Ti r !(„l . 44k:c:Olifilt44lT - AT,I puDMBI sixai if/Winn/a ()ilium ar P. C. „Van eld.erj TERM OY SUBSORIPION,LNVAIIABLY IN ADVANU Subscription, (par year) " RATES OE ADVERTISING, TIN 1,11‘1,8 , 01! MINIRN oR *iii; 111010261 SCRIARiI Su. Sierd.... I I In. I 3ine 4 . l 4 lint I §jios 1 - 611los I I:Tr I $ l , OO 1 $ 2 . 00 I PAO I $5,00 I $7,00 I $12,00 t Square, 2 Squaros,.. I 2,00 15,00 11T, Ralf Col 1100 ' 5.00 I 25,00 1 80,00 145,00 1 60,00 1100'0)0 ivne CAA Par Special Notices 15 cents per line; Editori 4 l • Lecai 20 contsper line. • , . Transient adveatising war be paid for in advance. ittl-inetice Blanks, Constable Blanks, Deeds,i.n...! .no nt Notes, Marriage Certificates, *c . o n band. lITJSINICSS CARDS. J. PAR t fiIIIMST & CO., J..)EL PARKRUtRST. , JoHN PARKHURST. ELKLAND, PA L. L. PATTIRON. May 31, 1871-6 t Seeley / Cotes & Co. BANKERS, 'Knoxville, 'Bog% ICounty, Pa. Reactive money on depbsit, discount note and sell drafts on New York City. Colleo ions promptly made—Jan 1,1871—y 3fonoiat SHELEY—Oacoola. DAVID CoArs,l Knoxville. VIND ottkliDtiLL, CEO. W. 3IF.RRICKI ATTWEY and COUNSELOR at LA' Offioo in Smith and Bowen'a Bioak, acroaa ha from Agitator Office up Maim [second floor.] Wellaboro Pa, • Jan. 4,1871-Iy. Jno. I. Mitchell, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Claim, and Inc. suranee Agent. Moe ovorEress's Drug Store, Wellsboro, Pa. • Jan.l, I§7lry William ii. Stone. ttor , ay and Counselor at Law, first door abov Conyige & 'Osgood's store, on Main street. wall bk a ,ore, January 1, - 1871 y - • Jno. Adam , • ,nselor at Law, Mansfield, Tiogt leotiona promptly attOndec attorney and Co 3ounty, Pa. C to. Jan. 1, 1871 I'lllson • Niles, Attorneys and Counselors t Law. Will atten. promptly to business entrusted to their care 1 , the counties. or Tioga, and \ ' otter. Office on the Avenue.-% Jan. 1, 1871 y 6. I' . WlLsoit.l [J. B. Nitta. , . , . Johu; W. Guernsey, Attorney and Counselor at Law. All usines: entrusted to him will be promptly Eaten, ed to office 2d door south of Hazlett's Hotel, li.ga Tioga County, Pu.'--Jan, 1, 1871•. Wni. B. Smith) Pension, Bounty •and Insurance Agent. Corn munieations sent to the above address will re eiiive prompt attention. Terms moderate, Knoxville, Pa.—Jan. 1, 1871. Soymour & Horton, Attorneys and Counselors at law, Tiogn Pa. All business entrusted to their care will receive prompt attention. C. 11. SEYMOUR- Jan 1.1871 y ARmsTßorfa / Armstrong & Linn, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, WILLIAMSPORT, PENN'A. Jun 1, 1871-y. W. D. Terbell & Co., ‘Vnolesale Druggists, and dealers in WitlePaDer, Kerosene Lauips,, Window Glass, Perfulnery, Paints, Oils, Icc., kc.-Corning, N.Y. Jana '71.; 11. Bacon, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Ist door east of Laugher Bache—Main Street. Will attend promptly to nll calls. IV°llsbero.—Jan. 1, 1871. A. M. Ingham ) M. D. ) Homoeopathist, Office at his Residence on the Avenno.—Jan. 1, 1871. George Wagner, Shop first door north of Roberts Sr. Bail y's Hardware Store. Cutting, Fitting and Re pairingdone promptly and well.--Jan.1,1871 Smith's Hotel, Logi. Pa., E. M. stain, Proprietor. donee in good condition to accommodate the traveling public in a super'or manner.--Jan. 1, 1871. Farmers' Temperance Hotel. Mr. B. MONROE, having'purchased this house, will conduct in future as in the past, strictly on temperance principals. Every accommo dation for waft an.l beast. Charges reason able. January 1, 1871 - Union Hotel. •Vill 11. Van Horn, Proprietor, Wellsboro, Pa. Thl+ house is pleasantly located, and has all the convoninnoes for'lnan and beast. Charges rawlerate,—Jan 1, 1871-Iy. W. W. WEBil, M. 8., Physician and Surgeon. OFMK—Opening out of Hastings dr, Cole's Drug Moro.—mar. 1,1871. Ladies' Millinery AND FURNISHING STORE.! AIRS SOFIELD has a complete assortment .1:11 or the I iteA styles of 11,11;»crj) 17,1)1.1 ri,lrniSltiity G00(1,9, Kh ch ~ he is telling at unusually lost prices. MILLINERY overy dis/ription to suit everybody, and FURNISHING GOODS, clakling Ladies' Ready-Made Dresses, a -cum- Guttit, that cannot fail to please the ladies. Plea:o call and examine Goods and prices. `'Poltt{ opp" Lite Post (Aloe, Mein Street. Mrs. A. J. SOFTELD. May 1, 1870. tf New Millinery ! 118. c. I'. S, 11, hag now on hand an elo iyL gant assortwent of all the latest styles of MILLINERY, Fancy Goode, Pai'asols, Gloves, VANS, MORONS, FLOWERS, &c., which she is soelling at \very Intr prices. Drop In and FOO the now gona. May 4, 1871-tf O,C)C3)CI Bushels Stone Lime for sale by A, April 19, ISTI.-m FARM FOB SALE. TUE subscriber offers for sale his farm of 56 acres, pleasantly situated in Catlin Hollow, Charloston Ttoga county, Pa.; within about, four 0 /ilea of Wellsboro and two miles of Niles Val k', depot. school house, church, mills, shops, 10 ., within a mile. Terms easy. Inquire on the Premiees of C. G. GATLIN. 114 7 17 1 1871 tf 00,1 18,00 4 . 00 1' 8 . 2200 Lqku J. C. HORTON. =I Mni„ C. P. ,SMITH W. C. KRESS. _..:. 3 ':'r.ii:Ji~c:':t...a;:-'c+,::L4.