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The. Office of the Bradford Re
porter has peen removed to Coi.
Mean:4 l Brick Store, (pip stairs,)
entrance on ilte _North side.
The North Branch.
We extract from the Luzerne Demo
crat thj following, article, in relation to
•whot would be the productiveness of
the North Branch if completed :
This Canal
,of yours begins no
;!.;:r.re, and Outs in a SWtilflp, as Rill
:land it."
This• was said by a member from one
of the Middle counties of Pennsylvania,
to one of the Luzerne Representatives.
a few years ago, when pressed to vote
for an appropriation to the North
Branch Extension of the State Line.
If our Tax-payers were in possession
of the facts connected with this Line,
they` would not permit it to lay a day
longer in its half-unfinished state, go
ing to decay. They would never al-
low it to fait into the hands of a Corn,
panv. If Pennsylvania is„eig to be
treed tram paying interest by the re
venue derived from her internal im
provements, it is to be from the North
Branch tolls mainly. Now to the proof
of some of-these things.
Nhe North Branch, extending from
the Lackawanna to the State Line, is
91 miles, intended to connect with the
Chcmung Canal; through this canal
with the Grand Erie canal at Montezu
ma, making a distance from Wilkesbar
re to this latter point of'lBs miles, be-
ing 11 miles less than to Havre-de-
Grace, then by Erie banal - through
populous Rochester, to the fast grow
ing Buffalo, on Lake Erie—opening
that immense Lake trade, and Our coal
finding a nearer and better route than
can be found by any other Canal into
that vast western world. Or,lurning
at Montezuma in the other direction,
you will supply Utica and Syracuse ;
and turning at this latter place you will
flint by the way of Oswego a market
through Ontario into Her Majesty's
Dominions; and the Subjects of Victo
ria may warm their shins with Repub
lican coal from Wyoming-. You con
nect the North with the mighty im
prote►nenjs of the Empire State, you
are abro,ad upon the Great Lakes,"
i.retch'ing North and West, and South,
you- touch the salt waters of the Ocean
It will be the magnificent chain stretch.
\ tug froni the Main to those wondrous
) Inland seas—and will be a strong bond
of brotherhood between the Empire
and the Keystone.
If the Lowlander had said " Why
thi canal of you re passes through veins
of coal and iron of the richest deposit
and exhaustahle, with the finest lime
stone quarries in the world, and leads
to markets that have no end, and are
innumerable—that fi.irnishes the wes
tern merchant an earlier and nearer
routes to his own Emporium, than by
his oWn canal, and places him nearer
Philadelphia than New York, giving
him a choke of markets. In truth, the
North Branch has a beginning, hut her
markets have no calculable end."
The heaviest part of the work has
already been executed at a cost of
t'-:'2,4,85,039 69; drawing out of the
Treasury per annum, at 5 per cent. in
terest, 5144,446'97—the work going to
decay, and no revenue—valuable farms
with big ditches-digged through them—
their owners unremunerated; and pa
tiently awaiting the completion of this
Extension as an ample measure for
their damages. The sum required to
put it in navigable order is estimated by
our Canal Board at 51,277,452 SI,
bearing an interest $63,362 64, at 5
per cent. Without the further expen
diture of this sum, the two millions and
a half already invested is worse than a
total loss. -
What revenue would go into the
'Treasury when this work was corn-
pleted ?
Many, years since De Witt Clinton
estimated the consumption of coal for
Northwestern New York, that would
be supplied from the Susquehanna. at
:100,000 tons per annum. This amount
fo The present population.and its wants,
in a ilisv ef•tiinati.. tier salt works—
cupolas—manufactories—steam power,
will make heavy demands—to say nu
thing of supplying that large country
with fuel for hamlet, town and city.—
TheiT fuel, already scarce, is decreasing
with increasing demand, and increasing
in price. The first year, after opening
that canal, we should send, on it, say,
but 150,000 tons. This, paying toll
100 miles, at one half per cent. per tun
per mile, would amount to $75,000--
Thus, then the receipts on the single
article of Anthracite coal for the first
year would more than pay elle interest
on the sum necessary to c6ipleie - tlae
work. To this add the tolls on the
Bituminous coal which Bradford would
send North and South, and the tolls on
lumber, from Bradford, Tioga and N•aw
York—tolls • on the salt, plaster mid
provisions which New York would
send south Ward—and the iron in 'pigs,
bars, and sheets that.. Columbia and
Luzerne would send West and North.
