Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, April 30, 1845, Image 2
REPORTER • Wednesday, April 30, 1845. ,44q411444 The office of the Bradford Re- Porter has been removed to Col. Means' Brick Store, (np stairs,) entrance on the North side. PARRICIDE BY. AN INSANE WOMAN.- On the 2d inst., a frightful murder was committed in-the to - 5m of Virgil, about twenty miles from Ithaca, N. Y., by a Miss Edwards. On the morning of that day she requested her mother togo on an errand to a house a few rods dis (ant from theirs, and whilst she was absent, approached Mr. Edwards, her father, who was shaving, and struck him a violent blow across the back of the neck with an axe. He fell to the floor, his head nearly severed from his body, Having repeated the blow two or three times, she cut, his throat with the razor that he had been using. Miss Edwards then call from the door to her mother and when she returned attacked her with a razor. With' the assistance of a Hale boy, however, it was wrested from her before she had been able to do much more mischief. The reason as signed by the murderess for these dread ful deeds, was that she thought the family had lived long enough, and after killing the other members, she intended to put an end to her own life. Miss. Edwards is about 80 years of age, was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Virgil, and had about $2OOO at interest, one half of the proceeds of ,which she annually gave for the support of the minister. She had previously exhibited symptoms of insanity, but not to a degree to alarm her friends. INFORMATION IV ANTED.A gentle man in Harfard, Susquehanna co. Pa., requests us, as an act of charity to a worthy old lady, in a land of strangers, to give publicity to )he following no tice, which we most cheerfully do. The mother of Jacob Frederick Carock, now Widow Coonrod, seventy five years old, resides in Hartford, Sus quehanna county, Pa. She came from Germany twenty-six years ago, parted with her son soon after her arrival in this country, and has not-seen him since ; and now she humbly asks edi tors of newspapers throughout the States, to insert this notice to aid a lonely widow in inqiiiring after an only, but etill.dearly beloved son," NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS.—Under the new post office law, the limitation of the franking priiilege of post masters cuts off the usual mode of transmitting subscriptions to newspapers. The Post Master General,hoviever, substitutes the following method: Mon ey for news paper subscriptions not exceeding $lO in each case, may be paid , to the post master for the purpose of being paid to the publisher of a newspaper at any other office. The P. M. is in such case, to give to the person , paying the money, a receipt therefor, and to ad vise forthwith the Postmaster, who is to pay said amount of such deposit.— Upon presentation of this receipt, the amount is to debit himself therewith in his account, and , the Postmaster paying that amount is to credit himself there. with in his account of contingent ex penses.' MR. PATRICK CUMMINGS, who was in jured by falling from a waggon has since. died from the injuries received. The accident happened on Thursday the 16th inst., and he lingered until Friday 25th, • when he deceased.: Ar. Cummings was was much respected and esteemed by those who knew him. He-died in his 37th year, and leaves a wife - to regret his death. His remains were conveyed to Friendsville, for interment. INmarsn.—Wm. Burnett, the pilot of the Swallow, has been indicted for manslaughter by the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court of New York. The indictment charges that • the said William Burnett did, by his misconduct. negligence. or inattention, cause the death, on the night of the 7th of April last, by drowning or suffo cation." Fins in .rnz Woons.—One account estimates the kegs by fires in the woods of New Jersey, as high u several him-. dred thousand dollars; LAplt TEXAS.