gUSIVESS NOTICES. The publishers of this paler offer for sale. cheap for cash the type)(Brevier and Minion) OR which the AGITATOR has twen printed up to this mar. The type has been in use but a. short time, and is in good order. There iz-1 dlenty of it to print au eight-column paper. Address Van Gelder L Barnes, Wellsboro, Pe.—Jan. 3, Gt. A new Cutter, Buggy and Harness for sale cheap for east'. Apply to this oflice.—Jan. 3.; 4E372, 4t. , Aoistatett. JANUARY 81, 1872 WEDNTESDAY, Gold closed in :INN' York last Saturday at 144 11:8. . A well-Posted Loy ikon, correspondent re iorts.agit, Dow flint tq Piince of Wnles gettingvell, the Engl9 Republicans are laying their plans for it new and more vig orous campaign of political agitation., Thec - ountry owes not a little to Gon,i Gar_ field, of Ohio, the Chairman of the Itome Committee on Approprialions. He is a watchful guardian of the public treaury. Hardly a day passes that his voice i 4 not heard protesting against some useless or ex fravagant expenditure of money, and , though his protests are not always sufficient to block the pet schemes of Congressmen . • , and lobbyists, they serve the excellent pur pose of calling the public attention to those schemes and of fixing the responsibility for 1 their 911Cieti upon the proper shotilderg.-- flis latest service of this kind that we have noticed is his statement in regard to the pubic printing establishment a Washing ton. He tells us that the Government has the argest printing-house on the globe, viler there are over one thousand hands, empl yea and paid by the ye l ar to early on tlipt business, pnd where cnongh printing ink 14ought evt ry year to float the biggest Inan-of-wio in the navy A train„of army wagog .l S . s reaching three-fourths o the way from VaShingtoli to Baltimore, it acted with one tot each, and packed as rloi ly as six mule teams ca 4 he packed, would not be able to haul the - mass of Public documents printed every year in that printing-house. There has just been erected an addition IQ that building four hundred feet long and seventy feet wide, and Congress is now ask ed to appropriate more than two million dol lars to,run it for the next year. Ire thought that -unlessthe brakes were soon put on, the whole thing would become a scandal in the eyes of the nation. But this is not the worst pf it. This great mass of docuinents, which nobody over dreams of reading, is not only printed:and bound at public expense, but it loads down the mails, and is transported all over the country, froip Maine to California ; at the Public cost, and Congress is every year called upon to make a large appropria• tion:to cover a deficiency In the Post Office Department because of it. Taken together, the public printing tMd the franking privi- lege are a gigantic swindle of a long-suffer ing people. But for that we might have our letter'pgstage reduced to two cents and the Department made entirely self-supporting. The solution of the whole trouble is the ab olition of the franking burden, ns,Gen. Gar- tleld aptly terms it. The public; long for it, and every Congressman knows that is need ed and is ardently desired; but we don't Iget it and we almost despair of ever getting it so long as members can frank all their own private business letters and those of all their cronies. But for all that, we are tlninkful to Mr. Garfield for once more calling general attention to these twin scandals. Tr. n WHIMS. FICEIN As the time for the nomination of a Re ., publican candidate for Judge of the Su preme 'Court4s at hand, we deem it our priv ilege to express our preference for the posi tion. Among the learned gentlemen who have been named as candidates, we knoN of none more eminently qualified to occupy a seat upon the Supreme Bench than the Hon. Henry W. Williams, the President Judge of thls.(the 4th) Judicial District. There are, in our opinion, many reasons why Judge Williams should be nominated: He is now in the full vigor of manhood, and would bring to the Bench a mind not enfeebled by tlisease or dimmed by uge. He was appoin ted Additional Law Judge of this District -in 1864. In 1865 he Was elected to fill that office fora term of ten years; and in 1871, four years before his term expired, he was selected President Jude of this Judicial Distik t. From the first he has gis'en great satisfaction in the discharge of his official duties. - Being in the prime of life, blessed with good health, great industry, and a well developed judicial mind, he has brought to the Bench those qualities that so well cm`,. Wet; him to occupy a leading poAtlint among his fellows while he remained at 'be bar 'Since be has been up,in the lleneh he bus trivd many closely contc.tf(ll vau-ez:, both in and out of his District, and so well has he satisfied both client and counsel, that but low have been taken to tho Supreme Court And rarely has p one been reversed by our courts of lest resort. During our remembrance, our courts have been presided over by eeveral able and dis tinguit3bed gentlemen, aid we are but speak- ing the unjvcr , ;al sentiments of our peop}e when e ;Antal 1,11.11 Itt ever affininis.tered justice N‘ it h tuhre Inr.);reti nf,ilitC or grvate,r fuirne , s , ; uri,l by 1114 no:nitration ttiv.l clot. - lion the State Ivoulti gain, ‘‘ hat thi , 1 t ' wouhl l o se. tin :tt,le, • atal impartial Judgo W s e believe Judge Willit:ins ~lumkl Le i uominate for another reteoon Thompsot 1, who retires from the „lunch, is a teident, (If the initliv,•estern re,•tion of the State The other four immil,vr-4 of the ._\ Supremo Court reside in one{gle.q cities: Messrs. 