REPORTER :
Wednesday, February 12, 1845,
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The Office of the Bradford Re
porter has been removed to CoL
Means' Brick Store, (01) stairs.)
.entrance on the North side.
New York kErie Ran Road.
The indications at present are that
this road will be pushed to a speedy
completion. From the following it
will be seen that a new route is con
templated.
;,The Monticello Watchman
,sayi:—
Ire have learned from a gentleman di.
rect from Albany, that, the New York
and Erie. Rail Road company have pe
titioned the Legislature for leave to
cross the Delaware river and pan not
only through the counties of Pike and
Wayne but through Susquehanna in
the State of Pennsylvania : that is,
leave to abandon the route contempla
ted in their charter through Sullivan
and Delaware counties, and part of
Broome and Chenango, and to locate
through the coal regions of Penneylva-
ilia."
The Honesdale Herald says that pe
titions to the Legislature of this State
are circulating in Pike and Wayne
counties for consent tcrextend the New
York 4 Erie Rail-road into Pike coun
ty, without further naming the route to
be pursued. This the Herald con
strues as an intention eventually to 10-
cate the road not only through Pike
but also Wayne and. Susquehanna coun
ties, in order to communicate with the
Pennsylvania coal mines. This has
occasioned no little fluttering among
the capitalists and others interested
from their location in having the road
I constructed on the route formerly con
templated. Some of the papers along
the old route are “pell-melt" against
this new project and remonstrances are
industriously circulated.
Strom in Er MIRA.—The Elmira
Gazette of 30th ult., containtithe follow
ing accountlofa suicidriccimmitted in that
place :—An individual by the name of
Israel Skinner, who has been a resident
of this village about six months, and saw
ed wood for a livelihood, put an end to
his existence on Tuesday afternoon last,
by hanging himself. There appears to
be no reason assigned-for the rash act ;
he was as sane as usual, no one suspect
ing that he bad any intention of comthit
ring the deed ;he apparently went at it
very coolyhe wrote two notes to per
sons statingthat he couldriotfulglsome en
gagement, after which he went up stairs,
after about an hour had elapsed his wife
began to wonder why he remained so
long and started up to see, but found the
stair.doorf fastened, which was imme
diately forced open and she went up and
there found him with a rope around his
neck and tied to a rafter, dead but not
cold. He was about 41 years old and
has left a wife and'one child. .
ExectrrioN.—The spectacle of hang
ing a man, was witnessed on Tuesday
28th ult., at Troy. Wm. Miller paid
the extreme penalty of the law for the
murder of West, in May, 1842. He
-was attended at the scaffold by a clergy
of. the Catholic Church, and protested
his entire innocence of the charge with
his last breath: He made a statement of
'his past - history, but admitted nothing
that would implicate him for the mur
der of West, without it may have been
at the confessional.
COURT PROCREDINOB.—In our paper
this week will be found a full and ac-
curate report of the proceedings of the
let week of court. They are prepared
by Mr. 11. C. Kelly, a young lawyer
of our borough. and are, we believe,
an entire new' feature in a paper in this
or any of the adjacent counties.
Sr.sionmo.—The long looked for
sleighing has at length , arrived. and the
bells discourse merry music at the pres
ent writing.
• COMSTTERFEITS.—Look out for well
' executed counterfeit two dollar bills on
the Yalta County Bank. and one dollar
bills on the - Bank of Rome.
NOT Currunsw—Bader. who es
caped from the Wyoming county jail
has not yet -been - captured. Me m►ae
traced as far as Carbondale.
LOST Bow Foinin.- l Extraortlinaty
Rontaneoh-A correspondent of the
Hartford Times gives an account of
the loss and recovery -of a boy who
was stolen by the Indians from the
town; of Jackson, Michigan, in 1837,
and was recovered by his father, Mr.
Ammi Finny, about the first of the pre
sent month in Greenville, Ct., in the
employ of a citizen to whom he had
been apprenticed by the overseers of
the poor of Albany, N. Y. After wan
dering about with the Indian fatally,
visiting various crawl and towns be
tween Wisconsin and Connecticut, be
was taken from them in Albany, N. Y
in 1843. and placed in the Alms House
on the ground that he was a white
child, stolen from his parents. But .
the Indians refused to reveal his name ,
or where he came from. His father
came from Michigan to visit his rela
tives in Connecticut this winter, and
while there heard , of the boy, whom
he recognized atonce as his son. The
one lost has been returned to his-fami
ly, but there is now a dead one absent
from the circle, who, it is hoped, has
gone to a better world--hit mother.—
She died soon after he was carried off
by the Indians.