What an outlet for the furnaces blaz
ing around us—for the rolling-mill pro-
ducts, and for our hail factories. The
receipts on these would amount to as
much more.
The experience of England and this
country come up to this now undispu
ted point — that , where a canal depends
for toltage mainly on coal and iron, the
investment is always profitabke.—
There is not a single English cabal in
a coal or iron district that has not l ad
vanced quadruple-above par.
1 he only question to be settled, is—
will the supply of coal'and iron be suf
ficient ? Ours is well namexl the
great Coal Field," and is like the
ore banks of ourl.iltle neighbor,-c.;olum
bia—inexhanstible. Coal and iron, of
equal quality, are no where so cheaply
placed on the lines of our public int
proyernews as in these two counties--
The demands for these two articles
would be immense upon the opening
of this Branch, and would increase with
a rapidity unparalleled. We should
warm our friends in New York, and
touching the Buckeye at Ckiareland,
would supply the densely Populated
part of
,his State, through his own im
provements. The people of Sundown,
who might want an Anthracite fire
toward Off the sweepers front the Rocky
mountains, must come to us.
TILE IRON DISTRICT.-111111I'S Mer
i
chant's Magazine, in an article upon
the coal and iron of this country, furn
ishes the following information :—The
iron district which spreads through
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, and Western Virginia, traverses
regions exhuberant with coal, and
abounding in water power; and travel
ing farther Wept, we find in Ohio,
Kentucky, and particularly in Missou
ri, immense stores of metalifermni
wealth, adjacent to the most fertile agri
cultural districts. It is to Pennsylva
nia, however, we must chiefly direct
our attention, where two-fifths of all
the iron in the United States is tnadii.
Ihe 'United States contain 80,000
square miles of coal, which is about
sixteen times as great as the coal mea
-1
sures of Europe. A single one of these
gigantic masses runs from Pennsylvania
to Alabama, and must embrace, itself,
• 50,000 square irkiles. Out of filly
counties of Pennsylvania, no less than
thirty have coal and iron in them ; and,
Out of the 46,000 square miles of Penn
sylvania, which form superficies, there
are 10,000 miles of coal and iron ;
while all Great Britain and Ireland have
only 2,000—50 that Pennsylvania alone
has an area of coal and iron five Lir nes
as great as that of Great Britain. The
quality of the coal or iron is as rich as
that of Great Britain, and they have
the advantage of lying near the NI Ater
level ; while those of the latter Country
are sometimes more than one thousand
feet-below the surface, and are exi:ava
ted through subterranean passage's.-
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—The New
port, N. 11. Arkus, of Saturday, states
that a son of Joseph Welch, living in
the neighboring town of Unity, was
sent by his mother to a sugar orchard
some distance trout borne, alone upon
an errand. Remaining absent an un
usual time, some one went in pursuit,
and found him dead and cold,suspend
ed by the neck from the usual frame
where 'sap is boiled._ Mink but 12
years old, it is not reasonable to sup
pose he would hare committed pre
meditated suicide, and it is supposed
that he had taken the rope from his
step for the purpose of couitructing a
‘, swing," and became entangled in the
noose.,
DeSirliktiVC Fire
Five Buildings consumed in this Bo
rough !