1. - -; iarswood and Reed iti Philadel• phta, and "illiams and Agnew in Pittsburg, None of these belong to the ,rural districts of the State. They are nut, either as 1:;,c -yen or judges, familiar with the Incletice in the country; with the trial of ejectments, or the many difficult questions that are in 7 eident to the trial and settlement of land titles iiitte Commonwaaltli. As a land lawyer Judge Willions Gins few equals and no superior. , With him that' branch of the law has been a speciality. Ire Niould bring to the Supreme Bench a fut4of ?nowledgc ' upon that subject that would be invaluable. While our present Judges are learned and excel in common law—while they are pro pund in that branch of civil and criminal `jurisprudence peculiar to our great cities, none of them can so well understand the 4vants and necessities of the country and , I the administratifln of justice therein, as one -who has spent tis whole life, either as a member of the country bar 'or presiding over a Court of Common. Pleas, in the coup try. Can it be denied that the country should have at least one member upon the Uprolle"Mllch? purely tills is not an MI- reasonnbie request tihice the organization of that ( r ourt, tlaree , fourth.4. uY it* Jcidgeo Lave corii:lrom the great (-hire-4)f tke Com nonwealth; but few Kaye Wine from the • . country. And if the claim o the country is to be recognized, no one can b ttere fa vorably ilituated than Judge Williams. The " .NortlV tier" not only inn Over had_ a member of thp supreme Court, but shelas never had a 'thtate official of any kind. In 1808 she gave General Grant 15,000 majority, and ever since the organization of the Republican party she has annually given a greater` majority, for .the tieltel,_than the whole balance of the State.. Since 18G0, , ...... ~_ _.. the " Northern - Ter" has saved the State to the Republican' party. - Her people • have never faltered in their devotion to, its prin ciples or measures, and deringall: this time . they have had no sort of recognition from the Republican party of the State. The Republicans of this section have honored every draft made upon thern, and' now,. when Itwo of the Justices of the Supreme Court reside in the extreme southwest:, and two in the extreme southeast, lie feel that the Republican party of the State should how the rural districts and the north some consideration by the nomination of Judge Williams. Tioga has ever been the banner county of the old " Wilmot District" and of the . Btato. From the first she has given a greater per cent. of Republican votes than nay sister county, and.noW, when We present a gentivman so well qualified for the posi tion, we hope, and have faith to believe, that our request will be gratified. Congressional Suutu►ary. ' In the Senate, on the 22d, the public busi ness was not advanced much; the day being spent entirely in talk. Among the'petitions presented was an interesting one from the widow of the late Rebel General Lee pray_ ing Congress to appfoptiate $300,000 to pay her for the Arlifigtoir Estale, the Tuitional cemetery for Union soldiers, for whiCh sum she promised to give the Government a clear title. She stated the property was bequeath ed her by her father, George W. 1). Custis, in 1557, and during the war it was sold for the non-payment of a direct tax -of $92 07, and by the order of President Lincoln bid in by the Government for $20,800, although she claimed the amount of tax was tendered to the authorities before the sale. A bill for the relief of Chicago by the remission of duties on imports was reported. Mr. Blair,. of Missouri, introduced a joint resolution directing the President to negotiate with Spain for the ptirchase of Cuba. Mr., Da vis, of Kentudky, made a strong efrort to call , tip his resolution directing inquiry whe ther the President has conferred. public offi ces for presents, or been guilty of other mis conduct, but after considerable sharp de bate the amnesty bill was taken up as unfin ished business and the Senate adjourned.— in the House bills were introduced to repeal the income tax, for the resumption of specie payments and the reduction of the national debt, for the removal of all political disa bilities, to reduce the duties on imports, to amend the Constitution by making Senators and Representatives ineligible to the Presi dency and Vice Presidency, and to suppress polygamy and enable - Utah to form a State Government: Mr. Dawes presented a re port of the Committee of Ways and Means on the " Syndicate" busineSs, closing with a resolution declaring that the Secretary of the Treasury, - in negotiating the loan, hae neithCr increased the bonded debt nor in curred an expendituri contrary to law.— The report was ordered. printed for future action. A bill Was passed extending the time for presenting claims for additional bounty to the 30th of next January. A res olution was passed dircctinif an inquiry into the alleged corrupt prrictices of the new Territorial Government lef the District of Columbia. Mr. Furnswiiiyth said,- in rela tion to it, that the sum of ifsll9,ooo had been paid to newspapers of the District for ad vartisina.within the last aright months, one of them being. a lipte and another a. sheet lie had never beard of before, and which announced its subscrip tion terms-to be "one cent a year, payable at the end of the year A bill was passed appropriating $50,000 to defray the expen ses of i t\he Embassy, from Japan. Alter an exciting political - -debate a resolution was passed to pay the expenses of, the committee sent to New Orleans to investigate the leg islative troubles there. There was a long and very interesting de bate ; in the Senate, on the 23d, on the am nesty bill recently - sent up from-the house. - .4r. Morton, of Indiana, thought there was a good deal of misapprehension in regard to the disabilities now resting upon those engaged in the Rebellion. It was perhaps not generally known that Jeff. Davis and all his followers had as much right to vote as any man who served in the Union array, It was argued that amnesty would conciliate the people of the Soiftb; but he believed that the leaders could no more be concilia ted in that way than rattlesnakes. could be conciliated by restoring their extracted fangs. They would die as the„y had lived— Rebels. He predicted that if general am nesty were granted, the next step would be to pension the Rebel soldiers; the Next to pay Itebels for their proporty taken by the Union armies; the next to pay them for their slave;: and the next to consolidate thu Rebel debt %% ith tho National debt. He was in favor of general amnesty, btit believed universal amnesty *mild be !inhuman add immorol, because it would