---TOXBII papers to the 2d inst. confirms the previous ac counts of ,the unanimity of the public sentiment in that Republic in favor of Annexation. Almost the only oppo• nent to the measure is the editor of the Galveston by his own confession his opposition has lost him subscribers. In the county of Ausilit a public meetings was held on the sub ject, and a vote taken pro and cen. • on the resolutions, -which resulted-558 yeas, 1 nay. A committee appointed at a meeting of the citizens of Galveston have 'put forth a volumincus address on The sub ject, in which all the arguments in fa vor of the proposition are stated with considerable force and ingenuity. EZI Major Donaldson, U. S. Charge, had arrived at Galveston, and proceeded im m'ediately to Washington. It was sup posed he would overtake at Houston, Messrs. Elliott and Saligny, who were on their way to Washington with the despatches received by the English sloop Electra,. as noticed by the last arrival. The Electra, it seems, was from Jamaica, whence she sailed with the despatches on the arrival at that island of the'• last Liverpool and West India steamship. The nature of the despatches has not transpired. Dobi.crtotls zo Pirrstinnu.—From every section, donations are being made for the relief of the sufferers by the late terrible calamity at Pittsburg. The city Council of Baltimore has authorized the Mayor to remit imme diatelyfive thousand dollars to the au thorities of Pittsburg to be appropriated for the relief of the sufferers of that city. Philadelphia sent the sum of five thousand dollars immediately on the receipt of the intelligence of the calami ty, in anticipation of the collections, which the next day amounted to ,56,000, On Saturday morning last a meeting was held in New York to aid the suf. ferers. They contributed the sum of $lO,OOO. The lion. James Buchanan, with characteristic liberality immediately for warded a check for $5OO, accompanied by the following letter . : DEAR SIR you please tb ac cept and apply the above to the reliefof the sufferers try the late dreadful ca lamity. My feelings of sympathy and compassion have never been so strong ly excited upon any similar occasion. But let the people be of good cheer and exert their accustomed energy ; and, under the bleating of Providence, all will yet be well; and Pittsburg will arise more glorious than ever from its ashes. Yours, very respectfully, JAMES BUCHANAN. J. W. HOWARD Esq. STRANGE DISEASE AT VALATIE.-A New York paper i informs us that a very singular contagion has broken out in Valatie, a small village in Columbia county, New York. It discolors the face to a greenish cast, the eyes lose their usual expression, - and have a va cant stare, the voice becomes husky, the memory vanishes, and the conver sation becomes confused, and a - set of incoherent senteneekjumbled together, without order and without meaning.— \The strength leaves, aitd the form dwindles away to a skeleton. The person nattacked raves like a maniac, and The doctors have been unable to discover a remedy. The informant , states that every person wears an affrighted countenance, and if it does not soon stop its ravages, the whole town will be inhabited by lunatics!" EMIGRATION TO . THE WEST.—The Legislature of Michigan, at its late ses sion, provided for the appointment of an agent or agents to act in the Eastern States, so as to induce emigrants east ward to establish themselves in Michi gan. The expectation appears to be that foreign emigrants will be secured in this manner. The Detroit Adverti ser expresses a natural wish, that no settlemeno may be formed exclusively from the - same nation, but that the emi grants' may be distributed among the population'of American origin. OFFUL CONFLAGRATI oN.--Ne arty half of London, Canada West, was consumed on Sunday, the 13th init.—, The fire broke out in the" Robinson Hall" Hotel, - about noon, while most of the inhabitant; were attending Di vine ServiOe, and before it could be subdued;reduca to ashes-four amazes, and portions of thretrothers, covering an era of about thirty aerca of glean& Sews from sill Nations. The jury eripanneled for the trial of Polly Bodine in New York, on Satur day brought her in guilty of murder--- powdermill exploded last week in En field,,Oonnecticut, killing a man named Loomis; which is the fifth powder mill explosion in that town in ten months— Mr. Jackson, the newly elected Govern- . or of Rhode Island, says in aletter, that until Dorr is released neither party nor the State itself, will be traninilized— Hon N. P. Tallmadge has been removed from the Gubernatorial chair of the terri tory of Wisconsin, and. Gen. Henry Dodge appointed in his place—Twelve _hundred and ten buildings were.erected last year in the city of New York— On Sunday, Apr..6th. there was' a tern ble fire at Milwaukie which destroyed over 30 buildings,_occupying two_entire squares-----Philadelphia has resolved to loan to the city of Pittsburg $BOO,OOO for the relief of the sufferers—The State debt of New York is twenty eight millions of dollars- , ----A monster gun has just been manufactured by Messrs. Forsythe & Preston of Liverpool, which is intended to replace the one that. burst on board the Princeton. It is made of maleable iron, is 12 feet long, and weighs 1I tons, 8 cwt. 2 qrs. 11 lbs.