~ , -j ".a:':~~ :~c.,c:,i ''<~~ LLru'; ME Cal . boir, VOL I X.VIII. • THE OLD "PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE", LATELY known as the Towneendlieuee , •tif and fora time occupied by D. D. Eoli day, has been thoroughly refitted, repair ed and opened by 1 DANIEL , MONROE, who will be happy to accommodate the) old friends of the house at very reasonable rates. Jan 1,1871 y , DANIEL MONROE. Tioga Marble Werke, • THE undersigned is now prepared to axe onto all orders for Tomb Stones and Momn. manta of either ITALIAII- OR RIITLANp MARBLE, of thelatest i style and approved workmanship and with dispatch. s • He keeps constantly on hind both kinds.ot Marble and will be'ttble to snit all who may fa vor him with their orders, on ilsroasonableterms as can be obtained in the country. ' FROM ADAMB. Tioga,Jan.l,lB7l.-tf. • Notice. ALE poisons indebted to D. P. Roberts by Book account or Notes aro roquestod to call and nettle and save Climb), at G. VT. Mertiors office Feb. 1, 1871.-tf FL. M. C:01.73.033r, jEWEIJER. MANSFIELD, PA. EEPS constantly on hand, EtGIN 11.WALTHAM and SWISS WATCH -4 ES, Marino, Alarm A Calendar COCKS - SILVER SPOONS, , • Phited Spoons and Forks; Table, Butter and Fruit Knives; Caps, Castors and Cake Baskets; Napkin Rings; Cream Salt Sugar and Mustard Spoons; Fine Gold and Agate Rings; Gold ;Yana and Pencils; Solid Gold Sets; Pearl Fancy mid Plated Buttons; Watch Gnards and Chains, Ac., A largo stock of SPECTACLES, GLASSES, and Colored Glasses, all at reduced prices. . , N. B.—Wateliehiandlirivelry neatly Repared. March 1, 187 A. B. EASTMAN; - OPERATIVE ARE MECHANICAL 114 - *masa DENTIST. • o h o opposite Cone House, Wollaboro, Pa. All oper,tions neatly and carefully performed. Zat isfacti. . guaranteed at 'live end let live prises.' Peb 2 1871 tf TH SINGER. lid aiaufa i~J ~ =1 MEM EEE2I I know a path thaeleads'appaiithe meadow, Then winds along Wilde, the atream let's fir - - Then 'turns again beneath the beieharees' [I ado*, And leads to where the sweetest wild flowers grow; • • At iarlrutorn - , are yet the sun has lighted Each diamond dew-drop, sparkling in the grass; While yet the lark, half-friendly, half-affrighted; Pipes forth his matin warblings as I pass-4 Wbilo yet tho clear,cool breeze ofmops gives tokeris Tst softest whispoisi, of the cot:nittiOnt t lovo to seek the soiiiudo 6nbroicoll, ' ; To which this winding footpath leads the way 3 • I Fdr Iliera my resUess soul, itself atianing, To.Natare's sweetest, moat harmonious atfa,ino, ICod s midtho flowers and -vbliparing-greis ' coal ` :inuning _ With Nature's:God, forgets its cores and painii, Casts off 14hile its weight of earthly sorrow, Takes wings, and views, w th vision long and fold, Bright giieopses of'-hereaftei's sunny morrow-- The golden land of happiness beyond. Saturday NigA 31 - ISCELLAIVEO - - - - - [For the Agitator.]' Mr. Editor :—Since I wrote the arti cle which appears in your last issue, 1 am advised that S. F. Wilson 'stated, slat 90, 1 3 r. that l',Was. May when I deity-, ered the charge in the case to whialt•l referred, but that my charge on ille 066' not contain what k said to the juiy.-- - VIA' iti Stitirely - filsel-4-31VrOte out lane• l filed my charge soon after the trial ;;and if it had not contained in• substance what I said to the jury, the error would. not have escaped the sharp vision of two of the defendant's klounsel, (ifeSsrs. Elliott and Seymour,) and I would have been rig - Wreck to.correet, it. Neither of the cOuniiol#o; tilkiqtted to me that I did 4000010:At ro•ll,o,record what in substatia,4-;‘ ,. • 'itia..'',lo .P.TYY.' 2 :4.t :was very, 0'0404 'f'.. l . ‘4l,iiit*tiolif eliiii6ce in.theOisiAlfiitt;WO itiiitio 4("pation 4 0,10,0) ; W.oo4:s4toifiti,'oo jury, land 44141*.jialtit044.06',Cortrt to di -4.4oltillityftitti,rri**44llo I - i ravor - ofriaitmirs - liii: therialtiVatittiect lii their writ; which was done,—and :this direction the Supreme Court affirlinee. .If the Court had affirmed the defend ant's point, and permitted the. jinto return a verdict in his favor, the,'Kg ment on it would unquestionably. lave been reversed by the Supreme C urt ; and :Wilson then would have WO M:0140 show of reason for affirming that I was crazy or corrupt. But of this enough. • One statement made by VirilliamEland Wilson and their friends is, thet,l am very old. Ido not know how old they represent mato be. lam informedthat hi sable pertionsof the district an im pression prevails that I am sevent * flYe years of age, or upward.' I was Spay four years old on the 21st day" of Jinn ary of this year. There are MEM y jpilg es in active service on the bench who are ten years and upward older than I am. Seventy-five years is not a !very extraordinary age for a judge. My age, 1 instead of being an objection to me, ought to be an argument in my favor, provided the people of the district are satisfied with me in other respects ; and so in regard to the long time I have been on the bench, which is also urged as a reason •why I should not occupy the position any longer. Such reason will not have force with independent and