Our Borough has been visited by a
- calamity, which unfortunately, has been
the 1o•t of many villages in this Com
monwt•alth of late to experience. An
alarm of fire was raised about 4 o'clock,
P. M., on Monday last, when it was
discovered, that the building known as
the Ei,gle Tavern, was so much on fire
as to baffle every exertion to suppress
its progress. Not five minutes elapsed
after the alarm, before the whole of the
north west, and upper part of the build
ing was in flames. Two families oc
cupied the house, and it was with much
difficulty, that the-property in the low
er part was saved. The third story
could not be approached, and we un
derstand some beds, bed clothes, and
' clothing belonging to the family of Mr.
Chase was consumed.
All hope was abandoned of saving
the house next north of the Eagle tavern,
belonging to Thomas Elliott, Esq. ;
the personal property in it was re11105:-
ed, but scarcely was this done, before
the building was enveloped in flames.
It was soon discovered that the house
occupied by Mr. Cross, would.have to
share the same fate ; the two buildings
south of the Eagle tavern and adjoining
it, were in the meantime consuming.—
It was only by desperate exertions, ac
companied with much danger thai the
fire was stayed without destroying the
dwelling of ~William Watkins., Esq.,
next to Mr. Cross'. Five buildings
were burned to the ground. One oc
cupied as a Tin and Stove shop by D. '
C. Hall—the dwelling part anoccupied.
The next building was but partially oc
cupied. The Eagle tavern, occupied
by two families, Mr. Chase and Mr.
Coe. The dwelling house of Thomas
Elliott was a very valuable and spacious
building. The next house was also of
the largest class in this village, and oc
cupied by Mr. Cross as a boarding
house. Nearly all of the personal pro
perty was taken out of the several build
ings burnt, but nevertheless there was
much destruction of it, and a large
amount of it rendered useless. Al
though the wind waif blowing very
strong from the south, yet l it was with
I much difficulty that the store oilliram
Mix & Sons's, and the Drug store :of
Dr. E. H. Mason, on the east sided of
the street were saved. During the
time, alarms of fire were raised in differ
ent and remote parts of the borough,
occasioned by buildings being ori...fire
from cinders and coals that werE-Zar
riecl in the strong current. For a while,
inevitable destruction seemed to aWait
the largest portion of our village.—
Three of the buildings consumed, were
owned by C. L. Ward, Esq., on which
we are not aware that there was any
insurance. Mr. Elliott had, we under
stand an insurance of $lBOO on his
house. The house occupied by Mr.
Cross, belonged to the Towanda Bank.
Too much praise cannot be awarded
to the exertions of the citizens of the
borough, and to several persons from
the country who happened to be in
town. We noticed the efficient aid
which many of them in particular ren
dered.
The ladies, too, were out, and in the
lines passing water from the river;
without them these lines\ could not have
been for Med ; and we may with safety
say, that the fire was checked without
destroying Mr. Watkins' house, prin
cipally by means of flue line composed
largely of the ladies ; tad this line been
broken up, we can scarcely predict,
where the conflagration would have'
been stayed, short of all the North part
of Main street. Nor were the exertions
of the ladies confined to passing water;
they were at work in the houses saving
property. To them, and to all who
contributed to save property so immi
nently exposed, and the fairest portion
of our village from being at this time
in smouldering ruins, the warmest
thanks, and highest credit are due.
Whether this lesson wilt teach our
citizens the necessity of an organiza
tion of fire companies, time will show.
Our opinion is, it will show nothing,
unless it be, more of that-apathy which
has so long characterized this brorough
on the subject of fire..
Ammon GENERAL.—We learn from
Harrisburg, that it is genera* conceded
there, that Judge LAPORTE will be ap
pointed Auditor General. We trust it
may prove true.
Splendid Prize Banner.
The Democratic Union of the 15th
inst., says : We have been shown a
beautiful prize Banner presented to the
Hon. BENJAMIN A. BuiLAcx, member of
Congress from Luzerne county, under
the following circumstances. On the
day of the nomination of Pout and DAL
LAS, by the Baltimore National Conven
tion, a number of prominent Democrats
from New York and Pennsylvania, cas
ually met in a friendly circle, and dis
cussed die subject of the nominations.