be an admission of the innocency of a rebellion whose con sequences would linger in the country for centuries Mr Thurman, of Ohio, replied that the Constitution prohibited the pay ment of the, Hebei debt, the payment - of pensions to Rebel soldiers, end 1110 rt•estab li,iiment of slavery. He Stli ! !1 hp found great 'difficulty in understanding this Ad ministration. The President id his annual me,sage recommends an amnesty, and here is the Senator from Indiana, (Mr. Morton,) one his:chief supporters, denouncing it, 'Via President recommimde civil service re• form, and the Senafor from Wisoonsin (Mr. Carpotter) pours out, upon it the vials of his wreili and his ridicule. He could hardly understand it. But if hel'Ore a suspicious man, he would say that this is the old trick of throwing a tub to the whale. Ile did not clinr:7e hypocrisy upon the President, but it • did look wonderfully strange that pvery portant recommendation Made by the Pres ident is ignortid by his friends in this cham ber. Mr. Morton replied that the whole Democratic party were unable to understand this Administratiog, or the times in which they lived. They were like a man riding in a car backwards,'who never sees any thing until he is clear past IL \ Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, argued in favor of the House bill, but could not vote for universal am nesty. In the House a bill was passed to promote the mining interests of the coun try. The Committee on Education and La bor reported a bill to devote the proe'eeds of the public Malls to educational purposes.— The LegislatlVe and Executive Appropria tion hill was taken up, when Mr. Garfield explained that the total appropriation for the next fiscal year - would •reach 000, of which G 0.5 per cent. were for ex penses resulting from the Rebellion, 14 per cent. for the army and navy, and 25.5 per cent. for all other expenses. After a short debate_ the h ouse Lldj 0111'04 in the lienato, on the 24th, the hill dent .rotlivr up by the !Joust: fur the relief of Chicago was debated and passed without amend . mein, Mr. Prelinghtlysen, of New Jersey introduced a bill appropriating $lOO,OOO - 1q enable the President to carry into effeet the Civil Service Ilefortn, It was rcferreCto: , the Judiciary Committee. In the House the Education hill passed thnday before= was debated, the Democrats showing a decided opposition to it as tending strongly toWard centralization, and aiming •to deprive the States of their control of the common schools, A resolution was adopted direet ing,the conunittee en,cominerce to investtL: gate,the obstOctions to commerce- between the States and with foreign nations:- The Legislative Appropriation bill was consid- ered by sections, and Considerable progress made, when the House adjourned. A bill was introduced in the Senate; ,On the 2rith, to prevent American citizens from _engaging in the alive trade in the South Sea islands. A motion was made to .reconsider the vetoon the Chicago Relief bill; but it was not decided, when the regular order was called for, and the debate of the Amnesty bill was proceeded with: Mr. Mora, .of Maine, spoke at length n favor of the bill and against Mr. Sumner's CiVil -Rights amendment, denouncing the latter as uncon stitutional: In the House Mr. Roar deliv ered a long speech in favor of the Educa tional Fund bill. A . resolution was adopted asking the p i resident for information as to i. action under the Kuklux act, and as to the state of society and the security of life and property in the Southern States. The con: 'sideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill was resumed. Mr. Garfield stated, - on the authority of the Secretary •of .the rior and the: Commissioner of Pensions, that one-fourth of the pensions'was'paid - to peri . sons 'Who_ gOt their naives on the rolls by fraud, and the Treasury is annually cheated out of about $8,000,000 for the' benefit of swindlers. - Mr. Hale confirmed the state meat, and alluded to a batch' of .200 or BOG fraudulent claims for pensions for the war of 1812 got up by claim agents in New York, sonic of whom had :been -convicted, while others had fled to Canada. A resolution for the final adjournment on the 29th of May was puled by the Senate on the 26th lust. The substitute propelled by the Judiciary Committee for ttic. Appor= tionment bill pas.led by the House was de bated, and it was finally made the regular order for Monday, the 29th, to which time the Senate adjourned. The House went in- to Committee of the Whole op the Legisla• dire Appropriation bill. Air. Garfield offer ed an amendment looking to a restriction on public printing, .which was agreed to, and the pin was reported to the House. It op proprietee Abe% $17,440,001, The Pension Apprbpriation bill of $80,480,000 wee also reported to the 11011se. Both bills were af terwards passed. On the 27th the House met for general de bate, and but few members were. proem.— Mr. Beck made a speech 4guinet the 'postal 'telegraph scheme, Mr. Townsend, of this State, one for the protection of home in: dustry, and Mr. Duel! ono for bounty land Warrants to the soldier 4 and sailors of the late war. • The State ! Legislature. In the Senate, on the 22d, Mr. 4uckalew'a bill to authorize cumulative voting for School Directors was debated, and passed by a vote of 23 to 5. On motion of Mr. Strang.a supplement to an act providing for building a jail in potter county was passed. In the House a bill was read iii place provi ding for the election of nn Auditor General next fall. No bpsiness of general interest was transacted in the Senate on the In the House an act was passed fL'lltborizing the electors of the 23d ward of PhiladA- , F ula w aectne oy oanot wnether license to sell liquors in that.ward elzmata be grantO r also an act relative to Notaries Public' and - Jiastices of the peace In Tioga county:. - In the Senate, on the 24th, la bill was read in place to secure the payment of the wages of labor in lawful money, and to prohibit the pass book and order system. A resolu tion introdnced by Mr. Randall was adopt ed, to have a committee investigate how the quack doctors of the United States