disinterested men, who know lany thing about the requisite qualifications of a law judge, and can apilreciate the value of experience and of many years of labor at the bar and on the benOtt to a judge who desires such qualifications. There are many men however at the bar and on the bench, who possess tal ents of a high order, with sound know -1 ge of tole rate, and yet may not make sup rior judges. ivien who lank impar-, tiali independence and integrity, Sze nOti 04: tod 1014 judgeships ;,; and wbe'. ther they oor do not possess thesVes ,- sential quai ies, can be determined on ly by the pu lic after 'many years of \ acquaintance 411 them and obsoirva tion of their condnt ;—and whether - a judge possesses them, they can ascertain with certainty if he occupied the bench a ,petiod of fifte or twenty years. , Another statement 's that, I am too intitin'to perform the -u a 'of my office. To this I reply that in health . 4 \ is better, now than it was ten year ago ; and my labors are not as ouerou as they were then, though they were ; n yery opprpssiveAt that time. , h 4 act ns ~IT".4.lglipt.sl,r Xrn&lerVqh;;Jcid#3. LI4 Wil,,,' liairiSiMids his office as additional !law . judge, was passed ,in 1865. Up' to the time of its passage I had done the busi ness of, the whole district without aid; and had held special courts frequently in other districts. After 1850, the fourth district consisted of the counties of Ti oga, Potter, M'Kean, Elk and Came ron. I was elected in October, 1851. The district now consists of four coun ties, Elk having been transferred from the fourth to the sixth district, by an act of Assembly approved the 16th of March, 1869. This transfer . .was not, made because the business ; of the dia. triethad increased materially ; nor was there any pretensethat.44o - Williams altd4 .were not competentto de in=-TO the . enntiaiy,' it WWI "!ii - elt.slloW si that fromBgi tb 186&I heCilene it Rhine, and that thiringall that time there bad not 'Wen tiny -visible incr ease : or 'Wen ,.- mulation of business in the courts of any county in , the district. But some restless and ambitious people had be come, anxious to bring the count.* of Lycoming into the district ; and that could not be done without putting out \one of.the five countieseomposing it,--L 4.he third section of the fifth article of the Constitution of Pennsylvania pro- 'Oiling that not more than fie counties should at any time be included in one judicial district. The representatives of Tioga county in the State Legisla ture had some agency in the passage of this act; they advocated it and voted for it. This they would not have done, 'bid not proininent men of the Repub lican party in Tioga county favored' its passage. Judge Williams favored it; and it was reported here soot after the act passed, that he intended to make Williamsport his place of residence; and the same report was current at Wil liamsport. The assistance also of influ ential men in Elk county was necessa ry to the accomplishment of this pro ject. That was obtained ; and 1 have no doubt some Tioga county men, if disposed, could tell how.l had presi ded at' every court held hi - Elk county after the first court, and held there' un til-Judge Williams was appointed ad- 1111 JEWEL- • ~ , , F 4 rOETM CORNER. al MY SANCTUARY. Sy EIFORGE' ' - 141.! •'.;; • =IS • .t ()Monet law Judge of the- district ;, a nd, it deny having made , use et-iiiry influ 7 enee of any kind intended.:tn procnre, the•transfer of that county ta‘the iErie district, orthe annexation otLycorning to.the fourth district. :A; large ;:portion` °lithe 'people of Lycoming...were! not ;willing tobe includeddn the fourth die.' .trict. They denied the constltutiOnal ity of the law extinguishing, the I29th district, and e refilseit to permit the ,tudg ,es of the .fourthi distriet-itn , occupy the bench ! in . that icotnity;until t the! Su preme Court of ,Pentisylvaniac.had ,de termined their right so :to -do., I Itoolt ne part In the difficulty•betvireert the POPIe of Lycorningeottiity *ha - faint.- ed and those who opposed:the*iioskr; and reftisedi to go to, WillianiapoWto hold courts! there until, the Sapreine Court had passed on the Constitutional: ity of . the act ! extingaiShingl;',,T dge Oinable's , - district... Judge 'Willi MS, who was anxious to sitiatatn'theac: and to reside at Williannit3Ort,:dld go with the messenger who _said she came for me ;—but he did not hold . Judge Elam! , ble's courts; or' occupy' the' iiiiiien With .him and aid -him to ,hliLthern. 'The -questions' raised were .d t ided tinft 4,Biir of July, 1866, by, the Su rerni4O, rt,-i-l -i every inemberof thatteurtooneu ring in opinion' that the ,lactlef thi2,:- hlnf. March,, A039;.* . fltEl..unciOnstitutiOnall and, vold, ! ,bedansei it 'abolished .Ihe .2 9 ticl i .:''' . diclal district and , annulled the tenure, elite president Jhdie ; and::.nipottioii Of the JUdgee'expreSSlng?klSO'th - 4 j . iiii..., ion iiiiit the peOPle of !