Miss Wren-mi.—We find the fol
lowing in the Pittsburg Gazette rela
tive to Miss Webster. •;! We have
seen a private letter from .a gentleman
of high standing in Lexington, who
states that it is impossible for Governor
Owsley to pardon her under the pres
ent excited state of the public mind;
that petitions against her pardon have
been poured in upon him; that her
case has been made as tolerable as pos
sible, that her' hair has not been cut off,
that she has a room to herself, and has
little or no option, and that she' will
be pardoned as soon as the excited
state of the public mind will permit."
MR. Pour..—The Glasgow (Scot
land) Post contains the following para
graph concerning Mr. Polk :—" The
new President of the United States is
of Scottish origin; and his curious
looking name is an abridgement of a
good old Scotch one. Mr. Polk's • fa
ther or grandfather is said to have been
a Ntanarlishire man, of the name of
Pollock. In the somewhat peculiar
dialect of the upper ward of this coun
ty, the name is pronounced " Poke."
and hence, probably, the orthography
adopted by the transatlantic branch of
the family."
TEXAS.—The Washington corres
pondent of the New York, Express
says : Some have doubted' whether
the terms of the bill will be acceptable
to Texas ; but lam assured, from the
beat authority, that there is no doubt
Whatever that Texas will agree to it.
There are persons from Texas here
who know public opinion well enough
at home to speak in behalf of Texas,
and such persons do not doubt the con
currence of Texas in any plan of an
nexation likely to be proposed by the
U. S. Government."
ARRIVAL EXTRAORDINARY! The
Southern Stage, on Friday evening
says the Vermont Sentinel, brought
some forty or fifty of the Canadian ex
iles to New South Wales, on their re
turn to Canada, having received a free
pardon. They appearek in the main,
to l,e in good health and spirits. We
learn that some fifteen yet remain in
captivity, owing to want of funds to
pay their passage home.
Acpworr.—A man by the name of
Farnsworth, belonging to Boston, who
was engaged in blasting rocks on Thurs
day last, at the new factory in Laneas
ter, Mass., war blown up by the acci
dental dropping of a spark.-as he vs
preparing to touch off the blast. Ho
was thrown about one hundred• feet in
to the air, and shattered to pieces.
AN AFFRAY.—An army occurred in
Hartford Conn., on Friday evening,
between Mr. E. G. Squier, editor of
the Hartford Journal, and Mr. Henry
Hudson. The parties were separated,
when Mr. Hudson felt blood trickling
from his person, and on examination
was found to have a cut in his abdomen ,
about'two inches long, and a half inch
deep.
A CELESTIAL TERESTRIALIZEDA
native of China. named 444ri, was natn•'
razed is the 11. S. District Court at
Boston, on Friday. He has been for
eight yearaa resident-of 'Boston. so
declared his-intention to betanne a citi
zen in 143. ,
Correspondence from Harrisburg.
(Coireirponikees or the ,Bradford Reporter.]
Haim ammo, 7dt Feb., 1845.
Yesterday, Gov. Shook transmitted
a message to the. Senate, announcing
the nomination of Harry Morgan Esq.,
to be an Associate Judge of the Courts
of Bradford County, vice Judge Good-
Win, removed from said county. This
appointment will doubtless prove a
good one, and acceptable to the people
of your county.
There has been little business of a
public character transacted In either
! branch of the. Legislature, since my last
letter. The bill providing for resump
tion by the State, of the Beaver Divis
ion of the Pennsylvania Canal, was in
definitely postponed, which was in ef
fect a rejection. The bill repealing the
law establishing 'a Board of Revenue
Coinmissioners passed the Senate by a
majority of 19 to 9. This may be re
garded
l e a measure of g reat importance
to the fiiming interestbf the State.—
The plan of this revenue Board origi
nated with the property holders of
Philadelphia, whose object is to in
crease the amount of assessments up
on all the farms in the Commonwealth,
and thus in a measure exempt their own
property from the burdens of taxation.
There is beyond all doubt some scheme
of this kind at the bottom of this mea
-1 sure, as its repeal is opposed by all the
city and County members, and by the
members from the counties adjoining.
The whole burden of supporting the
government is already cast upon the
poor; tiller of the soil, who labors from
year to year without being able to clear
enough from the fruits of his industry
and toil, to support his family and jury
his taxes And yet, they would grind
him' down still lower, by messing his
farm higher, and thus increase the
amount of his taxes !