proem what it is alleged are certificates from wed , ical colleges of Pennsylvania. Mention was made in the resolution that the Nom* York Tribune had. published that such " certifi cates" were in •.eirculation. In the House Mr. Mitchell o introduced a bill to regulate the practice of medicine in Tioga county. A bill Was also ietroduced enlarging the ju risdiction of Justices of the Peace. The committee on the time and place for °m ing the returns: of the late State eleetion repotted that the 131st of 40‘ick l y, 411:30 A. M.., had been _fixed as the!, tirrielaud-,the hall of the House of Representatives as the place. The Speaker of the Senate, an the 25th, appointed Messrs. Randall, Strang, Billing felt, Humphreys, acid Nagle a committee to inquire into the Philadelphia medical col leges. In the House a bill to - Provide for training teachers for the common schools was passed, also a bill to prevent the gale of intoxifliating drinks on eleetion day, the lat ter by a v.ote of 68 to 21. A bill was also passed• requiring the Prothonotaries l or Clerks of Common Pleas, Nisi Prins, Quar ter Sessions of the Peace, -and Orphans' Courts, the Registers of Wills and the Rea corders of Deeds to pay into the Treasnry, for the,use of the Commonwealth, after de, , ducting all Tit.cessary clerk hire and office expenses, fifty per centum over and above the sum of two thousand dollars, which shall be felted by the auditor appointed by the Court to settle the aceonnts of county officers to have been received by any officer • . 1 in any one year. „ President rant 'Those who have ;watched - the came of President Grant regard him ap a patient and much-enduring man. The important dis patch from Washington printed In another column will go far toward 'confirming this impression. The views therein expressed by the President strengthen the statements we printed the other'day as tor-his attitude in this whole custom house business, his res olution to forward the investigation in every nay in his power, and to ‘l4al promptly and sternly with every ono who has brought the least scandal upon his Administration. Of course our former dispatch to this effect has been angrily denied by those organs who think that in echoing the gossip from the Pvisident's kitchen they speak for the Pres ident officially. - Now we hare no' quarrel' with the members of the President's 0144 family, nor would we ttgoty a single us n' thought into his serrunts' Wes feel that the President should have justice, and we believe that the more thoughly he is investigated, the more righW u his whole life is extunincd, the more triumphant will be his vindication; that lie will come from ev ery ordeal unscathed—still retaining the splendor of Donelson and Vitiitsburg—uhd that 4- grateful and generous people will re-elect him President ofthe United States. Thus farlis enemies have failed in every attempt - to destroy hia . ‘"Charatter. He will fight it out on the line he occupies if it takes all summer—and It probably will take all summer and a goodly share of autumn, Ile has made a singularly honest ahtl- , Juble ad ministiation. A@ the elected chief of the Rqablicap party he has kept every pledge made by his friebds with Roman sincerity and-firmness. The most radical Republican cannot quarrel with Gen. Grant. These 1 who were impatient with Mr. Uncoil, effete— I such men let us say as Weittlell 1)41111ps and Gen. Butler!—are Tully satisfied with Grant. The assaults made upon Akin ? , are. only eve. I &stets of his streast li with the people/His enemies have no charges against hint but leOrner grocery and bar-room .setitidal. - He' taketis presents; it is said; Mit no one has heard of a presest accepted byltimsincelie entered tlrc White Hopse.; -Ae' a ,successful . General, some of our citizens gave him such - ii,. token Of their esteerti:tnnd -gratitude, as was given to Marlborotigkand Wellington , 'When'they returned froth: pucceSsfill' Warsi _ such u token as was given to . , Gen. lt'Clel• lan, who, when he came to live among us, was presented with a house -in New. York by several leading Democrats. He has a s pointed a few relatives to,: unimportanto • t ces;, but we shall nut feel' very indign t over over this, .; especially. ;when -wc _remember - that not long - shire :trr. Gladitorie said' in the House of Commons that-one reason why , an English statesman, could.nfford to hold the exacting otlice_of Prime 141.1nNter was that he had an opportunity of doing for his - family and frieris'what other eminent and able men did in private pursuits.- Certainly )Ir. Gladstone's opinion Will go far with the most fastidious critics among' our journal- ‘ lits and •statesmen. Beyond this petty tav ern gossip nothing is Stud; and this . paucity and monotony of assault form the Peed dent's best vindication •:- : - On the °the / . hand, in - every respect Gen. Grant has met the - highest expectations Of the country: He has, as we have said, kept every, pledge Made as - a Reppblican to the party whiehnotitinated him. `He has made an honest, patient, resolute exide*r to re duce the tidtbt, and although we have not, in all ways, commended Mr. Boutwell's methods of Ananaging the Treasury, we rec. ognize 'that the Admintstratio'n has -meant to fund the debt, reduce the Interest; and re lease the people front the burdens of taxa tiou. W ithout absolving:the Secretary from auy.of our criticisms, we pass this to She credit of the Administration. . In the question of 00 relationsWitliEng land we have seen the. President grapple with the gravest problem in our. diplomaby and settle it, and in that alone win for him self an enduring fame. In, dealing with ' Spain there has been a patience, a candor a : giggle-mindedness of purpose'tvhich alto' at tirnes vexatious to an untiatienenna • • ~. Is lsive public opichrin,=has - kept "tliti pee cis , n ,and not permitted us to drift into •-a- fretful and useless war. In thejnditin queition ho has shown humanity and breadth of pur pose wonderfully at variance , with the sav age and blind traditions of fermer Ad' in istratione. Every Christian heart in Am ri ce must throb kindly toward. Gen. G nt for his humanity and good temper in d al ing with the wayward children of the or mit est. In the Moron question' be -has tr ra pled upon an evil as gigantic-as that_ of sla very—upon polygamy—which,, as the re maining "twin relic of barbarians," has been a scandal to our age.' Amid so in every instance of administrative policy. At h Me and abroad be has preserved the hon e of the•tittg and the purity of the Aans" ra tion: tien.