-r t-.i' ■* J - ' cbnaifiond »i»W)»M?oa; of Tto Jkhelljon: . I ~ would. hare Swhails, &r teariogoul Rebellion the roots, and Conservatives, for the pteser j of -lhe Cdhatitotion—Hadwala for crash ins Rebellion by wWWM* every jmeahs known to'ot permitted by civilUedwartare.andGQn aetratives for-maintaining the Union—Radicals for Jaying ’(he hand' of Government, through the .rigor of ; martial law, op'anything and •rerytbing belonging Rebellion, Slavery in cluded, which will strengthen Government and : weaken its enemy, and TonseVvatiyea for keep < ing.it ondappropriating; it to', tpe purposes de 'signed—Radicals for putting its many colored *6Iv—i lean .tir- ' rv*r Tf|E |A(HTMK) WEDNESDAY. fCONFENTIdNI V Notice is hereby given that a Mass Conven tion foe. the election of Delegates to the Union State Convention- to be held at Pittsburg on •the Ist of Julg next, will be held in the Court House, Woltkboro,: on Tuesday evening 36th inst. * Speakers will be present towddress the Convention.- —■ Cr Il.Ssnwns,-’ For that mobile reveiator of the onder-enr rents of thought and -passion, the human fact, the .race has abundant cause to grateful. Mon carry their characters upon the it faces. ■Thera are few men who.can preserve tha^ ■im perturbability which. renders the face as red cent as-the tongue. •• • i[ 11 j 1 1 J '• This generation is witnessing a returu of the bined against ua; the sympathies of the Mam mon of Commerce are 'given to our eoeinies; and, os then, bad faith and 'disloyalty''iralk al most nnshamed in our midst. 'There are many who desire' nothing but disaster to our, armies while led by men. whoeannot he made the driv eling tools of conspirators against the Govern ment! ■ These men, and we have them in every township of this county, even, cannot conceal tbeirjack of patriotism. Their inmost thoughts and feelings are as faithfully reflected in their countenances ns the imago of any tongible ob ject upon the polished surface of a mirror.- ~ We have been led to these reflections by the varied facia! revelations following the receipt of news of supposed disaster to our army on the Rappahannock. We are much habituated to study of the human face ; and while nothing can be more foreign to our purpose than'the misrepresentation of any class of men, we con sider it right and necessary to apply acbihmon rule to all classes, and leave judgiUeni to the impartial public. We have to say, then, that the receipt of that news produced two marked expressions of countenance among oar people. We noticed a very. large class whose faces be trayed a sorrow of the heart, and whose lips, if they testified, at all, bore testimony of deep regret that the suppression qf rebellion should be some months longer delayed. With these jnen we had full sympathy; for while we'firm ly believe that permanent peace will be award ed this nation by Justice, and not by Mercy, we are alive to the fact .that all do not look at this struggle from the same point of view. There was another class, and, thank God,-re comparatively small one, who received the ti dings with-brightening eyes, and faces radiant with a secret joy, almost too great for suppres sion in' any form; and some of these were mute ; and some ebook, their heads and said— “ You have not beard the worst of this yet ?” —which is a genteel way of discouraging the people in advance of any given reoson for dis couragement. And, finally, these facial phe nomena were remarked by nearly’ everybody in the first-named class, so thin was the attempt- ed disguise. Now; which of these classes, judge yon, rep resents the sterling patriots of tho country? . Here is a fact which may have some slight , beating upon the question ; It was in the Spring of 1861—in fact, in the afternoon of the 19th of April—when the telegraph.announced the mobbing of Massachusetts troops on their transit through Baltimore, the destruction of railroad bridges, and the conseqncnt isolation of Washington from loyal support by ordinary and rapid inodes: We satin the library of the War Department, listening, iu the.pauses of labor, to the speculations and comments of half-a-dozcn men, army officers and bureau clerks. There was a wide disagreement in seq timentnnd opinion, four, if memory serves, sisting, with vehement insolence that Washing ton was as good ns taken, and the Government overthrown ; and that the next despatch from Baltimore would bring