I have been through different estab
lishments in Philadelphia io which hun
dreds of thousands of dollars of capital
was, invested, and, not a dollar—not a
farthing of all this money came into
the Treasury in the shape of a tax or
licence! Capitalists embark in every
project of increasing their wealth ex
cept fanning! They contrive some
scheme by which to avoid paying taxes
on their,property , or income—nay more;
thCy rack their brains, as I verily be
lieve, in devising means by which they
may be able to shift upon the laboring
poor—the hardy cultivators of the soil,
the whole support of government.
Why do not some of our law makers
introduce a bill to 'revise and correct
our revenue laws,! Why do they not
look into the system adopted, and stu
dy to correct its many abuses ? It I
had a voice in our legislative halls, I
introduce a bill to tax incomes, Mer
chandise,--Manufactured articles of
every description—lron Coal 4.c. I
would .tax the State debt: In short I
would ' lessen the burdens of taxation
by making the system equal, by being
universal.
I sincerely hope the bill establishing
a Revenue Board will be repealed.—
What Can those commissioners do when
they get together How could a com
missioner from the county York, de
termine the value of real estate in Bea
ver, BradfordorCumberland ? In short
the old system itself, is betterthan the
proposed Board. Perbapsit needs mod
ification and amendment, if so let this
be done, and the assessment, will be
made as they should.
Great efforts are being made to pro
cure the passage of a law erecting a new
county out ofparts of Bedford and Hunt
ingdon, to be called Blair. I should
not be surprised if the Bill becomes a
: 11w. Various other new counties are
putitioned for in almost every, part of the
State.
The contract for rebuilding the Burnt
Bridge, of the Cumberland Valley Rail
Road, which spanned the Susquehanna
at this place, has been allotted to Mr.
ktrkhide, of Ohio, who - has gone "up
the river" to make contracts with lum
bermen to supply 'him with limber.
He may visit Bradford County.
The Governor and State Treasurer
repaired to Philadelphia,- on Saturday to
attend to
,the payment of Interest on Stale
Debt.
The Bill, to erect the - new county of
Blair, has just passed the House by a
vote of 49 to 44. . .
The Bill to remove the seat of Justice
of Columbia County, and which pissed
the House several days ago was called,
up : in the *nate to day andtiade the
order of the day for tomorrow,
liiradibird - County Court,
MONDAY, Feb. 3, 1845.
The court Opened at 10 A. M., and
the,day was occupied in disposing of
the argutn4nt list, receiving returns of
constables, dte.
TUESDAY, Feb. 4, 1845.
Cox. vs. Mom* 19&05.-Surety of
the peace.
In this ease, the defendant was
charged with attempting to set fire to,
and burn the buildings, of D. C. Salis
bury, of Monroe, on the night of Jan.
28, 1845.
The motive which led to this attempt
appears to have been her vexation at
her failure to have Jerome Salisbury
bound over to answer the charge of
fornication and bastardy which she had
preferred against him. After the ex
amination before the magistrate had re
suited in the dischatgenfMr. Salsbury,
she returned to Monroe, and in the
course of the night of the same day at
tempted to seek revenge by setting fire
to the buildings of Jeromes' brother.—
She was detected. however, . with
matches in her hand, and prevented
from committing the deed that it ap
peared she meditated.
The Court on Wednesday ordered
her tti give security in the sum of two
hundred dollars conditioned to keep
the peace and be of good behavior to
wards all our good citizens, and espe
cially towards D. C. Salsbury. for the
space of one year, to pay the costs of
prosecution, and stand committed till
the sentence be complied with.
Upon giving the • requisite security,
she was discharged.
Cost. vs. Damn Cassw—Larceny.
Prosecutor, Ezra Long.
This was an indictment for stealing
a cast steel stone chisel and a long cast
steel drill, the property of Ezra Long.
After the testimony was closed, the
defendant withdrew,_ the plea of not
guilty, and pleaded guilty as to taking
the chisel and drill, being of less value
than twenty shillings. Thus constitu
ting the offence- petty larceny instead
of grand larceny; and -consequently
subjecting the defendant to less pun
ishment. The Court sentenced him
to restore the stolen goods, if not al
ready restored, to the owner, Qr pay
the full value thereof, to pay a like
amount to the commonwealth, and to
undergo an imprisonment in the coun
ty gaol for the space of thirty days.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 1845.
Cox. vs. GEO. SOPER.—Subornatton
of peljury 7 Prosecutor James Buvier.
This was an indictment found against
George Soper and Samuel S Strait,
for procuring Olive Benson to swear
falsely in charging James Bovier With
being the father of a bastard child, of
which she was delivered on the 12th
day of October, 1844.