The New Yorkers doubted whether the
vote-of the Keystone State could be se
cured for the Democratic nominees at
all, owing to the excitement growing out
of the tariff of 1842, whilst the Pennsyl
vanians contended, on the other hand,
that they would give a larger majority
than New York. Mutual pledges were
interchanged, and an appropriate banner
promised to the wining party. The pro
mise thus made, has been faithfully re
deemed. Before Mr. 'Biala& left Wash
ington, for his residence, immediately
after the adjournment of Congress, he
was visited by ..IoNATuA •D. STEVEN
SON, Esq., on the part of the New Yor
kers, who presented to Mr. Bidlack, and
through him tothe Pennsylvania Democ
racy, a silk banner superbly executed,
which cannot have cost less than from
from four to five hundred dollars. The
scroll is. of gold,, on white silk ground ;
in the centriii medalion the head of JEF
FERSON ; top, escutcheon of the Union ;
on the right of Jefferson, the arms of
Pennsylvania, on the left, the arms of
New York—in the lower medalion, the
head of FRANKLIN. Motto ; "no dis
tinction but those of merit." Trim
mings : marine border, blue, gilt stars—
streamer of bunting—gilt fringe, silk
cord and tassels—surmounted by a cap
of Liberty, ted with blue velvet border
and 13 stars.
We understand that Mr. 13ini.Acti in
tends depositing the banner in some pub
lic room in this place—there to remain
until November, 1848, when an oppor
tunity will be afforded to the New Yor
kers to win it back again IF THEY CAN.
"The Law of Newspapers.”
I. Subscribers who do not give Ex.-
PRESS NOTICE to the contrary, are con
sidered as wishing to continue their
subscriptions.
2. if subscribers order the discon
tinuance of their papers, the publishers
may continue to send them till arrear
ages are paid.
3. if subscribers neglect or tefuse to
take their papers from the offices to
which they are directed, they are held
responsible till they . have settled their
bill, and ordered their papers discon
tinued.
4. If subscribers remove to other
place without informing the publishers,
and their paper is sent to the former
direc s tion, they are held responsible.
5. the courts have decided that re
fusing to take a rsnewspaper or periodi
cal from the office, or removing and
leaving it uncalled for, is "prima facia"
evidenCe'of INTENTIONAL FRAUD. "
ENCOUNTRE \\ITU A 131 ILL.—Tile
sad fa, of Slay maker's bull has a paral
lel in the following which we take from
the Baltimore American :—The train
which left Philadelphia for Baltimore
on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock met
with an accident abotit half past seven
o'clock when a little east of Elkton.—
The train was proceeding at the rate of
twelve miles an hour when the loco- I
motive encountered a large Durham
bull, over which it passed entirely and
without injury to the engine or tender.
Not so - however with the rest of the
train. The first and second cars were
thrown off and demolished, the tirst
one thrown down a precipice a fc.w
feet, and the second broken to attoms.
The remaining cars were.not removed
from the track. The number of passen
gers in the- train could not have been
less than five hundred, and all the cars
crowded, yet strange to say, notwith
standing the injury to the cars not a
passenger was seriously hurt: A gen
tleman of this city had his foot bruised,
and another his forehead slightly cut,
and the conductor, Mr. Smith, was
slightly injured by a part of a car falling
on his breast. The passengers reach
ed Baltimore about four o'clock yester
terday morning.
The animal which caused the acci
dent was of course killed instantly.—
Both his horns were broken_ off, and it
would seem that as the cars approached
he had placed himself in a hostile , atti
tude and received the blow on his fore
head or horns. •
Correspondence from Harrisburg,
H ARRI SBURG , 2.801' March, 1845
The House of Representatives have
passed the Appropriation 13111, in which
is contained an appropriation of $200,-
000 to Common Schools.
Col. Wilson, of your county offered
a Resolution fixing the 15th Aprilfor
the final adjournment of the Legislature.
The Resolution passed the House
unanimously, and was immediately sent
to the Senate, and taken up and passed
unanimously through that body also.