bloodier tidings still. The minority combatted them with more hope ful predictions. In a few hours the Sixth Mass achusetts, fresh and scarred from the assault of the mob, charged at a double-quick in solid column down Pennsylvania Avenue, to tho sig nificant music of their martini tread ; and the sympathizers with treason slunk away into si lence and obscurity, raining curses upon Mass achusetts as they went; dud none of them carried a more marked badge of defeat on their faces than the fqur evil prophets beforemen tinned. Those prophets of evil soon after cast their lets with open and armed rebellion. And the faces of .these, men were illumined always in degree as the prospects of the coun try seemed dark, and vre mentally marked them as false traitors before they opened their lips. Ton may say that these were a nobler breed. • So they were. • BUT MUSCLE, FACIAL MUSCLE, WILL TELL! Now, every man will draw bis’own inferen ces ; we drew (jura. And we never hear a man belittling every effort of the ' Government, or prophesying evil continually ; orsntiling'wben outspeaking patriots grieve over disasters that must sometimes come, —wo never observe any of these actions that wedo not instinctively rank them with those evil prophets of whom mention is made- above. Neither is, it too sweeping. In these-times, the man wbo.does not, by speech and hearing, carry himself high above the level of doubt and suspicion, deserves to wear the traitor’s name to hit death-day, and to have bis harial-piacc forgotten by ”.1118 own children. , , We publish this week a sail for » Msm Cobt- Tchtiuji to cboos* dtfcgjts* Ir CpiouCunioniWs. M. H. COBBj-EDITOE AND . J*ENN’A: : : 31 AY. - Chairman Hep. Co. Com. Tioga, May 13,18G3. - muscle -vyrij. TBitf] THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. .' -|w* givaop a large|porUlp of onr paper to the speech of S. 3&ck ineo.v, tjfji-ateip and true ip[ Jackson demo crat, wjlaris thrilling the with hiaftrvid patrWifenT&nd Uvihgeab nii ennae of the people- -Wocommenditto ev ety man, whether he. cells, hjnwrif, republican or democrat, as one 5f the" hfearest, most just, and most eloquent’efforts of its kind madodn ringthe war. If yonread it once you : will read-it ag&iov'and he twiee-benefittedr Wo as)d attention to 'the fpllowipg facts Mr. Dickinson is.a democrat, and has been no- a'democrat , all of _hi?,life. Yet thVspeeoij, imW appeared in most Republican papers. has net jet ‘appeared in any of our .id-called -democratic exchanges. 'Perhaps some phamayask atwhttt period .of .time] since the rebellion brofe qnt, this Jack eon Domocrat became so obnoxious to the par ty,aa at present organized and generaled. ;We can answer that in a few words When Kr. Dickinson, of (he Sehellioni took Ijicjidd and declared' that there could tc no traitors ;that Me .constitution must he sustain ed ; : and if Siaterygot in the wa ff , mm —„ mutf hour .Daniel S. Dickin son was repudiated 'by this party, which has noLjto-day, ajeadbr yrha can rise above the level of h demagogue.- • It.so happens that the order of things, in thisinstance, is reversed — the stable-boys have', taken • possession of the name and‘style of their lawful master, and are fulminating bolls of ezcpmmnnication against every-man nho'-capnot conscientiously see a shrine of Democracy in a dunghill. Will the democratic masaei follow the lead of these dis -honest and unscrupulous partisans, or will they taka counsel of DrcgrssoN, Weight, Johnson, and Bctl/ER, all great, able end unimpeachable leaders .of the ’Democratic party, and all of wbpm warn 1 yon to shun the embrace of-that traitorous faction which befools the time-hon ored name, as they would shun their namesake the Copperhead t Having faith in the patriot ism pf the masses of all parties, we have faith that the masses will' adhere to their time-hon ored counselors and leaders. iPBIETOKv J3.JSS3,. We seldom use terms to denounce treason or rascality, which tend to pht sinners to sleep. And-aomo complain, of harshness and bitter ness. To this we reply that .what we do or say in this place,, we do end say deliberately. Bat we have .never succeeded in doing the Copper heads anything like the magnificent justice which will he.found in' the speech of this old Democratic War-Horse. ■Weep. 0 (|opperheads I Tend your garments and howl 1 Yallandighom—Vallandigham, the ahiefest among the' serpents, the great, the .mighty, the truculent), the simon-pure of simon pures, whose' countenance seems to bare re sulted from study of the picture of the “Lost Soul,”—Vallandigham. is fallen—into the paws of ft military Commission. . , It will appear in the end that wholesome re straint is always better than toleration, in times of public peril. This blatant traitor, not yet repudiated by the so-called democratic leaders, should have been snubbed with a rafting rope two years ago. Toleration and contempt only encourage such villains in evil practices. He is devoid of all that’distiugoishesman from the brute, save intellect. When he speaks bis eye burns with hell-firs; and when he keeps silence bis face «s the seat of a sneer, almost as malig nant as that which disfigures that of Jefferson Davis. This man lives in Dayton, Ohio, by good lucbj'in Gen. Burnside’s Military Depart ment. Vallandigham counseled resistance to Burnside’s General {Orders. Burnside sent a file of men mid brought Vallandigham before a court-martial. As he bad' not the heroism to die in his own dooryard," as ho used to exhort others to do, we fear that bis outlandish name mast go npon that calendar made radiant with the names of so many “ democratic” martyrs, who have had food 'and quarters at the public expense during the last two years. Martyrs of free speech, these, remember; yet of the same ignoble breed as those who refused to let An- 1 drew Johnson and Gov.,Wright speak in the House of Representatives of this Common-I wealth! Martyrs - for Free Speech! Indeed ! 1 The President has issued his proclamation defining the status ‘of persons claiming to be aliens to avoid the operation of: the new militia law. No plea of alienage will be allowed in any cose where the] pleader shall have dal; de clared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and who shall at,any time during the present rebeliiop be found within the Uni ted States at, tbs expiration of sixty-five days after the Btb day of May, instant—the date of the proclamation. And where the person has exercised the elective franchise the plea will be unconditionally Rejected. A rumor to the effect that our troops under .Gen. Keyes bad taken-Richmond, created con siderable excitement among oar citizens from Sunday morning until Tuesday noon, -when the want of confirmation by the. New York papers caused it to fall into disrepute. The report seems 'to have originated in Philadelphia. “ If the report lias no-foundation in fact, the author richly deserves to be cropped, and kicked from Philadelphia- to Richmond. Gen. Hookze, it is reported, has rccrossed the Rappahannock'with- bis army, and is be lieved 1 to be pressing the retreating forces of Lee. We have unlimited confidence in tic genius .of Hooker, who has thus far shown-him .self possessed of coolness, foresight, and ca pacity for held and'rapid combination. Wo can wait for Hooker. Cart. Watts, oOioekHaven, has been ap pomfed Proyosl-Sfwsbsl of. this .District. Jo ’.the best of our- knowledge this, da a fitst appointment, an# well-dtietved. ‘ 4 h !' i 9Z.ORIOOS VICTORY at Pt. GIBSON DEFEAT OP >l,OOO REBELS. FRO|t^ICK jteUEG CUT cl?* iUchmoud A. p—R- Dcitroyci AUQTHER great CAFALRT RAID. THE HBARTOF MISSISSIPPI INVADED. ALLTHE .BAHiBOAD LINES CUT. captured OFFICIAL FROTH GBWEKAI GRANT. THE! CAPTURE Of GRAND GULF. T««. FORTS tITERAIiLY TORN T6.MECBS. The Door to Vlck.borg in «ir,PMieMi«ii. the MOST IMPORTANT NAVAL VIC TOR! OP, THE. WAR. Gen. Grant is making-doan work in Missis sippi. and Will soon bring_the knotty question •'of. Vicksburg to a solution. On' the 30th nit., ho moved upon Fort Qibsop, a town on Bsyon Pierre, 23 miles’from its mouth, where at 2 i. s, on the Ist, he met the enemy, 11,000 stroDg, ana mui-tm «ai»K. lug him. with the loss of many killed and about SOO prisoners, beside the wounded; The enemy retreated toward Vicksburg, destroying the bridges over tho two forks, of the’ Bayou pierre. These were rebuilt, and tho pursuit continued. Beside the heavy artillery, four field-pieces wero captured, and some stores, and the enemy were forced to destroy much more. The Memphis Bulletin of Saturday says that Gen. Grant has sent 1,900 prisoners to Milli ken’s Bend. A portion of hisribree, when last heard from, was within 20 miles of Jackson. There was a report that an important bridge over Big Black River had been destroyed, thus cutting off the means of retreat from