* Lyearningeoniity hearing bad nothing to ildis`titiOn? elk thin:of the-Judgesiwthatfonrikais rid, the Judges.of, that distriejiad- ! ,ho'jni! riadlotion In-that county'. .. - ISeertipininn ' of Chief Justice of the Court;:4 &pith,. mall Elk 'county' remains' in, the Erie district, and the fourth district centains only four counties, and has two law judges. It was not at my request,, nor for my benefit; that that provision was, made by' the Legislature' for: the ap pointment and election of the addition al law judge. S. E. Wilson', Esq.,lwho represented our district in the State Se 7 nate at the time the actpassed creating this additional office—procured its!ptia sage, and the appointment - etJadge Williams to fill it." 'Whether 'be irire stinted petitions signed by' -residents, of the district, asking,itspaasage;l khoW not ; tier, do .I. knotv -What reaeoris-lie urged in !favor of It; lititldeltnowl that it was not passed through any influence exercised by me. Mr. Wilson wrote to me during the session of 1864, that! ! it I desired, -lie would have such slaw pass ed.. I replied that ..1 did not. 1 had fro !qUent opportunities of Converaing With Wilsen after his return -hereat, the end of that session. e I ;h'av'e_ iiti4L,i,itiailar recollection of any conversation Ithat occurred between us on that subj'ec ' t du ring his stay here up to the Spas* of 1865:, ' I- am confident I did net ask:hint 'to have subh a-law passed'. I wrote to hini-put ance - on the Buhl - ea, . and !that was theletter before referreatookritten in reply to his in 1864: -I- Aid Ait , re- , gard the district - as a very laborious one, and did not deem an additicinai law judge necessary. ' .i heard - nothing trona Wilson during the session.' of 1865 rela tive to his intention to pasS this! bill, and knew nothing of its introduction into the Hons . () or Senate,-until-after it had passed and become a law. k But whatever means may.have been used to induce the passage of this act,' the mo tive of Wilson in having it paSsed was very apparent. It was to secure, an of fice for Judge Williams, which 'would withhold him from being, it Oandidate for Congress in October,.lBo6. .It was well understOod here that he:would be a candidate for that position ;:.hut after he was appointed additional lAW, jt4dge, he was do longer mentioned .as a . can didate; and Wilson had, no competitor in. this county. This was shrewd man- agement ; the credit of - which-doeS not belong - ,to Wilson alone; ailitthe, par- ties who areresponsible 14', it.. will try ' 'very. hard to justify it; by, alleging' that . ' the whole arrangement , was !designed' Solely for my benefit. arid hadknorefer-' ence-Whatever to benefitting Wilson and Williams. These gentlemen. have ! another object now in view, 'of similar character, with the exception that they Will not allege that I am to be benefit- . , ted by it. This is designed .to; make Williams President Judge -and. Wilson Additional Law Judge of this district, for'a term of ten years each. The! act, in pursuance of which. Judge Williams holds his commission as_ Malin* Law Judge, did not authorize the - 01064 'Jena -1i successor to Judge:W.-in Case n - .1 - Vacancy in 'that office .'„ _Voie the, -clOs: of the' last session of-tha.Legisia ture;lt eppleinent to it wati , ,passed„ef .wir lett a -rrectr copy, foil 0 w.s : • -; I ?" 1 " ViTherievei \ nnir vacancy occurs in it:le - office of additional lay, Sake in the fourth judicial' die trict, V xesignatio'n 4 expiration of term of of fice, or otheiwiee, a eni7eor shall:be appointed .and elected in the sa me manner .as is provided "bylaw fof the appointme of president judge in saifi dietriet." This act passed the Se to on • the ad I , ofMay.last, and the Hou's%bout that tire, and was approved by t G e oVer. : - nor on the lath of. May. At th UMW Its! passage in the senate, Messrs; Wil , : 'eon and Williams were' at Harris!) a singular coincidence. They ,tratdlps , together from W"ellsboro to lis4ithiirg ;- le Harrisburg together on.their.return homeeioamens far as Troytogether,,,at, Which place They ' separated,; - one of th4m returning here in the, Troy stage,- and the other continuing on by rail, via Elmira and Corning; to . Tioga - , a n d thence by .stage. After theii.Jeturn here, the report was soon current that 'arrangements had been made to secnre.' the office of Additional. Law Judge 'to , w i poo4, provided Williams secceeded in being elected President Judge. ' And ! , , notwithstanding the passage of:- thia ! p suplement, and the fact that in each' cohnty. in the district except Caineron, there is at least one member of the le gal profession who is exerting his intlu enee.to elect Judge ;WilliamsPresident Judge, -, with the expectation, that he will. be his successor as Additional ;Law Judge, I have been 'recently informed that one reason urged byJudgeWilliaraa and his friends - why he should'beelect-. ed :President Judge is, that if- electedt there will be no' other law judge in the district, And the salary of one law judge will, thus be saved to the Common wealth. If Judge Williams 'and his friends desired to have the benefit of this, argument, it is .unfortunate i ftif thent.that Senator Olmstead, who is an - expectant, of the additional law judge ship, and whosefriendsin Pottercounty are f l avoring the election Of Judge Wil-' liams as 'President Judge; succeeded in passing the supplement to the act of 180; under w blob Olmstead, Wilson. I, 1 ril I 1 , , ... ~..:, , 40 ,- .. 