Numerous local Bilis have passed
both branches, and many public Bills
of g at importance remain yet to be
actedTo
A motion has been made' to recon
sider the vote by which Sullivan coun
ty was defeated, and the bill is still be
fore'the Senate.
Much time has been consumed in
disposing of the Bill to continue the
District Court of Philadelphia, the great
etTort being to pass the law --so as to
allow each of the Judges of the Court
a salary of more than $2,000. The
Senate passed the Bill in various forms,
but the House inflexibly adhered to
their determination to_ allow but the
$2,000, and the Bill passed in that
shape.
The Supplement to the Bill to incor
porate the North Branch Canal Com
pany passed Committee of the Whole
in the Senate.
The Bill to extend the Towanda
Rail Roadfrem the Borough of Towan
da to the Coal Mines has passed the
Senate, and been sent to the House.
FLORIDA.—This State, admitted into
the Union, by the late Congress, has
provided for the organization of her
State government. The Tallahassee
Sentinel, says, the Constitution pro
vides that so soon as official information
shall have been received that Congress
has provided for the admission of Flori
da, the President of the Convention, or
in his absence, the Secretary of the
same, shall immediately issue writs .of
election, to be held oilthe first 'Monday
after the lapse of sixty days 4hereafter,
(probably about 12th of May next,)
under the existing laws ; at which elec
tion the .following officers are to be
chosen :
Ist. Seventeen Senniors-- , 40 hold
office one half for two years from first
Monday in October 1845, the other half
one year from nest October, to be de
termined by law.;
2d. Forty.one representatives in the
General Assembly—to hold office un
til first Monday in October 1846.,
The General Assembly, so constitu
ted to assemble at the scat of Govern
ment on the fourth Monday after the
election, and to elect besides their own
officers, two United States Senators;
four Judges of Circuit Courts—also
Justices of the Supreme Court of the
United States, to hold office for the
term of five years ; the clerk of the
Supreme Court and clerks of the Court
of Chancery ; the Attorney General of
the State ; four Solicitors in the Cir
cuit Courts ; the Secretary of the State ;
a State Treasurer
.and Comptroller of
public accounts.
3d. ( A. Governor, to bold office for
the term of four years, to be Comman
der in Chief of the ..Inny and :.Vcay !
of the State.
4th One Representative in Congress.
GROSS NEGLIGENCE.—We, in com
mon with all our citizens, have borne
for a long time, without grumbling, the
miserable manner with which some of
the Post Offices, between Ralston and
Harrisburg are conducted. It. is now
almost impossible to obtain - direct infor
mation from Harrisburg, and very fre
quently, a mail comes loaded with the
accumulations of a week. There is
neglect somewhere, and we incline to
the opinion, that it is at Williamsport.
It has become a serious evil, here, and
requires amendment.
ARREST- ON SUSPICION OF BEING EN- , 1
GAGEO IN VIE SLAVE' TRADE.—The
Wilmington (Del.) Gazette of yesterday
says, Capt. Gray, of that city, was ar
rested on Friday last upon the charge of
being engaged in the slave trade on the
coast of Africa, a few Months since,
while commander of the brig Agnes.
He gave the bail ($5000) required by
Judge Hall, the district judge, to appear
in court at New Castle and take his trial
in June nest. The charges were pre
ferred by the Hon. Henry A. Wise,
he having cause to suspect the brig when
on the coast of Brazil.
News from all Nations,
The trial of " Big Thunder" and Li,
associate anti-renters is now in progr e , a ,
at Hudson N. Y. It is one of the most
important which has ever taken pl ace In
this.country, in consequence of its i n ,
volving the strength and force of repo,
Bean government to preserve the civil re.
latious of society embodied in contracts
concerning lands.---Eight or ten m e m
hers of the family of Jesse Glover, n ear
Fulton, Missouri, have been poison e d
recently. Four of his ne2roes and 4e
child of Mr. G. have died. Two other
children are dangerously 111 and not el .
peeled to survive. A negro has bec n
arrested on suspicion of having p n i sri b ed
the family.--:We learn from Washing:
ton that the Hon. John Y. Mason, Ai.
torney General, 'has been appointed bv:
the President acting Secretary o f t h e .