—Deaths by consumption in New York last week 57—A plank road from Cleaveland to Wooster, in Ohio, is shod to be made. —On the Bth inst. a snow storm vis- ited the vicinity of. Dover. Md. and blocked up the roads with drifts some of which were four feet deep. The leather backs of books, formerly made by hand are now formed in a durable and perfect manner by machinery. It is currently rumored by 'those who know', that orders have been given for a concen tration of naval force in the Gulf of Mex ico—that the Princeton's trip to Europe has been countermanded—and that vessel with several others, are directed to proceed directly to the coast of Mexico. —The President has caused Lieut. Wm. Decator Hurst to be stricken from the Navy, in consequence of having been engaged in a duel with Midshipman Breighton, on the Coast of Africa. New Jersey, the richest State in the Union for its size, has liberally appropri ated forty thousand dollars . for the erection of a Lunatic Asylum. Penn sylvania has appropriated $50,000 for the same benevolent object.—The Florida papers contain the proclamation of Gov. Beach, announcing the admis sion of the Territoro into the Union as a State—Several merchants in Cincin nati have been agreeably , surprised, late ly by receiving money from unknown persons in payment for. goods alleged to have been stolen from, them—they were previously ignorant of their losses. Such cases of conscienciousness are the more gratifying from their scarcity.—Gen. eral Jackson was seriously ill at the - last accounts.—Henry Clay was sixty eight years of age on the 12th inst.— Great excitement prevails in what is called the Half Breed Tract in lowa. A lot of settlers have repeatedly met under arms, in order to prevent the Sheriff from selling property under a decree of court, in favor of the N w York Com pany. As many as si hundred men were under arms at the ast account.— A powdermill belonging to J. P. Gar-1 eshe,:near Wilmington, Del., was blown up on Thursday week, killing one man and mortally wounding two or 3 others. It was supposed that nearly 8000 lbs. of powder was destroyed. The per sonal expenses of the American minister at Paris are said to be seventy dollars a day. Mr. Ritchie, who is about to assume the duties of official editor at Washington, is said to be seventy years of age. He has edited the Richmond Enqiiirer for forty one years.—Texas papers to the 2nd inst . ., confirm the previous ac counts of the unanimity of the public sentiment in that Republic in favor of An nexation.—The income of the Queen of England is 3id. per second. Prince Albert, her husband, is allowed Id per second of time.—The mangers of ari estate at Santa Cruz receives from six to seven hundred dollars a year for his services, with a house rent free. An overseer gets from 50 to 70 dollars a month.—There is a . physician to each estate. who receives one dollar per an nual on each for his medical services. The apothecary who furnishes medi cine; receives twenty cents per year for each elave.----John &Thompson, Esq of Princeton, has been unanimously e lected President) and Treasurer of the Philadelphia and Trenton Rail Road Co mpany.. Capt. R. A. Stockton having re signelt Tug Moteuomi.-1t is feared, from • present' appearances, that there wilLbe a serious disturbance between the Mor mons and their enemies before long again. It appears that the QVIMICIr of Illinois hat, received intelligence, from two authentic•sourcee,ihat some , anti- Mormon forged ari order in the name of Gen. Denting for • s pieee of• artillery in IVl'Doilough ccruntyi and that the . same has been k conveYed, on the author'• ty of dna forgery, 'to the. la Carthage Grays." in whose possession it is.. The Governor has cent an agent to Car-. thage to take possession of alt ihe State orals in the hinds of these incipient rioters.' - BOSTON.—The citizens of Boston held a meeting at the . Exchange on Monday to provide means for the re lief of the people of Pittsburg: The Mayor presided, and in the course of a short speech stated that the advance in the price of real estate in Boston du ring the past year would be sufficient to re-build the burnt district of Pitts.; burg. GOVERNOR OF W1EC0N51N.......N. P. Tallmadge has been removed from the Gubernatorial Chair of Wisconsin, and Gen. Henry Dodge appointed in his place. Dodge was formerly Governor of the Territory, but was removed by Harrison, to give place to Doty. . THE LOST AT SEA.