70 ,-_-..- i f . ._ • -.), ; ~;!., -..-. -- .....-7 , • ;;,! , :, MI OPE MEM t• I. I "ts I:ff ft~ :~1 ~ 1 f ~i) ~.iiU..:}.:, and others, ail Bops beeptne 'Addi tional liii'W.iiidgens soon 'as' a vacantly edenrs in that office: Wider this sup., plernent; an Additional Lai , 3udge will be appointed and elected, if Judge Wit, Harris lis eiseted President judge; and, 'nothing will be saved to the taxpayers byeleting him and rejecting me. It is.said that the supplement way lie re .pealed, and that judge Williams is of opirdon that! the business of the dis trict ought to be done by one Judge, ,arid of course that the supplement ought not to have been enacted., Wilson 'no doubt will re-echo that opinion,' if he hasnot already done so,' and` so' will Senator Olmstead:- shoidd Wil -Barrie be elected President Judge of the district, this opinion will be reversed, and the people will be taughtto believe 'that the district is a very laborious one, and requires at least two law judges, , both' young, rugged, able bodied, men, and well braced up with body' stimula ting feed at that. liut who will ; &ire anything about the repeal of the sup plemyut, after the 'coming 'election ? Even if the whole salary and pay Of pike Judge were charged upon the 'fax , :payers of the fourth judicial district ; it , would' make but a very small addition totlie annual taxes of each ; but when Maid, as it is, and will be, out' of the revenues of the great State of Pennsyl- Vania, it is obvious that but few of the :taxpayers of this district will midrib titenny portion of it ; and the. Addition 'to the taxes of those few in consequence of the payment of this a , ditional sala ry, will be so inconsider: hie. that 'no successful effort will ev :r be made to 'repeal the supplement :nd dispense With Ithe additionafjudgenip. ; AU Father statement circulated to in jure ne is, that I have h I r ld the office manY years, and have made a large arnon i nt of money by my salary. There is ag l eat mistake in the apprehension of many persons relative to the amount which I received as salary. FroM the first Monday of December, 1851, to the first kiay of January, 1856, my salary was $l6OO per year. The 19th sectibn of the act of May 13, 1856, increased the salaries of the President Judges to $2,- 000 per year, from and after January 1, 1856. Since the passage of that act no general law has been passed changing their salaries, which was designed to be permanent, nor was 'any greater salary than i 52,000 per year appropriate 4 by 'the Legislature to them until 1864 k Iu the appropriation bill of that year ; $5OO was added to the salary of each, and a like addition was made in the appro priation bills of '1865 and 1866 ; thus ma king their salaries in 1864, $2,000; in 1865, $3,000, 'and 1866, $3,500./ Since 18- 66,, the sum appropriated ,as salary to each has been $3,500 per year ; and the act of May 27, 1871; provides that :each of the` President and Additional law judgs shall receive $4,000, for theyear own encing June 1, 1871. Since Ad ditional Law Judges have been appoin .ted and elected in Pennsylvania, They have feceived the same salary, mileage 'o..nd pay when, holding special courts, that President 'Judges have received ; nnri liencto had the 'same raiwers and jurisdiction. Prior to the year 1864, the salaries of President and other law judges in Pennsylvania, were, not ex travagant. They afforded the means of living to men who exercised proper habits of economy, and whose faMilies 'were small. A poor man, who happen ed te l be a President Judge, and bad a largelatuily, could not, on a salary of $lOOO per'year, without other resources, maintain his family comfortably, edu cate his children, exercise a decent lib erality toward charitable and religious objects presented to hiS consideration and asking his aid, and at the same time'accumulate much to depend upon in old age. Nor would he when the sal ary was raised to $2,000, or $2,500 ;, for, from•theyear 1856 to 1864, there was a general inflation of the prices of the necessaries of life, which, upon a fair average of the eight intervening years, absOrb.ed in the necessary means ots'ub sistenee of a family of medium size the additions made to his salary. B. G. NV inT.}.l.' Walt i r l boro, July 27,1871 1 I The 'following letter we cliii from the Seneca County (Kansas) Courier, wirit ten by the editor Of that paper wbile in this place visiting his numerous friends. The -Courier is alive paper, and is cm-, dticied with abili y : . i • 1 .