Vicksburg. Forney’s Press Washington borrespondent says; “It is understood that Gen. Buford, with his light brigade, has penetrated to the Alle ghany Ridge in Western Virginia, and that be is now returning, having destroyed the Rich mond and Tennessee Railroad in several places, captured many prisoners, obtained important information, and burned large quantities of stores intended for the Rebel armies in the Sonth-West." Gen. Grant has forwarded an official account of some of Col. Grierson’s cavalry operations in Central Mississippi. He struck the railroad 30 miles east of Jackson; moved southward toward Enterprise, demanded-the surrender of the place, 'and gave one hour’s grace, during which a Rebel force arrived. He left at once, and moved' toward Hazleburst, on the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad, and tors np the track. Thence he pushed to Bahula, 10 miles further south on the same road, and thence eastward on the Natchez road, where ha had a Jght with Wiert Adams’s cavalry. From this point he mqved back to tho New Orleans and Jackson Railroad to Brookbaven, 10 miles son tb. of Bahais, and when last heard from he Was 10 miles sOuth.of Brookbaven, and was supposed to be making bis way to Baton Rouge. He had spread excitement throughout the State, destroyed railroads, trestle-works and bridged, burning locomotives and railway stock, taking prisoners, and destroying stores of nil kinds. ! The capture of Grand Gulf, the stronghold of the Rebels on the Mississippi, by our fleet un der Admiral Porter, is one of the grandest achievements of the war. In his report to the Navy Department he says: The works are of the most extensive kind, and would seem to defy the efforts of a much heavier fleet than the one which eilenced them. The forts were literally torn to pieces by the accuracy of our fire. Col, Wade, the comman dant of the batteries, Was killed ; also his chief of staff. Eleven men were killed that we know, of, and our informant says that many were' wounded, and that no one was permitted to go inside the forts after the action except those belonging there. We had a bard fight for these forts, and it is with great pleasure that I report that the navy holds the door to Vicksburg. Grande Gulf is the strongest place on the Mississippi. Had the enemy succeeded in finishing the fortifica tions, no fleet could have taken them. I have been all over the works, and faund them os follows : One fort on a'point of rocks, 75 feet high, calculated for six or eeven guns, mounting two 7-inch rifles and one 8-inch, and one Parrott gun on wheels, which was carried off. On the left of this work is a triangular work calculated to mount one heavy gun.— These works are connected with another fort by a covered way, and double rifle-pits extend; ing one-quartfr of a mile, constructed with much labor, and showing great skill on the part of the constructor. The third fort com mands the river in all directions. It mounted one splendid Blakely 100-ponnder, one 8-inch, and two 30-pounders. The latter were lying hurst or broken on the'ground. , * Relative to the first advance of Gen, Hooker, the New York papers give the following as a brief of Gen. Hooker’s own statement after he had recrossed the Rappahannock: He has recrossed the Rappahannock with bis entire army and occupied the old encampments without the loss of a wagon or an ounce of provisions. He has taken, one more gun than be has lost. Ho has lost, in killed, wounded and missing, about tanf thousand men (other accounts represent it even smaller,] and be lieves the .enemy’s loss to be much greater, as do other eye-witnesses of the-fighting; twenty five hundred prisoners are in Gen. Hooker’s hands- He has shattered, and demoralized the Rebel army, awhile his own remains well-organ ized and in good heart. He 'is himself tran quil and in good spirits. Among the reasons assigned in well-informed quarters for the ret rogado movement are: First: The flight of the Eleventh Corps, which rendered Oeb. Sickles’a movements nugatory, and forced the army oat of the carefully select ed field of- battle to.whiomOen. Hooker referred in bis Gsneral Order of April 30, and compelled it to receive the enemy’s attack among densely wooded hills where it was impossible to, bring all, or nearly all onr troops into action; - Second: The rising of the Rappahannock, in.consequence of the storm, which was likely to endanger the line of communications be tween the army and and its snpplies, as the railroad communication with Acquia Creek had been destroyed.by the floods for twelve..hoars. He was. also ignorant of the success of Gen. Stoneman’s expedition until he had recrossei • Ar gentleman who left Gen. Hooker’s head quarters "Wednesday nighi states that be wa*. ia good spielts-t that he bad captured nine of the enemy’s guns, a large number oHrebel Sat* tie-figs, and not . less Ijhan 10,000 And Jiad killed And wounded at leaet 15,000 rebels! SnffidWit to Gen. Hooker has not been whipped daring.