Owing to want of time in getting
Mr. Strait here, after the indictment
was found, he was not placed upon his
trial.
The principal facts upon which the
prosecution relied, rested upon the
testimony of Olive Benson and James
Bovier, and were substantially as fol-
lows
Olive testified that: about the last of
December 1843, she had illicit inter
course with Soper. at one Bakers, and
that ho was the father of her child
which was born on the 12th'of October
following.
That some time before the child was
born, Soper promised to marry her, if
she would charge Bovier with being
the . fither of her child, and obtain his
farm, or two or three hundred dollars
worth of property, telling her, as an
inducement to do so, that he and she
were both poor, !hailer parents-woad
be mad, and would give her nothing&c.
That Various representations were made
to her by Strait and Soper, for this
purpose, and that she protested strong
ly against pursuing such _a Course of
conduct, declaring that she did not like
to take a false oath, that Bovier was not
the rather of her child, &c. That she
at last yielded to these repeated solicita
tions, and on the 29th day of May,
1844, went before Ely Boma. a Jus
tice of the Peace, and entered complaint
against Bonier. -
James Bovier testified that he never
pad any criminal connexion with Olive,
and never even hinted or intimated to
her any dung Of the kind.
The testimony on the part of defence
was, - that at the time of Soper and Olive
being , together at Bakers, it was im
possible that the connexion. of , which
she swore could have taken place, from
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the fact that orie Miranda tlakefwas
lying on bed in an adjoining room with
the door openoand that she was awake
all the time, ieing kept so hy the tooth
achi 7 Soper was there ! .int! that she
lay undressed on the betrin spchi po
sition, that they were both constantly
in her light.
It also appeared from the testimony
cdOlive herself and others, that about
new- years', she commenced residing
in the same house with James Bower,.
and remained there some weeks,,osten
sibly for the purpose of attending
school, The time when she and So
per were at Bakers', was placed by the
defendant's witnesses in February.—
Some of the defendant's witnesses tee
tified that Olive bad at various times,
declared that the child did not belong
to. Soper, and _likewise, that B . ovier
confessed at several periods to his un
lawful intimacy with Olive.
A large number of witnesses v:ais
ea
amined on both sides, to impeach the
credibility of the witnesses of the op
posite party, and nearly all were sub
jected to this scrutinizing - orde'al. So
that it , was very puzzling to decide
what to believe.
It was contended on the part of the
defendant, that the story told by 'this
girl was improbable, and that a combi
nation had been entered into by Bovier,
Olive and her friends, to procure un
justly, the conviction of Soper. That
Olive stood before the Jury, by her
own confession a perjured being, and
consequently little reliance could be
placed upon her testimony. That
James Bovier, whom it was alleged she
was corroborated, was directly and
deeply interested in the event of the
suit, and that it would be dangerous
indeed to give credence to his testimo
ny..
It was contended on the part of the
prosecution, that although Olive had
fallen, and the barriers of her influence
were broken down, yet that her evi
dence taken in connexion with the cir
cumstances related by her, corroborated
by other witnesses, rendered her wor
thy of belief. That the reasons which
induced her to swear falsely against
James Bovier, had been satisfactorily
explained, and that, though a weak
and simple-minded girl as she was, she
had once been persuaded by the strong
est motives, to pe rj ure herself, that she
ought not from that fact alone, to be
deemed incapable of telling the truth.
TI7I7IIBDAY, Feb. 6, 1845.
In the case of the Corn. ye. Soper,
the jury returned s verdict of guilty.
The defendant forthwith moved for a
new trial.
CON. vs. GEORGE SOPER-.—PrOBeCU
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trix Olive Benson.
This was an indictment for fornica
tion .and bastardy, in which nearly the
same testimony has given as in the for
mer case.
FRIDAY FEB. 7th 1845.
SAMUEL A. TENANT 118. POMEROY
GORBLINE•
This was an action of replevin to re
cover -damages for taking unlawfully
numerous . articles of personal property,
claimed by the plaintiff to- belong to
him. The defendant admitted 14 ta
king but insisted that he had a right
to do so, inasmuch as the property was
distrained for rent, and in proof of this,
testimony was introduced to show, that
a few years since, Caroline leased to
Charles Webb a piece offend on shares.