- Crime and malfeasance in office h ve been - severely punished; and we have a President who will - have' no parley 71th roguery or incapacity in any departuien. of the Government. . . We have said that President Grant patient and much-enduring mail. Ho slibivri this in New York, and especially ci our custom: house matters. Men dos him, or at least claiming to represent li -., have intrigued themselves into positions -where, from. avarice or an unhealthy yeixn -44 for power, they have !wen& aeandalto tll4 Adirthinitration. ' This general. oz ; business has-been no more nor less . ,tli 111 - ' aeatidal• The merchants of - New - Tork . i re " been held in terrorism. .-A- ctitt' m i ns grown. up which is little more /Lan the iii. ance of a gang of freebooter to stand ver every caw: that comea -^ ,O the port and ex act "tolls. ' In tie olden times bandits viere - Wont to entet what they called "tolls" from liotte§t:merchants carrying their goods to Londosi, or worthy husbandmen driving their tattle into the lowlands. This same austom has been permitted in New York._ We have no doubt that our custom house general order people felt they were doing an honest trade, but the country does not so Consider it. We agree with Gen. Grant that the arrangement made by Bixby, by which $5,000 a year were sent to an officer In the War Department as "tolls" to -the Admin istration, was an inexcusable transaction; and-ive are glad to know, 'as we have felt all along, that he was in no way responsible for it and that he will visit the offense, if not disproved,. with severe punishment.— The story that there are Senators on this committee who will not examine this ques tion thoroughly, because it might screen the President at the expense of his military family, is astounding. Certainly no such evidence as that sent to us,, from Washing _ r, I t tfa L 'on+, ‘,l; f 4ted by the committee to their elaborate investien ion. s - it Let brought nut 't owes.- We elm ntive no tri -1 fling, no coucealment in it ,,the matter. The honor of our President is dear to us, and it must be protected, no matter who suffers. One word to President Grant. He is said to meditate a coup d'clat in New York poli ties :and among our officials here. The country expects this, and no President has more certainly answered the country's ex pectations. He dung to St. Domingo until it was feared he had blundered. Suddenly , he threw the whole matter into the hands of Congress and the people. He anpported the late Collector until his party'began -to muti ny, and, although expressing his own per sonal esteem and confidence in that gentle man, lie abandoned him to the wishes of the party. In these things he showed con summate • statesmanship. He believed in St. Domingo; he was fond of the late Col lector; but he permitted no favorite policy and no personal esteem fer ,tt Mart to es trange him from lit:s party and the people. Let him take another step wild thoroughly revolutionize the whole civil service in New Yo lt, PliPialting the guiity,'-remoVing the tainted; dtscardiK every one whose reputa ticln: tiaa been nokiewcal by-- the slightest btetith'of scandal. Then Ile Qati.enter upon ftli'ctihvfiss -for a re-ueretnation.a3ta,4=elec tion, confident of a triumph alt Splendid and decisive as that which came to Washington,' jcickson, and Lincoln. The people are ripe for this, rind they . expect it from one who has. been Ipre-eminently the people's Fred dent—.Y.' i Herald. The "Spoils" Sistem The proposed civil service reform, finds two widely.dliferent classes of critics. On the one hand there are its out-and-out oppo nents, of whose argument 4 •We may take Mr. Carpenter's speech in the Senate as an example. Mr. Carpenter thinks the new system. unconstitutional, and very aiugUlar ly appeals to Attorney General Aker/nate, opinion, which expressly approved the very principle the Commission adopted. Fur titer, 3fr. Carpenter does pot like the plan because it is not thorough i —the most impor tant officials being exempted from-its _ope ration. There is a curious ineonsistencrin objecting that a measure-is bad in principle, and besides does not go far enough! Mr. Carpenter thinks that the, system would cre ate an " jriSt9Praey," by favoring i - the eau eateA, pees a merchant help to create an aristocracy" by requiring that life cashier shall understand arithmetic? We learn with surprise that it re,itairse great conta ga and ,self-rlenial for ongressmen tE t e a S 14, 2• • reform.. " To.a 'public officer :.1 • tor, for instance--with ambition of re-election, there was great temptation to yield to the Pressure of the moment." Ad- Inirable, heroic Congressmen! who will-not repourico their sacred duty of distributing patronage, not even though they may lose te-election by holding on to it! Mr. Carpenter's speech, is thoUgh in no oth er way calling for notice, really q fair ex ample of the arguments put forward against the adoption- of the reform. On the other hand, some friendly critics of the system ' point out that it may not - be a nniVersd pan acea for our troubles. 131. r. iligginson, in two e . .itcellent papers in the ./inkperickar„h aa well stated the drawbacks and' defects of the competitiVe examinations, tic suggests that they must be • either purely-echolitstic, and thus a very imperfect test-of practical ftl*ty, eit g._eneral in their character a* t o leave plenty of room for favoritism, It io somewhat discooraging 10 find that gr.. ,. ginsoa has tio (AWN positive reetnaVenda iej“9 offer than that " men of tre'.altit and Vd4V-€4 10 4: 1 1:4 0 kP i t a matter of etv..iseliance to attend PriinttrY political tueetir_ ! gs." But he thinks 1 neN system a grrat improvement RA the ofldd 000 i and ecorisie.hers its chief merit to be that "it cuts Up - rip the roots the the ory that appoint appointinenty are to be made as,po: litical rewards, and. on a geographical ba sis." • We doubt not that when the reform is se cured it will, like all, other - reforms, some what disappoint,the sanguine hopes of its , projectors. • But certainly it will be a great step in-the right direction. The danger now is, we think, in the self-sacrificing Con gressmen 'whom Mr. Carpenter represents as ready to brave public opinion for the sake of that great prineiple-- i the party spoils.