Navy ; Mr. Bancroft having left Wash.
i ngton o n *attirday for Massachusetts,
fotthe purpose of removing ha factilveo
the seat of government.---Accer(ling
to the Baltimore Patriot there is a ru
mor in Washington that a chance is to
be made in the Cabinet—that Mr. Bt -
chanan is to be made Judge of the U. 8,
Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy (c.
casioned b the death of Judge Baldwin,
and that Mr. Walker, now of the Trer
sury, is to be transferred to the State De
partment.---A fire occuretl at Prince
Edward's Island, on the 25th ultimo, in
which three sisters ofche name ofM'Lean
the youngest nineteen years of age, pei•
ished in the flames. Another fire brok e
out at the same place on the 4th inst.,
and a large building known -as the .16.
al Hotel was destroyed with others.—
The Supreme Court of North Caro
has decided in the great case of 16 e ;
against the Plymouth Rail Road.
pang, the claim of Rives to tl:e
structure, buildings and britfjes
company is a valid one—therehr
to him the road.' iCz.c., which be c;.„.^.1.
ed.—The Turk Island ClazettPstsl,
that there are about 100,001) but.',JAs
Salt on hand selling • at 61 cen.4. In
about three weeks there will becon)Rltr
ably more raked; if good salt wer.t'.er
continues ; the Ponds are in an eve. ,
lent progressive - 'state.—'l . he sea see.
pent has been seen already at Cape Ire.
land. He was discovered about 15u
yards from the shore and continued fqt
two or thiee hours sporting on the sur•
face of the billows, when he finally d,••
appeared to parts unknown. Ili. , snris,•
ship was seen by hundreds of spectato:-
congregated upon the beach.—Tl:
stabling in the rear of Seaton's Hotel
Uniontown, Pa ; also the granary of Mr
NPClelland, containing four thousan ,
bushels of oats and other. stores, wen
lately destroyed by fire.—Ope of tle
Washington letter writers contr.e:s
the story that Mr. Lloyd, of 1;,:::un
tendered the present of a horse to tft,
President, and was removed 1.0111
in consequence.—lt is stale
New York papers, that .some
will be made in the destination cf
of war. SeveratAcill be ordercr
cruise in the mad 3lesico, and
force in the Pacific will' be increast•L.
—An Old man, about ninety years
age, named Tyner, who lived abo:
twenty miles below Monticello, tai's
on Persl river, was wondered a iew dat
since by hisson:in-law. The mendt
er has been arrested,--Itt3 rumor(
that Mr. Brown, of Indiana, is to sgi f
cede 'l'. 1,. Smith, as.. Register of t'•
Treasury.—The General ASSCA:
of the Presbvterian Church (old
will meet in Cincinnati on the 15th
May next.—Cooper is ahOut to ;I:
lisp a new 110V01 called" Satan's
the family of Little P a ge."--rt rt,b
the last census contains a million of
habitants. Every twenty nullities
death and a birth takes place. -- r
emperor of China, at the last dates,
Nov., was expected " to kick the
et." The following i s , D ot a ba,::l
cimen of the havoc sometimes intit:e
those who write complimentary No
the third person t " Mr. A. prese r: '
compliments to 'Alr. C. I have g'
hat which is not yours. nnclocill:h
1
are the expected otte.'°,
man's riot took place in Baltinior,,.,
last Friday night. Pistols Wrq*
—stones and brickbats thrown Ind ci
used—a /a mode, Southwdrii. ----'
Governor Thomas of llarylo i.
been indicted by the Gram! Jur ,.
• • ti
Washington city, for libel. reeiiil'' ,
hislate exposT of his matriniattiliacli:
culties.--A Mr. Boyle recvn .
a panther in a stream called tber"'l'
in Arkansas, which Measured nine
mt.
from the nose to the tip 01 the