`!IWELLsnox , Pa., June 26, )71. I" *wing been ailed suddenly from Kansas, I, am stopping for a few days in my ',old borne, One of the Most beau tiful Of 'ail Eastern towns.: The village proper contains a population of nearly g,400'-people, but for the, past quarter of a century its growth has been remark ebb, slow, when compared with that of our Western cities. The town .is nes tled•.in .a_ valley where several small streams:unite, surieunded on all sides bY.soung - mountains, and can be seen 1 bit 1 a - short distance, on account of the shade tees which line either side of the directs], There is nothing that adde SO' ,much io the beauty of a town as band- Some shade trees; and it seems strange that the matter has been si, long loVer rlookedhy the authorities in our Kansas towns.l Here are thousands of elm and hard Mtple trees all along the streets, thatliave been set out for nearly half a ceniur !while beautifulpine and epeuee 1 trees a o nearly all the yards, giving . UPS little wn the most inviting ap peara+ of 1,..k place in this section of the State. Many of the streets have a row of !trees on sit , er side of the walks, giVing them the app•aranee of a tett nel, ; and the ladies in tromenading at c t most a y time of day net,l not be trou bled to carry a sun shade. A lierfect forest f shade trees is presen • d on ev ery Sid , and Welisboro might ve-y ap propriAely be called the k foleSt, city.' " HeiTtofere nearly every [ling pur chasedtn Eastern-markets and cousu-; med he e has had to be hauled by wag or-rip:Ml Tioga, a point eighteen miles distant 4 1 oh the Corning aud'lllossburg railroi 1 i and the one most easily reach ed from here lying ,on the railroad.- , - IsTow,- the inhabitants here are begin ,rfing to.rejoice that they are soon to be connected with :the outside •world by rail. A large force of laborers is on the route grading, and the whole line front here to. Lawrenceville, a distance of about t l weuty-five miles, will soon Ice, .ready for the' ties, and the iron, horse 1 ituay:bt expected to awake the inhabi tants here for, the first time the.coming 'fall, . , ' . ' " Wellsborois the county seat of Ti oga , Ciiiinty ; but the rapid +growth of rival: towns the past few years led many to hell zve that the seat ,of justice `would 1 I ti ::".1 : L 1.. I (1 .1. • 11 .. , . I • f • E ~ not long remain here unless something was done, and that quite speedily. Ac cordingly, the wealthy citizens ,liere went quietly to work and subscribed liberally to the stook in the aforesaid Welisboro and Lawrenceville railroad. Some time next spring the road , will be continued through this place ' 1 a few miles south to the Antrim coal mines. The quality of the coal is unsurpassed, and the quantity said to be inexhausti ble. This place also bids fair to,bo a ' point on the line of two or three ether projected roads, which it is thought vial be built within [live years.. And new that one road is almost completed; to their doors, the enterprising and weal thy ones here .will never cease their :la bors until, they have another., I . " Such a healthy growth ,was never before known here, the price of prep ertylhaving, doubled in the last three yeari. To meet the increasing vvilats and 'demands of the travelinipublie, it was necessary to build_ a new and first class hotel, to be opened on the advent of the' railroad here. The enterkise was accordingly taken hold of by one of its own citizens, A: P. Cone, Esq.; long a resident of the place and thoroly identified with its growth and past His tory. • Near the center of the town can be seen, looming up far above any oth er public building in the place, the I Cone House,' built of brick, with all , the modern improvements, four stories above the basement, with a Mansuid roof; one of the largest and finest hotels ,in,this section of Pennsylvania. The house is au ornament, and would .be a credit to a town of 25,000 inhabitants. It may perhaps be of interest to many ' of our readers to know thqt its project or is an uncle of our fellold citizen, Jno".' P. Cone, the fOnder of the Courier. "To the this place has many recol lections associated with its past histeiy. It is here where I commenced, oveli 21 years ago, as an apprentice to the ' Ali Preservative,' and did my first job lby sawing up a load or wood for the bees. Along the nice, cool, - clear and spark ling streams near the place, is where I haiie'sPent many a day angling for the ' spe'ekled beauties,' end, on the surroun d in l g hills, towering above us on every sidk I have tramped many a 1 long, long weary day,' picking huckleberries, 'blackberries, etc., and shooting all su b ch game as pigeons, partridges and squir rels. But the best of all summer sports here of late years, is fishing for the shy and speckled brook trout. Tioga con ty ranks as one of the fi nest trouti l re. gions in the country, ' and sportsmen swarm here in ,the spring and summer from hundreds of miles distant, and spend weeks vampin along the banks of the clear and sp; rkling mountain streams. Trout are very plentiful here thiaseason, a law recently enacted by the Legislature having fixed the months of May, - June, July and August as :the only' ones in which fish can be taken, and a special law forbids \any person fishing on Sunday. \ ] ' " There are four newspapers In 'the county, two of which, the Agitatior and Deniocrat, are published at the county Ren.t.': the former under the charge of P. C. yan Gelder, (formerly - a partner of Britlt Pomeroy, at Corning, N. Y.';) is Republican ; while the latter, as, its name indicates, published by R. Jen kins, is Democratic. Both are live, well conducted, prosperous and influen tial newspapers. The Agitator is sev enteen years old, and was h first started as the Advertiser, tinder which hanie itk sailed six years. It is now thelargest and ' l most complete country pringing es tablishment in the State.