— We hope they will think better of it. The people, are very much in earnest about 'this matter: They consider the adoption of the new system the greatest political need of thy time, They know that it is . chiefly. in danger from the iiltisbness of parties. It can ottly fail throngl or covert _ ltepublii clans. these gentlemen uncle by hindering this reform they Wi clear issue between themselves auf ple, and one that will not becov forgotten.,Christian Union. • = . - The Cause of Cuba. We are most heartily glad to see that the cause of the_Quban patriots- is here exciting" a deeper and deeper interest. And, yet the interest ought to go' deeper:still. ' It does' seem as-if it would not he arrileartO at least ask ourselves.-the-question - if tne time - bas not - ebine - tiiki:int, belligerent rights to the Cuban insurgents. , No great berm could possibly, come from this questioning; and, on thenther band, it might possibly look half away fair toward a brave,, atruggliPg people, who have kept up - se eral, years warfare in the . face' of 'most . di heartening. odds against ' a Government w jell' acts no diabblicoPy that it ie_a simple, anlyvirtue to rebel. against it. We say t s without here taking; into account the,aase of our, own grievances, lhat of- the ves4el Florida, for example. To be sure the granting a full belligerent rights might- esult disad vantageously to Spain in Cub ; but then a that, through her own cruelty, d stupidity, has come to be her own. lookor. Are we then longer bound to shut our eyes to the one side and open them-to the ther? • Talk of precedent and of - this and tat intricacy 'of international law as you ,p 1 aso, but as for us we find no more fairness nn this strug gle in Cuba than there is - in the street fight which makes any honest blob boil-where one man having a most unfai - advantage pounds another man ,to deat simply be cause of that advantage.— WO h. Chronicle. Woman in Office A correspondent writing fro Wyoming Territory, gives the tertaining account of a new4a of the Peace in that Paradise "In December, 1869, the- egisliture: of Wyoming, consisting .principall.y r .otaingle , ' men, who were, naturally- ad firers of the gentler sex, and in this case 6 thusiastic on account of the scarcity of •fe "ales incident to frontier life, passed a 'bill onferring -the - D in right of suffrage upon wom n. This was truly a maiden effort': The object was, first, to attract the fair ones to th country for their own good, of cour s e; a ti second, to create a society and perha Ei homes for themselves, lone bachelors . Qf the plains, and eventually to-increase th census of the Territory. It is possible ho ,ever -that the second was the weightier reason, although it has a flavor of the po]icy of Brigham Young. The first action taken under this law was 'Amen under_tnts lak.. the appointment of a female IJ,ustice of tho Peace, who qualified and eat red upon the duties Pf the office. For a brae the posi tion was somewhat embarrassing to the ' newly trade Judge. Leaving the law asioli , she had no trouble in delivering . her char ges and - sentences with grace an d •/egance. But when called to decide,, ';;on points of law and the objections, .7.1 c ptions, demur rers, allPleadwa's o f attorneys, who seem ed to to e a L lll 4 l °tous deligit in confusing poor Just ce, she was es and befogging a le trenlelYin.:earrassed for law and law terms to exP"ess in technical language her views or ''ne case: The lawyers would cite and , submit l authorities whicht.. Justice would i gravely examine before rendering decisions 1 that form en interesting study to the student 1 in seareh of the latest ruLngs and prece dents. • It is asserted bye malicious wag that the lawyers were in th e h abit of asking an adjournment of court after the evidence was in, and the costs all mate and fees re ceived, . 1 and retiring to deeid the suit by a' game of seven-up, as the Judge always agreed with the last speaker, and allowed an interminable debate between counsel regard-, less of rules of the opening and closing of arguments. Both could not speak last, and neither - was willing to. yield the advantage of the last word, so dear t' woman and so powerful with this Judge. I will not vouch for this, as I did not witnes it, but it seems to illustrate the feeling if dot the fact. However, the Judge was' inning golden ti r opinions from the heart. of he public. One thing only lacked test— e supremacy in woman's breast of justice o, er love, Some well-meaning, but nevertheless heartless, people sought an occasionor this test, and after gettingp•the Justice's once liege lord ' drunk, had him arrested and brought be -1 fore her Honor on a char e of disorderly conduct. The scene in the Court was in- 1 structive, pathetic, and amusing. The bus-.' . ~_ .a-•_--'.- —rr...s.i acc LUG . tilt' Pere i nabetween the old, and the new state of things ; between his w, wife •at home and her honor upon the ben t . The prisoner demurred to the authority _ f the Court, and swore it had no jiitisdicti n in his case.