-the lote'Jtia-daya’ battles. • | -Gen.—Stonetmm’r-latw expedition"was the most dagng and successful cavalry raid during the wnK“ When Jeb. Stuart rodej around Mc- Clellan’s army he did up damage beyond steal ing a few horses.. Stoneman’s meU have, rav aged the entire country between Lee and Rich mond, gone within throe miles of the. Rebel . capital (and might have gone through it and made it a desert if their instructions bad per mitted), broken all railroad communication, broken bp the James River Csnal,an St., Philadelphia. April 8,. 1863-3oj. < Editor of The Agitator i- Dear Sir: With your permission I*wish to say to tha readers of your paper that I will send by return mail'to all who wish- it, (free) a Rcoipe, with faU-di rections for'making and using a simple Vegetable Balm, that will.effectually remove, in 10 days, Pirn plea, Blotches, Tan, Freckles, and all Impurities o( the Skin, leaving the snipe soft, clear, smooth and beautiful. 1 1 will .also mail free to these baring Bald Heads or Bare Faces, simple directions and information that will enable them to start a full growth of Luanrient Hair, Whiskers, or a Moustache, in less than 30 dajs. All applications answered hy relorn inoil without charge. Respectfully yours, THOS. F. CHAPMAN, Chemist, Fob. 25,1863-3 m. No. 831 Broadway, New York. NEW SPRING GOOBS ' AfT THE PEOPLE’S STORE* IN CORNING: THE People’s Store is now well stocked with a good assortment of Goods, adapted to the SPRING- TRADE, consisting in part of a good line of D.omcstlo Goods, Alpacas, Mohair, Poplin, DeLaincs, and a general variety of Dress Goods, including a good supply of SIOCRROG GOODS, 258 10 to which particular attention is paid. LADIES CLOTHS, AND CLOAKINGS f a fine stock of ;i,6U 22 SPIUNd AND SUMMER SHAW£g r CLOTHS AND , for Mens' and Boya’ wear,-for sale- by -the yard; or made to'order. A good assortment'of WHITE-GOODS, * - ■ HOOP SKIRTS' of'every variety, for both Ladu£ and children. ■ SUMMER BALMORALS;-- a large stock of HOSIERY and GLOVES,., SHAKERS' HOODS, , => BOOTS, SHOES and together with a good assortment of ' V ' * PAMIEY, GROCERIES, The purchases ibr the 1,059 91 $lOl-31 SPRING TRADE, were made daring the temporary faH. in the GOLD MARKET, and as I sell only for READY PA Y> I am enabled to take advantage of the market I shall keep my STOCK good - \ THROUGH THE SEASOK\ and keep thoroughly posted in regard to ' \ p.r ices, J and when goods decline, -L-shall fellow-the market 5-1,506 14 'ICK, Prei’t. Without Regard to Cost Returning my sincere thanks to the'citizens of TIOGA COUKTT, for their kind and liberal patronage, I shall try to merit its continuance and increase. The Store is directly opposite the Dickinson House,, on Market Street, J. M, SMITHS Corning, N. Y. t April 15, 1863. * ■* ' J. P. BILES, i AT THE KNOXVILLE FDLpftY. ■ MAKES THE • j BEST PLOWS 1 . IN THE COUNTRY.. ALSO Cauldron Settles. ■ » ■ ... STOVES, MACHINERY, AC., *C.„ r- / ALL AT LOW FIGURES. Knoxville, Feb. 4, 1863-6'm. SUGAR CURE© HAMS and SHOULDERS;. prime quality. at [April 22] MATHERS'. FLOUR, bedljand middling grades, at lowest market prices, at [April 22] MATHERS'. ANY QUANTITY of CLOVER and GKASi SEED at [April 15,1883.1 HARPHITS. TEAS, COFFEE, r aod SPICES, beet qualities and fair prices always on hand at • iVelljboro, April 22. XR63. MATtiHiRS'. CUGARSI—I can. sell puheriied.cruahed, O coffee, and brown Sugars, J»a low ns any dealer in- Tioga Conhtj. * [April 22} x. MAtHBRS. Molasses and syrup—* No. i, article of "both at fair prices at i 5 MAtHERS’. IVellibnro, April 22,.1563. j ATTHITE WASH LIME 4 WHITE WASH VT BRUSHES for salt at Roy’s Drug Store. Wellaboro, April 22, 1883. New spring, delaines at 2a, cd. pet yard, at [April 15, 1363. J HA.RDEN"B. I HAVE PRIME PORK, homepaoked, by tbe ponud and biirel, and sett Uaflcboap