—Tho New York Express contains a list of forty-two vessels, which are now missing and sup posed or known to be lost, forming an aggregate destruction of life and prop perty almost without a parallel in the history of our country. Humana !—Some of the savana of the city of New York, wish to have the name of this Republic changed to Allegania I All for the sake of poetry ! THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK have agreed to adjourn on the 14th of next month. BAIL AND ATTACIINENTS.The fol lowing act was passed by the late Le gislature of this State, and may 66 of importance to many of our readers. Seems 1. Be it enacted by the Se nate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in lieu of the bad heretofore re quired by law, in the cases herein men tioned, the bail in cases of appeal from the judgments of Aldermen and Jus tices of the Peace, and from the awards of arbitrators, shall be bail absolute, in double the probable amount of costs accrued and likely to accrue in such cases, with one or more sufficient sure ties, conditioned for the payment of all costs accrued or that may be legally re covered in such cases against the ap pellants ; and the bail in all cases where bail is now required for the stay of executions, shall be bail absolute, with one or more sufficient sureties, in dou ble the amount of the debt or damages, interests and costs recovered, condition ed for the payment thereof, in the event that the defendant fail to pay the same at the expiration of the stay of execu tion. , SECTION 2. That in all- cases of dis solving foreign attachments, -the bail shall be bad absolute. in a recognizance in double the amount in controversy. as nearly as may be ascertained, with one of more sufficient amities, condi tioned for the payment of the debt or damages, interest and cost that may by recovered. Szcziori 3. That the right to appeal from judgments of Aldermen and Jus tices of the Peace, and-from their judg ments on awards of referees, is hereby extended to defendants in all cases wherein, by existing laws, the right of appeal is enjoyed by plaintiffs. SECTION 4. That so much of the-act of assembly, passed 16th day of June, 1836, entitled An Act relating to exe cutions," as provides for the levy and recovery of stock, deposites and debts due to defendants by process of attach ment and ecire ferias, is hereby extend ed to all cases of attachments to-be is sued upon judgments against corpora tions, (other than municipal corpora dons.) and from and after the passage of this act, all such process, which hereafter may be issued. may be pro ceeded into final judgment and execu tion, in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as are di rected against corporations, by the pro visions of the - act, of sixteenth June, eighteen hundred and thirtysix relating to - executions ; and that so much of the thirty-sixth section of the act of 16th June,.1836, as requires services of the attachment on any defendant, be and the same is hereby repealed, except when the defendant is :a resident of the county in which. the attachment is issued. • thartoN 5. That this act shall take erect on the first day of June next, and so much of existing laws as are hereby altered 'or supplied, and the same are hereby repeated. VETO MESSAGE. lb the Senate and House ofilePreSeo. t olives of the Cornnionu*kho fPenn. "Amnia. Gsarrzatuatr.--The bill to Incorpo rate the, North Branch Railroad:and Coal Company has been presented for my approbation. - • This bill proposes to incorporate a Company with a capital of $335,000, which may be raised to $500,000, The objects of-the corporation are two fold. • • FIRST.—To constructs railroad from Towanda in . Bradford county. to the coat lands in Franklin. and Monroe townships in said county, with the right to eztend said road or construct lateral roads therefrom to such coal mines, in said townships. or their vi cinity, as from time to'time may be found expedient; and with the further right_to extend the same, so as to form a junction with the Williamsport and Elmira. railroad. SECOND.....TO mine coal and transact the usual business of companies engag: ed in mining, itansporting sand selling coal and ,- the other products of coal lands ; and for these purposes the gninpany is to have the right of holding, either by purchase or lease, 0,500 acres of land in Bradfotd county, and of im proving, selling, or otherwise disposing of the same, as their interests may re quire. Besides