• Having prst eothinenced • sticking type' here, in JanuarY, 1830, it is somewhat natural that I should still feel an interest in; the office. The only `landmark' I now re cognize in the entire outfit, is an old hand press, made about the year ,' I,' and behind which I served a long time as ' foreman.' " Tiogals pronounced, and rightfully, too, one of the richest counties in the State. It is watered by three rivers and innumerable small streams, is rich in coal and iron, and butter and cheese are quite extensively manufactUred here. Tioga county butter never fails to command a big price ; and many of the dairymen,' I lam told', who have gained a wide reputation as excellent butter makers,,often sell theirs for the celebrated Orange county' butter; so well knimn far and wide, and which never fa.ils to command the highest fig ures. " Another branch of business exten sively etirried on-throughout the coOn ty is lumbering. Along the streams And covering the mountain slopes, are thOustands of acres of the finest pine, ; and the owners, who have hitherto ;Keen compelled to sell their lumber, at ruinously low figures, tan pride them selves that the railroads about to i be built throughout the county -will far tifidi them an eastern market for their products, and at good prices. " There are several nice towns thro'- out the county that apace forbids me to mention. Mansfield, twelve miles east of •bere, is„orie of the most flouriOing,, it having several large manufaethring establishments, stores, churches, a School for soldiers' orphans, nd a State Normal School, the latter estab lishment on a firm basis, and being one of the largest and i handsomest build ings in Northern Pennsylvania. is in the midst of an c i xteusive agricultu ral and lumbering f+ , gion, and'prospeCts indicate that it will be an important point. " After coming from Kansas, where I left corn five and six feet high on the 19th` I am surprised to find it.here ran gingi from mix inches to two feet high. }tenant frosts have considerably injured it, tint:winter wheat looks splendidly, though a week or ten days will elai+) ere it Will be fit , for harvesting, while the harvest was all over in Kansas 14 .the2Oth. lam better than ever pleased with the Kansas country and climate; and after a flying trip to ' GothaM,' where I go in a day or two, I shall take my departure on the western bound train for Northern Kansas, that fairest and most- fertile. of our broad and un eultivate4,l doinain. ' ' F. A. R.l, 1 _ _.........—.....-- 1 i `f e' A. lady ; . promised to gi r he mah. $95 as a Marriage portion. .I:be girl got married to a man of .loiV stature, and her mistres; on. seeing h m, WAS Kir ,prised, and said, "Well, , ,Mary, what; v littleitimband you have got." "trii.'' . 1 I exclaimed tha girl, "what could yot expeel for $25 !" An Oregon toast over a glass of the ardent: "Here's what makes us wear old clothes." )• dont know i4.46—gons iiii mai in.. the August number -dearth nee3noilthfy. It is good . jeurnalistio WWI g, and decidedly . readable. 1 " hat becomes of the soul of a man when begets, to be a SICAlrbMd ? Ia the patent duplex ventilating chimney, with the tin whirligig atop, that passes up and down Broadway on two legs all day limg, are there separate identities of man and chimney? Does the latter walk thestreets at night—in spirit—af ter the legs have steppend from under it? And does the man take, erforce to his pipe when be goes back at last to his own - family and' fireside? Is Wit man with the soul of a chimney or a chimney with the soul of a man; or is it . something. , altogether solitary and soulless? - BM ME NO. 31 We wonder how the old fellow felt when, he first paraded in his bright wooden uniform; through what stages beinortilleation he passed, What mar tyidonaS of 'manhood ! Or, may be— wive pathetic still—it was a fine thing e fo the beginning; quite asocial uplift, ; or a 'ost distinguished occupat4on. For h is proud enough of it now. You can see that iu his martial mien ; ixf the oc casional patronizing recognition of a rival peripatetic . sign-board,—like the Iron Duke's reply to the salute of a Lon don cabby. ' .1 - 4 ' Perhaps you knew old Tom who flagged at the Cherry street crossing; a, withered, leathery old, Irishman who had lived on and around the railroad ever sineclt was built. He began by stealing coals and peaches, end adven turous rides; ? was promoted to water boy ; then w ielded pick and hammer on the track. There was a