for
the night, because our pjlot waa imacquaintod
with tbe course. ’ The bay was rough for one
unaccustomed to the sea/ and/many of the boys
“heaved up Jonah." - [■ ,■ j
There are-many interesting ifoms I would
like to'mention, but time will not [permit :
Yorktown, this celebrated town, which bas -
so long been noted in history 4-the -one where.'
Washington and Gornwallas fought, and the c
one where McClellan ami Davis: fought, igfohe i
of the .most insignificant-places, that ever bada
name. Yorktown and Gloucester, both would
not mak&a'small northern village. York River
is very strait, but not Beat as bice as the Rap. -
pahannook, WeSt.Point is not a village,but it
reminds me of a-few white washed! Irish huts, -
along some public works. The
without any exceptions, the crbokedest river I
ever saw, and as a comical soldier expressed
himself on the way up, “It was a shame to
have so fine a river, laid-oot in so bad a shape,
and the man that plowed the first furrow was
drunk, and if it had taken place nt [the present
time, he would be court marshcled.” The
banks of this river are very low and marshy,;
and for miles the forest is and looks
ns though no foot had ever pressed: its soil.—
there is not one fine residence on this river, not
from Yorktown here, and there is abta village
one half os large as Tioga, from Fredericksburg
to the White House, a distance of (200 miles,.
along broad rivers where ocean steamers pan
navigate rivers which ought.tol be dotted with,
towns and cities, and would in' any lother por
tion of,America. ■-] '. | ‘
We have passed since yesterday morning,-
over 1000 ships, steamers, and transports, all.'
told, and many of them-are in this river loaded
with provisions, forage,and government stores.,.
We ate now twenty-five miles ifrom Richmond,:
I understand we take the oars;in the morning
and run up to the] main army.whkhJs fo«t,be
ing augmented. ' i |
My time is up, and I must close. This will.
barve to let you know where the sons of old'
Tioga are, and on what tattle field (wo are. to ;
fight for tbs land of our birth and; flag that
waves above os. ; Got, ;Cbocij,ett.
Coplden’t See it.—A juggler was perform?
log to a western audience, and exhibiting one ,
of bis- feats' of disappearance, accompany ing .
•it, with the following strain; [
"Now, gentlemen,, I "ta£e j the ball thus in
the palm of my left hand ;l thus; tub 'theta*
gently together in this style ;| and, behold'! 'tif ••
gone. , You thus see, gentlemen—" ]'- ■ ‘
. "No,' d, can't see," replied au indiwikml is
the audiance. j , • J' ‘ 1
The juggler repeated his performance. s 'i •
take the Ml thus, et cetera, and', behold! ’tis ;
gone. You thus see, gentleman—"
"No, I cannot see," reiterated thd same iar
dividual. ! •
“May I ask/’ returned the excited juggler,
“why the gentleman can’t see, when-!-”
“Yhs ; that's about the thing. I’m blind.*'
Tbe juggler rang down the curtain, j
hie to'look at the sleepers in-a
being,reminded that Spnday is