this they may hold such lot or lots of land, not exceeding ten acres, in any one place, as may be found convenient for places of deposit in the transportation and sale of the pro. ducts of their mines and lands. That part of the bill which provides for the construction of railroads to con nect coal lands with the public improve ments is altogether unobjectionable,- The great expense of making - these roads on an extended scale, places them beyond the reach of individual enter prise, and sanctions the grant of cor porate privileges to associated Wealth. The other objects of this corporation, present, however, no such claims to public favor. They are to hold the 6,500 acres of land, and - to employ the aggregated means of the corporators, not required for constructing the rail roads, in mining coal, improving lands, and transporting and vending coal and other products of their lands, discharg ed of individual liabilities. Universal experience and observation have proved that all branches of business within the reach of individual enterprise and re sponsibility, are more successfully prosecuted by individuals than corpora tions. The constitution secures to all men the equal right of acquiring, possessing and protecting property. The claim to disturb the harmony of our system by granting to some exclusive privileges, found itself on the assumption thit the public interest requires something to be done, to which individuals are un equal, and the privileges which are not enjoyed by the rest of the people, must be conferred upon some to secure a pub lic advantage. But this cannot be pre dicated of mining coal and improving land. Among the varied pursuits of men, there is perhaps none more simple or more completely within the compose of individual resources than that of min ing coal. In proof of this, I need only refer to the millions of bushels of coal, which are annually 'Mined and carried to market in this State west of the moun tains. without the aid of corporate pri vileges, and to the success which has attended individuals in the Schuylkill coal region, where corporators have ge nerally failed. As to improving lands by the agency of a corporation, which is one of the ob jects of this bill, the objection to it is palpable. It is found in the industry and skill of our farmers, subduing the forests, extending and multiplying the comforts of life, and advancing the prosperity, credit, and greatness of the commonwealth—pregnant proofs all of them, that agriculture needs no corporate protection. The success which has hitherto at tended individual enterprise in mining coal, and in improving land, is in my apprehension an insuperable objection to placing these interests in the hands of corporations. One of the great benefits arising from our free system is the facility which it gives to 'transfers of property, by which the vigilant and thrifty are enabled to place themselves beyond dependence. while the direct effect of withdrawing large tracts of land from the ordinary rules which govern the transmission of _real - estate, is to create a dependent tenantry. The company contemplated by this bill, with its 6.500 acres (Aland and half a million of capital, will em ploy many men, all of them in a de gree dependent upon the controlling power of the corporation. Our own history-furnishes too many lamentable proofs of the ° fact that power of this kind may be used, not only to exact the labor for which compensation is made, but also to circumscribe that range of thought and independence of action upon political subjects which constitute the pride and dignity of an American freeman. These corporatore, moreover, are associated for the purpose of pin ; and yet if their enterprise should- prove un• successful, the &bus which they may have contracted, beyond the amount of their subscriptions, are to fall,upon the unwary and confiding. The profit is to, be their own---the loam is to &rolve upon the-public. I - cati see no r e* for .ibus. making a distinction betvet these eorporators and other citize ns, disturbing that equality which sto ;„ our free institutions. Whit these objections I have dire the bill .to be returned to the Senate which it originated. FRS. R. Slittfiß. Ezzetrruw. CHAMBER, April 12, 1846. Anima, or dift?ulty of breathing, o caused by a collection of morbid Imm in the air cells of:the:langs.