That Webb went on and raised good
crops, but did not deliver to Gorsline
his share, in consequence of which,
Gorsline distrained. It appeared that
previous to this, Albert Newell obtained
a judgement against Webb, and levied
upon his share of the buckwheat, oats
potatoes, and cornstalks, part of the
property in dispute, but,he bid them
off, and sold and delivered them to
SainuelA. Tenant. After this Tenant
went on to the premises, and Caroline
distrained for. $175 in money „Instead
of so many bushels of grain of the value
of 175 dulls.
It was contended on the part of the
defendant, that Tenant when he went
on to Gorsline's premises, became im
mediately tenant de facto de lege de
nominee (in fact in law in n a me,) and
TENANT in every thing, and consequent
ly 'l3orsline bad -a right to, take his pro
perty in payment' of his rent—which
was unpaid. :The case tented on the
manner of making, the distress. The
court charged the Jury that the distress
ought to have been for eo. Many bash:
els of grain:of the value of so many
dollars, and - directed them to 6nd for
th'e pliintir, Which was accordingly
dui with one dollar damages, the p ro .
perty baying previously been return e d.
Fse Bth 1845.
In the case of the Commonwealth
vs. Soper the Jury'fonnd 'the dth. guit,
ty of fornication and bastardy.
The motion for a new trial In
case was overruled by the Court.
DAVID SOPER vs. Saes It
This was an action of assumpsit brought
to recover upon _ a bargain made by
Stratton and Soper with Mille, t h
Mills should go down the river in per
suit of one Jones, against whom the
had claims. Mills accordingly Wen
down and succeeded in collecting k m .
part of the. amount.
Verdict for the plaintiff thirty e t .
dollars and fifty cents.
MR: POLK'S CABINET.---The CO,
pendent ofthe Richmond Enquirer w
"that last nights mail brought a ),
from the President elect, to a Re
sentative in Congress, in which it
stated explicitly, that no selection of 6
net officers bad yet been made, nor
Col. Polk counselled with any on
the subject. He further remarked,
in choosing his constitutional adris
would be his aim to steer clear
cliques and cabals—that it was hisfi
determination to ally himself with
faction, come from what quarter it migh
but to hold himself aloof from each an
every connection that could possibly en
in involving his administration in tl
slightest degree with the questicin \ e , g th
succession. This then sets at re n t
the rumors relative to the new cabin
and is a subject of congratulation ai
all those who look as Republica,
should, solely to the success of M r. Polk
administration. The President el
will be triumphantl3 sustained, boi
Congress and the people in this co
which is precisely the one dreaded b
Whigs, as likely to upset all their
of profiting by dissensions in our
THE PUSEYITE CONTROVERSY.--
disturbance in the Episcopal Church ,
broken out with renewed vigor in En :
land. The excitement is very :
Most of the daily press of London,
now engaged in the discussion of tb
subject, and it would appear that
doctrines, or innovations, as they a
called by the Oxford divines, now
py the public mind to the exclusion
everything else. A pastoral letter,
cently issued by the Bishop of Ent,
appears to have been the chi:•f gen
ting cause of this revivification of ti
old dissension.
KILLING HER HUSIIAND.—WE lea
from the Southport Telegraph, of 24
inst., that a man was arrested a few da
since, in Lake County, Illinois, 10 mi
south of Southport charged with Inuit!.
ing her husband. An attachment
another man in whose house they re
ded, is supposed to have instigated
deed.
BISHOP ONDERDONK. — Bish o p
derdonk, of N. Y. City lately teed
an, ecclesiastical court, told suspend
from exercising the functions of. hit
five, has just published a pamphlet,
viewing the evidence given in case,a
making a statement of what he deals
to be the facts Of the matters laid to
charge,
Ntw JERSEY.--A resolution
adopted in the House of Assembly
New Jersey, on Wednesday, by a C'
of 33 to 13, and in the Senate on
mously, requesting their Represtotati
to use their influence and exertions
prevent the passage of the resolotp
for the annexation of Texas to the
States , recently passed by the Ilose
Representatives.
ANNEXATION IN Mrentoo. - - -04
22d ult. the House of Representsti
Of Michigan passed to a third resdi
the joint resolution instructing 111
Senators and Representatives in
gress to use their exertions for th e
mediate re-annexation of Texas to .
United States. A proviso probihn'
slavery or involuntary servitude fete
in the territory of Texas, Was reject
BISHOP DELaNcv.—We learn, sa
the New York True Sun, that th ere ,
much dissatisfaction with BishoP
tincey in the Western Diocese of N
York, for having restored the Rey.
Vin Zandt to his clerical fulleti °lls.
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are dis
C"G"sB.—The Senate
ging the Texas measure; and the
reducing the rates of postage ,
their constituents are anxiously or
ing their action.