— 1 1 Upon this verbal affidavi , -- Ira - ---declared he should take a change of venue, and stetted for the'door in contempt of the order of the Court. The officer was here directed - ty her Honor to lock the prisbner up till mot% ring. He resisted, but the order was obey ed, and the poor disgracedlhusband was left in the lock-up by the order of his wife to ponder upon the situation He thought of hispast with his pewer, and contrasted it with his present and his weakeess. Othello' • s occupation was evidently gone. Impriton ed by the word of his on c e obedient ' w if e ! On the following utornlni ,l 'e aPP'-ared in Court an altered man. e hum. ) ',/y entreat ed the Judge for mercy, plead in eaten . nation that it was - and under peculiarly 1° - first offence try; tg . circumstances, when lie was not himself , and thought the Court was not itself. Thelater illusion had been forever dispelled freM. his mind, - and he assured her Honor that it shoUld never oc cur again in public or priyate. • 'Her Honor said:she would not.impese the fine for contempt of Court, as in this case she deemed it a contempt of the person and not of the authority of the.court. She co'd pardon: this ; but, as theharge 'on which the prisoner had been brought before that court was an offense against the public, the court• --- e - rould_he . __co mpelled to impose the usual fine. As he prisonef' was ,out of funds, the Judge altered to go upon hia bond for the payment of the fine and coats. The grateful husband Was about leaving the court,' when her Honor detained him "one moment" while she,' applied tho moral lesson, thus brought home, to the priSoner's mind, He stood lßefore the bar in the pres ence of the court and an amused audienc' which crowded the room, while with bowed head and downcast eyed he received a lec ture on woman's righta.el, was The husband of that urt s eVer after a sober man, and humbl too, in public and at home. - The jelce hid been carried too far for him to recover the humiliation; and he avoided public resorts. He soon be= came thoiougldy domestcated, and, while lits-hetter and greater half was administer ing the among men, he contented -him serf with (raining his household and conduct ing the domestic department of the firm.— It was rumored' that the Judge sometimes came home in an irritable Mood, and found' fault with the cook, and' hided her house keeper- for °late meals ; b ut this was 'Wen remedied,Tfor he learne d keep court time, The only living uncompleted in this transfeq of duties was the obstacle in nature. Bet tles'and condensed-milk ere fi nally substi tuted for jfidleialrto • t, and the ail =linen dren soon learned to a cept the situation, and transferred their etre Lions to their mas culine nurse. In time, hciwever, an ey nt occurred which admitted. ofno substittition for maternal function. The court was compelled to ad'. punt, Couched in beau id language, wli t ' • a delicate blush overspre ding her face , the 1 Court annoueded that it , as often - - • - . 1 , permit ted in older conun, nuttiest() 11dp,;,:r . , to ta k e a ' vacation during the hut aterin. Although the law of that ter/ 4 ., .:to kisickno provision for such vacati,ork; she Sted thegood pee pie of, her dlar:nei w ‘ oltgrticiousiy - accord her a nito'_: weeks r , - as" - the' duties-of her OV_ce had - been labO'ous and trying dur- - mP'the first term. Beira now more familiar - r iFth-those duties, shel oped hereafter not to be compelled to ask • uch indulgence.-- 7 Accordingly the court. would adjourn , till ! three weeks from date. Louring this vaca'- tion the jail was filled to .overflowing, and criminals were allosied to, go .unarrested i _no other justice residing in 'that district. The village became disorderly, and• riot ran mad: Finally a new jail Wes extemporized to meet the demand until'her Hertor could recover. I El a a, B in to , TEMPHRANQE IN CO - auss. Senator Wilson lately delivered a temperance lecture in Boston in which he stated that there were fewer drinking men in Congress now than when he first went to it. IFormerly the night sesions were dreaded, on account of the 'de bducliery to wnich they gave rise. Now about one-quarter of the Senators are'pledged temperance men, and th4e-is not what may be called " a hard drink4r"in the Senate at all. The facts are ,fibot the -'same in the House of llopresentatives' Once the Depart.: ments were full of.drun .en men, now they are the exceptions. Co ing from a source to be relied upon, these interesting aucl ch.eeringfacts. - •• Application for License. interestedopen 41.1 p an Ull L .stand that, 1 r.naki - 3 - a: &the peor • cd up,,o- NoTicr, 28 HEREBY GIVEN, that the following named persons have made application Tor Tavern - n comes and Eating House.' Lionises, and that . the same iiilli.-mostented to the Court of - Quarter Sea alonathe 212th - day of Jan; inst., at 2 o'elOok, Pl AL When an thiareated rosy attend if they think proper. . .., ',!,•. ,-, ~, • .North. - - - ".,...'," italiralkelOy, , Lawraanevhie. , , - f 0.13. 'Whlt#44 - 13losobArg. - ' . ' 'John A. Martin, • ~ U. C. Vernal/yea, Gaines. Clinton Guild, Cbathani. Peleg Dbud.,Wellabor . , '.- Sol: Bunnell. *, Charleis B, Goodrich, elson. J. 0. Price, C * 1 13.11. Thoni=ll aburg.*, E. M. Smith, Tioga.# -, Lewis Daggett, Law onosvillo.• Gao. Close. Westilel ,* . Mlles O'Connor, We how.* ii . .. . 'rhos. Graver, Cov a.* - 1 - David Irvin, Union.ilto c , Obinliill & ElClriillge, Clymer. • • , J. P. DONAz.j i sON. ° , Clerk. Jan. 10. 1872-3 w. The Condition Or our Navy. , A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, af ter minute analysis of the "Navy Register," sums up our available naval force as follows: • This Is our great navy, then, In round numbers: Si:lirst rates available ; but some are rotting. Five second rates, avail able. Four second rates can be saved from rot and made available; but it won't do to defer much longer. . Elgbt third rates. These are gunboats, available. Seven fourth rates. Small gunboats; are av able and Canbe counted as part of a navy. ,Eight fifth rates, available by repairs, an by Du Work on them at'fftre. . They can be saved-lf talc_ in lio.vessels are building to replace losticon demnad, sold or rotting. • The repairs are of the smallest possible Agora, such ceouomy, indeed, as we doubt the Department o any individual would regard as such if applied to their per sonal property or real estate. The above is the most favorable figure that can be made. These vessels are fast going to pieces, and if this system of economy does on, a few years (four or five) will see - the government resorting not only to tugs again, but to ferryboats. Thirty-eight vessels are all that this