—hence d fictilt and laborious breathing, c ou ,, great oppression of the breast, pai a . i the head, palpitation of the he a rt, in many other dist!easing complainta. Wright's Indian Vegetable p il l s a always certain to give relief in /letha l because they purge from the body th, humors which, when lodged in t. lungs. are the cause of this dreads , complaint. From four to sir of ea Indian Vegetable Pills, taken eve night on going to bed, will, in a oho time, not only carry off the MOlll viole fit of Asthma, but if used occasional! afterwards, will keep the system completely free from all bad humor that Asthma, or indeed any other inal dy. will be impossible. For sale at the store of J. D. & D. Montanye, in Towanda, and agents published in another column this paper. Caution.—As counterfeit are abroad, avoid all stores of doub character, and be particular in all sea, to ask for Wrighl's Indian l . 's table Pills. Died, At WTIOX, on the 14th inat.,Da. AnontaA W►aNsa, aged about 78. Doctor Warner had occupied, nearly half century, the same quiet hill-side residence the beautiful valley of which be wu the old living settler but one. Under his mania care, he lived to see hitilthful labor replace rb forest solitudes with fields waving for the ger ners of man, until at last himself haw • ., home. We have received the following procerdin of the Masonic Fraternity At a regular meeting of Union Lodge N. 108 of Free and accepted Masons held at th. Hall in Towanda, April 15, A. L. 5845. On motion, voted that the members of di Lodge wear crape for the apace of thirty diy in consequence of the death of Brother Ado jab Warner. The Muter appointed bra. E. W. Morgan, IL B. Batitulary, Thoa. B. Overton,l.l3 Sam, and Win. H. Baird a committee to make the necessary arrangements for the %fiend. On the 17th the Lodge, under the direction of the R.W.D.D.G.M. Samuel Huston, erd the W. M. George H. Bull, proceeded to bun, with Masonic honors, the remain. of our de ceased brother—after which it was Resolved, That Bra. Ira If .Btephens, E W Morgan and E. R. Myer, be a committee of co. dolence on the part of the Fraternity, to the re latives of the deceased. The committee accordingly addrested following letter to theismily " The undersigned, a committee in Walla Union Lodge, No. t-08, of free and eceepu , masons, beg leave respectfully to express, tt condolence of the Fraternity with the family ( our venerable brother, Adonijeb Warner, wi has left us in a good old age. You have lo a head and father ; we, our brother ; all, a auk and respected fellow•citisen. May we alit look,forward to the consolations of re-union " In that grand lodge that's far anal" Extract from the minutes, • S. B.I3AILEY, Secretary. A NEW SUPPLY ! BURTON RINGSBERY infoms the pu, He - generally that he has just welted di feet from New York• City, his spring stork o Goods, It comprises a very general also • ment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware lx His goods have been selected with much cs and will be sold as cheap as , can be bought Towanda. Call in and see it it is not so. Towanda; April 30, 1845. HALLO THERE! No. 3 has made another raist! irs, ladies and gentlemen, the largest In most elegant assortment of Goods a - brought to Towanda,, are this day opening No. 8 Brick Row, which have been porch (as usual) very low for cash and first rate • it, and wall be sold accordingly. If it sari the honest farmers of Bradford County. II" quantity (say 100 tons) of good butter sull taken in exchange, or any other country p duce. We will give sramall bill of partial next week. W.H.BAIRD h CO. Towanda, April 30, 1845. TEXAS -ANNEXATION A Death Blow to all Illoaoptlitt; OH. & H. 8. PHINNEY, out 01 • combination, and are just receiving neral assortment of FANCY AND STAY GOODS, adapted to the Iwo% which ' will sell for cub u cheap u any abet lishriient this aide of Neiv York. or ache them for Lumber or Country - Producs• particularly advise the public to call sod amino our stock before purchasing elastic!. Wiated s loo,ooo Shingle; 50 0 Mfrs Bogsds, and Grain without limit. -VISSOLUTIOJI: NOTICE is given, that the cove " heretofore existing between Jebel " and James H. Phinney, Jr. of the firm Of " son & Phinney, is this day dissolved by 021/111 consent. The accounts end notes a the firm will remain in the hands of I. H. PO'. Jr., for settlement; the business hereafter continue in the name of J. H. & 11.S.Pbio Monroeton, April 29, 1846. P ÜBLIC NO TICE P HEREBY GIVEN that then 0 11 1 . t I posed to public sale at the Exchol o t in Monroeton, on the Bth day of MO ° 1 o'clock, P. M., $BO TOWANDA B' money, to the hihest bidder for cab. By order of the g board of &hool I tireetT: J .11. PHINNEV, CleTi MonTnettm, April 29, 1945