bad smash up of flat cars one day, and Tom, with a wooden leg, the gift of the Company, suddenly found himself at the summit of his aria 'Mon, in charge of the Cherry street! cro; sing '; his own trim shanty not far o il It was lesson in life, just to see Old Tom announce the coming of a train. A glance up the road, a portentous stride toward the , depot, a:pause, a pucker of the brow,' a sudden straight ening of the lapk form, and the el)sen tence—half menace, half c 'mmartd—is jerked forth, starting as the clang et ' a locomotive bell: "ALL abo rd forXew York." A dignified hobble back, and the shabby white flag is unfurled as bY% one who has announced - the' king's ap proach, and : now#tands proudly wa ving the royal standard before him. One morning a new flagman appeared at Cherry st r eet. A group 4 earlypas sengers gathered around him. "It was the two comin' to once on h Ili, and the doim train beln' an extra like, and not lookin' that way, and—" he pointed to an ominous dark spo on the planks be tween the rails. The new flagman Il i ad aspic and span hew flag—Old Tom's flag and Old Tom _ had gone 'together. But somewhere andisometiine we think we shall see him wave it again, with the old proud look on his leathery face.—Scribner's for August. • , Mrs. Laura Fair has obtained a writ of supersedeas which will entitle her to remain in this world at least until 1872, Miss Susie Anthony attempted, on the evening of the llth instant, at San' Francisco; to say a few words on behalf of the blood thirsty Laura; butshehad to. reti re from this subject before a storm of hisses. It is a, remarkable fact that all stropg-m laded men and women who are for the,new departure proposed by the International or Communist party, are greatly opposed to the infamies ' as they call them, ofjurisprudence,;police and punishments. They are for letting all rogues and murderers out of prison, and, as a consequence, of putting all the peaceably disposed under coercion The one event implies the other. Ull - crime is kePt down 'by 'law, law will have to play l second fiddle. We never knew any case so clear as that of Mrs. Laura Fair. She shoots her para 4 Piour with as little Of,' unreasoning naSsion as there is any case of murder. ilonel Crittenden,'forsooth, deserted he, for his awful wife. No matter what a Murdered man or 'woman has done, the assassin should be punished, es pecially when he or she prowls after the victim deliberately for days, if not longer. Every one admits that a sud den slaying may be justified in self-de fense. But even when a person has been attacked and rescued, he has no right to return to the battle and kill the first aggressor. There are interme diate cases 'where it is hard to know whether the criminal intended to give a feeler, to give a Mansard roof, or mere ly block the hat. The weapon used, the relations between the parties, the suddenness of concert of the movement, 'all are evidences to be subbmitted to the ?ury,_ But in Mrs. Fair's case all these eireumstances only fastened more and niore guilt upon her . She will, howeler, find a California jury to be no coiled ion. of. Parties or Susie Anthonys. —N. *1 Star. The shrewd, common sense character of the Rottischilds is well enough known the world over; but we do not remember having seen the following capital anecdote before : During the revolutionary excitement of 1848, some day laborers, whose heads had been in flamed and turned with socialistic ideas illy4inderstood, made their way riot ously into the counting house of the Rothseh i Ids at. Frankfort, and, present ing themselves before_ the head of the establishment, - summoned him to di vide his property with them. " Very good," said Rothschild, with toe ut most composure;" I am ready to do so; but tell me flrst - how much you suppose me to be worth." "We do not know," was the reply, given with evident per plexity. " Well," said the man of mo usy, "do you believe I possess four, six, or eight millions?" The rioters were dumb. " Let us take it for grant ed, then, that I have eight millions ;" whereupon the laborers nodded is cheerful- assent. "Go o d! proceeded Rothsc h ild, " Germany has thirty-two millions of inhabitants ; I possess eight millious - of money; since the distribu tion must be general, to be fairand rea sonable, each individual entitled to a fourth of a dollar, or seven and a half silver groschen: Here, each of you take your portion and be . off as fast as you can." The confounded laborers could think of no objection to so rea sonable-a settlement, and quietly left the cou nting house.—Day. Cleo. Francis Train sends this dis atch to th 4 New York' Sun signed •Ti le next President_of America:" ",I Lin oil' at 2 o'clock. I propose to invade 1 rel and, and re-establish the Commune at Paris. If shot, remember me." And S' the un asks : "If he is shot, how can ho )e President of Aiperica ?" How can, he, sure enough ? We wish some body would shoot him and see if he can. —lnd. Re; . • •, - , - What aiicient sage wail the inventor of dancing?. Play toe. , TilE STRONG-MINDED.