country can count on as its national arm for general service. For special and unimportant services there is an immense force. It is well for the country, for its commerce, its legislators, its Cabinet and Congress, to look well to this state of things. ' Ito ships-of-war are, building, very few indeed are repairing or -fitting for, rise, and our material on hand Is rotting fast. In a few yeari mare the ll*tod' States will' have neither -ships not gunbiats and,_siddest of all' neither officers - nor .aaa- Cheyenne, ollowing eirt iglcd Justice f -women: E. B Booksellers and 9.4talioners, WO) Paler. vii4 " 'Shades, Window Fixtures, - Musical lnitrugnents, tln k . .4 Notions, 't -Pictars Frames and Glass, , Pictures, all aorta, Picture Cord, • -Law Blanks Jut Joe Blanks, Law Books, itadlial Books mull ovary article In our line of trade. --Nay Yu*lßMs& at One Dollar a mord& --illintra DIMS at IS Coats a month. —ikiboarigunir for a week, or month, or year. —Orders Books not in stook promptly attended to --.411.4 Uprose package reocived ' from New York as- UT day. Jan. 24, 1872-Iy. E. B. YOUNG & CO. W:10 !J Lecture Cource-1871-'72. rfIRE following leaturors have been engaged for' the .L Hermitic Lecture Course for the ensuing seam: - HEOROE WILLIAM CURTIS Feb.l2. 1872 ANNA E. DICKINSON ' March 4,1872 OFA)ROIC VANDENROFF . Jan. 10,1872. HON. WILLIAM PARSONS .Jan .24. 1872. PArBIJII V. NASHY Jan. 30, 1872. BD IN H.OIIAPIN t March 12,1872 HS RY WARD BEECHER.. CHARLES 'CARLETON" CUFF IN .. M. F. ELLIOTT, Proa'S / JOHN I. MITCHELL, HUGH YOUNG, JEROME B. POTTER, J. H. BOSAHD, f4c'y. Jan.1.1872-tt Managers Plaster ! Plaster ! undersigned, having purchased the Pfastr x ono mile south of Mansfield, and stial, e d another at the month of Hill's Creek, near lion? .e). orstaircat to =man arranin Cayuga, Plaster lkom either point, at Use lowest waxiest 'price for Clash. The Mansfield Miperel /VW% tar3o be found for sale at bothplaces,. ANUS PiTTNAM, Att. 17, 1872-4 t, . 1 Mansfield, Pa. AT SPENCERS i I ART 'GALLERY I RANK SPE2IOO. has just returned from the dty with a fine Assortment of goods in Ids wh i ch are choice ever brought into Tioga oonnty, among Choice Frames of New Styles Carved Walnut Goods, =II TielmmiL2apros, Ana ht style, and at the very lowest prices. Be is pre • pared to wake First-Class Portraits, in all the hest styles of the day, from skillfully iro touched negatives. It L always a pleasure to show tootle ; ao don't ba baiekward or bashMl, but call early and often. I - ,Manlileld. Ps.. Jan. 10.1099.-am BOOTS- .4.7r.4) SHOES'. s, INIUMS vtug Piet 01 : 4 = 1 th lt cr one jjolusurv„pre Ma in ou7tv, is wan. j y t : UM xiCifW A - dog tornt ere end thopUb• Maar bettor se/acted:stook of - 'ROOTS .AND BEOEI3 _ ea> ever before presented in the borortigh of Tliksw- Aillir ware of Burro Make; ecloatesittr on hand. Al- MMus & Hamlln's Organs o ittial wvariety of styles to seleot from. All 'are invired to, call and esaulfile Pr and onality. - ff.' E. SMITH & SON. trga, Jan. 1, 1872.-11. • WALICER. ,a LATIEEtOP. • DZ • Al.linB mr -: • . EIARDWARIC, IRON,1.1X„I NALLS, • • • STOW*. TTN-WARE, BEIVMNO, - SAWS, 017/YERY. WATER LIME.-AgiEICULTURAL EbEfImvENTS, • • - - • 'Carriage .and Harness Trimmings, • • VA MUSSES, SADDLES, - ,to. fig. N. Y., .lau. 2, 1872, - • *. To .Far'ere. undersigned oLleri for us for breeding purpos. Chester. White Bba,r, litmauesed at SmitheClle, Obembrigo Co., N. Y. He tan -be found on the road from Wellsboro to Babb'* Creek. about 23i miles trout Wellshoro. Charges $L • Jan. 10.41'w. 0. 13. t 3/ E. Partri for Sale. NE Ett/NE+RED ACRES with eighty acres improved, O alid situated r tear the State Road, south of lirattut• but*. Tbisfarm.comaines a comfortable house,. tyro good barna and tittoety fruit trees: it is well adapted taidatrylitig lu:4l,astaulture. ,Terms easy: Incutro• of tb.# at'atainatnarg, Zu.ne lA, mil: J. A. BDUE. HUGS You y 6. E. B. :Young & Co., YOUNG (Successors of Hugh Young k Co.) az : l4 76 ,...ea1ers iu -‘1 Moak Books, tal sizes, Newspapers, W 3 11 4 4V4k5, Artists Goods, • - Religious Books, New 'Year Goods I ,-Ch,7.0m05, --7-. and a great variety of FRANK SPENCER New Store AT TIOGA, PA., and an entire new Stock (tf i I IZ.Z.I,AA~ Stock of Winter Goods HZAVY , SP.I.LNG STOCK 411 °titer Goods will be sold at ffreatly reduce Waaborp, Jan. 27,1874. =II I= THE= BEST AGAIN IMPROVED I WEED SEWING lAACHINBi Km men* been improved, and L now without a doubt the nri7 beet ( 11111CWIINT431 - 14 1 1-A-41al3ilV]Wa In the world for Metal lue• Does every. kind of Work with the. least Trouble, Never gets out of order, sad will run a lifetime without repairs Don't purchases Sewingllnshino of any kind until you Lave seen the EE' IMPROVED "WEED," A. BODINE, Agent, Welbsbor% Pa. Agent, irargilZ -14 J. • o:ll , pit Jr., Agent, Tices, Pa. Dry \ Goods Line compass, HATS, OAPi3, BOOTS AND SHOES, 'READY MADE 'ammo, )i an endless variety. Call and seo. WeiLbw*. lft, J.. 1. 1672. I=lll Winter Campaign. bohLad o MEM BABIIIIDADE OF 000D8, Toady to moot a (largo from all our 012 ousto• soots, sith awmany new ones as may chose to favor as with a call. In itetalUon to o full stook of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, F I we make the followirwibranohat of our brud'Utee 8 des. . .. . , • DIIIN3 000i19, of which we have a lame variety. .CW=B 4WD OBatIIKEREI3, whloh(we Doll by the yard, or makolo by tbe molt experience wadinum au duct Witco. UNDER' GARMENTS, for Ladles, Di Cakidren, Gentlemen and Boyit; I• • One Hundred Pieces, t an Our elk& is the largeal, Qooaa • . . „ **Yoe 44 1, 1872. IS 14014' LIG sla EtattlE i f 1 4..7r 4COS9r, TO MAKE BOOM Ma A graces. THE NEW IMPROVED J. B. TILLOTEGN, General Agent, 33 Lake Streat, Elmira, N. r Clias. V. Mathei.s, Ma as endless varlet! of evarStbing in the =1 WI Ira now fully Asmad and Ikutpped for Ms Winter Campaign. cYA.3Ftrib3marilst, a fall atoe4i, embracing : from 26 coati to 62,50 per yard Prima tha iowest, of say . Store in orning, an 4 Prob 4ll4 SOntliefftlitif MI VVII.ILASICOMay i 0 MEI {' ~ ~: Lit , MI Jan. 1, 1872 C. O. 2i612/BUS. arm di Was
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